0:11 oh, hey there, oh hey there. How are you today? I have a headache me too. What the what? And I, I'm a medicine person like I can take a tylenol and advil and ibuprofen and all that, but you, you don't. I mean I can take them, I just don't take them. I know I just never have been a fan. It's probably because my mom shoved me full of meds for my whole youth. I'm just kidding, she really didn't um, but even back then, like I didn't like taking um medicine we always had uh, how did my dad word it? He said cool bat and meds like cool whip. For somebody who said cool bat or at least that's how I always heard it so to get us to take medicine when we were little they would get my mom always had cool whip.

0:59 Sounds great it was and she would. And pills were a lot different back then, so they were a lot more chalky yeah, like dissolving or whatever, so they weren't really nasty, yeah, so she would get a spoon um, scoop some cool up on it and then shove the pills in there. And that's how we took our pills. Nice, yeah, because we mom, I know we weren't very good pill takers back in the day. Yeah, I don't really remember much about that in my youth, but that's par for the course. You don't really remember much of your adult life either. I know you wake up and like I exist. Yay, look at me.

1:42 I'm a real burr. I was going to say boy, but then I'm like girl. I'm a real burr. I'm just gonna say boy, but then I'm like girl. I'm like I'm a real burl I'm a real burl that was. Uh, that was an attempt to quote pinocchio, but at the same time, I'm like oh jesus, I'm killing her with laughter oh my gosh, oh my gosh. So, hey, real burl, my bad. Well, I take. So I'm really good at taking pills now because I can take like a whole handful in one gulp if you will. I have to have water, though. The movies that they show you taking pills without water, that is bullshit. Yeah, because they probably just give them like a tic tac and it's fucking it's not realistic no, it's not realistic at all I mean I would choke on those ask me how I know how do you know?

2:31 I've choked on them before without water experience okay, so I have a new beer, new to me beer. Um, so this is from Three Sheeps Like blah blah, black sheep, not to be confused with sheets. Yes, sir, three bags full. So Three Sheeps. It is a brewery that I've been to. What did you call it in the last podcast? Brew-ering yeah brewery, this is the new brewing. What did you call it in the last podcast? That was a brewing like a yeah brewing. This is the new brewing. I'm like um so three sheeps is in sheboygan, wisconsin, and I've been there um a couple of times, but it's like this big warehouse looking thing that they just have like a bunch of picnic tables out that you can.

3:22 There's no food or anything, it's just the bar and then a ton of picnic tables and then their entire wall of the building opens up. So you, it's like a patio type thing, but it's very like, which is minimal it's cool that, that you know the opens up and whatever, but I'm not a big fan of all these places. There's so many just like cookie cutter warehouses going up and whether it's a, a brewing or a whatever business, it's just like there's no like imagination for your businesses anymore with these buildings yeah it's all just like hey, here's a box, exist in there I don't mind the three sheep's one, because you can like bring in your own food, like they don't care about that well, yeah, because they obviously they don't you know uh sell any.

4:08 So I mean, that totally makes sense. But so the only beer that I remember liking at three sheeps was their amber, I think it's called oh boy I don't know. Oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh. I know I'm just not very well versed in them. I don't remember now, but this one is a juicy pale ale called fresh coast and if you remember from a previous podcast, she did not have a good go-around on. Uh, we don't have to rub their name in it anymore. Oh sorry, or promote it for that matter, kiwina. Either way, you're going out of your comfort zone.

4:52 It's not a lager. Yeah, so we'll see how that works. What do you got? Just to be 100% transparent, here she has a Modelo at the ready. Oh, I fuck, yeah, I do and it is open it's ready to go it is open it's basically like a chaser, just in case it doesn't go well this time, like that that one time. But all right, I have a uh, third space brewing. Uh, they're out of milwaukee, wisconsin. I know of them. I don't think I've ever actually had one of their beers before, but I went hardcore. I have their Infinite Wisdom, which I thought was kind of fitting for a history podcast.

5:39 Sure Because we don't have it. They're aiming pretty high, but okay. Well, I mean it never ends. See what I did there. It's infinite Shut up. It took me a second, I know it did. I could tell the dribble had to like. Oh, it's my time to shine. Run on the wheel or the mouse or whatever it's running around in your brain. The cogs. Yeah. No or whatever it's running around in your brain. The cogs, yeah, no, who? Am I kidding. There's a hamster up there. That's what it is, but it's an imperial ipa nine percent alcohol by volume mine's only a 4.2 or so, eight, oh that's, that's a higher okay, are we ready?

6:20 Yeah, here we go oh, that was so like in tandem yeah, it almost like shut down my ears for a second through the headphones. That was weird oh okay, I like mine the juicy, pale, ale fresh coast from three sheeps for being a nine percent. You would not guess that that's pretty good good yeah, awesome, very nice, well done we have some winners uh well, I mean, last time we were still batting, you know 500, mine was good, yours not so much so you ready for a story?

7:02 it's not really a story, it's more of just a lesson really. Oh, you have a lesson planned for me. I kind of do okay yeah I hope I'm ready for that I think you'll enjoy it I would imagine, I will it is um about how the pyramids were built. The speculation of how they were built. No, you're not wrong. Like there's not like solid, solid proof. Definitive proof. Yes, but they no longer think it was from like slaves. It was aliens, 100% that's been documented?

7:47 By what conspiracy? theorist. I don't have enough time to name all those people because there's a lot of them. I think out there ancient aliens I think that's a show on history channel I know you're right, you're right okay, so so are you going to teach us how they like did the track around the top of it and everything? Kind of yeah, cool, yeah, I'm going to tell you some things. And I'm going to learn. You're going to get schooled on pyramids from Chiron. I hated school. I know, but we like history, so here we are. That's why we're doing it. Just because I hated school doesn't mean I didn't like things from it.

8:29 I liked history, I liked math and I liked leaving. I liked graduation. Graduation was great. So the pyramids of Cairo were considered the world's first skyscrapers. I mean, they were the tallest structure in the world for a long time right. Built 2,000 years before Christ. Christ was built. I feel like that's a song. What? 2,000 years before Christ. No. Christ was built. Yeah. We can write one. No. Won't be very good. I can play drums. You could write it, I'll sing it. I could write the drums. I can play drums you could write it. I'll sing it I could write the drums. I can't play guitar, okay, let's move on. Or keyboard, I am not a pianist.

9:10 Okay, so the Great Pyramid, the big guy, right. At Giza. Yeah, yeah, so that one stands 481 feet tall, which is funny because you think about it now like skyscrapers that we have, it's like that's not very big 481 feet tall I think it's pretty big yeah, it's big. There are 2.3 million blocks, some all the way up to 50 tons in weight what is the width of the base? Um, I have it written here somewhere, but it's a number and I don't remember shit, so I'll let you know when I read it I'm gonna edit that out so that's fine.

9:55 So there were also. So in all it was six million tons of bricks, which is equal to 16 Empire State Buildings. Wow, so is that for all three pyramids, Just the Great Pyramid? Yeah, Nice, okay, here's the answer to your question. Oh, hey, look at this. The sides of the pyramid are 755 feet in length. Okay. And, amazingly enough, they only vary within two inches. Right, isn't that? wild, they're so precise.

10:35 Well, yeah, because obviously all three line up with Orion's belt. That is speculation. yes, Well, I mean it does. Yes, but they don't know if that's the reason for right. Right, that's a speculation and like how? like, yeah, what well, I'll let you talk, because I don't want to like, in case you have some of the stuff yeah, so inside the burial chambers the blocks are so precise that even a credit card cannot slip through the supposed burial burial chambers yes, so archaeologists use dynamite dynamite to blast their way through the pyramids, which is sad, I know, and that actually disrupted potential clues on how the pyramids were.

11:24 Yeah, that's why it's sad, because because, they don't know what they blew up because they blew it up, and so now we're using non-invasive technology. Well, we have a lot better equipment these days, because they found them how many years ago? Obviously They've been around for a long time where these people started exploring and they're like, fuck it, blow it up. I know. So trial and error pyramids were actually built around 2600 BCE off the Nile River One, the first one that they made is called the Step Pyramid of Saqqara. It's the oldest stone quote unquote building on Earth. Okay, stone quote-unquote building on earth.

12:05 Okay, so it's writing rising 204 feet from the desert sands, which was a breakthrough in the history of construction. Sure makes sense. It didn't have any smooth sloping sides, but instead rose in a series of levels or steps right. So the first flat-sided true pyramids were built 60 years later by the pharaoh Nufru. Nufru. Yeah, how do you spell that? S-N-E-F-E-R-U, or Sneferu, sneferu I don't know. All right, that is a heck of a name. Yeah, but his son, khufu, built the uh-huh, built the great pyramid.

12:48 what a guy yeah, well, he had people build it for him. He didn't do it yes, and then there were, um, a series of smaller, highly decorated pyramids that were later built at sakara, right. So the ancient archaeologists mapped out the location of the pyramids with with a lot of care and precision. Oh yeah, they needed a foundation that could handle the six million tons of limestone. Yep, so they mapped out the points of the compass north, south, east, west so that each side aligned with the direction, isn. Isn't that crazy. It's so amazing and there's a degree of error, but it's so minute how close they actually got to true north and all that stuff.

13:35 It's wild how precise they were back then. So they followed the path of the stars as it rose and fell, and then chose the midway point, and that was true north. Yep. They were off true north by a 20th of a degree. Isn't that wild. To be that precise again at that time in our history is just crazy. And in my head I'm thinking'm thinking, okay, if I stayed in this spot, where is my local walmart that is north? or if you look at my house, my this room slopes into that corner uh-huh that's been.

14:19 This house has only been up for 183 years or whatever. That's been up for thousands and it's like, yeah, we're good, yeah, but no thanks house yeah. So modern foundations are leveled with lasers. But British engineer Dennis Stocks, who is an expert in ancient Egyptian construction techniques, thinks that the Egyptians used water in a sort of channel. Okay, so along each of the 755 foot side of the pyramid they would create a channel with water which acted like a level. So then they would etch around it, maintaining the water's level that's wild yeah, so you've got a ditch right yeah filled with water.

15:05 Then you chisel away the earth until the water is level. Yeah, I've never heard of that before that's crazy, that is crazy. I mean that's brilliant because the water is going to find the the flat surface, if you will, whatever, yeah, yeah, wow, I didn't know that that's. That's pretty interesting so for each 2.3 million blocks, they likely created a type of a frame that has a crossbar and a plumb line down the center. Okay, so right behind the plumb line is a scored line in the wood of the crossbar. Okay, so the plumb line and the the uh, the scored line should be exactly the same right so, if you think of the capital letter a, the a-frame was likely made of wood and had a string hanging from the center of the top of the a and then a weight was attached to the other end of the string, and when the a frame was placed on an uneven surface, the weight or the plumb string would move the string in one direction or the other can I ask a question?

16:14 yeah, what did they call it back then? because they didn't have the letter a where do you come up with these questions? am I wrong? Okay, I came up with like A-frame and I don't know what it's actually called Jeez Louise. Well, I didn't know, just curious Inquiring minds want to know. They just called it a level. Okay. Okay, I'm sorry. Oh, my god Didn't mean to derail you there. My bad, I saw it. I saw it. So the markings on the crossbeam the a indicated indicated how far off center the surface was. Okay. So to make it easier to see when the string was hanging straight down, the wood near the string was attached to the frame could be notched out or have a vertical marking.

17:02 So what they did in place of one leg of the a. So what they did is they placed one leg of the a on a flat surface of water. Then they would square out the lime stone rocks until the plum line matched up with the score line. Sure? no, that makes sense you want to see a picture of it, sure, okay, what's it look like to you? It looks like a pyramid a letter a oh, maybe it was a pyramid frame back then no, it's the letter a yeah, I see that with a plumb line and it's at like a 90 degree point yes, okay, anywho so, over the course of 500 years, 18 pyramids were built.

17:50 That's a long time 500 years, 18 pyramids. Well, I mean, it's not like they were built. Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was the pyramids. I mean it took a while. I mean that's a shit ton of rock. That is that they got to move. Yeah. So I mean, they took literally what decades to make. Literally. Yeah, so. Centuries. Or that too. Yeah, so near Cairo is a quarry with high quality limestone and they used copper to chisel away the limestone.

18:30 But copper is a soft metal that can bend or blunt easily correct so they're like how does that work? Egyptian copper had trace amounts of arsenic so what did that do to it? That made the copper much more durable and stronger. And then it's pure form really, and they would use more broad copper chisels and wooden mallets for rough work and then they would use like pointed for copper chisels for yeah, exactly okay so limestone is relatively soft, but in the chambers of the pyramid they used granite.

19:11 Copper chisels were useless. Yeah, against granite, for sure. Yeah, and ironworking wasn't around yet. Right. So how did they cut granite so perfectly Lasers? You ready for this? I don't know if I am, because it sounds pretty profound. They did use copper. What. It's like you tried to lead us off but went right back to it. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Did you get like whiplash? No, okay. I got worse headache. So they actually used a copper saw with no teeth oh man, they just gummed their way through it oh god sorry oh my god.

20:02 So how did they cut it? Using copper saw with no teeth? They used sand. Okay. So the quartz crystals in sand gets embedded into the soft copper and the saw drags those crystals back and forth Wow, and actually does the cutting. That's weird, mm-hmm. So now, cutting granite this way took an hour to cut just two cubic inches. Oh geez, so it would take four months to just two cubic inches. Oh geez. So it would take four months to just create a sarcophagus. Wow, with that technique. Isn't that crazy, that's a long time. They would literally just pour salt in the area that they're trying to cut away. And then they had this big two-person copper.

20:45 Saw that would chisel the sand. You mean sand, they poured. You said salt sorry, yes, sand. Where did I come up with sand salt? you're probably hungry, and then you put salt on everything I do. Thanks, hubby yeah, your husband really got you into salt, lots of salt, yeah. So anyway, so, based in the quarry, they would transport their blocks on boats that they built for the Nile Right, and then they would create an oil slick on land to move the blocks. To basically slide them across. Yeah, so I guess I'm unfamiliar with that part of the territory.

21:29 Were they rich in oil over there? I mean they have apparently, if they can make like a oil slick just to slide them across yeah, I don't know that's weird, I never, never knew that but I mean, they got copper and they got limestone. Why can't they have oil? Might as well, give them some cake too. So as far as how they chose the pyramid shape, they knew it would have to be supported by a wide base and a low center of gravity. Okay, and more than two-thirds of the weight has to be at the bottom right.

22:10 So some say it's this shape to replicate the way the sun peaks out under a cloud, when there's like a resulting triangle sunbeam okay um. So they built the first flat-sided pyramid with a 55-degree angle using a solid stone foundation, but only on the edges of the pyramid. So it was just basically like the perimeter. Yes, okay. The inside of the base was clay. As the pyramid rose in size, the clay would buckle underneath and the inside chamber started to crack. That would make sense.

22:51 So mid build they changed the angle from 55 degrees to 43 degrees, which reduced the height of the pyramid by 100 feet and the weight by 400 000 tons. It's a lot of tons. This pyramid is called the bent pyramid and it still stands. That's a shit ton. So lesson learned, right? I guess the great pyramid was built at 45 degrees why they had the two I think they were testing the waters, or or they're like well, that's half a 90-degree angle. Let's do that. So it is considered the most shallow pyramid, but also the only true smooth-sided pyramid still standing today.

23:39 Because it used to have what was the surface they put on it. It's all gone by now, but was that limestone as well? Yeah, it's also limestone. Okay. Yeah, which I talk about here. So archaeologists surmise that once at the quarry they built a ramp to transport the limestone. So they built a ramp up to the pyramid summit. But what type of ramp? Because they still don't know what kind. But there are three potential ways. One is to build a ramp straight to the top which makes no sense that would be really either really really long exactly steep, and that's the thing. It couldn't be steep because of the weight of those rocks yeah obviously guys aren't going to be pushing those up there or pulling or both so another um way is a ramp in the form of like an airline queue line, where it zigzags up one side of the pyramid.

24:34 I hope their third one's the one that I saw. It's more recent and they're pretty sure that's how it was. A spiral going all the way around. Yeah, yes, like a spiral staircase. At least the thing I saw, which I don't think was very old. I just saw it that not that long ago. They think that they discovered that more recently, kind of thing because, everyone thought it was just a ramp straight up to top, like the first one. You said yeah, and like that just doesn't make any sense. Yeah, because that that ramp would have to be like miles long, right, right, especially when it gets to the higher peak. I guess. But yeah, the one I saw, it's like yeah, goes around, spirals up to the top, and then they kind of work their way back in where they fill it in, to eliminate it, because they're like, well, why can't we see it?

25:27 Well, because they filled it in, which makes sense so the internal limestone blocks were rough and unfinished looking and they filled the cracks with mortar and limestone chippings. But the exterior blocks those seen um are perfectly finished yeah, they were smoothed out or sawed better, I guess. So inside the chamber the blocks, those were granite, right yeah. So how did they make them so precise? Great question. Do tell. They used two dowels tied together with string. Okay, okay, pulling it taut, they would use that as a level.

26:07 Then a third dowel in the same size would be used as a guide along the top string. Okay, if the dowel was above the string, they would mark that spot of the stone with a pigment called red ochre, and the builders would find that mark and use a flint scraper to scrape away the high point and and the red ochre would get scraped off with it right, really yeah wow they're on little level they're on the level here they are. So across the now there was even better limestone, and the egyptians used this limestone as a type of smooth coating on the pyramids which you mentioned. Yeah, so back in that time it looked white, correct, it was almost blinding in the sunlight.

26:53 Yeah, so these facing stones, sadly, have been taken to build mosques and castles in cairo yeah, it was basically like it was pillaged and used for other things. Yeah, pretty much but a few remnants still remain at one of, like the peak of the pyramids. Okay, so they would finish from the top of the pyramid down and then the ramps would be like dismantled as the work was completed, as you had mentioned yep. So with the help of a contractor, craig smith, who has operated and overseen vast amounts of construction sites, he estimated how much money it would take to build the pyramid. Oh geez, four billion dollars and four years they could do it in four years.

27:41 Wow four, no, no, now that's what I'm saying. So if we could build it now, it would take $4 billion in four years. That's what I'm saying, though I'm surprised it's still that quick today. Yeah, I mean. The Egyptians. It took them 23 years to build the Great Pyramid. That's insane. That's way quicker than I thought. And then they had 18 of them to boot. Well over 500 years so listen to this. That would equate to placing a block. Placing a block every two minutes and this is for the four year time frame, or for them, for them, okay it would be. it would take place in a block every two minutes, 270 blocks every single day for 23 years Holy crap.

28:30 And then we're going to build another 17. Yeah. So do you think they placed the last block and the guys are like, ah, look at that, good work. And then the boss comes up, the next pharaoh's like. All right, the pharaoh comes up. looks good guys, we're going to put another one right over there. And they're like motherfucker. Well, that brings me to the workers. So a lot of legends claim that it was slaves that built the pyramids. I've seen the Ten Commandments. I know. But they were wrong. Yeah, that's actually another thing I've seen recently too. So it was thought that the pharaoh would never have forced his own people to build year after year. Thought that the pharaoh would never have forced his own people to build year after year.

29:13 Right, and instead, potentially, israelites were used as slave slave labor. However, egyptologist dr zahi hawass discovered tombs of the builders located just in the shadows of the pyramids in 1990. Oh wow, really. There was like this little lost city. Of tombs. Yeah, I'm sure people died all the time working on these. If they were slaves, they wouldn't be buried near the pyramid oh God no. And their chambers wouldn't be ornate, which these were. So it was considered to be an honor to be buried there. So they knew they were not slaves. Did it describe how they were ornate, like what they included, or was it just like?

29:58 It was more like carvings on the door frames and that kind of thing. Sure, that makes sense. So with the help of forensics, the builders in these tombs were examined. From the bones bones they could see that they actually had medical treatment oh, wow they had. Their bones had like been settled like um set. Yes, after a break or something. Yes, not settled, but, yes, setting um, and one even had brain surgery. Oh really yeah. And they and they know that slaves would never have this kind of treatment. No, they would have let them die because they were replaceable. So near these tombs they excavated a new site, which was the discovery of the builder's town.

30:42 The builders received generous amounts of food, fish, meat and even beer, huzzah and they were considered very important. So let's cheers to that Cheers to the workers. What happened to your other beer? He's on a line in Kugel now. I finished it. Oh shit, I'm talking too much. I know. Okay, so they were considered like middle management. Um, but even they had what? No, sorry, I'm like the middle management of of the builders, so like they still had their tiers of management quote unquote. Yeah, do you think they micromanaged back then those?

31:25 They were treated even better. They had tons of fresh meats apparently so they were also unskilled workers um that sounds terrible. Do you got any of those unskilled workers I can have. They're not very good, that's all right so, um, many of them were, um, as working as military service, oh okay, who were meant to build rather than fight gotcha? So the biggest theory of why they built the pyramids was to entomb the pharaohs, which is wrong. However, no pharaoh has ever been discovered and not a single mummy has ever been found in a burial chamber, correct?

32:08 that's like, and it's funny because like they call it the king's chamber and I think, there's also a queen's chamber if I'm not mistaken but nothing was found in that I mean, there has even been literature and hieroglyphics that claim that it was a burial ground for the king, but they've never found anything but they're, they're the, if I remember right, the pyramids are like pretty devoid of like like you go to um valley of the kings where, like, king tut was buried and you found, you know, his tomb and stuff. There's shit all on the walls and so on, whatever. There's like nothing inside the pyramids, not like that, at least. So so in 1879, there was a workman that was traveling, walking along the pyramids, and he followed a jackal into a hole, oh, near the pyramid of sakara.

33:04 Okay, upon entering, he found a chamber where, where the walls were covered with hieroglyphs. This is actually going to be considered the oldest religious text in egypt. Ok, so these writings did not tell us how the pyramids were made, but why they were made ok and they were meant to turn men into gods. Oh so turning the dead into a living spirit, hmm. A mummified pharaoh would be carried into his tomb with food, clothes, jewels and treasures everything he would need in the afterlife Of course, because you know you need jewels Mm-hmm. And the Egyptians believed that the afterlife was like this one, but much better.

33:47 Well, if you're a god, yeah, yeah so today the great pyramid of giza has actually lost 30 feet in height, really so has it sunk yeah? however, at this rate, it would take another 65 000 years for the pyramid to disappear from the cairo skyline well, can't wait to see that happen so most of my um material came from a um, a youtube video. Oh really, yeah. So it was called the pyramids of egypt, how and why they were built, and it is directed by Yo-Him Sampson and narrated by Eric Myers.

34:31 It is very, very, very well done. Nice. I highly recommend it. But that will be linked in our show notes. But that is how the pyramids were built. Isn't that really fascinating? The tools in particular really fascinated me. The saw, the copper saw with the sand, yeah, or salt the copper saw with the sand yeah. Or salt, whatever you had on hand. But sometimes they put a little pepper on there, maybe some paprika. Paprika smoked, of course. So there's obviously a billion theories about why, how, whatever. Um, because, like some of them and I'm not going to get this anywhere close to what it is, but it's like one one theory is how they like basically harnessed energy through it.

35:19 I don't remember all the specifics, I'm not a smart person, but it's like some of the shit to talk about is like I can see that, yeah, but I'm not a scientist, I don't know. But there's so many just wild theories. I mean obviously, like we said before, the aliens Aliens did it. Yeah, so there was a guy that noticed that it followed Orion's belt, but there's no justification on why they built it like that well, or if it was just a coincidence, but it seems really weird to be a coincidence, because it's like, yeah, it's not in a straight line.

36:02 No, the three pyramids are like one is off center a little bit. Right, it's way too Holy shit. Look at that To be, like well, man, we got lucky there. It's like, yeah, I don't. I just I feel like that's a weak thing, saying it's not. Yeah, part of it. Yeah, in some way. Yeah, cause it's too precise for that. My only thing is too is like, because I mean again, that's what would you say. When was it built? So that's another thing too it was 2600 BCE. So they're saying 4600 years ago.

36:42 The star skyline is different as well. It moves, it varies, it evolves, whatever you want to call it. So that's why, like, I think there's even a service where you could be, like I was here on this date and so on, like I can print you a map of the stars on that exact day or whatever- yeah but, um, you would think there would be different, but obviously there's still some similarities. Stars last for a long time and their light shines through for a long time, until it just doesn't because they died millions of years ago, whatever, I don't know. Just it's fascinating because you're never really gonna know I know but like just in 1990 they found that little lost city where the builders would sleep, where they hang out yeah, it's just what.

37:27 Have you ever seen the movie out? Yeah, it's just what. Have you ever seen the movie Stargate? No. Oh, it's a great movie Is that with Katie Sackhoff. No From Battlestar Galactica. Are you impressed that I know who that is? I can't believe you actually knew someone's name. I do okay with actors and actresses names and movies, but I'm well, relatively decent. No, it's with uh, kurt russell I know who that is, thank you james spader, I also know who that is. I like his voice a lot. Yeah, he's ultron yes he is ultron and he's in the show boston legal, which is pretty funny he was also uh, denigrating uh, robert california in the show Boston Legal, which is pretty funny.

38:10 He was also Dina Croy, robert California, in the Office after Steve Carell's character left. Oh, I have not seen that. I think that was his name, Robert California. That sounds right. I could be wrong. He's got a great voice. He does have a little deeper such. Yeah, but very articulate. Stuart French was in it. I don't know that one. He's got the weird face he was in. Uh, what was he? The third rock from the sun guy? I never watched that show, but oh man I think he was in that oh, how was that kid's name? he's in the bat the batman movies joseph gordon levin. Yeah, joseph gordon levin, he was on that show, yeah. I'm pretty sure that was Stuart French was the one in that show.

38:51 Again, I could be wrong, I never actually watched that show, but basically the premise of the movie. I really liked the movie and it spawned multiple, multiple TV shows and yes, question over there. Yeah, my hand raised. I saw. What are? Yeah, my hand raised, I saw what are we? talking about again stargate, right. So it's not a tv show, it's a movie. It was a movie first. Oh okay, so we're talking about the movie and, as I stated, it spawned multiple, multiple tv shows. Oh god, I gotta got it you understand yeah, I was drinking my beer, sorry oh, my word okay, yes, continue but basically, what, what, what? the premise of the movie is um aliens.

39:34 This alien was dying. He found this race, humans, on this other planet, not earth and um to last last longer, he put his body, his mind or whatever in his body, so on. But then they had this stargate that they could transport between two worlds, which was star gate yeah, it's literally in the name star portal oh my star walkway star bridge star bridge yes, yeah, star path star sidewalk oh, my word. What have I done? Star road star strangle me star pavement there's a in mario kart, there's a.

40:27 Starbridge, that's Rainbow. Road, rainbow Bridge yeah, whatever, rainbow Bridge is what they also refer to as what Thor took from Planet to. Planet, yeah, yeah, yeah, but anyway, it's a really good movie. I enjoy it. I actually watched it, I think like two or three weeks ago. I put it on rotation from time to time. However, I will say and this was it came out in the 90s, I don't remember exactly what year, but James Spader's sneezing is so fake in that movie it's really bad. I like the actor, I like the rest of the movie, but, man, come on, it just didn't work for me in that.

41:09 Sorry, james, jimmy jimmy, but good work otherwise, keep it up. Yeah, you know you know what I want to watch right now what's that the? mummy that's a good movie. We've mentioned before about that was one of my go-to yeah sleep movies, so yeah, yeah, brandon fraser is just, he's a, he's a treasure, he is a treasure I know that is a great, great uh word to to describe him. Yes, he is a treasure. I've always really liked him. I used to have a ringtone back when I had a Nokia phone, so it was the beeps yeah.

41:50 But you could still upload audio clips. Oh really, yeah, and one of my ringtones was Brendan Fraser's voice. Was it really? I was obsessed with Brendan Fraser and Colin Firth and I'm not as obsessed, but they are still very high on my fan, on my my list of favorite actors. okay, I met damon I met damon, but I, I love, I love me some brittan fraser oh yeah, for sure I've liked him in a lot of things. Uh, I never really got behind the whole encino man, but I've only seen it and that was like 30 years ago. It's a great movie. Let's watch that.

42:32 I don't own that movie. I wonder if it's on a streaming platform. Perhaps Perhaps. Yes, but no, yeah I enjoy him a lot. Arnold Vosloo yes, he's very sexy in that movie too. Yeah, yeah, who does he play Imhotep? There you go. Yeah, I can quote that movie. Oh, so can. I it's pretty ingrained in the brain Crazy and sane Got no brain. Ingrained in the membrane. Oh, Okay so should we move on to the idiom that you have prepared. That you have prepared.

43:12 That you have prepared. Oh, my word, yeah, why don't we do that? Floors for most people were dirt, yes, back a long time ago. Yes. Only wealthy people had something other than dirt. Why? What do you think came from that? What term do you think came from that? Dirt poor. Correct the wealth. Huzzah, I got one About fucking time Been here for weeks. The wealthy would usually have slate floors. This is the part. Slate rich I didn't say that but which would get slippery in the winter when the floors would get wet Because obviously tracking in snow, rain, whatever, because of this, they would put thresh, otherwise straw Fancy word for straw and in a way they would put that down on the floor to keep their footing so they wouldn't be all slipping on sliding.

44:18 As the winter wore on, they would add more thresh until you open the door and it all starts slipping outside okay okay, a piece of wood was placed in the entranceway, subsequently creating a threshold. That's why we have thresholds, thresholds, because it literally held my mind is blown, slows your face, apparently. What is that? That's shock and awe. It's shock for her for sure thresh is a type of straw. I mean it's, yeah, it's just basically a oh, it's another name for straw for as far as I can ascertain.

45:05 Yes, threshold yeah. So that's how, that's where we get threshold from. That's awesome okay, so what is your final decision on your? What was it again? oh, my third space beer third space yeah infinite wisdom, which we all strive for but we'll never obtain. It was really good um again for being a nine percent abv um, especially because usually typically an imperial ipa is going to be higher alcohol volume. Just the makeup of those type of beers, it was really good. I really enjoyed it. I just I would never have guessed if you gave me this in a pint glass and said, here, try this.

45:49 I would have known it's a pale ale or an IPA. I would have never guessed it's 9%. It was very smooth, very delicious, very nice. So yeah, I really enjoyed it. What about you with your juicy pale ale? Rebel Kent. Oh, I got there Three Sheeps. Has an amber called Rebel Kent. It only took the whole episode, but hey, it really did. I knew the word rebel was in it, figured it out and that one I do enjoy. But this one um the juicy pale ale called fresh coast is is fantastic. I really, I really like it well, that's fantastic to hear, because you know your last one wasn't so uh, so ideal maybe I should write down what beers I liked, so that when I'm like, which beer do I buy next?

46:35 I'd be like I think I got the kiwani one before, but I don't remember if I liked it well, and that's the thing with your memory. You might pick it up again like oh, this is new, I should try this yeah and then my taste buds would be like bitch. You've been here before yeah, why you bring us back to this place. We don't like it here. So so with the pyramids, though, did you did the video talk about the sphinx at all? No, okay, nope, because there's also rumors of that being older than what they think it is, and it was there prior to possibly the pyramids, or the Egyptians found these things.

47:16 I do know, did you? ever read or hear anything like that? No, okay. I do know that when the guy is chiseling out the nose of the Sphinx that Jasmine Aladdin flew by and really startled the guy. As soon as you started talking about that, I knew you were going to do something stupid. Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't just stop recording. It's fine, everything's fine. Thousands of years of erosion. No it was Jasmine and Aladdin. It's fine, everything's fine. Thousands of years of erosion. No, it was just. It was jasmine and aladdin dude trying to look up jasmine's blouse or whatever the hell she was wearing.

47:58 What? Those weird pants, those billowy pants? They're like mc hammer pants before they were mc hammer pants yeah, but that they're historically accurate. I mean, it is Disney, they do their research. That was sarcasm, folks. I know, I know it was, but I'm glad you pointed it out for Al because he might not have picked up on that? Is he a believer? He's a believer. I'm a believer. Please. We almost made it through a fucking podcast without you singing and you ruined it. Well, I gotta do it. I just wanna dance, anyways, I know who that song was originally by.

48:39 The Monkees, the Monkees, I know. I knew that. I grew up on the Monkees. I used to watch that show all the time when I was a kid. I'm excited that I know that I'm excited that you knew a song. Okay, let's leave these folks. Well. I suppose, All right, buffoons. That's it for today's episode. Buckle up, because we've got another historical adventure waiting for you. Next time Feeling hungry for more buffoonery, or maybe you have a burning question or a wild historical theory for us to explore. Hit us up on social media. We're History Buffoons Podcast on Reddit, x, instagram and Facebook.

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