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Chuck here hope everyone's doing well on. this lovely Saturday I got to say if. you've been sitting around for 2 weeks. wondering what the other seven wonders. of the ancient world are well that is. some serious patience my friends so here. it is part two continuing from two weeks. ago how the Seven Wonders of the Ancient. World. work welcome to stuff you should know a. production of iHeart Radio.

[Music]. hey and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh. Clark and there's Charles W choke Bryant. and there's guest producer nol again and. that makes this stuff you should know. part two that's right did you ever see. Hot Shots part two the sequel no you. know I didn't see a lot of those movies. at all except for the airplane movies MH. and the Naked Gun movies the Hot Shots.

movies were worth seeing did not see. those did not see any of the scary. movies oh the scary movies you haven't. seen those nope all of them are good. like every single one of those are good. really yeah I did record a movie Crush. yesterday with uh for the movie Scream. though oh yeah with who uh Nate baratti. uhhuh comedian sure so we it was. interesting that I had to do scream. research and like that movie changed.

like horror movies were on their last. legs yes they were not to say that and. something else might not have come along. but it was scream that like revitalized. a genre y that's pretty cool yeah it was. kind of a watershed movie did we talk. about that in the horror movies that. changed the the genre episode did we I'm. pretty sure we had to of boy if we. didn't we missed out well if we didn't. we probably just said and obviously. scream we don't even need to mention. that well it launched the scream FR. franchise it launched the scary movie.

franchise in a way mhm oh yeah and. relaunched the genre yeah so scary. movies worth seeing Hot Shots is worth. seeing naked guns wor seeing of course. although I would put either one of the. Hot Shots up against the third Naked Gun. any day of the. week that's that's that's my bookie over. the third Naked Gun yeah okay that's. fair yeah and then don't get me started. on what was it like the Gods son the. what the godson I don't know what that.

is it was like a Godfather spoof that. Leslie neelon was in with dom Delise I I. haven't even seen holy cow five minutes. of it I don't even know what that is you. stump me oh good thank you well that's a. good start to this episode don't you. think you're welcome thank you uh so. Chuck yes we're moving on we've already. talked about the Great Pyramids at kufu. uh we talked about the Hanging Gardens. of Babylon and the Temple of Artemis at. ephes right all three of them top top.

notch yeah and if you don't know what. we're talking about now and this is your. first episode of stuff you should know. ever MH this is the second of a two-part. episode there you go on the seven. ancient seven wonders of the ancient. world and here's part two right and. we're going to start with the statue of. Zeus at. oia have to say it like that there's no. other way to say it that's how uh well.

who's the guy's name the uh the boxing. guy that guy I don't know his name yeah. he used to stand at the statue of Zeus. and say that on an hourly basis. yeah it's pretty pretty amazing stuff so. uh this one is one of my favorites but. not my favorite I promise it my favorite. was in here but this is not quite it. okay um although it's close. because you know this is this is the. main deal here Olympia Zeus uhhuh he's. this is now runof-the-mill.

God in some castoff City no it was the. site of the first Olympics so it was. pretty important city very important um. it was it was nowhere near Mount Olympus. though curiously but it was pretty. pretty important right yes um this one. to me is the most ho of them all oh yeah. mhm not quite sure why but I am just. kind of like whatever about it all right. well the temple let's talk about the. temple at first okay uh and also I.

should warn you that this article has. the um proportions wildly incorrect oh. the how tall it was yeah all right what. what is it for real this thing this. article says it was 210 ft tall that's a. 20 story building yeah the temple was. not as tall as a 20 story building it. was 68 feet tall how did they get it. that wrong I don't know I just don't. know it's staggering it's as staggering. as this Temple would have been had it. been 200 ft tall and it doesn't even say.

it was somewhere between 68 and 210 ft. right it's weird oh that's annoying. everything else is right about it though. okay so it was 68 feet tall still pretty. impressive sure for the. time yeah but I I would have to say if. somebody if you were driving through. Dunwoody you saw a 68 foot tall Temple. yeah you you would probably still be. impressed even though somebody just. built it so I think it's still. impressive even.

today yes uh so the Temple's fairly. impressive but inside we're talking. about the Statue mainly uh the Greek. artist uh fidus was commissioned and I. imagine these artists were paid pretty. handsomely for these jobs yeah because. you know there's only a few of them who. were capable of doing this at the time. yeah I mean there are only a few people. in the world that could do this now. right on something of this scale true uh. so they said hey Zeus is the man we want. uh a statue of Zeus Ze and he said yeah.

I can knock that out uh it's 450 BC. shouldn't take me too long 8 years later. he was finished right um and he used. some really weird materials like so so. the temple itself it was like a standard. Temple 68 ft tall like all of them were. bunch of columns that kind of thing but. the statue inside is apparently what was. the big draw and one of the reasons why. it was something to see was because um. fidus used IV.

and gold um rather than marble which is. it was pretty much what you used to make. a statue back at that time and they. think one of the reasons why he used EB. or not ebony but Ivory and gold was. right but the reason why they thought. that was because um he he was building a. statue to Zeus right so you needed it. needed to be special this is like the. king of the. Gods yeah and ivory was definitely. something that people would travel to.

see a statue made of ivory of Zeus yeah. uh so basically Zeus is sitting down in. this uh statue and he's sitting just. straight up he's not like uh like you. know how the L Lincoln and his memorial. is kind of chilling in his seat MH Zeus. is not chilling he's sitting up ready. for action yeah he's like what' you say. what' you say kind of uh the statue. itself was about 50 ft High which is. super impressive like when you see a a. rendering of what someone looked like.

standing at the base of this thing it's. really pretty striking and one of the. things they said about it was that um if. he stood up he would have his head would. have burst through the roof of the um of. the temple yeah which was probably. pretty cool to see. too because if he was sitting down at 50. feet totally would have right he would. have just been like Zeus. smash so he's holding in one hand uh a. statue. of Nike so it's a statue holding a.

statue M and Nike was a wing goddess of. Victory right yeah so it's kind of like. his version of Tinker belt hanging out. in his hand yeah and on the other hand. he's holding a scepter which is pretty. appropriate for the king of the Gods. sure and again he's Seated on this. throne and yeah if you if you look at. artist's rendering of them we should say. here most of this stuff by the time. these lists were written um were already. aged and then they they've crumbled over. time so we actually don't know exactly.

what they looked like some people saw. them firsthand but a lot of this this. information comes from secondhand. sources or even further down the chain. than that yeah so we're not exactly. certain of what they they they looked. like but for most of these because they. were so widely regarded as seven wonders. of the ancient world that you have to. see that enough people wrote about them. talked about them that if you really. spent some time you could put these. sources together and come up with. probably an accurate description of of.

what it looked like yeah for sure uh and. the and the remarkable thing about this. one is apparently was the expression on. Zeus's face not only is he sitting. straight up ready for action he uh he. just had this look on his face that was. uh kind of intimidating I guess you. could say you've disappointed me and. your. mother that's what it said and uh the. legend has it and I don't buy this at. all but fidus said that uh once I'm. finished with this thing he for Zeus's.

blessing on the sculpture and a bolt of. lightning struck the temple at that very. moment right I don't believe it uh no no. as a matter of fact if you do believe. that right in so we can tell you that. you're. wrong so um there were a couple of. issues with this this um statue number. one it was built a couple hundred years. few hundred years before Christianity. began and then started to spread in the. area mhm once that happened.

um the the worshippers of Zeus who still. remained said we need to get this out of. here these Christians they don't play. around they're going to get rid of this. thing right and um they moved the statue. to. Constantinople and it stayed there safe. for a while actually apparently housed. in a palace but one of the things about. the Statue was it was made of gold and. ivory but those things were overlaid on. top of a wooden sculpture yeah which. it's kind of like it's pretty slack fous. maybe you should have stuck with with. the marble maybe but it it the palace in.

Constantinople caught fire yeah that's a. problem uh cuz marble doesn't burn does. it no no it doesn't yeah so it would. have survived um but he cheaped out. let's be honest yeah he he phoned this. one in yeah and they were right to have. moved that thing because the Christians. did come in and take care of business. shut down that temple in 391 ad uh but. by that time the statue was gone at. least uh but yeah burned in a fire so.

earthquakes and fires are taking out all. of the Wonders earthquakes fires and. Christians yeah the the great levelers. pretty much so um back in I think in. 1950 this guy and again like this stuff. just sat in in the realm of legend for a. long time although I think the um I. think the ruins of the temple itself are. still around aren't. they that I'm not sure I think think. they might be I I I like over the last.

two days I've seen so many pictures I. have of ancient temple ruins that I'm. like which wait which one is that bra. mush right I think this one may still be. around in Olympia the ruins of the. temple like you can still make out a. couple of steps leading up to it that. kind of thing and there's like the posts. of a couple pillars or whatever but um. they they found in. 1950 um the workshop that fidus used. beside the temple and apparently we're. able to recreate using the molds that.

they found probably what the um statue. looked like which is pretty impressive. just working from old molds yeah not. only that but uh these were on coins. right oh yeah that's right that's the. other one yeah they were on Greek coins. so this isn't one where you really had. to guess so much what it looked like. because on those coins is a lot of. detail about what it looked like and. um because coin you know they originated.

there to where they ended up uh. eventually would give a little. indication on how far people had. traveled to come see this thing uh when. they carry those coins back yeah it made. me wonder like were those coins currency. or were they like souvenirs like if you. go to Dollywood or Kennedy Space Center. or something like that and get a coin. made yeah I didn't think about that I. wonder because I mean this was an age. where there were tourists and they were. already selling the replicas of the. Temple of Artemis as tourist momentos I. wonder if these coins were that too yeah.

pretty pretty neat to think about. ancient tourists should we take a break. yeah all right I'm going to contemplate. that and uh we'll be back right after. this. [Music]. [Applause]. [Music].

okay Chuck here's here's my second. favorite what's he it this is in your. favorite huh are you sure you have a. favorite I do we're not there yet okay. all right well this is my second. favorite the melum at. halicarnassus okay you don't like this. one it was all right. mazums I don't know you seen one you. seen them all well this is the original. one like the word Mausoleum came from.

this structure yeah that only goes so. far with me oh I love that the original. thing yeah I thought I thought you were. like an etymology kind of guy oh I it. can be but just not with maoam yeah I. don't know there's something about. maoams that bug. me because there's dead people interred. inside or in yeah there's just a lot of. a lot of hubub for a dead. body oh I see I see yeah it makes sense. you. yeah I don't want to knock it though.

well okay we'll just stop right here. then if you're if you're King Maus you. you deserve to to have this named after. you I would say that especially if. you're married to your sister and she's. madly in love with you and you've just. died yeah that was a little weird he was. the Persian king of karia and he was. indeed married to his sister uh emesia. yeah and she really really was in love. with her brother yep and. husband and he was from what I.

understand he seemed like a pretty. successful ruler yeah um they they had. the maum under construction while he was. still alive and he died um while before. it was finished obviously but his sister. emesia sister wife emesia um was so. broken up by it she said all right stop. stop what you're doing this is not good. enough this has to be the most amazing. Memorial anyone's ever made to their.

husband brother um I've got to I've got. to get in touch with all of the greatest. sculptors of the realm and she did she. got in touch with um at least five of. the greatest sculptors alive at the time. and they were headed by a guy named pyus. who not only um was one of the sculptors. he was the over overseeing architect of. the entire project yeah so like he. architected the whole thing and then she. got one sculpter per side to embellish.

the outside uh. scopus uh breus briais. mhm Leo. Charis. oay and timotheus that one's easy that. one is easy uh and this one has often. been uh called um because she had all. these all these different people working. on it uh and not only that but I think. for years afterward it it became a place. where artists could exhibit bit and. showcase their work mhm so in the end.

this thing ended up being um I think not. as coherent as what you would think. something might be when you just hire. one person to work on it um for this. episode and the last one I went to the. site un Museum have you ever heard of it. yeah I think so they were very helpful. in researching this and one of the. things the way they put it was that um. so during construction artemesia died. before it was completed and the five. sculptors who were running the show.

looked at each other and they're like. let's keep going we could stop here and. leave it unfinished but it became don't. do that though well no no not true ones. it became a temple a monument not just. to Maus and emesia who were inomed. inside but it became a monument to art. as well that was we can do whatever we. want now guys right and they did so so. they went ahead and they completed it. and it was a pretty impressive um. structure yeah the uh structure itself. was about 140 ft tall is that right yes.

I believe so it's a relief yeah uh the. base was about 100 feet um 24 steps. tall yeah and then on either side of the. steps flanking the steps were crouched. Lions which is pretty cool uhhuh it's. always cool around the outside of the. second the second uh tier where you. would walk into on all four corners. there were um solders mounted on. Horseback sculptures of them protecting.

the place yeah yeah what else uh plyy. the Elder. said this thing is 440 ft and the. perimeter of this thing is 440 ft so it. was large 36. columns uh it's a it was a big structure. very impressive I didn't get from the. pictures that I saw of renderings it. didn't look too busy to. me no I'm not sure I the only place I.

saw that kind of shade being thrown at. it was in this house stuff works article. yeah I mean I know that there were. different people working on it but it. didn't look like I expected when I saw. it it to look like a big. mess and it did not look like a big mess. no it looked pretty neat and tidy right. yeah so one of the things that I love. about this thing so again emesia and. Maus are inomed inside this thing but. it's also like just a place you would go. you know take a date or something on a. Sunday afternoon in the city of hinis.

hel helicases right uhuh um one of the. one of the cool things about this is. that. um this structure stood for hundreds and. hundreds of years after the city of. helic carnassus fell to ruin around it. yeah that is so cool just the imagining. this abandoned ruined town and in the. middle of it is this 140t tall maum the. world's first melum with all these.

ornate sculptures around it it's just. almost completely out of context with. the surroundings now that the town has. fallen into ruin yeah that is pretty. cool for sure uh but like all these. other ones earthquakes would eventually. take care of business MH uh in the 1400s. and shake this thing down and um and. again like a lot of these other stories. in. 1494 uh they used the Knights of St John. of Malta said hey let's let's take all. this. scrap and use it for our own castle Yeah.

the a city as um hel carnassus fell the. ruin another city nearby grew up called. Bodrum and the ruins at hel carasses you. would go to Bodrum today to view the. ruins of hel carnassus the the maum I. should say um but the big draw. apparently is the um Knights of St. John's castle and to build that castle. some of the scraps that they used were. from the mausoleum so you can still see.

original parts of the mausoleum but. they've been incorporated into the. structure of the um the the castle that. you would view yeah which is cool so. it's still around in some way shape or. form yeah totally that's very cool but. that um earthquake that got it in the. 1400s it actually had a weird way of. preserving some of it right oh yeah so. there are three three big things that. that keep coming up right there is um. earthquakes that keep happening there's. people using scraps to build other.

cities nearby and then there's the. British museum those three things figure. into the Seven Wonders of the Ancient. World big time because if there's a. piece of a one of the Seven Wonders of. the Ancient World somewhere in the world. outside of its original location it's. probably in the British museum yeah and. that's the case with um some a few. things from the uh the melum at hel. carnassus they think that what happened. was the earthquake toppled the sculpture. of maulus and emesia riding a chariot.

pulled by four horses it was very famous. um that was on the top of the mausoleum. that it fell and was covered by Rubble. so that it was protected until it was. finally excavated in the 19th century. when they found um huge old Chariot. wheel and then they think the the two. sculptures of aresia and Maus and now. they're all in the British museum but. they think that earthquake had a way of. protecting it from being looted and.

reused by the Knights of St John later. on amazing I'm telling you that's why. it's my second favorite well we're. coming up my favorite I wondered if this. was it the Colossus of roads it's a good. way to say it too yeah I like this one. uh this was ancient Greece and this one. was the granddaddy of them all statue. wise this one was even bigger than the. statue of Zeus at Olympia MH um third. century and RADS was an island uh still.

is an island and macedonians came. knocking on the door and they were angry. and they wanted the the help of the. people of RADS because toy was toomi 1. that is was was was conquering and they. said we need your help here and the. people of Road said hey we're not really. we don't want to get involved in all. that we kind of like it here on the. island living our our peaceful lifestyle. here well plus if there was anybody they.

were allied with it was. tmy yeah yeah they but they wanted to. stay out of any wars they just weren't. into it right so they rebuffed the. macedonians uh and they left uh but they. left behind a bunch of supplies and. equipment um I'm not sure why they did. that actually so the the this article is. so bizarre man um the the macedonians. besieged roads for over a year um and. they they had these huge war machines.

that were made of like um bronze and. wood and and metal and they would pull. these huge machines up to the city walls. and like they had catapults on top and. they were trying to crush the city for a. year and when the the RO the rodians. finally overcame the macedonians they. were like well we're just leaving the. stuff behind it's too big to move it. didn't work anyway so we'll leave it. yeah that's why they left it this this. this article puts it in a really weird. way yeah I agree yeah uh so they ended. up using like selling away that stuff.

right to make the money to build in part. the statue yeah and they Reus some of it. directly for the Statue to like like. that huge thing that they used to. besiege the city they pulled up to the. walls they actually used that as. scaffolding to build the Statue with. heck yeah yeah it's making plow shers. out of uh I don't know. guns so they use the sculptor uh charas. of lindos and he said I got this one. under control I'm going to use um all.

these different materials iron bronze. Stone uh and this one I'll have wrapped. up oh in about 12 years and they said. that's about right yeah that's not bad. for what they did here yeah I mean this. thing was 11 ft tall yeah it had a. skeleton of iron um and inside the. skeleton for structure it had huge stone. columns running through it yeah and and. yeah it was like the actual statue. itself was about as big as the Statue of. Liberty is today and followed like a.

pretty similar structure um but like a. thousand or so years before a couple. thousand years before yeah um people. think from written accounts that it was. holding a torch like Lady Liberty does. and that the face was modeled after. Alexander the Great uh some say and. here's where it gets interesting to me. is if you look up pictures of this thing. you will likely see it standing a. straddle um the the entrance to the. harbor right so literally standing there.

like kind of with his legs spread and. you would have to sail a ship between. his legs to get into the harbor you. shouldn't look up yeah don't look up cuz. the detail was really amazing very. amazing and 110 feet high like you know. what you're going to be staring at so uh. there are accounts and there are plenty. of illustrations and other things that. support this and it looks trust me if. you look it up it looks very cool like. you know they were.

into uh they were into making things. this tall just because it was so. mindblowing but also they were say they. were thanking their Patron God Helios. for sparing them from having to go to. war um which is pretty cool I that's one. of the reasons I like this one is they. were saying like you know what we stayed. out of War we managed to remain at peace. we're going to build a monument to uh. our God who we assume helped us out yeah. but when they did these things. like with most of these I love that they.

were just like well you know 20 foot. high statue would be great that's. impressive like they would try and build. things as large as humanly literally. possible engineering wise at the time I. see your point yeah that is pretty neat. so when you look at pictures of this. straddling the uh the harbor it's just. like it's enormous it's huge. unfortunately that's probably not what. he how he stood right that's that's the. downer here is that they didn't really. have.

the the materials or the knowledge or. the skill uh to do something like that. like the reason that statues back then. were basically straight up and down is. because that you needed that those legs. to support the rest of the statue yeah. and they were a top of pedestal that. could hold the weight of the statue. above it yeah um they would also if the. if this if each foot was on either side. of the harbor that's usually not the. strongest Solid Ground you can find no.

no way so they wouldn't have had any. means of reinforcing the ground beneath. it so it would have just sunk or Fallen. right over yeah yeah and plus the other. thing too Chuck was that it would have. closed the harbor down and they relied. on the Harbor for their economy yeah so. it's probably unlikely that it looked as. cool as it looks in. pictures uh and what happened to this. one 53 years later yes earthquake yep 53. years that is so quick yeah yeah that. didn't last long at all no so this the. thing fell and they think that it.

probably was located closer to the. center of town yeah somewhere Inland um. but that when it fell it crushed a bunch. of people's houses and businesses yeah. and some of it probably fell into the. harbor itself uh that's right and this. one was uh notable because I think. because it was so young when it fell it. it's still it's not like they were like. oh let's get rid of this thing they let. it lay there as a tourist attraction in. its prone state for many many years and. people would come far and wide to go.

visit the the Fallen statue yeah for. almost a thousand years it's crazy yeah. it's still stayed of tourist attraction. like apparently the cool thing to do was. to try to put your arms around the thumb. yeah the thumb was bigger than most. statues right like like people couldn't. get their arms they couldn't touch their. hands around the thumb amazing and. apparently also the arms fell off pretty. pretty they may have even fallen off. first during the earthquake but it did. you say it broke off at about the knees.

just below the knees no um so those. probably stayed for a while but the the. like from the knee down yeah yeah I'm. sure which looks a little weird like. that picture of the person who suffered. spontaneous combustion all that was left. was their one leg I bet it looked kind. of like that but the stuff that was on. the ground like you could see into like. the arm holes and apparently even that. was just this breathtaking Cavern it was. just such a massive structure they like. have you seen in those arm. holes yes I have I've seen all the arm.

holes all over the world I'm the best. tourist ever have you tried to hug that. thumb I have a subscription to monacle. magazine I'm just as cool as they come. uh and so the final nugget on this one. that I thought was pretty fun was uh in. 653 um these uh invading Arabs sold like. all the rest of these stories sold the. scrap metal uh they sold it to a Jewish. Merchant who apparently used 900 camel. to take this stuff away good Lord so how.

about that so 900 camels or like just a. few camels who had to make 900 trips. total I don't know in said 900 camels. this is plus I mean if this is a Jewish. Merchant buying the scrap metal of. Colossus of Roads he probably owned 900. camels gotcha you know and think of all. the poop that generated around there. yeah man it's a lot of camel poop all. right well let's take one more break. we'll come back and we'll finish up with. the final wonder of the ancient worlds.

right after. [Music]. [Applause]. [Music]. this all right Chuck we're at the last. one this one's pretty neat too I don't.

think we ever said when the Colossus of. RADS was built did we oh jeez did we not. so it would have been in the fourth no. the 3r. century No the 4th Century BCE is when. it was built 294 mhm so this this is. remember we've been going. chronologically through all of these and. um this is then the youngest of the. Ancient Wonders yeah the little baby of. the of the group MH the Lighthouse of. Alexandria and you know I've got a. lighthouse thing sure uh and this one's.

a pretty great one This was um this was. notable as one of the anders uh wonders. of the ancient world because it was the. only one that actually had a practical. use and it wasn't just some Monument uh. or Temple you know right it it served a. purpose who was it that said nothing. useless can ever truly be beautiful or. was it just a movie line that I remember. I think that was John cusac okay. what nothing useless can ever be. beautiful yeah man I wish I could.

remember what that's from because I'm. sure we're going to get a lot of email. about it but they said in the movie they. say somebody said nothing useless can. ever truly be beautiful ah I don't buy. that yeah it's an opinion it was a. well-put opinion which just how it ends. up in a movie you know what I'm saying. yeah so this one this one did have. utility and it was kind of beautiful too. from the artist renderings I've seen I. liked it yeah pretty pretty sweet uh. Lighthouse so the Lighthouse at.

Alexandria supposedly it's got a pretty. cool backstory to it allegedly Alexander. himself had a dream and in the dream. they said. Alexander you need to go find the island. of. pharaoh and he said why they said it. doesn't matter just do what we say and. he woke up in a cold sweat and he like. trembling lit a cigarette and he said I. got to find pharoh and that's how it. started. yeah pretty much uh located off the.

coast of ancient Egypt he said um you. know what uh toam me since we're toy is. such a cool name I'm going to choose you. as one of my generals to go inhabit and. settle this place take care of it for me. and toy said I'm all over it but you. know I I you know what pharoh needs. though it needs like an identifier. something that you can see from a long. way something symbolic something that.

literally helps you identify it uh. because it's you know tough navigating. around those Shores M and Alexander said. well I don't know if it was Alexander in. my mind it was he said H how about a. lighthouse well supposedly it was either. tmy or the um ma. maian which is the predecessor to the. museum which is basically like a Brain. Trust a think tank a early prototype of. the University where Library Alexandria. was housed um either Tommy came up with.

it or the maian came up with it that's. right and it's a great idea uh put a. lighthouse because it serves a function. and it can be tall and Grand and it the. the island will then be known for this. right and it most certainly was well I. have to say one of the things that I. love about these is how some of them are. tied together like this is the same Toom. me that the macedonians were fighting. and tried to bring roads into roads had. been conquered by by King um.

mosus uh and then was later reconquered. by emesia like all of these things kind. of fit together and when you start to. learn about one you learn about the. story of the people who built them and. how they relate to the stories of people. who built other amazing wonders of the. ancient world it's just such a cool. history lesson have you seen the new uh. Noah bombach movie on Netflix no yeah. it's called the mywit stories no I. haven't seen it it's on Netflix it's. funny it's uh Adam Sandler his uh Adam. the guy's not in the movie but Adam. Sandler's neighbor he references a lot.

his name is toam me oh yeah so he just. keeps saying well you know to me says. this and. that about the movie it's pretty funny. and a reminder that Adam Sandler should. only play these roles yeah he definitely. uh well that or the the original Billy. Madison Happy Gilmore role he was pretty. good at that too oh man he's so good in. these kinds of movies I know punch do. these so good and this character is sort. of like a grownup version of that punch.

drunk love character a little bit mhm to. me uh good movie check it out I'll check. it out yeah thanks so uh it's h me which. is got a silent PE by the. way yeah it's a cool name which is why. it's such a great name it's pamy pamy. um so. pamy is on the island they get this. thing built around 285 BC they begin. Construction. uh there's a a dude named sres of nidos.

sure and they don't know what part he. played other than the fact that it was. important could have been the architect. could have been the financier could have. been both yeah absolutely could have. been both but he was he was uh. definitely important to that project so. supposedly this project they actually. have a a monetary value for how much it. cost they said it cost um uh 800 Talent. which are is a word for bars of silver.

and apparently that's about $3 million. today which is not bad for this. Lighthouse 3 million oh yeah not bad at. all you couldn't build half a lighthouse. today for that no no not one like this. so no no so apparently it was um about. 450 ft tall and one of the reasons they. built this too was not just to to put. feros on the map um or Alexandria on the. map Alexandria was already like a pretty. important city or it was becoming an. important city um Port City but having a.

lighthouse there just helped navigation. which only helped the economy boom and. actually after the lighthouse came into. operation the economy did boom as a. result of that right yeah and 450 ft is. really really tall yeah they said that. you could see this thing's light from. 100 miles away yeah I saw the ones that. said it was more like 30 or 40 still but. yeah that it's a that's a pretty high. functioning light house 100 miles away. is more believable than the Temple of.

Zeus being struck by a bolt of lightning. after it was completed agreed so you. could see this thing 30 mil away we'll. even go 20 mil away okay I'm I'm I'm not. even going above that and the reason why. you could see that is because at Top. This 450 ft structure there was a. polished disc of some sort they think it. was probably bronze and during the day. they moved it so it would reflect the. light of the Sun uhhuh so you could see. it then uh and then at night they had a.

fire going all the time um and there. were structures within this amazingly. tall structure that were basically what. you would call dumb waiters or that type. of elevator on on pulley where you could. raise and lower um to to get to bring. like firewood or animal dried animal. dung up to it yeah and I don't think we. said that but one of the things that. makes this so cool to me is it's not uh. not just a big uh. cylindrical light house like most of. them you see uh it is three different.

levels of three different shapes so. you've got your huge rectangular base. then you have the second level which is. octagonal and then that third is. cylindrical so it's just really cool. looking and um apparently you could even. up to that first level which I mean had. to be over 100 feet high in itself you. could bring carts and workhorses and. stuff all the way up to that level. because they had a bunch of storage up. there right this pretty cool and then. dumb waiters to take stuff to the. highest hours right and.

and they had like those ramps and like. kind of circular um or spiral staircases. going around it to help to to maximize. the space that you use to get things up. yeah it was very clever structure for. sure yeah it's very cool and you can uh. there are some cool renderings of this. online as well so this thing was a solid. piece of work apparently it's it. survived a tsunami in 36 5 CE oh wow but.

what got it. Chuck earthquake earthquake yep in 1303. so this after like dozens of earthquakes. yeah so it was it was built around 280. BCE it stood until 1300 1300 right. amazing um and finally some earthquakes. took it down and the other thing that. happened they reused some of it as a. fort which is still around today. but um the cool thing about it is in.

1994 there was an underwater Expedition. around feros and they found what they. almost positive are original blocks from. the um from the lighthouse itself. original blocks and I think statues too. oh wow yeah sculptures I should say yeah. I did I did look at some of the. underwater pictures is pretty cool oh. yeah it's just as cool as it gets man. anything that's underwater now that used. to be and was meant to be above water oh. it's so cool cool so creepy I was. reading this really interesting article.

about the andread DOR you know the. luxury liner from Italy that that um I. think it sunk in the 50s or early 60s. but it's like this incredible recre site. that people dive and they call it like. the underwater Everest because if you're. a underwater wck diver that's like it. doesn't get any better than that yeah um. but you know it's it's also extremely. dangerous and I read this really. well-written article about it I can't. remember who wrote it but just start. reading andread dor articles everybody.

and you'll find the one eventually well. we'll do a podcast on it how about that. okay let's do it and that's it we did. the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. finally huh that's the last one that's. that's it everybody that's the big. one that's a Chevy Chase quote is it. yeah from Christmas Vacation when he. reveals the pool oh right it's so. awkward the way he says it it's perfect. that's it that's the big. one well at any rate um Christmas is. come and gone Chuck but this is the last. episode that we're going to release this.

year so I think we should wish everybody. a Happy New Year yeah happy New Year. everybody thanks for sticking with us. this. 2017 uh and we'll see you in 2018 on a. personal note happy happy birthday to my. sweet wife Yumi and uh we'll see you. guys next year right I sure hope so so. in the meantime it's time for listener. mail. that's right we're going to finish out. this two-parter with a single listener.

mail about uh bath salts appropriately. because why not yeah hey guys I'm not. wanting to take hard drugs often but my. friend and I were going to an EDM. festival and decided to take what we. believed was Molly uh the drugs were. crystalline and we took them orally yuck. uh the experience did not go as planned. a few days later we use a drug testing. kit uh on the remaining crystals and. found out. that. salts is that.

scary I'll take that that looks like a. drug sure it's crystalline yeah sure uh. unlike any other party drug that might. make you feel ready to dance this stuff. gave my friend and I The Sensation that. our feet were stuck to the ground by a. magnetic force and lifting them was. almost impossible this made dancing very. difficult as all we could do was. awkwardly move around uh with the top. half of our bodies additionally we felt. super paranoid that everyone around us. was watching us and judging and laughing. at our pitiful attempts to dance uh by.

the way Anonymous no one noticed you I. can go ahead and tell you that right now. right uh it was impossible to enjoy the. music with my mind racing these. unpleasant thoughts and the feeling. lasted for the full day after the. disappointing day we headed back to the. apartment ready to get some rest tackle. the next day drug-free but no the bass. salts would not let us sleep try as we. might all night long we laid there Wide. Awake part of the song Turned Down For. What by DJ Snake played over and over in. my mind for 8 hours straight this sounds. really bad it does uh my eyes were.

closed and it felt as though I was. watching a show of squiggly neon colored. shapes pulsating in Rhythm to the. incessant music in my mind somehow we. managed to get to the festival the next. day but we felt like zombies and we were. not even at the cannibalism stage. yet I'm not sure what that even means. well you know the whole face eating bath. salts Legend oh gotcha she's like we. weren't even there yet it still was. terrible she didn't even get the. pleasure of eating someone's face right. uh so just for experience I will second. what Josh and Chuck said and urged steer.

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