March 13, 2023
Episode 22 - Tourlitis Lighthouse
This lighthouse has to be seen to be believed! Perched on the teeniest and most precarious piece of rock, this Greek lighthouse was rebuilt as homage to a lost....well, you'll just have to listen in!
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I'm Vince.
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No.
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Oh, oh.
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Try again.
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Hi, I'm Vince.
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Hi, I'm Paul.
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And I'm Emily.
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No, we got it.
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Hi, I'm Vince.
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And I'm Emily.
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And you're listening to The Lighthouse Lowdown.
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We're doing a switch up.
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I lied.
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I was supposed to do this episode and it fell apart.
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So Vince is doing the episode today and it's going to be hopefully a mini-isode.
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Yeah.
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It's a shorter story.
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I think there's probably more history that I couldn't find.
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Yeah.
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And so maybe we'll learn more someday.
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But for now, this is what we got.
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And it's interesting.
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Yeah.
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Just a little tidbit, a taste, a taste crumb of information.
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All right.
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I suppose on that screen I should put up something that's not that so I can show everyone.
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Let's just put this up.
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Vince is doing TV time for the first time, I think.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So I'm going to control the screen share and you should see it now.
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Yeah, if you're on YouTube.
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Yeah.
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If not.
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I'm just assuming everyone's watching the YouTube.
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Otherwise, they're like looking at their phone like.
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Yeah, like what?
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Yeah.
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Something's supposed to happen.
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So either way, the screen share is up now.
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You're looking at a Google open tab for now.
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So a couple of different items for housekeeping.
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The first is the history buoy for today.
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Oh, you have one.
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I do have a history buoy.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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I don't.
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I didn't prepare anything to show, but I'm just going to shoot from the hip.
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Oh, that's fine.
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So recent.
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I was going to say recently.
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What's that look?
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You kicked me.
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Violence.
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One of our past, I'll call it recent, it's relatively recent history movies.
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Wow.
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We talked about some vocab, and I think you chose the words nautical miles.
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Yeah.
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And then knots for speed.
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We talked about we talked about all that.
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Yeah.
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And I was trying to think of a movie scene that I had seen before where they were talking
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about knots and they were on a ship and I couldn't remember what it was when I was trying
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to to recall.
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Oh yeah, I know what I know what this is.
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And then I was totally wrong on the meaning of what it was.
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What I was thinking of is the word fathom.
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OK.
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So fathom from engineering software, King Kong, the film, 1933 King Kong could have
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spelled it right.
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I'm just going to leave it.
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Let it ride.
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So I was thinking of fathom like fathoms and I'll tell you.
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So first off, King Kong.
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I recently watched the 2005 King Kong and then I looked up.
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I didn't watch it, but the 1933.
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So the original King Kong was 1933 and then it's been made since then into 13 films.
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Oh, my.
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Not all straight King Kong with different sagas.
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Some of them are just straight remakes and three TV shows.
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So that's a lot.
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Fun fact.
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I watched it 2005 and they they did.
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I'm not going to show the clip, but they did do the same remake scene where they're approaching
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the island.
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If you haven't seen King Kong, there's an island.
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It has King Kong, which is a giant ape on it.
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There you go.
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As they're approaching the island, they see they're coming in this into some fog and the
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captain reads out, you know, give me a sounding.
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So sounding we'll talk about is a depth measurement.
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So they throw a weighted rope over the edge and the rope goes down to a depth and the
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ropes are only a certain length.
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But once the rope hits the bottom, they see how many lengths it is deep.
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And those lengths are called fathoms.
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So a fathom is a unit of six feet, one point eight three meters, especially used for measuring
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the depth of water, sometimes used in singular when quantified, when qualified by a number,
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as in you'd say five fathom deep.
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Yeah, not fathoms.
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Oh, interesting.
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That goes against, you know, like the English language.
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Well, fathom comes from Old English, fathom, meaning outstretched arms.
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Oh, interesting.
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The noun fathom, which now I'm reading at this point, which now commonly refers to a
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measure, especially of depth of six feet was originally used for the distance fingertip
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to fingertip created by stretching one's arms straight out from the sides of the body.
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It is in one of its earliest uses, the verb fathom was a synonym for a modern embrace.
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To fathom someone was to clasp the person in your arms.
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So fingertips around them.
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So the fathom was just to figure out the depth of the water so you wouldn't like run aground.
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Yeah.
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So you're taking a sounding as a measurement of depth of water using a rope, a sounding
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rope, which is knots are tied in at six foot lengths.
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And the reason I think they did that is because you could like, so your height is supposed
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to be your arm span.
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Like they're typically a one to one ratio.
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Different people have like my arm span is slightly shorter than my height because I'm
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six foot five.
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My arm spans like six foot two or my dad, he was six foot five and his arms are like
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six, seven.
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So people have variances, but roughly six feet fingertip to fingertip is like a six foot
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man.
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So I think that's probably, you could probably like, you know, run the rope out like this
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and then, you know, I'm stretching my arms for those who are not sitting across from
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me and then tie a knot and you could get rough depth readings pretty quickly if you just
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took any rope and made it a sounding rope.
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By the 1600s, fathom had taken to the seas as the verb was used to mean to measure by
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a sounding line.
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At the time, the verb also developed senses synonymous with people with, excuse me, with
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probe or investigate.
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So to fathom something was to probe it or to investigate it.
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And now it frequently refers to the act of getting to the bottom of something, figuratively
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speaking.
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So I can't fathom that.
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I can't probe and understand and come to get a measurement.
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I can't see the depth.
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I can't fathom it.
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We say that a lot is like, I can't fathom the size of the universe.
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No, you literally can't.
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You used a bro voice for that.
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Yeah, there's lots of bros.
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I can't imagine a frat dude saying fathom.
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I can.
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You see the profit they made on this movie?
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Which one?
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King Kong 1933?
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Yes.
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Look.
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The budget, $672,000.
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Box office, 5.3 million.
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That is a outstanding...
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Yeah.
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So I watched some clips.
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I'm on my...
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Oh no.
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Coffee's hitting me now.
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I watched some clips.
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Oh gosh, this is not going to be a mini-sode.
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Sorry everyone.
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The 1933 King Kong has some...
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It's like claymation when it comes to the King Kong.
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Look at that face.
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He looks shocked at all times.
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Oh yeah, he has no idea how he got there.
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I will give...
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Yeah.
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Or he's trapped in his body and someone else is controlling it.
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Right.
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He's made of clay.
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He's like, oh.
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I did.
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I do have to give some credit.
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Look at his face.
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This one.
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He's like, whoa, she's blonde.
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The 2005 film used a lot of the same exact details that were used, down to the line,
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the same exact details that were used in the 1933 film.
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So I enjoyed it.
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I like that.
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That's interesting.
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Yeah, they really showed us some respect.
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Even this scene, which is like the climax of the film, is at the top of a tower.
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All of these details were exactly the same.
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Oh, that's cool.
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Yeah.
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I thought that was neat.
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So we're the watch.
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Could talk more about it, but I won't drag you through it.
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This is not a movie podcast.
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Not yet.
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Movie analytics.
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If I could control my mouse, that'd be great.
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Okay.
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So that is my history movie, Fathom.
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Nice.
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Something I didn't know.
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Here we are.
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Cool, cool, cool.
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Cool, cool, cool.
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So I found the lighthouse I'm going to talk about today, a long time ago.
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And I found it in a search for the most beautiful lighthouses in the world.
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Oh.
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Are we recording, by the way?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Why, why?
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Well, I just totally forgot to ask.
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You're used to being able to see it, so I understand.
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Right.
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I'm used to recording, so.
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Glad we're recording.
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We still have PTSD.
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I'm going to download my images.
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I'm going to bring this up.
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Whoa.
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Is it pink?
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Or is it just lighting?
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It's a little bit of lighting.
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I think there's some, a little Photoshop going on as far as coloration goes.
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Why, why?
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Did it used to be like a bigger stone?
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Nope.
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What?
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We'll talk about it.
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So this is, and we're going to go ahead and get into mispronunciations.
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Oh, good.
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This is the tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us, as Google would say, which I actually, actually we're going to do that
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right now because I brought that link up.
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Yeah.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us lighthouse, which is Greek.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Oh no.
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What is, do it again.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Here you go.
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That's going to go slower this time.
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Tour-leet-us.
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What?
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Yeah.
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One more time fast.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Yeah.
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So I don't know what to do with that, but I've played with this before.
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I've also put a name in here for it to pronounce.
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So I'm going to go with tour-leet-us.
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Okay, yeah.
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Tour-leet-us.
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That's as close as I can get with my skillset, which is, you know, it is what it is.
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Amateur.
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Amateur at best.
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So the tour-leet-us lighthouse here has a height of 36 meters, 118 feet.
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Oh, wow.
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That's tall.
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To the optical center.
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I think it's, I think that's from the base of this rock because it doesn't look that
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tall and a visible light range of 11 nautical miles.
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Okay.
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So it's a fair sized light.
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It is automated right now.
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Where are we?
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Greece, which I didn't show you that and I meant to.
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I think I forgot.
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What am I?
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For people that don't see the picture, it is just precariously placed on top of a bulbous,
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light bulb-ish, a light bulb-esque shaped rock in the middle of ocean.
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Also the water is very pretty.
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I'm sure that's editing as well, but.
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It's pretty gorgeous part of the world.
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So we're in Greece here.
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Okay.
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I don't know why everything's showing in Greek, but that's fine.
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We're going to go to the island of Andros.
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Just south of Athens?
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Greece.
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Oh yeah, no.
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I was too far south.
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East of Athens.
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Andros.
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So this is a city town and off of the coast you can see.
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Oh, I see.
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So it's not too far out.
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Yeah, but it is quite pretty.
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The colors are not that far off.
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So it's 200 meters out, which I want to say it's 600 something feet.
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We can talk about that too, but my Google is not.
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Google is not cooperating.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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But it looks nice.
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Is this, so this, the rock in this picture that you're showing, is this a low tide?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah, one of the lower tides.
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And we're going to show some more photos that show more details.
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Okay.
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I'd like to see it all around.
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This is something that I found and then edited.
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So with an aura that evokes another world in time, the Toulitas Lighthouse is still credited
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today, credited today for advancing maritime navigation for Greece's port city of Andros,
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which I'm probably pronouncing Andros wrong.
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Andros, I don't know.
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The lighthouse was originally built in 1897.
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Then and now it is located just 200 meters, 656 feet off of the coast of Andros, directly
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across from a castle.
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Oh.
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The castle kind of now stands in a state of deterioration.
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Of course.
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But it's still there.
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The lighthouse was destroyed in World War II by the Nazis.
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What?
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But it was rebuilt and reintroduced as Greece's first automated lighthouse.
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Oh, so what year?
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1994.
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What?
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Yeah.
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That's recent.
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Yeah.
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So it was eliminated by the Nazis in, I'm assuming in wartime, 1940s.
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It took them a long time to redo that.
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So this is my image 01 for your own entertainment.
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And there's still some editing going on.
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You can tell with the colors.
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Being one of the prettiest lighthouses and so weird as far as its architecture and placement,
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a lot of the photos are edited.
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Like there's some that are red, lots of sunsets, lots of waves crashing.
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Like tourist websites.
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The water is a lot calmer here than I would anticipate.
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It's not always as calm.
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So that erosion, apparently, we'll talk about it, but the site was selected when that was
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a bigger rock and that's come from water erosion.
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Eventually, I'm sure it won't be there, but it is kind of a cove, but I think it sees
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some some weather erosion over time.
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So the lighthouse site was chosen upon a natural rock formation across from the captivating
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Venetian castle of Andros.
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The lighthouse had a mystical sense and style of architecture.
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A twisted stone column that serves as the lighthouse's base features a naturally carved
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appearance due to thousands of years of erosion.
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Does the stairway wrap around?
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Like can you climb up there or is it does it stop?
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It does.
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It comes down here as we can see and then down that way.
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Okay.
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So it doesn't continue to wrap, but it comes down pretty steeply over here.
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All right.
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So yeah, it's got a complete walkway up there.
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So these people that are swimming here, are you allowed to visit it?
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Not officially.
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There is no open visitation.
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You can't enter it.
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So I think they're going out.
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As we saw on the map, there's a rock.
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So this is the city comes out.
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The castle is actually here.
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And so you can go to the castle.
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We'll talk about it and kind of look at the lighthouse really closely because it's only
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600 feet.
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Okay.
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But these rocks are all part of the same formation.
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Yeah.
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So it's pretty shallow right there.
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So it's 200 meters out to sea.
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It's the only structure of its kind in Europe.
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Being that it's the only lighthouse that's built on a rock formation such as this.
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The construction required 10 years of work.
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Oh.
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It's completed by an able seemingly amphibious team of Greek builders.
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Amphibious?
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As part of their work, they carved a stone staircase into the rock foundation of the
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tower.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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And then on New Year's Day of 1897, I was ready for operation and began to illuminate
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the seas of the Mediterranean.
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Oh, wow.
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Mystical.
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I think I like my writing and my copy paste writing from other sources better than I like
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my speaking.
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So now I'm supposed to, oh, two.
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Yep.
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Wow.
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Another beautiful photo.
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That's insane.
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It's like it's defying gravity.
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Yeah.
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So they didn't, like the rock base of this lighthouse, they didn't do anything to reinforce
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it?
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Nope.
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Holy moly.
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Yeah.
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It's part of the land formation from my, I mean, my lack of knowledge, I'm guessing,
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because it's so close to land that it's actually part of the island.
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And so I'm guessing it's pretty solid because the entire city is on the water's edge.
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So I'm guessing that the rock type there, the rock formation and the weather conditions.
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They can trust it.
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So I think that erosion is from a long time.
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And looking at it, you can see that the lighthouse, all the weight is centered over the remainder.
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So I wonder if it actually make it last longer to have weight on it in the center.
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Compression and stuff going on.
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So 10 years and the 10 year construction was 1897.
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It was much faster in the nineties, although I didn't find the exact amount of time.
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The restoration.
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So the restoration in the nineties was done to make it look as close as they could to
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the original lighthouse.
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So the same style has been there forever.
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Cool.
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Forever.
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I enjoy that.
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The lighthouse successfully lit the way for ships traveling for nearly 50 years before
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it met an untimely fate.
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Oh.
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Neither an unwieldy sorcerer nor a hot tempered sea dragon destroyed the castle.
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Rather it was German bombs, which left nothing behind other than ruins and a scaffold tower
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in its wake.
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Wow.
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I did not write that.
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I look good.
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That's a, that's a carried over quote.
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So that was a world war two times.
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It was destroyed.
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There was nothing left.
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Um, a half century later, I found this source that said, many sources said this guy was
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a Greek oil tycoon, but other ones said he was a shipping tycoon.
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So I looked into it and then the last name of the family is another name.
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I'm going to butcher G O U L A N D R S.
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So Gourland is the last name of this family.
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But we'll talk about them, but I believe it's a shipping tycoon cause I read some history.
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Apparently this, this guy, his, his name is Alexandros.
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This man, his family went at least three generations before him in shipping all based out of Greece.
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Like the history was like, they bought a single boat and then they bought two boats.
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Then they sold the boats.
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They bought seven boats.
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Then there was an economic crash.
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Then they bought five boats.
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Then they had a boat built for them that could haul extra heavy weight.
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And so this long family history of shipping that he was a part of.
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So a half century later, 1990s, the Greek shipping tycoon courted to me, Alexandros Goulandis
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Goulandis decided to fund the restoration of the lighthouse tower.
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Nice seeking to celebrate the memory of his deceased daughter.
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The Alanda Goulandis funded the rebuilding of the lighthouse and dedicated it in her
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name.
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That's wonderful.
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What a beautiful story.
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I couldn't, I couldn't find anything about her.
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I didn't know her age.
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He was, I think he was born in the seven sixties or seventies.
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So she would have been young probably.
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Yeah.
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It opened in 1994, the new lighthouse.
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The present tour lightest lighthouse.
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This one is a replica of the original serving not only as an enchanting beacon to behold,
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but an everlasting token of a father's love.
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In 1995, the inauguration of the restoration of the tour lightest lighthouse in its original
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shape took place during a special ceremony at the Revias place.
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My pronunciation is off the charts in the island of Andros.
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It is a great monument to the Greek maritime tradition that survived thanks to initiatives
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of the Goulandis family in memory of their daughter.
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Do you know how much it ended up costing?
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Didn't say.
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I think it was a private deal.
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So I don't, it's still operable.
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It's an automated lighthouse.
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It was, I forgot to put it in my notes, but it was, it told me the fuel it operated on
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for a long time.
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Now it's electric, electric and fully, fully automated.
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No keepers are there.
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It's a active guide.
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It is.
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Yeah.
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So this port, this port is more, it's still used for shipping, the Andros port.
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It's probably more used for less commercial because the world has gotten bigger since
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Greece has been around a long time.
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Let's put it that way.
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But it's, it's still an active guide to navigation.
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I don't know if it's publicly owned.
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Like I don't know if the government owns it or if the Goulandis family owns it because
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it's not accessible.
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Like you can, they're not going to, I can't say this.
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They, there's no tourism to the, to the lighthouse.
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You don't get a guided tour or something, get a boat out there.
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So he was born in 1927 and he died in 2017.
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He went off on his own in 1952 and originally and eventually had 40 ships of his own.
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Holy cow.
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That's a lot.
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He died in 2017, was buried next to his wife in the first cemetery of Athens.
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It'd be an awesome place to be buried.
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He was noted, but very private art collector and philanthropist.
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So I don't think, I think this fit right in.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I agree.
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Kind of neat.
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I wanted to show you a Google review of the lighthouse.
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4.8 out of five.
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I liked your reviews.
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This guy be brave.
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It's an easy scramble across the old arch bridge to the Venetian fortress.
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And from there you can see the tour latest lighthouse.
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You can see his picture.
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Look at that.
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Whoa.
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Yeah.
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So that's the arch and I'll get you a better view here in a minute.
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Also look at the gorgeous water.
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You're supposed to call, you're supposed to scramble across that to get, to get to the
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flag is where the castle was.
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Wait, oh, so by disrepair, you mean it's not there anymore.
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It's ruins.
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Yeah.
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Oh, okay.
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Sorry.
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I did think it was like a full size castle.
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No, but still it's still pretty neat.
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But I am going to show you, this is the website for the lower castle of Andros.
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So this shows the island.
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So this shows the arch we just looked at.
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00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:35,480
Oh my gosh.
521
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,440
I would much rather, there's this very tiny amount of water there.
522
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:40,440
I would just swim.
523
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:41,440
Yeah.
524
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,080
How would you get, I suppose you could scramble.
525
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,200
If you're falling, you're falling into water, I guess.
526
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,840
So you're not falling like hundreds of feet.
527
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,960
That is very, that's rock right under the water.
528
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:59,520
So I think this is part of the castle and then there's a fish.
529
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,160
You can continue on this bridge to, this was also like a watch tower.
530
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,160
That was part of the castle.
531
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,240
I didn't read too much history here, obviously, but this is the rock formation that continues
532
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,040
out in the lighthouse is right out of view.
533
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,040
Don't worry.
534
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,040
It's here.
535
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,040
Oh, just peeking in.
536
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,040
Yeah.
537
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,400
The idea is that, you know, these go, it's on Google, it's like 4.8 out of five stars.
538
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:25,240
So you can go visit the castle and then from there you can see the best view of the lighthouse
539
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:26,240
itself.
540
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,240
Yeah.
541
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,080
It's a, you would think 600 feet is not so bad, but it looks pretty far.
542
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,080
Yeah.
543
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,080
Yeah.
544
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,080
I would just want to swim over there.
545
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,560
I think it'd be cool if you had really calm waters, like these are showing to like see
546
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:39,960
kayak out to it.
547
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:40,960
Yeah.
548
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:41,960
Kayak.
549
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:42,960
That's a good idea.
550
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,960
There's videos of boats.
551
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:49,400
So one of the videos I found several other videos I found had my heart will go on by
552
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,960
Celine Dion as the music like, do do do do.
553
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:54,960
Why?
554
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,320
It's a very romantic place, I guess.
555
00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,400
But I want to go to Greece.
556
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,400
Look at this.
557
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,200
This is the town that's built out onto the peninsula.
558
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,880
And then there's the castle.
559
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:10,200
The town goes to every like uses every little bit of rock on that little penitentiary.
560
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,200
Awesome.
561
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,840
Well, and the island is not small.
562
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,400
They, I mean, and it's not like it's not been there for very long.
563
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,520
This rock, this rock is very trustworthy.
564
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,520
Yeah.
565
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,160
And here's the watch tower we're looking at.
566
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,160
And then the lighthouse.
567
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,160
Very cool.
568
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,160
It's the whole.
569
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,160
Wow.
570
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,480
What a neat looking lighthouse.
571
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,720
So I found it right when really right when we started, nice picture, right when we started
572
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,800
our podcast.
573
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,800
So it's been a long time.
574
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,240
I've had this one in my pocket and there's not a ton to say about it that I could find.
575
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,960
There's probably a book out there that has a lot of interesting history on who built
576
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,000
it and how and restorations and stories.
577
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000
Yeah.
578
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,960
For now, it's a, it's one of the most beautiful and I'll go back to the image.
579
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,320
I really enjoyed this image.
580
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,320
Yeah, that's very nice.
581
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:55,320
Nice background picture.
582
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,920
Kind of goes with the colors of our podcast icon.
583
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,080
I think this will probably be the thumbnail.
584
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,160
Should have based it on that.
585
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,840
So, but let me, while we're here, if you've got patience for me, I'm going to Google again,
586
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,040
but you'll see, that's what I was going to say.
587
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,000
All the pictures are like, look at this.
588
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000
Like I was looking at this picture.
589
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000
Oh yeah.
590
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,320
Which is a large picture and I'm sure it's edited.
591
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,320
Oh very much so.
592
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,480
I can book now for just $51 for the members rate.
593
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,480
To stare at it or for this website.
594
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,040
I'm just going to hit okay.
595
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,080
Sign on my life away.
596
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,080
Fantastical.
597
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,080
Wow.
598
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,960
That, yeah, I like that one.
599
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,560
But there has been, I did see some photos that have like, you know, pretty, I don't
600
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,560
believe that's photoshopped.
601
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,560
No, I think that's, yeah.
602
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,560
Huh.
603
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,560
So.
604
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,560
Very nice.
605
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:40,560
This one's definitely real.
606
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,560
Yeah.
607
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:42,560
Not rendered at all.
608
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:43,560
That's pretty.
609
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:44,560
It's a great lighthouse.
610
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,560
That's a good one.
611
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:46,560
Yeah, very pretty.
612
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,920
So one of the most beautiful and I found some other lists.
613
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,920
Here's some water splashing for you.
614
00:24:54,920 --> 00:25:00,800
I found some other lists that don't include this one.
615
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:01,800
So a little bit scandalous.
616
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,280
Wait, what do you mean lists?
617
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,120
Lists of the top 10 lighthouses in the world that are most beautiful that don't include
618
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:10,120
the Andros lighthouse.
619
00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,120
Well, they're just uneducated.
620
00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:14,120
Yeah, they don't even know.
621
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:18,160
So you can see it's actually a really high quality photo.
622
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,160
That is a little beacon.
623
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,160
Oh, so cute.
624
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,720
So no more Fresnel lens up there.
625
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,120
Just probably a blinker.
626
00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:28,840
Which I can't imagine that's visible from 11 miles, but I guess at best conditions probably
627
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:29,840
is.
628
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,200
And 11 miles is not up there.
629
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,760
What do we usually see for range?
630
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:35,760
20, 30?
631
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,560
I think the average is about 17.
632
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:38,560
Okay.
633
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,160
And we've seen like 22 nautical miles.
634
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,160
So.
635
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,160
Yeah.
636
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,200
This would not be a day you could convince me to go out there.
637
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,240
Oh, no.
638
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,960
You definitely roll out of your kayak.
639
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,240
You can see the backside of the staircase going down the opposite direction.
640
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,840
But that's all I got.
641
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:57,840
Very neat.
642
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:58,840
That's a good selection.
643
00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,840
Yeah.
644
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,840
I can't wait to hear.
645
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,840
Another international.
646
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:02,840
Yep.
647
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,520
I got a couple other episodes coming up soon.
648
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:06,840
One will have guests on it.
649
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,800
You don't know everything about that.
650
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,280
Some others you don't know anything about.
651
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,280
So yeah, I'm in the dark.
652
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,280
Excited.
653
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,200
Now I know how you feel.
654
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,280
Confused all the time.
655
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,080
We do have an active sponsor still.
656
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,080
I want to mention.
657
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,880
I think they're active through March.
658
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,800
March 30th or something.
659
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:27,800
Yeah.
660
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,040
The end of March, maybe into April.
661
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:34,100
But our sponsor is newegg.com.
662
00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:39,320
And so newegg.com sells, they spell lots of things, but they sell computer parts.
663
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:45,760
They sell gaming kits, headphones, mouses, which I found is the right way to say it.
664
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,720
Mouses, not mice.
665
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:48,840
Oh.
666
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:49,840
Not live mice.
667
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:50,840
Computer mouses, sorry.
668
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,120
Keyboards, monitors, all that stuff.
669
00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:54,960
So if you need anything, head over there.
670
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,640
We have a link in our show notes and we get 3% of anything that you purchase through that
671
00:26:58,640 --> 00:26:59,640
link.
672
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:00,640
So we appreciate your help.
673
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,720
You should check us out anywhere you listen to podcasts.
674
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,520
You're already listening to it, so congratulations.
675
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,100
We're also on YouTube.
676
00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:08,100
We're new on LinkedIn.
677
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:10,640
Both of those are the Lighthouse Lowdown.
678
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,680
Appreciate you helping us out.
679
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,760
We also have a Linktree link now that I put in the show notes.
680
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:23,040
So if you click on that, it takes you to an area where you can find any of our links.
681
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:28,520
So if you just click on the link in our show notes, it'll take you to our Instagram, to
682
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,520
our YouTube, to anywhere you listen to podcasts.
683
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,320
Make it a little easier for you.
684
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,320
Very cool.
685
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,320
Do you want me to do it?
686
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:38,320
Do it.
687
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,320
The exit.
688
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,160
We can't remember.
689
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,160
How does it go?
690
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,000
No, oh well whatever.
691
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,080
We hope you keep listening and we hope you actually had a great time.
692
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,720
And also, we'll see you next time.
693
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:53,720
Thanks for listening.
694
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:54,720
On Lighthouse Lowdown.
695
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To the Lighthouse Lowdown.
696
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:20,300
What are you doing to start Completing Lighthouse Highs'
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I'm Vince.
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No.
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Oh, oh.
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Try again.
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Hi, I'm Vince.
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Hi, I'm Paul.
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And I'm Emily.
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No, we got it.
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Hi, I'm Vince.
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And I'm Emily.
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And you're listening to The Lighthouse Lowdown.
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We're doing a switch up.
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I lied.
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I was supposed to do this episode and it fell apart.
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So Vince is doing the episode today and it's going to be hopefully a mini-isode.
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Yeah.
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It's a shorter story.
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I think there's probably more history that I couldn't find.
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Yeah.
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And so maybe we'll learn more someday.
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But for now, this is what we got.
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And it's interesting.
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Yeah.
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Just a little tidbit, a taste, a taste crumb of information.
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All right.
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I suppose on that screen I should put up something that's not that so I can show everyone.
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Let's just put this up.
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Vince is doing TV time for the first time, I think.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So I'm going to control the screen share and you should see it now.
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Yeah, if you're on YouTube.
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Yeah.
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If not.
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I'm just assuming everyone's watching the YouTube.
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Otherwise, they're like looking at their phone like.
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Yeah, like what?
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Yeah.
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Something's supposed to happen.
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So either way, the screen share is up now.
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You're looking at a Google open tab for now.
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So a couple of different items for housekeeping.
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The first is the history buoy for today.
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Oh, you have one.
45
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I do have a history buoy.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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I don't.
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I didn't prepare anything to show, but I'm just going to shoot from the hip.
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Oh, that's fine.
50
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So recent.
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I was going to say recently.
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What's that look?
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You kicked me.
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Violence.
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One of our past, I'll call it recent, it's relatively recent history movies.
56
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Wow.
57
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We talked about some vocab, and I think you chose the words nautical miles.
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Yeah.
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And then knots for speed.
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We talked about we talked about all that.
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Yeah.
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And I was trying to think of a movie scene that I had seen before where they were talking
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about knots and they were on a ship and I couldn't remember what it was when I was trying
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to to recall.
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Oh yeah, I know what I know what this is.
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And then I was totally wrong on the meaning of what it was.
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What I was thinking of is the word fathom.
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OK.
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So fathom from engineering software, King Kong, the film, 1933 King Kong could have
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spelled it right.
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I'm just going to leave it.
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Let it ride.
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So I was thinking of fathom like fathoms and I'll tell you.
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So first off, King Kong.
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I recently watched the 2005 King Kong and then I looked up.
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I didn't watch it, but the 1933.
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So the original King Kong was 1933 and then it's been made since then into 13 films.
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Oh, my.
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Not all straight King Kong with different sagas.
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Some of them are just straight remakes and three TV shows.
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So that's a lot.
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Fun fact.
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I watched it 2005 and they they did.
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I'm not going to show the clip, but they did do the same remake scene where they're approaching
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the island.
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If you haven't seen King Kong, there's an island.
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It has King Kong, which is a giant ape on it.
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There you go.
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As they're approaching the island, they see they're coming in this into some fog and the
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captain reads out, you know, give me a sounding.
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So sounding we'll talk about is a depth measurement.
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So they throw a weighted rope over the edge and the rope goes down to a depth and the
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ropes are only a certain length.
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But once the rope hits the bottom, they see how many lengths it is deep.
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And those lengths are called fathoms.
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the depth of water, sometimes used in singular when quantified, when qualified by a number,
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as in you'd say five fathom deep.
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Oh, interesting.
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That goes against, you know, like the English language.
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Well, fathom comes from Old English, fathom, meaning outstretched arms.
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Oh, interesting.
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The noun fathom, which now I'm reading at this point, which now commonly refers to a
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measure, especially of depth of six feet was originally used for the distance fingertip
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to fingertip created by stretching one's arms straight out from the sides of the body.
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It is in one of its earliest uses, the verb fathom was a synonym for a modern embrace.
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To fathom someone was to clasp the person in your arms.
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So fingertips around them.
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So the fathom was just to figure out the depth of the water so you wouldn't like run aground.
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So you're taking a sounding as a measurement of depth of water using a rope, a sounding
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rope, which is knots are tied in at six foot lengths.
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to be your arm span.
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Like they're typically a one to one ratio.
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Different people have like my arm span is slightly shorter than my height because I'm
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six foot five.
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My arm spans like six foot two or my dad, he was six foot five and his arms are like
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six, seven.
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man.
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So I think that's probably, you could probably like, you know, run the rope out like this
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and then, you know, I'm stretching my arms for those who are not sitting across from
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me and then tie a knot and you could get rough depth readings pretty quickly if you just
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took any rope and made it a sounding rope.
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By the 1600s, fathom had taken to the seas as the verb was used to mean to measure by
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a sounding line.
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At the time, the verb also developed senses synonymous with people with, excuse me, with
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probe or investigate.
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So to fathom something was to probe it or to investigate it.
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speaking.
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So I can't fathom that.
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I can't probe and understand and come to get a measurement.
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I can't see the depth.
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I can't fathom it.
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We say that a lot is like, I can't fathom the size of the universe.
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No, you literally can't.
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You used a bro voice for that.
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Yeah, there's lots of bros.
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I can't imagine a frat dude saying fathom.
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I can.
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You see the profit they made on this movie?
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Which one?
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King Kong 1933?
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Yes.
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Look.
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The budget, $672,000.
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Box office, 5.3 million.
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That is a outstanding...
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So I watched some clips.
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I'm on my...
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Oh no.
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Coffee's hitting me now.
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I watched some clips.
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Oh gosh, this is not going to be a mini-sode.
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Sorry everyone.
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The 1933 King Kong has some...
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It's like claymation when it comes to the King Kong.
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Look at that face.
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He looks shocked at all times.
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Oh yeah, he has no idea how he got there.
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I will give...
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Or he's trapped in his body and someone else is controlling it.
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He's made of clay.
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He's like, oh.
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I did.
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I do have to give some credit.
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Look at his face.
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This one.
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He's like, whoa, she's blonde.
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The 2005 film used a lot of the same exact details that were used, down to the line,
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the same exact details that were used in the 1933 film.
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So I enjoyed it.
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I like that.
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That's interesting.
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Yeah, they really showed us some respect.
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Even this scene, which is like the climax of the film, is at the top of a tower.
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All of these details were exactly the same.
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Oh, that's cool.
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I thought that was neat.
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So we're the watch.
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Could talk more about it, but I won't drag you through it.
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This is not a movie podcast.
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Not yet.
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Movie analytics.
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If I could control my mouse, that'd be great.
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So that is my history movie, Fathom.
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Nice.
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Something I didn't know.
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Here we are.
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Cool, cool, cool.
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Cool, cool, cool.
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So I found the lighthouse I'm going to talk about today, a long time ago.
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And I found it in a search for the most beautiful lighthouses in the world.
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Oh.
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Are we recording, by the way?
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Why, why?
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Well, I just totally forgot to ask.
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You're used to being able to see it, so I understand.
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Right.
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I'm used to recording, so.
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Glad we're recording.
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We still have PTSD.
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I'm going to download my images.
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I'm going to bring this up.
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Whoa.
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Is it pink?
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Or is it just lighting?
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It's a little bit of lighting.
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I think there's some, a little Photoshop going on as far as coloration goes.
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Why, why?
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Did it used to be like a bigger stone?
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Nope.
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What?
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We'll talk about it.
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So this is, and we're going to go ahead and get into mispronunciations.
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This is the tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us, as Google would say, which I actually, actually we're going to do that
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right now because I brought that link up.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us lighthouse, which is Greek.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Oh no.
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What is, do it again.
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Tour-leet-us.
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Here you go.
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That's going to go slower this time.
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Tour-leet-us.
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What?
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One more time fast.
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Tour-leet-us.
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So I don't know what to do with that, but I've played with this before.
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I've also put a name in here for it to pronounce.
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So I'm going to go with tour-leet-us.
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Tour-leet-us.
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That's as close as I can get with my skillset, which is, you know, it is what it is.
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Amateur.
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Amateur at best.
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So the tour-leet-us lighthouse here has a height of 36 meters, 118 feet.
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Oh, wow.
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That's tall.
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To the optical center.
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I think it's, I think that's from the base of this rock because it doesn't look that
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tall and a visible light range of 11 nautical miles.
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So it's a fair sized light.
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It is automated right now.
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Where are we?
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Greece, which I didn't show you that and I meant to.
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I think I forgot.
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What am I?
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For people that don't see the picture, it is just precariously placed on top of a bulbous,
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light bulb-ish, a light bulb-esque shaped rock in the middle of ocean.
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Also the water is very pretty.
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I'm sure that's editing as well, but.
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It's pretty gorgeous part of the world.
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So we're in Greece here.
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I don't know why everything's showing in Greek, but that's fine.
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We're going to go to the island of Andros.
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Just south of Athens?
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Greece.
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I was too far south.
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East of Athens.
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Andros.
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So this is a city town and off of the coast you can see.
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Oh, I see.
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So it's not too far out.
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Yeah, but it is quite pretty.
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The colors are not that far off.
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So it's 200 meters out, which I want to say it's 600 something feet.
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We can talk about that too, but my Google is not.
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Google is not cooperating.
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But it looks nice.
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Is this, so this, the rock in this picture that you're showing, is this a low tide?
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Yeah, one of the lower tides.
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And we're going to show some more photos that show more details.
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I'd like to see it all around.
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This is something that I found and then edited.
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So with an aura that evokes another world in time, the Toulitas Lighthouse is still credited
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today, credited today for advancing maritime navigation for Greece's port city of Andros,
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which I'm probably pronouncing Andros wrong.
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Andros, I don't know.
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The lighthouse was originally built in 1897.
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Then and now it is located just 200 meters, 656 feet off of the coast of Andros, directly
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across from a castle.
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Oh.
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The castle kind of now stands in a state of deterioration.
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Of course.
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But it's still there.
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The lighthouse was destroyed in World War II by the Nazis.
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What?
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But it was rebuilt and reintroduced as Greece's first automated lighthouse.
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Oh, so what year?
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1994.
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What?
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That's recent.
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So it was eliminated by the Nazis in, I'm assuming in wartime, 1940s.
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It took them a long time to redo that.
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So this is my image 01 for your own entertainment.
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And there's still some editing going on.
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You can tell with the colors.
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Being one of the prettiest lighthouses and so weird as far as its architecture and placement,
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a lot of the photos are edited.
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Like there's some that are red, lots of sunsets, lots of waves crashing.
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Like tourist websites.
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The water is a lot calmer here than I would anticipate.
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It's not always as calm.
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So that erosion, apparently, we'll talk about it, but the site was selected when that was
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a bigger rock and that's come from water erosion.
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Eventually, I'm sure it won't be there, but it is kind of a cove, but I think it sees
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some some weather erosion over time.
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So the lighthouse site was chosen upon a natural rock formation across from the captivating
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Venetian castle of Andros.
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The lighthouse had a mystical sense and style of architecture.
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A twisted stone column that serves as the lighthouse's base features a naturally carved
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appearance due to thousands of years of erosion.
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Does the stairway wrap around?
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Like can you climb up there or is it does it stop?
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It does.
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It comes down here as we can see and then down that way.
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So it doesn't continue to wrap, but it comes down pretty steeply over here.
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All right.
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So yeah, it's got a complete walkway up there.
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So these people that are swimming here, are you allowed to visit it?
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Not officially.
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There is no open visitation.
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You can't enter it.
354
00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,160
So I think they're going out.
355
00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,140
As we saw on the map, there's a rock.
356
00:14:21,140 --> 00:14:22,960
So this is the city comes out.
357
00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,040
The castle is actually here.
358
00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:26,160
And so you can go to the castle.
359
00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,280
We'll talk about it and kind of look at the lighthouse really closely because it's only
360
00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:31,280
600 feet.
361
00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,280
Okay.
362
00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,840
But these rocks are all part of the same formation.
363
00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:35,840
Yeah.
364
00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,940
So it's pretty shallow right there.
365
00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:39,880
So it's 200 meters out to sea.
366
00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,600
It's the only structure of its kind in Europe.
367
00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,560
Being that it's the only lighthouse that's built on a rock formation such as this.
368
00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,680
The construction required 10 years of work.
369
00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:50,680
Oh.
370
00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,440
It's completed by an able seemingly amphibious team of Greek builders.
371
00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:55,440
Amphibious?
372
00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:01,040
As part of their work, they carved a stone staircase into the rock foundation of the
373
00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,040
tower.
374
00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,040
Wow.
375
00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,040
Yeah.
376
00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,720
And then on New Year's Day of 1897, I was ready for operation and began to illuminate
377
00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,320
the seas of the Mediterranean.
378
00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,320
Oh, wow.
379
00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,320
Mystical.
380
00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,960
I think I like my writing and my copy paste writing from other sources better than I like
381
00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,960
my speaking.
382
00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,840
So now I'm supposed to, oh, two.
383
00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:22,840
Yep.
384
00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:23,840
Wow.
385
00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:24,840
Another beautiful photo.
386
00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:25,840
That's insane.
387
00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,920
It's like it's defying gravity.
388
00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,200
Yeah.
389
00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:36,680
So they didn't, like the rock base of this lighthouse, they didn't do anything to reinforce
390
00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:37,680
it?
391
00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:38,680
Nope.
392
00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:39,680
Holy moly.
393
00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:40,680
Yeah.
394
00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:44,680
It's part of the land formation from my, I mean, my lack of knowledge, I'm guessing,
395
00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,000
because it's so close to land that it's actually part of the island.
396
00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:54,560
And so I'm guessing it's pretty solid because the entire city is on the water's edge.
397
00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,760
So I'm guessing that the rock type there, the rock formation and the weather conditions.
398
00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,080
They can trust it.
399
00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,480
So I think that erosion is from a long time.
400
00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:10,160
And looking at it, you can see that the lighthouse, all the weight is centered over the remainder.
401
00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:14,040
So I wonder if it actually make it last longer to have weight on it in the center.
402
00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,160
Compression and stuff going on.
403
00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,400
So 10 years and the 10 year construction was 1897.
404
00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,920
It was much faster in the nineties, although I didn't find the exact amount of time.
405
00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:23,920
The restoration.
406
00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,520
So the restoration in the nineties was done to make it look as close as they could to
407
00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:28,640
the original lighthouse.
408
00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,720
So the same style has been there forever.
409
00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:31,720
Cool.
410
00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:32,720
Forever.
411
00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:33,720
I enjoy that.
412
00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,280
The lighthouse successfully lit the way for ships traveling for nearly 50 years before
413
00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:38,800
it met an untimely fate.
414
00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:39,800
Oh.
415
00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:44,120
Neither an unwieldy sorcerer nor a hot tempered sea dragon destroyed the castle.
416
00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,240
Rather it was German bombs, which left nothing behind other than ruins and a scaffold tower
417
00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,240
in its wake.
418
00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:51,240
Wow.
419
00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:52,240
I did not write that.
420
00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,240
I look good.
421
00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:58,280
That's a, that's a carried over quote.
422
00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,020
So that was a world war two times.
423
00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:02,020
It was destroyed.
424
00:17:02,020 --> 00:17:03,020
There was nothing left.
425
00:17:03,020 --> 00:17:08,520
Um, a half century later, I found this source that said, many sources said this guy was
426
00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:13,940
a Greek oil tycoon, but other ones said he was a shipping tycoon.
427
00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:18,120
So I looked into it and then the last name of the family is another name.
428
00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:22,360
I'm going to butcher G O U L A N D R S.
429
00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:25,560
So Gourland is the last name of this family.
430
00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,920
But we'll talk about them, but I believe it's a shipping tycoon cause I read some history.
431
00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,400
Apparently this, this guy, his, his name is Alexandros.
432
00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:40,120
This man, his family went at least three generations before him in shipping all based out of Greece.
433
00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:44,600
Like the history was like, they bought a single boat and then they bought two boats.
434
00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:45,600
Then they sold the boats.
435
00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:46,600
They bought seven boats.
436
00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:47,840
Then there was an economic crash.
437
00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,680
Then they bought five boats.
438
00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,480
Then they had a boat built for them that could haul extra heavy weight.
439
00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,600
And so this long family history of shipping that he was a part of.
440
00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:04,400
So a half century later, 1990s, the Greek shipping tycoon courted to me, Alexandros Goulandis
441
00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,200
Goulandis decided to fund the restoration of the lighthouse tower.
442
00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,680
Nice seeking to celebrate the memory of his deceased daughter.
443
00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,040
The Alanda Goulandis funded the rebuilding of the lighthouse and dedicated it in her
444
00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,040
name.
445
00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,040
That's wonderful.
446
00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:19,040
What a beautiful story.
447
00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,040
I couldn't, I couldn't find anything about her.
448
00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,560
I didn't know her age.
449
00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:27,120
He was, I think he was born in the seven sixties or seventies.
450
00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,160
So she would have been young probably.
451
00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:30,160
Yeah.
452
00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,200
It opened in 1994, the new lighthouse.
453
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,920
The present tour lightest lighthouse.
454
00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:41,940
This one is a replica of the original serving not only as an enchanting beacon to behold,
455
00:18:41,940 --> 00:18:45,000
but an everlasting token of a father's love.
456
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:51,320
In 1995, the inauguration of the restoration of the tour lightest lighthouse in its original
457
00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:56,760
shape took place during a special ceremony at the Revias place.
458
00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,360
My pronunciation is off the charts in the island of Andros.
459
00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:04,920
It is a great monument to the Greek maritime tradition that survived thanks to initiatives
460
00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,480
of the Goulandis family in memory of their daughter.
461
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,760
Do you know how much it ended up costing?
462
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:10,760
Didn't say.
463
00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,440
I think it was a private deal.
464
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,320
So I don't, it's still operable.
465
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,060
It's an automated lighthouse.
466
00:19:17,060 --> 00:19:23,200
It was, I forgot to put it in my notes, but it was, it told me the fuel it operated on
467
00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:24,720
for a long time.
468
00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,520
Now it's electric, electric and fully, fully automated.
469
00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:29,520
No keepers are there.
470
00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:30,520
It's a active guide.
471
00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:31,520
It is.
472
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:32,520
Yeah.
473
00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:37,720
So this port, this port is more, it's still used for shipping, the Andros port.
474
00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:44,440
It's probably more used for less commercial because the world has gotten bigger since
475
00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:45,720
Greece has been around a long time.
476
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,200
Let's put it that way.
477
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,160
But it's, it's still an active guide to navigation.
478
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,600
I don't know if it's publicly owned.
479
00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:58,720
Like I don't know if the government owns it or if the Goulandis family owns it because
480
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,000
it's not accessible.
481
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000
Like you can, they're not going to, I can't say this.
482
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,280
They, there's no tourism to the, to the lighthouse.
483
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,720
You don't get a guided tour or something, get a boat out there.
484
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,800
So he was born in 1927 and he died in 2017.
485
00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:18,680
He went off on his own in 1952 and originally and eventually had 40 ships of his own.
486
00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:19,680
Holy cow.
487
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:20,680
That's a lot.
488
00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,000
He died in 2017, was buried next to his wife in the first cemetery of Athens.
489
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,080
It'd be an awesome place to be buried.
490
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,000
He was noted, but very private art collector and philanthropist.
491
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,920
So I don't think, I think this fit right in.
492
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:33,920
Yeah.
493
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:34,920
Yeah.
494
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:35,920
I agree.
495
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:36,920
Kind of neat.
496
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,520
I wanted to show you a Google review of the lighthouse.
497
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,920
4.8 out of five.
498
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,320
I liked your reviews.
499
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,440
This guy be brave.
500
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,240
It's an easy scramble across the old arch bridge to the Venetian fortress.
501
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,440
And from there you can see the tour latest lighthouse.
502
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,520
You can see his picture.
503
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,560
Look at that.
504
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:57,560
Whoa.
505
00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:58,560
Yeah.
506
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,040
So that's the arch and I'll get you a better view here in a minute.
507
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,400
Also look at the gorgeous water.
508
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:07,800
You're supposed to call, you're supposed to scramble across that to get, to get to the
509
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,960
flag is where the castle was.
510
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,040
Wait, oh, so by disrepair, you mean it's not there anymore.
511
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,040
It's ruins.
512
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:17,040
Yeah.
513
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,040
Oh, okay.
514
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,040
Sorry.
515
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,240
I did think it was like a full size castle.
516
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,520
No, but still it's still pretty neat.
517
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:31,240
But I am going to show you, this is the website for the lower castle of Andros.
518
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:32,880
So this shows the island.
519
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,480
So this shows the arch we just looked at.
520
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:35,480
Oh my gosh.
521
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,440
I would much rather, there's this very tiny amount of water there.
522
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:40,440
I would just swim.
523
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:41,440
Yeah.
524
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,080
How would you get, I suppose you could scramble.
525
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,200
If you're falling, you're falling into water, I guess.
526
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,840
So you're not falling like hundreds of feet.
527
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,960
That is very, that's rock right under the water.
528
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:59,520
So I think this is part of the castle and then there's a fish.
529
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,160
You can continue on this bridge to, this was also like a watch tower.
530
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,160
That was part of the castle.
531
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,240
I didn't read too much history here, obviously, but this is the rock formation that continues
532
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,040
out in the lighthouse is right out of view.
533
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,040
Don't worry.
534
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,040
It's here.
535
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,040
Oh, just peeking in.
536
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,040
Yeah.
537
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,400
The idea is that, you know, these go, it's on Google, it's like 4.8 out of five stars.
538
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:25,240
So you can go visit the castle and then from there you can see the best view of the lighthouse
539
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:26,240
itself.
540
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,240
Yeah.
541
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,080
It's a, you would think 600 feet is not so bad, but it looks pretty far.
542
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,080
Yeah.
543
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,080
Yeah.
544
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,080
I would just want to swim over there.
545
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,560
I think it'd be cool if you had really calm waters, like these are showing to like see
546
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:39,960
kayak out to it.
547
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:40,960
Yeah.
548
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:41,960
Kayak.
549
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:42,960
That's a good idea.
550
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,960
There's videos of boats.
551
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:49,400
So one of the videos I found several other videos I found had my heart will go on by
552
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,960
Celine Dion as the music like, do do do do.
553
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:54,960
Why?
554
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,320
It's a very romantic place, I guess.
555
00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,400
But I want to go to Greece.
556
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,400
Look at this.
557
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,200
This is the town that's built out onto the peninsula.
558
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,880
And then there's the castle.
559
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:10,200
The town goes to every like uses every little bit of rock on that little penitentiary.
560
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,200
Awesome.
561
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,840
Well, and the island is not small.
562
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,400
They, I mean, and it's not like it's not been there for very long.
563
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,520
This rock, this rock is very trustworthy.
564
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,520
Yeah.
565
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,160
And here's the watch tower we're looking at.
566
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,160
And then the lighthouse.
567
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,160
Very cool.
568
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,160
It's the whole.
569
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,160
Wow.
570
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,480
What a neat looking lighthouse.
571
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,720
So I found it right when really right when we started, nice picture, right when we started
572
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,800
our podcast.
573
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,800
So it's been a long time.
574
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,240
I've had this one in my pocket and there's not a ton to say about it that I could find.
575
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,960
There's probably a book out there that has a lot of interesting history on who built
576
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,000
it and how and restorations and stories.
577
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000
Yeah.
578
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,960
For now, it's a, it's one of the most beautiful and I'll go back to the image.
579
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,320
I really enjoyed this image.
580
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,320
Yeah, that's very nice.
581
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:55,320
Nice background picture.
582
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,920
Kind of goes with the colors of our podcast icon.
583
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,080
I think this will probably be the thumbnail.
584
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,160
Should have based it on that.
585
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,840
So, but let me, while we're here, if you've got patience for me, I'm going to Google again,
586
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,040
but you'll see, that's what I was going to say.
587
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,000
All the pictures are like, look at this.
588
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000
Like I was looking at this picture.
589
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000
Oh yeah.
590
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,320
Which is a large picture and I'm sure it's edited.
591
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,320
Oh very much so.
592
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,480
I can book now for just $51 for the members rate.
593
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,480
To stare at it or for this website.
594
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,040
I'm just going to hit okay.
595
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,080
Sign on my life away.
596
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,080
Fantastical.
597
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,080
Wow.
598
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,960
That, yeah, I like that one.
599
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,560
But there has been, I did see some photos that have like, you know, pretty, I don't
600
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,560
believe that's photoshopped.
601
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,560
No, I think that's, yeah.
602
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,560
Huh.
603
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,560
So.
604
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,560
Very nice.
605
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:40,560
This one's definitely real.
606
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,560
Yeah.
607
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:42,560
Not rendered at all.
608
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:43,560
That's pretty.
609
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:44,560
It's a great lighthouse.
610
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,560
That's a good one.
611
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:46,560
Yeah, very pretty.
612
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,920
So one of the most beautiful and I found some other lists.
613
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,920
Here's some water splashing for you.
614
00:24:54,920 --> 00:25:00,800
I found some other lists that don't include this one.
615
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:01,800
So a little bit scandalous.
616
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,280
Wait, what do you mean lists?
617
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,120
Lists of the top 10 lighthouses in the world that are most beautiful that don't include
618
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:10,120
the Andros lighthouse.
619
00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,120
Well, they're just uneducated.
620
00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:14,120
Yeah, they don't even know.
621
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:18,160
So you can see it's actually a really high quality photo.
622
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,160
That is a little beacon.
623
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,160
Oh, so cute.
624
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,720
So no more Fresnel lens up there.
625
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,120
Just probably a blinker.
626
00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:28,840
Which I can't imagine that's visible from 11 miles, but I guess at best conditions probably
627
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:29,840
is.
628
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,200
And 11 miles is not up there.
629
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,760
What do we usually see for range?
630
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:35,760
20, 30?
631
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,560
I think the average is about 17.
632
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:38,560
Okay.
633
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,160
And we've seen like 22 nautical miles.
634
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,160
So.
635
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,160
Yeah.
636
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,200
This would not be a day you could convince me to go out there.
637
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,240
Oh, no.
638
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,960
You definitely roll out of your kayak.
639
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,240
You can see the backside of the staircase going down the opposite direction.
640
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,840
But that's all I got.
641
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:57,840
Very neat.
642
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:58,840
That's a good selection.
643
00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,840
Yeah.
644
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,840
I can't wait to hear.
645
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,840
Another international.
646
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:02,840
Yep.
647
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,520
I got a couple other episodes coming up soon.
648
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:06,840
One will have guests on it.
649
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,800
You don't know everything about that.
650
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,280
Some others you don't know anything about.
651
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,280
So yeah, I'm in the dark.
652
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,280
Excited.
653
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,200
Now I know how you feel.
654
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,280
Confused all the time.
655
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,080
We do have an active sponsor still.
656
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,080
I want to mention.
657
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,880
I think they're active through March.
658
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,800
March 30th or something.
659
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:27,800
Yeah.
660
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,040
The end of March, maybe into April.
661
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:34,100
But our sponsor is newegg.com.
662
00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:39,320
And so newegg.com sells, they spell lots of things, but they sell computer parts.
663
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:45,760
They sell gaming kits, headphones, mouses, which I found is the right way to say it.
664
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,720
Mouses, not mice.
665
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:48,840
Oh.
666
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:49,840
Not live mice.
667
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:50,840
Computer mouses, sorry.
668
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,120
Keyboards, monitors, all that stuff.
669
00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:54,960
So if you need anything, head over there.
670
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,640
We have a link in our show notes and we get 3% of anything that you purchase through that
671
00:26:58,640 --> 00:26:59,640
link.
672
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:00,640
So we appreciate your help.
673
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,720
You should check us out anywhere you listen to podcasts.
674
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,520
You're already listening to it, so congratulations.
675
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,100
We're also on YouTube.
676
00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:08,100
We're new on LinkedIn.
677
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:10,640
Both of those are the Lighthouse Lowdown.
678
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,680
Appreciate you helping us out.
679
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,760
We also have a Linktree link now that I put in the show notes.
680
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:23,040
So if you click on that, it takes you to an area where you can find any of our links.
681
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:28,520
So if you just click on the link in our show notes, it'll take you to our Instagram, to
682
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,520
our YouTube, to anywhere you listen to podcasts.
683
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,320
Make it a little easier for you.
684
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,320
Very cool.
685
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,320
Do you want me to do it?
686
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:38,320
Do it.
687
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,320
The exit.
688
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,160
We can't remember.
689
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,160
How does it go?
690
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:48,000
No, oh well whatever.
691
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,080
We hope you keep listening and we hope you actually had a great time.
692
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,720
And also, we'll see you next time.
693
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:53,720
Thanks for listening.
694
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:54,720
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695
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:55,720
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696
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