Episode 25 - Blackwall Lighthouse

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Hi everyone, I'm Emily.

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And I'm Vince.

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And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.

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["The Lighthouse Lowdown Theme"]

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["The Lighthouse Lowdown Theme"]

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["The Lighthouse Lowdown Theme"]

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Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

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The name of my lighthouse today

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is so close to the name of another lighthouse

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that has like four different names.

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Okay, I'm curious about the other one

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that has four names and the one you're talking about.

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I know. And are you skipping a buoy?

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No, I haven't.

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It's just the first thing I thought of

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when I looked at my notes.

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Because originally I wrote it like the other lighthouse

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and then I was like, wait a minute, that's not right.

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It's not toor-leet-us.

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Toor-leet-us.

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Toor-leet-us.

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I hope anyone knows what we're talking about.

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Yeah, well, if they care about us at all,

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they would have listened to our last.

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If you listened to the last episode.

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But anyway, the other lighthouse is on my list.

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My list is like 15 lighthouses long now.

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So it's getting a little out of control.

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You're longer than mine.

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I've got like three or four.

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That's what she said.

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All right, and continuing.

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We have a, not that anyone cares, but just for trivia.

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We have a pre-flight checklist that I came up with

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to help us make sure we've got everything ready

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before we hit record and start talking to you all.

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Because last time we didn't record our screen for YouTube.

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And so it was just like a disaster.

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Yeah, it makes it more difficult.

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But number one thing on the pre-flight checklist is coffee.

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So just so you all know, it's very critical to our.

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We're staying on brand.

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To our brand, that's right.

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You don't want to hear us without coffee.

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I only just started sipping, so it's kind of what it is.

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So what's the buoy for today?

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All right, history buoy is riprap.

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Because we haven't officially covered that.

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And that's the name of our studio.

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We didn't?

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No.

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So maybe we should talk about it so that.

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We talked about it in our, gosh, our trivia episode.

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It was one of the questions.

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Okay, with Dylan?

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Yeah.

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So I've mentioned what the definition is,

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but haven't gone into detail.

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So it's riprap.

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There's no space in between if you're American.

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If you're British, then there is a space in between.

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Wow.

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If you're British, which is relevant to our episode today,

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it can also be called shot rock, rock armor, or rubble.

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Rock armor is awesome.

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I like all of those words.

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Yeah, I think rock armor is the coolest.

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Shot rock.

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Spelled with a U because we're British.

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So how do you spell riprap in English,

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in American English?

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R-I-P, R-A-P.

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Okay, so it's not rap with a W-R-A-P.

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No.

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It's rap as in Tupac and Biggie.

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Exactly.

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All right.

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So riprap is just human placed rock or other material

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that's used to protect shorelines, bridges, streams,

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or other infrastructure against water erosion.

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So obviously that comes into play a lot with lighthouses

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because they're often on the coast, sometimes in the water,

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and riprap is super important

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when they're actually in the water.

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Common materials for this are granite, concrete,

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well, granite and usually concrete,

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and they either do it like modular pieces

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that they make to be riprap or they just turn waste concrete

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from construction into rubble and then use that.

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Nice.

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I have pictures of all of these,

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so go to our YouTube so you can see what I'm talking about.

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I don't have it up yet, but I will.

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Yeah, no, that's cool.

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That's interesting.

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I looked up riprap a while ago.

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I don't recall why I looked it up,

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but I found in my search,

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I had to look up lighthouse riprap to figure it out

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because riprap is also used for construction

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and landscaping term for the same heavy rock

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to help fight erosion.

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Yeah, so here's an example of riprap

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on the edge of a body of water to help against erosion.

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This one's just rubble, so it's just leftover concrete

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from some construction site or something

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that they shipped over.

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And this is like drainage systems use it

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so that the constant stream of water from drainage

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doesn't eat away at the soil and mess up.

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That looks brand new.

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It's very clean riprap.

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Very fancy.

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Really, really nice riprap.

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This one is the modular riprap I was talking about.

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Very cool.

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They have a bunch of different types.

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This is the one that I thought looked more like a video game

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when things mess up.

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You can become digitized.

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Yeah, so I thought that was cool.

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There's lots of them you can look up online.

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This is in Japan, I believe.

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Oh, wow, see this looks German.

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It's very orderly and neat.

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If you look at the top of the rock over there,

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it's very Japanese.

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Also, I think the only German coast is the North Coast,

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and I don't think it looks a lot like that.

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Oh, okay.

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Is it beachy?

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I've actually, so I've never been up there, step one,

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but I think there are lots of rivers

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and like not swamp land, but transition land.

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I don't think there's like a hard coast.

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I think it's a transition.

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I see, kind of like a archipelago type of thing?

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I think so.

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Okay.

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I have to look closer.

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Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, I'm still looking at this photo,

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and I just noticed for scale, the boat in the bottom.

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Yeah.

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It's like a patrol boat.

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I was thinking much, much smaller.

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Yeah, these modular, these pieces are enormous.

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And that's part of the thing is riprap is actually expensive.

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Like even if you buy waste rubble from a construction site,

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it's still, you have to transport tons and tons,

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like thousands of tons of rock just to make riprap.

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So the transportation itself is very expensive.

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But I'm pretty sure I saw online that on average,

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riprap costs like $60 per square yard

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when everything's said and done.

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So total.

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$60 per square yard.

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That's expensive.

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Wow.

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I know.

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I'm pretty sure one of these things is a square yard.

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Maybe.

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I say cubic yard because I'm thinking of like concrete.

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Like when we were engineering.

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I just had to think about it and I think you're right.

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Well, it depends if you're surface or volume.

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Either way, sorry to interrupt so much.

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Coffee's coming after me.

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Lighthouses in the water often have riprap

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to protect them from waves and also as an armor

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against like grinding ice sheets.

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So if we talk about like standard rock,

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it could really benefit from some riprap.

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It couldn't because it's just perched on a reef.

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So you wouldn't be able to pile anything up against it

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because there's nothing to pile on.

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But that's kind of the idea is that if riprap was there,

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the ice sheets would not be hitting the lighthouse.

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They'd be hitting the riprap

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and it kind of dispersed that energy.

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So here's a.

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I know that lighthouse.

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I had another picture and now I don't have it.

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That's Chicago.

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But an example of having riprap against,

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actually this is the one, against waves and ice

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is Round Island Lighthouse

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and this is them adding riprap into 2020.

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And it was like, there was a lot of suspense.

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People were very concerned

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that they were gonna lose the lighthouse this year.

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This is in Michigan so obviously lots of ice happening.

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And winter was approaching and they were trying to fundraise

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to buy the riprap to put it around the lighthouse.

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And so there was like this big moment

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where the riprap pulled away from the harbor

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and everyone was like, oh,

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it's like this collective sigh of relief

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that it was finally happening.

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Kind of fun.

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It's awesome.

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Should cover this one.

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A crane on a barge.

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That's no doubt took another crane to load the riprap on.

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Definitely.

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Probably from a truck.

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That's pretty wild.

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Yeah.

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A lot of handling for a lot of weight.

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So that's a good example.

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That's Round Island Lighthouse

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if anyone wants to take a look.

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Sometimes riprap can be used as a bridge,

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like as a way to get to the lighthouse

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and also as a blockage of water,

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especially for like the passage of ships.

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And so that's kind of what happened

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with Chicago Harbor Lighthouse

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is they blocked off part of the harbor

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from being passed by ships using riprap

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so that you would have to pass through the opening

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of the harbor instead of going around, you know?

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Yeah.

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And you see there's a ladder onto the riprap

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so it's kind of like used as a access point.

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Oh wow.

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So the Chicago,

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I assume there's a lot of answers to a lot of questions

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but this particular case, do you know,

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is that for emergency use, the riprap byway,

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I guess I'll call it the riprap bridge

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because it's quite long and precarious.

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Yeah, it's not that it's like emergency use.

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I think they, I'm actually almost certain

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that they would use a boat to get out there

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mainly because like you can take boat tours

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that go right up next to this lighthouse

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so it's obviously accessible by boat

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more than walking across this.

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And you as a civilian or a normal human,

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you can't walk on here because it's private property

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or whatever, you know, government property.

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But obviously you could pull like a boat up next to it

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and climb on like they obviously have thought about using it

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as a way to get on because they have this little access point.

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That might be another ladder I see,

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can't tell on the front side.

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Yeah, that's where boats I think get on.

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That's awesome.

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So we saw this lighthouse from Navy Pier.

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So this photo is a great photo,

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looks like a drone photo I'm guessing.

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But for those who don't know,

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this is not far off of the end of Navy Pier.

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It's visible. No, you can definitely see it.

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Yeah, we took some pictures with it in the background.

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Yeah, we were gonna take a tour to go right up next to it

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to see it.

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We did do so bad, but timing just didn't work out.

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I could have made it happen by myself, but it didn't.

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Someday, we'll make it happen.

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Yeah, I already have a pin for this lighthouse.

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So I counted that I've been there.

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As far as lighthouses go,

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this is not one of the harder ones to get to.

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No.

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No, I don't know about setting foot on it,

267
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but I'm really getting close on the boat.

268
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I did read online that some people have walked

269
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across the rope rap all the way to the lighthouse.

270
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I'm like, you guys are crazy.

271
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I would do it.

272
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I would too.

273
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I'm more than illegal.

274
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Yeah.

275
00:10:30,460 --> 00:10:31,740
I'd get caught.

276
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I'm not very sneaky.

277
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Back to rope rap.

278
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Lastly, it can be used as support for bases of lighthouse

279
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on caissons to assist in keeping it upright.

280
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And I talked about caissons,

281
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I think in either my first or second episode,

282
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a lot of the stuff that I covered

283
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in those history of lighthouses episodes,

284
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I think needs to be revisited

285
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because I'm a lot better at research now.

286
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And I think I could contribute a little bit more

287
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to the subject.

288
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But yeah, if you wanna hear about caissons,

289
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you can look it up or listen to our episode.

290
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Or I might do another,

291
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I may do a history buoyant on caissons.

292
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You could.

293
00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:04,660
How's it spelled for those who Google?

294
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C-A-I-S-S-O-N.

295
00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,700
Okay, yeah, I definitely would have got that wrong.

296
00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:12,060
But example of this is Plum Beach Lighthouse,

297
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which I didn't get a picture up,

298
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but you should look it up online.

299
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Plum Beach, it's a popular one as well.

300
00:11:17,660 --> 00:11:18,940
Cool, thank you.

301
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And that's RIP RAP.

302
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So now we know what our studio is all about.

303
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It is Rebel. The RIP RAP studio.

304
00:11:23,940 --> 00:11:26,060
The Rebel, and named RIP RAP

305
00:11:26,060 --> 00:11:31,060
because it's a thrown together pile of stuff

306
00:11:31,660 --> 00:11:33,940
that otherwise would be worth very little.

307
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But now serves an excellent purpose.

308
00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:36,740
That's right.

309
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That is the stuff.

310
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What a great metaphor.

311
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All right, we'll get into the lighthouse.

312
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I mentioned we're British today.

313
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So we're, we're.

314
00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:49,340
Hi.

315
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We've got Joey entering the chat.

316
00:11:53,020 --> 00:11:53,860
Yeah.

317
00:11:53,860 --> 00:11:55,700
Yeah, I'm not gonna be British today.

318
00:11:55,700 --> 00:11:58,140
I don't wanna offend all of the internet at once.

319
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No, I'm not.

320
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We're just being transported there.

321
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That's kind of the idea.

322
00:12:02,620 --> 00:12:06,020
That's the actual look that we're going for.

323
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Great.

324
00:12:06,860 --> 00:12:09,420
So we're actually heading over to London.

325
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And oh my gosh, I forgot to look this up.

326
00:12:12,180 --> 00:12:15,020
It's the Thames River.

327
00:12:15,020 --> 00:12:15,860
Thames?

328
00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:16,700
Thames?

329
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Thames.

330
00:12:20,460 --> 00:12:22,020
Are we sure?

331
00:12:22,020 --> 00:12:24,980
I would look it up as far as.

332
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That's what it is.

333
00:12:25,820 --> 00:12:26,660
It says.

334
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Thames.

335
00:12:31,020 --> 00:12:31,860
Wow.

336
00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:33,900
That. Thames.

337
00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:36,980
That would have been my absolute last guess.

338
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Anyway, the River Thames is the only water

339
00:12:41,260 --> 00:12:42,340
that comes into London.

340
00:12:42,340 --> 00:12:44,940
So it's relatively landlocked besides this river,

341
00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:46,060
which is a famous river.

342
00:12:46,060 --> 00:12:47,580
Like it's a, it's a big one.

343
00:12:47,580 --> 00:12:48,420
Okay.

344
00:12:48,420 --> 00:12:51,500
It's snakes 215 miles from the North Sea,

345
00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:53,700
almost to the River Severn.

346
00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:54,980
I'm guessing on that one as well.

347
00:12:54,980 --> 00:12:57,900
But that's, I think that's the biggest

348
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or the longest river in the UK completely.

349
00:13:02,060 --> 00:13:02,900
Okay.

350
00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:06,500
And then the River Thames is the Thames is the second.

351
00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:08,660
Wow.

352
00:13:08,660 --> 00:13:09,500
Okay.

353
00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:10,580
So the River Thames is known for being

354
00:13:10,580 --> 00:13:12,620
very easy water to navigate.

355
00:13:12,620 --> 00:13:13,540
Obviously it's a river.

356
00:13:13,540 --> 00:13:16,540
So like lighthouses are very uncommon along rivers

357
00:13:16,540 --> 00:13:18,660
that like go through cities.

358
00:13:18,660 --> 00:13:20,860
You wouldn't really need to worry about it.

359
00:13:20,860 --> 00:13:23,500
So naturally lighthouses were never really needed along it

360
00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:26,780
except for one, which just slipped through the cracks.

361
00:13:26,780 --> 00:13:28,820
And this is the Blackwall Lighthouse,

362
00:13:28,820 --> 00:13:32,660
which is also known as the Trinity Bowie Wharf light.

363
00:13:32,660 --> 00:13:33,500
Whoa.

364
00:13:34,620 --> 00:13:38,100
Which you can guess it's on Trinity Bowie Wharf.

365
00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:40,100
It was built in 1864.

366
00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:43,180
It's brown brick, mostly shaped like a warehouse

367
00:13:43,180 --> 00:13:44,660
with like round windows

368
00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:46,300
and is right up next to the river.

369
00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:47,980
And it's the only lighthouse in London.

370
00:13:47,980 --> 00:13:49,140
That is wild.

371
00:13:49,140 --> 00:13:51,220
London's a very large city, so.

372
00:13:51,220 --> 00:13:52,060
So here we go.

373
00:13:52,060 --> 00:13:52,880
Nice.

374
00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:53,720
Yeah.

375
00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:54,560
It's a very large area

376
00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,740
and that's because originally it wasn't,

377
00:13:56,740 --> 00:13:59,300
it was never really a functioning lighthouse.

378
00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:01,100
So we can go into it.

379
00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:03,820
Blackwall Point, which is what this is named after,

380
00:14:03,820 --> 00:14:08,060
Blackwall, is the northernmost tip of Greenwich Peninsula,

381
00:14:08,060 --> 00:14:10,700
which is kind of the entrance to central London.

382
00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:13,020
It's like the river snakes around

383
00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:17,140
and one of the big loops is the Greenwich Peninsula.

384
00:14:17,140 --> 00:14:21,740
Legend has it that further upstream pirates

385
00:14:21,740 --> 00:14:25,500
were publicly hanged at Execution Dock

386
00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:28,460
and then their bodies would be hung in cages

387
00:14:28,460 --> 00:14:31,340
at Blackwall Point for people to gawk at

388
00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:33,500
when they entered central London.

389
00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:34,340
Wow.

390
00:14:34,340 --> 00:14:36,780
Yeah, so it's got like a little bit of dark history.

391
00:14:36,780 --> 00:14:38,860
Has nothing to do with anything, but.

392
00:14:38,860 --> 00:14:39,940
That was a long time ago.

393
00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:41,060
Yeah, that was a long time ago.

394
00:14:41,060 --> 00:14:41,900
I take it.

395
00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:44,260
Yeah, that was before the building of the lighthouse.

396
00:14:44,260 --> 00:14:45,100
Okay, okay.

397
00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:48,860
Just giving the land some dark energy.

398
00:14:48,860 --> 00:14:49,700
Blackwall.

399
00:14:51,020 --> 00:14:53,020
Originally, Trinity Bowie Wharf,

400
00:14:53,020 --> 00:14:55,740
which is in the Blackwall Point area,

401
00:14:55,740 --> 00:14:58,300
was originally made for storing buoys

402
00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:01,020
and also had a bunch of workshops for testing,

403
00:15:01,020 --> 00:15:03,660
repairing, and making marine equipment.

404
00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:06,220
So it's always been a very nautical area.

405
00:15:06,220 --> 00:15:09,900
And the lighthouse itself, I saw different sources

406
00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:11,940
that there was already a lighthouse there

407
00:15:11,940 --> 00:15:14,260
and it was rebuilt in 1864

408
00:15:14,260 --> 00:15:17,740
and then also some sources that said

409
00:15:17,740 --> 00:15:20,820
that it was just built in 1864.

410
00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:23,820
But I did see a lot of things that said that it was rebuilt

411
00:15:23,820 --> 00:15:27,460
and it was originally Michael Faraday's workshop.

412
00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:28,300
Have you heard of him?

413
00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:29,120
No.

414
00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,060
Okay, he's the one who came up with the terms

415
00:15:31,060 --> 00:15:33,220
ions, electrons.

416
00:15:33,220 --> 00:15:34,420
Oh, Faraday.

417
00:15:34,420 --> 00:15:35,580
Yeah, I have heard that name.

418
00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:37,500
It's been a while, sadly.

419
00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:41,780
He came up with the two rules of electrolysis and stuff.

420
00:15:41,780 --> 00:15:42,980
Okay.

421
00:15:42,980 --> 00:15:43,820
You could tell me whatever.

422
00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:44,860
I'd be like, yeah.

423
00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:46,900
Physics II was not my strong suit,

424
00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:48,860
so let's just leave it at that.

425
00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:53,420
But anyway, Faraday was a British physicist and chemist

426
00:15:53,420 --> 00:15:56,780
and he discovered benzene as well,

427
00:15:56,780 --> 00:15:58,920
worked in alloys and optical glasses

428
00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,440
and invented the world's first electrical generator.

429
00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:02,780
So he's got a lot of stuff happening.

430
00:16:02,780 --> 00:16:04,180
Man was busy.

431
00:16:04,180 --> 00:16:05,220
Man was busy.

432
00:16:05,220 --> 00:16:07,600
And like I said, he coined the terms ion, electrode,

433
00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:08,540
et cetera.

434
00:16:08,540 --> 00:16:11,260
And he experimented in his workshop,

435
00:16:11,260 --> 00:16:12,940
which was right next door to the lighthouse

436
00:16:12,940 --> 00:16:14,780
and inside the lighthouse.

437
00:16:14,780 --> 00:16:15,620
Awesome.

438
00:16:15,620 --> 00:16:17,120
And he used the lighthouse exclusively

439
00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,820
for testing the feasibility of using electric lighting

440
00:16:20,820 --> 00:16:25,820
for lighthouses because using lamps and stuff.

441
00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:26,940
He was that guy.

442
00:16:26,940 --> 00:16:27,780
It was just a pain in the butt.

443
00:16:27,780 --> 00:16:30,260
And this was in like 1850s.

444
00:16:30,260 --> 00:16:31,100
Crazy.

445
00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:33,340
Electricity did not come into lighthouses

446
00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:34,900
until far later than that.

447
00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:37,500
So, well, okay, worldwide.

448
00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:38,340
Popularized.

449
00:16:38,340 --> 00:16:39,160
Yes.

450
00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,460
I was like, I'm about to prove myself wrong immediately.

451
00:16:41,460 --> 00:16:44,820
It was obviously a spicy, exciting idea.

452
00:16:44,820 --> 00:16:46,300
Yes, yeah, very new.

453
00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:49,420
And he was employed by Trinity House,

454
00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:50,940
I think it was what it was called,

455
00:16:50,940 --> 00:16:53,940
which was the British lighthouse board.

456
00:16:53,940 --> 00:16:56,120
So he was actually being paid.

457
00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,100
I think he worked for them for over 20 years

458
00:16:58,100 --> 00:16:58,940
or maybe 20 years.

459
00:16:58,940 --> 00:17:01,740
I think we've heard of them before in the Bahamas.

460
00:17:01,740 --> 00:17:03,500
They developed a lot of the lighthouses there.

461
00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:04,620
Okay, yeah, that makes sense.

462
00:17:04,620 --> 00:17:05,460
Pretty sure.

463
00:17:05,460 --> 00:17:06,300
When they were good.

464
00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:08,620
I'm glad you know what I'm talking about.

465
00:17:08,620 --> 00:17:12,720
The first lighthouse to actually use the electric lighting

466
00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:17,720
that he proposed was South Forland Upper Light in 1857.

467
00:17:18,140 --> 00:17:20,180
So it started pretty early.

468
00:17:20,180 --> 00:17:21,580
I don't know how long they kept it there

469
00:17:21,580 --> 00:17:23,620
or if they were just seeing, you know,

470
00:17:23,620 --> 00:17:26,020
like let's test this and see what we need to change about it

471
00:17:26,020 --> 00:17:27,420
and we'll take it back out and all this stuff.

472
00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:29,580
But I didn't look deep into what that is.

473
00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:31,080
If we covered this lighthouse,

474
00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:32,620
they have a ton of history on it.

475
00:17:32,620 --> 00:17:34,240
And there's also another lighthouse,

476
00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,700
maybe even two lighthouses.

477
00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:39,540
It's like a trio of lighthouses.

478
00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:41,020
So anyway, it's another cool one.

479
00:17:41,020 --> 00:17:42,100
It's also on my list.

480
00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:44,860
After seeing it on here.

481
00:17:44,860 --> 00:17:47,900
Faraday's only invention to ever be patented

482
00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:49,900
was designed in this very place

483
00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:51,820
and is a new type of chimney designed

484
00:17:51,820 --> 00:17:54,220
to stop lamp gases from combusting.

485
00:17:54,220 --> 00:17:57,020
So it was like he developed the new type of lamp

486
00:17:57,020 --> 00:17:58,540
that went in the lighthouses

487
00:17:58,540 --> 00:18:00,520
so that you wouldn't have soot build up

488
00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,860
and covering your light.

489
00:18:02,860 --> 00:18:03,980
Like someone would have to come by

490
00:18:03,980 --> 00:18:05,300
and clean it every 10 seconds.

491
00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:06,140
Yeah.

492
00:18:06,140 --> 00:18:09,620
So a chimney for a fuel lit lamp.

493
00:18:09,620 --> 00:18:11,580
Yeah, it's like the chimney,

494
00:18:11,580 --> 00:18:14,540
the glass chimney part of the lamp.

495
00:18:14,540 --> 00:18:16,420
So it keep it clean without maintenance.

496
00:18:16,420 --> 00:18:17,820
Wow, that's pretty cool.

497
00:18:17,820 --> 00:18:18,660
Yeah, I know.

498
00:18:18,660 --> 00:18:19,480
I can't believe that's his only patent.

499
00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,420
I was gonna say, isn't that insane?

500
00:18:21,420 --> 00:18:22,820
And it's fun that it was invented here.

501
00:18:22,820 --> 00:18:24,860
He must have just hated paperwork.

502
00:18:24,860 --> 00:18:28,260
It's like, if you guys care about it, you can do it.

503
00:18:28,260 --> 00:18:29,960
But I don't care about it.

504
00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,580
He was in it for the knowledge, not for the,

505
00:18:32,580 --> 00:18:33,700
I don't know, the recognition.

506
00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:34,540
He's a philanthropist.

507
00:18:34,540 --> 00:18:36,860
He's already famous.

508
00:18:36,860 --> 00:18:38,900
Anyway, back to lighthouse.

509
00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:41,540
I just thought it was cool that such a huge name was here.

510
00:18:41,540 --> 00:18:42,540
Yeah, yeah.

511
00:18:42,540 --> 00:18:46,860
So after World War II, a black wall lighthouse

512
00:18:46,860 --> 00:18:49,300
was used as a site to train keepers in.

513
00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:51,620
So it taught them literally everything.

514
00:18:51,620 --> 00:18:55,860
Like how to take care of the lighthouse in all aspects,

515
00:18:55,860 --> 00:18:59,260
how to cook, how to take care of themselves

516
00:18:59,260 --> 00:19:02,460
on a lighthouse that doesn't have a lot of amenities.

517
00:19:02,460 --> 00:19:07,460
So it's basically like being a keeper 101 was taught here.

518
00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:11,260
The lighthouse and the workshop were closed in 1988.

519
00:19:11,260 --> 00:19:13,820
And so I couldn't find any information

520
00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:15,620
about whether or not this actually

521
00:19:15,620 --> 00:19:17,500
used to have a beacon up top.

522
00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:19,260
It doesn't now.

523
00:19:19,260 --> 00:19:20,100
Oh, weird.

524
00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:23,820
Yeah, I don't know if it was just that they tested lights

525
00:19:23,820 --> 00:19:27,800
and like equipment and stuff up there,

526
00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,420
or if it actually had a light.

527
00:19:29,420 --> 00:19:30,380
I don't think it did.

528
00:19:30,380 --> 00:19:34,180
So the size of the, I'm gonna call it warehouse,

529
00:19:34,180 --> 00:19:38,580
the shop is enormous in comparison to this lighthouse.

530
00:19:38,580 --> 00:19:41,060
And we know lighthouses only need to be tall enough

531
00:19:41,060 --> 00:19:42,900
to be seen on a riverfront.

532
00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:44,980
Of course, that wouldn't have to be very high at all.

533
00:19:44,980 --> 00:19:49,980
But I almost wonder if it's because of the scale of it,

534
00:19:49,980 --> 00:19:52,300
the warehouse is really the main intent,

535
00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:55,260
research facility, manufacturing, testing,

536
00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:58,220
and then the lighthouse is like an exhibit for testing,

537
00:19:58,220 --> 00:19:59,060
if that was true.

538
00:19:59,060 --> 00:20:00,700
So they were storing equipment and all of that.

539
00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,020
And then maybe the lantern room was just where they tested

540
00:20:03,020 --> 00:20:05,180
stuff that they were making in the workshop.

541
00:20:05,180 --> 00:20:07,140
That's probably the case.

542
00:20:07,140 --> 00:20:09,300
I really wanted there to be a beacon at some point,

543
00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:11,460
but there's probably lots of beacons

544
00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:12,740
that went through this lighthouse

545
00:20:12,740 --> 00:20:14,620
just for very short periods.

546
00:20:14,620 --> 00:20:17,160
Is that a curtain up there, or is that a solid,

547
00:20:18,940 --> 00:20:21,140
the black area in the light room?

548
00:20:21,140 --> 00:20:22,940
No, I think it's just the back.

549
00:20:22,940 --> 00:20:24,920
You can see in the lantern room,

550
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,580
there's some white bits that start to creep out

551
00:20:27,580 --> 00:20:28,420
around the side.

552
00:20:28,420 --> 00:20:30,460
That is solid all the way through the back.

553
00:20:30,460 --> 00:20:32,280
So it's not.

554
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,120
Oh, weird.

555
00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:33,940
Yeah.

556
00:20:33,940 --> 00:20:34,780
It's not open all the way around.

557
00:20:34,780 --> 00:20:36,340
Which would be true for a lighthouse

558
00:20:36,340 --> 00:20:37,660
that's so close. Facing one direction.

559
00:20:37,660 --> 00:20:40,300
Yeah, that's so close to the cities.

560
00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:42,700
They would block it off where it's not needed.

561
00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:44,420
So you're not flashing the city all of a sudden.

562
00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:45,260
Yeah.

563
00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:47,380
Yeah.

564
00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:48,220
Cool.

565
00:20:48,220 --> 00:20:49,860
1988, the area was bought

566
00:20:49,860 --> 00:20:53,200
by London Docklands Development Corporation.

567
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:54,700
And that's when everything was closed.

568
00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:57,200
So it was no longer used for storing buoys

569
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,220
and testing equipment and everything.

570
00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:02,940
And they leased it to Urban Space Holdings in 1998.

571
00:21:02,940 --> 00:21:05,200
So it's about 10 years went by.

572
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,340
Urban Space Holdings wanted to develop it

573
00:21:07,340 --> 00:21:10,500
as a cultural and like an arts center,

574
00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:11,740
which is what they're still doing today.

575
00:21:11,740 --> 00:21:16,740
And it's like known as the strangest area of London.

576
00:21:17,260 --> 00:21:21,380
So they wanted to, in the 2000-ish year,

577
00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:23,500
they wanted to make it a cultural arts center

578
00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,580
because that area of town is artsy.

579
00:21:25,580 --> 00:21:27,460
They made it artsy.

580
00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:28,300
So like today it's known.

581
00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:29,500
Oh, they started with the lighthouse.

582
00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:30,340
Exactly.

583
00:21:30,340 --> 00:21:33,260
It's like, it's known as just the weirdest,

584
00:21:33,260 --> 00:21:37,100
like most bizarre area you can go to in London.

585
00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:39,500
So they built, they started Urban Space Holdings.

586
00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:42,860
They started with building Container City,

587
00:21:42,860 --> 00:21:45,500
which is basically office spaces made

588
00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:46,660
from shipping containers.

589
00:21:46,660 --> 00:21:48,780
And they paint them really brightly.

590
00:21:48,780 --> 00:21:49,620
I guess I could pull a picture of that.

591
00:21:49,620 --> 00:21:52,020
There's one right there in the shot.

592
00:21:52,020 --> 00:21:55,740
Yeah, I could not find a lot of pictures of this lighthouse.

593
00:21:55,740 --> 00:21:56,580
I love that shot.

594
00:21:56,580 --> 00:22:01,580
Really, I mean, Google gave me half a page of results

595
00:22:01,940 --> 00:22:04,300
and then was like, here, is this what you're looking for?

596
00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:06,180
And it's the other lighthouse.

597
00:22:06,180 --> 00:22:07,020
That's so weird.

598
00:22:07,020 --> 00:22:08,340
I'm like, no.

599
00:22:08,340 --> 00:22:11,340
So yeah, there's not a lot of pictures of this lighthouse,

600
00:22:11,340 --> 00:22:12,180
but it's still.

601
00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:13,540
I think it's a container painted

602
00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:15,460
decoratively there, the green.

603
00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:16,940
Yeah, you're probably right.

604
00:22:16,940 --> 00:22:18,860
Here, yeah, let me pull a picture.

605
00:22:18,860 --> 00:22:21,820
It's pretty crazy, but it was a hit.

606
00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:23,980
So they're working on Container City too.

607
00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:26,660
Oh, 2.0, they're all office spaces?

608
00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:28,980
Yeah, it's like an office building made out of.

609
00:22:28,980 --> 00:22:30,300
That's pretty cool, actually.

610
00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:32,060
Container City. People have done houses

611
00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:36,020
and cabins and lots of stuff out of containers.

612
00:22:36,020 --> 00:22:38,860
Like Alaska bars that we were talking about.

613
00:22:38,860 --> 00:22:41,060
Yeah, the Sluice Box.

614
00:22:41,060 --> 00:22:41,900
That's right, yeah.

615
00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:43,020
Just trying to think of it.

616
00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:46,000
Those containers are also called Connex boxes,

617
00:22:47,180 --> 00:22:49,020
which comes from the United States military.

618
00:22:49,020 --> 00:22:50,900
I think it was World War II.

619
00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:54,700
We basically invented a way to ship our stuff

620
00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:56,460
or popularized it maybe.

621
00:22:56,460 --> 00:22:57,300
This is cool.

622
00:22:57,300 --> 00:22:58,860
Yeah. Sorry.

623
00:22:58,860 --> 00:23:00,880
So yeah, this is Container City.

624
00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:04,060
But yeah, it was very popular.

625
00:23:04,060 --> 00:23:05,140
I really love the windows.

626
00:23:05,140 --> 00:23:07,340
And you can tell one of them is cracked open

627
00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:09,900
and it does revolutions.

628
00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:11,740
That's cool, very European.

629
00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:14,740
Yeah, I like it, but it's definitely

630
00:23:14,740 --> 00:23:16,100
one of the weirdest things.

631
00:23:16,100 --> 00:23:16,940
What's this?

632
00:23:16,940 --> 00:23:18,900
Is it like a cat ladder going on at the bottom?

633
00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:21,020
Here? Yeah.

634
00:23:21,020 --> 00:23:22,100
Oh.

635
00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,100
You know, looking at this back porch

636
00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:25,420
with all their hummingbird stuff,

637
00:23:25,420 --> 00:23:27,820
I would say they would have a cat access point.

638
00:23:29,580 --> 00:23:30,420
Or raccoons.

639
00:23:30,420 --> 00:23:31,500
This place is cool.

640
00:23:33,740 --> 00:23:35,300
Yeah, so they built this.

641
00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:37,160
There's also a couple other strange things there.

642
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,500
It has a 1940s American diner called Fat Boys,

643
00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:42,100
which is like beloved by the area.

644
00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:43,180
They love it.

645
00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:46,260
And it was actually like brought over from New Jersey.

646
00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:48,100
It was like originally in New Jersey.

647
00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:52,420
And they took the diner and moved it to London.

648
00:23:52,420 --> 00:23:53,540
That's awesome.

649
00:23:53,540 --> 00:23:54,380
It's cool too.

650
00:23:54,380 --> 00:23:58,580
It's like mostly chrome, has some red, you know, a classic.

651
00:23:59,620 --> 00:24:02,340
And there's also a small shed called Faraday Effect.

652
00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:03,420
I don't know anything about it.

653
00:24:03,420 --> 00:24:05,260
It was just listed as one of the cool things.

654
00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:07,660
It may have been like a,

655
00:24:07,660 --> 00:24:10,100
like, oh, this is what Faraday's

656
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,020
like office used to look like or something.

657
00:24:13,020 --> 00:24:14,540
It's just like this little decrepit building.

658
00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:16,080
So maybe it's the actual office.

659
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,340
I don't know.

660
00:24:17,340 --> 00:24:19,940
It's not part of this business, this office space?

661
00:24:19,940 --> 00:24:22,860
No, it's just one of the cool things you can find

662
00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:24,860
near the lighthouse, like in this area

663
00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:27,640
that's owned by the Urban Space Holdings.

664
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,460
I guess we could pull up the,

665
00:24:29,460 --> 00:24:31,500
I think I had another picture.

666
00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:32,380
Yeah.

667
00:24:32,380 --> 00:24:33,220
It was pretty.

668
00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:36,300
Very fast, did you catch it?

669
00:24:37,740 --> 00:24:39,940
Oh, so close.

670
00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:41,780
I don't understand it.

671
00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:42,620
Okay.

672
00:24:42,620 --> 00:24:44,460
You have to make the sound.

673
00:24:44,460 --> 00:24:45,300
Just had to go fast.

674
00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:46,140
Yeah.

675
00:24:46,140 --> 00:24:47,340
Yeah.

676
00:24:47,340 --> 00:24:50,060
Oh, there's a Pepsi sign in the back.

677
00:24:50,060 --> 00:24:51,140
Oh, Fat Boys.

678
00:24:51,140 --> 00:24:52,220
Fat Boys.

679
00:24:52,220 --> 00:24:53,060
There she is.

680
00:24:53,060 --> 00:24:54,740
So maybe it is right up next to it,

681
00:24:54,740 --> 00:24:56,020
or maybe they're just advertising.

682
00:24:56,020 --> 00:24:56,840
I don't know.

683
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,740
It looks like it's part of the building,

684
00:24:57,740 --> 00:24:59,900
part of the warehouse space.

685
00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:00,740
Fat Boys.

686
00:25:00,740 --> 00:25:02,500
I wanna go to Fat Boys in London.

687
00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:03,340
It looked good.

688
00:25:03,340 --> 00:25:04,500
It looked just really good.

689
00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:05,500
I mean, that's very American

690
00:25:05,500 --> 00:25:07,300
to go to an American diner in London

691
00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:10,120
when you're traveling, but I would do it.

692
00:25:11,260 --> 00:25:12,620
I know, why would we go to an American diner

693
00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:13,780
when we could just go anywhere?

694
00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:16,340
Listen, I go to McDonald's every time I travel.

695
00:25:16,340 --> 00:25:17,180
Yeah.

696
00:25:17,180 --> 00:25:18,340
I've been to McDonald's all over the world.

697
00:25:18,340 --> 00:25:20,860
But that's because McDonald's are cooler in other places.

698
00:25:20,860 --> 00:25:21,700
Yeah.

699
00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:24,260
So it's like, oh, by comparison, this is neat.

700
00:25:24,260 --> 00:25:25,100
Yeah.

701
00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:28,300
You're really getting, like Italy had a cool McDonald's.

702
00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:29,140
Yeah.

703
00:25:29,140 --> 00:25:30,140
Double Decker McDonald's.

704
00:25:30,140 --> 00:25:32,820
McDonald's in Switzerland was also double Decker.

705
00:25:32,820 --> 00:25:33,640
Yeah.

706
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,940
And their bread that they had on the burger

707
00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:36,780
was incredible.

708
00:25:38,220 --> 00:25:39,660
Incredible.

709
00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:44,660
Had breakfast at McDonald's in Galway in Ireland.

710
00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:46,740
That was neat, highly recommended.

711
00:25:46,740 --> 00:25:47,980
Was it double Decker?

712
00:25:47,980 --> 00:25:50,460
No, that was only single level.

713
00:25:50,460 --> 00:25:51,480
Shame that.

714
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:52,580
Well, they're just putting more effort

715
00:25:52,580 --> 00:25:53,460
into the space they have.

716
00:25:53,460 --> 00:25:54,940
They did have good sausages.

717
00:25:54,940 --> 00:25:56,700
The last thing that's cool about this area

718
00:25:56,700 --> 00:25:59,620
that was mentioned was old Trinity,

719
00:25:59,620 --> 00:26:01,580
is an old Trinity light ship

720
00:26:01,580 --> 00:26:03,780
that's turned into a recording studio.

721
00:26:03,780 --> 00:26:04,620
What?

722
00:26:04,620 --> 00:26:05,940
Is that that ship we saw?

723
00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:06,780
Yes. The red ship.

724
00:26:06,780 --> 00:26:07,620
Yeah, the red.

725
00:26:07,620 --> 00:26:11,300
So it's a studio, recording studio?

726
00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:12,780
Yeah, music recording studio.

727
00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:14,220
What?

728
00:26:14,220 --> 00:26:17,500
How do you take an environment like a ship

729
00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:20,660
with hard flat walls that's floating?

730
00:26:20,660 --> 00:26:21,820
I don't know.

731
00:26:21,820 --> 00:26:25,700
And make it, I had a hard time with my basement.

732
00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:26,940
I know.

733
00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:30,180
So although there is no need for a lamp in the lantern room,

734
00:26:30,180 --> 00:26:33,020
there is still a lot of history in there.

735
00:26:33,020 --> 00:26:35,620
And it is because Black Wall Lighthouse

736
00:26:35,620 --> 00:26:37,820
is home to Long Player.

737
00:26:37,820 --> 00:26:38,660
Have you ever heard of that?

738
00:26:38,660 --> 00:26:39,480
Long Player?

739
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,520
Long Player.

740
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,220
It's a continuous 1000 year long piece of music.

741
00:26:44,220 --> 00:26:45,060
What?

742
00:26:45,060 --> 00:26:49,420
Yeah, it was generated online by musician Jim Piner,

743
00:26:49,420 --> 00:26:50,520
I think is his name.

744
00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:52,540
He's still alive.

745
00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:53,660
He took a recording.

746
00:26:54,860 --> 00:26:55,700
1000 year long?

747
00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:59,580
He took a recording song of Tibetan singing bowls

748
00:26:59,580 --> 00:27:01,500
and repeated it six times and then programmed

749
00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,620
Long Player to mix and match the notes

750
00:27:03,620 --> 00:27:05,820
in different durations and pitches and stuff

751
00:27:05,820 --> 00:27:08,700
to create music that never repeated for 1000 years.

752
00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:09,540
What?

753
00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:10,360
Mm-hmm.

754
00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:13,620
And so the lantern room of Black Wall Lighthouse

755
00:27:13,620 --> 00:27:18,620
is the first and now one of many playing posts

756
00:27:19,540 --> 00:27:22,460
where you can stand and listen to the music.

757
00:27:22,460 --> 00:27:27,380
It's been playing since December 31st, 1999.

758
00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:28,220
Wow.

759
00:27:28,220 --> 00:27:32,220
There's, I'll put the link in our show notes,

760
00:27:32,220 --> 00:27:35,300
but you can go to their website and it shows you,

761
00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:38,460
well, I guess I'll say they have, in 2012,

762
00:27:38,460 --> 00:27:42,540
they put an installation of 234 Tibetan singing bowls

763
00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:46,980
in the lighthouse where a 1000 minute long performance

764
00:27:46,980 --> 00:27:50,700
of part of Long Player's piece was played by humans.

765
00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:54,340
And so it was just like playing it in real life.

766
00:27:54,340 --> 00:27:56,220
And so those bowls are still up there.

767
00:27:56,220 --> 00:27:58,940
You can go and look at them and it's pretty cool.

768
00:27:58,940 --> 00:28:02,580
The Long Player website shows you

769
00:28:02,580 --> 00:28:04,460
if you were looking at this installation,

770
00:28:04,460 --> 00:28:07,500
which bowls were being used for how long.

771
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,340
That's cool.

772
00:28:08,340 --> 00:28:10,180
Yeah, it's very cool.

773
00:28:10,180 --> 00:28:11,740
And you can actually, here, I have a next.

774
00:28:11,740 --> 00:28:13,540
It seems very random.

775
00:28:13,540 --> 00:28:14,660
It is, it is random.

776
00:28:14,660 --> 00:28:17,860
I mean, people, it's, that's kind of what this area

777
00:28:17,860 --> 00:28:18,700
is all about.

778
00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:24,580
Oh, cats are not happy about that.

779
00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:27,580
Just listen to a little bit of Long Player.

780
00:28:35,220 --> 00:28:37,100
Also, this was the first,

781
00:28:39,180 --> 00:28:41,100
this is when it started in 1999.

782
00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:42,500
This is the first part.

783
00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:43,340
That was the first note?

784
00:28:43,340 --> 00:28:44,940
Yeah, this is the first part of Long Player.

785
00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:45,780
It's incredible.

786
00:28:45,780 --> 00:28:50,780
Joey seems to like it.

787
00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:56,380
Bo is out of here.

788
00:28:56,380 --> 00:28:57,380
He poofed up.

789
00:29:02,420 --> 00:29:03,420
So.

790
00:29:03,420 --> 00:29:05,940
So obviously he's, he talked about it.

791
00:29:05,940 --> 00:29:07,460
He's not looking for melody.

792
00:29:07,460 --> 00:29:10,180
He's not looking for, you know,

793
00:29:10,180 --> 00:29:14,220
it sounding like music we want to hear.

794
00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:18,940
It's more about, it's quality, it's quantity over quality.

795
00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:20,020
But I still thought it was nice.

796
00:29:20,020 --> 00:29:21,180
Featuring Pitbull.

797
00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:25,060
I was like, what?

798
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:28,100
Featuring Pitbull?

799
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:33,100
So the intent of the long music is to just never repeat.

800
00:29:34,260 --> 00:29:35,340
Yep.

801
00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:36,740
For a thousand years.

802
00:29:36,740 --> 00:29:38,220
It's like everything that comes out of there

803
00:29:38,220 --> 00:29:41,180
is like a new, a new thing.

804
00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:44,020
Hang on, I'm pulling up the Tibetan singing bowls.

805
00:29:44,020 --> 00:29:46,780
Yeah, so you can see all of the bowls.

806
00:29:46,780 --> 00:29:48,060
This is kind of what it's based on.

807
00:29:48,060 --> 00:29:50,900
If you look at their website, you can take a look.

808
00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,980
And they have lots of excerpts of past,

809
00:29:55,620 --> 00:29:57,700
when they played it in the past.

810
00:29:57,700 --> 00:29:58,540
Neat.

811
00:29:58,540 --> 00:29:59,500
That's very unique.

812
00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:01,740
So it's supposed to end, well, okay.

813
00:30:01,740 --> 00:30:06,740
The piece, the continuous non-repeating piece

814
00:30:06,740 --> 00:30:11,740
is gonna end in 2,999 at the new year.

815
00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:15,660
And then it'll start over.

816
00:30:18,060 --> 00:30:19,780
All right, great.

817
00:30:19,780 --> 00:30:22,220
That looks like a cool place for a pool table.

818
00:30:22,220 --> 00:30:23,060
My personal opinion.

819
00:30:23,060 --> 00:30:24,220
That's true.

820
00:30:24,220 --> 00:30:26,220
So yeah, this installation's in the lighthouse,

821
00:30:26,220 --> 00:30:27,620
but not in the lantern room.

822
00:30:27,620 --> 00:30:29,860
Lantern room is just where the listening post is,

823
00:30:29,860 --> 00:30:32,340
where you can go and listen and just like hang out.

824
00:30:32,340 --> 00:30:34,300
They said it's a nice place to just look out

825
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:36,340
over the city and over the water

826
00:30:36,340 --> 00:30:39,620
and just listen to some Tibetan singing bowls.

827
00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:40,540
Of course.

828
00:30:40,540 --> 00:30:43,700
And that's the end of Black Wall Lighthouse.

829
00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:45,220
Seems like a cool neighborhood.

830
00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:46,060
Yeah.

831
00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:48,500
Only lighthouse in London and a weird area.

832
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:51,780
Oh, in this picture, you can see the top of Faraday effect.

833
00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:52,660
That's that little shed?

834
00:30:52,660 --> 00:30:53,500
Yes.

835
00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:55,300
Very tiny.

836
00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:57,260
I really do wonder what's in there.

837
00:30:57,260 --> 00:30:59,100
It would be a fun place to visit.

838
00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:00,260
That's all I got.

839
00:31:00,260 --> 00:31:01,100
Very nice.

840
00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:02,620
You're very focused on.

841
00:31:02,620 --> 00:31:04,900
The London Lighthouse.

842
00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,100
Black Wall, cool name.

843
00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:08,780
Yeah, it's not bad.

844
00:31:08,780 --> 00:31:10,260
Trinity Bowie Wharf Light.

845
00:31:10,260 --> 00:31:13,380
I am petting the cat because I want him to be quiet.

846
00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:16,500
He's highly focused on giving Joey the good pets.

847
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:17,340
It's working.

848
00:31:17,340 --> 00:31:18,700
I lost Bo, it made me sad.

849
00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:19,540
He got so scared.

850
00:31:19,540 --> 00:31:20,380
He didn't like the singing bowls.

851
00:31:20,380 --> 00:31:22,500
The long player, yeah, he is not a fan.

852
00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:24,780
His tail poofed up and he ran out of here.

853
00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:25,620
But anyway.

854
00:31:25,620 --> 00:31:26,440
Well, thank you.

855
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,280
Yeah, you're welcome.

856
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,120
You have any questions?

857
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:28,960
1800s?

858
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,060
Because 1850 was the light bulb experiment, right?

859
00:31:32,060 --> 00:31:32,900
Yes.

860
00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,380
1850 is the light, not light bulb experiment,

861
00:31:35,380 --> 00:31:36,220
but the beacon.

862
00:31:36,220 --> 00:31:39,940
Yeah, the development of electric.

863
00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:43,740
That one you mentioned that used it in 1859.

864
00:31:43,740 --> 00:31:44,580
57.

865
00:31:44,580 --> 00:31:45,860
57.

866
00:31:45,860 --> 00:31:47,300
Was that in England as well?

867
00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:48,620
Yeah, England.

868
00:31:48,620 --> 00:31:50,340
Whoa, it's in a cool area.

869
00:31:50,340 --> 00:31:51,380
I won't tell you about it

870
00:31:51,380 --> 00:31:54,100
because we're probably gonna cover it someday.

871
00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:55,260
All right.

872
00:31:55,260 --> 00:31:56,660
Well, that's cool.

873
00:31:56,660 --> 00:31:57,500
No, I really appreciate that.

874
00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:58,740
I don't have any other questions.

875
00:31:58,740 --> 00:31:59,580
Great.

876
00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:00,580
Thanks everyone for listening.

877
00:32:00,580 --> 00:32:02,100
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878
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:04,060
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00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,460
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00:32:12,380 --> 00:32:14,020
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884
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885
00:32:17,780 --> 00:32:18,600
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886
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,440
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887
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