Episode 28 - Nomazaki (Noma) Lighthouse

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000Hi everyone, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown!200:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000Your microphone stands sagged on you. It did.300:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,000That's tighter. That's looser.400:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000Punched me in the face.500:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000It's...600:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000The audio has that, it's like this...700:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000Okay, Vince and I are using some new microphone stands today, so...800:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000That's right.900:00:49,000 --> 00:00:58,000We're figuring it out. We're also getting a new audio interface, but it doesn't want to do what is right and make things easy for us.1000:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000So we're using our old one today, and we'll figure out the other one by the time we...1100:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000I mean, hopefully, by the time we record our next episode.1200:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000Yeah, we should.1300:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000Oh, things could just go smoothly. That'd be nice.1400:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000No, that'd be too easy. How are you doing?1500:01:16,000 --> 00:01:24,000Oh, I'm fine. Vince and I are going to be covering, I guess, Landsorts is the one before this, and we're recording this one as well.1600:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,000So we have a series of two international lighthouses going on.1700:01:29,000 --> 00:01:34,000So we'll be visiting both of them, most likely. We're a little...1800:01:34,000 --> 00:01:45,000We haven't had plans finalized, but we're going to Sweden, and then I'm going to Japan, so you can guess where we're going to be covering our lighthouse today.1900:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000Very excite.2000:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000I am excite.2100:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,000Just so everyone is clear, I don't know where that accent is from other than right here and right now. Very excite.2200:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,000I am really excited. I don't think we've told the podcast yet about our trip. I don't know if we've mentioned it.2300:02:01,000 --> 00:02:06,000So I don't know when this is airing, but yeah, we're going to Sweden, and we're going to talk about that.2400:02:06,000 --> 00:02:14,000Well, the way that I've set this up is that the episode will post while we're in the country that the lighthouse is in.2500:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000Oh, nice. The episode is over. So we're covering these lighthouses before we visit them.2600:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,000So if there's any adjustments that need to be made, because this is very difficult.2700:02:24,000 --> 00:02:31,000The lighthouse stuff of the one in Sweden is all in Swedish, and the lighthouse in Japan is all in Japanese.2800:02:31,000 --> 00:02:37,000And so then all of my faith is in Google Translate. But if they tell me it's like...2900:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,000Torlites.3000:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,000Anyway, that's kind of the struggle that's been with these lighthouses is that I'm going by Google Translate,3100:02:48,000 --> 00:02:56,000which obviously is not complete English when it's translated. It's broken up, and Google does its best.3200:02:56,000 --> 00:03:03,000But sometimes it translates things wrong or things that don't need to be translated, like the name of something is a Swedish word.3300:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,000And it translates it to like our last lighthouse translates to rural lighthouse or country lighthouse.3400:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000But it's just a name. It's not supposed to be translated.3500:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000Garlic. Yeah, that was another mistake. It's not.3600:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,000The more you know. Yeah, we're going to Sweden, and then this will post while we're in Sweden.3700:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000So if you're listening to this, this will post while I'm in Japan.3800:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,000Never mind. Still, I'm going to say it anyways. Think of us.3900:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,000It's mixed up because we're recording the Sweden one tomorrow and the Japan one today.4000:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,000Oh, my comes out before before Japan. I am all mixed up.4100:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000You're also not going to be here for the Japan one. So it's kind of. Oh, so I shouldn't even be on the podcast.4200:03:46,000 --> 00:03:52,000All right. This will be a pretty short episode, but we can get into it because I do have a history buoy.4300:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000It's pretty broad. It's a pretty broad subject, but I can't rush a good time.4400:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000Oh, yeah, we got this. So I'm going to cover for my history buoy.4500:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000The history of lighthouses in Japan, because we'll be covering a Japanese lighthouse.4600:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000OK, we know the general history of lighthouses. If you listen to our history of lighthouses episodes,4700:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000there's two of them, one number one and two of our podcast.4800:04:15,000 --> 00:04:22,000And we've dabbled a lot in talking about, you know, the US LHG, the lighthouse board,4900:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000how things have changed over time in the US, but things are really different between countries.5000:04:26,000 --> 00:04:33,000And you will absolutely see that between Sweden and Japan. Very different, very different growth of lighthouses5100:04:33,000 --> 00:04:39,000and its history in either country. I'm excited. Especially compared to the US. Yeah.5200:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,000It's like for different reasons. I mean, US is a fairly new country, which is why we have fairly new lighthouses.5300:04:45,000 --> 00:04:54,000Japan is also have fairly new lighthouses, even newer than the US, but not because the country is young.5400:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,000It's because they resisted and I think you're going to say because of World War Two or something.5500:05:00,000 --> 00:05:07,000Oh, no. Oh, like, oh, you mean like they used to have them, but they're obliterated. No.5600:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,000No, I'm glad that's not what you said. That would be sad. So lighthouse, a lighthouse in Japanese is called Todai.5700:05:13,000 --> 00:05:19,000That's it's T-O-D-A-I. Todai. That's lighthouse in Japanese.5800:05:19,000 --> 00:05:28,000Lighthouses were considered to be a very Western thing to have. So the Japanese didn't have lighthouses for a long time.5900:05:28,000 --> 00:05:38,000And also in the 15th centuries, we're going, you know, like 600 years ago, Japan passed a law that forbid Japanese from leaving their country,6000:05:38,000 --> 00:05:48,000which started like many centuries long era of isolation. And this was mainly based around a fear of westernization,6100:05:48,000 --> 00:05:56,000which is basically it started in West Britain, their culture and ideals and everything spreading to the rest of the country,6200:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,000which there are downsides to it, of course. And culture is awesome.6300:06:01,000 --> 00:06:08,000And so it's it was like the first time that culture started to be shared between countries.6400:06:08,000 --> 00:06:22,000You know, it included like the importance of dental health, like it's just like random things like that. It's like technology advancing and construction advancing.6500:06:22,000 --> 00:06:30,000Yeah. Concrete was one of the things westernization included concrete. So it's just a bunch of things like of modern life today were very Western.6600:06:30,000 --> 00:06:38,000And Japan resisted that for a long time because they obviously they value their culture and they didn't want it to get stamped out by westernization,6700:06:38,000 --> 00:06:48,000which in Japanese history, you can see kind of where that line was drawn, where the Japanese would wear suits and wool coats and things to work.6800:06:48,000 --> 00:06:55,000But when they came home, they would put on their traditional garb. It's kind of like it became a political thing and not so much.6900:06:55,000 --> 00:07:01,000You know, it's a whole yeah, I don't understand it totally because I'm not a historian.7000:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000Well, I don't I'm going to do it. I'm going to go on a tangent. OK. You said this is the fifteen hundreds.7100:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000This was the beginning of westernization. No, the for the law.7200:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,000The 15th century was when Japan said fourteen hundreds. Yeah.7300:07:15,000 --> 00:07:22,000Wow. Japanese cannot leave the country because we want to preserve the culture that we have in Japan.7400:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000Yeah. Fourteen hundreds. Man, I want to read further into that.7500:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000That's really interesting on its own. It's just as an idea.7600:07:29,000 --> 00:07:35,000I'm I'm I was recommended by a listener and friend of ours that I should listen to this audio book.7700:07:35,000 --> 00:07:43,000Well, read this book. But he said listen to the audio book because the author or rates the book himself, which is always great.7800:07:43,000 --> 00:07:51,000But is he good? He's well, the person it's so it's a biography and he is good.7900:07:51,000 --> 00:08:00,000The person that's about is an Englishman and they're talking about the seventeen hundreds, I believe.8000:08:00,000 --> 00:08:06,000I believe. Yeah. Seventeen hundreds because the United States is founded during this time period where this guy is alive.8100:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000OK. Not that that's relevant, but they mentioned 1776 on.8200:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000But in the seventeen hundreds, there's these wonderful tangents this author goes on that are super long.8300:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000Yeah. And he talks about one of the book. He wrote these.8400:08:19,000 --> 00:08:25,000Yes. Oh, my gosh. And because he's already it, it's like like I was out mowing the yard earlier listening to this.8500:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000And he goes and talks for, you know, 20 minutes on a subject that is not exactly relevant.8600:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,000So interesting. Obviously, I'm a fan. Yeah, we're we're all about that.8700:08:34,000 --> 00:08:40,000But but one of the tangents he was talking about was I don't know what to call it westernization.8800:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000I'll call it for the moment of people.8900:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000They started to worry about things they hadn't worried about before.9000:08:47,000 --> 00:09:00,000Yeah. All of a sudden, because of schools existing and education and we had enough food and civilization and laws in England in the seventeen hundreds, hundreds was when people started to worry about philosophy.9100:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000Yeah. And they started to delve into it.9200:09:02,000 --> 00:09:09,000And a lot of people were picking up different sciences and studying things that hadn't been studied before.9300:09:09,000 --> 00:09:17,000And this person that the biography is about is studying geography and also geology.9400:09:17,000 --> 00:09:26,000So he eventually will come up with the first geology map of the island of England, Britain rather.9500:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,000Wow. So it shows by layer where fossils are, where different coal resources are.9600:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,000So this is not you said this is a biography. I didn't process that.9700:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,000So this is not just a story that is true. It's like, OK. Yeah. Yeah.9800:09:40,000 --> 00:09:49,000And so it's the point was this kid growing up in the seventeen hundreds had the access to a lot of things that weren't around before.9900:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,000And part of that, you know, people started exploring different things.10000:09:52,000 --> 00:09:57,000Fashion changed. Plumbing and construction changed. Sciences changed.10100:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000Faith played into, you know, God created the earth.10200:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000And that's the end of the story until now. This guy was pushing that. Yeah.10300:10:05,000 --> 00:10:10,000Now we're seeing like evolution and stuff. Yeah. Challenging evolution.10400:10:10,000 --> 00:10:15,000He didn't get burned at the stake. Darwin's theory didn't come out for another 30 years after this person.10500:10:15,000 --> 00:10:21,000Oh, my gosh. So now that I see it, I just can't believe that that I just said.10600:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000I'm pretty sure that's what they said in the book.10700:10:23,000 --> 00:10:29,000But either way, westernization, they're talking about this in Japan and a law had been passed.10800:10:29,000 --> 00:10:35,000So obviously it wasn't the origin, but rather something that's going on in the fourteen hundreds.10900:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000Fifteen century. Is that right? Yeah. Fourteen. That's just crazy.11000:10:38,000 --> 00:10:47,000So give it give the mic back to you. But this isolationism continued until like the eighteen hundreds.11100:10:47,000 --> 00:10:53,000So I had a solid four hundred years of keeping within their country borders.11200:10:53,000 --> 00:10:59,000You know, nobody was nobody was coming into or out of the country, which I'm interested about.11300:10:59,000 --> 00:11:04,000Like if what shipping was like, like, did they share goods with other people?11400:11:04,000 --> 00:11:10,000Like how how isolated were they actually from the rest of the world?11500:11:10,000 --> 00:11:17,000Or was it just that people couldn't go out or in to the country and but they were still open to sharing?11600:11:17,000 --> 00:11:25,000Because like I'm talking about is lighthouses didn't actually occur in Japan until later in the eighteen hundreds.11700:11:25,000 --> 00:11:31,000And that's super, super late for lighthouses to show up in a country that's existed long before.11800:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000It's an island. Yeah. I mean, the whole world's islands. Right.11900:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000So I guess I don't know anything about that.12000:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000But I don't know if commerce was a thing between Japan and other countries before this.12100:11:41,000 --> 00:11:47,000I wonder if commerce is what drove the westernization of Japan.12200:11:47,000 --> 00:11:54,000How would it not be? I mean, how would you because Japan is fully, absolutely fully developed today.12300:11:54,000 --> 00:11:59,000If not pushing the boundaries of technology and stuff, there really any development anywhere.12400:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000Right. They might be the best.12500:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000I mean, from what I know, but there obviously was a shift somewhere.12600:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000So what kicked that off? That's in lighthouses being a technology and a practice.12700:12:10,000 --> 00:12:17,000Yeah. And obviously a very useful tool, especially into, you know, the United States got really into lighthouses in eighteen hundreds.12800:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,000That's when we hear a lot of the origins. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah.12900:12:22,000 --> 00:12:32,000So really the invention of the steam engine and growth and transportation kind of spurred conversation and relationships with Japan,13000:12:32,000 --> 00:12:39,000because now we're starting to be able to go anywhere in the world at any time with anything.13100:12:39,000 --> 00:12:50,000And so Japan is like starting to be like, OK, maybe like we should not be so concerned about that and instead be concerned about growing our country in the way.13200:12:50,000 --> 00:12:57,000Like not they're not really wanting westernization, but you want dental hygiene. You want stronger buildings.13300:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000You want to be able to look after your people to keep up in that way. Yeah.13400:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,000And especially like technology and education and stuff like that.13500:13:03,000 --> 00:13:11,000It all kind of played into this like them starting to be open to the idea of westernization because there are downsides to it.13600:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,000It's like the politics, not like, you know, one of the.13700:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,000So I looked up downsides of westernization and it included like bad money handling.13800:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,000That was just something that came along with the times. Yeah.13900:13:24,000 --> 00:13:33,000The importance of political correctness, you know, you're it's very likely that if you watch the news or whatever, there's political.14000:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,000It's like a facade that you can't you can't be real.14100:13:38,000 --> 00:13:44,000Yeah. And that's obviously something that would have been valued a lot in places like Japan.14200:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,000It's where you can authenticity. Yeah. Yeah.14300:13:48,000 --> 00:13:55,000Anyway, that I do have a link in my show notes of how westernization came about in Japan.14400:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000And it talks a lot about why and what that meant for Japan.14500:13:59,000 --> 00:14:07,000Upsides, downsides, all of that. But we're focusing on lighthouses in this in this podcast.14600:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000So that's what I focused in on. It was it was a little chunk.14700:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000But so if you are interested, you should go ahead to my show notes. I have a have it in there.14800:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000I will. I'll look at that. That's and we may talk about it again. Yeah.14900:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,000So Steam Engine brought upon some relationships building.15000:14:24,000 --> 00:14:31,000And it wasn't until the eighteen fifties that the U.S. and Japan signed a treaty of friendship, which I thought was a cute name.15100:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,000But it's basically like we're open to it's like a commerce treaty.15200:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000They're signed with the U.S. Yes.15300:14:40,000 --> 00:14:46,000And like the British and other countries, they kind of just were like, OK, we're going to dive in and do this thing.15400:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000We're going to trade and be in it and it to win it.15500:14:49,000 --> 00:14:55,000And so Japan began began to westernize in earnest in the mid eighteen hundreds.15600:14:55,000 --> 00:15:06,000And Japan didn't have engineers that understood concrete and like building lighthouses, building town centers.15700:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,000I'm pretty sure their town like their town hall or whatever.15800:15:10,000 --> 00:15:17,000What is it like? Capital building kind of thing was built by other engineers because they didn't.15900:15:17,000 --> 00:15:26,000They needed some they needed people from other countries to come in and teach their engineers how to make these buildings that were as well strong and safe.16000:15:26,000 --> 00:15:34,000Yeah. So they brought in engineers to build schools, banks, railroads, which is also interesting.16100:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,000And lighthouses, because now their ports are open and they need people to be safe coming to their country.16200:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000And so they have to build lighthouses.16300:15:41,000 --> 00:15:48,000So first lighthouse lit in Japan was in 1869 by Scottish engineer Richard Brunton.16400:15:48,000 --> 00:15:54,000And this is the weirdest circle closure of information that I've ever seen.16500:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000It's you're the little Ross episode. Yes.16600:15:58,000 --> 00:16:08,000Part two, I want to say I talked about Joseph Dick and he's the guy who went to Japan to build lighthouses and ditched his wife and kids.16700:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000He was an assistant, right? Or no, he wasn't. He was an engineer.16800:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000No. Yeah, he was an engineer. And he started a new family.16900:16:13,000 --> 00:16:21,000And he was sent by the Scottish or maybe it was the Scottish to build lighthouses in Japan for five years.17000:16:21,000 --> 00:16:32,000But then he wanted to stay. And so his wife and children went back to Scotland and he took a Japanese lover, had children and died there.17100:16:32,000 --> 00:16:41,000Wow. And so I'm looking at I'm looking up Richard Brunton, who is the one who built the first lighthouses there.17200:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,000And it just I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that guy that I talked about. I wonder if they coincided.17300:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000They were partners. So Richard Brunton is working with Joseph Dick.17400:16:50,000 --> 00:16:58,000They both went at the same time in 1868 to build lighthouses. I was like, what is going on?17500:16:58,000 --> 00:17:04,000Mr. Dick, he was this, you know, my chance was this his first project was this one of several.17600:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,000Was he already far established at this time? This lighthouse we're going to talk about.17700:17:09,000 --> 00:17:14,000I think he was well established because he was selected to go to Japan.17800:17:14,000 --> 00:17:19,000It wasn't like, OK, who wants to sacrifice? You know, but I mean, once he was in Japan, his tour in Japan.17900:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000Yes, he has. Well, he was also very generous.18000:17:23,000 --> 00:17:35,000And so Japanese, the Japanese loved him because he in times of hardship in Japan, he would come out and help, you know, supply people with food and money and stuff.18100:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,000So it wasn't that he was a bad guy, but to his wife and children, I think it was a little low.18200:17:39,000 --> 00:17:43,000Well, they really loved England. He really loved Japan.18300:17:43,000 --> 00:17:50,000Yeah. So he he has a monument for him over there. Yeah, he's he's pretty high up there.18400:17:50,000 --> 00:17:57,000He's a. You know. Big, big dick. Yeah.18500:17:57,000 --> 00:18:04,000Oh, yeah. But anyway, I just thought I was I read this good, the Scottish engineer and I was like, oh, we've covered another Scottish engineer.18600:18:04,000 --> 00:18:11,000I should go take a look. And it's just that they were partners. He's not mentioned in any of the you know, it's all in Richard's name.18700:18:11,000 --> 00:18:18,000Yeah. But yeah, Joseph, Joseph was in there and I was just I just think it's wild. It's completely unrelated.18800:18:18,000 --> 00:18:31,000Yeah. Anyway, Brinton built another 25 lighthouses in Japan as the country wanted to illuminate their new ports for foreign boats and other countries to start visiting and doing trade and all of that.18900:18:31,000 --> 00:18:37,000And in fact, one of the lighthouses he built was the very first concrete structure in Japan.19000:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,000That's crazy. The earliest instance of concrete is the lighthouse.19100:18:41,000 --> 00:18:47,000And I can't remember the name. It's not the one we're covering today. This one came in a little bit later than that.19200:18:47,000 --> 00:18:54,000I have a potentially unanswerable question. OK. Is Japan a volcanic formation?19300:18:54,000 --> 00:19:00,000I guess a rock ground structure so they didn't need concrete for foundations.19400:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000I want to say yes. Mount Fuji isn't that dormant. I believe so. Yeah.19500:19:05,000 --> 00:19:17,000Let me check. Because that would that would align with saying they don't know how to they don't they did not at the time know how to manage concrete and I mean, yeah, that's interesting.19600:19:17,000 --> 00:19:22,000I don't know how else to say it. I think you're right. Because I also think Japan has trouble growing crops.19700:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,000Oh, I think that's why they're so my cultural knowledge is so short.19800:19:27,000 --> 00:19:37,000They're so they eat so many fish. It's a cultural history of not being able to support crops and therefore animals as well.19900:19:37,000 --> 00:19:42,000What am I trying to think of livestock? Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah. Yeah.20000:19:42,000 --> 00:19:48,000The animals in the backyard, the things that walk around. Yeah.20100:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,000So it is a volcanic island. OK. So that is a volcano.20200:19:52,000 --> 00:20:00,000I'm going to I'm going to presume assume that's the history behind their concrete experience. Yeah, maybe.20300:20:00,000 --> 00:20:07,000We'll see. That's interesting. That's a good thought to have you smart person.20400:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000I love guessing and having no one to tell me I'm wrong.20500:20:11,000 --> 00:20:16,000Except for the Internet. It's just me. And I'm like, oh, yeah, maybe. Oh, it'll be the Internet.20600:20:16,000 --> 00:20:21,000Thanks, guys. Yeah, we're starting to get people telling us that we're wrong, which20700:20:21,000 --> 00:20:27,000I like it after it. The hurt wears off.20800:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,000I have the garlic, the constructive criticism.20900:20:31,000 --> 00:20:38,000I have an initial reaction of sadness. And then I appreciate it.21000:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000You know, I just got to sleep on it. And then I'm like, oh, thank you for enlightening us.21100:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000We always appreciate it.21200:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000So, yeah, feel free to tell us if we're wrong, maybe gently for my own constitution.21300:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000So I interrupted. We're talking about the first concrete structure.21400:20:53,000 --> 00:21:06,000So the first several lighthouses in Japan are obviously extremely similar to Scottish and British style lights, which it makes logical sense that the Scottish engineers come in.21500:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000Yeah, we still do that today.21600:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,000They're they did a good job because no two lighthouses look exactly the same, obviously.21700:21:13,000 --> 00:21:22,000And the one we're talking about today is obviously a Scottish light. It's like the Scottish design lived on.21800:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,000Yeah. OK. The one that we're talking about today is Scottish style.21900:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,000And I have never seen one like it because it's very skinny.22000:21:30,000 --> 00:21:41,000Like normally Scottish lights are they're domed and they're white and they've got like like cross hatching going on the on the outside of the glass.22100:21:41,000 --> 00:21:46,000OK. The frontal lens. And they're usually a little bit more stout and wide.22200:21:46,000 --> 00:21:52,000But this one's pretty tall, but it has the same aspects of I think that's probably the Japanese influence.22300:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,000This one's built like 50 years later from when they started.22400:21:56,000 --> 00:22:01,000So it's probably the Japanese influence coming in. Japanese design influence.22500:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000The light room is tall or the tower. The tower is tall, tall and skinny.22600:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000Yeah. Cool. I'm doing a lot of hand movements today.22700:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000I'm all over the place. I'm like circle of information.22800:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,000We're going to need cameras in here before long. I don't want anyone to see this.22900:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,000Do I get to see the lighthouse? I really want to. Yeah, not yet.23000:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,000I'm looking at our cat, Joey. Yeah, we got Joey up on the screen right now because I couldn't find our logo to put up.23100:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,000Another disclaimer before I say this next sentence.23200:22:28,000 --> 00:22:34,000I am not I don't know. I don't know Japanese pronunciation.23300:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000I don't know how to read it. I don't know how to say it.23400:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,000I already struggle with English pronunciation. I'm glad you're doing it.23500:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,000So I'm just going to blaze ahead and just do my best.23600:22:45,000 --> 00:22:51,000I thought I looked up all the pronunciations that I could, but I see now that I have missed a couple.23700:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000Let's just dive in. Just confidently dive. We'll have people correct us.23800:22:54,000 --> 00:23:02,000All right. The Meiji government prioritized the Izu Peninsula due to a large number of maritime accidents.23900:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,000So that's where you see that most lighthouses pop up early on. This peninsula.24000:23:06,000 --> 00:23:14,000Nowadays, there are over three thousand lights in Japan, not all of them running, but at least that many built.24100:23:14,000 --> 00:23:20,000And they're overseen by the Japan Ghost Guard. Whoa. Japan Coast Guard.24200:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,000I was going to say that is the coolest thing. Ghost Guard.24300:23:23,000 --> 00:23:30,000It's like a special forces. The Japanese Ghost Guard. Yeah. Sorry.24400:23:30,000 --> 00:23:38,000It was interesting because it's just like we have the US Coast Guard and then we have the Japan Coast Guard.24500:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,000I never considered that it would just be the Coast Guard of another country. Yeah.24600:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000That makes sense. Yeah. But that's that's what I got on the history.24700:23:47,000 --> 00:23:54,000There's a lot more. It's hard to find in the US trying to look up Japanese history without a special person to talk to.24800:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,000Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, my parents are over there.24900:23:57,000 --> 00:24:03,000Maybe they can help me with some. Maybe they can listen to my pronunciations and be like, oh, that's bad.25000:24:03,000 --> 00:24:08,000They'd be like, you should have asked us beforehand. We could tell you what it's supposed to sound like.25100:24:08,000 --> 00:24:16,000Yeah, I'm going to do my best. All right. Getting into the lighthouse. Now you get to see it.25200:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000All of the pictures I could find. Very few pictures of this.25300:24:19,000 --> 00:24:25,000It's mostly people visiting and they post pictures online. Yeah. Google Google trips or whatever. Yeah.25400:24:25,000 --> 00:24:32,000So they're they're really small pictures. So not great quality. Nice quality photos, but not high res.25500:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,000Yeah, we see before I describe the photo or we describe it.25600:24:36,000 --> 00:24:43,000We see a lot of good information on American United States Lighthouses. Yeah.25700:24:43,000 --> 00:24:48,000And it's difficult because I don't know of another podcast, maybe Light Hearted does.25800:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,000I'm not sure that explores international lighthouses.25900:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000Yeah, I think we were the between us and Light Hearted.26000:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,000OK, Light Hearted does not cover international.26100:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,000I believe because they are from their root is in the US LHS.26200:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,000So they're going to cover US Lighthouses. So I think that's something unique to us. We're big fans.26300:25:10,000 --> 00:25:18,000Don't get us wrong. Oh, yeah. No, we love the US. America. USA. USA.26400:25:18,000 --> 00:25:24,000There's a heart on it. This lighthouse. Yeah. So I've pulled up a picture of the lighthouse for people that want to go to our YouTube and take a look.26500:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000Or you can go to our Instagram. We also post the pictures there.26600:25:27,000 --> 00:25:37,000You can kind of I don't really put them in any specific order, but I do label which picture like what's in each picture and what I was referring to when I was talking about.26700:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,000They're good to look through, especially after an episode. Yeah. Can reflect on it. Yeah.26800:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,000We're going to try and do better about describing pictures that we put up on the screen.26900:25:45,000 --> 00:25:50,000But so right now that's this lighthouse. We are heading to the town.27000:25:50,000 --> 00:26:02,000Here we go with some of our pronunciations of Mihama, Chita District, Aichi, Japan on the Chita Peninsula in Issei Bay.27100:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000Wow. I like that. Thank you for the specificity.27200:26:06,000 --> 00:26:20,000Specificness. Thank you. I never felt so stupid until I put a microphone in my face. That you could be right, but I would just if I if someone asked me to say what I was thinking is be specific.27300:26:20,000 --> 00:26:28,000So may I or you go for it? Describing? Yeah. Sure.27400:26:28,000 --> 00:26:38,000So first off, it is not that tall from this appearance, but it is up there compared to the fact that it is right on the water.27500:26:38,000 --> 00:26:45,000I'm talking maybe 50 feet to water's edge from the base of the tower.27600:26:45,000 --> 00:26:53,000Yeah. And that's that's probably plays into what you were just talking about is if you look up the lighthouse, you can see that it's very rocky.27700:26:53,000 --> 00:27:03,000It's not sandy beaches, and that would make it safe to put this lighthouse right up next to the water because you don't plan on rock eroding away the same way that sand does.27800:27:03,000 --> 00:27:12,000Like talking about Nosset Beach having to be moved so often because of the sand erosion and like you have cliffs, but it's not they're not rocky cliffs.27900:27:12,000 --> 00:27:22,000They're beachy cliffs. So this would it would explain why it can be so close to water and it's not it doesn't seem like something that would be moved often.28000:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,000Well, we could we could actually have a civil engineer come on and talk about this.28100:27:26,000 --> 00:27:43,000But some projects I work on at work have piers just like you'd have a pier in the water and ocean is a column of structural column that would go down to a solid piece of rock, a bedrock where you're building a building on stilts on the water.28200:27:43,000 --> 00:27:54,000Yeah, that is also true in the middle of South Carolina. Sometimes the project I'm working on has piers that go down. I want to say 50 feet. Oh, wow. Because the ground it's on is technically sandy soil.28300:27:54,000 --> 00:28:03,000So it needs to reach it needs to anchor to something solid. So it's it's on an ocean of sand essentially. Okay, which is crazy for what we're looking at right now on screen.28400:28:03,000 --> 00:28:14,000There appears to be concrete, maybe just as the surface pad. But who knows that foundation could go down several feet. Yeah. But the yeah, it looks like it's a rock shore.28500:28:14,000 --> 00:28:24,000And you've got a granite sign that looks really nice. Obviously, I don't read Japanese. It is in Japanese. The water looks pretty. It looks a little rougher than I would have guessed.28600:28:24,000 --> 00:28:38,000The nice thing about this lighthouse is it's bright white all over. It's not. Yeah. You know, normally you have a you see like a black or red lantern room. But in this case, is it white up there? Yeah.28700:28:38,000 --> 00:28:48,000I'll show another picture of something that's in front of the lighthouse in the background. It's the light in the lighting is better for you to see what the lighthouse actually looks like.28800:28:48,000 --> 00:28:59,000But it's I don't want to give it away right now. And in the far distance, it could be a shipping barge, could be a cruise ship, but obviously near a shipping lane, which makes sense for a lighthouse.28900:28:59,000 --> 00:29:14,000So pretty photo. Yep. It's 66 feet tall, currently has an LED beacon inside of a fifth order lens, I believe. There's there is not a lot of information on the on the worldwide web about this lighthouse.29000:29:14,000 --> 00:29:19,000And I think the only way to really know what's up there is to go see yourself, but you can't.29100:29:19,000 --> 00:29:31,000Because that little fence there. There is a fence. We hate fences. We hate fences. We're lighthouse people. We hate fences. We're Americans. Down with fences. We hate fences.29200:29:31,000 --> 00:29:40,000We should be able to go wherever we want, whenever we want. Yeah. I like that. I don't know anything about it, but there's a little heart near the door.29300:29:40,000 --> 00:29:51,000That plays into what's special about the lighthouse. Not a lot of information, but there is some information and it's special. But you can't touch it. You can't touch it.29400:29:51,000 --> 00:30:08,000No selfies. So I think it's inside of a fifth order lens. They talk about how they did a renovation and in some sources it says because it's translated from Japanese, it's hard to figure out what it's actually trying to say unless you speak Japanese or read it.29500:30:08,000 --> 00:30:24,000But I think that it now has a fifth order lens switched over from a different order lens before that. But there were some that were saying that the fifth order lens was removed, replaced with something, but I couldn't figure out what it was trying to say.29600:30:24,000 --> 00:30:39,000The range is 15 kilometers right now and its characteristic is ISO W6S, which means ISO is another thing we haven't encountered yet and I've noticed it a lot more that I'm doing international stuff.29700:30:39,000 --> 00:30:56,000It's basically equal phases of light and dark. So it's not flashing and it's not group occulting. It's equal phases. So you're not seeing moments of darkness or moments of light. You're seeing equal switching. It's like alternating black and white is kind of what it's like.29800:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000And it's white light, three seconds of white, three seconds of dark.29900:31:00,000 --> 00:31:18,000Cool. And it's right on a beach is what I mentioned. There's actually a lot of stuff along here and there are beaches. So the land that it's on is rocky, but if you drive down just a little bit, there's beaches. My mom said there's a really nice beach that we're going to go see because they're humoring me and taking me to this lighthouse.30000:31:18,000 --> 00:31:41,000Is it like a tourist area? Is it a fishing area? I'm not sure. Nagoya is pretty, my mom said it's pretty, there's a lot of English going on. So it's friendly towards US. It's westernized. People living there. So I don't know if that makes it touristy or if it just makes it, you know, there's more US people walking around.30100:31:41,000 --> 00:31:55,000So this is in Nagoya, which is a region. This is near Nagoya. Nagoya is where my parents live. It's a city. Okay. I think this is like 50 minutes away. Okay. Cool.30200:31:55,000 --> 00:32:18,000So going into the history that I could find on this cute little lighthouse. It was built, oh, here we go. Here I need to reference my, built during the Teisho period and first lit March 10th, 1921. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. That was our first lit lighthouse, 1921. No, this is not the first lighthouse.30300:32:18,000 --> 00:32:36,000That was 1870. 1869, I believe. And so this one's, it's, if you think about it, it's not that much later. It's only 50 years-ish. Yeah. But that's what I was saying is that it's very clearly Scottish style inspired.30400:32:36,000 --> 00:32:52,000But it's obviously, it's picking up some different aspects of design. It's the oldest lighthouse in the Aichi prefecture. Prefecture. It's an English word that I actually didn't look up.30500:32:52,000 --> 00:33:16,000I don't know. I think, yeah. I know what it's saying. It's basically a region. I'm just going to say region. I think it's more, it's more political. It's more of a political separation, not like a region, which kind of, region, I always think of like geological, you know, like it's separated by regions. It's not really, oh, I just don't, I'm sorry.30600:33:16,000 --> 00:33:45,000Geographical. Yeah. In 2008, it was extensively renovated and its lens was replaced with an LED beacon with the fifth order lens. I'm not sure what it was before. Okay. If that's, if that's how it is now. This reduced the power, it was originally 25 kilometer range. And so I don't know if that was on purpose or if they just didn't need it as much anymore. So they want to keep it. Yeah, I don't know.30700:33:45,000 --> 00:34:08,000Weird to reduce power. But the former lens is now on display at the museum at Deiyosaki Lighthouse in the Mie Prefecture. All right. Okay. Great. Moving on. You can go see it. Type that into your Google Maps.30800:34:08,000 --> 00:34:26,000By the way, this lighthouse is called the Noma Lighthouse. I haven't said yet. It's the Noma Lighthouse or the Nomazaki Lighthouse. Noma. Very sorry for getting almost all the way through this episode without saying what the name.30900:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,000It's going to come up sometime.31000:34:30,000 --> 00:34:49,000Okay. Yes. It's Noma. So here's where the lore comes in. The Noma Lighthouse is actually a place where effectively love went to die. It was like if you came to this lighthouse, your relationship was going to be in jeopardy. Your relationship was no more.31100:34:49,000 --> 00:35:03,000It was like, no, no, shame, shame, shame. Good one. Thanks.31200:35:03,000 --> 00:35:31,000Basically, there was a superstition that this lighthouse was cursed and it was going to jinx your love life. The heartbreaker. So a tradition, which we see a lot here in the US as well, was born of placing locks on the fence that was around the lighthouse. And basically, if a couple went to the lighthouse and placed a padlock on the fence together, then their love would prosper. And it's actually the number one attraction in Mihama, which is the peninsula that it's on.31300:35:31,000 --> 00:35:38,000That could be wrong. Mihama is the city.31400:35:38,000 --> 00:35:46,000It's a town. Okay, so it's the number one attraction in that town in Japan.31500:35:46,000 --> 00:36:06,000So before leaving the couple that just placed their lock would then ring the bell, which is called the Bell of Bonds in front of the lighthouse and it faces water. It's quite nice. Cool. So here, let me pull up a picture for you to see that. Do you have audio or no? No. Okay. There's barely anything. I mean, I'm doing my absolute best.31600:36:06,000 --> 00:36:36,000Here's where the locks are placed. I'll talk a second about why it's not on the fence anymore. You can probably guess why. So here's the locks. Here's how they look now. And then the bell looks like this. Yeah, the Bell of Bonds. That's a dramatic angle someone took that photo at. Yeah, I know. But this is the picture I was talking about. You can see the lighthouse is completely white beside the railing. Yeah. Everything, including the lantern room, all of that is all white. So very pretty. Cool. Yeah, it's a beautiful spot. What's on the left? Is that a boat?31700:36:36,000 --> 00:37:06,000I wonder if that's why they took the photo this way. Looks like a fish head. They're holding up a fish. If you look at our photo, you can see that the padlocks are not on a fence. They're on like bars that have musical notes on them. And so obviously the problem with adding padlocks to fence is that eventually the weight is going to be too much and the fence is going to give out. Which you see that every time there's a lock attraction, people put it on31800:37:06,000 --> 00:37:23,920bridges and stuff. Eventually the fence just gives out because it's too much. So it was rebuilt several times before 2000 when Mijama declared the area to be a protected park. And the oh, this one doesn't have a pronunciation. So I'll do my best. Queen No Mizu Shrine.31900:37:23,920 --> 00:37:53,840Set up branches to hold the padlocks instead of all the fencing. So you weren't putting it on chicken wire and instead putting it on something that was actually built to handle it. And then in 2011, the Mijama school, Nihon Fukushi University, set up the musical. It's like it has musical notes on it. Something special about it where it's kind of part of the attraction as well.32000:37:53,920 --> 00:38:22,960And so now the padlocks double as another cool thing to see around this lighthouse. Oh, cool. And that is the No Mizaki Lighthouse or Noma Lighthouse. Okay, so that's what I got. There's a bell here. Yes, that you ring. There's a plaque on the ground. It probably says Bell of Bonds. There's a heart with a music, some music notes on it. Turning around the jinxing of the lighthouse. Yeah, so you're going to this without me.32100:38:24,060 --> 00:38:39,680Yeah, love can be family can be familial love. But you don't want to jinx either any of those situations. So what are you talking about? You're telling me that I'm. So what do I do? I am going bring a lock and ring the bell by yourself, like.32200:38:39,680 --> 00:38:40,520I guess.32300:38:40,520 --> 00:38:41,360No!32400:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,800Yeah.32500:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,360Find another lighthouse to go to.32600:38:45,360 --> 00:38:46,760I cannot believe you planted that in my brain.32700:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,040This whole time I didn't think about32800:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,560just how I was jinxing anything.32900:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,680You're, you are jinxing this.33000:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,520I feel like you just told me about this lighthouse.33100:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,680It's my responsibility to respond in that way.33200:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,440Oh.33300:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,320Well then maybe I'll bring a little lock33400:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,020and Carly and I will put it on there.33500:39:02,020 --> 00:39:03,000Or my dad.33600:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,740My dad will be pseudo you for this purpose.33700:39:05,740 --> 00:39:10,560Okay.33800:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,200Okay, what are these things we're looking at33900:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,040on the lighthouse?34000:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,680Are those lights and windows?34100:39:14,680 --> 00:39:15,880I don't know.34200:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,240The picture is not clear enough for me to see.34300:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,840I think they're windows into a stairwell or something.34400:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,800I would think these, the big ones are windows34500:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,520and these little things are lights.34600:39:25,520 --> 00:39:26,360Yeah.34700:39:26,360 --> 00:39:27,400But I guess, I don't know.34800:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,240It's a pretty good picture.34900:39:30,240 --> 00:39:31,080Yeah it is.35000:39:31,080 --> 00:39:31,900For anyone else to check it out.35100:39:31,900 --> 00:39:32,880It is right on the water.35200:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,080I know it.35300:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,040That is like, you can barely walk between the water's edge35400:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,040in some areas and the fencing that goes around the lighthouse.35500:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,760Hopefully that's their high tide.35600:39:41,760 --> 00:39:42,600I don't know.35700:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,500And that's, cool.35800:39:44,500 --> 00:39:46,760I like the little platform it's built on.35900:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,480Stairs up to a platform.36000:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,560Yeah it's like tapered.36100:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,280With a totally unnecessary rail there.36200:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,080They do have signage on this,36300:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,920you know this little railing thing going on.36400:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,760Yeah.36500:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,040So I am excited to see and see what it looks like36600:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,000in person and I'll try and take some better pictures36700:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,480so when I post about it, you can see all the details.36800:40:08,480 --> 00:40:09,560Yeah, cool.36900:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,760Which I could find more history about this one37000:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,600but it's still got cool, cool information.37100:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,520So this is not the first, just to be clear,37200:40:16,520 --> 00:40:17,920not the first lighthouse.37300:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,000It was not the first lighthouse lit,37400:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,440also not the first concrete structure.37500:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,560No.37600:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,040Just one where you're gonna go.37700:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,360That was just part of my history, Bowie.37800:40:26,360 --> 00:40:27,860It's all white.37900:40:27,860 --> 00:40:28,700Yep, all white.38000:40:28,700 --> 00:40:29,520Which is unusual.38100:40:29,520 --> 00:40:30,360I don't know if I've seen that before.38200:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,200I know.38300:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,760I'm saying it looks really clean.38400:40:33,760 --> 00:40:34,600Yeah.38500:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,840As long as they keep it clean, which obviously they do,38600:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,520but if it were to get dirty, it'd be really obvious.38700:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,000It's like wearing white shoes.38800:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,200You know what, yes it is.38900:40:44,200 --> 00:40:49,200Ocracoke lighthouse was white and thick.39000:40:49,280 --> 00:40:50,120Yeah.39100:40:50,120 --> 00:40:50,940I don't remember the top of it.39200:40:50,940 --> 00:40:52,000I don't remember the light room.39300:40:52,000 --> 00:40:52,920Was it black?39400:40:52,920 --> 00:40:53,740Yes.39500:40:53,740 --> 00:40:54,760Oh, okay.39600:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,200Well then nevermind.39700:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,840I've got a picture of Ocracoke Tower in North Carolina.39800:41:00,840 --> 00:41:01,680It's gorgeous.39900:41:01,680 --> 00:41:02,520What do we got to go there?40000:41:02,520 --> 00:41:03,760Really cool.40100:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,440It's got a long story you should look into40200:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,280if you're a listener about why it's that white color40300:41:09,280 --> 00:41:10,120and texture.40400:41:10,120 --> 00:41:10,940Yeah.40500:41:10,940 --> 00:41:12,760It's very interesting and not something I've heard before.40600:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,440So it's kind of fun if you wanna go listen40700:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,880to our Outer Banks Lighthouse's episode.40800:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,480Can't remember what episode number it is.40900:41:18,480 --> 00:41:19,320Maybe 10.41000:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,880But I won't be held accountable for if it's not.41100:41:23,880 --> 00:41:24,720All right.41200:41:24,720 --> 00:41:27,200But that's it.41300:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,040That's what I got.41400:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,560Hopefully when you guys listen to this episode,41500:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,960I will be there and we'll be able to post pictures41600:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,880of us there and you can see what it actually looks like.41700:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,840Our first Japanese lighthouse.41800:41:38,840 --> 00:41:39,680I know.41900:41:39,680 --> 00:41:40,600Very cool.42000:41:40,600 --> 00:41:41,440Yeah, that's right.42100:41:41,440 --> 00:41:42,260Thank you.42200:41:42,260 --> 00:41:43,520You're welcome.42300:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,680So go into our show notes.42400:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,880I have a lot of references for this lighthouse42500:41:48,880 --> 00:41:53,120that and as well for the lighthouse history in Japan.42600:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,880It's like 150 years of history,42700:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,000which it's like a baby compared to everybody else.42800:41:58,000 --> 00:41:58,840A little baby.42900:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,400It's like a little baby.43000:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,760Very cool.43100:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,240Also in my show notes will be our Linktree link43200:42:04,240 --> 00:42:05,880where you can follow us on Instagram43300:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,900or look at our YouTube or LinkedIn,43400:42:07,900 --> 00:42:09,680basically any of our socials43500:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,840and can also go to our website from there43600:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,640where you can listen to our podcast43700:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,640at basically any branch of where you listen43800:42:15,640 --> 00:42:16,640to your podcast.43900:42:16,640 --> 00:42:17,460Cool.44000:42:17,460 --> 00:42:18,360And thank you everybody.44100:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,500We've been gaining a lot of followers lately44200:42:20,500 --> 00:42:23,120and having people reach out to us.44300:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,280Send us stuff and it's really fun.44400:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,400Yeah, we've had people send us some swag44500:42:27,400 --> 00:42:28,560from different lighthouses.44600:42:28,560 --> 00:42:29,880That's really cool.44700:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,840I've heard some feedback, both positive and negative,44800:42:32,840 --> 00:42:33,920which is really cool.44900:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,520Yeah, and we're always learning and doing our best45000:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,720because we love lighthouses45100:42:38,720 --> 00:42:41,720and we just want everyone else to get to learn about them45200:42:41,720 --> 00:42:44,200as people that don't get to research45300:42:44,200 --> 00:42:45,160or don't have a reason to.45400:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,600I will just deliver it to you.45500:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,360Well, it's building speed for me45600:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,440because I have a list that keeps growing45700:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,040of things I wanna talk about.45800:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,920I've got some surprises for you.45900:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,480Have you seen our Google Sheet recently?46000:42:59,480 --> 00:43:00,320Our Google Sheet?46100:43:00,320 --> 00:43:01,720I'm not familiar with it.46200:43:01,720 --> 00:43:04,880Where you list what our plan is.46300:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,680Oh yeah, our episodes.46400:43:06,680 --> 00:43:11,080I added tabs so that we can put in what our prospects are,46500:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,760our episode prospects.46600:43:12,760 --> 00:43:13,600Wow.46700:43:13,600 --> 00:43:14,840And I'm writing in there46800:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,040why I'm interested in each lighthouse.46900:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,640Not so you can look at it,47000:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,280but so I can organize them appropriately.47100:43:22,280 --> 00:43:23,720So we have everything plotted out.47200:43:23,720 --> 00:43:26,200We've got the next year of episodes coming at you.47300:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,240Yeah, honestly, I think I have like 20.47400:43:29,240 --> 00:43:31,080You probably do, every year.47500:43:31,080 --> 00:43:31,920It's kinda sad.47600:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,600So we'll have some guests on in the next couple.47700:43:35,600 --> 00:43:36,640I don't know when they'll air,47800:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,000but in the next couple recordings,47900:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,160I've got some guests coming.48000:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,000Okay.48100:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,880I've got a surprise for you, at least one.48200:43:44,080 --> 00:43:44,920Yeah.48300:43:44,920 --> 00:43:45,760Sounds like a blast.48400:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,400I don't know, I just wanna say thank you everybody.48500:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,280We don't acknowledge you too often.48600:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,840So we appreciate you listening and hanging out with us.48700:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,920Yeah, just listening is good enough.48800:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,120We love it.48900:43:55,120 --> 00:43:56,680Hope you enjoyed this episode.49000:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,320Hope you will go to our Instagram49100:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,560so you can probably see me at this lighthouse.49200:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,960And you can hopefully enjoy it vicariously49300:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,040through me as I visit.49400:44:06,040 --> 00:44:06,880Yeah.49500:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,520Yeah, so we hope you listen into our next episode on49600:44:11,520 --> 00:44:12,360The Lighthouse.49700:44:12,360 --> 00:44:13,200Yeah.49800:44:13,200 --> 00:44:14,040Yeah.49900:44:14,040 --> 00:44:27,500owychsando arguido harro