Episode 31 - Snake Island Lighthouse (Brazil)

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Hi everyone I'm Emily and I'm Vince and this is the lighthouse lowdown.

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In my defense I haven't done this in a very long time.

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Yeah I was just staring at the go button I was just staring at it like just hit the button make the sound.

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You should have done it.

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Do it.

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Why didn't you?

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I want you to do it hit me.

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Oh my gosh.

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We were just playing fortunate sun for everyone who wants to tune in and feel the vibes.

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We're not playing it right now but you could.

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It's a good song to either go to war or start your podcast.

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Who's going to war?

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Is this from a movie?

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Oh so many movies.

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Really?

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Basically every Vietnam film where they're on a helicopter.

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Fortunate song.

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Weird.

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Fortunate song.

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Anyways.

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Well we're not going to war.

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Yeah.

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We're educating.

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Yes.

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What are we educating ourselves about today?

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Well I'm doing another international lighthouse.

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I really want to go back to the American ones but I keep getting sucked away.

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There's a lot of them.

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Big world.

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So this one well first of all I want to apologize I don't have a history buoy.

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Vince knows.

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Scoff.

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Vince knows the drama that went down because I.

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Why don't you?

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Be.

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For the listeners.

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Because I researched and researched and researched this topic that I thought was going to relate

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to lighthouses.

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And there was physics involved and wavelengths and all kinds of stuff.

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Optics.

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And then I realized that the topic was irrelevant because there are standards in place where

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you don't just pick the color of a lighthouse lens based on what is the most efficient.

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You pick it based on some other factors that I will cover in a subsequent history buoy.

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So you're saying you were researching what color a lighthouse is based on science.

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Like why would they pick certain colors?

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Yeah.

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Like why do we only see green and red?

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It's like oh well I was going to.

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Which technically I did prove why we picked those colors you know at the beginning of

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time.

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But you know it's no longer it's not really relevant.

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Well like airplanes they use green and red lights right as well like marker lights.

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Yeah.

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As well as ships.

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Almost everybody does.

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To mark what port and starboard.

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Starboard.

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Yeah because I'm going to do it I'm going to cover it.

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I just wasn't ready today because I was so.

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A lot of science.

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I mean people I researched for hours.

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Hours.

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And I was going deep into physics equations and like you know.

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Derivations.

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Like luminous what is it luminous intensity equations and how like it accounts for like

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the curvature of the earth and how the human eye like the average human eye perceives color.

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Yeah.

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It's all taken into consideration into this one equation.

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So it was just like a nesting doll of equations all in one equation.

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So I was following all these branches down and that's when I started to question myself.

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Lots of parentheses within.

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Yeah where it's like a variable.

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And then it's like this variable is the equation for lumens.

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And I'm like what the heck is this.

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So I clicked on it and it's like this whole other thing with a bunch of other variables

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that are all actually equations.

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I'm like OK I'm out of here.

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So anyway that's what happened.

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I don't have a history of buoy because I put so much energy into failure that I just have

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to move on or it'll consume me.

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I remember seeing a joke.

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We'll get to it.

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It'll be OK.

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I remember seeing a joke when I was in school.

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I was in engineering school.

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My brother sent me I think it was like a meme or something and it was talking about someone

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looking at a long equation like working really hard.

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They're reading it.

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It's like a short video I guess.

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And they go ah there and they put their finger down.

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It goes a number.

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Everything else was X Y Z Constance subtext a number a number some constant.

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Oh yeah that was me.

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Reaching diligently for my fans.

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Speaking of fans the lighthouse today comes from a listener.

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All right.

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Everyone get excited.

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It wasn't actually my fault that we have an international one coming.

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The fact that the next one after this is also international is absolutely my fault.

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And I'll tell you why traveling.

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Yeah well we just haven't done.

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We just haven't done a U.S. lighthouse or any subject for like since like 24 wasn't

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NASA like 24.

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That's too far in a while.

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Do we look at the Web site.

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So first thing of Web site I just wanted to see.

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We've got our LinkedIn.

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I want to thank everybody.

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We have two hundred and thirty two followers.

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I'm like whoops which is it's not that many but it's a lot from zero.

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Yeah.

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And it's coming up on how many Instagram followers we have.

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So I'm going to look at pod page dot com.

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No no no.

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It's new.

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That's what I was trying to say.

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Wait what's our new website.

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We have upgraded our Web site and now it's just the lighthouse lowdown dot com.

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Now you guys don't have to follow our link tree because everything you need is on our

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Web site.

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That's where I'm going to start posting pictures.

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I'll still update the Instagram but I'll post pictures and all of our references and resources

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will also be listed on the Web site under a tab that says resources.

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We also show up at least on my phone if you search the lighthouse lowdown on Google.

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No way.

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So I did purchase our domain through Google so I would expect that they would give us

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a little bit of.

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Sorry to interrupt you.

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I was surprised Alcatraz was episode 26.

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OK.

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I was in the US and then Lansword's Führer, Nomazaki, the lighthouse way those are all

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foreign.

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Lighthouse cocktail hour here in the US.

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Technically foreign.

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The cocktail hour.

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Yeah.

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We talked about our trips.

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Yeah.

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We did talk about St. Augustine in Florida a little bit.

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OK.

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Anyways so we are a traveling lighthouse podcast.

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Yeah.

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You know what.

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We are already a lighthouse podcast that talks about American lighthouses.

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But we're going to get back to we're going to get back to those.

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We're the most explicit lighthouse podcast on the Internet.

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I thought that was hilarious.

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We got a lot of good feedback from our our last episode that we posted the lighthouse

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cocktail.

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I think people like to hear us goofing off.

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We won't make a habit of doing that because this is a lighthouse podcast.

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But every once in a while we'll throw in something fun and goofy.

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A little now and then we'll try to take you along for a ride.

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Yeah.

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Try and keep it less crass.

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Shake up your Monday.

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So here we go.

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Here we go.

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The lighthouse we're covering today is called Snake Island Lighthouse.

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I don't like snakes.

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I know.

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That's why I said you would love this episode.

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This is also very fitting because this week Indiana Jones comes out.

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Oh hey.

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The source.

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That's where everybody figured out that they were scared of snakes.

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Yeah.

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So is this where Snake Island in English is called Snake Island.

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Well Snake Island is what it's known as.

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The actual island is called.

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A.

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The.

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He had the.

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Came Mada.

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Grande.

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Crand.

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That's all I got from the game.

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I got.

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Grande.

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It's outside Brazil.

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That makes sense.

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But it goes by snake.

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It's 90 kilometers.

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It's some distance off the coast of Brazil.

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It is wild.

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The amount of different sources because the story of this island is like.

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It's newsworthy.

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And so.

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Oh my gosh.

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Lots of.

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Articles have been written about it.

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And you know how some articles are based on zero fact at all.

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There tends to be lots and lots of conflicting information.

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OK.

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And I tried to measure it off of you know Google Maps like OK what's the distance.

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But it just gives you that little notch on the bottom that kind of describes a distance

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and it's like an inch is five kilometers.

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Well I can't pull the inch off and measure it across my screen.

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So we were in Alaska recently.

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I was on a motorcycle ride.

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It was awesome.

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I was with my dad and my brother both of which are very smart people.

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My dad.

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We.

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So we cross into Canada immediately.

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The speed limit changes from miles per hour to KPI kilometers per hour.

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And I'm an idiot.

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So I'm like well.

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I was speeding in the US.

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I'm probably going to be speeding in Canada.

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I don't know.

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You know we're talking.

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We have these radios in our helmets so we can talk to each other while we're driving.

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And my dad says.

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So to do the conversion from kilometers to miles whether it's distance or in speed doesn't

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matter is the per hour.

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You take the kilometers per hour.

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Someone do this example.

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Let's say it's 90.

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You take it divided by two.

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So that's 45.

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And then plus zero to 90 in tens there's nine.

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So zero 10 20 30 40 up to nine.

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So 45 plus nine is 54.

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So 90 kilometers is how many miles.

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Converted it to meters because I'm an idiot.

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Fifty five point nine.

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Wow.

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Pretty dang close.

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Thanks dad.

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Yeah it's a good.

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So I took that information.

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I continue to speed.

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Shame on you.

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Yeah I was going 60 miles an hour.

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So you were saying I'm sorry to interrupt you.

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It's 90 kilometers.

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So roughly the one I selected I guarantee it's less than that.

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But oh OK.

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I just picked one of the five different articles that covered the same subject but gave wildly

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different information.

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And there's not much to go on like there's not.

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So then they write crazy stuff in the articles.

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I've linked them all so you can read them and some of them are pretty dramatic.

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Anyway there is another island called Snake Island and it's part of Ukraine.

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It has a lighthouse which is also called Snake Island Lighthouse.

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OK.

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Nobody look it up because that's what I'm covering in our next episode.

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Oh two snake hounds in a row.

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Yeah because there's a crazy backstory.

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So this crazy backstory I mean like gods like Greek gods.

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I know.

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Oh my god.

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So.

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Thanks.

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OK.

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So snake out this is going to be Snake Island parentheses of Brazil.

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Yes.

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And then Snake Island parentheses Ukraine.

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And they both are crazy.

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Yes.

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OK.

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This one I would say is crazier.

270
00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,240
Well no I can't say anything.

271
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You guys can you guys can send us say send.

272
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Send me some messages.

273
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Can send us a voicemail on our website which I thought was crazy or you can send us an

274
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email both all from our website.

275
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You can do anything on there.

276
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It's amazing what happens when you just pay a little bit of money.

277
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Crazy.

278
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But you can tell us in about a month or I guess three weeks which one you think is a

279
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crazier Snake Island.

280
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There you go.

281
00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:13,800
But so I'm going to go in this island is a total of one hundred nine acres and it ranges

282
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from bare rock to rainforest.

283
00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:24,520
No it's got like a large range of 100 acres temperatures and types of climate.

284
00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,680
What are you looking at.

285
00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:31,240
I'm going to look up acres to hectares.

286
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Why.

287
00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,840
Because that's there.

288
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I think the 40 point five hectares.

289
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So a hundred acres from rock to rainforest.

290
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I'm sorry interrupt.

291
00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,080
You can guess why it's known as Snake Island.

292
00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,360
Snakes are not supposed to be on islands.

293
00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:57,680
I know there's a fun story as to why there are snakes and not just some snakes.

294
00:12:57,680 --> 00:12:59,800
Hundreds of thousands of snakes.

295
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How are these snakes thriving.

296
00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:02,880
They're eating each other.

297
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Well sometimes they resort to cannibal birds.

298
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Birds migratory birds.

299
00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,480
But anyway there's estimated and I've seen lots of ranges.

300
00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,400
I think people like a sensational story.

301
00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,280
So they'll say there's 400,000 snakes.

302
00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,280
Oh my gosh.

303
00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:25,120
But then I also saw that a official count was done in like 2015 or something and there

304
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was four thousand.

305
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But I want to believe a scale of a hundred.

306
00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,840
A hundred multiplied exaggerated by like a lot.

307
00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:39,000
Well to be fair if you sent me to an island said Vince Vince can you go count the snakes.

308
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I'd be like yeah there was 12.

309
00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:41,840
Yeah I'm not doing that.

310
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One two three four.

311
00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:43,840
OK.

312
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I see one.

313
00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,520
I'm going to say there is four thousand.

314
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Multiply that.

315
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One.

316
00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:58,280
But in the case of 400,000 we're talking about one snake per meter.

317
00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,680
So you'd never be more than three feet away from a snake.

318
00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:06,920
You know there is I'm going to misquote something I'm sure.

319
00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,560
Kodiak Island in Alaska.

320
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Kodiak Bears.

321
00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:15,520
I'm pretty sure there's one bear per square mile.

322
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And I think that's the most dense.

323
00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:18,680
Square mile.

324
00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:19,680
Yes.

325
00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,240
That is a lot for bears.

326
00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,680
Those are big.

327
00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,400
So yeah one snake per meter.

328
00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,960
That's a lot of snakes.

329
00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:29,960
That's insane.

330
00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:34,520
You know what's worse is that these aren't just any snakes.

331
00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:35,840
It's not just a lot of snakes.

332
00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,360
It's not just a lot of like rat snakes or something.

333
00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,240
These are hundreds of thousands of golden lancehead vipers.

334
00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,800
They're all the same breed.

335
00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,000
Because back in the ice age.

336
00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,920
Wait in the ice age.

337
00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:52,920
Yeah.

338
00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:54,560
When all when there was not expect this.

339
00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:59,920
When there was a the ocean rise the sea level rose by a lot.

340
00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:00,920
Remember we were watching.

341
00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:01,920
UFOs were here.

342
00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:02,920
We were watching.

343
00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:03,920
What was it called?

344
00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:04,920
Oh some.

345
00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,920
Ancient Apocalypse.

346
00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,800
We never watched the final episode.

347
00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:10,800
We sure did not.

348
00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,480
Isn't that bizarre?

349
00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,080
We binged that seat.

350
00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:15,080
That whole thing.

351
00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,080
We made fun of the guy the whole time.

352
00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,760
We didn't make fun of the guy.

353
00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:18,760
He made.

354
00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:19,760
Archaeologists.

355
00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:20,760
Archaeologists believe.

356
00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,720
I'm like stop ragging.

357
00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,240
If you don't know what we're talking about go to Netflix.

358
00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:29,240
Watch any episode.

359
00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,520
Except for the last one because we haven't seen it.

360
00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,480
Of Ancient Apocalypse with Graham Hancock.

361
00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:34,480
I think that's his name.

362
00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:35,480
Oh really?

363
00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:36,480
I think.

364
00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:37,480
I don't know.

365
00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:38,480
Maybe I just made that up.

366
00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:39,480
It's very specific.

367
00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:40,480
He just.

368
00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,080
I was really captured at first.

369
00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,080
Yes.

370
00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,920
But then he keeps doing these like b-roll shots of him like looking off into the distance

371
00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:48,920
all dramatic.

372
00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:49,920
Yeah.

373
00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:50,920
He's just a guy.

374
00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:51,920
He's just a guy.

375
00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:52,920
There's nothing wrong with him.

376
00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,080
You know if I was on there I'd be made fun of more than he would.

377
00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,880
But still it's just like very dramatic.

378
00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,160
And then his voice comes over.

379
00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:06,800
It's like archaeologists suggest about these mountains are here due to tectonic plate movement.

380
00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:07,800
Like it's ridiculous.

381
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:08,800
I think.

382
00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,760
And it's like oh yeah well he keeps saying like archaeologists are so stuck in their

383
00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:13,760
ways.

384
00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,400
You know like he would be ragging on archaeologists the entire time.

385
00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,120
Which you're generalizing like crazy.

386
00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:26,120
Because I guarantee this guy had bad experiences with some archaeologists somewhere being like

387
00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:27,120
you're dumb.

388
00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,520
Like why would you ever believe that.

389
00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:29,680
We have fact.

390
00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,120
So now he's like all archaeologists are idiots.

391
00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,240
Yes.

392
00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,360
So we got we started to get fed up with the all of that.

393
00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,680
So I'm sorry.

394
00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,320
Eyebrows for like.

395
00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,400
So the ocean the ocean levels rose.

396
00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,400
Yes.

397
00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,080
And it cut off this island from the rest of the mainland.

398
00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,920
So there were some snakes that we still have today.

399
00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,400
So pregnant golden ones.

400
00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:56,400
Oh my gosh.

401
00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,760
And that is that pit viper as in the sunglasses.

402
00:16:58,760 --> 00:16:59,760
What.

403
00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,480
There's a sunglass brand.

404
00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:02,800
Pit viper.

405
00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,360
Pit fibers is a type of snake.

406
00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:05,680
I did not know that was a thing.

407
00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,720
There are like you know some species or whatever.

408
00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,160
Red yellow green blue.

409
00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:12,400
I'll show you a picture.

410
00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,480
But this species of pit viper because there's no way for a snake to swim across you know

411
00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,040
to the mainland it is the only place you find the snake.

412
00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:22,040
Oh that's cool.

413
00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,520
It is like their ecosystem and their entire food chain.

414
00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:29,080
Everything is just one 100 acre island.

415
00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,040
Let me show you a picture.

416
00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:32,040
It's very small.

417
00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,120
Is this like a national protected area for Brazil.

418
00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:35,120
Do you know.

419
00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:36,920
You're not allowed to go here mainly because you would die.

420
00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,720
So here's the island.

421
00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:39,720
It's not very big.

422
00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:40,720
I know.

423
00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:41,840
And it kind of looks like a snake.

424
00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,440
I hate snakes but I think it'd be really cool to go.

425
00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,440
OK.

426
00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,000
And then here's the probably protecting the snakes because people would go and make boots

427
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000
out of them or something.

428
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,000
The snake.

429
00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000
Yeah.

430
00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,360
People would definitely make boots out of that.

431
00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:54,400
They are pretty beautiful snake.

432
00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:55,400
They're very like.

433
00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,400
Brownish yellow.

434
00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:57,400
Yeah.

435
00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:02,560
And normally pit fibers look really angry like they look like they're you know they

436
00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,040
have like a furrowed brow all the time.

437
00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,360
But these kind of look they look a little bit less like that.

438
00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:08,720
Oh I don't know.

439
00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,280
They still.

440
00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:11,280
Still snakes.

441
00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,280
They're alive.

442
00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:13,280
No offense.

443
00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,200
They grow to an average of just under three feet.

444
00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,960
Sometimes up to four feet long.

445
00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:22,960
And their venom melts your flesh because here's what it is.

446
00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:28,840
Because they got cut off their normal food source is no longer available.

447
00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:29,840
They don't.

448
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,760
There's no like or at least not a lot of rats or ground animals.

449
00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,200
So then their only option was to catch birds.

450
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:44,240
And so normal pit fibers what they do is they bite you and then they let go and they track

451
00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:45,880
you as you die.

452
00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:46,880
Yeah.

453
00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:47,880
And really disturbing.

454
00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,860
They can't do that with birds because birds will just fly away.

455
00:18:50,860 --> 00:18:56,320
And so they had to one they now bite and hang on instead of letting go.

456
00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:02,840
And they their venom is five times as potent as their pit fiber cousin.

457
00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:03,840
That is crazy.

458
00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:08,480
It's like over time the only ones that survived were the ones that had stronger venom because

459
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,640
the birds would die like very quickly.

460
00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,120
Not enough time to fly off the island.

461
00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:15,360
So then get to eat.

462
00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,680
So these are so cool.

463
00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,640
Well I'm thinking of a children's book now that you said all this venom.

464
00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:22,640
Yeah.

465
00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,200
There's a children's book my mom.

466
00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,520
My mom would read me that was a green snake.

467
00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:32,200
And I'm pretty sure it was a viper and they like hung across branches and like a really

468
00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:33,200
cool fashion.

469
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,200
I don't know.

470
00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,880
I don't know about a wall.

471
00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:40,200
And I it was a children's book so I didn't like you know there's no death.

472
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,160
But like the snakes.

473
00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,440
So the vipers these vipers they hang and like attack birds from limbs.

474
00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:47,920
Is that how they do it.

475
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:48,920
That's awesome.

476
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:49,920
Yeah.

477
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,400
So they've grown longer tails than their cousins for like gripping and stuff.

478
00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,400
All kinds of different advancements that are just from having to catch birds.

479
00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,000
Also I think you're thinking about an emerald tree boa.

480
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,120
Oh it's a Verde.

481
00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:05,120
The books.

482
00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,120
It's a what.

483
00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:07,120
Verde.

484
00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:08,120
The RDI.

485
00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:09,120
It's a Verde.

486
00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:12,600
Well I think it's the color green in a different language.

487
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:13,600
Verde.

488
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,080
Well I'm telling you this book right here Verde.

489
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:17,080
Oh yeah.

490
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:18,080
Is the name of the snake.

491
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,080
I'm pretty sure.

492
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:20,360
I think you showed me this book.

493
00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,360
I'm looking to it more.

494
00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:25,480
It was a very fond memory that you struck there.

495
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:26,480
Oh.

496
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,280
So glad I could do that for you.

497
00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:29,280
Oh scary snakes.

498
00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,280
Scary snakes.

499
00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,280
Scary snakes.

500
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,280
I think that's on the book.

501
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,280
Emerald tree boa.

502
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:34,280
Yep.

503
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,560
They're scary when they're not drawn by children's artists.

504
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:38,560
Boas are not scary.

505
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,000
Boas just try to choke you to death.

506
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,200
They have weird mouths all right.

507
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,200
He's trying to show me pictures if he's going to prove his point.

508
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:48,200
I like snakes.

509
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,840
I think an emerald tree boa would be a cool snake to own.

510
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:52,840
It's probably also legal.

511
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:53,840
You could make it happy.

512
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:54,840
Like big terrarium.

513
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:55,840
Yeah.

514
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:56,840
Put birds in there.

515
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:57,840
Leave it alone.

516
00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:04,160
I always tell Vince I used to go to Petorama and let snakes curl up under my hair and sleep.

517
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:05,160
Nope.

518
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,160
Dad had two snakes.

519
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,680
That was a no for me.

520
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,000
So you're talking about they're yellow.

521
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000
You're telling me about the breed.

522
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000
They develop.

523
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000
They develop.

524
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000
Very potent venom.

525
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000
Yeah.

526
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000
So they hold the birds.

527
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,520
If you get bit, you die within an hour.

528
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:25,240
It melts your flesh, causes internal bleeding and considering you're over 50 miles.

529
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,000
You can't get back.

530
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000
No.

531
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,040
So anytime there are people that go on the island once per year because there's a lighthouse

532
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:36,200
and it's always accompanied with a medical team and researchers.

533
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:37,200
Anti-venom.

534
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,280
If you got bit, you wouldn't make it back.

535
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,000
Unless they could treat you there, which is the whole point of this team.

536
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,000
They would at least be able to give you like anti-venom.

537
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000
Oh my God.

538
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,000
That's a nightmare.

539
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,440
But think about it.

540
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,660
So I read an article of I'm going to talk about it.

541
00:21:52,660 --> 00:21:54,840
This lady, I think she's with vice.

542
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,000
I don't think I made a note.

543
00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:03,720
But lots of people have come like reporters have come to do articles on this island and

544
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,280
only some of them get to actually go along.

545
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,280
But they always just go with the Brazilian Navy and the researchers because researchers

546
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:16,360
go there every year too to count the snakes and take samples.

547
00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:19,640
Got to track them because they sacrifice one researcher each time they go.

548
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:20,640
Oh my gosh.

549
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:25,440
But she was talking about how like they have to climb because this is not like a inhabited

550
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,440
island.

551
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,160
It's totally no sidewalks.

552
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,160
Right.

553
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,600
No ladders, no nothing.

554
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,120
So they're climbing rocks and she's just like, they're just constantly having to think everywhere

555
00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,680
you put your hand there could be a snow.

556
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:36,680
Oh no.

557
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:37,680
I know.

558
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:38,680
And they want to attack you for no reason.

559
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,820
But if you grab them like they're going to get you.

560
00:22:41,820 --> 00:22:42,820
So this island.

561
00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:43,820
Oh, well, hang on.

562
00:22:43,820 --> 00:22:47,040
Think of it from the snakes perspective.

563
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,760
Every year giant demons.

564
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,280
Yeah, they come and they take some of us and they take our venom.

565
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,560
We're like aliens to them.

566
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:55,560
Exactly.

567
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,840
I know their own little they're on their own little earth.

568
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,440
And then we just come in.

569
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,600
So what's the lighthouse story?

570
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:02,600
Why is that there?

571
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:03,600
Hang on.

572
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:04,600
I'm not done.

573
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:05,600
I'm sorry.

574
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,360
The best part about this is the island.

575
00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:14,800
The lighthouse has just a brutally small amount of information on it.

576
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,080
But the island is so cool that I figured.

577
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,080
And there's some lore.

578
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:24,280
So oh, speaking of lore, the venom, you know how I said, you know, they evolved over time.

579
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:31,160
And lore says that the snakes were placed there by pirates to hide buried treasure.

580
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,080
And that's going to come into play later in my notes.

581
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,720
So their venom is actually very useful in medicine, which is why researchers go there

582
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,400
so often to milk them is what it's called.

583
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,400
Have you seen videos?

584
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:43,400
Yeah, it's scary.

585
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,600
They like they have them bite like a jar.

586
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,840
And they go so fast, too.

587
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,280
It's like in there wiggling around and it's just like shooting out of their face.

588
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,280
Very scary.

589
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:57,120
It's terrifying anyone that wants to see something that's just like so unnatural and in a snake's

590
00:23:57,120 --> 00:23:59,920
face completely morphs whenever it opens its mouth.

591
00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:03,800
It's just like there's gums everywhere and they like unhinged their jaw.

592
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:04,800
Yeah.

593
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,360
And then it's like their jaw can open like, you know, jaws are split down the middle.

594
00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:09,360
It's like alien.

595
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,360
Yeah.

596
00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,360
Yeah.

597
00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,360
They just come apart.

598
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,360
It's like all their bones just like come open.

599
00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:15,360
Yeah.

600
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:22,240
So specifically, this like golden lancehead vipers were used to develop captopril, which

601
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,720
is a widely used blood pressure medicine, mostly known under the name of Capitan.

602
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,920
I'm lucky to not know about that medicine.

603
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:36,960
So considering that they're only found in this one spot on earth, they're have such

604
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,560
a small footprint of their ecosystem.

605
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,760
And it's all very delicate because, you know, it's like if you reduce the amount of birds,

606
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,040
then you just reduce the amount of snakes.

607
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,680
There's no coming back, like no other second options or whatever.

608
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,080
They're considered critically endangered.

609
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,160
So they're like right on the edge, even though there are so many on the island, because the

610
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,160
footprint is so small.

611
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,360
It's like the, what is it called?

612
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:07,560
The requirements to be critically endangered are like their ecosystem footprint has to

613
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,400
be less than like 100 kilometers or something.

614
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,400
OK.

615
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:18,080
Or like there needs to be this many and or there needs to be, you know, like some, there's

616
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,080
just some requirements.

617
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:24,760
So like one of them being that home is so small is that, yeah, they're just they're

618
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,640
automatically on like critically endangered.

619
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:33,000
But on top of that, locals want to use the land to grow bananas because bananas are profitable

620
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,000
out there.

621
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,000
I don't know.

622
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,600
I mean, it must be because you're going to go 50 miles off.

623
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:38,600
Yeah.

624
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,000
To a snake island to sell bananas or to grow bananas.

625
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,920
And they're hanging in the trees.

626
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:44,920
Yeah.

627
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:45,920
So they're trying to burn it down.

628
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,960
So a couple of times they'd firebomb it.

629
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,200
Yeah, there's a couple of times when they tried to burn it down, which reduces the amount

630
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,640
of vegetation and trees.

631
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,220
So less birds stop there on their way when they're migrating.

632
00:25:56,220 --> 00:25:58,680
So less birds, less snakes.

633
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,800
So there's been a large decrease in snakes over there.

634
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,040
Well, if anything happens to that island, even like a hurricane, I don't know anything

635
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,040
about that area.

636
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,040
But yeah, that's it.

637
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,040
Right.

638
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,120
Other than the ones in captivity.

639
00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:13,120
I know.

640
00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:14,120
Well, there's only one.

641
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:15,120
Oh, really?

642
00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:16,120
Mm hmm.

643
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,120
I don't believe that.

644
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:18,120
I know.

645
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:19,120
Really?

646
00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:20,120
You can go see one snake.

647
00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:21,800
It's still in Brazil, just off the coast.

648
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,820
It's like the only but I don't really know what they do with it.

649
00:26:24,820 --> 00:26:29,000
But illegal wildlife trade targets these snakes often.

650
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,900
And researchers will be approached by people offering to buy one for up to $30,000.

651
00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:36,040
If they take it when they're there.

652
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,040
What do you mean?

653
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,880
If the researchers could get access to the island to steal a snake.

654
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,720
Yeah, or like they bring some snakes back with them for like research.

655
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:44,720
Oh, I see.

656
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,120
I. Yeah, one of them does probably don't survive.

657
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,080
But you know, they could easily just be like, here's a snake.

658
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,000
But I don't think you'd want to unleash that on the world.

659
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,000
I don't know.

660
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,800
I mean, it's just slightly different than its ancestors.

661
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,000
But I mean, look at what's happened in the Everglades.

662
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,760
I know very little about that situation.

663
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,320
But I guess people release.

664
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,960
Are they boa constrictors?

665
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,840
And they're from Africa originally.

666
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,920
I can't like Burmese pythons.

667
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,720
I don't know some giant snake.

668
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,280
It's not from the United States.

669
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,040
It's not native to North America.

670
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,040
Recavic.

671
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:23,400
Well, they not they've released them because they get too big for their encounter or enclosures

672
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,400
that they have encounters.

673
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:25,400
Yeah.

674
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,400
And then they release them.

675
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:31,120
But without any enclosure limitations, that breed of snake or maybe several breeds are

676
00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,000
like they could be 20 plus feet long.

677
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,520
And they're that's out of control.

678
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,480
Like I heard recently it was on a podcast.

679
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,120
So take that for what you will.

680
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:45,560
But like I heard 90 percent of the mammals in the Everglades are gone.

681
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:46,640
Oh, no.

682
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,920
Like all the deer, all the land animals.

683
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:49,920
It's just like 90 percent.

684
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:50,920
Now, yeah.

685
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,560
Well, because of snakes and snakes eat crocodiles.

686
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:55,560
No.

687
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:56,560
Mm hmm.

688
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,160
And well, I think it's alligators actually in the Everglades.

689
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,720
But snakes eat alligators.

690
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:01,720
Get rid of them.

691
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,400
I think there's there's open.

692
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,800
And so one thing that you can do to control animals and wildlife is to hunt them.

693
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:08,800
Yeah.

694
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,800
Destroy them.

695
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,320
Well, there's hunting events that they like.

696
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,880
They send out hundreds of boats and it's like a competition, like a fishing competition,

697
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,720
but for snakes and they still they're not at all close to managing that problem.

698
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,000
So when when I say, oh, this should just, you know, take a couple and put them in zoos

699
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,120
or release them, these special snakes from Brazil.

700
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:29,120
Yeah.

701
00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:30,120
Unintended consequences.

702
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:31,120
You know, that's funny.

703
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:35,240
I forgot what I was going to say.

704
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:36,240
I'm sorry.

705
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,040
You're talking about how sometimes I get a say about what you were saying.

706
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,400
But I can't remember what it was.

707
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,120
I talked so long at the moment came and she got bored and then thought of something else.

708
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,120
No.

709
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,920
What am I going to have for breakfast tomorrow?

710
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,360
I can't.

711
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,360
I can't have breakfast.

712
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:53,360
They don't know that.

713
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:54,360
I'm having surgery tomorrow.

714
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,480
I remember that time when I broke my foot like a year ago.

715
00:28:58,480 --> 00:28:59,480
Yeah.

716
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:00,480
Yeah.

717
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,480
I'm still disabled.

718
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,480
So surgery tomorrow.

719
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:03,480
It's all patched up.

720
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,240
I'm going to be on my butt again for a long time.

721
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,600
It's going to be good.

722
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:14,720
On that note, we'll move into the lighthouse, which there is like two bullet points of information.

723
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,800
I kind of want to know more about the snakes.

724
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:18,800
I know.

725
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:19,800
I wish I had more.

726
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,160
But you guys can go to our website to check out all of our resources.

727
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,600
I will be linking lots of articles about this island.

728
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,120
And also please do send us lighthouses to cover because this one is from a listener

729
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,600
and it's super awesome and I would have never seen it if someone hadn't said something.

730
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,560
So it's built in 1909.

731
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:38,680
It's very boxy.

732
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,320
I think it's concrete.

733
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,440
It's like gray.

734
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,200
There's no seams of like rock.

735
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,440
It's not really pretty or anything.

736
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,000
It's a lot for just for utility.

737
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Utilitarian.

738
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000
Yeah.

739
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,400
It's definitely not for show or anything mainly because there's nobody here.

740
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,400
Yeah.

741
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,400
The snakes don't care.

742
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,640
It has a neat little like stone balcony on top, I want to say.

743
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:05,280
But there's so few pictures of it that I can only guess about what exactly it looks like.

744
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,000
It could just be a trick of the photo or something.

745
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,600
It looks like a cool balcony, but you go up and it's just like a fence or something.

746
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:17,600
You know, it's a very few pictures like Google Earth to have pictures of the island.

747
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,600
Google Earth.

748
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,600
Yeah.

749
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:20,600
Never used Google Earth.

750
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,320
Well, we can look into it.

751
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,320
It's pretty neat.

752
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:29,520
I've used Google Earth in my Geology 101 class, but I haven't used it to look at anything

753
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:30,520
in particular.

754
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:31,520
You know what I'm saying?

755
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:32,520
I know what you're saying.

756
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,760
Picking up what I'm putting down.

757
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,520
They're protecting the snakes.

758
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,180
So it was only manned for a little over a decade before it was automated.

759
00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:41,080
So it was like early 1920s.

760
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,080
Yeah.

761
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,600
That they automated it.

762
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:49,680
And how this came to happen is down to local legend.

763
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:57,760
So let me give you the wild stories of what happened to make this an automated lighthouse

764
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,920
aside from the fact that no people should be living on this island.

765
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:02,920
Because it's snake island.

766
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,640
Yeah, because it's snakey, snakety, snakey.

767
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:13,240
Most logical explanation is that they moved, keepers just moved off the island because

768
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:18,160
they didn't want to be around snakes and it's far away from the mainland.

769
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,920
So you just automate the lighthouse.

770
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:27,560
The next theory is that a keeper asked for a rescue team and because he had been bit

771
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:33,080
by a snake, which by the way, he'd be a goner when he got there or when the team got there,

772
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,400
he was nowhere to be found.

773
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,920
And one by one, the members of the research team ventured into the forest to find this

774
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,760
keeper guy, which they should have just been like, that's too bad.

775
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:44,760
He's a goner.

776
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,800
Let's head out.

777
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,160
But eventually they also come to snake bites and there was no one left.

778
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,160
So they automated it.

779
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,680
I was just going to say, I was just going to say this sounds like the plot to a scary

780
00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,680
movie.

781
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,280
Like a boat wrecks on an unknown shore.

782
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,120
The lighthouse wasn't working and there were snakes.

783
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,120
One by one, the team.

784
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,040
You find out there's like a giant one.

785
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,160
There's like a King boa, 17 feet long.

786
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,040
They're like trying to get the lighthouse to function so they can send out a message

787
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,560
and then there's another ship of the ship crashes and then they're stranded.

788
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,840
They don't know what to do and they got to survive.

789
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,960
Start crawling onto the ship.

790
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,000
They have to eat snakes because there's no other food on the island.

791
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,800
So they eat some of the snakes.

792
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,680
Then the mama snake finds out and then it becomes obvious.

793
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:31,680
It's not sneaky anymore.

794
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,360
Comes out and hunts them down one at a time.

795
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:34,360
The ground rumbles.

796
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,200
I feel like this could be a film.

797
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,200
It wouldn't be good.

798
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,640
It'd be one of those tacky, like fun films that you watch and you're like, yeah, like

799
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,160
an afternoon, you're stuck in a hotel room.

800
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,160
What's on TV?

801
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,160
Yeah.

802
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,160
Super snake yellow.

803
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,040
Like one of the really early on, like, what is it?

804
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,040
King Kong?

805
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,040
Yes.

806
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,040
Yeah.

807
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,040
King Kong.

808
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,040
Very good.

809
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,040
I always think Donkey Kong.

810
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,960
I was going to reference Skoll Island earlier.

811
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,440
We talked about sacrificing one of the researchers each time they visited.

812
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,560
So we've had a couple of almost references.

813
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:05,560
Yeah.

814
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,960
We're really circling around today.

815
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:12,580
The last theory, which is the most gory and this one was written everywhere because people

816
00:33:12,580 --> 00:33:14,000
love a sensational story.

817
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,520
They're like, you want to go to a place where people, the last inhabitants were murdered

818
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:19,520
by snakes.

819
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:20,520
Oh my gosh.

820
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:21,600
Is that the theory?

821
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:26,680
It's that the keeper accidentally left a window open and he was staying there with his wife

822
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:32,040
and three children and the snakes crawled in through the window while they were sleeping

823
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,400
and killed all of them and bit them all.

824
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:39,600
And they were running and snakes were biting at them and they were found in their like

825
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:46,600
emergency like rowboats filled with blood because they liquefied.

826
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,600
Yeah.

827
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,280
Well, you know, if you want to keep people away from somewhere, you tell stories like

828
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:54,280
that.

829
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,280
Yeah, true.

830
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,280
So that was...

831
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,280
It was probably just a giant marijuana crop on this island.

832
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:05,600
It's probably a giant like cocaine plant and they're like, oh yeah, snakes.

833
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:06,600
So many.

834
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:07,600
You'll die right away.

835
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,720
They pay the researchers every time they show up like, here are some snakes.

836
00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:13,880
Say that they're really, really scary.

837
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:14,880
All right.

838
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,200
That's so funny.

839
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:23,040
Anyway, so that is the end of any information on the lighthouse is that it was built in

840
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,040
1909.

841
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,040
You know what it looks like.

842
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:30,080
And the last keepers were killed by snakes.

843
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:36,160
Nowadays humans only set foot on this island once a year for, like I mentioned, the Brazilian

844
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,280
Navy and the research team.

845
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,880
They do maintenance on the lighthouse, you know, just the usual check in the bulb, sweeping

846
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:50,960
up, sweeping, rearranging furniture, redecorating, move snake, move snake, all the Amazon purchases

847
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,240
they got unpackaged.

848
00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:54,400
Yeah.

849
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,240
Access to the island is strictly prohibited.

850
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:58,280
So you need special.

851
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,200
Well first of all, you need to be escorted by the Navy to go there.

852
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,160
You can't just, I mean, I'm sure people try.

853
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,040
That's why they've tried to burn down the island.

854
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,040
Yeah.

855
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,040
Kayak.

856
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,040
Exactly.

857
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,440
But if you want to go there officially, like if you're a reporter or something and you want

858
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:17,760
to write crazy article and just like everybody else, you need special permission.

859
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:23,560
Very prohibited, very sacred, mainly because people will die if they just go there.

860
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,200
There's another story about a guy, you know, a fisherman shows up on the island and dies

861
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,200
immediately.

862
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,000
It's like people just, yeah.

863
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,480
I mean that could have happened.

864
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,120
It's possible.

865
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,520
It's just like, I mean, I don't know anything, but I believe it.

866
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:45,000
If you had an environment that's isolated like an island and you dominate it with one

867
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:51,200
breed of animal, like it's going to be covering as much as possible all of the land or all

868
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,200
of that space.

869
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,200
Yeah.

870
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,840
So it's like every environment that they could be and they will be basically.

871
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:57,840
Yeah.

872
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,440
That's crazy.

873
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,760
So the, how long ago was this isolation?

874
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,760
Like we're talking hundreds of thousands?

875
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:06,760
11,000 years ago.

876
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:07,760
10,000.

877
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:08,760
Okay.

878
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:09,760
Yeah.

879
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:10,760
Okay.

880
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:11,760
Whatever the cataclysm was.

881
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,560
It's a long time, but, and they're all yellow.

882
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,200
There hasn't been any adaptations other than their hunting adaptations.

883
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,200
Yeah.

884
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,040
It's another problem with these snakes is that inbreeding has just naturally happened

885
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,320
because there's nowhere else to go.

886
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,320
Yeah.

887
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:30,880
A phenomena, especially for these snakes is that they are born as both, they're like a

888
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,200
chimera I think it's called.

889
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,400
They're born as both sexes.

890
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,520
And so they're obviously sterile.

891
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:37,840
And so then they just die out.

892
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:38,840
They're single generation.

893
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:39,840
Yeah.

894
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:40,840
But I thought that was interesting.

895
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:46,400
That was like a random, very specific inbreeding effect.

896
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:47,400
Yeah.

897
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,320
Is that these snakes suffer from the most.

898
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,320
Not an advantage, clearly.

899
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,320
No.

900
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,320
They're born on genes.

901
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:53,320
Yeah.

902
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,200
So vice and like 60 minutes.

903
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,200
Oh yeah.

904
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,200
Did vice, you said vice cover did.

905
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,200
Yeah.

906
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,440
That was actually the video that was sent to me by a listener was the vice coverage.

907
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:06,280
I think it's, I think it might be like 40 something minutes, but, and I didn't watch

908
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,280
it actually.

909
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:08,280
Oh.

910
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:09,280
I know.

911
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,280
I read vice's article on it, which I'm assuming is.

912
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,280
Like, I don't want to read vice.

913
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,280
Yeah.

914
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,120
I feel bad, but you know, vice research goes.

915
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:23,160
Vice had some in my, this is all my opinion, some really interesting stories and really

916
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,560
good coverage back in the day.

917
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,320
And then recently what I've seen from vice has been much less impressive and much more

918
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:30,320
political.

919
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:36,880
And I wonder if like what I click on is more like how to keep your hair healthy.

920
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:37,880
And so then that's all I get.

921
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:38,880
Ten tips for summer.

922
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:39,880
Yeah.

923
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,480
From vice is like stuff like that, but I'm sure they have some like, you know, scientific.

924
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:44,480
Some hard hitters.

925
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:45,480
Yeah.

926
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:46,480
Cool.

927
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:47,480
Yeah.

928
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,520
Oh, this is interesting.

929
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,360
There's a show called treasure quest.

930
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,160
This is what I was talking about earlier.

931
00:37:55,160 --> 00:38:00,480
Treasure quest snake Island follows treasure hunters as they tried to find legendary Incan

932
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,080
treasure called the treasure of the Trinity.

933
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:09,880
And I couldn't find out it said it was like reality TV and there was like some big, like

934
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:16,040
I don't know what it's called, some controversy because the director had quit or, or maybe

935
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:22,040
not the director, but somebody up or up or, you know, in the team quit and said that most

936
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,260
of it was scripted.

937
00:38:23,260 --> 00:38:28,020
So I'm assuming that it was like, it was actually following these people as they were trying

938
00:38:28,020 --> 00:38:32,600
to find this Incan treasure, but I didn't go too deep into it because it's a lighthouse

939
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,600
podcast.

940
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:34,600
Yeah.

941
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,000
We got the night, the lighthouse part nailed down.

942
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Yeah.

943
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,540
But apparently in the show they suspected like there was some historical evidence that

944
00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:47,880
pointed towards this treasure of the Trinity being on snake Island.

945
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:54,840
And so I didn't, I couldn't really find out if they actually went to the Island or if

946
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,480
they just, it was all hypothetical, you know, like if they're like, if we did go there,

947
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,640
then it would be, you know, well, so that relates to your buried treasure.

948
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,640
Or we talked about, I know that's what I'm talking about.

949
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:10,680
Of course we should watch the show and find out it was like 2014 or something.

950
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:11,680
So yeah, I'd watch it.

951
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:12,680
It was probably silly, but yeah, it's probably silly.

952
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:13,680
I think a lot of shows are scripted.

953
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,960
I don't believe most shows I see now.

954
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,840
I'm sure there's some nudging, even like, what did I watch?

955
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:28,800
There were some, they show some behind the scenes stuff in, oh, it's a cold, married

956
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,200
at first sight, I think.

957
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,880
And they tell them what questions to ask their, their partner.

958
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,840
And I don't believe that show at all.

959
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,840
That's entirely scripted in my personal opinion.

960
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:45,800
I think some of the conversation is scripted, but I think that their struggle to form a

961
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,000
relationship is real.

962
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000
It's too relatable.

963
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Yeah.

964
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,000
What?

965
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000
You take that back right now.

966
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Well, not for us.

967
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Okay.

968
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,000
That's what I thought.

969
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,100
We have our own podcast.

970
00:39:59,100 --> 00:40:05,400
So this has been quite the flipping of scripts and themes from last time we had our lighthouse

971
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,120
cocktail hour number one.

972
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,120
What?

973
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,120
Oh yeah.

974
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,120
Oh no.

975
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:16,320
That's technically one, two and three, but you know, we did not record a screen today.

976
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,720
So what can listeners look for on our Instagram and on YouTube?

977
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:21,200
What images are they going to look for?

978
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,200
What will they see?

979
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,240
I'll just post pictures of the lighthouse.

980
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:26,320
Maybe one of the island and what the snakes look like.

981
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,000
So you can also see that they're pretty, but deadly.

982
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,280
Sounds good.

983
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,520
You too, probably whatever you make of it.

984
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,320
I'll probably put Verde on there for fun.

985
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:35,320
Okay.

986
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:36,320
Yeah, you should.

987
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,320
Yeah.

988
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,280
And then put it next to the picture of the Emerald tree boa.

989
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,920
And yeah, that's the end of this episode.

990
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:43,920
Very good.

991
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:44,920
Yeah.

992
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:49,320
I, I, I, not a lot of lighthouse stuff going on, but I had to get back into the groove.

993
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,720
It's been our first Brazil lighthouse, right?

994
00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:52,720
Oh yeah.

995
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:53,720
I think you're right.

996
00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:54,720
You need to make a little map.

997
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:55,720
We're going around the world.

998
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:56,720
We should make a little map.

999
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:57,720
The lighthouses on it.

1000
00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:01,400
That should be like the cover of our, uh, oh, what a great idea.

1001
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,560
How cute we're going to do it.

1002
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,600
We'll put a pin on it every time we cover a lighthouse pin.

1003
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,200
You can like, we'll have to, we'll work on this.

1004
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,200
Awesome.

1005
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,160
Thanks for joining us everybody.

1006
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,160
Yes.

1007
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:18,080
And we mentioned it a couple of times, but our website is the lighthouse lowdown.com

1008
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,680
and I still have to develop it, but right now you can go there to figure out where you

1009
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,880
can listen to our podcasts.

1010
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,160
And there are links to all of those.

1011
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:31,040
And then you can see sources and pictures and you can also leave us messages where you

1012
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,960
can suggest lighthouses we should cover.

1013
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:34,960
Please send us suggestions.

1014
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,900
It's so much fun whenever we get to research a lighthouse that somebody else sent to us

1015
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:40,000
because it's like very purposeful.

1016
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,320
Like I'm going to deliver this lighthouse to this person.

1017
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,320
Very good.

1018
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:45,400
Fun to be a part of it.

1019
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,920
And make sure to follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our website.

1020
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,280
There's a place you can subscribe and get emails and whatnot.

1021
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,600
We hope you enjoyed this episode.

1022
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,360
We hope to see you next time on the lighthouse lowdown.

1023
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,360
I'll get the hang of this.

1024
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:09,480
See you next time.