Episode 64 - Pensacola Lighthouse

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

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Well, not really spooky not spooky disappointingly spooky

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Sad spooky or what's happening? I mean just I wanted it to be more haunted

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For those who aren't sitting here with us it is

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Late October so that's why when this comes out. It'll be the 28th

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Nice just before Halloween the week of Halloween dope. So I tried to pick a lighthouse. That was a little bit

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spooky

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It's not as spooky as I

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Wanted it to be oh well still considered one of the most haunted places in the u.s.

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I mean that can be

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That can be good for the people in the story if it's not as spooky as you wanted

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Yeah, I suppose. I think I think what actually happened is that it is very spooky. It's very haunted but

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the

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Evidence is lacking and I'm a little skeptical about some of it

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No one's made a documentary about this there have been a couple episodes two episodes of ghost hunters on the subject and they did

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they experience some things but they the problem is whenever haunted places go too far into details about who these people are it's like

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You don't know really I mean

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If you give them first and last names like you're telling me

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I don't know just how do you know for sure

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Like a reading said yes when you said is this this man like how well do you think they really know what we talked there?

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What their earthly names used to be I actually can't remember who it was it's been a while now

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But we talked to someone who does paranormal investigation. Yeah here on the podcast was that about a year ago. So that last October

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Yeah, that was yeah for Marquette Harbor lighthouse. That's right. That's right

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We talked Marquette Harbor and and I think they were talking about individuals. They know who died

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There on the grounds and so they were suspect that that was the ghost

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Yeah, so first and last name in those cases. Is that what you're saying?

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Well one of the instance that I was talking about he didn't die there. Oh, so it's like I don't know

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I just I don't know they were you per paranormal by the way. That's right

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I follow them on Facebook so I get a lot of notifications. I think I actually do as well

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Yeah, you're not a big social media fan. Okay, so I'm gonna go into a history buoy. I am on a roll of history buoys

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we love it and

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I'm gonna talk about Winslow Lewis because I mentioned him and I I'm pretty sure it was on our last episode. I

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Said something negative about him and I was like man, I really hope I'm right about the potential murderer suspect. No

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Vince just checks out while I'm talking

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I'm just kidding. Um, he's the guy who built lighthouses and had no experience in building lighthouses

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Yeah, so that's what I'm gonna talk about today. I was right and

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In the lighthouse community. He's not

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Talked about very nicely or well-liked and I'll go well, no he earned it

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Okay, so I'll go into detail

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So a lot of this information I'm gonna tell you is based off of an article in the keepers log by the US LHS

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So this was posted in like their magazine good reading good reading. So Winslow Lewis was born May

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1770 so we were going way back

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Lewis was a sea captain living in well fleet, Massachusetts. We've been there died there as well. So

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Really book in did his life there. He put forth his design for a quote-unquote new

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Lamp for the lighthouse service at that time lighthouse establishment US lighthouse about what year?

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1810 he panted it

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So let me pull the picture. I have the picture from the actual patent which was burned

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So this is believed to be the photo that was included in the patent Wow

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So on the left for those that are viewing it on YouTube

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We have a good YouTube following now for those on YouTube

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The left is what was considered to be in the patent and the right is like an up close version of where you see

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DCB that whole area. Yeah up close little detail. I found that online, you know, it's like a clothes rack

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version of a lantern

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so

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Here's what it is. This is the design for an Oregon lamp

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a type of fuel

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Oregon is a the last name of the guy who invented the Oregon lamp which

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was revolutionary much better than what we were using before and

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Used widely overseas starting in 1784

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So long before this guy came forward with this for a long time

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I came forward with this but the US was behind we were still using spider lamps. And so this design

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used half of the oil I

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Hate these dealing European concepts is that you're saying okay

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So this lamp used half the oil of the spider lamps that we were using

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Efficient and had a much higher candle power. Well, what Lewis did was take the Argon lamp design

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slap a green magnifying lens on the front of it, which actually lowered the candle power

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You know the power of the lamp design is lowered by adding color in front of the wavelength such as green. Yeah, and

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Especially just like a surface that is between yeah up true. Yeah obstructing up truiting up truiting

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to see up to singles

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But so this was far superior to what we had but the credit really goes to Oregon

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But we didn't have that design here. So he patented it and he's all just put a green light green lens on there

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So it's technically a new design

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Stink so 1810 he comes out with this patent. Yes

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I don't know how it worked back in the day, but I assume that means he was awarded the patent

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So it was reviewed and deemed by Congress. Yeah, so it's Congress deemed

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Again, I don't know if this has always been the rule

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But there's something about patents where it has to be unique. Mm-hmm, and it's it can't be repeatable

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Like on accident I go I accidentally made this process or this product. Yeah, so his Argon lamp knockoff

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Exactly with a green tint. Uh-huh. What did he say the green tent was for is that legible in this document?

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I never know. I never saw it. I believe I mean

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It's clear to me that he added the green to differentiate it for an Argon lamp, which would automatically mean that his patent has no value

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interesting

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but

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So this lamp obviously had lots of problems because he didn't have the design for the Argon lamp

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So he used a copper plate on the parabolic reflector part that had a silver coating on it and

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One the copper would easily warp under the heat of its own candle

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So that's already problematic the silver coating scratched really easily like just cleaning it with like a cloth could scratch it

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So it's just worthless

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I'm being really hateful on here, but it's all fact was the Argon lamp at the time. Was it like a silver alloy?

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I don't know that was more durable probably curious

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I mean, I I can't I have no idea what was going on

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In 1800 yeah material science goes right. That's funny though

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And then another thing is soot built up really easily on this green lens. They had going on

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regardless

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Congress purchased the patent for a very large sum and

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awarded Lewis

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The like contract to put one of these lamps in every single lighthouse that existed in the u.s

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At that time this guy was making bank government projects. I know

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I'm pretty sure the article said something like

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Anthos began

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Lewis dipping his hand into the government pockets or something like that was it it's like ooh brutal

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I'm getting ahead of myself. Did this turn into like a family fortune over time?

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I don't know the only family member that I heard about in especially in this article, but like other ones as well

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Was IWP Lewis who was his nephew and he was his arch nemesis

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So i'll talk about that briefly in a second this

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contracting and like

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You know

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This award patent and everything kind of plunged him into the world of navigational aids whether it wasn't a lot of experience going on and

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So he just kind of started winning bids to build lighthouses

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And there was a bunch of stuff in between too

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Like he was awarded being the only supplier of the oil that they used in the lighthouses

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Sounds fishy. Yeah, sounds like he was given some kickback to some early corrupt politicians

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What does that even mean? Do you don't make oil? So what do you mean?

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Yeah, the sole source. Yeah supplier. Yep

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Very strange. Don't even know how that happened

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But eventually in there he started winning bids for lighthouses because he was always the low bid

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Because he had no idea. I mean like I'm because i'm sure he was doing it as cheaply as possible and they're like, oh excellent

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Make this lighthouse for four thousand dollars and it's like well your name's on that patent. So you must be the lighthouse man

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Yeah, you've got all the knowledge

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So louis won these bits and built a lot of lighthouses in the u.s. Uh,

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I saw over 80 and

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Maybe I don't I mean, I don't really know the exact number but over 80 at the time

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But these lighthouses were super short-lived because they were beat built cheaply and he had zero

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engineering background and he was just like in charge of

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lighthouse designs

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I just blow my mind like today you could not build anything without having like an engineering certification or something

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Certified to get sealed all that yeah, so only a couple of his lighthouses survived today like literally a couple

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And he built 90 somewhere over 80

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He had five standard lighthouses built in the u.s.

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Over 80 he had five standard designs for lighthouses ranging from 25 to 65 feet tall

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So like he would select one depending on how tall he'd want the lighthouse to be but they were like cookie cutter

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Well, it's not smart because the point of lighthouses is that they all look extremely different from each other or mostly

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I'm gonna pull up a picture. That's so funny the day more the day marks

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Differencified enough though. Look at this

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Always white always blacktop

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Like rounded you can see there's some design differences. I got I got pictures pulled up

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We got um the first lighthouse at robin's reef. We have chatham lighthouse

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Oh, yeah, we know chatham and the one in the middle. I think it's called cape elizabeth lighthouse

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Oh, I like that all of these no longer standing. I I am pretty sure so

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Yeah, that makes sense, but you can tell his designs are all originating from the exact same thing

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Just scaled up into different heights. I mean there's there's some practicality to that

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There's some there's some intelligence in doing that but for lighthouses

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You can't really just scale things up to me

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No, but there's you know, the right sales pitch you can sell something especially to folks

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What percentage of people now or back then?

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Like could have an intelligent conversation on the structure of a lighthouse in the utility of a lighthouse. Yeah, like

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Not a lot of folks

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Right and 65 is not that crazy tall

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So no, you'll see in our lighthouse today, which was actually an accident

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that uh

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Winslow lewis built a lighthouse that was insufficient for the

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Space because he just pulled from one of his standard designs and it didn't work. That's son of a bitch

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Exactly

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Okay, you know steven pleasantin we've talked about him before I don't know the name

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He's the he was the fifth auditor of the treasury

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And was close with lewis and placed a lot of confidence in him because steven pleasantin had nothing had no idea

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Anything?

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What he's a fraud?

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So many words escaping me

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He had no experience in lighthouses as well and was supposed to be in charge of stuff like that

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Like the treasury was in charge before the lighthouse board was right, right?

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So whatever lewis told him he listened and like people, you know when it started coming out people are like this guy is a fraud

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This guy is building garbage and you know, his lamps are useless

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I can't see when i'm sailing

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Um, he would always back him up always had his back. So that's nice. That's a nice friend. It's too bad. He's

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Incompetent and lewis was the one who told steven pleasantin that fresnel lenses were not that great far too expensive and

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He had a couple of

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Seamen say that the u.s's lamps were no different

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So there'd be no purpose in spending all that money to have fresnel lenses. You wouldn't want the yeah, you wouldn't know

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It's just superior european new innovation. Yeah, we don't want to look crazy doing all that and he listened

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So that's kind of part of why we delayed getting fresnel lenses for so long because this doofus

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What if it's just paying everybody well the the whole reason that he would do that is because he wants to one keep supplying oil sure to

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To keep his lamps as being the ones and because they're so poorly made and so easily damaged

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He keeps getting to replace the parts and make money from all that. So yeah, it's like chevrolet building trucks

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You want to elaborate on that?

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I don't know

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Well, I could just say ford or dodge any of the american companies people always make jokes like that like

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Well, they build it to break they don't build it to last because they're they're counting on you coming in for a new transmission

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That stinks new engine and that's where they make their money. It's not actually true

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Um, but people say that as a as a knock on their neighbor's truck. Yeah, so

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That's funny. Anyways, thank you for the insight. Mr. Pleasanton was in office from 1820 to 1852

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So we had 32 solid years of

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Informed decision making on american lighthouses

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That's a very precise way to say that

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So 1852 is when the lighthouse board took over so all that so lewis

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Lewis so we already know that he's capable of stealing a patent design subtly changing it a little bit to be his own

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He dipped so low. Let me tell you

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So he stole stole

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A patent idea from his friend david melville and this is all recorded

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He had evidence and everything. It was just stolen

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He was an inventor of the time

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And came up with an idea to keep oil warm in the winter. So it didn't like get thick and

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you know make it harder for the light like often the

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Candles would go out because the oil is too cold

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So they like had ideas to put stoves in the lantern room to like try and keep it warmer

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But it just didn't work very well

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So david had an idea

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And was having dinner with lewis and two other people so there were witnesses to this

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Lewis was like, I don't think I understand your idea. I don't get it. So david

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Drew a picture of his idea explained it in detail and then told him that he was testing it and already knew that it worked

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Lewis was like, oh, this is a great idea. Um, i'll go pitch it in washington and let you know what happens

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So I think it was almost two years go by and melville's like

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I haven't heard anything from you. Have you pitched it to him? Like did they say anything and lewis responded with this letter?

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That basically was like I have zero recollection of that ever happening

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and I think some people have already patented this idea and

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Melville did some digging and found out that the person who patented this idea was lewis and he was just like oh there was

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There's a guy named jackson and a guy named black who?

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both have patented something similar and he looks and

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It was just in the public record. He's lying to his buddy. Yeah

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so then

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Melville had this huge legal battle because he's like

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You can't pat like, you know that you're making bank off of this idea because it's really important. It's like a great thing

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And lewis was like demeaning him in letters and stuff like I have never heard such language from my friend and like

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Just being like gaslighting him basically like a gentleman. Yeah

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Like they do and kept like dodging his

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Letters and stuff and so then melville would have people deliver letters in person so that he knows that lewis got the letter. Oh my oh my gosh

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It's so intense. So in the end lewis's patent was null but

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There wasn't really much that came out of that

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It's not like I didn't read that like melville was really wealthy and that he patented the idea and everything

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But so his melville was his nephew or my crossing no no melville was just his friend his friend and did what was melville's?

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invention

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Did we discuss it? Okay, it was just that as a future. Yeah, that's a good idea. I like talking about those patents. Anyways

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Yeah, that would be cool to track like

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The years that it was patented and everything

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So that's just goes to show

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His character in the end. I think that you would steal an idea like that pretend that you didn't and then I know and it's just

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And listen, there's probably a bunch of other great things that he did, but i'm just basing off of us lhs

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Fact history's tough, man. Yeah, I mean if what if that's not true

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Just supposed what if none of that was true?

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And some like you just you're just slandered and the whole community

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You know 200 years later. He's talking about you as a fraud and a thief and I i'm not saying that to defend him. I'm just

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what's written down

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between a number of parties is eventually agreed upon as

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Truth. Yeah, especially I mean now I would say more things are provable than back then right but back then even you know

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If you had a dinner with other people there, that's

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Like admissible in court. Yeah, you know, and I guess it still would be right

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Yeah, and in that court those guys came in and testified like we were there

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This is the picture he had in the patent is the one that this guy drew. We had pork chops

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He served red wine. I was a little drunk but not too drunk to remember

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Here's my handwritten letter for the invite to prove that I was

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It does blow my mind that the only thing that I can't remember

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I don't know if I remember it was like a

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The only way to correspond with people was written letters

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You just had to send a letter and be like

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stewing until they respond or

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Like I hope they got that you never actually know now. We just send a text message is there in less than a second

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You're I'm not gonna take the time to look up what it is. So you're gonna judge me

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I don't know the author nor the book. Okay, okay

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But I listened to an audiobook recommended by one of our listeners and a friend of mine

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Now it's been two years. So that's my excuse

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Oh, that's right

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I but it was it was on one of the gentleman who was credited it was so as a

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Biography one of the gentleman who was credited for a lot of geology discovery

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So talking about rock formations and how to find oil and minerals and how to drill in

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like the early days in England, I believe and

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And the whole story is based on it's telling telling the story of this gentleman from age

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20 to 70 something when he was really active in that community and

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brilliant person lots of interesting discoveries several interesting patents and

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You know, he would go see his wealthy

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Friend and see a rock that they had collected that was on their shelf and a collection of rocks eventually grew in his house

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and it was renowned that people would come and talk in the community about his work and geology and his collection of rock and

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you know different layers and yeah description of how

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There are layers of earth over time

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clearly defined and you can follow a vein of gold and you can follow a vein to oil or coal or these resources and

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So massively important for the time the point of this and why it's relevant. I'm thinking the timeline for one

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older but even so yeah and to like

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Gentlemen to get together to discuss their rocks. Yeah, but but really it was

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Groundbreaking it was like what if we could discover all the gold?

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What if we could be the most powerful men ever as far as wealth goes?

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Because of this dude wandered around the hills and was brilliant and thought about what if the earth is like cake

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So that's massively simplified but it is it is interesting to me so much of history in a I don't know the age of this photo on

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screen now, but we're looking American Lighthouse Foundation supplied photo of

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Elizabeth and just like

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Today that could be AI that could be a sketch

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It could be you know what the authenticity is gonna go away, but throughout history paper was everything a photo was

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Yeah, totally admissible now photos are not not at all miss ability videos were for a while

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Not anymore for example like I was just saying the patent burned because there was some fire at you know in some

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Government building where they lost a bunch of right historical

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Really?

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What?

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What is this?

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No, I don't know. I'm just saying like the image was supposedly the image. You know the library of Alexandria

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Will never know right was there mm-hmm. Yeah, because it burns

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You got nothing and they were like, oh we think that this was

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The picture that was in the patent. It's like you'll never really know

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It's so crazy. Now. We've got everything is permanent

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Well until it's not if I'm getting carried away. I know. Oh, here we go. You know the whole

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doomsday

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various scenarios where

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Electronics become unusable we have almost nothing like on paper that we can go reference

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As individuals, I mean even if the world didn't end it would be really interesting if a bunch of us just lost some of our electronics

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just

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Set us back because that's our modern-day tool well even think about it you wouldn't have pumps pushing water into your pipes

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What would you do? What do you do correct? Oh, well, thank you for the

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Little sidetracked there a history boo within a history buoy the coffee really gets me sidetracking. I'm sorry about that everyone

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No, I like it. It's good. That's that's where it's this is where it happens

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This is the podcast where it all happens. Good luck skipping that history buoy

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That is so funny

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Check out our YouTube comments for anyone who wants to understand we love getting comments from people so much fun

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and another note

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is that we need to start covering lighthouses that people are asking us to cover and

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We've done a couple, but I think I'm gonna make a little mini series of

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People who requests yes, and there's I mean they're all

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Yeah, so there's no reason not to so I'm going to that's great, and it's about to be your episode next

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I'm gonna get a little break, and then I'm gonna be doing listener lighthouses

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Okay moving on so early

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We were talking about David Melville, which is his friend his nephew who is who you were thinking of is

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IWP Lewis, and he was a civil engineer and a lighthouse expert who was just against

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Winslow Lewis in that he had experience in the area saw that his stuff was garbage and

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Probably knew enough about his character should be like

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Okay, I feel bad. I'm trashing all over it, but like this these are things that are

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What you found okay, you're reporting on what you found we don't know I hate just being like I don't know them

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I don't know him, so I'm just going by you know word of mouth

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Which we'll try to be responsible with the information yeah

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If there was an article that said a bunch of nice things about him, and that was it then I would also use that but there isn't

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Okay, so his nephew was against him he reported that the lighthouses of the US in 1843 were quote all

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More or less defective and all crying out for continual repairs

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So he was definitely advocating against his his uncle there

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National Archives mentions Winslow Lewis as quote able to thrive in this era lacking in wholesome regulation

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So just like taking advantage of things and like in the end

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He was an incredible businessman in that he made millions of dollars

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in contracts and just like

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This is what's gonna make me the most money and so that's what I'm gonna do

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So you can commend him for having business skills, but play the game as people who love lighthouses

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I think it's a great disservice

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And that's all I have to say about that haters gonna hate passed away in 1850

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So shortly after that lighthouse board took over clean shit up

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1850

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Passed away patented in 1810 born in 1770

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Excellent memory good date recollection. So he lived a full life. Yeah, it wasn't murdered

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Unlike some people possibly in this episode

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Again with the arm movements, okay, let's get into our lighthouse of the day

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That was a really long day. I'm sorry. I'm sorry

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Okay, let's get into our lighthouse of the day. That was a really long history boy. Oh, yeah. Wow. That was a long time

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Okay, wow

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I'm so sorry everybody. This is a long one

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So we are heading to pensacola, florida. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I knew you were gonna

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Jump right on that and you'll probably have some things to say about what i'm talking about

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Pensacola was the oldest european settlement in mainland america in

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In 1559 even though it was a failure. So it was abandoned for a while longer

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Because there was immediate hurricane and just wiped out like a bunch of people. It was crazy

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Hurricane massacre florida's been floriding for a long time. Yeah

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A little mapy map here for those that don't know pensacola is

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Almost not florida. It's all

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What's next to that gulf shores is off to the west and destin is off to the

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west the left which is west and the right on map is

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East what is what is the is this?

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Louisiana next to it, georgia. Oh my gosh

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Honestly, we need we seriously need to get our geography together i'm from kansas

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We don't know we're in the middle. That's all we know one moment. I used to live in texas. So

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At least I had some kind of some relation some closeness to this. I drove through this

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I drove through this these states. Okay, so to be fair

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florida

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The panhandle I think they say goes out west. All right

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Above it is georgia. Okay, but

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Alabama is to the west. Are you certain because that that does this so gulf shores?

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Look at the alabama. Look at the state line

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I don't see you another one branching off that it's all one state. No, i'm saying alabama shares the coast

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Oh george is just north so

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kinstin

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Samson geneva, those are all georgia. Are you sure?

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All right. Well excellent wait

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I think it's all louisiana

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Let me see

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alabama

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Let me see montgomery

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Can I has

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Yeah, that's all alabama roof

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We got to edit that I can't look that stupid no, we are we are just who we are. Okay, you're right

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Oh, yeah, louisiana is not even close

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I don't know. I don't apologize

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Everybody knows this is what it means to be human

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We're just being as real as you can possibly be

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I'm leaving it in

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Give me our true selves

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um anyway

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So the u.s took control

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Of florida from spain in 1821 which for some reason sounds really soon

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1821 hold on

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Louis patented his idea 11 years before that. What did you just say the u.s took control of florida?

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Via spain from spain

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They took it from spain. Oh, okay. Gosh 1821 english is hard

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Yeah, florida has the first settlement ever and uh,

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Really, I think we talked about this over near. I don't know on the on the east coast

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The oldest city in the united states is what i'm thinking of. Oh, st. Augustine. Yeah, did we talk about them?

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I think there's been many lighthouses there and the originals were

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That's right. Yeah. Yeah spanish. Yeah when we did that we appropriated

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Six thousand dollars two years after for a lighthouse. So we quickly started moving in and making changes

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And placed it so that ships entering

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The harbor pensacola bay. Is that what that is? I think so

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Okay, but they placed it so that the ships entering the bay could aim directly for the lighthouse

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And make it easier on everybody. Nice. That's good

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The aurora borealis light ship was placed here while the light was being built

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Which I think is cool because we've talked about the aurora borealis

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Borealis, it's called something else now, I think yeah, but the lighthouse was built by none other than

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Our wonderful wenslow lewis for a low bid of four thousand nine hundred and twenty seven dollars

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selected by steven pleasantin

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crazy

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That's just so funny that it's like i'll select the low bid of my friend wenslow lewis

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You stinkers. What is all this corruption? Yep

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Bids you're just like a staring at me the land of opportunity. Yeah, exactly

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So this lighthouse was completed 1824 using his 40 foot design cookie cutter design kind of small

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With a flashing white light that was on for seven seconds and dark for 63 seconds

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So very long dark period which actually continued

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This like long dark period after a flash for a while. It's a one in ten ratio. Mm-hmm

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Interesting pulled up picture looks familiar

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Looks familiar. Is it a wind vane on top?

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Uh, yeah, or a flag. It almost looks like it's fake. So i'm not totally certain on that. Yeah

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They just needed to add a little oomph so they colored in a tiny flag

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I don't know. You can tell that that's a wenslow lewis design

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Yeah, it looks like them

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Didn't stay for very long. Well, then it wasn't well the water's right there

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Right, uh, looking at the water that looks like yeah, maybe anyways at this same time the u.s. Also started construction

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1826 on the pensacola navy yard today. This is where the naval air station pensacola is

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And the lighthouse is within these grounds. So if you want to visit the lighthouse, it has to be within the navy's opening

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Open times can't just like walk in no, you can't just be like on the grounds at any time

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The navy yard dealt with suppression of slave trade and piracy in its early years

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And then in the civil war most of it was reduced to rubble by the confederates and was rebuilt following the war

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And in world war one pensacola had the only naval air station which rapidly expanded over time

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Today is the home of the blue angels and our beautiful pensacola lighthouse. Hell. Yes, go america

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There's a wicked photo that i'm going to show at the end of the lighthouse with the blue angels in it

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It's amazing. There's a lot of super cool pictures online. So everyone should check it out

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So our first keeper jeremiah ingraham married and had three children in the lighthouse

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And died in 1840 his wife micaela took over as keeper officially until she passed in 1855

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And this lighthouse actually has a lot of history of woman keepers

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I think she might have been the only head keeper

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Um, especially for 15 years. That's insane

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And actually official but there was also a lot of second assistant keepers who were women who took over for like their husbands if they passed away so

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That's so nuts taking names and kicking butt

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That pollen oil. Yeah

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You'd have to have muscles. Oh, yeah, they weren't messing around

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00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:13,860
By 1850 complaints were rampant about the lighthouse being far too dim and short

438
00:33:14,340 --> 00:33:16,340
Often covered by trees from view

439
00:33:17,220 --> 00:33:19,220
Why didn't you just build it taller?

440
00:33:19,780 --> 00:33:21,780
Why a bit?

441
00:33:22,020 --> 00:33:25,860
I asked that question on all the construction projects. Why are we taking low bid offers?

442
00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:31,060
Why are we allowing this to happen? So 1852 the lighthouse board

443
00:33:31,620 --> 00:33:36,020
Brand new called for a new quote first class seacoast light

444
00:33:36,020 --> 00:33:40,820
End quote which something i've said in our past couple episodes. Yeah that

445
00:33:41,860 --> 00:33:46,900
Someone just takes control and is like we need a first class seacoast light

446
00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:48,900
We can't have this second class shit

447
00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:54,980
Yeah, none of this garbage lewis garbage as I said in our last episode when they say

448
00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:58,260
First class seacoast light it means it's tall

449
00:33:59,220 --> 00:34:01,220
Sexy. Oh, yeah, i'm getting excited

450
00:34:01,220 --> 00:34:06,500
1854 so two years later congress allocated 25 000 for a new one

451
00:34:06,820 --> 00:34:14,820
As well as 30 000 two years later to aid in the completing the construction. It's always so much more expensive government work. Yep, and the

452
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:22,660
151 foot white tower was lit with a first order for nellins on january 1st 1859 january 1st

453
00:34:23,380 --> 00:34:27,140
Nice cute. I've seen a couple instances of that terrible ton of white tower

454
00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:34,980
But I guess hey, you're in florida. So yeah true the um seasons hit not so hard like a massachusetts lighthouse

455
00:34:34,980 --> 00:34:37,780
Oh gosh, or like maine. Oh, it would be impossible

456
00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:43,780
But this franell lens had a four second white flash every 56 seconds. So still a really long

457
00:34:44,420 --> 00:34:48,900
Period between flashes and was built half a mile west of the original lighthouse

458
00:34:49,540 --> 00:34:54,900
And I don't know what happened to the lighthouse after that. I think it was built half a mile west of the original lighthouse

459
00:34:54,900 --> 00:35:00,980
And I don't know what happened to the lighthouse after that. I assume demoed but I don't have info. Who knows

460
00:35:01,540 --> 00:35:03,140
pulled up a picture

461
00:35:03,140 --> 00:35:06,900
Beautiful so pretty such an old photo

462
00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:14,580
Almost looks like an art piece like a sketch or drawing it said I said online that this photo was actually taken the year that I was

463
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:15,920
Completed so

464
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:21,780
1850s this picture was taken is like that had to have been the second that cameras started becoming a thing, right?

465
00:35:21,780 --> 00:35:26,500
Uh honestly, I don't know said this before I think early 1800s. We had some cameras going on. Okay

466
00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:34,580
Um, I've seen some really cool antique photography lately. So is that an integral lighthouse? No, that's like um, if you think about

467
00:35:35,380 --> 00:35:42,100
Uh, gosh, what is it like forced perspective? No, no, it's connected but it's just the little entrance

468
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:48,180
It's two stories tall what you're talking about. Oh, no, I think those are just like windows letting in

469
00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:53,860
I mean you could be right but it's not the keeper's house. Okay. It's just like what is the lighthouse? I'm trying to think of man

470
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:56,500
There's a bunch of them. Tell me more about it

471
00:35:56,820 --> 00:35:58,820
uh, i'm thinking of

472
00:35:58,820 --> 00:36:00,340
Kuretake and

473
00:36:00,340 --> 00:36:06,100
Your tuck is the big brick tower. Yeah on the outer banks and the other one we saw I keep thinking bald head

474
00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:12,660
It's not it's um on the other body island. Yeah. Oh, yeah, there's an entrance and it's protruded

475
00:36:12,660 --> 00:36:15,140
This one is appears to be two stories tall

476
00:36:15,140 --> 00:36:20,260
Which I think is unique. Yeah, but in any case I was thinking that was the keeper's house and I was like wow, that's

477
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:22,180
that's

478
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:23,060
like

479
00:36:23,060 --> 00:36:23,860
Integral

480
00:36:23,860 --> 00:36:28,740
To the extreme you're on the real estate listing. It's like there's a lighthouse built into this. Oh, okay

481
00:36:29,460 --> 00:36:31,460
It's 95 of the structure

482
00:36:32,740 --> 00:36:38,260
151 feet tall bedroom has great views so crazy. Oh my gosh. I would love

483
00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:42,420
To have a bedroom at the top of a lighthouse. I mean only if there's an elevator

484
00:36:42,420 --> 00:36:44,660
Anyway

485
00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:47,300
Sorry for the distractions there

486
00:36:47,860 --> 00:36:48,900
so

487
00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:54,740
After the civil war broke out the union gained control of the Pensacola lighthouse from the confederates in

488
00:36:55,380 --> 00:37:02,100
1862 okay fitted it with a fourth order lens until the first order lens was rediscovered in 1869

489
00:37:03,060 --> 00:37:08,020
And returned to the lantern room. So for a while there it officially had a fourth order lens

490
00:37:08,020 --> 00:37:13,940
And then they found the first order and put it back in there wonder where it was. I feel like a lot of

491
00:37:14,980 --> 00:37:18,900
Squirreling away happened. It's hard to hide a first order lens during wars anyway

492
00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,980
Actually, I don't feel like it wouldn't because you can take it apart and it's just

493
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:26,180
I mean it's pretty snug and something like a crate

494
00:37:26,740 --> 00:37:31,860
Following wars things take a long time to resurface. I don't know if it's like people are keeping

495
00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:38,020
Crates of things in warehouses and they're like, oh we have to sort through all this. I'm telling you. I have a suspect

496
00:37:38,660 --> 00:37:40,660
I suspect

497
00:37:40,660 --> 00:37:44,260
That there are private collections out there a lot of them

498
00:37:44,980 --> 00:37:48,020
Not a gotta be a lot of them of Fresnel lenses

499
00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:51,540
And

500
00:37:51,540 --> 00:37:54,340
I'm sorry for another sidetrack. It's fine. We talked about it

501
00:37:54,340 --> 00:38:01,300
And uh, I was gonna say that wrong. Other memorabilia. I'm sorry for another sidetrack. It's fine

502
00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:04,020
We talked just you and I talked recently about um

503
00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:06,740
the lighthouse down um

504
00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:09,780
Near Galveston Island

505
00:38:09,780 --> 00:38:15,700
Bolivar? Bolivar point. Bolivar point? Yeah. Um, so I looked it up. They're doing a restoration right now

506
00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:23,060
Oh excellent. That's the reason that the lantern room is entirely removed. However, they're not going to put the lantern room back on

507
00:38:23,060 --> 00:38:28,980
They're having a new lantern room built. Okay. The existing is to be preserved and put indoors and be the

508
00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:32,260
the main visitation focal point

509
00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:38,340
So they're like five million dollars into this thing phase one. Oh my um into the restoration. Well

510
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,500
Spectacular, okay as long as they put a new one up top. No, I know

511
00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:43,140
Yeah

512
00:38:43,140 --> 00:38:48,100
as long as there's a new one that's going to function the same that's going to look the same and

513
00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:52,420
Be really stable and we still get access to the original that we get to see

514
00:38:52,420 --> 00:38:58,180
Open to everybody. I am so excited about that. But how the point is yes, sorry the point is

515
00:38:58,580 --> 00:39:03,780
What if one of those lantern rooms just disappeared? They're like, oh, yeah, we put a new one that no one asked the question

516
00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:08,580
What happened to the original one that was up there through all this history when it wasn't history?

517
00:39:08,580 --> 00:39:13,140
It was just like oh modern day. It's in someone's living room somewhere like

518
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:18,980
Somebody bought it. It's their cool thing like this guy has a velociraptor skeleton. This guy has a lantern room

519
00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:25,140
I'm sure they had like auctions with their like crates of miscellaneous things from

520
00:39:25,940 --> 00:39:29,780
pre-world war stuff and you just they're like I'll pay you 10

521
00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:34,180
You open it and you're like, what is this glass?

522
00:39:35,220 --> 00:39:38,180
So prisons big side. I have no idea what you have in your hands

523
00:39:38,580 --> 00:39:43,140
Yeah, I just I think they're I think they're the collectors out there just like there are private lighthouses

524
00:39:43,140 --> 00:39:49,060
They're on private land and they're just people bought it because they wanted it like most of the or a lot of the um,

525
00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:54,260
Light ships are just like private places crazy all through time

526
00:39:55,460 --> 00:40:01,780
that same year 1869 a new symmetrical duplex dwelling was built and um

527
00:40:02,580 --> 00:40:04,980
Because they added new assistant keepers, I believe

528
00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:08,980
And so they needed a place for them and their families to live so they built a duplex

529
00:40:08,980 --> 00:40:15,380
And the day mark was changed. So while the bottom third stayed white so that you could differentiate it from the trees

530
00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:19,140
The top two thirds was black to differentiate it from the sky

531
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,900
Interesting and that's actually the day mark that we have today cool

532
00:40:23,940 --> 00:40:25,940
It is that's pretty nice

533
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:29,060
You can see a nice picture of the duplex keeper's cottage right there

534
00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:33,060
And that's in front of the tower. Yeah

535
00:40:33,060 --> 00:40:40,260
Okay, i'm not connected my brain is like look at your eyeball. They're like, I want to see it that way really neat though

536
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:44,900
What a cool day mark in great shape too. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's being very well taken care of

537
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:49,940
This is one of those places that has a website that you would be very happy about. Oh nice

538
00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:55,220
St. Augustine level let's go. I won't click through it, but it'll be it's linked in our show notes

539
00:40:55,220 --> 00:40:58,980
So if anyone wants to go check out their website, they have a really really good one between

540
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,840
1863 and 1886

541
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:09,300
There were 11 different keepers at the station nine of whom were fired for offenses ranging from neglect to intoxication

542
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,320
So just a bad run of keepers

543
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,800
People trying to escape life

544
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,600
After this george t. Clifford was hired and served for 31 years

545
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,280
he

546
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,360
Broke the the bad string of keepers 31 years is a long time

547
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:32,960
It's crazy and clifford's a cool name. It is cool. Good for him. You think it used to be more common

548
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:40,240
I feel like probably more common for the big red dog. I don't think I think it's awesome. They killed it. I don't I don't think it

549
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,720
people wanted to name

550
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:44,560
their children after the

551
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,560
dog the dog

552
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,360
I don't know. We learned that actually when I was at a lighthouse

553
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,600
um exhibit

554
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:57,280
What uh without me? No, you were there gay headlight. Uh, the lantern room. Yes was there

555
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,960
And there's an exhibit on clifford the big red dog. Oh, yeah

556
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:08,480
The person I can't name because I don't recall who was the author originator of clifford was from martha's vineyard

557
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,800
Oh, I didn't know that we were in the martha's vineyard, uh museum, which is really neat

558
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,440
You must have done a little reading while you were there. Yeah, they had a whole exhibit on clifford. I was like

559
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:23,760
Why what that's nothing to do with anything because he was from sure does martha's vineyard anyways, very cool

560
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:30,080
We're still in the 1800s. Which is wild 1874 in 1875. The lighthouse was hit by lightning

561
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:37,840
Melting metal apparatus inside of it. Yeah, which made it clear that the lightning rod which you've talked about in a past history buoy

562
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,600
That's right was faulty found to be defective and replaced

563
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,320
So we just had a couple instances

564
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:49,120
of this and after that the lighthouse was also hit by an earthquake 1886

565
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,000
Before which the light was found to have cracks in it

566
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:58,240
and they said this was likely from past hurricanes and damage it took during the silver war because it was

567
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,280
Across from a fort or there were two warring forts

568
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:09,360
Oh facing each other. I can't I didn't look all the bays down there. It's probably really important. Yeah

569
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:14,160
Um even to today. It's still right an important area strategic area

570
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,080
but uh

571
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:20,560
something else they mentioned on boliver boliver be oliver was uh

572
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,320
That it had survived multiple hurricanes as well at all

573
00:43:24,860 --> 00:43:27,920
Earthquakes is what they they referenced but as part of the

574
00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:29,840
reparate

575
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:30,940
reparations

576
00:43:30,940 --> 00:43:32,640
repairs

577
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,800
Gosh, i'll shut up. No

578
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,400
You get it. There's been earthquakes

579
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:44,880
Yeah, the the I I they have some pictures. I didn't put it on our slides that this lighthouse was actually hit by

580
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:51,760
Like direct hits from artillery fire and left little craters in this outside of lighthouse

581
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:57,680
But it didn't penetrate to the inner layer. So it was just kind of like patched up. I think and so then that shooting at light houses

582
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,760
I know all rude. I know

583
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:02,160
Leave them alone

584
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:03,840
That might have been in florida, too

585
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,280
You got the kid with the rifle. I think that was st. Augustine might have been

586
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,960
Stinkers so at this point it was repointed which is a

587
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,800
Term I had never heard before which is fixing the mortar in between bricks

588
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:22,000
Repointed and repainted in 1913. We're jumping ahead the u.s. Navy established the u.s.

589
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,200
His first aeronautical station at the navy yard

590
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:31,520
Very cool in pensacola training over a thousand pilots for world war one and thousands more in world war two

591
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,400
This is where we have the super cool picture. I wonder if my grandpa went to pensacola

592
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:42,400
Ever that's really neat. There's a couple of other really cool ones, but this is where they practice

593
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,480
So actually now you can take tours

594
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,120
through the lighthouse

595
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:52,080
To watch them the blue angels are housed there. That's where their base is at

596
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:56,240
Yeah, it used to be somewhere else and then they moved here. I think I made a note

597
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,640
Uh, let's see

598
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,560
That's a cool photo

599
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:07,360
Uh, no, I guess I didn't make a note if any of you don't know my description of what the blue angels group is. It's uh

600
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,440
Navy there are specially selected pilots that train

601
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:13,520
very rigorously

602
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,520
to do precision arrow

603
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,000
space maneuvers

604
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,680
so they're they're in I think f-16 jets, but they're

605
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,640
very good they they do crazy formations and practices and they're kind of a

606
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,440
public outreach group

607
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,440
Uh representing the navy

608
00:45:32,660 --> 00:45:34,660
It's not the air force the navy

609
00:45:35,060 --> 00:45:40,100
Flying program. I don't feel like navy pilots are supposed to be very good. Yeah

610
00:45:40,660 --> 00:45:43,540
like um air force also has a group like that called the

611
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:48,500
Thunderbirds, I believe cool. Yeah, it's kind of a rivalry thing. I think that oh, I like that

612
00:45:49,220 --> 00:45:51,380
Get some uh fire it up went over a little bit. Yeah

613
00:45:52,740 --> 00:45:57,620
Really like that. So yeah pretty neat you get to go and watch them. I would definitely pay to do that

614
00:45:57,620 --> 00:45:58,820
Yeah

615
00:45:58,820 --> 00:46:03,700
It'd be crazy get from the top of the lighthouse too if they're like flying around it. Oh my gosh, so cool

616
00:46:03,860 --> 00:46:05,040
Really cool

617
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:11,780
1939 the coast guard takes over the lighthouse lens is electrified and the keeper's quarters gets indoor plumbing

618
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:14,900
Spectacular

619
00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:21,060
The road to the lighthouse which was called shell road at the time now. It's something else lighthouse road probably probably

620
00:46:22,180 --> 00:46:25,460
It was paved with brick and rubble from the recently demolished fort

621
00:46:25,460 --> 00:46:27,460
Brankas barracks

622
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,280
Dang it. I didn't look up. That's crazy

623
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:36,120
Well, you guys know what I mean. I'm sorry if I pronounced it wrong barracks nearby that were demolished

624
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:41,480
but I want to say that that one was you a Union Fort and

625
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:47,440
Probably that late in the game. Yeah. Yeah, and so then the other one is the one that shot the lighthouse. I mean

626
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,320
Yeah, yeah

627
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:57,360
1965 the lighthouse was automated and the Navy rented out the keepers quarters until the building was condemned

628
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:04,800
So they rented it out and didn't do any renovations or like didn't keep up with it until it was so bad that it was condemned

629
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:09,200
Awful, they were accepting bids to demo the entire station

630
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:14,400
But instead the Gulf Islands national seashore was established in order to protect it

631
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:19,620
And so the lighthouse and the dwelling were renovated extensively back to livable conditions

632
00:47:19,620 --> 00:47:26,400
1996 the Coast Guard auxiliary starts offering tours of the lighthouse taken over by the Pensacola

633
00:47:27,020 --> 00:47:31,420
Lighthouse Association which was formed in 2006. I think okay great

634
00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:37,100
So the east side is what they did was the east side of the duplex was renovated to display like an 1880s

635
00:47:37,820 --> 00:47:42,460
version of what it what it used to look like so you could walk through and just see what

636
00:47:42,780 --> 00:47:48,700
Half of the keepers cottage used to look like and then the west side has exhibits on the Civil War Navy Yard

637
00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:54,300
And the lighthouse you could walk through and look at everything the 90s and 2000s is really a good time

638
00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:57,940
Yeah, a lot of lighthouse. They're really restorations taking care of business

639
00:47:58,660 --> 00:48:04,060
That's awesome. I assume it's similar today. Yes. It's exactly the same. So if you go

640
00:48:04,740 --> 00:48:06,380
Yeah

641
00:48:06,380 --> 00:48:10,260
2014 the original this is like this weird little side point

642
00:48:10,260 --> 00:48:19,740
But 2014 the original lens pedestal of the lighthouse is discovered in the woods outside the gift shop what?

643
00:48:20,180 --> 00:48:23,580
Some kids wandering around like what's this big piece of metal?

644
00:48:23,580 --> 00:48:29,580
I wonder look what are you telling me it looks like it would hold a lantern the pedestal has been out there for it's got

645
00:48:29,580 --> 00:48:35,420
To be decades is just sitting out there. Nobody noticed it in no idea blind just

646
00:48:35,980 --> 00:48:37,980
You guys blind

647
00:48:37,980 --> 00:48:41,540
It must just been covered by stuff, but I don't know. I just thought that was so funny

648
00:48:41,540 --> 00:48:47,260
It's just it's in the time 2014. Mm-hmm. That's pretty crazy. It's in the timeline that

649
00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:50,660
Pin of the Pensacola lighthouse on their website

650
00:48:50,660 --> 00:48:55,380
Yes, like they discovered the pedestal and I don't know what was happened to it after that today

651
00:48:55,380 --> 00:48:59,460
Yeah, they collect it. Did they go? Wow, that's cool. They preserved it or something

652
00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:05,100
Four years later a two point five million dollar renovation was completed

653
00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:07,980
Totally restoring the lighthouse and the first order lens

654
00:49:07,980 --> 00:49:15,540
Let's go which by the way is still in use in the lantern room really active gate a guide to navigation

655
00:49:16,180 --> 00:49:17,540
from

656
00:49:17,540 --> 00:49:18,660
1850s

657
00:49:18,660 --> 00:49:26,060
Wow, which then you know, they rediscovered it during the war and put it back up there but why there's not there's not many going

658
00:49:26,060 --> 00:49:29,220
We talked about Hawaii has one. Mm-hmm

659
00:49:30,060 --> 00:49:34,420
This is one they just put up Montauk point again, right?

660
00:49:34,420 --> 00:49:40,340
But I don't know if that's the original or yeah, see it's very special, especially first order. Yeah

661
00:49:41,380 --> 00:49:45,480
Special you climb you can go up there and just see it. You probably hear the motor

662
00:49:46,420 --> 00:49:47,820
Yeah

663
00:49:47,820 --> 00:49:52,800
Nosset lights was really loud. I enjoyed that powerful. Yeah, and that was I assume that's a

664
00:49:53,320 --> 00:50:00,060
Lighter duty motor. Yeah, that's it light because that's not that wasn't a frenel and that's modern beacon relatively

665
00:50:00,060 --> 00:50:04,620
So anyway, very cool. The lighthouse is located on the Naval Air Station Pensacola

666
00:50:04,780 --> 00:50:11,180
So you can visit only while it's open from 9 a.m. To 3 p.m. It's nine dollars and fifty cents for tours and

667
00:50:13,140 --> 00:50:18,660
The first order lens still up there you can see very quick flash every 20 seconds. So it's

668
00:50:19,300 --> 00:50:23,020
gotten a little faster than in the past they have a really nice picture of

669
00:50:23,780 --> 00:50:29,800
The inside of the lens and that's the symbol for the Pensacola house another very cool symbol

670
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,900
Yes, love it. So nautical it's on the property for the Air Force base. Yeah

671
00:50:35,420 --> 00:50:40,460
Well, excuse me the Navy right I find that strange that they they keep holding on

672
00:50:40,460 --> 00:50:43,200
They're like we can't allow civilians to like ruin this

673
00:50:43,860 --> 00:50:45,860
thing so

674
00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:48,300
So

675
00:50:49,660 --> 00:50:53,740
I think it's good thing. Keep it protected. It's a crazy image the inside of the

676
00:50:53,740 --> 00:51:00,940
For now lens this panel is pretty in the rainbows everywhere. Really gorgeous. Maybe someday we'll go and check it out

677
00:51:01,220 --> 00:51:04,780
That logo is pretty cool. I know I knew you would like that. Mm-hmm

678
00:51:05,700 --> 00:51:10,940
They have a couple different exhibits like I mentioned and you can book all kinds of different tours

679
00:51:10,940 --> 00:51:15,900
like they have sunset climbs the Blue Angels practice viewing and

680
00:51:16,540 --> 00:51:18,540
ghost tours

681
00:51:19,220 --> 00:51:21,220
Talk about our

682
00:51:21,220 --> 00:51:24,620
Several times it's been clicked today, but that's

683
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:33,060
It's a haunted episode. So I'm gonna go into some of the rumors swirling around this lighthouse to makes it haunted and spooky

684
00:51:33,420 --> 00:51:35,420
Happy Halloween everybody

685
00:51:35,580 --> 00:51:41,980
Pensacola house considered one of the most haunted places in the US by who I don't know

686
00:51:44,180 --> 00:51:47,300
Everybody the first one I'm gonna the first story

687
00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:53,540
I'm gonna say is the one that I'm most skeptical about because they give her full name and I can't find this person anywhere

688
00:51:53,540 --> 00:51:55,540
I have no idea

689
00:51:55,740 --> 00:51:57,300
so

690
00:51:57,300 --> 00:52:03,580
They say there's a woman named Ellen Mueller who grew up in the lighthouse and got married there

691
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:09,700
Then gave birth in one of the rooms and passed away from complications in

692
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,180
1911 so died during childbirth

693
00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:16,540
1911 in the room that she grew up in

694
00:52:16,540 --> 00:52:18,260
in

695
00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:19,940
1911 and

696
00:52:19,940 --> 00:52:24,780
Before by like a decade there the only men working in the lighthouse were George T. Clifford

697
00:52:25,740 --> 00:52:29,940
Adrian Whiting and Jefferson D Miller which is not Mueller and

698
00:52:30,540 --> 00:52:33,620
Never was there anyone working there with the last name Mueller?

699
00:52:34,420 --> 00:52:36,180
so

700
00:52:36,180 --> 00:52:38,180
she couldn't have been a

701
00:52:38,740 --> 00:52:40,260
child or

702
00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:44,940
Like couldn't have been a child of one of the keepers growing up if she grew up in the lighthouse

703
00:52:44,940 --> 00:52:46,980
Yeah, you have to be a child of one of the keepers

704
00:52:48,460 --> 00:52:55,800
Unlikely that she has somebody else's last name at this time. Yeah, and then if she were to marry and that was her married name

705
00:52:56,580 --> 00:53:03,260
Why was she in her child at home giving birth and not in her husband's home giving birth, you know, I

706
00:53:03,900 --> 00:53:09,180
Just don't have all the details. Yeah, there's something missing. Yeah, like where did you get this name and

707
00:53:10,260 --> 00:53:12,260
Where did you find that she grew up in the lighthouse?

708
00:53:12,260 --> 00:53:16,620
Someone probably knows maybe her last name is actually Miller and it's just gotten

709
00:53:17,420 --> 00:53:23,800
Messed up over time. Yeah, I don't know. I couldn't find Jefferson D Miller's like, yeah

710
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,260
You know normally on like ancestry you can find their children and stuff. I couldn't find anything. So

711
00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:34,660
That's all of that. That's why I'm skeptical is cuz I'm like if you give her full name, it's got to be right

712
00:53:35,140 --> 00:53:41,100
So there's no logical way that she grows up marries and gives birth in the lighthouse

713
00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:43,780
Unless there was a guy there that the same last name

714
00:53:44,460 --> 00:53:48,860
but anyway, they say her apparition is commonly seen in the bedroom where she grew up and

715
00:53:49,660 --> 00:53:53,180
People were here breathy whispers feel cold spots and smell roses

716
00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:57,980
So that's fun during these goose tour goose tour used

717
00:54:02,460 --> 00:54:09,100
They also recognized two boys named Thomas and Raymond said to be runaway slaves that were hanged

718
00:54:09,100 --> 00:54:11,100
in the basement and

719
00:54:11,180 --> 00:54:13,180
buried on the property

720
00:54:14,820 --> 00:54:19,980
Wildness okay hanged in the basement would be extra hard, right?

721
00:54:20,860 --> 00:54:23,980
Yeah, those feelings low ceilings. I

722
00:54:25,620 --> 00:54:28,740
Know like I should be casting doubt on all of this

723
00:54:28,740 --> 00:54:35,380
But like just the way that it unfolds where there's no runaways if you're gonna give me names if you're gonna give me names

724
00:54:36,060 --> 00:54:37,580
it's

725
00:54:37,580 --> 00:54:40,100
It's just kind of diminishes the

726
00:54:40,940 --> 00:54:45,180
Like spookiness of it. I'm like really Raymond. Am I scared of Raymond?

727
00:54:46,060 --> 00:54:48,060
I don't think so. I don't know I

728
00:54:48,860 --> 00:54:52,620
Mean any apparitions gonna make me scared breathy whispers. No, thank you

729
00:54:53,340 --> 00:54:56,300
Two other children named Lizzie and Joey

730
00:54:56,620 --> 00:55:03,660
I'm not gonna be scared of those either died from yellow fever in 1922 and guests sometimes feel the children

731
00:55:04,380 --> 00:55:06,380
running through their bodies

732
00:55:06,380 --> 00:55:11,260
And hear children's laughter when it's really quiet. That's not good. I'm like stop

733
00:55:11,980 --> 00:55:17,660
Like like actual instances where people get like the heebie-jeebie heebie-jeebies and all like yeah

734
00:55:18,460 --> 00:55:23,260
It's like somebody ran through their bodies. I don't want any spirit going through my body

735
00:55:24,460 --> 00:55:26,460
Preferred not especially not children

736
00:55:27,980 --> 00:55:31,580
Yeah, it's bothersome. I just don't know what else to say it's

737
00:55:32,220 --> 00:55:34,220
It's bothersome. I can't really pin it

738
00:55:34,220 --> 00:55:36,700
Okay, here's the one I was talking about

739
00:55:37,500 --> 00:55:42,780
Samuel Lawrence was the headkeeper from 1877 to 1885. So a good chunk of time

740
00:55:43,580 --> 00:55:46,380
He I don't think he passed away in the lighthouse

741
00:55:47,340 --> 00:55:53,260
Because there was no reference to that but many say they see him keeping a constant vigil in the lantern room and in the stairwell

742
00:55:53,740 --> 00:55:58,700
What is it about ghosts in the stairwell? I am uncomfortable

743
00:55:59,420 --> 00:56:00,620
with that

744
00:56:00,620 --> 00:56:05,340
Keep vigil in the lantern room. That's fine. Don't be going up and down the stairs

745
00:56:06,620 --> 00:56:10,540
No, I don't know, you know, they don't have to they could probably just teleport

746
00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:13,500
I don't know

747
00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:18,300
There's also a rumor. This one is skeptical rumor swirling around

748
00:56:20,540 --> 00:56:21,740
You know keepers

749
00:56:21,740 --> 00:56:23,740
Jeremiah and Michaela Ingram

750
00:56:24,140 --> 00:56:28,220
She they were the first he was the first keeper died and she took over 15 years

751
00:56:28,220 --> 00:56:34,780
Before she passed away. They say that Michaela's love for the lighthouse surpassed the love for her husband

752
00:56:35,260 --> 00:56:40,140
So they fought a lot because she had more duty for the lighthouse than to her husband

753
00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:43,260
And it was his job. So he's probably like what the heck is this?

754
00:56:43,820 --> 00:56:48,720
Yeah, and they say that his death in 1840 was under suspicious circumstances

755
00:56:49,500 --> 00:56:52,700
And then she worked for another 15 years. Yeah for the lighthouse

756
00:56:54,140 --> 00:56:56,140
I don't know

757
00:56:56,140 --> 00:57:00,460
How did he die? I I couldn't see but they say

758
00:57:01,260 --> 00:57:03,420
they say

759
00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:10,060
You know in in these like oh spooky websites that he was stabbed with a kitchen knife and i'm like that would be murder

760
00:57:12,060 --> 00:57:15,740
That would 100 be labeled as a murder very suspect situation

761
00:57:17,180 --> 00:57:20,460
Suspicious circumstances knife knife

762
00:57:21,820 --> 00:57:23,820
I'm like that there's no way that's true

763
00:57:23,820 --> 00:57:29,900
No, but they say that you can hear their arguments around the lighthouse and there's no one in sight

764
00:57:30,540 --> 00:57:35,420
So wouldn't you like that to be what you go down in history? No be arguing for all of time

765
00:57:36,540 --> 00:57:42,700
Arguing for the rest of time. I had to work here in the 15 years 2009 ghost hunters did an episode

766
00:57:43,020 --> 00:57:45,020
Inside the lighthouse

767
00:57:45,100 --> 00:57:51,580
And revisited a year ago as well. Wow, so we have a recent episode and an old episode

768
00:57:51,580 --> 00:57:59,020
They experienced in the first episode strange voices flickering lights one man had his shoulder gripped

769
00:57:59,500 --> 00:58:02,700
By an invisible hand giving him a chill that didn't

770
00:58:03,420 --> 00:58:05,820
Leave for long after he left the lighthouse

771
00:58:07,020 --> 00:58:09,020
That is bothersome and then

772
00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:11,500
in the most recent episode I watched like a

773
00:58:12,300 --> 00:58:14,300
I watched a um

774
00:58:14,940 --> 00:58:17,180
like a short clip of like some of

775
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,960
condensed episode basically

776
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:25,400
And they had sounds of doors closing crunching, which is not a sound that I ever wanted to hear

777
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:32,200
Steps voices and all kinds of spooky stuff always in the lighthouse. Yes inside the lighthouse

778
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:37,880
Which you can watch I think it's called discovery plus or something discovery plus. Yeah

779
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:44,280
Yeah, the first episode was season five episode 22 and this one's season 15 episode three

780
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:50,520
So if you guys are interested in going going and seeing maybe 15 seasons, sorry, I can go watch it. That would be fun

781
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:57,580
I think what happened is they stopped making episodes and then now they're like doing they're revisiting

782
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,240
Places they did in their original show. I was gonna say why did they go back?

783
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,440
You know like oh we got a new sensor

784
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:09,480
Well, yeah, they actually say that these new episodes they have like the updated like most

785
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:13,720
Up to date technology for ghost hunting. So it's like pretty exciting cool

786
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:21,240
Yep, so it's definitely haunted. I think the specifics are blurry and I would definitely still be spooked staying there

787
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,240
That's for certain

788
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,240
Any lighthouse painted black spooky

789
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:26,840
Yeah

790
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:29,960
Yeah, Bolivar is kind of it's all black

791
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:32,920
But that's because it's iron

792
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:38,440
That's right. You know what Jamie at work brought it up. I know it's a little weird

793
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:43,240
I brought it up and already said this on this episode, but she brought up Bolivar and I was like, yeah

794
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,720
it's made of all these steel sheets welded together and

795
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:50,360
Creepy and I was like, I think it's haunted

796
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:55,960
Oh, yeah a bunch of people died there all kinds and then yeah, looked it up. Oh, yeah reminded of

797
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,360
So many dead around the lighthouse, it's wild

798
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:03,480
naked bodies

799
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:04,680
drowned

800
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:06,280
perished

801
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:12,280
Anyone who's interested go to our episode three Bolivar episode three. Maybe we should relight that light

802
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:20,120
We should that would be interesting recover I have one more note to make and then i'm done

803
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:28,440
The research assistant at pensacola is on jeopardy october 25th. Let's go

804
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:34,680
I hope they win. I know i'm excited. I didn't know jeopardy was still on tv. They pushed it back

805
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:36,680
So now he's going to be airing at 2 a.m

806
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:41,640
On saturday, which by the time this comes out it'll be passed. So maybe you and I could just like watch it on

807
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:47,800
Online or something get the inside scoop, but we're totally rooting for olaf. Go olaf

808
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,440
Go olaf

809
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,200
And that is the pensacola lighthouse very

810
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:59,160
Very entertaining. Thank you very much. Great photos today, but not too many of them

811
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:04,440
Yeah, I wanted to keep it low on photos high content coffee was good in case anyone couldn't tell

812
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,720
You didn't actually go that crazy

813
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:12,200
You you input Thursday evening. Okay. Yeah, it's not friday. That's right

814
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:14,840
Sorry god, I wish was friday

815
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:17,320
Some people yeah, dang it anyways

816
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:20,360
But that's all so

817
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,680
Do you like I like okay very good episode. I don't know how i'm gonna follow this up

818
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:29,000
Uh, that's what I thought. I'm not even close to prepared. I got a big idea, but I don't think I can get there

819
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,440
Oh, I think I could go small. Yeah, you have like a week or so so

820
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:34,680
Yeah

821
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:36,680
Yeah, sorry to put the bar so high

822
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:43,960
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823
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:47,720
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824
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:52,040
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825
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:56,600
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826
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,920
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827
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:02,440
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828
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,760
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01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,600
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01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,640
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01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:40,440
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836
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