1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Hi everyone. I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this is the lighthouse slow down. 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:16,000 It's not as more distinguished as usual. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Well, it's because I wasn't bopping along into it. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Lighthouse slow down. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:28,000 I need to figure out how to raise the volume of these when I click the button. 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 I don't know if you're right. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,000 It's a slider. 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Let's check. Oh my gosh. 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 That's perfect. 10 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Alright. Mystery solved. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Awesome. 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 What a great start to the podcast. 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Thank you everyone for joining us on the lighthouse slow down. 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 We are in the basement in the riprap studio. 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 We're at the revetment stone studio. 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Emily is in a cast. So if you can hear that coming across the microphone, you're very in tune. 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Yep. 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 I'm planning on painting a lighthouse on this bad boy. 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Are you really? 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Why not? 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 I'm not against it. I'm just surprised. It sounds like a lot of effort. 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I'm just sitting around doing nothing. 23 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Okay. 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Vince and I are talking about what our next lighthouse trip is going to be. 25 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Talking it over. 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,000 We're thinking Cape Cod, but we're going to juggle around some other options before we decide too quickly. 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:36,000 But there is 14 lighthouses in Cape Cod and 11 of them have the United States Lighthouse Society stamps. 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,000 What are the three that don't? 29 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Are they not UH LHS certified or something? 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 I don't know. I don't know. I didn't look. 31 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:51,000 I just kind of typed in each one into the their website to see which ones were included in their stamp list. 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Because you want the stamps. 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Yes. I'm here for the stamps. 34 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 I used to be here for the love of lighthouses and there's still some of that in there. 35 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 But the stamps, it's all about completion. 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:10,000 The satisfaction of being like, yes, I visited the lighthouse and here's a stamp. 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Clearly we're here for the money, fame and stamps. 38 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Yeah. We're here for the views. 39 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 That's right. 40 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaking of US LHS, my history buoy today is actually a current event. 41 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 And so happy holidays, everyone. 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 It's National Lighthouse Day when this is posting. 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 What day? 44 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 August 7th. 45 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Whoa. Very nice. 46 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000 National Lighthouse Day and the United States Lighthouse Society is doing an event. 47 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:45,000 And so what you do is you record a video of yourself or other people dancing next to a lighthouse 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 to the music of Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Joe Rivers. 49 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I wish we could sample that. 50 00:02:51,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Yeah, we'll literally just type it in and see. 51 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,000 We'll play a little clip in there so you guys will get to hear it. 52 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 What you'll be dancing to. 53 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,000 And then when you complete this video and also a note that you don't have to make the video as long as the song is. 54 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 So if you just want to send in a clip of like 30 seconds, you can do that too. 55 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,000 But then you email it to jeremy at US LHS.org. 56 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Jeremy Deitremal. 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Yes, Deitremal. 58 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 And you have to do that by August 14th. 59 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 So by the time this posts, you'll have a week to submit your dancing. 60 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 And there's cash prizes. 61 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 So everybody, if you live near a lighthouse, first of all, congratulations, because. 62 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Sorry. 63 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,000 That's better. 64 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,000 What I was going to say earlier is that people that live near lighthouses are living the absolute dream 65 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:22,000 because you and I talking about going on our trip, that's like a three hour flight or something that we have to endure just to get near one hundreds of dollars. 66 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Other people just get to wake up and just go to a lighthouse. 67 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Yep. 68 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Imagine living near Cape Cod and you just have like a pick of 11 stamps at any time. 69 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Yeah. 70 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 If you're like in Boston. 71 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Yeah. 72 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Yeah. 73 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 See, we're in Kansas City, Missouri. 74 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 So we're in no coast USA. 75 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 There's East Coast and West Coast. 76 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 We're at no coast. 77 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 What's our closest lighthouse? 78 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Did we determine it was Texas? 79 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 No, I don't think we ever officially did. 80 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 You're in Michigan or Texas. 81 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Probably. 82 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 We did talk about this, but I can't remember. 83 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 We did. 84 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Yeah. 85 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 I looked it up, but I didn't do like an official. 86 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Yeah. 87 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 But maybe that's why we're so interested in lighthouses is we don't have them. 88 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Yeah. 89 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Well. 90 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Tornadoes are wildly interesting to people that don't have tornadoes to us. 91 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 They're just like weather. 92 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Yeah. 93 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 It's like it's bad weather. 94 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Yeah. 95 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000 But yeah. 96 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,000 So if you do live near a lighthouse, good for you. 97 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And also do this, this little. 98 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Do you dance? 99 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Fun. 100 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Yeah. 101 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 This fun competition because National Lighthouse Day only comes around once a year. 102 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 If you're listening to this podcast, you probably like them. 103 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 August 7th. 104 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,000 August 7th. 105 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 And you could win cash. 106 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Yeah. 107 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 What's the cash? 108 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Cash money. 109 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 I don't actually know. 110 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I just saw that. 111 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I'm from USLHS and they said all in caps, cash prizes. 112 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Get you a whole quarter. 113 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Get you one whole quarter. 114 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Well, I might Photoshop us dancing. 115 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 No, it's got to be authentic. 116 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Maybe we can. 117 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 No, we're not going to make it. 118 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,000 We just can't do it. 119 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 We just can't participate. 120 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 So our listeners, we live vicariously through you and give it a shot. 121 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 You can look like a goofball. 122 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Nobody cares. 123 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Please do it. 124 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,000 We're going to be looking as Jeremy Detremold. 125 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 So we can move on to the lighthouse for the day. 126 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I promise pretty soon here I'll have a history buoy that's actually a history buoy. 127 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 These days it's coming. 128 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I can sense it. 129 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 I feel it. 130 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,000 So last time we covered Snake Island, Brazil. 131 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,000 And so this time we're going to be covering Snake Island, Ukraine. 132 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Totally different Snake Island. 133 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Completely in no way are they similar. 134 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 They're both islands, I take it. 135 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Yes, which I kind of feel bad about. 136 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Next episode is going to be an American lighthouse. 137 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 It's going to be a lot about the lighthouse. 138 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 In these last two episodes we've been covering islands. 139 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 And so most of the history and the focus is on the island. 140 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 And then they're like, oh yeah, and there's a lighthouse on it. 141 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,000 And so I've been trying to scrounge up information about the actual lighthouse. 142 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 But episode ends up being mostly about the island. 143 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Apologies for that. 144 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Hope it's still interesting. 145 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 And that's what's going to happen today. 146 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:13,000 So the lighthouse, it has a lot more information than the other Snake Island lighthouse did. 147 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,000 So it's exciting. 148 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:25,000 The island is located in the Black Sea east of Danube Delta. 149 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Danube. 150 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 That seems like the totally incorrect way to say. 151 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Danube. 152 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 It looks like Danube or something. 153 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 I have no idea. 154 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Danube. 155 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 I should not try. 156 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 I should not guess. 157 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 But anyway, it's Ukraine. 158 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:48,000 The island is less than one square kilometer in area, but is inhabited by around 100 people. 159 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Or maybe a little bit less than 100 people. 160 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Hectares or acres or? 161 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Oh, let's see, square kilometers to acres. 162 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Yep. 163 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Oh, what? 164 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 One square kilometer, 247 acres. 165 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 OK, nice. 166 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 I don't know. 167 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 That seems like a lot for what I remember reading. 168 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Oh, well, I'll just leave it out there for the internet to tell me. 169 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 That is smaller than my dad's little field. 170 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Oh, that's a lot. 171 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I didn't know he had. 172 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 OK. 173 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Oh, wow. 174 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 OK. 175 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Yeah. 176 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 When you put it into perspective, I forget that I'm talking about an island and not just 177 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 like. 178 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Well, not the field, but the lower land, the house. 179 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Yeah, yeah. 180 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,000 The field, everything we've pointed out. 181 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Casual flex. 182 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 My dad's. 183 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 My dad's land. 184 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 My dad's land is the same size as that island. 185 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Pretty sick. 186 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Way fewer people. 187 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Good one. 188 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Thank you. 189 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:01,000 OK, so the lighthouse itself is 12 meters tall, which is around 39 feet, and it's built 190 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,000 40 meters above sea level, which is I think the height of the island at its highest point 191 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,000 is 41 meters. 192 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 So pretty much got there. 193 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 131 feet, by the way. 194 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Really cool. 195 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 The flat. 196 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 It's a white tower with a silver lantern room. 197 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Well, that's unique. 198 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 I was like, I have never seen this before. 199 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 I know it's very exciting. 200 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,000 If you think about it, I bet the sun really just like bounces off. 201 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 It's like day mark. 202 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Very shiny. 203 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 At least it's not like chrome, but it's polished chrome. 204 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 But it's like spinning wheels. 205 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Definitely some kind of gray metal. 206 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Atop a white tower. 207 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Yes. 208 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,000 And it's also attached to a one story keepers house that has a red roof, like a bright red 209 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 roof. 210 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:51,000 And it also has a flash pattern that is white one and a half seconds on and three seconds 211 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,000 off. 212 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 So pretty fast, pretty good. 213 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Simple. 214 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:00,000 And to save the disappointment that would come crashing down at the end of this episode. 215 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 It has recently been destroyed. 216 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Oh, no. 217 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Yep. 218 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 February 2022. 219 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:11,000 I bet you can guess why, but I will tell you the whole story about it at the end of this 220 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 episode. 221 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 All right. 222 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:20,000 So this island has a unbelievable historical significance going on. 223 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,000 It is like you should see the Wikipedia page. 224 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 There is like so much going on. 225 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,000 The same amount of word count on there as if you're talking about like George Washington. 226 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Wow. 227 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:37,000 If George Washington was an island, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, we're there. 228 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Snake Island, Ukraine. 229 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,000 What are you drinking? 230 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 I'm drinking a cup of coffee. 231 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000 You made what? 232 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 I had iced coffee from this morning and I put more espresso and ice in it. 233 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Oh, wait. 234 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 That was iced coffee on the counter? 235 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000 No. 236 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Oh, it sat so long. 237 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 It got cold. 238 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 So I put ice in it and then it was iced coffee. 239 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,000 You just drank coffee that's sitting on the savage. 240 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 I'm a workplace sitting on my desk. 241 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Eight hours a day just designing HVAC and plumbing. 242 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Savage drinking coffee that goes lukewarm. 243 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 I'm barely human. 244 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Oh, he's an animal. 245 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Who's going to carry the boats? 246 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,000 That's the second time I've heard that in like 10 hours. 247 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Yeah. 248 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Well, really, yeah. 249 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 We'll continue on. 250 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Okay. 251 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Mentions of this island. 252 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Look at me. 253 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Go back in literature to the fourth or fifth century BC. 254 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Oh. 255 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,000 I was only thinking AD, which would still be several hundred years. 256 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 We're talking like. 257 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:52,000 So we're talking because the earth is 2023 years old. 258 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 So before Jesus walks. 259 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Exactly. 260 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000 This. 261 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 That's where we're talking. 262 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 This island was mentioned in the Bible. 263 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 So that's where we're talking. 264 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 So that's where we're talking. 265 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 So that's where we're talking. 266 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 This island was mentioned. 267 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000 That's crazy. 268 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 What was told us about it? 269 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 What was happening? 270 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,000 It's referred to as the White Island by Roman and Greek philophysers. 271 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Phila phila. 272 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Phila phila. 273 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Delicious carts going up and down the streets. 274 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 So hard. 275 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Have I fallen? 276 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 It's the afternoon. 277 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 All right. 278 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 So we're going to go to the next one. 279 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 So this is the Island of the Rock Chalk. 280 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 And it's by the British and Greek philosophers. 281 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 And authors. 282 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 And. 283 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 They mentioned it's either because the rocks were white or because the 284 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 snakes were white. I think this Island's made of limestone. 285 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 So. 286 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I read somewhere that the, that the Island is made of marble, 287 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 like white marble. 288 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,000 But I think limestone makes more sense. 289 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Rock truck. 290 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Very nice. 291 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Just getting closer and closer to where we live on the map. 292 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 So. 293 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I think the Island of the Rock Chalk. 294 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Include. 295 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Several ancient inscriptions and these date back to the fourth and fifth 296 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 century, which is how we know that they were mentioned that late besides. 297 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Yeah. 298 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Philosophers. 299 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Do you know why my mouth is doing that? 300 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 No. 301 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Am I supposed to know? 302 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 No, I just. 303 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 I don't know. 304 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Oh yeah. 305 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Oh yeah. 306 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I made you scrambled eggs this morning. 307 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 And a bagel. 308 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 There was butter on the bagel and not cream cheese and therefore. 309 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Full officers. 310 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,000 No, I don't. 311 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 I'm sorry. 312 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 I couldn't even say it on accident. 313 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 And you just said it. 314 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Huh? 315 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Philosophers. 316 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Philosophers. 317 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Philosophers stone. 318 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Philosophers. 319 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Stone. 320 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Stone. 321 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Philosophers. 322 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Philosophers. 323 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I'm making the F two earlier. 324 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Philosophers. 325 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Oh gosh, I can't. 326 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 This is the episode where we're not drinking any alcohol. 327 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Yeah. 328 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 It's because it's after work and then we're drinking coffee again. 329 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 So it's a restart where you don't want it. 330 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 But that's the last time I mentioned that word in this episode. 331 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 I'm just going to say it. 332 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 And can you point at me like this? 333 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Thank you. 334 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 It's like having an on call translator. 335 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I'm one of the buttons. 336 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Thank you. 337 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Thanks for hanging with us folks. 338 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 These inscriptions mention Achilles. 339 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Achilles. 340 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 So the inscriptions are on rocks. 341 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 That's why I was thinking about stones. 342 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 They're almost like they're carved into the rock. 343 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 All they said was inscriptions. 344 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:51,000 And then the other times it's mentioned like earlier when I said in literature, 345 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 I think that's got to be paper. 346 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Well, and Achilles is from the Iliad from Homer. 347 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,000 So I think they said that Snake Island is mentioned in the Iliad. 348 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Maybe I haven't finished it. 349 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 You've barely started. 350 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 That is the Iliad. 351 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 If anyone has read the Iliad, tell me how. 352 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Didn't you say it was like 79 pages of intro? 353 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Yeah. 354 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Oh, at least. 355 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Yeah. 356 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Interesting. 357 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Probably 100 pages. 358 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 See how it'd be hard to get into it. 359 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 And it's been translated many times. 360 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 True. 361 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Anyway, so I don't know exactly what they look like or how this inscription came 362 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 across to be discovered. 363 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 It had to have been stone. 364 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Otherwise, it wouldn't have survived. 365 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Wouldn't be carved. 366 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 They also mentioned pirates. 367 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Like the island was taken over by pirates. 368 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:50,000 And there was like some letter asking that they be eradicated or driven away from the 369 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 island, stuff like that. 370 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 That's really cool. 371 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Yeah. 372 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 It just seems pirates in BC. 373 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,000 I don't know. 374 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:03,000 They also have a fragment signed by a pottery fragment signed by a famous painter. 375 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 I won't try to pronounce his name. 376 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 It's E-P-I-K-T-E-T-O-S. 377 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,000 It's like... 378 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Epictetus. 379 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 How do you know that? 380 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 I feel like I've heard it before. 381 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Well, he's... 382 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Maybe I'm just wrong. 383 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:20,000 You know the pottery where they have the Greek pottery where they have the figures 384 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:26,000 or they're painted red with the black background or they're black figures with a red background. 385 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 He was one of those people that painted. 386 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Style. 387 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Yeah. 388 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:35,000 And they'd like, you know, you paid today's equivalent of like dollar an hour just to 389 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:40,000 sit up in a roof in an attic somewhere and paint pots. 390 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 You love the idea. 391 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 And that was from 500 BC. 392 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000 So that's still in the same time range that I was talking about. 393 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Yeah. 394 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Not to mention there's also remnants of a temple there. 395 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:59,000 And this temple is mentioned many times thousands of years ago in all of this literature. 396 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Always referred to as a temple for Achilles where Achilles lived or where he was buried 397 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 or like his summer home. 398 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:12,000 And they mentioned that people would often go there to release animals as offerings to Achilles 399 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,000 and that a statue of Achilles was built inside and that no birds would like fly higher than the temple. 400 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,000 That's like very Greek myth sort of thing. 401 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Greek legend. 402 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:26,000 And they also say the island was created by Poseidon for Achilles to live on because they 403 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 were like bros. 404 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 All right. 405 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 I don't know enough about that. 406 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 The Greek mythology, isn't it? 407 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Mm hmm. 408 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Yeah. 409 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I don't know enough about it. 410 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Yeah, I don't either. 411 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,000 But it was very cool that there's so much about this random teeny tiny little island. 412 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Like what is the significance of this tiny island in Greek mythology that it would be Achilles burial place? 413 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 And summer hangout. 414 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Yeah. 415 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 And summer home. 416 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:59,000 This temple was discovered in 1823 by a Russian naval captain. 417 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Yes. 418 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 And it was he said it was 30 meters on each side. 419 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 So like almost 100 feet long on each side. 420 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 A perfect square. 421 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:13,000 And they built the lighthouse right on top of it. 422 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 On top of the island? 423 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 On top of the temple. 424 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Oh the temple. 425 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 And it is wiped out. 426 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Like there is no like this naval captain was like oh cool there's a temple here. 427 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 And then they built the lighthouse on top of it. 428 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Well it was probably a solid foundation. 429 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 It's a good spot to build. 430 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Like there's no remnant of this temple left it was completely eradicated by the building of this. 431 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 This seems significant. Neat. 432 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 They're like cool. 433 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 How about this is a good place to build. 434 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Get rid of all these rocks. 435 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Yeah so I just thought that was unbelievable that there's all this history. 436 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:59,000 We have Achilles possible burial place and this lighthouse that I decided to cover was built right on top of there. 437 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 That's crazy. 438 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 That's pretty cool actually. 439 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 That was 20 years later that we got the lighthouse on top of it. 440 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,000 So 1841 I want to say. 441 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Maybe 43. 442 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Let's see if I can find it. 443 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 I think it's important enough for me to look up right now. 444 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 1842. 445 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Okay I was super close. 446 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:25,000 And it was built at this time it was the island was owned by the Russian Empire and so it was built by the Black Sea Fleet. 447 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,000 From the Russians what I think is an awesome name for a Navy. 448 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,000 It's pretty cool. 449 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 The Black Sea Fleet. 450 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:40,000 So at that time they built a 12 meter octagonal lighthouse which survived until World War I when it was destroyed and rebuilt. 451 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:47,000 So that one from World War I lasted all the way until February 2022. 452 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Wow that's crazy. 453 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:56,000 So it switched hands a couple of times mostly under Russian ownership but the island has been subject of dispute for a really long time. 454 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:05,000 It's like because it's in the water and not it's like the maritime boundary line is very sketchy. 455 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:14,000 And so it's always under dispute because this island is a really good vantage point for either of who would own it. 456 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 So how far is it offshore. 457 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Sorry. 458 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Let me see. 459 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Long way. 460 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Not a long way. 461 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 It's not a long way. 462 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Oh another thing. 463 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:33,000 One of our listeners told me the exact distance that Snake Island Brazil is from the coast because remember I said there was like a million different 40 miles ish. 464 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 I can't remember. 465 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Oh my gosh. 466 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Here I can find out. 467 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 How did they tell you? 468 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Email? 469 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Can they reach us at the lighthouse slowdown at gmail.com? 470 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:48,000 They can and anyone can also through our new website the lighthouse slowdown dot com. 471 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Plug plug plug. 472 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 34 kilometers from shore. 473 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Converted to miles. 474 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:04,000 17 plus three 20 and change 21. 475 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Nice. 476 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 21 miles. 477 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000 21. 478 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:15,000 So that puts that to rest. 479 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Snake Island Ukraine. 480 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Oh by the way there's also a there's a Ukraine name which translates to Snake Island but I didn't look up how to pronounce it before this so I really just figured I should leave it alone. 481 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I'll put it in the parentheses in the title. 482 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Okay thank you. 483 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 At least on YouTube. 484 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:41,000 I would guess it's probably about 35 kilometers from shore. 485 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,000 That's what I have to say about that. 486 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Ukraine inherited the island when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but Romania argued it was theirs because of a treaty signed with Russia and Russia was the original owner. 487 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 I don't know. 488 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 I don't really know. 489 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Russia Ukraine thing has been weird for a long time. 490 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Yeah. 491 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Since then actually. 492 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,000 And Romania and Russia used to have a lot of wars right. 493 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 It's like Turkish Ottoman. 494 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I do not know the Prussian wars. 495 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 I don't know. 496 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I'm sorry I'm all unaware. 497 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 We're doing our best. 498 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Oh. 499 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Yeah so now because it you know inherited by Ukraine. 500 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Yeah. 501 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Romania and Ukraine have been fighting kind of over who gets to have it and I don't know the political details of this but basically if Snake Island is considered an island then it's Ukrainian but if it's just considered a rock in water then I think its location would not be 502 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,000 considered when they draw that maritime boundary line. 503 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:54,000 And so I'm assuming that would be beneficial for Romania because there's like is an island is it a rock is it an island. 504 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Because if it's an island if it's large enough to be considered an island then it's a you know something where people would be and therefore you go to draw the border. 505 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Yeah. 506 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:09,000 So then Ukraine definitely have it like there'd be no question but so now it's like is it an island or is it a rock. 507 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Well why fight over it if it's a rock. 508 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Well so Ukraine built a little town on it. 509 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 No way. 510 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000 What's it called. 511 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,000 It's called. 512 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Snake town. 513 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 It's spelled bile. 514 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:28,000 I don't know if that's how it's pronounced but that's how it's spelled in English and every time I know. 515 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Yeah. 516 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Yeah. 517 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Yeah. 518 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Yeah. 519 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:41,000 There are about 100 people and it has a first aid center a post office a bank pier cell phone tower and a marine research center. 520 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Awesome. 521 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Yeah. 522 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000 And there's also a lot of military personnel on the island and they're stationed there. 523 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,000 It's like I think most of the inhabitants are military personnel. 524 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 OK. 525 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Moving ahead to present day kind of what's going on in Snake Island today. 526 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 It's got a lot of drama. 527 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:09,000 It has the newest information of what happened there is as recent as June 13th of this year which is less than a month ago. 528 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Less than two months ago. 529 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Is this regarding the war. 530 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Yes. 531 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 We're going to talk about the war. 532 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Wait a minute. 533 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Conflict. 534 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000 I did put it on here. 535 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Snake Island is 22 miles from the coast of Ukraine. 536 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 So we still did it right. 537 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Wow. 538 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,000 My estimation was amazing. 539 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Yeah. 540 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 That was just eyeballing. 541 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Eyeballing out of control. 542 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Eyeballing out of control. 543 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Two different deliveries. 544 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:43,000 So this closeness puts it in range of missiles artillery and drone strikes and it's vulnerable from attacks from all directions. 545 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Additionally its location means the Ukraine port city of Odessa could be completely controlled from the south. 546 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 From that location. 547 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:01,000 So as you can imagine it's very highly sought after if you were going to be going to war with Ukraine you'd probably want to snatch up that island. 548 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Especially if you're trying to take over Ukraine. 549 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Yeah. 550 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 So that's destroyed. 551 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 February it has a lot of story behind it. 552 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,000 It's actually I don't know if you would have heard about this but I feel like you might have. 553 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:20,000 February 24th 2022 the first day of the Russian invasion two Russian warships attacked this island. 554 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Oh I did hear about this. 555 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Okay I knew it. 556 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000 I was like there's too much good history behind this for you to have not heard it. 557 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:33,000 But they sent a transmission to the station on the island to surrender and there's a ton of details behind this. 558 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:43,000 I am going to link in my show notes the there's an article that covers everything that transpired on the island that whole day and there's a lot of heavy. 559 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Yeah a lot of information. 560 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:57,000 So the Russian transmission told the personnel on the Ukraine to surrender and they just sent back and I quote sorry for the profanity Russian warship go fuck yourself. 561 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 So sick. 562 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,000 That's so badass. 563 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000 And this response became a symbol of Ukrainian resilience and they actually made. 564 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Early on in conflict right. 565 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Yeah and they actually made a stamp that has a Ukrainian soldier giving the finger to a Russian warship. 566 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 So that was super cool. 567 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 They were shelled shortly after that. 568 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Oh yeah. 569 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Later that day the island was taken over by Russia. 570 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000 But the all the 13 men that were stationed there survived. 571 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:29,000 They were taken as prisoners of war and the president of Ukraine thought that they had died. 572 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 And so he post was it post. 573 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,000 I think that's what I had heard. 574 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Yeah. 575 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 He awarded them all. 576 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Heroes of Ukraine award or something but they were actually alive and I think at this point they've been released or at least the guy who said that who was quoted. 577 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000 But their P.O.W.s. 578 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Oh no they are released. 579 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 I'm sorry I'm following slowly. 580 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,000 It's OK. 581 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000 You got joy. 582 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Immediately Ukraine launched a operation to recapture Snake Island pretty much directly after that happened because that's bad news for Ukraine to have that island taken over. 583 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,000 And they finally succeeded in June of 2022. 584 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,000 So it's been a year a little bit over a year months. 585 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Mm hmm. 586 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:25,000 As you can imagine because the island has been under fire for so long the lighthouse has not survived all of the bombing in the lighthouse is built on top of the temple. 587 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Yeah. 588 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Was the new lighthouse built in the same place after that was what was that World War One. 589 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Oh that's crazy. 590 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000 World War One destroyed it or were too unaffected which is crazy. 591 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Just got light damages but it didn't. 592 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000 But yeah it wasn't a central key. 593 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Right. 594 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,000 And now it's gone again. 595 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Yeah. 596 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000 The only hope is that. 597 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 That's why you couldn't find photos. 598 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,000 You said you were looking for photos. 599 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Yes. 600 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,000 You couldn't find any. 601 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Yeah. 602 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:59,000 I just figured there would be some but I guess if there's like if it's like a military stronghold on for Ukraine they wouldn't take a lot of pictures of the lighthouse post them on the Internet. 603 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Yeah. 604 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:06,000 But we can only hope that when everything's over and the dust settles that the lighthouse will be rebuilt. 605 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,000 That's a dream. 606 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:16,000 But the newest info that I was talking about about this island is that Russia dropped up just a single aerial bomb on it on June 13th. 607 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000 This year. 608 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,000 2023. 609 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Yeah. 610 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,000 So there must be Ukrainian presence otherwise Russia probably wouldn't bomb their own island. 611 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Oh yeah. 612 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000 No no. 613 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Yeah. 614 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Ukraine took it back over a year ago. 615 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:33,000 And the president of Ukraine visited the island like two days before that. 616 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000 So I don't know if it was like just symbolic. 617 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Well a single bomb today can easily manage that entire landmass. 618 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,000 I mean it wouldn't destroy the island but it would destroy stuff everything on the island. 619 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Yeah. 620 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:54,000 I'm pretty sure they said that the that bile is just flunned or at least not inhabitable right now. 621 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Damn. 622 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000 That's crazy. 623 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Suckish. 624 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,000 War is pretty tough. 625 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000 War is suckish. 626 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Yeah. 627 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,000 The story is lighthouses all the time apparently. 628 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,000 I know. 629 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,000 What are they doing? 630 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 Like if you don't do it for the people do it for the lighthouse. 631 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Just end the war. 632 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Save the lighthouses end war. 633 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,000 That's my t-shirt for us. 634 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,000 Think of the lighthouses. 635 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Think of all the lighthouses that have been bombed. 636 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000 They do just get really beat up during wars. 637 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,000 It's very sad. 638 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,000 I mean there's a lot of other really valuable things that get bombed. 639 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Oh yeah like people. 640 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Terrible. 641 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Like the Sennheimer. 642 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,000 Yeah. 643 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000 It's a good reminder. 644 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Anyways save the lighthouses. 645 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Yeah save lighthouses end war or save lighthouses. 646 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,000 End war. 647 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000 So that's the latest is a single bomb. 648 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,000 Yeah that's all I got on. 649 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000 You know what that means is an exciting potential developing site. 650 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Yes. 651 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Really important. 652 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,000 Lots of people come and go. 653 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,000 Snake Island. 654 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,000 What is this about white snakes? 655 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Is it called white and called Snake Island or do we? 656 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Yeah in the Greek literature it's called Snake Island. 657 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:55,000 It's either because of the white stone on the island or the white snakes. 658 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000 Are there still white snakes? 659 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Not that I know. 660 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,000 They'll get bombed. 661 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,000 I didn't get. 662 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,000 They're all charred. 663 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Now they're black. 664 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,000 From charring. 665 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Awful. 666 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000 Yeah so kind of a bummer that it's destroyed but I do have a lot of hope. 667 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000 I can't imagine they wouldn't rebuild it. 668 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 I mean I think it's a good thing. 669 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,000 But there's nothing. 670 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Sorry. 671 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000 That's where the island goes. 672 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000 There's nothing today like significant about snakes on the island. 673 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000 No. 674 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Just the origin of the naming. 675 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,000 It's just the name. 676 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,000 It's nothing like the Brazil. 677 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,000 Nope. 678 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,000 That's what I was saying. 679 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Like it's very different because you know in Brazil Snake Island is exactly what it sounds 680 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,000 like. 681 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Snake snakes. 682 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,000 Yeah. 683 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000 And this one has no correlation to snakes whatsoever. 684 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Much less fun. 685 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,000 But isn't that crazy? 686 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 Like Achilles? 687 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 Like it's like considered as Achilles resting place. 688 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,000 Yeah. 689 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,000 That's wild. 690 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000 It's pretty wild. 691 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:52,760 In the movie Troy 2006 Achilles gets struck by an archer which I think is all I think 692 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:58,240 I assume it's based on Homer's The Iliad from what I've read struck by an archer in the 693 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:03,400 Achilles tendon which from that moment on he begins to die. 694 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,840 He becomes mortal because the legend goes he was dipped in. 695 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,840 Yeah. 696 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:10,840 I wish I knew what I was talking about. 697 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:11,840 Dipped in the river sticks. 698 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:12,840 Was it river sticks again? 699 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:13,840 Yeah. 700 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:20,600 By his mom and she held him by his heel and then his right heel I think. 701 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,240 So everything about him was somehow immortalized except for that part. 702 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:26,240 It's brutal. 703 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,240 So it goes with legend. 704 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:34,760 I also read that this kind of this temple is also kind of for his I can't remember the 705 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:35,760 name now. 706 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,440 It's like his best friend or something. 707 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,120 It's his cousin I'm pretty sure. 708 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,120 The one he dressed up in his armor. 709 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,120 He loved him. 710 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,120 Yeah. 711 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,120 Yeah. 712 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,080 And sent him off and then Troy is where he was wearing Achilles armor. 713 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,120 He wore the armor of Achilles and faced. 714 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,160 Man I really wish I'd read the book. 715 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,160 Hector. 716 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,160 Hector of Troy. 717 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,680 No his name starts with a P-H. 718 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,760 No Hector killed him in battle. 719 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:02,760 Oh right. 720 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:03,760 Yeah. 721 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:04,760 Thinking it was Achilles. 722 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,080 Okay that makes sense. 723 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:14,080 But he I think the so the movie Troy is as close as I've gotten to this but I'm pretty 724 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:24,120 sure in Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey that Troy Achilles expresses like a very deep 725 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,720 love for his cousin. 726 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:26,720 Yeah. 727 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,720 It's P-H name. 728 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,440 Yeah I know. 729 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,440 I wish I hadn't written it off. 730 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,960 I was just like Achilles Achilles Achilles. 731 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,200 And then I was like I should have mentioned the other name. 732 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,560 It was mentioned just as much. 733 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,920 It's like their resting place. 734 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,280 It's a hard name. 735 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,280 It's not like Dave. 736 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,280 Yeah. 737 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,280 Achilles and his cousin David. 738 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,280 Achilles and his cousin Dave. 739 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:47,280 Sure. 740 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,280 His name's Dave. 741 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:49,280 Jason. 742 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:50,280 That is interesting. 743 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,280 Maybe we'll revisit it. 744 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:58,080 Yeah and if you start reading The Iliad again you need to keep an eye peeled to see if they 745 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,400 talk about this island because I thought I read some of it. 746 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:01,400 I bet you they do. 747 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,720 They talk about a lot so. 748 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,760 Well cool. 749 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,880 That's what I got. 750 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,640 Hoping one day it'll be rebuilt. 751 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,080 Fingers crossed. 752 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,080 People have bigger things to worry about right now than rebuilding the lighthouse. 753 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:20,480 But one of these days when all the other problems in the world are solved I like this lighthouse 754 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,160 to be number one priority. 755 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,160 Yeah. 756 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,360 I mean there's always something going on right. 757 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,600 There's never like in my knowledge there's no even not even any recent history where 758 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:35,320 things were like everybody was worry free even in just the United States for example. 759 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,320 I don't think that's ever been a thing. 760 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,320 No. 761 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,320 Human existence. 762 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,040 But among all of that there's been lighthouses built and destroyed and rebuilt and restored 763 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:48,240 and there's a lot of good stories going on with them even today. 764 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,240 2023. 765 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,240 Yeah. 766 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,240 People dancing in front of them for money. 767 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,240 Dance for money. 768 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,240 I wish we had known that. 769 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,160 We could have recorded when we were in the Outer Banks. 770 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,160 I know. 771 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,320 So that's what I was going to say. 772 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,600 I was like maybe we can prep for next year but they're not going to have the same challenge 773 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:01,600 next year. 774 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:02,600 It's going to be something new. 775 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:03,600 So yeah we're going to be dancing. 776 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,640 It's going to be like do do your best drawing of the lighthouse and we're going to send 777 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:09,640 in a video dance. 778 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:10,640 Send us a thumbs up. 779 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,000 We're going to be dancing and shaking our booties. 780 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000 That's all. 781 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000 Thank you for listening everybody. 782 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:22,080 Make sure to go to our new website the lighthouse lowdown dot com where you can listen to all 783 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,080 of our episodes. 784 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,560 Vince and I are working on a Google map where you can. 785 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,480 Yes that has officially been started. 786 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:33,760 It's not published yet but still working on it but you can click on the lighthouses that 787 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:34,760 we've covered so far. 788 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,080 They'll have a little pin so you can see where they are because now we're starting to spread 789 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,080 out a little bit. 790 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,360 I think we're getting some good lighthouse lowdown around the world earthly coverage 791 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,440 for people to check out. 792 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:50,920 So follow us on Instagram at the lighthouse lowdown and check us out on YouTube. 793 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,120 The link actually you can watch the videos through our website as well. 794 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,720 Awesome. 795 00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:57,720 Anything else. 796 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:01,720 No we're on Spotify. 797 00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,600 Spotify is what I listen to most of my podcasts on. 798 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:05,600 We're not. 799 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:06,600 I listen to Google. 800 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:12,160 But what I was going to say is Spotify has a way to do video and maybe others do as well. 801 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,720 Emily does the publishing and all the editing. 802 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:21,960 I just do YouTube and LinkedIn but I did look into Spotify video. 803 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:26,320 I'm not sure if it's an option for us at this time but the lighthouse lowdown dot com like 804 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,440 she said has all of our videos all of our audio YouTube. 805 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,040 I will soon be catching up. 806 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:37,160 I'm up to date currently but I'm also going to put the first I think it's 19 episodes 807 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,960 before we started a YouTube. 808 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:43,120 So I'll be catching up on those as well just to slideshow it out. 809 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,120 Heck yeah. 810 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,120 Yeah that's the stuff. 811 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,120 Thank you all for listening. 812 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,520 I promise next time I'll be doing an American lighthouse and we'll see you next time on 813 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:52,520 the lighthouse. 814 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,520 Oh no. 815 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:54,520 Lowdown. 816 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:55,520 The lighthouse. 817 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:56,520 Oh no. 818 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,520 In this one you're going to be in charge. 819 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:00,520 OK. 820 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:01,520 OK. 821 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:02,520 OK. 822 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:03,520 OK. 823 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:04,520 OK. 824 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:05,520 OK. 825 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:06,520 OK. 826 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,520 OK. 827 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:08,520 OK. 828 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:09,520 OK. 829 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:10,520 OK. 830 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:11,520 OK. 831 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:12,520 OK. 832 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:13,520 OK. 833 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:14,520 OK. 834 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:15,520 OK. 835 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:16,520 OK. 836 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:17,520 OK. 837 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:18,520 OK. 838 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:19,520 OK. 839 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:20,520 OK.