Hi everybody. I'm Emily. And I'm Vince.
And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.
That was weird. What? I heard notes in our intro that I haven't heard before.
I think it's just louder. I think I adjusted the volume knob. Are you sure?
Yeah, I just turned it from 0 to 50%. Maybe it's our house.
Oh, our house? You mean the riprap studio version? We don't have a studio.
No, no. This cannot be an actual version.
Alright, we're just intermittent between studios, wandering.
We're sitting on the couch. We've got three computers open.
We're out to sea. My microphone may fall off the coffee table.
It's happened before. It's happened before to me. Has it? Yeah. Oh yeah.
The microphone fell. That's right. That's when I had just broken my foot the day.
Yeah. That was the only other couch instance that we've had.
So now this is couch number two. Always in some big event of our lives.
Yeah, you guys are along for the ride. It is, what is it? July 2nd, 2024.
Yeah. Welcome to the recording.
Which just tells how close we're cutting it, recording before it's actually posted.
Normally we're two weeks ahead, but Vince and I have been moving.
We're in our new place now, which is why the studio is not ready.
It's been a lot, which is also why I don't have a history buoy today.
Here's a history buoy. I owe an apology to our viewers on YouTube.
Oh my gosh. Because I was almost a full week behind posting the last one.
We delinquent a day on the actual podcast posts. We can't all be you.
We took damage. Our faithful listeners did not appreciate our tardiness.
So, YouTube. But yeah, that's what happens when you move.
YouTube was a week behind. So here we are. Yeah.
And Emily's the host and I'm happy to be along with the new lighthouse buoy.
The history buoy.
How long have we been doing this and you still call it something else every time?
Yeah.
Okay. So history buoy we're skipping.
And the lighthouse recovering actually probably deserves a longer episode.
I'm given, I got some good history, but I feel like a lot of the aspects of this lighthouse,
I would go into on their own episode, such as for Nell lenses and how that all started.
So, cause in episode 55 or maybe 54, we talked about.
Yeah. 54 it was Navisync the.
Navisync?
Your episode.
Yes. I lose the answers to my questions so fast.
So 54 is Navisync.
Yeah. Twin lights.
As in naval.
And so that was the first US lighthouse to have the Fresnel lens.
And so today we're talking about the first lighthouse to have a Fresnel lens total in the world forever.
Is it in France?
Yes.
Let's go.
We're going French and that should tell you that I will be pronouncing words incorrectly.
Fresnel.
And the name of this lighthouse.
I listened to a lady say it in French.
And so I'm just going to pronounce it the way that I pronounce it and someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
So the lighthouse is Cordoen lighthouse.
Cordoen.
I want to say Cordoen, but I think it's Cordoen.
It's not like.
Cordoen.
Coeur d'Alene.
Does it share any of those?
You think there's an L in there secretly?
Coeur d'Alene is.
Nevermind.
I'm probably not even saying Coeur d'Alene right.
What is the L?
It's in Idaho.
Oh.
It's beautiful.
I highly recommend visiting.
It's a town.
Coeur d'Alene.
But I think it's named after somewhere in France.
I don't think.
Oh.
The French name of a town, Coeur d'Alene is maybe it means something.
I have no idea, folks.
If anyone can tell me, that'd be appreciated.
I think you're suggesting this lighthouse had a secret L.
No.
No, I was trying to suggest that some of the pronunciation may go hand in hand.
France to France.
Anyway, this lighthouse is very exciting.
Aside from having the first frenet lens.
And the reason why it had it is why it's so exciting.
So I'll go into it.
This lighthouse is referred to as the King of Lighthouses, the lighthouse of kings, also by the Versailles of the sea, the patriarch of lighthouses, and is the oldest lighthouse in France by a ton, located in the Bay of Biscay off the west coast of France.
Biscay.
I'm just going to go out there and say that this is probably one of the most architecturally pleasing lighthouses.
No.
Yeah.
Let's see.
I'm itching to see.
I'm waiting.
Okay.
That's pretty sick.
The long pause scared me.
So I pulled up a photo.
It's pretty clear in the picture.
One, that it's got red and green in its flash pattern.
Awesome.
I love it when we use colors in our flash patterns.
And you can see pretty obviously that this lighthouse is in two parts.
One more modern than the other one.
So I'll go into both halves of the lighthouse and how that came to be.
So it was built 4.3 miles out on a rocky plateau, mostly covered in ocean.
And you can tell in this picture, too.
It seems to be out in the middle of the water, but it's actually sitting on solid ground.
It's just covered by water most of the time.
So visitors can come by at low tide and actually walk.
That is cool.
Yeah.
So like this area originally in like the eighth century or something, they started building
fire towers kind of, you know, like we covered the original light.
Yes.
Where it wasn't covered.
It was very made of fire.
There was fire and very little else.
And in the 14th century, they built their first like official fire tower, considered the first
lighthouse over here, called the Tower of the Black Prince, which is awesome.
It's a cool name.
Super cool.
And it's the first known instance in the world of lighthouse dues, which is basically like ships had to pay a lighthouse to pass by.
And so that's the first instance of that.
For what? To keep the lighthouse?
Taxes.
Yeah.
You didn't crash. You're welcome.
Give me five shillings.
But this Tower of the Black Prince eventually fell and shipwrecks started to increase, but it lasted for like a couple hundred years.
The fire tower?
Yes.
That is cool.
So it had to have been something awesome, but I couldn't find any like imagery or anything about what it looked like.
Otherwise, I definitely would have slapped it.
Yeah, the sketch would be awesome.
So construction on this new lighthouse to replace the tower started in 1584.
So we're going much further back.
Have we ever talked about the 1500s?
I don't know.
I don't know if that we have.
I don't think so either.
And this is what I was saying.
Like this is the oldest by a lot in France and it's still here.
It's just kind of insane.
It's like almost 500 years.
It's so cool.
Like Western European history.
Well, really the rest of the world keeps track of their history pretty well.
Yeah. Well, nothing falls apart.
Two hundred years ago.
Forever.
Ancient.
Actually.
Yeah. So this is a super old one and it was completed in 1611.
So there was this huge gap in when they started construction and when it was completed, that's like 30 years.
Government project.
So it was influenced by the king.
So, you know, there was a lot of turnover in rulers.
And so the king of France at the time that this was starting construction was King Henry III and he was assassinated.
So then there was another guy and then King Henry IV ruled for almost 21 years.
He is kind of the one who added a lot to the original lighthouse.
And I'll show you a picture.
There's like a drawing of what it looked like before the second half was added.
So the Henry III, King Henry III is the one who commissioned the lighthouse.
But then he was assassinated.
And then when Henry IV came into power, he was like, we got to make this lighthouse like, you know, a show of France's power.
Any European people who any traffic that comes through here should see this lighthouse and be like, oh, my gosh, France is awesome.
I'm nodding my head for those of you not in the room.
A hundred percent.
No, I mean, I know that's stupid.
But like I am smiling and nodding because in my tourism that I've been able to do several great countries of old and of new.
I assume France is still up there in the world.
Pretty powerful still.
Yeah.
Well, you know, lighthouse wise, of course, that story has been told a couple of times.
Like we need to create imposing architecture that scares people and provides a powerful image of wealth and industry.
Because it's all about what you put out there.
It's all about like this is the original Facebook smoke and mirrors for Instagram.
They had lighthouses out in the ocean.
They had amazing architecture flex.
Technically, he died one year before this lighthouse was completed, so like the end, the finishing of this lighthouse was overseen by King Louis the 13th, who was after that after him.
So King Henry the fourth, he was assassinated by time.
He. Yes.
That's true.
I didn't maybe he was killed.
I don't know. I can't remember.
Oh, I think he was killed.
So it's not assassination unless you're wearing a cloak.
Unless you're hiding first.
That's to be sneaky.
I won't bog you down.
But he was the one who added a bunch of stuff.
So this is what I talked about in the last one that there was an apartment built for the king inside the lighthouse.
So he was the one who set that up so that he would have an apartment and also added a chapel to the plants from the like how big is this thing?
It is insane.
I hope I put a picture in here to show you.
I'm not really getting any scale from this.
Because it's on the water, you can't really tell how large it is.
But hopefully some of the pictures later.
Oh, oh, like I have one at the end that shows how tall it is.
Like when you're at the top, what people look like.
And it's crazy.
Is that a first order lens that we're seeing in the image?
So those are what?
Twenty feet tall?
No, they're close to that, though.
Nine.
No, they're way bigger than a person.
Let me I mean, nine feet is bigger than a person.
I'm aware.
How tall is Simone Biles, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar?
I don't care about any of those things.
How tall is a first order Fresnel lens?
Eight feet, six inches.
I'm so good.
It's good.
Twenty feet.
What am I thinking?
I've seen some big.
There's a hyper radial lens hold the police.
You showed me some big old lenses.
I've been lied to.
Hyper radial.
That's what I get for running the YouTube.
OK, they give it to me in inches.
Come on, US.
Divided by 12.
I know.
148 divided by 12.
12 foot something.
12.
Good job.
12 and 12.33.
Yeah, 12 foot four inches.
Oh, my gosh.
You realize how much brain power it takes to do this?
How many engineers does it take?
My brain is being occupied elsewhere other than math.
I'm going to say 12 is 20.
We're good.
Move on.
Vince was right as well.
It wasn't a double digit, so we can count that.
Anyway, yes, this is a very large lighthouse.
And hopefully pictures that I show you later will show you how big that is.
This lighthouse is considered a Renaissance masterpiece.
And the design took elements from Roman mausoleums and Renaissance era cathedrals and palaces.
So very fancy.
It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but it's very fancy.
It's made of limestone blocks.
The base is 135 feet in diameter.
So this base you see in the picture that's touching the water, 135 feet.
It holds water and supply storage underneath the water line.
So normally, I mean, you can see where the water usually rises during high tide.
Usually that's under the water line.
And the ground floor was 50 feet in diameter, had four apartments for the keepers along
the walls with an extravagant entrance hall in the middle.
So it was like a donut of living space.
And the inside was like super fancy.
Center of the tower.
Yeah, like velvet and tassels.
Smoke cigars and wine.
Yeah.
The second floor was the king's apartment.
And I don't think I have pictures of that, which is a shame.
I bet they're out there, but I don't think I attached any photos for our YouTube.
The third floor was a domed chapel, very ornately decorated.
And I do have a couple of pictures of that.
Oh, this is what it looked like before the second half was added.
So you can see originally it was 100 feet tall.
That is such a cool sketch.
Yeah, I don't know if that's like an etching or something, but I'm trying to decide if
that's a sea monster in the background.
And so then I went down this big rabbit hole of when people stopped believing sea
monsters were the reason that ships didn't come back.
And the 15 to 1600s, people definitely still believed in sea monsters.
So it might be.
2024 people are still on board.
Loch Ness Monster.
Loch Nessy.
Very cool.
I love that photo.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Everyone should go check it out on our YouTube.
Shows how grand it was in the beginning.
And so some of these aspects, like a solid half, like the tall and spindly parts have
been removed and replaced with the more modern version, which modernism.
Strong word.
Yeah, because it was still.
1800s.
In mid 1800s is when it was renovated and out of that second part.
So it's pretty that that was pretty with the times to have.
I love the limestone.
Yeah, we do.
Coliseum limestone.
So here's a picture of what the chapel looks like on the inside.
Isn't that crazy?
How do you fit that inside of a lighthouse?
So this picture really shows how big this lighthouse is that this is just like one wall
of the inside of a chapel.
It's got to be a wide angle lens, right?
It's got to be like a fish.
Maybe.
Yeah, because that this little great thing in the middle kind of is got that vibe.
Either way, that's super neat.
Put a picture up there of the domed chapel top.
Very cool.
Blue is a royal color in history.
Little remnants of that paint left.
So cool.
I would love to go see it.
And you can.
And I'll talk about that.
Nice.
Also surprising.
I know.
Above this domed chapel was a secondary lantern and then the lantern itself.
I think originally, obviously, that was like a backup lantern in case like fire went out
or something.
Don't hit my house.
Yeah.
What?
You don't want a ship to hit your apartment.
Oh, that was pretty pretty high up.
I don't know.
You got a wide base to stave off like, OK, but if you're on an apartment on a lighthouse
and any part of the lighthouse below you gets impacted by a ship, it wouldn't be good.
What is it called?
The long thing at the end of a ship?
Both spirit, both both.
Sprite.
It's not pronounced that way.
Anyway, that could stab into the king's apartment, but it hasn't.
OK.
Originally, this lighthouse was lit by burning oak chips and a metal canister, and it was
close to 100 feet above sea level.
So not quite 100 feet.
1782.
So that that was there for a solid hundred and hundred and seventy years.
It's so cool.
In 1782, parabolic reflectors were added, but the lighthouse was in bad shape and sailors
complained that it wasn't tall enough.
So the extension started in the same year.
So I lied.
It was renovated in the mid eighteen hundreds, but the extension happened late seventeen
hundreds.
OK.
So here's a picture of what the plan basically was.
You can still see this domed chapel in the middle.
And then on top of that, they added these more modern layers of the lighthouse.
The Kubell is over 200 feet off the water.
Yeah, it is impressive focal plane of one hundred and ninety eight for people.
That's an incredible architecture.
Is that amazing?
And I love how they just added on to it.
They weren't like, hey, let's just flatten this and make a different one.
That would have been so sad.
So what do you know what's below the water line here?
You said the storage tanks?
Yeah, it's water and some like supply stuff.
Fresh water must be.
Oh, yeah.
Like cisterns kind of.
Yeah.
Incredible.
Yeah.
So this extension doubled the height of the tower and the new floors are much more simple,
which you can see in a photo.
In 1790, Argon lamps were added and rotated on a machine built by a watchmaker in France.
And I think this was also the beginning of.
I mean, it's early on.
Yeah, I thought that was the beginning of rotating lens in general clock.
I mean, clockwork, right?
Built by a watchmaker, which I think is so cool.
Imagine how much fun, in my opinion, it would be to scale up your tiny, tiny little watch mechanisms.
Oh, it'd be so exciting.
Big, beastly lighthouse.
That would be so cool.
I feel like it would be fun if you had a trade that you did the same thing all the time to do something way like outside of your comfort zone.
Yeah.
Just be like, let's see if I have the skill for this.
Can you imagine the pressure?
Oh, making sure all your math is right.
Yeah, this is supposed to be like the lighthouse of France.
You were going to be known as.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm glad that I don't have to say and it failed.
And the fuel when he did this was a mixture of olive oil, whale oil and rapeseed oil.
So that's like a very strange a mixture.
Yeah, rapeseed oil is now referred to as something else.
Really?
Yeah, people didn't like that name.
Oh, I feel uncomfortable saying it.
Canola oil or vegetable oil?
Oldest, oldest, no, oldest, no, vegetable.
I'm just going to go with it.
Oh, canola oil, canola oil.
Yes, that's what it's been renamed.
It's under a category of Reddit ultra processed food.
Yeah.
And I've heard talk about how it was a lubricant for machinery.
No way.
A fuel oil and now we put it on our food, which is probably not great for us.
Yeah.
But cool, neat.
Get a taste of lighthouse history.
I know.
Have some canola oil.
Canola oil is history, lighthouse history.
After this, the first fornellens in the world was installed in 1823.
And that's what I was saying I would cover in a new episode.
I was going to put it all in this one.
I was like, why not?
We'll just.
Two-parter?
Have some fun.
Yeah, it may be.
Or just another feature someday.
It because the story is very interesting.
I will not jump too far into it, but holy cow.
Relight my interest.
I'm going to ignite your.
No, I can't.
You're going to keep my interest.
Keep.
Keep her.
So this was the first lighthouse in the entire world to have a fornellens.
That's really neat.
Very exciting.
Well, it's quite the lighthouse too.
I'm surprised that it has the ornate architecture that does as well as the first fornellens.
Well, yeah, it was like influential in a lot of ways.
So I guess that makes sense in 1855.
It was renovated because it was taking some damage in 1862.
It became a historical monument, like officially.
And this is the exact same time as Notre Dame.
Wow, isn't it?
Like the little bits of history, the big things that everybody knows, like if we weren't into
lighthouses, everyone would know about the Notre Dame.
Notre Dame.
Is that?
No, it's Notre Dame.
Oh, or something like that.
Us here in America, we have a school called Notre Dame, which is, I'm sure ill pronounced
from Notre Dame or the original pronunciation of that institution.
The bells, bells, bells, bells.
Or maybe they're totally different.
I'm just wrong.
Who knows?
We don't know.
Pronunciation is our weakness on this podcast.
I didn't do any research for this one.
If it doesn't.
If I just built some confidence and just said this is how it's pronounced.
Franal.
And you can't change my mind.
For those of you that aren't familiar, early on in the show, as we were learning from each
other in the internet, we thought it was pronounced franal lens.
And it might still be.
Some people argue that it is.
Others say franel, which I think I'm going to go with sounds more.
Franel.
Classy.
I really have seen just about every pronunciation out there.
Fresnal.
Different lighthouse websites will say pronounced this, and it's different than what I've seen
on a different lighthouse website that says pronounced this.
You know where I got locked in?
Where?
We went on our trip to the Outer Banks.
Yeah.
And we were at Okra Coke.
Big fat stub.
The cigar.
Big fat stub.
And that gentleman, I can't remember his name now.
I know he named him.
Oh no, yeah.
I think I have it in my notes somewhere.
But he was giving a tour and we were recording.
Park Ranger.
We were recording there, by the way.
We recorded at the base of the lighthouse.
Oh, front.
And it was humid and hot and there were bugs.
So we did that.
But he pronounced Fresnel.
And I was like, I liked it.
Yeah, I was like.
We latched on.
Yeah.
Finally.
We're like, this guy is our god.
I don't know about that.
I know, I'm just joking.
But we decided at that moment that that was how it was pronounced.
Fresnel.
We didn't even really do any backup research.
Somebody can tell us that we're wrong.
But at this point, we've changed.
We're just part of the year now.
One too many.
Anyway.
So yeah, that's how it is.
We're just part of the year now.
Anyway.
So yeah, that's where that came from.
Before it was a historical monument, the original lens was replaced with the current Fresnel
lens in 1854.
We're talking.
But the Fresnel lens that's up there right now has been there since 1854.
What?
It was installed 100 years before World War II.
Oh.
So this is 170 years ago.
It's so crazy.
Currently, the light characteristic is one I haven't seen before.
And it's it changes depending on where you're positioned around the lighthouse, which normally
I would say makes it a range lens.
But I didn't really see any like descriptions.
Yeah.
Full spin.
You can see it from all sides, but if you see in a photo like harsh, the part of the
window panes are red.
So it's not the actual Fresnel lens that has colored panes.
It's the actual like outside of the lighthouse.
About maybe a quarter of it is red.
And then on the opposite side of that, it's green everywhere else.
It's clear glass.
And yeah, that matches now forgotten port and starboard.
Oh, yeah.
We talked about this once, the orientation of red and green lights on both aircraft and
sea craft.
We got to revisit that.
Maybe that'll be a lighthouse buoy.
We did a history buoy on that.
We're just not very good at remembering.
We can revisit things.
It's good to refresh.
Another history buoy.
Double up.
But the current light characteristic is an occulting white, red, green every 12 seconds.
So oh, cool.
It depends on where you're standing.
What order those colors are in.
Lighthouse got electricity in 1948 and was fully automated in 2006, though keepers are
still employed there two at a time to keep the light because they're constantly doing
maintenance on it.
Because it's like, let's face it, if you're not constantly fixing stuff, it will eventually
become run down.
Oh, yeah, that's enough to keep people busy.
This place, they can't let it do that.
It's a national monument.
And as of 2021, it's a world heritage site, which means it's culturally significant.
So they really have to upkeep it.
So that's why people are there all the time.
That also makes it the last inhabited lighthouse in France.
And they have a Facebook page that you can keep up with.
No way they have Wi-Fi out there.
I don't know.
They must, I guess.
Oh, satellite, I'm sure.
What am I looking at right now?
That's the inside of the Fresnel lens.
These plates are what makes it occulting.
So it's like...
Blocks the light.
Yeah, moments of darkness.
So it's pretty neat.
Something we haven't seen before.
So the red and the green is kind of like reflecting on the outside of the Fresnel lens.
Very cool photo.
A lot of these are from the World Heritage Site, which I've put in my show notes as a
reference so you guys can take a look at those.
This might have to be the back cover.
You're not going to put this super cool lighthouse?
There's so many cool images in this.
If you're not on YouTube now, you can go and it'll allow you to jump image to image as
you choose.
Oh, that's nice.
But pretty cool.
So the keepers that are here, they replace each other in pairs every Friday, depending
on the tide.
So how the weather like, or what time on a Friday, or if the weather's bad, you know,
they'll hold off.
But it's usually they in pairs, they switch out every Friday.
They ensure normal maintenance of the lighthouse and basically guard the monument, prevent
vandalism and looting, which apparently was a problem.
And they receive and give information to visitors during the tourist season and participate
in environmental monitoring of the rocky plateau that it's on.
Plateau.
That's quite a diverse job.
Today it's open to the public to visit and climb.
You have to take a boat 30 minutes to it.
And there's a couple of companies that do this.
So they're like set.
You can also take your own boat.
But I think it's kind of complicated because the plateau, it's like rocky.
Yeah, you can't get too close and it's not like there's a dock or anything.
And from there, it may be physically demanding to climb the light.
Occasionally visitors can only be dropped off a 20 minute walk away.
So you have to walk over slippery rock.
Oh, depending on tide.
Yeah, sometimes knee deep in water to get to the lighthouse.
That's cool.
I know.
So adventurous.
I want to do it when it's hard to go.
And once you get there, it's 301 steps up to the top of the light.
So it's got to be training.
You definitely have to be ready.
You have to wear the right shoes, the right pants and look at this picture.
This is the first off.
We're jumping.
I love the limestone.
It's my favorite lighthouse finish I've ever seen.
Hands down.
And all the like balcony and all the like the windows are architectural ornate.
Lots of stained glass.
We love stained glass.
Look at the architecture.
The carving is incredible.
For me, I don't know what it is.
OK, so there's the walk.
This picture you can see how tall this lighthouse is.
You like in its shadow.
There's the path that people are walking up tiny.
Petit.
Sorry.
Oh, no.
Well, just this picture is taken from the top of the lighthouse.
You can see people are just like little ants down there.
That is cool.
Just crazy.
We have to go to France.
I know we're gonna have to go.
There's no other option.
This is also maybe not.
I was gonna say this is kind of a younger person's.
It's not easily accessed, we'll say.
But I've seen like doesn't comply with the American Disability Act, ABA.
Oh, well, we should tell them.
I think this would be a super awesome trip to go to because it's not like this lighthouse
is off in the middle of nowhere for miles and then you have to take a boat and then
you have to walk to the lighthouse.
It's like this is a hubbub that in the lighthouse is just outside.
It's very exciting.
Really cool.
They also have a YouTube so you can watch some details about their constant restoration
efforts and like all the stuff they do at the lighthouse.
They have cool videos of it so I'm gonna link that in the show notes as well so you guys
can take a look at how neat this lighthouse is.
It's just like so historical.
You know, they all are but this one's fancy.
Bridgerton style.
Well, I was thinking about the Fresnel lens.
We talked about how it's first order.
It's roughly nine feet tall.
So about 10 feet is about a story tall.
Yeah.
So if you go back to that, you don't have to but if you listeners want to go back to
the original image of the whole lighthouse, scale that out.
We're engineers who like to do a known scale in a drawing.
Scale it out.
That is 10, it's 200 feet tall so it's 20 stories theoretically.
It's crazy.
It doesn't look like that from far away.
It's really, well, so I didn't include the photo that I wanted to include that showed
kind of the scale because I'll send it to you so maybe you can put it in the YouTube.
But basically it's just a view of like some staircase that you can come out on top of
the donut shape where the keepers stayed.
And it's just crazy how tiny it's a whole keepers quarters and it just looks so small
compared to like the wall of the lighthouse that you're standing next to.
I don't know.
It's wild.
Have you seen any images or description of the modern living state there for the two
keepers?
Modern living?
Like are they living?
Do they have Netflix in there?
I haven't watched all the videos so they probably cover...
Listening to the lighthouse low down on YouTube.
I'm sure they stay in the keepers quarters because that's what they're made for but...
The most similar and it's quite different but the most similar lighthouse I can think
of at the time is Standard Rock where they're talking about taking the isolated lighthouse
that's on...
Which lake is that?
Lake Superior?
Right?
I think so.
And they're doing the renovations.
Carl Lindquist, Fred Stonehouse we talked to, doing renovations to make that livable keepers
quarters and a research facility.
So people can stay out there.
And it's in the middle of Lake Superior so it's...
Go listen to the episode.
But Carl talked to us about how they can collect weather data from out there that's highly
unique and I think that one's only 50, 60 feet tall.
Yeah, not even close to the size of this one.
Yeah.
Very different layout but the fact that it's isolated, it's on its own plot.
While they construct it all the way out in the water like that, 4.3 miles.
The air quality has got to be great out there.
It's got to just smell like salt and freedom.
Super neat.
Yeah, so that's core the one.
I'm sure I'm saying it wrong but hey, hey, don't laugh.
You don't know.
I don't know.
You don't know what I'm going through.
I don't know anything.
I'm just the co-host of the lighthouse.
Slow down.
I am also losing confidence.
I need to build back up my confidence.
That's how it's pronounced.
All right?
No doubt about it.
Positive self-talk.
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