The Real Story of Pocahontas You Never Heard! | Boring History For Sleep

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Hey, my sleepy Circle crew. 
Tonight we're exploring the life

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of Pocahontas. 
A woman whose story has been 

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told in, Legend in myth and in 
history, but rarely and full. 

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Born around 1596 as the daughter
of Powhatan, a powerful leader 

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of the Algonquian peoples, 
Pocahontas lived at the 

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crossroads of Two Worlds. 
Her encounters with the English 

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colonists, most famously, John 
Smith, sparked stories, that 

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blurred fact, and fiction. 
So, before we dive in, take a 

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you. 
Now dim the lights, maybe 

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Imagine The Quiet Ripple of 
water against a canoe or the 

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hush of leaves in the evening 
Breeze. 

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Friends. 
We're going back more than 400 

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years to meet a young girl who 
would have a profound impact on 

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American history. 
The interesting part of our 

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story is that almost everything 
you believe, you know about her 

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is likely incorrect. 
Of course, you've heard of 

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Pocahontas. 
Everybody has However, her name 

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was not really that. 
How many which translates to 

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little Mischief in her native 
power time language was her true

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name and believe me when I say 
that she immediately lived up to

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that moniker. 
She was born in, what is now 

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Virginia in 1596? 
Her father was Chief wounds in a

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car that everyone called him 
Chief power tan because to be 

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honest his real name was too 
long even for his own people. 

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Now picture yourself as the 
daughter of a chief in a world 

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where your father ruled over, 30
tribes and about 15,000 people. 

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It's like being the child of the
president, the governor and the 

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mayor combined Amory, however, 
was no ordinary spoiled 

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princess. 
Who sat around munching on 

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grapes. 
Oh, no, she was actually getting

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her hands, dirty out there. 
The Tidy suburban community. 

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You may imagine, when you think 
of home when nothing, like the 

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pool Hayden world through 
Forest, so dense that sunlight 

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hardly reached the ground, these
vast Villages were connected by 

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well, traveled paths. 
In a forest where you would get 

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lost, trying to find your car 
keys, but these people knew 

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every tree stream and hiding 
place as well as you do the 

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rooms in your home. 
Amanita to this world like a 

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sponge. 
She already showed signs of 

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being what we might politely 
call spirited the type of child 

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who would sneak out of the long 
house to go exploring when she 

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was supposed to be helping with 
dinner preparations or climb the

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tallest tree, just to see what 
was on the other side of the 

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Hill. 
While the kids her age were 

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learning to weave baskets and 
ten crops you would find the way

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of life of her father's people 
to be both remarkably alien and 

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oddly familiar. 
That politics, a lot of them. 

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The Powhatan Confederacy, 
resembled a sophisticated 

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neighborhood association, but in
fighting over lawn care, they 

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were settling territorial 
disputes and negotiating trade 

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agreements. 
Chief per Harten was effectively

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in charge of a small country. 
Complete with all the hassles 

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that came with juggling, 
conflicting, interests, 

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personalities, and the 
occasional neighboring tribe, 

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that felt they could just walk 
in and take over little. 

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Amen. 
Ute was in the midst of all of 

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this, keeping a close eye on 
everything and not missing 

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anything. 
Before she could pronounce the 

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word correctly, she was studying
statecraft. 

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You know, how some children, 
even when adults, believe they 

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are being subtle, have an 
amazing ability to pick up on 

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every Nuance of adult 
conversations. 

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How many was doing just that she
was also learning to read the 

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political Winds of a whole 
Confederation of tribes being 

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the daughter of the chief meant 
that everyone expected you to do

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great things. 
But no one knew exactly what 

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those great things should 
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Boys had clear careers. 
They would either be Hunters 

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Warriors or if they were 
fortunate and intelligent 

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political leaders But girls were
making their own rules, 

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especially girls, like ammonoid,
who had a special combination of

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intelligence curiosity and a 
total disregard for staying out 

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of trouble. 
How many was known for her 

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ability to charm her way out of 
nearly any predicament by the 

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time she was 10 or 11 years old.
Imagine the type of child, who, 

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when Court exploring the 
basement during lunch, could 

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persuade the principal of the 
school that she was in fact, 

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conducting educational research.
That was ammun. 

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She was interacting with tribal 
Elders who had been around long 

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enough to recognize most ploys 
rather than a principal. 

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What set her apart though was 
more than just her charm or 

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intelligence. 
She was innately able to see 

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connections that others fail to 
notice. 

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Amin could see complex 
situations and find Solutions, 

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no one else had considered much 
like a person who can quickly 

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identify, where the odd shaped 
piece goes in, a jigsaw puzzle. 

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Nobody could have predicted how 
crucial, this specific set of 

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skills would become You know how
it feels to be going about your 

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day as usual. 
Perhaps reading a book or doing 

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some yard work and something 
totally out of the blue occurs 

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and Alters everything. 
Patch you run into someone you 

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haven't seen in 20 years or the 
phone rings with news, that 

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could change your life that 
time, however, came for amen 

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Ute, and her people in the 
spring of 1607 and it showed up 

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as three ships that appeared on 
the horizon like something from 

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a fever dream. 
Imagine waking up one morning at

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the age of 11 to find that 
aliens have landed in your 

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backyard. 
Not the spooky aliens from 

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movies, but the ungainly of the 
lost and most likely harmless 

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kind. 
That's about what happened. 

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When 104 English colonists 
arrived on the shores of the 

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Chesapeake Bay, surveyed, the 
mosquito infested swamp land and

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concluded that the area would be
ideal for establishing a 

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settlement. 
The power time people likely had

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a few other names for their new 
home. 

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Most of which would not be 
suitable for bedtime reading, 

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but the English named it James 
town after King James. 

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The first Because let's face it,
would you really pick a swampy 

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island with dirty water hostile 
mosquitoes and soil that 

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appeared to have lost all life 
as a place to establish a new 

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town. 
However there they were pale 

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strangely dressed strangers, 
unpacking their things as if 

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they had recently moved into the
area. 

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Chief paulato was no idiot. 
Now, having been in charge of 

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his Confederacy for decades, he 
had witnessed his fair share of 

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strange situations 
unanticipated, guests, an 

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individuals who were obviously 
inexperienced. 

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His attitude toward the English 
was similar to that of a patient

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neighbor observing someone 
attempt to put together Ikea 

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furniture without first reading 
the instructions. 

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Curious a little amused but also
wondering when they would have 

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eventually ask for assistance. 
Hammer new, who's 11 years old 

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and inherently interested in 
anything novel and possibly 

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thrilling found these odd 
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They wore more layers of clothes
than seemed practically 

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necessary for the Virginia 
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She had never seen and had pale 
skin that burned in the Sun. 

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She loved puzzles, and they were
like walking puzzles. 

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However, what was most 
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English colonists was not how 
they looked, but rather, how 

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utterly unprepared they were for
well, everything These were 

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individuals who somehow 
persuaded themselves that they 

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could arrive in a foreign 
country and start discovering 

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gold strewn about like spare 
change. 

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It seems that no one had 
considered bringing anyone who 

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truly knew how to grow food or 
construct House's that wouldn't 

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collapse in the first strong 
wind wind. 

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Despite the fact that they had 
packed a ton of expensive 

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clothing and weapons. 
It was similar to watching your 

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city cousins, attempt camping, 
but in stead of spending a 

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weekend in the woods, they were 
planning to stay forever and 

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they had forgotten how to 
survive rather than where the 

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Canon was. 
One of the colonists leaders was

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a man by the name of John Smith 
historians, take some of Smith's

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stories with a grain of salt, 
the size of a dinner roll 

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because Smith was the type of 
person who would later write 

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extremely detailed accounts of 
his adventures. 

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If you've ever known someone who
tells really great stories that 

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get a little better every time 
they tell them the understand 

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why. 
Smith's later writings that he 

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met a Manute. 
When he was taken prisoner on 

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one of his exploration trips 
back in England, he told a very 

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dramatic story about how young 
Pocahontas, he used her nickname

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threw herself across his body to
save his life just as he was 

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about to be executed. 
Although it is a romantic story 

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that has served as the basis for
innumerable novels and films. 

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The real world was likely far 
more ordinary and fascinating 

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most likely Smith misinterpreted
presence during a formal 

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ceremony, which could have been 
an adoption ritual. 

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Imagine assuming the bride and 
groomer in trouble because 

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everyone appears so serious 
during a wedding ceremony from a

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different culture without 
knowing what's happening. 

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That was most likely Smith 
standing there feeling as though

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he was going to die while being 
accepted into the community. 

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How many most likely found the 
entire scene to be both amusing 

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and fascinating at the same 
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This adult man was obviously 
afraid of a ceremony That was 

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supposed to be helpful to him 
and he was totally unaware of 

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the significance of everything 
that was going on around him. 

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She was already learning that 
the ability to translate not 

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just words, but entire world 
views is sometimes the most 

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crucial competency when 
interacting with people from 

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diverse cultural backgrounds. 
And the most significant event 

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in her early life was going to 
be that ability that innate 

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talent for recognizing 
connections and creating Bridges

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between other worlds. 
You may be wondering how an 11 

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year old girl became one of the 
most significant diplomats in 

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history as you settle into your 
cozy, spot for tonight's 

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chapter. 
So grab that hot beverage and 

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prepare yourself for a tale of a
person who learned to speak two 

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languages that were not simply 
Powhatan and English but rather 

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the languages of two completely 
different worldviews. 

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Anyone who has ever been the 
only person in a room who can 

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understand both sides of an 
argument will recognize a new 

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situation after her initial 
meeting with John Smith. 

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You know how it feels when your 
friend is upset with your other 

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friend and you hear both of 
their points of view, only to 

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discover that their anger is 
about entirely different things.

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That was amen. 
Utes life except the two 

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civilizations survival was at 
stake, rather than a friend's 

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drama. 
If they weren't so, desperate, 

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the English colonists struggles 
would almost be humorous. 

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Imagine a tempting to cultivate 
a garden without ever seeing a 

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seed Sprout or building a house 
without ever holding a hammer. 

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Like people who arrive at a 
beach expecting to find a 

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shopping mall. 
These individuals had traveled 

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to Virginia, expecting to find 
cities teeming with gold. 

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They were put in the awkward 
situation of needing assistance 

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from the very people. 
They had thought would be 

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impressed by their Superior 
European ways when reality set 

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in How many started going to 
James Town on a regular basis 

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and her presence, there was like
having a professional 

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interpreter at a multilingual 
meeting. 

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She did a lot of literal 
translation that she also 

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translated expectations 
traditions and entire ways of 

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thinking. 
She could explain that the 

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English probably didn't mean to 
come across as rude or menacing 

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to her people. 
She could explain the rationale 

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behind her people's actions to 
the English when they did 

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something that scared or 
perplexed them, that she was 

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developing into, what we might 
refer to as a cultural 

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interpreter, but she was doing 
it naturally much. 

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Like some people are born 
musicians or athletes. 

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She understood the reasons 
behind each side's reactions and

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more crucially how to facilitate
Mutual understanding. 

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This work wasn't simple. 
Consider yourself. 

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Constantly caught between two, 
groups of people who both 

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believe they are. 
Correct about everything and who

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continue to turn to you for 
solutions to issues that seem to

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be growing more complex by the 
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Because they continue to try to 
grow crops that weren't suitable

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for Virginia soil, and because 
they had brought along more 

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gentleman and Farmers, the 
English were always running out 

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of food. 
The Powhatan people were growing

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more and more irritated with 
their neighbor's who seem to 

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believe that borrowing, food and
supplies without asking was 

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okay. 
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quality that most diplomats 
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She truly liked people even when
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She admired, the English 
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even when it took them in 
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and found their errors, more 
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However, she could also 
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annoyed by these odd. 
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understand common sense or basic
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realistic approach to diplomacy,
she would bring food to James 

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Town when people were hungry or 
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where both parties could 
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rather than assuming things in 
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and drawn out speeches. 
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common ground in unexpected 
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tension. 
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both the Powhatan and the 
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games, and showcasing their 
abilities, she would therefore 

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plan storytelling sessions, or 
contests in place of official, 

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diplomatic Gathering so that 
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another as Unique Individuals 
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of intimidating, foreign 
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someone laughed at a funny joke,
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you do, it's difficult to 
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Afraid of them Pocahontas, which
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Perth, was the name, the English
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moniker that reflected both her 
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to issues and her ability to 
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situations. 
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remind people that they had more
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much like a person who can make 
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laugh together by telling the 
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At the right time, she was vital
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the time she was 13. 
The poppet people needed her to 

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help them deal with these 
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permanent new neighbors and the 
English needed her to help them 

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understand how to live in 
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Imagine what it would be like to
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Torn Between Two Worlds each 
with its own set of rules, 

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expectations and ideals for you 
as you become more comfortable 

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in your evening attire. 
Growing up for aminu meant 

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negotiating. 
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relationship between her people 
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addition to the typical 
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The situation at Jamestown had 
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Funny to actually dangerous by 
1609 when she was around 13. 

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The colonists had to endure, 
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The starving time a severe 
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tree bark, and shoe leather in 
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It was similar to witnessing 
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most Dreadful camping, trip, 
imaginable. 

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Only in stead of being able to 
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too tough. 
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position of being a teenager and
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distinct societies. 
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being asked for your opinion on 
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adults from two different 
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Most adults would be overwhelmed
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but she managed it with a sense 
of humor and wisdom that seemed 

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well beyond her years. 
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the English had grown more 
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problem that would be difficult 
for any leader to handle. 

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How do you deal with neighbors? 
Who consistently take more than 

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they give who don't seem to 
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reciprocity, and who keep making
promises. 

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They can't or won't keep. 
It was similar to having house 

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guests who had stayed for years 
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though, not in the way, the 
Disney films would have, you 

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believe something happened 
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That would forever alter 
ammonites life She was taken, 

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prisoner by English colonists 
and 1613 when she was around 17 

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with the intention of using her 
as a bargaining chip with her 

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father. 
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conjures up images for dramatic 
chase scene, the truth was 

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likely more akin to being duped 
by people, she trusted a 

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betrayal that must have been 
like learning that friends you'd

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supported during adversity, had 
been plotting to take advantage 

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of you all along. 
She was brought by the English 

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to a community known as 
henricus, where they intended to

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detain her until Chief her 
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Didn't spend her time in 
captivity planning, retaliation,

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or longing, for her Freedom. 
Which is where the story takes 

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an interesting turn. 
Rather, she began constructing 

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Bridges. 
As she had always done, 

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Aleksander Whittaker an English 
Minister. 

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She met at Henry kiss was tasked
with converting her to 

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Christianity. 
In reality, it was more akin to 

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lengthy philosophical debate 
between two, highly intelligent 

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individuals with diametrically 
opposed worldviews. 

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Whittaker was confronted by a 
young woman who questioned 

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preconceptions asked insightful 
questions and approached 

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Christianity. 
With the same curiosity, she had

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always shown in learning about 
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This point. 
Our Story begins to resemble a 

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romantic comedy. 
Albeit one with far greater 

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stakes and a lot more cultural 
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She also met a tobacco farmer 
named John Rolfe was a widower a

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businessman and a man who 
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contemplating tobacco plants. 
He was not the handsome hero of 

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movie fantasies. 
In addition, he had a sincere 

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desire to comprehend a new to 
the human being rather than just

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as a political figure or symbol,
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like a friendship that 
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something more Rolfe was one of 
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treated, amen. 
As an equal rather than an 

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exotic curiosity who genuinely 
listened, when she spoke and who

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inquired about her culture with 
without passing judgment. 

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Finding someone who was prepared
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been, like, finding a cozy chair
after years of standing as the 

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link between two worlds. 
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than a straightforward tale of 
love, how many was faced with a 

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decision that would shape the 
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She could attempt to return to 
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Give the growing hostility 
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English, well, she could 
dedicate herself to creating 

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something new. 
That incorporated, the best 

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aspects of Both Worlds, she'd 
learned to appreciate, she made 

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her choice in 1614, she became a
Christian changed. 

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Her name to Rebecca and wedge, 
John Rolfe, in the first known 

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interracial Union in American 
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Politically speaking, the 
marriage established, a formal 

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alliance between the English and
the power town, which resulted 

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in years of Peace in the area. 
More than that, though, it was a

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decision that reflected who she 
had grown into someone who 

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thought that into cultural 
understanding, was not only 

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feasible but also necessary. 
Imagine an 18 year old woman who

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had just made one of the most 
important choices in early 

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American history as you delve 
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Although the term America 
wouldn't be coined for another 

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150 years. 
Amen. 

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It was essentially creating a 
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she changed her name to Rebecca 
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A union with John Rolfe, brought
about what historians refer to 

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as the piece of Pocahontas. 
A period of time during which 

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the Powhatan Confederacy, and 
the English colonists were able 

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to live side by side without 
Perpetual hostilities, the 

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stakes were the survival of 
entire communities, so it was 

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similar to finally, bringing 
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lines and noise levels. 
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concentrate on building, rather 
than defending for the first 

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time since the arrival of the 
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Rebecca threw herself into this 
new life with the same Vigor. 

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She had always used to tackle 
challenging issues. 

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It was probably like learning to
play a completely different 

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sport with completely different 
rules when she learned how to 

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manage a household in the 
English way. 

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She was now running a colonial 
farmhouse in place of the 

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communal long House's where she 
had been raised. 

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She was dealing with the very 
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family rather than shared 
responsibilities dispersed 

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throughout an extended family 
Network. 

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She contributed to the creation 
of something. 

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Completely new though, rather 
than merely a simulating into 

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English culture. 
Powhatan and English Traditions 

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merged in her home in ways. 
That benefited everyone. 

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She raised her son, Thomas born 
in 1615 to be at home in both 

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worlds. 
Served corn alongside English 

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bred and used indigenous plants 
for medicine while also learning

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European cures. 
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individuals to be born into a 
truly bicultural, family, Thomas

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Roth, exemplifies something 
extraordinary in American 

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history. 
He would grow up understanding 

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that having multiple identities 
was a strength to be celebrated 

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rather than a problem to be 
solved. 

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He came to view. 
Cultural differences as chances 

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for growth, rather than causes 
for contention. 

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As a result of Rebecca's 
influence. 

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In the meantime, John Rolfe, 
tobacco experiments were 

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yielding impressive results. 
By 1617 tobacco was starting to 

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become the colonies. 
First significant source of 

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income, he had been working to 
create tobacco strains. 

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That would thrive in Virginia 
soil and satisfy European 

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pallets. 
The establishment of long-term 

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economic ties between her people
in the English may have seemed 

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like a side note to Rebecca's 
story but it was actually 

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essential to everything. 
She had been striving for 

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Rebecca. 
Saw what many others did not 

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mutual benefit not just 
tolerance is typically necessary

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for enduring peace between 
communities. 

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The tobacco industry produced 
Financial incentives for 

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collaboration providing both 
parties with realistic 

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justifications to uphold 
mutually beneficial 

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Partnerships. 
It was similar to discovering a 

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profitable business venture that
simultaneously resolved a 

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political issue in colonial 
circles Rebecca had gained some 

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notoriety by 1616. 
Both sides of the Atlantic were 

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captivated by tales of the 
Indian, princess who despite 

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their exaggerated nature and 
saved John Smith. 

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And subsequently weden 
Englishmen she was viewed by the

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Virginia Company. 
Which Was constantly searching 

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for methods to draw in more 
colonists and investors as the 

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ideal spokesperson for the 
success of their colonial, 

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Endeavor in part as 
distinguished visitors. 

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And in part as tangible evidence
that the colonial experiment was

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successful. 
They invited Rebecca, and John 

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to come to England. 
Rebecca saw this invitation as 

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an amazing opportunity to visit 
the country of the people. 

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She'd been working with for 
almost 10 years and perhaps to 

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speak directly to English 
authorities about treating. 

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Her father's people fairly She 
had no idea what the trip to 

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England would be like one of the
biggest cities in the world in 

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1616. 
London was a place of both 

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extreme wealth and debilitating,
poverty, Grand architecture and 

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foul. 
Odors sophisticated culture and 

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cruel entertainment. 
Walking through, London must 

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have felt like visiting an alien
planet to someone who had grown 

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up in Virginia's forests. 
However, Rebecca adjusted to 

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London Society with the same 
Poise that she had displayed in 

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each of her previous difficult 
circumstances. 

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She attended Court of events met
with Nobles and Enchanted 

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everyone with her intelligence 
dignity and innate ability to 

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negotiate. 
She became the first Native 

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American to be welcomed as a 
guest of honor by English 

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royalty when she was introduced 
to King James, the first and 

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Queen Anne. 
More significantly. 

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She made use of her time in 
England, to tell her people's 

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story. 
Not the idealized one that 

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English audiences desire to 
hear. 

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But the truth about a civilized 
society, deserving of dignity 

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and Justice, she discussed the 
agricultural Innovations, the 

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intricate political structure of
the Powhatan Confederacy, and 

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their aspiration for peaceful, 
coexistence, with their English 

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Neighbors. 
The establishment of true 

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understanding between people's 
who had initially viewed. 

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One another as incomprehensibly 
foreign was in a sense, the 

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result of everything Rebecca had
been striving for since she was 

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11 years old. 
She had turned into a living 

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example of how such 
comprehension was not only 

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feasible, but also had the 
potential to serve as the 

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Cornerstone of enduring Harmony 
and shared prosperity. 

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Call yourself another cup of tea
and settle in for what may be 

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the most moving part of 
Rebecca's story as we draw to a 

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close, our evening journey 
together. 

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00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,700
Because sometimes rather than on
either side, those who dedicate 

464
00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:31,800
their lives to constructing 
Bridges Between Worlds, find 

465
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,900
that they are most at home in 
the crossing itself. 

466
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,500
Anyone who has ever felt torn 
between two different versions 

467
00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:40,200
of themselves. 
Will recognize Rebecca's time in

468
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,600
London as both triumphant and 
difficult. 

469
00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:46,700
She was held as evidence of the 
success of English colonialism, 

470
00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:50,800
hailed as an exotic princess and
admired as a Christian convert. 

471
00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:55,400
However, she was also exhausted 
homesick and becoming more. 

472
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,500
Conscious of how little the 
England she was seeing resembled

473
00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:00,700
the impoverished town. 
She had left behind in Virginia.

474
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,600
During her months in London, she
ran into John Smith, once more, 

475
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,800
the same, John Smith who had 
made her famous with his 

476
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,000
dramatic rescue story. 
Their encounter was likely 

477
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,500
awkward as reunions with old 
friends can be. 

478
00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:16,100
When both of you have undergone 
difficult to explain changes 

479
00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:19,300
Smith was now earning a living 
as a writer and professional 

480
00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,100
Explorer, sharing his tales of 
the new world. 

481
00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:26,600
As a mother wife, an unofficial 
Ambassador Rebecca had to 

482
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,200
negotiate the complicated 
politics of two continents. 

483
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,600
The thing that most impressed 
about Smith was how his account 

484
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,900
of their early interactions had 
developed over time in his 

485
00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:38,800
stories, the ceremony she 
recalled had evolved into a 

486
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,200
last-minute escape from certain 
death, probably a formal 

487
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,200
adoption ritual that he had 
misinterpreted hearing. 

488
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,000
Someone characterized your 
childhood neighborhood as a 

489
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,300
perilous Wilderness and you 
remember it as just home was 

490
00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:54,400
like that. 
However, Rebecca refrained from 

491
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,500
publicly correcting his stories.
She had discovered that. 

492
00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:00,400
Sometimes the understanding that
develops from shared narratives,

493
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,900
even if they are flawed is more 
significant than the truth. 

494
00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:08,100
Despite their embellishment, 
Smith's stories had influenced 

495
00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:10,200
English audiences to feel pity 
for her people. 

496
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,600
Perhaps the larger truth that 
these stories conveyed was more 

497
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,100
significant than the literal 
truth. 

498
00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:18,400
If dramatic Tales of romance and
rescue helped English, people 

499
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,800
see that Native Americans were 
deserving of respect. 

500
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,400
In addition to being a 
well-known visitor, Rebecca 

501
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,000
actively supported her people 
during her stay in England. 

502
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,200
She consistently argued that the
Powhatan Confederacy should be 

503
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,500
regarded as a valid political 
entity, deserving of respect and

504
00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:37,600
Equitable treatment, when she 
met with representatives of the 

505
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,100
Virginia Company, religious 
leaders, and political figures. 

506
00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:45,500
She was effectively acting as an
unofficial Ambassador attempting

507
00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:48,700
to influence English. 
Colonial policy from within by 

508
00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:52,900
utilizing her special position. 
But the physical strain of 

509
00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:56,300
London life was wearing thin. 
For lungs used to Virginia 

510
00:25:56,300 --> 00:25:59,500
forests. 
The cities are heavy with smoke 

511
00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:03,400
from innumerable. 
Coal fires was harsh. for 

512
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,300
someone accustomed to a more 
active outdoor Lifestyle, the 

513
00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:09,600
rich foods formal attire and 
ongoing, social obligations 

514
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,900
would draining The cycle of 
always being on always standing 

515
00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:18,000
in for something greater than 
herself, always conscious that 

516
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000
her actions would be taken as 
proof of her. 

517
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,500
Entire people was the most 
difficult of all. 

518
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,800
Rebecca John and infant Thomas. 
Got ready to leave for Virginia 

519
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,900
at the beginning of 1617. 
She couldn't wait to return 

520
00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:33,700
home, see her family and get 
back to work. 

521
00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:36,400
Fostering useful collaboration 
between the power turn and 

522
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,100
English communities. 
Rebecca became Gravely ill with 

523
00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:42,300
what was likely other 
tuberculosis or pneumonia. 

524
00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:45,800
To a common diseases that killed
people in the 17th century. 

525
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,500
London just after the ship had 
left, the Thames River. 

526
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,900
At around age 21, she passed 
away in Gravesend England in 

527
00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:57,000
march 1617. 
According to John Rolfe, she 

528
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,700
expressed her faith, and hope 
that her work would continue in 

529
00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:02,700
her, final remarks. 
Although, the precise location 

530
00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:04,300
of her grave has been lost to 
time. 

531
00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:08,500
It was instant George's Church 
in Gravesend Although Rebecca's 

532
00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:11,600
remarkable life came to an end 
with her passing her influence, 

533
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,200
persisted. 
She'd contributed to the peace 

534
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,400
between the PowerHouse and 
English, which persisted for a 

535
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,700
number of additional years, 
allowing both groups to build 

536
00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:22,600
stronger bonds. 
Her son Thomas became a 

537
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,700
prosperous planter who remained 
connected to his power and 

538
00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:29,000
English Roots, eventually. 
Visiting his mother's family in 

539
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,800
Virginia as an adult. 
Most significantly Rebecca 

540
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,800
showed that people from vastly 
different cultures could not 

541
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,100
only understand one another but 
also develop completely new. 

542
00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:42,700
Lifestyle's that respected, the 
best aspects of both Traditions.

543
00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:45,300
Something that many people in 
her ear of believed was 

544
00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:47,800
impossible. 
She had demonstrated that being 

545
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,000
Torn Between Two Worlds, could 
mean belonging everywhere rather

546
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000
than nowhere. 
As our time with Rebecca draws 

547
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,500
to a close, remember this, you 
just spent time with someone who

548
00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:01,200
more than 400 years ago. 
Figured out how to do something.

549
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,200
We're still learning how to 
create true understanding 

550
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,500
between people who are very 
different perspectives on the 

551
00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:09,600
world. 
Rebecca's death in England was 

552
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,100
not the end of her story. 
It was only the beginning in 

553
00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:15,800
many respects, Thomas Roth, her 
son, became the embodiment of 

554
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,600
all she had strive for. 
He was equally comfortable in 

555
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,200
power tan Council meetings in 
English drawing rooms equally 

556
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,100
proficient. 
In both indigenous, ecological 

557
00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:27,100
knowledge and European 
agricultural methods. 

558
00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,700
He took his mother's genetic 
Heritage and her talent for 

559
00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,500
seeing connections where others 
saw only difference is with him 

560
00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:36,700
when he eventually visited 
Virginia as an adult to meet his

561
00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:38,300
grandfather Chief powhatan's 
people. 

562
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:42,100
Rebecca's lineage persisted in 
Virginia, through Thomas and His

563
00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:45,300
descendants eventually extending
throughout the American South 

564
00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:47,600
and Beyond. 
She's one of the most common 

565
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,600
ancestors of old. 
Virginia families with thousands

566
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,400
of Americans to date racing 
their lineage back to Rebecca 

567
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,300
and John Rolfe. 
More than genetic inheritance. 

568
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:58,400
However, these descendants 
continued. 

569
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,600
Her method of negotiating. 
Difficult cultural 

570
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,700
circumstances. 
The capacity to stay loyal to 

571
00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,100
oneself while remaining 
receptive to new information. 

572
00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:10,000
Rebecca may not have realized it
but her life story. 

573
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,100
Also evolved Beyond historical 
fact to become a fundamental 

574
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:15,900
American Myth. 
Despite the fact that the 

575
00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:19,600
reality was far more complicated
and the conclusion far more 

576
00:29:19,608 --> 00:29:23,000
tragic than the myth implied, 
the story of Pocahontas. 

577
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,500
Saving John Smith came to 
represent the potential for 

578
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:28,400
collaboration between Native 
Americans and European settlers.

579
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:32,700
Every American generation has 
retold and reimagined her story,

580
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,900
which is fascinating because it 
frequently reveals more about 

581
00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:38,100
the storytellers than it does 
about Rebecca. 

582
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,100
She's occasionally portrayed as 
The Honorable Savage who assumed

583
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:46,200
barbarism for civilization. 
She is the unfortunate victim of

584
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,500
colonialism at times at times. 
She's the courageous heroine who

585
00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:52,800
used love and compassion to 
unite Two Worlds. 

586
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,700
Though there are truthful 
aspects in each of these 

587
00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:59,100
versions, none fully conveys. 
The complexity of her true self 

588
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,300
because she was more human. 
The real Rebecca was more 

589
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:05,200
fascinating than any of these 
mythological representations. 

590
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,300
She was a person who found 
herself in an unprecedented 

591
00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:12,300
circumstance and responded with 
intelligence flexibility and 

592
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:14,100
extraordinary emotional 
maturity. 

593
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,200
She was neither a symbol nor a 
stereotype. 

594
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,000
She made errors had to make 
difficult decisions, and 

595
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,500
occasionally had to put workable
Solutions ahead of Ideal 

596
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,600
results. 
To put it another way. 

597
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,300
She was just the kind of person 
that we need more of in every 

598
00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:31,500
age, her method of diplomacy, 
which is founded on 

599
00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:34,600
interpersonal, connections, 
realistic problem solving and 

600
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,200
sincere interest in the opinions
of others provides lessons that 

601
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,000
are still applicable today. 
Rebecca's example serves as a 

602
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,300
reminder that in a society where
people frequently appear more 

603
00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:48,300
concerned with winning arguments
than with understanding one 

604
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:51,600
another listening to others with
genuine interest and respect is 

605
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,900
frequently the most effective 
way to influence them. 

606
00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,200
She also Illustrated something 
that is worth reiterating in the

607
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,700
present. 
That learning from others, does 

608
00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:03,500
not necessitate sacrificing. 
Your own values nor does 

609
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:06,700
preserving, your own cultural 
identity, require rejecting 

610
00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:10,100
everything about other cultures.
Rebecca converted to 

611
00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:13,900
Christianity while maintaining 
her heart and identity. she was 

612
00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:16,900
able to navigate English society
while maintaining her 

613
00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,200
understanding of her father's, 
political concerns, She 

614
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,300
instilled in her son, a sense of
pride in his entire Heritage, 

615
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:26,700
not just the aspects that were 
deemed acceptable by Society. 

616
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,100
Most significantly Rebecca 
demonstrated to us that serving 

617
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,800
as a bridge between other worlds
is not only feasible, but also 

618
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,200
necessary. 
There are people who fulfill 

619
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,500
this role in every community and
time period. 

620
00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:41,900
Assisting various groups in 
understanding one. 

621
00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:45,700
Another by translating, not just
words, but entire world views. 

622
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:49,700
So they rarely receive the 
credit, they Merit these Bridge 

623
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:53,600
Builders enabled civilization. 
Think about this as you get 

624
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,400
ready for bed tonight. 
Although Rebecca's life was 

625
00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,600
short, just 21 years. 
She was able to stop Wars ring 

626
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,300
about enduring peace, Forge, new
kinds of collaboration and show 

627
00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:06,300
that individuals from very 
different backgrounds. 

628
00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:09,000
Could not only live together but
also produce something 

629
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,400
beautiful. 
She demonstrated that one 

630
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,900
individual could alter history 
if they worked with tolerance 

631
00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,800
humor and sincere concern. 
For other people, remember, 

632
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,600
Rebecca, the next time you're in
a situation where people seem to

633
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,400
be talking over one. 
Another, when various groups are

634
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,200
assuming things rather than 
asking questions, or when 

635
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,500
conflict seems unavoidable, 
because no one is paying 

636
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:31,800
attention, remember that 
understanding can develop even 

637
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,300
in the most unlikely situations 
that bridge building is feasible

638
00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:38,600
and that sometimes the most 
significant thing you can do, is

639
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,000
just assist people in seeing one
another, as fellow human beings,

640
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,000
rather than a symbols of 
terrifying, alien ideas, I hope 

641
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000
you have a little more of. 
Rebecca's ability to see 

642
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,300
connections where others only 
see different cities when you 

643
00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:56,900
wake up tomorrow Sweet dreams. 
Nicholas Tesla's. 

644
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:00,300
Boyhood in the small village of 
smelly, an nestled in the rural 

645
00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:03,900
reaches of the Austrian Empire. 
Now Croatia was as far removed 

646
00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:06,100
from the noise of modern 
Contraptions as one might 

647
00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:09,100
imagine. 
Yet even amid this pastoral 

648
00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:11,700
backdrop Tesla found ways to 
indulge his curiosity. 

649
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,600
His father milutin was an 
orthodox priest often occupied 

650
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,000
by religious duties, but he also
possessed a serious Library 

651
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,300
where young Nicholas snuck away 
to read. 

652
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:25,900
In fact, Tesla frequently, 
credited, these secretive 

653
00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:29,000
Explorations for sparking, his 
fascination with science. 

654
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000
Meanwhile, his mother duka a 
resourceful and gifted woman 

655
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,500
crafted household tools with her
hands granting Tesla. 

656
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:40,400
First hand look at the interplay
between imagination and utility.

657
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:44,800
One story that rarely gets 
retold overshadowed perhaps by 

658
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,300
Grand anecdotes involved a small
wooden water wheel. 

659
00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:52,000
He built at age 9 determined to 
harness, the churning stream 

660
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,600
that ran behind his home. 
Tesla carved, rough paddles from

661
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,800
scavenge Driftwood, an 
improvised and axle from a 

662
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,000
broken car part. 
While the contrivance was crude,

663
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,500
it worked sort of it sputtered 
and jammed more often than its 

664
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:10,400
fun but this half success taught
him, the power of redirecting 

665
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,400
Natural Forces even as a child 
he recognized that nature has 

666
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,900
tremendous energy just waiting 
to be tapped. 

667
00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:20,300
It was also, during these early 
years, that Tesla started 

668
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:23,300
experiencing a cute 
visualizations later. 

669
00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:26,699
He described how bright flashes 
before his eyes would conjure 

670
00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:29,000
Vivid images of objects. 
He hadn't even witnessed before 

671
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,300
this phenomenon, which he called
his mind's eye sometimes 

672
00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:36,500
unsettled people around him, but
it had a silver lining. 

673
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,400
Whenever an idea flickered 
through his Consciousness. 

674
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,600
He could examine its details in 
these mental pictures rotating 

675
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,800
and refining them before he ever
set pen to paper. 

676
00:34:45,808 --> 00:34:50,000
This unique ability often 
minimized in popular accounts 

677
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,900
shaped his inventive process. 
Of course, not all was a 

678
00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:57,500
delicate as a Schoolboy. 
Tesla nurse to rebellious streak

679
00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:01,200
and loathed rope memorization. 
His teacher wants, scolded him 

680
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,300
for insisting that the Earth was
a giant magnet telling, the 

681
00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:07,100
class that Tesla was letting his
imagination run wild. 

682
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,700
The teacher was unaware of how 
close Tesla was to the truth, 

683
00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:14,100
nor how that minor humiliation 
inspired him to study, magnetism

684
00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:16,800
more thoroughly. 
Some say the seeds of his 

685
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,300
future. 
AC motor began here in the 

686
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:24,100
tension between Authority and 
Tesla's unwavering self-belief 

687
00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:28,300
in spare moments. 
Young Tesla found camaraderie 

688
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:31,000
with friends who joined in his 
experiments like building. 

689
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,500
Hand cranked contractions were 
trying to talk through Tin Can 

690
00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:38,700
telephones yet. 
If a Contraption failure 

691
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:42,700
vanished into introspection 
Recalculating every step in his 

692
00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:46,000
mind. 
In those hours, no one could pry

693
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,200
him away from his Reflections. 
It was as if he was lost in that

694
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,700
luminous in a workshop. 
Despite bouts of quiet 

695
00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:55,200
withdrawal. 
Tesla still lived in a 

696
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,700
household. 
That valued performance. 

697
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,000
Specially rhetorical Flair. 
His father believed in the power

698
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,900
of eloquence and would often 
deliver stirring orations. 

699
00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:07,500
Perhaps this is how Tesla 
learned to present radical ideas

700
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:10,100
with poise. 
He also gleaned from his mother,

701
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:13,700
the virtue of patient tinkering 
an aspect overshadowed by 

702
00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:16,600
stories of His Brilliant. 
Flashes of insight though, 

703
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,900
untrained formerly Duke is 
improvisational skills. 

704
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:21,800
Showed him. 
The Great Inventions need not 

705
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,500
come from Grand. 
Laboratories they could begin at

706
00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:27,400
a humble table or by the 
Riverside as long as one have 

707
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,000
the drive to see them through. 
By the time he reached out 

708
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,100
lessons, Tesla had devoured 
nearly every science book in his

709
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,500
father's Library. 
He immersed himself in 

710
00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:38,500
electricity magnetism and 
mechanical wonders. 

711
00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:43,100
His Fascination growing with 
each page, later at night, when 

712
00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:45,600
the household slept, and a 
single kerosene lamp. 

713
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,500
Flickered in the corridor Tesla 
mold over New Concepts, making 

714
00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:53,200
mental notes on how to apply 
them, He never just read he 

715
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,700
scouted for Clues. 
Each bit of knowledge layering 

716
00:36:56,700 --> 00:37:00,700
onto his mental designs, these 
experiences and smil Jan form, 

717
00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:04,200
the Bedrock of a lifetime of 
invention while the world would 

718
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,900
one day witness testers, 
theatrical experiments and 

719
00:37:06,908 --> 00:37:10,600
transformative discoveries. 
It All Began beside a murmuring 

720
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,500
Creek and within the hush of a 
modest Library there free from 

721
00:37:14,508 --> 00:37:19,300
Urban clamor Tesla, learned the 
value of curiosity, observation 

722
00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:23,100
and sustained, determination. 
It was in this unassuming 

723
00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:26,600
domain, where wooden water 
wheels sputtered and a boy's 

724
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,800
imagination soared that the 
seeds of an extraordinary 

725
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,200
Destiny. 
First took Route. 

726
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,200
Perhaps most telling his 
formative years cemented in 

727
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,500
Tesla, a lifelong pattern of 
introspection and 

728
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:40,800
experimentation the young 
inventor, not only absorbed 

729
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,800
Knoll Village, he reinvented it 
in his imagination for him. 

730
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:49,000
Smilin was not a Backwater, it 
was a secluded incubator for 

731
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,200
unexplored possibilities. 
Tesla's departure from home was 

732
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,900
spurred by academic Pursuits 
that beckoned him to larger 

733
00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:58,700
Arenas. 
Eventually Landing him at the 

734
00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:01,500
Austrian Polytechnic in Grass, 
the environment. 

735
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:05,000
There demanded rigor, which 
suited Tesla's capacity for 

736
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,600
total immersion. 
He sank his teeth into 

737
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,800
mathematics physics and 
mechanics with a feverish 

738
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,200
intensity professors noted, his 
uncanny ability to answer 

739
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,100
complex theoretical questions 
without referencing textbooks. 

740
00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:21,300
A result of his extraordinary 
mental visualization, However, 

741
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:25,100
the spark that truly lit. 
His imagination was the direct 

742
00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:29,200
current DC electrical Machinery.
In the school's Labs 

743
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,100
conventional wisdom suggested DC
was the future of power. 

744
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,700
The Tesla found its 
inefficiencies, maddening the 

745
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:39,600
observing, how? 
DC motors generated Sparks and 

746
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,500
wasted energy. 
He questioned how nobody noticed

747
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:45,200
a better pathway when one 
Professor pronounced that 

748
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,100
harnessing alternating current 
AC at scale was an 

749
00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:51,300
impossibility. 
Tesla resisted, the urge to 

750
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:54,600
argue instead, he spent late 
nights in his boarding room 

751
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,700
sketching out rotating magnetic 
fields in his head if he dozed 

752
00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:00,400
off at all, it was with 
diagrams. 

753
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,800
Dancing across his eyelids 
despite his academic prowess. 

754
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,900
Tesla stinting, grass did not 
end smoothly exhaustion. 

755
00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:11,700
Perhaps an underlying rebellious
streak contributed to friction 

756
00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:15,400
with University administrators. 
He wants Rigdon experiment to 

757
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,600
demonstrate a refined method for
measuring electric resistance. 

758
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,000
When the apparatus 
short-circuited Tesla found 

759
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,000
himself facing the wrath of a 
professor, outraged by 

760
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,600
unorthodox experimentation. 
Feeling unwelcome Tesla walked 

761
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,000
out leaving conventional 
Academia behind. 

762
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,100
From grads, Tesla moved to other
opportunities, including a brief

763
00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:38,900
and often overlooked period in 
Marburg. 

764
00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:42,600
Now maribor Slovenia there, a 
shadow seemed to fall over him 

765
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,900
separated from the camera of 
classmates, grappled with bouts 

766
00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:50,700
of anxiety, without structured 
lab access Tesla turned to 

767
00:39:50,708 --> 00:39:54,100
solitary experiments tinkering 
with leftover scraps of metal 

768
00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:57,900
and wire yet the glue of 
isolation order him and he 

769
00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:01,400
eventually returned home for a 
spell, his confidence rattled 

770
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,100
but not shattered. 
It was in Budapest or working at

771
00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:08,600
The Budapest telephone exchange.
The Tesla began to regain his 

772
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,100
footing. 
In frenetic workspace, he was 

773
00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:13,700
tasked with improving. 
The nascent telephone systems 

774
00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:18,400
design. one lesson circulated 
story details, how Tesla, once 

775
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,800
clambered onto a rooftop to 
adjust overhead lines, the 

776
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,600
lightning flashes, giving him 
new ideas about high frequency, 

777
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,100
current colleague's regarded him
as eccentric competent, 

778
00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:30,800
Crucially. 
It was during a routine walk 

779
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,800
through Budapest city park that 
the notion of the rotating 

780
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,900
magnetic field crystallized in 
his mind. 

781
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,900
Inspired by a poem. 
He recited aloud Tesla. 

782
00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:43,200
Abruptly stopped drew a stick 
from the ground and began 

783
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,400
tracing swirling diagrams in the
dirt. 

784
00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:48,800
He explained to His companion. 
How two or more alternating 

785
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,600
currents out of phase, could 
induce a rotating field capable 

786
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,100
of spinning a motor that Eureka 
moment. 

787
00:40:55,100 --> 00:40:58,500
Set the course for his next 
inventions, it was an unveiling 

788
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:02,600
of practical AC Concepts in the 
most unassuming of settings, Far

789
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,800
From Any official laboratory 
shortly. 

790
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,900
After Tesla found himself with 
an opportunity in Paris working 

791
00:41:07,900 --> 00:41:11,400
for the Continental, Edison 
Company, his tasks involved, 

792
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,100
trouble shooting installation of
Edison's DC Systems, the very 

793
00:41:15,100 --> 00:41:18,200
technology that had vexed him 
back at grades even. 

794
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,100
So the job introduced him to 
real world engineering 

795
00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:25,700
challenges and power outages, to
generate a malfunctions by day 

796
00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:28,500
Tesla, tackle, these issues 
becoming something of a 

797
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:31,800
specialist in diagnosing. 
Electrical breakdowns by night. 

798
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,600
He refined sketches of his AC 
motor desperately, wishing for 

799
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,200
the chance to build a prototype.
The interplay between The Daily 

800
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,000
Grind of DC, Hardware 
maintenance, and the nightly 

801
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,600
pursuit of AC Innovation, lent, 
Tesla's life are peculiar 

802
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,300
Duality, an unresolved tension 
between the present and what he 

803
00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:51,400
believed. 
The future should be, although, 

804
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,300
overshadowed by the high drama 
of late Year's These formative 

805
00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:58,400
experiences taught Tesla 
resilience, he learned how to 

806
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,700
negotiate limited resources, how
to observe the smallest 

807
00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:03,400
anomalies and mechanical 
performance. 

808
00:42:04,300 --> 00:42:07,400
And how to coax Visions from his
mind into workable sketches. 

809
00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:11,800
more importantly, his confidence
in the feasibility of AC power 

810
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,500
solidified, even as he undertook
the tedium of dc-based 

811
00:42:15,500 --> 00:42:18,800
assignments, The world around 
him might have regarded a sea as

812
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,900
a flight of fancy. 
But in his eyes it was the 

813
00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:23,900
rightful heir to the electrical 
Throne waiting for its moment to

814
00:42:23,900 --> 00:42:26,900
shine. 
Tesla's fateful Journey to the 

815
00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:31,700
United States in 1884 as often 
been romanticized, yet to host 

816
00:42:31,700 --> 00:42:33,700
of lesson. 
Known details in Rich that 

817
00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:36,200
narrative. 
He arrived in New York with next

818
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,100
to nothing carrying a letter of 
introduction to Thomas, Edison 

819
00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:40,900
from his former employer in 
Paris. 

820
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,300
The letter supposedly claimed 
Tesla was an exceptional 

821
00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:47,200
engineer. 
Who would produce one wonders in

822
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,400
popular? 
Italian counter frames Tesla and

823
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,800
Edison as instant Rivals but in 
truth their relationship began 

824
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,200
with cautious respect Edison 
recognized test Tesla's 

825
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,400
competence right away and put 
him to work on projects, deemed 

826
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,200
to intricate or menial for 
others. 

827
00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:07,200
There's a story one, not widely 
circulated, the Tesla fixed 

828
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,900
affective shipboard lighting 
system. 

829
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,300
Saving Edison's company from 
contract penalties. 

830
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,600
Tesla. 
Never used it as Leverage. 

831
00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:19,700
Still Edison noticed intrigued 
by Tesla's meticulous approach. 

832
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:24,700
He assigned him to redesign DC, 
generators Tesla toiled day. 

833
00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:27,200
And night, confident, his 
improvements would prove their 

834
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,400
worth and they did. 
But when he sought remuneration 

835
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,000
misunderstandings piled up, it 
wasn't a single dispute. 

836
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,400
Over a massive bonus, more, a 
pattern of unkept promises and 

837
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,500
blurred expectations. 
By early 1885, the veneer of 

838
00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:46,100
cordiality of evaporated and 
Tesla left Edison's employee. 

839
00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:49,100
That was the Genesis of a 
rivalry later. 

840
00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:53,100
Amplified by newspapers driven 
more by conflicting Technologies

841
00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:57,000
than personal hatred, Financial 
troubles Bessette Tesla almost 

842
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,700
immediately with few 
acquaintances in New York. 

843
00:43:59,708 --> 00:44:03,100
He found himself digging ditches
for two dollars a day yet. 

844
00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:06,800
It might have been that physical
labor under a harsh Sun, that 

845
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,700
sharpened his resolve. 
He told a friend that while his 

846
00:44:09,700 --> 00:44:12,400
body dug ditches, his mind was 
Far Away. 

847
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,000
Tort describing a lipstick on 
arcs of thought. 

848
00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:17,900
Where some might have fallen 
into despair. 

849
00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:21,100
Tesla saw an interval to refine 
his intended path. 

850
00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:24,900
That path led to the formation 
of Tesla electric light and 

851
00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:27,300
Manufacturing. 
His first entrepreneurial 

852
00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:31,200
venture in America, he secured 
backers, who at first promised 

853
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,800
to let him develop Arc Lighting 
systems and eventually his 

854
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,400
prized AC Motors. 
However, once Tesla delivered an

855
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,400
efficient Arc lighting solution,
those investors showed no 

856
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:45,000
interest in AC Capitol wanted 
quick returns not imaginative 

857
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,800
leaps. 
Frustrated, Tesla found himself 

858
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,300
pushed out of the very company 
bearing his name This episode 

859
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:54,000
left him, wary of business 
Partnerships and taught him that

860
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,700
investors valued immediate 
profit over long-term Vision. 

861
00:44:56,700 --> 00:45:00,500
Undeterred, Tesla began to 
demonstrate his, a sea motor 

862
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:02,600
concept and small lecture halls 
around the city. 

863
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,400
One venue. 
The back room of a modest 

864
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,400
Manhattan building had an 
audience of barely 20 people. 

865
00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:11,500
But among them was Alfred s 
Browne. 

866
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:14,300
The Western Union 
superintendent, who recognized 

867
00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:18,800
Tesla's potential another backer
Charles Peck also attended 

868
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,600
Together, they formed a 
partnership with Tesla pledging 

869
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,400
to support his AC technology. 
These unglamorous, session's 

870
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,800
laid vital groundwork for 
Tesla's next breakthrough. 

871
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,000
Soon with Newfound supporters, 
Tesla established a laboratory 

872
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,500
at 89 Liberty Street Manhattan. 
Amid coils of wire and 

873
00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:40,900
improvised setups. 
He tinkered relentlessly the 

874
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,500
space was cramped but offered 
freedom. 

875
00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:46,100
The constructed prototypes of 
the polyphase, AC motor 

876
00:45:46,100 --> 00:45:49,500
painstakingly refining them 
until they could run smoothly 

877
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:52,100
under load. 
Maintaining a consistent 

878
00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:55,500
rotating, magnetic field, was 
one challenge, ensuring it 

879
00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:57,200
didn't damage the apparatus over
time. 

880
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:02,000
Was another Tesla, tackled each,
obstacle systematically relying 

881
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,100
on mental simulations before any
real world tests, one anecdote 

882
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:08,400
from this period. 
Recounts Tesla experimenting 

883
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,300
with high-speed turbines that 
let out unnerving wines. 

884
00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:16,000
Passes by grew weary prompting 
multiple visits from the local 

885
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,500
fire brigade, after neighbors, 
complained of Sparks. 

886
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,000
Tesla oblivious to the fuss 
would apologize earnestly. 

887
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,400
Then resumed his adjustments. 
The moment they left. 

888
00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:29,400
Such episode's highlighted, his 
tendency to live almost entirely

889
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,900
in his realm of ideas, paying 
little heed to outside alarm. 

890
00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:36,200
While public fascination with 
the electricity, was on the rise

891
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,500
spurred by the novelty of 
electric lights. 

892
00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:41,900
Most industrialists, still 
viewed a sea with caution. 

893
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,000
Tesla's goal was not simply to 
make a sea Motors feasible, but 

894
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,600
to persuade key players that 
this technology was reliable 

895
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,600
safe and profitable. 
Each small success in his lab 

896
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,300
bolstered. 
His resolve inching him closer 

897
00:46:55,300 --> 00:46:59,300
to a grand future by alternating
current truly Unstoppable. 

898
00:47:00,700 --> 00:47:04,800
By 1888 Tesla was ready to 
unveil his AC motor to the world

899
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,700
and the venue was the American 
Institute of electrical 

900
00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:10,700
engineers. 
While typical accounts highlight

901
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:14,100
the significance of this event. 
If you explore the hushed. 

902
00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:16,900
Excitement that filled that 
lecture hall, attendees 

903
00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:21,000
included, professors journalists
and Industrial Titans, all a 

904
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,600
buzz with talk of a new era in 
electrical distribution. 

905
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,000
Some were openly skeptical 
others arrived hoping to witness

906
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,900
the demise of what they 
considered an Impossible Dream. 

907
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,200
Tesla walked onto the stage with
a calm demeanor, unveiling, his 

908
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,800
motor and discussing its 
principles with methodical 

909
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,300
Precision. 
Crucially in the audience, sat 

910
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:42,300
George Westinghouse who had 
embraced a sea for power 

911
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:45,900
transmission. 
Impressed by Tesla's Clarity and

912
00:47:45,900 --> 00:47:48,400
the Elegance implicity of his 
motor Westinghouse. 

913
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,900
Quickly reached out in 
negotiations, he purchased test 

914
00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:54,000
Tesla's patents for a 
substantial sum and promised 

915
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,900
royalties for every horse power 
generated by his invention. 

916
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,700
while mainstream retellings, 
mentioned the deal, the Nuance 

917
00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:03,400
of their discussions shaped by 
Tesla's vision for future 

918
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:07,100
expansion of AC off often 
remains overlooked With 

919
00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:10,200
westinghouse's backing Tesla, 
moved into a well-resourced 

920
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,400
facility in Pittsburgh to refine
his designs for commercial 

921
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,200
production. 
The cultural shift from his 

922
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,900
Liberty Street lab to an 
industrial setting was Stark. 

923
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,000
Tesla sought perfect Synergy of 
frequency and voltage, while 

924
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,400
corporate Engineers focused on 
standardized Parts despite 

925
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,700
tension, seeing his Motors mass 
produced. 

926
00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:31,700
Thrilled him. 
He was elated when AC systems 

927
00:48:31,700 --> 00:48:34,300
lit, parts of the 1893 World 
Columbian. 

928
00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:38,000
Exposition in Chicago, 
showcasing a cityscape of glow 

929
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,000
with alternating current 
courtesy of Westinghouse and 

930
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,500
Tesla. 
A lesser known interlude 

931
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:47,500
occurred or when Tesla visited 
Niagara Falls to serve the plan,

932
00:48:47,500 --> 00:48:51,400
hydroelectric station standing 
at the brink of the Thundering 

933
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,000
Cascade. 
He reportedly Muse that 

934
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,400
harnessing, such power would 
reflect Humanity's harmony with 

935
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,600
nature when it went on line 
delivering electricity as far as

936
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,700
Buffalo, it proved ACS potency 
yet the war of the currents 

937
00:49:05,700 --> 00:49:09,400
fueled by Edison's campaign 
labeling, AC, dangerous cast, 

938
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,800
Shadows on these achievements. 
Edison's allies staged gruesome 

939
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,400
demonstrations. 
Electrocuting animals to 

940
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,300
highlight Aces hazards, Tesla 
though offended voided. 

941
00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:24,000
Direct public attacks. 
Instead, he showcased Aces 

942
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,000
safety and flamboyant ways. 
Passing high frequency, currents

943
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,000
through himself to light lamps, 
Newspapers seized on these spec 

944
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,700
circles Tesla disliked theatrics
from their hype that saw them as

945
00:49:34,700 --> 00:49:38,600
necessary to shift perception, 
Tesla's finances, briefly soared

946
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,000
his arrangement with 
Westinghouse promised 

947
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,100
substantial gains as AC spread. 
However, Westinghouse soon faced

948
00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:47,500
Financial strain from the 
Niagara project and Market 

949
00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:49,700
fluctuations. 
When Bankers threatened, the 

950
00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:52,500
Westinghouse company. 
Tesla made a dramatic Choice. 

951
00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:55,700
He released Westinghouse from 
the heavy royalty agreement. 

952
00:49:56,500 --> 00:49:59,300
Some see it. 
As altruism others, suspect, 

953
00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:02,200
that he believed broader, AC 
adoption would bring even 

954
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,000
greater wealth down the line. 
Either way, this decision cost 

955
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,800
him. 
Millions that shifted test 

956
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,100
Tesla's. 
Partnership with Westinghouse, 

957
00:50:10,100 --> 00:50:14,100
meanwhile his growing celebrity 
pushed him to chase new ideas, 

958
00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:17,500
fascinated by a high frequency 
currents, and wireless power 

959
00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:20,300
heard that AC power 
distribution, was only a 

960
00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:23,100
starting point. 
His pivot from danger to 

961
00:50:23,100 --> 00:50:26,400
Visionary signaled, the dawn of 
a new phase yet the transition 

962
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,600
was uneasy industry leaders 
wanted market-ready products not

963
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:35,400
Grand at Tesla ever. 
The dreamer earn to break down 

964
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,600
trees This Clash set the stage 
for his most audacious projects,

965
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,600
some of which risk isolating him
from commercial backers, even 

966
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:47,400
so, as AC quietly became the 
worldwide, standard Tesla's 

967
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,300
decisive role could not be 
denied. 

968
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:53,200
A toppled, the seemingly 
immovable, diesel regime and 

969
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,800
paved the road for an era 
defined by alternating current. 

970
00:50:56,500 --> 00:50:59,200
A feat that left him eager to 
explore even more Uncharted 

971
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,000
Terrain. 
These winds fueled Tesla's. 

972
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,800
Restless imagination propelling,
further innovation, By the 

973
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,900
mid-1890s Tesla had garnered a 
reputation as an inventor who 

974
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:13,400
might rewrite the laws of nature
with each new contrivance in 

975
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,100
truth. 
His methods combined meticulous 

976
00:51:16,100 --> 00:51:18,900
trial and error with knights of 
solitary reflection. 

977
00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:22,400
He fashioned Advanced coils to 
produce high voltage. 

978
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,600
High frequency, alternating 
currents, creating dramatic arcs

979
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,500
of our fish official lightning 
While crowds flocked to watch 

980
00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:32,100
his public lectures in 
Manhattan, Tesla was growing 

981
00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:35,300
Restless longing for a place 
where he could attempt, even 

982
00:51:35,300 --> 00:51:38,300
bigger experiments and 
encumbered by City constraints. 

983
00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:43,200
That desire took him to Colorado
Springs in 1899 perched at a 

984
00:51:43,208 --> 00:51:45,100
higher altitude. 
With thinner are helped 

985
00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:47,100
facilitate certain high voltage 
tests. 

986
00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:49,800
The remote location was an ideal
Laboratory. 

987
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,100
He set up shop at the edge of 
town building, a structure 

988
00:51:53,100 --> 00:51:56,900
equipped with a tall, Mast 
jutting above the roofline local

989
00:51:56,900 --> 00:52:00,000
spoke in hushed tones about 
lightning machines and Eerie 

990
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,400
after dark glows, some worry 
about potential catastrophe. 

991
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,400
Well, others were simply curious
about the lanky figure who 

992
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,800
wandered fields at odd hours. 
Studying the interplay of 

993
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,500
natural lightning. 
Inside that Workshop Tesla, 

994
00:52:13,500 --> 00:52:16,700
probed Frontiers that mainstream
scientists had scarcely 

995
00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:20,100
imagined, he fixated on the 
residence of Earth's ionosphere 

996
00:52:20,100 --> 00:52:23,200
believing signals could be 
beamed wirelessly across vast 

997
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,700
distances if properly tuned 
according to diary entries he 

998
00:52:26,700 --> 00:52:30,000
meticulously recorded Every 
Spark every flash, every 

999
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,900
ear-splitting crack of 
artificial Thunder on occasion. 

1000
00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:36,900
He produced such intense 
discharges that the crackle 

1001
00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:40,200
could be heard for miles. 
One account claims that he 

1002
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,600
caused the local power stations 
generated to overheat prompting,

1003
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,100
a short lived blackout ever the 
polite. 

1004
00:52:46,100 --> 00:52:50,300
Guest Tesla apologized, then 
resumed tinkering in Colorado, 

1005
00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:54,400
Tesla crystallized his Grand 
Vision, A system of Global 

1006
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,800
Wireless communication and power
distribution. 

1007
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:01,600
The townspeople hearing rumors 
of free electricity speculated, 

1008
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,800
he might Supply Power at no cost
Tesla's goals. 

1009
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,900
However, was subtle. 
He pictured networks of towers 

1010
00:53:07,900 --> 00:53:10,300
resonating with the Earth's 
natural electrical charge 

1011
00:53:10,300 --> 00:53:12,300
carrying Voice, or energy 
anywhere. 

1012
00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:16,000
This concept was a precursor to 
technologies that would surface 

1013
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,300
decades later from Radio 
Transmissions to radar and 

1014
00:53:19,300 --> 00:53:23,100
Beyond yet life in Colorado was 
more than just experiments and 

1015
00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:25,800
thunderous Arts. 
Tesla, occasionally, mingled 

1016
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,800
with the locals regaling, them 
with Tales of Europe and his 

1017
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,700
early exploits in New York. 
Despite his eccentric schedule 

1018
00:53:32,700 --> 00:53:36,900
he possessed impeccable manners,
one story recounts how he gave a

1019
00:53:36,900 --> 00:53:40,100
personal demo of Wireless lamps 
to a bewildered blacksmith who 

1020
00:53:40,100 --> 00:53:43,300
later insisted Tesla was pulling
electricity from thin air. 

1021
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,600
Such encounters spurred Legends 
of Tesla as a wizard blending 

1022
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:49,300
science with something like 
sorcery. 

1023
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,600
Still financing these colossal 
tests drain Tesla's resources 

1024
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,400
his main backer JP Morgan had 
initially supported. 

1025
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,800
The wireless project likely, 
anticipating a monopoly on 

1026
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,300
global information. 
But once Morgan realized Tesla's

1027
00:54:04,300 --> 00:54:06,200
schemes, were far, more 
ambitious and riskier. 

1028
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,700
The mayor Wireless telegraphy 
his enthusiasm cool. 

1029
00:54:10,700 --> 00:54:14,000
Tesla pressed on convinced one 
decisive demonstration would 

1030
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,700
open funding floodgates that 
breakthrough. 

1031
00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:20,100
However, remained elusive 
newspapers, Amplified rumors 

1032
00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:23,100
about Tesla's activities. 
Some claiming he was attempting 

1033
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:25,200
to Signal distant planets 
though. 

1034
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,200
Tesla did speculate about 
extraterrestrial intelligence. 

1035
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,600
His real focused lay on 
terrestrial Wireless the 

1036
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,200
headlines. 
While fueling his Legend did 

1037
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,200
little to alleviate his 
financial pressures eventually. 

1038
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:41,700
Funds ran low forcing Tesla to 
close the Colorado lab in 1900. 

1039
00:54:41,700 --> 00:54:46,200
He left with crates of notes and
under diminished Zeal convinced,

1040
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,200
he could still bring Wireless 
power to the masses. 

1041
00:54:49,100 --> 00:54:52,700
For townspeople Left Behind the 
memory of glowing skies and 

1042
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:56,300
roiling static lingered a 
testament to the spectacular 

1043
00:54:56,300 --> 00:54:58,400
possibilities that science could
conjure. 

1044
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:03,000
For Tesla has Colorado, Springs 
became a pivotal chapter of 

1045
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,700
Proving Ground, that fortified 
his belief in the Limitless 

1046
00:55:05,700 --> 00:55:07,400
potential of electrical 
resonance. 

1047
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,100
It was there. 
He most clearly foresaw, a 

1048
00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:13,600
connected World boundless by 
wires than by the atmospheric 

1049
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:17,300
and Earth circling energies. 
He aimed to harness in hindsight

1050
00:55:17,300 --> 00:55:19,900
Colorado was the Overture to his
next attempt at Global 

1051
00:55:19,900 --> 00:55:22,400
electrification. 
An attempt that would manifest 

1052
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,000
in the Towering outline of 
warden cliff on Long Island 

1053
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,500
Shores. 
Upon returning to New York Tesla

1054
00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:31,300
Consolidated, his finding from 
Colorado Springs into an 

1055
00:55:31,300 --> 00:55:35,800
audacious new Venture, the 
warden Cliff Tower project with 

1056
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,100
finance and from JP Morgan 
initially obtained. 

1057
00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:39,900
Under the premise of 
groundbreaking Wireless 

1058
00:55:39,900 --> 00:55:43,300
telegraphy Tesla purchased land 
in Shoreham Long Island. 

1059
00:55:43,300 --> 00:55:47,800
Overlooking the Atlantic 
Construction began in 1901. 

1060
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,300
The looming structure. 
Stood nearly 100 87 ft high 

1061
00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:55,300
topped by bulbous metal Dome. 
An extended deep below ground 

1062
00:55:55,300 --> 00:55:58,000
through a network of iron rods 
many. 

1063
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,000
Observers had no idea what to 
make of it. 

1064
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:04,800
Tesla ever enigmatic preferred 
sweeping claims about sending 

1065
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,800
both signals and energy across 
continents. 

1066
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:10,400
What often goes unappreciated 
is, How Deeply Tesla believed in

1067
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,700
the underlying physics. 
His notes show that Warden Cliff

1068
00:56:13,700 --> 00:56:17,200
wasn't limited to broadcasting, 
Telegraph signals, he intended 

1069
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:18,300
it. 
As the first of many 

1070
00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:21,800
transmitters, all resonating 
with Earth's natural, electrical

1071
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,100
cavities to convey messages or 
even power to any matching 

1072
00:56:25,100 --> 00:56:29,408
receiver worldwide in his mind. 
It wasn't fantasy, it was a 

1073
00:56:29,416 --> 00:56:31,700
logical leap from the high 
voltage experiments. 

1074
00:56:31,700 --> 00:56:35,300
He had running Colorado Springs.
However, the timing was not in 

1075
00:56:35,300 --> 00:56:38,900
his favor in the same year that 
Warden Cliffs skeletal form. 

1076
00:56:38,900 --> 00:56:42,600
Emerged from the Treetops. 
Guly Elmo, Marconi successfully 

1077
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,300
conducted the first 
transatlantic radio transmission

1078
00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:48,800
reporters, Hail Mary as a giant 
in wireless. 

1079
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:53,400
Communication Tesla, outraged 
pointed out that his own patents

1080
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:54,900
on. 
Alternating current and related 

1081
00:56:54,900 --> 00:56:56,900
Technologies. 
Predated Marconi's work. 

1082
00:56:57,700 --> 00:57:00,400
Nevertheless, a public and 
financiers were smitten with 

1083
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,400
Marconi's simpler, more 
immediately marketable setup. 

1084
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,800
Morgan's patients were thin 
white bankroll testers, massive 

1085
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,100
Tower, if Marconi's apparatus 
suffice for long distance, 

1086
00:57:11,100 --> 00:57:14,800
signaling Warden Cliff still 
incomplete henreid. 

1087
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,800
Money, the crew building at 
dwindled salary went on paid and

1088
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,000
Tesla found himself pleading for
fresh capital. 

1089
00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:24,400
Each conversation with Morgan 
ended and thirst demands for 

1090
00:57:24,408 --> 00:57:28,000
tangible proof, which Tesla 
could not produce fast enough 

1091
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,600
desperate for funds, Tesla tried
licensing, auxiliary invention's

1092
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,700
turbines pumps. 
And even a plan to harness 

1093
00:57:35,700 --> 00:57:38,600
geothermal heat. 
But investors questioned his 

1094
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,800
broader intentions where he 
might have pivot their money 

1095
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:46,000
into the tower as Financial 
constraints tightened Warden, 

1096
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,700
Clefairy remained, a half 
realized vision. 

1097
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:53,100
By 1905, the site was 
effectively deserted the tower, 

1098
00:57:53,100 --> 00:57:56,600
a silent Monument to Tesla's 
Ambitions and the shifting tides

1099
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,400
of investor faith. 
During these Bleak years, 

1100
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,400
Tesla's public Persona grew more
eccentric, journalists 

1101
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,500
occasionally interviewed him 
only to hear about proposals for

1102
00:58:06,500 --> 00:58:11,100
death Rays or atmospheric power 
rumors circulated that he was 

1103
00:58:11,100 --> 00:58:14,400
becoming a recluse. 
Yet, his mind State agile. 

1104
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:18,900
Continuing to churn out. 
Possibilities you force solar 

1105
00:58:18,900 --> 00:58:20,900
energy as a future Mainstay 
though? 

1106
00:58:20,900 --> 00:58:23,400
Few listened? 
The industrial World seemed 

1107
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:27,600
enthralled by an oil and coal. 
While Tesla's music is about sun

1108
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,300
powered engines. 
Through smirks Warden, Cliff was

1109
00:58:30,300 --> 00:58:32,600
never fully operational and the 
newspapers. 

1110
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,600
Offered little sympathy some 
newspapers, ridiculed him 

1111
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,500
portraying him as an unrealistic
idea list others. 

1112
00:58:38,500 --> 00:58:42,100
Barely mentioned his name 
focusing instead on Marconi's 

1113
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:46,700
ongoing successes Sting of being
overshadowed, was palpable. 

1114
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,700
Tesla clung to the belief that 
one day the world would 

1115
00:58:49,700 --> 00:58:52,100
recognize the practicality of 
Wireless power. 

1116
00:58:52,700 --> 00:58:56,500
Indeed, later generations would 
adapt many of his principles for

1117
00:58:56,500 --> 00:58:59,700
radio and Beyond. 
But in his time, the towers 

1118
00:58:59,700 --> 00:59:02,500
failure, left him saddled with 
debt and weighed down by public 

1119
00:59:02,500 --> 00:59:05,600
skepticism even. 
So Tesla didn't abandon 

1120
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,300
optimism. 
He often spoke as if Warden 

1121
00:59:08,300 --> 00:59:12,500
Cliff had simply been delayed, 
not canceled in private, he 

1122
00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:16,000
refined sketches of improved, 
transmitters, re-imagine, the 

1123
00:59:16,008 --> 00:59:20,400
towers design and kept dreaming 
of a worldwide grid of resonance

1124
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,500
stations. 
He believed that the planet 

1125
00:59:22,500 --> 00:59:25,700
itself with its vast. 
Electrical potential could be 

1126
00:59:25,708 --> 00:59:28,000
turned into a conduit of 
universal energy. 

1127
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,500
The fact that Society was not 
ready, did little to dampen his 

1128
00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:35,400
conviction despite setbacks 
fragments of Tesla's Vision, 

1129
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,800
crept into later technological. 
Revolution's Wireless 

1130
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,300
communication would evolve in 
Leaps and Bounds though. 

1131
00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:45,100
Powered by the more conventional
means Concepts like Global 

1132
00:59:45,100 --> 00:59:48,000
connectivity and broadcast 
energy dismissed in Tesla's day,

1133
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,700
surface decades, afterward in 
varying forms. 

1134
00:59:50,700 --> 00:59:54,400
Yet at the dawn of the 20th 
century Tesla faced only 

1135
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:58,100
mounting bills evaporating 
capital and a tower rusting away

1136
00:59:58,100 --> 01:00:01,400
on Long Island. 
The Heartbreak of warden. 

1137
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:04,600
Cliff marked a turning point 
leaving Tesla to operate mostly 

1138
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:08,500
on the margins of an industry. 
He had once revolutionized as 

1139
01:00:08,500 --> 01:00:10,800
the 20th century marched on the 
world. 

1140
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:12,700
Tesla had done so much to 
illuminate. 

1141
01:00:12,700 --> 01:00:16,900
Surged ahead, the AC systems, he
championed became the backbone 

1142
01:00:16,900 --> 01:00:20,700
of modern infrastructure yet, 
Tesla himself slipped from the 

1143
01:00:20,700 --> 01:00:23,600
spotlight, He moved between New 
York hotels. 

1144
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:27,600
Sometimes leaving unpaid bills 
behind public interviews, grew 

1145
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:31,100
sparse when he did speak. 
He mentioned theories of beam. 

1146
01:00:31,100 --> 01:00:35,100
Weapons weather manipulation and
advanced propulsion sowing 

1147
01:00:35,100 --> 01:00:37,700
intrigued, even some questioned 
his grasp on reality. 

1148
01:00:38,700 --> 01:00:42,000
But his notebooks to the extent,
they survive reveal how these 

1149
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:45,100
ideas built on earlier 
experiments rather than me or 

1150
01:00:45,100 --> 01:00:48,100
Whimsy. 
A lesson known facet of Tesla's 

1151
01:00:48,100 --> 01:00:49,800
later. 
Life was his nightly ritual of 

1152
01:00:49,808 --> 01:00:54,000
feeding, pigeons in Bryant Park,
Observers saw a solitary figure 

1153
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:58,500
scattering seeds by Lamplight 
but Tesla found solace in caring

1154
01:00:58,500 --> 01:01:01,400
for those birds. 
Claiming a special bond with one

1155
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,600
white pigeon in particular. 
It may have seemed an odd 

1156
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,300
Pastime for a renowned inventor 
yet, it reflected a familiar 

1157
01:01:08,300 --> 01:01:11,000
pattern Tesla's deep empathy for
natural. 

1158
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:15,800
Phenomena creatures included. 
Meanwhile, patent disputes raged

1159
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:19,100
over the origins of radio. 
Tesla had filed patents before 

1160
01:01:19,100 --> 01:01:22,400
Marconi's breakthroughs yet. 
Marconi was lauded for bringing 

1161
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,300
Wireless transmission into the 
mainstream. 

1162
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,700
The legal entanglements, dragged
on for years. 

1163
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:33,200
In 1943, the US Supreme Court, 
finally recognized Tesla's 

1164
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,900
priority for peace, certain 
critical radio patents. 

1165
01:01:36,500 --> 01:01:39,200
Though, this Vindication arrived
too late to alter his financial 

1166
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,800
Straits. 
He was never able to capitalize 

1167
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:44,900
on the official ruling nor did 
it quell, The public's 

1168
01:01:44,900 --> 01:01:47,100
Association of radio primarily 
with Marconi. 

1169
01:01:48,100 --> 01:01:51,000
Tesla spent his final structure 
of Life at the New Yorker Hotel.

1170
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,900
Though, short on funds, he still
scrolled ideas on scraps of 

1171
01:01:54,900 --> 01:01:59,100
paper proposing, cosmic ray 
engines and new power methods. 

1172
01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:03,100
Visitors, who managed to see him
fight him animated and eloquent.

1173
01:02:03,900 --> 01:02:06,900
Speaking in polished tones About
harnessing the energy of the Sun

1174
01:02:06,900 --> 01:02:09,700
or channeling power from the 
Earth's magnetic field. 

1175
01:02:10,700 --> 01:02:13,700
He believed that her telephone 
beam could end War by making 

1176
01:02:13,700 --> 01:02:17,800
National borders in penetrable. 
To many these Notions sounded 

1177
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,200
impossible yet Tesla's. 
Track record left room to wonder

1178
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:27,400
When he passed away on January, 
7th, 1943 in room, 3327, he left

1179
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,100
behind boxes of documents that 
soon. 

1180
01:02:29,100 --> 01:02:32,500
Became the subject of intense 
scrutiny authorities, seize, 

1181
01:02:32,500 --> 01:02:35,700
some of his papers fuelling 
Rumours of hidden Innovation, or

1182
01:02:35,700 --> 01:02:37,800
weapons to dangerous for public 
consumption. 

1183
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,800
Conspiracy theories. 
Flourished, While the reality 

1184
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,400
likely involved routine, 
security concerns, the secrecy 

1185
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,400
length, Mystique to Tesla's 
Legacy. 

1186
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:51,600
It became hard to disentangle 
fact from folklore over the 

1187
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,300
decades. 
Tesla standing in popular 

1188
01:02:54,300 --> 01:02:57,800
Consciousness swung wildly 
Edison's name overshadowed his 

1189
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:02,400
for a time especially in school 
textbooks only later did your 

1190
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,400
movements rise to credit Tesla 
for his revolutionary 

1191
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:09,400
contributions, to AC power radio
technology and more modern 

1192
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,600
Engineers scientists and curious
lay people and covered his 

1193
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:16,400
patents and writings marveling 
at how he'd anticipated entire 

1194
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:20,000
fields of inquiry from robotics 
to wireless communication. 

1195
01:03:20,900 --> 01:03:23,200
His pioneering theories on 
residents and frequency. 

1196
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,100
All informed aspects of modern 
electronics, though. 

1197
01:03:26,100 --> 01:03:29,400
That debt was seldom 
acknowledged until much later in

1198
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,000
daily life. 
Tesla's true genius shines in 

1199
01:03:33,008 --> 01:03:36,300
the simplest of ways. 
Flick a light switch and you 

1200
01:03:36,300 --> 01:03:37,700
reap. 
The benefits of alternating 

1201
01:03:37,700 --> 01:03:41,700
current use wireless devices and
you operate on a principal 

1202
01:03:41,700 --> 01:03:43,600
tester believed could reach 
across the planet. 

1203
01:03:44,700 --> 01:03:48,000
Synergy envisioned between 
inventor nature and the 

1204
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,800
Unstoppable. 
March of progress remains a 

1205
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:52,300
potent. 
Reminder of how one brilliant 

1206
01:03:52,300 --> 01:03:57,400
mine can shake hole. 
Erasers story is above all a 

1207
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,000
study in perseverance and 
Paradox. 

1208
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,900
He shun the pursuit of wealth 
yet needed Capital to 

1209
01:04:01,900 --> 01:04:04,700
materialize his dreams. 
He relished public 

1210
01:04:04,700 --> 01:04:08,400
demonstrations yet, often worked
Alone lost in interior worlds, 

1211
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:13,100
he was both lauded and dismissed
recognized as a key figure in an

1212
01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:14,900
electrifying, the modern world 
yet. 

1213
01:04:14,900 --> 01:04:17,600
Branded at times as an 
eccentric, on the fringes of 

1214
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,600
acceptable science even. 
So he left an imprint rivaled by

1215
01:04:21,608 --> 01:04:26,400
few long after his death. 
The hum of AC power lines, the 

1216
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:30,100
glow of electric lamps and the 
chirp of Wireless signals Echo, 

1217
01:04:30,100 --> 01:04:33,000
Tesla's influence. 
He never saw the breadth of his 

1218
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,000
Triumph in person, yet. 
The future, he glimpsed was Not 

1219
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,000
Mere fantasy. 
It was an inevitable extension 

1220
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,200
of the forces, he harnessed so 
elegantly. 

1221
01:04:42,100 --> 01:04:44,700
And though, the man himself 
passed in relative, obscurity, 

1222
01:04:44,700 --> 01:04:48,400
his ideas still crack with a 
Vitality that defies the 

1223
01:04:48,408 --> 01:04:55,700
boundaries of time in 
imagination. you wake up to the 

1224
01:04:55,900 --> 01:04:58,800
sound of waves, slapping against
the hull, like a worn hand. 

1225
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:02,600
Patting, a dog, the sun is still
undecided about the day 

1226
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:06,200
filtering, through the port hole
in a lazy manner that evokes a 

1227
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:09,100
desire to cover your head with a
blanket and revert to the 

1228
01:05:09,100 --> 01:05:12,300
Comforts of your own bed at 
home, except your bed back home,

1229
01:05:12,300 --> 01:05:14,700
didn't Rock like a cradle being 
pushed by an enthusiastic 

1230
01:05:14,700 --> 01:05:17,500
toddler. 
The hammock beneath you has 

1231
01:05:17,500 --> 01:05:19,700
molded itself to your body over 
the months. 

1232
01:05:20,300 --> 01:05:22,800
Creating a cocoon that 
surprisingly comfortable. 

1233
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:25,200
Once you've trained your spine, 
to bend in ways, it was never 

1234
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,900
meant to. 
You've become a contortionist in

1235
01:05:27,900 --> 01:05:30,900
your sleep, which is either 
impressive or concerning. 

1236
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:35,400
The ship creaks and groans 
around you a symphony of wood 

1237
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,000
and rope that you've learned to 
interpret like a musician 

1238
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,600
interpreting music. 
That particular squeak means the

1239
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,700
Masters adjusting to the morning
Breeze. 

1240
01:05:43,700 --> 01:05:48,300
The gentle Thump, Thump, Thump 
is just the ship's way of saying

1241
01:05:48,300 --> 01:05:51,200
hello to the ways and that 
ominous crack. 

1242
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:56,300
Well, that's probably nothing. 
Probably your fellow Pirates are

1243
01:05:56,300 --> 01:05:59,400
stirring in their hammocks 
creating a chorus of Grunts and 

1244
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:02,900
snores that would make any 
Barnyard proud Jenkins. 

1245
01:06:02,900 --> 01:06:05,800
For example, talks passionately 
in his sleep about his mother's 

1246
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:08,600
apple pie, as if he were 
describing a hidden treasure. 

1247
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,200
And there's Weatherby. 
Snoring Could Wake the Dead 

1248
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,000
which is actually quite useful 
when you need to scare off any 

1249
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,500
ghostly visitors, you stretch, 
which is not for when you're 

1250
01:06:18,500 --> 01:06:22,000
suspended between two hooks and 
trying not to dump yourself onto

1251
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:26,000
the deck, like a sack of flour. 
Key is to do it slowly. 

1252
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:29,700
Like you're unfolding a map to 
treasure except the treasure is 

1253
01:06:29,700 --> 01:06:31,400
just being able to feel your 
toes again. 

1254
01:06:32,500 --> 01:06:35,200
The morning routine aboard. 
A pirate ship is remarkably 

1255
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,900
similar to any other morning 
routine, just with more 

1256
01:06:37,900 --> 01:06:41,100
splinters and a significantly 
higher chance of someone singing

1257
01:06:41,100 --> 01:06:42,900
sea shanties while brushing 
their teeth. 

1258
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,200
You've learned to appreciate 
These Quiet Moments before the 

1259
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:49,100
day truly begins. 
When the world feels manageable 

1260
01:06:49,100 --> 01:06:52,000
and your biggest concern is 
whether the ship's cat, has 

1261
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,500
decided to use your boots as a 
scratching post again. 

1262
01:06:55,300 --> 01:06:59,300
Speaking of the cat Duchess and 
yes, she insists on the title, 

1263
01:06:59,300 --> 01:07:02,700
has positioned herself in the 
one spot where the morning sun 

1264
01:07:02,700 --> 01:07:05,200
creates a perfect rectangle of 
warmth on the deck. 

1265
01:07:06,100 --> 01:07:08,800
She's mastered the art of 
looking both Regal and utterly 

1266
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:12,100
relaxed, which is frankly, 
something you aspire to achieve 

1267
01:07:12,100 --> 01:07:14,400
your self. 
Dutchess doesn't worry about 

1268
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,700
treasure maps or rival ships or 
whether the biscuits have gone 

1269
01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:21,400
stale, she simply located her 
own area of sunlight and fully 

1270
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:24,300
Embraces it. 
The smell of coffee drifted up 

1271
01:07:24,300 --> 01:07:27,500
from the galley, mixing with the
Salt Air, and the faint Center 

1272
01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:29,400
of tar, that never quite leaves 
the ship. 

1273
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:32,900
This combination should be 
unpleasant yet. 

1274
01:07:32,900 --> 01:07:36,200
It has somehow become as 
comforting as your grandmother's

1275
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,700
kitchen. 
Coffee on a pirate ship is 

1276
01:07:38,700 --> 01:07:41,900
serious business. 
The difference between a crew 

1277
01:07:41,900 --> 01:07:45,000
that can function and a crew 
that might accidentally sail 

1278
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:46,900
into a reef because they thought
it was a cloud. 

1279
01:07:46,900 --> 01:07:49,900
You finally managed to extract 
yourself from the hammock 

1280
01:07:49,900 --> 01:07:53,700
without performing an impromptu 
acrobatic routine which is a 

1281
01:07:53,700 --> 01:07:56,000
small victory worth celebrating 
your feet. 

1282
01:07:56,008 --> 01:07:59,000
Find the deck with the practice 
of someone who's learned to walk

1283
01:07:59,008 --> 01:08:01,900
on a Surface that's constantly 
trying to tip you over. 

1284
01:08:01,900 --> 01:08:05,300
It's like learning to dance with
a partner who keeps changing the

1285
01:08:05,300 --> 01:08:09,600
steps but eventually you find 
the Rhythm The deck is already 

1286
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,600
alive, with the gentle bustle of
mourning preparations. 

1287
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:16,399
It's not the Frantic energy of 
battle or the intense focus of 

1288
01:08:16,399 --> 01:08:21,200
navigating a storm Steady 
comfortable rhythm of people who

1289
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,600
know their place in the world, 
even if that place happens to be

1290
01:08:24,608 --> 01:08:27,899
on a wooden box, floating in the
middle of nowhere, you make your

1291
01:08:27,899 --> 01:08:29,899
way to the rail and look out at 
the endless. 

1292
01:08:29,899 --> 01:08:33,500
Expanse of ocean painted in the 
soft colors of dawn. 

1293
01:08:33,500 --> 01:08:37,300
It's a view that never gets old.
Even when you're having one of 

1294
01:08:37,300 --> 01:08:39,899
those days where you wonder what
possessed you to think that a 

1295
01:08:39,899 --> 01:08:42,600
life of adventure was better 
than a steady job with a 

1296
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,800
predictable schedule and a roof 
that didn't leak when it rained 

1297
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:47,800
after coffee, that could strip 
paint. 

1298
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,899
But somehow tastes like liquid 
motivation. 

1299
01:08:49,899 --> 01:08:53,200
You find yourself face to face 
with the daily reality that 

1300
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:56,899
every pirate learns, but no one 
ever mentioned in the stories. 

1301
01:08:57,700 --> 01:09:00,000
Ships, require an enormous 
amount of upkeep. 

1302
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:03,700
It's like owning a house, except
your house is constantly trying 

1303
01:09:03,700 --> 01:09:05,800
to sink and takes you with it. 
When it fails. 

1304
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:11,200
Today's task is rope work, which
sounds simple Until you realize 

1305
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:15,000
that a ship has more than a 
circus and most of it serves a 

1306
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,000
purpose. 
You're still trying to 

1307
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,100
understand. 
There's rope for the sails wrote

1308
01:09:19,100 --> 01:09:22,200
for the rigging, rope for tying 
things down, and wrote, for 

1309
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,899
tying them up. 
There's probably rope for tying 

1310
01:09:24,899 --> 01:09:27,300
rope to other Rope though. 
You haven't figured out the 

1311
01:09:27,308 --> 01:09:30,600
logic behind that particular 
system, yet you settle into the 

1312
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,800
rhythm of splicing, your hands 
moving with the muscle memory 

1313
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:37,300
that comes from months of 
practice. feels meditative in a 

1314
01:09:37,308 --> 01:09:40,500
way similar to knitting, but 
with the added benefit of 

1315
01:09:40,500 --> 01:09:44,300
preventing you from drowning, 
The rough hempz slides through 

1316
01:09:44,300 --> 01:09:47,300
your fingers and you find 
yourself appreciating the simple

1317
01:09:47,300 --> 01:09:50,300
satisfaction of creating 
something useful from something 

1318
01:09:50,300 --> 01:09:54,300
that was falling apart. 
Weatherby Works beside you 

1319
01:09:54,300 --> 01:09:56,900
humming a tune. 
That might be a sea shanty or 

1320
01:09:56,900 --> 01:09:59,300
something. 
He made up his fingers move with

1321
01:09:59,300 --> 01:10:01,600
a confidence of someone who has 
been doing this work since. 

1322
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:04,900
Before you knew the difference 
between port and starboard, he 

1323
01:10:04,900 --> 01:10:07,800
is the type of individual who 
can effortlessly tie a bowline 

1324
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,900
knot with his eyes closed often 
doing. 

1325
01:10:09,900 --> 01:10:14,200
So to demonstrate his skill, the
sun climbs higher, turning the 

1326
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,300
deck into a broad expanse of 
warmth. 

1327
01:10:16,900 --> 01:10:18,600
Makes you drowsy despite the 
work. 

1328
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:22,000
You've learned to Value these 
instances of uncomplicated 

1329
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:25,700
productivity where your hands 
are occupied, but your thoughts 

1330
01:10:25,700 --> 01:10:29,000
are free to roam. 
There's something deeply 

1331
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:32,200
satisfying about maintenance 
work, about keeping the ship 

1332
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:34,600
running smoothly through small 
careful actions. 

1333
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:38,900
The ship's Carpenter Morrison 
appears with his toolbox, Which 

1334
01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:41,900
is less a box and more. 
A portable Workshop that he 

1335
01:10:41,900 --> 01:10:43,300
somehow managed to fit into a 
space. 

1336
01:10:43,300 --> 01:10:47,000
The size of a Bread Basket. 
He is examining a section of the

1337
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,800
rail with the intensity of a 
doctor listening to a heartbeat 

1338
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:52,100
running. 
His fingers along the wood grain

1339
01:10:52,100 --> 01:10:55,300
like he's reading Braille 
carpentry on a ship, is an art 

1340
01:10:55,300 --> 01:10:57,700
form that requires equal, parts,
skill and creativity. 

1341
01:10:58,700 --> 01:11:00,400
He can't just run to the 
hardware store. 

1342
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:03,800
When something breaks you must 
adapt and sometimes make would 

1343
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:06,800
do what it wasn't meant to do. 
Morrison has elevated. 

1344
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:11,200
His craft to a form of Maritime 
magic Coke, repairs from scraps 

1345
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:12,900
and making the impossible seem 
routine. 

1346
01:11:12,900 --> 01:11:16,700
You watch him work noting how he
tests each piece of wood before 

1347
01:11:16,700 --> 01:11:19,400
committing to a cut. 
How he adjusts his approach 

1348
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,900
based on the Grain and the 
weather and probably half a 

1349
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:23,900
dozen other factors. 
You have not learned to notice. 

1350
01:11:23,900 --> 01:11:27,200
Yet this work embodies the 
essence of craftsmanship, 

1351
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:31,000
transforming raw, materials and 
accumulated knowledge and to 

1352
01:11:31,008 --> 01:11:33,900
something both functional and 
aesthetically pleasing. 

1353
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,300
The afternoon brings sale 
maintenance which is like doing 

1354
01:11:37,300 --> 01:11:39,100
laundry. 
If your laundry was the size of 

1355
01:11:39,100 --> 01:11:42,100
a house made of canvas that can 
have to stop arrows. 

1356
01:11:42,100 --> 01:11:46,300
You spread the sails, the deck 
searching for tears and weak 

1357
01:11:46,300 --> 01:11:48,300
spots with the methodical 
patients of someone who 

1358
01:11:48,300 --> 01:11:51,800
understands that a, small 
problem ignored becomes a big 

1359
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:53,500
problem at the worst possible 
moment. 

1360
01:11:54,300 --> 01:11:57,400
Needle and thread become your 
tools of choice and you settle 

1361
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:00,700
into the rhythm of mending. 
Each Stitch is a small Act of 

1362
01:12:00,708 --> 01:12:03,400
Faith in the future. 
A belief that this sale will 

1363
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:05,800
carry you safely to whatever 
destination awaits. 

1364
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,900
The workers repetitive but not 
monotonous require in just 

1365
01:12:09,900 --> 01:12:11,400
enough. 
Attention to keep your mind 

1366
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:13,700
engaged while leaving room for 
the kind of quiet. 

1367
01:12:13,700 --> 01:12:16,300
Contemplation, that comes 
naturally when your hands are 

1368
01:12:16,308 --> 01:12:20,200
busy with familiar tasks. 
The other crew members work 

1369
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:23,200
around you each focused on their
tasks but moving in a 

1370
01:12:23,208 --> 01:12:25,700
coordinated dance that comes 
from months of shared 

1371
01:12:25,700 --> 01:12:28,300
experience. 
There's Jenkins checking the 

1372
01:12:28,300 --> 01:12:30,400
water barrels. 
Testing each one with the 

1373
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,200
seriousness of a wine 
connoisseur. 

1374
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:35,600
There's Hutchins examining the 
Cannons with a tender care of 

1375
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:38,400
someone grooming a beloved Horse
by evening. 

1376
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:41,300
The ship feels renewed, not just
repairs. 

1377
01:12:41,300 --> 01:12:44,900
But somehow refreshed. 
Feeling that comes from putting 

1378
01:12:44,900 --> 01:12:48,200
in on his work from taking care 
of something that takes care of 

1379
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:50,900
you in return. 
The deck gleams in the Setting 

1380
01:12:50,900 --> 01:12:54,700
Sun and every rope is properly 
secured every sale, properly 

1381
01:12:54,700 --> 01:12:56,600
mended and every tool properly 
stowed. 

1382
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:59,900
The Galley is a Marvel of 
efficiently crammed into a space

1383
01:12:59,900 --> 01:13:01,600
that would make a closet feel 
spacious. 

1384
01:13:02,300 --> 01:13:05,300
The cook a man called biscuit 
Pete for reasons that become 

1385
01:13:05,300 --> 01:13:07,000
apparent. 
The moment you taste his 

1386
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,500
signature creation, has somehow 
managed to turn this tiny wooden

1387
01:13:10,500 --> 01:13:13,800
box into a functioning kitchen. 
It's like watching someone 

1388
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,300
perform surgery in a phone booth
except instead of saving lives. 

1389
01:13:17,300 --> 01:13:20,600
He's trying to make salt pork. 
Tastes like something you'd 

1390
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,300
voluntarily put in your mouth. 
You have come to appreciate 

1391
01:13:23,300 --> 01:13:26,300
Pizza Artistry though. 
It took some time to realize 

1392
01:13:26,300 --> 01:13:28,800
that cooking on a ship is less 
about creating culinary 

1393
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:32,100
masterpieces and more about 
preventing scurvy while using 

1394
01:13:32,100 --> 01:13:34,800
ingredients that have the shelf 
life of ancient cheese. 

1395
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:38,200
The man can do things with heart
attack that border on miraculous

1396
01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:41,600
transforming what is essentially
edible cardboard into something 

1397
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:46,100
that resembles actual food. 
The morning meal serves as an 

1398
01:13:46,100 --> 01:13:48,000
exercise in Innovative problem. 
Solving. 

1399
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:50,600
Heat takes yesterday's, leftover
stew. 

1400
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:54,200
Adds to today's portion of salt,
pork throws in some mysterious 

1401
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:57,000
spices that he guards more 
carefully than treasure and 

1402
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,400
somehow produces something that 
not only feels your belly. 

1403
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,400
But actually tastes like he 
meant for it to taste that way. 

1404
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:06,400
It's a masterful blend of 
Simplicity and Alchemy you eat. 

1405
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,800
With the focused attention of 
someone who has learned that 

1406
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:12,200
mealtimes are precious, things 
not to be wasted on conversation

1407
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,000
or contemplation. 
The food is hot, it's 

1408
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,600
substantial and its infinitely 
better than anything. 

1409
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:21,000
You could produce yourself which
makes peat something of a wizard

1410
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:24,000
in your estimation. 
The fact that he can do all this

1411
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:26,800
while the ship rocks and rolls 
like a carnival ride, just adds 

1412
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:30,100
to his Mystique. 
After breakfast the day, 

1413
01:14:30,100 --> 01:14:32,200
stretches ahead, with the 
comfortable predictability of 

1414
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:34,600
routine. 
There's always something that 

1415
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:37,700
needs doing on a ship but it's 
rarely urgent enough to create 

1416
01:14:37,700 --> 01:14:40,700
panic. 
Instead, you settle into the 

1417
01:14:40,700 --> 01:14:43,700
steady rhythm of Maintenance and
preparation that keeps 

1418
01:14:43,700 --> 01:14:47,500
everything running smoothly. 
Today's project is organizing, 

1419
01:14:47,500 --> 01:14:50,200
the supply room which is like 
playing a three-dimensional 

1420
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:52,800
puzzle where all the pieces are 
different sizes and shapes and 

1421
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:57,100
some of them smell questionable.
Space is precious necessitating.

1422
01:14:57,100 --> 01:15:00,700
Every item to fit perfectly and 
accessibility is crucial, when 

1423
01:15:00,700 --> 01:15:04,200
you need something urgently, you
work methodically, creating 

1424
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:06,600
order from chaos, 1 barrel and 
created time. 

1425
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,700
There's something deeply 
satisfying about this kind of 

1426
01:15:09,700 --> 01:15:13,300
work, that creating systems that
make sense and will still make 

1427
01:15:13,300 --> 01:15:16,800
sense when you need the most. 
Its kind of tasks that lets your

1428
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:20,200
mind wander while your hands 
stay busy creating the perfect 

1429
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,900
conditions for the kind of 
daydreaming that makes long days

1430
01:15:22,900 --> 01:15:26,500
pass quickly. 
The afternoon brings inventory 

1431
01:15:26,500 --> 01:15:29,400
duties, which sounds tedious but
is actually quite fascinating 

1432
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:30,900
once you get into the rhythm of 
it. 

1433
01:15:31,700 --> 01:15:34,300
Every item tells a story about 
where the ship has been and 

1434
01:15:34,300 --> 01:15:37,300
where it's going. 
The Exotic spices of tropical 

1435
01:15:37,300 --> 01:15:41,200
ports and bustling markets the 
roles of silk hint at wealthy 

1436
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:45,200
merchants and profitable trades,
even mundane items, like rope 

1437
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:48,400
and Nails have their own stories
to share about the Practical 

1438
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:52,400
realities of Life at sea. 
You meticulously catalog, each 

1439
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:55,700
item aware that precise 
documentation can make the 

1440
01:15:55,700 --> 01:15:58,800
difference between being well 
prepared and unprepared during 

1441
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,400
critical moments. 
Its details work. 

1442
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:05,500
That requires Focus, but it's 
also oddly meditative like 

1443
01:16:05,500 --> 01:16:08,500
counting beads on a rosary or 
stones on a beach. 

1444
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,200
The ship's Rhythm becomes your 
Rhythm as you work. 

1445
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,500
The gentle roll and pitch that 
once made, you see sick now, 

1446
01:16:14,500 --> 01:16:18,200
feels natural like breathing. 
You've learned to use the ship's

1447
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:21,000
motion to your advantage, 
letting it help you move heavy 

1448
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,300
items and find your balance in 
tight spaces. 

1449
01:16:24,300 --> 01:16:25,900
It's a dance. 
You've mastered without 

1450
01:16:25,900 --> 01:16:29,000
realizing you are learning. 
The steps dinner is another of 

1451
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:31,400
Pete's creative. 
Triumphs this time involving 

1452
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:34,500
fish that was caught this 
morning and vegetables that have

1453
01:16:34,500 --> 01:16:37,900
somehow remained fresh despite 
being stored in conditions that 

1454
01:16:37,900 --> 01:16:40,800
would challenge a root cellar. 
The meal is simple but 

1455
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:43,600
satisfying proof that good 
cooking is more about 

1456
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:46,300
understanding your ingredients 
than having access to fancy 

1457
01:16:46,300 --> 01:16:49,000
equipment. 
You eat as the sun sets 

1458
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:53,000
painting, the sky in colors that
would make any artist, weep With

1459
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:57,300
Envy The day feels complete in a
way that has nothing to do with 

1460
01:16:57,300 --> 01:17:00,700
excitement or adventure and 
everything to do with the Deep 

1461
01:17:00,700 --> 01:17:02,900
satisfaction of useful work. 
Well done. 

1462
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:07,300
Feeling of contentment, with the
simple rhythms of daily life at 

1463
01:17:07,300 --> 01:17:10,400
Sea creeps up on you. 
The morning brings one of those 

1464
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,300
days when the wind decides to 
take a vacation leaving, you 

1465
01:17:13,300 --> 01:17:15,900
floating on water. 
So still, it looks like polished

1466
01:17:15,900 --> 01:17:18,900
glass. 
The sales hang limp and dejected

1467
01:17:18,900 --> 01:17:21,400
like laundry. 
That's given up hope of ever 

1468
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:23,900
getting dry. 
It's the kind of weather that 

1469
01:17:23,900 --> 01:17:26,400
makes you appreciate just how 
much your progress depends on 

1470
01:17:26,408 --> 01:17:29,800
forces completely beyond your 
control and stories. 

1471
01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:32,800
Pirates are always charging 
across the waves at Breakneck 

1472
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:34,600
speed. 
But the reality is that 

1473
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:37,300
sometimes you just sit there 
bobbing, like, a cork in a 

1474
01:17:37,300 --> 01:17:40,200
bathtub waiting for nature to 
remember that it has a job to 

1475
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,600
do. 
These become days, test your 

1476
01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:46,700
patience in ways that Storms 
Never do because at least in a 

1477
01:17:46,700 --> 01:17:48,000
storm, your busy trying, not to 
die. 

1478
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,500
You learn to adapt to the rhythm
of waiting which requires a 

1479
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:54,300
unique kind of skill. 
Some of the crew break out, Dice

1480
01:17:54,300 --> 01:17:57,500
and cards, creating small, 
Circles of concentration and 

1481
01:17:57,500 --> 01:18:00,200
friendly competition. 
Others, take up projects that 

1482
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,500
require time and attention 
whittling, mending clothes or 

1483
01:18:03,500 --> 01:18:06,500
writing letters. 
They may never send finding a 

1484
01:18:06,500 --> 01:18:09,400
task to occupy your hands. 
While accepting the fundamental 

1485
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:11,600
truth, that you will reach your 
destination as crucial. 

1486
01:18:12,700 --> 01:18:14,900
Ship takes on a different 
personality during these still 

1487
01:18:14,900 --> 01:18:18,300
periods in the absence of the 
constant sound of wind and 

1488
01:18:18,300 --> 01:18:21,500
waves, you become aware of 
details often overlooked in the 

1489
01:18:21,508 --> 01:18:23,900
overall chaos. 
The subtle changes in 

1490
01:18:23,900 --> 01:18:26,300
temperature causes the wood to 
expand and contract. 

1491
01:18:27,100 --> 01:18:30,000
You hear the gentle sound of 
fish, leaping in the distance, 

1492
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,900
the rigging adjusting to the 
ships, gentle movements as an 

1493
01:18:33,900 --> 01:18:37,100
almost musical quality. 
You find yourself working on a 

1494
01:18:37,100 --> 01:18:40,100
project that's been waiting for.
Just this kind of day repairing 

1495
01:18:40,100 --> 01:18:44,000
a fishing net that seem better 
decades, its detailed work, that

1496
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:47,800
requires patience and attention.
Perfect for when time moves like

1497
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:52,700
honey and winter, each knot is a
small meditation, each repair a 

1498
01:18:52,700 --> 01:18:55,000
minor Victory against the forces
that want to pull everything 

1499
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:57,600
apart. 
Weatherby has stationed himself 

1500
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,500
at the bow with his fishing 
line, approaching the task. 

1501
01:19:00,500 --> 01:19:03,400
With the serious concentration 
of someone who understands that 

1502
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:06,100
fresh fish can transform an 
ordinary day into something 

1503
01:19:06,100 --> 01:19:08,900
special. 
He's got the patience of a monk 

1504
01:19:08,900 --> 01:19:11,200
and the optimism of someone who 
believes that. 

1505
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:13,700
The perfect fish is always just 
one Cast Away. 

1506
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:18,100
The afternoon sun turns the deck
into a warm comfortable 

1507
01:19:18,100 --> 01:19:21,600
workspace, you can spray out 
your projects and take your time

1508
01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:24,700
with them. 
There's no rush no urgency. 

1509
01:19:24,700 --> 01:19:28,700
Just the steady progression of 
small tasks that make the ship a

1510
01:19:28,700 --> 01:19:31,500
little more comfortable, a 
little more efficient, a little 

1511
01:19:31,508 --> 01:19:36,000
more like home. 
Ship's cat Duchess has claimed a

1512
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,800
spot in the shade where she can 
supervise the general activity 

1513
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:40,800
while staying cool. 
She's mastered. 

1514
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:44,300
The art of looking both alert 
and completely relaxed which is 

1515
01:19:44,308 --> 01:19:47,000
frankly. 
An inspiration Duchess doesn't 

1516
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:50,500
worry about making progress or 
reaching destinations she just 

1517
01:19:50,500 --> 01:19:53,400
finds the most comfortable spot 
available and makes it her own 

1518
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:56,600
you work on the net with the 
kind of focused attention that 

1519
01:19:56,600 --> 01:19:59,000
comes naturally when you have 
nowhere else to be and nothing 

1520
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:03,000
else to do each section reveals 
new damage that needs attention 

1521
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,700
but also shows you how well the 
original Craftsman. 

1522
01:20:05,700 --> 01:20:08,600
New is business, the repairs 
become a conversation between 

1523
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:12,200
you and the unknown person who 
made this net, your modern not 

1524
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,000
joining his ancient ones in a 
pattern, that's both functional 

1525
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:18,100
and beautiful. 
The evening brings a slight 

1526
01:20:18,100 --> 01:20:20,700
breeze. 
Just enough to give the sales 

1527
01:20:20,700 --> 01:20:24,300
something to work with. 
It's not much, but it's enough 

1528
01:20:24,300 --> 01:20:27,600
to create the illusion of 
progress and sometimes the 

1529
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:31,400
illusion is sufficient. 
Ship moves again slowly. 

1530
01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:33,900
But surely as if it knows where 
it's going. 

1531
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:38,500
Dinner is enhanced by Weatherby 
successful fishing Expedition, 

1532
01:20:38,500 --> 01:20:41,800
fresh fish that tastes like the 
ocean but in the best possible 

1533
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:43,800
way. 
Pete performed. 

1534
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,700
His usual magic transforming 
simple ingredients into a feast 

1535
01:20:47,700 --> 01:20:51,100
fit for a celebration. 
The meal is consumed with the 

1536
01:20:51,100 --> 01:20:53,300
satisfaction of people who've 
earned their food through 

1537
01:20:53,300 --> 01:20:56,300
patience and persistence as 
night falls. 

1538
01:20:56,300 --> 01:20:59,500
You realize that this day of 
apparent inactivity is actually 

1539
01:20:59,500 --> 01:21:03,400
been quite productive, projects,
completed skills, practice and 

1540
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:07,100
patient exercise like a muscle 
that gets stronger with use. 

1541
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:11,300
The ship is in better condition 
than it was this morning and so 

1542
01:21:11,300 --> 01:21:14,000
are you? 
Sometimes the best progress 

1543
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,300
happens when you're not even 
trying to make it evening on a 

1544
01:21:17,300 --> 01:21:19,500
pirate ship, has a different 
quality than evening anywhere 

1545
01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:22,900
else as the sun, settles into 
the Horizon, like a coin, 

1546
01:21:22,900 --> 01:21:25,700
dropped into a slot. 
The crew begins to gather on 

1547
01:21:25,700 --> 01:21:28,500
deck in the natural way that 
people do when the days work is 

1548
01:21:28,500 --> 01:21:31,000
done and the night's rest is 
still hours away. 

1549
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:34,900
This is a time for stories, 
although they are not the kind 

1550
01:21:34,900 --> 01:21:38,400
you might expect the tales that 
get told aren't about buried 

1551
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:41,000
treasure or sword, fights, or 
dramatic rescues. 

1552
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:45,000
Instead, there are about the 
small human moments that make up

1553
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,000
a life at sea. 
Jenkins tells about the time he 

1554
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:50,800
tried to cook dinner for the 
crew and nearly set the ship on 

1555
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:54,400
fire demonstrating, the good 
intentions, and basic competence

1556
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:57,300
are not always the same thing. 
Hutchins shares. 

1557
01:21:57,300 --> 01:22:00,100
His ongoing battle with a 
particular piece of rigging that

1558
01:22:00,100 --> 01:22:01,500
seems to determine to untie 
itself. 

1559
01:22:01,500 --> 01:22:04,200
No matter how many different 
knots he tries. 

1560
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:07,300
You've learned that every person
on the ship has at least three 

1561
01:22:07,300 --> 01:22:08,600
different versions of 
themselves. 

1562
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:12,500
There are three people who they 
were before the scene, they want

1563
01:22:12,500 --> 01:22:16,900
to be and who they are now. 
The stories that get shared in 

1564
01:22:16,900 --> 01:22:19,400
these evening, Gatherings are 
usually about the gaps between 

1565
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:22,200
these versions told with the 
kind of humor that comes from 

1566
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:24,700
having survived your mistakes 
Morrison. 

1567
01:22:24,700 --> 01:22:27,900
The ship's carpenter has a gift 
for telling stories that sound 

1568
01:22:27,900 --> 01:22:30,800
completely unbelievable. 
But a delivered with such 

1569
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:34,100
deadpan seriousness that you 
can't help but think they might 

1570
01:22:34,100 --> 01:22:37,400
actually be true tonight. 
He's recounting his attempt to 

1571
01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:40,400
build a chicken coupon deck, 
only to discover that chickens 

1572
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:43,100
and ships have fundamentally 
different ideas about what 

1573
01:22:43,100 --> 01:22:47,000
constitutes a stable Foundation.
The mental image of Morrison 

1574
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:48,900
chasing Escape chickens around 
the rigging. 

1575
01:22:48,900 --> 01:22:51,900
While trying to maintain his 
dignity is worth the price of 

1576
01:22:51,900 --> 01:22:54,700
admission. 
The social dynamics of a pirate 

1577
01:22:54,700 --> 01:22:56,900
ship, a more complex than 
outside as might imagine. 

1578
01:22:56,900 --> 01:23:01,100
You're not just a crew, you're a
floating Community, a small 

1579
01:23:01,100 --> 01:23:04,000
society that has to solve all 
the problems that any society 

1580
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,700
faces except you're doing it on 
a wooden platform surrounded by 

1581
01:23:07,700 --> 01:23:09,700
water with no option to leave if
things. 

1582
01:23:09,700 --> 01:23:13,000
Get uncomfortable, the task 
requires a particular kind of 

1583
01:23:13,008 --> 01:23:15,900
diplomacy the way of handling, 
disagreements, that 

1584
01:23:15,900 --> 01:23:18,400
acknowledges, everyone's 
Humanity, while keeping the 

1585
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:21,500
peace, you've learned to 
appreciate the unspoken rules 

1586
01:23:21,500 --> 01:23:24,200
that govern these evening, 
Gatherings, no one talks about 

1587
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:28,000
the obvious things, the dangers.
The uncertain is the fact that 

1588
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:30,800
you're all essentially homeless 
and have chosen this life 

1589
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:32,500
partly. 
Because the alternative seemed 

1590
01:23:32,500 --> 01:23:36,600
worse, instead the conversation 
flows around safer, topics 

1591
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:40,000
techniques for splicing rope 
theories, about weather 

1592
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:43,300
patterns, and philosophical 
discussion about the best way to

1593
01:23:43,300 --> 01:23:46,400
cook fish. 
Ship's musical instruments, make

1594
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:48,100
their appearance as the evening 
progresses. 

1595
01:23:48,100 --> 01:23:51,800
There's a fiddle that seen 
better decades, a drum made from

1596
01:23:51,808 --> 01:23:54,600
a barrel and some stretched 
leather and a wooden flute. 

1597
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:58,000
That produces a surprisingly 
Sweet Sound, despite its rough 

1598
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:01,000
appearance, the music that 
emerges isn't polished or 

1599
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:04,200
professional but it has a 
quality that connects everyone 

1600
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,100
in a way that words sometimes 
can't. 

1601
01:24:07,100 --> 01:24:10,400
Whether he has a surprisingly 
powerful singing voice, which he

1602
01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:13,500
uses to lead the crew through 
songs that everyone knows but no

1603
01:24:13,500 --> 01:24:16,600
one can remember learning. 
These aren't the dramatic. 

1604
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:20,000
Sea shanties of Legend, but the 
working songs that help pass 

1605
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:23,600
time and coordinate effort. 
These songs are about simple 

1606
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:26,800
repetitive tasks, such as 
hauling wrote and raising sails,

1607
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:28,400
which keep the ship moving 
forward. 

1608
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:31,900
You find yourself joining in 
your voice, blending with the 

1609
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:34,800
others in a Harmony, that is 
more enthusiastic than accurate.

1610
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:38,100
This communal music making 
brings a profound sense of 

1611
01:24:38,100 --> 01:24:41,800
satisfaction, as it allows us to
create something that transcends

1612
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:45,500
our individual contributions. 
It's a reminder that humans are 

1613
01:24:45,500 --> 01:24:48,100
social creatures that we need 
these connections to feel 

1614
01:24:48,100 --> 01:24:51,100
complete. 
The evening wins down gradually 

1615
01:24:51,100 --> 01:24:54,500
with no formal ending, but a 
natural dispersal as people 

1616
01:24:54,500 --> 01:24:56,400
drift off to their own private 
spaces. 

1617
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:59,500
Some head below to write in 
journals or letters. 

1618
01:24:59,500 --> 01:25:02,300
Others, stay on Deck to enjoy 
the night air and the 

1619
01:25:02,300 --> 01:25:05,100
spectacular display of stars 
that you can only see when your 

1620
01:25:05,100 --> 01:25:09,200
Far From Any City Lights. 
Ship settles into its nighttime,

1621
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:13,000
Rhythm the gentle creaking and 
swaying that will allow you to 

1622
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,900
sleep. 
As you make your way to your 

1623
01:25:14,908 --> 01:25:17,800
hammock, you reflect on the 
evenings conversations and 

1624
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,500
realize that you've learned more
about your crewmates in a few 

1625
01:25:20,508 --> 01:25:23,600
hours of casual talk, and you 
might have in weeks of formal 

1626
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:27,000
interaction, These evening 
Gatherings or where the real 

1627
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:30,100
business of building trust. 
And understanding happens where 

1628
01:25:30,100 --> 01:25:33,000
a group of individuals slowly 
transforms into something more 

1629
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:36,100
like a family, this morning's 
different because it brings an 

1630
01:25:36,100 --> 01:25:40,200
unexpected lesson in navigation 
courtesy of the ship's Navigator

1631
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:44,200
old Sam who isn't actually that 
old but got the nickname because

1632
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,500
he's been reading the Stars 
longer than anyone else on 

1633
01:25:46,500 --> 01:25:48,800
board. 
Sam has decided it's time to 

1634
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:51,200
share some of his knowledge 
either because he is feeling 

1635
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:53,500
generous or because he's 
realized that having backup 

1636
01:25:53,500 --> 01:25:56,800
Navigators might be a good idea.
You gather around the chart 

1637
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:59,800
table which is really just a 
flat surface that's been pressed

1638
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:03,400
into Service as a classroom. 
Sam spreads out his charts with 

1639
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:07,000
the reverence of someone 
handling sacred texts which in a

1640
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,400
way they are. 
The hand-drawn map, symbolized 

1641
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:13,100
the accumulated knowledge and 
wisdom of numerous Sailors who 

1642
01:26:13,100 --> 01:26:15,700
have traversed, these Waters and
survive to share their 

1643
01:26:15,700 --> 01:26:19,500
experiences, Sam's approach to 
teaching as practical and 

1644
01:26:19,500 --> 01:26:22,200
straightforward, he doesn't 
waste time with theoretical 

1645
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:24,200
explanations. 
When he can show you how to do 

1646
01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:26,800
something useful. 
You learn to read the wind 

1647
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:29,600
patterns by watching the way the
waves form and break you 

1648
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:32,000
discover that clouds can tell 
you about whether that's still 

1649
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:35,400
hours away and that the color of
the water often reveals what's 

1650
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:38,700
happening beneath the surface, 
the afternoon is dedicated to 

1651
01:26:38,700 --> 01:26:42,100
knot tying, which sounds simple 
Until you realize that there are

1652
01:26:42,100 --> 01:26:45,500
dozens of different knots each 
designed for a specific purpose.

1653
01:26:45,500 --> 01:26:48,900
The bowline, for instance, 
creates a loop that is not only 

1654
01:26:48,900 --> 01:26:52,800
non-slip but also easily untied.
Clove hitch is perfect for 

1655
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,200
securing a rope to a post the 
Sheep. 

1656
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:58,600
Bend connects, two ropes of 
varying thicknesses, each knot 

1657
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:01,500
has its personality, its own 
particular combination of 

1658
01:27:01,500 --> 01:27:04,700
strength and flexibility. 
You practice with the focused 

1659
01:27:04,700 --> 01:27:07,200
attention of someone who 
understands that these skills 

1660
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:09,500
might someday be the difference 
between life and death. 

1661
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:12,400
Your fingers, learn the 
movements through repetition 

1662
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:15,200
developing the muscle memory 
that will let you tie these 

1663
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:17,700
knots in the dark in a storm 
Under Pressure. 

1664
01:27:17,700 --> 01:27:22,200
His meditative work, the kind of
practice that quiets the mind 

1665
01:27:22,200 --> 01:27:24,600
while training. 
The hands Weatherby has 

1666
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:27,200
appointed himself as your 
informal instructor in the art 

1667
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:30,600
of splicing, which is like not 
tying more sophisticated cousin.

1668
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:34,700
Splicing involves unraveling the
individual strands of rope and 

1669
01:27:34,700 --> 01:27:37,200
weaving them back together in 
patterns that create permanent 

1670
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:39,200
joints stronger than the 
original rope. 

1671
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:42,100
Its intricate work. 
That requires patience and 

1672
01:27:42,100 --> 01:27:45,400
precision that the results are 
both functional and beautiful. 

1673
01:27:46,300 --> 01:27:48,900
The ship itself becomes your 
classroom as you learn to read 

1674
01:27:48,900 --> 01:27:51,800
its moods and needs every sound 
means something. 

1675
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:55,900
Every movement tells a story, 
the way the masks Flexes in the 

1676
01:27:55,900 --> 01:27:59,200
wind, the angle of the deck, 
when the ship heals over the 

1677
01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:02,400
rhythm of the Waves against the 
hull, all of these become part 

1678
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:05,600
of your vocabulary, a language 
that speaks of wind and weather 

1679
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:09,300
and the endless conversation 
between wood and water. you 

1680
01:28:09,300 --> 01:28:11,700
discover that maintenance is 
actually a form of Education, 

1681
01:28:11,700 --> 01:28:14,700
each repair teaching you 
something about the ship's 

1682
01:28:14,700 --> 01:28:19,100
construction and the thinking 
that went into its design When 

1683
01:28:19,100 --> 01:28:21,900
you replace a worn piece of 
rigging, you learn about the 

1684
01:28:21,900 --> 01:28:25,600
forces that cause the wear when 
you patch Elite, you understand 

1685
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:28,700
better how water Finds Its way 
into the smallest weakness. 

1686
01:28:28,700 --> 01:28:32,300
The evening brings a different 
kind of lesson as Morrison. 

1687
01:28:32,300 --> 01:28:34,500
Demonstrates. 
The finer points of woodworking 

1688
01:28:34,500 --> 01:28:38,600
with tools that are both simple 
and sophisticated, he shows you 

1689
01:28:38,608 --> 01:28:41,600
how to read the grain of wood. 
How to work with its natural 

1690
01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:44,900
strengths and stead of fighting 
against them, his hands move 

1691
01:28:44,900 --> 01:28:47,800
with the confidence of someone 
who spent Years Learning to see 

1692
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:50,900
what others Miss to find the 
hidden potential in raw 

1693
01:28:50,900 --> 01:28:54,100
materials as your confidence. 
Grows you begin carving. 

1694
01:28:54,100 --> 01:28:57,600
Begin with simple shapes that 
gradually become more complex. 

1695
01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:02,100
The wood responds to your touch 
revealing its character through 

1696
01:29:02,100 --> 01:29:04,600
the resistance. 
It offers and the way it accepts

1697
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:08,500
the blade, it's a conversation 
between Craftsman and materials 

1698
01:29:08,500 --> 01:29:11,000
each, cutting a word in an 
ongoing dialogue. 

1699
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:14,300
You realize that you've learned 
more in these few hours than in 

1700
01:29:14,300 --> 01:29:17,700
weeks of formal instruction. 
The ships experienced crew 

1701
01:29:17,700 --> 01:29:20,300
members have a gift for teaching
through demonstration and gentle

1702
01:29:20,300 --> 01:29:23,400
correction sharing their skills 
in a way that makes learning 

1703
01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:26,200
feel natural and inevitable new 
skills. 

1704
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:28,300
Boost your confidence and value 
to the crew. 

1705
01:29:28,300 --> 01:29:31,200
But more importantly, they can 
connect you to the ship in its 

1706
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:33,600
Community. 
The final light of day, Paints 

1707
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:35,600
the ocean in shades of gold and 
crimson. 

1708
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:39,100
And you find yourself at the 
ship's rail looking out at the 

1709
01:29:39,100 --> 01:29:42,100
endless, expanse of water that 
has become your world. 

1710
01:29:42,100 --> 01:29:45,100
There's a moment of quiet 
contemplation, that comes 

1711
01:29:45,100 --> 01:29:48,100
naturally at this time of day 
when the work is done and the 

1712
01:29:48,100 --> 01:29:49,900
evening's activities, haven't 
yet begun. 

1713
01:29:49,900 --> 01:29:53,200
When you can step back and 
consider, the strange turns your

1714
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:56,400
life has taken you think about 
the person you were before you 

1715
01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:59,600
came to see and how that person 
might React to seeing you now. 

1716
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:04,300
The skills, you've learned the 
calluses on your hands, the way 

1717
01:30:04,300 --> 01:30:06,500
you automatically, adjust your 
balance to match. 

1718
01:30:06,500 --> 01:30:09,900
The ship's movement, these are 
all markers of transformation, 

1719
01:30:09,900 --> 01:30:13,400
evidence of how people change 
when they're placed in new 

1720
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:15,100
circumstances and give him time 
to adapt. 

1721
01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:18,700
The pirate's life you've 
discovered is less about 

1722
01:30:18,700 --> 01:30:21,000
Adventure and more about 
adaptation. 

1723
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:23,800
It's about learning to find 
satisfaction in simple 

1724
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,700
accomplishments to appreciate 
the small victories that keep 

1725
01:30:26,700 --> 01:30:29,100
life. 
Moving forward, the successful 

1726
01:30:29,100 --> 01:30:32,800
repair of a sale, the perfect 
splice in a rope, the moment, 

1727
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:36,100
when a difficult not finally 
comes together, these are the 

1728
01:30:36,100 --> 01:30:39,400
real Treasures, the daily 
rewards that make the larger 

1729
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:42,900
challenges worthwhile. 
You've learned that Community 

1730
01:30:42,900 --> 01:30:45,600
forms naturally among people who
depend on each other for 

1731
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:48,600
survival, but that it takes 
conscious effort to maintain 

1732
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:52,000
that community over time 
evening, Gatherings the shared 

1733
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:53,900
meals, the informal teaching 
sessions. 

1734
01:30:53,900 --> 01:30:57,300
These are all ways of weaving 
individual lives into a larger 

1735
01:30:57,308 --> 01:31:01,300
tapestry creating connections 
that go beyond mere cooperation.

1736
01:31:02,900 --> 01:31:07,100
The ship creeks and sighs around
you settling into its nighttime.

1737
01:31:07,100 --> 01:31:09,800
Rhythm with the familiar sounds 
that have become as comforting 

1738
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:12,500
as a lullaby. 
You've learned to read these 

1739
01:31:12,500 --> 01:31:16,100
sounds to distinguish between 
the normal settling of wooden 

1740
01:31:16,100 --> 01:31:19,100
rope and the unusual noises that
might signal problems. 

1741
01:31:19,700 --> 01:31:22,400
This awareness has become 
instinctive part of the 

1742
01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:24,500
background Consciousness that 
keeps you alert to your 

1743
01:31:24,508 --> 01:31:27,200
environment. 
You think about the myths and 

1744
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:30,500
stories, that surround pirate 
life, and how different the 

1745
01:31:30,500 --> 01:31:34,600
reality has turned out to be the
romance of Adventure is real but

1746
01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:38,500
it's found in unexpected places 
and the satisfaction of honest 

1747
01:31:38,500 --> 01:31:42,200
work in the beauty of sunset 
over open water in the Deep 

1748
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:44,900
contentment that comes from 
being part of something larger 

1749
01:31:44,900 --> 01:31:48,600
than yourself. 
Treasure isn't gold or Jewels, 

1750
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:51,600
but the accumulation of skills 
and relationships and 

1751
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:54,000
experiences that make you more 
than you were before. 

1752
01:31:54,900 --> 01:31:58,000
The stars begin to appear first,
a few scattered Points of Light,

1753
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:01,300
then a magnificent display that 
stretches from Horizon to 

1754
01:32:01,300 --> 01:32:03,500
Horizon. 
You've learned to use these 

1755
01:32:03,500 --> 01:32:06,600
stars for navigation, but you've
also learned to appreciate them 

1756
01:32:06,600 --> 01:32:09,100
for their beauty for the way. 
They can connect you to 

1757
01:32:09,100 --> 01:32:13,200
something vast and eternal, the 
same stars that guided ancient 

1758
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:16,200
Sailors, still shine down. 
On you, making you part of a 

1759
01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:19,800
tradition that spans centuries. 
As you prepare to head below for

1760
01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:22,800
the night, you realize that you 
found something unexpected in 

1761
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:25,900
this life at sea. 
Not the excitement and danger 

1762
01:32:25,900 --> 01:32:28,300
that the stories promised but 
something more. 

1763
01:32:28,300 --> 01:32:32,700
Valuable a sense of purpose, a 
feeling of belonging, the Deep 

1764
01:32:32,700 --> 01:32:35,300
satisfaction that comes from 
honest work and genuine 

1765
01:32:35,300 --> 01:32:38,500
community, Ship has become more 
than a vehicle. 

1766
01:32:38,500 --> 01:32:41,700
It's become home. 
The hammock that once seemed 

1767
01:32:41,700 --> 01:32:44,500
foreign and uncomfortable. 
Now, welcomes, you with familiar

1768
01:32:44,500 --> 01:32:47,800
Embrace, The Gentle rocking 
motion that once made you 

1769
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:51,200
seasick now, soothes you to 
sleep, The sounds of the ship 

1770
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:52,800
and the sea. 
That once, kept, you awake. 

1771
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:56,500
Now, form, a peaceful Symphony 
that carries you into dreams, 

1772
01:32:56,500 --> 01:32:59,700
you close your eyes and let the 
ship carry you forward into 

1773
01:32:59,700 --> 01:33:02,600
whatever tomorrow might bring 
secure in the knowledge that 

1774
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:04,700
you've learned to find 
contentment, in the simple 

1775
01:33:04,700 --> 01:33:08,500
rhythms of daily life at sea. 
The pirates life, when you're 

1776
01:33:08,500 --> 01:33:11,800
not looting, turns out to be 
remarkably, similar to any other

1777
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:15,600
life, filled with routine, tasks
small pleasures and the ongoing 

1778
01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:18,100
challenge of building something 
meaningful from the raw 

1779
01:33:18,100 --> 01:33:19,800
materials of time and 
Circumstance. 

1780
01:33:20,900 --> 01:33:23,800
The ocean continues, its Eternal
conversation with the ship and 

1781
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:27,000
you drift off to sleep cradled. 
In the arms of the sea that has 

1782
01:33:27,008 --> 01:33:30,400
become your teacher, your home, 
and your pathway to 

1783
01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:33,400
understanding what it means to 
live deliberately in a world 

1784
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:42,700
that's constantly in motion. 
In the year, 896 CE in the heart

1785
01:33:42,700 --> 01:33:44,300
of baghdad's intellectual 
quarter. 

1786
01:33:44,300 --> 01:33:48,200
Al Hussein bin, qasim brushed 
desert dust from the folds of 

1787
01:33:48,208 --> 01:33:50,900
his linen. 
Robe unaware of the storms that 

1788
01:33:50,900 --> 01:33:52,600
fate would soon. 
Unleash upon him. 

1789
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:55,600
He studied the Myriad scholarly,
Gatherings outside. 

1790
01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:59,200
The house of wisdom voices 
blended into a layered chorus, 

1791
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:03,100
mathematicians, debated, 
geometric proofs poets, recited 

1792
01:34:03,100 --> 01:34:06,700
verses on ephemeral Beauty and 
astronomers charted, Celestial 

1793
01:34:06,700 --> 01:34:09,000
Mysteries. 
The call of knowledge was 

1794
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:12,700
Unstoppable and its Echoes 
hinted at New Horizons beyond 

1795
01:34:12,700 --> 01:34:15,300
the city's walls. 
Well, though, he hailed from a 

1796
01:34:15,300 --> 01:34:18,800
modest family of date, Merchants
Al Hussein possessed an innate 

1797
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:21,900
curiosity that surpassed every 
constraint of status. 

1798
01:34:22,700 --> 01:34:25,000
Weeks earlier he had been 
approached by the renowned 

1799
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:27,900
translator unicycle Cindy who 
recognized promise in his 

1800
01:34:27,908 --> 01:34:31,800
approach ancient texts. 
Eunice had whispered rumors of a

1801
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:34,600
manuscripts stored in a distant 
Library, along the Red Sea 

1802
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:37,300
Coast. 
The Codex said to hold fragments

1803
01:34:37,300 --> 01:34:41,000
from vanished Civilizations, for
Al Hussein, the prospect of 

1804
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:43,700
unearthing lost Secrets, 
eclipsed all thought of comfort 

1805
01:34:43,700 --> 01:34:46,500
or Security on that mild Autumn 
morning. 

1806
01:34:46,500 --> 01:34:50,000
The city's horizons shimmered 
with trade, Caravans, and the 

1807
01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:52,800
sun swirl of travelers from 
every corner of the Known World,

1808
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:56,000
Greek philosophers Persian, 
Scholars and Indian 

1809
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,000
mathematicians, crowded and 
thoroughfares exchanging 

1810
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:00,700
theories. 
And goods under the caliph 

1811
01:35:00,700 --> 01:35:04,200
tolerant gaze, their house of 
wisdom had become a magnet for 

1812
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:08,000
knowledge, a beacon that Drew in
talents as diverse as the spices

1813
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:11,800
sold in baghdad's markets. 
Under the atmospheric Mosaic. 

1814
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,500
Al Hussein felt keenly that his 
Destiny. 

1815
01:35:14,500 --> 01:35:16,500
Extended Beyond these story 
streets. 

1816
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:20,500
Eunice Aldi had given him a 
letter of Passage sealed with 

1817
01:35:20,500 --> 01:35:23,700
the translators, distinctive 
monogram allowing safe conduct 

1818
01:35:23,700 --> 01:35:26,800
through the desert roots. 
The cryptic list of questions 

1819
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:29,200
about that ancient codex 
queries. 

1820
01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:33,000
No one else could decipher 
loomed large Al Hussein. 

1821
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:36,600
Grasped the significance? 
if the manuscript existed, it 

1822
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:39,200
might reveal the Lost 
methodologies of a civilization 

1823
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:42,400
rumored to have harnessed 
knowledge of geometry, astronomy

1824
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:46,000
and Medicine, far beyond, the 
current ERA, Discovery meant 

1825
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:49,100
Prestige that also the 
possibility of rewriting entire 

1826
01:35:49,100 --> 01:35:52,900
chapter of known history. 
Pressing the letter against his 

1827
01:35:52,900 --> 01:35:56,200
chest, Al Hussein, reflected on 
his father's Tales. 

1828
01:35:56,800 --> 01:36:00,300
The desert and predictable and 
capricious consumed unprepared 

1829
01:36:00,300 --> 01:36:04,400
Wanderers without Mercy, Tales 
of Caravans lost in sandstorms, 

1830
01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:07,200
or raided by Marauders haunted. 
The nightly gatherings in local 

1831
01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:11,000
tea houses, still The Lure of 
Revelation, eclipsed, any fear 

1832
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:13,500
and he resolved to depart at 
dawn the following day. 

1833
01:36:14,500 --> 01:36:17,400
Engaging a caravan of spice 
Traders, you plan to share 

1834
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:19,500
provisions and glean from their 
survival knowledge. 

1835
01:36:19,500 --> 01:36:22,500
Forging alliances in an 
environment where trust was 

1836
01:36:22,500 --> 01:36:26,700
currently Sunrise found him at 
the city Gates where camel's 

1837
01:36:26,700 --> 01:36:29,700
grown beneath woven saddlebags 
stuffed with exotic Goods. 

1838
01:36:29,700 --> 01:36:35,300
Saffron from Persia frankincense
from Oman and turquoise from far

1839
01:36:35,300 --> 01:36:39,000
off lands. 
Are a family leader, an 

1840
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:43,300
experienced Merchant named 
Mariam, bint State overall 

1841
01:36:43,300 --> 01:36:46,000
Hussain. 
She was known for her leadership

1842
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:49,200
and her capacity to navigate 
shifting alliances among tribal 

1843
01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:52,100
factions. 
Those suspicious of Scholars who

1844
01:36:52,100 --> 01:36:55,000
ventured out of library's, she 
recognized the advantage of 

1845
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:57,600
traveling, under the banner of 
the prestigious House of Wisdom.

1846
01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:02,000
As the Gate of Bagdad shrank 
behind the Caravan merged with 

1847
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:05,900
the vast deserts, hush Dawn's, 
Golden Light outline distant 

1848
01:37:05,900 --> 01:37:08,200
Dunes that seemed both Majestic 
and forbidding. 

1849
01:37:08,900 --> 01:37:12,200
How Hussein observed Mariam, 
directing her charges to form a 

1850
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:15,200
staggered line, minimizing 
exposure to roving Bandits. 

1851
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:19,100
Usually, the wind carried, the 
bray of donkeys or the low 

1852
01:37:19,100 --> 01:37:22,400
murmur of Traders discussing 
profit margins for Al Hussein. 

1853
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:25,600
The Emptiness was a blank canvas
waiting for stories etched by 

1854
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:28,000
the footprints of those 
audacious enough to cross it. 

1855
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:32,700
At midday the Caravan paused for
a respite While others took 

1856
01:37:32,700 --> 01:37:35,900
Shelter From The Heat Al Hussein
found himself marveling at 

1857
01:37:35,900 --> 01:37:39,400
ancient Rock carvings etched 
into a nearby Cliff figures of 

1858
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:42,800
hunters and astronomers hinted 
at a lineage of knowledge older 

1859
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:45,100
and more mysterious than any 
Library Scrolls. 

1860
01:37:45,100 --> 01:37:48,200
He gently trace the outlines 
with a practice fingertip 

1861
01:37:48,200 --> 01:37:51,400
sensing a kinship with those 
lost voices that once tried to 

1862
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:55,100
record their world. even in 
these remote Corners human 

1863
01:37:55,100 --> 01:37:59,500
curiosity thrived, what one does
a weighted him further ahead as 

1864
01:37:59,500 --> 01:38:03,000
dusk approached, the Caravan set
up camp in a shallow wardi where

1865
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:07,500
sparse vegetation against 
shifting Sands, Smoke curled 

1866
01:38:07,500 --> 01:38:10,500
from small cooking fires as 
conversations, turned reflective

1867
01:38:10,500 --> 01:38:13,300
under the emerging, 
constellation's Al Hussein on 

1868
01:38:13,300 --> 01:38:14,900
raveled. 
A warm scrap of parchment, 

1869
01:38:14,900 --> 01:38:18,400
Eunice's, instructions and study
the cryptic Cliffs. 

1870
01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:21,400
He would eventually need to 
identify and under current of 

1871
01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:24,700
excitement, within him tempered 
by the realization that he was 

1872
01:38:24,700 --> 01:38:29,000
Crossing into unknown domains. 
Tomorrow, he told himself would 

1873
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:31,300
be the first step into 
discoveries deeper Realm. 

1874
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:35,000
In the early Dawn, the Caravan 
pressed, Eastward toward a 

1875
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:38,500
series of Desert Oasis whispered
about an old Merchant journals. 

1876
01:38:38,500 --> 01:38:41,800
Each Oasis served as a 
precarious Lifeline against the 

1877
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:45,500
Relentless punishing heat a 
mariam's leadership ensured 

1878
01:38:45,500 --> 01:38:47,400
their small group navigated 
meticulously. 

1879
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:51,200
She brokered safe, passage with 
tribal patrols offering tokens 

1880
01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:53,200
of trade in return for unimpeded
travel. 

1881
01:38:54,500 --> 01:38:56,300
Meanwhile Al Hussein keenly 
observed. 

1882
01:38:56,300 --> 01:39:00,100
Everything, the subtle changes 
in wind direction, the traces of

1883
01:39:00,100 --> 01:39:03,100
ancient Pathways etched into 
sandstone and the silent 

1884
01:39:03,100 --> 01:39:04,700
resilience of his fellow 
Travelers. 

1885
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:09,300
They reached was little more 
than a cluster of date palms 

1886
01:39:09,300 --> 01:39:11,900
around. 
A super, brackish water, a half 

1887
01:39:11,900 --> 01:39:14,700
crumbled, Stone marker or 
inscription so worn that Al 

1888
01:39:14,700 --> 01:39:16,400
Hussein could decipher only 
fragments. 

1889
01:39:17,300 --> 01:39:20,500
Something about an old boundary 
line, perhaps delineating the 

1890
01:39:20,500 --> 01:39:24,700
domain of a once powerful Clan. 
While Campbell's drank, he 

1891
01:39:24,700 --> 01:39:27,600
sketched these faint markings, 
onto a scrap of parchment. 

1892
01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:31,300
He felt an inexplicable sense of
kinship with the countless 

1893
01:39:31,300 --> 01:39:34,700
Travelers, who had paused here. 
Bridging Centuries with a simple

1894
01:39:34,700 --> 01:39:38,100
Act of thirst quenching. 
Under midday days glare, 

1895
01:39:38,100 --> 01:39:41,400
mirage's shimmered like spilled 
Quicksilver on the horizon. 

1896
01:39:41,400 --> 01:39:46,400
Testing the Caravans resolve 
Mariam instructed, everyone to 

1897
01:39:46,400 --> 01:39:49,000
conserve water. 
No idle torque. 

1898
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:53,200
No unnecessary movement. 
The group felt silent except for

1899
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:55,100
the shuffle of feet in the 
jingle of harnesses. 

1900
01:39:55,100 --> 01:39:59,000
Al Hussein, though parched 
studied the desert floor for any

1901
01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:01,700
sign of hidden paths. 
He noticed shards of rock that 

1902
01:40:01,700 --> 01:40:03,700
might have been left by 
Travelers or storms. 

1903
01:40:03,700 --> 01:40:07,900
Each Shard, he thought was an 
artifact, a clue to this vast 

1904
01:40:07,900 --> 01:40:11,800
lands deeper story. 
Late that afternoon, they 

1905
01:40:11,800 --> 01:40:14,400
encountered a Wandering, Nomad 
who carried a battered loot? 

1906
01:40:15,300 --> 01:40:19,500
His deserted face of countless 
roads travel in exchange for 

1907
01:40:19,500 --> 01:40:22,600
water, he offered a ballad of 
about a hidden city set to rise 

1908
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:25,500
from the Sands. 
Once every Century, a place with

1909
01:40:25,500 --> 01:40:28,400
Alabaster walls, if Legend could
be trusted. 

1910
01:40:29,700 --> 01:40:32,600
Concealing. 
A trove of Scrolls older than 

1911
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:35,800
Babylon. 
Helen listened. 

1912
01:40:36,500 --> 01:40:39,200
Heart quickening. 
Though, Maryam dismissed. 

1913
01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:42,700
As a fanciful tale, The Scholar 
within him sparked at the 

1914
01:40:42,700 --> 01:40:46,800
thought of such a discovery. 
There at the second, Oasis, by 

1915
01:40:46,800 --> 01:40:48,900
dusk greeted by the center of 
wetter. 

1916
01:40:49,700 --> 01:40:52,800
The moon's reflection quivered 
on the water, a promise in the 

1917
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:55,600
Darkness. 
Mariam arrange nightguards while

1918
01:40:55,600 --> 01:40:59,800
the rest settled in tufted grass
and short Palms, El who say 

1919
01:40:59,800 --> 01:41:03,100
unrolled his note's, scribbling 
every rumor and observation he'd

1920
01:41:03,100 --> 01:41:06,100
gather that day. 
He felt a stir of anticipation 

1921
01:41:06,100 --> 01:41:09,100
thinking of Eunice's letter and 
that elusive codecs. 

1922
01:41:09,100 --> 01:41:12,200
If Legends held any truth, 
perhaps the path he followed 

1923
01:41:12,200 --> 01:41:15,100
would Branch into Revelations 
before sleep. 

1924
01:41:15,100 --> 01:41:18,000
The Caravan huddled for a supper
of flatbread and dried figs 

1925
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:22,200
conversation meandered to 
improbable Tales spirits, that 

1926
01:41:22,208 --> 01:41:25,800
roamed, the dunes hidden gin 
kingdoms beneath, the sound, 

1927
01:41:25,800 --> 01:41:28,800
Mariam ever pragmatic rolled her
eyes. 

1928
01:41:28,800 --> 01:41:32,000
But allowed these stories to 
pass unchallenged aware that 

1929
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:36,100
Tales could sue the weary Minds.
Al Hussein listened thoughtfully

1930
01:41:36,100 --> 01:41:39,800
to each legend for Colonel's of 
historical fact. 

1931
01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:43,900
He sensed how desert myths 
blended with real events? 

1932
01:41:43,900 --> 01:41:48,400
Forging, a tapestry of belief 
each story, he realized held a 

1933
01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:52,600
reflection of human longing. 
Sleep, came fitfully between 

1934
01:41:52,600 --> 01:41:54,700
ragged gusts of wind that 
rattled. 

1935
01:41:54,700 --> 01:41:58,400
The Palms, Al Hussein dreamed of
an endless Corridor line with 

1936
01:41:58,400 --> 01:42:02,100
doors of sandstone, behind one 
door, lay the hidden city of The

1937
01:42:02,108 --> 01:42:06,600
Nomad described behind another, 
the Red Sea Library your work to

1938
01:42:06,608 --> 01:42:09,500
the howling of a jackal. 
Unsure of the dream was an omen 

1939
01:42:09,500 --> 01:42:12,700
or mere fantasy still. 
His conviction remained firm. 

1940
01:42:12,700 --> 01:42:15,800
He would continue chasing 
knowledge, across these shifting

1941
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:18,800
Landscapes, trusting that 
Destiny might reveal itself 

1942
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:23,100
within the margins of the 
unknown, By morning a layer of 

1943
01:42:23,100 --> 01:42:25,300
sand. 
Dusted, every surface and the 

1944
01:42:25,300 --> 01:42:28,900
Caravan, resumed its cautious 
Advance, the air felt thick with

1945
01:42:28,900 --> 01:42:31,900
unspoken tensions. 
They reached a rocky pass where 

1946
01:42:31,900 --> 01:42:35,000
looming Sandstone pillars. 
Resembled silent Sentinels 

1947
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:39,600
Mariam signaled a halt sensing 
something amiss How Hussein 

1948
01:42:39,600 --> 01:42:42,800
peered Into The Ravines half 
expecting Bandits or lurking? 

1949
01:42:42,800 --> 01:42:46,800
Predators instead he found 
Stillness however the unease 

1950
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:50,200
remained sometimes the desert 
concealed, its perils in plain 

1951
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:52,700
sight. 
By biting time, the Caravan 

1952
01:42:52,700 --> 01:42:55,400
pressed on anxious to leave 
those brooding columns behind 

1953
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:58,000
that evening, they camped on the
passes. 

1954
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:01,800
Fast side, sheltered from direct
wins by a towering rock face. 

1955
01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:06,100
After supper Al Hussein examined
an astrolabe Mariam carried for 

1956
01:43:06,100 --> 01:43:11,100
navigation, the devices, etching
mesmerized him, reminiscent of 

1957
01:43:11,100 --> 01:43:13,200
the geometric wonders house in 
Baghdad. 

1958
01:43:13,200 --> 01:43:16,500
He wondered if the rumored codex
might expand upon, such 

1959
01:43:16,500 --> 01:43:20,800
Celestial insights as the fire 
died down, he sat reflecting on 

1960
01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:23,400
how each Horizon revealed new 
questions, not answered. 

1961
01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:27,300
Perhaps, the deserts Greatest 
Secret was its power to Kindle 

1962
01:43:27,300 --> 01:43:31,700
and unending Quest. 
The past Dawn unveiled a stark 

1963
01:43:31,700 --> 01:43:33,800
Plateau. 
Where the wind carried? 

1964
01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:36,500
The faint Tang of salt Marianne 
reckon? 

1965
01:43:36,500 --> 01:43:39,100
They were approaching the edge 
of a vast base and leading 

1966
01:43:39,100 --> 01:43:42,400
toward the Red Sea. 
How Hussein noted the powdery 

1967
01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:46,000
residue that clunked his sandals
forming a pale crust whenever 

1968
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:48,700
the wind surged? 
Fragments of shells, 

1969
01:43:48,700 --> 01:43:51,300
occasionally glittered 
underfoot, relics of a 

1970
01:43:51,300 --> 01:43:55,500
primordial sea that had long 
since receded in that silent 

1971
01:43:55,500 --> 01:43:58,400
expense, the ancient interplay 
of water and desert seemed to 

1972
01:43:58,408 --> 01:44:00,100
whisper clues of hidden 
transitions. 

1973
01:44:00,100 --> 01:44:04,100
Moving carefully, the Caravan 
traced a path across parched 

1974
01:44:04,100 --> 01:44:06,100
Flats. 
Where cracks laced the ground in

1975
01:44:06,100 --> 01:44:09,300
an elaborate patterns each 
Fisher, suggested the land was 

1976
01:44:09,300 --> 01:44:11,200
thirsting for a rain that might 
never come. 

1977
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:15,600
Al Hussein lingered, over a 
particular cleft, that formed a 

1978
01:44:15,600 --> 01:44:18,400
near-perfect star shape. 
He sketched it in his notebook 

1979
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:21,700
contemplating how geometry 
surface in Nature's Own design. 

1980
01:44:22,500 --> 01:44:24,700
The interplay of shapes and 
lines called to mine, the 

1981
01:44:24,708 --> 01:44:27,100
rumored codex, possibly 
containing knowledge that 

1982
01:44:27,100 --> 01:44:28,600
bridge. 
The gap between the natural 

1983
01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:32,800
world and human understanding. 
By midday the heat intensified 

1984
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:36,500
pressing against the like, an 
unseen hand water. 

1985
01:44:36,500 --> 01:44:41,000
Became pressure currently Mario 
of how quickly desperation could

1986
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:43,700
unravel. 
Unity kept a strict, rationale. 

1987
01:44:45,100 --> 01:44:47,800
Observing her leadership. 
Al who sang admired the way she 

1988
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:51,200
balanced empathy with firm 
discipline under her Direction. 

1989
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:54,400
No, quarrels erupted even as 
first prickers. 

1990
01:44:55,500 --> 01:44:58,600
The Caravan trudged on each step
in negotiation between body and 

1991
01:44:58,608 --> 01:45:02,100
environment in the shimmering 
distance stunted shrubs and 

1992
01:45:02,100 --> 01:45:05,300
dwarf locations offered. 
The only semblance of life in 

1993
01:45:05,300 --> 01:45:08,800
that Stark domain later. 
They spotted a solitary figure 

1994
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:10,900
approaching from the south 
eastern Horizon. 

1995
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:15,200
Cautious, Mariam arranged The 
Travelers into a defensive 

1996
01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:17,700
semi-circle. 
The figure proved to be a 

1997
01:45:17,700 --> 01:45:19,900
medicine. 
Seller, hauling dried herbs in 

1998
01:45:19,908 --> 01:45:22,400
neat bundles across the back of 
a spindly donkey. 

1999
01:45:23,200 --> 01:45:27,300
He announced himself as bassim. 
A Wanderer of many lands in 

2000
01:45:27,300 --> 01:45:30,400
exchange for a pouch of dates. 
He spoke of rumors, swirling, 

2001
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:34,700
beyond the Red Sea Coast of 
ports, teeming with Treasures of

2002
01:45:34,700 --> 01:45:37,900
inscriptions carved on Coral 
walls and a foreign ships 

2003
01:45:37,900 --> 01:45:41,400
docking with exotic cargos, the 
Sim then revealed he had crossed

2004
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:44,400
paths with a scribe who claimed 
knowledge of the Hidden Library 

2005
01:45:44,400 --> 01:45:47,200
by the sea. 
This scribe rumored to be in the

2006
01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:49,600
port town of Jana Hall. 
Might hold a key to the Codex. 

2007
01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:52,000
Hell. 
Hussein's pulse quickened at the

2008
01:45:52,008 --> 01:45:55,300
mansion, He urged Mariam, to 
consider diverting their route 

2009
01:45:55,300 --> 01:45:58,300
towards this potential lead. 
Weighing the advantage. 

2010
01:45:58,300 --> 01:46:00,700
She agreed. 
Provided it did not threaten the

2011
01:46:00,700 --> 01:46:02,400
caravan's prime objective of 
trade. 

2012
01:46:02,400 --> 01:46:06,200
We orienting their Compass, they
set out with renewed purpose, 

2013
01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:09,600
heading south by Southeast. 
The change in Direction, LED 

2014
01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:11,900
them to an abandoned weigh 
station of mud brick, walls 

2015
01:46:11,900 --> 01:46:16,000
caked with salt It's caught 
Yardley choked with sand drifts 

2016
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:18,000
but a broken. 
Well hinted at what had once 

2017
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:21,300
been a vital rest stop. 
Al Hussein wandered among the 

2018
01:46:21,308 --> 01:46:23,900
ruins spotting fainting 
descriptions along the wall 

2019
01:46:23,900 --> 01:46:25,800
names dates fragments of 
prayers. 

2020
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:28,700
Each carving was a testament to 
fleeting presence. 

2021
01:46:29,700 --> 01:46:32,300
Here, stood proof that even the 
harshest Wilderness could not 

2022
01:46:32,300 --> 01:46:34,300
stifle the human urge to leave a
trace. 

2023
01:46:34,300 --> 01:46:37,100
Yet the desert had released so 
much. 

2024
01:46:38,500 --> 01:46:41,300
That evening, they made Camp 
under a Sandstone Ridge carved, 

2025
01:46:41,300 --> 01:46:45,000
in toling curves by ancient 
wins, the last of sunlight 

2026
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:48,200
played across the layered 
patterns revealing color bands 

2027
01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:52,000
that range from ocher to Rose. 
Al Hussein filtered distinct 

2028
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:56,200
Wharf for the land Surplus tree.
He understood how easily travel 

2029
01:46:56,200 --> 01:46:59,900
as might spin legends from these
austere shapes, perhaps behind 

2030
01:46:59,900 --> 01:47:02,300
every myth, their layer of truth
about Wonder. 

2031
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:06,100
Perhaps the rumored hidden city 
or the library derived, from 

2032
01:47:06,100 --> 01:47:08,900
real glimpses of Grandview 
swallowed by time. 

2033
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:12,800
As the night grew cool, Marianne
permitted, a small fire 

2034
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:16,900
conversations around the softer 
now with a thread of expectancy 

2035
01:47:16,900 --> 01:47:20,300
woven into each word. 
A Sim spoke of Trade Centers 

2036
01:47:20,300 --> 01:47:23,900
bustling with Sailors, from 
distant Empires zanj Gujarat. 

2037
01:47:23,900 --> 01:47:26,800
Even the far-flung kingdoms 
beyond the Indian Ocean. 

2038
01:47:27,700 --> 01:47:31,600
Mentioned the regions swirl of 
local Legends a half buried 

2039
01:47:31,600 --> 01:47:35,200
Temple near the coast, the 
rumored tomb of a prophet whose 

2040
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:39,000
name had slipped from memory. 
Al Hussein took careful notes, 

2041
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:42,200
determined to sift the 
improbable from the verifiable. 

2042
01:47:43,200 --> 01:47:44,800
Before sleep Al Hussein pulled 
out. 

2043
01:47:44,800 --> 01:47:48,200
Unison's cryptic question's 
scanning The Faded script by 

2044
01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:51,300
firelight they referred to 
instruments that measured the 

2045
01:47:51,300 --> 01:47:55,000
angles of stars from improbable 
Vantage points formulas that 

2046
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:58,300
predated known treatises. 
Could the Red Sea Library? 

2047
01:47:58,300 --> 01:48:00,600
Truly, hold such ancient Feats 
of intellect. 

2048
01:48:01,500 --> 01:48:02,900
He felt the subtle pull of 
Destiny. 

2049
01:48:03,700 --> 01:48:07,400
The sense that each conversation
each Dusty ruin, brought him 

2050
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:11,000
closer. 
The desert had not broken him 

2051
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:13,100
instead. 
It was shaping him into 

2052
01:48:13,100 --> 01:48:15,800
something, sharper Moro would 
carry them near to that 

2053
01:48:15,800 --> 01:48:19,600
beckoning Shoreline Dawn, lifted
the Shadows from the ridge. 

2054
01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:23,100
Exposing a horizon line with 
Jagged Rock outcroppings. 

2055
01:48:23,100 --> 01:48:27,000
The Caravan continued toward 
Jana Hall keen on reaching its 

2056
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:29,400
Port before supplies around 
dangerously low. 

2057
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:32,300
Subtle. 
But steady Breeze, carried the 

2058
01:48:32,300 --> 01:48:35,900
faint smell of salt confirming. 
They were inching closer to 

2059
01:48:35,900 --> 01:48:38,900
Coastal winds. 
Al Hussein noticed changes in 

2060
01:48:38,900 --> 01:48:41,600
the environment. 
Scattered gulls Wheeling 

2061
01:48:41,600 --> 01:48:44,900
overhead traces of sea, polished
Stones, littering the path. 

2062
01:48:44,900 --> 01:48:47,800
These small signals revive the 
group Spirits. 

2063
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:50,600
Reminding them that a new 
chapter of their Journey layer 

2064
01:48:50,600 --> 01:48:53,700
ahead. 
By midday they encountered a 

2065
01:48:53,700 --> 01:48:56,100
caravan. 
Heading north Maryam negotiated 

2066
01:48:56,100 --> 01:48:59,600
a swift exchange of information.
The Travelers warned of Shifting

2067
01:48:59,600 --> 01:49:03,000
alliances among local Chief 
turns each vying for influence 

2068
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:06,800
in the lucrative Maritime trade.
Al Hussein listened carefully. 

2069
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:10,400
Turbulent politics could affect 
access to the ports and 

2070
01:49:10,400 --> 01:49:13,000
libraries alike. 
One slip in protocol could 

2071
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:15,800
transform an academic quest in 
to a diplomatic tangle. 

2072
01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:19,200
Protecting the mission and the 
pressure's knowledge it might 

2073
01:49:19,208 --> 01:49:22,500
uncover required walking a 
delicate line between curiosity 

2074
01:49:22,500 --> 01:49:24,900
and caution intellect and 
survival. 

2075
01:49:25,800 --> 01:49:28,800
The landscape soon began. 
A gradual descent winding 

2076
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:31,400
through low Hills, with thorny 
scrub dotted, the Earth, in 

2077
01:49:31,400 --> 01:49:35,000
pale, clusters a Time. 
The Caravan skirted salt, 

2078
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:37,500
marshes. 
Each step producing a hushed 

2079
01:49:37,500 --> 01:49:41,600
crunch underfoot, tiny crabs, 
scuttled in Shallow, brine pools

2080
01:49:41,600 --> 01:49:44,000
and the occasional Heron sword 
overhead. 

2081
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:46,500
A pale Sentinel against the 
shimmering sky. 

2082
01:49:47,600 --> 01:49:51,200
Each sign of life felt like a 
small revelation after miles of 

2083
01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:54,500
barren desert, Al Hussein found 
himself overwhelmed by the 

2084
01:49:54,500 --> 01:49:57,900
variety of forms, the natural 
world assumed even in the remote

2085
01:49:57,900 --> 01:50:00,600
margins. 
Make that afternoon. 

2086
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:02,900
They spotted Jana hole in the 
distance. 

2087
01:50:02,900 --> 01:50:06,800
A sprawl of mudbrick dwellings 
with roofs of thatch or tiled 

2088
01:50:06,800 --> 01:50:10,500
clay punctuated by the tallest 
silhouettes of warehouses near 

2089
01:50:10,500 --> 01:50:13,100
the docks. 
Thin pillars of smoke curled 

2090
01:50:13,100 --> 01:50:16,400
upward and the distant clang of 
metal suggested blacksmiths 

2091
01:50:16,400 --> 01:50:19,300
plying their trade sea. 
Birds circled the bustling 

2092
01:50:19,300 --> 01:50:22,600
Harbour where dowels and small 
cargo vessels bobbed in the 

2093
01:50:22,608 --> 01:50:25,600
tide. 
For Al Hussein, the sights and 

2094
01:50:25,608 --> 01:50:28,700
sounds of a place. 
So, different from Bagdad were a

2095
01:50:28,700 --> 01:50:31,100
vivid, remind her of the 
Region's fluid tapestry of 

2096
01:50:31,100 --> 01:50:34,200
cultures. 
Mariam led the Caravan through 

2097
01:50:34,200 --> 01:50:37,600
the towns outskirts, seeking a 
trustworthy local Factor, who 

2098
01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:40,200
could arrange Secure Storage for
their goods? 

2099
01:50:40,900 --> 01:50:43,700
Children peered out from 
doorways intrigued by the 

2100
01:50:43,700 --> 01:50:48,100
unusual mix of Travelers. 
The air smelled a fish spice and

2101
01:50:48,100 --> 01:50:51,500
damp rope all woven together 
into a brining perfume. 

2102
01:50:52,700 --> 01:50:55,900
Al Hussein scanned every detail 
from the chipped walls. 

2103
01:50:55,900 --> 01:50:58,700
Covered with old Maritime 
symbols to the Lively banter 

2104
01:50:58,700 --> 01:51:01,400
between Dock Workers. 
He made mental notes of how 

2105
01:51:01,400 --> 01:51:05,000
commoners thrived here, bridging
deserts Notions in a single 

2106
01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:08,100
breath. 
With Arrangements in place, the 

2107
01:51:08,100 --> 01:51:10,200
group settled, at a modest near 
the wharf. 

2108
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:12,900
The Sim quietly vanished among 
the Waterfront. 

2109
01:51:12,900 --> 01:51:15,200
Stalls murmuring about errands 
to run. 

2110
01:51:15,208 --> 01:51:18,800
Al Hussein felt a twinge of 
concern but was too eager about 

2111
01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:20,300
the library rumor to dwell on 
it. 

2112
01:51:21,100 --> 01:51:24,400
He quickly asked around for any 
mention of the Scribe locals 

2113
01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:28,000
offered conflicting accounts 
some Shrugged While others 

2114
01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:29,400
claimed. 
They had glimpsed a reclusive 

2115
01:51:29,400 --> 01:51:31,600
scholar searching for our cake 
Port records. 

2116
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:35,000
One old fisherman, insisted the 
Scribe left for the coral stone 

2117
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:38,500
quarter. 
Determined Al Hussein set off 

2118
01:51:38,500 --> 01:51:41,500
with Mariam and two guards 
weaving through narrow alleys 

2119
01:51:41,500 --> 01:51:43,300
that snaked between some baked 
walls. 

2120
01:51:44,200 --> 01:51:47,300
The sound of the sea grew louder
waves, rolling and crashing, in 

2121
01:51:47,308 --> 01:51:49,900
a steady Rhythm. 
They soon found the coral stone 

2122
01:51:49,900 --> 01:51:53,600
quarter, a cluster of buildings 
fashioned from blocks quarried 

2123
01:51:53,600 --> 01:51:56,300
along the shore. 
The walls sparkled with flecks 

2124
01:51:56,300 --> 01:51:59,700
of shells, embedded in pale 
Limestone while the architecture

2125
01:51:59,700 --> 01:52:02,900
and trance whose sane it was the
possibility of encountering, the

2126
01:52:02,900 --> 01:52:04,400
Scribe that propelled him 
forward. 

2127
01:52:04,400 --> 01:52:08,600
Heart pounding with each, 
echoing footstep at last. 

2128
01:52:08,600 --> 01:52:11,600
They arrived before a half 
collapsed structure perched, on 

2129
01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:14,700
the water's edge, broken 
shutters and a leaning doorway 

2130
01:52:14,700 --> 01:52:17,900
bore witness to Decades of 
neglect inside scattered 

2131
01:52:17,900 --> 01:52:20,400
manuscripts, lay in disarray at 
wooden table. 

2132
01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:24,100
Candle, Stubbs had melted into 
curious shapes, dotting, the 

2133
01:52:24,108 --> 01:52:28,500
floor like for lawn sculptures 
Al Hussein called out receiving 

2134
01:52:28,500 --> 01:52:31,500
only silence. 
Mariam gestured for the guards 

2135
01:52:31,500 --> 01:52:35,700
to remain alert then a voice 
raspy but precise emerged from 

2136
01:52:35,708 --> 01:52:38,800
behind a partition. 
If you've come for idle gossip 

2137
01:52:38,800 --> 01:52:43,600
there is none if you seek 
knowledge speak An elderly man 

2138
01:52:43,600 --> 01:52:46,300
stepped forward. 
Shoulders draped in a threadbare

2139
01:52:46,300 --> 01:52:49,500
shawl his gaze. 
Darted suspiciously among them. 

2140
01:52:50,200 --> 01:52:53,300
Al Hussein introduced himself 
and explained his search for a 

2141
01:52:53,300 --> 01:52:56,400
Red Sea, Library rumored to 
house an ancient codecs. 

2142
01:52:57,100 --> 01:53:00,700
At The Mention Of unicell kindy 
The Man's eyes sparked, he 

2143
01:53:00,700 --> 01:53:04,200
introduced himself as for him 
once a royal archivist, who had 

2144
01:53:04,200 --> 01:53:06,800
fallen out of favor. 
For him claimed to know the 

2145
01:53:06,800 --> 01:53:09,000
Codex. 
Is General whereabouts but wand 

2146
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:11,300
of obstacles political and 
Supernatural. 

2147
01:53:12,100 --> 01:53:14,600
Despite his guarded manner, he 
pointed to a scroll. 

2148
01:53:15,400 --> 01:53:17,200
There. 
He said, the trail begins. 

2149
01:53:18,500 --> 01:53:22,200
Under the scribes watchful glare
Al Hussein unrolled the scroll 

2150
01:53:22,200 --> 01:53:25,700
for him, indicated fate in 
script described to Coastal 

2151
01:53:25,700 --> 01:53:29,600
stronghold called macfar Fame. 
For its labyrinthine archives 

2152
01:53:29,600 --> 01:53:33,200
though, the text offered 
details, it named a certain 

2153
01:53:33,200 --> 01:53:37,200
scholar, Ibrahim of cool Zoom 
Who had once catalogued 

2154
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:40,700
manuscripts within its walls. 
For him revealed that a naval 

2155
01:53:40,700 --> 01:53:42,800
blockades. 
Centuries earlier had forced the

2156
01:53:42,800 --> 01:53:46,200
stronghold in to obscurity few 
in Yamaha even recalled its 

2157
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:49,400
name. 
The old Arc is smirked. 

2158
01:53:50,100 --> 01:53:52,100
If you wish to risk your neck, 
go. 

2159
01:53:53,600 --> 01:53:56,200
But be warned. 
Those Halls remain unforgiving. 

2160
01:53:57,700 --> 01:54:00,700
Mariam standing nearby, studied 
the scribes demeanor. 

2161
01:54:00,700 --> 01:54:03,300
She had dealt with enough. 
Merchants and officials to read 

2162
01:54:03,300 --> 01:54:06,300
a man's motives though. 
Faheem's, bitter tone, implied, 

2163
01:54:06,300 --> 01:54:08,400
grudges. 
He seemed sincere about the 

2164
01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:11,000
strongholds. 
Existence After a Taurus 

2165
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:13,100
negotiation. 
She coaxed him to provide a 

2166
01:54:13,100 --> 01:54:15,000
rough chart of Mack shafts 
possible location. 

2167
01:54:16,100 --> 01:54:18,200
Al Hussein promised to mention 
for Himes name. 

2168
01:54:18,200 --> 01:54:22,100
Favorably in scholarly circles. 
If they succeeded, the archived 

2169
01:54:22,100 --> 01:54:25,000
them off, as though, disclaiming
any further responsibility for 

2170
01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:28,100
their fate mystery. 
It seemed was his final 

2171
01:54:28,100 --> 01:54:30,500
currently reconvening at the 
Inn. 

2172
01:54:30,500 --> 01:54:32,800
Al Hussein, laid out the new 
findings. 

2173
01:54:32,800 --> 01:54:35,900
The strong hold of macche 
appeared to lyse, South West 

2174
01:54:35,900 --> 01:54:38,800
along a rugged Coast where 
Cliffside passes met tidal 

2175
01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:41,500
inlets. 
This was no typical trade route 

2176
01:54:41,500 --> 01:54:45,300
and Maryam recognized the risk. 
Yet curiosity pulled them 

2177
01:54:45,300 --> 01:54:48,500
forward treasure, for her 
knowledge for Al Hussain. 

2178
01:54:49,300 --> 01:54:52,200
To minimize complications. 
She decided that only a smaller 

2179
01:54:52,200 --> 01:54:55,700
Detachment would continue. 
The main Caravan could remain in

2180
01:54:55,700 --> 01:54:58,400
Jana, hell, selling goods and 
provisioning for the journey 

2181
01:54:58,400 --> 01:55:02,000
back to Baghdad, Al Hussein and 
a handful of companions would 

2182
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:06,000
venture on. 
Evening found out Hussein pacing

2183
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:10,400
the ins modest Courtyard pouring
over for hims chart. tiny notes,

2184
01:55:10,400 --> 01:55:13,900
etched beside rough sketches of 
landforms hinted at Old 

2185
01:55:13,900 --> 01:55:19,300
conflicts ruined watchtowers and
rumored pirate hideouts We 

2186
01:55:19,300 --> 01:55:22,100
traced the shoreline with his 
fingertip, Imagining the waves, 

2187
01:55:22,100 --> 01:55:23,900
crashing against the walls of 
Mack shaft. 

2188
01:55:23,900 --> 01:55:27,100
What secrets might that 
stronghold archives, hold 

2189
01:55:27,100 --> 01:55:31,200
remnants of civilizations 
unknown or Advanced theories, 

2190
01:55:31,200 --> 01:55:33,400
lost to time. 
The Moonlight made, the 

2191
01:55:33,400 --> 01:55:36,900
parchment glow as if enticing 
him to see beyond its faded 

2192
01:55:36,900 --> 01:55:41,000
lines into Uncharted Territory. 
By Dawn, Marion had secured a 

2193
01:55:41,000 --> 01:55:43,200
light Coastal. 
Vessel from a local Captain 

2194
01:55:43,200 --> 01:55:47,200
named taufiq, whose family 
specialized in short-haul 

2195
01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:50,200
voyages, along the Red Sea, with
the seams help. 

2196
01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:54,200
He had returned with unusual 
Timeless, they loaded supplies, 

2197
01:55:54,200 --> 01:55:59,000
water barrels, salted fish. 
A few goats for milk, Al Hussein

2198
01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:02,700
brought his dope books, Eunice's
letter, and whatever references.

2199
01:56:02,700 --> 01:56:06,000
For him had been willing to 
share a hush fell over the them 

2200
01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:08,800
as they boarded The Vessel, the 
humid, Sea Breeze are welcome 

2201
01:56:08,800 --> 01:56:12,500
change from Desert. 
Dryness ahead, the Open Sea half

2202
01:56:12,500 --> 01:56:15,700
illuminated by the rise in Sun, 
the boat rocked gently. 

2203
01:56:15,700 --> 01:56:19,100
As they navigated away from 
Yana's Harbor, leaving behind 

2204
01:56:19,100 --> 01:56:20,900
the tangle of masks and 
Dockside. 

2205
01:56:20,900 --> 01:56:25,000
Chatter overhead, seabirds woven
intricate patterns, while the 

2206
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:26,800
Horizon stretched Indigo and 
gold. 

2207
01:56:27,700 --> 01:56:31,200
How Hussein inhaled the Briney 
are feeling a subtle 

2208
01:56:31,200 --> 01:56:34,900
exhilaration. 
This water expands was a far cry

2209
01:56:34,900 --> 01:56:38,100
from the Dusty Rhodes. 
He had known Mariam stood at the

2210
01:56:38,100 --> 01:56:41,300
prowl scanning for hazards, 
despite the calm surface, she 

2211
01:56:41,300 --> 01:56:44,800
understood storms, could blow in
with devastating Force, the Red 

2212
01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:46,700
Sea like the desert demanded 
vigilance. 

2213
01:56:47,700 --> 01:56:50,900
During the voyage Tuffet 
recounted local law about hidden

2214
01:56:50,900 --> 01:56:53,500
coves, where Pirates, once 
stashed, plunder or reefs, the 

2215
01:56:53,508 --> 01:56:55,000
glowed with phosphorescent at 
night. 

2216
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:59,500
The Sims listened occasionally 
offering a Sly anecdote of his 

2217
01:56:59,508 --> 01:57:01,900
own. 
Al Hussein jotted down each 

2218
01:57:01,900 --> 01:57:04,700
tail. 
Yo uncertain which threads might

2219
01:57:04,700 --> 01:57:07,700
lead to truth, the swirl of 
rumor, only deepened his 

2220
01:57:07,708 --> 01:57:10,200
conviction that knowledge often 
Alert in the unlikely as 

2221
01:57:10,200 --> 01:57:12,500
corners. 
Meanwhile, the coastline 

2222
01:57:12,500 --> 01:57:15,800
revealed layers of cliffs dotted
with vegetation clinging to 

2223
01:57:15,800 --> 01:57:18,900
cracks in the rock. 
Small Huts or fishing camps, 

2224
01:57:18,900 --> 01:57:20,200
occasionally dotted with the 
beaches. 

2225
01:57:21,100 --> 01:57:24,700
On the second day at Sea dark 
class, Dowd, and has brewed on 

2226
01:57:24,700 --> 01:57:28,400
the horizon, tufik urged them to
find shelter before the Squall 

2227
01:57:28,400 --> 01:57:31,200
hit, they steered toward a 
narrow, inlet sheltered by 

2228
01:57:31,200 --> 01:57:33,700
Limestone. 
Bluffs, waves, churned with 

2229
01:57:33,700 --> 01:57:36,900
increasing ferocity and the wind
whipped spray across the deck 

2230
01:57:36,900 --> 01:57:39,900
Marianne and bassim helped 
secure the sails while Al 

2231
01:57:39,900 --> 01:57:41,300
Hussein clung to the Bots 
railing. 

2232
01:57:41,300 --> 01:57:43,800
Heart pounding. 
Thunder boomed overhead as they 

2233
01:57:43,800 --> 01:57:46,200
finally slipped into the inlet 
there. 

2234
01:57:46,200 --> 01:57:49,100
The water remained calmer 
though, the storm raged just 

2235
01:57:49,100 --> 01:57:51,800
beyond the protective Cliffs 
huddled against the rain. 

2236
01:57:51,800 --> 01:57:55,900
They waited for the Tempest to 
subside, Al Hussein's Mind Race.

2237
01:57:55,900 --> 01:58:00,200
If the Codex contained Advanced 
understanding of astronomy, it 

2238
01:58:00,200 --> 01:58:03,200
might also hint at 
meteorological patterns, could 

2239
01:58:03,200 --> 01:58:05,400
ancient Scholars have 
deciphered, the deserts, or the 

2240
01:58:05,400 --> 01:58:08,200
Seas hidden rhythms. 
The storms Fury felt like a 

2241
01:58:08,200 --> 01:58:11,000
primeval test warning. 
Him of the forces that shaped 

2242
01:58:11,000 --> 01:58:13,500
this rail. 
Perhaps Max shafts, long sealed,

2243
01:58:13,500 --> 01:58:16,200
archives held, not just 
forgotten texts, but an entire 

2244
01:58:16,200 --> 01:58:19,000
worldview alien to their era as 
Lightning flared. 

2245
01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:21,600
Overhead, he vowed that had 
neither fear nor storm would 

2246
01:58:21,600 --> 01:58:24,600
deter him. 
With the morning, sun came a 

2247
01:58:24,600 --> 01:58:28,700
deceptive, calm Cloud still 
hovered that the Windsor deezed.

2248
01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:32,500
Toxic guided the boat cautiously
out of the inlet. 

2249
01:58:32,500 --> 01:58:36,700
Skirting churning water's the 
storm had left, Deborah of a 

2250
01:58:36,700 --> 01:58:39,200
float. 
Broken branches strips of torn 

2251
01:58:39,200 --> 01:58:43,000
sale from some unlucky craft. 
Mario the horizon. 

2252
01:58:43,800 --> 01:58:48,500
So, the worst seemed past the 
sea remained unsettled each 

2253
01:58:48,500 --> 01:58:50,700
wave, a reminder of Nature's 
Caprices. 

2254
01:58:51,900 --> 01:58:55,400
Al Hussein Pages. 
Damp but intact felt A Renewed 

2255
01:58:55,408 --> 01:58:58,700
urgency. 
Storms violence had sharpened 

2256
01:58:58,700 --> 01:59:01,100
his resolve to reach Mack shaft 
and uncover its Secrets. 

2257
01:59:01,100 --> 01:59:05,500
As they followed the coastline 
steep Cliffs Rose, their bass is

2258
01:59:05,500 --> 01:59:08,200
Nord by waves. 
Occasionally they Glimpse 

2259
01:59:08,200 --> 01:59:12,500
narrow, Ledges or goat paths 
exacting upward suggesting that 

2260
01:59:12,500 --> 01:59:14,100
people once traversed, these 
Heights. 

2261
01:59:15,000 --> 01:59:18,100
Pointed out a distance 
structure, atop a cliff a 

2262
01:59:18,100 --> 01:59:21,100
toppled watch tower, perhaps a, 
remnant of Mack shafts old 

2263
01:59:21,100 --> 01:59:24,200
defense's. 
Site quick and everyone's Pace. 

2264
01:59:24,200 --> 01:59:27,300
If that Tower marked, the 
outskirts of the stronghold they

2265
01:59:27,300 --> 01:59:29,000
were closed. 
Still the approach. 

2266
01:59:29,000 --> 01:59:32,200
Look treacherous with no easy 
Landing Place visible among the 

2267
01:59:32,200 --> 01:59:35,600
rocks and swirling currents. 
They eventually located a craggy

2268
01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:38,900
Beach where erosion had carved 
out a small pebbled Cove and 

2269
01:59:38,900 --> 01:59:41,800
loading, the vessel was a 
precarious dance of timing each 

2270
01:59:41,800 --> 01:59:44,900
wave's Retreat. 
Mariam directed the transfer of 

2271
01:59:44,900 --> 01:59:47,800
Provisions, while taufiq, secure
the boat, to a natural cleft in 

2272
01:59:47,800 --> 01:59:51,800
the rock, Overhead seabirds 
reached and the wind whipped 

2273
01:59:51,800 --> 01:59:55,500
salted, spray against their 
faces, Al Hussein carefully, 

2274
01:59:55,500 --> 01:59:58,400
shielded the charts and 
manuscripts mindful that a 

2275
01:59:58,408 --> 02:00:00,600
single misstep. 
Could end his entire Quest. 

2276
02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:04,000
This Shoreline felt like a 
threshold between rumor and 

2277
02:00:04,000 --> 02:00:07,800
tangible discovery. 
Short climb, Inland revealed a 

2278
02:00:07,800 --> 02:00:10,700
rocky Plateau dotted with tough 
grasses and Scattered Boulders 

2279
02:00:10,700 --> 02:00:13,500
amid. 
The distant Cliffs fragments of 

2280
02:00:13,508 --> 02:00:16,500
a fortification. 
Jutted Skyward tumbled walls, 

2281
02:00:16,500 --> 02:00:19,400
and half collapsed arches the 
similar out a low whistle 

2282
02:00:19,400 --> 02:00:22,800
marveling that such ruins still 
lingered after centuries of 

2283
02:00:22,800 --> 02:00:25,800
neglect. 
Marion maintained her measured 

2284
02:00:25,800 --> 02:00:27,800
composure. 
Well, whose sane guest? 

2285
02:00:27,800 --> 02:00:29,800
She shared the group's Rising 
anticipation. 

2286
02:00:30,800 --> 02:00:31,800
Mack shafts. 
Silent. 

2287
02:00:31,800 --> 02:00:34,700
Outline beckoned. 
For all anyone knew they were 

2288
02:00:34,700 --> 02:00:36,500
the first to set foot here in 
Generations. 

2289
02:00:36,500 --> 02:00:39,300
Perhaps they stood at the edge 
of a dormant Legacy. 

2290
02:00:39,300 --> 02:00:43,300
They Advance through a Steep 
Ravine, its side etched with old

2291
02:00:43,300 --> 02:00:46,400
chisel marks. 
Al Hussein pause to examine 

2292
02:00:46,400 --> 02:00:47,600
them. 
Suspecting that early 

2293
02:00:47,600 --> 02:00:50,100
inhabitants had quarried stone 
for the strongholds 

2294
02:00:50,100 --> 02:00:53,000
construction. 
The Ravine opened in to a Hidden

2295
02:00:53,000 --> 02:00:55,800
Valley where an arched Gateway. 
They partially buried by 

2296
02:00:55,800 --> 02:00:58,500
Deborah. 
Time and storms had battered. 

2297
02:00:58,500 --> 02:01:01,500
Its Keystone leaving a sizeable 
gap carefully. 

2298
02:01:01,500 --> 02:01:03,400
They picked their way through 
Fallen Stones. 

2299
02:01:03,400 --> 02:01:05,700
Each footstep sending Echoes 
through. 

2300
02:01:05,700 --> 02:01:09,100
The still are a faint Tang of 
seaweed, permeated the ruins. 

2301
02:01:09,100 --> 02:01:12,800
As if the ocean had invaded, 
this Bastion long ago, the 

2302
02:01:12,800 --> 02:01:15,800
Gateway stretched to Courtyard, 
choked with rubble and invasive 

2303
02:01:15,800 --> 02:01:19,800
plants broken pillows hinted. 
A what might want to be an open 

2304
02:01:19,800 --> 02:01:23,400
Colonnade. 
A series of corridors branched 

2305
02:01:23,400 --> 02:01:26,700
off from The Far Side. 
One leading to a stone staircase

2306
02:01:26,700 --> 02:01:31,000
descending Underground. 
Al Hussein's pulse fluttered 

2307
02:01:31,000 --> 02:01:34,600
Subterranean vaults often served
as archives or storage 

2308
02:01:34,600 --> 02:01:36,600
facilities. 
In older fortifications he 

2309
02:01:36,600 --> 02:01:40,200
imagined shells of manuscripts 
layered with the dust awaiting 

2310
02:01:40,200 --> 02:01:43,600
rediscovery Mariam tested a 
cracked step with her boot 

2311
02:01:43,600 --> 02:01:46,600
finding its stable enough. 
They lit torches bracing 

2312
02:01:46,600 --> 02:01:48,200
themselves for whatever labor 
low. 

2313
02:01:48,200 --> 02:01:51,400
The descending passage felt 
claustrophobic each Echo 

2314
02:01:51,400 --> 02:01:54,900
magnified by The Damp walls. 
A battered iron gate at the 

2315
02:01:54,908 --> 02:01:58,500
bottom yielded to the seams 
determined shove within layer. 

2316
02:01:58,500 --> 02:02:01,200
Series of voltage. 
Chambers water trickled from 

2317
02:02:01,200 --> 02:02:03,600
hairline, cracks in the ceiling 
pooling, on the floor in a 

2318
02:02:03,600 --> 02:02:06,000
regular puddles, their 
Torchlight flickered over 

2319
02:02:06,008 --> 02:02:09,500
broken, crates, corroded 
lanterns and scraps of rotting 

2320
02:02:09,500 --> 02:02:12,300
cloth. 
Al Hussein's eyes darted around 

2321
02:02:12,300 --> 02:02:14,400
desperate to find any sign of 
Records. 

2322
02:02:14,400 --> 02:02:17,900
Then, in a corner, he spotted, 
what appeared to be a carved 

2323
02:02:17,900 --> 02:02:20,400
Stone plaque in blazing with 
geometric designs. 

2324
02:02:21,400 --> 02:02:23,600
Approaching it, he realized the 
plaque was part of a larger 

2325
02:02:23,600 --> 02:02:27,700
fixture a sealed. 
Doorway intricate lines, found 

2326
02:02:27,700 --> 02:02:30,800
outward from the central Motif 
echoing, the patterns in 

2327
02:02:30,800 --> 02:02:34,400
unison's cryptic notes, Just be 
a hidden archive within the 

2328
02:02:34,400 --> 02:02:37,200
stronghold. 
Eagerly Al Hussain traced the 

2329
02:02:37,208 --> 02:02:41,000
grooves with a fingertip Mariam 
hovered scanning for potential 

2330
02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:43,300
threats. 
The simran his hand along the 

2331
02:02:43,300 --> 02:02:46,800
walls perimeter eventually 
finding the faint outline of a 

2332
02:02:46,800 --> 02:02:49,600
release mechanism when he 
pressed it the plaque shuddered 

2333
02:02:49,600 --> 02:02:53,500
revealing a narrow Gap stale are
seeped out carrying hints of 

2334
02:02:53,500 --> 02:02:56,900
mold in ancient parchment 
Torchlight spilling through the 

2335
02:02:56,900 --> 02:02:59,900
Gap, illuminated a cramped 
chamber lined with stone 

2336
02:02:59,900 --> 02:03:03,600
shelves. 
Al Hussein's heart soared rolled

2337
02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:06,900
manuscripts like scattered. 
Some disintegrating at the touch

2338
02:03:06,900 --> 02:03:11,200
of the moist air gingerly lifted
a small codex Bound in faded 

2339
02:03:11,200 --> 02:03:13,500
leather. 
Cover, emblazoned with 

2340
02:03:13,500 --> 02:03:17,500
unfamiliar symbols though, the 
text was partially illegible 

2341
02:03:17,500 --> 02:03:20,600
diagrams of star charts, and 
geometric constructs with 

2342
02:03:20,600 --> 02:03:23,400
visible aware that he was 
Crossing into the realm of 

2343
02:03:23,400 --> 02:03:27,200
Legends made real. 
With mounting excitement, Al 

2344
02:03:27,200 --> 02:03:30,200
Hussein and Maryam inspected. 
The shells, hoping for a more 

2345
02:03:30,200 --> 02:03:33,400
complete fine. 
Many manuscripts, had succumbed 

2346
02:03:33,400 --> 02:03:36,600
to rot or water damage, leaving 
a legible stains where words 

2347
02:03:36,600 --> 02:03:41,900
once lived, Still glimpses of 
diagrams, star maps, and cryptic

2348
02:03:41,900 --> 02:03:44,300
notation sparked Al Hussein's 
imagination. 

2349
02:03:44,300 --> 02:03:48,700
Each surviving scrap offered a 
puzzle references to advanced 

2350
02:03:48,700 --> 02:03:52,800
mathematics mentioned of distant
lands and hints of medical 

2351
02:03:52,800 --> 02:03:56,500
treatises. 
The Codex units had mentioned 

2352
02:03:56,500 --> 02:03:59,800
might lie deeper within will be 
scattered among these fragile 

2353
02:03:59,800 --> 02:04:02,200
Scrolls that teetered on the 
brink of disintegration. 

2354
02:04:03,300 --> 02:04:07,900
Bassim lesson thrilled by the 
written page explored adjacent 

2355
02:04:07,900 --> 02:04:12,000
Chambers in search of anything 
valuable coins jewelry or 

2356
02:04:12,000 --> 02:04:14,200
historical artifacts that might 
fetch a price. 

2357
02:04:15,100 --> 02:04:18,000
He returned empty-handed 
muttering about collapsed 

2358
02:04:18,000 --> 02:04:20,400
tunnels and corridors blocked by
a Ruble. 

2359
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:24,600
From one Corridor, a trickle of 
brackish water flowed implying. 

2360
02:04:24,600 --> 02:04:27,800
That parts of the stronghold 
might be submerged or entirely 

2361
02:04:27,800 --> 02:04:31,600
inaccessible. the group decided 
to work methodically 

2362
02:04:31,600 --> 02:04:36,400
prioritizing the driest sections
first, Marion posted a guard 

2363
02:04:36,400 --> 02:04:39,000
outside aware that local Pirates
were treasure Hunters. 

2364
02:04:39,000 --> 02:04:43,000
Could still pose a threat Hour 
after hour, Al Hussain 

2365
02:04:43,000 --> 02:04:45,000
catalogued each fragment, they 
could Salvage. 

2366
02:04:45,800 --> 02:04:49,000
He recognized partial 
translation from Greek Coptic 

2367
02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:52,900
and even Sanskrit. whoever had 
curated these archives, clearly 

2368
02:04:52,900 --> 02:04:55,800
embraced the same Zeal for 
knowledge, the fuel, the House 

2369
02:04:55,800 --> 02:04:59,600
of Wisdom in Baghdad, The 
occasionally, he stumbled upon a

2370
02:04:59,600 --> 02:05:02,500
page detailing astronomical, 
observations far, more advanced 

2371
02:05:02,500 --> 02:05:05,100
than anything, he'd encountered 
he dreamed that. 

2372
02:05:05,100 --> 02:05:08,000
If he Could reconstruct these 
texts, they might reshape 

2373
02:05:08,000 --> 02:05:11,100
contemporary understanding of 
the cosmos, bridging centuries 

2374
02:05:11,100 --> 02:05:14,500
of lost scholarship. 
He remembered Eunice's cryptic 

2375
02:05:14,500 --> 02:05:17,800
list and felt a surge of 
vindication progress, was slow 

2376
02:05:17,800 --> 02:05:20,900
the air in the buried Chambers 
remained thick occasionally, 

2377
02:05:20,900 --> 02:05:23,900
forcing them to retreat, above 
ground for fresh air in the 

2378
02:05:23,908 --> 02:05:26,000
process. 
They discovered an intact 

2379
02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:28,400
storeroom near the courtyard, 
containing clay jars. 

2380
02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:31,600
Sealed with ancient wax. 
The same Pride, One open 

2381
02:05:31,600 --> 02:05:34,500
revealing well preserved grains,
that while impossible to eat 

2382
02:05:34,500 --> 02:05:37,600
Illustrated that this Fortress 
once hosted a thriving 

2383
02:05:37,600 --> 02:05:40,700
community. 
Al Hussein Marvel at the notion 

2384
02:05:40,700 --> 02:05:43,100
that the inhabitants of Max 
schaaf had walked the same 

2385
02:05:43,100 --> 02:05:46,500
corridors, their daily routines,
taking place of a trove of 

2386
02:05:46,508 --> 02:05:48,700
hidden knowledge and Vanishing 
into history. 

2387
02:05:49,600 --> 02:05:52,200
On the second evening. 
Marion insisted, they organized 

2388
02:05:52,200 --> 02:05:54,000
a secure Campsite in the 
courtyard. 

2389
02:05:54,800 --> 02:05:57,900
Setting up canvas tarps where 
partial walls offered shelter 

2390
02:05:57,900 --> 02:06:01,300
from Ocean winds, they 
established a routine nights. 

2391
02:06:01,300 --> 02:06:04,400
Spent guarding the perimeter 
days spent, rummaging the 

2392
02:06:04,400 --> 02:06:07,900
archive's, the only sounds were 
the distant Roar of the sea in 

2393
02:06:07,900 --> 02:06:11,200
the shuffling footsteps. 
Echoing and stone Halls at 

2394
02:06:11,200 --> 02:06:14,200
time's, the place held haunted 
by old aspirations in new ones 

2395
02:06:14,200 --> 02:06:17,700
colliding, Al Hussein caught 
himself wishing they had more 

2396
02:06:17,700 --> 02:06:21,400
time better resources, which 
just a few extra hands to 

2397
02:06:21,400 --> 02:06:25,200
preserve these fragile Legacies.
That last amid a heap of 

2398
02:06:25,208 --> 02:06:27,600
decaying Scrolls in a far corner
of the sealed chamber. 

2399
02:06:27,600 --> 02:06:32,300
Al Hussein found it a manuscript
carefully wrapped in oiled cloth

2400
02:06:32,300 --> 02:06:34,200
protected from the worst 
dampness. 

2401
02:06:34,200 --> 02:06:38,000
Its cover for a pattern 
identical to the sketches in 

2402
02:06:38,000 --> 02:06:41,200
unison's instructions, heart 
hammering, he peeled back, the 

2403
02:06:41,200 --> 02:06:44,600
cloth, inside pages of 
surprisingly durable, parchment 

2404
02:06:44,600 --> 02:06:47,900
covered in script that merged 
geometric diagrams with flowing 

2405
02:06:47,900 --> 02:06:50,500
text. 
Marginal notes in a secondary 

2406
02:06:50,500 --> 02:06:53,100
hand suggested commentary, 
possibly added by later 

2407
02:06:53,100 --> 02:06:55,400
Scholars. 
This had to be the Codex. 

2408
02:06:56,300 --> 02:06:59,300
A quick survey revealed passages
on astronomical alignments 

2409
02:06:59,300 --> 02:07:02,500
references to mathematical 
proofs that predated known 

2410
02:07:02,500 --> 02:07:05,500
treatises and Arcane symbols. 
That defied immediate 

2411
02:07:05,500 --> 02:07:09,000
interpretation one section. 
Even described medical herbs 

2412
02:07:09,000 --> 02:07:10,900
rumored to thrive in remote 
regions. 

2413
02:07:10,900 --> 02:07:14,500
Al Hussein felt as though he 
were holding an entire lost 

2414
02:07:14,500 --> 02:07:18,600
Epoch in his hands. 
Mariam seeing his ore asked, if 

2415
02:07:18,600 --> 02:07:21,900
this was truly what they had, 
risked so much to find, he 

2416
02:07:21,900 --> 02:07:25,800
nodded tears brimming. 
Unbidden the Codex might reshape

2417
02:07:25,800 --> 02:07:29,500
fields of learning if only it 
could be safely transported and 

2418
02:07:29,500 --> 02:07:33,900
studied next came the Dilemma of
extraction, the Codex was too 

2419
02:07:33,900 --> 02:07:36,800
pressure to leave behind but the
path back was fraught with 

2420
02:07:36,800 --> 02:07:40,100
uncertainty, the sea Journey, 
the threat of Storms and the 

2421
02:07:40,108 --> 02:07:44,000
watchful eyes of potential 
Bandits, all loomed large Mario 

2422
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:46,500
and proposed packing the Codex 
in multiple layers, of 

2423
02:07:46,500 --> 02:07:50,500
protective cloth and assigning 
it Round the Clock guards. the 

2424
02:07:50,500 --> 02:07:52,600
same chimed in with a plan to 
mask, their departure by 

2425
02:07:52,608 --> 02:07:55,800
spreading rumors of a fruitless 
search hoping to deter 

2426
02:07:55,800 --> 02:07:59,800
opportunists Al Hussein, agreed 
recognizing that knowledge, 

2427
02:07:59,800 --> 02:08:01,700
could be as dangerous as 
treasure as gold. 

2428
02:08:02,500 --> 02:08:05,200
With their plans set, they 
gathered what manuscripts, they 

2429
02:08:05,200 --> 02:08:08,400
could carry focusing on the 
Codex and a few other promising 

2430
02:08:08,400 --> 02:08:11,200
relics. 
Standing at the Fortress 

2431
02:08:11,200 --> 02:08:13,500
threshold. 
Al Hussein took one last 

2432
02:08:13,500 --> 02:08:15,400
reverent. 
Look at the silent corridors. 

2433
02:08:15,400 --> 02:08:18,700
He imagined the generations who 
might have come here, seeking 

2434
02:08:18,700 --> 02:08:23,200
truth, only to vanish beneath 
time shifting Sands, Now, he 

2435
02:08:23,200 --> 02:08:27,000
held proof that there are not 
faded entirely as the group 

2436
02:08:27,000 --> 02:08:30,300
stepped out into the Briny dust.
He realized his journey was far 

2437
02:08:30,300 --> 02:08:33,800
from complete, the desert had 
tested him and the Sea had 

2438
02:08:33,800 --> 02:08:35,700
threatened him. 
But this Triumph opened 

2439
02:08:35,700 --> 02:08:38,300
countless new doors. 
History was not a fixed. 

2440
02:08:38,308 --> 02:08:41,200
Tapestry it was ever unfolding 
waiting for those willing to 

2441
02:08:41,200 --> 02:08:43,100
Traverse the unknown in search 
of revelry. 

2442
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:51,000
Your standing on a wooden 
platform somewhere in Ohio and 

2443
02:08:51,000 --> 02:08:55,800
it's 1847 the morning air smells
primarily of cold smoke, with a 

2444
02:08:55,800 --> 02:08:58,700
hint of Adventure. 
Your carpetbag, sits Heavy in 

2445
02:08:58,700 --> 02:09:00,400
Your Hand stuffed with 
everything. 

2446
02:09:00,400 --> 02:09:02,600
You own that. 
Seemed important three days ago 

2447
02:09:02,600 --> 02:09:05,700
when you decided to Head West. 
Now, you're wondering why you 

2448
02:09:05,700 --> 02:09:08,300
packed two pairs of Sunday shoes
and only one spare shirt. 

2449
02:09:09,100 --> 02:09:12,700
The locomotive sits before you, 
hissing and clanking like some 

2450
02:09:12,700 --> 02:09:14,600
great Metal Beast with 
indigestion. 

2451
02:09:15,400 --> 02:09:18,300
Steam Puffs from various 
openings, you can't shake the 

2452
02:09:18,300 --> 02:09:20,900
feeling that the whole 
Contraption might explode at any

2453
02:09:20,900 --> 02:09:23,400
moment. 
The engineer a grizzled man, 

2454
02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:25,900
with arms, like tree. 
Trunks seems remarkably 

2455
02:09:25,900 --> 02:09:27,500
unconcerned about this 
possibility. 

2456
02:09:28,400 --> 02:09:30,800
It's probably seen enough boiler
explosions to know what one 

2457
02:09:30,800 --> 02:09:34,300
looks like before it happens. 
This thought doesn't comfort you

2458
02:09:34,300 --> 02:09:37,500
as much as you'd hope. 
You climb aboard, the passenger 

2459
02:09:37,500 --> 02:09:40,300
car which is essentially a 
wooden box on Wheels with 

2460
02:09:40,300 --> 02:09:42,800
Windows. 
The seats are arranged in rows 

2461
02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:46,700
facing forward though. 
Seats is perhaps too generous a 

2462
02:09:46,700 --> 02:09:48,600
term. 
They're more like church pews 

2463
02:09:48,600 --> 02:09:51,700
with backs upholstered in 
horsehair that prickles through 

2464
02:09:51,700 --> 02:09:54,500
your clothes. 
The aisle between them is narrow

2465
02:09:54,500 --> 02:09:56,100
enough. 
That two people can't pass with 

2466
02:09:56,100 --> 02:09:59,000
that one of the stomach and 
doing a little sideways Shuffle.

2467
02:09:59,700 --> 02:10:01,700
Your fellow passengers are 
settling in around you. 

2468
02:10:01,700 --> 02:10:04,200
There's a woman in a severe, 
black dress who has already 

2469
02:10:04,208 --> 02:10:07,300
claimed the window seat and 
looks like she defended with her

2470
02:10:07,300 --> 02:10:10,200
life. 
Behind her a traveling salesman,

2471
02:10:10,200 --> 02:10:13,100
arranges his sample cases with 
the Precision of a military 

2472
02:10:13,100 --> 02:10:16,800
operation across the aisle. 
A young mother tries to convince

2473
02:10:16,800 --> 02:10:19,500
her toddler that the train isn't
actually a monster though. 

2474
02:10:19,500 --> 02:10:22,700
The child seemed skeptical and 
frankly, you don't blame him. 

2475
02:10:24,000 --> 02:10:26,700
The conductor appears a man 
whose mustache has its own 

2476
02:10:26,700 --> 02:10:29,200
postal code. 
He's wearing a uniform that 

2477
02:10:29,200 --> 02:10:31,400
seemed better decades and 
carries a pocket watch. 

2478
02:10:31,400 --> 02:10:34,500
He consults with religious 
devotion, All Aboard. 

2479
02:10:34,500 --> 02:10:36,600
He calls though you're already 
aboard. 

2480
02:10:36,600 --> 02:10:39,100
So you're not sure if the 
request applies to you, or if 

2481
02:10:39,100 --> 02:10:42,000
you should get off and get back 
on, again, you choose to remain 

2482
02:10:42,000 --> 02:10:44,700
Where You Are. 
With a tremendous jolt, that 

2483
02:10:44,708 --> 02:10:46,600
nearly sends you into the lap of
the stern. 

2484
02:10:46,600 --> 02:10:49,900
Woman by the window. 
The train begins to move the 

2485
02:10:49,900 --> 02:10:51,700
wheels. 
Make a rhythmic clacking sound 

2486
02:10:51,700 --> 02:10:53,700
that will haunt your dreams for 
the next three weeks. 

2487
02:10:53,700 --> 02:10:59,700
Clackity clack clack. 
Almost musical if your taste in 

2488
02:10:59,708 --> 02:11:02,900
music runs to repetitive 
percussion performed by Iron 

2489
02:11:02,900 --> 02:11:06,600
wheels on iron rails. 
Scenery outside starts to crawl 

2490
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:10,100
passed at this speed. 
You could probably hop off pick 

2491
02:11:10,100 --> 02:11:11,600
some wildflowers and hot back 
on. 

2492
02:11:11,600 --> 02:11:14,500
Again though the conductors 
mustache suggests, the idea 

2493
02:11:14,500 --> 02:11:18,800
wouldn't be appreciated. 
Feels rolled by dotted with 

2494
02:11:18,808 --> 02:11:22,300
Cowles who see mildly interested
in this mechanical intrusion 

2495
02:11:22,300 --> 02:11:26,200
into their pastoral day. 
A farmer waves from his plow and

2496
02:11:26,200 --> 02:11:30,200
you wave back feeding, very 
Cosmopolitan, and modern, The 

2497
02:11:30,200 --> 02:11:33,900
car rocks gently from side to 
side not entirely unlike being 

2498
02:11:33,900 --> 02:11:37,500
in a cradle if cradles were made
of wood and iron and pulled by 

2499
02:11:37,500 --> 02:11:39,800
steam engine, the motion is 
soothing. 

2500
02:11:39,800 --> 02:11:42,700
Once you get used to it though, 
it takes about the same amount 

2501
02:11:42,700 --> 02:11:46,400
of time as a mild case of 
seasickness He close your eyes 

2502
02:11:46,400 --> 02:11:49,100
and try to imagine, you're on a 
ship sailing across prairies and

2503
02:11:49,108 --> 02:11:52,200
oceans. 
Your carpet bag, slides around 

2504
02:11:52,200 --> 02:11:53,900
on the floor, with each curve 
and bump. 

2505
02:11:53,900 --> 02:11:57,500
Everybody's luggage performs, a 
small dance, and every now, and 

2506
02:11:57,500 --> 02:12:00,900
then someone's hat box tries to 
escape only to have its 

2507
02:12:00,900 --> 02:12:03,300
embarrassed owner. 
Restrain it, the woman next to 

2508
02:12:03,300 --> 02:12:05,900
you, as tied, her reticule to 
her wrist, with what appears to 

2509
02:12:05,900 --> 02:12:09,900
be a shoelace, clearly, she's 
traveled by train before outside

2510
02:12:09,900 --> 02:12:13,100
the world passes by at the 
breathtaking speed of about 15 

2511
02:12:13,100 --> 02:12:15,700
miles per hour. 
The present is the future. 

2512
02:12:15,700 --> 02:12:18,700
You think to yourself the 
present is what progress looks 

2513
02:12:18,700 --> 02:12:22,900
like. people travel across vast 
distances on iron horses, 

2514
02:12:22,900 --> 02:12:25,600
reaching speeds, that would have
been Unthinkable for your 

2515
02:12:25,608 --> 02:12:29,400
grandparents However, at this 
moment, as I watch a 

2516
02:12:29,400 --> 02:12:32,300
particularly energetic squirrel,
keep Pace with the train for a 

2517
02:12:32,300 --> 02:12:35,400
solid 30 seconds. 
The entire experience feels less

2518
02:12:35,400 --> 02:12:39,100
revolutionary and more quaint a 
whistle blows along. 

2519
02:12:39,100 --> 02:12:42,500
Mournful sound that somehow 
manages to be both exciting and 

2520
02:12:42,500 --> 02:12:44,800
lonely. 
At the same time, your moving 

2521
02:12:44,800 --> 02:12:49,200
now carried forward by Steam and
steel into whatever Adventure, 

2522
02:12:49,200 --> 02:12:51,900
awaits down the line. 
After your first hour aboard, 

2523
02:12:51,900 --> 02:12:54,500
your beginning to understand 
that train travel comes with its

2524
02:12:54,500 --> 02:12:57,900
peculiar social rules. 
Most of which nobody bothered to

2525
02:12:57,900 --> 02:13:00,700
write down anywhere. 
It's like being invited to a 

2526
02:13:00,700 --> 02:13:02,500
party where everyone knows the 
secret handshake. 

2527
02:13:02,500 --> 02:13:05,600
Except you take the window seat 
situation. 

2528
02:13:05,600 --> 02:13:09,000
For instance, a woman beside you
as astonished squatters rights 

2529
02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:10,700
on the window view and she 
guards. 

2530
02:13:10,700 --> 02:13:14,700
It jealously When you lean 
slightly toward the glass to 

2531
02:13:14,700 --> 02:13:16,800
catch a glimpse of a 
particularly captivating. 

2532
02:13:16,800 --> 02:13:19,100
Cow, she shifts. 
Her considerable bulk to block 

2533
02:13:19,108 --> 02:13:21,800
your view entirely. 
Seems like she's following 

2534
02:13:21,800 --> 02:13:25,100
proper train etiquette, but you 
suspect, she's making it up as 

2535
02:13:25,100 --> 02:13:27,600
she goes. 
The art of eating a bored and 

2536
02:13:27,600 --> 02:13:30,000
moving train proves to be more 
challenging than you'd 

2537
02:13:30,000 --> 02:13:32,400
anticipated. 
The railroad has thoughtfully 

2538
02:13:32,400 --> 02:13:36,500
provided a dining car though. 
Dining is perhaps too. 

2539
02:13:36,500 --> 02:13:38,200
Elegant a term for what 
transpires there. 

2540
02:13:38,800 --> 02:13:41,500
You make your way down the 
aisle, grabbing seat backs and 

2541
02:13:41,508 --> 02:13:44,100
fellow passengers for 
supporters, the car sways, and 

2542
02:13:44,108 --> 02:13:47,700
lurches the dining car attendant
to man, whose clearly made 

2543
02:13:47,700 --> 02:13:49,300
peace. 
With the chaos of his profession

2544
02:13:49,300 --> 02:13:52,200
serves up plate of food that 
seemed to determined to slide 

2545
02:13:52,200 --> 02:13:55,600
into your lap, your beef stew 
sloshes from side to side with 

2546
02:13:55,600 --> 02:13:58,800
the train rock, you quickly 
learn to time your spoonfuls, 

2547
02:13:58,800 --> 02:14:01,900
with the motion of the car, 
scooping up stew, when it slides

2548
02:14:01,900 --> 02:14:03,800
toward you and waiting 
patiently. 

2549
02:14:03,800 --> 02:14:07,200
When it migrates to the far side
of the bowl, it resembles a 

2550
02:14:07,208 --> 02:14:10,500
fishing experience will be at 
with gravy and vegetables as the

2551
02:14:10,500 --> 02:14:12,700
catch and a constantly shifting 
pond. 

2552
02:14:13,700 --> 02:14:16,300
The other diners have developed 
various strategies for dealing 

2553
02:14:16,300 --> 02:14:19,300
with mobile meals. 
One gentleman has wedged, his 

2554
02:14:19,300 --> 02:14:22,000
plate between two coffee cups, 
creating a little edible 

2555
02:14:22,000 --> 02:14:25,600
Fortress, a lady at the next 
table as given up entirely on 

2556
02:14:25,600 --> 02:14:28,500
utensils and his politely 
nibbling her dinner role while 

2557
02:14:28,500 --> 02:14:30,300
watching her suit performer, 
acrobatics. 

2558
02:14:31,200 --> 02:14:34,000
The traveling salesman from your
car somehow managed to balance 

2559
02:14:34,000 --> 02:14:37,300
his entire meal on his knees, 
while continuing to work on his 

2560
02:14:37,300 --> 02:14:40,600
correspondence, you suspect, 
he's part circus performer. 

2561
02:14:41,500 --> 02:14:44,000
Coffee service presents its own 
unique challenges. 

2562
02:14:44,000 --> 02:14:47,700
The attendant approaches with a 
large pot and The Confident of 

2563
02:14:47,700 --> 02:14:49,800
someone who's done the job a 
thousand times before. 

2564
02:14:50,800 --> 02:14:53,600
He paused the coffee in a smooth
Arc that somehow accounts for 

2565
02:14:53,600 --> 02:14:56,900
the Train's motion, the cups 
movement, and the likelihood 

2566
02:14:56,900 --> 02:14:58,900
that you'll jerk your hand at 
The crucial moment. 

2567
02:14:58,900 --> 02:15:01,800
Most of the coffee actually 
makes it into the cup. 

2568
02:15:02,600 --> 02:15:06,100
She feels like a small miracle. 
Between meals, you discover, 

2569
02:15:06,100 --> 02:15:09,500
that privacy is a negotiable 
concept, aboard, a train, your 

2570
02:15:09,500 --> 02:15:11,900
fellow passengers seem to view 
your personal business as 

2571
02:15:11,900 --> 02:15:15,200
legitimate entertainment. 
The stern Woman by the window 

2572
02:15:15,200 --> 02:15:17,200
has taken to commenting on your 
reading material. 

2573
02:15:17,200 --> 02:15:20,000
Despite the fact that you 
haven't asked for her literary 

2574
02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:23,300
opinions, When you pull out a 
penny novel, she sniffs to 

2575
02:15:23,300 --> 02:15:25,900
approving and mutter something 
about the decline of modern 

2576
02:15:25,900 --> 02:15:28,700
morals, you can consider 
pointing out that her own 

2577
02:15:28,700 --> 02:15:31,600
reading material appears to be a
Temperance tracked but decide 

2578
02:15:31,600 --> 02:15:34,100
that discretion is the better 
part of not getting into. 

2579
02:15:34,100 --> 02:15:36,400
An argument with someone you'll 
be sitting next to for the next 

2580
02:15:36,400 --> 02:15:39,100
two days. 
The traveling salesman has 

2581
02:15:39,100 --> 02:15:41,900
appointed himself, the cars 
unofficial social directors 

2582
02:15:41,900 --> 02:15:46,000
knows, everyone's destination 
occupation, and life story 

2583
02:15:46,000 --> 02:15:50,900
within the first 50 miles. 
By Mi 75 is offering unsolicited

2584
02:15:50,900 --> 02:15:54,500
advice about everything from the
best hotels in Chicago, to the 

2585
02:15:54,500 --> 02:15:58,200
proper treatment of bunions. 
You learn more about bunion care

2586
02:15:58,200 --> 02:16:01,100
than any reasonable person. 
Should know, however, you must 

2587
02:16:01,100 --> 02:16:03,200
admit that his enthusiasm is 
endearing. 

2588
02:16:03,900 --> 02:16:06,800
The bathroom facilities on the 
train deserve special mention, 

2589
02:16:06,800 --> 02:16:09,800
although they may not be ideal 
to use during dinner time. 

2590
02:16:10,600 --> 02:16:13,800
Embracing Nature's call, while 
traveling at 15 miles per hour. 

2591
02:16:13,800 --> 02:16:16,700
Over questionable, track 
Demands, a certain level of 

2592
02:16:16,700 --> 02:16:19,300
athletic ability and a 
willingness to embrace 

2593
02:16:19,300 --> 02:16:22,800
Adventure. 
Facilities themselves are about 

2594
02:16:22,800 --> 02:16:25,900
the size of a broom closet 
furnished with the seat that 

2595
02:16:25,900 --> 02:16:28,400
seems designed by someone. 
Who'd, never actually sat down 

2596
02:16:28,400 --> 02:16:31,700
before the whole experience 
teaches you new levels of 

2597
02:16:31,700 --> 02:16:33,500
appreciation for stationary 
Plumbing. 

2598
02:16:34,400 --> 02:16:37,900
Nightfall brings its set of 
Social Challenges, the seats, 

2599
02:16:37,900 --> 02:16:40,600
don't recline. 
Exactly, but you can achieve a 

2600
02:16:40,600 --> 02:16:43,799
sort of semi slumped position 
that passes for Comfort if 

2601
02:16:43,799 --> 02:16:45,900
you're not particular about your
spine's alignment. 

2602
02:16:47,100 --> 02:16:50,299
The stern woman has produced a 
pillow from somewhere and has 

2603
02:16:50,299 --> 02:16:53,299
claimed both armrests with the 
authority of a territorial. 

2604
02:16:54,400 --> 02:16:57,299
You fold your coat into a 
makeshift pillow and settle in 

2605
02:16:57,299 --> 02:17:00,700
for what promises to be a very 
educational night in the art of 

2606
02:17:00,708 --> 02:17:03,600
sleeping while sitting up. 
The sounds of the train. 

2607
02:17:03,600 --> 02:17:05,600
Take on a different quality in 
the Darkness. 

2608
02:17:06,299 --> 02:17:09,200
Clacking of Wheels becomes more 
pronounced, almost rhythmic. 

2609
02:17:10,200 --> 02:17:13,500
Someone several seats back has 
begun snoring in Counterpoint to

2610
02:17:13,500 --> 02:17:15,400
the Train's Rhythm, creating an 
odd. 

2611
02:17:15,400 --> 02:17:19,000
Sort of mobile lullaby morning, 
arrives with the subtlety of a 

2612
02:17:19,000 --> 02:17:22,299
brass band announced by the 
conductors voice, calling out 

2613
02:17:22,299 --> 02:17:23,400
the next station. 
Stop. 

2614
02:17:23,400 --> 02:17:27,299
You've managed about three hours
of actual sleep scattered 

2615
02:17:27,299 --> 02:17:30,100
throughout the night. 
In 20 minute intervals, between 

2616
02:17:30,100 --> 02:17:33,799
the trains more enthusiastic 
lurches and the creative snoring

2617
02:17:33,799 --> 02:17:37,400
Symphony that developed around 
midnight, your fellow passengers

2618
02:17:37,400 --> 02:17:41,700
are stirring with very degrees 
of success, The traveling 

2619
02:17:41,700 --> 02:17:43,600
salesman appears to have slept 
like a baby. 

2620
02:17:44,400 --> 02:17:47,000
If babies typically woke up 
perfectly groomed and ready to 

2621
02:17:47,008 --> 02:17:49,600
discuss the virtues of their 
latest patent medicine. 

2622
02:17:50,799 --> 02:17:53,700
The stern woman looks exactly as
severe as she did yesterday. 

2623
02:17:53,700 --> 02:17:57,600
Leading you to suspect. 
She may not actually sleep that 

2624
02:17:57,600 --> 02:18:01,200
simply Powers down like some 
sort of Victorian atom new 

2625
02:18:01,200 --> 02:18:04,000
passenger boards at this stop 
and he's the kind of character 

2626
02:18:04,000 --> 02:18:05,400
that makes train travel 
memorable. 

2627
02:18:05,400 --> 02:18:08,799
He's clearly a frontier type 
dressed in buckskins. 

2628
02:18:08,799 --> 02:18:10,799
That have seen more Adventure 
than a penny novel. 

2629
02:18:10,799 --> 02:18:14,600
His beard appears to have been 
styled by a windstorm, and he 

2630
02:18:14,600 --> 02:18:16,700
carries himself with the easy 
confidence of someone whose 

2631
02:18:16,700 --> 02:18:19,900
wrestled bears and lived to tell
about it probably over dinner. 

2632
02:18:21,100 --> 02:18:22,900
He settles into a seat, across 
the aisle. 

2633
02:18:22,900 --> 02:18:26,200
And immediately begins regaling.
Anyone within earshot with Tales

2634
02:18:26,200 --> 02:18:29,700
of his exploits. 
According to his stories, he's 

2635
02:18:29,700 --> 02:18:34,299
been a Trapper, a scout, a gold 
prospector and briefly, a circus

2636
02:18:34,299 --> 02:18:37,400
performer. 
You suspect some embellishment, 

2637
02:18:37,400 --> 02:18:40,000
particularly regarding the story
about training. 

2638
02:18:40,000 --> 02:18:42,900
A Wild Mustang to fetch his 
morning coffee but his 

2639
02:18:42,900 --> 02:18:46,100
enthusiasm is infectious. 
Even the stern woman. 

2640
02:18:46,100 --> 02:18:48,100
Seems grudgingly interested 
though. 

2641
02:18:48,100 --> 02:18:49,799
She maintains her disapproving 
expression. 

2642
02:18:49,799 --> 02:18:53,000
As a matter of principle, the 
young mother with the toddler 

2643
02:18:53,000 --> 02:18:55,799
has given up any pretense of 
controlling her child, who was 

2644
02:18:55,808 --> 02:18:58,299
discovered that the aisle makes 
an excellent race track. 

2645
02:18:59,200 --> 02:19:02,900
The boy Kareem's from seat to 
seat using passengers knees as 

2646
02:19:02,900 --> 02:19:05,600
turning Post in his Grand Prix. 
Most Travelers. 

2647
02:19:05,600 --> 02:19:08,299
Accept this with resigned Good 
Humor though the traveling 

2648
02:19:08,299 --> 02:19:10,299
salesman looks nervous about his
carefully. 

2649
02:19:10,299 --> 02:19:13,600
Arranged sample cases at the 
next stop, a preacher boards, 

2650
02:19:13,600 --> 02:19:17,000
recognizable by severe, black 
coat, and the way he surveys the

2651
02:19:17,000 --> 02:19:20,200
car as if calculating everyone's
likelihood of salvation. 

2652
02:19:21,100 --> 02:19:23,500
He takes a seat near the back 
and immediately begins reading 

2653
02:19:23,500 --> 02:19:25,700
from what you assume as a Bible 
though. 

2654
02:19:25,700 --> 02:19:27,900
At this distance, it could be a 
cookbook for all, you know. 

2655
02:19:29,299 --> 02:19:32,500
The frontier character catches 
sight of him and grins and you 

2656
02:19:32,500 --> 02:19:34,799
sense that philosophical 
discussions, may be in your 

2657
02:19:34,808 --> 02:19:36,700
future. 
A group of immigrants. 

2658
02:19:36,700 --> 02:19:40,200
Filled several seats near the 
front of the car they speak in a

2659
02:19:40,200 --> 02:19:42,200
language. 
You don't recognize gesturing 

2660
02:19:42,200 --> 02:19:44,600
animatedly and pointing out the 
windows at the passing 

2661
02:19:44,600 --> 02:19:48,000
landscape. 
Their excitement is palpable and

2662
02:19:48,000 --> 02:19:50,800
you realize you're witnessing 
people seeing their new country 

2663
02:19:50,800 --> 02:19:53,600
for the first time. 
It provides perspective on your 

2664
02:19:53,600 --> 02:19:56,800
own Journey although you are 
still not entirely sure why you 

2665
02:19:56,800 --> 02:20:00,900
chose to Head West initially The
dining car attendant makes his 

2666
02:20:00,900 --> 02:20:04,000
rounds announcing breakfast with
the air of someone who's giving 

2667
02:20:04,000 --> 02:20:06,000
up hoping anyone will be 
surprised by the menu. 

2668
02:20:06,800 --> 02:20:10,400
There's hardtack coffee is 
strong as a horse shoe and a 

2669
02:20:10,400 --> 02:20:11,700
dish that could easily pass for 
eggs. 

2670
02:20:11,700 --> 02:20:13,400
If you don't screw tonight. 
Is it too closely? 

2671
02:20:14,500 --> 02:20:17,200
The frontier character claims 
that the food is the finest 

2672
02:20:17,200 --> 02:20:19,100
Cuisine, he has experienced 
since leaving civilization. 

2673
02:20:19,100 --> 02:20:23,500
However, considering his stories
about eating bark and Prairie 

2674
02:20:23,500 --> 02:20:26,200
Grass, this may not be a 
significant compliment, 

2675
02:20:27,300 --> 02:20:30,300
Conversation, flows, easily 
around the car, resembling the 

2676
02:20:30,300 --> 02:20:32,400
interactions of people who have 
been brought together by 

2677
02:20:32,400 --> 02:20:35,700
circumstance. 
Preacher, and the frontiersmen 

2678
02:20:35,700 --> 02:20:37,900
have indeed. 
Struck up a debate about the 

2679
02:20:37,900 --> 02:20:40,100
nature of civilization versus 
the Wilderness. 

2680
02:20:40,100 --> 02:20:43,100
The preacher argues for the 
moral benefits of settled 

2681
02:20:43,100 --> 02:20:46,400
Society, while the frontiersmen 
counters with stories, about the

2682
02:20:46,400 --> 02:20:50,000
corrupting influence of cities. 
You find yourself nodding along 

2683
02:20:50,000 --> 02:20:53,200
to both sides, which probably 
makes you either very wise or 

2684
02:20:53,200 --> 02:20:56,500
very confused. 
The stern woman has appointed 

2685
02:20:56,500 --> 02:20:58,500
herself. 
The moral guardian of the car 

2686
02:20:58,500 --> 02:21:02,400
offering unsolicited commentary 
on everyone's Behavior, reading 

2687
02:21:02,400 --> 02:21:06,300
material and general deportment.
When the traveling salesman 

2688
02:21:06,300 --> 02:21:09,800
produces deck of cards she 
launches into a lecture about 

2689
02:21:09,800 --> 02:21:12,300
the evils of gambling that would
make the preacher proud. 

2690
02:21:13,400 --> 02:21:15,600
The salesman explains that he 
was merely planning to 

2691
02:21:15,608 --> 02:21:18,400
demonstrate a card trick for the
toddler, but she remains 

2692
02:21:18,400 --> 02:21:21,900
unconvinced. 
By afternoon the various 

2693
02:21:21,900 --> 02:21:24,200
personalities of settled into a 
comfortable routine. 

2694
02:21:25,200 --> 02:21:27,700
The frontiersmen entertains the 
group with his stories. 

2695
02:21:27,700 --> 02:21:31,100
The preacher offers moral 
advice, the traveling salesman 

2696
02:21:31,100 --> 02:21:34,100
provides solutions to 
unidentified problems and the 

2697
02:21:34,100 --> 02:21:35,900
stern woman. 
Uphold order with her 

2698
02:21:35,900 --> 02:21:38,500
disapproval. 
The immigrants continued, their 

2699
02:21:38,500 --> 02:21:41,400
animated discussions 
occasionally breaking into what 

2700
02:21:41,400 --> 02:21:44,300
sounds like folk songs. 
You've become The Unofficial 

2701
02:21:44,300 --> 02:21:47,200
mediator, the neutral party, 
everyone feels comfortable 

2702
02:21:47,200 --> 02:21:50,800
talking to you may not have 
strong opinions or your 

2703
02:21:50,800 --> 02:21:53,900
carpetbag may contain the only 
good whiskey on the train hidden

2704
02:21:53,900 --> 02:21:57,000
under your spare shirts. 
Either way your learning more 

2705
02:21:57,000 --> 02:21:59,200
about human nature than you ever
expected. 

2706
02:22:00,400 --> 02:22:03,200
The toddler has worn himself out
and finally fallen asleep in his

2707
02:22:03,200 --> 02:22:05,500
mother's arms. 
Providing the first Quiet 

2708
02:22:05,500 --> 02:22:08,700
Moments and Dawn. 
Even the train seems to be 

2709
02:22:08,700 --> 02:22:10,700
running more smoothly as if it 
too. 

2710
02:22:10,700 --> 02:22:14,000
Appreciates the brief respite 
from chaos, the dinner service 

2711
02:22:14,000 --> 02:22:16,900
that evening proves to be an 
adventure worthy of the frontier

2712
02:22:16,900 --> 02:22:19,100
itself. 
You've learned from your lunch 

2713
02:22:19,100 --> 02:22:22,000
experience and approach the 
dining car with a strategy 

2714
02:22:22,000 --> 02:22:26,800
secure, your food find something
to brace against and accept that

2715
02:22:26,800 --> 02:22:29,900
dignity is optional when 
traveling at 15 miles per hour 

2716
02:22:29,900 --> 02:22:32,600
over tracks laid by optimistic 
railroad workers. 

2717
02:22:33,500 --> 02:22:36,200
The menu hasn't changed since 
breakfast, which isn't 

2718
02:22:36,200 --> 02:22:38,500
particularly surprising. 
Given that the dining cars 

2719
02:22:38,500 --> 02:22:41,900
pantry is roughly the size of 
your grandmother's pie safe. 

2720
02:22:42,700 --> 02:22:46,100
The attendant whose name you've 
learned is Frank has developed a

2721
02:22:46,108 --> 02:22:47,800
philosophical approach to his 
work. 

2722
02:22:47,800 --> 02:22:51,200
That involves accepting the 
limitations of cooking aboard. 

2723
02:22:51,200 --> 02:22:54,500
A moving train while maintaining
unreasonable optimism about the 

2724
02:22:54,508 --> 02:22:57,000
results. 
Tonight's mystery meet is 

2725
02:22:57,000 --> 02:22:59,400
chicken but it bounces around 
your plate. 

2726
02:22:59,400 --> 02:23:00,900
Like it never got used to being 
dead. 

2727
02:23:01,800 --> 02:23:04,500
The vegetables have achieved 
that perfect mushy consistency 

2728
02:23:04,500 --> 02:23:07,700
where you can't quite tell if 
you're eating carrots or 

2729
02:23:07,700 --> 02:23:09,700
turnips. 
And frankly, it doesn't matter 

2730
02:23:09,700 --> 02:23:12,000
because they both taste like the
inside of a coal bin. 

2731
02:23:12,900 --> 02:23:15,500
Your dining Companions of the 
evening, include a banker, from 

2732
02:23:15,500 --> 02:23:18,500
Philadelphia who keeps checking 
his pocket watch, as if he can 

2733
02:23:18,500 --> 02:23:20,100
somehow make the train arrive 
faster. 

2734
02:23:20,100 --> 02:23:22,200
Through sheer temporal 
willpower. 

2735
02:23:23,500 --> 02:23:25,900
Across from him, sits a school, 
mum heading to a teaching 

2736
02:23:25,900 --> 02:23:29,600
position in Kansas armed with 
enough, moral fiber to build a 

2737
02:23:29,600 --> 02:23:32,000
small church and the kind of 
determined cheerfulness that 

2738
02:23:32,000 --> 02:23:34,400
suggests she's prepared to 
educate the frontier into 

2739
02:23:34,400 --> 02:23:37,600
submission. 
The Frontiersman has joined your

2740
02:23:37,600 --> 02:23:41,200
table bringing with him Tales of
dining on roasted prairie dog 

2741
02:23:41,200 --> 02:23:45,100
and something he calls Mountain 
Oysters which you suspect aren't

2742
02:23:45,100 --> 02:23:47,500
actually oysters and definitely 
aren't from any mountain. 

2743
02:23:47,500 --> 02:23:50,600
You'd care to visit This 
stories, make the mysterious 

2744
02:23:50,600 --> 02:23:53,700
train chicken seemed downright 
Gourmet by comparison. 

2745
02:23:55,100 --> 02:23:57,700
Halfway through the meal, the 
train hits, a particularly 

2746
02:23:57,700 --> 02:24:01,800
ambitious, curve, and Chaos 
ensues with chicken breaks free 

2747
02:24:01,800 --> 02:24:05,200
sliding across the table towards
the banker who's reflexes 

2748
02:24:05,200 --> 02:24:07,900
suggest he is successfully 
avoided flying food in the past.

2749
02:24:09,600 --> 02:24:13,300
The school moms coffee creates a
small Title Wave that somehow 

2750
02:24:13,300 --> 02:24:16,500
manages to miss her entirely 
while thoroughly soaking her 

2751
02:24:16,500 --> 02:24:19,000
bread roll. 
Frankly, attendant doesn't even 

2752
02:24:19,000 --> 02:24:22,100
clearly witnessed this 
performance. 

2753
02:24:22,100 --> 02:24:26,200
Many times before the banker now
wearing your dinner maintains 

2754
02:24:26,200 --> 02:24:28,200
his dignity with admirable, 
stoicism. 

2755
02:24:28,200 --> 02:24:31,200
He Dabs at the chicken grease on
his vest with the same 

2756
02:24:31,200 --> 02:24:34,100
methodical Precision, he 
probably applies to balancing 

2757
02:24:34,100 --> 02:24:37,100
ledgers. 
Occupational hazard of trained 

2758
02:24:37,100 --> 02:24:39,300
dining. 
He observes philosophically as 

2759
02:24:39,300 --> 02:24:42,000
if being assaulted by mobile 
poultry is a regular part of his

2760
02:24:42,000 --> 02:24:46,000
financial career, With the 
efficient competence, of someone

2761
02:24:46,000 --> 02:24:48,300
accustomed to manage in 
classroom catastrophes. 

2762
02:24:48,300 --> 02:24:51,300
The school man, produces a 
handkerchief and begins cleaning

2763
02:24:51,300 --> 02:24:54,400
up the coffee disaster. 
The cheerfulness Remains 

2764
02:24:54,400 --> 02:24:57,700
undaunted though, you suspect, 
she's mentally composing letters

2765
02:24:57,700 --> 02:25:00,700
home about the Exotic dangers of
Frontier dining. 

2766
02:25:01,700 --> 02:25:04,600
After dinner, you retire to your
seat to discover that motion 

2767
02:25:04,600 --> 02:25:06,500
sickness has finally caught up 
with you. 

2768
02:25:07,200 --> 02:25:10,700
It creeps in gradually starting 
with a vague uneasiness that you

2769
02:25:10,700 --> 02:25:12,600
initially attribute to the 
mysterious chicken. 

2770
02:25:13,500 --> 02:25:16,400
Constant swaying motion of the 
car which seemed Charming the 

2771
02:25:16,400 --> 02:25:20,200
morning now, feels less like a 
gentle and more like being 

2772
02:25:20,200 --> 02:25:22,900
trapped inside. 
A powerful washing machine with 

2773
02:25:22,900 --> 02:25:25,600
the sharp eye of someone who has
likely diagnosed, half the 

2774
02:25:25,600 --> 02:25:28,800
almonds in her home town. 
The stern woman notices your 

2775
02:25:28,800 --> 02:25:31,500
distress. 
She produces a small bottle from

2776
02:25:31,500 --> 02:25:34,100
her reticule with the confidence
of a traveling Apothecary. 

2777
02:25:34,100 --> 02:25:38,300
She announces peppermint oil as 
if she's offering a miraculous 

2778
02:25:38,300 --> 02:25:40,900
remedy. 
Settles the stomach and clears, 

2779
02:25:40,900 --> 02:25:44,700
the head, you are no position to
refuse, help even from someone 

2780
02:25:44,700 --> 02:25:48,000
whose previous medical advice, 
consisted, mainly of moral 

2781
02:25:48,000 --> 02:25:51,500
lectures, the peppermint oil 
does help though, whether it's 

2782
02:25:51,500 --> 02:25:54,100
the actual medicine or just the 
relief of having someone show 

2783
02:25:54,100 --> 02:25:57,700
unexpected, kindness is hard to 
say the traveling salesman 

2784
02:25:57,700 --> 02:26:00,200
overhearing. 
Your plight launches into an 

2785
02:26:00,200 --> 02:26:03,200
enthusiastic pitch for his 
latest remedy, guaranteed to 

2786
02:26:03,200 --> 02:26:07,000
cure everything from motion, 
sickness to melancholy His 

2787
02:26:07,000 --> 02:26:10,000
sample case, reveals an 
impressive array of bottles tins

2788
02:26:10,000 --> 02:26:13,300
and mysterious packages each 
promising to solve problems. 

2789
02:26:13,300 --> 02:26:16,600
You didn't know you had, you 
politely decline, his offer of 

2790
02:26:16,600 --> 02:26:20,200
doctor pemberton's, Miracle 
Elixir, partly because your 

2791
02:26:20,200 --> 02:26:23,100
feeling better and partly 
because anything described as 

2792
02:26:23,100 --> 02:26:26,700
miraculous and sold from a 
suitcase, seemed suspect the 

2793
02:26:26,700 --> 02:26:29,200
rocking motion of the train, 
which caused your stomach 

2794
02:26:29,200 --> 02:26:31,600
troubles. 
Ironically become soothing, once

2795
02:26:31,600 --> 02:26:35,400
the nausea passes, the rhythmic 
clacking of Wheels settles into 

2796
02:26:35,400 --> 02:26:37,800
a hypnotic pattern, that makes 
your eyelids heavy. 

2797
02:26:38,900 --> 02:26:39,900
Outside. 
The windows. 

2798
02:26:39,900 --> 02:26:42,100
Twilight is painting the 
landscape in soft. 

2799
02:26:42,100 --> 02:26:45,100
Purple's and Golds turning 
ordinary Farmland into 

2800
02:26:45,100 --> 02:26:47,400
something. 
Almost magical, your fellow 

2801
02:26:47,400 --> 02:26:49,900
passengers are settling into 
their evening routines. 

2802
02:26:49,900 --> 02:26:53,400
The preachers switched from 
moral philosophy to what appears

2803
02:26:53,400 --> 02:26:55,400
to be. 
Let her writing his pain 

2804
02:26:55,400 --> 02:26:57,800
scratching across paper in time 
with the trains. 

2805
02:26:59,300 --> 02:27:03,000
The immigrants have grown quiet 
gazing out at their new country 

2806
02:27:03,000 --> 02:27:06,700
with expressions of Wonder and 
perhaps a little homesickness. 

2807
02:27:07,800 --> 02:27:10,500
The toddler has discovered that 
the space under the seats makes 

2808
02:27:10,500 --> 02:27:14,100
an excellent Fort and has begun 
a complex game involving his few

2809
02:27:14,100 --> 02:27:16,300
toys and a remarkable amount of 
imagination. 

2810
02:27:17,500 --> 02:27:19,900
His mother watches with the 
patient expression of someone 

2811
02:27:19,900 --> 02:27:22,000
who's learned to find 
entertainment in the smallest 

2812
02:27:22,000 --> 02:27:24,600
victories. 
Frank appears with evening 

2813
02:27:24,600 --> 02:27:27,700
coffee, which you accept 
greatly, despite its resemblance

2814
02:27:27,700 --> 02:27:30,800
to coal tar. 
Because sometimes the ritual of 

2815
02:27:30,808 --> 02:27:33,700
warmth and caffeine matters more
than the actual quality of 

2816
02:27:33,700 --> 02:27:36,700
either Darkness, settles over 
the train like a familiar 

2817
02:27:36,700 --> 02:27:40,600
blanket, transforming the 
passenger car into a cozy if 

2818
02:27:40,600 --> 02:27:45,400
some what cramped Cocoon of warm
light and human companionship. 

2819
02:27:46,800 --> 02:27:50,100
The conductor makes his evening 
rounds, lighting, the oil lamps 

2820
02:27:50,100 --> 02:27:53,200
that cast Dancing Shadows on the
walls and create pools of Golden

2821
02:27:53,200 --> 02:27:56,300
Light throughout the car. 
The effect is intimate. 

2822
02:27:56,300 --> 02:27:59,400
Turning your rolling wooden box 
in to something approaching 

2823
02:27:59,400 --> 02:28:01,900
comfortable. 
Sleeping on a train, your 

2824
02:28:01,900 --> 02:28:04,900
discovering is less a single 
event, and more a series of 

2825
02:28:04,900 --> 02:28:08,200
negotiations between your body, 
the seat and the laws of 

2826
02:28:08,200 --> 02:28:10,900
physics. 
The seats weren't designed with 

2827
02:28:10,900 --> 02:28:14,000
overnight comfort in mind. 
Having been crafted by someone 

2828
02:28:14,000 --> 02:28:16,500
who apparently believed that 
humans were naturally shaped 

2829
02:28:16,500 --> 02:28:19,300
like church. 
Pews, you try various positions,

2830
02:28:19,300 --> 02:28:23,400
the classic slump the sideways 
lean and an ambitious attempt to

2831
02:28:23,400 --> 02:28:26,100
use your carpet bag as a 
footrest which ends with your 

2832
02:28:26,100 --> 02:28:29,300
luggage sliding three seats 
forward during a particularly 

2833
02:28:29,300 --> 02:28:32,600
spirited curve. 
The stern woman has transformed 

2834
02:28:32,600 --> 02:28:36,400
herself into a fortress of 
propriety somehow managing to 

2835
02:28:36,400 --> 02:28:39,800
arrange her shawls and skirts in
a way that maintains perfect 

2836
02:28:39,800 --> 02:28:42,100
modesty. 
While achieving what appears to 

2837
02:28:42,100 --> 02:28:45,200
be actual comfort. 
You suspect, she's had training 

2838
02:28:45,200 --> 02:28:48,200
in this particular skill, 
possibly from a finishing school

2839
02:28:48,200 --> 02:28:50,700
that offered Advanced courses in
traveling with dignity. 

2840
02:28:50,700 --> 02:28:55,900
A gentle snoring suggests she's 
mastered the art completely The 

2841
02:28:55,900 --> 02:28:58,500
frontiersmen has claimed two 
seats by virtue of Simply being 

2842
02:28:58,500 --> 02:29:01,800
too large for one, and he sleeps
with the easy confidence of 

2843
02:29:01,800 --> 02:29:04,400
someone accustomed to bedding. 
Down Under The Open Sky. 

2844
02:29:05,600 --> 02:29:09,000
Occasionally, he mutters in his 
sleep fragments of Adventures 

2845
02:29:09,000 --> 02:29:10,700
that may or may not have 
actually happened. 

2846
02:29:10,700 --> 02:29:14,800
You catch references to honoring
mules, and the biggest catfish 

2847
02:29:14,800 --> 02:29:18,000
in Missouri delivered with the 
same conviction, he brings to 

2848
02:29:18,000 --> 02:29:21,400
his waking stories. 
The traveling salesman has 

2849
02:29:21,400 --> 02:29:24,100
somehow arranged his sample. 
Cases into a makeshift bed. 

2850
02:29:24,100 --> 02:29:26,500
That looks more comfortable than
your seat though. 

2851
02:29:26,500 --> 02:29:29,400
You suspect it violates several 
unspoken rules about train 

2852
02:29:29,400 --> 02:29:31,800
etiquette. 
He's covered himself with what 

2853
02:29:31,800 --> 02:29:33,400
appears to be a tarp 
advertising. 

2854
02:29:33,400 --> 02:29:36,600
His patent medicines, turning 
himself into a human billboard, 

2855
02:29:36,600 --> 02:29:40,300
even in sleep. 
At midnight, the train abruptly 

2856
02:29:40,300 --> 02:29:44,100
stops startling everyone awake 
Through the Windows, you can see

2857
02:29:44,100 --> 02:29:47,500
lanterns moving in the darkness 
and voices, carry the tone of 

2858
02:29:47,500 --> 02:29:49,800
men dealing with some sort of 
mechanical crisis. 

2859
02:29:50,700 --> 02:29:53,200
The conductor appears is 
mustache looking less 

2860
02:29:53,200 --> 02:29:56,000
authoritative than usual to 
explain that they're having a 

2861
02:29:56,000 --> 02:29:59,000
small difficulty with the 
locomotives and enthusiasm which

2862
02:29:59,000 --> 02:30:00,700
you take to mean the engine as 
broken down. 

2863
02:30:00,700 --> 02:30:03,500
Again, this sort of thing, 
you're learning is considered 

2864
02:30:03,500 --> 02:30:08,000
perfectly normal in 1847 trains.
Break down the way horses throw 

2865
02:30:08,000 --> 02:30:10,200
shoes or Wagon Wheels. 
Come loose. 

2866
02:30:10,200 --> 02:30:13,200
It's not a crisis. 
Merely an inconvenience that 

2867
02:30:13,200 --> 02:30:15,900
requires patience and possibly 
some creative engineering. 

2868
02:30:16,900 --> 02:30:20,200
Frank appears with more coffee 
as if caffeine is the universal 

2869
02:30:20,200 --> 02:30:24,300
solution to mechanical problems.
The delay gives everyone a 

2870
02:30:24,300 --> 02:30:27,800
chance to stretch walk around 
and engage in the kind of 

2871
02:30:27,800 --> 02:30:30,300
philosophical discussion. 
That only happen at midnight, 

2872
02:30:30,300 --> 02:30:32,800
when your stranded beside 
railroad tracks in the middle of

2873
02:30:32,800 --> 02:30:36,000
Ohio The preacher in the 
frontiersmen resumed their 

2874
02:30:36,000 --> 02:30:39,400
debate about Civilization now 
expanded to include theories 

2875
02:30:39,400 --> 02:30:42,300
about mechanical progress and 
God's opinion of steam engines. 

2876
02:30:42,300 --> 02:30:46,200
The banker produces a flask from
his coat and offers it around 

2877
02:30:46,200 --> 02:30:48,800
with the generosity of someone 
who's giving up worrying about 

2878
02:30:48,800 --> 02:30:52,500
propriety at this hour. 
Even the schoolmarm accepts. 

2879
02:30:52,500 --> 02:30:55,500
A small sip though, she makes a 
face that suggests her 

2880
02:30:55,500 --> 02:30:57,500
Temperance. 
Principles are still intact, 

2881
02:30:57,500 --> 02:31:00,600
just temporarily suspended for 
medicinal purposes. 

2882
02:31:00,600 --> 02:31:03,900
The immigrants gather near their
seats, talking quietly among 

2883
02:31:03,900 --> 02:31:06,300
themselves while the children 
sleep against their parents 

2884
02:31:06,300 --> 02:31:09,200
shoulders their patients appears
boundless. 

2885
02:31:09,200 --> 02:31:12,700
As if they've grown accustomed 
to patiently awaiting the start 

2886
02:31:12,700 --> 02:31:15,500
of their lives. 
You wonder what they're leaving 

2887
02:31:15,500 --> 02:31:17,600
behind and what they hope to 
find at the end of their 

2888
02:31:17,600 --> 02:31:20,100
Journey. 
Outside the repair, work 

2889
02:31:20,100 --> 02:31:22,600
continues with the steady rhythm
of men who know their business 

2890
02:31:22,600 --> 02:31:27,000
hammering, the hiss of steam and
occasional cursing that carries 

2891
02:31:27,000 --> 02:31:30,600
clearly in the night air. 
The locomotive is clearly a 

2892
02:31:30,600 --> 02:31:32,800
temperamental creature. 
That requires both mechanical 

2893
02:31:32,800 --> 02:31:36,800
skill and diplomatic handling. 
Stern woman has produced 

2894
02:31:36,800 --> 02:31:40,700
needlework from somewhere in her
seemingly, bottomless, reticule,

2895
02:31:40,700 --> 02:31:43,000
and his teaching by Lamplight 
with the concentration of a 

2896
02:31:43,008 --> 02:31:46,400
surgeon. 
She notices your attention and 

2897
02:31:46,400 --> 02:31:50,700
explains without prompting that 
Idle Hands, even at midnight 

2898
02:31:50,700 --> 02:31:53,200
beside broken down. 
Trains are a dangerous place. 

2899
02:31:54,300 --> 02:31:56,900
Her moral principles, apparently
don't recognize standard 

2900
02:31:56,900 --> 02:31:58,900
sleeping hours by two in the 
morning. 

2901
02:31:58,900 --> 02:32:02,500
The repairs are complete and now
by a triumphant whistle that 

2902
02:32:02,500 --> 02:32:04,900
probably wakes up every cow 
within five miles. 

2903
02:32:05,900 --> 02:32:08,900
Everyone settles back into their
improvised sleeping arrangements

2904
02:32:08,900 --> 02:32:11,600
with the weary satisfaction of 
Travelers who've shared a small 

2905
02:32:11,608 --> 02:32:14,300
Adventure. 
The train begins moving again 

2906
02:32:14,300 --> 02:32:18,700
with its characteristic series 
of jerks and jolts like a giant 

2907
02:32:18,700 --> 02:32:22,300
waking up with arthritis. 
The rhythmic clacking returns, 

2908
02:32:22,300 --> 02:32:25,000
perhaps slightly, more 
enthusiastic than before, as if,

2909
02:32:25,008 --> 02:32:28,600
the locomotive is making up for 
lost time, outside the dark 

2910
02:32:28,600 --> 02:32:32,000
landscape slides, passed dotted 
with the occasional Farmhouse 

2911
02:32:32,000 --> 02:32:34,100
Windows glowing, warm and yellow
in the distance. 

2912
02:32:35,100 --> 02:32:38,100
Sleep comes easier. 
Now in induced by exhaustion and

2913
02:32:38,100 --> 02:32:42,000
the hypnotic motion of wheels on
Rails, even your uncomfortable 

2914
02:32:42,000 --> 02:32:45,300
seat, begins to feel almost cozy
and you drift off to the sound 

2915
02:32:45,300 --> 02:32:49,500
of gentle snoring creaking wood 
and the endless song of iron 

2916
02:32:49,500 --> 02:32:51,100
Wheels. 
Carrying you toward whatever 

2917
02:32:51,100 --> 02:32:54,400
Adventure awaits at the end of 
the line morning arrives with 

2918
02:32:54,400 --> 02:32:57,100
The Reluctant gray light of 
dawn, filtering through the 

2919
02:32:57,100 --> 02:33:00,300
passenger car windows reveling a
landscape that looks 

2920
02:33:00,300 --> 02:33:04,000
suspiciously similar to 
yesterday's scenery. you're 

2921
02:33:04,000 --> 02:33:07,000
beginning to suspect that Ohio 
is considerably larger than the 

2922
02:33:07,000 --> 02:33:10,100
map suggested or possibly that 
you've been traveling in circles

2923
02:33:10,100 --> 02:33:13,900
while you slept The latter seems
unlikely given the determined 

2924
02:33:13,900 --> 02:33:17,600
forward motion of the locomotive
but after 36 hours on Rails, 

2925
02:33:17,600 --> 02:33:21,300
your sense of geography has 
become somewhat negotiable, your

2926
02:33:21,300 --> 02:33:23,800
body has achieved a sort of 
detent with the train seat 

2927
02:33:23,800 --> 02:33:27,800
accepting discomfort as the 
natural state of existence while

2928
02:33:27,800 --> 02:33:30,600
maintaining hope that Sensation 
will eventually return to your 

2929
02:33:30,608 --> 02:33:33,700
legs. 
The stern woman is already awake

2930
02:33:33,700 --> 02:33:37,200
and somehow perfectly groomed 
leading you to wonder if she is 

2931
02:33:37,200 --> 02:33:40,500
actually human or perhaps some 
sort of traveling autonom 

2932
02:33:40,500 --> 02:33:43,900
designed to make the rest of 
humanity, feel inadequate. 

2933
02:33:45,400 --> 02:33:47,900
Frank begins his morning rounds 
with coffee that has the 

2934
02:33:47,900 --> 02:33:50,500
consistency of warm tar and 
twice the potency. 

2935
02:33:50,500 --> 02:33:53,400
The traveling salesman greets, 
the new day with enthusiasm, 

2936
02:33:53,400 --> 02:33:56,900
that would be admirable if it 
won't quite so early and Loud, 

2937
02:33:56,900 --> 02:34:00,400
he's already reorganized his 
sample cases and his preparing 

2938
02:34:00,400 --> 02:34:03,800
to demonstrate his patent 
medicine's to anyone unfortunate

2939
02:34:03,800 --> 02:34:07,500
enough to make eye contact. 
Frontier character awakens from 

2940
02:34:07,500 --> 02:34:10,400
his Slumber, akin to a bear 
emerging from hibernation, 

2941
02:34:10,400 --> 02:34:14,100
accompanied by sound effects 
capable of frightening, small 

2942
02:34:14,100 --> 02:34:16,200
children and possibly even 
larger ones. 

2943
02:34:16,200 --> 02:34:20,500
His morning routine, involves 
spectacular, stretching creative

2944
02:34:20,500 --> 02:34:22,300
cursing. 
And the production of water 

2945
02:34:22,300 --> 02:34:24,300
appears to be hardtack from his 
coat pocket. 

2946
02:34:25,100 --> 02:34:27,600
He knows on this breakfast with 
the satisfaction of a man 

2947
02:34:27,608 --> 02:34:31,200
accustomed to food that fights 
back outside the windows, the 

2948
02:34:31,200 --> 02:34:34,600
landscape has begun to change 
subtly the neat farmsteads of 

2949
02:34:34,608 --> 02:34:38,200
settled Ohio are giving way to 
wider spaces, more scattered 

2950
02:34:38,200 --> 02:34:41,400
buildings and longer stretches 
where civilization seems to have

2951
02:34:41,400 --> 02:34:44,100
given up entirely. 
Your approaching, the real 

2952
02:34:44,100 --> 02:34:47,700
Frontier now where the map gets 
vague and Adventure becomes less

2953
02:34:47,700 --> 02:34:51,100
theoretical. 
The banker consults his pocket 

2954
02:34:51,100 --> 02:34:54,900
watch with increasing frequency 
as if he can somehow accelerate 

2955
02:34:54,900 --> 02:34:56,900
the train through sheer temporal
anxiety. 

2956
02:34:58,000 --> 02:35:01,800
His destination is Chicago where
he has important business that 

2957
02:35:01,800 --> 02:35:04,700
apparently cannot wait for the 
normal pace of steam Locomotion.

2958
02:35:04,700 --> 02:35:07,700
He's began muttering 
calculations under his breath 

2959
02:35:07,700 --> 02:35:11,000
working out arrival times with 
the desperate, Precision of a 

2960
02:35:11,000 --> 02:35:14,200
man whose promised to be 
somewhere specific at a time 

2961
02:35:14,200 --> 02:35:15,900
that's looking increasingly 
unlikely. 

2962
02:35:17,200 --> 02:35:19,100
Around mid-morning the train 
develops. 

2963
02:35:19,100 --> 02:35:22,500
What Frank diplomatically calls 
a case of the slos. 

2964
02:35:23,200 --> 02:35:26,600
The locomotive begins chugging 
with less enthusiasm like an 

2965
02:35:26,600 --> 02:35:29,500
aging horse, that's decided its 
covered enough ground for one 

2966
02:35:29,500 --> 02:35:31,700
day. 
Your 15 mile per hour. 

2967
02:35:31,700 --> 02:35:35,100
Pace drops to something closer 
to a brisk walk, which means the

2968
02:35:35,100 --> 02:35:37,900
energetic squirrels are once 
again keeping Pace outside your 

2969
02:35:37,900 --> 02:35:40,600
window. 
This mechanical reluctance 

2970
02:35:40,600 --> 02:35:43,500
creates what the conductor 
announces as a brief delay for 

2971
02:35:43,500 --> 02:35:46,600
locomotive encouragement, which 
sounds much more dignified than 

2972
02:35:46,600 --> 02:35:48,200
the engine is having another 
breakdown. 

2973
02:35:48,200 --> 02:35:51,700
Your learning that railroad 
terminology exists primarily to 

2974
02:35:51,700 --> 02:35:54,200
make mechanical failures sound 
like deliberate scheduling 

2975
02:35:54,200 --> 02:35:56,300
decisions. 
The delay provides an 

2976
02:35:56,300 --> 02:35:59,200
opportunity for extended 
socializing which by now 

2977
02:35:59,200 --> 02:36:01,000
resembles a mobile town hall 
meeting. 

2978
02:36:01,800 --> 02:36:04,400
The preacher has begun holding 
informal services for anyone 

2979
02:36:04,400 --> 02:36:07,400
interested, although his 
congregation mainly consists of 

2980
02:36:07,408 --> 02:36:10,100
immigrants, who may not 
understand his words, but seem 

2981
02:36:10,100 --> 02:36:12,500
to appreciate the familiar 
rhythm of religious ceremonies. 

2982
02:36:13,500 --> 02:36:17,000
The school mom has started an 
impromptu geography lesson using

2983
02:36:17,000 --> 02:36:19,600
the passing landscape, to 
explain the settlement patterns 

2984
02:36:19,600 --> 02:36:22,900
of the American frontier. 
Her enthusiasm for Education, 

2985
02:36:22,900 --> 02:36:26,000
remains undaunted by her 
audience's mixed interest in 

2986
02:36:26,000 --> 02:36:28,200
learning about soil types and 
river systems. 

2987
02:36:29,200 --> 02:36:32,400
The toddlers seems particularly 
fascinated by her chore, which 

2988
02:36:32,400 --> 02:36:35,300
she somehow produced from her 
seemingly magical carpet bag, 

2989
02:36:35,300 --> 02:36:38,400
your fellow passengers have 
developed the easy, familiarity 

2990
02:36:38,400 --> 02:36:41,300
of people who shared Close 
Quarters and minor Adventures, 

2991
02:36:42,200 --> 02:36:45,000
Personal space has become a 
quaint memory and everyone's 

2992
02:36:45,000 --> 02:36:46,400
life story is now common 
knowledge. 

2993
02:36:46,400 --> 02:36:49,900
You know, about the bankers 3 
daughters, the preachers mission

2994
02:36:49,900 --> 02:36:53,500
to bring Salvation to Kansas the
school moms correspondence, with

2995
02:36:53,500 --> 02:36:56,700
her sister in Boston and 
approximately 47 of the 

2996
02:36:56,700 --> 02:36:59,600
Frontiers. 
Most unlikely Adventures, the 

2997
02:36:59,600 --> 02:37:03,000
stern woman has revealed herself
to be well-traveled offering, 

2998
02:37:03,000 --> 02:37:05,800
commentary on railroad system. 
She's experienced from Baltimore

2999
02:37:05,800 --> 02:37:08,800
to Saint Louis. 
Her disapproval, you realize 

3000
02:37:08,800 --> 02:37:12,000
comes from extensive experience 
with the gap between what train 

3001
02:37:12,000 --> 02:37:14,300
travel promises and what it 
actually delivers. 

3002
02:37:14,300 --> 02:37:18,300
She's less morally outraged than
practically disappointed which 

3003
02:37:18,300 --> 02:37:20,500
somehow makes her criticism more
endearing. 

3004
02:37:21,400 --> 02:37:24,300
Lunch consists of the same 
mysterious substances as 

3005
02:37:24,300 --> 02:37:26,600
yesterday though. 
Frank has managed to arrange 

3006
02:37:26,600 --> 02:37:29,300
them differently on the plate. 
Creating the illusion of 

3007
02:37:29,300 --> 02:37:32,100
variety. 
The dining car conversation 

3008
02:37:32,100 --> 02:37:35,900
centers on destination fever 
that peculiar condition that 

3009
02:37:35,900 --> 02:37:38,700
affects long-distance Travelers 
as they approach their Journeys 

3010
02:37:38,700 --> 02:37:40,900
end. 
Everyone has begun talking 

3011
02:37:40,900 --> 02:37:44,900
fasting more enthusiastically 
and checking their belongings 

3012
02:37:44,900 --> 02:37:48,700
with increasing frequency this 
anticipation, appears to have a 

3013
02:37:48,700 --> 02:37:50,800
particularly strong impact on 
immigrants. 

3014
02:37:51,600 --> 02:37:54,400
They're excitement is palpable 
as they recognize that the 

3015
02:37:54,400 --> 02:37:56,700
landscape outside is becoming 
their new home. 

3016
02:37:57,500 --> 02:38:00,300
They point at farms and towns 
with the intense of people 

3017
02:38:00,300 --> 02:38:03,300
claiming territory with their 
eyes already, beginning the 

3018
02:38:03,300 --> 02:38:07,500
cycle process of belonging 
somewhere new By afternoons. 

3019
02:38:07,500 --> 02:38:10,800
Even the locomotive seems to 
have caught destination fever 

3020
02:38:10,800 --> 02:38:14,000
picking up pace with renewed, 
mechanical enthusiasm. 

3021
02:38:14,800 --> 02:38:18,200
Clacking of Wheels takes on a 
more urgent as if the train 

3022
02:38:18,200 --> 02:38:20,900
itself, is eager to reach the 
end of the line, and rest its 

3023
02:38:20,900 --> 02:38:23,600
iron bone. 
The final hours of your train 

3024
02:38:23,600 --> 02:38:26,500
journey unfold with The Bitter, 
Sweet quality of all endings, 

3025
02:38:26,500 --> 02:38:30,500
tinged with both relief and an 
unexpected Nostalgia for the 

3026
02:38:30,500 --> 02:38:34,800
role in community of temporarily
joined Your destination appears 

3027
02:38:34,800 --> 02:38:38,600
on the horizon as a smudge of 
smoke and Scattered buildings 

3028
02:38:38,600 --> 02:38:41,900
growing larger with each 
rhythmic of the wheels. 

3029
02:38:42,900 --> 02:38:45,900
After three days of wondering, 
if you'd ever arrive anywhere, 

3030
02:38:45,900 --> 02:38:49,100
the reality of actually, 
reaching the end of the line 

3031
02:38:49,100 --> 02:38:52,400
feels almost surreal, the 
locomotive seems to sense. 

3032
02:38:52,400 --> 02:38:55,800
Its approaching rest developing,
a more eager chuff that suggests

3033
02:38:55,800 --> 02:38:58,000
its as ready as you are to stop 
moving for a while. 

3034
02:38:58,800 --> 02:39:00,700
Your body has adapted to 
constant motion. 

3035
02:39:00,700 --> 02:39:03,600
So thoroughly that you suspect 
your spend the next week's 

3036
02:39:03,600 --> 02:39:06,800
swaying slightly while standing 
still like a sailor who's been 

3037
02:39:06,800 --> 02:39:09,900
too long at sea. 
The stern woman has begun. 

3038
02:39:09,900 --> 02:39:12,100
The complex process of 
reassembling herself into 

3039
02:39:12,100 --> 02:39:15,400
traveling order, folding, shawls
and securing belongings with the

3040
02:39:15,408 --> 02:39:17,400
Precision of a general preparing
for battle. 

3041
02:39:18,500 --> 02:39:20,700
Ants formation from rumpled 
Passenger, back in to the 

3042
02:39:20,708 --> 02:39:23,400
picture of Victorian propriety, 
as fascinating to watch 

3043
02:39:23,400 --> 02:39:26,400
involving more pins and 
strategic tucking than you 

3044
02:39:26,408 --> 02:39:29,400
thought humanly possible. 
The traveling salesman is 

3045
02:39:29,400 --> 02:39:31,500
conducting. 
A final inventory of his sample 

3046
02:39:31,500 --> 02:39:34,600
cases probably calculating 
profits and losses from his 

3047
02:39:34,600 --> 02:39:37,800
mobile pharmacy. 
He sold several bottles of his 

3048
02:39:37,800 --> 02:39:40,200
mysterious Elixir to fellow 
passengers though. 

3049
02:39:40,200 --> 02:39:43,000
Whether from genuine belief in 
his products or simply Cabin. 

3050
02:39:43,000 --> 02:39:46,900
Fever induced purchasing 
decisions remains unclear The 

3051
02:39:46,900 --> 02:39:49,500
frontiersmen bought three 
bottles claiming they'd be 

3052
02:39:49,508 --> 02:39:52,700
perfect for trading with Indians
though you suspect he plans to 

3053
02:39:52,700 --> 02:39:55,200
drink them himself. 
Your fellow Travelers. 

3054
02:39:55,200 --> 02:39:58,000
Begin the ritual of exchanging 
addresses and Promises to write,

3055
02:39:58,000 --> 02:39:59,400
though. 
You all know that. 

3056
02:39:59,400 --> 02:40:02,400
Once you step off this train, 
you'll scatter to your separate 

3057
02:40:02,400 --> 02:40:04,500
Destinies and probably never 
cross paths. 

3058
02:40:04,500 --> 02:40:08,700
Again, Still the ritual matters.
These people have become your 

3059
02:40:08,700 --> 02:40:12,300
temporary family bound together 
by shared discomfort and the 

3060
02:40:12,300 --> 02:40:15,700
peculiar intimacy that develops 
when strangers are trapped in 

3061
02:40:15,708 --> 02:40:17,400
close quarters for days at a 
time. 

3062
02:40:18,300 --> 02:40:21,100
The banker, finally, relaxes his
death grip on his pocket watch 

3063
02:40:21,100 --> 02:40:23,500
accepting that he'll arrive when
he arrives. 

3064
02:40:23,500 --> 02:40:26,400
And his Chicago business will 
have to adapt accordingly. 

3065
02:40:27,200 --> 02:40:30,000
His anxiety has transformed into
philosophical acceptance, 

3066
02:40:30,000 --> 02:40:32,000
though. 
He mentioned several times that 

3067
02:40:32,000 --> 02:40:34,700
he'll never again. 
Trust railroad schedule, the 

3068
02:40:34,700 --> 02:40:37,700
special ones by people who 
clearly viewed as a flexible 

3069
02:40:37,700 --> 02:40:41,100
concept. 
The preacher has been energized 

3070
02:40:41,100 --> 02:40:42,600
by approaching his mission 
field. 

3071
02:40:42,600 --> 02:40:46,200
Speaking with renewed further 
about bringing civilization and 

3072
02:40:46,200 --> 02:40:50,600
salvation to the frontier. 
With Amusement, the frontiersmen

3073
02:40:50,600 --> 02:40:54,300
listens occasionally commenting 
on the type of Salvation that 

3074
02:40:54,300 --> 02:40:57,500
truly comes in handy when 
confronted with hostile Wildlife

3075
02:40:57,500 --> 02:41:00,200
or severe weather. 
They're ongoing theological 

3076
02:41:00,200 --> 02:41:02,600
debate has become one of the 
journeys most entertaining 

3077
02:41:02,600 --> 02:41:05,200
features. 
The school mom has grown quiet 

3078
02:41:05,200 --> 02:41:08,300
as her destination approaches. 
Perhaps contemplating the 

3079
02:41:08,300 --> 02:41:10,800
reality of teaching Frontier 
children, who may view book 

3080
02:41:10,800 --> 02:41:13,700
learning as less immediately 
useful than tracking and 

3081
02:41:13,700 --> 02:41:16,300
shooting skills. 
Her determination remains 

3082
02:41:16,300 --> 02:41:19,000
unshakable, but it's now 
tempered with the Practical, 

3083
02:41:19,000 --> 02:41:21,600
understanding that education 
takes different forms in 

3084
02:41:21,600 --> 02:41:24,100
different places. 
The immigrants gather, their 

3085
02:41:24,100 --> 02:41:27,000
belongings with reverent care, 
handling their few possessions 

3086
02:41:27,000 --> 02:41:31,200
like sacred relics Everything 
they own in America fits into a 

3087
02:41:31,208 --> 02:41:35,000
handful of bags and bundles but 
their faces shine with the hope 

3088
02:41:35,000 --> 02:41:38,100
of people who have successfully 
crossed an ocean and a continent

3089
02:41:38,100 --> 02:41:41,300
to reach their dreams. 
Their excitement is infectious, 

3090
02:41:41,300 --> 02:41:44,400
reminding everyone else that 
arrival means possibility. 

3091
02:41:45,400 --> 02:41:48,600
The toddler has finally worn 
himself completely out and 

3092
02:41:48,600 --> 02:41:51,600
sleeps peacefully in his 
mother's arms, oblivious to the 

3093
02:41:51,600 --> 02:41:53,400
significance of reaching their 
new home. 

3094
02:41:53,400 --> 02:41:56,600
His mother looks out at the 
approaching town with the mixed 

3095
02:41:56,600 --> 02:41:59,200
expression of someone whose 
relief the journey as ending. 

3096
02:41:59,200 --> 02:42:01,900
But terrified about what comes 
next. 

3097
02:42:03,500 --> 02:42:05,500
As the train begins its Final 
Approach. 

3098
02:42:05,500 --> 02:42:09,300
Slowing with a series of gentle 
jerks and extended whistle 

3099
02:42:09,300 --> 02:42:11,600
blasts that announce your 
arrival to the waiting town. 

3100
02:42:11,600 --> 02:42:14,900
You realize that this journey 
has been about more than simply 

3101
02:42:14,900 --> 02:42:18,400
getting from one place to 
another, you've experienced a 

3102
02:42:18,400 --> 02:42:21,600
slice of America and transition 
a country building itself, one 

3103
02:42:21,600 --> 02:42:24,600
mile of track at a time. 
The station appears ahead. 

3104
02:42:24,600 --> 02:42:28,200
A simple, wooden building that 
nevertheless represents the end 

3105
02:42:28,200 --> 02:42:31,300
of one Adventure in the 
beginning of another People wait

3106
02:42:31,300 --> 02:42:34,000
on the platform. 
Some greeting expected arrivals 

3107
02:42:34,000 --> 02:42:37,300
other simply curious about who 
the iron horses delivered to 

3108
02:42:37,300 --> 02:42:41,400
their town today. 
The final stop arrives with a 

3109
02:42:41,400 --> 02:42:43,900
ceremony befitting the 
completion of an Epic Journey. 

3110
02:42:44,700 --> 02:42:47,900
Tremendous of steam, the squeal 
of breaks. 

3111
02:42:47,900 --> 02:42:51,700
And one last authoritative jolt 
that sends everyone reaching for

3112
02:42:51,700 --> 02:42:55,500
something solid to grab. 
Frank appears in the doorway and

3113
02:42:55,500 --> 02:42:58,100
announcing your arrival with the
satisfaction of a man who 

3114
02:42:58,100 --> 02:43:01,600
successfully delivered another 
load of hopeful Humanity to 

3115
02:43:01,600 --> 02:43:05,500
their chosen destination. 
You gather your carpet bag which

3116
02:43:05,500 --> 02:43:07,900
somehow feels heavy than when 
you started though. 

3117
02:43:07,900 --> 02:43:09,700
It contains exactly the same 
items. 

3118
02:43:11,300 --> 02:43:13,800
Perhaps it's weighted down with 
memories now or maybe you've 

3119
02:43:13,800 --> 02:43:16,100
just grown weaker from three 
days of train food and 

3120
02:43:16,100 --> 02:43:19,500
improvised sleeping. 
Either way, you're ready to feel

3121
02:43:19,500 --> 02:43:21,500
Solid Ground Beneath Your Feet 
Again? 

3122
02:43:22,600 --> 02:43:25,200
As you step down onto the 
platform, the absence of 

3123
02:43:25,208 --> 02:43:27,600
constant motion feels strange 
and wonderful. 

3124
02:43:28,500 --> 02:43:32,000
The world has stopped rocking. 
Stopped clacking, and stopped, 

3125
02:43:32,000 --> 02:43:33,800
hissing steam at irregular 
intervals. 

3126
02:43:34,700 --> 02:43:37,200
The silence is almost 
overwhelming after days of 

3127
02:43:37,208 --> 02:43:40,700
mechanical conversation. 
Fellow passengers dispersed with

3128
02:43:40,708 --> 02:43:44,100
surprising speed reclaiming, 
their individual identities 

3129
02:43:44,100 --> 02:43:45,900
after days of communal 
existence. 

3130
02:43:45,900 --> 02:43:48,900
The Exchange. 
Final handshakes make last 

3131
02:43:48,900 --> 02:43:51,900
minute address exchanges. 
And make promises to write that 

3132
02:43:51,900 --> 02:43:55,200
they may or may not keep. 
As if you've passed some sort of

3133
02:43:55,200 --> 02:43:56,900
endurance test, she's been 
administering. 

3134
02:43:56,900 --> 02:44:00,200
The stern woman nods approvingly
at your survival of the journey.

3135
02:44:00,200 --> 02:44:04,400
The locomotive sits steaming 
quietly looking somehow smaller.

3136
02:44:04,400 --> 02:44:07,900
Now that it's not in motion, the
mighty Iron Horse, that's been 

3137
02:44:07,900 --> 02:44:11,200
your world for three days, is 
just a machine, again, waiting 

3138
02:44:11,200 --> 02:44:14,400
for its next load of passengers 
and their dreams, your shoulder,

3139
02:44:14,400 --> 02:44:16,200
your carpet bag and walk toward 
the town. 

3140
02:44:16,200 --> 02:44:19,100
Your legs still slightly 
unsteady from Days of swaying, 

3141
02:44:19,100 --> 02:44:21,800
motion behind you. 
The train whistle blows. 

3142
02:44:21,800 --> 02:44:24,700
One last time. 
A farewell that somehow manages 

3143
02:44:24,700 --> 02:44:28,300
to sound both mournful and 
hopeful the frontier stretches 

3144
02:44:28,300 --> 02:44:31,700
ahead full of possibility and 
certainly in equal measure? 

3145
02:44:31,700 --> 02:44:36,800
You've arrived here by Steam and
steal and the peculiar magic of 

3146
02:44:36,800 --> 02:44:39,900
American optimism. 
Made manifest in iron rails. 

3147
02:44:39,900 --> 02:44:42,600
Whatever happens. 
Next, you'll always remember 

3148
02:44:42,600 --> 02:44:45,400
these three days when you 
traveled into the future at 50 

3149
02:44:45,400 --> 02:44:48,700
miles per hour, accompanied by 
the most fascinating collection 

3150
02:44:48,700 --> 02:44:52,900
of humanity, you've ever had the
pleasure to meet The adventure 

3151
02:44:52,900 --> 02:45:01,400
you realize is just beginning. 
I remember the day I first came 

3152
02:45:01,400 --> 02:45:05,100
to court a half star of gesture 
with bells on my hat, jangling 

3153
02:45:05,100 --> 02:45:07,800
and dreaded. 
In my belly, the royal castle 

3154
02:45:07,800 --> 02:45:11,200
loomed ahead all Grace stone 
walls and towering battlements 

3155
02:45:11,200 --> 02:45:15,100
against a cloudy skull. 
My heart thudded, as I passed 

3156
02:45:15,100 --> 02:45:18,600
beneath the iron port colors. 
Of guards, snickered at the 

3157
02:45:18,608 --> 02:45:20,200
sight of me and my threadbear 
Motley. 

3158
02:45:20,200 --> 02:45:23,600
I clutched my Loot and fools 
bauble tightly praying. 

3159
02:45:23,600 --> 02:45:25,300
I wouldn't end the day in the 
stocks. 

3160
02:45:26,000 --> 02:45:29,200
Inside Torchlight flickered on 
tapestries and armored Knights. 

3161
02:45:29,900 --> 02:45:33,000
Servants rushed by with steaming
platters of meat and trenches of

3162
02:45:33,000 --> 02:45:36,000
bread, the air smelled of wood 
smokes spiced. 

3163
02:45:36,000 --> 02:45:38,300
Why? 
And a hint of something foul 

3164
02:45:38,300 --> 02:45:41,900
from The Stables, I followed a 
steward into the enormous Hall. 

3165
02:45:41,900 --> 02:45:45,200
My shoes scuffing over rushes 
strewn on the floor at the far 

3166
02:45:45,200 --> 02:45:48,600
end on a raised dais sat, King 
Edward of England, my new 

3167
02:45:48,600 --> 02:45:51,800
master, he wore a furline mantle
and no Crown yet. 

3168
02:45:51,800 --> 02:45:55,200
He radiated Authority. 
He fixed his Keen gray eyes on 

3169
02:45:55,200 --> 02:45:57,300
me as the gathered. 
Courtiers announced me as the 

3170
02:45:57,300 --> 02:46:00,700
evening's entertainment, every 
gaze in the whole turned my way.

3171
02:46:00,700 --> 02:46:04,200
I felt naked despite my Motley 
tunic and jingling Bells. 

3172
02:46:04,200 --> 02:46:08,700
I swear to deep, bow arms played
comically nearly losing my 

3173
02:46:08,700 --> 02:46:11,500
balance for effect. 
A few Chuckles broke, the 

3174
02:46:11,500 --> 02:46:15,800
silence, welcome full called the
king his voice, echoing off, the

3175
02:46:15,800 --> 02:46:19,800
rafters, what do they call you? 
Tom, your majesty Tom full. 

3176
02:46:19,800 --> 02:46:23,300
I answered brightly hide my 
nerves under a grin in truth. 

3177
02:46:23,300 --> 02:46:27,200
My Christian name was William 
but a new life warrant in a new 

3178
02:46:27,208 --> 02:46:29,300
name. 
My answer earned an approving 

3179
02:46:29,300 --> 02:46:32,600
smirk very well. 
Tom there to see if your humor 

3180
02:46:32,600 --> 02:46:35,000
is a sharp as your tongue is 
quick said King. 

3181
02:46:35,000 --> 02:46:37,000
Edward he gestured for me to 
begin. 

3182
02:46:37,800 --> 02:46:41,600
I started with the jaunty. 
Tune on my loot, a bawdy Tavern,

3183
02:46:41,600 --> 02:46:43,700
song about a Tipsy. 
Fryer, losing his robe to the 

3184
02:46:43,708 --> 02:46:47,600
wind, my fingers trembled on the
strings, but the melody came 

3185
02:46:47,600 --> 02:46:50,600
out, Mary and bright laughter 
rows from the tables at the 

3186
02:46:50,608 --> 02:46:54,300
chorus is naughty twist, 
emboldened, I launched into a 

3187
02:46:54,308 --> 02:46:57,200
comic tale. 
Peppering it with Jabs at Castle

3188
02:46:57,200 --> 02:47:01,200
life, a joke about the cook over
salting the stew, a clip about a

3189
02:47:01,200 --> 02:47:05,000
night's rusted armor creaking 
like an old ox A courteous 

3190
02:47:05,000 --> 02:47:07,500
Gafford and even the queen hit a
smile behind her hand. 

3191
02:47:08,300 --> 02:47:10,200
Warm relief spread through my 
chest. 

3192
02:47:11,100 --> 02:47:14,500
They were laughing. 
Finally, I decided to make a 

3193
02:47:14,500 --> 02:47:16,800
bold joke game to the most 
significant Target. 

3194
02:47:17,700 --> 02:47:20,100
Balancing on one leg in an 
exaggerated pose. 

3195
02:47:20,100 --> 02:47:23,500
I lowered my voice 
conspiratorially Lords and 

3196
02:47:23,500 --> 02:47:26,500
Ladies I announced I've heard a 
wondrous secret about our 

3197
02:47:26,500 --> 02:47:28,500
sovereign. 
A hush fell. 

3198
02:47:29,200 --> 02:47:30,800
I flashed an impish grin at King
Edward. 

3199
02:47:30,800 --> 02:47:34,400
It said his majesty has a unique
blessing from Saint Peter 

3200
02:47:34,400 --> 02:47:37,100
himself. 
Only the king sit on his throne 

3201
02:47:37,100 --> 02:47:40,400
and make the Angels Sing a 
specially after he's enjoyed a 

3202
02:47:40,400 --> 02:47:43,400
Hearty dinner. 
I patted my backside and widened

3203
02:47:43,400 --> 02:47:46,400
my eyes innocently for a 
heartbeat silents. 

3204
02:47:47,300 --> 02:47:49,200
Some laws. 
Look scandalized that I joked 

3205
02:47:49,200 --> 02:47:52,500
about the king's Royal behind 
the king's eyebrow arched. 

3206
02:47:52,500 --> 02:47:56,300
My pulse pounded had I gone too 
far then King. 

3207
02:47:56,300 --> 02:47:59,500
Edward threw back his head and 
laughed a deep roaring laugh. 

3208
02:47:59,500 --> 02:48:02,600
That shattered the tension the 
court, followed suit laughed. 

3209
02:48:02,600 --> 02:48:05,800
A Rippling through the hall. 
The King mimicked sternness by 

3210
02:48:05,800 --> 02:48:09,200
waving a finger at me. 
Mind your cheek Nave or I'll 

3211
02:48:09,200 --> 02:48:12,700
have you whip for impudence. 
He said, still chuckling I 

3212
02:48:12,700 --> 02:48:14,800
dropped my knees in a mock 
pleading bow. 

3213
02:48:15,400 --> 02:48:18,200
Mercy or Majesty. 
I only speak gospel truth in 

3214
02:48:18,200 --> 02:48:20,600
your praise. 
I replied with an overly Pious 

3215
02:48:20,600 --> 02:48:23,100
tone. 
The king laughed again and gave 

3216
02:48:23,100 --> 02:48:26,000
a dismissive wave signaling, my 
performance was over. 

3217
02:48:27,100 --> 02:48:30,400
As I backed away, trembling with
relief, a servant press to 

3218
02:48:30,400 --> 02:48:34,400
Silver Coin, into my palm, a 
reward from the king, I bowed 

3219
02:48:34,400 --> 02:48:37,700
One Last Time, cheeks flushed 
and retreated to the edge of the

3220
02:48:37,700 --> 02:48:41,200
hall. 
My debut had been a success that

3221
02:48:41,200 --> 02:48:42,800
night. 
The Stuart showed me to a small 

3222
02:48:42,800 --> 02:48:45,900
chamber in the Castle's upper 
kitchens simple that mine alone.

3223
02:48:46,800 --> 02:48:49,600
I collapsed onto the straw 
filled bed exhausted but 

3224
02:48:49,600 --> 02:48:53,100
exhilarated had arrived with 
nothing but my wits and earned, 

3225
02:48:53,100 --> 02:48:55,700
not only coin, but also a place 
in the king's household. 

3226
02:48:55,700 --> 02:49:00,000
I was no longer a Wandering 
Vagabond, I was the king's fool.

3227
02:49:00,800 --> 02:49:04,300
As I stared up at the ceiling, I
allowed myself a grin tomorrow. 

3228
02:49:04,300 --> 02:49:07,700
In each day that followed I 
would balance between humor and 

3229
02:49:07,700 --> 02:49:11,800
power and a quart of Lords. 
And Ladies, I a mere full had 

3230
02:49:11,800 --> 02:49:13,900
found a foothold I Autumn of 
that year. 

3231
02:49:13,900 --> 02:49:17,000
I had become a familiar part of 
Court life ever. 

3232
02:49:17,000 --> 02:49:18,500
Ready with a quick to lift a 
mood. 

3233
02:49:19,900 --> 02:49:22,000
On one crisp evening at a 
harvest feast. 

3234
02:49:22,700 --> 02:49:26,100
The Great Hall hosted a Grand 
Banquet after a long day of 

3235
02:49:26,100 --> 02:49:29,600
festivities, The Trestle tables 
groaned with roasted bore. 

3236
02:49:29,600 --> 02:49:33,400
And spiced ale, I flitted around
refilling drinks and tossing 

3237
02:49:33,400 --> 02:49:36,500
one-liners. 
Most laughed kindly but sir, 

3238
02:49:36,500 --> 02:49:40,200
Roger a Burly Baron with a 
Perpetual scowl decided to Sport

3239
02:49:40,200 --> 02:49:43,400
with me. 
Oh, their full he bellowed 

3240
02:49:43,400 --> 02:49:45,500
feigning joviality. 
We hear you. 

3241
02:49:45,500 --> 02:49:48,700
Juggle anything, try these. 
He suddenly hurled two oranges 

3242
02:49:48,700 --> 02:49:52,000
at me, the first, I snatched out
of the air, but the second 

3243
02:49:52,000 --> 02:49:54,600
struck my cheek sharply before 
splattering on the floor. 

3244
02:49:55,400 --> 02:49:59,300
Laughter erupted pain fled in my
cheek and my face burned as 

3245
02:49:59,300 --> 02:50:02,300
Noble's held at my expense. 
For an instant. 

3246
02:50:02,300 --> 02:50:04,200
I nearly flung the remaining 
orange at him. 

3247
02:50:04,208 --> 02:50:08,400
I imagine it smacking that red 
face oath but a full survives on

3248
02:50:08,400 --> 02:50:11,800
wit not Roth. 
Like grinned foolishly and 

3249
02:50:11,800 --> 02:50:13,900
juggled the loan orange as if 
nothing were amiss. 

3250
02:50:14,600 --> 02:50:16,600
Many thanks. 
My lord for the extra supper. 

3251
02:50:16,600 --> 02:50:20,000
I quit pretending to bite into 
the fruit before nearly dropping

3252
02:50:20,000 --> 02:50:24,000
it in an exaggerated fumble. 
The onlookers laughed and you 

3253
02:50:24,000 --> 02:50:28,400
this time with me rather than at
me even sir, Roger satisfied 

3254
02:50:28,400 --> 02:50:31,300
that I had accepted the mockery 
gave a reluctant chuckle. 

3255
02:50:31,300 --> 02:50:35,700
I made a grand Bao, swallowing 
my wounded Pride, when I risked 

3256
02:50:35,700 --> 02:50:38,100
a glance up at King Edward, he 
was watching me with a faint 

3257
02:50:38,100 --> 02:50:41,700
smirk. 
Later that night, a royal page 

3258
02:50:41,700 --> 02:50:45,600
summoned me to the king heart. 
Pounding with worry, I made my 

3259
02:50:45,600 --> 02:50:49,008
way to his private chamber. 
Had I overstepped in some way at

3260
02:50:49,016 --> 02:50:51,800
the feast. 
I entered to find King Edward 

3261
02:50:51,800 --> 02:50:55,000
Alone by the half gazing at the 
letters, spread on a table. 

3262
02:50:55,000 --> 02:50:59,100
His crown sat off to the side as
if even gold and jewels grew 

3263
02:50:59,100 --> 02:51:02,100
heavy for him tonight. 
Tom, come here a moment. 

3264
02:51:02,108 --> 02:51:04,900
He said this was no summons for 
entertainment. 

3265
02:51:04,900 --> 02:51:08,700
His tone was pensive. 
The king rubbed a hand over his 

3266
02:51:08,700 --> 02:51:11,400
brow news from the shires he 
muttered. 

3267
02:51:12,100 --> 02:51:15,400
Poor harvests and empty 
storehouses, yet my Lord's 

3268
02:51:15,400 --> 02:51:19,700
demand their taxes in full. 
Beside and glanced at me. 

3269
02:51:20,500 --> 02:51:23,800
You have a zest for that. 
His question was Ernest, not a 

3270
02:51:23,800 --> 02:51:25,400
command for a silly face or 
song. 

3271
02:51:25,400 --> 02:51:27,900
I took a breath. 
Sire. 

3272
02:51:27,900 --> 02:51:32,200
If I may spin a small Fable 
sometimes aren't answers slink 

3273
02:51:32,200 --> 02:51:36,900
out better in story form. 
At his nod, I spoke softly I 

3274
02:51:36,900 --> 02:51:39,600
told of a farmer who had a 
skinny mule that pulled his plow

3275
02:51:39,600 --> 02:51:43,900
when drought with the crops. 
The farmer threatened to whip 

3276
02:51:43,900 --> 02:51:47,300
the mule to make it work harder,
but the Beast begged for a bit 

3277
02:51:47,300 --> 02:51:49,300
more feed. 
So he'd have strength to pull 

3278
02:51:49,300 --> 02:51:53,200
the farmer relented and fed. 
The mule extra grain comes 

3279
02:51:53,200 --> 02:51:54,800
spring. 
They tilted enough land to 

3280
02:51:54,800 --> 02:51:58,600
survive and even Thrive when 
rains returned, As I finished, I

3281
02:51:58,600 --> 02:52:01,300
stole a side. 
Long, look at King, Edward, he 

3282
02:52:01,300 --> 02:52:04,100
stared out the window stroking. 
His beard for a moment. 

3283
02:52:04,100 --> 02:52:07,700
I feared I'd been too bold. 
My Tails meaning was clear, then

3284
02:52:07,700 --> 02:52:12,000
he gave a low chuckle clever, 
mule, he mused clever enough to 

3285
02:52:12,000 --> 02:52:16,000
get his belly full. 
I bowed my head relieved. 

3286
02:52:16,500 --> 02:52:20,200
Mules, often do your majesty? 
Specially, when they Bray and 

3287
02:52:20,200 --> 02:52:23,300
rhyme, I said with the jingle of
my cat bell, he turned to face 

3288
02:52:23,300 --> 02:52:25,700
me and I saw a trace of 
admiration in his worn eyes. 

3289
02:52:26,500 --> 02:52:29,700
You have a sharp, a width, and 
many in silk Tom you wrap wisdom

3290
02:52:29,700 --> 02:52:32,600
in nonsense. 
I felt a warmth in my chest 

3291
02:52:32,600 --> 02:52:35,900
however I responded lightly 
saying hi. 

3292
02:52:35,900 --> 02:52:38,600
It's but a full simple Fable 
sire King. 

3293
02:52:38,600 --> 02:52:41,300
Edward managed to slice smile on
the contrary. 

3294
02:52:41,300 --> 02:52:44,200
I will consider what you have 
implied. 

3295
02:52:45,200 --> 02:52:48,000
He clapped a hand on my 
shoulder, the gesture of trust 

3296
02:52:48,000 --> 02:52:52,400
and thanks, that will be all get
some rest about deeply good 

3297
02:52:52,400 --> 02:52:54,200
night. 
Your majesty before departing, I

3298
02:52:54,200 --> 02:52:57,000
turned back with the cheeky bow 
and don't forget to feed your 

3299
02:52:57,000 --> 02:52:59,700
mules sire. 
I said, King Edward bark to 

3300
02:52:59,700 --> 02:53:02,700
brief laugh and wave me away. 
I slipped out with a grin. 

3301
02:53:02,700 --> 02:53:05,500
Walking back to my quarters 
through the dim corridors. 

3302
02:53:05,500 --> 02:53:07,800
I felt nearly white list 
tonight. 

3303
02:53:07,800 --> 02:53:09,800
I had stepped Beyond mirror 
Entertainer. 

3304
02:53:09,800 --> 02:53:14,200
I had in my small way shape, the
king's thoughts, it was 

3305
02:53:14,200 --> 02:53:16,200
exhilarating and a little 
terrifying. 

3306
02:53:17,200 --> 02:53:20,500
A Fool's jingling cap, I 
realized could carry surprising 

3307
02:53:20,500 --> 02:53:22,300
influence. 
If I use my wit wisely. 

3308
02:53:23,200 --> 02:53:26,300
Although favor can change 
quickly for the time, being the 

3309
02:53:26,300 --> 02:53:28,600
king, relied on the Hidden 
Truths within my pranks. 

3310
02:53:28,600 --> 02:53:32,100
Winter brought hardship and 
unrest a poor harvest left. 

3311
02:53:32,100 --> 02:53:35,200
Many starving and Whispers of 
Rebel can drifted into court. 

3312
02:53:35,200 --> 02:53:38,600
King Edward's temper. 
Once jovial in my company, grew 

3313
02:53:38,600 --> 02:53:41,500
brittle, as dried kindling more 
often, I saw him. 

3314
02:53:41,508 --> 02:53:45,200
Frown at reports from his 
Barons, grain riots poaching in 

3315
02:53:45,208 --> 02:53:48,000
the Royal forests. 
A distant Village refusing to 

3316
02:53:48,000 --> 02:53:51,900
pay tithes Fear and anger, 
coiled around the court like 

3317
02:53:51,900 --> 02:53:54,600
smoke. 
One Bleak afternoon, the king 

3318
02:53:54,600 --> 02:53:56,400
held open court to dispense 
Justice. 

3319
02:53:57,400 --> 02:54:01,400
I stood at the edge of the Halls
quiet, since the tension, one by

3320
02:54:01,400 --> 02:54:04,300
one, prisoners were brought 
Before the Throne, the gaunt 

3321
02:54:04,300 --> 02:54:05,900
farmer, who'd Slayer deer on 
Crown. 

3322
02:54:05,900 --> 02:54:08,700
Land begged Mercy claiming it 
was to feed his Starving 

3323
02:54:08,700 --> 02:54:11,100
Children. 
Next to ragged group of 

3324
02:54:11,100 --> 02:54:13,900
villagers accused of sparking, a
food drive in the north were 

3325
02:54:13,900 --> 02:54:16,600
Dragged In Chains. 
My stomach tightened at their 

3326
02:54:16,600 --> 02:54:18,100
Hollow cheeks and terrified 
eyes. 

3327
02:54:18,100 --> 02:54:21,500
The Barons and courtiers looked 
on with hard disapproval. 

3328
02:54:21,500 --> 02:54:25,000
So, Warwick the king, Stern face
advisor, urged severity. 

3329
02:54:25,000 --> 02:54:27,200
An example must be made your 
majesty. 

3330
02:54:27,200 --> 02:54:30,800
He declared loud enough for all 
to hear Clemente for lawbreakers

3331
02:54:30,800 --> 02:54:32,800
and famine. 
Would only breed chaos. 

3332
02:54:32,800 --> 02:54:37,400
Show them the cost of defiance. 
I watched King Edward's face as 

3333
02:54:37,400 --> 02:54:39,900
warp spoke a muscle in his jaw 
twitched. 

3334
02:54:40,600 --> 02:54:43,600
The king's eyes usually. 
So keen and Alive were clouded 

3335
02:54:43,600 --> 02:54:46,000
with worried, he would rather 
not seem weak. 

3336
02:54:46,000 --> 02:54:49,800
The farmer was up first for 
judgment King Edward announced 

3337
02:54:49,800 --> 02:54:52,300
that the farmer would receive a 
public whipping as punishment. 

3338
02:54:53,100 --> 02:54:56,300
The poor man broke down in tears
grateful that he had avoided The

3339
02:54:56,300 --> 02:54:58,400
Noose. 
I let out a breath. 

3340
02:54:58,400 --> 02:55:02,600
I hadn't realized I was holding.
But then came the villagers a 

3341
02:55:02,600 --> 02:55:04,000
guard read out their crime 
leading. 

3342
02:55:04,000 --> 02:55:07,600
A mob to raid a granary owned by
the crown an old woman among 

3343
02:55:07,600 --> 02:55:10,200
them cried out. 
We only took the grain because 

3344
02:55:10,200 --> 02:55:13,600
our children were dying. 
The Voice echoed in the hall. 

3345
02:55:13,600 --> 02:55:18,000
So Warwick shook his head, in 
disgust, the courtyard, angrily 

3346
02:55:18,000 --> 02:55:21,300
about trees and thievery. 
I bit my tongue, a 1000 

3347
02:55:21,300 --> 02:55:24,400
thoughts, clashing in my mind, 
these had broken the law. 

3348
02:55:24,400 --> 02:55:26,000
Yes. 
But out of desperation. 

3349
02:55:27,200 --> 02:55:30,000
A glance toward the King Edwards
face hardened. 

3350
02:55:30,000 --> 02:55:33,500
As he prepared to deliver his 
Verdict by my Royal Authority. 

3351
02:55:33,500 --> 02:55:36,900
You shall he began likely 
meaning to condemn them to the 

3352
02:55:36,900 --> 02:55:39,700
dungeons or worse? 
But before I knew what I was 

3353
02:55:39,700 --> 02:55:43,200
doing, I stepped forward, my 
heart thundered in my chest but 

3354
02:55:43,200 --> 02:55:46,600
I couldn't stay silent. 
Perhaps, I'd spent too long 

3355
02:55:46,600 --> 02:55:49,700
weaving truth into jests the 
truth now came out bear and 

3356
02:55:49,700 --> 02:55:53,700
unadorned Your majesty. 
I interjected and a loud and 

3357
02:55:53,700 --> 02:55:56,500
clear voice to ask if I might 
offer a fools perspective. 

3358
02:55:57,800 --> 02:56:00,800
Shocked hush fell. 
One did not interrupt the king 

3359
02:56:00,800 --> 02:56:02,300
at trials. 
Certainly not a full. 

3360
02:56:02,300 --> 02:56:05,000
I didn't really heard so. 
Warwick's hiss of annoyance. 

3361
02:56:05,700 --> 02:56:08,500
King Edward turned, his cold 
Gaze on me, more startled than 

3362
02:56:08,508 --> 02:56:12,000
furious at least. 
Yet I swallowed hard, there was 

3363
02:56:12,008 --> 02:56:15,300
no turning back. 
I adopted a deliberately like 

3364
02:56:15,300 --> 02:56:17,400
tone though. 
My pulse pounded in my ears. 

3365
02:56:17,400 --> 02:56:20,500
These poor souls stand accused 
of stealing bread. 

3366
02:56:20,500 --> 02:56:23,800
I said gesturing to the 
trembling Villages and true that

3367
02:56:23,800 --> 02:56:27,000
is no jesting matter. 
But I wonder sire. 

3368
02:56:27,000 --> 02:56:30,500
If a father is to be whipped for
feeding his children, Venison 

3369
02:56:30,500 --> 02:56:33,600
and mothers are to be cast in 
Dungeon for snatching a few 

3370
02:56:33,608 --> 02:56:36,200
loaves. 
I forced a thin smile. 

3371
02:56:36,200 --> 02:56:40,200
Perhaps your humble full should 
be punished as well for, I've 

3372
02:56:40,200 --> 02:56:42,800
been stealing your valuable are 
all these years without paying 

3373
02:56:42,800 --> 02:56:45,300
coin for it. 
Few nervous. 

3374
02:56:45,300 --> 02:56:46,900
Titus came from the back of the 
hall. 

3375
02:56:46,900 --> 02:56:51,400
Then died immediately the king's
eyes, narrowed, I pressed on my 

3376
02:56:51,400 --> 02:56:53,000
voice gaining A desperate 
strength. 

3377
02:56:53,000 --> 02:56:55,200
Only a fool would make light of 
hunger. 

3378
02:56:55,200 --> 02:56:58,300
My Lord, I speak not to mock 
your justice, but to beseech, 

3379
02:56:58,300 --> 02:57:03,200
your mercy starvation makes 
fools of us all Like out low my 

3380
02:57:03,200 --> 02:57:05,200
head bent, so I couldn't see his
reaction. 

3381
02:57:05,200 --> 02:57:08,700
My hands were shaking. 
No one else dared. 

3382
02:57:08,700 --> 02:57:10,700
Breathe. 
For a heartbeat. 

3383
02:57:10,700 --> 02:57:13,400
There was silent so deep. 
I heard the distant drip of wax 

3384
02:57:13,400 --> 02:57:16,700
from a candle. 
Then enough, King Edward said 

3385
02:57:16,700 --> 02:57:19,100
quietly, the word fell like an 
axe. 

3386
02:57:19,100 --> 02:57:22,600
I looked up his face was flushed
not with myth but with anger 

3387
02:57:22,600 --> 02:57:26,700
I'll hear no more. 
He stood from the throne and in 

3388
02:57:26,700 --> 02:57:29,000
that moment, he loomed larger 
than I'd ever seen him. 

3389
02:57:30,500 --> 02:57:32,400
Who is King? 
Here you fall? 

3390
02:57:33,700 --> 02:57:36,800
His voice was deceptively, soft 
quivering with restrained rage. 

3391
02:57:36,800 --> 02:57:41,000
Do you presume to lecture me on 
duty and mercy dressed in 

3392
02:57:41,000 --> 02:57:44,900
Mockley and bells. 
Every utterance from his lips 

3393
02:57:44,900 --> 02:57:46,800
felt like a boulder hurled 
towards my head. 

3394
02:57:46,800 --> 02:57:51,000
I opened my mouth to stammer in 
apology but he silenced me with 

3395
02:57:51,000 --> 02:57:53,700
a glare. 
Take him the king snapped to his

3396
02:57:53,708 --> 02:57:57,000
guards. 
In an instant rough hand sees my

3397
02:57:57,000 --> 02:58:00,500
arms, my belt, it cap tumbled to
the floor as a guard yanked, me 

3398
02:58:00,500 --> 02:58:02,800
backward. 
I heard a few gasps among the 

3399
02:58:02,800 --> 02:58:05,500
courtiers lady Margaery covered 
her mouth in dismay. 

3400
02:58:05,500 --> 02:58:07,900
So Warwick simply watched with a
thin smile. 

3401
02:58:08,900 --> 02:58:11,500
My Cap's little bells. 
Jangled on the stones. 

3402
02:58:11,500 --> 02:58:14,100
A faint jingling that seemed to 
underline my folly. 

3403
02:58:14,700 --> 02:58:18,400
King Edward's voice echoed in 
the rafters, cold and formal for

3404
02:58:18,400 --> 02:58:21,000
his disruption and insolence. 
Let the Kings full receive the 

3405
02:58:21,000 --> 02:58:24,000
same punishment. 
He pitted he should receive 20 

3406
02:58:24,000 --> 02:58:28,600
lashes before the court at dawn.
Tara washed over me, 20 lashes, 

3407
02:58:28,600 --> 02:58:30,400
my knees. 
Nearly buckled. 

3408
02:58:30,400 --> 02:58:34,100
I wanted to beg for forgiveness 
to plead that I'd only spoke out

3409
02:58:34,100 --> 02:58:38,400
of concern but my tongue felt 
paralyzed two, guards me from 

3410
02:58:38,400 --> 02:58:40,900
the hall as the king's attention
returned to the stunned 

3411
02:58:40,900 --> 02:58:45,000
prisoners before him As they 
hold me away, none dared to 

3412
02:58:45,000 --> 02:58:48,800
object, or even meet my eyes. 
He threw me into a drafty 

3413
02:58:48,800 --> 02:58:50,900
anti-chamber where I collapsed 
to the floor. 

3414
02:58:50,900 --> 02:58:53,400
My back pressed against Cold 
Stone. 

3415
02:58:53,400 --> 02:58:56,700
As I tried to catch my breath, I
tasted blood and must have 

3416
02:58:56,700 --> 02:58:58,100
bitten my tongue without 
noticing. 

3417
02:58:58,100 --> 02:59:02,100
When I shut my eyes, hot tears, 
forced their way out and rolled 

3418
02:59:02,100 --> 02:59:04,100
down my cheeks. 
Full full. 

3419
02:59:04,100 --> 02:59:07,300
Full, I cursed myself silently. 
What did I done? 

3420
02:59:07,300 --> 02:59:10,400
I had wanted to save a few 
peasants from the king's wrath. 

3421
02:59:10,400 --> 02:59:14,600
Instead, I had only intensified 
the king's wrath and burned 

3422
02:59:14,600 --> 02:59:17,400
myself in the process. 
In my mind, I saw the king's 

3423
02:59:17,400 --> 02:59:21,600
face again, in raged and 
unyielding, that image stabbed 

3424
02:59:21,600 --> 02:59:23,400
at my heart more sharply than 
any whip. 

3425
02:59:23,400 --> 02:59:26,600
Could not long ago. 
I had sat by that same man's 

3426
02:59:26,600 --> 02:59:28,500
half trading, fables and easing 
his Birds. 

3427
02:59:28,500 --> 02:59:31,400
Now, he looked at me as just 
another disobedient subject 

3428
02:59:31,400 --> 02:59:34,700
toward midnight. 
The guards came to a squat me to

3429
02:59:34,708 --> 02:59:37,700
the pillar in the courtyard. 
The sentence was to be carried 

3430
02:59:37,700 --> 02:59:39,700
out. 
At first light, they locked my 

3431
02:59:39,700 --> 02:59:41,400
wrists and neck in the wooden 
stocks. 

3432
02:59:42,300 --> 02:59:45,000
I stood hunched in that cruel 
device for Endless hours 

3433
02:59:45,000 --> 02:59:47,900
shivering in the winter cold 
alone under the stars. 

3434
02:59:47,900 --> 02:59:51,500
Snow began to fall thin icy 
flake's catching in my hair. 

3435
02:59:51,500 --> 02:59:56,000
The pain had not yet begun but a
dread deeper than any wound Nord

3436
02:59:56,000 --> 02:59:58,900
at me. 
As Darkness deepened alone, 

3437
02:59:58,900 --> 03:00:01,200
figure approached through the 
Torchlight yard. 

3438
03:00:01,200 --> 03:00:05,300
I squinted through Frozen lashes
to see Master Robert, the king's

3439
03:00:05,300 --> 03:00:08,500
old Chamberlain carrying a cloak
Without a word. 

3440
03:00:08,500 --> 03:00:11,800
He draped it over my shoulders. 
His eyes were sad as he met my 

3441
03:00:11,808 --> 03:00:14,100
gaze. 
You were Brave Tom? 

3442
03:00:14,100 --> 03:00:16,500
He whispered just loud enough 
for me to hear. 

3443
03:00:17,400 --> 03:00:20,100
He was indeed Brave. 
If not a little foolish. 

3444
03:00:20,700 --> 03:00:23,200
A bitter laugh Escape me. 
What other thing could I be? 

3445
03:00:24,000 --> 03:00:26,700
He shook his head and pressed a 
small flask of Ale to my lips. 

3446
03:00:26,700 --> 03:00:29,600
Greatly, I drank a burning 
mouthful, that chased some of 

3447
03:00:29,608 --> 03:00:32,800
the Chill from my bones, is his 
majesty. 

3448
03:00:32,800 --> 03:00:36,800
I quote raw from the cold night 
air as I struggled to hold back.

3449
03:00:36,800 --> 03:00:40,800
Sobs Master, Robert's side, he 
was alone in his Chambers. 

3450
03:00:40,800 --> 03:00:43,100
He's unlikely to change his mind
by morning. 

3451
03:00:43,100 --> 03:00:46,900
I am sorry. 
He hesitated some of us perceive

3452
03:00:46,900 --> 03:00:51,200
the truth in your words, but the
king He's under enormous strain.

3453
03:00:52,500 --> 03:00:56,100
I nodded as best I could with my
neck trap to Tear slipped down 

3454
03:00:56,100 --> 03:00:57,900
my face hot against my numb 
skin. 

3455
03:00:58,900 --> 03:01:01,000
Q. 
I managed to whisper the 

3456
03:01:01,000 --> 03:01:03,400
chamber, in squeezed, my 
shoulder gently and departed. 

3457
03:01:03,400 --> 03:01:05,600
Leaving the cloak as my only 
comfort. 

3458
03:01:05,600 --> 03:01:09,800
I spent the remaining hours and 
Silent prayer prayer that the 

3459
03:01:09,800 --> 03:01:13,000
king's heart would suffer. 
And that Dawn would never come 

3460
03:01:13,000 --> 03:01:17,300
and that I might endure, what 
was to come I was not a warrior 

3461
03:01:17,300 --> 03:01:19,400
or a martyr. 
Just a Fool who had flown too 

3462
03:01:19,400 --> 03:01:22,200
close to the Sun. 
The strange Freedom I'd had to 

3463
03:01:22,200 --> 03:01:23,700
speak. 
Truth had shown its price. 

3464
03:01:24,700 --> 03:01:28,500
At Sunrise, they flogged me. 
I bit down on a leather strap to

3465
03:01:28,500 --> 03:01:30,500
keep from screaming as each lash
Torah. 

3466
03:01:30,500 --> 03:01:33,800
Cross my back fiery pain 
exploded with every stroke. 

3467
03:01:34,900 --> 03:01:38,900
By the 10th, blow my vision. 
Blurred by the 20th, I hung limp

3468
03:01:38,900 --> 03:01:41,300
in the restraints. 
Unable to stand, I didn't really

3469
03:01:41,300 --> 03:01:43,600
heard an official read out my 
crime of insolence to the 

3470
03:01:43,600 --> 03:01:46,400
gathered, courtiers as the 
punishment was delivered, as if 

3471
03:01:46,400 --> 03:01:49,400
it was some theater. 
And I was the main spectacle. 

3472
03:01:50,100 --> 03:01:52,800
when it was mercifully over, 
they released the pillars lock 

3473
03:01:52,800 --> 03:01:56,500
and I crumpled to the snow, the 
world spun for a moment, as I 

3474
03:01:56,500 --> 03:02:00,900
lay there with my cheek against 
the white trampled ground, I 

3475
03:02:00,900 --> 03:02:03,000
could hear distant Applause from
one or two Nobles. 

3476
03:02:03,000 --> 03:02:07,400
And Ugly mockery warm blood 
trickled under my shirt. 

3477
03:02:08,300 --> 03:02:10,500
Two guards, lifted me to my feet
and carried me away. 

3478
03:02:10,500 --> 03:02:13,400
As if I were worthless trash, I 
drifted In and Out Of 

3479
03:02:13,408 --> 03:02:17,300
Consciousness, once through a 
blur of tears, I thought I saw 

3480
03:02:17,300 --> 03:02:19,100
the king watching from a high 
window. 

3481
03:02:19,100 --> 03:02:21,400
I couldn't discern his 
expression. 

3482
03:02:21,400 --> 03:02:24,500
They dumped me in my little 
chamber and left without a word.

3483
03:02:25,200 --> 03:02:27,800
I don't know how long I remained
motionless on the floor, curled 

3484
03:02:27,800 --> 03:02:31,300
up, in gasping, eventually a 
kind maid servant slipped in and

3485
03:02:31,300 --> 03:02:33,000
tended. 
My wounds with vinegar and clean

3486
03:02:33,000 --> 03:02:35,200
bandages, cluckin softly and 
pity. 

3487
03:02:35,200 --> 03:02:38,500
I thanked her in a horse 
whisperer by Nightfall. 

3488
03:02:38,500 --> 03:02:41,800
I could at least sit upright on 
my straw pot, every movement 

3489
03:02:41,800 --> 03:02:45,300
sent bolts of Agony through my 
worldedit back, I stared at the 

3490
03:02:45,308 --> 03:02:49,000
dark sealing Halo and hot sick, 
a fuller had been indeed 

3491
03:02:49,000 --> 03:02:51,700
thinking I could speak for the 
week and not be struck down. 

3492
03:02:52,900 --> 03:02:55,900
As the castle around me bustled 
with the evening supper and 

3493
03:02:55,900 --> 03:02:59,800
song, I lay in silence tasting, 
bitterness like bile. 

3494
03:03:00,600 --> 03:03:04,100
I did not know what hurt more 
the fiery stripes across my 

3495
03:03:04,100 --> 03:03:06,000
back. 
All the cold distance that now 

3496
03:03:06,000 --> 03:03:10,400
yawned between me and the king. 
I had thought perhaps foolishly 

3497
03:03:10,400 --> 03:03:14,400
was my friend after a week Under
Siege with little progress, the 

3498
03:03:14,400 --> 03:03:17,600
king decided to send a message 
of surrender terms to do Jeffrey

3499
03:03:17,600 --> 03:03:20,300
to my surprise. 
He chose me as the envoy, 

3500
03:03:20,300 --> 03:03:23,800
perhaps, he chose me as the 
envoy as a form of punishment or

3501
03:03:23,800 --> 03:03:25,100
perhaps. 
He believed that having a full 

3502
03:03:25,100 --> 03:03:27,000
present would emphasize his 
contempt. 

3503
03:03:27,900 --> 03:03:30,800
Either way, I found myself 
standing before the king in his 

3504
03:03:30,800 --> 03:03:32,800
Pavilion, as he thrust to 
sealed. 

3505
03:03:32,800 --> 03:03:36,300
Parchment in to my hand carry 
out, surrender offered to Duke 

3506
03:03:36,300 --> 03:03:38,300
Jeffries gate. 
You have a silver tongue. 

3507
03:03:38,300 --> 03:03:40,800
Perhaps, you can persuade him 
with sea engines. 

3508
03:03:40,800 --> 03:03:44,000
Cannot he said coolie his Knight
smirked. 

3509
03:03:44,000 --> 03:03:46,100
We all knew this area and 
carried risk. 

3510
03:03:46,100 --> 03:03:49,700
A rebel might easily kill the 
king's fool as a mockery of the 

3511
03:03:49,700 --> 03:03:52,100
message. 
I realized King Edward was 

3512
03:03:52,100 --> 03:03:54,500
effectively sending me as a 
disposable Herald. 

3513
03:03:56,300 --> 03:03:59,800
Still, I mustered, my courage. 
This was the first Duty he had 

3514
03:03:59,800 --> 03:04:03,800
given me since my disgrace. 
Perhaps, if I succeeded, it 

3515
03:04:03,800 --> 03:04:07,800
could begin to mend the rift. 
As you command sire. 

3516
03:04:08,500 --> 03:04:12,500
I said, quietly. 
Soon after I wrote out under a 

3517
03:04:12,500 --> 03:04:15,400
truce flag, replacing my Motley 
with a simple tunic adorned with

3518
03:04:15,408 --> 03:04:18,300
the Royal Arms. 
A pair of trumpeters accompanied

3519
03:04:18,300 --> 03:04:21,900
me part way and sounded a call 
before falling back alone, I 

3520
03:04:21,900 --> 03:04:24,000
approached the castles gate 
across a field littered with 

3521
03:04:24,008 --> 03:04:27,800
broken arrows, my spine, 
prickled expecting at any moment

3522
03:04:27,800 --> 03:04:30,900
to hear the Sinister twang of a 
bowstring and feel an arrow 

3523
03:04:30,900 --> 03:04:34,700
between my shoulders. 
But none came instead and not of

3524
03:04:34,700 --> 03:04:38,500
the Duke soldiers emerged at the
battlements, crossbows trained 

3525
03:04:38,500 --> 03:04:40,800
on me. 
I come bearing a message from 

3526
03:04:40,800 --> 03:04:43,900
King Edward, a shouted up in a 
steady of voice as I could 

3527
03:04:43,900 --> 03:04:46,700
manage. 
Eventually, the iron pot color 

3528
03:04:46,700 --> 03:04:49,900
is creaked upward just enough 
for a handful of armored men to 

3529
03:04:49,900 --> 03:04:52,700
drag me inside. 
I was roughly searched and 

3530
03:04:52,700 --> 03:04:56,300
relived of my small dagger more 
a tool than a weapon then they 

3531
03:04:56,300 --> 03:04:58,100
shoved me into a torch lit. 
Great Hall. 

3532
03:04:58,100 --> 03:04:59,800
Where Duke Jeffrey himself. 
Awaited. 

3533
03:04:59,800 --> 03:05:03,200
He was a formidable figure in 
steel plate and a crimson cloak.

3534
03:05:03,200 --> 03:05:06,300
A middle-aged man with a scarred
brow and weary eyes. 

3535
03:05:06,300 --> 03:05:09,900
So he said his voice. 
Echoing off the stone walls, 

3536
03:05:09,900 --> 03:05:13,700
Edward sends his full to Bali 
He's so short of loyal Knights 

3537
03:05:13,700 --> 03:05:16,400
Snickers echoed from the Duke's 
men around me. 

3538
03:05:17,200 --> 03:05:20,100
Straight into my full height. 
Trying not to let my knees 

3539
03:05:20,100 --> 03:05:22,500
quake. 
Loyal Knights are too, valuable 

3540
03:05:22,500 --> 03:05:25,700
to risk on Duke Jeffrey. 
I replied before thinking better

3541
03:05:25,700 --> 03:05:28,400
of it. 
My old reflex for wit had 

3542
03:05:28,400 --> 03:05:30,600
slipped out. 
Some of the Rebel soldiers 

3543
03:05:30,600 --> 03:05:33,000
bristled that the Duke barked a 
short laugh. 

3544
03:05:33,600 --> 03:05:36,900
Hand me the message full, he 
said I presented the parchment 

3545
03:05:36,900 --> 03:05:40,500
with a slight vowel as he read 
the king's offer amnesty and 

3546
03:05:40,500 --> 03:05:41,600
exchange for immediate 
surrender. 

3547
03:05:41,600 --> 03:05:45,600
His face showed no flicker of 
concession when he finished, he 

3548
03:05:45,600 --> 03:05:48,900
scoffed. 
Empty promises did Edward think 

3549
03:05:48,900 --> 03:05:51,000
a few pardoning words would make
me kneel. 

3550
03:05:51,000 --> 03:05:53,500
He must consider me more foolish
than you. 

3551
03:05:54,800 --> 03:05:57,900
Attempt silence fell. 
I realized all eyes were on me, 

3552
03:05:57,900 --> 03:06:01,300
waiting a response. 
If I returned empty-handed and 

3553
03:06:01,300 --> 03:06:06,100
tongue-tied, I don't only score.
So drawing a shaky breath, I 

3554
03:06:06,100 --> 03:06:09,000
addressed the Duke. 
His majesty desires, no more. 

3555
03:06:09,000 --> 03:06:11,800
Bloodshed, he offers you a 
chance to retain your lands and 

3556
03:06:11,800 --> 03:06:14,800
honor your grace. 
I employ you to think of the 

3557
03:06:14,808 --> 03:06:17,100
kingdom and your men who have 
families waiting for them. 

3558
03:06:17,800 --> 03:06:20,800
My voice echoed in the hall. 
There was a bold speed from my 

3559
03:06:20,800 --> 03:06:24,000
station, but I spoke with 
genuine pleading, I had seen 

3560
03:06:24,000 --> 03:06:26,800
enough suffering. 
Jeffrey regarded. 

3561
03:06:26,800 --> 03:06:28,400
Me with a faintly surprised 
expression. 

3562
03:06:28,400 --> 03:06:32,400
He spoke earnestly. 
As if you were a fool, he sighed

3563
03:06:32,400 --> 03:06:34,400
deeply. 
And for a moment, I thought I 

3564
03:06:34,400 --> 03:06:37,200
saw sorrow in his eyes. 
You are young. 

3565
03:06:37,200 --> 03:06:40,300
You do not know Edward as I do 
he keeps his promises only while

3566
03:06:40,300 --> 03:06:42,700
it suits him. 
Tell your king that Jeffrey of 

3567
03:06:42,700 --> 03:06:45,600
March will not yield to pretty 
words and Hollow clemency we 

3568
03:06:45,600 --> 03:06:47,900
will meet on the field and 
settle our differences with 

3569
03:06:47,900 --> 03:06:50,400
steel. 
My heart sank. 

3570
03:06:50,400 --> 03:06:55,000
Is that your final answer? 
My Lord, I asked softly it is. 

3571
03:06:55,000 --> 03:06:59,100
He said, then he leaned forward 
and added in a low growl, tell 

3572
03:06:59,100 --> 03:07:01,600
Edward that by week's end. 
I shall sit on his throne or 

3573
03:07:01,600 --> 03:07:03,600
die. 
In the attempt, I bowed 

3574
03:07:03,600 --> 03:07:07,400
understanding the Pali was over.
But as I turned to leave one of 

3575
03:07:07,408 --> 03:07:09,600
the Dukes Captain stepped 
forward with a hand on his 

3576
03:07:09,600 --> 03:07:11,900
sword, eyeing me with a wolfish 
grin. 

3577
03:07:13,000 --> 03:07:17,400
Duke Jeffrey waved at hand, 
dismissively know, he's, but a 

3578
03:07:17,400 --> 03:07:20,900
messenger and an honest one at 
that, let him return unharmed. 

3579
03:07:20,900 --> 03:07:23,500
We are not the Savages that 
Edward would claim. 

3580
03:07:24,400 --> 03:07:28,000
He looked at me, go full, thank 
whatever. 

3581
03:07:28,000 --> 03:07:30,700
God you pray to that, I am not 
in the mood to play games with a

3582
03:07:30,700 --> 03:07:33,600
gesture today, they escorted me 
back to the gate. 

3583
03:07:34,300 --> 03:07:36,000
Felt the glare of archers on my 
back. 

3584
03:07:36,000 --> 03:07:38,900
As I walked out, refusing to 
break into a run. 

3585
03:07:38,900 --> 03:07:42,200
They shoved me out and slammed 
the pork colors behind me. 

3586
03:07:43,000 --> 03:07:45,700
Weak need with relief. 
I walked back to our lines 

3587
03:07:45,700 --> 03:07:49,300
facing the rebel Lord had been 
terrifying but at least I 

3588
03:07:49,300 --> 03:07:52,200
survived unscathed backing King 
Edwards Camp. 

3589
03:07:52,200 --> 03:07:55,300
I delivered Duke Jeffries reply,
faithful to King Edward and his 

3590
03:07:55,300 --> 03:07:57,900
Council. 
The king's face tightened at the

3591
03:07:57,908 --> 03:08:01,000
Dukes Defiance. 
He said nothing to me, except a 

3592
03:08:01,000 --> 03:08:03,300
curtain odd of dismissal. 
It was as if I were, truly 

3593
03:08:03,300 --> 03:08:06,800
nothing more than a talking 
letter. that night I sat by the 

3594
03:08:06,808 --> 03:08:11,000
campfires watching, armored men,
hurry about sharpening swords 

3595
03:08:11,000 --> 03:08:14,400
and Whispering prayers and 
murmuring about illumines Blood 

3596
03:08:14,400 --> 03:08:18,000
would begin to Flow by Dawn. 
I felt utterly small beneath the

3597
03:08:18,000 --> 03:08:21,300
vast, dark sky, once a Fool's 
quick-witted matted in the 

3598
03:08:21,300 --> 03:08:24,000
king's hall. 
Now it meant nothing on the eve 

3599
03:08:24,000 --> 03:08:26,400
of Slaughter. 
I realized I was witnessing the 

3600
03:08:26,400 --> 03:08:29,700
gears of History turning in 
different to one humble gesture.

3601
03:08:31,000 --> 03:08:33,500
In the flicker of the firelight,
I caught sight of king, Edward 

3602
03:08:33,500 --> 03:08:35,700
standing with his generals 
Resolute and Grim. 

3603
03:08:35,700 --> 03:08:38,600
I remembered when he used to 
smile at my Antics. 

3604
03:08:38,600 --> 03:08:43,200
But that was before famine 
rebellion and my own over bold 

3605
03:08:43,200 --> 03:08:47,700
tongue had come between us now, 
I was just another soul in his 

3606
03:08:47,700 --> 03:08:50,000
train useful only for the odd 
errand. 

3607
03:08:50,900 --> 03:08:53,600
As trumpet sounded though, and 
mournful in the darkness, I 

3608
03:08:53,600 --> 03:08:55,900
wrapped my cloak. 
Titan tried to steal a few hours

3609
03:08:55,900 --> 03:08:59,300
of sleep on the cold ground. 
Tomorrow's battle would decide 

3610
03:08:59,300 --> 03:09:02,200
the fate of the Kingdom. 
I could do nothing but witness 

3611
03:09:02,200 --> 03:09:05,600
it, a full on the sidelines of 
King's hoping to survive the 

3612
03:09:05,600 --> 03:09:10,000
coming door at Dawn, King 
Edwards, army clashed with Duke 

3613
03:09:10,000 --> 03:09:12,200
Jeffries rebels in a coffin of 
Steel. 

3614
03:09:12,200 --> 03:09:16,700
And screams suddenly I saw King 
Edward unhorse, his white 

3615
03:09:16,700 --> 03:09:19,900
charger had been felled under 
her him and the King was on foot

3616
03:09:19,900 --> 03:09:22,300
fighting off Rebel soldiers who 
pressed in around him. 

3617
03:09:23,200 --> 03:09:26,400
My heart pounded in my chest, 
the knights who should have been

3618
03:09:26,400 --> 03:09:30,000
by his side dispersed leaving, 
only me close enough to a system

3619
03:09:30,008 --> 03:09:33,800
in that moment without thinking,
I grabbed a discarded spear from

3620
03:09:33,800 --> 03:09:35,700
the churned mud and ran towards 
the king. 

3621
03:09:36,500 --> 03:09:39,500
Sight of a Motley clad full 
sprinting into the thick of 

3622
03:09:39,508 --> 03:09:42,100
battle stunned. 
Both friends and foes alike, 

3623
03:09:42,100 --> 03:09:45,000
one, Rebel, Knight charged. 
The king from behind. 

3624
03:09:45,000 --> 03:09:48,500
I hurled myself at him with all,
my might share luck. 

3625
03:09:48,500 --> 03:09:51,800
He went down in a clatter of 
armor, more surprised than hurt.

3626
03:09:52,500 --> 03:09:55,600
King Edward world at the sound 
and caught sight of me, mud, 

3627
03:09:55,600 --> 03:09:58,400
splatted and wild-eyed standing 
over the night. 

3628
03:09:58,400 --> 03:10:02,400
I'd felled for an instant, our 
eyes met, then another Rebel 

3629
03:10:02,400 --> 03:10:04,400
lunged at the King. 
Edward Perry. 

3630
03:10:04,400 --> 03:10:09,000
And together we stood back to 
back Sovereign and unlikely 

3631
03:10:09,000 --> 03:10:12,800
circle of Defense. 
A brandished the spear wildly 

3632
03:10:12,800 --> 03:10:14,900
screaming, more in Terror than 
Fury. 

3633
03:10:15,700 --> 03:10:18,600
In that moment to Surge of Royal
Knights plowed into the melee 

3634
03:10:18,600 --> 03:10:22,100
driving the rebels back. 
As the enemy fell into confusion

3635
03:10:22,100 --> 03:10:25,100
of began to retreat who pulled 
the king onto a fresh horse. 

3636
03:10:26,800 --> 03:10:30,200
The battle soon turned in our 
favor Duke Jeffries line broke 

3637
03:10:30,200 --> 03:10:33,700
under the onslaught of the 
king's forces by noon, it was 

3638
03:10:33,708 --> 03:10:38,000
over the rebels threw down arms 
or fled Victory belonged to King

3639
03:10:38,000 --> 03:10:39,900
Edward. 
But it came at a terrible cost 

3640
03:10:39,900 --> 03:10:43,100
body's carpeted the field and 
the surprise of the Wounded 

3641
03:10:43,100 --> 03:10:46,900
echoed in the Smoky air in the 
aftermath, I slumped exhausted 

3642
03:10:46,900 --> 03:10:50,000
on a fallen log by hand still 
trembling from adrenaline. 

3643
03:10:50,800 --> 03:10:53,900
Blood spattered. 
My once colorful attire, some of

3644
03:10:53,900 --> 03:10:57,500
it from a shallow cut on my arm.
As the king moved among the 

3645
03:10:57,500 --> 03:11:00,700
living and dead tending to the 
wounded and gazing sorrowfully 

3646
03:11:00,700 --> 03:11:04,100
over the Carnage. 
I watched in a daze when at last

3647
03:11:04,100 --> 03:11:06,800
the king approached me, I 
struggled to my feet and bowed 

3648
03:11:06,800 --> 03:11:09,600
unsteadily. 
I expected perhaps a reprimand 

3649
03:11:09,600 --> 03:11:13,000
for plunging into the fight. 
Unbidden instead King Edward 

3650
03:11:13,000 --> 03:11:15,800
dismounted and stepped forward 
for a long moment. 

3651
03:11:15,800 --> 03:11:19,700
He simply regarded me taking in 
the spear still clenched in my 

3652
03:11:19,700 --> 03:11:23,200
hand, and the drying blood on my
cheek, then to my shock, he 

3653
03:11:23,200 --> 03:11:24,800
knelt slightly and placed a hand
on my shoulder. 

3654
03:11:25,700 --> 03:11:27,600
You saved my life. 
Today he said quietly. 

3655
03:11:27,600 --> 03:11:29,700
There was an openness in his 
face. 

3656
03:11:29,700 --> 03:11:31,800
I'd not seen since my earliest 
days at court. 

3657
03:11:32,500 --> 03:11:35,400
Full or not Tom you have the 
heart of a true friend sire. 

3658
03:11:35,400 --> 03:11:40,600
I only did what anyone would I 
stamped suddenly choking up He 

3659
03:11:40,600 --> 03:11:43,700
shook his head and turned to the
Lord's gathering around in a 

3660
03:11:43,700 --> 03:11:45,600
clear voice. 
He proclaimed that my bravery 

3661
03:11:45,600 --> 03:11:47,300
had saved him and would not be 
forgotten. 

3662
03:11:48,500 --> 03:11:51,300
My cheeks burned with humble 
Pride, as Nobles, who wants 

3663
03:11:51,300 --> 03:11:53,100
neared? 
Now, inclined their heads to me,

3664
03:11:53,100 --> 03:11:56,400
I understood that my return to 
the king's favor, was not due to

3665
03:11:56,400 --> 03:11:59,600
humor, but rather to my 
unwavering loyalty during 

3666
03:11:59,600 --> 03:12:03,600
crucial moments, That evening we
shared a quiet Victory meal in 

3667
03:12:03,600 --> 03:12:06,200
Camp late that night as I sat by
the dying. 

3668
03:12:06,200 --> 03:12:08,100
Fire. 
King, Edward draped, his own 

3669
03:12:08,100 --> 03:12:11,500
fur, cloak around my shoulders. 
You'll catch your death in this 

3670
03:12:11,500 --> 03:12:12,200
chill. 
Tom. 

3671
03:12:12,200 --> 03:12:16,800
He said softly side by side 
under the Starry Sky, we sat in 

3672
03:12:16,800 --> 03:12:19,200
a comfortable silence. 
After a long. 

3673
03:12:19,208 --> 03:12:23,300
Pause, he murmured so much loss.
Will God forgive me for this 

3674
03:12:23,300 --> 03:12:26,400
day? 
In that moment, he was not a 

3675
03:12:26,400 --> 03:12:29,900
mighty king but a weary man I 
Found the courage to answer 

3676
03:12:29,900 --> 03:12:32,600
gently that he had done his duty
and even shown Mercy. 

3677
03:12:33,400 --> 03:12:36,500
If a king can be merciful, I 
said, surely God can too. 

3678
03:12:37,400 --> 03:12:39,300
Managed to warn smile and grip 
my arm. 

3679
03:12:39,300 --> 03:12:43,500
Thank you, Tommy whispered, by 
the time I crawled into my small

3680
03:12:43,500 --> 03:12:47,000
tent, I felt lighter than I had 
in a long while the gulf between

3681
03:12:47,000 --> 03:12:50,500
the king and his full had closed
in The Crucible of war, and with

3682
03:12:50,500 --> 03:12:53,800
it came a new trust. 
I dare to hope that better days.

3683
03:12:53,800 --> 03:12:57,000
Later ahead when I might serve 
him with both wit and devotion, 

3684
03:12:57,000 --> 03:13:01,000
as I once did for a brief golden
time after the battle life, at 

3685
03:13:01,000 --> 03:13:04,300
court was kind to me. 
King Edward, kept me close and 

3686
03:13:04,300 --> 03:13:07,000
though, I still don't cap some 
bells to amuse him. 

3687
03:13:07,000 --> 03:13:09,500
I also became something of a 
confidant again. 

3688
03:13:09,500 --> 03:13:12,500
I even offered the king and 
occasional candid, observation 

3689
03:13:12,500 --> 03:13:16,200
to Aid, his rule the memory of 
my past, a strange went faded 

3690
03:13:16,200 --> 03:13:20,000
like a terrible dream but 
fortunes we will never stops 

3691
03:13:20,000 --> 03:13:23,400
turning some years later, a 
harsh winter illness, swept 

3692
03:13:23,400 --> 03:13:25,900
through the land, the illness 
affected, both the upper and 

3693
03:13:25,900 --> 03:13:28,900
lower classes equally King 
Edward vigorous. 

3694
03:13:28,900 --> 03:13:31,800
In battle succumbed in his bed 
chamber after a week of fever. 

3695
03:13:32,600 --> 03:13:35,600
I sat at his bedside near the 
end, holding his hand as the 

3696
03:13:35,600 --> 03:13:37,200
fever. 
Took him on a frigid February 

3697
03:13:37,200 --> 03:13:41,200
night when he breathed his last.
I lost not only my king, but 

3698
03:13:41,200 --> 03:13:44,200
also my truest friend, the court
mourned. 

3699
03:13:44,200 --> 03:13:47,500
And then the power shifted. 
King Edwards are was a boy of 

3700
03:13:47,500 --> 03:13:51,900
12, so a council of Regents took
control Almost overnight the 

3701
03:13:51,900 --> 03:13:55,000
atmosphere at court chained. 
The new rule is had little use 

3702
03:13:55,000 --> 03:13:57,100
for the old King's fool to their
mother. 

3703
03:13:57,100 --> 03:13:59,100
Was a remnant of Edward Zero at 
best. 

3704
03:13:59,100 --> 03:14:02,300
Irrelevant at worst a nuisance 
with too many of the lake Kings 

3705
03:14:02,300 --> 03:14:04,800
confidence is in the weeks after
the funeral. 

3706
03:14:04,800 --> 03:14:08,800
I became increasingly unwelcome 
the boy King Guided by Stern 

3707
03:14:08,800 --> 03:14:12,400
advisors showed no interest in 
my Antics East to sit near the 

3708
03:14:12,400 --> 03:14:15,400
throne but now I found myself 
standing at the back of the 

3709
03:14:15,400 --> 03:14:17,800
hall. 
One gray morning, I was summoned

3710
03:14:17,800 --> 03:14:21,700
before Lord Warwick the very 
advisor who had urge my flogging

3711
03:14:21,700 --> 03:14:23,700
years ago. 
And now one of the princes 

3712
03:14:23,700 --> 03:14:28,300
Regents regarded me with cold 
disdain, The crown has decided 

3713
03:14:28,300 --> 03:14:30,000
your services are no longer 
required. 

3714
03:14:30,000 --> 03:14:33,900
He said Flatley He pushed across
the table a small purse of 

3715
03:14:33,908 --> 03:14:35,900
coins. 
Perhaps mint, as a gesture of 

3716
03:14:35,900 --> 03:14:39,000
compensation, you are to leave 
the palace by sundown. 

3717
03:14:40,100 --> 03:14:43,900
I felt a Pang of disbelief, I 
dare to ask if I had given a 

3718
03:14:43,900 --> 03:14:47,500
fence or could make amends but 
Warwick silence me with a glare.

3719
03:14:48,200 --> 03:14:51,200
The young king was too busy to 
indulge a Fool's prattle. 

3720
03:14:51,200 --> 03:14:54,400
He said they didn't require a 
gesture to interrupt them. 

3721
03:14:55,300 --> 03:14:58,400
For an instant anger, flared. 
I had bled for this Kingdom and 

3722
03:14:58,400 --> 03:15:01,200
The Late King valued me, but one
look at Warwick's face. 

3723
03:15:01,200 --> 03:15:05,500
Topping protest was futile. 
These men saw only a clown, not 

3724
03:15:05,500 --> 03:15:08,100
a counselor. 
I took the leather purse with 

3725
03:15:08,100 --> 03:15:12,200
trembling fingers, it felt 
pitifully, liked about my head. 

3726
03:15:13,000 --> 03:15:15,800
As you command my Lord. 
I murdered there was nothing 

3727
03:15:15,800 --> 03:15:18,900
else to do to resist. 
Would mean imprisonment or 

3728
03:15:18,900 --> 03:15:22,000
worse? 
That afternoon, I packed my 

3729
03:15:22,000 --> 03:15:25,600
Scamp belongings, a few Warren, 
Motley tunics, my Loot, and the 

3730
03:15:25,600 --> 03:15:28,400
Gilded wooden Falls. 
SEPTA King Edward had once give 

3731
03:15:28,400 --> 03:15:32,200
me as a staff of office. 
Not one familiar face came to 

3732
03:15:32,208 --> 03:15:34,700
wish me. 
Well in any who might have gone 

3733
03:15:34,700 --> 03:15:37,300
or a to show kindness to a 
dismissed full. 

3734
03:15:38,300 --> 03:15:40,300
I walked out of the palace gates
at Twilight. 

3735
03:15:40,300 --> 03:15:44,700
A solitary figure for the first 
time in years, regards hardly 

3736
03:15:44,700 --> 03:15:47,900
glanced at me as I passed under 
the portcullis where I'd first 

3737
03:15:47,900 --> 03:15:50,300
entered. 
So many years ago, a frightened 

3738
03:15:50,300 --> 03:15:52,500
youth. 
Eager to entertain a king. 

3739
03:15:52,500 --> 03:15:56,800
How different that departure was
now older wiser and bearing the 

3740
03:15:56,808 --> 03:16:00,700
weight of Sorrows and joys alike
As I left the Royal Court behind

3741
03:16:00,700 --> 03:16:04,200
I paused on a hill. 
Overlooking the capital, the sun

3742
03:16:04,200 --> 03:16:07,400
was sinking in a cold purple sky
in the distance. 

3743
03:16:07,400 --> 03:16:10,800
The towers of the castle, caught
the last Light standing in that 

3744
03:16:10,800 --> 03:16:12,900
same spot on Happy Days 
alongside King. 

3745
03:16:12,900 --> 03:16:16,900
Edward, I recalled listening to 
him, confide his worries, I 

3746
03:16:16,900 --> 03:16:19,800
remembered our laughter, our 
battles of wit, and even our 

3747
03:16:19,800 --> 03:16:22,900
moments of anger, Sad smile 
tugged at my lips. 

3748
03:16:23,800 --> 03:16:25,900
Full, I came and a flight 
depart. 

3749
03:16:25,900 --> 03:16:28,800
I whispered to the chiller my 
breath swirled. 

3750
03:16:28,800 --> 03:16:32,200
Like ghostly incense. 
There was no audience to laugh 

3751
03:16:32,200 --> 03:16:36,400
or applaud Only the Lonely wind.
I drew my tattered, cloak 

3752
03:16:36,400 --> 03:16:39,600
Tighter and turned away from the
only homemade known in my adult 

3753
03:16:39,600 --> 03:16:42,000
life. 
It was time to explore the Fate 

3754
03:16:42,000 --> 03:16:44,900
that a king's full, without a 
king might face for months. 

3755
03:16:44,900 --> 03:16:47,800
I roam through Villages and 
Market tales for free in without

3756
03:16:47,800 --> 03:16:50,400
a master. 
Initially, the freedom felt 

3757
03:16:50,400 --> 03:16:53,100
jarring. 
I could go anywhere say anything

3758
03:16:53,100 --> 03:16:55,800
yet who cared now for the words 
of a king's fool. 

3759
03:16:56,600 --> 03:16:59,700
I earned my supper by telling 
stories or juggling in Tavern 

3760
03:16:59,700 --> 03:17:02,600
yards, performing not for 
Nobles, but for farmers and 

3761
03:17:02,600 --> 03:17:05,700
fishermen some nights. 
I stepped in a Hayloft or under 

3762
03:17:05,700 --> 03:17:08,300
the Open Sky, my joints ached 
more than they used to. 

3763
03:17:08,300 --> 03:17:11,100
And the laughter, of course, 
villagers was a poor, substitute

3764
03:17:11,100 --> 03:17:13,200
for the attentive hush of a 
Royal Court. 

3765
03:17:14,000 --> 03:17:16,800
One Autumn evening, I found 
myself in a small country in 

3766
03:17:16,800 --> 03:17:19,500
entertaining a handful of locals
by the half. 

3767
03:17:20,100 --> 03:17:22,700
A narrated humorous stories 
about court life, taking care, 

3768
03:17:22,700 --> 03:17:26,100
not to mention specific names 
and managed to elicit a few 

3769
03:17:26,100 --> 03:17:29,700
Chuckles from the audience. 
Afterward, as the Patron's 

3770
03:17:29,700 --> 03:17:32,100
drifted off The Innkeeper 
pressed, a mug of Ale into my 

3771
03:17:32,108 --> 03:17:37,900
hand pity or Pavements both and 
asked, were you truly the king's

3772
03:17:37,900 --> 03:17:42,600
full once? 
I nodded with a faint smile, I 

3773
03:17:42,600 --> 03:17:45,700
was a replied. 
He shook his head in one day and

3774
03:17:45,700 --> 03:17:48,300
went to lock up leaving me alone
with the dying fire. 

3775
03:17:49,600 --> 03:17:53,100
I sat there long after the last 
Embers crumbled, nursing the 

3776
03:17:53,100 --> 03:17:56,400
ale, and my memories. 
Yes, I had been the king's fool.

3777
03:17:56,400 --> 03:18:01,200
I had lived in a castle warned 
silks, however, patched dined on

3778
03:18:01,208 --> 03:18:05,700
Venison and custard and traded 
with powerful men, I had 

3779
03:18:05,700 --> 03:18:10,000
experienced both highs and lows 
now, I was no one of importance.

3780
03:18:10,900 --> 03:18:14,200
Despite feeling unimportant, I 
still sense the same heart 

3781
03:18:14,200 --> 03:18:18,200
beating in my chest and maintain
the same Keen Eye for absurdity 

3782
03:18:18,200 --> 03:18:20,700
in the world. 
In the Silence of that table, 

3783
03:18:20,700 --> 03:18:22,700
and I realized that in my own 
way. 

3784
03:18:22,700 --> 03:18:25,200
I still carried the truth. 
Speakers torch. 

3785
03:18:25,800 --> 03:18:29,400
I could now speak freely about 
the Lords of vanity, the Poor's 

3786
03:18:29,400 --> 03:18:32,700
plight and other Palace Secrets 
the strange privilege. 

3787
03:18:32,700 --> 03:18:36,200
I once held to speak truth to 
power had come at enormous risk.

3788
03:18:36,200 --> 03:18:38,800
Now, I held a different sort of 
freedom. 

3789
03:18:38,800 --> 03:18:42,600
I could speak truth openly but 
Power no longer heeded. 

3790
03:18:42,600 --> 03:18:45,300
It was a lonely, Freedom strip 
of the glamour. 

3791
03:18:45,300 --> 03:18:48,600
That once gave my words weight, 
I drained my ale and stepped 

3792
03:18:48,600 --> 03:18:51,900
outside into the crisp night. 
A thin sliver of moon hung 

3793
03:18:51,900 --> 03:18:53,900
overhead. 
The Village was dark and 

3794
03:18:53,900 --> 03:18:57,000
sleeping only the distant bark 
of a dog and the rustle of 

3795
03:18:57,008 --> 03:19:00,200
trees, kept me company pulling 
my threadbare cloak around my 

3796
03:19:00,200 --> 03:19:03,300
shoulders, I walked down the 
empty Lane toward the unstable 

3797
03:19:03,300 --> 03:19:06,800
loft, where a pile of straw, 
waited as my bed, overhead, 

3798
03:19:06,800 --> 03:19:10,800
countless Stars glittered the 
same stars are used to gaze at 

3799
03:19:10,800 --> 03:19:12,700
from the castle parapets in King
Edwards day. 

3800
03:19:12,700 --> 03:19:16,300
How many times did I stood by 
his side after a feast pointing 

3801
03:19:16,300 --> 03:19:18,100
out a constellation on making a 
wish? 

3802
03:19:18,800 --> 03:19:21,300
I closed my eyes and could 
almost hear the king's Rich 

3803
03:19:21,300 --> 03:19:25,400
laugh beside me and aches 
swelled in my throat parts, 

3804
03:19:25,400 --> 03:19:28,500
sorrow Parts, sweet reminiscent 
Edward. 

3805
03:19:28,500 --> 03:19:32,500
And to the sky, they took your 
full away, but they'll never 

3806
03:19:32,508 --> 03:19:35,400
quite rid me of you. 
Perhaps it was a foolish thing 

3807
03:19:35,400 --> 03:19:38,800
to say, but then foolishness had
always been my trade. 

3808
03:19:40,500 --> 03:19:43,800
I climbed into the Loft and laid
down on the straw through a gap 

3809
03:19:43,800 --> 03:19:45,600
in the roof. 
I could just see a splash of 

3810
03:19:45,608 --> 03:19:47,200
stars. 
I thought of the people. 

3811
03:19:47,200 --> 03:19:51,200
I had been eager young, gesture.
The broken wretch in the stocks,

3812
03:19:51,200 --> 03:19:52,600
the unlikely hero on the 
battlefield. 

3813
03:19:52,600 --> 03:19:55,500
The Trusted friend. 
And now the Vagabond 

3814
03:19:55,500 --> 03:19:57,700
Storyteller, which was the real 
me. 

3815
03:19:58,800 --> 03:20:03,600
All of them, perhaps none. 
As I drifted to sleep, I found 

3816
03:20:03,600 --> 03:20:06,000
myself. 
Smiling in the dark, I had 

3817
03:20:06,000 --> 03:20:09,000
played my part in the grand, 
pageant of kings and clowns, and

3818
03:20:09,000 --> 03:20:12,000
though, my costume was torn and 
my stage now, humbling, I still 

3819
03:20:12,000 --> 03:20:15,000
had my wits, my memories, and my
voice in the morning. 

3820
03:20:15,000 --> 03:20:17,100
I would move on to the next 
Village and the next crowd. 

3821
03:20:17,100 --> 03:20:21,000
Maybe I'd make them laugh, maybe
I'd make them think either way 

3822
03:20:21,000 --> 03:20:22,900
the spirit of the king's full 
lived on. 

3823
03:20:22,900 --> 03:20:26,200
As long as I drew breath, 
whatever tomorrow brings I will 

3824
03:20:26,200 --> 03:20:29,700
meet it as I always have with a 
jest on my tongue, a tear in my 

3825
03:20:29,700 --> 03:20:31,400
eye and hope in my Foolish 
Heart. 

3826
03:20:36,700 --> 03:20:39,900
Standing in the shadow of the 
path and the Mediterranean Sun 

3827
03:20:39,900 --> 03:20:41,900
beating down on. 
Marble columns, that have 

3828
03:20:41,900 --> 03:20:46,500
witnessed 205 centuries of human
Folly, you're about to embark on

3829
03:20:46,500 --> 03:20:49,500
a journey through ancient 
Greece's, most peculiar judicial

3830
03:20:49,500 --> 03:20:53,400
practices a world where Justice 
wasn't just blind, but 

3831
03:20:53,400 --> 03:20:57,800
occasionally, completely, 
unhinged Before we embark on 

3832
03:20:57,800 --> 03:21:00,800
this journey of strangeness, 
keep in mind that the Greeks who

3833
03:21:00,800 --> 03:21:03,300
devised, these ancient 
punishments believe they were 

3834
03:21:03,300 --> 03:21:06,600
perfectly reasonable. 
After all, when your 

3835
03:21:06,600 --> 03:21:10,500
civilization invented democracy 
philosophy and theater, why not 

3836
03:21:10,500 --> 03:21:12,400
get creative with criminal 
justice 2? 

3837
03:21:13,300 --> 03:21:15,800
The ancient Greeks didn't mess 
around when it came to 

3838
03:21:15,800 --> 03:21:18,900
maintaining order. 
Their approach to punishment was

3839
03:21:18,900 --> 03:21:21,900
like their approach to 
everything else, dramatic 

3840
03:21:21,900 --> 03:21:25,100
philosophical, and occasionally 
bordering on the theatrical. 

3841
03:21:25,100 --> 03:21:28,700
They believed that punishment 
should fit, not just the crime, 

3842
03:21:28,700 --> 03:21:31,900
but also serve as a spectacular 
lesson for society. 

3843
03:21:31,900 --> 03:21:35,600
Think of it as ancient reality 
television, except the 

3844
03:21:35,600 --> 03:21:37,700
consequences were decidedly more
permanent. 

3845
03:21:37,700 --> 03:21:41,000
You might assume that ancient 
punishments were simply brutal, 

3846
03:21:41,000 --> 03:21:44,600
Affairs involving Dungeons and 
executioners while the Greek 

3847
03:21:44,600 --> 03:21:46,600
certainly had their share of 
harsh sentences. 

3848
03:21:46,600 --> 03:21:50,100
They also possessed an almost 
artistic Flair for crafting 

3849
03:21:50,100 --> 03:21:52,600
punishments that were cycle. 
Logically, sophisticated, 

3850
03:21:52,600 --> 03:21:56,100
symbolically rich, and sometimes
downright bizarre. 

3851
03:21:56,900 --> 03:21:59,800
They understood that True 
Justice required, more than mere

3852
03:21:59,800 --> 03:22:02,500
physical suffering. 
It demanded a kind of poetic 

3853
03:22:02,500 --> 03:22:04,800
appropriate nurse that would 
resonate through the ages. 

3854
03:22:05,800 --> 03:22:08,800
Take the concept of hubris. 
For instance, the crime wasn't, 

3855
03:22:08,800 --> 03:22:12,400
just excessive Pride was a 
cosmic offense against the 

3856
03:22:12,400 --> 03:22:15,600
natural order. 
When someone committed hubris 

3857
03:22:15,600 --> 03:22:18,200
the punishment had to match the 
grandiosity of the 

3858
03:22:18,200 --> 03:22:22,100
transgression, the situation led
to some remarkably creative 

3859
03:22:22,100 --> 03:22:25,400
judicial solutions, that would 
make modern legal Scholars. 

3860
03:22:25,400 --> 03:22:28,200
Scratch their heads and 
bewilderment the Greek city 

3861
03:22:28,200 --> 03:22:30,100
states. 
Each developed their own flavor 

3862
03:22:30,100 --> 03:22:34,000
of Justice Athens with its 
democratic ideals favored 

3863
03:22:34,000 --> 03:22:37,400
punishments that involve public 
humiliation and Civic exile. 

3864
03:22:38,200 --> 03:22:41,300
Sparta ever, practical preferred
methods that were both efficient

3865
03:22:41,300 --> 03:22:44,200
and educational? 
The island communities developed

3866
03:22:44,200 --> 03:22:46,800
their own Maritime themed 
penalties that reflected their 

3867
03:22:46,800 --> 03:22:49,600
seafaring culture. 
What's particularly fascinating 

3868
03:22:49,600 --> 03:22:52,200
is how these punishments 
reflected Greek values and 

3869
03:22:52,200 --> 03:22:54,100
worldview. 
They believed in the 

3870
03:22:54,100 --> 03:22:57,200
interconnectedness, of all 
things that a person's actions 

3871
03:22:57,200 --> 03:22:59,400
rippled outward to affect the 
entire Community. 

3872
03:22:59,400 --> 03:23:02,500
Therefore, punishment wasn't 
just about deterrence or 

3873
03:23:02,500 --> 03:23:05,100
retribution. 
It was about restoring Cosmic 

3874
03:23:05,100 --> 03:23:07,900
balance. 
When someone disrupted, the 

3875
03:23:07,900 --> 03:23:10,700
social fabric, the punishment 
had to be equally disruptive. 

3876
03:23:10,700 --> 03:23:15,200
But in a way that ultimately 
reinforce societal norms You'll 

3877
03:23:15,200 --> 03:23:18,300
notice as we explore these tales
that the Greeks had a particular

3878
03:23:18,300 --> 03:23:21,100
genius for matching, the 
punishment of the personality of

3879
03:23:21,100 --> 03:23:23,800
the offender. 
They studied human nature with 

3880
03:23:23,800 --> 03:23:26,500
the same intensity, they applied
to mathematics and astronomy. 

3881
03:23:27,600 --> 03:23:29,600
This psychological 
sophistication meant that 

3882
03:23:29,600 --> 03:23:32,200
punishments were often tailored 
to exploit the specific 

3883
03:23:32,200 --> 03:23:35,800
weaknesses or character flaws 
that led to the original crime. 

3884
03:23:37,000 --> 03:23:39,800
The role of shame in Greek 
society cannot be overstated. 

3885
03:23:39,800 --> 03:23:43,200
While many ancient cultures 
relied primarily on physical 

3886
03:23:43,200 --> 03:23:46,500
pain or death as deterrence, the
Greeks understood that social 

3887
03:23:46,500 --> 03:23:49,500
ostracism, could be far more 
devastating than any bodily 

3888
03:23:49,500 --> 03:23:51,900
harm. 
They weaponized embarrassment 

3889
03:23:51,900 --> 03:23:55,000
with surgical Precision creating
punishments that would haunt 

3890
03:23:55,000 --> 03:23:57,400
offenders long after any 
physical wounds at healed, 

3891
03:23:57,400 --> 03:24:01,500
religious considerations also 
played a crucial role, the 

3892
03:24:01,500 --> 03:24:04,100
Greeks lived in a world 
populated by capricious Gods, 

3893
03:24:04,100 --> 03:24:07,400
who demanded respect and proper 
ritual, observance, many 

3894
03:24:07,400 --> 03:24:09,100
punishments. 
Had religious Dimensions 

3895
03:24:09,100 --> 03:24:12,600
designed to appease Divine Roth 
or demonstrate piety to the 

3896
03:24:12,600 --> 03:24:15,100
community. 
This spiritual element, added 

3897
03:24:15,100 --> 03:24:18,100
layers of meaning, the 
transformed simple, legal 

3898
03:24:18,100 --> 03:24:20,800
consequences into profound moral
statements. 

3899
03:24:21,700 --> 03:24:24,300
As we journey through the seven,
tails of Greek judicial 

3900
03:24:24,300 --> 03:24:27,600
creativity, you'll encounter 
punishments that range from the 

3901
03:24:27,600 --> 03:24:30,200
ingeniously appropriate to the 
utterly mystified. 

3902
03:24:31,300 --> 03:24:33,100
Some will make you laugh at 
their absurdity. 

3903
03:24:33,100 --> 03:24:36,900
Others will make you wince at 
their cleverness here. 

3904
03:24:36,900 --> 03:24:41,800
So And a few might make you 
wonder if the Ancients were 

3905
03:24:41,808 --> 03:24:44,500
right. 
Each story reveals not just how 

3906
03:24:44,500 --> 03:24:47,000
the Greeks dealt with 
lawbreakers but also how they 

3907
03:24:47,008 --> 03:24:51,200
understood human nature, social 
responsibility and the delicate 

3908
03:24:51,200 --> 03:24:53,900
balance between individual 
freedom and Collective welfare. 

3909
03:24:54,800 --> 03:24:56,400
These were not merely punitive 
measures. 

3910
03:24:56,400 --> 03:24:59,200
They were tangible, 
manifestations of philosophical 

3911
03:24:59,200 --> 03:25:01,100
ideas. 
The kin to theatrical 

3912
03:25:01,100 --> 03:25:02,900
performance is on the public 
stage. 

3913
03:25:02,900 --> 03:25:05,800
This grand tour of Greek 
judicial creativity, begins in 

3914
03:25:05,800 --> 03:25:08,500
classical Athens. 
The birthplace of democracy 

3915
03:25:08,500 --> 03:25:11,500
where a Citizens social 
reputation could quickly 

3916
03:25:11,500 --> 03:25:14,800
determine their fate. 
Athenians had elevated public 

3917
03:25:14,800 --> 03:25:17,700
shaming to an art form that 
would make modern social media 

3918
03:25:17,700 --> 03:25:19,400
pile. 
Ones look like gentle 

3919
03:25:19,400 --> 03:25:22,000
suggestions. 
Imagine being in Athenian, 

3920
03:25:22,000 --> 03:25:25,200
citizen in the 5th Century, BC 
when your reputation was 

3921
03:25:25,200 --> 03:25:27,000
literally your most valuable 
possession. 

3922
03:25:28,200 --> 03:25:30,100
The Athenians understood 
something that modern 

3923
03:25:30,100 --> 03:25:32,300
psychologists are only now 
rediscovering. 

3924
03:25:33,100 --> 03:25:35,600
Social Exile can be more 
devastating Than Physical 

3925
03:25:35,600 --> 03:25:37,900
punishment. 
They developed a sophisticated 

3926
03:25:37,900 --> 03:25:41,600
system of Shane base penalties 
that targeted the very core of 

3927
03:25:41,600 --> 03:25:44,200
Greek identity. 
One standing in the community, 

3928
03:25:44,200 --> 03:25:48,100
ostracism was the most famous, 
but it may not be what you think

3929
03:25:48,100 --> 03:25:51,200
every year. 
Athenian citizens could vote to 

3930
03:25:51,200 --> 03:25:53,800
temporarily Exile. 
One prominent person for 10 

3931
03:25:53,800 --> 03:25:57,400
years not because they'd 
committed a specific crime but 

3932
03:25:57,400 --> 03:26:00,900
because they'd become too 
powerful or influential picture 

3933
03:26:00,900 --> 03:26:03,700
of the ultimate Democratic time 
out, their success itself, 

3934
03:26:03,700 --> 03:26:07,400
became grounds for punishment, 
the person could return after a 

3935
03:26:07,400 --> 03:26:10,100
decade with full rights 
restored, but their political 

3936
03:26:10,100 --> 03:26:14,200
career was effectively ruined. 
Experience was akin to losing a 

3937
03:26:14,200 --> 03:26:17,400
beloved job with the entire city
functioning as your human 

3938
03:26:17,400 --> 03:26:20,600
resources department. 
But ostracism was just the 

3939
03:26:20,600 --> 03:26:23,100
beginning. 
The Athenians developed an 

3940
03:26:23,100 --> 03:26:26,600
entire spectrum of Shame based 
punishments that demonstrated 

3941
03:26:26,600 --> 03:26:30,000
their profound understanding of 
human psychology, take the 

3942
03:26:30,000 --> 03:26:33,300
practice of a team here 
literally, meaning Des honor, 

3943
03:26:34,100 --> 03:26:35,700
That stake wasn't just losing 
face. 

3944
03:26:35,700 --> 03:26:38,900
It was a legal status that 
Stripped Away, citizenship 

3945
03:26:38,900 --> 03:26:41,600
rights, while leaving the person
physically present in the 

3946
03:26:41,600 --> 03:26:45,000
community, you could walk the 
streets of Athens but you 

3947
03:26:45,000 --> 03:26:48,000
couldn't vote hold office or 
even speak in court to defend 

3948
03:26:48,000 --> 03:26:50,400
yourself. 
You became a ghost haunting your

3949
03:26:50,400 --> 03:26:53,000
life. 
The Genius of a team here in its

3950
03:26:53,000 --> 03:26:55,500
graduated nature. 
Different crimes. 

3951
03:26:55,500 --> 03:26:58,800
Resulted in different levels of 
Dishonor, attacks of ADA might 

3952
03:26:58,808 --> 03:27:00,700
lose the right to hold off 
office, but could still 

3953
03:27:00,700 --> 03:27:02,500
participate in religious 
festivals. 

3954
03:27:03,200 --> 03:27:05,900
Someone who shirked military 
duty might be barred from the 

3955
03:27:05,900 --> 03:27:09,000
Agora, the bustling Marketplace,
that was the heart of Athenian 

3956
03:27:09,000 --> 03:27:11,700
social life. 
The punishment was precisely 

3957
03:27:11,700 --> 03:27:14,900
calibrated to the offense like a
master Craftsman, adjusting the 

3958
03:27:14,900 --> 03:27:18,500
tension on Elias string. 
One particularly creative form 

3959
03:27:18,500 --> 03:27:20,000
of Athenian. 
Justice involved. 

3960
03:27:20,000 --> 03:27:23,400
The use of public monuments to 
shame when someone committed 

3961
03:27:23,400 --> 03:27:26,100
fraud or betrayed the city. 
Their punishment might include 

3962
03:27:26,100 --> 03:27:29,500
having their crime literally 
carved in stone and displayed in

3963
03:27:29,500 --> 03:27:32,600
a prominent location. 
Unlike modern criminal records. 

3964
03:27:32,600 --> 03:27:34,200
That gather dust in filing 
cabinets. 

3965
03:27:34,200 --> 03:27:37,100
These marble testimonials to 
poor judgments stood in the 

3966
03:27:37,108 --> 03:27:39,100
busiest parts of the city for 
Generations. 

3967
03:27:39,100 --> 03:27:43,100
Imagine having your worst moment
chiseled in Granite and placed 

3968
03:27:43,100 --> 03:27:45,200
where everyone you know would 
see it daily. 

3969
03:27:46,200 --> 03:27:50,100
Athenians also pioneered the 
concept of financial surgery. 

3970
03:27:50,100 --> 03:27:53,700
They didn't just find people. 
They structured finds to 

3971
03:27:53,700 --> 03:27:56,900
maximize social impact, a 
wealthy Merchant caught 

3972
03:27:56,900 --> 03:27:58,900
cheating. 
Might have to pay, not just 

3973
03:27:58,900 --> 03:28:02,700
compensation to his victims, but
also fund a public festival or 

3974
03:28:02,700 --> 03:28:06,600
donate, a warship to the Navy. 
The punishment transformed 

3975
03:28:06,600 --> 03:28:10,300
private wrongdoing into public, 
spectacle, forcing the offender 

3976
03:28:10,300 --> 03:28:13,800
to buy their way back into 
society is good graces through 

3977
03:28:13,800 --> 03:28:18,600
conspicuous generosity, perhaps,
most ingeniously Athens 

3978
03:28:18,600 --> 03:28:21,400
developed punishments, that 
turned social connections into 

3979
03:28:21,400 --> 03:28:24,300
instruments of Justice. 
If you have found guilty of 

3980
03:28:24,300 --> 03:28:27,100
certain crimes, your phyla tie, 
your tribal Kinsmen would 

3981
03:28:27,100 --> 03:28:29,600
collectively bear some 
responsibility for your actions.

3982
03:28:29,600 --> 03:28:33,100
These individuals created an 
entire network of social 

3983
03:28:33,100 --> 03:28:36,008
surveillance and intervention. 
If your cousin knew he might 

3984
03:28:36,016 --> 03:28:38,400
share in the consequences of 
your failure, he would 

3985
03:28:38,400 --> 03:28:40,800
reconsider lending you money for
a questionable business. 

3986
03:28:40,800 --> 03:28:43,200
Venture the Athenian approach to
punishment. 

3987
03:28:43,200 --> 03:28:46,100
Reflected their belief that 
crime was primarily a social 

3988
03:28:46,100 --> 03:28:48,500
disease rather than individual 
moral failure. 

3989
03:28:48,500 --> 03:28:51,500
He treated criminals, like, 
patients who needed to be 

3990
03:28:51,500 --> 03:28:55,100
reintegrated into the community 
rather simply eliminated from 

3991
03:28:55,100 --> 03:28:57,500
it. 
There are required a surgical 

3992
03:28:57,500 --> 03:29:01,000
Precision in their penalties cut
two little, and the offense 

3993
03:29:01,000 --> 03:29:04,600
would Festa cut too much and you
destroy the patient along with 

3994
03:29:04,600 --> 03:29:08,700
the disease, women face their 
own unique forms of social 

3995
03:29:08,700 --> 03:29:12,500
punishment in Athens since they 
were already excluded from most 

3996
03:29:12,500 --> 03:29:15,100
public, life traditional forms 
of Civic. 

3997
03:29:15,100 --> 03:29:19,000
Dishonor were ineffective 
instead Athenian Lord developed 

3998
03:29:19,000 --> 03:29:21,100
a labyrinth systems of domestic 
shame. 

3999
03:29:21,100 --> 03:29:24,600
An adulteress might be barred 
from participating in religious 

4000
03:29:24,600 --> 03:29:26,900
festivals. 
The one area of public life 

4001
03:29:26,900 --> 03:29:29,900
where women could shine, she 
would become invisible at the 

4002
03:29:29,908 --> 03:29:32,900
very moments when her community 
gathered, to celebrate their 

4003
03:29:32,900 --> 03:29:36,000
shared identity. 
The Athenians understood the 

4004
03:29:36,000 --> 03:29:38,700
effective punishment required an
audience, many of their 

4005
03:29:38,700 --> 03:29:41,800
penalties were designed to be 
witnessed and discussed turning 

4006
03:29:41,800 --> 03:29:43,900
the entire city into a theater 
of Justice. 

4007
03:29:43,900 --> 03:29:46,700
Where every citizen was both 
spectator and potential 

4008
03:29:46,700 --> 03:29:49,500
performer. 
Such an approach wasn't cruelty 

4009
03:29:49,500 --> 03:29:52,400
for its own sake. 
It was recognition that social 

4010
03:29:52,400 --> 03:29:55,100
bonds require constant 
maintenance and occasionally 

4011
03:29:55,100 --> 03:29:58,100
that maintenance required public
demonstrations of what happened 

4012
03:29:58,100 --> 03:30:01,400
when those Bonds were broken. 
Now shift your perspective from 

4013
03:30:01,400 --> 03:30:04,700
the bustling democracy of Athens
to the Stark military efficiency

4014
03:30:04,700 --> 03:30:08,000
of Sparta where punishment 
wasn't just about Justice. 

4015
03:30:08,000 --> 03:30:10,500
It was about forging the perfect
Warrior Society. 

4016
03:30:10,500 --> 03:30:15,000
If Athens was a theater of 
social drama Sparta was a 

4017
03:30:15,000 --> 03:30:17,200
laboratory of human endurance 
and their punishments. 

4018
03:30:17,200 --> 03:30:20,200
Reflected this fundamental 
difference in values, you've 

4019
03:30:20,200 --> 03:30:23,500
probably heard about Spartan 
military training Bowie, but you

4020
03:30:23,508 --> 03:30:25,400
might not realize how their 
approach to criminal. 

4021
03:30:25,400 --> 03:30:28,600
Justice was simply an extension 
of their educational philosophy.

4022
03:30:29,700 --> 03:30:32,800
The Spartans believe that every 
experience Pleasant or painful 

4023
03:30:32,800 --> 03:30:34,800
should serve to strengthen the 
individual. 

4024
03:30:34,800 --> 03:30:38,100
In the state, their punishments 
weren't just penalties. 

4025
03:30:38,100 --> 03:30:41,600
They were lessons disguised to 
suffering, designed to create 

4026
03:30:41,600 --> 03:30:44,900
better citizens through 
carefully calibrated adversity. 

4027
03:30:45,900 --> 03:30:48,200
Consider the fate of sparkling 
cowards. 

4028
03:30:48,200 --> 03:30:50,500
Perhaps the most despised 
criminals in this Warrior 

4029
03:30:50,500 --> 03:30:54,100
Society rather than the next 
execution or Exile, which would 

4030
03:30:54,100 --> 03:30:57,900
simply remove the problem spot 
and subjected cowards to a fate 

4031
03:30:57,900 --> 03:31:00,500
worse than death. 
They were required to live among

4032
03:31:00,500 --> 03:31:03,300
their fellow citizens while 
bearing visible marks of their 

4033
03:31:03,300 --> 03:31:07,300
shame, they were required to 
shave half their beards, Dawn, 

4034
03:31:07,300 --> 03:31:10,100
distinctive clothing. 
And refrain from taking part in 

4035
03:31:10,100 --> 03:31:13,600
communal meals or exercises. 
Imagine being permanently 

4036
03:31:13,600 --> 03:31:15,800
labeled as the only person who 
failed while everyone else. 

4037
03:31:15,800 --> 03:31:19,700
Succeeded constant, reminder of 
What Not to become such Behavior

4038
03:31:19,700 --> 03:31:23,200
wasn't random cruelty, the 
Spartans understood, the courage

4039
03:31:23,200 --> 03:31:25,600
was contagious but so was 
cowardice. 

4040
03:31:26,400 --> 03:31:29,700
By keeping cowards visible, but 
Dishonored, they created living 

4041
03:31:29,700 --> 03:31:32,600
examples that reinforced Brave 
behavior in everyone else. 

4042
03:31:33,800 --> 03:31:37,500
The punishment served multiple 
functions simultaneously it 

4043
03:31:37,500 --> 03:31:41,000
deterred future cowardice, 
provided ongoing education for 

4044
03:31:41,000 --> 03:31:43,400
young Spartans. 
Offered the remote possibility 

4045
03:31:43,400 --> 03:31:47,900
of redemption for the offender. 
In Sparta received, perhaps the 

4046
03:31:47,900 --> 03:31:50,300
most paradoxical punishment in 
ancient Greece. 

4047
03:31:50,300 --> 03:31:52,700
Instead of punishing, the act of
stealing. 

4048
03:31:52,700 --> 03:31:55,300
They punished individuals for 
being caught while stealing 

4049
03:31:56,200 --> 03:31:59,000
their decision wasn't because 
Spartans encouraged theft, but 

4050
03:31:59,000 --> 03:32:03,300
because they'd cunning and 
stealth as military virtues a 

4051
03:32:03,300 --> 03:32:05,900
successful Thief, demonstrated 
skills that can be useful in 

4052
03:32:05,900 --> 03:32:08,900
Warfare or Espionage. 
However, catching them revealed,

4053
03:32:08,900 --> 03:32:11,900
either poor planning or 
inadequate execution, flaws that

4054
03:32:11,900 --> 03:32:14,600
could prove fatal in battle the 
punishment for court. 

4055
03:32:14,600 --> 03:32:17,200
Thieves was brilliant in its 
educational value. 

4056
03:32:17,200 --> 03:32:20,300
The public, flogging they 
endured was not, merely a form 

4057
03:32:20,300 --> 03:32:23,300
of Retribution. 
He has administered the beating 

4058
03:32:23,300 --> 03:32:25,800
in front of the entire 
Community, transforming 

4059
03:32:25,800 --> 03:32:29,600
punishment into a performance. 
Young Spartans learned about 

4060
03:32:29,600 --> 03:32:32,800
both the acceptable limits of 
cunning and the consequences of 

4061
03:32:32,800 --> 03:32:35,300
failure. 
Some historians record that 

4062
03:32:35,300 --> 03:32:38,300
particularly stoic thieves, who 
endured their punishment without

4063
03:32:38,300 --> 03:32:40,800
crying out, were eventually 
praised for their endurance 

4064
03:32:40,800 --> 03:32:43,600
transforming. 
Shame into honor through sheer 

4065
03:32:43,600 --> 03:32:47,000
toughness. 
Spartan women who enjoyed far 

4066
03:32:47,000 --> 03:32:48,200
more freedom than their 
Athenian. 

4067
03:32:48,200 --> 03:32:50,900
Counterparts faced 
correspondingly unique 

4068
03:32:50,900 --> 03:32:53,800
punishments. 
A woman who fail in her duties 

4069
03:32:53,800 --> 03:32:57,600
as a mother might be required to
participate in public ceremonies

4070
03:32:57,600 --> 03:33:01,100
where her shortcomings were 
richly acknowledged, but true to

4071
03:33:01,100 --> 03:33:03,500
start an efficiency, these 
ceremonies were designed to be 

4072
03:33:03,500 --> 03:33:05,800
educational rather than merely 
humiliating. 

4073
03:33:06,600 --> 03:33:09,100
Other women learned from 
observing both the punishment 

4074
03:33:09,100 --> 03:33:10,700
and the offenders response to 
it. 

4075
03:33:11,500 --> 03:33:14,600
Perhaps the most psychologically
sophisticated Spartan punishment

4076
03:33:14,600 --> 03:33:17,600
involved, the practice of perio 
Eastside degradation. 

4077
03:33:18,400 --> 03:33:20,200
Citizens who violated certain 
laws. 

4078
03:33:20,200 --> 03:33:24,400
Might be reduced to the state of
free residents, who lacked full 

4079
03:33:24,400 --> 03:33:27,500
citizenship rights. 
This punishment was particularly

4080
03:33:27,500 --> 03:33:30,700
devastating because it was 
hereditary your crime, wouldn't 

4081
03:33:30,700 --> 03:33:33,400
just affect you, it would impact
your children and their 

4082
03:33:33,400 --> 03:33:36,800
children. the Spartans 
understood that the threat of 

4083
03:33:36,800 --> 03:33:40,300
generational consequences was a 
powerful deterrent, especially 

4084
03:33:40,300 --> 03:33:43,100
in a society that prized family 
honor above individual 

4085
03:33:43,100 --> 03:33:46,800
achievement, Spartans also 
developed unique punishments. 

4086
03:33:46,800 --> 03:33:49,100
For military failures. 
That went beyond individual 

4087
03:33:49,100 --> 03:33:52,300
cowardice. 
If a unit underperformed, the 

4088
03:33:52,300 --> 03:33:54,800
Spartans might assign them to 
domestic duties normally 

4089
03:33:54,800 --> 03:33:57,600
reserved for their enslaved 
population known as hell. 

4090
03:33:57,600 --> 03:33:59,500
It's Warriors would find 
themselves. 

4091
03:33:59,500 --> 03:34:02,300
Cooking cleaning and maintaining
equipment instead of training 

4092
03:34:02,300 --> 03:34:05,100
for battle. 
They intended the role reversal 

4093
03:34:05,100 --> 03:34:07,600
to be so psychologically 
uncomfortable that it would 

4094
03:34:07,600 --> 03:34:09,200
motivate better performance in 
the future. 

4095
03:34:10,400 --> 03:34:13,300
What made spark and Punishment. 
Particularly effective was its 

4096
03:34:13,300 --> 03:34:15,300
integration into their broader 
social system. 

4097
03:34:16,200 --> 03:34:18,900
Unlike other Greek cities where 
punishment was often an 

4098
03:34:18,900 --> 03:34:22,400
interruption of normal life, in 
Sparta, it was woven into the 

4099
03:34:22,400 --> 03:34:26,000
fabric of daily existence. 
Training exercises, regularly 

4100
03:34:26,000 --> 03:34:29,300
included, elements of controlled
suffering making the transition 

4101
03:34:29,300 --> 03:34:31,900
from education to punishment 
almost seamless. 

4102
03:34:32,900 --> 03:34:36,300
The Spartans recognized that 
this Society survival depended 

4103
03:34:36,300 --> 03:34:38,900
on everyone understanding and 
accepting their role in the 

4104
03:34:38,900 --> 03:34:41,700
collective defense of the state 
punishments. 

4105
03:34:41,700 --> 03:34:44,300
Were therefore designed to 
reinforce social hierarchy and 

4106
03:34:44,300 --> 03:34:49,200
shared values rather than simply
deter specific behaviors, every 

4107
03:34:49,200 --> 03:34:52,800
penny, served as a reminder of 
what the community expected and 

4108
03:34:52,800 --> 03:34:56,700
what happened when those 
expectations were met Their 

4109
03:34:56,700 --> 03:34:59,300
approach was remarkably 
forward-thinking in its 

4110
03:34:59,300 --> 03:35:01,000
recognition. 
That punishment should serve 

4111
03:35:01,000 --> 03:35:04,000
multiple purposes 
simultaneously, modern 

4112
03:35:04,000 --> 03:35:06,700
criminologists still struggle to
balance deterrence, 

4113
03:35:06,700 --> 03:35:09,600
Rehabilitation and social 
cohesion, in their 

4114
03:35:09,600 --> 03:35:11,700
recommendations for Criminal 
Justice Reform. 

4115
03:35:11,700 --> 03:35:15,700
The Spartans integrated all 
three goals into a system that 

4116
03:35:15,700 --> 03:35:19,400
while harsh by modern standards 
was internally consistent and 

4117
03:35:19,400 --> 03:35:22,100
remarkably effective that 
maintaining social stability 

4118
03:35:22,100 --> 03:35:24,900
your journey through, Greek 
judicial creativity. 

4119
03:35:24,900 --> 03:35:28,600
Now takes you to the scattered 
islands of the agenda where 

4120
03:35:28,600 --> 03:35:30,900
communities surrounded by 
endless blue, develop their own 

4121
03:35:30,900 --> 03:35:32,300
distinctive approaches to 
punishment. 

4122
03:35:33,500 --> 03:35:35,700
When you're living on a small 
island where everyone knows 

4123
03:35:35,700 --> 03:35:38,500
everyone else's business and 
escaped, his only possible by 

4124
03:35:38,500 --> 03:35:42,100
boat traditional forms of 
Justice require some serious 

4125
03:35:42,100 --> 03:35:44,800
adaptation Island. 
Community's face unique 

4126
03:35:44,800 --> 03:35:48,400
challenges that shape their 
approach to criminal justice You

4127
03:35:48,400 --> 03:35:51,000
couldn't simply Exile someone to
another city state when the 

4128
03:35:51,000 --> 03:35:53,000
nearest land might be days away 
by sale. 

4129
03:35:53,900 --> 03:35:57,000
Similarly, maintaining prisons 
was in Practical when every 

4130
03:35:57,000 --> 03:35:58,900
resource had to be imported or 
carefully. 

4131
03:35:58,900 --> 03:36:02,700
Conserved This Geographic 
reality forced Greek island as 

4132
03:36:02,700 --> 03:36:04,900
to develop some of the most 
creative punishments in the 

4133
03:36:04,900 --> 03:36:08,100
ancient world. 
Take the island out of seos. 

4134
03:36:08,100 --> 03:36:10,800
Famous for what you might call 
Democratic suicide. 

4135
03:36:10,800 --> 03:36:14,300
When someone committed a serious
crime, that disrupted Community 

4136
03:36:14,300 --> 03:36:17,800
Harmony, they were given a 
choice face trial with potential

4137
03:36:17,800 --> 03:36:20,300
execution or drink Hemlock 
voluntarily in the public 

4138
03:36:20,300 --> 03:36:22,800
ceremony. 
The Twist was that the community

4139
03:36:22,800 --> 03:36:25,500
would gather to witness the 
event and The Condemned person 

4140
03:36:25,500 --> 03:36:28,200
was expected to give a speech 
explaining their actions and 

4141
03:36:28,200 --> 03:36:31,100
accepting responsibility. 
The speech wasn't just 

4142
03:36:31,100 --> 03:36:33,200
punishment. 
It was therapy for the entire 

4143
03:36:33,200 --> 03:36:36,000
Community, allowing them to 
process the crime, and its 

4144
03:36:36,000 --> 03:36:39,400
consequences collectively. 
The Genius of this system was 

4145
03:36:39,400 --> 03:36:42,200
that it transformed the most 
serious punishment into an act 

4146
03:36:42,200 --> 03:36:44,500
of personal choice rather than 
Community violence. 

4147
03:36:45,400 --> 03:36:47,600
The criminal maintained some 
dignity while still paying the 

4148
03:36:47,600 --> 03:36:50,500
ultimate price and the community
of the cycle. 

4149
03:36:50,500 --> 03:36:54,200
And of executing one of their 
own, it was like a tragic play 

4150
03:36:54,200 --> 03:36:57,000
performed for an audience of 
friends and neighbors with real 

4151
03:36:57,000 --> 03:36:58,700
Stakes, but a cathartic 
resolution. 

4152
03:36:59,600 --> 03:37:02,000
Maritime crimes received, 
particularly inventive, 

4153
03:37:02,000 --> 03:37:04,800
punishments that reflected the 
island as relationship with the 

4154
03:37:04,800 --> 03:37:07,300
sea Pirates. 
Court in Ireland Waters, might 

4155
03:37:07,300 --> 03:37:10,500
be sentenced to see walking 
essentially, an early form of 

4156
03:37:10,500 --> 03:37:13,600
Keeling where the offender was 
dragged behind a ship through 

4157
03:37:13,600 --> 03:37:16,600
Rough Waters. 
For the creative part wasn't the

4158
03:37:16,608 --> 03:37:19,600
physical punishment. 
It was the symbolic element. 

4159
03:37:19,600 --> 03:37:23,300
The Condemned pirate would be 
dressed in the finest clothes, 

4160
03:37:23,300 --> 03:37:25,800
stolen from their victims. 
Transforming them into a 

4161
03:37:25,800 --> 03:37:29,300
grotesque parody of wealth. 
Before the sea, reclaimed both 

4162
03:37:29,300 --> 03:37:31,800
criminal and treasure some 
islands developed. 

4163
03:37:31,800 --> 03:37:34,100
Elaborate rituals around the 
punishment of theft, 

4164
03:37:34,100 --> 03:37:37,400
particularly theft of fishing 
equipment or boats crimes. 

4165
03:37:37,400 --> 03:37:40,300
That could threaten the survival
of the entire Community, the 

4166
03:37:40,300 --> 03:37:43,300
thief might be required to fast 
for several days, then swim to a

4167
03:37:43,300 --> 03:37:46,000
designated rock formation 
offshore while the community 

4168
03:37:46,000 --> 03:37:48,800
watched from the beach. 
If the thief successfully 

4169
03:37:48,800 --> 03:37:51,700
completed the swim the community
considered their punishment 

4170
03:37:51,700 --> 03:37:56,900
complete and welcome them back. 
If they fail, the sea had 

4171
03:37:56,900 --> 03:37:59,700
rendered, his verdict. 
This trial by Wilde deal, wasn't

4172
03:37:59,700 --> 03:38:03,000
arbitrary cruelty. 
It served multiple psychological

4173
03:38:03,000 --> 03:38:06,200
and social functions, the 
physical challenge, tested, the 

4174
03:38:06,200 --> 03:38:09,000
offenders commitment to 
Redemption while the community's

4175
03:38:09,000 --> 03:38:11,700
witness meant everyone 
participated in the resolution 

4176
03:38:11,700 --> 03:38:14,600
of the crime. 
The successful completion of the

4177
03:38:14,600 --> 03:38:17,400
trial, demonstrated both Divine 
approval, and personal 

4178
03:38:17,400 --> 03:38:20,500
transformation, making 
reintegration into society 

4179
03:38:20,500 --> 03:38:22,700
psychologically easier for 
everyone involved. 

4180
03:38:23,900 --> 03:38:25,800
Island. 
Community's also refined their 

4181
03:38:25,800 --> 03:38:28,600
methods of punishment by using 
isolation instead of Exile. 

4182
03:38:29,400 --> 03:38:31,700
A larger islands. 
Criminals might be required to 

4183
03:38:31,708 --> 03:38:34,400
live alone on the uninhabited. 
Portions of the land for 

4184
03:38:34,400 --> 03:38:37,100
specified periods. 
They would be provided with 

4185
03:38:37,100 --> 03:38:40,100
minimal supplies and tools, 
forcing them to survive through 

4186
03:38:40,100 --> 03:38:41,900
their skills. 
While remaining technically 

4187
03:38:41,900 --> 03:38:44,900
within the communities 
territory, villagers would check

4188
03:38:44,900 --> 03:38:47,100
on them. 
Periodically, creating a system 

4189
03:38:47,100 --> 03:38:49,400
of monitored Solitude that 
combined punishment with 

4190
03:38:49,400 --> 03:38:53,000
rehabilitation This form of 
punishment was particularly 

4191
03:38:53,000 --> 03:38:55,600
effective because it addressed 
one of the root causes of many 

4192
03:38:55,600 --> 03:38:59,000
crimes, the inability to 
function independently within 

4193
03:38:59,000 --> 03:39:02,500
social constraints. 
By forcing criminals to survive 

4194
03:39:02,500 --> 03:39:04,600
alone. 
The community was essentially 

4195
03:39:04,600 --> 03:39:07,300
providing intensive training and
self-reliance and resource 

4196
03:39:07,300 --> 03:39:10,000
management. 
When the punishment period ended

4197
03:39:10,000 --> 03:39:13,400
the offender often returned 
within dance skills and a deeper

4198
03:39:13,400 --> 03:39:14,700
appreciation for Community 
Support. 

4199
03:39:15,800 --> 03:39:18,300
The islands also developed 
unique approaches to dealing 

4200
03:39:18,300 --> 03:39:20,700
with adultery and other sexual 
crimes. 

4201
03:39:21,700 --> 03:39:24,500
Rather than the violent 
punishments in Mainland, Greece 

4202
03:39:24,500 --> 03:39:27,300
Island communities often 
employed, ritualized 

4203
03:39:27,300 --> 03:39:29,500
humiliation, that involved the 
entire population. 

4204
03:39:30,600 --> 03:39:32,900
The guilty parties might be 
required to walk through the 

4205
03:39:32,900 --> 03:39:35,500
village where in distinctive 
garments that I identified their

4206
03:39:35,500 --> 03:39:39,400
fence while the community 
sanctionals that told stories of

4207
03:39:39,400 --> 03:39:41,500
similar transgressions and their
consequences. 

4208
03:39:42,400 --> 03:39:45,900
These musical punishments served
multiple purposes, they provided

4209
03:39:45,900 --> 03:39:48,700
emotional release for the 
community educated. 

4210
03:39:48,700 --> 03:39:52,300
Young people about sexual morays
and gave the offenders a 

4211
03:39:52,300 --> 03:39:54,100
structured way to acknowledge 
their wrongdoing. 

4212
03:39:54,900 --> 03:39:57,700
The songs often included verses 
about redemption and 

4213
03:39:57,700 --> 03:40:00,900
forgiveness, creating a pathway 
back to respectability. 

4214
03:40:00,900 --> 03:40:02,500
That was both public and 
personal. 

4215
03:40:03,400 --> 03:40:06,800
Perhaps most remarkably some 
islands developed seasonal 

4216
03:40:06,800 --> 03:40:09,600
punishments that aligned with 
their agricultural efficient 

4217
03:40:09,600 --> 03:40:12,300
Cycles. 
Some islands, banned serious, 

4218
03:40:12,300 --> 03:40:15,500
offenders from participating in 
specific, seasonal activities, 

4219
03:40:15,500 --> 03:40:18,300
such as the olive Harvest 
fishing Seasons or religious 

4220
03:40:18,300 --> 03:40:20,400
festivals, which Define 
community life. 

4221
03:40:20,400 --> 03:40:24,200
These restrictions created with 
punishment and reintegration 

4222
03:40:24,200 --> 03:40:26,800
that match the natural cycle of 
Ireland life. 

4223
03:40:28,300 --> 03:40:30,700
Effectiveness of Island Justice 
lay in its recognition. 

4224
03:40:30,700 --> 03:40:32,900
That small communities could not
afford to lose members 

4225
03:40:32,900 --> 03:40:35,200
permanently. 
They also couldn't tolerate 

4226
03:40:35,200 --> 03:40:38,400
behavior that threatened groups 
of survival, your exploration of

4227
03:40:38,400 --> 03:40:40,500
Greek punishment. 
Now leads you into the realm 

4228
03:40:40,500 --> 03:40:43,800
where Justice meets Divine will 
where the gods themselves were 

4229
03:40:43,800 --> 03:40:47,600
believed to participate in the 
judicial process. a place is 

4230
03:40:47,600 --> 03:40:50,300
like Delphi where the famous 
Oracle delivered, cryptic 

4231
03:40:50,300 --> 03:40:53,500
prophecies the lines between 
Earthly law and Heavenly 

4232
03:40:53,500 --> 03:40:57,800
judgment became beautifully 
bizarrely blurred You need to 

4233
03:40:57,800 --> 03:41:01,200
understand that for the ancient 
Greeks crime wasn't just a 

4234
03:41:01,200 --> 03:41:03,900
violation of human law. 
It was a disruption of cosmic 

4235
03:41:03,900 --> 03:41:05,600
order that demanded Divine 
attention. 

4236
03:41:06,500 --> 03:41:08,700
This belief led to some of the 
most psychologically 

4237
03:41:08,700 --> 03:41:12,100
sophisticated punishments in the
ancient world where offenders 

4238
03:41:12,100 --> 03:41:15,100
faced not just human 
consequences that the perceived 

4239
03:41:15,100 --> 03:41:18,700
Wrath of immortal beings with 
very long, memories and creative

4240
03:41:18,700 --> 03:41:21,500
approaches to vengeance. 
The Oracle at Delphi 

4241
03:41:21,500 --> 03:41:23,800
occasionally prescribed 
punishments, that were, as 

4242
03:41:23,800 --> 03:41:28,000
enigmatic as her prophecies when
someone committed sacrilege or 

4243
03:41:28,000 --> 03:41:31,500
violated religious law, they 
might be told to carry water to 

4244
03:41:31,500 --> 03:41:34,900
the dry place or feed the hungry
stones. 

4245
03:41:35,900 --> 03:41:37,900
These were not random 
instructions, they were 

4246
03:41:37,900 --> 03:41:40,400
elaborate metaphorical 
punishments that required 

4247
03:41:40,400 --> 03:41:42,900
interpretation and often years 
to complete properly. 

4248
03:41:43,800 --> 03:41:47,100
Consider the case of a merchant 
who cheated Temple pilgrims 

4249
03:41:47,100 --> 03:41:50,900
rather than simple. 
Restitution Oracle commanded him

4250
03:41:50,900 --> 03:41:54,300
to count every grain of sand on 
the sacred Beach and return. 

4251
03:41:54,300 --> 03:41:57,500
When the number matches the 
Stars, this wasn't literally 

4252
03:41:57,500 --> 03:42:00,200
possible, of course, but the 
merchants spent three years 

4253
03:42:00,200 --> 03:42:03,600
attempting the task during which
time he experienced profound 

4254
03:42:03,600 --> 03:42:07,700
personal transformation, he 
learned humility developed 

4255
03:42:07,700 --> 03:42:10,600
patients and became more 
familiar with the infinite 

4256
03:42:10,600 --> 03:42:14,400
nature of divine Justice. 
When he finally returned to ask 

4257
03:42:14,400 --> 03:42:16,700
for clarification the priest, 
declared his punishment 

4258
03:42:16,700 --> 03:42:18,800
complete. 
Not because he'd finished the 

4259
03:42:18,808 --> 03:42:21,800
impossible task, but because 
he'd become someone who had 

4260
03:42:21,800 --> 03:42:23,400
never commit the original crime 
again. 

4261
03:42:24,300 --> 03:42:26,600
Religious punishments, often 
involved what you might call. 

4262
03:42:26,600 --> 03:42:30,500
Divine Comedy situations where 
the punishment was so perfectly 

4263
03:42:30,500 --> 03:42:33,200
matched to the crime that it 
revealed a kind of cosmic humor.

4264
03:42:34,000 --> 03:42:37,100
A priest who had been selling 
false blessings was required to 

4265
03:42:37,100 --> 03:42:40,000
Tender Garden, when nothing 
would grow spending each day 

4266
03:42:40,000 --> 03:42:42,700
caring for Barren soil, while 
contemplating, the difference 

4267
03:42:42,700 --> 03:42:46,700
between genuine and counterfeit 
spiritual nourishment. after 

4268
03:42:46,700 --> 03:42:49,600
months of fruitless Labour, he 
finally understood that, his 

4269
03:42:49,600 --> 03:42:53,000
fraudulent blessings had been 
equally Barren and genuine 

4270
03:42:53,000 --> 03:42:56,800
remorse, led to his eventual 
forgiveness Some punishments 

4271
03:42:56,800 --> 03:42:59,600
required offenders to reenact 
mythological scenes, turning 

4272
03:42:59,600 --> 03:43:02,300
classical literature into 
Rehabilitation therapy. 

4273
03:43:03,200 --> 03:43:06,000
An individual guilty of hubris, 
might be required to spend time.

4274
03:43:06,000 --> 03:43:09,800
Each day, recreating systems, 
Eternal task of rolling a 

4275
03:43:09,800 --> 03:43:12,400
boulder up a hill, but their 
version would be temporary and 

4276
03:43:12,408 --> 03:43:14,700
educational rather than Eternal 
and torturous. 

4277
03:43:15,800 --> 03:43:18,300
The physical labor was less 
important than the symbolic 

4278
03:43:18,300 --> 03:43:20,500
understanding learning through 
repetition. 

4279
03:43:20,500 --> 03:43:23,300
What it meant to struggle 
against impossible, odds and 

4280
03:43:23,300 --> 03:43:26,100
Find meaning in the effort 
itself, the Greeks also 

4281
03:43:26,100 --> 03:43:28,900
developed elaborate purification
rituals that served as both 

4282
03:43:28,900 --> 03:43:32,200
punishment and Redemption. 
These were simple religious 

4283
03:43:32,200 --> 03:43:35,700
ceremonies but complex cycle 
processes that could take years 

4284
03:43:35,700 --> 03:43:39,200
to complete An offender might be
required to visit specific. 

4285
03:43:39,200 --> 03:43:43,100
Sacred sites, throughout Greece,
performing designated tasks at 

4286
03:43:43,100 --> 03:43:44,600
each location. 
While following strict 

4287
03:43:44,600 --> 03:43:47,900
behavioral guidelines. 
These ritual Journeys were 

4288
03:43:47,900 --> 03:43:51,500
brilliant in this psychological 
sophistication, they removed 

4289
03:43:51,500 --> 03:43:54,400
criminals from their familiar 
environment, forced them to 

4290
03:43:54,408 --> 03:43:57,500
interact with strangers who knew
nothing of their crimes and 

4291
03:43:57,500 --> 03:44:00,200
provided structured 
opportunities for reflection and

4292
03:44:00,200 --> 03:44:03,400
personal growth. 
Many offenders reported that the

4293
03:44:03,400 --> 03:44:06,100
journey changed the more 
profoundly than any conventional

4294
03:44:06,100 --> 03:44:09,500
punishment could have. 
Temple punishments, often 

4295
03:44:09,500 --> 03:44:12,800
involved service to the gods, 
specifically designed to address

4296
03:44:12,800 --> 03:44:14,400
the spiritual dimension of the 
crime. 

4297
03:44:15,300 --> 03:44:18,300
Someone who had broken an oath 
might be required to serve as a 

4298
03:44:18,300 --> 03:44:21,700
temple messenger, carrying 
sacred Communications, between 

4299
03:44:21,700 --> 03:44:25,100
different religious sites. 
These conditions forced them to 

4300
03:44:25,100 --> 03:44:27,600
repeatedly handle and deliver 
messages of Truth and 

4301
03:44:27,600 --> 03:44:30,900
commitment, literally 
surrounding themselves with the 

4302
03:44:30,900 --> 03:44:33,800
values. 
They had violated The Genius of 

4303
03:44:33,800 --> 03:44:36,500
religious punishment, Lane in 
its recognition that many crime 

4304
03:44:36,500 --> 03:44:40,100
stemmed from spiritual emptiness
or disconnect from Community 

4305
03:44:40,100 --> 03:44:44,000
Values, rather than simply 
inflicting suffering, these 

4306
03:44:44,000 --> 03:44:46,400
punishments provided 
opportunities for genuine 

4307
03:44:46,400 --> 03:44:50,300
transformation, Offenders were 
given the chance to rebuild 

4308
03:44:50,300 --> 03:44:53,200
their relationship with the 
Divine while also serving their 

4309
03:44:53,200 --> 03:44:56,800
human community. 
Most remarkably the design of 

4310
03:44:56,800 --> 03:44:59,600
some religious punishments made 
them impossible to complete 

4311
03:44:59,600 --> 03:45:03,300
without divine intervention. 
Such an approach wasn't cruelty.

4312
03:45:03,300 --> 03:45:06,600
It was recognition that some 
offenses were so serious that 

4313
03:45:06,600 --> 03:45:09,300
human effort alone couldn't 
provide adequate Redemption. 

4314
03:45:10,000 --> 03:45:12,800
Punishment became a form of 
extended prayer where the 

4315
03:45:12,808 --> 03:45:15,900
offender had to genuinely seek 
Divine forgiveness to achieve 

4316
03:45:15,900 --> 03:45:18,400
resolution. 
Often these impossible, 

4317
03:45:18,400 --> 03:45:21,500
punishments entailed. 
Paradoxical tasks that defied 

4318
03:45:21,500 --> 03:45:24,600
conventional Solutions. 
An offender might be told to 

4319
03:45:24,600 --> 03:45:28,400
find the beginning of a circle 
or speak a word that has never 

4320
03:45:28,400 --> 03:45:31,300
been spoken. 
The resolution came not through 

4321
03:45:31,300 --> 03:45:34,300
completing, the task force, 
through understanding, its 

4322
03:45:34,300 --> 03:45:37,600
impossibility, and accepting the
need for Grace Beyond human 

4323
03:45:37,600 --> 03:45:40,300
achievement. 
What made Divine punishment? 

4324
03:45:40,300 --> 03:45:42,900
Particularly effective was its 
integration of personal 

4325
03:45:42,900 --> 03:45:47,000
transformation with Community. 
Healing religious offence, is 

4326
03:45:47,000 --> 03:45:50,100
harmed, not just individuals, 
but the entire Community is a 

4327
03:45:50,100 --> 03:45:52,700
relationship with the walls. 
The elaborate punishments 

4328
03:45:52,700 --> 03:45:55,100
demonstrated to everyone that 
the offense was being taken 

4329
03:45:55,100 --> 03:45:58,500
seriously while providing a 
pathway for restoring Cosmic 

4330
03:45:58,500 --> 03:46:00,600
balance. 
Now, as you can continue your 

4331
03:46:00,600 --> 03:46:02,900
journey, through Greek Justice, 
you will enter the realm of 

4332
03:46:02,908 --> 03:46:05,900
philosophical punishment, where 
thinkers such as Plato and 

4333
03:46:05,900 --> 03:46:08,500
Aristotle, theorized about 
Justice and completely 

4334
03:46:08,500 --> 03:46:11,200
redesigned it. 
In this intellectual landscape 

4335
03:46:11,200 --> 03:46:13,900
punishment became an opportunity
to explore the deepest, 

4336
03:46:13,900 --> 03:46:18,000
questions of human nature, moral
responsibility and the purpose 

4337
03:46:18,000 --> 03:46:21,200
of society itself. 
Picture yourself in ancient 

4338
03:46:21,200 --> 03:46:24,900
Athens where philosophy wasn't 
an abstract academic discipline 

4339
03:46:24,900 --> 03:46:28,000
but a practical tool for 
creating better human beings and

4340
03:46:28,000 --> 03:46:30,800
more just communities. 
The great philosophers 

4341
03:46:30,800 --> 03:46:33,800
approached criminal justice with
the same analytical rigor. 

4342
03:46:33,800 --> 03:46:37,000
They apply to mathematics and 
ethics producing punishments 

4343
03:46:37,000 --> 03:46:39,500
that were as intellectually 
sophisticated as they were 

4344
03:46:39,500 --> 03:46:42,900
practically effective. 
Plato's Republic outlined 

4345
03:46:42,900 --> 03:46:45,700
punishments that were 
essentially educational programs

4346
03:46:45,700 --> 03:46:49,100
designed to cure the soul rather
than simply inflict suffering. 

4347
03:46:50,100 --> 03:46:53,900
He believed that crime resulted 
from ignorance not factual 

4348
03:46:53,900 --> 03:46:57,100
ignorance but a fundamental 
misunderstanding of what would 

4349
03:46:57,100 --> 03:46:59,400
truly make a person happy and 
fulfilled. 

4350
03:46:59,400 --> 03:47:03,600
Therefore punishment should be 
therapeutic, helping criminals 

4351
03:47:03,600 --> 03:47:06,600
discover the era in their 
thinking and choose better paths

4352
03:47:06,600 --> 03:47:09,200
for wood. 
Consider how this philosophy 

4353
03:47:09,200 --> 03:47:12,900
translated into practice. 
A thief in Plato's ideal. 

4354
03:47:12,900 --> 03:47:15,500
City wouldn't just return stolen
goods and pay a fine. 

4355
03:47:15,500 --> 03:47:18,500
They would be a sign to study 
with philosophers who would help

4356
03:47:18,500 --> 03:47:21,000
them understand why they 
believed stealing would improve 

4357
03:47:21,000 --> 03:47:23,500
their lives. 
They would engage in structured.

4358
03:47:23,500 --> 03:47:24,900
Dialogues. 
Designed to reveal the 

4359
03:47:24,900 --> 03:47:28,100
contradictions in their 
reasoning and guide them toward 

4360
03:47:28,100 --> 03:47:29,900
more productive ways of meeting 
their needs. 

4361
03:47:30,900 --> 03:47:33,700
This wasn't soft treatment, it 
was incredibly demanding. 

4362
03:47:33,700 --> 03:47:37,000
Imagine being required to 
examine every assumption. 

4363
03:47:37,000 --> 03:47:40,600
You've ever made about right and
wrong to defend, your choices in

4364
03:47:40,600 --> 03:47:43,100
front of brilliant, thinkers, 
who could expose every floor in 

4365
03:47:43,100 --> 03:47:45,600
your logic. 
Many criminals found this 

4366
03:47:45,600 --> 03:47:47,900
intellectual punishment, more 
challenging than physical 

4367
03:47:47,900 --> 03:47:51,200
Suffering, The Core, because it 
required them to confront the 

4368
03:47:51,200 --> 03:47:52,700
reality of their own poor 
judgment. 

4369
03:47:53,600 --> 03:47:56,800
Aristotle, took a different but 
equally sophisticated approach. 

4370
03:47:56,800 --> 03:48:00,100
He believed that virtue as a 
habit developed through practice

4371
03:48:00,100 --> 03:48:02,900
and that criminal Behavior 
resulted from bad habits, that 

4372
03:48:02,900 --> 03:48:04,500
could be corrected through 
proper training. 

4373
03:48:05,400 --> 03:48:08,900
His punishments were like more 
exercise programs designed to 

4374
03:48:08,900 --> 03:48:11,700
strengthen the ethical more 
muscle that had grown weak 

4375
03:48:11,700 --> 03:48:15,300
through misuse and arrested. 
Helium punishment, might require

4376
03:48:15,300 --> 03:48:17,100
a dishonest Merchants to spend 
time. 

4377
03:48:17,100 --> 03:48:20,400
Each day practice in small acts 
of honesty, gradually building 

4378
03:48:20,400 --> 03:48:21,800
up to more significant 
challenges. 

4379
03:48:21,800 --> 03:48:25,100
The merchants would start by 
accurately describing the 

4380
03:48:25,100 --> 03:48:28,100
quality of goods to customers. 
Then progress to admitting 

4381
03:48:28,100 --> 03:48:29,500
mistakes or offering fair 
prices. 

4382
03:48:29,500 --> 03:48:32,400
Without negotiation. 
Each day would bring new 

4383
03:48:32,400 --> 03:48:35,900
opportunities to practice virtue
until honest Behavior became As 

4384
03:48:35,900 --> 03:48:37,600
Natural. 
As the original dishonesty had 

4385
03:48:37,600 --> 03:48:40,900
been the stoic philosophers 
contributed, their own unique 

4386
03:48:40,900 --> 03:48:43,700
perspective on punishment. 
They held the belief that 

4387
03:48:43,700 --> 03:48:47,400
external circumstances could not
truly harm a person, unless they

4388
03:48:47,400 --> 03:48:50,300
actively chose to do. 
So this belief led to 

4389
03:48:50,300 --> 03:48:53,000
punishments that focused on 
internal transformation rather 

4390
03:48:53,000 --> 03:48:56,500
than external suffering. 
Stoic judge, might sentence, 

4391
03:48:56,500 --> 03:48:59,200
someone to spend time each day 
contemplating their crime and 

4392
03:48:59,200 --> 03:49:01,300
writing about what they learned 
from the experience. 

4393
03:49:02,300 --> 03:49:04,600
These written Reflections 
weren't just busy work. 

4394
03:49:05,300 --> 03:49:07,800
They were sophisticated 
psychological exercises, 

4395
03:49:07,800 --> 03:49:10,600
designed to help offenders 
develop emotional resilience and

4396
03:49:10,600 --> 03:49:14,000
moral clarity. 
The daily practice of examining 

4397
03:49:14,000 --> 03:49:16,800
their thoughts and motivations 
gradually built the Inner 

4398
03:49:16,800 --> 03:49:19,000
Strength needed to resist future
Temptations. 

4399
03:49:19,000 --> 03:49:22,700
Many of these philosophical 
journals survived, and offering 

4400
03:49:22,700 --> 03:49:25,300
details about the Criminal Minds
journey toward Redemption. 

4401
03:49:26,300 --> 03:49:29,600
through the development of group
punishment, schemes, certain 

4402
03:49:29,600 --> 03:49:32,000
philosophical, schools 
transformed criminal justice 

4403
03:49:32,000 --> 03:49:35,200
into a form of Community 
Education, When someone 

4404
03:49:35,200 --> 03:49:37,700
committed a crime, they would be
assigned to participate, in 

4405
03:49:37,700 --> 03:49:40,900
philosophical discussion with 
other offenders exploring 

4406
03:49:40,900 --> 03:49:43,700
questions, related to their 
specific types of wrongdoing. 

4407
03:49:43,700 --> 03:49:47,000
He's worth support groups in the
modern sense, but rigorous 

4408
03:49:47,000 --> 03:49:49,800
intellectual workshops were 
participants had to defend their

4409
03:49:49,800 --> 03:49:51,900
ideas and examine their beliefs 
under scrutiny. 

4410
03:49:52,800 --> 03:49:55,500
The cynics known for their 
rejection of social conventions,

4411
03:49:55,500 --> 03:49:59,000
created punishments, that 
challenge Defenders to question 

4412
03:49:59,000 --> 03:50:00,600
the assumptions, underlying 
their crime. 

4413
03:50:01,600 --> 03:50:03,800
Someone caught cheating in 
business might be required to 

4414
03:50:03,800 --> 03:50:05,100
live as a beggar for several 
months. 

4415
03:50:06,100 --> 03:50:08,800
Experiencing firsthand the 
insecurities and Desperation 

4416
03:50:08,800 --> 03:50:10,700
that drove many people to 
dishonesty. 

4417
03:50:10,700 --> 03:50:12,700
The outcome wasn't just 
punishment. 

4418
03:50:12,700 --> 03:50:15,000
It was immersive. 
Education in the social 

4419
03:50:15,000 --> 03:50:18,200
conditions that contributed to 
Crime most remarkably. 

4420
03:50:18,200 --> 03:50:21,200
Some philosophers designed their
punishments to be voluntary and 

4421
03:50:21,200 --> 03:50:24,300
self-administered offenders 
would be given detailed 

4422
03:50:24,300 --> 03:50:26,500
instructions for programs of 
self-examination. 

4423
03:50:26,500 --> 03:50:29,200
And moral development, then 
trusted to carry them out 

4424
03:50:29,200 --> 03:50:32,300
without supervision. 
The community would check their 

4425
03:50:32,300 --> 03:50:34,800
progress periodically. 
That the real accountability 

4426
03:50:34,800 --> 03:50:37,600
came from the offenders own 
conscience and commitment to 

4427
03:50:37,600 --> 03:50:40,700
Improvement. 
This approach recognized that 

4428
03:50:40,700 --> 03:50:43,200
lasting change. 
Had to come from within rather 

4429
03:50:43,200 --> 03:50:47,100
than being imposed from outside.
External punishment, might deter

4430
03:50:47,100 --> 03:50:50,700
future crime through fear, but 
only internal transformation 

4431
03:50:50,700 --> 03:50:53,700
could eliminate the desire to 
commit crime in the first place.

4432
03:50:54,800 --> 03:50:57,600
The philosophers understood that
True Justice required changing 

4433
03:50:57,600 --> 03:50:59,700
hearts and Minds not just 
Behavior. 

4434
03:50:59,700 --> 03:51:02,700
The effectiveness of 
philosophical punishment Lane. 

4435
03:51:02,700 --> 03:51:05,500
In its recognition, that crime 
was often a symptom of deeper 

4436
03:51:05,500 --> 03:51:08,900
problems, confusion about 
values, poor reasoning skills, 

4437
03:51:08,900 --> 03:51:10,400
or lack of purpose and 
direction. 

4438
03:51:11,600 --> 03:51:14,800
By addressing these root causes 
philosophical punishments. 

4439
03:51:14,800 --> 03:51:17,700
Offer genuine Solutions, rather 
than temporary deterrents. 

4440
03:51:17,700 --> 03:51:20,900
Modern cognitive behavioral 
therapy owes much to these 

4441
03:51:20,900 --> 03:51:23,900
ancient Greek Innovations in. 
Using intellectual exercises to 

4442
03:51:23,900 --> 03:51:27,400
change destructive patterns of 
thinking and behavior as your 

4443
03:51:27,400 --> 03:51:30,100
journey through the bizarre 
punishments of ancient Greece, 

4444
03:51:30,100 --> 03:51:32,600
draws to a close. 
You find yourself standing once 

4445
03:51:32,600 --> 03:51:34,400
again in the shadow of the 
Parthenon. 

4446
03:51:34,400 --> 03:51:37,100
But now with a deeper 
appreciation for the complex 

4447
03:51:37,100 --> 03:51:40,600
civilization, that created both 
architectural, Marvels, and 

4448
03:51:40,600 --> 03:51:42,900
judicial innovations that 
continue to influence our 

4449
03:51:42,900 --> 03:51:46,900
understanding of Justice today. 
The ancient Greeks bequeathed us

4450
03:51:46,900 --> 03:51:49,400
something far more valuable than
simply colorful stories of 

4451
03:51:49,400 --> 03:51:52,500
unusual punishments. 
They demonstrated that Justice 

4452
03:51:52,500 --> 03:51:55,900
could be creative their reputed 
and transformative rather than 

4453
03:51:55,900 --> 03:51:58,900
merely retributive. 
There are approached to criminal

4454
03:51:58,900 --> 03:52:00,600
justice was fundamentally 
optimistic. 

4455
03:52:00,600 --> 03:52:04,300
They believed people could 
change communities could heal 

4456
03:52:04,300 --> 03:52:07,200
and Society could improve 
through thoughtful application 

4457
03:52:07,200 --> 03:52:09,600
of consequences that served 
multiple purposes 

4458
03:52:09,600 --> 03:52:12,400
simultaneously. 
You've seen how different Greek 

4459
03:52:12,400 --> 03:52:15,000
communities adapted, their 
approach to punishment, based on

4460
03:52:15,000 --> 03:52:16,900
their unique circumstances and 
values. 

4461
03:52:17,800 --> 03:52:20,200
Athens emphasized, social 
reintegration through 

4462
03:52:20,200 --> 03:52:23,800
controlled, shame Sparta focused
on strengthening both individual

4463
03:52:23,800 --> 03:52:27,200
character and Collective Defence
Island communities developed 

4464
03:52:27,200 --> 03:52:30,800
Solutions, appropriate to their 
geographic isolation, religious 

4465
03:52:30,800 --> 03:52:34,400
authorities, integrated Divine 
will with human judgment, and 

4466
03:52:34,400 --> 03:52:36,800
philosophers treated crime. 
As an educational opportunity. 

4467
03:52:36,800 --> 03:52:39,300
This diversity wasn't 
accidental. 

4468
03:52:39,300 --> 03:52:42,300
It reflected, the Greek 
understanding that Justice must 

4469
03:52:42,300 --> 03:52:46,100
be tailored to specific contexts
rather than apply uniformly 

4470
03:52:46,100 --> 03:52:50,100
regardless of circumstances. 
They recognized that what worked

4471
03:52:50,100 --> 03:52:52,800
in the military Society like 
Sparta might be 

4472
03:52:52,808 --> 03:52:54,900
counterproductive in a 
commercial democracy like 

4473
03:52:54,900 --> 03:52:57,300
Athens. 
This flexibility and willingness

4474
03:52:57,300 --> 03:53:00,000
to experiment with different 
approaches provides helpful 

4475
03:53:00,000 --> 03:53:03,300
lessons for modern criminal 
justice systems struggling with 

4476
03:53:03,300 --> 03:53:06,600
similar challenges. 
Consider how Greek Innovation is

4477
03:53:06,600 --> 03:53:09,200
anticipate modern developments 
and criminology and psychology 

4478
03:53:09,200 --> 03:53:12,300
their recognition, that shame 
could be more powerful than 

4479
03:53:12,300 --> 03:53:14,900
physical punishment. 
Predated, our understanding of 

4480
03:53:14,900 --> 03:53:18,300
Social Psychology by Millennia, 
their use of community 

4481
03:53:18,300 --> 03:53:21,200
involvement in the Justice 
process for shadowed, 

4482
03:53:21,200 --> 03:53:24,800
restorative justice programs, 
their emphasis on Rehabilitation

4483
03:53:24,800 --> 03:53:27,100
and transformation and 
anticipated. 

4484
03:53:27,100 --> 03:53:29,700
The therapeutic model of 
Criminal Justice that emerged in

4485
03:53:29,708 --> 03:53:32,900
the 20th century, the Greek 
Insight that punishment should 

4486
03:53:32,900 --> 03:53:35,800
serve education rather than mere
deterrence remains 

4487
03:53:35,800 --> 03:53:39,000
revolutionary. 
Even today, most modern criminal

4488
03:53:39,000 --> 03:53:41,500
justice systems, still struggle 
to balance punishment with 

4489
03:53:41,500 --> 03:53:45,500
Rehabilitation often emphasizing
one at the expense of the other.

4490
03:53:46,400 --> 03:53:48,800
The Greeks demonstrated that 
this was a false Choice, 

4491
03:53:48,800 --> 03:53:52,000
punishment could be educational 
and education. 

4492
03:53:52,000 --> 03:53:55,000
Could be punitive if properly 
designed and implemented. 

4493
03:53:56,000 --> 03:53:59,000
Perhaps most importantly, the 
Greeks understood that effective

4494
03:53:59,000 --> 03:54:01,300
Justice required, Community 
participation. 

4495
03:54:02,200 --> 03:54:04,600
Crime wasn't just a matter 
between offender and victim, But

4496
03:54:04,600 --> 03:54:07,500
A disruption of social fabric 
that required Collective 

4497
03:54:07,500 --> 03:54:09,800
healing. 
Their punishments were designed 

4498
03:54:09,800 --> 03:54:12,600
to engage the entire community. 
In the process of restoration 

4499
03:54:12,600 --> 03:54:16,500
that everyone learned from each 
instance of wrongdoing, this 

4500
03:54:16,500 --> 03:54:19,500
communal approach to Justice. 
Offers a stark contrast to the 

4501
03:54:19,500 --> 03:54:22,200
increasingly impersonal nature 
of modern legal systems. 

4502
03:54:22,200 --> 03:54:25,400
Where Justice is administered by
professional bureaucrats, with 

4503
03:54:25,400 --> 03:54:27,900
little connection to the 
communities affected by crime. 

4504
03:54:29,000 --> 03:54:31,900
The Greek models suggest that 
Justice is too important to be 

4505
03:54:31,908 --> 03:54:35,000
left entirely to Specialists it 
requires the active 

4506
03:54:35,000 --> 03:54:37,800
participation of ordinary 
citizens, who understand local 

4507
03:54:37,800 --> 03:54:40,800
conditions and relationships, 
the creativity of Greek 

4508
03:54:40,800 --> 03:54:42,800
punishment. 
Also challenges our assumptions 

4509
03:54:42,800 --> 03:54:46,300
about the purposes of Criminal 
Justice, rather than focusing 

4510
03:54:46,300 --> 03:54:49,300
primarily on deterrents or 
retribution, they emphasize 

4511
03:54:49,300 --> 03:54:53,300
transformation and education. 
They asked not just to how can 

4512
03:54:53,300 --> 03:54:56,600
we prevent this crime from 
happening again but also how can

4513
03:54:56,600 --> 03:54:59,200
we use this opportunity to 
create better people and 

4514
03:54:59,200 --> 03:55:01,700
stronger communities. 
They're willingness to 

4515
03:55:01,700 --> 03:55:04,700
experiment with different 
approaches, from the theatrical 

4516
03:55:04,700 --> 03:55:08,000
humiliation of Athens, to the 
military discipline of Sparta to

4517
03:55:08,008 --> 03:55:11,500
the philosophical dialogue. 
Of the Academy's demonstrates, 

4518
03:55:11,500 --> 03:55:14,600
the value of treating justice, 
as an ongoing experiment rather 

4519
03:55:14,600 --> 03:55:17,900
than a fixed system, they were 
constantly learning from their 

4520
03:55:17,900 --> 03:55:21,100
experiences and adapting their 
methods based on what worked and

4521
03:55:21,100 --> 03:55:24,500
what didn't modern criminal 
justice reformers are 

4522
03:55:24,500 --> 03:55:26,300
rediscovering. 
Many Greek Innovations. 

4523
03:55:26,300 --> 03:55:29,600
There are people at courts that 
address, underlying causes a 

4524
03:55:29,600 --> 03:55:32,800
criminal Behavior community 
service programs, that connect 

4525
03:55:32,800 --> 03:55:35,700
to fenders with the people. 
They've harmed and restorative 

4526
03:55:35,700 --> 03:55:38,700
justice processes that emphasize
healing over punishment. 

4527
03:55:38,700 --> 03:55:42,000
He's contemporary developments 
suggest that the Greeks were 

4528
03:55:42,000 --> 03:55:44,300
onto something profound in their
approach to Justice. 

4529
03:55:45,200 --> 03:55:48,400
As you reflect on these ancient 
stories, consider how they 

4530
03:55:48,400 --> 03:55:50,800
challenged contemporary 
assumptions about crime and 

4531
03:55:50,800 --> 03:55:53,400
punishment. 
The Greeks remind us that 

4532
03:55:53,400 --> 03:55:56,600
Justice is not a natural 
phenomenon with fixed laws that 

4533
03:55:56,600 --> 03:55:58,800
a human creation. 
That reflects our values 

4534
03:55:58,800 --> 03:56:01,800
priorities and understanding of 
human nature. 

4535
03:56:02,900 --> 03:56:05,800
The bizarre punishments were 
actually sophisticated attempts 

4536
03:56:05,800 --> 03:56:09,200
to solve Timeless problems. 
How do we maintain social order,

4537
03:56:09,200 --> 03:56:10,800
while preserving individual 
dignity? 

4538
03:56:10,800 --> 03:56:13,900
How do we deter crime while 
offering opportunities for 

4539
03:56:13,900 --> 03:56:16,200
Redemption? 
How do we balance the needs of 

4540
03:56:16,200 --> 03:56:18,400
victims? 
Offenders and the broader 

4541
03:56:18,400 --> 03:56:21,800
community? 
The Greek Legacy and criminal 

4542
03:56:21,800 --> 03:56:25,900
justice is not a set of specific
practices to be copied but an 

4543
03:56:25,900 --> 03:56:28,200
approach to thinking about 
Justice that remains relevant 

4544
03:56:28,200 --> 03:56:31,600
across, cultures and centuries. 
They taught us that punishment 

4545
03:56:31,600 --> 03:56:34,600
can be art. 
Justice can be creative and even

4546
03:56:34,600 --> 03:56:37,000
serious crimes can be learning 
opportunities. 

4547
03:56:38,000 --> 03:56:41,400
Their most important lesson may 
be that Justice like democracy 

4548
03:56:41,400 --> 03:56:45,000
and philosophy requires active 
participation from thoughtful 

4549
03:56:45,000 --> 03:56:48,900
citizens, willing to experiment 
with new approaches and learn 

4550
03:56:48,900 --> 03:56:52,900
from both successes and failures
the bizarre punishments of 

4551
03:56:52,908 --> 03:56:54,700
ancient. 
Greece were not the products of 

4552
03:56:54,700 --> 03:56:57,800
primitive brutality, but 
sophisticated attempts by 

4553
03:56:57,800 --> 03:57:01,900
civilized people to create a 
more just society and aspiration

4554
03:57:01,900 --> 03:57:05,500
that remains as relevant today 
as it was 25 centuries ago. 

4555
03:57:10,900 --> 03:57:14,300
Picture yourself stepping off a 
Dusty Stagecoach, in 1882 

4556
03:57:14,300 --> 03:57:17,500
somewhere in the Arizona, 
territory your back aches. 

4557
03:57:17,500 --> 03:57:20,300
As if you've been sitting on a 
concrete park bench for 12 

4558
03:57:20,300 --> 03:57:24,400
hours, a situation that give 
them the suspension system of 

4559
03:57:24,400 --> 03:57:27,500
Frontier Transportation isn't 
too far from reality. 

4560
03:57:28,600 --> 03:57:30,200
The Sun is setting behind the 
mountains. 

4561
03:57:30,200 --> 03:57:32,300
Painting everything in that 
golden hour. 

4562
03:57:32,300 --> 03:57:35,700
Light that would make a modern 
Instagram influencer, weep With 

4563
03:57:35,708 --> 03:57:39,300
Envy, You're searching for a 
place to eat drink and maybe 

4564
03:57:39,300 --> 03:57:41,100
wash off three days worth of 
trail dust. 

4565
03:57:41,100 --> 03:57:43,600
There it is right across the 
street. 

4566
03:57:43,600 --> 03:57:48,300
The Silver Dollar Saloon its 
painted sign creeks in the 

4567
03:57:48,300 --> 03:57:51,000
evening Breeze and those iconic 
batwing doors. 

4568
03:57:51,000 --> 03:57:54,600
You know, the ones that swing 
both ways and come up to about 

4569
03:57:54,600 --> 03:57:57,200
chest height, a practically 
calling your name. 

4570
03:57:58,000 --> 03:58:00,400
Now before you push through 
those doors, let's pause for a 

4571
03:58:00,400 --> 03:58:03,300
moment you're about to enter 
what was essentially the social 

4572
03:58:03,300 --> 03:58:06,700
media platform of its day. 
Imagine a wild west Saloon as a 

4573
03:58:06,700 --> 03:58:10,200
fusion of face book Twitter and 
your local Starbuck's all house 

4574
03:58:10,200 --> 03:58:13,300
housed within a single wooden 
structure that exudes a scent of

4575
03:58:13,300 --> 03:58:15,900
tobacco whiskey and surreal 
dreams. 

4576
03:58:17,000 --> 03:58:20,000
The Batwing doors were just for 
show, by the way, they were 

4577
03:58:20,000 --> 03:58:22,900
brilliantly practical, like 
cargo shorts, but actually 

4578
03:58:22,900 --> 03:58:26,500
useful, they kept out dust and 
tumbleweeds while letting in 

4579
03:58:26,500 --> 03:58:29,500
fresh air and allowing people to
see who was coming and going. 

4580
03:58:30,600 --> 03:58:33,300
In a place where your reputation
literally, determined, whether 

4581
03:58:33,300 --> 03:58:36,400
you lived or died knowing who 
just walked in, was rather 

4582
03:58:36,400 --> 03:58:39,300
important information as you 
approached the entrance. 

4583
03:58:39,300 --> 03:58:42,800
You notice the doors are worn 
Smooth by thousands of hands 

4584
03:58:42,800 --> 03:58:45,600
pushing through them. 
The wood has that patina that 

4585
03:58:45,600 --> 03:58:49,200
only comes from Decades of use, 
like, the handle of a well-loved

4586
03:58:49,200 --> 03:58:51,200
baseball bat or your 
grandmother's rolling pin. 

4587
03:58:52,100 --> 03:58:53,800
Inside. 
You can hear the sounds of 

4588
03:58:53,808 --> 03:58:58,000
laughter glasses, clinking, a 
slightly off-tune piano and the 

4589
03:58:58,000 --> 03:58:59,900
occasional third of boots on 
wooden floors. 

4590
03:58:59,900 --> 03:59:04,400
You take a deep breath catching 
sense of wood, smoke roasted 

4591
03:59:04,400 --> 03:59:07,700
meat and something that might be
coffee, but could just as easily

4592
03:59:07,700 --> 03:59:11,500
be paint thinner, your stomach 
rumbles, reminding you that hard

4593
03:59:11,500 --> 03:59:15,000
tack and jerky, don't constitute
fine, dining, no matter how you.

4594
03:59:15,000 --> 03:59:18,400
Look at it, here's where your 
modern sensibility start to kick

4595
03:59:18,400 --> 03:59:20,400
in. 
You're accustomed to perusing on

4596
03:59:20,400 --> 03:59:22,700
online restaurant reviews and 
perhaps observing the health 

4597
03:59:22,700 --> 03:59:25,300
departments rating prominently 
displayed in the window. 

4598
03:59:26,100 --> 03:59:29,100
That this isn't that world. 
The only review system here is 

4599
03:59:29,100 --> 03:59:31,900
where the people are still alive
after eating with food, and 

4600
03:59:31,900 --> 03:59:34,200
even, that's not always a 
reliable indicator, giving the 

4601
03:59:34,200 --> 03:59:35,800
general life expectancy of the 
frontier. 

4602
03:59:36,700 --> 03:59:39,200
You adjust your hat because 
everyone will caps. 

4603
03:59:39,200 --> 03:59:42,600
Then it wasn't optional, like 
wearing pants to Walmart, and 

4604
03:59:42,600 --> 03:59:45,600
push through those Swinging 
Doors, they spring back behind 

4605
03:59:45,600 --> 03:59:49,300
you with a satisfying whoosh. 
And suddenly, you're inside and 

4606
03:59:49,300 --> 03:59:52,600
oh, my, it's quite a scene. 
The first thing that hits you 

4607
03:59:52,600 --> 03:59:56,000
isn't the site. 
It's the sound, it's loud. 

4608
03:59:56,000 --> 03:59:59,800
It's not as loud as a rock 
concert, but rather as loud as a

4609
03:59:59,800 --> 04:00:03,800
busy restaurant on a Friday 
night, Conversations overlap 

4610
04:00:03,800 --> 04:00:07,200
like competing radio stations 
punctuated by the occasional 

4611
04:00:07,200 --> 04:00:11,200
burst of laughter, the scrape of
chairs on wooden floors and the 

4612
04:00:11,200 --> 04:00:13,700
rhythmic thunk. 
Thunk of someone dealing cards 

4613
04:00:13,700 --> 04:00:16,800
at a table near the back. 
The second thing that hits you 

4614
04:00:16,800 --> 04:00:19,900
is the smell. 
It's a complex bouquet that no, 

4615
04:00:19,900 --> 04:00:21,400
modern nose is quite prepared 
for. 

4616
04:00:21,400 --> 04:00:23,700
There's the obvious whiskey and 
tobacco. 

4617
04:00:23,700 --> 04:00:26,600
And underneath that is the 
earthy scent of wool and leather

4618
04:00:26,600 --> 04:00:30,200
the metallic Tang of Gun oil and
something that might charitably 

4619
04:00:30,200 --> 04:00:33,900
be called Frontier cologne, but 
more accurately described as 

4620
04:00:33,900 --> 04:00:35,700
three weeks without a proper 
bar. 

4621
04:00:36,500 --> 04:00:40,100
The lighting is dim, not 
romantic restaurant dim, but we 

4622
04:00:40,100 --> 04:00:43,000
only have oil lamps and candles.
Dim your eyes. 

4623
04:00:43,000 --> 04:00:45,500
Take a moment to adjust. 
Like, when you walk into a movie

4624
04:00:45,508 --> 04:00:48,200
theater, except the movie 
theater, doesn't have armed 

4625
04:00:48,200 --> 04:00:51,200
Patron's and questionable 
hygiene standards there, you 

4626
04:00:51,208 --> 04:00:52,900
stand. 
Just inside those famous 

4627
04:00:52,900 --> 04:00:56,500
Swinging Doors taking in your 
first real wild west Saloon. 

4628
04:00:57,500 --> 04:01:00,400
The adventure is about to begin 
and honestly, you're not 

4629
04:01:00,408 --> 04:01:04,000
entirely sure whether to be 
excited or concerned maybe both,

4630
04:01:04,000 --> 04:01:07,400
probably both. 
Can now see the faces around you

4631
04:01:07,400 --> 04:01:10,700
as your eyes have adjusted to 
the oil lamps Amber glow. 

4632
04:01:10,700 --> 04:01:14,300
And what faces they are. 
It's as if you've stepped into a

4633
04:01:14,300 --> 04:01:17,200
dynamic to Guerra, type only 
with everyone in motion and some

4634
04:01:17,200 --> 04:01:21,000
armed the first rule of saloon 
etiquette, which nobody bothered

4635
04:01:21,000 --> 04:01:22,400
to mention in your guidebook is 
this. 

4636
04:01:22,400 --> 04:01:25,700
Don't just stand there. 
Gawking like a tourist at Times 

4637
04:01:25,700 --> 04:01:27,900
Square, you need to move with 
purpose. 

4638
04:01:27,900 --> 04:01:31,300
Even if that purpose is simply 
find a place to sit without 

4639
04:01:31,300 --> 04:01:34,600
getting shot. 
The bartender, catches your eye 

4640
04:01:34,600 --> 04:01:36,700
and nods. 
The universal gesture that 

4641
04:01:36,700 --> 04:01:40,300
transcends time, and roughly 
translates to buy something or 

4642
04:01:40,300 --> 04:01:43,100
get out. 
He's a large man with sleeves, 

4643
04:01:43,100 --> 04:01:46,000
rolled up past his elbows. 
Sporting the kind of mustache 

4644
04:01:46,000 --> 04:01:49,700
that required, serious daily 
maintenance think, Tom Selleck 

4645
04:01:49,700 --> 04:01:52,000
but with more experience, 
breaking up fights and less 

4646
04:01:52,000 --> 04:01:53,700
experienced solving crime and 
Hawaii. 

4647
04:01:53,700 --> 04:01:56,100
You scan the room for seating 
options. 

4648
04:01:56,100 --> 04:01:59,700
There's the bar itself naturally
with a few empty stools that 

4649
04:01:59,700 --> 04:02:01,800
look about as comfortable as 
sitting on a fence post. 

4650
04:02:01,800 --> 04:02:03,600
The bar is actually quite 
impressive. 

4651
04:02:03,600 --> 04:02:06,900
A long stretch of polished wood.
That seemed more drama than a 

4652
04:02:06,900 --> 04:02:09,300
soap opera behind the bar 
bottles line. 

4653
04:02:09,300 --> 04:02:10,700
The shelves, like glass 
soldiers. 

4654
04:02:10,700 --> 04:02:13,500
However, several of them have 
handwritten labels that raise 

4655
04:02:13,500 --> 04:02:16,400
questions about quality control 
standards, and there are the 

4656
04:02:16,400 --> 04:02:18,300
tables scattered around the 
room. 

4657
04:02:18,300 --> 04:02:21,400
This is where the study of 
social apology become 

4658
04:02:21,400 --> 04:02:24,000
fascinating. 
Each table seems to have its 

4659
04:02:24,000 --> 04:02:28,200
ecosystem, its own unspoken 
rules, and its potential for 

4660
04:02:28,200 --> 04:02:32,800
southern violence. 
A table of real cowboys, not the

4661
04:02:32,800 --> 04:02:34,700
Hollywood version sits near the 
front window. 

4662
04:02:34,700 --> 04:02:38,400
They're Dusty Sun weathered and 
looked like they haven't seen a 

4663
04:02:38,400 --> 04:02:41,100
barber in months. 
Their hats are sweat-stained and

4664
04:02:41,100 --> 04:02:43,000
practical. 
Their boots are scuffed from 

4665
04:02:43,008 --> 04:02:45,900
actual work and they're their 
clothes have that lived in 

4666
04:02:45,900 --> 04:02:48,100
quality that comes from spending
weeks on the trail. 

4667
04:02:49,100 --> 04:02:51,100
Their nursing beers and 
discussing something that 

4668
04:02:51,100 --> 04:02:54,500
involves a lot of gesturing 
toward the door. you decide to 

4669
04:02:54,500 --> 04:02:58,200
file these observations under 
information to remember and keep

4670
04:02:58,208 --> 04:03:01,600
looking in the corner, there's a
poker game happening at around 

4671
04:03:01,600 --> 04:03:04,300
table. 
The players are a mixed bunch a 

4672
04:03:04,300 --> 04:03:05,800
man in a slightly too fancy 
vest. 

4673
04:03:05,800 --> 04:03:07,100
Who might be a traveling 
salesman. 

4674
04:03:07,100 --> 04:03:10,700
The grizzled prospector, whose 
beard could hide a small animal.

4675
04:03:10,700 --> 04:03:13,600
And two other gentlemen, whose 
occupations are harder to 

4676
04:03:13,608 --> 04:03:15,900
determine. 
But whose serious expression 

4677
04:03:15,900 --> 04:03:20,000
suggests the stakes are real The
fourth rule of saloon survival 

4678
04:03:20,000 --> 04:03:22,100
which follows the first three 
rules of. 

4679
04:03:22,100 --> 04:03:25,400
Don't stare. 
Don't touch anyone's hat and 

4680
04:03:25,400 --> 04:03:29,700
don't ask about anyone's past, 
is this never cited a poker 

4681
04:03:29,708 --> 04:03:32,300
table unless you're invited and 
prepared to lose your shirt, 

4682
04:03:32,300 --> 04:03:35,600
literally. 
There's a piano in one corner 

4683
04:03:35,600 --> 04:03:39,500
and upright, that seemed better 
decades where a woman in a blue 

4684
04:03:39,500 --> 04:03:40,800
dress is playing something that 
might be. 

4685
04:03:40,800 --> 04:03:44,900
Oh, Susanna if you squint your 
ears, just right, she's what 

4686
04:03:44,900 --> 04:03:47,700
they called a saloon girl and 
her job description, included 

4687
04:03:47,700 --> 04:03:51,800
entertainment, conversation and 
selling drinks, despite what 

4688
04:03:51,800 --> 04:03:54,600
Hollywood might have suggested, 
most saloon girls were 

4689
04:03:54,600 --> 04:03:56,600
essentially, the taverns 
customer service 

4690
04:03:56,600 --> 04:03:59,200
Representatives, not anything 
more scandalous. 

4691
04:04:00,200 --> 04:04:03,500
The characters continue to 
unfold before you like the pages

4692
04:04:03,500 --> 04:04:07,100
in a very dusty book. 
The gentleman at the bar dressed

4693
04:04:07,100 --> 04:04:10,500
in immaculately in a black suit,
a clean hat and Shining boots is

4694
04:04:10,500 --> 04:04:13,800
a sight to behold. 
He could be a banker a preacher 

4695
04:04:13,800 --> 04:04:17,400
someone you really don't want to
accidentally bump into his coat 

4696
04:04:17,400 --> 04:04:19,700
hangs. 
Just so you can't tell if thats 

4697
04:04:19,700 --> 04:04:22,200
because he's very particular 
about his appearance or because 

4698
04:04:22,200 --> 04:04:24,700
he is carrying something under 
there, that requires easy access

4699
04:04:26,000 --> 04:04:28,500
But a small table near the back,
a couple of older men are 

4700
04:04:28,500 --> 04:04:31,000
engaged in what appears to be 
either a heated philosophical 

4701
04:04:31,000 --> 04:04:32,900
debate, or an argument about 
whose turn. 

4702
04:04:32,900 --> 04:04:36,200
It is to buy the next round. 
Their voices, rise and fall like

4703
04:04:36,200 --> 04:04:39,200
a verbal tide and occasionally, 
one of them pounds, the table 

4704
04:04:39,200 --> 04:04:41,400
for emphasis making the glasses 
jump. 

4705
04:04:42,400 --> 04:04:44,100
You realize, you're still 
standing there like a 

4706
04:04:44,100 --> 04:04:46,500
decoration, so you make your 
move toward the bar. 

4707
04:04:47,400 --> 04:04:49,900
The bartender watches your 
approach with the expression of 

4708
04:04:49,900 --> 04:04:52,500
someone who's seen everything. 
At least twice and isn't easily 

4709
04:04:52,508 --> 04:04:54,900
impressed. 
As you climb onto one of those 

4710
04:04:54,900 --> 04:04:55,800
fence. 
Post stools. 

4711
04:04:55,800 --> 04:04:59,500
You notice the bars surface 
tells its stories ring stains 

4712
04:04:59,500 --> 04:05:02,600
from countless glasses, small 
Nicks from knives. 

4713
04:05:02,600 --> 04:05:05,600
And what might be initials 
carved by patrons with too much 

4714
04:05:05,608 --> 04:05:09,300
time and whiskey. 
The stool creaks ominously under

4715
04:05:09,300 --> 04:05:12,500
your weight, not because you're 
heavy, but because it's held 

4716
04:05:12,500 --> 04:05:16,200
together with hope nails and 
possibly some very determined 

4717
04:05:16,200 --> 04:05:18,300
termites. 
You settle in trying to look 

4718
04:05:18,300 --> 04:05:21,500
like you belong or fighting the 
urge to ask if they have a wine 

4719
04:05:21,500 --> 04:05:25,100
list. 
The bartender approaches wiping 

4720
04:05:25,100 --> 04:05:27,300
his hands on a towel that has 
witnessed better days. 

4721
04:05:27,300 --> 04:05:31,100
What'll it be asks, can you 
realize you're about to make 

4722
04:05:31,100 --> 04:05:33,500
your first real decision in the 
world? 

4723
04:05:33,500 --> 04:05:36,800
West. 
Choose wiseley your stomach and 

4724
04:05:36,800 --> 04:05:38,200
your reputation made depend on 
it. 

4725
04:05:38,200 --> 04:05:42,600
What it be the bartender asks, 
again, you realize that this 

4726
04:05:42,600 --> 04:05:45,500
isn't like browsing through a 
20-page menu at the Cheesecake 

4727
04:05:45,500 --> 04:05:48,600
Factory. 
Your options are limited and 

4728
04:05:48,600 --> 04:05:50,400
some of them might be 
questionable for your long-term 

4729
04:05:50,400 --> 04:05:53,100
Health prospects. 
Let's start with the drinks, 

4730
04:05:53,100 --> 04:05:56,000
shall we? 
The house specialty is whiskey 

4731
04:05:56,000 --> 04:05:58,800
and buy specialty. 
I mean, it's basically the only 

4732
04:05:58,800 --> 04:06:00,900
option that won't require you to
lie down afterward. 

4733
04:06:00,900 --> 04:06:04,800
However, it's important to note 
that the master distiller did 

4734
04:06:04,800 --> 04:06:06,700
not age Frontier whiskey and 
Charming. 

4735
04:06:06,700 --> 04:06:10,600
Oak barrels for 12 years. 
Oh no, this whiskey was aged for

4736
04:06:10,600 --> 04:06:13,100
about as long as it took to make
it, which was roughly the same 

4737
04:06:13,100 --> 04:06:15,200
amount of time. 
It takes to microwave a burrito,

4738
04:06:15,200 --> 04:06:18,700
the bartender holds up a bottle 
with a handwritten label that 

4739
04:06:18,700 --> 04:06:22,000
simply says whiskey in letters 
that suggest the writers hand 

4740
04:06:22,000 --> 04:06:23,500
wasn't entirely steady at the 
time. 

4741
04:06:24,200 --> 04:06:27,400
The liquid inside has an amber 
color that could generously be 

4742
04:06:27,400 --> 04:06:32,400
called rustic or more accurately
described as concerning. but you

4743
04:06:32,400 --> 04:06:35,100
know what, when you've been 
eating Trail Dust for three 

4744
04:06:35,100 --> 04:06:38,700
days, your standards become 
remarkably flexible, Whiskey 

4745
04:06:38,700 --> 04:06:41,400
sounds perfect. 
Do you say because when in row, 

4746
04:06:41,400 --> 04:06:44,700
or in this case, when in a place
where Rome seems like a distant 

4747
04:06:44,700 --> 04:06:46,500
fever dream, you do as the 
locals? 

4748
04:06:46,500 --> 04:06:49,600
Do the bartender pause? 
You a shot in a glass, that's 

4749
04:06:49,600 --> 04:06:51,400
clean enough. 
Assuming you don't look too 

4750
04:06:51,400 --> 04:06:54,100
close closely at The Rim. 
The whiskey boasts, a color 

4751
04:06:54,100 --> 04:06:57,400
reminiscent of weak tea and an 
aroma reminiscent of what could 

4752
04:06:57,400 --> 04:07:01,200
want to have been caught. 
You take a sip and wow, it's 

4753
04:07:01,200 --> 04:07:03,300
like liquid. 
Campfire with hints of regret 

4754
04:07:03,300 --> 04:07:05,900
and finish that suggests. 
You should probably something 

4755
04:07:05,900 --> 04:07:09,800
soon. 
Speaking of food, let's talk 

4756
04:07:09,800 --> 04:07:14,400
about your dining options, the 
menu such as it exists is posted

4757
04:07:14,400 --> 04:07:17,400
on a chalkboard behind the bar 
written in the same shaky 

4758
04:07:17,400 --> 04:07:20,800
handwriting as the whiskey label
your choices of beef, stew, 

4759
04:07:20,800 --> 04:07:23,000
beans and bacon cornbread and 
something. 

4760
04:07:23,000 --> 04:07:25,000
Optimistically labeled fresh 
fish. 

4761
04:07:26,000 --> 04:07:27,600
Now you're in the middle of the 
desert. 

4762
04:07:27,600 --> 04:07:31,900
So the fresh fish raises, some 
immediate questions fresh from 

4763
04:07:31,900 --> 04:07:35,000
where exactly, how can the fish 
be considered fresh, when the 

4764
04:07:35,000 --> 04:07:37,600
nearest substantial body of 
water is a three-day ride away. 

4765
04:07:38,400 --> 04:07:41,800
The bartender notices, your 
expression and Chuckles, don't 

4766
04:07:41,800 --> 04:07:44,500
worry about the fish. 
He says been on the menu for two

4767
04:07:44,500 --> 04:07:48,200
years, nobody's ever ordered it.
You decide beef stew? 

4768
04:07:48,200 --> 04:07:51,400
Sounds like the safest bet. 
It's a decision that shows 

4769
04:07:51,400 --> 04:07:54,200
wisdom beyond your years or at 
least beyond your experience 

4770
04:07:54,200 --> 04:07:57,600
with Frontier cuisine. 
The bartender calls your order 

4771
04:07:57,600 --> 04:08:00,300
back to the kitchen which is 
apparently just behind a curtain

4772
04:08:00,300 --> 04:08:02,700
doorway where you can hear the 
sounds of serious. 

4773
04:08:02,700 --> 04:08:05,600
Cooking happening, lots of 
clanging, some creative 

4774
04:08:05,600 --> 04:08:08,600
capillary and what might be 
prayer while you, wait, you 

4775
04:08:08,600 --> 04:08:11,600
notice the other patrons dining 
choices, the Cowboys at the 

4776
04:08:11,600 --> 04:08:14,100
front table are sharing a plate 
of beans and bacon, that could 

4777
04:08:14,100 --> 04:08:17,400
probably feed a small army or at
least three famished Cowboys. 

4778
04:08:17,400 --> 04:08:20,300
They're eating with the 
efficiency of people who view 

4779
04:08:20,300 --> 04:08:23,900
food as fuel rather than an 
experience, which is probably 

4780
04:08:23,900 --> 04:08:26,400
the right attitude when you're 
dining options are limited to 

4781
04:08:26,400 --> 04:08:28,400
brown stuff and other brown 
stuff. 

4782
04:08:29,300 --> 04:08:31,300
The poker players have ordered 
rounds of everything, 

4783
04:08:31,300 --> 04:08:34,400
apparently, because their table 
looks like a frontier Buffet. 

4784
04:08:35,100 --> 04:08:39,100
There are plates of cornbread 
bowls of steers to Stew strip of

4785
04:08:39,100 --> 04:08:41,500
bacon and enough whiskey to fill
a small boat. 

4786
04:08:42,100 --> 04:08:43,500
Of course, they're playing for 
money. 

4787
04:08:43,500 --> 04:08:46,100
So they might be trying to 
fortify themselves for a long 

4788
04:08:46,100 --> 04:08:49,100
night of cards and potentially 
life-changing losses. 

4789
04:08:50,000 --> 04:08:52,300
The well-dressed gentleman at 
the bar is nursing a single 

4790
04:08:52,300 --> 04:08:55,600
glass of whiskey and a plate of 
cornbread eating. 

4791
04:08:55,600 --> 04:08:58,200
With the careful, Precision of 
someone, who's either very 

4792
04:08:58,200 --> 04:09:01,100
refined or very suspicious of 
the food quality. 

4793
04:09:02,100 --> 04:09:05,200
Cuts his cornbread into perfect 
squares and chews thoughtfully. 

4794
04:09:05,200 --> 04:09:08,100
Like he's conducting a 
scientific analysis of its 

4795
04:09:08,100 --> 04:09:11,800
ingredients. 
Your stew arrives carried by a 

4796
04:09:11,800 --> 04:09:15,200
woman who emerges from behind 
the kitchen curtain like she's 

4797
04:09:15,200 --> 04:09:18,400
stepping onto a stage. 
She's the cook clearly. 

4798
04:09:18,400 --> 04:09:21,500
And she sets the ball down with 
the pride of someone who knows 

4799
04:09:21,500 --> 04:09:24,900
her craft. 
A tin ball hot enough to Brand 

4800
04:09:24,900 --> 04:09:28,100
cattle, holds the stew and its 
contents appear. 

4801
04:09:28,100 --> 04:09:31,500
Substantial, the stew contains 
chunks of beef that were once 

4802
04:09:31,500 --> 04:09:34,500
tough, but of now become tender 
vegetables, that could be 

4803
04:09:34,500 --> 04:09:37,300
charitably described as rustic 
and a gravy. 

4804
04:09:37,300 --> 04:09:38,700
Thick enough to serve as a 
mortar. 

4805
04:09:38,700 --> 04:09:42,600
It smells fantastic actually, 
like, comfort food made by 

4806
04:09:42,600 --> 04:09:44,100
someone who understands that 
Comfort. 

4807
04:09:44,100 --> 04:09:46,800
Sometimes comes in the form of 
calories and warmth, rather than

4808
04:09:46,800 --> 04:09:48,600
presentation and Molecular 
Gastronomy. 

4809
04:09:49,400 --> 04:09:52,500
You take a spoonful and it's 
delicious, really good. 

4810
04:09:52,500 --> 04:09:55,400
The kind of good that makes you 
understand why people wrote 

4811
04:09:55,400 --> 04:09:58,500
songs about home cooking. 
The cornbread that comes with it

4812
04:09:58,500 --> 04:10:01,600
is dense and filling with a 
slightly sweet taste that 

4813
04:10:01,600 --> 04:10:03,400
balances the hearty stew 
perfectly. 

4814
04:10:04,500 --> 04:10:06,800
There's nothing like the fluffy 
cake like cornbread. 

4815
04:10:06,800 --> 04:10:08,400
You might know from Modern 
restaurants. 

4816
04:10:09,100 --> 04:10:12,300
This bread symbolizes business 
and can sustain you throughout a

4817
04:10:12,300 --> 04:10:14,300
long day of your planned 
Frontier activities. 

4818
04:10:14,300 --> 04:10:18,500
As you eat, you start to relax a
little, the whiskey has smooth, 

4819
04:10:18,500 --> 04:10:21,600
some of your rough edges. 
The food is warming, you from 

4820
04:10:21,600 --> 04:10:24,700
the inside out and the general 
atmosphere is starting to feel 

4821
04:10:24,700 --> 04:10:28,900
less like a movie set and more 
like A place where people come 

4822
04:10:28,900 --> 04:10:30,900
to eat and drink and escape from
their day. 

4823
04:10:30,900 --> 04:10:33,400
But then you notice something 
that makes your spoon. 

4824
04:10:33,400 --> 04:10:37,200
Pause halfway to your mouth, The
conversation at the Cowboys 

4825
04:10:37,200 --> 04:10:39,400
table has gotten quieter more 
intense. 

4826
04:10:39,400 --> 04:10:42,500
They keep glancing toward the 
door and one of them has shifted

4827
04:10:42,500 --> 04:10:44,000
his chair. 
So he has a better view of the 

4828
04:10:44,000 --> 04:10:46,300
entrance. 
The world dressed gentleman has 

4829
04:10:46,300 --> 04:10:49,000
also noticed the changes and as 
angled himself slightly on his 

4830
04:10:49,000 --> 04:10:52,100
stool, oh, you get the feeling 
that your peaceful dinner is 

4831
04:10:52,100 --> 04:10:54,300
about to become significantly, 
more interesting. 

4832
04:10:54,300 --> 04:10:56,700
You're just starting to feel 
settled. 

4833
04:10:56,700 --> 04:11:00,200
The stew is warming, your belly.
The whiskey is taken the edge of

4834
04:11:00,200 --> 04:11:03,600
three days of Stagecoach travel 
and you'll begin to think those 

4835
04:11:03,600 --> 04:11:06,900
whole Wild West experience. 
Might be more civilized than the

4836
04:11:06,900 --> 04:11:10,400
stories suggested. 
At that moment, the Batwing 

4837
04:11:10,400 --> 04:11:13,800
doors opened forcefully causing 
the room's temperature to drop 

4838
04:11:13,800 --> 04:11:17,700
by approximately 10 degrees. 
Three men walk in and they walk 

4839
04:11:17,700 --> 04:11:19,900
like they own the place they 
appear as though their 

4840
04:11:19,900 --> 04:11:22,500
contemplating acquiring it 
without the need for paperwork. 

4841
04:11:22,500 --> 04:11:25,900
There are different from the 
other patrons cleaner better 

4842
04:11:25,900 --> 04:11:28,900
dressed but with an edge that 
makes everyone else look like 

4843
04:11:28,900 --> 04:11:30,700
Sunday school teachers by 
comparison. 

4844
04:11:31,700 --> 04:11:34,700
The leader is tall and lean 
wearing a black coat that seen 

4845
04:11:34,700 --> 04:11:38,700
some use, but not much abuse. 
His hat is perfectly positioned 

4846
04:11:38,700 --> 04:11:41,800
and his boots exuded a shine 
that suggests the other 

4847
04:11:41,800 --> 04:11:44,500
meticulously maintains his 
belongings or hasn't been 

4848
04:11:44,500 --> 04:11:46,200
traversing the desert dust for 
days. 

4849
04:11:47,300 --> 04:11:50,100
His eyes scan the room with the 
methodical, Precision of someone

4850
04:11:50,100 --> 04:11:52,600
conducting an inventory, his 
companions. 

4851
04:11:52,600 --> 04:11:55,500
Flank him like bookends one 
shorter and stockier. 

4852
04:11:55,500 --> 04:11:59,200
Bill, like a man who settles 
disagreements with his fists and

4853
04:11:59,200 --> 04:12:01,800
another whose trying a little 
too difficult to look casual 

4854
04:12:01,800 --> 04:12:06,100
while obviously being anything 
but They moved to the bar but 

4855
04:12:06,100 --> 04:12:08,800
not before the tall one makes 
eye contact with several patrons

4856
04:12:08,800 --> 04:12:12,600
including you? 
now you've never been in a 

4857
04:12:12,600 --> 04:12:15,800
situation quite like this, but 
some instincts are Universal, 

4858
04:12:15,800 --> 04:12:19,300
it's akin to being an a 
restaurant, when a group enters 

4859
04:12:19,300 --> 04:12:22,600
that exudes an unsettling 
presence, it excessively loud 

4860
04:12:22,600 --> 04:12:25,800
overly aggressive and behaving, 
as though they are seeking 

4861
04:12:25,800 --> 04:12:29,500
confrontation, Except in this 
case, the people who might find 

4862
04:12:29,500 --> 04:12:33,100
trouble or armed and there's no 
manager to complain to the 

4863
04:12:33,100 --> 04:12:36,400
bartenders demeanor changes. 
Subtly, he's still approaches 

4864
04:12:36,400 --> 04:12:39,100
them and asks what they want but
now there's tension in his 

4865
04:12:39,100 --> 04:12:41,900
shoulders the Cowboys at the 
front table have gone completely

4866
04:12:41,900 --> 04:12:45,100
quiet which is probably the 
frontier equivalent of turning 

4867
04:12:45,100 --> 04:12:46,800
off your phone when you sense 
drama Brewing. 

4868
04:12:47,700 --> 04:12:50,200
Whiskey says the tall. 
Stranger the good stuff. 

4869
04:12:50,200 --> 04:12:53,700
Not what you've been serving and
everyone else this story is 

4870
04:12:53,700 --> 04:12:56,200
interesting. 
Apparently, there's a two-tier 

4871
04:12:56,200 --> 04:12:58,600
beverage system in operation 
here and you've been drinking 

4872
04:12:58,600 --> 04:13:02,500
from the economy section The 
bartender reaches under the bar 

4873
04:13:02,500 --> 04:13:05,900
and produces a different bottle.
This one with an actual printed 

4874
04:13:05,900 --> 04:13:08,300
label and liquid, that doesn't 
look like it could strip paint. 

4875
04:13:09,200 --> 04:13:11,600
As the strangers get their 
drinks, you notice, the poker 

4876
04:13:11,600 --> 04:13:14,900
game is paused, the players are 
still holding their cards, but 

4877
04:13:14,900 --> 04:13:16,100
nobody's looking at them 
anymore. 

4878
04:13:17,000 --> 04:13:20,300
The saloon girl has stopped 
playing piano mid-song, which 

4879
04:13:20,300 --> 04:13:23,500
creates an awkward Sans that 
everyone pretends not to notice 

4880
04:13:23,500 --> 04:13:26,900
you can continue eating your 
stew, trying to channel the 

4881
04:13:26,900 --> 04:13:29,200
energy of someone who's totally 
absorbed in their meal and 

4882
04:13:29,200 --> 04:13:32,000
definitely not eavesdropping on 
potentially dangerous 

4883
04:13:32,000 --> 04:13:34,600
conversations. 
Your task is harder than it. 

4884
04:13:34,600 --> 04:13:37,400
Sounds when every instinct is 
telling you to pay attention to 

4885
04:13:37,400 --> 04:13:40,700
the new arrivals The tool 
stranger turns from the bar, 

4886
04:13:40,700 --> 04:13:42,100
whiskey and hand and her 
dresses. 

4887
04:13:42,100 --> 04:13:45,800
The room in general evening, 
folks, beautiful night, isn't 

4888
04:13:45,800 --> 04:13:47,500
it? 
His voice is Pleasant enough, 

4889
04:13:47,500 --> 04:13:51,400
but there's something underneath
it like a velvet glove with 

4890
04:13:51,400 --> 04:13:55,200
brass knuckles inside. 
A few people Mumble responses. 

4891
04:13:55,200 --> 04:13:58,300
Someone asks a question that 
you're uncertain if the right 

4892
04:13:58,300 --> 04:14:02,100
answer could lead to your death.
We're looking for someone, The 

4893
04:14:02,100 --> 04:14:05,100
Stranger continues, taking a 
casual sip of his whiskey. 

4894
04:14:05,100 --> 04:14:08,800
We're searching for a friend by 
the name of Thompson, Bill 

4895
04:14:08,800 --> 04:14:11,000
Thompson heard. 
He might be in these parts. 

4896
04:14:11,000 --> 04:14:14,700
Now, you don't know anyone named
Bill Thompson but you can feel 

4897
04:14:14,700 --> 04:14:17,700
the collective tension in the 
room ratchet up another notch. 

4898
04:14:17,700 --> 04:14:21,500
It's like when someone asks who 
broke this and even though 

4899
04:14:21,500 --> 04:14:23,200
you're in innocent, you still 
feel guilty. 

4900
04:14:24,600 --> 04:14:26,100
One of the Cowboys clears his 
throat. 

4901
04:14:27,000 --> 04:14:29,500
A lot of Thompsons in these 
parts, he says carefully. 

4902
04:14:30,400 --> 04:14:32,000
Might help if you could be more 
specific. 

4903
04:14:33,600 --> 04:14:36,200
The Stranger smiles and it's not
entirely a pleasant expression. 

4904
04:14:37,200 --> 04:14:41,500
Oh, you'd know this Thompson. 
If you saw him about 40 brown 

4905
04:14:41,500 --> 04:14:44,600
hair scar on his left cheek from
a disagreement about cattle, 

4906
04:14:44,600 --> 04:14:49,300
ownership tends to be memorable.
The description hangs in the air

4907
04:14:49,300 --> 04:14:52,900
like smoke from a bad cigar. 
You notice, the well-dressed 

4908
04:14:52,900 --> 04:14:55,700
gentleman at the bar has become 
very interested in the bottom of

4909
04:14:55,700 --> 04:14:59,000
his whiskey glass and the poker 
players have the Frozen Look of 

4910
04:14:59,000 --> 04:15:01,700
people trying to become 
invisible through sheer force of

4911
04:15:01,700 --> 04:15:04,100
will. 
Can't say the name rings a bell.

4912
04:15:04,108 --> 04:15:06,900
The cowboy says, which is 
probably true but also probably 

4913
04:15:06,900 --> 04:15:09,900
not the whole truth. 
The Stranger nods like he 

4914
04:15:09,900 --> 04:15:12,800
expected this answer. 
Well, that's disappointing. 

4915
04:15:12,800 --> 04:15:16,200
But understandable. 
Sometimes people's memories need

4916
04:15:16,200 --> 04:15:19,900
a little encouragement. 
And that's when you realize your

4917
04:15:19,900 --> 04:15:22,700
peaceful evening, has officially
taken a turn toward the kind of 

4918
04:15:22,708 --> 04:15:24,800
excitement. 
You read about in dime novels, 

4919
04:15:24,800 --> 04:15:28,400
but, never actually wanted to 
experience firsthand The stew 

4920
04:15:28,400 --> 04:15:31,900
suddenly tastes like cardboard 
and the whiskey isn't warming. 

4921
04:15:31,900 --> 04:15:33,500
Your stomach so much as 
churning. 

4922
04:15:33,500 --> 04:15:36,700
It you keep eating trying to 
look like someone who's 

4923
04:15:36,700 --> 04:15:40,200
completely oblivious to the 
growing tension, while your mind

4924
04:15:40,200 --> 04:15:43,800
races through your options. 
You could finish quickly and 

4925
04:15:43,800 --> 04:15:45,700
leave, but that might draw 
attention. 

4926
04:15:45,700 --> 04:15:49,200
You could stay and hope things 
settle down, but that could mean

4927
04:15:49,200 --> 04:15:51,600
getting caught in whatever is 
about to happen, you could just 

4928
04:15:51,600 --> 04:15:54,000
keep eating stew and pretend 
you're anywhere else which is 

4929
04:15:54,000 --> 04:15:56,200
your current strategy, but 
probably not a long-term 

4930
04:15:56,200 --> 04:15:59,200
solution. 
The Stranger takes another sip 

4931
04:15:59,200 --> 04:16:02,400
of his whiskey and smiles. 
That unsettling smile again. 

4932
04:16:02,400 --> 04:16:04,400
Well no hurry, we've got all 
night. 

4933
04:16:05,500 --> 04:16:08,800
Oh good, they're staying, this 
should be interesting in a 

4934
04:16:08,800 --> 04:16:11,900
situation like this. 
It can be quite challenging to 

4935
04:16:11,900 --> 04:16:14,200
focus on your own Affairs. 
When everyone else is 

4936
04:16:14,200 --> 04:16:16,300
activities, are taking place 
right next to you. 

4937
04:16:17,100 --> 04:16:20,900
Like trying to ignore a fire 
alarm technically possible, but 

4938
04:16:20,900 --> 04:16:23,400
probably not advisable for your 
continued well-being. 

4939
04:16:24,300 --> 04:16:27,100
You've developed a sudden, 
intense fascination with your 

4940
04:16:27,100 --> 04:16:29,200
stew examining each piece of 
beef. 

4941
04:16:29,200 --> 04:16:31,400
Like you're conducting a 
scientific study on Frontier, 

4942
04:16:31,400 --> 04:16:34,400
cooking techniques. 
Meanwhile the three strangers 

4943
04:16:34,400 --> 04:16:37,400
have settled in at a table near 
the center of the room close 

4944
04:16:37,400 --> 04:16:40,100
enough to watch everyone far 
enough from the door to make 

4945
04:16:40,100 --> 04:16:42,000
leaving quickly a challenge for 
anyone else. 

4946
04:16:42,900 --> 04:16:45,700
The tall one seemingly 
representing the group has 

4947
04:16:45,700 --> 04:16:48,200
initiated a conversation with a 
variety of patrons. 

4948
04:16:48,200 --> 04:16:50,800
Is the kind of conversation 
where one person asks questions 

4949
04:16:50,800 --> 04:16:53,400
and everyone else provides 
answers that are technically 

4950
04:16:53,400 --> 04:16:55,000
truthful, but carefully and 
complete. 

4951
04:16:55,800 --> 04:16:58,200
Nice Town, you've got here. 
He says to the room in general 

4952
04:16:58,200 --> 04:17:01,800
quiet peaceful. 
The kind of place, where a man 

4953
04:17:01,808 --> 04:17:06,500
could disappear if you want to. 
the Cowboys nod politely similar

4954
04:17:06,500 --> 04:17:08,900
to how one might nod when 
someone makes a comment about 

4955
04:17:08,900 --> 04:17:12,200
the weather, that could be 
interpreted as a threat The 

4956
04:17:12,200 --> 04:17:15,300
poker players have resumed their
game but you notice their beting

4957
04:17:15,300 --> 04:17:18,900
much more conservatively than 
before nothing dampens. 

4958
04:17:18,900 --> 04:17:21,500
The spirit of gambling more than
the threat of unexpected 

4959
04:17:21,500 --> 04:17:24,300
violence. 
The bartender continues wiping 

4960
04:17:24,300 --> 04:17:27,900
glasses with that towel. 
Which by now must be either 

4961
04:17:27,900 --> 04:17:30,100
perfectly clean or completely 
contaminated. 

4962
04:17:31,000 --> 04:17:33,700
He's developed the expression of
someone who seen the this movie 

4963
04:17:33,708 --> 04:17:36,600
before, and knows, it doesn't 
end with everyone shaking hands 

4964
04:17:36,600 --> 04:17:39,800
and sharing recipes. 
You're making excellent progress

4965
04:17:39,800 --> 04:17:41,900
on your stew. 
When the shorter of the three 

4966
04:17:41,900 --> 04:17:43,900
strangers. 
The one built like a human, 

4967
04:17:43,900 --> 04:17:45,600
Cannonball, stands up and 
stretches. 

4968
04:17:45,600 --> 04:17:49,700
It's an innocent enough gesture.
Except for the way, his coat 

4969
04:17:49,700 --> 04:17:51,300
Falls open just enough to 
reveal. 

4970
04:17:51,300 --> 04:17:53,500
What's definitely not a pocket 
watch on his hip. 

4971
04:17:54,300 --> 04:17:57,100
Think I'll take a look around, 
you know, says, get familiar 

4972
04:17:57,100 --> 04:18:00,200
with the local geography. 
He starts wandering between the 

4973
04:18:00,200 --> 04:18:01,800
tables, not bothering anyone. 
Exactly. 

4974
04:18:01,800 --> 04:18:05,300
But making his presence felt 
it's like having a tiger 

4975
04:18:05,300 --> 04:18:07,000
casually stroll through your 
living room. 

4976
04:18:07,000 --> 04:18:10,200
It might not eat you, but you're
definitely going to keep track 

4977
04:18:10,200 --> 04:18:13,600
of where it is. 
When he gets to the poker table,

4978
04:18:13,600 --> 04:18:15,900
he pulls his to watch the game. 
Interesting. 

4979
04:18:15,900 --> 04:18:18,800
He says, looking at the cards, 
that's almost a winning hand. 

4980
04:18:18,800 --> 04:18:22,300
You've got their friend Specter 
with the impressive beard looks 

4981
04:18:22,300 --> 04:18:25,400
up nervously just having a 
friendly game Mr. Nothing 

4982
04:18:25,400 --> 04:18:28,300
serious. 
Oh, I'm sure the stranger 

4983
04:18:28,300 --> 04:18:30,700
applies, though. 
I noticed you've got quite a 

4984
04:18:30,700 --> 04:18:32,900
pile of coins there. 
Lucky night. 

4985
04:18:34,100 --> 04:18:35,300
Some nights are better than 
others. 

4986
04:18:35,300 --> 04:18:38,800
The prospector, says carefully. 
The Stranger nods thoughtfully. 

4987
04:18:38,800 --> 04:18:41,100
That's true. 
Some nights. 

4988
04:18:41,100 --> 04:18:44,200
A man's luck can change. 
Very suddenly, it's not exactly 

4989
04:18:44,200 --> 04:18:46,800
a threat but it's not exactly 
not a threat either. 

4990
04:18:46,800 --> 04:18:49,800
It's that special, kind of 
Frontier Communication. 

4991
04:18:49,800 --> 04:18:53,000
That says everything while 
saying nothing like a passive 

4992
04:18:53,000 --> 04:18:54,900
aggressive email written with 
six shooters. 

4993
04:18:54,900 --> 04:18:57,700
The wandering stranger continues
his tour. 

4994
04:18:57,700 --> 04:19:02,500
Eventually making his way toward
the bar toward you you become 

4995
04:19:02,500 --> 04:19:05,400
intensely interested in the last
few spoonfuls of your stew, 

4996
04:19:05,400 --> 04:19:08,400
hoping to project the aura of 
someone completely absorbed in 

4997
04:19:08,400 --> 04:19:12,200
their dinner and definitely not 
worth talking to Evening, he 

4998
04:19:12,200 --> 04:19:15,800
says settling onto the stool 
next to you evening, you reply 

4999
04:19:15,800 --> 04:19:18,600
because ignoring him would be 
rude and rude nest in this 

5000
04:19:18,600 --> 04:19:20,900
situation, could have 
consequences that extend beyond 

5001
04:19:20,900 --> 04:19:23,400
hurt feelings. 
Good stew. 

5002
04:19:23,400 --> 04:19:25,700
He asks, looking at your bowl. 
Yes. 

5003
04:19:25,700 --> 04:19:27,300
Quite good. 
Your answer on his way. 

5004
04:19:27,308 --> 04:19:29,700
No point in lying about 
something so easily. 

5005
04:19:29,700 --> 04:19:32,400
Verified, You're not from around
here. 

5006
04:19:32,400 --> 04:19:36,900
He observes is not a question. 
Just passing through you say 

5007
04:19:36,900 --> 04:19:39,000
which is true and hopefully 
boring enough to end the 

5008
04:19:39,008 --> 04:19:42,300
conversation, he nods and orders
a whiskey from the bartender. 

5009
04:19:43,200 --> 04:19:46,100
not the good stuff, you notice 
which suggests either budget, 

5010
04:19:46,100 --> 04:19:48,700
constraints all these not as 
important as his tall friend, 

5011
04:19:49,700 --> 04:19:52,500
While he waits for his drink, he
studies you with the Casual 

5012
04:19:52,500 --> 04:19:55,300
interest of someone examining a 
potentially interesting bug. 

5013
04:19:56,400 --> 04:20:00,000
Passing through to where he asks
now, you're in slightly trickier

5014
04:20:00,000 --> 04:20:02,700
territory too much detail. 
Might make you memorable in 

5015
04:20:02,700 --> 04:20:04,800
ways. 
You don't want to be too little 

5016
04:20:04,808 --> 04:20:08,100
might make you seem suspicious. 
You go with vague but plausible.

5017
04:20:08,800 --> 04:20:10,700
West. 
You say, looking for 

5018
04:20:10,700 --> 04:20:13,200
opportunities. 
We Chuckles, aren't we all 

5019
04:20:13,200 --> 04:20:14,700
friend? 
Aren't we all? 

5020
04:20:15,900 --> 04:20:20,000
his whiskey arrives, and Sip 
then he leans slightly closer, 

5021
04:20:20,000 --> 04:20:22,100
and you catch a whiff of tobacco
leather. 

5022
04:20:22,100 --> 04:20:24,600
And something that might be made
or might be bear Grease. 

5023
04:20:25,500 --> 04:20:29,000
But of advice, he says quietly 
sometimes the best opportunity 

5024
04:20:29,000 --> 04:20:33,000
is knowing when to keep moving. 
No I mean you nod because you do

5025
04:20:33,000 --> 04:20:35,500
know what he means and because 
agreeing seems like the safest 

5026
04:20:35,500 --> 04:20:37,900
option. 
He's telling you in the polite 

5027
04:20:37,900 --> 04:20:40,600
as possible terms that this 
might be a good night to finish 

5028
04:20:40,600 --> 04:20:43,600
your dinner and find somewhere 
else to be. appreciate the 

5029
04:20:43,600 --> 04:20:47,000
advice you say, He nods and 
returns to his whiskey 

5030
04:20:47,000 --> 04:20:49,600
apparently, satisfied. 
That his message has been 

5031
04:20:49,608 --> 04:20:52,400
delivered and understood. 
He finished the last of your 

5032
04:20:52,400 --> 04:20:55,600
stew and Cornbread trying to eat
at a pace that suggests, you're 

5033
04:20:55,600 --> 04:20:57,200
not hurrying but not lingering 
either. 

5034
04:20:58,100 --> 04:21:01,200
That's when the Batwing doors 
swing, open again and this time 

5035
04:21:01,200 --> 04:21:04,400
you know, before you even look 
that whoever's coming in is 

5036
04:21:04,400 --> 04:21:06,800
going to make the evening 
significantly more complicated. 

5037
04:21:07,800 --> 04:21:09,900
Because that's how these things 
work in the wild west. 

5038
04:21:09,900 --> 04:21:13,500
Just when you think you've got a
handle on the situation, the 

5039
04:21:13,500 --> 04:21:16,900
situation decides to handle you 
instead the man who walks 

5040
04:21:16,900 --> 04:21:20,100
through those batwing doors is 
about 40 years old has brown 

5041
04:21:20,100 --> 04:21:22,700
hair and sports a scar on his 
left cheek. 

5042
04:21:22,700 --> 04:21:25,300
That looks like it came from a 
disagreement about cattle 

5043
04:21:25,300 --> 04:21:28,000
ownership. 
In other words, he matches the 

5044
04:21:28,000 --> 04:21:31,300
description of Bill Thompson 
perfectly, which means your 

5045
04:21:31,300 --> 04:21:32,900
peacefully. 
Evening has just transformed 

5046
04:21:32,900 --> 04:21:35,900
into front row seats for 
whatever's about to unfold. 

5047
04:21:36,900 --> 04:21:39,400
But here's the thing that makes 
this intriguing from a social 

5048
04:21:39,400 --> 04:21:42,200
dynamics perspective. 
Bill Thompson doesn't look 

5049
04:21:42,200 --> 04:21:43,900
surprised to see the three 
strangers. 

5050
04:21:43,900 --> 04:21:47,800
He doesn't pause, he doesn't 
scan the room, nervously and 

5051
04:21:47,800 --> 04:21:50,300
doesn't show any of the signs. 
You'd expect from someone who is

5052
04:21:50,300 --> 04:21:54,000
being hunted, instead he walks 
to the bar with the Casual 

5053
04:21:54,000 --> 04:21:56,900
confidence of a man whose 
precisely where he wants to be 

5054
04:21:56,900 --> 04:22:00,100
evening Jake. 
He says, to the bartender who 

5055
04:22:00,100 --> 04:22:01,900
suddenly looks like he'd rather 
be anywhere else. 

5056
04:22:03,100 --> 04:22:05,500
Somewhere peaceful like the 
middle of a buffalo, stampede. 

5057
04:22:06,700 --> 04:22:09,300
The tall stranger at the center 
table doesn't say anything 

5058
04:22:09,300 --> 04:22:11,900
immediately. 
He just watches tops and Order, 

5059
04:22:11,900 --> 04:22:14,100
whiskey, and settled against the
bar. 

5060
04:22:14,100 --> 04:22:18,200
Like, he owns it. 
The silent stretches out like 

5061
04:22:18,200 --> 04:22:21,900
taffy and you can practically 
hear everyone in the room. 

5062
04:22:21,900 --> 04:22:24,400
Not breathing. 
Finally the tool strangers 

5063
04:22:24,400 --> 04:22:27,200
speaks Bill Thompson. 
That's right. 

5064
04:22:27,200 --> 04:22:30,800
Thompson replies without turning
around and you'd be casting 

5065
04:22:30,800 --> 04:22:33,600
unless I miss my guess. 
Carson. 

5066
04:22:34,400 --> 04:22:37,100
Now, the tall stranger has a 
name, which somehow makes the 

5067
04:22:37,100 --> 04:22:39,700
whole situation feel more real 
and more dangerous at the same 

5068
04:22:39,708 --> 04:22:42,900
time. 
Carson stands up slowly the kind

5069
04:22:42,900 --> 04:22:45,400
of deliberate movement that 
suggests, he's very comfortable 

5070
04:22:45,400 --> 04:22:47,300
with everyone's attention, 
focused on him. 

5071
04:22:48,200 --> 04:22:51,100
Being looking for you, Bill. 
I figured that was the case 

5072
04:22:51,100 --> 04:22:54,600
Thompson says taking a sip of 
his whiskey heard, you boys were

5073
04:22:54,600 --> 04:22:56,800
asking around. 
Thought I'd save you the trouble

5074
04:22:56,800 --> 04:22:59,700
of hunting all over creation. 
Now, this is intriguing. 

5075
04:22:59,700 --> 04:23:01,800
Instead of a Manhunt your 
witnessing. 

5076
04:23:01,800 --> 04:23:03,200
What appears to be a plan 
meeting? 

5077
04:23:03,900 --> 04:23:05,900
The question is whether it's 
going to be a civilized 

5078
04:23:05,900 --> 04:23:08,600
conversation or something that 
requires you to duck under 

5079
04:23:08,600 --> 04:23:11,700
tables. 
The cowboy at the front table, 

5080
04:23:11,700 --> 04:23:14,900
shifts slightly in his chair and
you notice his hand resting 

5081
04:23:14,900 --> 04:23:18,300
casually near his side. 
The poker players of giving up 

5082
04:23:18,308 --> 04:23:21,000
all pretense of playing cards, 
and openly watching the 

5083
04:23:21,000 --> 04:23:24,300
proceedings, even the saloon 
girl as positioned herself near,

5084
04:23:24,300 --> 04:23:27,800
what you hope is a back exit. 
Carson moves away from his table

5085
04:23:27,800 --> 04:23:30,800
but not quickly, not 
aggressively, it's more like a 

5086
04:23:30,800 --> 04:23:32,700
dance where both Partners know 
the steps. 

5087
04:23:33,800 --> 04:23:35,900
You've got something that 
belongs to my employer bill. 

5088
04:23:35,900 --> 04:23:38,600
That's so Thompson says what 
might that be? 

5089
04:23:38,600 --> 04:23:41,600
Don't play games. 
The money from the Tucson job 

5090
04:23:41,600 --> 04:23:45,600
Thompson Chuckles, but it's not 
particularly amused sound money.

5091
04:23:45,600 --> 04:23:47,600
What makes you think? 
I've got any money? 

5092
04:23:47,600 --> 04:23:48,900
Look at me. 
Carson. 

5093
04:23:48,900 --> 04:23:51,600
Do I look like a man who's 
recently come into wealth and 

5094
04:23:51,600 --> 04:23:55,000
he's got a point, Thompson's 
clothes are worn, but clean, his

5095
04:23:55,000 --> 04:23:57,500
boots are scuffed and his hat 
has seen better years. 

5096
04:23:58,300 --> 04:24:00,700
If he's sitting on a pile of 
stolen money, he's either 

5097
04:24:00,700 --> 04:24:02,900
excellent at hiding it or 
terrible at spending it. 

5098
04:24:03,900 --> 04:24:07,100
My employer seems to think 
otherwise Carson says your 

5099
04:24:07,100 --> 04:24:09,800
employer thinks many things 
doesn't make them true. 

5100
04:24:09,800 --> 04:24:13,500
The conversation is polite or 
almost casual, but you can feel 

5101
04:24:13,500 --> 04:24:16,300
the undercurrent of violence 
running beneath it like a stream

5102
04:24:16,300 --> 04:24:18,600
under ice. 
Both men are armed. 

5103
04:24:18,600 --> 04:24:21,700
You can tell, by the way, they 
carry themselves, the way their 

5104
04:24:21,700 --> 04:24:24,100
coats, hang and the way they 
position their hands. 

5105
04:24:24,100 --> 04:24:27,400
The question is whether they 
going to keep talking or start 

5106
04:24:27,400 --> 04:24:30,400
shooting, you're beginning to 
understand why the bartender was

5107
04:24:30,400 --> 04:24:31,900
nervous about the fish on the 
menu. 

5108
04:24:32,700 --> 04:24:34,800
In a place where business 
disputes are settled with 

5109
04:24:34,800 --> 04:24:37,800
gunpowder freshness, standards 
are probably flexible. 

5110
04:24:38,600 --> 04:24:40,400
The shorter. 
Stranger the one who gave you? 

5111
04:24:40,400 --> 04:24:43,200
The friendly advice about 
knowing when to keep moving as 

5112
04:24:43,200 --> 04:24:44,700
positioned himself near the 
door. 

5113
04:24:45,400 --> 04:24:47,500
Not blocking it. 
Exactly, but making it clear 

5114
04:24:47,500 --> 04:24:50,000
that anyone wanting to leave 
would need to get past him. 

5115
04:24:51,300 --> 04:24:53,800
The third member of their group 
has moved to cover the back of 

5116
04:24:53,808 --> 04:24:56,100
the room. 
Thompson seems to notice these 

5117
04:24:56,100 --> 04:24:58,000
movements without looking 
directly at them. 

5118
04:24:58,700 --> 04:25:01,700
Brought the whole crew did you? 
That's flattering though. 

5119
04:25:01,700 --> 04:25:04,000
I have to say for a friendly 
conversation about money. 

5120
04:25:04,000 --> 04:25:07,400
I don't have you boys seem a 
little prepared. 

5121
04:25:08,400 --> 04:25:13,100
Just being careful, Carson says 
nothing personal. oh, I'm sure 

5122
04:25:13,100 --> 04:25:16,500
Thompson replies just like what 
happened in Prescott was nothing

5123
04:25:16,500 --> 04:25:20,000
personal Carson's expression 
changes slightly At The Mention 

5124
04:25:20,000 --> 04:25:22,500
Of Prescott and you get the 
feeling that there's a whole 

5125
04:25:22,500 --> 04:25:25,000
other story. 
There probably involving more 

5126
04:25:25,000 --> 04:25:28,600
cattle, more disagreements, and 
definitely more scars. 

5127
04:25:29,700 --> 04:25:33,000
That was business. 
Carson says so is this Thompson 

5128
04:25:33,000 --> 04:25:35,200
replies. 
And that's when you realize that

5129
04:25:35,200 --> 04:25:38,000
you're not just witnessing a 
confrontation between men with a

5130
04:25:38,000 --> 04:25:41,200
disagreement about money. 
You're watching the continuation

5131
04:25:41,200 --> 04:25:43,900
of something that started 
somewhere else, probably 

5132
04:25:43,900 --> 04:25:46,500
involving cattle because 
everything in the west, seems to

5133
04:25:46,500 --> 04:25:49,500
involve cattle and definitely 
involving the kind of business 

5134
04:25:49,500 --> 04:25:51,300
that leaves scars on people's 
faces. 

5135
04:25:52,100 --> 04:25:54,600
The room has gone completely 
quiet except for the sound of 

5136
04:25:54,600 --> 04:25:57,400
your own heartbeat which seems 
unreasonably loud. 

5137
04:25:57,400 --> 04:26:00,800
Give them the circumstances. 
You're trying to decide whether 

5138
04:26:00,800 --> 04:26:02,700
finishing your whiskey would be 
a good idea. 

5139
04:26:02,700 --> 04:26:06,800
Liquid courage, or a terrible 
idea impaired judgment when 

5140
04:26:06,800 --> 04:26:09,000
Thompson turns slightly and 
catches your eye. 

5141
04:26:09,900 --> 04:26:11,800
You might want to step outside 
for some are friend. 

5142
04:26:11,800 --> 04:26:14,200
He says quietly. 
Sometimes these business 

5143
04:26:14,200 --> 04:26:17,700
discussions get a little heated,
which is probably the polite way

5144
04:26:17,700 --> 04:26:20,500
anyone has ever suggested that 
you evacuate before the shooting

5145
04:26:20,500 --> 04:26:22,700
starts. 
Here's the thing, about the wild

5146
04:26:22,700 --> 04:26:25,300
west, that all those Hollywood 
movies, got wrong, most 

5147
04:26:25,300 --> 04:26:28,200
confrontations didn't end in 
gunfights the ended in 

5148
04:26:28,200 --> 04:26:31,600
negotiations, compromises, and 
people finding ways to settle 

5149
04:26:31,600 --> 04:26:33,700
their differences without 
ventilating each other. 

5150
04:26:33,700 --> 04:26:36,900
Because, despite what the dime 
novel suggested most folks 

5151
04:26:36,900 --> 04:26:40,200
preferred being alive to being 
legendary your contemplating 

5152
04:26:40,200 --> 04:26:43,300
Thompson suggestion about 
stepping outside when something 

5153
04:26:43,300 --> 04:26:48,400
unexpected happens. 
Carson laws Carson, laughs not 

5154
04:26:48,400 --> 04:26:51,600
with a menacing or bitter laugh 
but with an actual genuine laugh

5155
04:26:51,600 --> 04:26:54,200
that changes his entire face. 
You know what? 

5156
04:26:54,200 --> 04:26:58,000
Bill You're absolutely right. 
This idea is ridiculous. 

5157
04:26:59,100 --> 04:27:01,900
He sits back down at his table 
and the tension in the room 

5158
04:27:01,900 --> 04:27:05,100
doesn't exactly disappear, but 
it shifts into something more 

5159
04:27:05,100 --> 04:27:08,700
manageable, remove the timer and
set of cutting wires is akin to 

5160
04:27:08,708 --> 04:27:11,600
diffusing a bomb. 
We're both getting too old for 

5161
04:27:11,600 --> 04:27:14,700
this Carson continues. 
And honestly, my employer is an 

5162
04:27:14,700 --> 04:27:17,300
idiot. 
Thompson turns around still 

5163
04:27:17,300 --> 04:27:19,100
holding his whiskey eyebrows 
raised. 

5164
04:27:19,100 --> 04:27:21,300
That's quite an admission coming
from you. 

5165
04:27:21,300 --> 04:27:24,400
Well, it's true. 
Sending me and the boys all the 

5166
04:27:24,400 --> 04:27:27,300
way out here to collect money. 
That probably doesn't exist from

5167
04:27:27,300 --> 04:27:29,000
a job. 
That went sideways six months 

5168
04:27:29,000 --> 04:27:31,800
ago from a man who's been trying
to go straight ever since. 

5169
04:27:32,600 --> 04:27:34,700
Carson, shakes his head. 
Some days. 

5170
04:27:34,700 --> 04:27:37,200
I wonder why I don't just buy a 
farm and raise chickens. 

5171
04:27:38,300 --> 04:27:41,000
The shortest stranger looks 
confused by this turn of events,

5172
04:27:41,000 --> 04:27:43,600
boss. 
We came all this way. 

5173
04:27:43,600 --> 04:27:47,300
I know what we came here for. 
Mike, Carson says, but 

5174
04:27:47,300 --> 04:27:49,500
occasionally, you get somewhere 
in realize the trip wasn't worth

5175
04:27:49,500 --> 04:27:51,900
taking. 
Thompson moves away from the bar

5176
04:27:51,900 --> 04:27:54,000
but towards Carson's table, not 
toward the door. 

5177
04:27:54,000 --> 04:27:57,800
He pulls out a chair and sits 
down still cautious but no 

5178
04:27:57,800 --> 04:28:00,000
longer looking like he's 
expecting to dodge bullets. 

5179
04:28:00,700 --> 04:28:01,500
So what happens? 
Now. 

5180
04:28:01,500 --> 04:28:06,100
Thompson asks now, Now we finish
our drinks, you tell me what 

5181
04:28:06,100 --> 04:28:08,500
really happened in Tucson, and 
maybe we figure out how to 

5182
04:28:08,508 --> 04:28:11,200
explain to my employer, that his
money disappeared Into Thin Air 

5183
04:28:11,200 --> 04:28:12,700
without anyone getting shot over
it. 

5184
04:28:12,700 --> 04:28:17,400
And just like that, the standoff
becomes a conversation The 

5185
04:28:17,400 --> 04:28:19,400
Cowboys at the front table, 
start breathing again. 

5186
04:28:20,100 --> 04:28:21,900
The poker players. 
Remember they have cards to 

5187
04:28:21,900 --> 04:28:24,200
play? 
The saloon girl begins playing 

5188
04:28:24,200 --> 04:28:27,600
the piano again but this time 
she selects a more cheerful tune

5189
04:28:27,600 --> 04:28:30,200
than the one she played 
previously, you decide to stay 

5190
04:28:30,200 --> 04:28:33,000
put an order another whiskey 
because the scene is turning 

5191
04:28:33,000 --> 04:28:35,900
into, exactly the kind of 
Frontier drama, you came West to

5192
04:28:35,908 --> 04:28:39,600
experience except without the 
Mortal Peril, you hadn't really 

5193
04:28:39,600 --> 04:28:43,100
planned on. 
Thompson signals, Jake from 

5194
04:28:43,100 --> 04:28:44,700
another drink, and settles into 
his chair. 

5195
04:28:45,600 --> 04:28:47,300
Tucson was a disaster from the 
start. 

5196
04:28:47,300 --> 04:28:50,100
He begins. 
Your employer had a bank that 

5197
04:28:50,100 --> 04:28:54,400
turned out to be expecting us. 
Inside information had to be. 

5198
04:28:54,400 --> 04:28:57,700
We walked into that bank and 
found half the territorial 

5199
04:28:57,700 --> 04:29:01,400
militia waiting for us. 
Lost two, good men, barely got 

5200
04:29:01,400 --> 04:29:05,100
out alive and came away with 
exactly nothing except a 

5201
04:29:05,100 --> 04:29:06,500
newfound. 
Appreciation for honest. 

5202
04:29:06,500 --> 04:29:10,300
Work, Carson nods thoughtfully. 
That explains some things. 

5203
04:29:10,300 --> 04:29:13,700
My employer has been mighty 
closed, mouth about the details,

5204
04:29:13,700 --> 04:29:17,200
probably because he set us up 
and says my guess. 

5205
04:29:18,200 --> 04:29:21,400
He made a deal with the law 
decided We Were Expendable and 

5206
04:29:21,400 --> 04:29:23,700
figured he'd collect the reward 
money instead of paying us. 

5207
04:29:24,900 --> 04:29:28,400
The shortest Ranger Mike looks 
between his boss and tops and 

5208
04:29:28,400 --> 04:29:31,400
like he's watching a tennis 
match played with words and of 

5209
04:29:31,400 --> 04:29:34,000
balls. 
So there never was any money to 

5210
04:29:34,000 --> 04:29:36,300
recover. 
Oh there was money. 

5211
04:29:36,300 --> 04:29:39,300
Thompson says just not where my 
employer thinks it ended up. 

5212
04:29:40,200 --> 04:29:42,800
He reaches into his coat. 
And for a moment, everyone tends

5213
04:29:42,800 --> 04:29:44,700
his again. 
But what he pulls out is a 

5214
04:29:44,700 --> 04:29:46,300
folded piece of paper, not a 
weapon. 

5215
04:29:46,900 --> 04:29:49,300
Bank draft, he explains showing 
it to Carson. 

5216
04:29:49,300 --> 04:29:51,700
It was intended for the Tucson 
orphanage. 

5217
04:29:51,700 --> 04:29:54,400
Figured if I was going to steal 
money, I might as well steal it 

5218
04:29:54,408 --> 04:29:57,400
for someone who needed it. 
More than your employer did cast

5219
04:29:57,400 --> 04:30:00,100
an examines the paper and his 
expression shifts to one that 

5220
04:30:00,100 --> 04:30:04,200
could be interpreted as respect.
You donated stolen money to an 

5221
04:30:04,200 --> 04:30:07,600
orphanage. seemed like the right
thing to do at the time tops and

5222
04:30:07,600 --> 04:30:11,400
says, with a shrug still does 
actually Like looks completely 

5223
04:30:11,400 --> 04:30:13,700
baffled by this turn of events 
boss. 

5224
04:30:13,700 --> 04:30:16,800
What do we tell him back in 
Phoenix, cast and folds, the 

5225
04:30:16,800 --> 04:30:18,500
bank draft and handed it back to
Thomson? 

5226
04:30:18,500 --> 04:30:20,800
We tell him that Bill Thompson 
is dead. 

5227
04:30:21,800 --> 04:30:24,300
What? 
Mike's voice goes up, an octave 

5228
04:30:24,300 --> 04:30:26,600
died in a gunfight tragic, 
really? 

5229
04:30:26,600 --> 04:30:30,100
We buried him outside of town 
and said some words a very 

5230
04:30:30,108 --> 04:30:33,200
touching ceremony Carson's 
deadpan delivery would make a 

5231
04:30:33,200 --> 04:30:37,000
professional poker player. 
Proud Money was never recovered.

5232
04:30:37,000 --> 04:30:39,800
He probably spent all the money 
on Whiskey and loose women 

5233
04:30:39,800 --> 04:30:44,000
before he died Thompson grins. 
I like it though. 

5234
04:30:44,000 --> 04:30:48,000
I prefer to think I spent on 
Whiskey and tight women Details 

5235
04:30:48,000 --> 04:30:51,000
cars and waves. 
Dismissively point is, as far as

5236
04:30:51,000 --> 04:30:53,700
Phoenix is concerned. 
This case is closed and that's 

5237
04:30:53,700 --> 04:30:56,000
when you realize you've just 
witnessed something remarkable. 

5238
04:30:56,900 --> 04:31:00,600
Problem-solve not with violence 
but with creativity pragmatism 

5239
04:31:00,600 --> 04:31:02,900
and a healthy dose of Frontier 
Justice. 

5240
04:31:03,700 --> 04:31:06,400
This solution ensures that 
everyone leaves with their lives

5241
04:31:06,400 --> 04:31:09,300
and dignity intact. 
The saloon has returned to 

5242
04:31:09,308 --> 04:31:12,300
something approaching normal. 
The poker game has resumed with 

5243
04:31:12,300 --> 04:31:15,200
renewed, enthusiasm. 
Apparently nothing makes cards 

5244
04:31:15,200 --> 04:31:17,600
more captivating than the 
possibility that you might not 

5245
04:31:17,600 --> 04:31:20,800
live to play another hand. 
The Cowboys have ordered another

5246
04:31:20,800 --> 04:31:23,500
round and a back to discussing 
whatever, important Cowboy 

5247
04:31:23,500 --> 04:31:26,000
business they were discussing 
before the excitement started. 

5248
04:31:26,900 --> 04:31:29,300
Carson stands up and extends his
hand to Thompson. 

5249
04:31:30,100 --> 04:31:32,700
It's been a pleasure doing 
business with you Bill, or 

5250
04:31:32,700 --> 04:31:35,000
should I say, it's been a 
pleasure not doing business with

5251
04:31:35,000 --> 04:31:36,900
you Thompson shakes. 
His hand. 

5252
04:31:37,800 --> 04:31:40,400
Likewise give my regards to 
Phoenix. 

5253
04:31:40,400 --> 04:31:44,900
Tell them I died bravely. 
Oh, I will, I will probably 

5254
04:31:44,900 --> 04:31:47,500
include some details about how 
you took three of his with you 

5255
04:31:47,500 --> 04:31:49,000
just to make the story more 
interesting. 

5256
04:31:50,500 --> 04:31:53,900
Mike still looks confused, but 
the third member of Carson's 

5257
04:31:53,900 --> 04:31:57,500
group whose been silent through 
most of this, finally speaks up.

5258
04:31:58,500 --> 04:32:00,400
Does your statement mean we can 
go home now? 

5259
04:32:01,100 --> 04:32:02,300
And tired of sleeping on the 
ground. 

5260
04:32:03,200 --> 04:32:06,400
Yes, Eddie we can go home. 
Carson says patiently and we can

5261
04:32:06,400 --> 04:32:08,400
stop at that hotel in Flagstaff 
on the way back. 

5262
04:32:09,300 --> 04:32:12,500
The one with the actual beds, 
the one with the actual beds. 

5263
04:32:13,100 --> 04:32:15,100
Eddie brightens considerably at 
this news. 

5264
04:32:15,100 --> 04:32:18,200
Apparently even in the wild 
west, a good night's sleep was 

5265
04:32:18,200 --> 04:32:22,300
worth more than a questionable, 
gunfight As Carson's group 

5266
04:32:22,308 --> 04:32:25,400
prepares to leave the toolman, 
pauses at your table. 

5267
04:32:25,400 --> 04:32:28,800
Thanks for the entertainment. 
He says not often do we get to 

5268
04:32:28,800 --> 04:32:31,000
watch a business meeting that 
ends with everyone still 

5269
04:32:31,000 --> 04:32:34,000
breathing? 
My pleasure, you reply, raising 

5270
04:32:34,000 --> 04:32:36,500
your glass in a small salute, 
here's to create a creative 

5271
04:32:36,508 --> 04:32:39,100
problem solving. 
I'll drink to that. 

5272
04:32:39,100 --> 04:32:42,900
Carson says, and surprisingly, 
he does finishing his whiskey in

5273
04:32:42,908 --> 04:32:45,900
one, smooth, motion before 
tipping, his hat and heading for

5274
04:32:45,900 --> 04:32:49,000
the door. 
The saloon settles in to a 

5275
04:32:49,000 --> 04:32:52,000
comfortable evening as the three
strangers disappear, through the

5276
04:32:52,000 --> 04:32:54,800
Batwing. 
Doors, Thompson moves to the bar

5277
04:32:54,800 --> 04:32:57,700
orders, another whiskey and 
Strikes up a conversation with 

5278
04:32:57,700 --> 04:32:59,700
Jacob about the weather and the 
price of cattle. 

5279
04:32:59,700 --> 04:33:03,200
You sit back in your chair. 
Nursing your second whiskey and 

5280
04:33:03,208 --> 04:33:05,300
marveling at what you've just 
experienced. 

5281
04:33:06,099 --> 04:33:09,300
In the span of two hours, you've
witnessed a Manhunt a standoff 

5282
04:33:09,300 --> 04:33:12,400
and negotiation and a resolution
that would have made Solomon 

5283
04:33:12,400 --> 04:33:14,800
proud. 
You've seen grown men solve 

5284
04:33:14,800 --> 04:33:17,900
their problems with words and of
weapons and creativity and of 

5285
04:33:17,900 --> 04:33:20,599
violence. 
The saloon girl starts playing 

5286
04:33:20,599 --> 04:33:23,800
Red River Valley and this time 
she gets all the notes, right? 

5287
04:33:24,500 --> 04:33:26,099
The poker players are laughing 
at something. 

5288
04:33:26,099 --> 04:33:29,400
The prospector said, the Cowboys
are planning their next cattle 

5289
04:33:29,400 --> 04:33:32,900
drive and you're sitting in a 
wild West Haven drinking 

5290
04:33:32,900 --> 04:33:34,300
whiskey. 
That tastes like liquid. 

5291
04:33:34,300 --> 04:33:37,800
Campfire, eating stew, that 
could keep you going for a week 

5292
04:33:37,800 --> 04:33:41,900
and thinking that maybe just 
maybe the real wild west was 

5293
04:33:41,900 --> 04:33:44,599
more intriguing than any 
Hollywood movie ever suggested. 

5294
04:33:45,300 --> 04:33:48,500
Because the truth is most 
people, then just like, most 

5295
04:33:48,500 --> 04:33:50,300
people. 
Now, we're just trying to get 

5296
04:33:50,300 --> 04:33:51,900
through their day without too 
much trouble. 

5297
04:33:51,900 --> 04:33:55,099
They wanted to eat a decent 
meal, have a drink with friends,

5298
04:33:55,099 --> 04:33:58,099
maybe play some cards and go 
home to their families. 

5299
04:33:58,800 --> 04:34:01,300
The fact that they sometimes 
carried guns and settled 

5300
04:34:01,300 --> 04:34:04,400
disputes with jewels doesn't 
mean they preferred violence. 

5301
04:34:04,400 --> 04:34:07,400
It just means they lived in a 
time and place where being 

5302
04:34:07,400 --> 04:34:09,500
prepared for trouble was a 
practical necessity. 

5303
04:34:10,400 --> 04:34:13,000
As the evening winds down and 
you can consider heading to 

5304
04:34:13,000 --> 04:34:17,099
whatever passes for lodging in 
this Frontier Town, you reflect 

5305
04:34:17,099 --> 04:34:18,300
on the lesson you've learned 
tonight. 

5306
04:34:19,200 --> 04:34:22,200
Some times the most dangerous 
situations are resolved, not by 

5307
04:34:22,200 --> 04:34:24,599
the fastest gun or the strongest
fighter. 

5308
04:34:24,599 --> 04:34:27,900
But by the person clever enough 
to find a solution that lets 

5309
04:34:27,900 --> 04:34:30,000
everyone walk away with their 
pride intact. 

5310
04:34:31,500 --> 04:34:34,500
Thompson glances at you from the
bar, raising his glass in a 

5311
04:34:34,508 --> 04:34:38,800
small salute to orphanages, he 
says, quietly to often edges, 

5312
04:34:38,800 --> 04:34:41,400
you reply, and you both drink to
the kind of justice that doesn't

5313
04:34:41,400 --> 04:34:43,099
make headlines. 
But makes the world a little bit

5314
04:34:43,099 --> 04:34:45,099
better. 
One small Act of decency. 

5315
04:34:45,099 --> 04:34:48,900
At a time, outside the desert 
night is clear and cold full of 

5316
04:34:48,908 --> 04:34:52,800
stars that seem close enough to 
touch inside the Silver Dollar. 

5317
04:34:52,800 --> 04:34:56,800
Saloon the oil lamps burn warm 
and steady the piano plays soft 

5318
04:34:56,800 --> 04:34:59,800
Melodies and people who've never
met before tomorrow will be 

5319
04:34:59,808 --> 04:35:03,099
strangers again, sharing stories
and whiskey and the kind of 

5320
04:35:03,099 --> 04:35:05,700
companionship that Travelers 
have always found in places like

5321
04:35:05,700 --> 04:35:08,700
this. 
And that more than any gunfight,

5322
04:35:08,700 --> 04:35:11,900
or cattle, rustling, or Gold 
Rush drama, is what the wild 

5323
04:35:11,900 --> 04:35:16,000
west was really about people 
finding ways to connect to solve

5324
04:35:16,000 --> 04:35:19,099
problems and to help each other 
through the challenges of living

5325
04:35:19,099 --> 04:35:20,800
in a hard place during a hard 
time. 

5326
04:35:21,700 --> 04:35:25,400
Your stew is long, finished. 
Your whiskey glasses, empty, and

5327
04:35:25,400 --> 04:35:27,700
your adventure in Frontier. 
Dining is complete. 

5328
04:35:28,700 --> 04:35:31,099
Tomorrow, you'll climb back on 
that Stagecoach and continue 

5329
04:35:31,099 --> 04:35:34,599
West carrying with you, the 
memory of an evening, when the 

5330
04:35:34,599 --> 04:35:38,000
wild west revealed itself to be 
not quite as wild as advertised,

5331
04:35:38,000 --> 04:35:41,099
but infinitely more fascinating 
than you'd expected. 

5332
04:35:41,900 --> 04:35:44,700
Sometimes the best stories 
aren't about the fastest, guns, 

5333
04:35:44,700 --> 04:35:47,700
or the biggest fights, sometimes
they're about the moments. 

5334
04:35:47,700 --> 04:35:50,700
When Ordinary People find 
extraordinary ways to be decent 

5335
04:35:50,700 --> 04:35:54,000
to each other. 
Even when a specially when it 

5336
04:35:54,000 --> 04:35:57,300
would be easier not to be. 
And with that thought you finish

5337
04:35:57,300 --> 04:36:00,599
your whiskey tip your hat to 
Jake the bartender nod. 

5338
04:36:00,599 --> 04:36:03,400
Fair well, to Thompson and the 
other patrons, and push through 

5339
04:36:03,400 --> 04:36:07,000
those famous batwing doors into 
the star-filled desert night, 

5340
04:36:07,000 --> 04:36:09,099
carrying with you, a story worth
telling. 

5341
04:36:09,099 --> 04:36:12,000
And the kind of satisfied 
tiredness that comes from a day.

5342
04:36:12,000 --> 04:36:15,800
Well, lived and an evening. 
Well, spent The silver dollar. 

5343
04:36:15,800 --> 04:36:18,099
Saloons settles into its 
nighttime Rhythm behind. 

5344
04:36:18,099 --> 04:36:20,400
You ready to welcome the next 
traveler. 

5345
04:36:20,400 --> 04:36:23,700
The next Story. 
The next small drama of frontier

5346
04:36:23,700 --> 04:36:25,900
life. 
Because that's what place is 

5347
04:36:25,900 --> 04:36:28,500
like this. 
Do they provide a stage where 

5348
04:36:28,500 --> 04:36:31,599
ordinary people can have 
extraordinary moments where 

5349
04:36:31,599 --> 04:36:34,099
strangers can become friends 
over a shared meal and a glass 

5350
04:36:34,099 --> 04:36:36,800
of something that might 
charitably be called whiskey? 

5351
04:36:37,599 --> 04:36:40,400
And in the morning, the 
stagecoach will come and you'll 

5352
04:36:40,400 --> 04:36:42,400
climb aboard for the next leg of
your journey. 

5353
04:36:42,400 --> 04:36:44,900
But you'll always remember the 
night, you learned that the real

5354
04:36:44,900 --> 04:36:48,300
wild west wasn't one with guns. 
It was one with conversation 

5355
04:36:48,300 --> 04:36:52,599
creativity and the kind of human
decency that transcends time and

5356
04:36:52,599 --> 04:36:56,099
place Suite dreams Travelers the
frontier awaits. 

5357
04:36:56,099 --> 04:36:58,800
And now, you know, it's not 
quite as dangerous as the story 

5358
04:36:58,800 --> 04:37:01,599
suggests, just infinitely more 
interesting than you ever 

5359
04:37:01,599 --> 04:37:07,599
imagined. 
Paul Revere's name, of Oaks 

5360
04:37:07,599 --> 04:37:11,200
images of a midnight ride, 
urgent calls for malicious and 

5361
04:37:11,200 --> 04:37:14,800
the onset of the American 
Revolution, Yet few realized the

5362
04:37:14,800 --> 04:37:18,599
full scope of The Man Behind the
iconic alarm, he was a silver 

5363
04:37:18,599 --> 04:37:22,700
myth engraver, early 
industrialists, and a shrewd 

5364
04:37:22,700 --> 04:37:26,300
networker who navigated Boston 
Circles of Artisans, merchants, 

5365
04:37:26,300 --> 04:37:31,000
and political agitators. 
Born on January, the 1st 1735. 

5366
04:37:31,000 --> 04:37:35,500
Old-style to Apollo's rivoire. 
A French, Hugo, immigrant and 

5367
04:37:35,500 --> 04:37:39,099
Deborah. 
Hichborn a Boston native Revere 

5368
04:37:39,099 --> 04:37:42,099
was destined to bridge cultures 
and communities at a time when 

5369
04:37:42,099 --> 04:37:45,400
colonial society seethed with 
discontent under British rule 

5370
04:37:45,400 --> 04:37:49,000
Apollo's revoir, who soon 
anglicized his name to Paul 

5371
04:37:49,000 --> 04:37:51,200
Revere taught his son, the art 
of silver work. 

5372
04:37:52,200 --> 04:37:54,400
This trade anchored, the 
younger's Fortune's. 

5373
04:37:54,400 --> 04:37:56,400
He grew up in Boston's North 
End. 

5374
04:37:56,400 --> 04:38:00,400
Surrounded by Wolves taverns and
religious meeting house is 

5375
04:38:00,400 --> 04:38:04,000
absorbing The rhythms of a busy 
Port City while modern 

5376
04:38:04,000 --> 04:38:06,900
retellings jump straight to his 
patriotic escapades. 

5377
04:38:06,900 --> 04:38:11,400
His formative years, shake his 
Destiny and more subtle Ways by 

5378
04:38:11,400 --> 04:38:14,700
age, 15 the death of his father,
thrust him into the role of 

5379
04:38:14,700 --> 04:38:17,599
family provider. 
The teenage Apprentice had to 

5380
04:38:17,608 --> 04:38:21,500
complete his training managed, 
the family's Affairs and Forge 

5381
04:38:21,500 --> 04:38:24,099
connections, with established 
silversmiths and Merchants 

5382
04:38:24,099 --> 04:38:28,400
during the 1750s. 
Revere served briefly in the 

5383
04:38:28,400 --> 04:38:30,599
provincial Army in the French 
and Indian War. 

5384
04:38:31,700 --> 04:38:34,500
And experience that gave him a 
glimpse of Britain's broader. 

5385
04:38:34,500 --> 04:38:37,200
Colonial entanglements Upon 
returning to Boston. 

5386
04:38:37,200 --> 04:38:40,099
He embraced the trade of 
silversmithing, wholeheartedly 

5387
04:38:40,099 --> 04:38:43,099
creating not just decorative 
pieces, but also practical 

5388
04:38:43,099 --> 04:38:44,900
items, like buckles and 
utensils. 

5389
04:38:45,700 --> 04:38:49,000
He prided himself on detail 
marketing, his Wares to a 

5390
04:38:49,000 --> 04:38:51,099
clientele that. 
Spanned, from Modest Craftsman, 

5391
04:38:51,099 --> 04:38:54,599
to the colonies, Rising middle 
class, invoices preserved from 

5392
04:38:54,608 --> 04:38:58,000
this period revealed that 
reveal, offered credit Advance, 

5393
04:38:58,000 --> 04:39:01,200
new designs, and constantly 
hustled for commission's. 

5394
04:39:01,200 --> 04:39:04,599
That brand of entrepreneurial 
Spirit would later fuel, his 

5395
04:39:04,599 --> 04:39:07,400
ability to mobilize networks for
revolutionary purposes. 

5396
04:39:08,400 --> 04:39:11,400
By the early 1760s tension 
simmered throughout 

5397
04:39:11,400 --> 04:39:14,900
Massachusetts. 
The Sugar Act, the Stamp Act and

5398
04:39:14,900 --> 04:39:17,000
subsequent taxes. 
Outraged merchants and 

5399
04:39:17,000 --> 04:39:20,099
tradespeople alike. 
Revere found himself among a 

5400
04:39:20,099 --> 04:39:23,099
group of Boston artists who 
gather at local taverns, to vent

5401
04:39:23,099 --> 04:39:26,000
frustration. 
These enclaves brewed that early

5402
04:39:26,000 --> 04:39:29,200
as forms of organized protests, 
Revere soon. 

5403
04:39:29,200 --> 04:39:32,000
Discovered he possessed a knack 
for articulating grievances 

5404
04:39:32,000 --> 04:39:34,800
through his Engravings. 
It was not only an art form but 

5405
04:39:34,800 --> 04:39:38,100
also a political tool 
effectively circulating ideas 

5406
04:39:38,100 --> 04:39:41,400
and stoking public sentiment 
against perceived British ovary 

5407
04:39:41,400 --> 04:39:45,300
his iconic, Engravings of the 
Boston Massacre, albeit 

5408
04:39:45,300 --> 04:39:49,200
dramatized helped radicalize 
many colonists Apart from 

5409
04:39:49,200 --> 04:39:52,700
engraving, Revere proved 
versatile and forging social 

5410
04:39:52,700 --> 04:39:54,700
bonds. 
He was active in the Masonic 

5411
04:39:54,700 --> 04:39:57,300
Lodge of Saint Andrew, where he 
crossed paths with influential 

5412
04:39:57,300 --> 04:40:01,500
figures, like Joseph Warren. 
He joined local fire clubs and 

5413
04:40:01,500 --> 04:40:04,100
essential Community fixture at a
time when wooden buildings, 

5414
04:40:04,100 --> 04:40:07,100
pose, constant, fire hazards, 
the same network that helped, 

5415
04:40:07,100 --> 04:40:10,200
keep Boston from Flames. 
Also, functioned as a 

5416
04:40:10,200 --> 04:40:12,400
communication Hub. 
When secrecy was Paramount 

5417
04:40:12,400 --> 04:40:16,400
reverse involvement in such 
clubs, honed his skills at 

5418
04:40:16,400 --> 04:40:19,000
organizing committees and 
planing contingencies. 

5419
04:40:20,200 --> 04:40:22,600
Revere witnessed the growing 
tension between the British 

5420
04:40:22,600 --> 04:40:24,300
authorities and Colonial 
protesters. 

5421
04:40:24,300 --> 04:40:27,300
As the decade progressed. 
He witnessed the formation of 

5422
04:40:27,300 --> 04:40:30,300
the Sons of Liberty, a 
loosely-knit group bent on 

5423
04:40:30,300 --> 04:40:33,300
resisting British policy, 
through boycotts demonstrations 

5424
04:40:33,300 --> 04:40:36,900
and occasionally more aggressive
tactics, while Samuel Adams and 

5425
04:40:36,900 --> 04:40:38,600
John Hancock corner of the 
spotlight. 

5426
04:40:38,600 --> 04:40:43,200
Revere operated just beneath it 
linking Tradesmen, printers and 

5427
04:40:43,200 --> 04:40:46,600
Mariners to the, cause he 
carried messages across town 

5428
04:40:46,600 --> 04:40:49,700
utilized, his Network to 
fundraise for boycotts and 

5429
04:40:49,700 --> 04:40:53,300
orchestrated covert. 
Gatherings in summary, the man 

5430
04:40:53,308 --> 04:40:55,800
played a significant role in the
turbulent of events that 

5431
04:40:55,800 --> 04:40:59,400
preceded the revolution. 
His silver shot bustled by day 

5432
04:40:59,400 --> 04:41:02,700
forging items for well to do 
Patron's while by night. 

5433
04:41:02,700 --> 04:41:05,000
He frequently huddled with 
Patriots in back rooms. 

5434
04:41:05,000 --> 04:41:08,900
This dual existence. 
Both an honest Craftsman in 

5435
04:41:08,900 --> 04:41:12,400
broad daylight in a clandestine 
activists in the Twilight gave 

5436
04:41:12,400 --> 04:41:14,300
Revere and uncommon advantage 
point. 

5437
04:41:15,200 --> 04:41:18,000
He understood the Grievances of 
merchants taxed by Parliament 

5438
04:41:18,000 --> 04:41:21,200
and the resentments of sailors 
by British Naval patrols. 

5439
04:41:21,200 --> 04:41:25,300
He also grasped the precarious, 
existence of apprentices who 

5440
04:41:25,300 --> 04:41:27,800
found themselves. 
Jobless whenever tensions flared

5441
04:41:28,600 --> 04:41:32,800
In the early 1770s, Revere face 
to crucial decision, he could 

5442
04:41:32,800 --> 04:41:35,800
either maintain his status as a 
respective Craftsman and avoid 

5443
04:41:35,800 --> 04:41:38,700
radical elements or he could 
fully dedicate himself to the 

5444
04:41:38,700 --> 04:41:40,500
resistance. 
That was forming a round him. 

5445
04:41:41,200 --> 04:41:43,800
That choice would Define his 
role in the uncertain months 

5446
04:41:43,800 --> 04:41:47,300
ahead, as Britain tightened, its
grip, and Boston, braced for 

5447
04:41:47,300 --> 04:41:50,200
confrontation, his decision to 
lean into activism. 

5448
04:41:50,200 --> 04:41:52,900
Would soon thrust him into 
history's pages, though. 

5449
04:41:52,900 --> 04:41:55,100
He never guessed that. 
A single midnight ride would 

5450
04:41:55,100 --> 04:41:57,500
overshadow Decades of other 
contributions. 

5451
04:41:58,600 --> 04:42:00,700
As Britain stepped up in 
enforcement of colonial 

5452
04:42:00,700 --> 04:42:03,600
policies, Revere and his 
compatriots adapted. 

5453
04:42:04,300 --> 04:42:08,200
No single figure commanded the 
burgeoning movement instead it 

5454
04:42:08,200 --> 04:42:11,600
operated through committees 
correspondences and Loosely 

5455
04:42:11,600 --> 04:42:15,600
Affiliated networks of Tradesmen
small merchants and outspoken 

5456
04:42:15,600 --> 04:42:18,600
Patriots. 
Revere, proved instrumental, in 

5457
04:42:18,600 --> 04:42:21,500
bridging these circles. 
He was neither the wealthiest 

5458
04:42:21,500 --> 04:42:25,000
Merchants, nor the most fiery 
orator, but his profound 

5459
04:42:25,000 --> 04:42:27,900
knowledge of Boston's geography,
and his wide array of personal 

5460
04:42:27,900 --> 04:42:29,900
relationships made him 
indispensable. 

5461
04:42:30,700 --> 04:42:32,700
He played a key role in the 
intelligence game, that 

5462
04:42:32,700 --> 04:42:36,400
developed as tensions, Rose the 
British, suspecting the colonies

5463
04:42:36,400 --> 04:42:40,200
of seditious intent, planted 
informants and seized letters. 

5464
04:42:40,200 --> 04:42:43,200
Meanwhile Patriot leaders, 
formed Committees of 

5465
04:42:43,200 --> 04:42:46,000
Correspondence in every town, 
forging a parallel Information 

5466
04:42:46,000 --> 04:42:48,000
Network that bypassed Royal 
officials. 

5467
04:42:48,000 --> 04:42:51,500
Revere often served as a courier
riding to distant. 

5468
04:42:51,500 --> 04:42:55,200
Towns, will sister Salem even 
Portsmouth to update them on the

5469
04:42:55,208 --> 04:42:57,600
latest developments. 
These Journeys were not 

5470
04:42:57,600 --> 04:43:01,700
glamorous winter, roads, were 
treacherous lodgings minimal but

5471
04:43:01,700 --> 04:43:04,800
reverse Skillet traveling in 
cognito, changing routes, 

5472
04:43:04,800 --> 04:43:08,100
unpredictably and winning, trust
at local, taverns, kept the 

5473
04:43:08,100 --> 04:43:12,300
chain of communication robust, 
Beyond his career work continued

5474
04:43:12,300 --> 04:43:16,600
engraving political cartoons. 
His depiction of the Boston Tea 

5475
04:43:16,600 --> 04:43:20,600
Party for instance, circulated 
widely capturing the moment when

5476
04:43:20,600 --> 04:43:24,900
Patriots dumped British tea into
the harbor, The incident itself 

5477
04:43:24,900 --> 04:43:27,400
was more chaotic than reverse 
engraving suggested. 

5478
04:43:27,400 --> 04:43:31,200
He presented it. 
Home today as a unified 

5479
04:43:31,200 --> 04:43:34,700
disciplined act, an image that 
bolstered the Patriot's claim of

5480
04:43:34,708 --> 04:43:38,200
moral, High Ground He also 
contributed subtly altered, 

5481
04:43:38,200 --> 04:43:40,900
Prince of the governor, or 
British officers turning them 

5482
04:43:40,900 --> 04:43:43,400
into caricatures for 
distribution among sympathizers.

5483
04:43:43,400 --> 04:43:47,000
These images pinned up in print 
shops or posted in meeting 

5484
04:43:47,000 --> 04:43:49,500
Halls, served a rallying 
symbols. 

5485
04:43:50,700 --> 04:43:53,500
One lesson known chapter in 
Revere's life involved. 

5486
04:43:53,500 --> 04:43:58,600
The Suffolk resolves, drafted in
1774 by Boston leaders, these 

5487
04:43:58,600 --> 04:44:01,100
resolutions rejected the 
coercive acts and called for 

5488
04:44:01,100 --> 04:44:04,200
civil disobedience. 
Reveal was entrusted with 

5489
04:44:04,200 --> 04:44:06,500
delivering a copy to the First 
Continental Congress. 

5490
04:44:06,500 --> 04:44:10,100
In Philadelphia, the journey 
South exposed him to a broader 

5491
04:44:10,100 --> 04:44:12,500
Colonial landscape. 
Forging connections with the 

5492
04:44:12,500 --> 04:44:16,000
Lewis from other colonies. 
He returned more convinced than 

5493
04:44:16,000 --> 04:44:18,400
ever that Massachusetts was not 
alone in protesting. 

5494
04:44:18,400 --> 04:44:22,300
Meanwhile his reliability as a 
messenger sword in the eyes of 

5495
04:44:22,308 --> 04:44:24,800
figures. 
Like John Adams, yet Revere was 

5496
04:44:24,800 --> 04:44:26,300
not purely a political 
operative. 

5497
04:44:26,300 --> 04:44:30,200
He had a family. 
His first wife, Sarah orne and 

5498
04:44:30,200 --> 04:44:34,600
born him several children before
passing away in 1773 and he 

5499
04:44:34,600 --> 04:44:37,300
later married, Rachel Walker who
also became part of the 

5500
04:44:37,308 --> 04:44:40,300
extended. 
Revere Clan balancing domestic 

5501
04:44:40,300 --> 04:44:43,500
life with clandestine Patriot 
activity, proved stressful. 

5502
04:44:44,300 --> 04:44:46,500
Friends recalled that Revere 
silver shops, sometimes 

5503
04:44:46,500 --> 04:44:48,800
functioned as an unofficial 
meeting site. 

5504
04:44:49,500 --> 04:44:52,800
Though it remained primarily a 
commercial Venture, he might sit

5505
04:44:52,800 --> 04:44:57,800
at his workbench forging spoon's
or teapots while Patriots 

5506
04:44:57,800 --> 04:45:00,800
gathered in a small side room to
whisper about British troop 

5507
04:45:00,800 --> 04:45:04,600
movements. 
By 1775 British off authorities 

5508
04:45:04,600 --> 04:45:07,900
began to suspect that Boston's 
Artisans played a larger role in

5509
04:45:07,900 --> 04:45:11,200
the unrest than previously 
assumed regular army officers 

5510
04:45:11,200 --> 04:45:13,500
roamed. 
The city searching for hidden 

5511
04:45:13,500 --> 04:45:17,500
arms, Depots rumors swirled of 
British plans, to arrest key, 

5512
04:45:17,500 --> 04:45:20,900
Rebel leaders, particularly John
Hancock and Samuel Adams who had

5513
04:45:20,908 --> 04:45:23,000
left Boston for the relative 
safety in Lexington. 

5514
04:45:23,000 --> 04:45:26,500
And Concord, meanwhile, 
Massachusetts Patriots, had 

5515
04:45:26,500 --> 04:45:30,100
stored, gunpowder in Concord, a 
small town, west of Boston and 

5516
04:45:30,100 --> 04:45:34,000
anticipating a confrontation. 
As both sides prepared for the 

5517
04:45:34,000 --> 04:45:36,700
potential next move, tensions 
escalated. 

5518
04:45:37,600 --> 04:45:40,800
During this turbulent period, 
the Patriot leadership developed

5519
04:45:40,800 --> 04:45:44,100
a signal system should the 
British launched a sudden strike

5520
04:45:44,100 --> 04:45:46,900
watches at the old. 
North Church would hang lanterns

5521
04:45:46,900 --> 04:45:50,100
to indicate whether the troops 
moved by land or by boat across 

5522
04:45:50,100 --> 04:45:52,900
the Charles River. 
Revere was part of the group 

5523
04:45:52,900 --> 04:45:57,000
that set this plan in motion, 
but to reduce risk, it was a 

5524
04:45:57,000 --> 04:45:59,900
friend Robert Newman, who would 
hang the lanterns. 

5525
04:45:59,900 --> 04:46:03,300
Revere himself, would undertake 
the Hazardous ride to warn 

5526
04:46:03,300 --> 04:46:06,100
Hancock and Adams and Rouse the 
militias along the Route. 

5527
04:46:07,700 --> 04:46:11,300
In the days leading to that 
famous night, reverse sled. 

5528
04:46:13,000 --> 04:46:14,600
He conferred with Dr. Joseph 
Warren. 

5529
04:46:15,400 --> 04:46:17,600
Who was privy to freshen 
intelligence, suggesting 

5530
04:46:17,600 --> 04:46:18,800
British, movements were 
imminent. 

5531
04:46:18,800 --> 04:46:22,400
The plan was bold. 
The state's enormous if the 

5532
04:46:22,400 --> 04:46:25,500
British discovered it, Revere 
faced, imprisonment or worse. 

5533
04:46:26,400 --> 04:46:29,500
But he recognized that a swift 
warning might unify thousands of

5534
04:46:29,500 --> 04:46:31,200
militiamen before the Royal 
troops. 

5535
04:46:31,200 --> 04:46:32,900
Could seize arms or arrest 
leaders. 

5536
04:46:33,700 --> 04:46:36,000
No single Courier. 
Could accomplish the entire job 

5537
04:46:36,000 --> 04:46:38,500
alone, others, like William 
doors. 

5538
04:46:38,500 --> 04:46:42,700
Share the load, still Revere's 
role would become legendary 

5539
04:46:42,700 --> 04:46:46,300
overshadowing. 
The fact that a network, not one

5540
04:46:46,300 --> 04:46:51,400
man, fueled that night's alert. 
Hence, as April 1775 dawned 

5541
04:46:51,400 --> 04:46:54,400
Revere stood. 
On a precipice, all the 

5542
04:46:54,400 --> 04:46:57,700
clandestine work, the rides to 
scattered towns and the coded 

5543
04:46:57,700 --> 04:47:00,500
signals at church. 
Steeples led to this juncture. 

5544
04:47:00,500 --> 04:47:04,600
The next house would test his 
resourcefulness bravery and 

5545
04:47:04,600 --> 04:47:07,800
knack for quiet coordination 
traits honed over years. 

5546
04:47:07,800 --> 04:47:10,900
Now, culminating in a midnight 
Dash that would echo through 

5547
04:47:10,900 --> 04:47:16,600
American law on the evening of 
April 18th, 1775 Paul, Revere 

5548
04:47:16,600 --> 04:47:19,500
prepared to leave. 
Boston British officers had 

5549
04:47:19,500 --> 04:47:22,600
become conspicuous near the 
docks though, many bosnians. 

5550
04:47:22,600 --> 04:47:26,400
Loyalists included believed the 
troops would attempt to show a 

5551
04:47:26,400 --> 04:47:28,400
force the next day. 
Revere. 

5552
04:47:28,400 --> 04:47:33,200
However, suspected otherwise. 
Navigated through dark streets 

5553
04:47:33,200 --> 04:47:36,900
to the Charles River's Edge. 
Where a small boat awaited two 

5554
04:47:36,900 --> 04:47:39,900
friends, rode him quietly across
muffling, all locks with cloth 

5555
04:47:39,900 --> 04:47:42,500
to avoid drawing the attention 
of the British warship anchor to

5556
04:47:42,508 --> 04:47:45,300
nearby. 
Revere reached the Charles Town 

5557
04:47:45,300 --> 04:47:47,100
side and found a borrowed horse 
waiting. 

5558
04:47:47,900 --> 04:47:50,600
Simultaneously Robert Newman 
stood at the old. 

5559
04:47:50,600 --> 04:47:53,000
North Church Tower prepared to 
hoist. 

5560
04:47:53,000 --> 04:47:55,400
Two lanterns in the event of 
British troops, launching from 

5561
04:47:55,400 --> 04:47:57,800
the water. 
Those signals would inform 

5562
04:47:57,800 --> 04:48:00,400
watches in Charlestown. 
Who would then spread the Alarm 

5563
04:48:00,400 --> 04:48:03,600
by alternative routes. 
Revere's task was to write 

5564
04:48:03,600 --> 04:48:06,600
directly to Lexington, rousing 
the countryside as he went 

5565
04:48:07,300 --> 04:48:10,700
Another Rider William Dawes 
would take a separate path in 

5566
04:48:10,700 --> 04:48:13,900
during the, if one was stopped 
the other might succeed. 

5567
04:48:15,000 --> 04:48:18,100
Mounting his horse, Revere began
the journey at first. 

5568
04:48:18,100 --> 04:48:21,500
The roads late eerily quiet, it 
only By Moonlight or the 

5569
04:48:21,500 --> 04:48:24,700
occasional Lantern in a window. 
He knocked on Farmhouse doors, 

5570
04:48:24,700 --> 04:48:28,200
calling to sleeping Patriots. 
The regulars are on the move or 

5571
04:48:28,200 --> 04:48:30,600
words to that effect, he never 
actually shouted. 

5572
04:48:30,600 --> 04:48:34,000
The British are coming since 
many colonists, still considered

5573
04:48:34,000 --> 04:48:38,100
themselves British instead, he 
typically used phrases like the 

5574
04:48:38,100 --> 04:48:42,100
regulars are out to alert local,
militias families, woke groggy 

5575
04:48:42,100 --> 04:48:45,800
but recognized Revere by name or
from prior visits, swiftly, they

5576
04:48:45,800 --> 04:48:48,900
dressed collected. 
Muskets began passing word to 

5577
04:48:48,900 --> 04:48:51,100
neighbors. 
Further, Inland the ride was not

5578
04:48:51,100 --> 04:48:54,500
free of peril at 1 Point. 
Reverse spotted, two, British 

5579
04:48:54,500 --> 04:48:58,600
officers on Horseback fearing, 
capture evaded them by dashing 

5580
04:48:58,600 --> 04:49:01,800
off on a side path relying on 
his memory of the terrain. 

5581
04:49:02,600 --> 04:49:05,700
The near encounter heightened 
his urgency every minute 

5582
04:49:05,700 --> 04:49:07,900
counted. 
If the British marched swiftly, 

5583
04:49:07,900 --> 04:49:11,200
they could seize the arms and 
Concord or intercept Hancock. 

5584
04:49:11,200 --> 04:49:13,100
And Adams before local militias 
mustard. 

5585
04:49:14,500 --> 04:49:17,900
Arriving in Lexington around 
midnight, Revere found Hancock 

5586
04:49:17,900 --> 04:49:21,200
and Adams lodging at the home of
Reverend Jonas Clark. 

5587
04:49:22,000 --> 04:49:25,000
He delivered his News, British 
forces would soon move to 

5588
04:49:25,000 --> 04:49:28,000
confiscate Colonial weapons and 
possibly arrest Patriot leaders,

5589
04:49:28,000 --> 04:49:31,600
the two men hesitated and 
certain whether the threat was 

5590
04:49:31,600 --> 04:49:34,300
immediate, meanwhile locals 
debated. 

5591
04:49:34,300 --> 04:49:37,000
The best course having done his 
duty of warning them. 

5592
04:49:37,000 --> 04:49:40,300
Revere prepared to continue on 
to conquer to spread the alarm 

5593
04:49:40,300 --> 04:49:43,700
further by coincidence. 
Doors arrived in Lexington. 

5594
04:49:43,700 --> 04:49:46,900
Shortly after Revere having 
navigated a separate route. 

5595
04:49:46,900 --> 04:49:50,800
They connected with another 
Rider to Samuel Prescott who 

5596
04:49:50,800 --> 04:49:53,700
agreed to guide them to Concord 
being intimately familiar with 

5597
04:49:53,700 --> 04:49:56,800
the area the trio set off to 
determined to alert. 

5598
04:49:56,800 --> 04:50:00,500
The entire region not far along 
a British Patrol in weight. 

5599
04:50:00,500 --> 04:50:04,200
The Red Coats tried to block 
them on an arrow Road doors. 

5600
04:50:04,200 --> 04:50:06,500
Managed to slip away though, he 
lost his horse. 

5601
04:50:06,500 --> 04:50:10,700
Soon after Prescott an agile 
Rider volted offense into the 

5602
04:50:10,700 --> 04:50:14,100
woods and escaped captivity 
successfully, reaching Concord. 

5603
04:50:14,900 --> 04:50:19,100
Revere however was detained. 
The officers interrogated, 

5604
04:50:19,100 --> 04:50:21,700
Revere suspects, he carried 
vital intelligence. 

5605
04:50:21,700 --> 04:50:25,100
He admitted British troops were 
heading to Concord but did not 

5606
04:50:25,108 --> 04:50:26,900
conceal that the militias had 
been forewarned. 

5607
04:50:27,700 --> 04:50:30,300
Stunned by his Candor, the 
officers tried to hustle him 

5608
04:50:30,300 --> 04:50:32,600
along to figure out the scope of
the Patriot plan. 

5609
04:50:33,300 --> 04:50:35,700
They soon heard gunfire in the 
distance, the sound of 

5610
04:50:35,708 --> 04:50:39,000
militiamen already mobilizing 
alarm that their mission was 

5611
04:50:39,008 --> 04:50:40,700
compromised. 
The officers. 

5612
04:50:40,700 --> 04:50:43,100
Let Revere go. 
He found his way back to 

5613
04:50:43,100 --> 04:50:46,600
Lexington on foot arriving, just
in time to witness the early 

5614
04:50:46,600 --> 04:50:50,500
skirmishes on Lexington, Green 
at dawn, thus ended Revere's 

5615
04:50:50,500 --> 04:50:53,100
ride and thus began open 
conflict in the war. 

5616
04:50:53,100 --> 04:50:56,300
That would shape a nation. 
The malicious converged as 

5617
04:50:56,300 --> 04:50:59,700
intended over the British 
pressed onto Concord, then 

5618
04:50:59,700 --> 04:51:01,300
counted. 
A growing throng of armed 

5619
04:51:01,300 --> 04:51:03,600
colonists. 
The day ended in a chaotic 

5620
04:51:03,600 --> 04:51:06,500
Retreat for the Red Coats, an 
event that echoed far beyond 

5621
04:51:06,500 --> 04:51:09,500
Massachusetts news of this 
standoff would spark the 

5622
04:51:09,500 --> 04:51:12,600
colonies transformation from 
scattered protests into a full 

5623
04:51:12,600 --> 04:51:15,300
blown Revolution. 
Paul Revere's role on that 

5624
04:51:15,300 --> 04:51:18,000
pivotal night was merely one 
component of a larger chain, 

5625
04:51:18,000 --> 04:51:22,200
others doors Prescott local, 
Watchers played equally critical

5626
04:51:22,200 --> 04:51:25,000
roles yet. 
Over time, popular mythology. 

5627
04:51:25,000 --> 04:51:28,200
Spotlighted Revere as the Lone 
Hero Galloping through the 

5628
04:51:28,200 --> 04:51:31,900
countryside decades, later 
Henry, Wadsworth longfellow's 

5629
04:51:31,900 --> 04:51:35,700
poem, which condense the story 
into a stirring to Arms, greatly

5630
04:51:35,700 --> 04:51:40,100
contributed to reverse Fame. 
In reality Revere's Ride was, 

5631
04:51:40,100 --> 04:51:43,600
but one expression of a complex 
strategy, however, it was 

5632
04:51:43,600 --> 04:51:45,900
sufficient to permanently 
inscribe him in America's 

5633
04:51:45,900 --> 04:51:48,700
Collective Consciousness. 
As the individual who raised the

5634
04:51:48,700 --> 04:51:51,400
alarm, thereby altering the 
course of history. 

5635
04:51:52,500 --> 04:51:56,100
Once the battles at Lexington 
and Concord ignited Warfare. 

5636
04:51:56,800 --> 04:52:00,600
Paul Revere's story did not 
pause, he continued serving the 

5637
04:52:00,600 --> 04:52:04,900
Revolutionary cause in Myriad 
ways some unsung others 

5638
04:52:04,900 --> 04:52:08,700
overshadowed by the flash of his
midnight ride in the following 

5639
04:52:08,700 --> 04:52:11,300
months, Boston became a hotbed 
of tension. 

5640
04:52:11,300 --> 04:52:14,500
The British held the city while 
Colonial forces in circled. 

5641
04:52:14,500 --> 04:52:17,400
It revealed worked on 
intelligence and logistical 

5642
04:52:17,400 --> 04:52:21,200
tasks using his expertise in 
messaging and crowd coordination

5643
04:52:21,200 --> 04:52:22,800
to keep Patriot's. 
Informed. 

5644
04:52:24,100 --> 04:52:26,900
One key project saw him turning 
from Silver to metal of another 

5645
04:52:26,900 --> 04:52:30,500
kind. 
Massachusetts needed Cannon shot

5646
04:52:30,500 --> 04:52:34,000
and other who other Munitions as
a skilled Artisan. 

5647
04:52:34,000 --> 04:52:37,700
River adapted his workshop for 
manufacturing though. 

5648
04:52:37,700 --> 04:52:41,100
Not a large-scale operation. 
His Foundry, contributed metal 

5649
04:52:41,100 --> 04:52:42,600
fittings and Small Arms 
components. 

5650
04:52:42,600 --> 04:52:46,100
He tinkered with the ways to 
produce gunpowder, though that 

5651
04:52:46,100 --> 04:52:48,100
challenge required specialized 
Mills. 

5652
04:52:48,100 --> 04:52:51,600
Meanwhile, Revere participated 
in local committees that govern 

5653
04:52:51,600 --> 04:52:53,500
the region in the absence of 
British Authority. 

5654
04:52:53,500 --> 04:52:56,400
Ensuring daily life, continued 
amid chaos. 

5655
04:52:56,400 --> 04:53:00,800
Amid these labors tragedy, 
struck dock to Joseph. 

5656
04:53:00,800 --> 04:53:04,400
Warren Revere's friend and 
fellow Patriots was killed in 

5657
04:53:04,400 --> 04:53:07,400
June 1775 at the Battle of 
Bunker Hill. 

5658
04:53:08,300 --> 04:53:12,200
Warren's death, hit Revere hard.
The two had collaborated closely

5659
04:53:12,200 --> 04:53:13,900
in booked realizing the early as
resistance. 

5660
04:53:14,900 --> 04:53:17,900
And Warren's medical skill had 
saved countless lives in Prior 

5661
04:53:17,900 --> 04:53:21,100
skirmishes, the Heartbreak shop 
and reverse resolve. 

5662
04:53:21,100 --> 04:53:24,800
The cost of Independence was 
high, yet men like Warren 

5663
04:53:24,800 --> 04:53:28,800
believed in it, passionately. 
Revere channel that sorrow into 

5664
04:53:28,800 --> 04:53:31,900
further commitments, traveling 
frequently between revolutionary

5665
04:53:31,900 --> 04:53:34,000
committees in Cambridge and 
outlying towns. 

5666
04:53:34,000 --> 04:53:39,600
The British finally evacuated 
Boston in March, 1776, a turning

5667
04:53:39,600 --> 04:53:41,700
point that caused Jubilation 
among the Patriots. 

5668
04:53:41,700 --> 04:53:45,300
Revere moved back into the city 
reclaiming, his silver shop. 

5669
04:53:45,300 --> 04:53:48,800
But founded in disarray, after 
months, of occupation repairs 

5670
04:53:48,800 --> 04:53:50,700
were needed before. 
Normal business could resume, 

5671
04:53:50,700 --> 04:53:54,100
however, normal business had 
become a distant memory by that 

5672
04:53:54,100 --> 04:53:57,900
point, the war had shifted to 
other colonies and Revere skill,

5673
04:53:57,900 --> 04:54:01,100
set remained valuable, He 
volunteered for militia service 

5674
04:54:01,100 --> 04:54:03,300
and was appointed a lieutenant 
colonel of artillery. 

5675
04:54:03,300 --> 04:54:06,200
In the Massachusetts militia 
this role combined 

5676
04:54:06,200 --> 04:54:09,000
administrative oversight in 
troops, had supplies and 

5677
04:54:09,000 --> 04:54:12,300
equipment with strategic input 
drawing on his knowledge of 

5678
04:54:12,300 --> 04:54:15,400
local fortifications. 
And 1778. 

5679
04:54:15,400 --> 04:54:18,900
Revere participated in the 
ill-fated Penobscot Expedition, 

5680
04:54:18,900 --> 04:54:23,000
an attempt by the Massachusetts 
militia to oust British forces 

5681
04:54:23,000 --> 04:54:26,400
in present-day, Maine. 
The Expedition ended in disaster

5682
04:54:26,400 --> 04:54:30,000
with the colonial Fleet scuttled
and troops forced to Retreat 

5683
04:54:30,000 --> 04:54:33,400
through the wilderness. 
Revere faced criticism for his 

5684
04:54:33,400 --> 04:54:36,700
actions, their specially 
regarding disputes over the 

5685
04:54:36,700 --> 04:54:40,400
chain of command, a court, 
martial ensued questioning 

5686
04:54:40,400 --> 04:54:42,900
whether he had disobeyed orders 
or abandoned his post. 

5687
04:54:42,900 --> 04:54:47,100
Well eventually exonerated the 
incident left, a sour note in 

5688
04:54:47,100 --> 04:54:51,100
his military career, contrasting
shop with the heroic Aura of his

5689
04:54:51,100 --> 04:54:54,500
early ride. 
Undeterred, he continued 

5690
04:54:54,500 --> 04:54:57,600
assisting in local defenses, 
forging, new connections with 

5691
04:54:57,600 --> 04:55:00,800
revolutionary leaders in the 
final years of the war. 

5692
04:55:00,800 --> 04:55:04,400
Revere balanced militia duties 
with attempts to stabilize his 

5693
04:55:04,400 --> 04:55:07,600
personal livelihood. 
The prolonged conflict had 

5694
04:55:07,600 --> 04:55:10,500
disrupted, normal commas, and 
Craftsmen across the colonies 

5695
04:55:10,500 --> 04:55:13,500
struggled reverse adaptability 
Sean once more. 

5696
04:55:13,500 --> 04:55:17,200
He introduced new techniques, 
such as rolling, copper sheets 

5697
04:55:17,200 --> 04:55:19,600
for Naval. 
Use precursor to his later, 

5698
04:55:19,600 --> 04:55:22,000
achievements in metalworking. 
That would flourish post-war. 

5699
04:55:23,100 --> 04:55:25,700
Throughout these years. 
Revere also engaged in the 

5700
04:55:25,700 --> 04:55:27,500
social fabric of the budding 
Republic. 

5701
04:55:28,400 --> 04:55:30,900
He joined societies, discussing 
ways to structure the new 

5702
04:55:30,900 --> 04:55:33,300
nation's governance. 
He was active in the movement 

5703
04:55:33,300 --> 04:55:35,800
that eventually produced the 
Massachusetts Constitution. 

5704
04:55:37,000 --> 04:55:39,700
Among his lesson known efforts 
was involvement with the local 

5705
04:55:39,700 --> 04:55:43,500
intelligence apparatus to verify
rumors of British Espionage or 

5706
04:55:43,500 --> 04:55:46,100
infiltration. 
He was not a central Spider-Man 

5707
04:55:46,100 --> 04:55:51,900
could trace suspicious activity.
The same street smarts that 

5708
04:55:51,900 --> 04:55:54,800
fueled his 1775 ride. 
Aided him once again. 

5709
04:55:55,700 --> 04:55:58,300
When the Treaty of Paris finally
ended the Revolutionary War in 

5710
04:55:58,308 --> 04:56:03,500
1783 Revere was a 50. 
He had served as Crosman. 

5711
04:56:03,500 --> 04:56:07,600
Courier militia officer and 
Community, organizer Rolls 

5712
04:56:07,600 --> 04:56:10,100
overshadowed by that single 
night Gallop into Legend. 

5713
04:56:11,100 --> 04:56:14,500
He emerged from the war with a 
moderate standing, his Workshop 

5714
04:56:14,500 --> 04:56:19,100
battered but not ruined. 
Boston's economy was in flux but

5715
04:56:19,100 --> 04:56:22,700
reverse or opportunities ahead. 
He recognized that the new 

5716
04:56:22,700 --> 04:56:26,700
United States short on domestic.
Manufacturing would need local 

5717
04:56:26,700 --> 04:56:29,300
Industries to replace Imports 
once applied by Britain. 

5718
04:56:30,100 --> 04:56:34,300
Thus as the guns fell silent 
Revere pivoted from the chaos of

5719
04:56:34,300 --> 04:56:37,500
War to the prospect of Peace. 
He had learned about 

5720
04:56:37,500 --> 04:56:39,800
large-scale, metal work from 
wartime demands. 

5721
04:56:39,800 --> 04:56:42,800
Now he sought to Parlay that 
knowledge into a business 

5722
04:56:42,800 --> 04:56:45,800
Advantage. 
He opened new Ventures, such as 

5723
04:56:45,800 --> 04:56:48,800
a hardware store and a Foundry 
capable of casting bells and 

5724
04:56:48,800 --> 04:56:51,200
cannons. 
This transformation signaled. 

5725
04:56:51,200 --> 04:56:54,200
His next chapter, a shift from 
revolutionary operative to 

5726
04:56:54,200 --> 04:56:58,300
pioneering industrialist despite
everything he held on to the 

5727
04:56:58,300 --> 04:57:00,200
memory of Bunker Hill lost 
friends. 

5728
04:57:00,200 --> 04:57:03,300
And that ride on a moonlit 
night, which shaped him into a 

5729
04:57:03,300 --> 04:57:06,900
man determined to help Forge a 
stable prosperous future for the

5730
04:57:06,900 --> 04:57:09,800
Republic. 
He helped birth in the postwar 

5731
04:57:09,800 --> 04:57:10,600
era. 
Paul. 

5732
04:57:10,600 --> 04:57:12,700
Revere harnessed his 
entrepreneurial Spirit to 

5733
04:57:12,700 --> 04:57:14,800
elevate Boston's manufacturing 
capabilities. 

5734
04:57:14,800 --> 04:57:18,400
While many Americans clung to 
small-scale artisanal methods, 

5735
04:57:18,400 --> 04:57:22,100
he envisioned something grander,
an industrial growth that could 

5736
04:57:22,108 --> 04:57:24,100
rival, Europe established 
foundries. 

5737
04:57:24,100 --> 04:57:28,000
His experience is role in Copper
for Naval uses and casting small

5738
04:57:28,000 --> 04:57:31,800
cannons during the war Prim. 
Him for expansions through 

5739
04:57:31,800 --> 04:57:35,300
determined trial and error. 
Revere built a thriving copper 

5740
04:57:35,300 --> 04:57:39,000
Works in Enterprise, it began 
with smaller tasks producing 

5741
04:57:39,000 --> 04:57:44,000
copper bolts spikes and fittings
for local shipyards Boston and 

5742
04:57:44,000 --> 04:57:46,100
bustling Maritime hub off a 
ready Market. 

5743
04:57:47,000 --> 04:57:49,900
Over time Revere realized the 
potential for roofing large 

5744
04:57:49,900 --> 04:57:53,000
buildings with copper sheets. 
A technique popular in European 

5745
04:57:53,000 --> 04:57:55,300
Cathedrals but rare in the young
United States. 

5746
04:57:55,300 --> 04:57:58,100
He also recognized the 
possibility of sheathing. 

5747
04:57:58,100 --> 04:58:01,100
The holes of Wooden Ships with 
copper to prevent wood-boring 

5748
04:58:01,100 --> 04:58:05,400
pests and reduce Marine growth 
If widely adopted copper 

5749
04:58:05,400 --> 04:58:07,700
sheathing could dramatically 
enhance of vessels speed and 

5750
04:58:07,700 --> 04:58:10,300
lifespan. 
Improving profitability for 

5751
04:58:10,300 --> 04:58:14,700
shipping companies yet Capital 
was scared River, searched for 

5752
04:58:14,700 --> 04:58:19,600
partners, or backers that often 
found skepticism most believed 

5753
04:58:19,600 --> 04:58:24,100
large-scale work to risky. 
Unfazed, Revere used his 

5754
04:58:24,100 --> 04:58:27,500
personal savings accumulated 
from Decades of silver work 

5755
04:58:27,500 --> 04:58:30,800
taking on loans at high interest
range. 

5756
04:58:30,800 --> 04:58:33,500
Shipments of raw Copper from 
mine's and kinetic or further 

5757
04:58:33,500 --> 04:58:36,800
afield. 
By the late 1780s, the operated 

5758
04:58:36,800 --> 04:58:38,900
a modest Rolling Mill. 
Though that struggled to match 

5759
04:58:38,908 --> 04:58:42,800
the consistency of British 
Imports undeterred, he labored 

5760
04:58:42,800 --> 04:58:45,800
to refine techniques tinkering 
with furnace temperatures and 

5761
04:58:45,800 --> 04:58:49,100
rolling Machinery designs 
alongside forging a copper 

5762
04:58:49,100 --> 04:58:51,700
Empire Riviera remained active 
in Civic life. 

5763
04:58:51,700 --> 04:58:54,700
He joined the Massachusetts 
charitable mechanical 

5764
04:58:54,700 --> 04:58:58,400
Association which championed 
tradesmen's rights and Advanced 

5765
04:58:58,400 --> 04:59:00,500
Mechanical Innovations. 
In addition. 

5766
04:59:00,500 --> 04:59:03,200
He oversaw Community initiatives
aimed at improving 

5767
04:59:03,200 --> 04:59:07,100
infrastructure, Boston's roads, 
Bridges and fire services. 

5768
04:59:07,100 --> 04:59:10,400
This Synergy of public service 
and private Enterprise mirrored.

5769
04:59:10,400 --> 04:59:13,800
The developing ethos of the new 
Republic her personal success 

5770
04:59:13,800 --> 04:59:15,500
and Collective well-being, 
intertwined. 

5771
04:59:16,300 --> 04:59:20,600
His family also expanded, father
to a large brood Revere, 

5772
04:59:20,600 --> 04:59:23,200
expected his children to learn a
trade or assist in the family. 

5773
04:59:23,200 --> 04:59:26,900
Businesses Sons began, helping 
in The Foundry, learning 

5774
04:59:26,900 --> 04:59:28,700
practical, skills from their 
father. 

5775
04:59:28,700 --> 04:59:32,300
Daughters were often educated 
enough to maintain household 

5776
04:59:32,300 --> 04:59:36,300
finances and even dabbling. 
Commercial tasks, the Revere 

5777
04:59:36,300 --> 04:59:39,300
Clan became a microcosm of the 
emergent middle class part 

5778
04:59:39,300 --> 04:59:42,200
tradition. 
Bound part 4, looking at times, 

5779
04:59:42,200 --> 04:59:44,700
dinner discussions, like the 
encompassed, everything from 

5780
04:59:44,700 --> 04:59:46,500
forging techniques to local 
politics. 

5781
04:59:46,500 --> 04:59:49,600
During this period, the new 
federal government sought to 

5782
04:59:49,600 --> 04:59:53,400
strengthen America's Naval 
capacity, threats loomed off the

5783
04:59:53,400 --> 04:59:56,600
Barbary Coast where Pirates, 
seized Merchant ships. 

5784
04:59:56,600 --> 05:00:00,400
The US Navy needed warships and 
reverse or his chance. 

5785
05:00:00,400 --> 05:00:02,900
He pitched his copper sheathing.
To the government. 

5786
05:00:02,900 --> 05:00:06,400
Arguing, the adopting homegrown 
manufacturing would reduce to 

5787
05:00:06,400 --> 05:00:09,800
pendants on foreign supplies 
despite initial reservations 

5788
05:00:09,800 --> 05:00:13,500
officials recognized the 
Strategic Advantage by the 

5789
05:00:13,500 --> 05:00:17,300
mid-1790s Revere's copper found.
Its way onto the USS 

5790
05:00:17,300 --> 05:00:19,900
Constitution nicknamed Old 
Ironsides. 

5791
05:00:19,900 --> 05:00:25,300
A famed frigate and Boston, this
success was huge demonstrated 

5792
05:00:25,300 --> 05:00:28,400
that domestic production could 
match or exceed British quality.

5793
05:00:29,200 --> 05:00:32,100
With pride. 
Revere marched his workers to 

5794
05:00:32,100 --> 05:00:35,000
the Charlestown Navy, yard to 
see the Constitution, outfitted 

5795
05:00:35,000 --> 05:00:36,600
the event. 
Symbolized. 

5796
05:00:36,600 --> 05:00:39,400
The Synergy of industrial 
progress and National Defense. 

5797
05:00:40,200 --> 05:00:43,000
In an era when many still saw 
the us as an agrarian 

5798
05:00:43,000 --> 05:00:46,600
Confederation Revere's. 
Pursuits hinted at a more 

5799
05:00:46,600 --> 05:00:49,800
industrial future, he began 
receiving more orders for the 

5800
05:00:49,800 --> 05:00:53,400
Bell casting too churches. 
Across New England wanted bells 

5801
05:00:53,400 --> 05:00:56,900
that combined pleasing acoustics
with durability, Revere's 

5802
05:00:56,900 --> 05:00:59,500
Foundry, delivered. 
Some of these bells still ring 

5803
05:00:59,500 --> 05:01:02,100
today. 
Even as reverse renowned grew in

5804
05:01:02,100 --> 05:01:04,400
manufacturing circles, he 
remained. 

5805
05:01:04,400 --> 05:01:06,900
Surprisingly modest about the 
fame midnight ride. 

5806
05:01:06,900 --> 05:01:10,900
He occasionally recounted it for
new acquaintances specially if 

5807
05:01:10,908 --> 05:01:14,300
they recognized his name from 
rumors, but he never wrote a 

5808
05:01:14,300 --> 05:01:16,000
grand Memoir or boasted 
publicly. 

5809
05:01:16,000 --> 05:01:20,000
He seemed more captivated by 
forging new Wares and proving 

5810
05:01:20,000 --> 05:01:23,600
his foundries output. 
The ride that would define him 

5811
05:01:23,600 --> 05:01:27,000
for posterity was just one 
chapter in his own eyes by the 

5812
05:01:27,008 --> 05:01:30,300
early 1800s. 
Paul Revere was recognized as a 

5813
05:01:30,300 --> 05:01:32,200
leading industrial innovator in 
Massachusetts. 

5814
05:01:32,200 --> 05:01:36,100
The Aging Patriots was no longer
the lean Courier bounding off 

5815
05:01:36,100 --> 05:01:38,800
into the night. 
Instead he was a solid figure 

5816
05:01:38,800 --> 05:01:42,000
with graying hair strolling 
through a noisy Foundry. 

5817
05:01:42,000 --> 05:01:45,300
Checking the quality of molten 
copper and guide young girl 

5818
05:01:45,300 --> 05:01:47,800
Craftsman. 
The remaining engaged in local 

5819
05:01:47,800 --> 05:01:50,700
politics advocating for a 
balanced approach to covers. 

5820
05:01:51,700 --> 05:01:54,300
Occasionally, he accepted 
invitations to speak at 

5821
05:01:54,300 --> 05:01:57,100
associations of mechanics, or 
veterans groups, though. 

5822
05:01:57,100 --> 05:01:59,800
These gatherings rarely match 
the Grandeur of modern rallies. 

5823
05:02:00,600 --> 05:02:03,200
Kept the focus on practical 
improvements and communal 

5824
05:02:03,200 --> 05:02:06,300
responsibilities values. 
Forged in a life that bridged 

5825
05:02:06,300 --> 05:02:08,700
Revolution and the forging of a 
new economic order. 

5826
05:02:08,700 --> 05:02:12,800
Thus, Paul, Revere Advanced from
revolutionary Messenger to 

5827
05:02:12,800 --> 05:02:16,200
full-fledged industrial Pioneer 
where once he had hammered 

5828
05:02:16,200 --> 05:02:19,600
silver teapots, he now shaped 
the nation's Naval might the 

5829
05:02:19,600 --> 05:02:22,800
drive for Independence, which 
once motivated him to ride 

5830
05:02:22,800 --> 05:02:25,200
overnight. 
Now fueled, an economic vision 

5831
05:02:25,200 --> 05:02:29,300
for a stable, self-reliant to 
America and ambition that amply,

5832
05:02:29,300 --> 05:02:32,200
demonstrated Synergy between 
Enterprise and patriotism. 

5833
05:02:33,100 --> 05:02:35,500
Paul Revere's. 
Final decades saw him celebrated

5834
05:02:35,500 --> 05:02:38,300
in local circles as an 
accomplished businessman and 

5835
05:02:38,300 --> 05:02:41,300
stalled voice in civic affairs 
yet. 

5836
05:02:41,800 --> 05:02:44,400
Ironically his renowned as a 
revolutionary hero was 

5837
05:02:44,400 --> 05:02:48,600
comparatively subdued during his
lifetime public commemoration of

5838
05:02:48,600 --> 05:02:50,400
the war. 
Typically highlighted generals 

5839
05:02:50,400 --> 05:02:52,900
like Washington or statement 
like franklyn. 

5840
05:02:53,600 --> 05:02:56,300
The intricacies of Revere's, 
midnight ride were known amongst

5841
05:02:56,300 --> 05:02:59,900
certain bostonians, but no 
single poem, or widely 

5842
05:02:59,900 --> 05:03:01,900
circulated account yet in his 
role. 

5843
05:03:02,900 --> 05:03:07,700
As the 19th century, dawned Revo
watched Boston transform the 

5844
05:03:07,700 --> 05:03:11,700
City's population, swelled new 
commercial opportunities arose, 

5845
05:03:11,700 --> 05:03:14,600
along the waterfront. 
He kept pace with these changes 

5846
05:03:14,600 --> 05:03:17,500
updating his foundries 
techniques and occasionally 

5847
05:03:17,500 --> 05:03:21,100
potentiating Innovations. 
He also mentored younger artists

5848
05:03:21,100 --> 05:03:23,800
passing along the same ethos of 
diligence and 

5849
05:03:23,800 --> 05:03:25,400
community-mindedness that guided
him. 

5850
05:03:26,400 --> 05:03:30,100
In Quiet Moments he reflected on
Friends lost or scattered by War

5851
05:03:30,100 --> 05:03:34,300
on how an unassuming silversmith
like him once walked a perilous 

5852
05:03:34,300 --> 05:03:36,300
line between Colonial, lore and 
Rebellion. 

5853
05:03:37,100 --> 05:03:40,200
His personal life remained 
anchored in family by now, 

5854
05:03:40,200 --> 05:03:42,800
multiple children assisted in 
The Foundry. 

5855
05:03:43,600 --> 05:03:47,300
Grandchildren scampered through 
the workshop yard occasionally, 

5856
05:03:47,300 --> 05:03:51,900
mesmerized by glowing furnaces 
Revere those Stern about safety.

5857
05:03:51,900 --> 05:03:55,500
Allow them, glimpses of the 
molten copper hoping to spark 

5858
05:03:55,500 --> 05:03:59,600
curiosity rather than fear 
letters from this period reveal 

5859
05:03:59,600 --> 05:04:03,700
a man juggling paternal Pride 
Financial concerns and deep 

5860
05:04:03,700 --> 05:04:06,300
gratitude for living to see an 
independent republic. 

5861
05:04:06,300 --> 05:04:09,200
Flourish the occasionally 
traveled to observe new 

5862
05:04:09,200 --> 05:04:12,500
industrial site. 
One visit to Philadelphia's Iron

5863
05:04:12,500 --> 05:04:15,500
Works fascinated him. 
He swapped notes with other 

5864
05:04:15,500 --> 05:04:19,400
entrepreneurs about scale costs 
and workforce management 

5865
05:04:19,400 --> 05:04:22,500
everywhere. 
He went people recognized him as

5866
05:04:22,508 --> 05:04:25,500
that Boston Craftsman who had 
helped found an American 

5867
05:04:25,500 --> 05:04:29,300
manufacturing base. 
The dinners or taverns, he 

5868
05:04:29,300 --> 05:04:32,000
sometimes heard Recollections of
the Revolution with others. 

5869
05:04:32,000 --> 05:04:36,000
Praising famous generals while 
Revere, politely listened If 

5870
05:04:36,008 --> 05:04:41,200
asked directly about April 18th 
1775, he shared details, but 

5871
05:04:41,200 --> 05:04:44,700
mostly he avoided embellishment.
He never sought to overshadow. 

5872
05:04:44,700 --> 05:04:47,700
The memory of the men Patriots, 
who fought and fell after that 

5873
05:04:47,700 --> 05:04:51,900
fateful night. 
In 1811 Revere decided to retire

5874
05:04:51,900 --> 05:04:53,200
officially from daily 
management. 

5875
05:04:53,200 --> 05:04:56,300
Handing control of The Foundry 
to his sons and other trusted 

5876
05:04:56,300 --> 05:05:00,100
Associates by that point. 
His name carried in commercial 

5877
05:05:00,100 --> 05:05:03,800
contracts, the Revere brand as 
it were gave Assurance of 

5878
05:05:03,800 --> 05:05:06,200
quality Freed From The Grind of 
business. 

5879
05:05:06,200 --> 05:05:09,100
He spent more time reflecting on
the young nation's political 

5880
05:05:09,100 --> 05:05:12,400
evolution, The War of 1812 
erupted soon. 

5881
05:05:12,400 --> 05:05:16,000
After pitting the US again 
against Brickman from his 

5882
05:05:16,000 --> 05:05:19,100
Vantage Revere, found it both 
disheartening and validating 

5883
05:05:19,100 --> 05:05:23,000
disheartening that conflict 
reemerged yet validating because

5884
05:05:23,000 --> 05:05:25,900
it underscored the importance of
domestic industry and Times of 

5885
05:05:25,900 --> 05:05:28,700
strife. 
Despite his Advanced stage 

5886
05:05:28,700 --> 05:05:31,300
Revere, occasionally wrote 
letters of encouragement to 

5887
05:05:31,300 --> 05:05:34,200
militia officers, reminding them
of the vital role. 

5888
05:05:34,200 --> 05:05:36,600
Local defense played during the 
early Revolution. 

5889
05:05:37,500 --> 05:05:40,200
He also supported volunteer 
committees raising funds for 

5890
05:05:40,200 --> 05:05:43,900
fortifications, not being active
on the front lines, he 

5891
05:05:43,900 --> 05:05:47,900
remembered the lessons of 1775. 
Local preparedness could 

5892
05:05:47,900 --> 05:05:49,600
significantly influence the 
outcome. 

5893
05:05:49,600 --> 05:05:53,300
Some historians note, that 
behind the scenes Revere's 

5894
05:05:53,300 --> 05:05:55,600
Foundry, contributed Canon 
parts, for the war effort 

5895
05:05:55,600 --> 05:05:57,300
though, on a smaller scale than 
before. 

5896
05:05:58,200 --> 05:06:02,200
Paul Revere died. 
On May 10th 1818 at the age of 

5897
05:06:02,208 --> 05:06:05,100
83 obituaries in Boston 
newspapers. 

5898
05:06:05,100 --> 05:06:07,800
Praised him as a master 
silversmith, an industrious 

5899
05:06:07,800 --> 05:06:11,500
founder and a patriot of the 
Revolution that they offered 

5900
05:06:11,500 --> 05:06:14,700
only cursory mention of his 
midnight ride instead of 

5901
05:06:14,708 --> 05:06:17,000
mourning. 
A legendary figure, the city 

5902
05:06:17,000 --> 05:06:19,800
mourned a respected, Community 
pillar indeed. 

5903
05:06:19,800 --> 05:06:23,100
Reverse funeral was a modest 
Affair attended by family 

5904
05:06:23,100 --> 05:06:26,300
friends and fellow artists to 
them. 

5905
05:06:26,300 --> 05:06:29,900
He was old Mr. Revere wise in 
Council unwavering and 

5906
05:06:29,900 --> 05:06:33,500
principles over the ensuing 
decades, memories of the 

5907
05:06:33,500 --> 05:06:35,800
Revolution Consolidated into a 
national myth. 

5908
05:06:36,500 --> 05:06:39,700
Monumental events over shadowed.
The gritty day-to-day 

5909
05:06:39,700 --> 05:06:41,400
contributions of ordinary 
Patriots. 

5910
05:06:41,400 --> 05:06:46,000
Then in 1860 Henry, Wadsworth 
Longfellow published Paul 

5911
05:06:46,000 --> 05:06:49,800
Revere's Ride, immortalizing 
Revere as the Lone Hero, who 

5912
05:06:49,800 --> 05:06:52,800
raised the alarm. 
Poem whilst stirring took 

5913
05:06:52,800 --> 05:06:56,400
Liberties omitting the network 
of compatriots and crediting 

5914
05:06:56,400 --> 05:06:58,800
Revere with Feats shared among 
multiple Riders. 

5915
05:06:58,800 --> 05:07:03,400
Its dramatic lines though. 
Historically imprecise resonated

5916
05:07:03,400 --> 05:07:06,900
with Americans on the brink of 
Civil War, reminding them of the

5917
05:07:06,900 --> 05:07:11,800
unity once forged in crisis. 
Thus ironically Revere's 

5918
05:07:11,800 --> 05:07:14,500
posthumous famed soared to 
Heights, he never experienced 

5919
05:07:14,500 --> 05:07:18,400
while alive statues, Rose 
textbooks proclaimed him. 

5920
05:07:18,400 --> 05:07:22,200
The prime instigator of the 
revolution's opening, Salvo the 

5921
05:07:22,200 --> 05:07:25,400
complexities of his broader 
life, his industrial Ventures, 

5922
05:07:25,400 --> 05:07:30,300
his Engravings, his lesser known
military Fiasco's, often faded 

5923
05:07:30,300 --> 05:07:33,300
behind the single story of a 
midnight dash yet. 

5924
05:07:33,300 --> 05:07:36,100
Reverse life exemplifies, more 
than an iconic ride. 

5925
05:07:36,100 --> 05:07:40,900
It reflects the Synergy of craft
Commerce activism and civic 

5926
05:07:40,900 --> 05:07:43,100
responsibility in shaping a 
fledgling nation. 

5927
05:07:43,100 --> 05:07:46,900
That Synergy perhaps is the 
greatest Testament to the man 

5928
05:07:46,900 --> 05:07:51,400
who ended As an unassuming 
elderly industrialist yet 

5929
05:07:51,400 --> 05:07:53,800
endures in Collective memory 
astride, a galloping horse. 

5930
05:07:54,600 --> 05:07:58,100
Long after Paul Revere's passing
historians piece together. 

5931
05:07:58,100 --> 05:08:00,500
A full of portrait of his life 
transcending. 

5932
05:08:00,500 --> 05:08:04,900
The narrow lens of that famous 
ride, documents, emerged shock, 

5933
05:08:04,900 --> 05:08:07,900
Legends, personal letters Court.
Martial records from the 

5934
05:08:07,900 --> 05:08:11,000
Penobscot Expedition. 
Showcasing a man constantly 

5935
05:08:11,000 --> 05:08:14,500
evolving with the times. 
Such evidence clarified, that 

5936
05:08:14,500 --> 05:08:17,800
reverse significance. 
Lay not in one heroic Knight but

5937
05:08:17,800 --> 05:08:21,400
in a sustained commitment to 
building Community ties, forging

5938
05:08:21,400 --> 05:08:25,700
new Industries and championing a
cause he believed just In modern

5939
05:08:25,700 --> 05:08:29,800
Boston tourists throng the 
Freedom Trail winding past sites

5940
05:08:29,800 --> 05:08:32,600
like the old North Church where 
docents were account the signal 

5941
05:08:32,600 --> 05:08:36,400
lanterns Revere's. 
House painstakingly preserved, 

5942
05:08:36,400 --> 05:08:40,700
stanzas and example of 17th 
century architecture adapted by 

5943
05:08:40,700 --> 05:08:44,800
an 18th century Craftsman, 
visitors, Marvel at the cramped 

5944
05:08:44,800 --> 05:08:46,800
rooms where children must have 
crowded together. 

5945
05:08:47,700 --> 05:08:51,000
And at the workshop, space out 
back where Revere Chase creative

5946
05:08:51,000 --> 05:08:54,700
ideas that shaped silver into 
everything from teapots to 

5947
05:08:54,700 --> 05:08:58,700
intricate Buckles in the yard. 
One can almost imagine him 

5948
05:08:58,700 --> 05:09:01,300
conferring with secret 
committees or stepping out at 

5949
05:09:01,300 --> 05:09:04,200
dusk for a quiet conversation 
with a fellow Sons of Liberty 

5950
05:09:04,200 --> 05:09:09,200
member Reverse industrial 
Legacy, also lingers the copper,

5951
05:09:09,200 --> 05:09:12,500
clad uses Constitution still 
floats in the Charles Town, Navy

5952
05:09:12,500 --> 05:09:16,700
Yard a testament to his 
metallurgical foresight Bells, 

5953
05:09:16,700 --> 05:09:19,600
cast in his Foundry continued to
ring in churches, as a New 

5954
05:09:19,600 --> 05:09:23,500
England, these artifacts speak 
to a principal Revere championed

5955
05:09:23,500 --> 05:09:26,300
that self-sufficiency and local 
craftsmanship. 

5956
05:09:26,300 --> 05:09:29,500
Buttress, freedom. 
In a young Republicans of its 

5957
05:09:29,500 --> 05:09:32,000
future. 
He demonstrated that made in 

5958
05:09:32,000 --> 05:09:35,000
America was not a pipe dream but
a workable reality. 

5959
05:09:35,000 --> 05:09:37,300
Given enough Ingenuity and 
perseverance. 

5960
05:09:39,000 --> 05:09:41,900
Academic discourses. 
Also refined Revere's place in 

5961
05:09:41,900 --> 05:09:45,500
Revolutionary history while 
Longfellows poem romanticized 

5962
05:09:45,500 --> 05:09:47,700
Alone Rider scholarship 
highlights. 

5963
05:09:47,700 --> 05:09:51,000
A broader Network known as the 
intelligence and alarm system 

5964
05:09:51,000 --> 05:09:54,100
dozens of riders watches and 
committee members. 

5965
05:09:54,100 --> 05:09:58,200
Made that April 1775 next to 
success Revere's role was 

5966
05:09:58,200 --> 05:10:02,400
crucial, but not singular, even.
So the poems popularity stuck, 

5967
05:10:02,400 --> 05:10:05,000
capturing the hearts of 
generations, who found 

5968
05:10:05,000 --> 05:10:08,600
inspiration in the notion that 
one person fueled by conviction,

5969
05:10:08,600 --> 05:10:12,400
might Rouse a people to defend 
Liberty, some argue that the 

5970
05:10:12,400 --> 05:10:14,000
legend. 
Simplicity overshadowed the 

5971
05:10:14,008 --> 05:10:17,300
truth of collective action, 
While others contend it provided

5972
05:10:17,300 --> 05:10:20,400
a rallying cymbal more powerful 
than any purely factual account 

5973
05:10:20,400 --> 05:10:24,200
contemporary portrayals whether 
in children's books or 

5974
05:10:24,200 --> 05:10:27,800
historical dramas, balance the 
factual Paul Revere, with the 

5975
05:10:27,800 --> 05:10:31,200
Mythic figure, they mention his 
silver shop, his involvement in 

5976
05:10:31,200 --> 05:10:34,200
the Boston Tea Party, and his 
lesson known feet beyond the 

5977
05:10:34,208 --> 05:10:36,800
fame ride. 
They note how he bridged 

5978
05:10:36,800 --> 05:10:41,000
multiple roles artisan. 
Father activists Soldier an 

5979
05:10:41,000 --> 05:10:44,100
entrepreneur. teachers use his 
story to illustrate how 

5980
05:10:44,100 --> 05:10:47,400
revolution's depend on every day
citizens stepping forward, not 

5981
05:10:47,400 --> 05:10:51,400
just Kara's Matic, generals In 
this sense, Revere embodies the 

5982
05:10:51,408 --> 05:10:54,600
idea that significant changes 
fueled by many hands. 

5983
05:10:54,600 --> 05:10:59,100
Each contributing specialized 
talents Revere's transformation 

5984
05:10:59,100 --> 05:11:02,400
into a national icon, carries 
lessons about how history and 

5985
05:11:02,400 --> 05:11:06,400
memory intersect he left behind.
No bombastic, Diaries rather, 

5986
05:11:06,400 --> 05:11:09,500
his records were pragmatic 
receipts for silver items. 

5987
05:11:09,500 --> 05:11:12,700
Letters about shipments of 
copper, brief notes on local, 

5988
05:11:12,700 --> 05:11:15,700
militia tasks, the shift from 
Modest business documents to 

5989
05:11:15,700 --> 05:11:18,100
Mythic status suggests. 
That wants a narrative. 

5990
05:11:18,100 --> 05:11:21,100
Resonates with national 
sentiment, it acquires a life of

5991
05:11:21,100 --> 05:11:24,600
its own Paul Revere, the stands 
as both a historical figure 

5992
05:11:24,600 --> 05:11:28,900
verifiable multifaceted and a 
cultural emblem Shake by poetry,

5993
05:11:28,900 --> 05:11:31,900
public monuments. 
And retellings that emphasized 

5994
05:11:31,900 --> 05:11:34,800
drama over once. 
People reflecting on the 

5995
05:11:34,800 --> 05:11:37,200
Revere's life. 
Today he offers a model of 

5996
05:11:37,200 --> 05:11:40,800
adaptability he was not locked 
into a single path facing 

5997
05:11:40,800 --> 05:11:42,600
challenges where the paternal 
loss. 

5998
05:11:42,600 --> 05:11:45,700
In adolescents, British 
crackdowns a post-war economic 

5999
05:11:45,700 --> 05:11:49,000
chaos. 
He recalibrated That 

6000
05:11:49,000 --> 05:11:51,200
adaptability under schools, a 
universal truth. 

6001
05:11:52,000 --> 05:11:54,500
The capacity to Pivot in 
Christ's Foster's resilience 

6002
05:11:54,500 --> 05:11:58,200
whether in the forging of a new 
nation or in personal life 

6003
05:11:58,200 --> 05:12:01,200
transitions. 
Ultimately, the Paul Revere 

6004
05:12:01,200 --> 05:12:02,900
story is more than an evening 
Dash. 

6005
05:12:03,600 --> 05:12:07,700
It's a tapestry of craftsmanship
activism community building and 

6006
05:12:07,700 --> 05:12:11,000
Industrial ambition. 
Each thread adds depth to the 

6007
05:12:11,008 --> 05:12:15,400
Revolutionary narrative And 
while the phrase one, if by land

6008
05:12:15,400 --> 05:12:19,600
two, if by Sea Rings Through the
Ages The Reel Revere thrived on 

6009
05:12:19,600 --> 05:12:22,500
forging alliances and 
relentlessly solving problems. 

6010
05:12:22,500 --> 05:12:26,700
His memory endures in hammered 
silver in The Echoes of church 

6011
05:12:26,700 --> 05:12:29,000
bells and in the forging of a 
collective identity. 

6012
05:12:29,000 --> 05:12:31,400
That transcends any single 
heroic moment. 

6013
05:12:32,300 --> 05:12:36,500
In that sense Revere's life. 
Exemplifies how a determined 

6014
05:12:36,500 --> 05:12:38,700
citizen can indeed shape 
history. 

6015
05:12:38,700 --> 05:12:41,400
Quite Lee weaving purpose into 
every role. 

6016
05:12:41,400 --> 05:12:44,600
He fills leaving behind an 
imprint that resonates well 

6017
05:12:44,600 --> 05:12:46,000
beyond the midnight calls of 
War. 

6018
05:12:51,500 --> 05:12:55,600
Picture this, your city in 
ancient China around 220 BC, 

6019
05:12:55,600 --> 05:12:58,400
probably wondering what's for 
dinner and hoping the weather 

6020
05:12:58,400 --> 05:13:01,200
holds up for harvest season 
you've got your little plot of 

6021
05:13:01,200 --> 05:13:04,600
land, maybe some chickens 
pecking around and life is 

6022
05:13:04,600 --> 05:13:07,600
pretty predictable. 
Then Emperor chinchar Huang 

6023
05:13:07,600 --> 05:13:10,000
shows up with what might be 
history is most ambitious Home 

6024
05:13:10,000 --> 05:13:13,400
Improvement project. 
We're going to build a wall, he 

6025
05:13:13,400 --> 05:13:15,600
announces. 
Not just any wall mind. 

6026
05:13:15,600 --> 05:13:18,400
You a wall that stretches across
mountains deserts and valleys 

6027
05:13:18,400 --> 05:13:22,000
for thousands of miles your 
neighbors probably thought he'd 

6028
05:13:22,000 --> 05:13:24,900
been sampling too much rice 
wine, but this Emperor was dead 

6029
05:13:24,900 --> 05:13:27,400
serious. 
He had already conquered six. 

6030
05:13:27,400 --> 05:13:30,900
Other kingdoms to unite China. 
So building an impossibly long 

6031
05:13:30,900 --> 05:13:35,100
wall seemed like a simple task. 
Tuesday, afternoon's project. 

6032
05:13:35,100 --> 05:13:38,000
The thing is walls already 
existed. 

6033
05:13:38,000 --> 05:13:41,200
Various kingdoms had been 
building defensive barriers for 

6034
05:13:41,200 --> 05:13:44,000
centuries, like having a really 
impressive fence to keep the 

6035
05:13:44,000 --> 05:13:45,500
neighbor's goats out of your 
garden. 

6036
05:13:47,100 --> 05:13:49,100
The chincha Huang looked at 
these scattered walls. 

6037
05:13:49,100 --> 05:13:51,200
The way you might look at 
mismatched Furniture in your 

6038
05:13:51,200 --> 05:13:54,400
living room functional, but 
lacking a unified Vision. 

6039
05:13:54,400 --> 05:13:58,600
His plan was brilliant in its 
audacity connect the existing 

6040
05:13:58,600 --> 05:14:02,500
walls, extend them and create 
one continuous barrier along, 

6041
05:14:02,500 --> 05:14:05,800
China's northern border. 
Imagine this as the world's 

6042
05:14:05,800 --> 05:14:09,000
first massive renovation 
project, where in stead of 

6043
05:14:09,000 --> 05:14:10,800
demolishing walls, they were 
constantly. 

6044
05:14:10,800 --> 05:14:12,500
The ultimate wall to end all 
walls. 

6045
05:14:13,400 --> 05:14:16,100
The emperor's motivation wasn't 
just showing off those. 

6046
05:14:16,100 --> 05:14:19,600
That was certainly part of it. 
The Mongols and other nomadic 

6047
05:14:19,600 --> 05:14:22,500
tribes from the north were 
habituated to dropping by 

6048
05:14:22,500 --> 05:14:25,500
Uninvited usually, with swords 
and an attitude problem. 

6049
05:14:25,500 --> 05:14:28,100
These weren't friendly social 
calls. 

6050
05:14:28,100 --> 05:14:31,500
They were more like aggressive 
house parties, where the guests,

6051
05:14:31,500 --> 05:14:33,900
take everything and leave the 
place in shambles. 

6052
05:14:34,800 --> 05:14:37,600
You can understand the empress 
thinking build a wall. 

6053
05:14:37,600 --> 05:14:40,100
So impressive. 
So formidable that these 

6054
05:14:40,100 --> 05:14:43,700
Northern neighbors would take 
one look and decide maybe they'd

6055
05:14:43,700 --> 05:14:45,600
rather stay home and turn their 
horses instead. 

6056
05:14:46,400 --> 05:14:49,100
It was like, installing the 
world's most elaborate security 

6057
05:14:49,100 --> 05:14:52,500
system, except the cameras 
regard towers and the alarms of 

6058
05:14:52,500 --> 05:14:55,200
very loud horn. 
But here's where it gets 

6059
05:14:55,200 --> 05:14:58,400
intriguing for regular folks. 
Like you this project wasn't 

6060
05:14:58,400 --> 05:15:01,100
going to be by magic or imperial
decree alone. 

6061
05:15:01,100 --> 05:15:05,000
This undertaking was going to 
require hands, millions of them.

6062
05:15:05,700 --> 05:15:07,800
Suddenly your quiet, life of 
farming. 

6063
05:15:07,800 --> 05:15:10,500
And chicken tending was about to
get a lot more complicated. 

6064
05:15:10,500 --> 05:15:13,300
The recruitment process was 
about to settle as an 

6065
05:15:13,308 --> 05:15:16,000
earthquake. 
Local officials would show up in

6066
05:15:16,000 --> 05:15:18,300
villages with Scrolls and 
serious Expressions. 

6067
05:15:18,300 --> 05:15:21,300
Essentially conducting a very 
involuntary job fair. 

6068
05:15:22,200 --> 05:15:24,800
Congratulations. 
They say, you've been selected 

6069
05:15:24,800 --> 05:15:27,900
for a wonderful opportunity to 
serve your Emperor and build 

6070
05:15:27,900 --> 05:15:32,400
something truly historic. 
The fact that you hadn't applied

6071
05:15:32,400 --> 05:15:35,900
for this opportunity was 
considered irrelevant now before

6072
05:15:35,900 --> 05:15:38,400
you start feeling too, sorry for
yourself in this scenario, 

6073
05:15:38,400 --> 05:15:41,900
consider the alternative. 
The emperor just finished 

6074
05:15:41,900 --> 05:15:44,700
unifying China through a series 
of wars that made Game of 

6075
05:15:44,700 --> 05:15:46,600
Thrones look like a peaceful 
afternoon tea. 

6076
05:15:47,400 --> 05:15:50,300
Building a wall. 
Even an impossibly long one was 

6077
05:15:50,300 --> 05:15:53,700
actually, the peaceful option. 
Still knowing your part of the 

6078
05:15:53,700 --> 05:15:56,400
karma solution doesn't make the 
prospect of hauling Stones 

6079
05:15:56,400 --> 05:15:58,000
across mountains, any more 
appealing. 

6080
05:15:59,000 --> 05:16:00,400
Scale of this project was 
something. 

6081
05:16:00,400 --> 05:16:04,500
No one had ever attempted. 
Imagine trying to coordinate a 

6082
05:16:04,500 --> 05:16:07,100
construction project that spans 
the distance from New York to 

6083
05:16:07,100 --> 05:16:09,300
Denver, except there are no 
trucks. 

6084
05:16:09,300 --> 05:16:11,800
No power tools. 
And no Home Depot. 

6085
05:16:11,800 --> 05:16:16,300
Everything had to be done with 
human, muscle animal power, and 

6086
05:16:16,300 --> 05:16:19,000
whatever clever engineering. 
Solution's people could divide 

6087
05:16:19,000 --> 05:16:23,800
with the technology of 220 BC, 
and so began one of History's 

6088
05:16:23,800 --> 05:16:26,300
Greatest adventures in 
construction management 

6089
05:16:26,300 --> 05:16:31,800
Community cooperation and sheer 
human stubbornness You are about

6090
05:16:31,808 --> 05:16:34,000
to become part of something. 
That would still be visible. 

6091
05:16:34,000 --> 05:16:37,200
So here you are standing with 
your hastily packed belongings 

6092
05:16:37,200 --> 05:16:38,800
and wandering. 
How your life took such an 

6093
05:16:38,800 --> 05:16:42,300
unexpected turn. 
The recruitment officer has 

6094
05:16:42,300 --> 05:16:43,800
assured you. 
That the job is a temporary 

6095
05:16:43,800 --> 05:16:48,300
assignment, just a few months, 
maybe a year at most will be 

6096
05:16:48,300 --> 05:16:50,300
back home before, you know it. 
He says with the confidence of 

6097
05:16:50,300 --> 05:16:53,400
someone who's never actually 
built a wall, your first glimpse

6098
05:16:53,400 --> 05:16:55,600
of the construction site is, 
like nothing you've ever seen. 

6099
05:16:55,600 --> 05:16:59,700
Imagine an ant hill, the size of
a city, except the answer people

6100
05:16:59,700 --> 05:17:03,100
and they're all carrying rocks, 
thousands of workers, stretch 

6101
05:17:03,100 --> 05:17:06,400
across the landscape, creating a
human chain that disappears into

6102
05:17:06,400 --> 05:17:10,700
the distance, the noises 
incredible hammering shouting 

6103
05:17:10,700 --> 05:17:13,700
the scrape of stone against 
Stone and the occasional 

6104
05:17:13,700 --> 05:17:16,200
creative curse word that 
probably shouldn't be repeated 

6105
05:17:16,200 --> 05:17:19,700
in polite company. 
Your assigned to a work crew 

6106
05:17:19,700 --> 05:17:22,500
that the new family. 
Whether you like it or not, 

6107
05:17:22,500 --> 05:17:25,900
there's old Chen and claims he 
helped build the Emperor's 

6108
05:17:25,900 --> 05:17:28,900
Palace and has strong opinions 
about proper mortar, mixing 

6109
05:17:28,900 --> 05:17:31,300
Ying. 
Liu bounces around with the 

6110
05:17:31,300 --> 05:17:34,200
enthusiasm of someone who thinks
this whole wall business might 

6111
05:17:34,200 --> 05:17:37,800
actually be fun. 
Wang required barely speaks but 

6112
05:17:37,800 --> 05:17:40,800
can carry stones, that would 
make a donkey jealous and 

6113
05:17:40,800 --> 05:17:43,100
there's you trying to figure out
which end of a hammer to hold. 

6114
05:17:44,200 --> 05:17:48,300
The living arrangements. 
Are we say cozy your new home is

6115
05:17:48,300 --> 05:17:51,600
a tent shared with five other 
men, which sounds awful Until 

6116
05:17:51,600 --> 05:17:53,800
you realize some Cruise of 
sleeping 12 to a shelter. 

6117
05:17:54,800 --> 05:17:58,500
Privacy becomes a fond memory 
like a favorite dish from home 

6118
05:17:58,500 --> 05:18:00,800
that you can almost taste. 
If you concentrate hard enough, 

6119
05:18:01,700 --> 05:18:03,800
The good news is that, everyone 
snores. 

6120
05:18:03,800 --> 05:18:06,400
So at least the noise is evenly 
distributed. 

6121
05:18:06,400 --> 05:18:10,400
Your daily routine starts Before
Dawn, because apparently, 

6122
05:18:10,400 --> 05:18:12,900
whoever designed this schedule, 
believe that sunlight was a 

6123
05:18:12,908 --> 05:18:17,000
luxury, rather than a necessity,
you stumble out of your shared 

6124
05:18:17,000 --> 05:18:19,900
tent, grab some rice and maybe a
pickled vegetable. 

6125
05:18:19,900 --> 05:18:23,600
If you're lucky and report to 
your section chief, this is a 

6126
05:18:23,600 --> 05:18:26,600
man who is elevated shouting 
into an art form and seems to 

6127
05:18:26,608 --> 05:18:29,700
believe that volume is directly 
proportional to work efficiency,

6128
05:18:29,700 --> 05:18:32,300
the work itself is simpler and 
concept. 

6129
05:18:32,300 --> 05:18:35,500
The next execution, your 
building a wall which sounds 

6130
05:18:35,500 --> 05:18:37,700
straightforward Until you 
realize this wall needs to be 

6131
05:18:37,700 --> 05:18:40,600
tall enough to stop mounted 
Warriors strong enough to 

6132
05:18:40,600 --> 05:18:43,800
withstand CJ's and long enough 
to protect an entire Frontier. 

6133
05:18:44,800 --> 05:18:46,900
Its like being asked to build a 
fence around your property, 

6134
05:18:46,900 --> 05:18:50,300
except your property as the size
of several States and the fence 

6135
05:18:50,300 --> 05:18:53,300
needs to stop an army. 
The foundation work is 

6136
05:18:53,300 --> 05:18:55,200
backbreaking in the most literal
sense. 

6137
05:18:55,200 --> 05:18:59,500
You spend days moving Earth 
laying stones and creating the 

6138
05:18:59,500 --> 05:19:03,100
base that everything else will 
rest on each Stone needs to be 

6139
05:19:03,100 --> 05:19:05,300
placed. 
Just so because a wobbly 

6140
05:19:05,300 --> 05:19:08,200
Foundation today means a 
collapsed wall to tomorrow and 

6141
05:19:08,200 --> 05:19:10,100
nobody wants to explain to the 
emperor. 

6142
05:19:10,100 --> 05:19:13,700
Why his wall is developed to 
lean But here's the thing about 

6143
05:19:13,700 --> 05:19:16,600
shared misery. 
It has a way of bringing people 

6144
05:19:16,600 --> 05:19:20,000
together by the end of your 
first week, you and your tent 

6145
05:19:20,000 --> 05:19:22,000
mates have developed. 
An effortless Camry. 

6146
05:19:22,000 --> 05:19:25,900
Born of mutual exhaustion old 
Chen, shares techniques. 

6147
05:19:25,900 --> 05:19:27,900
He learned from previous 
construction projects. 

6148
05:19:28,600 --> 05:19:31,500
Ying Liu invents games to make 
the repetitive work, more 

6149
05:19:31,500 --> 05:19:34,600
bearable, on the quiet, turns 
out to be an excellent cook. 

6150
05:19:34,600 --> 05:19:36,700
Who can make rice taste almost 
intriguing? 

6151
05:19:36,700 --> 05:19:39,800
The engineers overseeing, the 
project are a fascinating Bunch,

6152
05:19:39,800 --> 05:19:42,600
they've had to solve problems. 
No one has ever faced before 

6153
05:19:42,608 --> 05:19:45,700
like how to build a uniform wall
across terrain, that varies from

6154
05:19:45,700 --> 05:19:48,400
desert sand to Mountain. 
Granite watching them. 

6155
05:19:48,400 --> 05:19:51,300
Work is like seeing puzzle 
Masters tackle, a jigsaw with a 

6156
05:19:51,300 --> 05:19:53,900
million pieces, none of which 
seem to fit together properly 

6157
05:19:53,900 --> 05:19:56,900
supply, line stretch back 
towards civilization. 

6158
05:19:56,900 --> 05:19:59,200
Like the world's longest grocery
delivery route. 

6159
05:20:00,000 --> 05:20:01,700
Wagon's arrived with fresh 
Stone. 

6160
05:20:01,700 --> 05:20:05,600
Timber rice, replacement tools, 
occasionally they bring news 

6161
05:20:05,600 --> 05:20:08,100
from home, which everyone 
gathers around to hear, like 

6162
05:20:08,100 --> 05:20:11,100
it's the evening entertainment. 
Occasionally, they bring new 

6163
05:20:11,100 --> 05:20:14,100
workers to replace those who 
have completed their service or 

6164
05:20:14,100 --> 05:20:16,700
more grimly, those who won't be 
going home at all. 

6165
05:20:18,100 --> 05:20:20,900
Despite the hardships, there's 
something, oddly, satisfying 

6166
05:20:20,900 --> 05:20:24,900
about the work, each day, you 
can see progress, the walls 

6167
05:20:24,900 --> 05:20:26,500
taller stronger and more 
impressive. 

6168
05:20:26,500 --> 05:20:28,900
You begin to take pride in your 
section. 

6169
05:20:29,800 --> 05:20:32,200
Eating and formally with other 
Crews to see who can lay the 

6170
05:20:32,208 --> 05:20:34,600
straightest line, or build the 
most solid foundation. 

6171
05:20:34,600 --> 05:20:37,700
It's like the world's most 
exhausting team sport. 

6172
05:20:37,700 --> 05:20:40,200
After a few weeks on the wall, 
you've developed what your 

6173
05:20:40,208 --> 05:20:44,100
grandmother might charitably 
call character your hands once 

6174
05:20:44,100 --> 05:20:47,200
soft from farm work. 
Now sport calluses in places. 

6175
05:20:47,200 --> 05:20:50,600
You didn't know, could grow 
calluses your back has adapted 

6176
05:20:50,600 --> 05:20:54,000
to a permanent slight hunch from
lifting stones, and you've 

6177
05:20:54,000 --> 05:20:56,600
learned to identify different 
types of rock by their weight 

6178
05:20:56,600 --> 05:20:59,700
and the specific way they make 
your shoulders ache. 

6179
05:21:00,600 --> 05:21:03,700
The workday starts with what the
section, chief optimistically 

6180
05:21:03,700 --> 05:21:07,500
calls morning, coordination for 
which everyone else recognizes 

6181
05:21:07,500 --> 05:21:10,400
as the daily ritual of figuring 
out, who's going to do what, and

6182
05:21:10,400 --> 05:21:14,300
how badly it might go wrong. 
Today, your crew is assigned to 

6183
05:21:14,300 --> 05:21:17,500
mortar mixing, which sounds easy
Until you realize that getting 

6184
05:21:17,500 --> 05:21:19,900
the consistency, right? 
Is like trying to bake bread, 

6185
05:21:19,900 --> 05:21:21,300
while blindfolded during an 
earthquake. 

6186
05:21:22,500 --> 05:21:25,200
Old Chen takes this opportunity 
to share his philosophy on 

6187
05:21:25,200 --> 05:21:28,500
mortar which apparently involves
the same level of precision that

6188
05:21:28,500 --> 05:21:30,000
other people reserved for 
poetry. 

6189
05:21:31,100 --> 05:21:33,900
If the mixture is too wet, it 
runs like water from a broken 

6190
05:21:33,900 --> 05:21:36,400
bucket. 
He explains while stirring the 

6191
05:21:36,400 --> 05:21:40,000
mixture with a wooden paddle 
that has seen better days, too 

6192
05:21:40,000 --> 05:21:42,400
dry and it crumbles like a 
promise from a politician. 

6193
05:21:42,400 --> 05:21:45,600
You're beginning to suspect that
old Chen has strong opinions 

6194
05:21:45,600 --> 05:21:48,700
about everything which makes him
either very wise or very 

6195
05:21:48,700 --> 05:21:50,900
annoying depending on how early 
in the morning. 

6196
05:21:50,900 --> 05:21:53,900
It is the stones themselves come
from quarries. 

6197
05:21:53,900 --> 05:21:57,200
That seemed impossibly far away 
yet somehow keep producing an 

6198
05:21:57,200 --> 05:22:01,200
endless supply of building 
material. watching the 

6199
05:22:01,200 --> 05:22:05,500
stonecutters work is mesmerizing
they can look at a rough Boulder

6200
05:22:05,500 --> 05:22:09,000
and somehow see the perfectly 
shaped block hide in side like 

6201
05:22:09,008 --> 05:22:12,400
sculptors working in Reverse 
their hammers ring against 

6202
05:22:12,400 --> 05:22:14,600
chisels with a rhythm that 
becomes the sound track of 

6203
05:22:14,600 --> 05:22:17,600
construction, a percussion 
section for the Symphony of 

6204
05:22:17,600 --> 05:22:21,200
building Transportation of 
materials has evolved into a 

6205
05:22:21,208 --> 05:22:24,400
complex dance of human. 
Efficiency teams of workers 

6206
05:22:24,400 --> 05:22:26,400
form. 
Chains from the supply wagons to

6207
05:22:26,400 --> 05:22:30,500
the construction site, passing 
Stones hand to hand in a process

6208
05:22:30,500 --> 05:22:33,900
that looks chaotic but actually 
moves materials faster than you 

6209
05:22:33,900 --> 05:22:36,200
think possible. 
It's like watching a very 

6210
05:22:36,200 --> 05:22:39,500
patient version of the world's 
heaviest relay race Ying. 

6211
05:22:39,500 --> 05:22:42,400
Liu has invented a game where 
you try to predict which Stone 

6212
05:22:42,400 --> 05:22:45,300
will be the most awkward to 
carry based on its shape. 

6213
05:22:45,300 --> 05:22:49,100
He surprisingly talented at 
this, having developed an eye 

6214
05:22:49,100 --> 05:22:51,700
for stones that look innocent, 
but turn out to be engineered by

6215
05:22:51,700 --> 05:22:54,800
Nature specifically to be 
impossible to grip properly. 

6216
05:22:54,800 --> 05:22:58,900
His uncanny ability to spot. 
These troublemakers as save the 

6217
05:22:58,900 --> 05:23:02,600
crew numerous bruised toes and 
creative vocabulary lessons. 

6218
05:23:02,600 --> 05:23:06,100
The wall itself is taking shape 
with surprising speed, 

6219
05:23:06,100 --> 05:23:08,700
considering its being built 
entirely by hand. 

6220
05:23:08,700 --> 05:23:12,500
Each section has its own 
personality reflecting, the crew

6221
05:23:12,500 --> 05:23:15,200
that built it. 
Some sections are precisely 

6222
05:23:15,200 --> 05:23:18,300
uniform built by teams that 
measure twice and cut once. 

6223
05:23:19,000 --> 05:23:22,600
Others show more character with 
small variations that somehow 

6224
05:23:22,600 --> 05:23:25,200
make them look more human. 
And less like something 

6225
05:23:25,200 --> 05:23:27,200
assembled by very patient 
machines. 

6226
05:23:27,200 --> 05:23:31,400
Whether adds its complications 
to the work, rain turns the 

6227
05:23:31,400 --> 05:23:34,600
construction site into a muddy 
obstacle course, where every 

6228
05:23:34,600 --> 05:23:37,300
step requires careful 
consideration of physics and 

6229
05:23:37,300 --> 05:23:39,800
balance. 
Hot days, make the stones too 

6230
05:23:39,800 --> 05:23:42,000
hot to handle comfortably and 
cold mornings. 

6231
05:23:42,000 --> 05:23:44,800
Mean waiting for fingers to thaw
enough to grip tools properly. 

6232
05:23:44,800 --> 05:23:48,800
You begin to develop a farmers 
intuition for whether reading 

6233
05:23:48,800 --> 05:23:50,700
the sky. 
Like, a daily newspaper that 

6234
05:23:50,700 --> 05:23:53,000
specializes in inconvenient 
surprises. 

6235
05:23:53,900 --> 05:23:57,000
The guard towers spaced at 
regular intervals along the wall

6236
05:23:57,000 --> 05:23:58,600
present their engineering 
challenges. 

6237
05:23:58,600 --> 05:24:00,700
These aren't just tall 
platforms. 

6238
05:24:00,700 --> 05:24:03,400
They're sophisticated 
observation and communication 

6239
05:24:03,400 --> 05:24:06,100
posts that need to be sturdy 
enough to withstand attacks 

6240
05:24:06,100 --> 05:24:09,300
while remaining tall enough to 
provide commanding views of the 

6241
05:24:09,300 --> 05:24:12,700
surrounding territory, building 
them requires a combination of 

6242
05:24:12,700 --> 05:24:16,100
masonry, carpentry. 
And what might generously be 

6243
05:24:16,100 --> 05:24:20,000
called optimistic physics. 
Food becomes both Fuel and 

6244
05:24:20,000 --> 05:24:23,100
entertainment. 
Camp Cooks of mastered, the art 

6245
05:24:23,100 --> 05:24:26,300
of making large quantities of 
rice, interesting through 

6246
05:24:26,300 --> 05:24:29,100
creative use of whatever 
vegetables, meet or seasoning 

6247
05:24:29,100 --> 05:24:32,000
happen to be available. 
Sometimes you have lucky and 

6248
05:24:32,000 --> 05:24:35,500
there's pork other times, you 
learn to appreciate the subtle 

6249
05:24:35,500 --> 05:24:39,400
flavors of turnips and hope 
Cruise gather during mealtimes 

6250
05:24:39,400 --> 05:24:42,700
to share stories voice, 
complaints and occasionally 

6251
05:24:42,700 --> 05:24:45,500
speculate about the potential 
completion date of this project.

6252
05:24:46,400 --> 05:24:49,000
Your tent may have to distinct 
personalities. 

6253
05:24:49,000 --> 05:24:51,100
That make the cramped, living 
quarters, more. 

6254
05:24:51,100 --> 05:24:54,800
Bearable old Chen, tell stories 
from his construction days that 

6255
05:24:54,800 --> 05:24:57,400
may or may not be entirely true,
but are always entertaining. 

6256
05:24:58,300 --> 05:25:00,700
Ying Liu practices writing 
characters in the dirt 

6257
05:25:00,700 --> 05:25:03,800
determined to return home more 
educated than when he left. 

6258
05:25:04,900 --> 05:25:07,700
One of the quiet has revealed a 
talent for repairing tools and 

6259
05:25:07,700 --> 05:25:11,300
equipment, making him the most 
popular person in 100 yard 

6260
05:25:11,300 --> 05:25:13,700
radius by now you've realized 
that building. 

6261
05:25:13,700 --> 05:25:16,800
The Great Wall isn't just 
construction, its engineering on

6262
05:25:16,800 --> 05:25:19,100
a scale that makes regular 
building projects look like 

6263
05:25:19,100 --> 05:25:22,500
children's blocks. 
Every Day, brings new problems, 

6264
05:25:22,500 --> 05:25:25,300
that require Solutions. 
No one has ever had to figure 

6265
05:25:25,300 --> 05:25:27,100
out before. 
And you're starting to 

6266
05:25:27,100 --> 05:25:29,700
appreciate the complexity of 
what seemed like a simple 

6267
05:25:29,708 --> 05:25:32,200
concept. 
Take, for instance, the 

6268
05:25:32,200 --> 05:25:34,500
challenge of building a wall, 
across a mountain ridge. 

6269
05:25:34,500 --> 05:25:37,600
You can't just pile stones in a 
straight line and hope for the 

6270
05:25:37,608 --> 05:25:39,600
best. 
The wall needs to follow the 

6271
05:25:39,600 --> 05:25:42,100
natural Contours of the land 
while maintaining its defensive 

6272
05:25:42,100 --> 05:25:44,800
capabilities which means 
constantly adjusting height 

6273
05:25:44,800 --> 05:25:47,800
thickness and angle. 
It's like trying to draw a 

6274
05:25:47,800 --> 05:25:49,900
straight line on a crumpled 
piece of paper while wearing 

6275
05:25:49,900 --> 05:25:53,100
mittens. 
The foundation work varies 

6276
05:25:53,100 --> 05:25:56,000
dramatically depending on 
Terrain in Rocky areas. 

6277
05:25:56,000 --> 05:25:59,300
You're essentially building on 
Nature's concrete, which sounds 

6278
05:25:59,300 --> 05:26:01,000
great. 
Until you realize that Rocky 

6279
05:26:01,000 --> 05:26:04,800
often means uneven unpredictable
and determined to make your life

6280
05:26:04,800 --> 05:26:08,100
difficult. 
Insanity or soft, soil areas, 

6281
05:26:08,100 --> 05:26:11,600
the foundation needs to go much 
deeper, which means more digging

6282
05:26:11,600 --> 05:26:13,900
and more Stone. 
But at least the digging is 

6283
05:26:13,900 --> 05:26:16,400
easier. 
He areas. 

6284
05:26:16,400 --> 05:26:19,700
Well everyone tries to avoid 
thinking about marshy areas. 

6285
05:26:19,700 --> 05:26:23,400
Your crew has been assigned to 
work on a section that crosses a

6286
05:26:23,400 --> 05:26:26,900
particularly steep Hillside 
which provides spectacular views

6287
05:26:26,900 --> 05:26:30,100
and spectacular challenges in 
equal measure building. 

6288
05:26:30,100 --> 05:26:32,700
On a slope means, every stone 
wants to roll downhill. 

6289
05:26:32,700 --> 05:26:35,100
Apparently, having missed the 
memo about staying. 

6290
05:26:35,100 --> 05:26:38,300
Put this has led to the 
development of increasingly 

6291
05:26:38,300 --> 05:26:41,400
creative techniques for 
convincing stones to remain 

6292
05:26:41,400 --> 05:26:44,500
where you place them. 
Old Chen has become something of

6293
05:26:44,500 --> 05:26:46,100
a master at reading Stone 
Behavior. 

6294
05:26:46,800 --> 05:26:48,800
He can look at a rock and 
predict, whether it's going to 

6295
05:26:48,800 --> 05:26:51,700
be cooperative, whether it's 
going to spend the day trying to

6296
05:26:51,700 --> 05:26:55,700
escape down the Mountainside. 
Stones have personalities, he 

6297
05:26:55,700 --> 05:26:58,200
explains while wedging a 
particularly rebellious Boulder 

6298
05:26:58,200 --> 05:27:01,100
into place. 
Some want to work some want to 

6299
05:27:01,108 --> 05:27:03,400
wander and some just want to 
cause trouble. 

6300
05:27:04,100 --> 05:27:06,000
Your starting to suspect, he 
might be right. 

6301
05:27:06,000 --> 05:27:09,000
The mortar mixing has evolved 
into something approaching 

6302
05:27:09,000 --> 05:27:11,100
science. 
Different weather conditions, 

6303
05:27:11,100 --> 05:27:14,400
required, different consistency,
and the local materials 

6304
05:27:14,400 --> 05:27:17,200
Limestone here. 
Clay there, all react 

6305
05:27:17,200 --> 05:27:20,400
differently to mixing and 
setting the Master Masons of 

6306
05:27:20,400 --> 05:27:22,600
developed an almost mystical 
ability to produce. 

6307
05:27:22,600 --> 05:27:24,400
Exactly. 
The right mixture for current 

6308
05:27:24,400 --> 05:27:27,700
conditions like chefs who can 
cook perfect meals without 

6309
05:27:27,700 --> 05:27:30,400
measuring ingredients tool. 
Made maintenance has become a 

6310
05:27:30,400 --> 05:27:34,100
critical skill for survival, 
When your livelihood depends on 

6311
05:27:34,100 --> 05:27:37,600
hammers chisels and carrying 
baskets, keeping them in good 

6312
05:27:37,600 --> 05:27:41,100
repair isn't just Professional 
Pride, it's self-preservation. 

6313
05:27:42,500 --> 05:27:45,100
Won the quiet has set up an 
informal repair service. 

6314
05:27:45,100 --> 05:27:48,000
Trading tool maintenance for 
extra rice, or help with heavy 

6315
05:27:48,000 --> 05:27:51,100
lifting, his ability to 
resurrect a broken handle or 

6316
05:27:51,100 --> 05:27:52,900
straighten. 
A bench, chisel has made him. 

6317
05:27:52,900 --> 05:27:54,900
The most valued member of 
several Crews. 

6318
05:27:54,900 --> 05:27:58,000
The logistics of the project are
mind-boggling when you stop 

6319
05:27:58,000 --> 05:28:01,000
thinking about them. 
Someone somewhere is 

6320
05:28:01,000 --> 05:28:04,200
coordinating the delivery of 
materials food and equipment to 

6321
05:28:04,200 --> 05:28:07,800
dozens of construction sites, 
spread across hundreds of miles.

6322
05:28:07,800 --> 05:28:10,700
Supply wagons consistently 
arrive. 

6323
05:28:10,700 --> 05:28:14,300
Delivering not only Essentials 
but also occasional luxury items

6324
05:28:14,300 --> 05:28:17,700
such as tea or preserved. 
Fruit, adding a touch of joy to 

6325
05:28:17,700 --> 05:28:20,800
everyone's day. 
Communication along the wall 

6326
05:28:20,800 --> 05:28:22,600
happens through a system of 
signals. 

6327
05:28:22,600 --> 05:28:25,200
That's part practical necessity 
and part entertainment. 

6328
05:28:26,100 --> 05:28:30,000
Horn calls relay messages from 
section to section, creating a 

6329
05:28:30,000 --> 05:28:33,300
chain of communication that can 
carry news faster than a running

6330
05:28:33,308 --> 05:28:35,800
messenger. 
The horn operators have 

6331
05:28:35,800 --> 05:28:37,600
developed a surprisingly 
sophisticated. 

6332
05:28:37,600 --> 05:28:41,700
Vocabulary of calls, different 
patterns for mealtime shift 

6333
05:28:41,700 --> 05:28:45,300
changes material, deliveries and
occasionally warnings about 

6334
05:28:45,300 --> 05:28:48,700
approaching inspectors. 
The inspectors themselves are a 

6335
05:28:48,700 --> 05:28:50,200
source of both anxiety and 
amusement. 

6336
05:28:50,200 --> 05:28:53,900
These are officials who arrived 
periodically to check progress 

6337
05:28:53,900 --> 05:28:57,600
and quality armed with measuring
devices and serious Expressions.

6338
05:28:57,600 --> 05:29:01,300
They examine wall sections with 
the intensity of art critics 

6339
05:29:01,300 --> 05:29:03,600
running their hands along Stone 
joints. 

6340
05:29:03,600 --> 05:29:06,700
And muttering about 
specifications smart Crews, 

6341
05:29:06,700 --> 05:29:10,100
learn to recognize the signs of 
an approaching inspection and 

6342
05:29:10,100 --> 05:29:11,800
spend extra time making their 
sections. 

6343
05:29:11,800 --> 05:29:15,300
Look particularly impressive 
quality control has evolved 

6344
05:29:15,300 --> 05:29:16,800
organically among the work 
Crews. 

6345
05:29:16,800 --> 05:29:20,000
Nobody wants to be responsible 
for the section that falls down.

6346
05:29:20,000 --> 05:29:24,100
So there's intense peer pressure
to build well, Teams develop 

6347
05:29:24,100 --> 05:29:27,300
reputations for craftsmanship, 
and being assigned to work with 

6348
05:29:27,300 --> 05:29:28,900
a crew known for solid 
construction. 

6349
05:29:28,900 --> 05:29:32,900
Becomes a point of pride 
Competition between Crews drives

6350
05:29:32,900 --> 05:29:36,100
quality improvements that no 
amount of official supervision 

6351
05:29:36,100 --> 05:29:39,100
could achieve the walls 
defensive features, require 

6352
05:29:39,100 --> 05:29:42,200
careful attention to detail that
goes beyond simple construction 

6353
05:29:42,200 --> 05:29:45,500
Arrow slits. 
Need to be positioned at exactly

6354
05:29:45,500 --> 05:29:48,700
the right height and angle to 
provide maximum coverage, while 

6355
05:29:48,700 --> 05:29:50,200
offering protection to 
Defenders. 

6356
05:29:50,200 --> 05:29:54,300
Walkways must be wide enough for
guards to patrol but not so wide

6357
05:29:54,300 --> 05:29:56,900
that they waste materials or 
provide too much, Target area 

6358
05:29:56,900 --> 05:30:00,400
for attackers winter arrives, 
like an unwelcome relative who 

6359
05:30:00,400 --> 05:30:04,100
shows up without warning and 
refuses to leave One day, you're

6360
05:30:04,100 --> 05:30:05,300
working in comfortable, Autumn 
weather. 

6361
05:30:05,308 --> 05:30:08,600
And the next morning you wake up
to discover, Frost decorating 

6362
05:30:08,600 --> 05:30:12,500
your tent, like Nature's least, 
practical artwork, The section 

6363
05:30:12,508 --> 05:30:15,100
chief announces that work will 
continue regardless of whether 

6364
05:30:15,100 --> 05:30:18,200
because apparently walls don't 
build themselves and Emperors. 

6365
05:30:18,200 --> 05:30:19,700
Don't appreciate seasonal, 
delays. 

6366
05:30:20,600 --> 05:30:22,700
Building in cold weather 
presents, challenges that the 

6367
05:30:22,708 --> 05:30:25,300
project planners probably didn't
fully appreciate when they 

6368
05:30:25,300 --> 05:30:28,900
schedule this particular 
construction timeline. mortar 

6369
05:30:28,900 --> 05:30:31,600
doesn't set properly when it's 
freezing, which means either 

6370
05:30:31,600 --> 05:30:34,400
waiting for warmer temperatures 
or developing Creative 

6371
05:30:34,400 --> 05:30:37,400
Solutions, that involve keeping 
mixed mortar warm and it can be 

6372
05:30:37,400 --> 05:30:42,000
applied This scenario leads to 
the amusing sight of grown men. 

6373
05:30:42,000 --> 05:30:44,900
Huddling around small fires with
buckets of mortar like their 

6374
05:30:44,900 --> 05:30:48,800
warming, their hands, your tent,
become both a sanctuary and an 

6375
05:30:48,800 --> 05:30:50,300
endurance test as temperatures 
drop. 

6376
05:30:51,200 --> 05:30:54,600
Five, men sharing a small space 
generates a surprising amount of

6377
05:30:54,600 --> 05:30:57,400
body heat which is beneficial 
for staying warm, but 

6378
05:30:57,400 --> 05:31:00,800
challenging for maintaining any 
sense of personal space or air 

6379
05:31:00,800 --> 05:31:03,600
quality. 
Everyone develops strategies for

6380
05:31:03,600 --> 05:31:06,700
staying comfortable, extra 
layers, creative, use of 

6381
05:31:06,708 --> 05:31:10,000
blankets and the unspoken 
agreement that nobody comments 

6382
05:31:10,000 --> 05:31:13,200
on anyone else is sleeping 
habits or unusual nighttime 

6383
05:31:13,200 --> 05:31:16,500
noises, the supply lines face. 
Their own winter challenges 

6384
05:31:16,500 --> 05:31:19,700
wagons that moved easily over 
dry summer roads. 

6385
05:31:19,700 --> 05:31:24,000
Now, struggle through mud snow 
and ice food, deliveries become 

6386
05:31:24,000 --> 05:31:26,100
less. 
Predictable leading to careful 

6387
05:31:26,100 --> 05:31:28,600
rationing and creative cooking, 
with whatever ingredients are 

6388
05:31:28,600 --> 05:31:31,100
available. 
Rice becomes even more pressure 

6389
05:31:31,100 --> 05:31:33,500
and everyone learns to 
appreciate the subtle 

6390
05:31:33,500 --> 05:31:37,100
differences between turnips 
radishes and other vegetables. 

6391
05:31:37,100 --> 05:31:39,900
That all tastes remarkably 
similar in your hungry enough, 

6392
05:31:39,900 --> 05:31:43,300
spring brings relief and new 
complications in equal measure 

6393
05:31:43,300 --> 05:31:47,400
the ground thaws making easier. 
But also creating mud seems 

6394
05:31:47,400 --> 05:31:50,600
specifically designed to make 
walking difficult and Tool 

6395
05:31:50,600 --> 05:31:52,700
handling. 
Treacherous fresh supplies 

6396
05:31:52,700 --> 05:31:55,600
arrive, more regularly. 
So do new workers, who need to 

6397
05:31:55,600 --> 05:31:58,000
be trained and integrated into 
existing crews. 

6398
05:31:58,800 --> 05:32:01,200
You find yourself in the odd 
position of being a veteran 

6399
05:32:01,200 --> 05:32:04,600
after just one winter offering 
advice to newcomers who look as 

6400
05:32:04,600 --> 05:32:07,900
bewildered as you want. 
Did the seasonal cycle creates a

6401
05:32:07,900 --> 05:32:10,100
rhythm to the work that becomes 
oddly comforting. 

6402
05:32:10,700 --> 05:32:13,300
Summer brings long days and 
maximum productivity. 

6403
05:32:13,300 --> 05:32:17,300
However, it also brings heat 
that makes handling sunbaked 

6404
05:32:17,300 --> 05:32:19,000
stones and exercise and paint 
tolerance. 

6405
05:32:19,700 --> 05:32:22,900
Autumn brings perfect working 
weather and the Urgent push to 

6406
05:32:22,900 --> 05:32:26,400
complete sections before winter,
returns each season requires 

6407
05:32:26,400 --> 05:32:29,600
different strategies 
preparations and types of 

6408
05:32:29,600 --> 05:32:33,100
stubborn, determination. 
The rainy season deserves 

6409
05:32:33,100 --> 05:32:35,500
special mention. 
As a time, when optimism goes to

6410
05:32:35,500 --> 05:32:38,000
die. 
Working in Rain, means dealing 

6411
05:32:38,000 --> 05:32:40,800
with slippery, Stones mud, that 
clings to everything. 

6412
05:32:40,800 --> 05:32:44,100
And the constant challenge of 
keeping tools dry enough to use,

6413
05:32:44,100 --> 05:32:47,400
effectively the wall itself 
becomes, treacherous to work, on

6414
05:32:47,400 --> 05:32:50,900
requiring extra caution and 
significantly reduced 

6415
05:32:50,900 --> 05:32:53,500
productivity. 
Everyone develops strong 

6416
05:32:53,500 --> 05:32:56,900
opinions about rain gear, and 
the inadequacy of most attempts 

6417
05:32:56,900 --> 05:32:59,200
to stay dry while doing heavy 
construction work. 

6418
05:32:59,200 --> 05:33:03,500
The changing seasons, also bring
changes in local Wildlife which 

6419
05:33:03,500 --> 05:33:06,100
adds an element of 
unpredictability to daily work. 

6420
05:33:07,000 --> 05:33:09,600
Spring brings curious dear, that
seemed fascinated by 

6421
05:33:09,600 --> 05:33:13,300
construction activity, summer 
attracts, various insects that 

6422
05:33:13,300 --> 05:33:15,900
apparently view human workers as
either entertainment or 

6423
05:33:15,900 --> 05:33:19,200
potential meals. 
Autumn brings migrating birds 

6424
05:33:19,200 --> 05:33:22,200
that sometimes interfere with 
construction work and winter 

6425
05:33:22,200 --> 05:33:24,800
brings various creatures, 
searching for warm places to 

6426
05:33:24,800 --> 05:33:27,000
shelter. 
Occasionally choosing tool 

6427
05:33:27,000 --> 05:33:30,600
storage areas old Chen reveals 
that he's worked construction 

6428
05:33:30,600 --> 05:33:33,900
jobs in all kinds of weather and
has developed philosophical 

6429
05:33:33,900 --> 05:33:38,100
approaches to each season. some 
are teachers patients, he 

6430
05:33:38,100 --> 05:33:40,600
explains while taking a break in
whatever shade he can find 

6431
05:33:41,400 --> 05:33:45,600
Winter teaches persistence, 
spring teachers hope and Autumn 

6432
05:33:45,600 --> 05:33:49,000
teaches urgency Ying. 
Liu suggests that all seasons. 

6433
05:33:49,000 --> 05:33:52,000
Teach you to appreciate being 
indoors which seems like the 

6434
05:33:52,000 --> 05:33:54,700
most practical wisdom. 
Anyone has offered food 

6435
05:33:54,700 --> 05:33:56,400
preservation becomes a crucial 
skill. 

6436
05:33:56,400 --> 05:33:59,100
As whether affects both 
supplier, deliveries and storage

6437
05:33:59,100 --> 05:34:02,000
capabilities, it becomes 
essential to learn which 

6438
05:34:02,000 --> 05:34:05,200
vegetables store well and which 
require immediate consumption 

6439
05:34:05,200 --> 05:34:08,400
based on available ingredients 
and safe storage methods. 

6440
05:34:08,400 --> 05:34:11,200
The camp Cooks creates seasonal 
menus that result in 

6441
05:34:11,208 --> 05:34:14,500
surprisingly diverse, meals 
tool, performance, vary 

6442
05:34:14,500 --> 05:34:17,300
significantly with weather 
conditions, wooden handles 

6443
05:34:17,300 --> 05:34:21,300
shrink and expand metal parts, 
rust or become brittle and 

6444
05:34:21,300 --> 05:34:23,600
carrying baskets, develop holes 
or weak spots. 

6445
05:34:23,600 --> 05:34:27,700
That seem to appear overnight 
maintenance becomes an ongoing 

6446
05:34:27,700 --> 05:34:31,200
project rather than an 
occasional necessity and 

6447
05:34:31,200 --> 05:34:33,200
everyone. 
Learns basic repair skills, that

6448
05:34:33,200 --> 05:34:35,100
weren't part of the original job
description. 

6449
05:34:36,000 --> 05:34:38,800
Weather prediction becomes a 
valuable skill set that everyone

6450
05:34:38,800 --> 05:34:42,600
develops to some degree Cloud 
reading when pattern recognition

6451
05:34:42,600 --> 05:34:44,800
and understanding seasonal 
patterns. 

6452
05:34:44,800 --> 05:34:48,200
All contribute to better 
planning and preparation, The 

6453
05:34:48,200 --> 05:34:50,900
ability to predict whether 
changes helps Cruise plan, work 

6454
05:34:50,900 --> 05:34:54,600
schedules, prepare for Supply 
delays and generally make life 

6455
05:34:54,600 --> 05:34:56,900
more manageable in an 
environment where Comfort is 

6456
05:34:56,900 --> 05:34:59,200
largely dependent on being 
ready, for whatever nature 

6457
05:34:59,200 --> 05:35:01,500
decides to provide living and 
working. 

6458
05:35:01,500 --> 05:35:04,400
In close quarters with hundreds 
of other people creates a unique

6459
05:35:04,400 --> 05:35:07,200
social environment. 
That's part construction, site 

6460
05:35:07,200 --> 05:35:11,200
part, small town, and part 
extended, family reunion where 

6461
05:35:11,200 --> 05:35:14,100
nobody can leave early. 
The wall project has brought 

6462
05:35:14,100 --> 05:35:16,800
together people from different 
regions, social classes and 

6463
05:35:16,800 --> 05:35:19,600
backgrounds, creating a 
temporary community, that 

6464
05:35:19,600 --> 05:35:22,500
develops its own Customs, jokes 
and social structure. 

6465
05:35:23,300 --> 05:35:25,600
Your tent has evolved into 
something resembling a 

6466
05:35:25,600 --> 05:35:27,700
household. 
With everyone settling into 

6467
05:35:27,700 --> 05:35:31,500
informal roles that make shared,
living more manageable old Chen 

6468
05:35:31,500 --> 05:35:34,700
has become The Unofficial leader
settling disputes and offering 

6469
05:35:34,700 --> 05:35:36,800
advice based on his extensive 
experience. 

6470
05:35:36,800 --> 05:35:40,000
With group, living situations, 
young lose serves as 

6471
05:35:40,000 --> 05:35:43,000
entertainment coordinator, 
inventing games, and keeping 

6472
05:35:43,000 --> 05:35:44,600
spirits up during difficult 
days. 

6473
05:35:45,600 --> 05:35:48,200
Wang, the quiet handles 
practical matters like tool 

6474
05:35:48,200 --> 05:35:51,500
maintenance and small repairs 
that keep daily life functioning

6475
05:35:51,500 --> 05:35:55,000
smoothly The evening routine 
after work has become a social 

6476
05:35:55,000 --> 05:35:58,400
ritual that everyone looks 
forward to cruise gather around 

6477
05:35:58,400 --> 05:36:01,500
small fires to share meals 
stories and complaints about the

6478
05:36:01,500 --> 05:36:04,900
days challenges. these 
conversations range from 

6479
05:36:04,900 --> 05:36:07,800
practical discussions about 
construction techniques to 

6480
05:36:07,800 --> 05:36:10,700
elaborate storytelling sessions,
where facts and entertainment 

6481
05:36:10,700 --> 05:36:13,400
blend together in ways that 
probably wouldn't pass, strict, 

6482
05:36:13,400 --> 05:36:17,700
historical scrutiny, but make 
for engaging listening Regional 

6483
05:36:17,700 --> 05:36:20,700
differences create intriguing. 
Cultural exchanges as workers 

6484
05:36:20,700 --> 05:36:23,900
from different areas. 
Share their local Customs foods 

6485
05:36:23,900 --> 05:36:25,600
and approaches to 
problem-solving. 

6486
05:36:26,500 --> 05:36:30,200
Is might introduce techniques 
for working in cold weather 

6487
05:36:30,200 --> 05:36:33,100
while workers from Southern 
regions, contribute knowledge 

6488
05:36:33,100 --> 05:36:34,700
about building in wet 
conditions. 

6489
05:36:34,700 --> 05:36:38,500
It's like a practical education 
program where everyone is both 

6490
05:36:38,500 --> 05:36:41,800
teacher and student. 
Games and entertainment, develop

6491
05:36:41,800 --> 05:36:44,400
organically to film the hours 
between work and sleep. 

6492
05:36:45,200 --> 05:36:48,000
Simple gambling games, using 
stones or sticks, provide 

6493
05:36:48,000 --> 05:36:49,600
excitement, and social 
interaction. 

6494
05:36:50,500 --> 05:36:53,500
Storytelling competitions, 
emerge with workers sharing 

6495
05:36:53,500 --> 05:36:56,700
Tales from home or inventing, 
elaborate fictional Adventures. 

6496
05:36:57,500 --> 05:37:00,000
Physical competitions. 
You can carry the heaviest 

6497
05:37:00,000 --> 05:37:02,100
Stone. 
You can work longest without 

6498
05:37:02,100 --> 05:37:04,900
rest, add elements of friendly 
rivalry. 

6499
05:37:04,900 --> 05:37:09,700
That make work, more engaging, 
The development of informal 

6500
05:37:09,700 --> 05:37:12,000
leadership structures within 
work Crews demonstrates. 

6501
05:37:12,000 --> 05:37:13,900
How people naturally organize 
themselves. 

6502
05:37:13,900 --> 05:37:17,300
When faced with shared 
challenges, some workers emerge 

6503
05:37:17,300 --> 05:37:21,200
As Natural organizers, others as
technical experts and still 

6504
05:37:21,200 --> 05:37:24,200
others as mediators who helped 
resolve conflicts before they 

6505
05:37:24,200 --> 05:37:27,600
become serious problems. 
These unofficial roles often 

6506
05:37:27,600 --> 05:37:29,700
proved more important than 
formal hierarchy. 

6507
05:37:29,700 --> 05:37:32,100
In determining how well Crews 
functional. 

6508
05:37:32,900 --> 05:37:34,900
Trade and barter systems 
developed to supplement 

6509
05:37:34,900 --> 05:37:37,900
official. 
Supply distributions workers 

6510
05:37:37,900 --> 05:37:41,700
with particular skills, cooking 
tool, repair, storytelling 

6511
05:37:41,700 --> 05:37:45,500
letter writing, find themselves 
able to trade services for extra

6512
05:37:45,500 --> 05:37:48,100
food. 
Better keeping arrangements or 

6513
05:37:48,100 --> 05:37:50,400
other small luxuries, that make 
life more bearable. 

6514
05:37:50,400 --> 05:37:53,800
These informal economies create 
networks of mutual support that 

6515
05:37:53,800 --> 05:37:57,700
extend beyond individual work 
Crews, Challenge of maintaining 

6516
05:37:57,700 --> 05:38:01,100
morale during difficult periods,
brings out Creative Solutions 

6517
05:38:01,100 --> 05:38:04,200
from the worker community. 
During particularly tough 

6518
05:38:04,200 --> 05:38:08,100
stretches bad, weather 
equipment, shortages, especially

6519
05:38:08,100 --> 05:38:11,400
demanding work, assignments 
Cruise developed strategies for 

6520
05:38:11,400 --> 05:38:13,200
supporting each other 
emotionally, as well as 

6521
05:38:13,200 --> 05:38:16,500
practically shared hardship, 
create bonds that probably 

6522
05:38:16,500 --> 05:38:19,500
wouldn't form under normal 
circumstances, communication 

6523
05:38:19,500 --> 05:38:22,300
with families back home becomes 
a valued service, that brings 

6524
05:38:22,300 --> 05:38:25,700
the community together. 
Workers who can write often 

6525
05:38:25,700 --> 05:38:28,800
composed letters for those who 
can't creating connections 

6526
05:38:28,800 --> 05:38:32,000
between the wall project and the
outside world, these letters. 

6527
05:38:32,000 --> 05:38:34,600
Serve multiple purposes 
maintaining family 

6528
05:38:34,600 --> 05:38:38,000
relationships, sharing news from
the construction site and 

6529
05:38:38,000 --> 05:38:41,000
providing an emotional outlet 
for homesickness and anxiety, 

6530
05:38:41,000 --> 05:38:43,400
about the future, religious and 
cultural. 

6531
05:38:43,400 --> 05:38:45,900
Observance is continued. 
Despite the challenging work 

6532
05:38:45,900 --> 05:38:48,900
environment adapted to fit the 
constraints of construction 

6533
05:38:48,900 --> 05:38:51,700
life. 
Festival celebrations happen on 

6534
05:38:51,700 --> 05:38:55,200
a smaller scale, but with no 
less enthusiasm, creating 

6535
05:38:55,200 --> 05:38:57,900
opportunities for workers to 
maintain connections to their 

6536
05:38:57,900 --> 05:39:00,000
cultural Traditions. 
While building new shared 

6537
05:39:00,000 --> 05:39:03,500
experiences with their fellow 
workers, the gradual development

6538
05:39:03,500 --> 05:39:06,900
of construction site Traditions 
creates a sense of continuity 

6539
05:39:06,900 --> 05:39:10,200
and belonging that helps workers
feel part of something larger 

6540
05:39:10,200 --> 05:39:11,800
than their individual daily 
struggles. 

6541
05:39:11,800 --> 05:39:15,100
These might include Ceremonies 
for completing wall sections 

6542
05:39:15,100 --> 05:39:18,300
rituals for welcoming new 
workers or informal 

6543
05:39:18,300 --> 05:39:20,600
celebrations. 
When Supply wagons arrived with 

6544
05:39:20,600 --> 05:39:24,100
particularly welcomed 
deliveries, Conflicts, when they

6545
05:39:24,100 --> 05:39:26,600
arise tend to be resolved 
through Community pressure, 

6546
05:39:26,600 --> 05:39:30,600
rather than formal Authority as 
everyone recognizes that, 

6547
05:39:30,600 --> 05:39:34,200
cooperation is essential for 
both work, efficiency and 

6548
05:39:34,200 --> 05:39:37,500
personal survival. 
The shared experience of 

6549
05:39:37,500 --> 05:39:40,400
difficult working conditions, 
create strong incentives for 

6550
05:39:40,400 --> 05:39:43,300
people to work out their 
differences, rather than let 

6551
05:39:43,300 --> 05:39:46,000
dispute escalate into serious 
problems that could affect 

6552
05:39:46,000 --> 05:39:48,900
entire cruise. 
The knowledge that this 

6553
05:39:48,900 --> 05:39:51,500
assignment is temporary gives 
the community a unique 

6554
05:39:51,500 --> 05:39:53,900
character. 
Everyone knows they're here for 

6555
05:39:53,900 --> 05:39:57,200
a limited time which creates 
both a sense of urgency about 

6556
05:39:57,200 --> 05:40:00,500
forming relationships and a 
practical focus on making the 

6557
05:40:00,500 --> 05:40:03,300
best of the current situation 
rather than building permit 

6558
05:40:03,300 --> 05:40:05,500
social structures months of 
passed. 

6559
05:40:05,500 --> 05:40:08,100
Since you first arrived at the 
wall site, and the changes are 

6560
05:40:08,100 --> 05:40:10,200
remarkable both in the wall 
itself. 

6561
05:40:10,200 --> 05:40:14,800
And in yourself, what started as
scattered construction sites has

6562
05:40:14,800 --> 05:40:17,400
grown into a continuous barrier 
that stretches beyond what you 

6563
05:40:17,400 --> 05:40:21,200
can see from any single vantage 
point standing on a completed 

6564
05:40:21,200 --> 05:40:24,700
section and looking along the 
walls path, you can hardly 

6565
05:40:24,700 --> 05:40:28,500
believe that human hands and 
stubborn determination created 

6566
05:40:28,500 --> 05:40:32,400
something so massive and 
permanent the wall sections, 

6567
05:40:32,400 --> 05:40:35,200
your crew as build bear, the 
subtle marks of their creators 

6568
05:40:35,200 --> 05:40:38,400
slightly different. 
Stone patterns variations in 

6569
05:40:38,408 --> 05:40:41,400
Mortar joints and the 
accumulated character that comes

6570
05:40:41,400 --> 05:40:44,600
from being constructed by real 
people rather than perfect 

6571
05:40:44,600 --> 05:40:47,900
machines, you can identify your 
work from a distance, 

6572
05:40:47,900 --> 05:40:51,000
recognizing the particular 
Rhythm and style, your crew 

6573
05:40:51,000 --> 05:40:52,900
developed over months of working
together. 

6574
05:40:52,900 --> 05:40:55,700
It's like being able to 
recognize your own handwriting 

6575
05:40:55,700 --> 05:40:59,000
on a massive scale. 
Completion of individual. 

6576
05:40:59,000 --> 05:41:02,300
Sections brings mixed emotions. 
There's pride in the 

6577
05:41:02,300 --> 05:41:05,800
craftsmanship and satisfaction 
in seeing a job, well done, but 

6578
05:41:05,800 --> 05:41:08,800
also aware of the completion. 
Means eventual departure from 

6579
05:41:08,800 --> 05:41:11,400
this temporary community that 
has become unexpectedly 

6580
05:41:11,400 --> 05:41:14,400
important. 
The relationships forged through

6581
05:41:14,400 --> 05:41:17,400
shared hardship and common 
purpose, don't necessarily 

6582
05:41:17,400 --> 05:41:21,200
translate easily back to normal 
life, creating a bitter sweet 

6583
05:41:21,200 --> 05:41:25,300
quality to finishing the work. 
Whole Chen who has worked on 

6584
05:41:25,308 --> 05:41:29,000
various projects throughout his 
career offers perspective on the

6585
05:41:29,000 --> 05:41:31,600
historical significance of what 
you've all accomplished. 

6586
05:41:32,900 --> 05:41:36,200
Most things people build get 
torn down eventually he observes

6587
05:41:36,200 --> 05:41:38,400
while surveying a newly 
completed Tower. 

6588
05:41:39,200 --> 05:41:41,400
Walls like this become part of 
the landscape. 

6589
05:41:41,400 --> 05:41:44,200
Your grandchildren's 
grandchildren will walk along 

6590
05:41:44,200 --> 05:41:46,900
sections. 
You built with your hands it's 

6591
05:41:46,900 --> 05:41:49,300
an oddly comforting, thought 
that adds meaning to all those 

6592
05:41:49,300 --> 05:41:53,100
days of carrying stones and 
mixing mortar The skills you've 

6593
05:41:53,100 --> 05:41:55,300
developed during wall 
construction, turn out to be 

6594
05:41:55,308 --> 05:41:59,100
transferable to civilian life. 
Understanding stone and mortar 

6595
05:41:59,100 --> 05:42:02,600
reading terrain coordinating 
group work, and managing 

6596
05:42:02,600 --> 05:42:05,100
projects under difficult 
conditions of valuable 

6597
05:42:05,100 --> 05:42:06,600
abilities. 
That will serve you well back 

6598
05:42:06,600 --> 05:42:08,900
home. 
You've also developed physical 

6599
05:42:08,900 --> 05:42:11,900
strength and endurance that make
farm work seemed almost 

6600
05:42:11,900 --> 05:42:16,200
effortless by comparison. 
Ying Liu has indeed become more 

6601
05:42:16,200 --> 05:42:19,000
literature during his time on 
the wall, practicing writing, 

6602
05:42:19,000 --> 05:42:22,200
characters, and spare moments 
and learning from other workers 

6603
05:42:22,200 --> 05:42:25,900
who shared their education. 
He plans to use the skills to 

6604
05:42:25,900 --> 05:42:29,000
improve his family's business. 
Dealings demonstrating how the 

6605
05:42:29,000 --> 05:42:31,800
wall project has created 
unexpected opportunities for 

6606
05:42:31,800 --> 05:42:35,300
personal development, alongside 
its primary construction goals. 

6607
05:42:36,400 --> 05:42:38,200
One. 
The quiet has saved enough money

6608
05:42:38,200 --> 05:42:40,900
from his tool repair business, 
to make significant improvements

6609
05:42:40,900 --> 05:42:44,000
to his family's farm. 
When he returns home, his 

6610
05:42:44,000 --> 05:42:47,300
mechanical skills, sharpened by 
months of keeping construction 

6611
05:42:47,300 --> 05:42:50,700
equipment, functioning will make
him valuable in any rural 

6612
05:42:50,700 --> 05:42:53,200
community, where practical 
problem-solving abilities are 

6613
05:42:53,200 --> 05:42:55,900
always in demand. 
A completion ceremony for your 

6614
05:42:55,900 --> 05:42:57,900
section, is simpler than you 
might expect. 

6615
05:42:57,900 --> 05:43:00,800
But deeply, meaningful to 
everyone who participated in the

6616
05:43:00,800 --> 05:43:03,800
construction. 
Local officials make speeches 

6617
05:43:03,800 --> 05:43:07,100
about Imperial Glory and 
defensive necessity. but the 

6618
05:43:07,108 --> 05:43:10,500
real significance is in the 
quiet satisfaction shared among 

6619
05:43:10,500 --> 05:43:13,400
the workers who know exactly how
much effort went into every 

6620
05:43:13,400 --> 05:43:17,400
stone, every joint and every 
decision that shape the final 

6621
05:43:17,400 --> 05:43:21,300
result News arrives that other 
sections of the wall are nearing

6622
05:43:21,300 --> 05:43:23,800
completion. 
Creating a sense of being part 

6623
05:43:23,800 --> 05:43:26,600
of a larger coordinated 
achievement that extends far 

6624
05:43:26,600 --> 05:43:30,000
beyond your direct experience. 
The project that seemed 

6625
05:43:30,000 --> 05:43:32,400
impossibly large. 
When you first arrived has been 

6626
05:43:32,408 --> 05:43:35,300
broken down into manageable 
Pieces by thousands of work 

6627
05:43:35,300 --> 05:43:38,400
Crews, like yours demonstrating.
How even the most ambitious 

6628
05:43:38,400 --> 05:43:41,600
goals can be achieved through 
patient persistent effort. 

6629
05:43:43,000 --> 05:43:45,800
Preparations for departure, 
begin with mixed feelings. 

6630
05:43:45,800 --> 05:43:49,900
There's eagerness to return home
to family familiar surroundings 

6631
05:43:49,900 --> 05:43:52,300
and the comfortable routines of 
normal life. 

6632
05:43:53,200 --> 05:43:56,500
But there's also reluctance to 
leave the friendships and sense 

6633
05:43:56,500 --> 05:43:59,900
of shared purpose that made the 
hardships bearable and gave 

6634
05:43:59,900 --> 05:44:03,600
meaning to the difficult work. 
The journey home provides time 

6635
05:44:03,600 --> 05:44:05,600
to reflect on the experience and
process. 

6636
05:44:05,600 --> 05:44:09,100
What you've learned about 
yourself about cooperation and 

6637
05:44:09,100 --> 05:44:11,700
about what people can accomplish
when they work together toward 

6638
05:44:11,700 --> 05:44:14,800
common goals. 
The wall represents more than 

6639
05:44:14,800 --> 05:44:18,000
just a defensive barrier. 
It's proof that Ordinary People 

6640
05:44:18,000 --> 05:44:20,500
can create extraordinary things.
When they combine their 

6641
05:44:20,500 --> 05:44:24,500
individual efforts with shared 
determination returning, home 

6642
05:44:24,500 --> 05:44:27,600
means re-adjusting to civilian 
life after months of structured 

6643
05:44:27,600 --> 05:44:31,200
work routines and Community 
Living, Family and friends are 

6644
05:44:31,200 --> 05:44:34,800
curious about your experience is
but explaining the daily reality

6645
05:44:34,800 --> 05:44:37,700
of wall construction. 
Proves challenging how do you 

6646
05:44:37,700 --> 05:44:41,000
describe the satisfaction of 
building something permanent the

6647
05:44:41,000 --> 05:44:44,300
camaraderie of shared hardship 
or the pride in craftsmanship 

6648
05:44:44,300 --> 05:44:46,300
that developed over months of 
patient work. 

6649
05:44:47,500 --> 05:44:50,000
The wall continues without you 
as other Crews. 

6650
05:44:50,000 --> 05:44:53,200
Take over maintenance and 
improvements ensuring that your 

6651
05:44:53,200 --> 05:44:55,100
temporary contribution. 
Becomes part of a permanent 

6652
05:44:55,100 --> 05:44:58,600
Legacy knowing that your work 
will endure lends a sense of 

6653
05:44:58,608 --> 05:45:01,400
permanence to what felt like 
just a temporary assignment. 

6654
05:45:01,400 --> 05:45:04,300
Connecting your individual 
effort to something that will 

6655
05:45:04,300 --> 05:45:07,200
Outlast. 
Your lifetime years later, you 

6656
05:45:07,200 --> 05:45:10,300
might travel past sections of 
the wall and feel a particular 

6657
05:45:10,300 --> 05:45:14,500
satisfaction and seeing your 
work, still standing still 

6658
05:45:14,500 --> 05:45:16,700
serving its purpose, still 
bearing. 

6659
05:45:16,700 --> 05:45:19,300
The subtle marks of the 
craftsmanship, you and your crew

6660
05:45:19,300 --> 05:45:22,400
brought to an impossible project
that somehow got finished. 

6661
05:45:22,400 --> 05:45:24,400
Anyway, one stone time.