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I really like these podcasts. Delivery is impeccable.
He is my favorite explorer now! I’ve heard of the Humboldt Current, probably just saw it on a globe, but knew basically nothing about him. Why didn’t we learn more about him in school? Anyway, i was wondering about the instruments they carried and went down a rabbit hole about the barometers. Here’s the search i used in Google to find out more: ”what kind of barometer did explorers like alexander von humboldt take with them on expeditions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?”
Another amazing story of exploration!
What exactly is ”a hawksbill full of gold”? A hawksbill sea turtle shell filled with gold? They are pretty large, 70 to 90 cm according to Google, and naturally don’t come in standard sizes. Was this just a colorful term, or did the tribute collector have a specific turtle shell that was used for measurement?
This was great. You are an excellent teacher/presenter/writer!!!
You can have a lean, smart company and still take along a dude to make sketches and maybe an ethnologist. To enhance the legacy of the expedition!
The quote ”He who controls the spice, controls the universe” is _not_ found anywhere in the novel Dune. I believe it comes from the first film adaptation, which was truly awful. The spice found on Arrakis enables _interstellar_ navigation, and thus trade, within the galaxy. That is, between the inhabited star systems close enough for trade. One little section of our little ol’ Milky Way is not the entire universe, and Frank Herbert used proper language with proper meaning.
Thanx for the effort there
In the colloquial English of my parents’ and grandparents’ generation, to call someone a ”berk” meant they were an unpleasant idiotic person; pronounced ”Burke”. Possibly coincidence, but who knows?
love all these stories! really helping me through a rough patch thank you!
Such a great treatment of Boone! Appreciate the acknowledgement of what’s known fact and what’s speculation.
Why isn’t the author disappointed in the slave trade of the American Indians? They were the biggest owners of slaves in all of North America. And they only stopped when they went on the reservation. But, nooooooo, poor Daniel Boone has to be called out. Because he was white? How racist is that of the author? Haha
I live only about 20 minutes from the Boone homestead and have never been there.
really enjoying this!!
Great podcast till you brought this blow bag nyc twit. Tell him to go carbon neutral till he tells us about climate change. Which the climate had always changed. Can’t wait till the mini ice age comes and froze his preaching .
Great series until you talked to this wuss from nyc. Who is he to chastise us about carbon footprint while he used hundreds of thousands of carbons getting to the South Pole to scratch is . I mean what hypocrisy . But typical of nyc. You ruined a great podcast series by this nyc twit. Let his dad take care of him now. Maybe rock him in his chair.
I’d love to listen to the final episode .. but it constantly comes up as an ”unknown error”!!