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sir done

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because of anything we brought back we

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of course we were in mexico and

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when you come back from mexico

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obviously at the go through customs

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for me specifically

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i always immediately start

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i have my bag that might get me arrested

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when we were speaking with their manic

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you know what i mean i

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and though you are in

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ah the old odometer if you know what i mean

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yeah i felt it was kind of a bonding

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he looked at me knowingly and any said yeah

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i hear that body

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that didn't happen he said you can go

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now

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oh maybe i was imagining all of that

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yeah i was delirious from the long flight

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that way i wish you had bonded so i

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tell me a thing okay something

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strange started happening

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the neighborhood on know in the desolate

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prairies of the united states

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in the late eighteen hundreds strange

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phenomenon was little

3:54

understood the time but it terrified

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those who would settle that land

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it was known as prayer the madness

4:00

so prairie madness

4:03

seem to come from nowhere and from everywhere

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at the same time on the great plains

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in the mid nineteenth too early twentieth

4:09

century people who are known to be kind

4:12

and patient and otherwise

4:15

genuinely pleasant to be around with

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suddenly change sometimes

4:19

, changes were not small

4:21

sometimes they were very dramatic

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people that were once gentlemen softspoken

4:26

would become violent with rage

4:29

and it would seem to com from

4:31

the planes themselves often

4:33

times prairie madness wouldn't would

4:35

come on subtly manifesting initially

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as like kind of like depression

4:40

or a certain degree of melancholy

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the mormons yeah the more herbs week we

4:45

call it often times that's as far as

4:47

it would gulf but more often than not it

4:49

would spiral downward from there

4:51

and it seemed to be epidemic

4:54

there's plenty of evidence and historical

4:56

accounts and surveys that show

4:58

a rise in cases of mental

5:00

illness in the mid nineteenth into

5:03

the early twentieth century particularly

5:06

in this area in the great plains of the united

5:08

states journalist

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eugene small he wrote in

5:12

the atlantic and eighty ninety three

5:14

quote stories have surfaced of

5:16

formally stable people being

5:19

turned depressed anxious

5:21

irritable and even violent

5:23

by prairie madness and the alarming

5:26

level of madness is occurring is

5:28

occurring new prairie states among farmers

5:31

and their wives

5:32

this is curious i'm interested

5:35

story began to trickle back to the

5:37

east coast of strange goings on

5:39

in the great plains one story was

5:41

a young families or consisting of

5:43

a husband and wife they had three children

5:46

the family left st louis to homestead

5:49

in the great plains great plains eighteen eighties

5:52

and by all accounts they were kind

5:54

god fearing people shortly after

5:56

settling a tract of land

5:59

depression began to city and on both

6:01

the husband and wife soon the husband

6:03

would disappear for days at a types

6:06

and when he'd come back he would be covered with

6:08

wounds often times bleeding

6:11

it was said by those who witness

6:13

this city could be seen

6:15

on his land swinging land acts

6:17

as if selling trees that no longer

6:20

where there aren't mine early

6:22

one morning he murdered his entire

6:24

family with that axe he

6:27

then set the cabin on fire and burned

6:30

himself allies

6:31

the give his and all work and no play cancer

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to way

6:34

the beginning i was as i was reading

6:36

this i was beginning to think exactly that's

6:38

there are many accounts of other extreme

6:41

cases of prairie madness that resulted

6:44

suicide the what was

6:46

the cause of prairie madness there

6:49

was much speculation that it

6:51

had to do with restless spirits

6:53

of indigenous peoples who were displaced

6:56

from their land my first thought would be

6:58

the isolation of moving from

7:00

your friends and family in a saint

7:02

louis to the planes

7:05

were it's just you and

7:07

your say family while you're onto something even

7:09

though some people thought they attributed

7:11

it to a curse of some

7:13

sort now we know prairie madness

7:17

was most likely connected directly

7:19

to the homestead act of eighteen sixty

7:21

two this act would give a person

7:23

one hundred sixty acres of prairie

7:25

land if they could live on it and

7:28

make something out of it within a five

7:30

year period farms of the homestead

7:32

act had to be at least a half mile apart

7:34

however many works much much

7:37

further than that might save get families

7:39

living on a hundred sixty acres of

7:41

land the next farm which

7:43

is a hundred sixty acres could be miles

7:45

away the settlers had to be completely

7:48

self sufficient and they were extremely

7:51

isolated completely cut

7:53

off in many ways you would

7:55

rarely see a neighbor let alone any towns

7:58

towns really were more like oust posts

8:00

that were set up along the

8:02

railroad tracks and each one

8:04

was at least twenty miles apart part

8:07

of it would take more than a day to get

8:09

to the town to market goods

8:12

and most people rarely saw the town's

8:14

frequently usually it was just the

8:16

man who would go to town

8:18

and interestingly the highest

8:20

incidence of prairie madness afflicted

8:23

women so clearly isolation did

8:25

play a big part in in prairie mad

8:27

this directly and also indirectly

8:30

since it was so difficult to get

8:32

to town if a child fell sick

8:34

they frequently died and this added to

8:36

the trauma and the stress

8:38

and the anxiety the living

8:41

on the prayer

8:42

now did you decide to

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do this story because someone said

8:46

said i've been

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in weird since we moved systems

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know but that was strange what was that on twitter

8:52

somebody said they what what was as they said

8:54

the been missing since the beginning and

8:57

is that there is a market change

8:59

in my demeanor since we moved

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to flora that's interesting yeah

9:03

i'm so cat comes to me and says have

9:05

i changed in the past year and i said

9:08

well you're a hell of a lot happier some

9:10

he was sick maybe that has something to do in

9:13

, to the isolation whether contributed

9:15

the harsh weather in the environment of the great

9:17

plains included long cold

9:20

winters often filled with intense

9:22

blizzards and then summer would come

9:24

along and it would be very short

9:26

and hot hot the wintertime the

9:28

great plains would seem even more

9:31

deserted than they did in

9:33

the summer time there were few trees to

9:35

begin with what few plants

9:37

they could see would die in the animals

9:39

would disappear they would go into hibernation

9:41

are just hold up for the winner settlers

9:44

would be stuck in their cabins often

9:46

under several cabins often of snow

9:48

for days at a time so certainly

9:51

all of these things contributed to

9:53

what is called prairie madness

9:56

but now we're learning that there was something

9:58

more the garden center

10:02

is always are just sit it's never

10:04

lupus and it's always are guys who me

10:06

atlantic article from eighty ninety

10:09

three their job their talked

10:11

about talked few moments ago they touched

10:13

on that on that bit quote during

10:15

the winter during the winter the silence

10:17

of death rests on the vast landscape

10:20

in nellie mcclung story

10:23

the neutral fuse a manitoba settler

10:25

rights a poem about the groaning sounds

10:27

of the plane quotes i hate the

10:29

wind with it's evil spite

10:32

in it hates me with the hate is deep and

10:34

hisses and years when i try

10:36

to sleep see a

10:38

paleo anthropologist with

10:40

state university of new york made alex

10:43

diva lee's studies the evolution

10:45

of human hearing evolution of made him wonder

10:48

if there was any truth to the idea

10:50

that the wind on the prairie drove people

10:52

mad i know like in

10:54

and these stories that we've read about

10:57

third yet love pass were as

10:59

they say that the arrangement of

11:01

the mountains lead to a kind

11:03

of swooping when deck created

11:05

a sound right it literally can drive

11:07

you bananas yeah it's at a frequency

11:10

that it's or triggers a psychosis

11:12

in some people same on the plane in i

11:14

thought the exact same thing while his study

11:17

was recently published in historical

11:19

archaeologists and it suggests

11:21

that the eerie soundscape of the great plains

11:24

probably did contribute greatly

11:26

to the rise of mental illness in

11:29

settlers back and that day a

11:31

combination of the deathly silence

11:33

and the howling wind certainly

11:36

did affect them and that's not

11:38

surprising because research in modern

11:40

subjects clearly demonstrates

11:42

that what we hear can exacerbate not

11:44

only sleep stress and mental

11:47

health issues but even cardiovascular

11:49

disease and type two diabetes

11:52

wow cardiovascular disease makes

11:54

sense but

11:55

if we get a yeah ah thank so

11:58

believes was interested to find out the with

12:00

anything unique and special about the prairies

12:02

soundscape at least a prairie

12:04

a bad day and obviously he can't

12:07

jump at a time machine and

12:09

go back to gather that sort of

12:11

data so he collected contemporary

12:14

recordings of the planes in nebraska

12:16

in kansas these recordings

12:19

captured the sounds of the wind

12:21

in the rain and just the natural soundscape

12:24

steve then also recorded

12:26

urban sounds from cities like

12:28

mexico city and barcelona which

12:31

also featured whether sounds like rain

12:34

and so on and so forth but also

12:36

the hum of traffic and pedestrians

12:38

he then said then recordings into a

12:40

computer program that creates visual

12:43

representations of the spectrum of sound

12:45

frequencies that the human ear can

12:47

here and any compared the to

12:49

him this is confusing but interesting

12:52

what he discovered was that all of

12:54

the soundscapes recorded contained

12:56

plenty of different sounds that humans

12:58

would be able to hear naturally but the sounds

13:01

from the city were more diverse there

13:03

were so many sounds and they spread

13:05

sounds evenly across the range of human

13:07

hearing that it produced something

13:10

akin to white noise right

13:12

however the sounds from the prairie a

13:14

little to none of that background

13:16

noise in the sounds the did

13:18

exist and exist sounds the did exist

13:21

coincided with a particular sensitive

13:23

part of the human hearing range that

13:25

the brain recognizes more noticeably

13:28

the said quote the way the

13:30

can describe it is it's very

13:32

quiet and then suddenly you

13:34

hear a noise and then you can't

13:36

stop hearing stop noise you can't

13:38

you anything but the noise

13:40

flake when it comes

13:43

the required but then you discover that there

13:45

is a single cricket you're in your home

13:47

that's exactly right he he said it was

13:49

it something like being in a are

13:52

are extremely quiet library and

13:54

somebody introduces into that library

13:56

a flock of geese now

13:59

yes that's yes that's every

14:01

sound on the prairie every cricket every

14:03

drop of rain every chicken clock

14:05

becomes horribly disdained

14:07

to either stories about dot

14:09

the sensory deprivation chambers

14:11

of rooms that they've designed to stop all

14:14

echoes it's the most perfectly

14:17

acoustically designed room mates

14:19

or that does sound of your blood slowing

14:21

yeah you can hear ya up spending

14:23

too much time in an environment like

14:26

this can start to drive you mad or

14:28

even the smallest sound like you mentioned blood

14:31

coursing through your your veins or or heartbeat

14:33

or even the russell of your clothing

14:36

can be impossible to ignore adrian

14:39

casey li is an auditory brain scientist

14:41

at the university of washington he says quotes

14:44

being adaptive is really for

14:46

survival now if you adapt

14:48

to a low sound environment

14:50

in all of the sudden there's a allowed

14:52

sound coming on of course it's gonna

14:55

give you trouble the idea that

14:57

the great plains are so flat with

14:59

limited vegetation and and certainly

15:01

few buildings in those days the wind

15:03

blowing through certain areas of the great

15:05

plane could have produced unique

15:07

frequencies of sound that could trigger

15:09

psychosis much like the doubtless

15:12

pass that you that you mentioned earlier

15:14

and there's also been speculation more currently

15:17

that the changing soundscapes caused

15:19

by the most recent pandemic due

15:21

to lockdowns and the transition

15:23

to working at home at effects on

15:25

the physical and mental wellbeing of people

15:28

as well you know we call it

15:30

becoming stir crazy or

15:32

crazy cat and see rehab and see that movie

15:34

was ras in the end we don't

15:36

know for sure but it certainly seems likely

15:38

that there was something in the soundscape

15:40

of soundscape great plains in the late eighteenth and

15:43

early nineteenth century that small

15:45

he referred to in now his atlantic

15:47

article from eighty ninety three as silence

15:49

and mcclung referred to it is that hateful

15:52

wind affected the minds of

15:55

minds settlers that were isolated and

15:57

alone on the great plains in those

15:59

days my source information, a fascinating

16:02

article in atlas, obscura, written

16:04

by james gaines, also, wikipedia

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yup vocal saw was born

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in france and seventeen at o

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nine he was the tenth

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child of a glove maker now

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he is started out as out as young person

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at wears an interest in mechanics

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and started fixing watches as

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a child which is the coolest thing

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and i think that's one of the reasons why we

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need to encourage boredom

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and children because if

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your kids are busy all the time they're

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never gonna discover that they like

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fixing watches right i would just

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like to come from a long line of gloves

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makers right is that they

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weren't really well off because

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as you can imagine it's hard to support

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a family of like twelve i'm

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glove make when you have to admire

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their style though

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israel yes i win at the

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zoc was a boy he aspired to become

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a clockmaker i'm new unfortunately

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his father died at the age of seven

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not as feather he was seven when his father dead

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be weird if is the other way around and he was

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sent to a monster the for schooling

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zoc family sent him to study under

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the jesuits and later joins

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the order of the menem's in leon

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there are roman catholic religious

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order as friars and

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he

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what will live this can be my

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purpose you know and since he came

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from family without a lot of money it

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made a lot of sense to go ends you

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the religious group where

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he the have then the freedom to

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do he and mechanics and as

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an aside time i see at

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the age of just eighteen

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zoc was given his own workshop

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in leon when a local

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nobleman became his patron and

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set him up to make machines

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so cool right that was

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his art and he found a patron

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for his art of machines which

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is just so neat and us in

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that same year seventeen twenty seven

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there was a visit from at some of

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the governing heads of the

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minutes so this group of friars

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that he wanted to be a part of and as

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he had joined on the highest

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came to visit him and since he

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had this workshop he thought in the

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hidden in his little fanciful kind of ways

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that he would create something for

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their visit he came up with these

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automatic machines that

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would serve or a few

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the friars was okay

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yeah like an automatic yes

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really exactly as he

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also figured it out so that they could clean

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up the table after i mom was finished eating

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that's just the coolest thing i mean can

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i just once again point out this is seventeen

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twenty seven and he's come up with a monistic

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auto matt i'm so similar

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has be despots however

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one of the officials

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declared that see

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interests and creations

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of the were profane

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and ordered that his workshop be

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destroyed profane role

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same the guy created an automatic

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i know ass zoc was disappointed

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as you can imagine am withdrew

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from the order leaving the monks behind

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him why wouldn't she because here's the thing

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is that you're incredibly skilled at

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that brings joy

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the to you and others and

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they're like know

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if profit

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in knocking anyway so

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zoc went to patty n in

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his name's it sounds like it belongs there anyway and

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with so in paris he studied

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medicine and anatomy and

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he was encouraged and supported by the

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priests and finance or samuel

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bernard he was one of the wealthiest man

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in his time also during this time

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shop met claude nicola

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like cat who was a friend surgeon

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who had a knack for sharing his interests

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in science now look had shared

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his interest in biology and anatomy

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and with that zoc heads exists

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renewed and funded

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interest in machinery and ideas

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really started to bubble a few

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years later zoc built the

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flute player it was a lot size

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figure of a shepherd

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that played the flute

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was not a robot it's like

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a robust a robot flutist

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yes i'm trying to come up with some sort of

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jani joke by did nothing's coming

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to me any less the

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a mechanical yawning

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yeah he would build to look like marble

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and then it had it mechanisms for

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every tiny muscles that would be

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involved in the task of playing the flute

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including tongue muscles

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of iran move the air

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from top to bottom

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wow

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the intricate set of pipes and bellows

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any ottomans han could quote unquote

27:30

breeze to control air flow

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through the flute he then had

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a little bit of struggle with the fingers

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a hitting the the holes on the flu which

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i know have names but i did not

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think to look it up held just now

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how he covered the fingers

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with a soft glove like skin

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and i have to think maybe her dad being a glove

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maker a kind of charade india that young

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either way the the autumn upon could

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play twelve different melody

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see if if i had come up

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with this ah on autumn a crime

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that head down working tongue muscles

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and glove like skyn it

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wouldn't be for playing well maybe

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it would be yeah nevermind ah

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just know i would never go outside that sir

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to reset plan

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the early seventeenth thirty eight he presented

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his creation to the academy of

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sciences and they were much

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more excited than those for

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there's were

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the academy judge the machine extremely

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ingenious and praised both the intelligence

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of the creator and his extensive

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knowledge of mechanical parts now

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, there were some musicians who

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pooh poohed it and and of course

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i think the idea was like well it can't

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play like we can play well

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and now it's a machine and

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it's the seventeen hundreds what's wrong

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with you and that they were

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worried they were going to be displaced spray

28:54

flute playing robots said the equivalent

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of the self checkout concerns

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and the real issue

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that they had was that the lips

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couldn't form around the

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flute in the right way and so

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it kind of that shrill yeah

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that eighteenth century robot music

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is a little we'll see how embarrassing

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so

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they were pretty successful and zoc

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decided to build a second automatic

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on this one is a tambourine player

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or while building his own band yes

29:29

but this guy had a reports

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hey of twenty tunes though

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he really is no an anonymous but

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at the time mechanical creatures

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were gaining popularity in europe

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most could be classified as toys

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the things that zoc a vocal

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saw later to be known as jacques

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de vaughn com saw were

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making word nowhere near

29:52

at toys they weren't it anything like

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toys they were mechanical

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masterpieces and people

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it could benefit

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now this is the part of the story that

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we get to that's the story vital

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to the thing that i wanted to talk about us

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is you wanna take a break for a map the airport

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tomorrow fourteen is always prepare

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okay

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when york

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created the death of catering dot i

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love this guy i mean he had

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me at robots loudest but a

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deprecating doc

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this is the moms

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masterpiece the

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gold plated life sized sitting

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duck the digesting

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dot is zoc most

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popular and then sense it was it was

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doc inspired by the carts

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idea that animals function

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a lot like i'm a scene he was

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an incredibly detailed duck he

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sat on an enormous base housing

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the mechanics he was life sized

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and constructed of hundreds of parts

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covered in perforated gold plated

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copper to allow a view of the

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workings inside

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ha

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this dot had over four hundred

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moving parts

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in each weighing

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wow he could slap it's when

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he could drink water

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the eat poets offered to it's

31:14

and then after quote digestion

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poop them out the other end now

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though just creation supposedly

31:22

demonstrated digestion accurately

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the deck actually contained a hidden

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compartment of quote unquote digested

31:29

food so with the duck was

31:31

defecating was not the same as what it a

31:33

yeah that is when i i suspect

31:35

it is much she was a little trickery for

31:38

sure but it's still a got the point across

31:40

he saw how it was happening

31:42

in the engine the outs and all that

31:44

rise yeah

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ah my

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the bread crumbs and green

31:51

dye that will come on out the back and

31:53

looked a lot like that poop snow

31:55

well done so august even

31:58

though dd the digesting it

32:00

may seem like another frivolous piece

32:02

of entertainment for the board wealthy of

32:04

the time the day i just

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in dot that was credited for inventing

32:09

the world's first flexible rubber

32:11

tubing and that actors and

32:13

ducks intestine

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i think of it as the

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of entertainment where the

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elites and the masses yeah

32:22

back in those days i wonder if it

32:24

had the same sort of social impact

32:26

that vcrs did when when

32:28

they were first introduced oh yeah people would

32:31

go over to somebody's house he's got he's

32:33

got one of them poop and docs was

32:35

scored his place watch it well

32:37

then how have come to the same area to

32:39

watch the pooping that because i'm

32:42

there was just the one just one yeah no

32:44

i know it's same speaking wait

32:46

we just bought a vcr it's very exciting

32:48

time in the

32:50

wall top household the mechanical

32:52

that was a smashing success and

32:54

zoc would end up touring europe

32:57

with his creations voltaire

33:00

memorably observed in seventeen

33:03

forty one that without the voice of

33:05

lot more and von call saul

33:07

doc you would have nothing to reminds

33:09

you of the glory of fans

33:12

wow yeah explain take a second

33:15

and absorb that moment he

33:17

apparently zoc at tired very

33:19

quickly of his creations and he sold them

33:21

q a few entrepreneurs from

33:23

leon and seventeen forty

33:26

three and they toured with them

33:28

for nearly a decade showing them throughout

33:30

europe while and apparently

33:32

need quite a pretty penny doing

33:34

some on

33:35

fortunately there were

33:37

several instances that led

33:39

to the destruction of all three

33:42

of these amazing creations

33:44

the dot com burned in a museum

33:46

fire in poland

33:48

in eighteen eighteen

33:49

and both the musical automate hands

33:51

were destroyed the beginning of the nineteenth century

33:54

now after this whole

33:57

flutist tambourine death mon

34:00

the job , to move

34:02

on and thing we we the fifteenth as

34:04

just appointed him as inspector

34:06

of silk manufacture he

34:09

was hoping it to rival the

34:12

english and scottish silk that

34:14

was very popular at the time and

34:16

so he was like well let's get this incredible

34:18

machinist guy on the

34:20

case right and case right did

34:22

shock had several improvements that

34:25

were adopted by the silk industry and

34:28

most importantly one of the labs

34:30

that

34:31

the created i don't know anything about manufacture

34:34

but anyway this it ended up being very

34:36

important to the industry

34:37

i'm so he was a can just sell

34:40

a so skilled in so many different

34:42

ways and

34:44

yeah let's not forget about the flexible rubber

34:46

tubing right

34:47

i think about every time that i have cleaned

34:50

assists tank and how much more difficult

34:52

that would have been without flexible rubber tubing

34:54

amen sister

34:55

thank you i got my information from

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atlas obscura history mesh

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dot

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com research gate a

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p s news and of course with

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a pdf

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i just want to say i want to make it completely

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clear uh-huh any time

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you have a story about a devastating

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robot i'm in yeah

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i thought maybe oh yeah oh yeah yeah

35:19

what's funnier than robots and poop

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yeah she's so cool she's so

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cool and , also

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a national toyota commercial no big

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didn't finish so i

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