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Hi everybody. I'm Emily. And I'm Vince.
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And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.
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That was weird. What? I heard notes in our intro that I haven't heard before.
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I think it's just louder. I think I adjusted the volume knob. Are you sure?
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Yeah, I just turned it from 0 to 50%. Maybe it's our house.
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Oh, our house? You mean the riprap studio version? We don't have a studio.
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No, no. This cannot be an actual version.
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Alright, we're just intermittent between studios, wandering.
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We're sitting on the couch. We've got three computers open.
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We're out to sea. My microphone may fall off the coffee table.
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It's happened before. It's happened before to me. Has it? Yeah. Oh yeah.
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The microphone fell. That's right. That's when I had just broken my foot the day.
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Yeah. That was the only other couch instance that we've had.
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So now this is couch number two. Always in some big event of our lives.
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Yeah, you guys are along for the ride. It is, what is it? July 2nd, 2024.
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Yeah. Welcome to the recording.
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Which just tells how close we're cutting it, recording before it's actually posted.
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Normally we're two weeks ahead, but Vince and I have been moving.
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We're in our new place now, which is why the studio is not ready.
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It's been a lot, which is also why I don't have a history buoy today.
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Here's a history buoy. I owe an apology to our viewers on YouTube.
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Oh my gosh. Because I was almost a full week behind posting the last one.
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We delinquent a day on the actual podcast posts. We can't all be you.
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We took damage. Our faithful listeners did not appreciate our tardiness.
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So, YouTube. But yeah, that's what happens when you move.
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YouTube was a week behind. So here we are. Yeah.
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And Emily's the host and I'm happy to be along with the new lighthouse buoy.
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The history buoy.
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How long have we been doing this and you still call it something else every time?
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Yeah.
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Okay. So history buoy we're skipping.
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And the lighthouse recovering actually probably deserves a longer episode.
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I'm given, I got some good history, but I feel like a lot of the aspects of this lighthouse,
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I would go into on their own episode, such as for Nell lenses and how that all started.
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So, cause in episode 55 or maybe 54, we talked about.
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Yeah. 54 it was Navisync the.
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Navisync?
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Your episode.
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Yes. I lose the answers to my questions so fast.
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So 54 is Navisync.
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Yeah. Twin lights.
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As in naval.
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And so that was the first US lighthouse to have the Fresnel lens.
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And so today we're talking about the first lighthouse to have a Fresnel lens total in the world forever.
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Is it in France?
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Yes.
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Let's go.
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We're going French and that should tell you that I will be pronouncing words incorrectly.
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Fresnel.
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And the name of this lighthouse.
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I listened to a lady say it in French.
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And so I'm just going to pronounce it the way that I pronounce it and someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
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So the lighthouse is Cordoen lighthouse.
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Cordoen.
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I want to say Cordoen, but I think it's Cordoen.
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It's not like.
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Cordoen.
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Coeur d'Alene.
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Does it share any of those?
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You think there's an L in there secretly?
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Coeur d'Alene is.
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Nevermind.
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I'm probably not even saying Coeur d'Alene right.
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What is the L?
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It's in Idaho.
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Oh.
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It's beautiful.
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I highly recommend visiting.
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It's a town.
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Coeur d'Alene.
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But I think it's named after somewhere in France.
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I don't think.
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Oh.
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The French name of a town, Coeur d'Alene is maybe it means something.
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I have no idea, folks.
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If anyone can tell me, that'd be appreciated.
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I think you're suggesting this lighthouse had a secret L.
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No.
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No, I was trying to suggest that some of the pronunciation may go hand in hand.
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France to France.
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Anyway, this lighthouse is very exciting.
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Aside from having the first frenet lens.
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And the reason why it had it is why it's so exciting.
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So I'll go into it.
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This lighthouse is referred to as the King of Lighthouses, the lighthouse of kings, also by the Versailles of the sea, the patriarch of lighthouses, and is the oldest lighthouse in France by a ton, located in the Bay of Biscay off the west coast of France.
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Biscay.
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I'm just going to go out there and say that this is probably one of the most architecturally pleasing lighthouses.
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No.
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Yeah.
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Let's see.
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I'm itching to see.
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I'm waiting.
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That's pretty sick.
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The long pause scared me.
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So I pulled up a photo.
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It's pretty clear in the picture.
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One, that it's got red and green in its flash pattern.
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Awesome.
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I love it when we use colors in our flash patterns.
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And you can see pretty obviously that this lighthouse is in two parts.
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One more modern than the other one.
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So I'll go into both halves of the lighthouse and how that came to be.
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So it was built 4.3 miles out on a rocky plateau, mostly covered in ocean.
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And you can tell in this picture, too.
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It seems to be out in the middle of the water, but it's actually sitting on solid ground.
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It's just covered by water most of the time.
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So visitors can come by at low tide and actually walk.
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That is cool.
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So like this area originally in like the eighth century or something, they started building
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fire towers kind of, you know, like we covered the original light.
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Yes.
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Where it wasn't covered.
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It was very made of fire.
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There was fire and very little else.
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And in the 14th century, they built their first like official fire tower, considered the first
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lighthouse over here, called the Tower of the Black Prince, which is awesome.
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It's a cool name.
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Super cool.
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And it's the first known instance in the world of lighthouse dues, which is basically like ships had to pay a lighthouse to pass by.
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And so that's the first instance of that.
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For what? To keep the lighthouse?
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Taxes.
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Yeah.
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You didn't crash. You're welcome.
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Give me five shillings.
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But this Tower of the Black Prince eventually fell and shipwrecks started to increase, but it lasted for like a couple hundred years.
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The fire tower?
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Yes.
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That is cool.
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So it had to have been something awesome, but I couldn't find any like imagery or anything about what it looked like.
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Otherwise, I definitely would have slapped it.
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Yeah, the sketch would be awesome.
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So construction on this new lighthouse to replace the tower started in 1584.
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So we're going much further back.
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Have we ever talked about the 1500s?
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I don't know.
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I don't know if that we have.
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I don't think so either.
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And this is what I was saying.
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Like this is the oldest by a lot in France and it's still here.
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It's just kind of insane.
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It's like almost 500 years.
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It's so cool.
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Like Western European history.
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Well, really the rest of the world keeps track of their history pretty well.
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Yeah. Well, nothing falls apart.
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Two hundred years ago.
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Forever.
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Ancient.
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Actually.
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Yeah. So this is a super old one and it was completed in 1611.
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So there was this huge gap in when they started construction and when it was completed, that's like 30 years.
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Government project.
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So it was influenced by the king.
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So, you know, there was a lot of turnover in rulers.
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And so the king of France at the time that this was starting construction was King Henry III and he was assassinated.
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So then there was another guy and then King Henry IV ruled for almost 21 years.
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He is kind of the one who added a lot to the original lighthouse.
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And I'll show you a picture.
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There's like a drawing of what it looked like before the second half was added.
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So the Henry III, King Henry III is the one who commissioned the lighthouse.
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But then he was assassinated.
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And then when Henry IV came into power, he was like, we got to make this lighthouse like, you know, a show of France's power.
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Any European people who any traffic that comes through here should see this lighthouse and be like, oh, my gosh, France is awesome.
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I'm nodding my head for those of you not in the room.
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A hundred percent.
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A hundred percent.
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No, I mean, I know that's stupid.
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But like I am smiling and nodding because in my tourism that I've been able to do several great countries of old and of new.
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I assume France is still up there in the world.
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Pretty powerful still.
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Well, you know, lighthouse wise, of course, that story has been told a couple of times.
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Like we need to create imposing architecture that scares people and provides a powerful image of wealth and industry.
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Because it's all about what you put out there.
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It's all about like this is the original Facebook smoke and mirrors for Instagram.
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They had lighthouses out in the ocean.
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They had amazing architecture flex.
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Technically, he died one year before this lighthouse was completed, so like the end, the finishing of this lighthouse was overseen by King Louis the 13th, who was after that after him.
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So King Henry the fourth, he was assassinated by time.
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He. Yes.
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That's true.
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I didn't maybe he was killed.
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I don't know. I can't remember.
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Oh, I think he was killed.
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So it's not assassination unless you're wearing a cloak.
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Unless you're hiding first.
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That's to be sneaky.
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I won't bog you down.
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But he was the one who added a bunch of stuff.
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So this is what I talked about in the last one that there was an apartment built for the king inside the lighthouse.
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So he was the one who set that up so that he would have an apartment and also added a chapel to the plants from the like how big is this thing?
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It is insane.
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I hope I put a picture in here to show you.
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I'm not really getting any scale from this.
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Because it's on the water, you can't really tell how large it is.
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But hopefully some of the pictures later.
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Oh, oh, like I have one at the end that shows how tall it is.
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Like when you're at the top, what people look like.
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And it's crazy.
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Is that a first order lens that we're seeing in the image?
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So those are what?
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Twenty feet tall?
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No, they're close to that, though.
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Nine.
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No, they're way bigger than a person.
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Let me I mean, nine feet is bigger than a person.
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I'm aware.
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How tall is Simone Biles, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar?
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I don't care about any of those things.
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How tall is a first order Fresnel lens?
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Eight feet, six inches.
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I'm so good.
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It's good.
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Twenty feet.
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Twenty feet.
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What am I thinking?
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I've seen some big.
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There's a hyper radial lens hold the police.
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You showed me some big old lenses.
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I've been lied to.
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Hyper radial.
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That's what I get for running the YouTube.
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OK, they give it to me in inches.
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Come on, US.
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Divided by 12.
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I know.
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148 divided by 12.
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12 foot something.
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12.
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Good job.
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12 and 12.33.
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Yeah, 12 foot four inches.
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Oh, my gosh.
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You realize how much brain power it takes to do this?
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How many engineers does it take?
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My brain is being occupied elsewhere other than math.
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I'm going to say 12 is 20.
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We're good.
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Move on.
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Vince was right as well.
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It wasn't a double digit, so we can count that.
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Anyway, yes, this is a very large lighthouse.
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And hopefully pictures that I show you later will show you how big that is.
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This lighthouse is considered a Renaissance masterpiece.
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And the design took elements from Roman mausoleums and Renaissance era cathedrals and palaces.
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So very fancy.
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It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but it's very fancy.
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It's made of limestone blocks.
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The base is 135 feet in diameter.
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So this base you see in the picture that's touching the water, 135 feet.
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It holds water and supply storage underneath the water line.
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So normally, I mean, you can see where the water usually rises during high tide.
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Usually that's under the water line.
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And the ground floor was 50 feet in diameter, had four apartments for the keepers along
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the walls with an extravagant entrance hall in the middle.
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So it was like a donut of living space.
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And the inside was like super fancy.
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Center of the tower.
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Yeah, like velvet and tassels.
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Smoke cigars and wine.
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Yeah.
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The second floor was the king's apartment.
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And I don't think I have pictures of that, which is a shame.
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I bet they're out there, but I don't think I attached any photos for our YouTube.
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The third floor was a domed chapel, very ornately decorated.
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And I do have a couple of pictures of that.
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Oh, this is what it looked like before the second half was added.
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So you can see originally it was 100 feet tall.
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That is such a cool sketch.
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Yeah, I don't know if that's like an etching or something, but I'm trying to decide if
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that's a sea monster in the background.
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And so then I went down this big rabbit hole of when people stopped believing sea
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monsters were the reason that ships didn't come back.
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And the 15 to 1600s, people definitely still believed in sea monsters.
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So it might be.
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2024 people are still on board.
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Loch Ness Monster.
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Loch Nessy.
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Very cool.
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I love that photo.
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Yeah, that's a good one.
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Everyone should go check it out on our YouTube.
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Shows how grand it was in the beginning.
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And so some of these aspects, like a solid half, like the tall and spindly parts have
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been removed and replaced with the more modern version, which modernism.
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Strong word.
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Yeah, because it was still.
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1800s.
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In mid 1800s is when it was renovated and out of that second part.
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So it's pretty that that was pretty with the times to have.
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I love the limestone.
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Yeah, we do.
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Coliseum limestone.
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So here's a picture of what the chapel looks like on the inside.
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Isn't that crazy?
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How do you fit that inside of a lighthouse?
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So this picture really shows how big this lighthouse is that this is just like one wall
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of the inside of a chapel.
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It's got to be a wide angle lens, right?
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It's got to be like a fish.
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Maybe.
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Yeah, because that this little great thing in the middle kind of is got that vibe.
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Either way, that's super neat.
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Put a picture up there of the domed chapel top.
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Very cool.
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Blue is a royal color in history.
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Little remnants of that paint left.
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So cool.
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I would love to go see it.
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And you can.
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And I'll talk about that.
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Nice.
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Also surprising.
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I know.
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Above this domed chapel was a secondary lantern and then the lantern itself.
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I think originally, obviously, that was like a backup lantern in case like fire went out
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or something.
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Don't hit my house.
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Yeah.
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What?
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What?
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You don't want a ship to hit your apartment.
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Oh, that was pretty pretty high up.
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I don't know.
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You got a wide base to stave off like, OK, but if you're on an apartment on a lighthouse
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and any part of the lighthouse below you gets impacted by a ship, it wouldn't be good.
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What is it called?
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The long thing at the end of a ship?
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Both spirit, both both.
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Sprite.
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It's not pronounced that way.
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Anyway, that could stab into the king's apartment, but it hasn't.
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OK.
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Originally, this lighthouse was lit by burning oak chips and a metal canister, and it was
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close to 100 feet above sea level.
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So not quite 100 feet.
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1782.
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So that that was there for a solid hundred and hundred and seventy years.
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It's so cool.
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In 1782, parabolic reflectors were added, but the lighthouse was in bad shape and sailors
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complained that it wasn't tall enough.
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So the extension started in the same year.
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So I lied.
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It was renovated in the mid eighteen hundreds, but the extension happened late seventeen
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hundreds.
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OK.
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So here's a picture of what the plan basically was.
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You can still see this domed chapel in the middle.
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And then on top of that, they added these more modern layers of the lighthouse.
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The Kubell is over 200 feet off the water.
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Yeah, it is impressive focal plane of one hundred and ninety eight for people.
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That's an incredible architecture.
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Is that amazing?
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And I love how they just added on to it.
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They weren't like, hey, let's just flatten this and make a different one.
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That would have been so sad.
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So what do you know what's below the water line here?
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You said the storage tanks?
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Yeah, it's water and some like supply stuff.
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Fresh water must be.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like cisterns kind of.
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Yeah.
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Incredible.
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Yeah.
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So this extension doubled the height of the tower and the new floors are much more simple,
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which you can see in a photo.
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In 1790, Argon lamps were added and rotated on a machine built by a watchmaker in France.
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And I think this was also the beginning of.
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I mean, it's early on.
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Yeah, I thought that was the beginning of rotating lens in general clock.
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I mean, clockwork, right?
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Built by a watchmaker, which I think is so cool.
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Imagine how much fun, in my opinion, it would be to scale up your tiny, tiny little watch mechanisms.
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Oh, it'd be so exciting.
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Big, beastly lighthouse.
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That would be so cool.
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I feel like it would be fun if you had a trade that you did the same thing all the time to do something way like outside of your comfort zone.
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Yeah.
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Just be like, let's see if I have the skill for this.
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Can you imagine the pressure?
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Oh, making sure all your math is right.
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Yeah, this is supposed to be like the lighthouse of France.
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You were going to be known as.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm glad that I don't have to say and it failed.
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And the fuel when he did this was a mixture of olive oil, whale oil and rapeseed oil.
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So that's like a very strange a mixture.
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Yeah, rapeseed oil is now referred to as something else.
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Really?
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Yeah, people didn't like that name.
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Oh, I feel uncomfortable saying it.
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Canola oil or vegetable oil?
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Oldest, oldest, no, oldest, no, vegetable.
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I'm just going to go with it.
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Oh, canola oil, canola oil.
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Yes, that's what it's been renamed.
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It's under a category of Reddit ultra processed food.
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Yeah.
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And I've heard talk about how it was a lubricant for machinery.
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No way.
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A fuel oil and now we put it on our food, which is probably not great for us.
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Yeah.
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But cool, neat.
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Get a taste of lighthouse history.
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I know.
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Have some canola oil.
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Canola oil is history, lighthouse history.
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After this, the first fornellens in the world was installed in 1823.
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And that's what I was saying I would cover in a new episode.
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I was going to put it all in this one.
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I was like, why not?
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We'll just.
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Two-parter?
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Have some fun.
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Yeah, it may be.
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Or just another feature someday.
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It because the story is very interesting.
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I will not jump too far into it, but holy cow.
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Relight my interest.
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I'm going to ignite your.
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No, I can't.
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You're going to keep my interest.
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Keep.
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Keep her.
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So this was the first lighthouse in the entire world to have a fornellens.
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That's really neat.
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Very exciting.
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Well, it's quite the lighthouse too.
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I'm surprised that it has the ornate architecture that does as well as the first fornellens.
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Well, yeah, it was like influential in a lot of ways.
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So I guess that makes sense in 1855.
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It was renovated because it was taking some damage in 1862.
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It became a historical monument, like officially.
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And this is the exact same time as Notre Dame.
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Wow, isn't it?
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Like the little bits of history, the big things that everybody knows, like if we weren't into
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lighthouses, everyone would know about the Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame.
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Is that?
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No, it's Notre Dame.
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Oh, or something like that.
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Us here in America, we have a school called Notre Dame, which is, I'm sure ill pronounced
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from Notre Dame or the original pronunciation of that institution.
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The bells, bells, bells, bells.
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Or maybe they're totally different.
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I'm just wrong.
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Who knows?
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We don't know.
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Pronunciation is our weakness on this podcast.
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I didn't do any research for this one.
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If it doesn't.
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If I just built some confidence and just said this is how it's pronounced.
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Franal.
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Franal.
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And you can't change my mind.
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For those of you that aren't familiar, early on in the show, as we were learning from each
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other in the internet, we thought it was pronounced franal lens.
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And it might still be.
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Some people argue that it is.
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Others say franel, which I think I'm going to go with sounds more.
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Franel.
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Classy.
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I really have seen just about every pronunciation out there.
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Fresnal.
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Different lighthouse websites will say pronounced this, and it's different than what I've seen
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on a different lighthouse website that says pronounced this.
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You know where I got locked in?
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Where?
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We went on our trip to the Outer Banks.
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Yeah.
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And we were at Okra Coke.
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Big fat stub.
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The cigar.
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Big fat stub.
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And that gentleman, I can't remember his name now.
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I know he named him.
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Oh no, yeah.
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I think I have it in my notes somewhere.
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But he was giving a tour and we were recording.
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Park Ranger.
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We were recording there, by the way.
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We recorded at the base of the lighthouse.
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Oh, front.
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And it was humid and hot and there were bugs.
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So we did that.
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But he pronounced Fresnel.
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And I was like, I liked it.
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Yeah, I was like.
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We latched on.
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Yeah.
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Finally.
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We're like, this guy is our god.
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I don't know about that.
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I know, I'm just joking.
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But we decided at that moment that that was how it was pronounced.
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Fresnel.
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We didn't even really do any backup research.
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Somebody can tell us that we're wrong.
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But at this point, we've changed.
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We're just part of the year now.
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One too many.
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Anyway.
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So yeah, that's how it is.
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We're just part of the year now.
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We're just part of the year now.
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We're just part of the year now.
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We're just part of the year now.
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Anyway.
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So yeah, that's where that came from.
514
00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:10,440
Before it was a historical monument, the original lens was replaced with the current Fresnel
515
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,240
lens in 1854.
516
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:14,240
We're talking.
517
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,360
But the Fresnel lens that's up there right now has been there since 1854.
518
00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:19,360
What?
519
00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:24,200
It was installed 100 years before World War II.
520
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,200
Oh.
521
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:31,680
So this is 170 years ago.
522
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,680
It's so crazy.
523
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:38,160
Currently, the light characteristic is one I haven't seen before.
524
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:43,400
And it's it changes depending on where you're positioned around the lighthouse, which normally
525
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,760
I would say makes it a range lens.
526
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,040
But I didn't really see any like descriptions.
527
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,040
Yeah.
528
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,040
Full spin.
529
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:57,920
You can see it from all sides, but if you see in a photo like harsh, the part of the
530
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,280
window panes are red.
531
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,600
So it's not the actual Fresnel lens that has colored panes.
532
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,320
It's the actual like outside of the lighthouse.
533
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,280
About maybe a quarter of it is red.
534
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,960
And then on the opposite side of that, it's green everywhere else.
535
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,720
It's clear glass.
536
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:16,160
And yeah, that matches now forgotten port and starboard.
537
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,160
Oh, yeah.
538
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:22,040
We talked about this once, the orientation of red and green lights on both aircraft and
539
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,040
sea craft.
540
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,320
We got to revisit that.
541
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,600
Maybe that'll be a lighthouse buoy.
542
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,200
We did a history buoy on that.
543
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,200
We're just not very good at remembering.
544
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,200
We can revisit things.
545
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,960
It's good to refresh.
546
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,360
Another history buoy.
547
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,360
Double up.
548
00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:39,760
But the current light characteristic is an occulting white, red, green every 12 seconds.
549
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:40,920
So oh, cool.
550
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,360
It depends on where you're standing.
551
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,440
What order those colors are in.
552
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:51,920
Lighthouse got electricity in 1948 and was fully automated in 2006, though keepers are
553
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,960
still employed there two at a time to keep the light because they're constantly doing
554
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:56,960
maintenance on it.
555
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,040
Because it's like, let's face it, if you're not constantly fixing stuff, it will eventually
556
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,040
become run down.
557
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,720
Oh, yeah, that's enough to keep people busy.
558
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,840
This place, they can't let it do that.
559
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,080
It's a national monument.
560
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:17,640
And as of 2021, it's a world heritage site, which means it's culturally significant.
561
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,080
So they really have to upkeep it.
562
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,500
So that's why people are there all the time.
563
00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,600
That also makes it the last inhabited lighthouse in France.
564
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,560
And they have a Facebook page that you can keep up with.
565
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,040
No way they have Wi-Fi out there.
566
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,360
I don't know.
567
00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:35,360
They must, I guess.
568
00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:36,360
Oh, satellite, I'm sure.
569
00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,280
What am I looking at right now?
570
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,660
That's the inside of the Fresnel lens.
571
00:25:41,660 --> 00:25:43,920
These plates are what makes it occulting.
572
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,760
So it's like...
573
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:46,760
Blocks the light.
574
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,000
Yeah, moments of darkness.
575
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000
So it's pretty neat.
576
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,240
Something we haven't seen before.
577
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:57,640
So the red and the green is kind of like reflecting on the outside of the Fresnel lens.
578
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,640
Very cool photo.
579
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:04,080
A lot of these are from the World Heritage Site, which I've put in my show notes as a
580
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,960
reference so you guys can take a look at those.
581
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,680
This might have to be the back cover.
582
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,240
You're not going to put this super cool lighthouse?
583
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,120
There's so many cool images in this.
584
00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:20,640
If you're not on YouTube now, you can go and it'll allow you to jump image to image as
585
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:21,640
you choose.
586
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:22,640
Oh, that's nice.
587
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,640
But pretty cool.
588
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,900
So the keepers that are here, they replace each other in pairs every Friday, depending
589
00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:28,900
on the tide.
590
00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:34,000
So how the weather like, or what time on a Friday, or if the weather's bad, you know,
591
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,000
they'll hold off.
592
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,480
But it's usually they in pairs, they switch out every Friday.
593
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:44,080
They ensure normal maintenance of the lighthouse and basically guard the monument, prevent
594
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:49,000
vandalism and looting, which apparently was a problem.
595
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,560
And they receive and give information to visitors during the tourist season and participate
596
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,640
in environmental monitoring of the rocky plateau that it's on.
597
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:58,920
Plateau.
598
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,360
That's quite a diverse job.
599
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:06,340
Today it's open to the public to visit and climb.
600
00:27:06,340 --> 00:27:08,760
You have to take a boat 30 minutes to it.
601
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,360
And there's a couple of companies that do this.
602
00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:11,940
So they're like set.
603
00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:13,240
You can also take your own boat.
604
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,760
But I think it's kind of complicated because the plateau, it's like rocky.
605
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,420
Yeah, you can't get too close and it's not like there's a dock or anything.
606
00:27:22,420 --> 00:27:25,560
And from there, it may be physically demanding to climb the light.
607
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,360
Occasionally visitors can only be dropped off a 20 minute walk away.
608
00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,840
So you have to walk over slippery rock.
609
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:31,840
Oh, depending on tide.
610
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,040
Yeah, sometimes knee deep in water to get to the lighthouse.
611
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,040
That's cool.
612
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,040
I know.
613
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,040
So adventurous.
614
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,040
I want to do it when it's hard to go.
615
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,200
And once you get there, it's 301 steps up to the top of the light.
616
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,040
So it's got to be training.
617
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,040
You definitely have to be ready.
618
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:51,060
You have to wear the right shoes, the right pants and look at this picture.
619
00:27:51,060 --> 00:27:53,280
This is the first off.
620
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:54,320
We're jumping.
621
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,320
I love the limestone.
622
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,320
It's my favorite lighthouse finish I've ever seen.
623
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:00,320
Hands down.
624
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:06,080
And all the like balcony and all the like the windows are architectural ornate.
625
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,200
Lots of stained glass.
626
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,600
We love stained glass.
627
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:10,600
Look at the architecture.
628
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,600
The carving is incredible.
629
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,600
For me, I don't know what it is.
630
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,260
OK, so there's the walk.
631
00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:21,040
This picture you can see how tall this lighthouse is.
632
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,720
You like in its shadow.
633
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,520
There's the path that people are walking up tiny.
634
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,520
Petit.
635
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:27,520
Sorry.
636
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,520
Oh, no.
637
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,400
Well, just this picture is taken from the top of the lighthouse.
638
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,800
You can see people are just like little ants down there.
639
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:37,800
That is cool.
640
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:38,800
Just crazy.
641
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:39,800
We have to go to France.
642
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,360
I know we're gonna have to go.
643
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,400
There's no other option.
644
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,120
This is also maybe not.
645
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,600
I was gonna say this is kind of a younger person's.
646
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,600
It's not easily accessed, we'll say.
647
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:56,240
But I've seen like doesn't comply with the American Disability Act, ABA.
648
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,720
Oh, well, we should tell them.
649
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:05,000
I think this would be a super awesome trip to go to because it's not like this lighthouse
650
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,400
is off in the middle of nowhere for miles and then you have to take a boat and then
651
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,760
you have to walk to the lighthouse.
652
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,520
It's like this is a hubbub that in the lighthouse is just outside.
653
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,400
It's very exciting.
654
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,400
Really cool.
655
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,440
They also have a YouTube so you can watch some details about their constant restoration
656
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,000
efforts and like all the stuff they do at the lighthouse.
657
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,640
They have cool videos of it so I'm gonna link that in the show notes as well so you guys
658
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:33,320
can take a look at how neat this lighthouse is.
659
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,840
It's just like so historical.
660
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,200
You know, they all are but this one's fancy.
661
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,200
Bridgerton style.
662
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,760
Well, I was thinking about the Fresnel lens.
663
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,720
We talked about how it's first order.
664
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,040
It's roughly nine feet tall.
665
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,320
So about 10 feet is about a story tall.
666
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,320
Yeah.
667
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,280
So if you go back to that, you don't have to but if you listeners want to go back to
668
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,440
the original image of the whole lighthouse, scale that out.
669
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,680
We're engineers who like to do a known scale in a drawing.
670
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:05,680
Scale it out.
671
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:12,040
That is 10, it's 200 feet tall so it's 20 stories theoretically.
672
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,040
It's crazy.
673
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,040
It doesn't look like that from far away.
674
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,440
It's really, well, so I didn't include the photo that I wanted to include that showed
675
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:24,400
kind of the scale because I'll send it to you so maybe you can put it in the YouTube.
676
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:30,400
But basically it's just a view of like some staircase that you can come out on top of
677
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,600
the donut shape where the keepers stayed.
678
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:40,640
And it's just crazy how tiny it's a whole keepers quarters and it just looks so small
679
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,360
compared to like the wall of the lighthouse that you're standing next to.
680
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,360
I don't know.
681
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:45,360
It's wild.
682
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:50,720
Have you seen any images or description of the modern living state there for the two
683
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:51,720
keepers?
684
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,720
Modern living?
685
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:53,720
Like are they living?
686
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,560
Do they have Netflix in there?
687
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,240
I haven't watched all the videos so they probably cover...
688
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,320
Listening to the lighthouse low down on YouTube.
689
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,200
I'm sure they stay in the keepers quarters because that's what they're made for but...
690
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,080
The most similar and it's quite different but the most similar lighthouse I can think
691
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,740
of at the time is Standard Rock where they're talking about taking the isolated lighthouse
692
00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:17,360
that's on...
693
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,840
Which lake is that?
694
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:19,840
Lake Superior?
695
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:20,840
Right?
696
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:21,840
I think so.
697
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,440
And they're doing the renovations.
698
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:30,760
Carl Lindquist, Fred Stonehouse we talked to, doing renovations to make that livable keepers
699
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,040
quarters and a research facility.
700
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,880
So people can stay out there.
701
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,400
And it's in the middle of Lake Superior so it's...
702
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,040
Go listen to the episode.
703
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,960
But Carl talked to us about how they can collect weather data from out there that's highly
704
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:48,480
unique and I think that one's only 50, 60 feet tall.
705
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,040
Yeah, not even close to the size of this one.
706
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,040
Yeah.
707
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:56,680
Very different layout but the fact that it's isolated, it's on its own plot.
708
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,240
While they construct it all the way out in the water like that, 4.3 miles.
709
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,160
The air quality has got to be great out there.
710
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,560
It's got to just smell like salt and freedom.
711
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,160
Super neat.
712
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,120
Yeah, so that's core the one.
713
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,840
I'm sure I'm saying it wrong but hey, hey, don't laugh.
714
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:16,840
You don't know.
715
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:17,840
I don't know.
716
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:18,840
You don't know what I'm going through.
717
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:19,840
I don't know anything.
718
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,400
I'm just the co-host of the lighthouse.
719
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,400
Slow down.
720
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,480
I am also losing confidence.
721
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,240
I need to build back up my confidence.
722
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,240
That's how it's pronounced.
723
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,240
All right?
724
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,240
No doubt about it.
725
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:30,240
Positive self-talk.
726
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,240
We got this.
727
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,240
We hope you guys enjoyed this episode.
728
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,600
You can follow us on YouTube.
729
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,920
The link is on our website, thelighthouselowdown.com.
730
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:44,360
You can check us out on Instagram at the lighthouse lowdown and you can send us an email at the
731
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:49,120
lighthouselowdown.gmail.com and let us know of any lighthouses that you want to see us
732
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,720
cover because that's always fun.
733
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,240
We like to cover lighthouses that other people are excited to listen to.
734
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,680
Thank you for your support.
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00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:05,120
We hope to catch you next time on the lighthouse.
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