Everybody says that Antikythra. Is it that thing where you read it in print so often, but

you never have someone read it to you so you don't really know what to say? Is that

kind of the phenomenon? It's exactly what it is. And I think everybody's afraid to say

it because I watched a few YouTube videos on this and nobody says anything. There's

no voiceover because I think everybody's afraid of the word Antikythra. I googled and I found

the people that are doing the most hardcore research on the topic and I went and found podcasts

that they were the people being interviewed on and I just listened to how they said it.

That's how I got there. Antikythra. I kind of did the same thing. I found some fancy

academic symposium at Dartmouth and went and listened to how they talked about it. Oh

yeah. I watched the one at Stanford. Oh, sweet. Yeah. So you came ready. Yeah. But I

just focused on the one thing. You should probably bring everybody into what we're talking

about. But yeah, I just focused on the one area you told me to. Thank you for that.

This was a gesture of trust on your part because it was possible that my idea for this

episode was stupid. But I like to think it's a really good idea because for me, this topic,

the Antikythra shipwreck is, it is one of the most fascinating things I have come across

in years. I can't get enough of this thing. And as a history guy, I'm fan-boying every

time people go dive on this shipwreck and bring up something new. Here's a story. Around

1900. In fact, I think it was 1900. There were some Greek sponge divers with primitive

diving equipment who were trying to make their way to, I want to say Tunisia. And so they're

passing through all of those crystal clear Greek aisles and storm comes up and they have

to put into the side of this little island, Antikythra, which is south of the Greek mainland,

the way you would travel from modern day Turkey, Asia Minor to Rome. That's where all those

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