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038 - The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay, this is my favorite kind of episode. We both researched a topic. I can't say that

0:12.0

I dove super deep into it because I know this is your lane, but we're going to talk about

0:17.3

the hanging gardens of Babylon. But before we start that, the hanging gardens of Babylon

0:22.1

are important because they're one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, which

0:26.6

Matt, I'm sure you can name them all, right? I can name them all partly because of

0:32.5

history degrees and partly because of the memorization song that my kids sang for school.

0:37.4

What? Yeah, they have a song. I don't totally remember it, but I kind of remember the rhythm

0:42.6

of it. They have songs for everything at their school. It's insidious, earworm songs.

0:48.2

Huh. Never heard of that. I mean, like works. So I guess how many could you name before

0:53.7

that? I think I can usually get them all. Okay. There's one that I always get confused,

1:00.1

but let's do this before we go and list these off. There's a third chair at the desk with

1:04.7

us here. Okay. Let's just give people a second to impress the other people in the car with

1:09.3

them or whatever and see how many they can get. Okay, five, four, three, two, one. That

1:14.2

should be all the time you need to list that off. Is that a sufficient amount of time?

1:17.3

Yeah. I think so. Okay. It was five seconds, seven wonders. I mean, yeah, the math works.

1:22.0

So the only one I know, like I know I know is the pyramids, right? The great pyramid

1:27.3

at Giza. Yep. You can still see it. So there's one that's still in existence. What else

1:33.0

you got? The other one I know is the lighthouse at Alexandria. Right. What are the chances

1:37.8

to see in that one? Zero. Yeah. I think some divers found the remains of some foundation

1:45.2

there in the harbor at Alexandria. Yeah. That one is that one is really gone. You'd have

1:50.6

to be a very talented diver to get a look at that now. So the other one that I kind of

1:54.7

I kind of know, but I don't really I'm looking at a list now and I can tell you that it's

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