Ancient Timekeeping Methods
History Is Dank
All Things Comedy
5.0 • 584 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Strider always gets stoked on a nice fat tip after parking a sick luxury whip. However, the one true currency is time. Our Ancient ancestors had very creative ways of keeping track of it. Today we still base our methods on theirs. One could say these ancient methods are... timeless. Well, some of them.
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Sources: Scientificamerican.com ‘A Chronicle Of Timekeeping’ by William J.H. Andrewes, Listverse.com ‘10 Ingenious Ancient Timekeeping Devices’ by Ross Yaylaian, Wikipedia.org
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| 0:00.0 | Go for it. |
| 0:02.0 | Frigan what up, dude. |
| 0:04.0 | Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | That's mine. |
| 0:07.0 | It's going to be called History is Night. |
| 0:09.0 | History is dead. |
| 0:12.0 | With Strider Wilson. |
| 0:17.0 | Take it from the crowd. |
| 0:27.6 | Frigin what up, dude. Welcome back to another ep of history is dank, dude. I'm your host Strider Wilson, just post it up, dude, ready to pump out some freaking vibes and drop some |
| 0:31.8 | dank-ass knowledge, dude. We got Aaron on the sticks, the barren of the buttons, dude. What up, Aaron, dude. What up? Just freaking chilling right now, dude. Post it up, just freaking in the studio, fire it up right now. Dude, I'm stoked as hell, dude. Dude, you know, I just been posted up, dude, enjoying myself. Just trying to think some deep thoughts, dude. I'll post it up and be like, dude, am I thinking deep enough right now, dude? You know, and then I just started thinking about time, dude. |
| 0:58.8 | Maybe I was watching too much Christopher Nolan movies, dude. This guy's obsessed with time, dude. |
| 1:05.5 | And actually Valade his car that are day made me think of this. I'm like, this guy loves time, dude. |
| 1:10.4 | The Batmobile |
| 1:11.1 | he also loves yeah dude exactly that'd be amazing he's not he doesn't seem like that guy but that'd be |
| 1:18.0 | the ship from no dude he was flying a um supermarine spitfire from dunkirk dude or that ship from |
| 1:24.8 | interstellar dude interstellar dude interstellar the first half first act |
| 1:27.7 | very sick |
| 1:28.8 | very sick |
| 1:30.6 | dude you think so more than the second |
| 1:31.9 | dude |
| 1:33.1 | I'm just sick of space movies |
| 1:34.6 | being about dads dude |
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