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History Is Dank

Archimedes Was A Beast

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0584 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Inventor of the, "Death Ray," and other ingenious engines of warfare, Archimedes, was perhaps the greatest engineering mind of his time. His inventions and discovered principles are still in use today. 

Ticket Links for my Special Recording in Los Angeles on Monday April 1st:

STRIDER WILSON'S LIVE COMEDY SPECIAL TAPING, 7 PM SHOW 

STRIDER WILSON'S LIVE COMEDY SPECIAL TAPING, 9PM SHOW

patreon.com/striderwilson

Sources: The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim 2010, britannica.com, imdb.com, businessinsider.in ‘A 13-year-old built a 'death ray' using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes’ by Jenny McGrath 2024, worldhistory.org ‘Archimedes’ by Joshua J. Mark 2022, inventiongen.com, interestingengineering.com ‘7 Remarkable Inventions from Archimedes That Shaped History’ by Trevor English 2019, history.net.com ‘THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE: A ROMAN GENERAL VS. A GREEK GENIUS’ by Zita Ballinger Fletcher 2020

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hold on, let me make sure.

0:02.7

Friggin' what?

0:03.2

Okay.

0:03.8

All right, go for it.

0:06.3

Friggin, what up, dude?

0:07.7

Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast.

0:09.8

That's mine.

0:10.3

Going to be called History is nice.

0:13.6

History is damaged.

0:16.3

Strangler Wilson.

0:21.3

Dangness from the crowd. Frigin' what up, dude, with Sam. Frigin' what up, dude?

0:26.7

Welcome back to another ep of history is dank.

0:30.7

I'm your host Strider Wilson.

0:32.0

We got Aaron going beast mode on the sticks.

0:34.3

Dude, what up, Aaron, dude?

0:35.2

What up?

0:36.1

Dude, I'm freaking chilling, dude. I'm actually excited

0:39.3

to hear about your vacate, dude, that you went on to Nolens, as they say, dude.

0:46.9

New Orleans. Never once said it. We say. New Orleans, exactly, dude. I have not said Nola once.

0:53.4

I've not said Nolins. No way, do you've been hashtagging Nola every text. Every in my text you put hashtag Nola, dude. I've been saying the Big Easy a lot because I like that. I like the Big Easy. That's a great nickname. Probably the best nickname for a city, the Big Easy. Big Apple, don't get it, never understood it. understood it yeah the second city i kind of like that

1:13.8

little derogatory for chicago yeah san diego the finest city no america's finest city yeah yeah

1:21.4

it's just fine as far as the city goes it's a sick-, but, you know, what other good ones are there?

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