Episode #011: Annunaki, Breaking World Records, and Impossiblocks
Brothers of the Serpent
Brothers of the Serpent
4.8 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
We discuss the Third Man Effect, the rate of world records being broken and the advent of extreme sports which (obviously) ties right back into Impossiblocks and basically solves that whole mystery.
Elementary, really.
(Tangetards please note: there are only two (2) tangents in this entire episode)
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| Six columns are all that still stands of the Roman temple of Jupiter |
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| The still mostly-intact temple of Bacchus / Dionysius: note the tiny people at the bottoms of columns and things to get an idea of scale |
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| Ba'albek is a sprawling confusion of ancient-to-modern stonework fragments |
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| Immense blocks of the "secondary retaining wall" at Ba'albek |
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| "Stone of the Pregnant Woman" in the Ba'albek quarry |
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| After excavating around the Stone of the Pregnant Woman in the quarry, it was discovered to be sitting on top of two even larger blocks |
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| Dropped Block in between Ba'albek and the quarry Look at this for a while and try to really grasp the fact that someone was actually fucking moving this thing |
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| Another view of the "second retaining wall", you can see where later peoples have cut into the stones to make passageways |
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| Biggest stuff is always at the bottom at Ba'albek, note the jumbled sculpt work on some of the blocks, indicating they were recycled |
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| "Second retaining wall" is clearly disconnected with the remainder of the platform |
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| Note heavy weathering on lowest blocks in the foreground |
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| Truly immense entryway into temple of Bacchus |
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| From "Archaeological Park" in Jerusalem, here is a very large core/foundation block with characteristic square "lifting" holes |
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| Beneath the Temple Mount, where some of the truly large original core blocks remain to this day |
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| Close-up of Temple Mount core block surface |
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| Petrified wood stuck in core block in Jerusalem |
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| Egyptian stone vase made from porphyry |
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| Made of Andesite, a very hard type of granite |
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| Egyptian bottle made from amethyst, a gemstone not known for softness |
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| How about Holy Shit P.S. Why is Russ even in this comic? He doesn't say anything or do anything |
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Brothers of the Serpent podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Brothers of the Serpent podcast. Hello everyone. We hope you brought your coats. Because Tuesday is here, and it is a beautiful cool evening from within the climate-controlled 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science, where we are gearing up to talk about pyramids, gods, devils, nefis, anunniki, Anki, |
| 0:44.2 | fucking Enli, andil, giants, pyramids, huge rocks, floods, glaciers, pyramids, dreams, spirits, demons, angels, pyramids, and of course, snakes. |
| 0:52.5 | Snakes. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome back to Snake Bros. |
| 0:56.0 | That was amazing. |
| 0:58.0 | That's the voice we've been talking about the one that goes, |
| 1:04.0 | he listens to entire books in that voice. |
| 1:09.0 | That was great. He listens to entire books in that voice. |
| 1:13.8 | That was great. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, thanks their default voice for that intro. |
| 1:20.4 | It was beautiful. |
| 1:24.6 | And we did bring our coats because we knew Tuesday was coming. That's right. |
| 1:26.5 | I am a banana. I thought you, I was trying to hide that |
| 1:32.7 | from Russ so that he could actually laugh for the first time. I heard you play. I heard the voice |
| 1:40.0 | and I thought, oh, he must be trying to record a segment of it so that he could say, so here's |
| 1:43.7 | what it sounds like. |
| 1:44.7 | I was not expecting the intro. |
| 1:47.9 | I'm like waiting for him to come in, waiting, |
| 1:50.6 | and then it's just like, |
| 1:51.7 | so you can hear how she says the Anunaki, |
| 1:56.4 | the Anunnaki. |
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