From the Vault: Odds and Evens, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the world of odd and even numbers. How does it factor into our psychology, our art and our culture? Find out…(originally published 9/10/2024)

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.0	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
0:08.5	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
0:15.1	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
0:18.5	From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.
0:23.9	What difference at this point does it make?
0:27.4	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.0	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
0:44.3	My name is Robert Lamb.
0:47.2	Today is Saturday, so we have another vault episode for you.
0:49.8	This is going to be Odds and Evens Part 2.
0:53.5	This one originally published 9, 10, 2024.
0:55.3	Let's jump right in.
1:01.8	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:10.4	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
1:11.6	My name is Robert Lamb.
1:19.2	And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in our series on the ore-powered galleys of the ancient world.
1:23.3	Now, if you haven't heard part one yet, you might want to go listen to that first. But in the previous episode, we talked about Ptolemymy the fourth of Egypt's great oarship,
1:30.6	which allegedly was built in the third century BCE.
1:34.4	We have no physical remains, only historical descriptions.
1:37.8	But Rob, what were some good details on that?
1:40.1	It allegedly had like thousands of people manning it.
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