My buddy Jeff lives in Longmont, Colorado. He's the guy who helps me with the

podcast and he made all the music, all the music's original for this program he did all of that and very very very talented man he does the goofy little musical Easter eggs at the end as well

And we're just catching up, you know being pals we've been friends for a long time known each other since college and we're driving through his hometown of Longmont

Colorado and I saw a building and I was like oh dang was that an old Kmart he's like

uh yeah the Kmart was right there right next to it and then his little

strip mall kind of thing and I could just tell that it was a Kmart and you know not

anymore because Kmart's defunct but it was we're driving along and like that's weird you know my my kids would not be able to look at that and see the obvious hallmarks of Kmart dumb and then we went on to talk about the old Wendy's that whenever they got repopulated with like a Mexican restaurant or something. You could still tell that was a Wendy's because as Jeff observed there was an atrium in the front and anybody who was alive in the age of atrium-fronted Wendy's

hamburger restaurants just knows what an old Wendy's looks like.

You just know what an old Pizza Hut looks like.

But that is knowledge that will gradually go downstream.

And I wouldn't think to explain that to my kids because it's just common knowledge if you were alive.

You wouldn't even think to document it, but it's just one little tidbit of what made the world what the world was a few years ago that will gradually

go away and a long, long time from now what would be absolutely common knowledge to every human

in this country will be the kind of thing that if you want to

gather that knowledge back and remember like what did Wendy's look like in the 1980s and

1990s you're gonna have to do a lot of work to put that back together. Same deal with crucifixion.

People in the first century, no doubt,

had a crystal clear picture of how this worked,

of who it happened to, of what all the ground rules were. And though there are some sources today, some resources that speak of crucifixion as though we know exactly how everything was and what all the rules were.

The reality is, it isn't a super well source to practice, so we deal in generalizations.

Some of the generalizations that my homework tells me are reliable

are as follows. Crucifixion almost never at the time of Jesus was used on Roman citizens.

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