The Hunt for El Dorado: Unveiling the Lost City

Decoding The Unknown

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode to Decoding the Unknown, the Show,
0:04.0	the format of the show is one of my writers, in this case Ilza.
0:07.0	Thank you, Ilza, has written me an episode about Finding El Dorado.
0:10.0	Simple title there.
0:12.0	I've never read this before. That's the format of the show. We're going to explore and learn something together hopefully. Let's jump in.
0:17.0	The year is 1531.
0:23.7	De'Eager Dorta has an explorer and governor of Paria in Peru is sailing up the Orinoco
0:28.7	River in search of the fabled lost city of El Dorado.
0:32.3	It's a day like any other filled with
0:33.9	menial tasks while swatting away buzzing insects with the dark jungle looming on the
0:39.0	shore. Suddenly a loud bangs and flots of colourful birds and swarming in panic. Chaos breaks out.
0:45.6	A store of gunpowder is caught on fire and then not wanting their boat to sink leap to action
0:49.9	until utter disaster is averted.
0:52.6	Brave men.
0:53.6	If I was on a boat and it had a gunpowder store and the gunpowder store caught on fire,
0:57.4	I'd be like the next thing that happens is that's going to blow up.
0:59.6	I'm just going to swim away from this boat as fast as possible and take my risks in the jungle because
1:04.3	I'd rather not get blown to pieces.
1:07.7	The fire is doused without loss of life and the order resumes.
1:11.0	And then at that point I'll be like, thanks guys, yeah, I'm coming back on the boat.
1:14.0	They'll be like stay in the jungle whistle, you coward.
1:16.0	Oh gosh, not the jungle, there are tigers.
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