Were the Ancient Romans bad people?
Short & Curly
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🗓️ 12 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Carl here, and I am incredibly excited for two reasons. |
| 0:05.6 | First, I'm in New York City. |
| 0:08.4 | That's right, Short and Curly has gone on a special adventure to America this season. We've got American kids, an ethicist here in the US, and I even have a special co-host here in the States named Schumeter. |
| 0:22.5 | And second, I'm excited because today |
| 0:26.2 | I'm at the world famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| 0:30.3 | And I think there's something magical here. |
| 0:35.0 | The Met has heaps of ancient artifacts and trinkets, |
| 0:38.0 | but I've read, one of them might be a time-traveling device. |
| 0:43.0 | So I've asked Chumida to come find me here |
| 0:46.0 | in the ancient Rome part of the museum |
| 0:48.0 | so I can show her. |
| 0:49.0 | Except, I haven't actually told her what we're doing yet. |
| 0:53.2 | Carl, there you are. |
| 0:55.6 | Hey, Shemeda, how's it going? |
| 0:58.0 | What do you mean how's it going? |
| 0:59.7 | Why have you even dragged me out here? |
| 1:01.9 | I mean, I love the Met and especially the ancient Rome section, |
| 1:05.0 | but you said it was an emergency. |
| 1:07.1 | Shimita, calm down, it's kind of an emergency. It's a magical emergency. A what? Hear me out. It's all to do with this, right |
| 1:18.9 | here. An ancient Roman spork. |
| 1:23.2 | You brought me all the way down here to look at this, an old bit of cutlery? |
| 1:28.8 | I mean, okay, I see the spoon end, I see the fork end, the fork end. |
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