In which we visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and examine Jordan Peterson's answer to the question, "Would you lie to the Nazis about the Jews you are hiding?" As with so many philosophic quandaries, the answer is: "Wrong question."
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Fifth time's the charm! We finally made a piece of iron completely from scratch, chemically altering red iron oxide (rust) into a piece of iron using an ancient bloomery furnace.
I'm looking for a talented smith to collab with this project by forging the small billet into something awesome. Comment if you're interested.
This was our fifth smelt in total. We didn't get footage of smelt number 4, but it was at the same site and it wasn't successful.
Music graciously donated by Quinn Kirkham.
Track Title: Pacifica.
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In which JB shares a partially successful attempt to grow blue corn in the desert without irrigation. If you want to see the follow-up attempt which I will be making this summer, then hit that subscribe button and get ready for a long wait (till fall 2021ish).
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In which we play a 5,000 year old game that no one really knows how to play.
A huge thank you to Tom from the Dog and Thimble boardgaming podcast for playing with us and having us on his show.
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An older video, in which JB makes a neolithic sickle using only very primitive tools.
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This is a replica of Benjamin Franklin's printing press.
Filmed at the Crandall Printing Museum in 2020.
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In which JB geeks out about the history and insane potential of the ambar charkha.
Old ministry footage of the ambar charkha in action: https://archive.org/details/HindSwaraj-video_1_en_30
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In which we reminisce about a two-day survival camp we attempted ten years ago, and how it compared to our night in Sherwood Forest. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes up, as does Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, with a little bit of Nietzche and Viktor Frankl thrown in. We also spend a bit more time explicating Robin Hood's chaotic good alignment.
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In which JF explains JRR Tolkien's view that evil was a corrupted form of good, rather than having an independent existence of its own. We also delve into LOTR and the Silmarillion!
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