Embark with us on a temporal odyssey where the fabric of history intertwines with the mysteries of our perception of time. Together, we'll traverse the peculiar parallels that dance through the ages – imagine the guillotine's final fall echoing in sync with the first screening of 'Star Wars,' or Nintendo's genesis unfolding as the Eiffel Tower pierces the Parisian skyline. Alongside these quirks of chronology, we'll tackle the enigma of why the years seem to sprint by as we grow older and how the mutability of memory colors our connection to the past.
Journey further as we recount the heartfelt narrative of Viola Jackson's unique betrothal to a Civil War veteran, a tale as much about love as it is a poignant snapshot of history. Then, shifting gears to the realm of the scientific, we uncover the fascinating emergence of time crystals—structures that oscillate perpetually without energy loss—pondering their potential to revolutionize our understanding of the physical world. As we conclude, join in a playful debate over bestowing recognition upon the artisans of the cannabis industry, highlighting the extraordinary minds and strains that are shaping the tapestry of cannabis culture. From the cerebral to the surreal, this episode is a tapestry woven with the threads of time, inviting you on an exploration that promises to captivate and enlighten.
Embark with us on a temporal odyssey where the fabric of history intertwines with the mysteries of our perception of time. Together, we'll traverse the peculiar parallels that dance through the ages – imagine the guillotine's final fall echoing in sync with the first screening of 'Star Wars,' or Nintendo's genesis unfolding as the Eiffel Tower pierces the Parisian skyline. Alongside these quirks of chronology, we'll tackle the enigma of why the years seem to sprint by as we grow older and how the mutability of memory colors our connection to the past.
Journey further as we recount the heartfelt narrative of Viola Jackson's unique betrothal to a Civil War veteran, a tale as much about love as it is a poignant snapshot of history. Then, shifting gears to the realm of the scientific, we uncover the fascinating emergence of time crystals—structures that oscillate perpetually without energy loss—pondering their potential to revolutionize our understanding of the physical world. As we conclude, join in a playful debate over bestowing recognition upon the artisans of the cannabis industry, highlighting the extraordinary minds and strains that are shaping the tapestry of cannabis culture. From the cerebral to the surreal, this episode is a tapestry woven with the threads of time, inviting you on an exploration that promises to captivate and enlighten.
Oh boy, hello, good sir, you have the time. I don't know if you have your pocket watch on you, my friend. Hey, I wanted to open up this show with some things about time. You know some theories of time, whatnot Einstein's special theory of relativity this theory states that time is relative, meaning the rate at which time passes depends on your frame of reference. For example, a second in one reference frame may be longer than a second in another. Which are those? You know? There, we are right. Static theory of time this theory states that time is like space and there is no such thing as the passage of time. All right, I mean, these are, these are things to ponder, my friend. What do you think of this? I mean, just great minds think of how the time, how time passes and how we think of it and remember it, and all sorts of stuff. You know, it's a whole field of science, it looks like.
Speaker 2:
Well, it makes total sense. You know when we were kids and the adults would say oh, you know, enjoy that. Time goes faster as you get older. And I remember talking to a customer about this years ago at the shop and said well, that makes sense. You know, when you're eight, summer is a huge chunk of your life experience. When you get to be in your 40s and you're just like wait, what decade is it? Yeah, it's a week. Seems a lot, a lot shorter, even if there's a lot going on.
Speaker 1:
Right, and it also can happen to you think, like with memory and such, and that's why they in court cases they call memory and questions sometimes if so much time has passed, because your memory can look, you know, you, you may be. Something happened and a guy who was like five foot tall punched a guy and all of a sudden now you're retelling the story 10 years later and you're like, oh, he was at least six, three. I mean the guy knocked him right out, you know, so it can change.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, just saying you know anyway here's a good one, which happened more recently the release of the original Star Wars, or the French government executing someone by guillotine Well, I haven't actually my friend guillotine both in 1977, star Wars came out May 25th where, on September 10th, 1977 was the last time the French government denoginized, someone Denoginized.
Speaker 1:
I don't know if that's a scientific term, it could be denoginization. We're going to go with that. Yeah, it's like homogenized, denoginized, demonized. I don't know it works for me, bro.
Speaker 2:
I'm just saying and then, of course, we remember Nintendo in the 80s, right, yeah, of course. Well, nearly a hundred years before, I say, these kids were put in Super Mario and Duck Hunt. In 1889, nintendo was around. Oh whoa, that's yeah. That was Japanese company, of course, and they pregnant butcher Hanafuda were playing cards that they started selling. So Nintendo came out. The same year, the Eiffel Tower showed up at the World's Fair, 1889.
Speaker 1:
Oh, and guess what else? Jack the Ripper was still on the loose. Oh dang, that was something that they said when I found this one London serial killer, jack the Ripper. You know, through all the murders we now true to the killer were committed in 1888. So like, yeah, no, that's a thing. Also, nintendo is kind of a funny story, so that was like a little stand that they had, I guess, and it was very similar to like a magazine stand with all sorts of like knickknacks and drinks or whatever, probably dumplings, that kind of shit, you know. And then eventually it evolved and I think it evolved into games. But then there was like this point in time where it like stopped and they actually owned like a fucking hotel or something and Nintendo was a hotel company, like so this yeah, it's kind of a weird story.
Speaker 1:
So they eventually landed on video games and I think that led to some success.
Speaker 2:
I think you had on this another 80s icon. The fax machine was actually invented much earlier. Scottish inventor Alexander Bain got a patent for the electric printing telegraph in the 40s oh my God, 40s, whoa 43 the same year that, on the same North Atlantic Island, charles Dickens was publishing a Christmas Carol oh my God. Well, the holiday tale is still relevant today and the fax machine has gotten the way of Scott Bay's career Right. Um, they in fact came, came to this world on the same, in the same year.
Speaker 1:
That's amazing. The fax machine, yeah, there's a. You know, who knows what's really going on sometimes, I mean, we find out that the government actually had like GPS and like the fifties or something like that, and we just started getting our versions of it in, like the nineties, right. So I mean, that's a loose date, guys. I know it's back there though, but yeah, the government was fooling around with GPS and a lot of things like that in the fifties and sixties. And here we are now. It's like a way of life, right. Um, I, you know, I got kind of a. You know, if you want to go off on some stuff here real quick, uh, um, I got some things that kind of happened at the same time. I thought it'd be kind of fun, all right.
Speaker 1:
Um, the iconic cover photo of the Beatles Abby road, you know, you know what I'm talking about, right, the walk across, all right, cool, cool, okay. So, anyway, yeah, they're walking across the street, it's there. It's one of their most famous photos. I'd assume a Abby road album was taken on the same day as the Manson murders. Oh, yeah, so that cover, that iconic cover, uh, was taken. The photo was taken on the same day that, uh, the Manson murders occurred. So that was kind of kind of an interesting one, a little dark. Here's another one that might be a little dark for some, but it's a thing.
Speaker 1:
Um, john Wayne Gacy was executed the same night. Jeffrey Dahmer was baptized under an eclipse. Yeah, that's weird. All right, hey, check this one out here's. Here's a little bit of a time Mindfuck, though. Um, we all know who the pilgrims are, right? Yeah, I think anyway. Okay, so the pilgrims in America? Um, for our UK people probably know who they are. I know who those people are, the pilgrims, you know, whatever. Anyway, so here we are. Um, they, uh, you know, we all heard about how hard it was, and man, all these colonies that failed and uh resorted to like freaking cannibalism or whatever it may have been in Georgetown and all these these crazy things that happened and uh, yes, yeah, it's hammered into our head from like kindergarten, about the Mayflower and all these the natives and all the yeah and the hardships and this and the other thing.
Speaker 1:
Okay, well, I want to tell you something. Um, when they arrived, it was in the 1600s. You know, that's the big deal. It's back and it's unsettled and it's so harsh and rough and all these things and what not. Well, did you know that during the time of the pilgrims, you could get a hotel room in Santa Fe the same year? They, yeah, the same year they landed you definitely good. So, um, anyway, it was. Really. There's a lot of I don't know and there's no reports. I didn't dig that deep.
Speaker 1:
Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the United States and the oldest European community west of the Mississippi. While Santa Fe was inhabited on a very small scale in 1607, it was truly settled by the conquistador Don Pedro de Parlatá in or wait, per Alta, per Alta, sorry about that, guys in 1609, 1610 ish, and so it's settled. It's the thing, then, right, and then also, there's here's the thing about a hotel there currently La Fonda on the plaza is what it's called which celebrated a hundred years of hospice hospitality in 2022, is located on the historic Santa Fe plaza site. This landmark property is in the heart of Santa Fe and was the first hotel in North America's first European founded capital city. Reports of an in at this location date to date to as early as the 1600s. So there's another report and it's a kind of a known thing. So these guys could have just went south a little bit and got a room.
Speaker 1:
But I feel like, since La Fonda Is La Fonda on the plaza, let me double check this, okay, because that exactly. Yeah, I know it's La Fonda on the plaza which celebrated it. All right, la Fonda, go Kip. That's Hilarious. Wow, good call man, good one.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so no no, but dude, I mean I'm just saying you know you think about the pilgrims and all that stuff and and you know we're taught all these things, but no honesty, they were just like kind of religious nutjobs and they came here because you know they were just that way and the reason why they probably didn't go down to Santa Fe is because people down there were Catholic and they hated Catholics.
Speaker 2:
You know, so it would have been hot in those get-ups. They were too, you know, yeah. Yeah, I know right.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, no kidding, let's wear rough clothes because you know for penance or well, you know it would be penance, because I think that's Catholic, but nonetheless, that's kind of one of the reasons why they they wore shitty clothes, to drab colors, all these things.
Speaker 2:
Cominus yeah oh, Speed is black and white instead of all green.
Speaker 1:
Oh my god, no shit, yeah, if only we could see the world and black and great white and shades of gray. Isn't that like a thing? I don't know anyway, hey, so, uh, you know you know a city called Vienna. Yes, I do Vienna. Okay, yeah, okay, okay, just, you know, just double-checking here, here's a fun Exhaust. It is yeah, so in cans, do you think those are really like from Vienna or what's?
Speaker 2:
going on. I certainly do not think like Vienna, new Jersey or something yeah via China straight to the dollar store.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, all right, here we are. So in Vienna in 1913, which we all know is right before World War one, or at least I know that, I hope some people do, and if you didn't now you know, okay guys. But in Vienna in 1913, hitler, stalin, trotsky, tito, freud and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand all lived there at the same time Damn, that's insane. Like you know, right before this massive war that would change everybody's life. You know what I'm saying, like all these people included right here, for sure.
Speaker 2:
Well, yeah, friends, I didn't make it to the war.
Speaker 1:
No, no, he did not.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Right, that was the big.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, he.
Speaker 1:
It looks like he lived like 1.5 miles away from Stalin and and about the same from Trotsky, and then yeah, he got it went down to Trotsky's coffee house and done that and then, uh, you know, um, hitler was 1.25 miles away from there too as well, so from him. That's crazy, weird. Yeah, I think that was it man. So what else? The what else is mr McMichael got going on?
Speaker 2:
Um, so some woolly mammoths made it alive long after the pyramids of Giza were constructed and you know, most people's knowledge of Woolly Malmuss is from the movie Ice Age. But most of them did die out roughly 10,000 years ago. But bones discovered on an island in Serbia are estimated to be 3700 years old, so 900 years after the construction of the pyramids began damn Serbia, those Serbs. Oh, that's a big discrepancy there one of them, ass places yeah, shop smart, shop as smart that is. I'm, just so you know, grateful for our Serbian messengers.
Speaker 1:
I know they come in, they come and they go another fun tradition for how it is, yeah, clear.
Speaker 2:
Patra was actually closer to smart phone generation than she was to the pyramid construction. What whoa? Yeah, you know that's a born in 69 or 70 bce. She was about 400 years closer to present day than she was to construction, which began in 2550. You were there about that's insane.
Speaker 1:
Okay, that's a good one. Hey, you know, I know, I know a fact about Cleopatra that I randomly learned at some point, but she's she's not even Egyptian, by the way, she's Greek okay yeah, because you know like not anymore, yeah, not, yeah, I know what color do we want?
Speaker 1:
to paint her today. Yeah, that is pretty fucked up like that. A lot of people don't get how those countries used to work back then and a lot of it had to do because of the slave trades and and just stuff like that. So massive slavery back then was was as much a part of human life as going and buying bread, it seems. You know it was how empires were created and all these things. I don't condone it, just saying that's how it probably worked out, you know. So you get a lot of mixing of cultures and such and, and then also all the trade that way from the silk road, geez being a bread daddy white was born before sliced bread was available on stores.
Speaker 2:
That he white, that God rest national treasure. Yeah, I haven't been born in 1922 and sliced bread on the shelves in 28 sliced bread was, in fact, the best thing since Betty White.
Speaker 1:
Oh my god clever, I like that oh man, yeah, interesting on here.
Speaker 2:
Carl Sagan's 1977 book the dragons of Eden created what they called the cosmic calendar, which put human place in doing in existence of perspective. So if the big bang theory was the beginning of the year, you know, january 1st, mm-hmm. Life on earth didn't appear until late September and homo sapiens didn't exist until 1148. On December 31st, oh wow, meeting the advent of riding in the wheel didn't appear until a mere 12 seconds midnight we're pretty important, guys, you know yeah. I have, you know, nicole, my wife. She's got a.
Speaker 1:
Yorkie shits you mix, and it was funny because we're looking into the personalities and what they say on the internet, right, the interwebs, but anyway, like it, one of the things was is a very self-important with the big city attitude indeed, but we're kind of like that as a species, you know, like we're so important, we've been here like no time at all and we're just, we're it. Everything that, yeah, we've done, everything that's been, you know, had or whatever. It's fucking ridiculous, but anyway, nonetheless, on this time warpish episode, what else do you got my friend?
Speaker 2:
this one. Really, when I first looked at I kind of wait, that's gotta be misprint, but the last known civil war widow passed away in 2020. Oh wow possible right?
Speaker 1:
yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 2:
How is Ellen? Viola Jackson was 101 when she died and married James Bolin, who is well, who was in his 90s when she was a teenager. Oh my god, it's not as bad as it sounds. In Missouri in the 1930s, jackson's father asked her to housework on her way home Wait home from school for Bola Bola, who's a widower, and it served the Union as a private in the Missouri Calvary's 14th Regiment. Well, bolin appreciated the help. He didn't want her to go unrewarded, and so he proposed the two get married so she would get his pension when he died.
Speaker 1:
Oh my god okay, this would be from really creepy to really cool, like in some weird way exactly.
Speaker 2:
They're married. September 4th 1936, when he was 93 and she's 17, the marriage was kept a secret to avoid any gossip. Right right now, and in 2018, she stated I had great respect for mr Bolin and I did not want him to be hurt by the scorn of wagging tongues. That's cool. And after Bolin died in 1939, jackson said one of his daughters threatened to drag Jackson's name through the mud and she never received his pension. So, yeah, that's kind of messed up, but sounds so cool that, like she was willing to go help.
Speaker 2:
And then he was like, hey, I appreciate this, right, and you know, with the depression, yeah, going on, I was. You know, he said it may be her only chance to To leave and have a better life. So, hopefully, I mean she's had a long, long life. But, yeah, when I saw that 2020, I'm like wait a minute, like how is that possible? But well, I see people who live very long. And she was correct, a child when she, you know, married. This is the very old Civil War veteran. So time warp, yeah, no, that's a trip bro.
Speaker 1:
We're filling Ted? Yeah, no kidding. Yes, we should have called up Keanu for this one. Okay, johnson, I know his number isn't my other phone, but I don't know anyway. So what do you think, man? You got a. You got anything else going on here? Is that kind of where the Fun stuff?
Speaker 1:
about it for, yeah, I'm yeah for this time. There's always more to come. Hey, I had a fun little thing I found because I kind of started off with some science stuff but I read something about there's a new thing called a time crystal. Well, it's new to me, but new as of, I believe, like 2012, and I'm not gonna try and to get into too much of this because it's kind of a mind fuck man. But it has to do with, like one of those theories I said I feel.
Speaker 1:
But basically, what a time crystal is is it's it like it vibrates. It's like a Some piece of matter that vibrates in time and not in space, and it vibrates for a certain period time without any like like there's no energy. So it's like almost it's, it's almost Like a perpetual motion machine and that these scientists like forever, since they discovered these time crystals which sounds like something should have been in that time bandits movie, right, but this is, they discovered them. They've been trying to like create them and then make them go longer, because it could be a hell of a sorts of energy and they were only able to create them for like milliseconds. You know, like a lot of this sort of stuff, but some scientists just recently Created one that lasted for like 44 seconds.
Speaker 1:
So for whatever that's worth, there are such things as time crystals and I don't know that didn't help me anyone. I read anything about it because it's pretty crazy, like it's a lot to it. So if you guys want to search, time crystals is a real thing and or watch the movie time bandits, which Owen just recently watched for the show, what did you do in a classic?
Speaker 1:
Okay, would you like to give it a review real quick? At the end of the time orb episode, I suppose, yeah, let's go. I don't know anything about it. So you just got to talk, my friend you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2:
No, I remember it from being a kid. It came out in 81. Okay, cold season.
Speaker 2:
Oh, hold there Do we have a PC era but a bunch of little people that travel through time and are basically just trying to steal stuff. There's this kid, kevin. He here's stuff in his closet and kind of busy dreaming that there's a night that runs through his room and so he, yeah, yeah, he goes through time with they, run into Napoleon and Robin Hood. John Cleese plays Robin Hood, which that alone makes it worth it, but, yeah, they basically robbed Nepal Sean Connery's in it, which is a surprise. So, yeah, just a fun, like family. There's some you know jokes that were okay for kids, I guess in the 80s, because the parents were just starting to get very coked out and yeah the TV's were our babysitters.
Speaker 2:
Not our parents, necessarily, but no many parents, many yeah, so yeah, fun, fun film, pretty much whole family, family. I would say hmm, how's?
Speaker 1:
it's not like math and family like normal family, normal family gotcha. How's it stack up to the Princess bride, is my curiosity oh, I mean that's, that's a tough, you know, okay.
Speaker 2:
Okay, it's very good, but it's not that Princess bride is like the best up there, all right, and it's well. I haven't seen her, so that has like a special standard. Oh, wow, I did and we watched it with your daughter. Would post tomorrow five, six of the most, and so, yeah, kind of a cool. So not on that level but definitely definitely full of 80s hijinks, early 80s wonder.
Speaker 1:
Nice Princess Brad was 87 yeah, the dread pirate Roberts. Yeah, um, classic and inconceivable, right. I mean, come on my name is a nickel. Montoya, you killed my father. Right the seven-figured man or whatever, all this stuff, six-figured man, whatever, yeah, so like no, that's fantastic. Was there any time crystals? Just curious. I don't.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah, actually the kind of do I end up? The thing was it's kind of a crazy metaphor about just how humans are. Okay, read and everything, which is funny because 80s days was like the epitome of the creed air. Yeah, yeah, hypercapable. Yeah, definitely recommend time banded nice, okay, guys. No, I smoke really good weed when you watch it, but I like to like five too, so nice.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, this, um, this episode brought to you by a specific same, a strain of green cracks from somewhere. That's what I was partaking in. You know, it's a good good, it's a good strain, my friend. I know what did you, what were you partaking in today? Well, this is purple afghan.
Speaker 2:
I forget the and, no, the grower. I forget the name of the company. I'll have to give a shout out to that, but it is yet to be. As a friend to, he is has not been to billing since I've attained the purple afghan. It's yet to be to be certified rapper weed, but I'm quite certain it will be certified. I got the next visit. Yeah, yeah, quite tasty. Yeah, I got super, super into cover. Yeah, knock me out, obviously right on my friend.
Speaker 1:
Hey, you know we were kicking around the idea of giving an award to like a grower of a quarter or something, so that could be a thing. Right now there's. You know, I like a lot of this stuff from a grow called can essentials out here in Portland. They're solid. They have like these mini buds that, like you know that you get a pretty good deal on, and they're definitely potent and they have one of those strains that I really like is the chem chem dog they have and then, I don't know, they just have. They have a lot of good stuff right now though. Yeah, I got some lemon pastries and I don't know the grower that I've yet to partake. In word, yeah, so lots of lots of marijuana.
Speaker 1:
Talk at the end of this episode has to do with time warp and bandits and the dread pirate Roberts and how inconceivable everything may be sometimes. Alright, guys, I hope you have a great day evening, whatever. You should definitely stop by the website pitlock supply dot com and pick up a shirt. I heard it makes you look super smart and, like we said before in the past, maybe somebody's gonna come up to and be like hey, you tell the stories. Alright, tell us a story, right? Also, if you're in Billings Montana, stop by cold smoke. That's our friend Owens spot there and you know, come check him out. He's gonna. We're doing some things here. There's gonna be a lot of fun in there. So just check him out. He's friendly guy. He'll say hi, you know. You say hi. He'll say hi back. Right, maybe he'll be high, maybe you, maybe you will be cool buzz brah, maybe you will be much love everybody.