Danny Jones

Like, this guy's a showman.

Yeah.

And that's the problem.

Like this was the only dude I could get to agree to come sit with him because this guy had a YouTube channel.

He wanted to promote himself and all this stuff.

But like a lot of the academics, I talked to a lot of Harvard philologists to try to come debate this guy.

And like the philologists, like there's a difference between a linguist, which I think Marco Allegra was, and a philologist.

Right.

Where the linguists look at the actual – like the complexities of the text itself and the language.

But the philologists, what they do is they're looking for context.

So like what they do is they take words and they try to figure out what these specific words meant in certain time periods.

So they take a word, take their time machine back.

Let's take it back to 200 BC, 100 BC, whatever it is.

And they say, OK.

Let's just use the example of the word Rio, Christ.

Let's look at all of the corpus of all the fucking literature that existed in the Library of Alexandria.

There was ancient comedy, ancient plays.

Rio.

Rio?

It's spelled X-R-I-O, but it's pronounced like Rio, Rio.