Dr. James Fitzsimmons

The Maya were an honor-based society, and the fights take place not just in regular space, but in terms of all the sorcery stuff will take place in supernatural space.

And you'll get into these scenarios where these rulers will summon one and then summon another one, almost like Pokemon, and they'll go after each other.

And you'll actually have images of these things fighting on ceramics of like, you know, like flaming skeletal flying creature versus owl with a head attached to it, you know, fighting each other, right?

Wow.

To me, that's a lot more interesting than the alien stuff.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me.

This is a pleasure.

I love the tent.

This is so much bigger than any tent I've ever had.

I mean, the tents that I get or, you know, the tents that I'm used to are sort of they're not quite coffins.

We do have archaeologists who sort of sleep in these sort of really small ones.

But this is yeah, this is this is a big one.

Sure.

Well, the thing I think when we were talking earlier that sort of the first thing that came to mind was there's a pot at a site called Rio Azul in Guatemala that actually has a screw top.

As far as I know, it's the first and only screw top that exists in the Americas, but it might even be the earliest screw top that there is.

Like literally like a like a water bottle like a.

Yeah, well, it was a chocolate pot, so it was for drinking chocolate.

And, you know, in Mesoamerica at least, chocolate was not in bar form.

They didn't have stabilizers, so it was actually drunk in sort of liquid form, right?