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Nick Pell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2056 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Well, I'm also worried about that. But you're correct that it's not being paid for your labor as a slave is the least of your worries when you're a slave.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Well, I'm also worried about that. But you're correct that it's not being paid for your labor as a slave is the least of your worries when you're a slave.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

So some things never change, and one of them is that you can't get something for nothing. If you want to make things happen, you need one of two things. You need muscle or fire. You have to yoke a bunch of horses together or get a bunch of dudes to work together, or you need to light something on fire and use the energy from that to power a machine.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

So some things never change, and one of them is that you can't get something for nothing. If you want to make things happen, you need one of two things. You need muscle or fire. You have to yoke a bunch of horses together or get a bunch of dudes to work together, or you need to light something on fire and use the energy from that to power a machine.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

So some things never change, and one of them is that you can't get something for nothing. If you want to make things happen, you need one of two things. You need muscle or fire. You have to yoke a bunch of horses together or get a bunch of dudes to work together, or you need to light something on fire and use the energy from that to power a machine.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

The big change between ancient history and today is we've got way better stuff to light on fire. We've got oil. We've got coal. We've got magic rocks that boil water for us. There's less need for muscle. But the ancients didn't have any of that. They had wood. And so they had to lean a lot harder on muscle.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

The big change between ancient history and today is we've got way better stuff to light on fire. We've got oil. We've got coal. We've got magic rocks that boil water for us. There's less need for muscle. But the ancients didn't have any of that. They had wood. And so they had to lean a lot harder on muscle.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

The big change between ancient history and today is we've got way better stuff to light on fire. We've got oil. We've got coal. We've got magic rocks that boil water for us. There's less need for muscle. But the ancients didn't have any of that. They had wood. And so they had to lean a lot harder on muscle.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

I'm so glad that my Jewish wife can't hear any of this to react to it. Actually, as everybody knows, the pyramids were built by aliens.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

I'm so glad that my Jewish wife can't hear any of this to react to it. Actually, as everybody knows, the pyramids were built by aliens.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

I'm so glad that my Jewish wife can't hear any of this to react to it. Actually, as everybody knows, the pyramids were built by aliens.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Yeah, you guys are not allowed to enjoy classical architecture anymore.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Yeah, you guys are not allowed to enjoy classical architecture anymore.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Yeah, you guys are not allowed to enjoy classical architecture anymore.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Yeah, these kinds of large-scale architecture and infrastructure projects are definitely one of the bigger uses of slavery in the ancient world, which isn't to say that every...

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Yeah, these kinds of large-scale architecture and infrastructure projects are definitely one of the bigger uses of slavery in the ancient world, which isn't to say that every...

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

Yeah, these kinds of large-scale architecture and infrastructure projects are definitely one of the bigger uses of slavery in the ancient world, which isn't to say that every...

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

hand that ever touched a stone that went in the Parthenon was slave labor because I don't have the info in front of me but like I would be shocked if that were the case because a lot of it's highly skilled and the artisans and stuff are going to people are going to be like hey there's documentation of artisans being paid to decorate this thing and it's okay but where did the raw where'd the frame come from well you know who dragged the marble there exactly yeah so the main uses of slavery in the ancient world are

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

hand that ever touched a stone that went in the Parthenon was slave labor because I don't have the info in front of me but like I would be shocked if that were the case because a lot of it's highly skilled and the artisans and stuff are going to people are going to be like hey there's documentation of artisans being paid to decorate this thing and it's okay but where did the raw where'd the frame come from well you know who dragged the marble there exactly yeah so the main uses of slavery in the ancient world are

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1149: Slavery | Skeptical Sunday

hand that ever touched a stone that went in the Parthenon was slave labor because I don't have the info in front of me but like I would be shocked if that were the case because a lot of it's highly skilled and the artisans and stuff are going to people are going to be like hey there's documentation of artisans being paid to decorate this thing and it's okay but where did the raw where'd the frame come from well you know who dragged the marble there exactly yeah so the main uses of slavery in the ancient world are