Phil Wang
speaker
2,201 appearances
10 recordings
6 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 3 Jul
Phil Wang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is it sort of like a tea leaves reading kind of thing? Like the pattern they fall into tells a story? So you're watching sheep flock? Yeah, you get up on a hill and you look down and see what sort of... See what they spell out. Yeah, exactly. If they spell out SOS, it's like, uh-oh. If they spell out King Dead, you go, oh, not this again. All right, who wants two months in paradise?
Unfortunately, no, the sheep has to die here. Oh, entrails.
They didn't think guts could tell.
The cruciform... The cruciform monument of Manish Tushu. So cruciform means, is that a cross? Mm-hmm. Okay, monument of Manish Tushu. Mm-hmm. Hmm. Hmm. It's a big... It's a building, and there's a tower, an obelisk, but it's got a cross in it. A big obelisk, but it's got a cross across it. So it's a big T. Big T. It's not bad, yes.
Oh, it's a mini T. I feel like monument kind of overplays the size of it. It's a minument. So it's about foot...
Oh, 600 B.C.?
Oh, B.C.
And so you said it's cross-shaped documents, so there's writing all over the... There's writing all over the sides of it, yeah, on every edge.
It's not an English. I feel like Neo. Start again. I'm like Neo when he says, I know Kung Fu. Yeah. I know cuneiform. You know cuneiform. I can speak it very fluently. No. I don't know why you have such a problem with me saying that.
It's a script.
The nuance window!
As always happens when I'm on this show, you tell me about the quiz at the start of the episode, and when you tell me about it at the end, I'm always surprised. So I'm not feeling too confident just now.
Oh, it was used to elicit messages from the gods. That's right.
A drawing of probably his teacher with a cane. That's right, yeah. And also teeth marks as well.
Your favourite. It is a lie. It is an ancient lie that some priests cooked up to look important.
You are a philologist. Triangle out of triangle. Correct.
It really was, yeah. It's always amazing because we do think about these ancient peoples, like you say, as being more about, more robotic in a way, that they were just about survival, that their writing was just about practical things, but there's so much sort of life and drama that we would recognise today. Yeah, it's so proper stuff, isn't it?
What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty · S2 EP10: Phil Wang · 9 Mar 2025
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Hello to you today, the day after yesterday.
I've got a halftime show.
I'm going to call one of the comedians, you know, a pedophile for the whole, for like 15 minutes.
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