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Today, we are re-releasing the love story of Shah Jahan, who built one of the world's most beautiful buildings for his love, Mumtaz Mahal. The first two questions that come up on google for 'Taj Mahal' are 'Is the Taj Mahal a mosque or what?' and 'Who built Taj Mahal for why?' soooooo take a listen and learn the answers to both those questions and more!
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hi Taylor from Doom to fail today we're re-releasing episode 6 part two where we talk about one of the new Seven Wonders
of the World the Taj Mahal so we'll learn about the man who built it shaj Jahan and the woman that he built it for
mtas Mahal hope you enjoy if you have any suggestions or things that we should do shoot us an email dilod gmail.com and
just a reminder I'm re-releasing all of our episodes our older ones were a little bit longer they were two stories
in one so we're re-releasing them separate every Friday until we run out of one to re-release but you can always
go back and just scroll to the bottom of our list and start there as well totally up to you um and yeah here we go here's
ataj Mahal thanks in a matter of the people of the State of California versus orthal James Simpson case number ba09
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cool well thanks so what do you have for us that is tea and or champagne related
it's mostly tea related um but I know I've talked about how I definitely don't
want to do just like Western history and like white people so today we're going to go to India so what is the most
famous building in India Taj Mahal Taj Mahal that's what we're talking about today Taj Mahal
it's gonna be a good one did you know that the Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the World at the moment no um
can you name any of them there's seven wonders of the anent world and seven wonders of like the world that are still
around Grand Canyon the towers uh the The Gardens of Babylon TSH
Mahal uh I'm out Amazon reforced no those are like natural things we're
talking about these are all things that like people built oh uh the Great Wall of China yes
so good I'm just gonna I'm just going to tell you so keep guessing um the ancient world there's a
bunch of big statues it's a Colossus of roads which is like a big statue of a
God there's a statue of Zeus at Olympia the only one we can still see is the Great Pyramids there's the Hang Gardens
of Babylon you got that one there's a Temple of Artemis a maalum at hel carnassus and the Lighthouse of
Alexandria so most six of those we can't see anymore but we like know that they existed um of the current world that
people things that we can see there's a Coliseum the great world of China the Taj Mahal chry the Redeemer in Brazil
Machu Picchu chuch chinita and the Petra and Jordan so it's one of the seven wers
of the world it's a beautiful building we'll talk about the architecture and when it was built but I wanted to also start with reading some of the one star
reviews on Google reviews just to get an idea of what it's like to visit the Taj Mahal
so um a person named Kevin recently wrote one star there was no McDonald's
nearby which for tour a spot as a shame also it needed an audio tour as I refused to learn how to read so I think
maybe he's joking yeah I kind of like Kevin's sense of humor then there's a Julia with
a a accent over the U that says the beauty of this place is just destroyed
by the stupidness of the people you can't even enjoy the moment cuz you will be millions of times move we're taking a
picture so it sounds very crowded when you go visit it um this is my favorite
it's one from Z just the initials and it's long but part of it is they visited
it third they visited it three times and this time was the worst ever there was
no internet and no mobile network they provide Wi-Fi for 30 minutes but after 18 minutes it was turned off they say
you can pay for a longer connection but there is no link to pay to the website anywhere I went inside expecting to pay
and get Wi-Fi but I wasted an hour trying to connect to the stupid Wi-Fi like these people are not living in the
moment you're in the Taja Hall and you're looking at your phone trying to get on the Wi-Fi just take some pictures and put them on Instagram
later so I uh I vehemently refuse to visit Italy or
France okay because I know you have a I know that the Italy thing is probably weird to you but it's because both those
are weird but continue because it's so touristy it's like all the stuff that you want to go to it's like like I said
like I avoid crowds I avoid large Gatherings as much as I possibly can like the Eiffel Tower you know the Lou
like all the things you want to do there is just proba could be cram packed with Kevin and that's what it sound like the
Taj Mahal is like too it's like very very crowded like almost constantly um but you know who else gave a positive
review of the Taj Mahal is elanar Roosevelt she went to visit it in the
1950s and so elanar said I think of all the things I've seen in the world this is the most perfectly proportioned the
purity of the white marble makes the conception of the internal purity of real love a very living thing I escaped
the guides as much as possible because I felt that this was a Perfection that one must feel and let sink in it could not
just be talked about so it's a nice review from our dear ER about it she's
so eloquent consistently that was in my day her her um daily column about what
she was up to but that was in the 50s so the Taj Mahal is really hard to research
so I looked at like you know like Wikipedia pages and some articles but it felt like there's either like a pretty
straightforward history or there's conspiracy theories and there's not much in between about like what actually happened so I had a hard time I was like
looking around the internet and I was looking at podcasts and books and I couldn't find anything and this morning I finally found one that I listened to
this afternoon that was um from the BBC called you're dead to me and it told a
more nuanced story of the Mogul Empire and the Taj Mahal that we'll talk about but it was hard to find more and I feel
like there is a lot more to this story that like just isn't available for whatever reason but um the tajah hall is
a maum located in Agra India so it's the North Center of India so if I take my hand and flip it over so looks like
India it's right here like in the top of my palm this is an audio medium so
nobody can see get India looks like a palm upside down on the top okay that's where it is it's in the middle it's not
on the coast it's in the middle it is next to a river it was built by Mogul
Empire Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife mumas Mahal
so shajahan was born in 1592 when he was born his name was Prince kuram he a direct descendant of
jenas Khan and a powerful line of KH and warriors that are moving into India so a lot of violence to kind of get here but
this Empire was huge so this is we're at the same time as like the tutors like
right after Elizabeth I so we're like 100 years after the Henry the story so it's pretty modern really it's like not
that long ago that all this happened and it was like like these like Mongol Empire Empires moving down into India
this Empire is called the Mughal mug h h l um but that's kind of where he comes
from they a uh Islamic empire that came down into India and I also want to
mention that everybody should listen to The Wrath of the KH by Dan Carlin he talks about jenas Khan and I'm really
really nervous I'm say it wrong exactly because you have to say jenas because that's what Dan Carlin says and I'm like
I have to say the correct way and the correct way is the Dan Carlin way always so we're going jenas Khan um so a direct
descendant of jenas Khan U shajahan becomes um Emperor shajahan
means king of the world and in order to become emperor he needed to fight his brothers essentially so it wasn't always
the oldest became the ruler it was you know the one who could you know maybe
fight to the death fight till the blinding they would blind each other you know things like that so people were pretty like mauled to get to to get to
power and so it's a lot of that and a lot of also like even like the um the
Mongols when I listened to Wrath of the cons halfway through I was like why aren't we all Mongols it makes no sense
that they didn't just you know take over the entire world they were very very far on their way to doing that and it's the
same reason that we talk about with Katherine the Great and with Henry VI a it's that you're not guaranteed to have
smart kids and you are probably going to have dumb ones and it's just like dumb kids did you fighting did you know that
the dothrakis of Game of Thrones was based on the Mongols that makes sense totally yeah 100% absolutely um so you
know we'd think that they would be really like they were on their way but it once jenas Khan passed away his sons
divided up the Empire and they fought each other and then it disappeared it just is it's as simple as that like one
generation and it can be gone but shajahan
becomes emperor of the Mogul Empire he married three women but his favorite was
mumas Mahal which means Jewel of the palace she had a different name before they were married but that was the name
that she's you know named by by history she was also semi- royalty so she was like part of the upper class they got
engaged and were engaged for 5 years before they got married so in the me time he had married another person and
then he married someone else after but those were like political marriages and he like really loved mum TD Mahal and
then also the name Taj Mahal like no one really knows where it comes from and they think it kind of talks it's kind of
a way of like saying mumtaz Mahal in a different way are you saying Taz like T
Mahal her name mumtaz muu m t z TZ yeah
okay so that is maybe where the word tajmahal came from but like they're not
no one's really 100% sure maybe so in Old literature you'll notice that the um
the characters might look the same but they'll be pronounced differently so for example in Old English literature I
bought a book for my dad that was like a 19 like or not not it was like a 1500's
copy of something or book but they it had no s's because all the fs back then
were pronounced s and so it could be situations oh absolutely absolutely I'm
sure there's I have absolutely no idea how these were actually pronounced so I'm trying my best um and so they were
married in 1612 he became the emperor in 1628 so again we're about 90 years after
Henry VII so 16003 is when Elizabeth the um her rule ends and the tutor the tutor
line ends so it's kind of lining up so we know that mutaz Mahal dies like
that's the whole point of the whole tajha Mahal in the whole story it's a tomb um for her um guess what she died
doing child birth yeah she's having a baby she having her 14th baby she's 38
years old having her 14th child only seven of her kids survived um you like
into adulthood which is a terrible odds and well she died giving birth to her
14th child she was 38 years old and I've been thinking like as I was saying it was hard to find information about this
and I was like is this a tragic love story like everyone's wife died of child birth like I don't know I don't want to
like be a jerk but like that happened all the time and he had two other Wes so like kind of whatever but all accounts
are that they did love each other um she traveled with him on Military campaigns and he only had like one child with his
other wives for like political reasons so guess that's romantic yeah so this was this was his actual like true yeah
love yes and he was devastated when she died and so he you know spent a couple
days in Exile just like being sad and then came out and said that he wanted to build like a big Monument to her and
that is atach mahal but he also built it to show his power and status because it's huge and it's gorgeous and so
really no my sister has I'm trying to find the picture of her there but I haven't been it's it's interesting because with all all those old you know
artifacts buildings I don't know what would you say but like the scale of it is hard to
understand when you see them in pictures mhm that'll be the case with Mahal too yeah
absolutely I think I'm I'm going to talk about that in a little bit because I have some you know stats on what it
looks like and kind of where it is in in the city but it took 22 years to build
and during that time shajahan was overthrown by one of his sons that he had with mumas Mahal and she put and he
put his dad in prison for eight years but when he when shajahan died he did
get to be buried in the Taj Mahal as well so the his life did didn't end as like in like supreme power but his son
um did let him get buried you know next to his his beloved wife so I'll talk
about conspiracy theories in a little bit but some things that I found that aren't ver aren't like verified but
they're not controversial so like they could be true and and doesn't matter um so I heard it cost if you converted it
to today's money in dollars it cost a billion dollars to build so it was like super you know best of the best of
everything 20,000 people worked on it and it was a mixture of Artisans and
probably some slaves probably some people who were paid you know really poorly but like the pyramids so there's
like a new thought about the pyramids that it wasn't just exclusively built by slaves because it had to be you know
there had to be Architects and people who were invested in it you know and wanted to you know make it a beautiful thing so same in this case there's
people who like worked really hard to make it very beautiful this is also the time of the decan famine which was 1630
to 16 32 where it was a few years of failed crops so it isn't mentioned in a lot of information but it does show that
there's probably something else that happened where like if everyone's starving and you're spending a billion
dollars on this building like something's wrong and people are probably like upset and like a lot of
people are dying you know what I mean Taylor you're probably gonna get to this
is it literally just a mausoleum no there's a couple other things in it as well
like rooms restaurants Hotel like there is so okay wait let me get to this I
will okay if I'm stepping on your stor no no no no no wait I'm GNA tell you one more fun thing and then I'll do the I'll
tell you more about it so one fun thing that I think we kind of alluded to is that because it's so big it's like so
big and so Grand they had to have scaffolding obviously and Scaffolding is typically made of bamboo so like in ancient China they had two story
buildings because they could make really strong scaffolding out of bamboo before anybody else could and so but in this
case the scaffolding was made out of bricks and then when they were done they were like how are we going to get rid All These Bricks so they like put up a
sign and they were like Free Bricks come and get them and it was gone in like a day so they just let like other people
take them which is a great idea um so wait so we'll talk about what it looks like and like kind of what is what is in it so I did look on Google Maps to see
where it was because if you look at like Google maps of like Stonehenge there's a parking lot
right next to it you know and even like the Great Pyramids you're like oh like a quarter of a mile away there's a Pizza
Hut you know and there's like the city so it's not like it's like its own thing but this is pretty um encased in like
some walls and there's beautiful gardens and then there's the tajal itself in the Middle with like a fountain like that's the picture that you see all the time of
people like sitting on the fountain with the Taj Mahal in the back and it also has a big Forest Preserve next to it so
it is a little bit isolated it's right next to a river as well so it is a
symmetrical building with a large white marble dome in the center surrounded by four smaller domes and then there's four
minettes which is like those big towers all around it and those aren't straight they like turn a little bit to help
protect them from earthquakes so they want to make sure that like are you looking at a picture of it so I pulled up Google Maps to look
up the location of Stonehenge and then I also pulled up another tab to look up the location of Taj Mahal and I was like
this map looks you really familiar and it pulled up the Taj Mahal Indian restaurant and Austin so I have not
found it yet correct so not that one go to Agra India not I'm sure there's a million to any these restaurants and I'm
sure they're all delicious um but it's made of so anyway when you do see it the four big towers around it they're not
straight up and down they they turn because they move in case of earthquakes and which is like something that they do
now with Office Buildings and skyscrapers the main structure is made of white marble which is inlaid with
intricate designs so they have like writing from the Quran CU it's a Muslim
you know Building made by by Muslims so it has writing from the Quran all around it and it's not CU it's not Hindu it's
Muslim and it has it also has like you were asking about other buildings so there's also a smaller um part that's
like made out of red stance Sandstone that's a mosque so there's a mosque there as well I was going to say because
the architecture like is just incredibly reminiscent of Arabic yeah architecture
and Mos like it it's it's more more more Vibes morish Vibes than it is Indian
Vibes to me it's beautiful I'm looking at it right now and is it is uh Next Level yeah that's exactly right that's
because the you know the the mugul empire was you know a Muslim empire that was going down and you know using their
traditions and their architecture but it also kind of blends with the the native architecture as well to you know create
create this but it does have a mosque in in the back of it and so all of the calligraphy around it is inlay Stone and
Marble so it's not painted it's like they cut out the words and then like you know put them in with different color
marble so it's super beautiful and look last forever um in accordance with
Muslim law no animals or humans are carved in the Taj Mahal so it's just like vegetation and Words which I think
is interesting because when you go to like the Vatican you see like 7,000 images of people like doing crazy things
and it's just like people everywhere but in Taj Mahal it's not people it's just like the Earth and then the
words so it is a blend of Indian Persian and Islamic Styles um the Symmetry is a
big part of the design so like the middle Tower The Four Towers and the four minettes around it um the it's also
you're not supposed to have like a really fancy tomb in in the Muslim
belief system so shajahan and mumas are actually buried um underneath the tajmahal and like a very simple uh room
and there's like a fake sarcophagus above them where they're not buried that's like part of like the more intricate part of it interesting um so
some other cool things is it changes color during the day like not really but like the way the sunlight is on it right it turns pink it turns pink yeah which
is cool and you can actually book a tour during the full moon as long as it isn't Ramadan but I'm sure that's beautiful as
well because the full moon would be like super bright and you would see it um T Taylor can I can I interject one piece
yes so growing up like I hadn't really gone to like Muslim funerals like I wasn't
really raised religious right like it was it wasn't it wasn't really a thing in my family
um but I knew enough about like American culture to know that like you get like the Velvet line casket with like it's
just impenetrable beautiful Oak this that and the other gold railing something like that and when I've had
family members pass and I they wanted to get buried in Muslim and Muslim ground
it is literally just like plywood you would buy from Home Depot that the body is contained and the entire idea which I
actually like the body's wrapped in in it's washed it's wrapped in like a fabric there's like rose water port on
it and stuff like that but it's really just like put into this like very shabby box I'm sure collapses under the weight
of whatever dirt is being thrown thrown on it what I loved about it was part of
the the belief system is you know your body's not really yours it's yeah Nature's and the whole point is don't
make something impenetrable so nothing can get to your body you need your body to go back into nature totally this just
reminded me of that no and I love that and I've actually so I live in Joshua Tree and there's a joshel tree Cemetery
it's our Memorial Park I can see it from my house and they have a part of it where you can be buried like that like
without even the plywood you're just wrapped in a shroud and they put you in the ground and your family can come and like put rocks around where you're where
you are it's something crazy and you you know become part of the Earth again and I definitely want to do that like I went
to it and I stood in that area and I can see my house from there and I was like this is exactly what I want this seems awesome but yeah I love that cuz
otherwise you're like what in your best suit in a coffin underground forever
that yeah I love going back to the Earth part that to like a simple burial place makes a lot of sense yeah to me totally
yeah same page yeah um right now if you went to the tajma hall and there's if
you're looking on Google Maps there's the there's the buildings and then there's beautiful gardens so the gardens originally were like you know kind of
overgrown beautiful pollinator Garden with like very fragrant very beautiful flowers and of course guess who ruined
them and made them boring I that's a tough one I don't know the characters enough the British see
because I wasn't gonna guess that we're about to get to the point and I'm not going to be to talk about this where the
East India Company is you know moving into India and about to like take over and like ruin everything so the British
are on their way and they do like redo the gardens to look like a typical European garden but thankfully they
didn't do anything to building so the garden isn't exactly the way that it would have been when it was originally made um right now the biggest threat to
the paja hall is pollution so you actually used to be able to drive up in front of it you can't anymore so they
try to like keep it clean and keep cars away from it and things like that because it started to damage the white marble which is a bummer yeah and like
the other stuff I have are like I have some fun facts and some conspiracy theories but I just don't know a ton
about this relationship between Moon plas Mahal and shajahan I wish I knew more about it but it's like she was a
good wife she went with him on Military campaigns he probably trusted her they had a [ __ ] ton of kids and he loved her
up to build this building I wish I knew more if you could find anything else so I Googled Taj
Mahal original because I thought maybe there'd be like paintings or something of like the original version of it before you said the British showed up I
Google everything as you say it which is probably annoying with the keystrokes but like on the first page there's a
picture of Trump with Melania on in front that Fountain and she is so happy
to be there and he could not look more annoyed like why am I here uh that's so funny I feel like I
never see her genuinely happy so for her yeah she's probably happy because she's
in that location more than who she's with totally G um so I have some fun
facts so during World War II and during the Indo Pakistani um Wars in the' 70s
the Tash Hall was camouflaged to avoid it being destroyed so they were worried that Japan was going to bomb the Taj
Mahal during World War II so I have a picture of it that I'll share they cover the dome in like bamboo sticks so you
can't really see it and then in the 70s they did like a thing with like a tarp over the top and like lines to the
murettes and a whole thing so which war during World War II why would anyone
India wasn't in the war I mean everyone was in the war it was a World War and Japan was like coming that way I guess
what do you mean you guess Japan was like destroying China and coming down through China and then they were like
take over the world okay you know what I'm gonna have to do my research on this because I did need you to Google the
rape of Nan King because it's [ __ ] terrible was that World War II though okay so okay so that's where that's
where the disconnect is I actually didn't realize that that was happening at the same time as everything else was going on because to me it was like the
aess and allies were going to war and the Chinese were not a part of the
allies right I think no they weren't like officially but they were definitely being like invaded by
Japan you know what you're I defer to you on History it's like right before
I'm looking it up it says the Nan King Massacre was from in December 1937 for six weeks so it was like that was the
like the plan was to move west word okay you know what I got a fact
check in real time oh my God I'm really embarrassed because I'm sorry I feel like I'm gonna be wrong but I'm pretty sure
that's what happened the Sino Japanese war that's what I need to look up Sino Japanese
war the second you know what they were at War together they were not that time
yeah they were not at world war Japan obviously was fighting so so okay so
Japan would have been fighting a two-front war with the aess yes and then
also fighting China during the second Sino Japanese war that's what was going
on that was 1937 and 1945 I think World War II was 39 to 45 yes okay that
totally makes sense because the the Nan King was earlier so it must have been the second one that when they thought
that they might bomb the T Hall yeah that makes yeah okay
all right well I'm gon get I'm gonna get a really big like board and just do a
bunch of like red lines together and like go crazy here so you're technically not wrong you got the timing exactly
right they just weren't a part of World War II fine fine fine I accept that sorry to do this
that's fair no no no it's fine um but something I wanted to also bring up during that is I worked at the Brooklyn Museum for a little bit in college and
one of my jobs cuz it was a terrible terrifying time to be in America it was like 2003 so I looked in the archives of
the Brooklyn Museum like their um communication archives to figure out what they did with the art during World
War II and they brought it up to like a barn in pypy and like hid it because
they were worried that uh if the Nazis attacked New York they were destroy all
the art which they did you know obviously all over Europe so even in America we had plans to hide our art wow
yeah um so I have some fun conspiracy theories so so there's one theory that
it's actually not even built by shajahan it was an 11th century Hindu temple um
which sounds really fun because I read the article that had like 150 reasons why it's actually Hindu temple and it
was like people keep finding Hindu gods in like the corners and there's all these like secret places where things
look like they're actually more like of a Hindu origin than a Muslim origin but then I read again and figured out that
it's actually a kind of nationalistic rightwing Indian conspiracy theory right
now because they want to like reclaim it as a Hindu building when it isn't so I
don't think that's true I think it's not you don't associate nationalism of
course everybody's of course every country has nationalists of course they do no I know I thought that too and I
was like a right ring Conspiracy Theory what could that be I was like oh it's like a nationalistic conspiracy theory
trying to be like oh it's like a pure you know Indian place when it's not but it's from a part in history that like is
super important um they conspiracy theorists also think that there are 22 hidden rooms in the basement of the
tajmahal which uh might not be true some people say it's true some people doesn't
um would you spend a night in would you spend a night in one of those
rooms yes no price there's there's no there's no you just have to like go in there and
lay down a blanket and go to sleep it doesn't feel ghosty to me even though there's two dead bodies no I
know but it still doesn't feel ghosty it feels like you'd be fine I feel like I'd be more scared to
be in like an old timey Mansion full of stuff you know when I think of like
haunted houses I think of like you know a big haunted mansion not
like a empty room in the bottom of a big building so I disagree with you and
here's exactly what I would have done as I would research in this I would have questioned how many many people died
building the tajal died inside of it later on because there's got to be to me I feel like it
would be a haunted place but I'd still do it because the story is so good the story is fantastic I spent the night in
the Taj Mahal yeah of course incredible yeah and there is also another
conspiracy that Shah Jahan didn't want anyone to be able to recreate anything so beautiful so he blinded all of the
architects who worked on it but I don't think that's true because like 20,000 people worked on it and like I was
thinking of like Logistics of blinding 20,000 people and I feel like maybe the first one you'd be like I'm in charge by
like 100 you'd be like this is gross and I'm standing next to 200 eyballs
also yeah then you gota like train 20,000 sing ey dogs for them and it's just exactly buy 20,000 can like the
logistics alone exactly it sounds exhausting so there's no way that's true um another fun conspiracy theory that
was actually brought forth by a French dude who visited India in like the early uh 1900s is was that shajahan was
planning to build an identical black building across the river for his own Mausoleum which would have been so cool
that would have been amazing how dope would that be to have like a big oh my God like a big black Taj mall that was
like that one I'd be afraid to say the night in that's super cool but that's probably not true that's such a flex
yeah that would be awesome um and that's it that's all I know I wish I knew more and there's definitely like a whole part
of the top of India and like the sweeping um rulers and cons and all of
that that came through there that I wish I knew more about and I will eventually learn more about but it's if you look it
up it's going to tell you it's a love story so let's just stick with that that a love story that's that's all I ever
knew about it like I wouldn't say that my I would I I would defer to like I'm
probably best at American history followed by World War II world World War I and then like the stories my dad has
told me about Iranian history but so I'm not like incredibly well versed in Indian history the the one thing I knew
was that it was a it was a love story like he built it for a woman that he loved and and I was actually surprised
when you said that it's a Muslim thing yeah I didn't know that or that it was
Persian that it had Persian architectural influences I would have I don't know but that seems relevant and I
never never knew that yeah and that's why you know why that the nationalistic thing is trying to make it be like oh it
was always a Hindu thing when it wasn't but um it was just like part it's a
relic of a time of you know a lot of people taking over different parts of of you know of Asia in different ways so
what was Blair's take on it when she was there I didn't she she I know she went she went on a really cool um she's a
vegan and she went on a tour from like vegetarian magazine had like a thing where you could like join a group of
other vegetarians and travel around India for like three weeks that's really cool which sounds great and delicious
and so she came home and you know we we learned how to make like chapati like the bread and like all different kinds of like things cuz I took an Indian
cooking class with my sister-in-law one time and I hav I have a book about Curry
and it's super fun I had a a roommate who was Indian in college and that was
like the first time I'd ever really tried Indian food and I was like how do you make this and she was like it's all ingredients you've never heard of you
know you buy really special things to like make it which is really cool so when Blair came back we did a lot of
cooking with like but you have to go to the store and buy like 16 new spices you've never heard of and they're all
expensive they're all expensive but it's uh here in Joshua true we have two Indian markets so really should go and
and get them yeah we have a great actually really good place called Sam's Indian food and they sell pizza sub
sandwiches and Indian food and it's delicious it's awesome I would I would say that if I was for to be vegan or
just purely vegetarian access to Indian food is the only way to go yeah absolutely it's so
flavorful and so rich and delicious yeah so that's that's why she went but I'm
sure she but she has that same picture everybody has where they're sitting in front of the fountain in front of the Taj Mahal and I'm sure that was like a two-hour weight in line of people being
like get out of my way got to take a picture yeah yeah Again Tour things not
on my Hit List Taj Mahal definitely not on my hit list but looks cool yeah yeah
last time I went to Florence Italy I was like there are too many Americans here so I get it I did um I went to Lisbon
last March and I don't think I interacted with a single Portuguese
person while I was there it was it was just Brits uh tons of
Americans Korean folks like it was it was just expats it just mostly like an expat part of the part of the world now
yeah yeah yeah but I don't know cool it's cool that there's you know stuff
that we didn't necessarily learn about in school like a little bit deeper into these things and we'll keep talking about those things so any ideas anyone
has of any like nonwhite stories I can tell please tell me because I only have
about 40 ideas and if you want to do this for at least for over a year I'm gonna need more what is is there a red
flag in this I feel like the part that I think could possibly be the red flag is
building the building in general like why did he have to do that like he could have just been you know we're going to
get buried together which is beautiful because they loved each other like they he didn't have to build this big building so I feel like there's
definitely an ulterior Mo motive there that's not really talked about and that must be like just showing everybody the
power of the Empire Could Be Love bombing it could be love bombing but
she's dead that's true he be love bombing the people and also it's during that it's
potentially during it's definitely during that plague time but also like he spent all his money on this thing and
people were starving so that's not great yeah $1 billion is a lot the Cowboy
Stadium cost 1.2 billion to build for context yeah is anyone buried in
it no oh we we'll never know Miss opportunity T Romo dead he can be buried
there no he's definitely not dead okay just a suggestion I think that bury Tony
Romo in Dallas Cowboy stadium and lots of people would go yeah yeah I think uh Jimmy hofa
supposed to be buried under theet in Jet's 50 yard line in The Meadows Meadowlands that's awesome let's dig
that up cool Taylor well I know that we are late because of me and we went over
so thank you again for your patience and uh next weekend 100% Regular Show recording
schedule like nothing on Earth is going to stop me from from that okay okay well
you tell that to the Texas power grid and keep your fingers crossed fingers are crossed nothing will stop me have a
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