people mumble or stutter a lot, causes errors in the youtube auto-transcript
people end sentences with e.g. "right?" a lot (may be nice to remove for readability)
youtube can't understand foreign-language words (e.g. Greek, Latin, etc), often resolves them incorrectly
youtube doesn't mark WHO is speaking, so you can't follow who said what.

Each one of these is worth the time in hand correction...

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Just a small figure in a map. >> [music] >> Difficult to catch at first view. Usually I tend to look the notorious shapes [music] of the chart. Try to find the coastlines that at first glimpse become attractive to me. Then I follow the shape taking a random starting point. I began to follow the coast. Always the coast. So, as you keep following this imaginary, you start to see details. Especially in the Aegean Sea. You will find that as you follow any coastline of the continent, the number

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Of islands scattered seems [music] endless. Different shapes and microclimates can be found. >> [music] >> This on one side. The other side is >> [music] >> what is going under? Who is there? And doing what? And you can also expand this question [music] through time. If you think about it, any place, your house, the beach you know, the bars you always like [music] to hang. They are some kind of islands. >> [music] >> Little games inside of another game. The corner where you leave your stuff.

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The place you always go to smoke. This is no different to me. It doesn't matter if it's some corner of Istanbul or in a forest [music] with no electricity. I realized that I always tend to find or create these patterns. [music] And in a way, if I take back my perspective to a map view, I think I can recognize that I'm following some kind of pattern.

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>> [Music]

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>> I'm taking this time um to tell you a little bit about this island. Uh if you have been seeing what we've been sharing the past days, you know that uh we are in Samothraki. Samothrace.

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Uh well, this island is uh located in the Aegean, North Aegean. And

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It's like a big mountain. It's like a It's a mountain itself in the middle of the North Aegean.

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>> Please, people. The most popular physician [music] of all time, Galen. Right? Galen. He knows one of these priestesses that supplies him with the drugs that are so phenomenally powerful in his medical practice in Rome. He buys 20,000 [music] [\\h__\\h] pills.

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>> Can you talk Can you talk a bit to us a bit that person? >> [music] >> Galen? >> Yeah. Ga- Galen, second-century physician of Marcus Aurelius, >> Aurelius, the emperor of Rome. >> He's [music] giving Marcus, we have documents, his own documents, where he talks about giving Marcus Aurelius the famous theriac. He says it's making him better. It's making him bigger. Oh, his his dependence upon opium is getting a little bit too like and doesn't like that. >> [music] >> But, we see him giving Marcus Aurelius

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The theriac. Galen, who is the highest physician in the Roman Empire. There's nobody else who has more authority than he does. He's like a surgeon general, except way more. And he comes out and he says, "Look, um we're getting this medicine from Lemnos, and the priestess there that provides it, she is using this technique that goes back to the origin. It goes back to the first oracles. W- What are they doing on Lemnos with what they call the Limnian Earth and how they're processing it. They're

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Making medicine for the entire Mediterranean through oracular practice. That is through Bacchic worship.

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>> I was told by a philologist that for the ancient Greeks the specific place where absolutely paramount to perform the rights depending on the different focuses of the right. So, it's not the actual right

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And then the place. >> [music] >> It's a place that somehow promotes the right. The island passes through the local people and [music] the mystery is an offspring of this penetration. >> [music] >> So, the procedure is a specific of each land or island. Anyways, just an idea. >> [music]

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>> Reach out to you about the current situation with the filming of our movie. Uh there I'm waiting for the crew to get here on November. >> [music] >> But, we are in 20-something September. So, you know, uh I have to wait for a bit. We're going to share how how myself right now uh will keep opening the road before the arrival of the whole team. So, I'll share with you a route that I'm planning the because this week the weather is changing here. I'm sleeping, you know, uh

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Under the beautiful sky. And as is the end of the summer around here in the Aegean, um we're expecting some rain. And so I'm planning to move.

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But I already have the route that we are going to take for for the for the scouting. So I'm not stopping the scouting for this month. Extra month. Remember this was not planned before. Um before the plan was uh that the crew will be here uh around this time. So this month and a half is an extra one.

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And now next frontier is Turkey uh that I already scouted for 2 months. In November we start filming that. So that and then we will have the whole Aegean circuit that we want to share. Um that we are going to show in our movie. In our final movie, you know, our first let's say first.

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[music]

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>> Amen. So the >> [music] >> I would like guys I don't have any way that I can record now. I'm charging everything here. I have this problem with my phone. I will do it through this who use this platform. I just wanted to say again thank you [music] to everybody that is supporting us right now. Thank you talking with It's just going to be me or both of us in the video? >> I don't know. Maybe just you, but whatever.

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>> Yeah, just wanted to say again, thank you to everybody that is supporting us. Uh the last video we shared with you about the situation we are right now. Um Well, we had [music] a lot of support and well, we are extremely grateful, but again, things

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Thanks to your support, um I [music] can keep moving. So, I will. Also, there is another factor, which is the we are at the end of the summer. And today when I was making the video to [music] share with you what what are our next steps, uh it was sunny, like extremely sunny, like um

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Good weather, especially for the situation of living in a beach, but the storm is coming. Uh we checked the the forecast [music] and I checked it yesterday and knew there some uh some [music] rough weather is coming and I can see the cloud and now it's almost covered with some charged uh clouds. I'm not sure what's going to happen during the night. I will probably I will need to find some kind of uh system. Uh I'm sure here [music] in this town I will find something and I have a a little bit more time now

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Um to upload this, to charge the gadgets, to sort out my phone, and to go back and make sure my stuff doesn't get [music] too wet.

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We made it. Now

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>> Now it's a bit drier. I came back to check on my

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On my current situation. Which is not bad.

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Okay. This one will stay here.

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This is beautiful, you know, it's already dry. Even the

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Clothes and you know, the synthetic stuff.

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It's very strong. Victorious did an amazing work with this beautiful

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So good. So good, man.

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So I have a survivors. I have wine. And this this is again

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Piece cheese.

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Love it. Thank you.

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>> The details of the initiatory right are guarded among those matters which must not be revealed and are communicated only to the initiated.

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>> [Music] >> Nevertheless the fame has spread far and wide that these gods appear before humankind and bring an unexpected aid to those among their initiates >> [music] >> who call upon them in the midst of danger. >> [music] >> It is also said that those who have taken part in the mysteries become more pious, more just

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[music]

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And in every respect than they were before.

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>> For this reason we are told the most celebrated of the ancient heroes and demigods eagerly desired >> [music] >> to participate in the initiatory right. Indeed Jason the Dioscuri >> [music] >> Heracles and Orpheus after having been initiated succeeded [music] in every undertaking they pursued.

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Because these gods appeared before them.

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>> I've been here for more than 12 days now. This is my second time here. I was just sleeping in the stones in the beach first 10 nights until the first rain. Now I am in a room that I rented for three nights. My lower back suffers way more in the room bed than in the stones somehow.

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Today I'm planning to go back outdoors. So it's 26 09 2026. I'm still in Samothraki. I spent a good night at the beach. Not bad, I mean. Lots of wind in the morning, but okay. No rain. Tonight it might be some. >> If it keeps coming up Well, I'm [\\h__\\h] Okay, we're having some proper rain.

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My laptop. All my shoes maybe. Um

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Well, my clothes is impossible to keep it right now.

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Sound is amazing though. Um

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It was chill. But now it's sometimes it's

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Beautiful. Well, this point is nothing more to do.

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Structures. Sometimes they are impressive. So, as I am looking at them, documenting them for a year now, somehow, after it always felt a bit empty. Like, this is what I'm doing. What happened when I touched them, sit around them, or just stay around them for a while, these structures.

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Like takes a full [music] form. I really think that it's not the temple or sanctuary what's all about. It's the place where they are. Yeah. Absolutely the place. Like Delphi. [\\h__\\h] amazing place. Structures, okay.

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But what about the freaking place? So, then then kind of takes form or meaning. It's like now, in this [music] island, it's not the sanctuary of the great gods where initiations happened. It's the island itself that allows something to take place. It is these specific coordinates.

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They didn't probably choose randomly. It's about this place. She, the mountain,

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Or whatever it is that lives here.

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So, she said, "What do you need?" So, I'm not sure what she meant. I see two streams. One is, "I need my crew here. I want peace, energy, and resources for us to keep going. On the other side, I think about her. I want her to be the way that I can hear the voice of the mountain. I want her to lead me. I want her to go with me.

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So, I had the best night. The sea was rough, almost getting to my shoulder, but kept 50 m before it.

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There was a little rain and then stopped. The clouds [music] cleared. I upgraded my shelter and was the most comfortable place in the world.

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So, I'm connected in town, but you know, it feels empty. Coffee shop feels not welcoming anymore. It didn't was specially welcoming me before, but at least was like nobody cook or less. So, perfect.

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No, just the team [music] meetings. Or actually meetings with Nico. That gives a bit of a shoulder, like

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We are doing something regardless the physical place. I think that when you are in this place, every hour in the wild is like a moment when you could call it all. So, this is how it is, extremes. Wild or connection.

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>> [Music] >> Wild in a very childish way, though. But winter is coming, [music] so it's becoming a grown-up discussion with myself now. Sorry, I'll catch up. >> [music] >> Take Take group. So, um just a little update. Weather keeps changing. Thank you so much for being here and greetings from the boat. >> See.

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>> Okay. Um, hi crew. So, I'm communicating here with Nico trying to to communicate between us first. Uh, he's showing me signs with paper and using the chat at the same time cuz I cannot hear anything here. We are different place in a different cafe right now. Uh, I just wanted to say thank you again. Greetings from the crew.

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The earthshaker, >> [music] >> did not keep a blind watch. High up on the loftiest summit of wooded Samothrace, he sat gazing in wonder [music] at the war and the battle. From there, all of Mount Ida lay open before his eyes.

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And clear in the distance were the city of Priam >> [music] >> and the ships of the Achaeans

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Emerging from [music] the sea, he sat upon the mount. He pitied the Achaeans, >> [music] >> overcome by the Trojans.

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And his anger >> [music] >> against Zeus grew fierce.

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>> Okay, hi crew. Um So, um I don't know how much space do I have in this this card, so I try to be quick cuz I'm far away from electricity now. As you can see.

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There you can see. I'm in an island. There you can see another one. You can see a boat there to have a bit of perspective. Well, I've been for 4 days. Um well, at the beginning with um with a Bulgarian girl that I met first, with Alexandra. Uh she took me yesterday to one side to to the top of um following a stream up. You'll be able to see it. And and then Marco also, that is we're the three of us now. Now, he's guiding.

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Marco from Croatia. Um So, I've been I've been near falling, near dead a bunch of times these past days with these uh crazy hikers. Anyways, I love them. And thanks to them uh I can share these uh places with you. Um It's because it's I still think that it's about the places, not the actual sites or temples. Um I mean, the temple is impressive. But, probably the places they choose to put them

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Was the thing, I think. You know, I've been living pretty much in this island for a bit. And I can see how this is an special place. It's in all the islands, to be honest. Islands are like special special vibe. But,

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We'll have some fire, probably some wine.

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We are arriving to to this place. Look.

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>> Oh, sick. Yeah. >> Oh, okay. >> [laughter] >> Sick. Yeah. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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>> Ah, it's been a long time that I haven't seen a beach, sandy beach. Cannot wait. It's my habitat.

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>> [Music] >> I'm thinking to have a pact, but I have been doing that randomly and easily this past months, many pacts, but I'm not thinking about all of them. Just trying to decide which one are important and which ones are not. Forgetting people, disrespecting them

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For something, for something I think is greater, for the inner circle, the crew. I really feel bad for some of the people I just don't care about now. I'll be accounted for it willingly. But, when our expedition [music] is done before, I just really don't care.

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>> [Music] >> There is something in my mind. Something that is really giving me feelings. What if the island let me stay? I don't think I even have a chance to think or decide. If she wants me, I'm hers.

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Today I went to this waterfall. I mean, not the source. Just where the pool takes shape. I saw it I think 1 year ago. It was full of people. I'm not sure if if it's the same one. But, now I didn't saw anyone. I was alone. I took a bath. I was filming for our project. So, I wasn't trying to connect with the place or anything like that. Now, 2 hours after, I think that this bath switch my awareness somehow.

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In a way that I feel very good now. No anxiety here. Meaning a lot is happening with the rest of the world regarding the project. A lot of depth. People waiting responses. Problems attached to me because of compromises and agreements that I did to make this possible. But, you know back to this filming day, I feel different from the other ones I had this week. >> [music] >> Most probably the water from the top of she, the mountain. [music]