Skyjacks Episode: 331

Our themes are familiar to us, wealth and plenty, and perhaps unfamiliar to us, generosity and gratitude.

Is there like a presence room?

Oh, I was going to say, I'm thinking of like the Tower of London having like the room that has the crown jewels in it.

Right.

I'm pretty sure like the White House has like dedicated like pseudo museum rooms that are just there to house famous and irreplaceable artifacts.

This is where the plates live.

The nice place.

A funny thing, Nathan, when a foreign dignitary gives a gift to the president, it can never be individually taken by the president.

I'll let you guess which one president has broken this tradition.

james monroe

in but it is instead sort of like gifted to the nation and all goes into a museum more or less of like things that other nations have sent us which is occasionally like living creatures like there are some nations like yeah we'll give you a bunch of horses or whatever because like we're good at breeding horses and it creates a complicated problem for uh what we're supposed to do with all of that stuff but yeah they didn't gift us any

food what am i supposed to

do now it's a Errand for me.

Isn't that the definition of what a white elephant gift is?

But yeah, this is definitely something that goes into, I love the idea of like a crown jewel room more or less of like.

really famous and precious things that the red feathers have seized or created or traded for a trophy room of sorts definitely

alternate history retelling of it right you know history is written by the winners so there is a model of a firearm and like a plaque that says like oh Well, it's said that this particular style of reloading mechanism was invented by artificers in Japan.

Thank you.

But actually, actually, it was a red feather entrepreneur who pioneered this.

Entirely untrue, but they are, you know, selling their own

story.

We see this space, like, yes, it is set up like a museum.

There are glass and crystal cases around and so many precious oddments from around sphere.

There are, like... huge pearls here which we have learned like may keep the souls of people who have been trapped by the mariner and yet they're just here on display in this odd museum style room there are certainly strange weapons here there is a very early design of a gatling gun there are gilded and embossed like versions of red feather carbines and tri-fire carbines that are standard issue for red feather soldiers just like decorated versions of what weapons are including like a collection of cannons that are also like i think made if not out of solid gold for thickly plated, just so that there is a decorative representation of every weapon that would be under the red feather arsenal.

And I think sort of suspended from the ceiling on thin silver wires, there are coins.