Sunday STUFFandTHINGS | 08/04/2024 | CLINT EASTWOOD'S BURNING STICKS + MY ANCIENT HISTORY OBSESSION

[@GetPiped]

Hell yeah! Lets get you a part of #TeamToscano 🤝🏻

[@markinri1877]

Bradley! Love the Toscanos now and again. I had the pleasure of sharing a few with Matches860 a few times. Why does it look like the rock to my left of you is a bear about to growl at you? Lol. Cheers!

[@charliewoot22]

Cant unsee this now 😂

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Haha! It does look like that!

[@minkvanijzendoorn8340]

Dear Bradley, As an archaeologist, I'm happy to hear you like ancient (pre)history. Here's a tip for a great podcast: ’Tides of History’, which is as educational as it is entertaining. Hopefully, you enjoy it as much as I do. I'm curious what you might think of it. Best wishes from Holland.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

I looked it up! Thank you!

[@BertShackleford]

Fun Fact: Mr. Eastwood _HATED_ cigars and smoking in general. That ubiquitous sneer that became common place for Clint was a result of the cheroots he was asked to smoke. This only helped to* propel his persona even further. Especially when filming Westerns. This is why we have the grimace known as the *"Eastwood wince".* Stay classy my friends. *EDITED for grammar.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

I read that as well!

[@unclechaw1894]

Those cheroots are surprisingly good for cheap machine rolled cigars in my opinion.

[@economicsjingle]

I recently got my PhD in classics and had the opportunity to visit the archaeological site of Troy with a class. I highly recommend seeing the Troad--Istanbul was beautiful as well. Turkey happens to also be an interesting place for the pipe hobby, and though I wasn't into it yet at the time, I remember seeing lots of meerschaums in the bazaars. I'll have to go back one day to pick up some pipes and rugs.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

That's so cool that you got to visit the actual site!

[@gustingdis]

Ahh yes! You got the ancient history bug too. The mystery of human history is captivating to say the least.

[@mpfeldma]

Toscanos are awesome. I truly discovered them in Italy - while discovering ancient history! I need to get some!

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

I'm really enjoying them!

[@michaelcardamone1209]

Love toscano originales, i smoke them on the golf course because bringing the pipe out is a pain in the neck… also i recently went down the Bronze Age collapse rabbit hole as well, very interesting stuff.

[@michaelcase8574]

My Italian uncle used to smoke Toscani cigats, and when it got down close to the end, he would tear it apart and put it in his pipe and smoke it. A rather Italian activity it would appear.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Waste not, want not!

[@chriscon8463]

My great uncle smoked DeNobile cigars that looked like dried twigs. Then he quit smoking them for health reasons & chewed on them all day.

[@gregmurdoch3264]

Loved those empire building games :) - haven't played them in maybe a decade or more.

[@BadWaterMotors]

Medieval 2 total war is probably my favorite game I've played. Countless hours.

[@ThePipeSmokingPlaneswalker]

Those are really really good, i tend to go for the Antico (hope i did not butcher the name) which is way stronger and not to be had on an empty stomach.

[@paulthescandinavian4992]

The only cigars I smoke are Toscano Extra Veccio and those of Antiquo

[@tombrown1898]

I also have read that Clint Eastwood smoked Marsh Wheeling Virginians, as I did decades ago. Fantastic, cheap smoke! Don't care for Dark Fired Kentucky in a pipe blend, but in an American cigar it's very tasty, so much better, IMO, than the likes of Dutch Masters, King Edward, etc. Good show today.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

I've had two so far and really enjoyed them!

[@Rogue0770]

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a great game to play through ancient Greece.

[@brianstivalevoice]

Excellent. You look great my friend. I will definitely try the Eastwood Sticks!

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Thanks! Good to hear from you!

[@charliewoot22]

I used to love the Total War series of games. Need to get back into them. Might want to check out Crusader Kings II, was pretty good but I had a tough go of it.

[@Ricky-oi3wv]

It's a bit later mate but if you want a real treat: Robin Lane Fox 'Alexander the Great'

[@dehiscence]

I also felt the same as that last comment, have you had any interactions where photography subjects got angry? I live in a big city and would have a hard time doing this. I enjoy your work though and it reminds me of my time in Washington.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Not yet!

[@SolarLabyrinth]

I love history and a significant portion of my reading is either historical non-fiction or fiction. I do go back and forth between ancient/medieval history and more modern periods, though. Modern subjects (e.g. WWI/WWII) are great because obviously we know so much more about them. We have no shortage of first-hand accounts and even video in some cases. That can be nice when you really want to dive in and learn all you can about a subject. However, I also love ancient history because there is so much we don't know that there is almost a fantastical/mythical element to it all. Even "history" can almost be like reading a fictional account, especially since so much of the ancient world was tied up with what we now consider myth. I did enjoy Eric Cline's 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed about the bronze age collapse.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

And it's fun to see how the mythical version of events compares to the archeological record!

[@TheAdventuresofBabyZ]

"Fall of Civilizations" *great podcast series. V. academic and lengthy, not for the lightweights. Also Graham Handcock's NETFLIX series Ancient Apocalypse has a couple of episodes set in the Med and also a couple in N America.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Thanks!

[@lesbrady]

Have you uploaded any shots from Working to your Instagram? I was thinking the shot of the huge finished driveway would be cool.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Not a bad idea!

[@a_disgruntled_snail]

I used to watch the working stuff pretty faithfully, but I haven't been seeing any of your uploads in my inbox. I was worried that you had went dark when I came to check. I have a few weeks to catch up on.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@manatoa1]

Funny, one of my favourite politics youtubers (Sargon of Akkad) loves Total War Pharaoh. Never played it myself, but looks neat.

[@bugsan]

Clint said in an interview that he hated the cigars he smoked in Leones movies.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

I saw that!

[@bugsan]

@@stuffandthingsyoutube wierd thou, he really nailed the look with the cigarr/cigarill in the corner of the mouth.

[@GrayRider65]

Toscano is not Clints sticks its Marsh Wheeling Virginian

[@johnwayne8114]

I think so too. There has been a lot of speculation, but the stubs he has in the movies don't look like Toscanos, too thin. Eastwood himself said something about "virginias", but he didn't go into much detail.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

I read that as well!

[@TommyHail]

I'm a big history guy! My undergraduate was in Biblical Studies and Archaeology, which included studying the Ancient Near East from the Bronze Age up until the Persian period and the Greco-Roman period of the early of the Eastern Mediterranean. I'm currently doing a masters (will be done with it in the fall!) where I interact regularly with ANE (more so Iron Age) and Greco-Roman history.

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Very cool! Such a fascinating subject of study.

[@gustingdis]

The Ancient Near East is critical to Biblical studies. Did you get a different perspective on Genesis after studying the ANE?

[@TommyHail]

@@gustingdis It's given me a whole new perspective on the Hebrew Bible as a whole! The same goes for Greco-Roman background with the NT.

[@gustingdis]

@@TommyHail There is a lot of newish research pertaining the ANE context of the Old Testament, as am sure you know. Reading the ancient texts has had a massive impact on how I understand it, and it seems like only now it is becoming more mainstream. I hope more churches start to understand, these studies can end a lot of problems with interpretation and also create some different problems all together.

[@kevinvrury2365]

I think Clint smoked Parodies on stage.

[@theodosios2615]

I trust you've seen the documentary The Sea Peoples and The Late Bronze Age Collapse? If not, check it out!

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Not yet! Thanks!

[@theodosios2615]

It's here on KZbin.

[@jph1186]

Could you please say where you got that hat?

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

I think from Amazon. It's the Tilley T5MO

[@jph1186]

@@stuffandthingsyoutube thank you.

[@BlakesPipes]

sorry, if you are out in public, you are open game! that must have been a under 40 year old person. sad they think they own themself when they are out and about. Crazy world we live in.

[@robertpresley6414]

The cigars that Clint Eastwood used were called Virginia's that he cut into thirds to have a more stubby cigar.

[@ryanmcfadin09]

Fun fact...butt rock isn't just something you're forced to sit on during these Sunday smokes...it's also a really bad genre of music 😅

[@stuffandthingsyoutube]

Haha! Indeed. That's what we called hair metal when I was in high school.