Ol' Silent "R"

[00:00] Gentlemen, let's do a quick under google bowl. Oh
[00:10] We do under Google rules that was the playa super excited told us we had to
[00:18] We signed up for it in the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you in this week
[00:27] My under Google is we just finished the month of February which as you know is
[00:32] The shortest month of the year and my question is why is it the shortest month of the year?
[00:40] Why are there?
[00:43] Only 28 days in February. Why don't we chop it up evenly like have
[00:50] What is it seven months of 30 days and seven months of or five months of 31
[00:56] Days, and that would get us to 365
[00:59] Be nice and easy. What the f. Why is February short?
[01:05] Definitely blaming the Romans. Yeah, this is Gregorian calendar, right?
[01:10] That's Gregor's fault. Yeah, Greg Wario
[01:14] But like I mean, I don't know that it's not the Julian calendars fault. Oh, okay. Mm-hmm
[01:21] Maybe it's the Julian calendar. I
[01:24] Don't know. It's not a lunar calendar. I
[01:27] Understand that I know that much
[01:30] Well done, thank you, that's good now, but I'm assuming this is math right? I mean, it's just math
[01:37] You I'm bad at math but you said if the 365
[01:42] If you get seven months at 30 five months at 31, we get to 365 that makes sense
[01:48] What do we currently have we have seven months of?
[01:52] don't we already have that seven months at 30 and
[01:57] Four months of 31 or something
[02:01] No, no, that's not math
[02:05] What do we got we have January is 30 March May?
[02:12] July August
[02:14] October December are all 31. Yeah, so is that eight that's seven seven. Okay
[02:25] Our days don't correspond perfectly to years
[02:28] Right. Well, we have to have leap year, right? Right. We have to have that either way though
[02:33] That just has to do with rotation of the earth not perfectly matching
[02:38] revolutions around the Sun
[02:39] Okay, so but why couldn't February be?
[02:44] normally
[02:45] 30 days and one
[02:48] When it's in the leap year be a thirty one. Yeah, I mean that would make a lot of sense
[02:54] Who's February named for is it some like crappy God that the Romans didn't like
[03:01] So they're like
[03:02] Yeah, I sure didn't believe
[03:05] Or probably her I guess right? Yeah, that makes more sense. Right? Right
[03:11] Who's February named?
[03:14] Yeah, that's interesting
[03:16] And why is it spelled all messed up, too?
[03:25] Laboratory
[03:26] February
[03:28] Is it February or February? What do you say February? No, I don't say that
[03:37] It's like
[03:42] Yeah, yeah, no, I encountered this recently
[03:45] Turmeric, you know the spice turmeric turmeric
[03:48] Yeah, okay. So you knew that it's turmeric. Well, I don't know I mean there's an R in there
[03:54] I'm probably just I didn't know there was an R in there until like two months
[03:57] I'm probably just some douchey dude who says turmeric though. Probably everybody else in the world says
[04:03] I'm also sriracha. There's a random R. I'm not just
[04:09] Sr. That's not a thing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it is
[04:16] Okay
[04:18] Okay, so we're thinking that Julian
[04:21] I
[04:23] When he came up with the calendar like just Julius was half drunk and then
[04:32] Just put 28 days in February for that
[04:35] I mean was that with Julian Julian is after Julius either. I didn't really yeah
[04:40] I mean he didn't do the math, but like he was the one who was like this is our calendar now y'all cuz
[04:49] I thought we're not under the Gregarian calendar
[04:54] We're just under Gregorian chance
[05:02] So
[05:03] We now use the Gregorian calendar, but I think the Gregorian calendar came around in the Middle Ages
[05:08] I think that yeah, there were differences between the Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar, which they were using in
[05:15] Right and and the Gregorian calendar is just a slight adjustment of the Julian calendar
[05:19] I believe so but is the only thing that they adjusted making February a dumb number of days like what else did they do?
[05:26] Maybe they added I think they added the leap year
[05:29] Because I think it was getting all messed up pretty sure that was one of the things they did
[05:34] I'm sure that they helped account for leap year because that's a tough poll for Romans for the Romans
[05:39] Yeah, for sure. I'm pretty sure that although
[05:42] The Mayans it turns out had it figured out. That's true
[05:46] They had 12 30-day months and then they adjusted for like the slop at the end of the year
[05:52] They had like a week-long celebration or whatever which in leap years was like an extra day long
[05:57] Which is totally the way to be there just weren't days for it. It was just yeah. Hey, we're just remarking anything. It was like it
[06:03] That's awesome. Yeah, it was like an interim. I mean they kept track of things, but it had its own special like yeah
[06:09] This is time and now Marty growl. Yeah
[06:13] Yeah, and just like I think we should instead of that after December we should throw that in the middle of like July
[06:19] Right, okay when it's nice and warm out, you know when the weather's good. Yeah. Yeah, I think we need to put this bill for Congress to be
[06:27] The media every year we get a week off yeah or 10 days whatever yeah
[06:36] Okay, so we know nothing what we're saying we know what we're gonna
[06:41] It's clearly a math thing right? Somebody decided the math
[06:46] made sense for February
[06:48] To be and clearly this is something on the Gregorian or on the Gregorian calendar
[06:54] so we know that even if the Romans had it figured out we know that
[06:58] the Gregorian calendar still
[07:00] Does this right so we know it's part of the Gregorian calendar
[07:03] I guess we don't know if it was part of the Julian calendar, right? Correct
[07:08] Was there some point where like there were not?
[07:12] 12 months or something like that like there were
[07:16] 10 or 11 months or something like that and so then they had to like create a couple new ones and be like
[07:20] Yeah, that definitely sounds right. I feel like the Julian calendar like had 10 months or something
[07:26] so I there are months that came from the Romans like August it's from Augustus, right, right, so I
[07:35] Feel like by the Roman calendar predated the Julian calendar, right?
[07:39] So I feel like by the time you get the Julian counter you've got your Augustus
[07:43] maybe
[07:45] Okay, or did Augustus Augustus didn't Augustus came before Caesar. I thought Augustus was a Caesar
[07:56] Point a Caesar, but Julia these Julius was yeah last right so yeah in my head Augustus must have predated him
[08:04] Although my Roman history has flagged a bit since college. I'm old
[08:10] Hmm. I didn't I didn't even ever had it June was named after
[08:17] Juniata River
[08:19] Right Juniata. Mm-hmm. Yeah, Frank Vogel's alma mater. I believe that's right
[08:28] March was named after marching gortat
[08:32] Maybe
[08:33] Well, yeah, there's a disambiguity there some say March Madness some say marching quartet. We're not
[08:45] Okay, so we don't know Jack about this
[08:49] But we're saying it was result we're going with
[08:52] I think our consensus is that
[08:56] the Gregorian when the Gregorian calendar came about they like
[09:00] adjusted for some
[09:03] You know miscalculations of that's when Romans right and that's where you get
[09:11] So we think it was probably more evenly matched prior to the Gregorian counter, why did they do that?
[09:16] Base of the question. Why did they but my theory is that the math was wrong and they were like
[09:21] We'll just stick in this other month and fix the math
[09:24] Well, they weren't they couldn't have been off by a full 28 days
[09:29] Like there's no way the calendar would have gotten out of whack very quickly
[09:34] No, I'm not saying you almost a whole month, right? Okay, but what if they took yeah, you're right
[09:39] Okay, but maybe like they had 11 months and each one had like 35 days in it or something
[09:45] So maybe that's what it may took up a slop
[09:49] Thought that the Julian counter had it down to 12 months though. Mm-hmm
[09:55] Okay, so the Julian calendar
[09:58] Julius Caesar 46 BC was a reform of the Roman calendar took effect on January 145 BC how efficient
[10:05] The Julian counter is still used in parts to the Eastern Orthodox Church and parts of
[10:15] Oriental Orthodoxy
[10:17] What is a terrible phrase and and a baptism as well as the Berbers
[10:23] Okay, so it has 12 months
[10:28] okay, so
[10:30] the
[10:33] Roman calendar
[10:35] only had
[10:37] devised by Romulus
[10:39] Had 10 months was a lunar calendar that began at the spring equinox in March an
[10:46] Ended with December
[10:48] It's unclear whether there were any official months between December and March
[10:53] But it's likely that they were left off because the winter time wasn't important for harvest
[10:58] So I guess maybe someone's in mind so yeah fuck this time, you know
[11:02] Okay, then the second king of Rome Numa Pompilis
[11:06] Pompilius
[11:08] Decided to make the calendar more accurate by syncing it up with the actual lunar year, which is about 354 days long
[11:15] Numa tacked on two months January and February
[11:21] After December to account for the new days
[11:24] each of the new months had 28 days
[11:27] But I
[11:29] Guess it was bad luck to have even numbers or something. So he added one
[11:35] Day to January which also made the year
[11:39] Odd numbered
[11:41] 355 but left February at 20
[11:43] How did we not guess bad luck and superstition at any point it we should have probably been all over that between the Romans and the
[11:51] Middle Ages like probably should have been on the Julian calendar all 29 and 31 except
[11:58] for like the inter color inter Calera years
[12:02] I don't know how to say that word
[12:06] So it really essentially was that favor was an add-on so it looks like
[12:14] Well, but it wasn't the only add-on
[12:17] That added two at the same time and they just they jacked the aduary cuz
[12:21] The only thing that mattered January and February didn't exist. So yeah, they you throw on a regular now
[12:28] Your your year is only
[12:30] 304 days long at that point and so when you do the math you had two months one of them's got to be short-sticked
[12:37] the Gregorian calendar
[12:39] It was named after Pope Gregory the 8th and was introduced in
[12:44] October
[12:45] Gotta love the popes
[12:48] October of 1582 because that's when you start a new year
[12:52] Mm-hmm
[12:55] Solar calendar 12 months 20 to 31
[12:59] So this is basically what we're using here
[13:03] But it seems to be that there's a correlation between they're trying to hit the holidays right spring equal knocks
[13:11] Right. So, you know
[13:14] Vernal equal. I think that part of the reason why it's there is because they cared about where they're how holidays were
[13:21] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So again superstition. I don't I just don't have a good reason why
[13:27] February I mean because they don't give a crap about that time of year seems to be the most prevalent or
[13:34] simplest answer to that
[13:37] But I also don't really know why they're I mean, I guess because it's already the shortest month
[13:42] That's why you randomly add the day in there when you need to right and I mean for what it's worth the ability to
[13:50] Detect with the tools that they had on hand the Romans the Egyptians
[13:55] Like all these cats seem to know about the leap year thing kind of
[14:00] Which is pretty fantastic
[14:02] Like they have like sticks and shit
[14:05] All right
[14:07] Well, there you have it
[14:09] We were kind of their story of civilization right there. It's all math science and superstition. I just can't tell what's why
[14:17] Sometimes it's all the above it's like some brilliant brown people in Egypt or
[14:25] South America came up with these brilliant math and
[14:29] Astronomical based calendars in superstitious white people were like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, we're gonna do this different way
[14:35] We're gonna name it all after