Crossed the Rubicon

[00:00] Coalson it's been a while
[00:03] We have a sub segment that has now
[00:07] Spun off into its own podcast. It's its own behemoth for sure
[00:12] called the under googles
[00:15] Where we
[00:17] Tackle things that can't be googled and I mean they can be googled but maybe shouldn't be potentially
[00:24] We we Google we we we use our brain power
[00:28] To be better than Google
[00:30] That's right
[00:32] How can we help you this week? We do it under Google rules. That was the play of super excited
[00:49] I told us we had to
[00:53] We signed up for it in the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
[01:02] So I just want to say that I was at
[01:05] camping with a bunch of dudes
[01:07] this weekend and
[01:10] The amount of phrases that were just spilled out of these people's mouths like
[01:16] wheelhouse and you know
[01:20] Hair of the dog and things and I just kept being like oh, I know where that came from
[01:24] I know where that came from. I know where that came from because we've done this show
[01:28] This is the this is the show where you learn where your vernacular came from
[01:33] The dye is cast
[01:39] Okay, that's those two
[01:41] Like steel working, right or whatever. Okay
[01:47] Does it I don't know I?
[01:50] Didn't make a cast
[01:54] Wait, so I was thinking I
[01:57] I was thinking
[01:59] Clothing, right? So
[02:02] When you add colors to a dye
[02:07] Dye is the color though, right?
[02:11] Well dye is the product
[02:14] Of adding the colors to the medium, right? So you create a dye
[02:22] You cast that perhaps
[02:25] So what I thought an alternate thing for the for a dye was like a mold sure also possible
[02:32] Yeah, so a dye is equivalent to a mold. So you have made the mold and
[02:37] Then you pour whatever you're gonna put into the mold
[02:41] Steel plastic whatever and then it's cast things are set into place
[02:47] Is which is which is the meaning of the phrase right once basically this is already done
[02:52] Okay, so I didn't know about this dye steel thing. So you've already answered it then
[02:56] I just was real confused by the the dye colored clothing thing because cast didn't seem like if
[03:03] Why would you throw down? You know, like I don't know the casting thing didn't make sense. But if there is a
[03:09] If the hot metal is going into a cask cast
[03:14] I'm 99% sure that that's what it is. Okay
[03:21] They don't have to be hard I got a million of them I don't know when it started well, I would assume an industrial revolution
[03:29] When are we melting metals?
[03:32] Sounds right. I guess we've been melting those forever, right? Yeah, that's the thing like we were making swords and yeah
[03:38] I would probably go a little bit earlier to like blacksmithing. Yeah blacksmithing
[03:46] Okay
[03:47] So what do you think like?
[03:49] 14th century or we own a little bit later. No, maybe
[03:53] 17th
[03:55] 17th. Okay
[03:56] All right. So I got ahead of myself and I googled it because I was so confident and you're totally rough
[04:02] And stop guessing and I will still figure it out what okay
[04:08] Yeah, so if you guys want to keep guessing keep going cuz it's
[04:13] At least there are alternate
[04:17] Potential origins well, so one of the things that I was wondering if so if you were to take a
[04:25] dye and
[04:29] Cast it in water. Like again, that doesn't make sense
[04:31] That's and I guess you're guaranteeing what color that thing's going to be maybe and that's what the solidifying thing is or the
[04:39] the
[04:41] Permanence of it. Yeah, that's my thing. It's once you've died something. It's
[04:46] It's gonna be that cool as it were
[04:49] died in the wool
[04:51] Another under Google on top of an under Google
[04:57] It turns out that that's definitely not right
[05:02] So, so what are we looking at then so I was confused because die cast so I was thinking it was from die casting
[05:11] right and die casting is
[05:14] a
[05:15] Metal fabrication process that involves forcing molten metal under high pressure put into reusable metal dies
[05:24] Die casting allows for the creation of metal parts with accurate dimensions sharp definition and smooth texture surfaces
[05:31] Like I'd be once the die is cast the steel has cooled and like you can't change it turns out
[05:37] that
[05:38] The die is cast comes from Latin
[05:41] Lacta alia est the dice have been thrown
[05:45] what which according to
[05:50] Suetonius was said by Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy in 49 BC
[05:57] So once you throw the dice the result is going to be the result, right?
[06:02] Yeah, now the good news is it dates back to English in the first half of the 1600s
[06:08] Okay, there you go
[06:12] So
[06:14] So the die is cast is basically the dice. It's it's a dice are thrown the die
[06:19] It's really just a single crappy train the single die the single die is thrown
[06:24] It's cast out of your hand
[06:27] Yacta alia est really the dice have been thrown is actually dice
[06:33] Translation and it has nothing to do with
[06:36] metals or colors
[06:39] It appears not and this is everywhere you look they're pretty so
[06:46] This seems pretty soft
[06:50] Well see cuz I the way I wrote it in my notes was die like die
[06:54] I didn't write it like a nice. Yeah, I wrote a YE cuz that's why I always thought it was
[06:59] Well, this is why we do the show