S2-E12 All That Glitters

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Dud Gramley and Vickie discuss Season 2, Episode 12, All That Glitters

The town’s metals begin to spontaneously turn to gold, but the wealth may be as fleeting as the town when the structures begin deteriorating.

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Links to items discussed in this episode:

Michael Shanks as Christopher Dactylos:

Michael Shanks was born on December 15, 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada as Michael Garrett Shanks. He is an actor and producer, known for Stargate SG-1 (1997), Stargate: Continuum (2008) and Elysium (2013)

Alchemy:

Alchemy was an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, originating in Hellenistic Egypt (primarily Alexandria) between the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. It aims to purify, mature, and perfect certain objects. Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of “base metals” (e.g., lead) into “noble metals” (particularly gold); the creation of an elixir of immortality; the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease; and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent. The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to permit or result from the alchemical magnum opus and, in the Hellenistic and Western mystery tradition, the achievement of gnosis. In Europe, the creation of a philosopher’s stone was variously connected with all of these projects.

Steve Makaj:

Steve Makaj was born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Two for the Money (2005), The X-Files(1993) and Stargate SG-1 (1997)

Pythagoras:

Pythagoras, (born c. 570 BCE, Samos, Ionia [Greece]—died c. 500–490 BCE, Metapontum, Lucanium [Italy]), Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood that, although religious in nature, formulated principles that influenced the thought of Plato and Aristotle and contributed to the development of mathematics and Western rational philosophy.

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All that glitters is not gold – Saying

“All that glitters is not gold” is an aphorism stating that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can be applied to just about any experience in life.

While early expressions of the idea are known from at least the 12th century, the current saying is derived from a 16th-century line by William Shakespeare.