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9:01Johan Mendel >> Johan, >> he was an Augustinian monk who spent eight years crossbreeding pea plants. And the the green circle, you see the guy in the green circle in the back row, that's Mendel along with all of his other um monks. >> Yes. in in his monastery. He was crossbreeding pea plants for like eight years. He tracked 29,000 plants across multiple generations. >> That's huge. >> It's huge. This was this was his hobby and he took it very seriously. He's the first guy to really do largecale statistical analysis of gardening effectively. Okay. >> He he was the first green thumb.
9:41>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He he before Zack Galifan Atkins had [laughter] the Netflix show um about gardening which by the way um a good friend of ours Trevor is the editor on that show. So go check it out on Netflix. It's a really good show actually. >> Um so you can see his garden today actually the Mendle's garden. You can see it in Berno which is currently in the Czech Republic or I think now it's called Cetchia if if I'm watching the World Cup correctly. >> I've heard it. Czecha. >> Czecha. Yeah. So, but it used to be called the Czech Republic. That's what I'm comfortable with. But Czecha, Cheschia, one of those. You can actually go see the the garden and see the the beds where he was planting the pea
10:22plants, which I think is really cool. One day when FFP Pod goes on a field trip, that is definitely a place we're going to visit. It's the birthplace. That garden is the birthplace of genetics, right? I think that's so cool. Um, so why peas? First of all, okay,