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feedback. So that's our topic for this week. Labor Day, Labor
Day is coming up Monday. So we decided to do an episode about
Labor Day. And we've got some good features this evening. And
we're going to be we're going to be going through them one by
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mentioned this one and help had the program I used to look at
the boosts says one week so I can't remember whether it
happened before after the show. We got a 20,000 set boost from
Kyle a bear from the air intergalactic boombox and Dragon
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You know why? Why? Because the dude we hired on Fiverr we said
that we liked the gorillas.
Yeah, we said, we said make it sound like make a really really
busy gorilla Z. And he
did a little bird
song. Good job. Obviously. Other folks think he did a good job
too. So then we got 333 sets from Baroness Love and Light
with no message. Thank you. Thank you. Then we got a we got
a run. I lost my my sound effect for it. We got a new soundboard
to go along with
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It's a it's a window X Windows thing. I'm looking for the right
sound. I'll find the sound after I mentioned 33,333 sets by drab
by Dr. Scott. drab. We thank you so much. And I really wish I
could find the sound. Is it
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We like our boosters. He loves her but I can't believe I can't
find it. Okay, hold on, hold on. Here it is. I found it. I meant
to play this area. Oh, welcome to big baller zone. So on
podcasting 2.0 They call the large donations via but any
large donations. They call them big ballers and our big baller
for SATs for the week is Dr. Scott. And he just says
boost. Nice Yeah, thank you.
So I'm a little under the weather. I pulled a muscle in my
back. And it hurts a lot. So I'm a little bit off my game
tonight.
And I've had school this week. Yeah, I'm off my game to
sure she has PE first thing in the morning. Yeah,
and I have to change for PE that terrible I get my clothes on go
to school and then change and then change it back. And I
almost lost my shirt today. Could you
just go to school and you're
gonna want to Okay.
Because that's what I would have done. If I had Jim first Jim was
always my my last class of the day which was I was really
great, because I could go home and shower like as soon as I was
done,
or showers in the locker room, but we don't use them. Yeah,
just use them to change.
Yep. Yep. Yep. So speaking of Dreb, Dreb Scott does the
chapter art and images and links and titles and does a whole
chapter does the whole chapter thing for us with the podcasting
2.0 chapters feature, which most podcasts and 2.0 apps have a
feature where you can see images on the screen based on what
we're talking about. And you can read like whole titles Well, or
less last episode was clickbait. And Dreb, did clickbait titles
for all of our chapters, which just adds more value to the
show. So yeah, they were really good, right, like the first
chapters that I actually looked at, and they were really good.
So yeah, he's one of you before he did. Um, did you see the one
Did you see the one where he did a lot of emojis? No, he went
emoji crazy. One time out to find that one. Show it to you. I
forgot to tell you about that. So yeah, he's got like makeup
tips you can't live without if no, we're just talking about
Leila's clown makeup that she's been working on. Then. The 11
reasons 11 reasons Newsies is the most underrated Disney movie
ever. Now, what that makes me think is a Dred Scott is also a
fan of Newsies. Because I'm a big fan. It was his I grew up on
it. I think it's a great, great movie. There's a couple of not
so great songs like Santa Fe and whatnot. But But yeah, it's it's
pretty, pretty good. Pretty good movie. I enjoy it. We're
actually looking for a good copy of it. Can't find all we can
find online is the Broadway version. And I haven't I haven't
seen the non Broadway version anywhere. It might be on Disney
plus, I haven't really looked there. But yeah, three reasons
bad Sonic was on purpose. You'll never believe how these whales
sleep. So yeah, we had lots of lots of good. Let's a good
chapter. Chapter titles on last week show. Excuse me. And yeah,
so that was a cough but I'll take the bless you. That's fine.
So now the Hello. Yes. Do you have any good news?
Yes.
Welcome to Fun Fact Friday news was their lead anchor. No.
Finally anchor. You can really okay. So I'm pulling down the
wrong mouth. All right, and professional podcaster. A man
named Dwayne Hanson of Syracuse, Nebraska cyber cyber ques cyber
QSYRAC U. S. E. Syracuse, Nebraska. completed his journey
last week. He went he battled 38 miles down a river in a hollowed
out pumpkin that he grew himself.
Gosh, that's great.
Isn't that great that
I want to do that.
I love photos on social media show Hanson crouched inside the
giant squash weighing which weighed 846 pounds, according to
his Facebook post. official said Hansen set off down the
Mississippi River around 7:30am and completed his journey just
after 6:30pm So he was on the water for 11 hours in a big
hollowed out pumpkin. So that he said look, he said I went 38
miles down the river without standing up in that pumpkin and
my knees still hurt. I won't try this again. If somebody breaks
this record, I will bow down because they are tough. I
thought I'll just paddle harder and harder until I'm warm
because it was it was raining and cold. And he wasn't thinking
about quitting. I went another four to five miles and it rained
again. Berta is only about eight inches above the waterline I
guess Bert is the pumpkin name. I've never paid so much
attention for so long in my entire life. It was tough. I bet
handsome described in the Facebook post. Hansen is
described in the Facebook post as a longtime Nebraska resident
who enjoys growing large pumpkins, gourds and other
vegetables as a hobby. That's a that's a neat hobby hobby. Scene
I bet those pumpkins don't taste very good. Not that I'm a huge
fan of pumpkins anyway but those big the huge ones are like
pumpkin seeds. I like roasted pumpkin seeds with like some
kind of seasoning. Those are good. But yeah, he's he's he's a
Pretty much a hero Robertstown now. Nice. All right, so what's
your news story?
My new story is bought bioengineered cornea can restore
sight to the blind and visually impaired.
Well, that's great. Yeah.
researchers and entrepreneurs have developed an implant made
of collagen protein from pink skin, which resembles the human
cornea and restored vision to 20 people. Prior to receiving the
implant most of the patients were blind due to due to disease
corneas. The promising result of the trial begins hope for those
suffering from corneal blindness and low vision by providing a
bioengineered implant as an alternative to the
transplantation of donated human corneas, which are scarce in
many countries. The result shows that it is possible to develop a
biomaterial that meets all the criteria for being used as human
implants, which can be mass produced and stored up to two
years and thereby reach even more people with vision
problems, says Neil le galley professor at Department of
Biomedical and clinical clinical sciences at El IU, one of the
researchers behind the study,
that's great, it's gonna help out a whole lot of people once
they get it, get it ready for primetime.
Yeah, it's great and estimated 12.7 people around the world 12
million. 7 million people around the world are blind due to their
corneas, which is the outermost transparent layer of dye being
damaged or diseased, their only way of regaining vision is to
receive a transplant cornea form from a human donor. But just one
of the 70 patients receives a cornea transplant. They're
Furthermore, one of those who need a cornea transplants live
in low middle low and middle income countries in which access
to treatments is very limited. So I think this is a great
alternative.
Yeah, that's, that's really fantastic. When they when they
come up with a new breakthrough like that, that's gonna help a
whole lot of people. Yeah. That's, that's a that's a really
good one. Better than my pumpkin. Even though the pumpkin
this dude, this dude, he looks like he had a good time doing
this is in the guardian.com in the show notes. If you want to
see that. So Labor Day. Yep. Labor Day is coming up. This
coming Monday. I'm off work. Me too, which is fantastic. You're
off a school. She goes for one week and then gets the day off.
It's great. Because I've been out of work two days this week
because my shoulders, my back shoulders, whatever. You want to
call it that whole area.
Although we did have a fire drill yesterday. Oh, you did?
Yeah.
How'd that go?
I got yelled at for going out of the building. Before they wanted
me to even though they didn't say that. They did want me to.
I thought you were supposed to get out of the building.
She was like You can exit the building without me which I
understand. But still. Yeah, door was open and I was in line.
So
you said oops. My bad.
No, fire alarm was loud.
Was it like this? No. Before so we we went on a sound effects
hunt this week. We had some really? What a dog doing? Gonna
play that whenever chewy scratching at the door. Oh my
gosh. And then oh, remember we're talking about Tim Allen.
Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's my favorite. Sound Effect. The
Curtis Connor has
Curtis Connor is that yeah, he's a commentary YouTuber. Oh, okay.
But yeah, that's. That's Tim Allen from Home Alone. Home
Alone. Home Improvement. Yeah, so yeah, it'll be here in a few
more dings, and dongs and things like that. It'll be you know,
it'd be a good time. And there's a summit here. I don't even know
where there was this.
We should just done a sound effects whole episode of Just
soundboard stuff we have. So we'll play that one at the end
of the show. Yeah. All right. So Labor Day, Labor Day, the first
idea became public in 1880. To September of 1882, unions of New
York decided to have a parade to celebrate the members of the
Union, being members of the Union. And to show support to
all unions, at least 20,000 people were there back in 1882.
That's a big, huge crowd. The workers had to give up a day's
pay to attend. And there was also a lot of beer involved in
the event.
So I'm going to be honest, after all these years of school that
they've taught us what Labor Day is, I still don't know what it
is. Okay, so First time learning about it.
Yeah, so it's good and, and I can explain, you know, whatever
needs to be explained. Yeah, I do you know what a union is
gnarly. Okay, so basically, like, let's say I own a factory,
right? And I'm a big ol meanie jerk. Boss. Yeah. Okay. And but
I own the only factory in town, like, I got the whole, all the
workers work for me. Right. And I know that there's nowhere else
for them to go. So I'm like, You know what, I'm not gonna pay
them very much. Because they, they have to work for me. Well,
what happened is the workers started banding together, and
going in and saying, Hey, you're not treating us, right? We just
won't work, we're gonna sit here and do nothing until you give us
all raises. It's kind of like a strike. The unions are the ones
that the strike idea. That's where it comes from. Oh, cool.
So they go on strike, they build up the union. And basically, it
comes down to the Union negotiates with the leaders of
the company, for better conditions for the workers. And
sometimes it's not about pay, sometimes it was it was about
safety. They were like, you know, we're working with these
big huge machines. And we need to get some safety protocols in
place. And you know, all this stuff. There's a bunch of
different reasons that unions will negotiate with bosses.
While they've, they've been a lot less, a lot less popular as
you're hearing some of my facts, unions. A lot of people don't
feel like there is necessary today. Because people will just
go to their boss on their own, and ask for a raise or ask for
different things. And there's actually been a lot of laws
placed in place where you have to offer certain things to your
employees. And so there's, I'm not gonna get political about
it. But there's a whole lot of politics involved with unions.
But we're just talking about the fun parts labor day just for
this episode. Excuse me, the New York parade inspired other
unions, other regions started having their parades and by
1887, five years later, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York, New
Jersey, and Colorado made Labor Day estate holiday. Cool. So two
people with very similar names are credited with the first New
York City event. There's Matthew, Matthew Mack go
Maguire, Maguire, Maguire, ma Gu I or II. Magloire, he was a
machinist. And then there's Peter McGuire. A carpenter
that's McG you are Gu ire. So they were both linked to the
1882 parade and the men were from rival unions. So they were
from two different unions who didn't like each other. It's
kind of like Romeo and Juliet, but with unions getting a
clicking over here. And historians actually have trouble
figuring out who was actually the person who got it rolling
and got everything worked out. Because over the years, there's
been a whole lot of confusion over McGuire and McGuire. So
they're just kind of like, okay, it's what it is these two guys.
One of them was the mastermind and the other one, you know,
they got together they work this thing out, and a guy going. So
the Maguire Maguire argument goes until this day. Grover
crave, Grover Cleveland helped make Labor Day a national
holiday. Cool. It was approved on June 8 1894, as the first
Monday in September. How do you feel about holidays that move
around?
No. I don't like them.
I don't like them either.
It's hard to remember like how someone's going to remember.
Hold on. I can't even remember this. I gotta look at my
calendar.
Look at our calendar. Hold on. Hold on.
Like Thanksgiving. The fourth, fourth Thursday, November. House
was remember that?
I don't know. Why is it on Thursday? You know, nowadays,
you don't have to remember right? Yeah, literally any
search engine and type in wins Thanksgiving this year.
Or you could just look at any search engine or any store.
Yeah, you can get
your get your calendar out and do some math like you were just
doing you're just flipping through that calendar. I was I'm
sitting over here like one eternity lay down before you
came back. So there is another thing about Labor Day I wanted
to talk about. Okay. Are you allowed to wear white after
Labor Day? No. That's how I feel. Oh, no white, no white
shoes after Labor Day. That's the old, the old saying Right.
But what What it says after Labor Day,
once Labor Day is over, you're not allowed to wear white
anymore. It's an old tradition that goes all the way back to
the Victorian era, where it was a fashion faux pas to wear any
white clothing after summer had officially ended on Labor Day.
The tradition isn't followed anymore.
Already September, right.
Can you believe it? Yeah, no, I just feel like feel like New
Year's. New Year's. Yeah, not that long ago. There's a song
about that about time. Keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin Labor
Day is the unofficial end of hotdogs season. What? The
National Hot Dog and sausage Council, which I didn't know was
a thing until just now. It says that says that between Memorial
Day and Labor Day, Americans will eat 7 billion hotdogs.
That's the council I want to be a part of. Hot Dog Council.
Speaking of how to have wheat bread hot dog today without any
condiments on top. So it was just a red, red hot dog with
wheat bread.
You have a single fact to back that up.
Yeah, I ate it. It's on my stomach.
That's not a fact. Oh, boy. So yeah, 7 billion hotdogs. That's
like how many people there are on the planet? I think there's
actually 8 billion now.
Maybe Hold on?
Yeah, I think we're I think we're right.
People are there. Yeah.
Question mark. Now, how many people are there? Yeah, almost
7.9 7 billion people? Yeah. That's a lot of people.
According to the world. Oh meter, the world? What is the
world here?
It's a world ammeter dot info. Births today. Oh, my gosh, it
just keeps going up. Wow. That's a lot of birth. Deaths today.
Popular growth today.
You have a link that link the world o meter in the show notes.
They use statistics and then run run a real basic program to say
okay, this morning people were born on average per day, how
many are born second. And then they program it in to keep going
up like that? Pretty simple stuff.
Oh, that's neat. So we
were back on Labor Day, make sure you grab a link to that
world. How many people are in unions today? According to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 14 point 8 million
union members in the workforce in 2017. There were 17 point 7
million in 1983. Now there's a lot more people in America today
or even in 2017 than in 20 Or sorry, and 1983. So there's more
people and less union members. So we've got a lot lower
percentage of union members. A lot of companies will will fire
you if even start talking about being in a union or organizing a
union. They don't want to deal with it. The biggest unions
today is the National Education Association has about 3 million
people who are members that includes lifetime and inactive
members. So basically the teachers union is the still the
biggest What are you looking at? myself? Oh, I thought you were
still looking without your no dig in deep into the world. Oh
meter.
Oh, yeah, I was looking@time.gov
See Arizona is funky. Do you see how it's striped out there? In
Arizona there are parts of Arizona that do not recognize
daylight savings time. What they do not recognize Yeah, so it's
it's really tough to do business. If you're not in
Arizona with someone in Arizona if you're in a different
timezone because like half of the year you your three hours is
difference and the other half of your your two hours different.
You know, it's just it's a very
kind of weird looking at the Coordinated Universal Time. Like
what is it?
What do you know? What is coordinated?
Universal Time? If you go to Time dive it's like right in the
top breakup corner. And it's currently two in the morning.
230 in the morning. Yeah, it's no it's not. It's 12 UTC is what
12 to 37
it's two minutes after midnight. Yeah, yeah, it's no, we are.
We're asleep right now. Yeah, we're negative four from UTC and
daylight savings time or negative five UTC. Okay. So I I
personally wish that we could just go to everybody use the
same time No, no when a hot works, why not?
Because the sun
right, but what's weird is like that what you're looking at
right there? Yes over and South Dakota. See all like half of
South Dakota is green and half is yellow. Yeah, so. Okay, so on
the far end right side of that map on the South Dakota green
section, all the way over into Oregon. In the green section,
that's a long stretch of road right there. That's, like 1000
miles or something. So you're technically still in the same
timezone. But you're 1000 miles apart, which doesn't make a
whole lot of sense. Yeah. It's,
it's how the sun is.
Right? But why is there that big jet out thing? Because
the sun? The sun? Oh my gosh, are you a flat? Earther?
No, what I'm saying is that it either needs to be split up into
tiny slivers. Or it needs to just go be gone. Just just like
can't we just say it's midnight here? Where you can just deal
with it? What do you mean, deal with it? I've been dealing with
my whole life. Yes, it's stupid.
Okay.
don't deal with it. Now. It's the UTC I think it'd be good. If
we all just moved to UTC. It would just make things so much
easier, just like your metric system that you like so much
my metrics you can come up with? Well, no,
you know what I'm saying it's better that you like you like
the metric system. I would like if everybody used UTC. Okay. It
would make programming things easier. It would make just make
a whole lot of things easier.
International trade and Hawaii this Daylight Saving Time is not
observed. Oh, no. Oh, has it stripy to
go? Yeah, is that what the stripes mean?
Yeah, it says daylight saving time. I see. Okay, anyways,
enough with the time that go.
Well, I've gone through my Labor Day stuff.
Yeah. I'm good. You're good. Yeah.
All right. How
many good facts about you did
the I was on the constitutional constitution center.org. That's
where I got mine. And the other sites that I went to one of them
was a somebody that makes pools like, and ground in and out of
underground and ground and above ground pools. And then the other
one was like a heating and air conditioning. But it all it
looked like the heating and air conditioning thing just kind of
copy and pasted some of this other stuff. So but yeah, I
think that'll do it. My next starting to hurt again. So I
think I'm going to go take some more. Some more have you proven
and we will see y'all next week.
Wow. Hey, Kyle, oh wait, not yet.
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