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small things. Yep, tiny things,
tiny things.
itty bitty little things. We talked this week. And we decided
both of us like topics that are kind of kind of vague. Because
you can have fun with them. You know, if we're, if we're like,
okay, we're going to talk about aglets the little things on the
tips of your shoe laces that make the shoe laces easier to
put through the lace up holes on the shoes. And we're only going
to talk about aglets we end up going off and talking about
other stuff anyway. So when we do vague things like random
facts or or, you know, tiny things or small things we can
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searched around but couldn't find a couldn't find a story.
But you'll like this story. It's about spirit Halloween. Did you
know that spirit Halloween? I did you know that spirit
Halloween? I do. What do you know about spirit.
The other thing we're about to talk about the thing
of spirit Halloween has donated over $100 million in donations
to children's hospitals. And that includes having Halloween
costume parties, and giving away they've given away over 50,000
costumes activity books, crayons, treat bags to its
partner hospitals. They said, as we began to grow, one of our
challenges was that we felt as far as being a Halloween store
and a place where people felt entertained, was wanting to
invent something back to communities that we were
operating in. So they noted that spirit Halloween since 2003,
when the company had about 150 locations was not particularly
well known. The group decided to focus that it would be giving
back to those communities and more in which the company had
brick and mortar locations. They said they brainstormed and came
up with the idea. Well, you know, we're a Halloween store.
So why don't we throw Halloween parties at the hospital. So
starting back in 2006, they chose 10 or 11 hospitals to have
Halloween parties that we brought Halloween costumes,
music, art supplies, and we through our first Halloween
parties. And honestly it was a spontaneous combustion the kids
were absolutely transformed by it. So you know, you can you can
donate stuff, the music here, you can donate money to kids
hospitals to help help them out and help the parents pay the
bills and things like that. But, you know, things like costume
parties and extra life, the charity that goes in and and
gives money to children's hospitals. They also do like
game days, where they'll take a whole bunch of gaming systems up
to the Children's Hospital. And everybody sits around and plays
like the old Mario games or Atari or lets all the kids play
the retro games. And it's a big boost because hanging out in the
hospital is not fun. So
one of the YouTubers that I watch his merch line, I think
70% of the proceeds go to people with chronic illness.
That's cool. Do you remember who it is?
Jake doodle Jake Doolittle. Jake's name is hard to something
I think I've heard of James it's either Jake or James
So yeah, that's that's just good news that spirit Halloween and
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because the Halloween stuff. And I saw that I thought it was
really a good thing. So on to small things.
Small thing, just one
or two or all of them all the small things. Because there's a
song Leila
Well, I didn't know.
Oh, hey, Nam. Welcome to the chat room. I haven't I haven't
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Since the recording got messed up there. I mean, it didn't.
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Professional podcasters. So we got a letter from Kay, a couple
of weeks ago. And we saved it because we want to do a whole
episode about it. So why don't you go ahead and read the
letter. Oh, and I'm gonna take a sip of tea.
Lucky. This, okay, tiny things. The smallest bone in the human
body is the ear bone actually known as this vapes. And the
world's smallest film, a boy and his atoms is a 62nd stop motion
animation made by arranging individual atoms. Mongolia has
the world's smallest Navy
can't get much smaller than atoms. Yeah, not really. Quarks
I quarks, I guess.
Their fleet consists of a single tugboat. Do you know what I mean
by several Taylor's
you know what a tugboat is? No. Oh, well, here's a little little
learning experience for you. A tugboat are these little boats
that tug the big boats. They like push them like because you
know how hard it is to steer a boat, right? Imagine if the boat
was huge. So they have all these little things called tugboats
that go around the big boat, and like push it to where it needs
to be. Because of the big boat has its big ol engine on it just
goes you know, but they have these little boats that have a
bunch of like bumpers on the sides and they just bump bump
the the big boats where they need to go. It's actually kind
of fascinating to watch. A lot of coordination. So anyway, go
ahead.
This Molas species of flog frog, not Flog.
There's a t shirt, flogs plugs.
And I can't it's it's an inclusive, it's one of these
older letters too, so he didn't like type it out. It's not that
old. It's not that old. But but the smallest species of frog is
found in Cuba. They only grow to be the length of weight four
inches.
inches, the proper measurement system.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in America yet it has the
larger population than Alaska, the nation's largest state. The
Pentax auto 110 was a world of smallest SLR camera, invented in
1978.
I'm going to look that up. Just 1978 was invented by Joseph
FINDEX.
No. smallest country in the world is Vatican City. At only
way is it? Yeah. Really?
Yeah. The Vatican super small. Oh,
all right. I only 1/5 of the square mile. The next smallest
country is mon Monaco. At three fourths of a square mile.
That's also very say that right? Yeah. You got it. All right. So
the Pentax I'm going to look that up. I'm going to look that
up, because I want to see how small this SLR cameras and Vinod
1978 No, seriously? Because, you know, 919 78 it's what we always
it's always the joke. Are you not amused? Tell us about some
tiny things.
Okay. Shall I do the lizard first? Sure. Actually known as
the dwarf lizard, the goo the Garga. sofiero is the world's
smallest lizard and is typically found in the guagua. National
Park in the Dominican Republic. It's the type of Gecko first
discovered in 2001. It was immediately declared endangered
species, and it measures six to eight inches long.
Well, how do they know that is like they said immediately the
declared endangered species. What if there's like a cave that
has like millions of them? It was like, Oh, we found this new
thing. Oh, it's endangered. Let's find out the story behind
that.
The smallest car weighing only 150 pounds, the PIO 50 is the
smallest car ever approved for street use. Built in the 1960s.
They are now rare cars to go for $170,000
Okay, so that's that's a okay, because I've got a car one and
that's not it. Okay, but that sounds like it was actually
produced for sale. Yeah, not just like somebody's trying to
make the world's tiniest car. Yeah,
this is actually produced for sale. Okay, well,
here's my car story real quick, since we're on that custom
carmaker Austin Coulson, in the US, in the US, set a record for
the owner of the smallest roadworthy car that he can
legally drive on the road. He said I've always wanted to have
a Guinness World Record title for something and automotive was
always my favorite. So I went home and looked at the current
world record and thought I could do that. His car measures 25
inches high, two feet 1.75 inches wide and four foot 1.75
inches long. It can be spotted by its Texas vanity license
plate reading I'm big as two foot by four foot give or take
an inch or two and little over two foot high so that's that's a
that took. Okay, so let's say to qualify as a roadworthy worthy
vehicle Coulson needed to get the car registered and inspected
and had to install a number of safety required features says
again this website. It's included federal, it. These
included federally approved safety glass for the windshield
functioning windshield wipers and Department of Transportation
approved signal lights, a seatbelt and a working horn. So
there you go, folks, if you got to build a car, you got to make
sure you get The Seal of Approval there. So yeah, he made
a tiny little two foot by two foot car, two foot by four foot.
That's so small. Oddly enough, there's not a picture of him
like driving the car. But that's okay.
The smallest populated town is Cass in New Zealand
got like one dude,
there's one dude. Barry Drummond is the only inhabitant of caste
New Zealand, a railway town in the Siouxland district. He
should he shouldn't be the mayor. However, he is hardly
loanees Since curious tourists are constantly stopping by to
visit the isolated stop. As a result, Drummond has added a
mini golf course and a bowling alley to attract more visitors
to keep them company
and to make money. Well, okay, so if it's a small town it's a
small town. Yeah, one dude. Like so many logistical questions
like taxes and like, what if he What if he breaks the law? Does
he arrest himself? I guess he it would have to be a federal law.
I don't know. I want to let's go to New Zealand Army this dude. I
got questions. He's the judge jury and executioner Yeah, so
one guy Oh, hey, you can't drive that fast. Oh, well, I can
probably argue with himself a lot. He could he could make laws
in his town and set the speed limit to like two so when
tourists come it's like it almost impossible for them to
leave the hey you can you can speed my down if you stop at my
putt putt course. Oh wow. Yeah, that's that's good stuff. So
when I was looking for small stuff, Leila this world's
smallest website came up super impulse.com and it's World's
Smallest apparently there's a whole toy line called the
world's smallest. Oh yeah. World's Smallest Hello Kitty
world smallest Bob Ross. Yeah, like one and a half inch tall
little Bob Ross with his with his. With his easel. They got
all kinds of little toys. I got World's Smallest Garbage Pail
Kids which is the thing when I was a kid. Oh World's Smartest
smallest Mars Attacks. Wow, they got he man. Masters of the
Universe. They got all kinds of things. No, I have not. They're
everywhere. They've got tiny. Sorry. And chess battleship. The
world's smallest Crocodile Dentist. Have you ever played
Crocodile Dentist?
No, but I know what it is.
You say you've seen it played? You yank the teeth out of the
crocodile and it bites you Oh, wow. Ooh, world's smallest
Rubik's Cube. Oh, I'm gonna dig through this site. This is
stocking stuffer heaven right here. No, I have not. I have not
seen these. Okay, this is exciting and a bookmark that and
move that over here.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Chandra
boudoir, dankie from Nepal was one foot and seven inches tall,
making him the world's smallest who ever lived. The title then
he passed away in 2015 at the age of 75. And the title then
passed on to Ken. Reg, a sap are Magyar from Nepal, who measures
at two feet two inches.
Oh, well, I guess he beats this guy. Because this guy that I
found, really? Yeah, this guy was this was published in 2020.
And May. And it says that he's two foot 4.3983938 inches tall.
So that's two inches taller than your dude. But when was your
dude?
That's 1414 Okay,
so this this guy is newer. His name is It's in here somewhere,
I promise. Wow. I can't find this guy's name in this article.
That's, you think it'd be like up near the top? Ah, here it is.
It's right near the top. Edward Nino Hernandez. He is two foot
4.3938 inches tall or 72.1 centimeters, whatever that
means. He's the shortest male living mobile. So I wonder if
there's a shorter male that's not mobile. That's an
interesting qualifier on there might have been that dude, that
I said, maybe yeah, maybe he's bedridden or something along
them. Lyons but this guy, Edward. He is a dapper Looking
dapper looking gentleman, and he's 33 years old and 20 to 35.
Now there's some pretty cool pictures on the Guinness World
Record side of him. He's just hanging out listening to dude
play the cello or the something. Yeah, looks like a cello. And
yeah, so he's just out here living his best life, his dogs
taller than him. His dog sit next to he's got a golden
retriever. That's good stuff. cute stuff,
the smallest artwork, something from dyslexia and other learning
disabilities. Willard Wigan never excelled in school, but
found solace in creating miniscule artwork that could
barely be seen by the naked eye. Working under a microscope to
capture the desired details. Some of his materials include
visa matchsticks, nylon tags and grains of rice. The final
product could typically fit into the eye of a needle.
I have seen the grains of rice artwork. I can't remember where
we were. Maybe it was a Ripley's Believe it or not, or something.
But like had a whole case around it. But then they had this big
ol huge magnifying glass above it, or even a what's it called?
A magnifying glass. The one with a with the eyepiece. Microscope
microscope. Yes. Yeah. So have you seen those? Have you ever
seen that? Yeah, he's our work on green Rex. In real life. Not
in real life. Now, we need to take you to Ripley's Believe
It and this one's smaller. And it's like an actual sculpture.
Oh, wow. Yeah, it
fits in the I have an email. That is cool. What does that
site?
This site is list 20 five.com.
Link link in the show notes. Of course. List 25. And there is
one other seven. Yes. Number seven. Go ahead and post that
over into chat. Number seven. It is a Alice in Wonderland. Looks
like the Disney version. Like, carved into a grain of rice. And
painted. That's That's crazy. No paste. pison. IRC. Sorry. Yeah,
I
did. Okay.
Yeah. So that's one of one of the benefits of the last
section, I
think because I want to my show notes.
So yeah, the That's amazing. Yeah, that really is. Really
cool. So yeah, I like when people people make tiny versions
of big things, or big versions of tiny things, like the world's
largest paperclip or, you know, stuff like that roadside
attractions are the best. How about a tiny row beetle, row
beetle,
Yanni and Laurel. It's the
it's the Guinness World Record. Smallest crawling robot. Oh, it
is. Let's see 88 grams, and which is about three grains of
rice, give or take. So it's super light, it can lift up to
2.6 times its own weight and carry it. Researchers use
pneumatic valves and airflow to allow the robot to coordinate
its muscles without relying on an electronic based control
system. So it's a super tiny it looks like a Oh, I don't know. I
don't even know how to describe it. I guess you could call a
bug. Looks like a little see through bug.
Oh my gosh, looks so cute. I want to eat it.
Don't eat it.
It was tasty. Don't
you don't eat regular bugs. And you don't even buy it don't eat
robot. Good. There's a whole book about nanobots. We don't
need to. Yeah. What's that called? Pray. I think it was by
Michael Creighton. Pretty good book. But it is a soft robot,
which is powered by alcohol, specifically methanol. And there
will be a link in the show notes and they got a video. It is
super tiny. I'm very fascinated by tiny robots. I like the Have
you ever played the game of life? I think I've talked about
this before. But there's a grid. And depending on if a cell is
filled in or not. The cells around it when you go to the
next stage, I guess you call it a life. Like there's a set of
rules. And if two of the cells around the cell are living, then
it will die. And if three are living then it will live and
create new life and it's just like this really neat game of
life thing. I'll try and find it put a link in the show notes for
that too. It's kind of neat. Sorry, we just got a
notification.
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Okay, is the seller smaller?
Atom I believe atoms are the smallest visible thing okay?
Like if they I don't think they've really like actually
seen anything.
So atoms bonded together to form molecules molecules come
together to form cells. Yes. That's confusing. Yes. Ah, I
don't care about science.
Yes. Thank you, sir. Oh, Conway's Game of Life. And there
are other variations of it that you can make some kind of neat
stuff you can make a spaceship that shoots lasers. I
don't know about Conway's Conway's Game of Life.
You don't have a board game. Oh, y'all.
I didn't know what you're talking about. Okay, you're
like what are you that's how you play life. You spin the spinner.
Then you go to
college or pay tax drop out?
Yes. Conway's way of life. Like I said, I'm gonna try to
remember put that in the show notes. It's it's fun to play
with for a little while and then it gets boring. So what else do
you have? That's tiny.
Hold on, hold on. I think I got many that are fun.
Well, I know you like to sculpt things Sark. Smallest Park.
Okay, what's the smallest Park the mill
ins Park in Portland Oregon is the world's smallest park at
barely two feets across. It was created by a journalist Dick
Fagin. After he saw a light pole removed in the median outside
his office that was never replaced. It just looks like a
tree. It's just a tree. It's a it's just a tree.
Why see? This is this is where world records and stuff get
real. Just a treat persnickety. It's
like can't call it a park.
You know what Leila? I think that you and I should found the
world's smallest Park and make it one foot by one foot. We
should. That's it. We're doing one tree. There it is. It's
found in our in our front yard. One Fern and one. In our front
yard. There is a one foot by one foot patch of grass. dug a barn?
We don't have any ferns. Here. We own the woods. Oh, yeah, we
got lots of woods actually. Yeah. Okay, so yeah, we'll take
one of those square feet. Now we own own. We own. We own the
world's smallest Park. We call Guinness world smallest claim to
fame. I own one foot by one foot piece of land. Oh, wow. Anyways,
that's all I got. That's all you got for tiny things. Yeah, so
there's gonna be a tiny episode. No, actually, it's about
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