Welcome to Fun Fact Friday. Oh my gosh, you didn't
I was like, I'm not gonna say
we are a weekly podcast with me
was on the best
Leila and everyone loves me. Her name is first in the title and
everything. Yeah. We talk about fun facts we do if you have a
fun fact for us and in a male FunFactFriday.com. So Leila
Yeah, we are and we're in the studio. And it's getting better.
I've got some of the sound panels up. And not all of them.
But we're getting there. We have the the room is like setup, kind
of how it's going to be. So now I just need to finish. I get
there's some gaps where I need to fill in with insulation. So
it's still warm in here. So I'm sweating. But we'll get it.
We'll get it we'll get we'll get it done. So that's what I've
been working on this week. Leila, what have you been
working on? A play a play a stage play? Yes. So what was the
stage play?
It was for my school. And we did a play. If you ran.
You said that really fast?
of Peter Pan. I'm really fast talking except for when I'm on
the show, because I know. Not everyone can catch up to me.
Yeah. And yeah, you start to mumble a little bit when you go
real fast.
I know. And people used to like, make fun of me for how fast I
talk. So speed mumble.
So yeah, Peter Pan. So were you Peter Pan? No. What are you
Wendy?
No, who are you? Guess
she was the crocodile was the crocodile.
I was on stage for five seconds. It was
fantastic. The whole audience erupted in laughter. She was
expected. You want to tell him about the outfit.
Mike was AUSkey. Mike was asking one z that we had seen ripped
the horns in the eyeball off of
Mike Wazowski is a little green monster from Monsters Inc. If
you don't recall. Yeah. And then she had her skateboard. So she
could be? Well, yes. Yeah.
I had to use some of my stuff from home for the prompt because
we were we were operating on a theater teachers budget.
Yeah. So very, very small budget. So they but that's the
fun of, you know, theater, community theater meals for
school. But that's the fun of it is having improvising. And the
show must go on. Right. So yeah, we had a good time doing that.
And yeah, we had she she also she was also the photographer.
It was there was an introduction of the What's that? What's her
last name?
The darling, the darlings. Yes, darling household,
there was an introduction of the Darling household and all the
characters in the beginning. And she came out and took a picture
of the family. And just to emphasize how like, perfect,
they were. Yeah, they're a perfect little family that they
did their own adaptation of the show
we did. I was supposed to come in through the locker room
doors, because it's a little farther away from the stage. So
I was behind them waiting for my cue. And when my cue came up,
everyone was waiting for me because you know, they do and
they were locked. The door she was pressed couldn't come in.
It's like they were trying to sabotage the show.
Leila had told me about, like, the play, you know what her
parts were and all this and I knew that her part was coming up
because she was about to come out and take the picture. And I
was sitting kind of close to the doors that she was supposed to
come out of. And like I knew it was her cue. And I heard the
door.
So I ran, I ran backstage and had to come out throughout the
curtain because the curtain was closed because it's the
beginning. So I ran out through the sides of the curtain and
went back in. And then I ran back to the changing room and
broke down crying,
improvise, adapt, overcome.
It didn't work and are sitting there.
It was like it was like 10 seconds and everybody
understands you know, things happen and no big deal. But we
had a good time and she is very happy that there's no more after
school rehearsals.
Yes. And my friends are happy because they can go on the bus
with me.
It's so many rehearsals. How many to a week. Yeah, it was
like yeah, and had to go pick her up.
What like November? Yeah,
it's been a long time. But yeah, you got it done. And we're well,
we got a good time. So the whole family came out and watched and
had fun. I have been I've just been working out here in the
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What's your next thing
I had? I had a little moment last week. While we were on the
stream, I was a little stressed out because we had just just got
out here. We didn't have our fax ready. And we went live and
things were messing up and I didn't have the right password
to get on the stream. And so my brain was a little fried when we
went into the show and we got to talking about Thor. And I said
the Greek God the Word. I said well, no. Was he anyway? As you
all know, or maybe you don't, Thor was a Norse god. The Norse
god is probably one of the most well known figures and all of
his ology. And yeah, my brain just completely blanked on Norse
mythology as an entire. It's my favorite mythology. Like, I like
that. Out of all the mythologies. I like the Norse
mythology. I like the whole Norse. That whole vibe, you
know. So there's, there's your correction, and a little
embarrassing story on that one. And I think the fact that the
Marvel Thor is a thing, also, it's like my brain would not
remember No, I was like, great. No, it's not Greek. I know it's
not Greek. But then if it's not Greek, then it has to be Roman.
But isn't. No Thor is not right. And then like where did it come
from? Anywho Anywho. That's my little embarrassing moment from
last week. I chalked it up to stress and lack of sleep. So
I am tired. Yes, she is. Dad keeps being like what's wrong?
And I'm like, I'm tired. Well,
Vedran, my wife, Leila's mom went on a trip this weekend. And
she had to get up at like, what are we going to 445 this
morning? Yeah, she had to get by. Yeah, say bye to her because
he had to leave before dawn. And
she ended up leaving at like 545 Yes. Stayed up for like an hour.
Before we even were supposed to get up. And I had I had school
today.
Yeah, so we got to take a little a little speed nap after after
she got up after we got up before we actually had to be up.
Now after we left for school. I'm not gonna tell you what time
I slept too. But it was. I had to get a little sleep today.
What just put it like she's giving me the stink
like that one time. One time, except a one. I know.
You're, you're leaning back and she's got a nice comfy chair.
Now.
I have a comfy chair. But as you can hear me, it's not like it
was. It was it was it was decent. Alright.
Anyway. Yeah. So let's go into our news segment. Welcome.
I still don't know our good news, bad
news.
Let's think of it for a while. What's your What's your news?
All right, so I found the coolest story. There was an
Irish lady. And she was having a bad day. Right? She had had a
flat tire and just just couldn't, couldn't get a ride
anyway, the taxi drivers weren't picking her up. Well, she
finally went through a rideshare app. It doesn't say which one
because it's kind of irrelevant. And she, she gets in, and
there's like these snacks in the middle of the center console of
the car. And as they're driving, the cab driver is like, Hey, you
can you can feed those to my pet. So she starts like, what
was going on? And she looks out the window, and there's a crow
flying beside the car. And he's like, yeah, that's my pet crow.
And the crows just flying beside the window. And she rolls down
the window and is like feeding the crow outside. The Uber or
whatever, whatever rideshare was, and oh, my goodness, this
is amazing. So he had snacks for the bird and snacks for his his
riders. So it like completely made up for her having a really,
really bad day. So I thought that was a really fun story.
That was on today.com It'll be in the show notes, of course.
So this one I can't remember who sent it in. But dad saw Darth
Vader. Darth Vader. Yes. Hopefully, hopefully it wasn't
like servo because I messed up last time and servos and then
instead of well, I'm on Mastodon right now. Yeah, and
I blame servo on something. Okay, so there's this dog. And
this dude got this dog. And he had a little tattoo on his like,
stomach, leg, almost. And he thought it was a sign of animal
abuse. So he was like, I can't believe people would get people
would tattoo their dogs. So I'm gonna get this tattoo to show
that this dog is amazing. And this dog is mine. And I never
abused my dog. But he posted this video, or he posted this
picture of his tattoo to some website, Facebook. And people in
the comments. Were immediately like, that's not a sign of
animal abuse, dude. That's a sign that you're neutered. And
he was like, Oh, okay.
Oh, my, the
actual Facebook post says For those of you who know, bear,
that's the dog's name. Know that he has a tattoo given to
imprison previous owners. It sickens me to know that people
actually tattoo their pets. So tonight, I got this tattoo, and
it shows a picture of his dog and it shows a picture of his
tattoo. And it says it has little caption says all done.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah, that was I thought that was a funny one.
I thought it's funny to you. I just saw it tonight.
So yeah, that is our good news segment. So I don't think we've
even mentioned our topic, which both of our stories kind of go
into the topic.
Yeah, but our story is always going to the topic. Yeah, that's
true. We're talking about animals,
random animal facts.
And we came up with this because we were eating some sushi. And I
was like, we can do fish. And he was like, animal,
let's just do animal facts. And I kind of I've been, I'm trying
to Okay, so when you go on a social media site, I'm on the
bird site that the Spaceman owns and Spaceman. But it builds an
algorithm to show you things right?
Actually, I probably shouldn't be hating on Elon, because he
might be listening. Assassinate us. So anyways, love you Ilan.
The bird site takes what you're looking at, like if I if I'm
scrolling through, and I pause on a certain tweet for a few
seconds certain bird it knows that. It knows that. So if you
look at certain things over and over on most of these sites,
actually, it will start showing you more of that thing because
I'm like, Oh, he obviously likes this thing. So I'm trying to do
is I'm trying to engage with stuff that says just
interesting. Interesting facts or, or just funny animal videos
and pictures, things along those lines, because I'm getting a
little sick of the normal stuff that's on that site. And yeah, I
just want it to be fun. memes, just fun stuff. So I've been
getting more and more like, quick fun facts on that. And I
came across one and it is that hippopotami Babies cannot float.
Because they're, they're too dense to like they can't, they
cannot make themselves float because it just how they're
built. So they, they sink, and they just bounce along the
bottom of whatever lake or pond or whatever they're. And I'll
tell you, if you go look for pictures of baby hippopotamuses,
hippopotami. They're very cute. Very, very cute. So I wonder if
that is audible? Really?
Maybe, but let's not talk about it. Because if they can't, if
they can't hear it, then they will no, no. If you if you can't
hear it, it's just the fridge. Yeah, we got little mini fridge
mini fridge and it goes every few every few like hours. I
don't think it's too much of an issue. It's not too much of an
issue is the AC Good grief. But that's what got me
got me thinking about animals, just random animal facts. And
I've got one other hippopotamus one. Hippopotamus or
vegetarians. However, they will kill things for fun, but they do
it for fun. They don't do it for any reason. No well to protect
if they think that something is a threat.
And they kill more people annually than trucks do. Yep.
Yep. Fun. Yummy, terrible. Or, in fact,
a horrible fact. What are we doing? What kind of fun facts do
you have about
animals? I'm going to be honest, I've read like three of these.
So we're gonna look through, and I'm just gonna read
them over and before you read it, though, in case we have
another one like that horrible fact we just read.
So let's see. Let's see. That's a long one. For me. Okay. Wait,
I really liked this one flamingos. They're not pink.
They're like, okay, they're born gray and other born white.
They're born gray. And they their diet of brine shrimp in
the blue green algae makes a natural pink dye called can fax
the thin. That makes their feathers pink. I've known this
for a while. And I think it's really cute.
Yeah, it's funny when we go look, when you go looking for
stuff. And you come across something. Oh, yeah, I knew
that. But I have never said it on the show. The color pink. I
read somewhere at some time in the last five years. That the
color pink is when is when your brain can't interpret the color
or something like that. It's like because it's on the very
end of the color spectrum. I don't know. I get to look into
it. I'll look into it at some point and I'll bring it to the
show. Speaking of seeing things, owls do not have eyeballs. They
do? No they do not get to do
they have seen him?
They have i tubes. It's shaped like a badminton shuttlecock the
little bird. Yeah. Now you gotta go look it up.
I don't know what it means. So like is the is the eye part like
the ball of the shuttlecock?
Yes. So the eye part that looks like an eyeball is like the
round part. And they almost look like like, little UFOs with like
a dome cap. But it's kind of smooth. It's hard to do this and
audio sometimes kind of up. We can get the video back up very
soon.
They are kind of shaped like shuttlecocks. Yep.
And
I would still consider that an
eye though. Yeah, but it's not eye ball. That was the fact was
it's an eye shuttlecock. Right. It's an eye tube. Polar bears.
Polar bears have black skin. Yeah. Because you're kind of
talking about the flamingos with their pink but it's not pink.
Polar bears have black skin and helps absorb the heat. Yeah,
it's a good one.
There's one that just reminded me that, Oh, rats, this isn't in
my fax site, but rats, their tails. They are temperature
regulators. If you didn't already know this. I know that
the reason for balance a lot. But they are also temperature
regulators. So if it's cold outside, they can use their
tails to heat them up because of all the blood in them. And then
if it's warm, they can use it to regular temperature to make them
colder.
So they can like control whether they push the blood in or out of
the tail to make them cooler. That's interesting, isn't it? I
wonder if it's like automatic or if it's something they have to
like. It's probably automatically both.
Yeah. Both were like Oh, I'm called
are speaking about blood. Octopuses have three hearts.
Yeah,
I've heard this and I believe that
one pumps blood around the body while the other to pump it to
the gills.
Oh two.
Also their blood is blue. Because of the high copper
content.
I always thought that our heart or our blood was blue because
our veins are blue when you see him through your skin.
Yes. Well I've heard have recently that that's a it kind
of just appears blue through the skin. But there's like, it
doesn't want to get oxygenated. It's, it's yeah, it's less when
it's red. Right, but it's a dark. I don't know. I don't want
to speak out of turn on that one. Lest we have another Thor
problem.
I know, right. We're not medical professionals
don't take any this as medical advice, please. So, talking
about eyeballs, again, going back to the eyeballs. It
shouldn't be a great segue. No, we should have got this back. I
should have got these in order before we started, but eyeballs.
Reindeer their eyeballs change color during the year. They're
blue in the winter to help them see lower light levels. And
golden colored in the summer. That's all I I mean, it's kind
of you know, your, your reindeer. You're out there.
You're trying to pick up chicks and you're like, Ooh, look at
her. She's got nice, pretty blue eyes. And you know, you're
dating her for a little while and then summer comes around.
And she's not the person she wants was. Oh, she's got some
golden eyeballs. You're like, what are you doing? What are you
even doing? Koalas? What about them?
So bad? Like, what about
what about koalas?
Koalas can sleep up to 22 hours a day?
That's that's the dream. I know. Right? That is the dream wasting
my life away.
This morning. I woke up and I was like, One day. One day. That
will be my sleep day. I will sleep the entire day. It will be
amazing. And I just dreamed about it.
Your mom's out of town. I don't care if you sleep all day
tomorrow.
I have stuff to do. Yeah, you do.
She's still working on that cause play stuff
I am. Anyways, a group of parents it's called a
pandemonium. A pandemonium of parents pandemonium to parents.
I love the word pandemonium.
I think did we do a whole segment on the names of groups
of animals? Did it back in like Episode Four or something? It
was really early because we talked about a flamboyance of
flamingos. Because that's what it's called. Murder of Crows.
Yes. And of that one. Look up groups of
animal names
animals. Name's Adams, and I'm really bad at typing. Non
purpose either. I can type good. It's just I had to try. Okay,
give me an animal.
I want to know what a group of reindeer is called.
Rain. Do your
windows noise
I was gonna didn't spell it right. Why is the reindeer
it's not spelled how you're thinking. Is it RT E is r
e i n d e. R reindeer.
Oh, what is? What is all this not here? Okay,
let's see. Doo doo doo doo here. IMOs a mob,
a mob of emu mob a vMix.
A cloud are a horde of gnats. A drift or a parcel of hogs? A
bloat or thunder of hippopotami Wow. A leech of greyhounds may
find a funny one hold on. An existential of larks
and x this tension of look. And x gets to
me. In ascension of line ascension ascension.
Conspiracy of lemurs.
Oh, I've heard that one before. That's awesome. That's awesome.
I love this. Oh, wow, this one's cool. A sea lion is the first
non human mammal with a proven ability to keep a beat. A female
seen lion named Ronan was trained to do it by scientists,
who then showed that she could transfer that skill to a song
with a different beat that she had not heard before.
Oh, this one's gross. I'm gonna say
it, please.
Squirrels can't burp or vomit. nor can any other rodent. What
this happens to be why rat poison is so effective. other
mammals tend to expel any toxic substances that they ingest. So
rodents can't expel poison in that way. I guess Wow. What I
just read down to the next one on this on this website the tree
hugger website. The extinct Colossus penguin stood as tall
as Lebron James.
Oh Bron James.
Oh, that guy. Anyway. That's crazy. That's a big old thing.
When can you imagine? i Hey, I bought him a Rama pet bird. And
I got, I gotta say, like, Hey, this is this is him
like a gumball episode where the dad brings home a puppy, but
it's a snapping turtle.
Oh, I'll try I'll post it in the show notes. There's there's a
video and it said this is the the. I know this is kind of
weird for our show. But it's this turtle. This is the cutest
form of racism I've ever seen. And there's this this turtle,
and this guy has a piece of black tape on his white shoe I
seen in the turtles head butting the black tape and as soon as he
pulls the black tape off and the shoe was white again, he stops
and then he puts the black paper back on and turtles are dead
budding. Oh my gosh, it was so funny. He probably didn't see
the shoe. No, it was an instinctive thing. He just
didn't like the if he thought it was a predator. What but
a common garden snail. I love snails. They have 14,000 teeth.
That's too many teeth. Snail teeth, snail teeth. Some
species actually have over 220 1000 teeth.
Did we tell them about the snake?
I think we did.
So we found a snake outside. We did. And it was the tiniest
snake I've ever seen in my life. It was about four and a half
inches long. It was and it was like what was it the thickness
of like a standard paracord it was a thin little center to put
a little pencil and it was like it was just a little garden
snake you know? And you're like my height man. Right? Fun Fact
Friday so I can show you ever heard you didn't hit me up
yesterday. Yours was Yeah, it is. No, it it was so cute.
Because it was like it tried to bite me when I first picked it
up. And it was like, barely feel it. And it was like I don't
know. It was very cute. Little baby snake. We made sure it was
safe. Yeah, it was safe. We took them into a I want it as safe as
we could you know we do have birds but
fast as we can make it for right now. Yeah, you're safe is
safer than being behind the car tire, which is where we found
them.
Models are able to regenerate lost limbs and body organs.
Yeah, they can regrow the same limb up to five times and even
regenerate parts of its brain.
I think I think there was an episode of The X Files where
they had mixed the DNA with a human. And he regrouped.
Excellent. I think it was an axolotl. I don't know. It's been
two decades since I watched it. So it's been a while I just
vaguely remember that.
Speaking of which, octopus has nine brains.
So they got three hearts and nine brains in blue blood and
blue blood. Octopuses are extremely smart, too. There's
some scientists that believe if they didn't have such a short
lifespan that they would be on the societal level of humans.
But they die too soon. Because they only live a few years, you
know? Yeah. There is a type of immortal jellyfish capable of
cheating death indefinitely. What? Trying to see if this
gives me the article. Yeah. Trans differential in the turret
tapas go knee. Sure. So type of regeneration, cellular
plasticity, and cellular plasticity. So it's pretty it's
pretty neat. Pretty neat stuff. But this site has, I got 36
Outrageous facts that may surprise you about animals. And
there's a lot of good ones on here. But we are up against a A
we have some stuff we really have to get done tonight. And
we're gonna have to we're gonna have to cut the show a little
short. If you've got a favorite animal fact or if you have any
topics for us that you'd like us to cover? Let us know. Mail at
FunFactFriday.com Did you have any more that you absolutely
sighs and ants 35,000 ants that is a fact.
And termites in a single day. So ant eaters eat 35,000
Yeah, they just they just stick that tongue down on that. Hill.
I don't
know what that sound like but I can imagine the sound like
that. Sorry. Not probably not it's probably not a like a wet
sound is probably. Yeah, just like no, they I imagine they
have like little Velcro on their tongues like little hooks.
What does a ant year sound like? After this? We will.
Yeah, we gotta wrap it up. We're hitting.
I want to know. Hello. Okay, here we go. Sound up. Hold on.
I'm turning it up. Hold on.
5050
Oh, all right.
Sounds like a weird cricket. I don't like it. I don't like it
either. And this sounds like my bones
sound elephant who is gonna be loud? Nevermind. You know what
an elephant sounds like humpback whale.
I've heard. Taiko TECHO
that's an African grey parrot. A trained when but still. Anyways,
we're
gonna go on one of the whale watching tours. I love when it
was really cool. We didn't when I was a fifth grade, we went on
a whale watching expedition off the coast of North Carolina. And
we got to see some humpback whales who were on the
migration. It was really neat. It was. Alright folks, we're
gonna go ahead and wrap it up. We are we do have a heart out
tonight. We got something we gotta go take care of. And we
will see on that. What
do you want to mention what I said the other night? Oh, yeah.
So we were talking about the play. And she was getting ready
for the play and getting ready to go to school. And I was like,
you know, I think you're gonna do great. You're gonna you know,
everything's gonna be cool. You're not going to you're
absolutely not going to miss your cue because you didn't
check.
It sounds like you didn't check is that he was he was making the
announcements while it was doing
right. So anyway, I was telling her she's gonna do a good job
trying to be encouraging to her. And what did you say?
I said, I know because I'm cool. And everyone loves me. So I'm
not a narcissist. I think we
were joking around having a good time that's going on. So I think
we may have a shirt that says that pretty soon on the shop,
because that's a cool fun shirt. Like dad be like, I'm cool.
Everybody loves me. I'd wear that shirt. Alright, folks, hit
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awesome guy. Thank you so much for that. That our credits
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hear it Okay, here it's a little quiet but but I'm gonna go
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throughout the press two separate buttons. And currently,
right sorry,
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Currently. I'm live mixing them. You know, like, I'm like I'm
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