Leila: Hello, hi. Hi. Welcome. Ah, what? will say hello?
David: Oh, Hello. And welcome, Jeff. Yeah,
Leila: I forgot that what we did
David: every week. Well, we took a break.
Leila: Anyway when we never did that. No.
David: So how's everybody doing? This is Fun Fact Friday, weekly
show where we discuss a topic each week.
Leila: Yeah, we do and talk about
David: so so we had, we're gonna we're gonna change up the order
a little bit, and we're gonna talk about oh, wait, wait, wait,
no, hold on. When we're professional podcasts
Leila: for podcasters we wrote down what we're doing? And are
you are you going off script?
David: That's what I do. That's what I do. You were the one that
made the scribe made the script. I have the power to change it.
unilateralis? No, we're, our episode today is going to be
about Lightning Lightning, as you probably already know, from
the title
Leila: of Yeah, he click on us. You know, you'd probably
David: see it on your screen right now. Yeah, but yeah, we're
talking about lightning. We're looking for a topic. And yeah,
lightning, lightning. super interesting. So we're gonna talk
about
Leila: that very,
David: let's talk about that. But first, this is a value for
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Leila: thing for Wisconsin and like literally everything else,
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Leila: And then team metric system. meters matter.
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Leila: ASO, you can get a puzzle, apparently. I didn't
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Leila: I was creating your pen last time.
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I've got um, I've been messing with, with Photoshop around and
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video editing, special effects, editing, things like that. I'm
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right. Nice. What a brilliant double act fantastic infectious
laughter We try to be we try to wait we have a have a good time.
And one of our keys is we don't talk to each other all week.
Yeah, we live it live in the same house. And we just we just
avoid each other completely. Yeah. Then when we get together
for the show, it's like, you know, we can have a good time.
Going back over stuff we've already talked about 100 times.
No, we do. We do occasionally say, oh, save it for the show.
If we're talking about something that we don't talk about it with
that episode, and then we never we please. And then 1234 sets
from Kevin Hallisey from fountain flashback was great.
Leila sounded amazing, but very different. Yeah. Yes, her voice
has changed some. She was very much a squeaker back in the day.
Leila: Sorry, my new computer said that it was one in his
four. Oh, yeah. I had to change the time. I was like, brah.
Right. It's not what time it is.
David: Bigger boosts to come. Now that fountain is functioning
again. Oh, I didn't know it was down. I must have missed that.
And are you cracking your knuckles? No, you're like,
Leila: they just do that I move in a crack. I'm
David: like a glow stick. Oh, no,
Leila: I don't glow though. I wish I would.
David: Hopefully, I figured out I can figure out how to fund my
wallet. Oh, it's super easy to find your wallet on fountain.
You just take the dollar bills and just push them into the
charging port of your phone.
Leila: I don't know what he's talking about.
David: You gotta turn your money into Satoshi and
Leila: see what's next on the script. It says reading
David: Kevin Wallace, he says you're worth the learning curve.
You two are a great example of why the pod father invented
podcasting value for value with three exclamation points. Wow.
We kind of have we have a rule where we put exclamation points
on the end of everything for our show. Like any any social posts,
we do anything like that we like it's kind of one of our things.
Because it's not Fun Fact Friday. Right. Right. Thank you
so much for the Satoshis they are adding up. We're we're
loving seeing all those all those sweet, sweet Satoshis. And
also, the value kept rolling in this week. We received a letter
and drawing
Leila: we did from an anonymous
David: from person. Yes. And anonymous user or user user.
Excuse me. Anonymous, anonymous listener? Yeah. listener, who is
six years old, and from California. And we thank you so
much. We have put that wonderful piece of paper in our
collectibles from the show that we've received things that we've
received in the mail. Yeah. Thank you so much for that. We
really appreciate it. And then we had a another anonymous user.
We didn't keep saying I used to work in it,
Leila: I guess.
David: Anyway, another anonymous listener, donated a couple of
laptops to us because we were talking about we had like some
12 year old laptops we were working on before
Leila: when I opened it up and sat down. It was like Sorry,
bro. And I got my blue screen.
David: They were getting was like dead. Really bad. I
formatted mine a couple of weeks ago, and it was a little better.
But it was still really slow. Yeah, but this is pretty nice.
Yes. They're very nice. I really like him. Definitely. Definitely
appreciate that. A fantastic surprise.
Leila: And there was foam in the box. So I can play with a foam.
David: Oh my gosh.
Leila: I'm gonna make something with this. So
David: we're running up on eight minutes. I think we can still
squeeze in one more non lightning related related thing.
Oh, like we said, hit the store up store. Got FunFactFriday.com.
Yeah. Now, last weekend.
Leila: I had the best weekend ever. Oh my god. I was so happy.
This is probably the best best weekend I've had.
David: And what were we doing? I'll let you talk for a drink.
Leila: We were at a convention. I hate it when he does this. And
he makes me talk because I have nothing to like fall back on.
But it was so cool. I wear two of my costumes. One of them was
handmade award the handmade ones Saturday because that's when
they had the competition. And the competition is only for
handmade. Like craftsmanship. Ish competition. But that's not
the only award you can get. It was super fun. And I met
freckles. Ella there. She's one of my favorite YouTubers. And
please,
David: there was some great content contest and the contest.
There were some great cosplayers that was amazing. One of my
favorite somebody did a Gonzo from the Christmas carol movie,
The The Muppets Christmas Carol, which is one of my favorite
renditions of a Christmas carol except for the one eyed Dominus
bought me a spot.com
Leila: we're talking about
David: anyway, they also did a Ghost of Christmas Future
cosplay and was like what was it was a 10 foot huge maybe nine or
10 foot tall huge huge Oh yeah. And they had just just some of
the best then there was all you know handmade stuff it was like
they didn't just buy something off of Amazon or go to spirit
Halloween and buy stuff it was all stuff had to
Leila: be. It had to be handmade. And in prejudging if
it's not handmade, they kick you out. Yep. So kick you out of the
contest.
David: But there was were sitting there and when they
called up, there was a team of two cosplayers that went up on
stage to receive their one of their medals.
Leila: I think it was a judge's award or something, right?
Amazing.
David: They went up on the stage and when the girl was a male or
female, when the girl turned around to accept the metal, the
guy got down on one knee. And when she turned back around,
because the metal shaper he was he proposed to her and like the
entire auditorium. There was a full auditorium. It had to be
what 1000 people in the room? Oh, yeah. Watching. Yeah,
competition. There was a lot of people in their place erupted.
Leila: Yes, there was there wasn't any seats left. And
there's people like standing on the walls.
David: Yeah. And she said yes. And hopefully, you'll want to be
in this situation and get a No. That would be that'd be rough.
But it was Yeah. Somebody was somebody was cutting onions in
the room because there's a whole lot of people getting man, they
were very cute couple. But Leila didn't win.
Leila: Yeah, I'm fine with that. I
David: knew I wasn't Yeah, she Yeah, the the level of I mean,
these people have 1000s of dollars to spend on their
costumes. Oh, yeah.
Leila: Just seeing how happy it makes people backstage like I
didn't even have to be just hearing people's stories with
stuff like there was two cosplayers it was a duo group.
And they were cosplaying as Farrah, and Ryan Hart, from
Overwatch, and their costumes were made of EDA foam, of
course, and it melted in the car because they had a long drive to
get there. And it was hot, of course. Very hot, by the way,
and it melted. So we had to put it together at the cosplay
lounge. And that was that was a story, man. I was so like, I'm
so sorry.
David: We had so bad for him. Yeah, it was.
Leila: It looked amazing though.
David: Leila had an incident where her costume got messed up
at 1.3 times. There was one real bad one though. But they have a
cosplay repair section at the convention where they've just
have like tape thread paint. It's a whole room. There's a
whole room of just stuff you might need to fix up your your cosplay.
Leila: Yeah, they also have wandering people with like a
suitcase that are wandering around with like a Cosby repair
station.
David: And we we went for Leila to do this competition because
she's been working so hard in the costume costume. But we also
like going to the artist alley, we get to see some artists and
some of the money buy some of their stuff. We did okay, this
time we didn't spend we only bought the stuff we really
really wanted. But yeah, we got some art for the studio. Once we
started doing video or you know, posting pictures that got some
cool Nintendo stuff and gorillas and stuff like that. So, all
right, well, I think that that about wraps it up for the
cosplay convention, right? Oh, yeah. While we were driving up
there about the park. This guy walked up and pointed at us.
Yeah, he lifted his hand up like he had a pistol in it. And he
didn't. But it was just trying to scare people or whatever. But
he had this like crazy look in his eyes. And it was kind of
scary. Pretty scary. I was like, Alright, then. And I saw a
Magikarp run across the road if you check my Twitter de metus. I
posted about a week ago. This Magikarp guy. It was really
funny. All right, lightning. Yep, lightning round.
Leila: There's a noise outside and try to figure out what it
is.
David: So lightning is your mother's one of her greatest
fears.
Leila: Which Yeah, okay, but like, not really.
David: She hates it.
Leila: I know.
David: We watched his videos of like unexpected things happening
you like a car, just a tire blown out or you know things
like fail videos, sort of an every once in a while there's a
lightning strike one. And she hates it. She's like, it just
raises her anxiety so much.
Leila: I don't know why it's so rare. It is it's rare to get hit
by lightning.
David: So lightning happens.
Leila: I mean, I can't talk I have weird fears. Yeah,
David: Lightning happens when a storm there's certain types of
clouds when the the snow and ice and water up in the atmosphere,
create a negative charge, and then all the rain hitting the
ground, you get your positive then there's an inequality in
the charge between the clouds and the ground. And nature
always wanting to find a balance eject some of the energy out of
the clouds to balance it out with the ground, and it creates
a bolt of lightning. Which is what is it? 100 million volts.
Leila: Sure. I think I have it on here somewhere.
David: Yeah, we've got we've got our our fax pulled up and I've
got so many that I can't find it. But yeah, it's it's a
ridiculous amount of voltage. But it's not like if it hits you
it's like instant death. It will cause false a billion. Yeah. A
billion
Leila: as much as 80 million car batteries.
David: That's, that's more than nine car batteries.
Leila: Yeah. Or 666 million double A batteries. That's a lot
of double A batteries.
David: That's how many double A batteries I went through when I
use my Sega Game Gear back in the 90s.
Leila: That's how many batteries I went through this convention.
Yeah, she had all these lights on. Oh my gosh. I had like a
full pouch of just bad.
David: Just batteries. 12 volt.
Leila: USB, USB,
David: little watch batteries. Little coin one coin.
Leila: So many batteries. But
David: yeah, with all that energy. It creates a lot of
heat. Experts say keep cracking. Okay. Experts. You guys started
sitting completely still when you go insane after like 50,000
degrees Fahrenheit.
Leila: Wait, wait,
David: what do we wait, do we have wait? What do you got?
Wait?
Leila: Do you mind a conflict? Technically, lightning itself
does not have a temperature. How do you explain that? You are on
David: the same side as me.
Leila: How do you explain that?
David: That's where I was gonna go next. All right, tell me why.
Tell me why technically, it's not 50,000 degrees.
Leila: It technically, those 50,000 degrees are actually the
temperature of the air or other materials as the lightning
passes through it. Water isn't wet. It just makes things wet.
Shut up.
David: Respectfully.
Leila: Sorry. I have a whole rant about the water wet thing.
Wait you so mad?
David: What is water need to calm down?
Leila: Water doesn't need to calm no people. People need to
calm down. That keeps saying water isn't wet. Is water wet.
Google says was What bro? Wait. Okay, so water is wet pro water
is an emergent property that describes character wet is an
emergent property that describes the characteristics of
collection of water molecules. So yes, water molecules are wet.
They don't just make things wet.
David: So it's
Leila: water? Yes. Okay. And it transfers the wet on to things
that it touches. Okay,
David: now, what if you had a single molecule of water? Yes. I
don't think that that would qualify as wet. Yes, it would?
No. Because you could have one molecule of
Leila: water. Does it qualify as being there? Now hold on, then
it qualifies as one.
David: No, hold on. No. It's there. It's water. It self is
not wet. But if two of them touch each other. They they wet
each other.
Leila: They are wet. Yes.
David: But I'm gonna have to draw you a picture. I'm gonna
I'm gonna have to make it whole animation. Just, we'll just
accept it. Okay, I accept I accept your proposal. So have
you ever heard the expression lightning never strikes the same
place twice? Yeah, it's a myth. Yeah, that it has the same
point.
Leila: I didn't finish my thing though. I just want to rant Oh,
I miss facts like reminded me of the water thing. So the boat
itself is not is a movement of electrical charges. And for that
reason, it does not actually have a temperature itself. I
kind of get that. But it has the same thing to do with the water.
Yeah. Yeah. And it's just annoying. Yeah, I got
David: I got you. Yeah, it's one of those things. It's like Oh,
come on. It's the same thing. Yeah,
Leila: like Seriously? I mean, tell it's not the same thing.
What's another say lightning and thunder. You need to stop using
thunder. When you when you're talking, you're talking about
lightning. Thunder is the sound that lightning makes. No. Yes it
is.
David: No. Yes
Leila: it is.
David: Love Thunder is the sound. Lightning.
Leila: Atmosphere lightning. thunder. Thunder. Isn't
lightning atmosphere. No. Sound.
David: There's a shirt Thunder is lightning atmosphere sound.
Okay, so Thunder is the sound that's created.
Leila: Yes. But it's not the same thing as lightning
David: when all of those particles No, I'm agreeing with
that. I'm agreeing with you on that. But the way that you
worded it it's the sound that is created when all of those
molecules get super heated that quickly. Yes, so I just bought,
Robert. That's, that's the one that sounds like, Oh my gosh.
Leila: When people are like, Oh, Thunder just hit. I was like,
No. Light weight. Just
David: saying thunder just hit so many. That's right, because
the sound waves Thunder is the sound waves it hits. You. Look.
Look.
Leila: It's not the same thing. Don't call lightning thunder
police. That's the only qualification for being a Fun
Fact Friday fan. You have are using it to sign a waiver saying
I will not call lightning thunder. They are two different
things.
David: We're gonna get so many emails. Say saying I heard. I
heard some lightning the other day. Would you agree? Would you
agree that Thunder is the sound that lightning makes? Yeah, so
Okay. Okay. So
Leila: this is one of my facts. By the way. I'm just going on a
rant. I was planning this rant, by the way, because I was like,
Ah, this is one of the things I hate.
David: So when somebody says I heard some lightning that annoys
me, that annoys you, because Thunder is the sound that
lightning makes. Yes. So it's like if you say I heard a horn
but the sound little thing I
Leila: heard a tooth or is Yeah, or a hunk or a hunk.
David: Is that does that bother? You see what I'm saying? Yeah, I
Leila: see what you're saying. But it's so aggravating to me.
thunder lightning thing. I've had this in my head ever since I
was like,
David: until you look, you learn what the difference
Leila: is. I learned what the difference was. I used to get
onto people. I used to get onto people for saying eight. I was a
grammar. Like Stickler when I was a kid. Yeah, you were and
David: now you're totally not you say things like me though
for real
so talking about not like not striking the same place twice
the Empire State Building gets struck around 23 times a year.
Leila: You and I'm like, That's my grammar or my my vocabulary.
David: There was a toy somewhere and she's like me with a toy.
I'm like what are you talking about? me if I was a shirt so
yeah, there's a place to expose
Leila: my salami. And then you expose my me when I'm
David: so there's a place in Venezuela. Where there's a storm
260 days out of the year.
Leila: Me I will live in Venezuela. And
David: a lot of times there's a lightning strike every two
seconds during the storm so there's like this forever storm
is what they call it. It's like everlasting Oh, yeah. Just the
world constantly just constant thunder striking
Leila: so annoying. Do you have any metal objects? Can't fight
because you don't have
David: you didn't catch it
I said constant thunder strike. Got the stinkface
Leila: just trying to drink my water.
David: Yeah, so it it's really I want to see this. I even looked
up on YouTube. I couldn't find I found a bunch of reports about
it but I couldn't find Just like an uninterrupted 30 minute video
lightning striking, it's probably out there. But it's
such an interesting thing are we talks about it, and those people
have a higher algorithm than random storm footage.
Leila: Love storm footage, man. Yeah, it's good. I watched that
to go to sleep. I watch it when I'm like doing something. So
David: I looked up, I looked up a thunderstorm on Spotify. We
needed some some rain noise we were to at a hotel and like, it
was just a noisy Hotel. There's like all these like, anyway, I
turned it on. And so we could get some sleep has some white
noise. And now, Spotify thing
Leila: called the DJ. And it like takes everything that
you've listened to and like compiles it and like, makes you
a list and stuff and it plays it for you. But so
David: since I listened to like 20 rainstorm tracks in a row,
while we were sleeping, you must really like so my algorithm is
like, you know, yes, I'm Weezer, and then rain for an hour and a
half, because these tracks are really long because they're
meant to like put you to sleep. So I'm constantly having to skip
all this rain. I've gotta get it out of my algorithm somehow. But
yeah, so that yeah, there you go. Rain messing up the algo
thunder can be heard 10 miles away from a lightning strike.
How? How do you tell about how far away it is?
Leila: One, two,
David: yep. It's not exact. But
Leila: and honestly, I don't do it. Because it doesn't work for
me. I don't like it. And plus, what are you supposed to do,
man?
David: Okay about it. Yeah,
Leila: I mean, it's how are you supposed to know how fast it's
going?
David: And as as far away? And yeah, you don't know. Then
lightning can strike like, Where was that? I couldn't find
Leila: the fun gimmick. But it can I think it's 30 miles away
three miles away.
David: Yeah, lightning can strike me find it. They're
typically about a mile to three miles long. But it can be up to
90 miles. Oh, a researcher, Martin Oman has observed
lightning channels as long as 90 miles. So lightning. Even if you
hear it, and you're like, oh, that's 10 miles away. Because
you do the count thing. It don't matter.
Leila: Yeah. Because don't get you. Cuz. Yeah. Like,
David: what, like Roy Sullivan.
Leila: how old he is. Here he goes. So there's this dude.
David: In the early 1900s.
Leila: Wait, really? Yeah.
David: 1927 I believe. I didn't hear that part of the story.
That was a thing. He was born in 1927. Me? Nope. He was born in
1912. Oh, on February 7. Between 1942 and 19 7919 719 77 Sullivan
claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven separate
occasions. Surviving all of them. He worked in a national
park. He was a ranger. And he
Leila: kept in mind when I was like me when I
realize you're on air.
David: Why is your brain Amin? So Solomon's first documented
lightning strike was in April of 1942. But he claims he was also
struck when he was a child, but it was undocumented. Nobody else
there was no he could have made it up is what they're saying.
But anywho he was up in a tower, a fire lookout tower hiding from
a thunderstorm. And the newly tower is built in it did not
have a lightning rod yet. So the tower had been struck multiple
times already. And then he got stroke, got struck by lightning.
Then a couple of years later, he got struck. He was driving down
a mountain road. And the metal body of a car normally protects
you and you've got the rubber tires, which is an insulator,
and the car itself acts as a Faraday cage.
Unknown: What was that? Oh, okay.
David: Yep. And then the lightning comes down. It hits a
tree deflects off of the tree through the open window of his
truck and strikes him unconscious, and it burned off
his eyebrows and eyelashes and set his hair on fire. This is a
recurring theme in this man's life. His hair getting caught on
fire by lightning. Also other things but I'll get to that. And
19 Seven He Sullivan was struck while in his front yard,
lightning hit a nearby power transformer. And from there
jumped into his left shoulder searing it. Two years later,
Sullivan was working at a ranger station at the Shenandoah
National Park, and was struck again it set his hair on fire.
Oh, he put it out with his jacket, ran to the restroom used
a wet towel to put the rest of the way out. So, at this point,
people are starting to know this guy's story because he keeps
getting struck by lightning and people stay away from him. Like
they're afraid of why? Because I mean, I mean, getting struck by
lightning. You don't want to be around somebody that's
attracting lightning. That's okay. So anyway, and I'll get
you don't get it?
Leila: I mean, not really. But well, all right, hold
David: on. I'll tell you in a few. August 7 1973. He was out
on patrol and he saw storm cloud forming and he wanted to get
away from it. So he started started to leave. He thought he
was done. He thought he was gonna get far enough away from
it and got out of the truck to look and see how far you know
what the situation was. And boom, another lightning strike.
Right now his left arm. I mean, good for him, knocked off his
shoe. I mean, not good for him. It then crossed over to his
right leg just below the knee. He was still conscious, he
crawled back to his truck. And then, let's see three years
later, he got struck again injured his ankle. And then a
year after that. This is this is the best one in my opinion,
because it brings a whole nother a whole nother situation to mind
here. He was out fishing. Right? lightning hit the top of his
head. Me What about fishing? Said his hair on fire, traveled
down and burned his chest and stomach. He turned to his car
when something something else happened. So he just got struck
by lightning. His hair is smoldering. He goes to look
back, he goes to turn to his car, right? And there's a bear.
The bear was digging in his trout bucket that he had been
putting all of his fish in there. So Sullivan had the
strength and courage to strike the bear with a tree branch.
Despite the fact that his hair was still on fire. Put your hair
out bro. He also claimed that this was the 22nd time that he
had had to hit a bear to scare it off with a stick in his
lifetime.
Leila: I want to go as dude.
David: He's passed away at three.
Leila: Oh my gosh, if he was still alive, that'd be I would
want to go meet him. Just to have a talk like
David: there's this epic episode channel on YouTube called Bright
Side and they made an animation of all of these incidents and
it's pretty funny. Now, he had a wife. His wife would never be
anywhere near him during a thunderstorm of any kind.
Leila: I get that but right not being near him all the time. I
don't really well. I don't like that.
David: She was outside. Hey, bringing the laundry in because
it was up on there used to we used to dry laundry on a wire.
You just hang this wire is called a
Leila: Yeah.
David: What was it called? Laundry line. What?
Leila: Right? What do you like I know it. I know it.
David: Why is this why is this word not in my brain? Is your
wording no
Leila: wording? Yeah. His wording isn't wording
David: what is it called?
Leila: What did you put what line do you hang? clothesline
David: I can think of the word clothesline. I could.
Leila: I knew what it was.
David: Okay, so yeah, that's your solar powered energy
efficient. Clothes Dryer. Yeah. Okay, so anyway, my friend, his
wife sees that there might be rain goes outside to bring the
laundry and off the clothesline. Because that's what it's called.
And then he runs out to help and as soon as he gets out there and
goes down, boom, his wife gets struck by lightning whoopsie you
imagine her standing there? And she's like, Oh, it looks like it
might rain better. What? What's work? Hey, Roy, what's No no no?
Oh man. Poor Roy's wife.
Leila: Oh, no. Poor Roy
David: Roy. No, it actually it caused some issues with like his
mental stability because he was just constantly just in constant
fear. Like he never went anywhere without a bottle of
water. Yeah, because he was always afraid someone's going to
catch on fire and not, he wouldn't be able to put it out.
I'm saying I feel bad
Leila: for Roy. I don't feel bad for her.
David: So okay, so those are the documented cases. And then the
undocumented case, was that he was when he was a child, he was
helping his father cut grass in the wheat field using a scythe
and Thunderbolt struck the blade of his scythe, but did not
injure him. So that was the first time but he couldn't prove
it, you know, whoa, Thunderbolt
Leila: and lightning, very, very frightening.
David: Me, Galileo. Okay, so the statistics of this happening,
just so y'all aren't out there thinking, you know, you're gonna
fall into Roy's footsteps. The odds of being struck by
lightning over a period of 80 years have been roughly
estimated to one in 10,000. So every out of 110, out of every
10,080 year olds, one of them has been struck by lightning in
their lifetime, when you start asking people, so if the
lightning strikes were independent, independent events,
the probability of being hit seven times would be one in
10,000, to the seventh power, which is a one was 28 zeros
behind it. So the chances of this man without any kind of
like something going on, now, it is more likely because he was
out in a national park a lot. But he didn't always get struck
while he was out in the National Park. Like he'd be in his car.
Or he'd be, you know, maybe this is a hotspot for lightning
activity anyway, and he was the only dude around. But yeah,
that's the people who researched it. And they tried, they did all
kinds of tests on him to find if he had, like, you know, anything
different about his physiology, and they couldn't really find
anything, so it's a mystery. It's a mystery. Hmm. So do you
have any more fun facts about lightning?
Leila: I don't know. We'll see. Oh, oh. Listen, a frigerator
David: compressor just taped off, made a bubble.
Leila: What do you have? How
David: many lightning strikes Do you think hit earthier? A
billion, a billion billion with a B 1.4 billion.
Leila: My tabs just separated? I have two tabs. But let me see
what this one is.
David: Lightning disproportionally kills men. Men
are far more likely to be personally means
disproportionately means if it's proportional. That means it's,
it's 5050.
Leila: I learned about proportions. Yeah. So I
shouldn't I don't know this. You should know that. I should know.
I know. Come on. I know. I learned we had a whole month
David: 80% 81% of lightning related fatalities between 2006
and 2013. Roman, I wonder if that has anything to do with men
typically taking more outside jobs than women do. I don't know
if that's true. Women may tort may may take more outside jobs.
But just from my personal experience, when I see a
construction crew or people working on the fields, it's more
often men. Yeah. So I wonder if that this probably has something
to do with it. I don't know. I see. Let's see. Lightning wants
destroyed a large collection of Star Wars memorabilia. Oh, yes.
It should have Star Wars is garbage.
Leila: You're gonna get backlash.
David: You gotta say things people don't like sometimes
because well, it raises engagement and folks are sending
emails.
Leila: When you're on Twitter.
David: Twitter doesn't exist. Oh, I said earlier.
Leila: Dang. X. Dang it. Dang it. I'm still gonna call it
Twitter. Yeah.
David: Yeah. Yeah, I think I think I think that's it. I think
we're good on. On facts here. We're about to hit 40 minutes.
That's kind of when we start thinking about time to wrap up.
And oh, here's a here's a good one. A good little one. Towards
the bottom of the list. A teenage girl struck by lightning
in 2009 survived thanks to her iPod, sponsor, iPods aren't made
anymore. The gadget diverted the 300,000 volt charge away from
her vital organs and she suffered burns and was knocked
unconscious but lived. So keep keep metal objects on you while
you're lightening. Apparently that's what that story is
saying. Don't do that, folks.
Leila: It really doesn't. Yeah. doesn't really make a
difference.
David: It just depends on the charge of the object. All right,
so I think yeah, that wraps it up. We Yeah, we'll see you all
next week. Do you have anything else? You good? Yeah. Cool.
Everybody have Oh, two more talk about one more thing. I know we
have some hardware nerds in the in the audience. So at the
convention, there's this booth for mechanical keyboards. And I
was drawn to it as if, you know, as if it were a lightning rod.
Hmm.
Leila: Oh my gosh, yeah. Sure, why not? I'll give it to you.
David: And they had this little, they have these little macro
keyboards, and it has 16 keys on it. And I got one. And it's so
cool. It's got like the nice the nice, thin, thin top keycaps
such a nerd and it lights up all different colors. It's cool
things and you can program all the keys separately to be
whatever you want them to be. So I've got me a little macro
keypad. It's cool. And I've asked the the there's two people
at the booth. I've asked if either one of them wanted to
come on the show and talk about mechanical keyboards. Yeah, we
also have two guests coming up for our next two shows we have
light bright from rough around the hedges podcast, and we have
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Leila: Oh yeah.
David: Me when I can't talk
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