David: Ever, buddy. Fun Fact Friday
Leila: Fun. Fact Friday
David: Fun Fact Friday.
Leila: Fun. Fact Friday. Fun. Fact Friday. Okay, we do fun
facts like every week almost.
David: Most weeks. We missed some. We do miss on this hobby
sometimes
Leila: hobbies sometimes we lost.
David: We did finish last homework. We watched Thursday,
we watched all six seasons in about what? Three weeks? Maybe
four? Maybe four? Yeah. There's been watching them, you know,
two three episodes here or there. Every once in a while we
do like a five episode. You know binge watch. But it's it's a
good show. But I want to get Lila's review.
Leila: Nine out of 10,
David: nine out of 10
Leila: absolutely best show ever.
David: There will be 10 out of 10 if it was the best. No, just
nothing's perfect minus one point. Because it's
Leila: so much good.
David: Okay. So those of you who haven't watched last Leila give
us a non spoilery idea of what the show is.
Leila: So there's this plane that crashes on this island.
Shenanigans. Shannon against Shannon against the boondoggle.
David: We were looking at the soundtrack. Oh my god. There's a
There's a song called buena Royal. And there's a song called
Shannon again, because there's a character named Shannon. Shannon
again. I thought it was funny.
Leila: I thought it was funny too.
David: So this week, we're not talking about lost the whole
show, even though it's fun. We're gonna be talking about
mutations.
Leila: Ooh, genetic mutations are just mutations.
David: Yeah. There's not really any other kind of mutation.
Sure. Yeah. Other than like, X Men, you know, pizza bagel.
Yeah. How's the pizza bagel mutation?
Leila: Actually, wait.
David: I mean, I guess there's a mixture. There's permutations.
So the mixture What would you consider a pizza bagel? On pizza
bagel? A pizza bagel? Is a bagel.
Leila: It's a bagel with pizza on it with pizza toppings. Yeah,
pizza toppings. But what is it?
David: Wait. Okay. Now before we get into this, this scientific
discussion about the classification of a pizza bagel,
we need to talk about like is at what point does something become
a not pizza? Because that's true. It's like you got to have
a type of bread. Right? And then a sauce
Leila: type of sauce. Yeah. And then cheese. Yeah.
David: And then some kind of topping or not. So really, the
only three things you really need is bread, sauce and cheese.
Because I've had pizzas that did not have tomato sauce on them.
They had like barbecue. So
Leila: a grilled cheese sandwich could be a pizza. If you put
ketchup on it. You put it in tomato sauce.
David: Grilled cheese with ketchup as pizza.
Leila: Absolutely. Okay. Since it's got guests, it's
David: got its bread on top and bottom. It would be a cannoli.
cannoli cannoli.
Leila: I don't know what you're talking about. Isn't a cannoli.
Like that sweet thing.
David: Yeah, that's a cannoli. What's the thing? That's a
folded up pizza
Leila: thing that's a folded up pizza.
David: Oh, you're gonna ask the
Leila: Google I'm just getting pizza place of what?
David: Google says the kill zone girl zone. It's a girl
Leila: Oh, think about it for a second
David: yet that. My fingers together. We're all saying that
we had pizza tonight. We went. We did went to pizza. And it's a
fantastic local place. I think I think they've got all the
country but I don't know ours. It feels like a mom and pop run
place. Even if they do have all of our places. It's all very
it's kind of just like one of our comfort places we go, but
we're gonna be talking about mutations, not pitbulls, not
pizza bagels. I do want to mention, we do have a merch shop
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cool. All right. We do actually have good news this week,
everybody. Hello, and welcome to Fun Fact Friday news with our
lead anger.
Leila: Oh me. Hello. So my good news today is gonna be about
genetic mutations. And it's about something I'm very afraid
of. But I will get through it for this good news segment.
David: Okay, what are you afraid of? Ed Sheeran, Ed Sheeran? Good
news about Ed Sheeran? Gingers, gingers,
Leila: Ginger fake?
David: No. Yes. No. Okay. Let me ask you a question. Is it right?
To pick on somebody because of one of their immutable
characteristics? One of the things that they can't change,
but I'm not picking on them. We're saying they're fake.
Leila: Yeah, I don't believe in red here. You don't
David: believe in red hair? You're the one that's got the
problem. I don't think trees are real. I mean, have you ever ever
seen history? Yeah, I think you've just seen pictures. Like
the guy that was trying to convince people to birds were
fake.
Leila: My buddy doesn't believe that hazel eyes exist.
David: I've got hazel eyes.
Leila: All right, mister, tell me about you.
David: Yeah, pillar. My dad's got hazel eyes. Well, you Dad
doesn't exist. Okay, so tell us about the gingers.
Leila: So there's proof that they're real. Cuz I've been
around for millions of years and other species out there real.
David: Why wait. Got funding for this.
Leila: UCC apparently. Okay, see, paleontologist discovered
molecular evidence of female melanin, which is the pigment
that produces ginger coloration in the amphibians dating back 10
million years. So they've been around for 10 million years.
David: So there's been ginger amphibians. Ginger phibian. So
you've had some, some people red haired, freckled. lizard people.
Okay, I need you to say that in the mic a little clearer so that
people can get a nice clip of that.
Leila: all genders are lizard people.
David: Know, however, many of our listeners are fans who are
gingers we love. We love the red haired folks.
Leila: There's cool except for Ed Sheeran. He scares me. Look,
if you're a fan of Ed Sheeran good for you. He just he
genuinely scares me. He's so weird looking.
David: I can send Laila a picture of Ed Sheeran. I'm like,
we have a little teams group for the family. And I can simply
Olympics of Ed Sheeran. She's start over, like a jumpscare
Leila: I just realized that picture that you sent me like a
month ago with Ed Sheeran. I did it wasn't leave. It was yes.
David: There was a picture. I realized it Yeah, it's out
there. We're Ed Sheeran is all of the leaves on the ground are
actually pictures little small pictures of a gerund. So my my
news story is actually a good news story. That's not just
talking about gingers old amphibious ginger melanin.
Scientists have created natural sponges that soak up
nanoplastics Ah, which is awesome because nanoplastics
bad. So basically, they made a mixture of see what it was
gelatin and starch. And, you know, certain certain mixture
they made there and it can can soak up microplastics and
nanoplastics out of the ocean or any any water. body of water
that would have them in there. There are they're saying that
they have said scientists are still trying to study the
adverse health effects of ingesting and inhaling
microplastics and nanoplastics. We, on average, inhale or ingest
as much plastic as is in 50 Credit cards a year is what this
is saying. Just like as you drink water,
Leila: I wonder if they could do that with Gelatt with agar agar
instead of gelatin. I don't know what that is. It's like a vegan.
It elegent it's a bit of a plant. I think it's some type of
seaweed.
David: That's, I mean that it could be what they're using. I
don't know. It just says Chinese scientists created some
experimental sponges out of starch and gelatin they get
real, real particular about it. So yeah,
Leila: I think gelatin is made of in with other okay.
David: Yeah, I don't I was wondering. So, basically, they
said that it can remove around 90% of the plastic particles
from the environment that they're put into. And they they
said if these things come out to where you can like buy them it
would be very beneficial. If everybody through one of these
packs that absorbs this stuff into your laundry as you're
doing your laundry because a lot of The nanoparticles and stuff
that are getting in there are coming out of artificial
clothing when they're going through the wash cycle. And then
as the water leaves your washing machine, the plastics go out
into the, you know, into the don't get caught by the filters,
because they're too tiny. Very tiny plastics. So that's our
good news segment. We actually actually got some stories this
week. So. So there you go. But still, yeah, it is basically
just saying that they talk about Yeah, they talk about red hair
and ginger characteristics being recessive. So they're not gonna
be around forever that they
Leila: found the pigment that makes ginger hair. ginger hair,
right? In animals?
David: Yep. From long, long, long ago. Yeah. Fossils neat. So
where are we talking about mutations? Yep, genetic
mutations. But I'm just saying mutations for the title because
it's less typing. I've heard some really neat stuff talks
about, and they've actually got on this site on Business
Insider, they have an article about it actually has like the
name of the gene, or like the code for it. And then what it
does for you. And there's basically all these like, the
art, the article title is eight genetic mutations that can give
you score unquote, superpowers. And we can talk about some that
we might have here in a bit. But the one that I found neat, and I
kind of wish I could get a yellow pill to take or something
is H D, C, two, it's the super sleeper mutation, man. And the
article says, if you can feel if, if wait. I'm a professional
podcaster. Imagine if you could feel totally energized with just
four hours of sleep each night. That's kind of how I am. That's
kind of why these people are short, short sleepers. The
scientists only recently uncovering what exactly
predisposes them to be this way, for the most part researcher
believe that their capabilities are connected to specific
genetic mutations, and have publicly identified the gene as
the whatever I said earlier. That means that the short
sleeping habits can run in the family. And I'm I'm I'm a short
sleeper, I go to bed. I get in bed, and then shamefully I mess
around my phone for a little while. But I should keep the
phone out of the room. But it is what it is. I'm an adult, the
time that I go to sleep is normally between 130 and 230 in
the morning, that's no good. Yeah. And then I get up around
mass 630 to eight depending on what's going on. So but I'm not
normally like oh, your daughter, you know, sometimes I'm if it's
been a couple of days where I've had very little sleep, but I may
have, I don't I've never been genetically tested, I don't
really want to get genetically tested. Yeah. And then another
one that was really neat is the L RP five, which is the ulurp
five, or LARPs. If you turn to five into an S, it is the LRP.
Five is the gene that regulates your bone mineral density. So it
can cause break weak, brittle bones, or extremely strong
bones. So depending on how it just one or the other. Yeah. So
there's multiple mutations that can come from that gene. And one
of them is extremely dense bones that are practically
unbreakable. And then they LRP or the other end of it is the
super riddle, weak bones. So it's like a slider bar for how
strong your bones are that gene which is really nice. So you can
have mutations either way. I have I have never broken a bone
mean either. I know. But I have. We have a relative who has
broken multiple bones multiple times. We do on things that
probably it felt like it was. It shouldn't have it didn't feel
like it was enough for us to break bones. So might be on the
other end of the spectrum on that one.
Leila: They were like, Oops, oh, my arms are broken.
David: Whoopsie so yes, some of these are pretty good.
Leila: Yeah. heterochromia Oh, yeah, I think that's super cool.
It's when you have like two different eye colors. So like
one of your eyes could be blue and the other one's brown. You
know,
David: Papa, I got some, some of those reusable water bottles
that are they have like little pop top. Yeah.
Leila: And this website is one of those websites where it will
tell you something and then it gives you the personal life
story of the person. So let me try and find a fact. through
there are three types of heterochromia there's complete
which is each is different color, sectoral and is a segment
of contrasting color and the iris or central which is a
different color radiating out from the pupil.
David: I think that one's neat too. There is a actress that has
that. Oh boy, she played Lois Lane in one of the Superman
movies. And I can't remember her name.
Leila: There used to be a girl at my school with heterochromia.
She got she got expelled. We don't talk about that.
David: There was a somebody had a dog and one of the youtubers
shorts people has a dog with it or Chromia and they have
heterochromia. And it's the same. So like they have a brown
in a blue eye. And then the dog has the same like the left eyes
brown the right eye blue.
Leila: So double eyelashes. And double eyelashes. There's chose
this picture of like Elizabeth Taylor. And it's not a great
picture. So I'm gonna look at another one up.
David: I bet Richard Alpert from last has double eyelashes.
Google Google Google.
Leila: I'm just looking to double eyelashes. Because I want
to see a better picture of it. Because that's like a colorized
David: I'm gonna look up whether Nestor has has it.
Leila: Yeah. So yeah, it's just like really thick eyelashes it
looks like but it can be related to some pretty serious heart
related disorders. Oh, that's that's pretty bad.
David: Yeah, it's interesting how how they'll you'll have
something that seems completely unrelated. But like almost
everybody who's like, ring finger fingernail grows twice as
fast as the rest of their fingernails. Like they'll also
have their left leg muscle is half the size. You know, there's
like there's all these all combinations that i Let's see
copy. I'm putting Nestor Carbonell
Leila: but it's the result of a transcription error in the 16th
chromosome.
David: Oh, so whoever the transcriptionist that 16th
Leila: chromosome should see.
David: That chromosome needs to get Dred Scott on the on the
case? Absolutely. She does our transcriptions for us. And
Leila: help you find anything? Yes, he has it. He does.
David: Yes. Nestor Carbonell, or, no, no, he's got an accent.
distich hypothesis. It's an extra row of eyelashes that
grows around the eye. It is painful because they can push
into the sclera Elizabeth Taylor suffered from the same
condition. So one of the things we just talked about one of the
characters on last name was Richard. And like everybody was
like, why is he wearing eyeliner? Because it looks like
he's wearing eyeliner the whole show right? But he's not like
they make a joke about it on the show. He's like, you know,
Captain eyeliner or whatever. But he's got that the double
eyelashes and they actually put concealer on it sometimes to
tone down how thick his eyelashes are. So yeah, it's
it's an interesting and Nestor Carbonell and just interesting
stuff is like why has that power and eyeliners think he's a
rockstar or something.
Leila: So red hair is a genetic mutation.
David: Yep. That's That's what Yeah, that's one of the reasons
we picked that story.
Leila: Yeah, it's if you have to variant copies of the gene MC
one are my chemical one romance on each of your 16th
chromosomes. Man the the 16th chromosomes slack and
David: so I wonder if the 16th chromosome has like a lot of our
non critical like our features features right? Ah, sweet. Let's
look into this a little more. Maybe listing. So have you ever
heard of hyper trick Kosis troncos eat me
Leila: said it better how to.
David: Calm down. hypertrichosis is also called a Werewolf
Syndrome, or our Ambrus syndrome, and affects as few as
one and a billion people. Oh, and in fact, only 50 cases have
been documented since the Middle Ages. Wow. People with whose
knowledge is hypertrichosis like the 50s before the Renaissance
1300s 1500s I don't know what they call the Middle Ages. I
guess 13 to 1500. Look at anyhow, excessive hair on the
shoulders, face and ears. Yes, as before the Renaissance. Yeah.
So if you look up hyper hypertrichosis do a brave search
for it. And it looks like like from the monsters. It looks like
the werewolf kid from the monsters. It's just normal.
Yeah, normal people but like just imagine hair growing out of
every inch of their face, and shoulders and back and all that.
Let's call it Werewolf Syndrome. It's just nothing. I mean, you
gotta shave it and keep it groomed up. But other than that,
it doesn't really hurt anything. Yeah, so where was the page that
was on there it is.
Leila: So that same my chemical one romance thing. What? You
hear me say that MC one or?
David: Oh, yeah, I got
Leila: it. It works correctly and doesn't give you red hair.
It turns out,
David: there's nothing wrong with red hair. It's just that
it's not the norm. It's an outlier. So it's
Leila: fine. But it turns all the field Metaline into human
AlAnon you I said both of those wrong field
David: rise so
Leila: pheomelanin into eumelanin. Are you how do you
how do you say Europe? Your you melon. Okay. This means the skin
tans instead of freckles. So it freckles, freckles, freckles
recordset
David: all that causes a mutation. Yes, yes.
Leila: And it's because when you're exposed to UV light, your
Melachrino lights produce melanin. Okay. And bad things.
David: Okay. All right. All right. So there's another one.
There's, these are so interesting to me. This is all
these little little differences that we can all have. This one
is called. You ready? Yeah. Flute the flute? No, it is epid
Derma epidermidis. Play Xia veru Conformis. verruca pharmacy.
Okay? So it's an extremely rare disorder that makes people prone
to widespread human papilloma virus infection. Ah, okay, so
HPV Yeah. Okay, so basically the skin is kind of gross. So if
you're gonna like gross stuff, skip bird, down 30 seconds.
These skin eruptions up here like weren't like lesions, and
even wood like or horns or like growths. With reddish brown
pigment and plaques, pigmented plaques. So you can grow horns
out of your body. Typically, skin tumors start to emerge in
people between the age of 20 and 40. And growths tend to appear
in areas exposed to the sun. It's also called Lewandowski,
Lutz, dysplasia. And there's no known cure, though treatments to
scale back the growths are possible. I've seen a
documentary about someone who had this and they had like,
horns go out of their face. So it looked very it was actually
look pretty rock and roll, but just where this person had them
growing. Is it Yeah, it's it's probably terrible. Terrible. So
it's not fun fact, but
Leila: blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Really, everything is
David: genetic. Everything. Yes. Because but we're talking about
like the more rare ones. Yeah, so blue eyes are not the norm.
Especially if you go worldwide with
Leila: it. Yeah. And I just learned this that blue eyes are
kind of the norm because there's a lack of melanin
David: so what's the what's the
Leila: actually know the norm is as brown because that's all the
melanin or all of the color because like, think of it as a
cup. So your iris is this cup, okay. And blue eyes are when the
cup is empty. If you add just a little bit of like water like
the water is pigment, a little bit of water to this cup, you
get green eyes. Then if you add a little bit more you get like
more colored eyes and if you pour the whole thing in your
eyes brown.
David: Okay, that makes sense. So yeah, so it's like if you got
the sliders on your when you're picking the colors on a color
wheel thing,
Leila: but that also means that we're more sensitive to light.
Right? Like you will be fine, but I have to walk outside like
sunglasses on.
David: See? My eyes are a little weird on light also. Well, fake.
Yeah, he's really he's lies are fake. I'm not real. So like,
it's maybe something completely unrelated to eye color. I'm sure
it is. But like at night, my eyes go into like almost like a
high contrast mode where things were either really dark
Leila: or real. I can't do that. So as I've
David: Brown is the most common eye color globally estimated 70
to 90% of the world's population having it. Yeah, so brown eyes
results, whatever, whatever. That's, that's good enough. What
was the article I was looking at? Okay, so talking about
vision. So humans have pretty keen vision. Compared to other
animals. We have three different types of cone presence in our
eyes, which gives us an evolutionary advantage as hunter
gatherers by better enabling us to spot fruits and berries and
animals with only two types of cones. Now then, then we've got
colorblindness. Yeah, and colorblindness fascinates me. Me
too. I used to work. He's worked at Outback, as longtime
listeners will know. And we had, we had after Oh, I think we got
like two free shirts, two free work shirts. And then if we
wanted different colors, we could buy them, you know, and
you got, you know, a new free one every six months or
whatever, but I wanted to buy multiple colored shirts, so I
wouldn't have to wash clothes every every other day, you know?
So I went back there. And I was like, Hey, give me give me give
me one of the green ones. And then give me out on a purple
one. And he grabs two green ones. He's like, you're gonna
have to do better than that. And I'm like I said, I just said
exactly what I want. He's like, I'm colorblind. These look
exactly the same, to be honest, like brothers are the same. He's
like, Yeah, but all of those look the same to me. I'm like,
maybe you should. You shouldn't you shouldn't be in charge. I
handed out the different colored shirts then man.
Leila: Boy, like, Yeah, I'll write everybody's names. But I'm
blind. Why can't use my arms?
David: Yeah, it's like, it was like, why are you doing this?
You should there's like eight other people that could do this
part of the job for you. But it was just funny because he just
grabbed the two off the top. He's like, are these good?
Man tried. He tried.
He knew what he was doing. You know, you know? I'll tell you
who it is later. Okay. So and then already did the super dense
bones. But yeah, colorblindness is much more common in males
than females. For some reason, there's a couple of things that
are like that. And they say, I can't remember where I read
this. It was a long time it goes back around were post office, I
think I read a lot of magazines went to the post office. They
say that women on average, can see more colors. Okay, he's
talking about on average with a colorblindness but like the
average dude who's not colorblind can't see as many
colors as the average woman. So like you'll there's a picture
floating around online where there's two different color
fingernail polishes. And it says women will sit there and tell
you these are two different colors. And they are see the
picture. I've seen the picture, they are two different colors.
But that just tells me that I can see, you know, a little bit
more colors. Some people swear up and down, they see exactly
the same color. Wow. So it's so interesting to me. And then that
leads me into something that is even more interesting about the
eyeballs. We have no idea how other people perceive coffee
sauce
Leila: made a video about this. Yeah, you can is like, is your
read the same as my read? Because there's no way to
describe a color?
David: Nope. Without using colors. Yeah, without using
colors. You can't describe colors. Yeah.
Leila: It's so weird.
David: And then just kind of goes to shows like if we could
all be seeing the world slightly different than each other. Yeah,
we're completely different from each other. Right? But you'll
never know. We'll never know. There's just so much stuff we
can't know because there's isn't language for it. It makes me
wonder if there's is a way using other languages to do that. And
we've just lost it because our languages or we haven't
discovered it yet. Ways to talk about it. Language is such an
interesting thing. There's this book called 1984. You may have
heard of it and talks about how if you take away words that are
more precise and you end up with smaller vocabulary and people
then those people can't talk about things that there's no
words for. Yeah. So it's that you know, it's a good good way
to control folks is to control language. It's interesting.
Interesting concept. Yeah. pain tolerance. Well, MCR one. Back
to that one.
Leila: Nope. That's the wrong one.
David: It says super pain tolerance. Yes, some research.
What do you mean thrown one?
Leila: MC one RS one.
David: Oh, your MC one are okay. Yeah, not Miko. gourmands one.
It's my chemical one romance.
Leila: Yeah, mine's one my chemical one mine. One romance.
Yours is My Chemical Romance
David: one. Okay, so somebody's confused. Some research has
shown that people with red hair have a higher tolerance for
stinging pain or spicy food. They see it I have no hair and
Scott like spicy food. So he burned it all off. Now what's
interesting about my hair, and I don't know if I've just, like
got jeans from everywhere. But my beard hair back before it all
started turning white. I had like every type of hair in my
beard. Like when I would shave I would find like super bright red
hair. And then like fine blonde hair and then like curly hairs.
And it was just it was weird because I have like, this weird
mix of all the different types of hair and my beard. Great
American melting pot. Yep. My beard.
Leila: Absolutely.
David: There's a t shirt just a picture of a beard with
different color hair in it. Melting Pot, the great American
melting beard. Okay, so supposedly, while this could
have something to do with the rumors that they don't have a
soul Yeah, see, it's not the jokes about gingers I don't like
anyway. It's more likely due to a variation in the My Chemical
Romance one gene, which reduces red hair and also restrict
melanin production. The reason why all redheads are so pale
skinned. That's it's probably a good thing that they take the
pain to, since the same gene mutation that causes them to be
less responsive to any anesthetics that are major that
are injected under the skin. So here we go. Talking about
something a little personal. Yeah. We, meaning Leila and I
both have a a high tolerance for anesthesia. Which Leila found
out when she went to have her mouth surgery? Yeah.
Leila: I think I told the story before but still.
David: Yeah. So she went to have it and the anesthesia didn't
work. And they didn't tell me that and tell her it didn't
work. They just kind of go into town doing their surgery stuff.
It happened to me when I was getting my wisdom teeth taken
out. And also when I was having an endoscopy done, because I had
a piece of roast beef stuck in my throat. Because here's your
lesson for today, folks. I don't know, chew your food. Yeah,
those are fun facts for the day when you have when you have food
in your mouth to make sure and Chew it well enough to where
it's not going to get stuck halfway down. But yeah, they had
to put an endoscopy scope down my throat to enlarge a piece of
roast beef. And I woke up in the middle of it. Right, well, two
minutes into it. And they had a heck of a time getting me
knocked out in the first place. But then I woke up in the middle
of it. Then during my wisdom to surgery. I woke up in the middle
of that. And it was pretty horrifying. With the hammer and
the chisel and everything. But
Leila: did we tell them that I had you and my family and that
you're not very tolerant to it? Or you're super tolerant to it?
I
David: think we told them I think yeah, I think we told them
that it might be a problem. Yeah.
Leila: I'm going to do it. Yeah. So but they gave me a full adult
dose of it. Right. And it didn't work.
David: Yeah, that when they the time we found it didn't work for
me. They said that they gave me enough enough to knock out a 500
pound dude. And it didn't even make me drowsy.
Leila: I don't even know what they said to my mom. Right?
Because it was out in the hallway and I was still sitting
there with my mouth wide open with the ice pack on. And I was
like well,
David: okay, so speaking of that, we may we may have oh, a
week or two of either cam shows or no shows coming up here
pretty soon because I am going to be having to go to get a
surgery done. And I don't know how it's gonna affect me. And,
and also
Leila: and also, I'm getting braces
David: can be talking like the Hey, toggle buddy, I am gonna be
making. So yeah, we're gonna try and get some some episodes in
the can for those two weeks. But if you make support, if you if
you make support, if you support the show during that time, then
it might be a couple of weeks before we can get to mentioning
it on the air because that is part of the value for value
system, the feedback, you support us, we give you a shout
out on the show, as they call it. But we're really just
recognizing the support the value that you give back for our
show. We did receive some value payments, support, if you will.
This week, we got our two monthly sustaining donations
1912 from Dred Scott. Thank you Drib. Much and also for the
chapters. If you don't listen to this show,
Leila: with chapters, what are you doing?
David: What are you even doing?
Leila: What are you even doing?
David: Normally it's it takes a little bit, you know, a day or
so your drive to get the chapters done for the show. But
if you give it a couple of days, and go back and check out the
chapters drept has a lot of work into it. He finds perfect art.
He does perfect titles for the chapters with little emojis.
It's fun, and definitely a valuable part of the show. But
thank you so much for the 1912 Dred Scott and Oreo donation.
Yeah, as always. And $10 from Steven Grimes, one of our
longest sustaining, sustaining donors. Yeah. And HostGator
raised their prices. That's our host, so almost doubled them. So
yeah. That's gonna be a lot of work, though. Because I've got
like, I think I've got like 17 websites parked with them.
Something like that. Or I did. I don't know. I got a lot. And um,
yeah, so that that was our value for value section for the show.
This week. We had, we haven't had any boosts since the last
show. And that's fine. You know? Yeah, no worries. And we're
always looking for folks to help out with anything. We want to
help out with art, music, and
Leila: if you are an expert in something, or can pretend to be
David: Yeah, we're looking for guests. Hit us up. Yeah. Or if
you know, eight, we want to do Leila really is into the brain.
Yes, and how the brain works. And she really wants to talk to
a neurologist. So if you know a neurologist, who might be
entertaining to talk to for 30 minutes to an hour. We'd love to
pick their brain. Oh, I guess you're a nerd. But yes, thank
you for the for the generous support. And we will be Monday,
I was looking, trying to see if I had any other notes. Oh, yeah.
Um, all of our new listeners, we we've got a lot of new listeners
recently. Actually, let me pull it up real quick. Because I want
to give a shout out to some of the other countries that listen
to our show. We have
Leila: also like no show wisdom teeth, or a gene mutation.
Doesn't matter that no
David: show wisdom
Leila: teeth. Yeah, Wisdom teeth that like don't.
David: I don't, I don't think wisdom teeth are supposed to be
taken out. I was reading something about that recently.
Like, if you just leave them in there and let them do their
thing. It's gonna hurt real bad. But it also does something to
your jaw to I don't know, I didn't look too into it. But
they were talking about how you should just endure the pain for
six months, and then you'll be stronger for later or something
like that. So I was looking at our stats, which I don't do
often. And we have a lot of listeners. And wow, yeah, we got
a lot and it's been picking up. And we I was gonna say, Here's a
few of our quick little stats that are kind of just fun to
look at. You can actually look at these if you go to there's a
couple of different places you can go and look at the OP three
statistics for the show because it's all open. We don't we don't
try to hide anything. Since we don't do ads. It doesn't matter.
We're not going to fiddle about our numbers. 78% of our
listeners are in the US. Three, three and a half percent are in
the Netherlands. Hello, Netherlands. Oh 3% or in Canada,
3% or Australia. And then we've got Philippines, Mexico, Spain,
Germany and UK. Cool are the top the top countries. Our top metro
areas for listeners is Charleston, South Carolina. We
love Charleston. Charleston is awesome. That's 8.35% for the
last month, actually just September 23 was less than the
Raleigh Durham area which is Yeah, our area essentially.
Yeah. And then LA. All three of those are about 8% And then it
jumps down to San Diego Seattle Denver, Cleveland got the
Cleveland area and then Jacksonville and then it dips
below you know there's the the lower numbers top EU regions I
don't even know what this means. North Brabant
Leila: that's the syrup that's the
David: and then overreach useful I guess these are these are from
Europe Netherlands these are Netherlands places I'm not going
to try and pronounce them correctly. And then central
Bohemia England, the North Holland Canary Islands top Asian
reasons regions calibogue Calabar is on Phnom Penh don't
know what those are. Most of our listeners listen and fountain
Apple podcast or podcast addict? Yeah, and there's a good podcast
overcast music be fountain and podcasts edit and pod verse, and
overcast. All those are podcasting. 2.0 at least some of
the features. Nice 43%, Android 37%. iPhone, and then a bunch of
other stuff. Cool, isn't it? I find it interesting. I like
looking at statistics need information. But I mean, like a
lot of podcasters will use these stats to try and like oh, we can
start selling ads. If we get above this number. This numbers.
I don't I don't. I mean, if we had like 10 listeners, we're all
just, you know, hey, you know, here's some facts. Here's a
here's a show a show idea. Here's, you know, here's here's
some support. We only have like 10 listeners that were really
good listeners. We still did a show. We love having lots of
listeners. We really do. But we're not trying to sell ads.
We're not trying to sell your ears to an advertiser. We like
you for you. Absolutely not for the CPM. But But yeah, if you
have anything for us, drop us a line mail at FunFactFriday.com.
Or we have Pio box, and it is listed if you click the
donations page on FunFactFriday.com, it'll take
you to a site where you can donate Bitcoin, a bunch of
different other Kryptos, which I don't even mess with anymore.
But it also has our Pio box there if you ever want to send
us anything we like stickers and refrigerator magnets, please.
Leila: We have a refrigerator. Oh, it's not over here anymore.
Yeah, we moved
David: the refrigerator studio. It's on a different circuit now
so it doesn't cause as much interference.
Leila: So it's not right next to us and goes
during the show,
David: so when you go a little longer. That's funny. Alright
folks, have a great weekend. Have a great weekend. We'll see
y'all next time and
Leila: bye. See you have a good weekend. Skyler
David: you ask every week and every single week. He is indeed
here.
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Leila: Bye bye