Leila: lizard, fried Friday lizard back Friday. Friday,
lizard back Friday, we
David: had some lizards,
Leila: lizards in the studio. So lizard invasion, and a lizard
Apocalypse eaten by lizard and the lizard people.
David: So we were sitting down to record this episode, which is
going to be a little short. We had a lot going on this evening.
This whole week we're talking about. And we're sitting there
and we're sending links back and forth. We're getting stuff ready
for the show notes.
Leila: I hear a pop. I'm looking for me. And there's a lizard.
Oh,
David: lizards like hair.
Unknown: And it's like jumping.
David: It's doing these little funny jumps, and then walking
jumps and it lands on the wires going from the road caster into
the computer. Yeah. And it's walking across jumps on the wall
next to another lizard. So we had two lizards out here in the
shed might be more the studio of the super professional studio.
And so we I was crawling around under the table and under the
couch trying to grab them and I finally got a hold of them and
get them outside and they're happy and living their best life
outside now. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in here because if
any bugs got in, however, they they make posts and stuff. And
it's kind of gross.
Leila: If we get a little litter box forum,
David: little lizard, lizard, lizard, lizard box, little
little lizard litter box at the time, t TM. Nobody steal our
idea. So okay, so this episode was actually inspired by a boost
that we got. And typically we've been doing so the support
section at the end of the show, but we'll go ahead since the
idea came from we'll do our support section at the beginning
of the show this time. So we got four days ago. Well, that's from
when I pulled this. I guess it was about four days ago. We got
1776 sets from just listening. And for the maps episode, and it
says the Piri rise map was famous for having a depiction of
Antarctica below the ice. So that hey, we had an Antarctic
episode recently do I read that it was later proven to not be
Antarctica, but I think that's all conspiracy to hide us from
to hide from us the true power of a level 50 Master
cartographer, I agree. PS Warner Chappell, claimed copyright over
the song Happy birthday, but had to pay back $14 million in 2015,
when the copyright was declared invalid. So yeah, you can sing
that this standard, happy birthday song is anybody can use
that. Nobody, they can't come after you for that anymore. It
fell out of copyright a long time ago, legally, but then
people tried to claim it. And it's been it's been a legal
mess. There's some links in the show notes that you can go and
read the, the history of the copyright, Time Magazine did an
article on it. And then I've got the Wikipedia on those show
notes. Also. It's a it's an interesting thing. The period
rise map, I went and looked that up a little bit, we'll have a
link to the Wikipedia in the show notes. And it is a really
old map, like super old 1513. And it's like a world map from
1513. It was rediscovered in 1929. It's pretty interesting
read if you want to go check that out. Link will be in the
show notes for that. I like how they used to draw the old maps
like it was also I mean, they they're accurate for the time.
But everything is just also it's just so much more artistic, you
know? Yes. See monsters, all that fun stuff. Okay. On to the
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Leila: I guess what? Guess what? Guess what? Guess what,
David: that's what this episode is gonna be. You're probably
already know that since you're seeing it in your podcast
player. And that's the name of the episode. Maybe we'll encode
the name of the episode. Oh my goodness. That the rest of the
booster Monopoly game with a map and compass made me think of it.
And then there's a emoji do going Ah. So all right. So that
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Tell me if we do this. Yeah. I said that earlier, you weren't
paying attention. You were thinking about lizards,
Leila: obviously, what was it?
David: So, the reason we are moving our release schedule,
we're just going to tell folks don't expect it until Friday
afternoon or evening. From here for a little while, because we
both got parts. In the Christmas carol play for our local local
theater, it's always a annual Christmas carol play that they
do. I got the part of the narrator,
Leila: which I'm just stage crew,
David: your stage crew and guest number one. And then and she's
playing early, Kerala, Kerala, and you're playing saxophone
before out in the lobby beforehand.
Leila: Anyway, and my stage crew shirt, and my pants, and I'm
playing saxophone with my band,
David: and then she's gonna have some costume changes during the
play, she's gonna, she's gonna be running around like crazy.
I'm literally just sitting off in the corner, reading a book.
And that's the beauty of my part is that I actually have a prop
of a book in my hand that I'm supposed to be reading. So I get
to keep the script in my hands the whole time. It's cheating.
It's so good. I get to cheat and not have to memorize my lines.
So but that the rehearsals for that are Monday through
Thursday, like every every day, except for Fridays. So you know,
our release schedule. We're going to try and keep it on
Fridays. From here on out. We may release it a little early.
So you folks who like to listen on Friday mornings or early. can
get that but we can't promise anything. Yeah. So yeah, I think
that is all of the housekeeping. Housekeeping we had. Had, so
let's get on to the
Leila: DOM. Okay, so I kind of half read mine kind of half.
Because I was like, oh, we gotta get the show on the road. Yeah.
And I was like, click on it at the same time.
David: We have an appointment this evening. With a movie with
a certain someone. Five Nights at Freddy's. We're gonna go sit
down, apparently. So. Okay, so what's your good news story?
Mike, wait, wait, wait, wait. Now for Fun Fact Friday news
Leila: with your lead anchor. Leila so there's this coal mine,
right. All right. And it got filled with water. Okay. And
it's heating up it's what is heating up? It's heating up
okay. Britain's deep coal mines have been a become a surprising
source of green energy. And it's been heating the entire town of
Gateshead successfully for six months.
David: Wait. So they're not like pulling the coal out and heating
like burning it? It's just getting hot by itself. I think
Yeah. This this, this is see this is where it comes in. You
have to read the article before we start. You were like live go
do it live.
Leila: Gateshead Council's mind water project launched in March
of 2023. And has now a large central heat pump that provides
low carbon heating up to what 3000 What? What does that mean?
350 high rise buildings. Oh,
David: buildings figure was so new to measure me measurement.
Leila: A high rise building an art gallery, a college
industrial park. I call it an industrial park. And several
buildings, office buildings. Buildings offices.
David: I don't know. I'm just thought I read your story. Yeah,
it's good.
Leila: So the oil and gas gradually replace coal.
Britain's hundreds of miles of coal mining tunnels were
gradually abandoned over the decades and on an inundated
inundated by floodwaters but became heated by the Earth's
core. Britain's said Britain, Britain suddenly had a semi
natural occurring geothermal energy source to harvest
David: Oh, so it flooded. Like, Earth was like water. I only
like hot water, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So now you got
like, thermal and this
Leila: is going on with the stuff that we're talking about
Matt and not enough.
David: Well, isn't that a coinkidink? And that
Leila: a coinkidink. We're talking about energy and
geothermal energy and photovoltaic cells. What is
that? You know?
David: Yeah, that's solar power. Yeah. That's what you use to
solar stuff. Solar stuff. Anyway, when you needed a solar
or something, that's what you do.
Leila: I thought that was neat. Yeah, that's really neat, like
heating the whole town.
David: We started and then everywhere. So are you aware of
eggs?
Leila: No. Oh, tell me about eggs dad.
David: Okay, so this this this lady back in 1951 I double
checked. It's not. It's not me, me from our eggs episode work at
an egg processing plant. I guess you'd call it an egory egory And
she wrote on an egg. So this guy found it and held on to it. And
basically on the egg, it just said, Hey, whoever gets this
egg, send me send me a letter and put her name and the town
she lived in and, you know, back in, like the 50s. That was
enough information. You know, you'd be like Sally, Sally
Terwilliger in you know, I don't know, port town. I don't really
I don't know a state. Illinois port port town. Orlando,
Illinois Rolando. And she just brought this on the egg. Well,
the guy who got it never, never did it. He never said the
letter. I'm like, why how could you not do it? But he has
message kept the egg for 50 years and then gave it to
somebody else who collects weird stuff. And then this guy doesn't
send the letter eater doesn't doesn't do any any. Like
research to find out if this person is still around who they
you know who they already thing. So anyway, I've got a little
clip from the newscast is from CBS News, the uplift and the
news anchor. I think he would be a good guest on on Fun Fact
Friday because Because listen to this. Oh my goodness. Let me let
me turn up the volume a little bit because I think it's a
little quiet. I'm taking cemetry okay.
Unknown: All those people who had egg on their Facebook
hatched a plan, scrambled, fried hard to find this Mary FOSS.
After 72 years, they expected an exhausting search. That would
not be overeasy. But they cracked the case in less than a
day. And for those of you keeping track at home, that was
eight puns in 15 seconds. Do you remember writing on that egg?
Oh, my goodness. Yes. And you were hoping to find someone to
be a pen pal? Well, who knows? We all dream. Mary is now 92.
But as a teenager working in an egg packing plant like this one.
Mary says she used to dream of meeting someone in a far off
place. That fragile little message in a bottle her way of
reaching out. Yes. And now 72 years later, she has finally
made her connection.
David: And here it is. How are you egg this week? So I thought
that was cute. For an attorney, or news music Mecca. But yeah,
you can get a link to that. It'll be in the show notes. And
the guy the guy they're doing like a zoom call between the
lady and the guy who has the egg now. And they just both look so
happy over this little egg. I'm like, how do you get an egg with
that written on it? And not send the letter if I see if I see
something written on a tree, that's not obvious, like just
like some initials in a heart. Yeah, if I see something written
on a tree, and it's not like an English word, I'm gonna be
sitting over here thinking oh, the lizard people trying to send
me a message or you know, I try and decipher it and try and
figure out what's going on. And normally it's just an oval teen
ad. But um, that it's a reference to the movie A
Christmas Story. He Hey, are you not aware of this? Have you not
watched a Christmas story? What is that? It's the one where he
wants the red Ryder BB gun. For Christmas?
Leila: I don't know.
David: Okay, well, I think the new segments Yeah, I think pan.
So basically, there's this movie.
Leila: Is it a Christmas story or a Christmas story?
David: I think it's a Christmas story. Okay, yeah, it's
Leila: a nine year mark of tomatoes. Yeah, it's
David: an amazing it's just a classic. Yeah,
Leila: let me see. Let me see.
David: So anyway, there's a part three, there's a part and it was
really old. He gets a Thanks. Where he gets a decoder ring
sigh and they've got an old time radio drama on and during one of
the one of the breaks, they say, use your decoder ring and decode
this message and like read out a bunch of random letters. And
then like he got runs to the bathroom. And he gets the ring
and he's and he's this is a spoiler by the way.
Leila: With the leg lamp.
David: Yeah, the leg lamp. Yeah. Anyway, he decodes the secret
message and it's just an ad for rate for raid shadow legends.
This monster today's video. Oh my god. We don't do sponsors. We
get our, our support from our listeners where we can stay
independent and Now, spy stuff. I wanted to be a spy so bad when
I was like, Oh my gosh, maybe like 10 Maybe through like
teenage years, just because of the cool gadgets.
Leila: Speaking of which, today was like career day. Oh yeah, I
had nothing to wear. Because I want to be in like a
neuroscientist neurologist. So I just wore like a white button up
over my regular t shirt and put a paper on me that says I'm a
neurologist.
David: We got to find a neurologist. Nobody knows
neurologist haven't get in touch when you guessed little ones
questions. So I always liked the spy gadgets on like James Bond
and all this stuff. And nowadays we like the stuff is all super
cheap. Like these cameras that used to be the state of the art
tech. If you read these old articles about the history of
spying, they were just sticking cameras and everything.
Leila: Yeah, sticking them in like, Buttons.
David: Yeah, one of these is basically the history hit.com
What do you have? Oh, it's a it's a scooter in the studio.
Loopy spoon. Do you want to go ahead and kill it?
Leila: Why do we have to kill it?
David: Why don't you grab this notepad right here. And then
find something else flat. We have some action going on in
this episode. We do if we had the lizard, we could just chuck
the lizard at it. And yeah, just find something out. I'm gonna
run your mic down so we don't don't smack into it. All right,
your mic is down. I'm going to talk about wristwatch cameras.
Like even all the way back to the 1940s. Scary they were
fitting. Oh, you can just smash them in the book. It'll just
mess up two pages. We'll be fine. Plus, we'll have a little
souvenir. Joe slow. You got it. You got it all the way around
them. And close it they go. Okay, well, I'm not opening
that. Now we have a spider book. So this wristwatch camera. It
looked it looks like just a bulky watch with all these
lenses on the front. And it's super obvious that it's a camera
Leila: like this, just with your with your arms in front of you.
Like they're like.
David: However, it's obvious to us. Back in the old days, like
nobody's thinking that could be a camera. They're just thinking
that guy's watches weird.
Leila: Although me. I think everything's a camera. Yeah, and
David: it could be these days. Yeah, you can hop on any little
spy website that sells stuff. You can get a camera and
anything and get a camera. Team Okay, cameras. Yeah, that mean
they make them so tiny. That's not again. You gotta you gotta
look out for that stuff. You got to hotels and stuff nowadays?
Yeah. Um, what else? Did they put cameras in? Oh my gosh, they
put cameras and buttons
Leila: due to transmitter? Yes.
David: We'll talk about the duty transmitter in just a moment.
Let me look for that. Yeah, all this stuff was like back in the
40s though. So that's why it was so impressive because the
technology was not where it is these days. So they were using
film cameras. Yeah, and putting them in stuff.
Leila: Whoa, button cameras. What Copan
David: so I was just I was just talking about how they run the
the actual cameras like behind the coat. And then the lens just
is just one of the buttons over here. overcoat
Leila: Yeah, it's like that one Barbie. That one Barbie with
like the TV on her back. And the camera in front of me.
David: There's a what? Oh, yeah, yeah, you showed me that one
time. If you look it up we gotta put in the show notes. So so
just
Leila: so yeah, Google that folks. Video Barbie yourselves
in video here my Barbie
David: right it's just got a TV in her back just inserted right
in the back of the
Leila: back into like a camera right? Yeah,
David: one of the other really cool ones gadgets I found while
looking around. This is all on history. hit.com coolest buy
gadgets in espionage history. In 1970 for the CIA premiered the
and secto thought talking about this one. It is a it looks like
a dragonfly. But it had a little candlelight. Dragonfly. Yeah, it
looks really good. It was it was really good. And it could fly. I
want to say I read one of the other articles I was reading
those can fly like 30 meters or 60 meters while he was chugging
us out over there. Good. Not good for you. But then it had a
little microphone on it that could transmit like 300 300
meter. I don't know it had some little cool little little
microphone stuff. Oh habitants are dropped, sir. Well, they've
got new ones. Now. Of course, since the tech is way better.
It's actually happened. Yeah, I came across a video Maybe a
couple of years ago that had, it was about the size of a fly like
a house fly. Wow. And they could fly it in with a camera. And it
also you could outfit it with enough explosive to take out a
bad guy, if you like landed on the back of his neck. So that's
pretty scary.
Leila: Tiny automatic cameras strapped to pigeons.
David: Like you This is back when pigeons were real numbers
were real, right? No, no, they've never been real.
Leila: So camera cloud pigeons fitted with secret cameras were
used to map military battlefields targets and
territories during World War One and World War Two. And they
would basically just get like automatic cameras that were that
took photos not video. Yeah. But they really bulky, like as big
as the patient and they chat in the like, strapped it to pigeon.
David: That's pretty good, pretty good aerial photography,
their
Leila: bird's eye view, if you know what I'm saying.
David: Yes, we all know what you're saying. It's exactly a
bird's eye view. That's not
Leila: like saying if you know what I'm saying. It's very
obvious.
David: So we're not gonna go too much into weaponry. Just because
you know, it's a family show. It's really cool if you want but
there's so much cool stuff. Like there's one there's an umbrella
that shoots a little dart, like little you can put whatever you
want in the dark. And so like you walk around with your
umbrella, you're like, oh, there's a bad guy. You know. But
the radio transmitters and stuff. Yeah. So there used to
be, let's talk about that used to be the show called Get smart.
And he always had like the most ridiculous gadgets. But one of
the most every episode type gadget was his shoe phone. So he
took his shoe off. It was basically a cell phone. But the
KGB actually issued these during the Cold War. And they were
transmitters. And they monitored. They were they
monitored and sent off. You know, he relayed essentially you
know, what to the to the, the info. What my brain just stopped
working for it's different kinds of guns. There's lipstick, guns
and all kinds of calls kinds of stuff like that. KGB is also
real big on disappearing ink.
Leila: Ooh, we have some of that. We have
David: invisible ink. Oh, what? The UV ink? The UV light.
Leila: There's like some radio stuff going on. Oh, did you
hear? That was uh oh, I
David: think the refrigerator just kicked.
Leila: No, wasn't that Oh, it sounds like a fly on this.
David: Oh, I don't know. Who knows?
Leila: Who knows.
David: So tell us about the duty transmitter.
Leila: I'm trying to look at more information on it.
David: Okay, so good.
Leila: It says it was used to track the movement of enemy
troops. But it doesn't say like what it was. It doesn't say
that. It was like, an a camera or hold on. There we go.
Transmitter says
David: maybe it had sensors on it
Leila: made me. So it's basically just meant to look
like a dog poop or something. And it does pretty good at doing
that.
David: A hard thing to replicate.
Leila: I'm trying to look for something that actually tells me
what's going on. It's just a picture of it. Due to
transmitter.
David: Well, I know like if if troops are moving to an area,
they're gonna make noise. Oh, yeah. You know, so if they even
just had any kind of vibration sensors?
Leila: Yeah, it's a radio transmission thing.
David: All right. All right. Well, it's
Leila: a t 1151 radio transmitter. Disguised as a pile
of animal droppings.
David: Either a dog or tiger monkey. Yeah. It was used in
Vietnam.
Leila: Huh? Oh, it would. Morse code.
David: Okay, monitored, monitored radio transmissions.
Yeah, so Okay, so it was just like a radio spy. It
Leila: was just like one of the little Morse code things spy spy
groups.
David: That's what we named the episode that let's see what was
the other one I wanted to talk about. Oh, I wanted to talk
about some super, super spy techniques of how to transmit
information. But way before electronics were even a thing.
So going all the way back to the ancient Greeks. History his his
Darius, I guess is how you say it would keep his message
messages secret. He would shave the head of a messenger Oh to
the message on to scalp and then wait for the hair to grow back.
And then send the messenger to the intended recipient. And
what's the messenger got there? And the messenger wouldn't even
know the message. Because you know, it's Yeah, on the back of
his head. And then the guy would be like, Hey, he's like, Hey,
I'm the messenger. And he's like, Alright, turn around,
shave his head, and then read the message. Then you have to
wait for his hair to grow back before he could go back. Oh my
gosh, that is the slowest way of sending Oh my
Leila: gosh.
David: Okay, let's see. Okay, so Elizabeth van Lew was a
successful union spy during the Civil War. And women were really
good at being spies throughout history because men
underestimated them. And didn't think you know, women are
involved at all in any of this stuff. So this article says if a
local man kept visiting Union soldiers in the prison, other
people in Richmond would probably get suspicious after
all Richmond resort a confederacy but they wouldn't
stop a young woman from being charitable and supplying the
Union soldiers with baskets of food or clothing or, you know,
other supplies. So, oh, wow. What your you posted a link in
my my screen just like stuffs happening my screen. I forgot
that we have that. That's shared. There. Yeah. So yeah, so
she would smuggle in hollow egg shells concealing messages. So
she'd have a basket of eggs. And some of them didn't have egg in
them, like, you know, the insides they would have like,
notes with information. It's very, very egg spy stuff. No,
that's not even the only egg method that they've used. There
was somebody what was her name? Renaissance heiress era
scientist, Giovanni della porta, used an invisible ink on hard
boiled eggs. And since egg shells are porous, they would
let the ink leach through. And she could write on the actual
egg, the hard boiled egg inside. So in order to read the message,
you would peel the egg and there the message would be there on
the egg, but not visible from the outside. They have had
trouble replicating this. So it may or may not. There's somebody
that says that they've done it, but they won't share their
recipe on how they how they've done it. So it's very secret,
very secret. And then the last one I wanted to talk about, on
the cricket blog is where I'm reading all these fronts. What
are some good ones it does. The proof in the petticoats is what
this part of it's called. Female spies throughout history have
often hidden their messages in plain sight. During the American
Revolution. Abandoned spies called the culper ring found
innovative ways ways to communicate their messages. And
a strong message was the most creative at all, communicating
via her laundry. When she hung her laundry out to dry on a
clothesline, another spy watch with a telescope from across the
bay. A black petticoat meant a fellow spy Caleb Brewster was in
town. The order of the rest of the laundry determined where
they would meet that night. Wow. So depending on how she hung her
laundry, she knew that somebody across the bay was watching. So
she would communicate messages via her little secret laundry
messages.
Leila: Yeah. That's super cool. Yeah,
David: it's really neat. And then the bottom one, the last
one on this site is a cipher,
Leila: Caesar cipher, a Caesar cipher unseen.
David: Yeah, everybody knows about these ciphers. And it's
just kind of like a decoder ring. coded messages have always
been one most important ways for spies to communicate. One of the
most famous in history used a code that was so simple, a child
could learn it. But to an untrained eye, it's just
gibberish. Basically, you take the alphabet and just shift all
the letters in the alphabet to the right, or to the left a set
number of characters. So if you would start with ABCDE, f g, the
cipher would be starting with D. So D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and
continue with the alphabet. So you're just shifting the
alphabet, a couple of letters, one right of the other. So it
looks like gibberish. Until you know, okay, so we've shifted it.
We're gonna go. It's kind of neat. I like little ciphers like
that, that are real easy. I also like the super, super
complicated ones. Did you know that there's a cipher outside
the CIA headquarters that still hasn't been solved? Like 30
years later?
Leila: Why Wow, yeah,
David: it's really believe it Kryptos is what it's called. I
believe three of the four panels have been solved, but the last
one hasn't been solved. As of last time I checked on it. So
it's KRYP tos.
Leila: So crypto with okay. Yeah. Kryptos Yep,
David: it looks it's a sculpture made out of copper. Because the
CIA or cops, coppers. Yeah, that's not where that comes
from. Anyway, it is, there is a group that gets together once a
year with the man who created Kryptos. And they try so hard to
get him to give them a clue on how to solve this thing. They
bring him sushi and fine wine and all kinds of stuff. And he
has never given them a clue that they're aware of. I love it. So
I like I like ciphers and things like that. If you have a good
one, send it mail at FunFactFriday.com. And I'll see
if I can figure it out. I love I love those kinds of puzzles. So
what what other what other gadgets? Did you think were cool
about the spy stuff? Or what else did you come across? That
was interesting.
Leila: A lot of ones they found interesting. Were the weapon
ones.
David: Maybe you can talk about I'm just you know. Yeah, just
keep it uh what is this?
Leila: I liked the lipstick. One. Lipstick weapon.
David: Oh, yeah. The lipstick gun. Yeah. Yeah, it's just It
looks like a tube of lipstick.
Leila: It's just like, a long tube lipstick.
David: Ya know, keep keep one shot and lots of stuff like
that. There's a glove that had a 38. One round of 38 in it. And
yeah, just like a camera. Yeah, just like a camera. You can put
as long as you can put a barrel and something that will ignite
the powder charge. You're good to go. We did get an email that
we forgot to read. As I was thinking about the email thing.
This is from Team Omaha. So the guy who invented the saxophone
was named adult face x. Right. But his middle name was Joseph.
So I'm gonna go ahead and go check on this before before I
read it. So let's open up a window here and check who
invented the X? Sachs phone? Which we may have said this on a
previous episode. Yeah, you still saxophone wrong. You need
to calm down. So yes, it was a Dollface x that is correct. And
did adult face sex have a middle name? It is is Joseph. Oh my
gosh. Antoine. Oh, it's Antoine Joseph. So it is Joseph at all.
Fe adult Fe is what they call them. Like his nickname. Right.
So Antoine Joseph is his legal name with the with a hyphen in
between him. And yeah, so there you go. Cool. I wait to 14. Oh,
hold on. We don't have we don't have to
Leila: get a jingle for rant. loot. That's not a jingle. All
right. Well, I What will Leila have a problem with this week? I
have a problem with the pronunciations on like Google.
When you look up a word so give me a word. Any word neighbor
woman lamp All right. Lamp definition definition yawn. So
Oh, some flame give me another word. Give me a big word.
David: I'm thinking of a big word. I Oh no. Any big words.
Leila: Emphasize,
David: emphasize there you go. You got to put the emphasis on
Alright, so
Leila: here's how it said. Nevermind anyways, it's said to
emphasize if you didn't know how to say emphasize, but the way
that it's written. It's a lowercase E with a little bit
with a smiley face over it pretty much without the eyes m
comma f and upside down E dash s with a lot si but the eye
instead of having a.as A line Z and then like a quote quotation
marks. How do you say a quotation marks emphasize yes
that's it. Emphasize. I know. Emphasize Yeah, well you're on
Google. Emphasize
Kyle Hebert: there's a slow button Yeah, no.
Leila: Emphasize emphasize
Oh, I'm okay. You're gonna make it? Yeah. Oh, it
David: is 621 Oh,
Leila: we're gonna go. Anyways, I have a I have a rant about how
the way that pronunciations are said because we are spelled. I
don't know how to spell pronunciations. What does an
upside down E sound like? On I'm gonna ask, what does an upside
down? E sound like? He probably looked this up on yours. Yeah,
David: so the so the pronunciation thing has been
around forever. Upside down.
Leila: Like it'd be something useful
David: upside down a pronunciation. The symbol, you
know, upside down E is used in a dictionary to show the most
common weak vowel in English. Hey, pronounced your weak it's
pronounced as a relaxed Okay, so an upside down is called a
schwa. schwa I love that. S H. No, es si Hwa. Okay, so how do
you pronounce the schwa schwa so the Google pronunciation guide
is hilarious. It even shows a little animation of the mouth
I'm gonna turn that up a little bit after that blur with schwa
cold or something? All right. I think we got to wrap it up. We
have our we have our movie we gotta get to tonight. Yeah,
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David: schwa