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Leila: org Tom No.
David: Calm. I was just amazed. So I've been told this even told
by my daughter Leila that I'm very low energy. Yes.
Leila: You need to speed it up.
David: I need to I need to a kick in the pants. Yeah. So why
am I low energy?
Leila: Let me tell you a story. So there's just thing called
cellular respiration. There's
David: this thing called cellular respiration. No, I just
wore out been doing a lot. Live has been doing a lot. So this
episode's gonna be a little short. And next week. Wow, we
can't really promise we're gonna put out an episode. I doubt we
are. Yeah, we have like, as soon as Leila gets out of school, we
have to throw some food in our faces, and go straight to
rehearsal and we're gonna be there until like 10 at night.
And then that's all Monday through Thursday. And then on
Friday, we have three showings of the play. And then Saturday
and Sunday, we have showings for the blind. So I doubt that we're
gonna get an episode out next week. We may just do a Hey,
everybody, here's who supported the show this week and just do a
support segment. Because some of the algos for podcasts will like
kick you out if you miss a week. Yeah, it's doing anyway. Can't
have that, you know. And plus, we want to we want to thank
people, even if, even if we're not doing a full show, because
we definitely love the support that we get from our fans. Yeah,
so yeah, that's a little low energy. I'm not gonna lie, and
I'm just just a little tired. I think after we get get done
here, I think I'm gonna go get my pajama pants on and
Leila: already have a pretty okay. She does. I've had him for
like, four hours.
David: You got over school years like, yeah, pajama pants time.
She has been working on a new cosplay.
Leila: Yes. So I got the fabric yesterday. And I was supposed to
get here on Saturday, today's Friday. And obviously, Fun Fact,
Friday. So it got here Thursday. And I was like, hey, it's early.
But I didn't have any plans to do anything with it because I
had stuff to do. Right. So I got out my patterns today. And I cut
it all out. And I'm sewing it together right now. I just need
to. I'm making a hoop skirt. So it has to have the bones in it.
Yeah, that makes the shape shape. Yeah. And I ordered those
yesterday. And they'll get here on Tuesday. Yeah,
David: it's interesting stuff.
Leila: I kind of yeah,
David: this this was this one's gonna be big. It's gonna be a
big one. It's got like a big old like, fluffy. I want a split
skirt on it. I haven't said anything that you haven't said.
Okay. What that it's got a big old fluffy skirt. Yeah,
Leila: so it's kind of hoop skirt. Well, yeah, it could have
been a flat skirt. You never know. Why
David: would. why would why would you need the boning if you
don't if you don't have any shape to it. Anyway, anyway,
calmed well edited out. Nobody will know totally. So yeah, this
week we're gonna be talking about cultural practices. Yeah.
Some of them are like endangered traditions is how the other
websites that we're pulling from you know, word it medium.com and
the culture trip.com The links will be in the show notes of
course. But yeah, but we do have we do have some even though even
though the no agenda show has stolen our good news segment and
they already have a jingle what they already have a fancy jingle
about it and I play it but it has a has a not you know not not
so good word and the jingle so well. Yeah, of course. But
that's pretty funny. But yeah, no agenda. Yeah, get get ready
for that cease and desist letter for stealing our segment our
thing that's all right, so we have Welcome to Fun Fact Friday
with your lead anchor, Leila, Leila. She's going first when
you're gonna go first with your new story.
Leila: I was lost for a second. I didn't know where it was. Oh
my gosh, this organized. Hold on. I gotta control plus this
stuff. What? I can't see it. My eyes aren't Oh,
David: I usually I use the mouse wheel.
Leila: I don't I left my eyes inside. Yeah. I have glasses.
Alright, what's your understanding?
David: So what's your story? Well,
Leila: I have a free engagement rings two couples who include
cats in their plan for wedding proposal in December. So I think
there's this brand named Felix cat insurance. Okay. And if you
have a cat in your proposal picture or whatever, and your
plans and send it to this, and you when you get a free
engagement ring. Oh, so
David: that's kind of like the Garfield thing. Oh, yeah, so we
were watching what's it called? Trailers, movie trailers and new
animated movies coming out next year. Yeah, yeah, this year next
year, you
Leila: can send in clips of your cat being like Garfield, because
it's like his origin story or whatever.
David: Yeah, don't include in the movie. My theory is that
Garfield is gonna start off, you know, just a normal cat. But
like over time, he's gonna watch a bunch of videos of cats being
lazy and and you know, like Garfield, and he's gonna like
get influenced by mad Oh hold on, let me stop this music. We
we really need rap music folks. So it's got to be like intense
just like blue or red and then like, you know, for real? Yeah.
Okay, so good rant away.
Leila: You know it makes me mad. Chris Pratt. Chris Pat if you're
watching
David: know Chris Pratt is unknown listener to Fun Fact
Friday.
Leila: Yeah, actually low. Not really. He's got
David: kids that were probably actually like it. We should try
to mount a get credit press Chris Bratton to listen to our
show. Campaign.
Leila: Yeah, I don't hate anyone. But he just has stolen
so many like rolls. He hasn't stolen them. It's just he is
them. And it makes me mad.
David: He's doing a lot of voice roles. Mario
Leila: is an American. So
David: Mario,
Leila: he's supposed to be like, it's I mean, your Mario not? Yo,
it's me, Mario. You know?
David: I'm making beats. So, okay. My thing is that Mario has
had a voice actor. Right. And I cannot remember his name. I'm
going to look it up while I'm talking. But he's got an
established voice actor. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just gonna like,
like Mario 64 I'll just look that up on the internet database
here. And it's gonna get ya, Marinette. Yeah, Charles
martinet. Martin. He's Mario. He was at the Galaxy con. I think.
Leila: He was, I think definitely Chris Pratt wasn't,
but he's gonna be Garfield. Bless you. He's going to be
Garfield. And it makes me mad because he's like, you're so
many characters at this point. Now is the
David: Garfield voice actor. not around anymore. I wonder if he's
around anymore. Let's see gar feet not Andrew Garfield.
Leila: He's so weird looking.
David: He's He's okay, so Oh, Eric Garfield and friends.
Garfield and friends. Garfield to me. Yeah, is Lorenzo music
Lorenza I don't know if he is still around. So let's see. No,
he's not around any.
Leila: But they couldn't have gotten someone that sounded like
him. Yeah,
David: but you know, it's, it's okay. They grabbed CRISPR on an
animated movie I don't think like I understand like, if you
liked the, the way a certain actor looks, yeah. Then you
know, getting them or how they act on stage or screen and their
other presences and all that stuff stuff. But like, voice
actors, there's like so many good voice actors out there.
That aren't really screen actors, but they do so good with
their voice. Look into you, Kyle. I was gonna say chi labour
chi labor. And it's a I don't know that I don't feel like
they're stealing the role because the role is out that I
just feel like they're they put a lot of weight on a big name.
When Yeah, the movie would go seem be seen by people even if
there wasn't a big name doing the main character. Like I don't
I don't think anybody's like, oh, I wasn't gonna go see
Garfield. But then I found out Chris Pratt was that voice actor
and now I'm gonna go see it. You know. I see that as being a
thing. Where how do we get off on this? Oh, yeah, you can send
in a video and your cat video might end up on on the movie.
Leila: Felix is a cat insurance company. So it's pet insurance
but just for cats. Oh, back to the zoo.
David: If that was not a native ad for the new Garfield movie, I
promise no.
Leila: But we were watching stuff last night and we were
like, oh, it's pretty cute. It's got Chris Pratt in it.
David: So out of all of the animated movies that we saw ads
for on this trailers where we were just watching trailers.
Every single one of them had a butt joke.
Leila: Oh my gosh.
David: Every single one of them.
Leila: We watched the trolls trailer, and I was like, it's
just about humor.
David: Oh, yes. It's just, it's just and
Leila: then we started paying more attention. We started like
saying but humor to every one of the trailers. Because it Yeah,
because something about it. Yeah. Even just the animated
ones.
David: So like that didn't I don't remember that being a
thing of kids movies when I was like, I really don't remember
that being a thing. But I don't
Leila: know. Maybe they're just like, what's with kids?
David: What's hip with the kids? These
Leila: kids got much right.
David: But yeah, but most folks, yeah. So yeah, it just it just,
it was funny because we we joked about it on the first trailer
and then next trailer had it and the next trailer had the next I
was like, wow. So yeah. Anyway, we
Leila: watched some someone look really good. My goal was to some
back to news,
David: practice. Okay, so you're all done? Yeah. Okay. So mine is
is a good news story from I believe India. Yeah, in India,
there were a bunch of abandoned wells, like, you know, water
wells. And a lot of them had, like, become like trash dumps,
like, they dried up. So they, like people just started
throwing their trash in there. Yeah. Well, there was like a
revitalization process that went on. You could have warned me or
lowered your heel. Sorry.
Leila: I have aggressive sneezes.
David: So yeah, the wells, they went and got took all these
like, abandoned wells, and revitalize them, like, gave them
new new pipes and spread the piping system around to get new.
Better water, you know, to actually get water back into the
wells. And then they decorated them in Fun, fun ways. Like one
is like, a fun fun ways. One looks like a like a Christmas
package with ribbons on it. And one of them's like a tea cup
with a big old spoon leaning on it. And it's just neat. It's a
neat little project. They did they revitalized 163 wells. And
I was like, Cool. Good job. Good job, everybody. You did it. So
Leila: I love hearing something someone else's says and I'm
like, I'm gonna start saying that. That's funny. Oh, no. Like
someone that was just in the hallway the other day and
someone says something questionable. And he was like,
check with that.
David: Streaming. I'm gonna turn the heater off. I'll be right
back.
Leila: Okay. Yeah, it's getting a bit steamy in here. So I one
thing that I wanted to talk about were the grading systems
of different countries. Have you heard about this?
David: Wasn't ready. I wasn't ready for a
Leila: question yet. hit your head on the mic.
David: So yeah, I did I hit my glasses on my on my my pop
filter. Mine inside. So the grading. Do you mean? Like the
the slope of land? Or do you mean like, yeah. No, do you mean
grading of scores in schools? Right? Yes. Yes. All right.
Well, carry on. Carry on, carry on, then.
Leila: Here we go then. So I figured out that like a lot of
European countries have a very more like lenient grading score
than we do. Okay. So like, like, here we have 190 is an A 90 to
80 is a B, I thought this was like the standard. Okay. It's
like a 10 point scale, or sometimes a seven point scale.
David: So what is it over there?
Leila: Well, it's different in like every country, but the one
that I found interesting was Scotland. Okay. 70 to 100% is an
A Hmm, so all the way from 70 which is a see a very low C
David: seven D is a low C and Merica Yeah. Yeah. can actually
be can actually be a D depending on the scale. Yeah, because I'm
when I was in school, we were on a seven point scale. So every
seven points you lost a letter grade, or gained, depending on
which direction you're going. But um, yeah, so 93 was the
lowest a you could get and then you know, go down from there.
And oh
Leila: my gosh, so that makes you think you can get all the
way down to a C and you can pass and be accepted by universe Are
cities that's a 50 fly.
David: Something's buzzing around. What?
Leila: Where's it scary? It sounds really loud so I feel
like it's big. Is it? Is it in here or is it other? I heard it.
It's like right next to me
David: Oh, that doesn't sound like fly. Fly. I'm scared. That
sounds like a bee. Okay, pause Okay, we gotta pause
Leila: Okay, we have concluded it's a horse fly. I'm scared to
horse fly. bites it has teeth.
David: Oh my gosh, I'm so I have to kill this thing. Yes. Oh my
gosh. Okay, hitting pause again. Okay,
Leila: we got him this is now Fun Fact Friday with Leila the
horse fly got dad. He got he got bit and then turned into a horse
fly. So those two more slides.
David: Fun Fact Friday with horse flies back with worthless
so that was about 10 minutes. Oh, well, unexpected adventure.
This little guy was messing with us.
Leila: He was he was goofing around. Yeah.
David: I tried to I want to I wanted to catch him. I was gonna
put them in a cup and then like, hold him up to the mics to get
hear how loud he was. But here
Leila: I can I can give you an accurate representation
David: Yeah, this tiny little studio is like, was running back
and forth, back and forth. And
Leila: we got solid and it was like,
David: Oh my gosh, the horse fly incident. I know. Right, Episode
166. All right. So what were we what were we doing before we
were so rudely interrupted by horsefly
Leila: I was talking about grades, but I think I was like
finished. Wrapping up.
David: So. Oh, yeah, here we go. So there are traditions,
cultural traditions from around the world. That is a little odd.
A little odd. One of the ones here in America that the rest of
the world thinks is odd. Is Groundhog's Day. Really?
Leila: Yeah, well, yeah.
David: 1887 is when it started. It's on February 2. And yeah,
the nation I think we've gone over this before in a previous
episode, but yeah, we got new listeners. So essentially, the
this this council of the groundhog. Punxsutawney,
Groundhog clubs in our circle, are a group of dedicated men who
according to tradition, tend to tend to the groundhog while
dressed in black suits and top hats have a lighthearted
Groundhog Day celebration. Every year ceremony not celebration
ceremony. And then of course, you know, there's Groundhog's
Day the movie, which I think is the only Groundhog's Day movie,
there's lots of Christmas movies. Got a couple of
Thanksgiving movies? Yeah. One or two Hanukkah movies that I
know of. Really? Yeah. One of the reason I'm saying the movie,
so he's hit or miss. So another one in America, that the other
work the rest of the world doesn't really do is tipping.
Really? Yeah. Tipping is a very American thing. So what how do
you feel I got a quote? How do you Leila feel about tipping?
And then I'll give you my thoughts on it. I
Leila: think if the person does a good job, and you're at a
place where they actually do it, and you're like, you know what?
Good job and you give them like two bucks. That's fine. I don't
like the would you like to pay 20%? So 100% Okay, so
David: there's, there's different there's different
methods? Okay. So like, if, if I go somewhere? And okay, so where
we're at North Carolina, they have I don't know what it is
now. But back when I was waiting tables, it was $2.13 is what you
would actually get paid by the company you worked for to work.
But then in that case, it's good to have tip you got to keep
well, that's that's the minimum wage in the state if and like I
said, it might have gone up since then. I don't think it has
though. But, um, that that's the way you get for tipped work. So
when when you're expected to receive lots of tips, that's
what they pay you. When you're doing untapped work. The minimum
wage is like 725 or something, which everywhere pays more than
that now because, you know, economy, but um, so, when I
worked at Outback, I used to average 16 to $20 an hour in
tips. And that was, you know, $2,001 Nice 2002 That's really
good. Yeah. So you know, I made good money waiting tables. I was
good at it. I'm a personable guy. You know? I can I can carry
lots of stuff on a tray pretty good.
Leila: I'm impressive the guys that can like carry stuff on
their arms. Yeah,
David: I used to. I used to carry five plates running up my
arm. And then the other hand, I could carry five mugs from the
bar, nice, the big the big heavy mugs. And you get you get pretty
strong waiting tables. If you're at a place they have to carry
all that stuff out. And then your balance gets really good.
But yeah, so tipping. If If I would have gotten if they would
have like said, oh, you know, why doesn't Outback just pay
their people? I would have quit. Because there's no way that
Outback is gonna pay their waiters what I was making,
Leila: okay, you know what I think is stupid. What's do you
need to raise minimum wage? I have argued with people. I
David: would love to go into a long conversation about you
about this with you. But not on Fun Fact Friday. Okay, I'm
writing this down. I'm gonna get my notepad here and I'm gonna
write an open, get my boogie board. I'm writing this down.
We're gonna have a discussion. It'll be a bonus episode. Yeah,
Leila: I'm gonna give you a little sum up of my ideas on
this, okay,
David: from the 13 year old leader who's never had a job.
Gotcha. Yeah.
Leila: The more money people are getting as a minimum, the more
money's in circulation. So that means things are gonna go up in
price, and she's gonna keep going.
David: Your conclusion is correct, but your mature.
causation is not. But like I said, we will go into a full
minimum. We're gonna do a bonus episode. When we have like a
week, she's got a week off of school two weeks off school for
Christmas. We're gonna have a conversation. We're gonna have a
conversation. Yes.
Leila: We should make that a Patreon episode. No,
David: we're not charging for episodes ever. Yeah. Oh, well,
sorry about that under donations. Okay, so that's
something yeah, let me write it down. Because you're not good at
remembering. Oh my gosh, I'm so bad. When I'm in like performing
mode. My memory is terrible. So go ahead and read us one of Your
your fun facts about cultural stuff. So
Leila: there's a poetic duel. Like an Epic Rap battle?
David: A poetic duel. Yes. An epic. What are you talking
about? Oh,
Leila: like a slam poetry.
David: Okay. That's kind of what this is. Well, yes, slam poetry
exists all over the world. What are you talking about? A duel?
So it's like slam poetry but but dissing each other? No. So it's
more like a competition.
Leila: So this is what it says. Just picture an Epic Rap battle.
Now imagine it's Greek fibrotic poetry and performance a violent
or loot in the background? I want to go see. I want to go see
this. I think it'd be funny if we ever went to like, what is it
Greece,
David: we need to we need to find if they've recorded or
written any of this down on me and you need to like go back and
forth with the loot in the back.
Leila: We need to find something that pleases the loot. Like,
satisfies the performance improvised rhyming couplets on
specific themes within a strict time constraints. So
David: it's an epic rap battle.
Leila: It's an epigraph exactly
David: what it is. Yeah. So I heard one time awesome that when
two rappers get into a beef with one another, and like, right,
distracts you know, that essentially it's just two guys
writing poetry to each other. Yeah,
Leila: pretty much. I think it's funny.
David: That was funny. Okay, I was gonna I was gonna say that
one thing I was I was gonna say that because that's what was the
other one that I thought was so interesting. Shadow No, no,
sorry. This is this is riveting. Okay, the Turkish oil wrestling
festival so what a couple this this has been going on since
1346. Making it the longest standing annual sporting event
in the history of the world. Oh my gosh. 1346 This thing's been
going on every year. Hold on. I gotta do some math pill pill a
vn wrestlers traveled to ederson and Turkey for Kerch. Paneer a
competitive oil wrestling festival that
Leila: 677 years Yep. Each
David: that's too many one on one oily battle. What is decided
by the pet Pehlivan. Who can pin the other for the long for a
long enough so basically, we're just trying to pin each other,
but they're all oiled up. So it's like we haven't
traditionally yet well, there is a there's a thing. I don't know
if they still do it, but they used to make the teachers at the
high school it was a yearly thing during like spirit week,
they had to catch a greased up pig. They, they would go out
onto the football field. And they and they would close off
all the areas that the pig could get out. And then they would
grease up the pig like super greasy with like, whatever.
That's great. And then the teachers had to run around and
try and catch the pig.
Leila: Oh my gosh, this is like terrifying.
David: was just like a little, a little baby. Not baby pig, but
you know, like a little small pig. Pig thinking oh my gosh.
Leila: I'm gonna get oil over me. Oh
David: my gosh. I'd be like sliding around if I was the pig,
but yeah, like I didn't I'd never heard of this oil
wrestling. Just a couple of couple of dudes with some oil
Wrestlin
Leila: Christina Aguilera.
David: No, Christina Aguilar was well, she always looked oily
back in the day. Yeah. And the music videos and stuff. Alright,
what
Leila: else got moving museums?
David: A moving Museum? Okay. So
Leila: there's these moving museums. All right. On July 17
of every year, the guy on festival in Kyoto in central
Japan, culminates with a grand possession of Yama. Hueco floats
known as moving museums, with gorgeous drape decorations. The
floats are paraded through the main streets of central Kyoto.
David: Cool, so like, and it's like a museum. Yeah. And it
moves. It's mobile.
Leila: So these are four protected spirit through music,
dance and worship. Okay, these are really cool. They look cool,
too.
David: Neat. That was that was on medium.com. Yeah. Okay. So
here's one and I will story after it. Every year in
Catalonia, Spain, there are festivals in which people come
together to build a colorful and ridiculously tall human towers
that scare old cast hills. Which means castles and catalog that's
very cast Hills castles ogen kattiline. These cast Hills can
be anywhere between six to 10 levels high and consist of 100
to 500 men, women and children are supported by nothing other
than sheer strength and courage. I've seen this not in person on
like movies and documentaries and stuff and it is insane. All
these dudes. Mostly dudes on the ones I've seen, like climb on
each other's shoulders. And then like other people just climbing
up the mountain of people. Oh my gosh, and one of the best. Okay,
so Oh, what is that movie called AR AR AR It is a Bollywood film.
And it is amazing.
Leila: Apparently it is so spent like a full night walk. It is
like
David: four hours long. And I enjoyed every minute of it. My
Leila: gosh, he was like he was like coming here. I was
David: like trying to get them to come watch. It was me just
some parts. They're not gonna go through the whole thing. But
like there is a scene. And if you don't want to watch the
whole thing, just go to YouTube, or wherever and look up our, our
our scene and like, it'll show you oh my gosh, the action of
this movie is outrageous. But anywho they have a scene where
the guys the two main characters are like becoming friends. And
they climb up one of these towers and stand on the top and
do like some Bollywood dance. It's amazing. It's just amazing.
Leila: To be on top of it. You
David: gotta climb like people are like stepping on each
other's heads to climb up the tower. So it's called a Castel
which means castle. Let's see Hold on a second. Local cattle.
Katelyn photographer David Elliot is fascinated by these
human towers and their capacity for evoking human emotion. He
began photographing the pastels eight years ago and hasn't
stopped since explore his glorious kaleidoscope of shots.
Okay, so on the medium link in the Castells part. There is a
link to a photographer's website, and a bunch of pictures
of nope, nevermind. That's a dead link. How old is this
article? Some of these traditions might not be true.
This is from 2014.
Leila: Nah, wow. Traditions are gone. Yeah, nobody's
David: doing this stuff anymore.
Leila: That's it show's over.
David: So I'm gonna go on a little rant. Okay. All right,
right now I know. I know that there are ways to do it. So
don't ask me. All right. So when I go to a search engine, and I'm
looking for something right, and I type in something, I need help
with something and I want something from the last Three
years, you know, I need newer information, and you Google it,
or whatever search engine you're using. And it's showing you
stuff from 2009 and 2014. And we need to just purge the on get on
it every three years. We just need to wipe the internet clean
and start from scratch. No, it's just get rid of all the old
junk. No, bring in the new hotness.
Leila: Like y2k was oh my god, we're good. We don't need to do
that.
David: y2k was not bad. Why did you know? That was not what I
have to have to go out to explain to you what y2k is
later. Not. Not tonight is too much. But
Leila: so slurping in Japan is polite. It is
David: a compliment. Yeah, it's a compliment to the chef
compliment to the ship. When I was growing up. I was told that
burping in some cultures was considered a compliment to the
chef. When you let out a big old belt Jeffery ate some of their
food because it kind of means that you're like eating too
fast. Or drinking whatever you drinking too fast. But yeah,
tell us about the slurping. Go ahead.
Leila: So it might have something to do with the fact
that Western countries that aren't like over there, you
know, in the over, like the down under, in the over and over. We
swirl stuff like noodles, we swirl it with our fork and we
put it in our mouth. And we like out. It was wallet. That was my
chewing noise. I'm
David: gonna go ahead and ban you from making a slurping noise
into the mic. Now to demonstrate
Leila: because you make mouth noises at me all the time in the
mic.
David: I know. It's gross, but I don't do it on the show.
Sometimes unintentional mouth. Yeah, but yeah, I'm just messing
with you.
Leila: I know. It grosses me out. Since like, Japan uses
chopsticks, they just pick the noodles up and put them in the
mouth and slip them. Because you can't really twirl chopsticks
that easily. Right? You can you can knit with spaghetti.
David: Yes. Yes, you can. So I saw a video recently. And I know
this isn't like Oh, I saw a video recently type of show. But
it was uh, this guy was showing off that he could pick up his
whole bowl of noodles on his chopsticks. And as soon as he
pulled all the noodles out, one of his buddies grabbed the ball
out from underneath. Yeah, I saw that too. So he was just stuck
holding this huge ball of noodles on his top stakes.
Leila: You're scared to turn into alpha male podcast, an
alpha male podcast Yeah.
David: We're gonna try some new experimental features we're
gonna do a controversial topics.
Leila: You know alpha male bro gains you know if we do
David: that we should we should split it off into a separate
feed. Separate feed. We should just do like a Leila and David
goof and show goofing. So the goofy show, we can probably just
like record it right after we record this. You know, silly.
Right? So, okay, so yeah, have
Leila: you seen those like, sorry, guys seen the clips of
like the dude bros on YouTube? Oh, yeah.
David: The man who's talking to each other? Yeah.
Leila: And sometimes they're not talking to anyone. There's fake
podcasts out there. What do you mean? Like there's just someone
talking like this. Like they're just like talking to the wall.
And it looks like they're talking to someone like the way
that their angle is? Oh, so and, but it's just them talking. So
there's been talking it looks like they're talking to someone
else. But it doesn't say anything because their person
there.
David: Yeah, if I turn this camera on right now, that's the
angle. And like, I'm looking at the screen. It looks like I'm
talking to somebody but it's coming out from the side. So
there's that illusion that there's I'm talking to someone
and not just blogging.
Leila: Yeah. And sometimes they just go off on a tangent. Like
David: we never do that. Nope. Never once as we're talking so
anyway, slurping in Japan. I think I think it's about them.
Leila: They're about done. Online. Okay. But I just don't
think it's funny. The whole podcasting. Yeah, it's
David: that anything that's distributed on an RSP or RSS
feed any audio or video file?
Leila: Like I'm making fun of podcasts, right? I guess or for
lame O's. Yeah. Anybody
David: who listens to or creates a podcast is a big old nerd.
Yeah. I'm a cool guy. Okay, so in some countries, if somebody
does anything with their left hand, like hands you something
extends their left hand to shake it, you know, to shake your
hand. Like, like anything. It's considered very rude, and
unsalted Because oftentimes, these cultures in these
countries they use their left hand for cleaning themselves
after using the toilet And therefore the left hand is
considered dirty soap. Well, I'm sure that this is all old. Yes,
yeah.
Leila: It's pretty funny old thing.
David: But yeah, so that was you know, that's that's the hand you
used to clean up.
Leila: So it was almost 10 years ago. Yes. That's crazy.
David: That is making me feel very old. Thank you. Yeah, I
fell down the stairs at the play rehearsal. So it's hard. And I
had a cane. Oh,
Leila: I fell down the stairs at school. And I got my arm stuck
in the handrail, so it was even worse. So it like almost
dislocated my arm. I had a bruise on my hand for those that
are the my forearm for the rest of the week. Right. That's
funny. So
David: yeah, just saying if you're in some countries, let's
see, this rule applies to several places around the world,
including much of the Middle East, Sri Lanka, India and parts
of Africa. I didn't know
Leila: that Sri Lanka was a place until today.
David: What did you think it
Leila: was? A concept. Sri Lanka is a concept. Did
David: you think that the concept was No? shirt? I'm
feeling really bad. Because just concept for something. I was
like, Where is Sri Lanka is a tip of India. Yep. Soft.
Leila: The fingers reaching for? Right.
David: Yep. So that's what Sri Lanka is down there to the
bottom and
Leila: not a concept guys, not a concept found that up to a
place.
David: So yeah, have you ever in those places? You know, just use
your right hand for stuff? Oh, there was oh, where is it? Oh,
those. Anyway, I can't find it. I don't think it's on either one
of these sites. But while I was looking through this, it might
have been one of the GPT you know, AI generated answers when
you when you Google, Google when you brave search stuff. Now. One
of the traditions I can't remember where it was, but they
use their lips to point instead of their fingers. That's weird.
So like, if something to nearby things. So like if something is
to my left, and you looked at me and you were like, Hey, where's
the salt shaker? I wouldn't point at it. Or look at it, I
would just put my lips out and a duck lips and like wiggle them
to the left. It's just such a funny concept.
Leila: I know, like some tradition or some places point
with their thumb. Yeah.
David: And Bill Clinton did that. Bill Clinton was advised
by his people that it's less threatening to point with your
thumb. So he would always make a fist and put his thumb on top of
it and point with his thumb. Like instead of point instead of
pointing at the camera, hunch and someone write it like he
pointed with his thumb when he was talking to make the point
was cool. Like I'm doing hand motions, but we're audio only
podcast. So
Leila: I'm hugging you, but I'm hitting.
David: Yeah, dudes, when you hug people, you got to pat them on
the back. So it's like, I'm hugging you, but I'm hitting
you. I do that all the time. I can't remember the comedian did
that bit. But it was one of them. Yeah, it was one of them.
It was so includes our
Leila: short episode that was 40 minutes long.
David: So we did, we did have some support, support. He does
have a system support. And it was let's see, we got some
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support this week in boost. We got 2345 sets from bullies the
you know,
Leila: from bullies.
David: That was more recent. Yeah. We got 2345234512345
Okay, you read them. 2345 stats
Leila: from Kevin Hallisey. saying Happy Holidays. The show
just gets better and better rant on Leila. Absolutely. I will. I
promise. Respectfully Of course. And I'm thankful for Leila David
and Phaedra also Dr. K. Just listening, fairness, Love and
Light pod father Adam and Even JCD who JCD John C.
David: Dvorak. Ah, we had we had his wife on me, me. Yeah, we
are. That's actually our most popular episode Spotify, at
least on Spotify. Actually, now I looked at the OB three stats
and that is our most popular episode. Dang,
Leila: we talked about eggs more often eggs, eggs,
David: big old guests on, like big popular guests. Yeah. Okay.
And then we got that was 2345 sets
Leila: policy on the Thanksgiving episode. Yep. And
David: then one that doesn't have an episode associated with
it. Just boosting the show in general. Nice. And that was
12,345 sets from Bully steed. And that's with Dracula. Yeah,
the the emojis are pre programmed into Hello, Pat, I
believe to show up when certain set amounts are set. Like tu tu
tu tu is a row of ducks. Duck emojis, and then like down here
33 It gives you a star. So 3333 Gets you two stars. So there's a
33 there. It's just our because that's the magic number. That
I'm not sure what the vampire is. It's all good. Yeah, well
look at it. Well, yeah, I don't know. 7777 You know, the
different ones have different. Different emojis.
Leila: Cool.
David: So yeah, I got I got off on a tangent. Like I said, we
never do. Bully Steve says fun maps Friday. I wonder if Pelosi
was listening to the maps episode. Oh, maybe a million
years ago. Monopoly game boost please check out the map thief.
Ah the true crimes of Daniel Spiegelman by Michael Blanding
hint antique rare map thief and if that wasn't from Bully seat,
I'll be like are people dropping ads in our in our boosts? Which
Hey, you know what, if you boost the show, we don't do ads. We
don't make agreements with people. But if you want to, like
you know, plug your show or if you've if you're if you got your
own other family friendly podcast, you want to plug it
Yeah, shoot us a boost. You know what? Let us know shoot us an
email. Yeah. We're actually we're actually thinking about in
the new year talking to some other family friendly podcasts
and doing like you know, guest swap type of thing like we'll go
on their show they'll come on our show that sort of thing. But
yeah, the map thief I'll look into that. And maybe I'll get
that on the Kindle or something. Give some do some reading that
that intrigues me an antique rare map thief.
Leila: Cool. Map episode. Dang, that does feel like a long time
ago. It
David: was a long time. So I think let me see if Threadless
is having a holiday deal right now. Our store is at store dot
fun fact. friday.com Just plug it Oh dang. Okay, here I'll edit
that out you two years.
Leila: We had a merch store. Smash that Like where can you
find it? I
David: forgot the important part. The punchline to a joke
it's stored up FunFactFriday.com
Leila: FunFactFriday.com Where can you find it
David: well stored because I control stored up
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Threadless I don't have a problem with Threadless so far,
but if they you know do something that we don't like, we
can point that store anywhere. We start doing our own store you
know, but yeah right now starting I think it was Cyber
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Leila: you can go get them if you want some stickers same team
metric system that will give me more points. And it's good for
the economy man.
David: We got to clip that and it's good for the economy man.
The oh the metric system. I know I am bad. And I the metric
system team imperial system thing. If you go to store dot
FunFactFriday.com and pick up an any item, it's number of items
sold not money. Because we don't we don't make a lot of money off
this. But if you pick up whichever team you're on. On
January 1, we are going to or the week of January 1 We're
going to announce the winner. January 1 is on a Monday. We're
going to cut off at midnight on January or December 31. So
whichever team has the most items sold on our store. So like
let's say, let's say team metric system wins by some miracle,
right, then I will have to announce in public that the
metric system is the superior measuring system for 2023.
Leila: You should make a sign. We should make signs and
protest. Go
David: go downtown. Yeah, yes, we'll do it. We'll go we'll do.
We'll make it we will make a poster board. And we will go
downtown and sing the praises of whichever whichever thing oh,
say.
Leila: Magic says now. And we don't use yards in inches. All
right, everybody. There you go. That's what were you gonna say?
By the way, what did you write down?
David: Oh, man, what am I? Oh, yeah, we, we are going to be the
Christmas carol next week. Like I said, we do not plan on doing
an episode next week, we may, who knows. But the Christmas
carol that we're in is a we can the theater company that we're a
part of a member of it wrote this version of a Christmas
carol adapted it from the original. And since they wrote
it, they can record it and sell DVDs. So if anybody wants a DVD
of our show, let us know get in touch with this male of
FunFactFriday.com. And we will get you point to where you need
to go to purchase that. I want to say be $25 plus shipping, I
can you can get in touch with me I can buy one for you and mail
it out. If you want to do that, that sort of thing. So yeah,
just letting y'all know about that if you are interested, and
that some of the money from that goes to the people who are
making the DVD. And then the rest of it goes to the theatre
company. It's a local community theater. It's just a fun thing.
Like they don't make any money off the shows. Everything they
make off of it goes right back into costumes and sets and all
that stuff. So it's just a fun thing. Local Community Theater
anywho we're gonna wrap it up. It has been almost 50 minutes on
our super short episode, so we're Yeah, plus the tinder
chasing a fly around the studio.
Leila: I'm gonna give him my nails.
David: Go do your nails. I'm gonna go watch a movie or
something. I'm tired. I fall asleep. Alright everybody, we'll
talk to you later.
Leila: Why am I wow by saying that every episode.
David: Yeah, we need to make a
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