Leila: Hello and welcome to Fun Fact Friday. Hello, welcome to
my Friday where weekly show we do things here. We have fat. And
we have good news. We have fun stuff.
David: Sorry, I just dipped your audio persuaded. Sorry. And
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Leila: I mean money emojis,
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David: one money, and we'll keep track of how many one monies we
get. And then you have to owe us that money.
Leila: That's that's the thing we don't tell you about.
David: What is the exchange rate for one money emoji to one
penny? 1 million money emojis equals one penny. Yeah. All
right. So there we go. That's the exchange rate. Currently,
we're going to call it money coin. Like Bitcoin or you know,
Dogecoin. So yeah, I feel like we were just out here. Yeah,
less than a week ago. Yeah, we
Leila: did yesterday. We got to record tomorrow. And I'm like,
what?
David: We just just got done record. Yeah, we released late
last week. Yeah, it's been great. So what what we have on
our agenda today is first off, we got New Year's coming up. So
we're going to be talking about some new year's facts, New
Year's resolutions, little stuff like that. But we're kind of
just doing like a recap of what what we've been doing and what,
what's, what's coming up. But we are running out of time. If
you're hearing this after January 1, then it's too late.
It's too late. You've you've missed the brain blown up. So
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two items are part of a contest. If you go to store at
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a vote for me. Or him for me, the imperial system, the one
that makes sense based on the human body and are experiencing
the real world world or her the metric system, which is more
logical. It works a lot better, a lot of systems better, but I
prefer the Imperial she prefers metric and we have not decided
yet. He prefers Imperial because
Leila: it's stupid and dumb. And he's like, I know all the
intuitive citizens.
David: That was a spot on impression. Yeah, like I don't
even need to do any voice acting anymore. You could just do it
for me with that. So yeah, go. If you go and buy it, it's not
per dollar spent. It's per item purchased. Yeah. And there are
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notes. Yeah, so right now we're sitting at five items sold in
the metric system. Oh, awesome. 10 items sold in the imperial
system.
Leila: I would recommend getting it like a size up. If you're
getting a t shirt or something. Yes,
David: definitely get at least a size up.
Leila: Because there's stuff that seemed to run small. It
runs a little small.
David: And yeah, we ordered a shirt. And it wasn't one of
those. We're not buying into our own voting system. No,
Leila: we bought a pajama pants time shirt. Yeah, it's
David: pajama pants time. Yes, cool pajamas bought it but I
added two more we had a special request to make a mug with our
old logo on it. So I made that into a mug. You can order that
or and I really didn't we didn't just have our logo like our show
name as as a merch purchase purchase item so if you wanted
to just buy some stickers with just our our name and stick
around town not in places that you're not allowed to know of
course but yeah, hit up hit up the merch store get into that
metric system imperial system battle. We're sitting at five
for metric 10 For Imperial so right now as of right now at the
stroke of midnight on December 2022 December 31 2023. If nobody
else buys any metric system items the next two days imperial
system is the preferred measuring system of the Fun Fact
Friday and all of this media and Leila we'll have to declare this
on our next episode in her own voice
Okay, so that's our our little talk about that. Now what we've
been up to Christmas we're just gonna run real quick through I
got it I got a cool flashlight. I got a video game Pikmin four
for the Nintendo Switch. I'm pretty pretty having a good time
with that. It's just a nice relaxing little puzzle. Actually
puzzle game.
Leila: Oh my gosh, we have everything on our store.
David: I got some tweezers. I got some tweezers. Ooh. But like
they're these like really nice, heavy metal. Like they have like
the sheath. And anyway they're really nice tweezers. I needed
some for like 3d printing stuff and stuff like that. You have
skateboard and candy. Yeah, and candy. You can buy a skateboard
with Oh my god.
Leila: It's ridiculous. No, I'm just now looking at our shop. I
don't think I've ever looked at our shop before anyways.
Alright.
David: So yeah, I just got I just got some little I like
everything I got. Don't get me wrong. I got the neck video
game. I got a little stuff. And I like that because you can just
keep pulling more and more stuff out of the stocking. Yeah, I
like Leila Yeah. What was your big gift? Trumpet. She got a
trill a Trump of a toot.
Leila: I did. I got a trumpet for today.
David: So she's getting pretty good saxophone and one of her
friends has a trumpet. And she got to play a little bit. Two of
her friends have trumpets. And she wanted a trumpet. Yeah. And
I found one for a good deal. So yeah, so now she's Trump Puffin
around the house trumpington around. She's making noise with
the Trumpet. Trumpet does it makes noise when she blows into
it? So that's further than I can get it.
Leila: Oh, my gosh, Mom tried playing yesterday. I was trying
to teach her how to do it. She was like, I have so much respect
for you because you even got noise out of that. And I'm like,
thank you.
David: She's doing her scales. And she's learning it. But it's
only been a couple of days. So we're not we're not putting too
much expectation on her right this second. You should be what
else did you get?
Leila: I got a dress for him for making costumes for her sewing.
And once
David: you have a bunch of stuff
Leila: that's weighted. It's like a little dinosaur and I
love it. But
David: you gotta stress toy that you squeeze and cornstarch as
cornstarch in it and the corn starch crunches and it makes
this noise that hurts my teeth.
Leila: So because he's a little sensitive, little snowflake,
yeah, I'm
David: a little snowflake that just that noise. It's like
chalkboard stuff or ice crunching together. So but yeah,
we had a good Christmas. It was very relaxed, very laid back. We
went over and had some good roast beef and my sister in
law's house was pretty good. It was pretty good. But real quick,
I just wanted to tell this story because I thought it was so
funny. My wife and I went out of town to have a date night. And
where were we parked? I saw something on the ground like
where I would have to like almost step over it to get out
of the car. And I looked it was like a pile of pickled
jalapenos. Like somebody had a whole huge jar, like a massive
jar of pickled jalapenos. And they had just poured it on the
ground and the bark had been there a while because you could
tell it was they were gray.
Leila: Son had bleached.
David: I don't understand why there was a huge pile of pickled
jalapenos in the parking lot of a hotel. Oh my gosh, it was so
funny. But before we get started on our good news and facts, I
did want to say we've got some stuff coming up in 2024. We're
pretty excited about our guest episodes do really well. So
we're gonna do a little more guest episodes. I don't like
yeah, we're just boring. I mean, 169 episodes where we've done.
It's, you know, it's fun to have a mix up a little for something
else in the mix. Yeah. So we are going to be having some guests
come on. January, February. We have Rena from better called
Daddy podcast. It is an excellent podcast. She has
conversations with very interesting people. And then at
the end of the episode, she calls her dad and talks about
what they talked about during the show. Cool. And it's really
neat. And you know, she's an adult, and she's still talks to
her dad all like every day. And I like that because I want to be
in your life when you're older. And that's, that's a cool
premise for podcasts. She's a very nice lady. And then we are
talking to Ainsley Costello, who just did to live value for value
concerts. And awesome did an amazing job received a
ridiculous amount of Satoshis through the value for value
system, which we'll be talking about towards the end of the
show, because we're a value for value show. But Ainsley Costello
is going to come on and we're going to talk about music and
concerts and being a pop star because she is you know, she's
kind of got the whole thing going. None of these would have
dates for any of these yet. I'm talking to them tomorrow. So and
then we have Elijah more from the CW Network show legacies,
which was a spin off of The Vampire Diaries. He was he
played a key After named Wade, and it was a real long running
show on CW. I met him doing a charity event in Raleigh. So
we're gonna have him on. He's a really nice guy. Really nice
guy. He's been in a couple episodes of meats pod. So, um,
so yeah, there we go. That's the oh, we're taking a road trip and
a cup. Hopefully in a couple of weeks, we're going to be going
to Central Park.
Leila: The burger joint,
David: the burger joint, not, not the one in New York. So it's
about eight, eight and a half hours.
Leila: To go get some burgers and fries
David: to go get we used to have one here and it shut down for
various reasons. And the closest one that we can find is eight
and a half hours away. And Phaedra in another state that we
used to go eat there when we were dating. And we're coming up
on our 20th anniversary we were reminiscing about back when we
were dating. And we were like, Oh, you remember we used to go
to Central Park. And then we looked it up. We looked it up.
And now we're going to drive to Tennessee to go to the Central
Park. We can't wait. We're very excited for this road trip. And
then we Leila's got a convention she's going to next week. Where
are you going?
Leila: Animate Raleigh?
David: You got to animate Raleigh? Yeah. Okay. Like,
Leila: yeah, like,
David: okay. It's called animate Raleigh. It's anime festival.
Leila: Yeah, it's kind of like Galaxy con. Yep. Lots of people,
David: lots of voice actors, animators, that sort of thing.
MC Chris is going to be there. Yeah, I asked MC Chris, if he
would come on the podcast. But he said he doesn't do podcast
because he doesn't like talking like, that's fair. And then
hopefully, if I can get the funds together, I am hoping to
take a trip down to Orlando at the end of January and go to the
pod fest Expo and meet a bunch of fellow podcasters. And I
think we need to chunk a change. I tell you, it's a chunk of
change. But I feel like I would make some good contacts, meet
some people outside of the circles that are already
traveling, and maybe make some good contacts up there or down
there. Because it sounds ominous. Yeah. But yeah. So
that's okay. That is 12 minutes in and we're just now getting
done with the wrap up of what we've been doing and what we're
planning on doing.
Leila: Okay, so good news.
David: Good news. The last Fun Fact, Friday, weekly news 23.
With your lead anchor, Leila, who variably has a story about
animals of some kind of
Leila: cats.
David: That's good cats. Hate it.
Leila: Okay. So in this library in Oregon, and I wish it was
here. They have robot cats. So this library is like a library
of everything. Because I read this story. And they have like,
Oh, let me find the part because it has like board games. Robot
cats. Oh, yeah. Okay, they have a thing called a library of
things. Board games, arts and crafts and even musical
instruments. Well, that's handy. Yeah. In a library.
David: I hope they at least like clean the mouthpieces? Yeah,
Leila: obviously, probably. So you wouldn't you rent them. But
these cats, they purr. They sit on your lap. They're like, just
a cat. And you can rent them. And it's for people with I think
memory loss and people who need Company, but you can anyone can
rent them, you know. And they had three originally called
bandit, Mr. Pickles. And first of all, because the staff named
him and they got two more just to stay at the library. Nice.
They're so awesome.
David: So robot cats at the library. Yeah, I like the
library of things. Me too. I always thought that there should
be a way that you can rent kids toys. Ones that are just pretty
much just plastic shaped like something that like, because
your kid gets bored of it after six months when they're very
young, or they age out of that toy. Like a Netflix for toys.
And then that you would send it back it would get professionally
sanitized, resealed and sent back out to somebody else. I
always thought that'd be neat. A library of things sounds like a
good idea, but not a moneymaker.
Leila: And there is research that shows that purring is
therapeutic.
David: Oh yeah. Yeah, I imagine it's pretty cool. Hey, I got
some good news. But Microsoft Defender Antivirus did not find
any threats since my last scan. Nice. That's exciting. Hey, this
pop ups are you all done with your story done? All right. Onto
my dog story. Oh, kinda cats. On December 22, the Adams County
Pennsylvania SPCA posted this on Facebook. Quote. Today is a
great day for the Adams County SPCA two weeks ago our kennels
were filled, almost filled. And now we don't have any dogs in
the building at all we have. We have one one cat that just came
in. But our community stepped up once again, this year for the
first time in 27. Oh my goodness, for the first time and
27 No, sorry. 47 years. Hey, the Adams County SPCA is empty.
That's awesome, let alone at Christmas time it's a true
miracle. To say that we are beyond excited is an
understatement. The staff and volunteers have worked very hard
to take care of the animals in our care. It looks so happy
blabbity blabbity blah. This year, we adopted out almost 600
animals and reunited 125 strays with their owners. So that's
cool. They, what they've done now is they've sent to other
shelters nearby, if they need to send some of their stuff to them
to relieve them a little bit. So they're gonna fill it back up
with other animals in the surrounding areas just to spread
it around, you know? Yeah, but that's cool. Like, there's no,
no animals at the pound.
Leila: This is what it's called. And it was a cat in our backyard
today.
David: Oh my goodness. There was a fat orange cat with no tail.
Oh, my goodness wandering around our backyard this morning. I
didn't get to see him. I
Leila: woke up late. Okay. Oh, the news was up like an hour
ago.
David: This has been Fun Fact Friday news for the news. So
yeah, we had a big old fat orange cat with no tail in our
backyard. Yeah, it was just wandering around and our cat was
not happy about it. Not happy. So
Leila: I didn't see the cat. I wanted to see the cat. But I
woke up like an hour ago.
David: So New Year's resolution, one o'clock.
Leila: New Year's resolutions, New Year's resolutions, New
Year's resolutions.
David: Oh, I haven't even really I mean, there's always the you
know, try and try and live healthier. One thing that we've
we've put in, put into our brains for this coming year is
that we all three of us have talked about this, we're going
to try a lot harder to shop at big big box stores and online
and do more shopping with local vendors and local people who
actually make the items that we need. Like, I know it's going to
be a little more expensive. But that's a big box store. A big
box store just means like your your Walmart your target because
we don't want to shop with those. You said we do want to
shop for those. We we want to shop at those more than online.
Because they do provide jobs for the area. Oh, yeah. But where we
can shop with actual local manufacturers and, you know,
people within 100 miles that make whatever we need, you know
what I mean? Yeah, like go to local butcher who buys the beef
from the local rancher, you know, stuff like that. It's
gonna try and like we were looking at Christmas. And I was
like, man, there's so many local crafts people who make all kinds
of neat stuff that we could buy as Christmas gifts, but it was
after we
Leila: bought gifts for people. So I got this little mud bud. I
think I told you all about it.
David: It's a little guy little guy made a clay with a face and
it's got a face and you can put it on into your finger. But
anyway, it's a cute little what I put on my plant that's that's
that's a little healthier. We're going to try and eat less
processed food, less seed oil, because I've heard that that
stuff bad for you. And, you know, just kind of level
healthier. I'm feeling age. So there's that. Well, how about
you? What do you what are you planning on for? 2024? I don't
know. Yep. Good. That's some content. Right? I know. Right?
You're a professional podcaster Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I mean, you
don't have to. And speaking of New Year's resolutions, little
statistics for you. On average 44% of Americans make a New
Year's resolution before midnight on the 31st Yeah, only
31% of the people will stick with the promises they made
themselves. The prior year so only 31% of people actually
stick to their their guns on this thing. I have different
statistics. 81% of people fail by February I have different
statistic This is from it's from life protect 24/7 however, they
link to the wallet hub article for those for their faxes where
they're getting it. So go ahead near
Leila: I have a different one from fascinate.com. Okay. New
Year's resolutions usually revolve around Breaking Bad
habits or starting good ones, roughly 45% of Americans big New
Year's resolutions and 25% of them break by mid January.
David: Well, that's not necessarily different than mine.
Yeah. 44% of Americans. So I said this is 44 Your says 45.
And this says 81% fail by February. So if your number what
was your number for January? So 20 So between mid January and
February, people just give up. A lot more people give up And the
three weeks and they say it takes 21 days to establish a
habit. So if you do something 21 days in a row, it kind of
cements it into your brain as being a habit. Whoa, what my
microphone just got closer, my face magically grew gravity.
Microphones hanging from the ceiling. So I guess the tension
just loosened because it's getting warmer in here. Oh,
Leila: I hope the guys down the street have have the fireworks
this year.
David: Yeah, there's people couple houses down that go in
previous years have gone and bought a lot of really big
fireworks. And we could just sit in our backyard and watch them.
We don't have to go anywhere. It's fantastic.
Leila: So the first countries to celebrate New Year's are those
located immediately west of the International Dateline, the
islands nations of Samoa Tonga and Carrie bati ring in the new
year. A full 14 hours before the UK
David: Good grief. plane just flew over. Yeah,
Leila: it was really close to I heard it. I heard it. Yeah,
David: so it's Australia tomorrow. What? It's tomorrow in
Australia.
Leila: It's Australia tomorrow.
David: Oh goodness.
Leila: You're so good at this. I'm
David: still not I'm still not 100% So
Leila: I was using that map that we talked about the maps
episode, the true map or whatever it's called, like, oh,
the true size.com Or something like Oh, yeah. And I I put the
USA over Australia and they're like the same size. Yeah.
David: Australia is America too.
Leila: That's crazy. Yeah. You know big Africa is it's
David: like it's at least it's at least really big. Africa is
so big that you could fit 70,000 Texas's when Africa because it's
around the house it really sits around around the house. Oh my
gosh no, it's you could fit for 700 million Texas is in
Leila: Africa. You could fit like three United States
David: fit for Africa's into Africa. That's how big Africa
Leila: sits around the house. And
David: what's funny is on not to get into too many map facts here
but if you look at this really cool though Greenland on the
map. It looks as big as Africa and it is in no way anywhere
near the size of Africa half the US it's so small.
Leila: far we have to drive to get to Florida. Yeah, yeah.
Grapes at midnight.
David: Grapes at midnight.
Leila: Explain. In Spain.
David: The grapes in Spain fall mainly admin. What? What are you
talking about?
Leila: Stay on the train at midnight. In Spain eating grapes
at midnight is both tradition and a superstition as the stroke
of midnight Spaniards. That's such a weird way to say people
will live in Spain. Spaniards
David: been spayed. No Spaniards Spaniards you've never heard the
word Spaniards sounds like a dog. You have heard Spaniard
because you've seen The Princess Bride when you saw the Princess
Bride When? When you were before today,
Leila: but I've never heard them say Spaniards? Yeah,
David: Spaniard is what people from Spain are called.
Leila: Like a dog. It's a dog. No,
David: that's a cocker spaniel. Yeah. Spain. Spaniards. Okay,
we're getting off Daniel. So they eat grapes.
Leila: Well, grapes 12. symbolizing 12 Lucky months
ahead where you go. So if I need a grape every day? I'm gonna
have 365 Grape months.
David: Yeah, where's the line? Like? does? Does grape luck only
last 12 months max? Yeah. Okay, you gotta say so if I agree, one
grape a month. I'm gonna have great month. I'm good to go.
Okay, new, new ritual here, one grape per
Leila: month. In some areas. The grapes are also believed to
hoard away which is in general evil. So if I put if I got a
huge bag of grapes, like if I got a gallon of grapes, and I
have a huge yard. If I put one every square foot, I wouldn't
have any witches.
David: You know, come to think of it. Every single time we have
bought grapes from the grocery store and brought them home and
had them in the fridge. We have not had a single witch attack.
Yeah,
Leila: that's crazy. I also are wizards. I
David: also have a pen. And in the game room that words away
tiger attacks. Since I've owned that pen, we have not been
attacked by a single Tiger.
Leila: That's cool. Yeah,
David: I can sell this pen to you. For $100,000 Anybody out
there $100,000 For a tiger warning pin. It's just a joke to
me. Not to not to be tested anywhere where tigers actually
roam free. Disclaimer. Yeah, we should start. Oh my gosh, can
Leila: you imagine full crap at tea shop?
David: Can you imagine somebody imagined somebody buying that
pen from me right before they go to like on a safari? And like
holding the pen up as a Tigers charging at them to eat them?
It'd be like I bought the pin from Fun Fact Friday. You can't
attack ah. It's Tiger be like that pin was delicious. Oh my
gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay. It started an Etsy shop was like
stuff that Ward's away things that don't exist. That'd be so
funny. Dragon killing sword.
Leila: You had $5 million? Well, no, it
David: has to be stuff that Ward's things away that aren't
real. Yeah. Okay, so let's look at this. Here we go. The average
cost back to the back to the facts. So what good dropping
Leila: the ball dropping the ball the ball drop in Times
Square is a longstanding New Year's ritual. And nutrition
began over 100 years ago, in 1907 when
David: we dropped the ball off the Empire State Building.
Leila: Oh my gosh, we are banned in New York. So they decided to
try something different. Instead of fireworks. They just 700
pound ball made of wood and iron. You know, I think they
could have made it a little bit lighter.
David: Yeah. I think they only had wood and iron back then. I
don't think there was any other materials existed. Yeah, that
makes sense. Yeah. I mean, they literally could have just made a
cheap wood scaffolding and wrap fabric around it. Yeah. Then it
Leila: would get rained on. Yeah, it's what it is, though.
It is what it is. He's one of these. Do we still use the same
one?
David: Oh, no. They have new ones all the time. They've got
like screens on it now. Yeah, like shows fancy stuff. So only
about 15% of Americans are actually going to go to parties
or public events. What? Yeah. 45 That's no, no, hold on. That's
like going out to a party. Now a lot of people 45% will be
ringing in the New Year with friends and family. 24% prefer
to just stay at home and not do anything not invite anybody over
anything. And 3% I know a few of these don't celebrate at all.
They just go to bed like it's a normal day. Because it is it is.
But it's one night it's a night where you can stay up and you
get to shout at each other at midnight. Like for fun. Not for
arguing like we do like that. I don't want to watch that. I get
to have you know, like last night. Wait, go ahead. Moon Pie.
Penny was full moon pies.
Leila: So in every every New Year's Eve Mobile Alabama drops
a 300 Locomobile Mobile, Alabama mobile. Alabama mobiel drops a
350 pound electronic moon pie.
David: Do you know what happens in Mount Olive every year? They
cool they drop a pickle Heck yeah. Do you know what they do
in Pikeville, North Carolina? Nothing? A Cardinal Cardinal?
Yep, for some reason. Most towns have some kind of thing that
they do. Goldsboro does? Well that Raleigh does a Raleigh does
an acorn. They drop a big old acorn. Nice stuff. Smash a
plate.
Leila: I think that's for good luck to in Denmark. It's
tradition to smash dishes against your friends front door
at midnight. So I'm gonna go over to someone's house and then
just like smash the plate. Yeah.
David: They're gonna knock on the door as soon as they open
like the main door, but not the screen door just smashed on the
ground and walk away. Like, make eye contact while you throws a
plate like don't break on contact. Oh, wow. Do you know
how much it costs to get a babysitter on New Year's Eve?
How much between 2350 and 5550? an hour?
Leila: What? Hold on I see. Oh, okay.
David: See, and there's a picture of a family and a small
child. So you know, it's true, because there's a drawing. Yeah.
Leila: You always know it's just it's so true. If I'm drawing.
David: They see this one says 22% of Americans don't plan to
celebrate New Year's Eve. I think these people are just
making stuff up just making stuff up. 80% of statistics are
made up on the spot. Yeah, that's no joke.
Leila: Mariah Carey.
David: Mariah Carey. Right know her season is over.
Leila: I know, right? It's done. She used to go back into our
little ice cube. Do
David: you know how much the time a square ball weighs now?
What 11,800 Do
Leila: we make it heavier? How do we drop this thing?
David: It is made of two 1688 Waterford Crystal triangles and
32,000 LEDs,
Leila: you know, we might as well just pick up that sphere in
Las Vegas and drop it.
David: Three pickup trucks. That's how much it weighs. Wow.
Leila: I don't know that. Yeah,
David: that's a weird unit of measurement because my pickup
truck is not nearly as heavy as like my brother's pickup truck.
Leila: Yeah. What what type of pickup truck you're
David: talking about? Yeah. There's lots of typically 500
pound pickup exactly this many way. Yeah, one that weighs this
much. What is this tires this. So they dropped 1.5 tons of
confetti on New Year's Eve on square I've been finished
talking about. Well, you know what you just talked about
Mariah Carey. I'm gonna take a sip of my Arizona Tea.
Leila: Not all right. Mariah Carey is a frequent show
stopping New Year's Eve performer. But in 2016, she
stopped the show for a different reason. After a lip synching
blunder as a New Year's Eve rockin party. She fell and walk
up stave. What? Hold on? No, never quite. She didn't find her
groove.
David: Yeah, she couldn't get back on it after she messed up
on the lip syncing. The next. I believe it was the next year she
came back. Does it have anything about that? No. Okay, so the
next year, it might have been a year after she came back to
like, redeem herself. Right. And I don't know if she had had a
little too much to drink or whatever. But it was one of the
worst performances I've ever seen. It was terrible.
Leila: Isn't she like the one that always does terrible?
David: She's done pretty bad. On some some shows. Yeah. I don't
know if it's always or if it was just like one more partner like,
but we don't know. We don't know what's going on with her. So
it's not right to judge. So, okay. All right. What
Leila: do you have to say?
David: Now the New Year's Rockin Eve is always the one that
people end up watching. Oh, yeah, I have a thing about it.
What I think is funny about the whole New Year's in New York,
like they always have the glasses that kind of started in,
in 2000. Like it was a two and then the glasses and an extra
zero. But now they're just like, they're not even trying. Yeah,
it's just so crazy. It just says 20 just got like a plastic 2023
stuck in the corner of the glass.
Leila: I know right? You can't really put a hoop in it right?
For your eyes. Just
David: lose the glasses thing. But then the guy that who makes
the chat the little Chinese cheap glasses is like no, no,
no, no, it's a tradition.
Leila: Oh my gosh,
David: we have to sell the glasses. Oh my gosh. Okay,
Leila: let's see. Dick Clark hosted the New Year's Eve New
Year's Rockin Eve from 1973. Joseph rockin New Year's Eve to
2004 Until complications of a stroke forced him to turn over
his hosting duties to Ryan Seacrest.
David: Yeah, that was sad. That was Clark was on the on the TV
screen every New Year's Eve for a long time
Leila: and has consistently been the highest rated near special
broadcast in the US.
David: It's a tradition. It's a tradition. You watch the
declerck it's still called called the Clarks New Year's
Rockin Eve. I believe. They still honor him with that
because he did it for so long.
Leila: Yeah, I think so. Because it just said something about
Mariah Carey. Yeah,
David: I'm going back to the food Thing.
Leila: Thing.
David: There's something about like eating black eyed peas on
New Year's Day. How wrong with black eyed peas on New Year's
Day. Oh, it's on New Year's Day. So okay, why do we black eyed
peas on New Year's according to the Southern tradition eating
black eyed peas on New Year's Day will bring a year's worth of
good luck and or monetary gain. So there you go. Black Eyed Peas
are also traditionally served on Rosh HaShana, which is the
Jewish New Year. Oh, wait. That's what it says he can't
Leila: be special. That's what all wait, what? No, they can't
be special. Who? The Jews are different
David: ways. Yeah, they have a different new Dave Days
different calendar. We went over this on the calendar episode
when I believe we went over it on the calendar episode. There's
a couple of different calendars. The Chinese the Chinese New
Year. Yep. And the Chinese New Year's a big deal in China. Oh,
yeah. Like they shut down the factories and everything. It's
just
Leila: a big it's really cool. I agree.
David: But yeah, they get they got their own pair on New Year's
because like I said, traditional. And obviously they
use our calendar too. But they have their religious calendar.
Because the Gregorian calendar came into effect. Oh, I can't
remember. I can't remember the year is a long, long, long time
ago, and we lost 10 days. Because of how it's calculated.
We went over all this in the episode.
Leila: I don't remember previous episodes. Speaking
David: of which, if you all have a favorite moment from a
previous episode, you don't have to like clip it or anything just
in this the episode number and the time I'm wanting to build a
compilation and call it fun Next Friday out of context, where
like, it's just us saying something completely random. And
like we're gonna have no context behind any of it. We're just
going to string together 30 minutes of us saying, like,
where? What? Like, you know, that sort of like, What were
they talking about that that became up
Leila: in Romania. Okay. tossing a coin into a river on New
Year's Eve is set to bring good luck. And I'm like,
David: we do that here. Why not into the river but over? Yeah, a
lot of fountains of rivers. A lot of fountains take the money
and give it to charity now, like they go and clean out the
fountains and send it to like, Ronald McDonald House or, you
know, some charity. Yeah, let's
Leila: clog up those rivers.
David: I love clogging up rivers checkpoints with chucking
pennies in the river? Absolutely. I wish that coins
were magnetic. Communism, communism, on New Year's.
Leila: Communism can only be observed on New Year's.
David: Oh my gosh, under the
Leila: communist government in Russia, religious holidays,
including Christmas were banned. New Year's however, was still
suitable and popular non religion seasonal celebration.
What? When? Yeah,
David: in Russia, I believe that did away with religion during
the communist years, which I guess it was the USSR, not calm,
not Russia? I don't know. I'm not 100% on the history of that
whole. I've read. But yeah, you weren't really allowed to
celebrate religious stuff. I believe that we correct me if
I'm wrong, folks. I'm not that up on Russian history. So let me
know if I'm wrong on that. So how are you? How are you on your
huge list? That was That was weird. huge list of on facts.
Leila: I have run out. Okay.
David: Last one, top five new year's resolutions and then
we'll go to our support for our show. Top five new year's
resolutions drumroll number five, at 17% personal happiness,
just be happier. And you can you can you can do a lot in your own
brain to control that. Just have a more positive attitude. It's
not 100% No, but you can do that. Number four, eat
healthier. And 18%. Number three, exercise more 19% number
to save more money. So there's all these people out there
collecting Pokemon 123456 stickers, they're collecting all
sorts of different things. What if you collected money? Yeah,
what if you like, like, like, collected it? Like, I'm trying,
I'm trying to catch them all. I'm trying to catch them all
$100 Bill, and I'm trying to get $50 bills, you're trying to
collect them all, you get one
Leila: of those sleeve binders.
David: Just your money, like the card sleeves for collecting
collectible cards, but $1 bills, if you filled up a three inch
binder full of those things. Of course, you're spending 50 or 60
bucks to buy the sleeves and the binder but you can make your own
you make your own or you can just put it out your iron in
your sock drawer. Until you have a lot and then you put it in
safe. Yeah. And number one New Year's resolution at 20%.
improve physical health. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's how drumroll
supposed to go is supposed to be at birth. And as soon as it
stops stores and yeah, improve physical health. That's I've
always looked at myself right after Christmas. And I'm like,
Wow, I love rice krispie treats. And because you always do you
always make a lot of rice krispie treats. Hawaiian
Hawaiian rolls with cheese on. Or candy.
Leila: I don't see all the hype around Hawaiian rolls.
David: Hawaiian rolls are not the best thing on the whole
planet. But they're a thing you don't buy or you don't buy you
don't buy them all the time. So it's like it's like a special
little sweet sweet bread. Sweeter you know? Oh, sweet. But
yeah, I think that's I think that's pretty good for for some
fun facts about New Year's you can break those out of the New
Year's party. If you go to one be like hey, did you know
there's a number one bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
know what we need? What?
Leila: We need songs for New Year's? Yes,
David: we got the one
that won the New Year's? Yeah,
Leila: I thought that was like a Christmas song.
David: Oh, it's a new year song. What is it about New Years
songs? It's old an old acquaintance old acquaintance
may all acquaintance be forgot all
Leila: Okay
David: that's what we got. That's it for New Year's. Oh,
the Black Eyed Peas need to do a New Year's song. Yes. Oh my god.
Does that make sense? Please, it can be called late. It could be
called chucking pennies in the river,
Leila: checking pennies in the river and throwing plates at
your doors or going to your song right here right now. No, dang
it. I have a saxophone
David: in a trumpet you do? Yeah. We will work on that.
Maybe we'll get it done before Monday night. And we'll record
it and we'll put it on the next episode. Be sure to go to the
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some support that we received since the last episode. We got
25,000 Satoshis through pod verse from Curtis Peterson
awesome. Curtis Peterson says apologies for being man
overboard. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. That is a lot
of sets. It's like 10 bucks or so. Yeah, if you're comparing I,
I almost don't even think of it as money anymore. Like as US
dollars. Like I'm like, Wow. 25,000. That's a really good
boost. And then you go look at the exchange rate. You're like,
wow, that is really good boost. But yeah, don't worry about
being overboard. If you can't listen for a while you can't get
support us for a while. That's fine. Don't hurt our feelings.
We're doing the show for us, we have a good time. We definitely
appreciate all the support we get it helps us pay for new gear
house is paid to. Some of its going to help me pay to go to
the pod fest if I go to that new gear pay for the servers that we
use for stuff and you know that we like the notes. And we like
the emails and everything. We've been getting some emails that
they don't want mentioned on the show recently, and we really
enjoy the engagement that we get. And it really makes it it
makes it worth talking to y'all having a community around the
show. We definitely appreciate everybody who's listened or
supported us this year. 2023 has been fantastic for our show. A
lot of great stuff. Definitely Dred Scott. Baroness, love and
light. So Lee steed. Kevin policy, which is a newer one.
We've got let's see, I'm just kind of scrolling down looking.
That's that's me this pod. Yeah, I'm just scrolling down
listening or just listening to trolling or listening. Bully
steed. We got We got lots of folks. Um, I can't I can't I
didn't think to go down and look through all of them. Sorry. But
everybody who came on this year, Dred Scott for two chapters and
transcripts drab, if you ever want a week off, let us know we
can we can take care of it. Yeah. Two weeks off anything.
And yeah, let us know what you need. You need graphics and
anything done for the chapters? Let us know. I'd like to just
take a couple seconds of silence. We've lost some folks
this year in the family. And we want to remember them for 2023
and beyond. Just a few seconds of silence here.
Yeah. And hopefully, you know, 2024 we don't we don't lose
anybody. But it happens. It does happen. So we're going to we're
going to wrap up here and I hope everybody has a fantastic safe,
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. We will see y'all next
week. We may have a guest if you follow us on Twitter at Fun Fact
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happening like your guests or things like that. If you listen
and you want to be a guest shoot us an email or you know somebody
who you think would be a good guest the contact will tell him
for being
Leila: a guest is one you have to have some good mic. And then
to you have to be be a genius. What do we say? We
David: want to be an expert at acting like an expert. Yes, you
either have to be an expert or be able to pretend to be an
expert. Yeah, but the main thing beyond a good mic because that
can make a bad night Mike Simon sound okay with my gear. Yeah.
Beyond the knowing a lot about something or pretending to know
a lot about something. Is it you have to be entertaining. Be
cool. Yeah. All right, everybody.
Leila: Y'all have a fantastic year. My instruments Oh, yeah.
David: Why don't you play trumpet real quick. It's super
easy to put together turn down your turn down your mic here.
because it's loud it's really loud. Real quick
All right, wonderful. mics are down. California put it that way
a little bit. Yeah
Leila: there you go. There's the C major scale ish
David: alright. Okay, so that's the trumpet. All right. Oh, did
you want to play the sax at all or? No, no. Okay.
Leila: Take my word for it.
David: I've gotten way better. She has gotten way better as as
she gets better when she's 60. He's thinking about redoing our
theme. But we're like are playing over it like adding to
it? So I have to
Leila: I have to find the chords for it again. Yeah, because I
may or may not have forgot though.
David: Right? I think we've got them an email somewhere. Yeah,
we do. Alright, everybody. See y'all next time places to be we
got places to be
Leila: Hey, it's Kyle here.
David: I think he might be busy because it's news nope, nope.
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