Leila: Mud, mud, mud mud mud. Yeah.
David: Why are we singing about mud?
Leila: You're just testing that level and you're like, I'm so
muddy and they went in and changed your levels and I was
like mud. Mud? Mud? Mud mud? Why are you doing it?
David: Welcome to Fun Fact Friday, everybody. I am your
only host David.
Leila: Yes, yes.
David: That's it. Fun Fact, Friday. We talked about fun
facts.
Leila: We are a podcast.
David: Yes. Try and do it every week. Sometimes it don't work
out. Yeah. All right. All right, coming off at a great interview
episode with Ainsley. Costello. We had a great time with that.
Thanks. Audio was pretty bad. Yeah, audio. There's audio
issues. I'm not gonna get into it, but I could have made it
better. And I didn't. My fault. 100% I apologize. Ainsley. And
all you listeners out there. But I'm not going back and
remastering it that's just that's a lot of work. We do
alive. So and also apologize. I was still kind of under the
weather last week. Whatever I had. It started in December,
just like it was just lingering. So, but you have to let it
linger. Do you have to? Yeah, yeah. I can't sing like Dolores.
Yeah, so what are we talking about this week? Leila sewing.
So Wang? Yeah. Have you some for I have sewn before I sewed up
one of your stuffed animals Mona. Oh, yeah. Your little sock
monkey that you loved so much. That was she was splitting it
the seam between the legs there. And I went in and I taught
myself how to do a ladder stitch. I think it's called I
think Yeah. And so we're up. No, you couldn't couldn't even tell
I did anything. I did a really good job with the thanks of
random YouTuber. I also had to sew in home at class. We made
throw pillows, which is like the first thing you ever make when
sewing most people because it's super easy. It's four straight
lines. Well, five straight lines and then you got to whatever.
But yeah, that's that's about the extent of it. I realized I
don't like sewing with a machine. Especially I don't mind
doing a stitch up job on something. Or like if I'm sewing
on a patch, doing it by hand. That's okay to do. But sewing is
just not my thing. However, I know somebody who it is their
thing. Who you Oh, it's all you've been doing this week?
Yeah,
Leila: well, no. But it's most of the fun stuff that I've been
in this week.
David: What are you been doing this week up besides that
homework? Yeah. Yeah. The homeworks been around a
ridiculous last couple of days. Yeah. But it is what it is, you
know, you're getting up there. And you're yours. So. So, yes,
so so many times I can say so this episode, please don't see
what's gonna be funny is reading the transcript back later. How
many times S O and S ew. are properly inserted. That's going
to be interesting.
Leila: It's not one note, not synced? Hello. I don't know. I
think this notebook because you have a bunch of stuff on your
screen. I have nothing.
David: Because it might be on my end to sync this notebook now.
So we like you said so.
Leila: Got the word stuck in my head. Made a new notebook. It
wasn't the right one. Okay. Oh, did
David: I Okay, sorry. My bad. Do you have good news? I do have
good news for the fact.
Leila: I hit the wrong button.
David: Professional podcaster. So my yellow my good news story
is not a like, Oh, this is brand new. Oh, hold on, minus Welcome
to Fun Fact Friday. With me, David, your only anchor. So mine
is not like a current. Oh, this is new story. It was just kind
of an uplifting thing. And it starts off. It starts off not
uplifting, but then it becomes uplifting. Yeah. So there's this
chap. He was born in 1910. And his name is Raymond Robinson.
Raymond Robinson. Yeah, but he's better known as Green Man or
Charlie No Face. And
Leila: I knew him as Charlie No Face, right. So me not
personally, not personally.
David: He was he was disfigured during during an incident. And
I'm not gonna go into all that. Basically electricity, I
believe. Yeah, that was electricity hit him real hard.
And he had some disfiguring injuries. A lot in his face. So
he looks kind of frightening. Right? But he's a super nice
guy. Yeah. And like his whole town loved him. And he would go
for walks and At night, but since he's so weird looking at
his face because of his injury, he became like, an urban legend.
Like a local urban legend. Yeah, because he would go on these
long walks at night and tourists would drive along in hopes
looking, you know, drive along with hopes of seeing him.
Because he was like, the the local, you know, oh, there is
always the Green Man. It's Charlie. And he kind of like,
you know, he was cool. We played into it, and yeah, and had a
good time with it. But by all accounts, he was a really nice
guy. And everybody in his town loved him. And I just thought
that was a good uplifting story because he got injured and
something that would make you know, a lot of people like
become shut ins or stay in and not talk to people or whatever.
Just didn't, didn't bother him. He just did his own thing. I
thought, hey, you hadn't heard of him? Good. No, yeah. And it's
funny how you'll go along through life and things that
like, seemingly everybody else knows about. You hear about for
the first time we were like, were you ever heard? Well, I
wasn't like, never have. No you weren't? You weren't. But I've
had things like that before. Yeah. Like, no not gonna go into
Go ahead.
Leila: There we go. Okay.
David: The song tapers off as it gets to the end of the cycle. Go
ahead.
Leila: So mine is about London. London, London train. As on some
of the London the New London trains that are like the drivers
ones, the driver list ones I have braces, and I just got them
chained. It's weird. They have at the very front of the train
where the cab that would usually have like the driver in it. They
put little or they used the how I say this. The control boards?
Yeah, they use the old control boards, and they put like
cardboard stuff on him. So it looks like a control board for a
train. So for like kids, they get
David: on. Oh, neat. Yes. Okay, so I want to see where you're
going with it. But yeah, I see. So the train doesn't have an
engineer, or conductor because it's driverless, right? But they
still have like fake controls of their so the little kids can run
up there and act like they're they're driving driving it.
Yeah. That's awesome, isn't it? That's amazing.
It is. A couple of goods. Hey, no animals. We did it. We did.
Leila: I know if you could hear me. Oh
David: my gosh, my chair is bad tonight.
Leila: Getting a chair. That's fine.
David: I do. Or just like get some even find some grease for
this one. That's probably what I'll do. I got some grease in
the garage. Yeah, it's just that's the that that's what
people come for. Alright, they come for like, how do you grease
up a chair? That's That's why people visit this show. Fun Fact
Friday, how to reset the chair. So yeah, I think that that has
been your Fun Fact. Friday news.
Leila: Okay, bring this point six weeks. We know it's
terrible.
David: Okay, before before we move on from the news. I have
some news. Okay. It's very exciting. Okay. A tree fell on
our fence. Oh,
Leila: yeah, there was a big storm, but it just happened
here.
David: It was, it was very, two very windy as rightly, if if the
tree had been about, I don't know, 10 foot taller, it
probably would have took the wall off the studio here. Yeah.
But it hit the fence. But it hit the fence in between two posts.
So it just bent the you know, the top pole. It's just a chain
link fence. Yeah, hit the top pole and bent all the stuff
down. But when we got the fence made, I had the guy who put the
fence in bias, like an extra 40 or 50 feet of materials. So all
I have to do the the annoying part is going to be getting rid
of the tree. Yeah, because the type of tree it is. It's it has
like a million branches. But yeah, we know a guy we know a
bunch of chainsaws and and a whole crew. He can come take
care of it like half an hour for us. Yeah. So so we with logs.
And you know, it's one of those things that like the insurance,
the homeowners insurance would probably cover, but the
deductible would be so high that it wouldn't be worth getting the
insurance involved. Which stinks. I think we should still
report it though. I don't know. We'll see. No, no. I don't know.
Leila: So under sewing. The expected lifespan of a cotton
fabric is about 100 years, which is a lot. That's a lot. That's a
lot of years.
David: And there's been there's been stuff made out of cotton.
This lasts a lot longer not to Oh yeah. isn't like
Leila: the original American flag. I don't know what that was
made out of.
David: I don't know. Well, while you talk about whatever you're
going to talk about. I can look it up.
Leila: sighs patterns didn't exist until 1863 818 63.
David: Yeah, that's weird because sewing didn't exist
until 1978 When Joseph sewing made it. Oh, what's the story of
Joseph sewing
Leila: A tree fell on his fence. So a branch fell. And he poked
through his shirt
through his shirt and he was like, you know, this shirt. I
could probably take a thread out of this shirt, and like thread
it through a branch and
David: grow the shirt that he was wearing. Today.
Leila: Mine Joseph sewing automatically has a shirt on
when he comes out of the womb. And its size to him. Come on,
man. That's the story.
David: Joseph sewing. Oh my gosh. We gotta get you better to
improv on the Joseph story.
Leila: That was an amazing story. Okay.
David: Oh, wow. Okay, the early American flag. This is early
American flags were made of wool, cotton, linen or silk? I
said the original flag?
Leila: Nobody knows.
David: Nobody knows. I don't know. All right, go ahead. But
Leila: women had to originally disassemble old clothing to use
them as patterns.
David: Okay, so like, somebody would make a tailor? Would you
go to a tailor, right? And the tailor would swiftly make you a
shirt? Yeah. Using his craft, like knowing how to do it. But
then within the women folk would be like, Man, that tailor costs
a lot. I could I could do that. So they went in and pulled out
all stitches. Yeah. And then laid that fabric out on another
piece of fabric and cut the new fabric to the same size. It's
probably Yeah. Until they ended up having large pieces of paper,
and then they would make patterns and probably sell
Leila: them. Yeah, because Joseph had to make the paper on
paper. Yeah,
David: Joseph had an invalid paper yet. That was not Joseph
selling it was Joseph paper that invented paper. But we haven't
done a paper episode yet. So we're not going to tell you that
story if
Leila: we don't start thinking.
David: Okay, so I've got an interesting, I've got one, it
might be from the same site you're on? Is it on us? Okay, my
LinkedIn, when women's buttons are not on the right side. Hey,
Leila: I have that one. I was gonna say that one. Okay.
David: Well, I've got a story on this one, though. So women's
buttons are sewn into the left side of the garment. The reason
for this is that buttons were very expensive and only wealthy
women would, with domestic help could afford the only one was so
to make it easier to help help them to button. They were on the
wrong side. So like they would have the ladies button them up.
And since people were used to having the buttons on the on the
right side, it made it easier for the person who was buttoning
up the other person's the other woman's outfit on the left. But
no, no, yeah, no, no, listen, listen. No, no, no person just
know you need to listen. No, I want what happened? What would
happen? What happened is they were used to it being on the
right side that used to being on the right side. So they were
used to going from right to left to button it in. So then, so
then, when it was on the opposite side for the women, we
Leila: Okay, hold on. Wait. I have I have a bone to pick. I
have a bone to pick with which side is left?
David: Oh my gosh. Hold your hands up. No, Megan.
Leila: Oh my gosh. I mean, you don't I hate you, right. What
are you left and right. It's so dumb. Look, okay, well,
David: it's extremely useful. It's
Leila: not, because you have to always accompany it with
something else. What do you mean? Like, oh, to your left? Or
to my left? So if we were talking to me, if we're talking
to each other like this,
David: okay, I'm looking at you. Yeah. Oh,
Leila: okay. So if you're looking at me, I'd be like,
left, and you'd look to your left, when I mean, my left.
David: So what do you suggest that we do to fix this? We get
rid of left and right. Start using cardinal directions. Yes,
obviously.
Leila: So I've been saying since day one. I came out of the womb
and I was like, I
David: hate left and right. I don't recall. No, you do a lot
of stuff happened that day, though. Oh, yeah.
Leila: I was no sobered me. I wasn't okay. Yeah, I was behind
bars.
David: But there's not a better system. And here's, here's one
of the things I'm about to go on a rant, I'm gonna make a better
system, make a better system for the left and right and we will
implement I will make sure the governments of the world
disseminate your better system
Leila: and get rid of Imperial. No,
David: no, no One thing that gets me is when somebody says,
Okay, so we were playing trivia one night. And one of the
questions was, how many letters in the alphabet look the same if
you flip them upside down.
Leila: So when he thinks
David: we know, but they do not look the same, this is like it's
the same letter like a B, A, capital B. I think it was how
many capital letters and, you know, regular alphabet. If you
flip it upside down, it still looks the same.
Leila: Okay, wait, let me count. Okay, talking. Okay.
David: So we sat there at the trivia night. And we had, you
know, a little sketch pad or whatever. And we were going
through in our head, or like going through, okay, not A
because A, when you flip it, it turns into like a V was
thinking, B, okay, B, capital B works. C, capital C works,
capital D works. And we were going through, right. But then
we got to s. And the letter S, depending on how you flip it
upside down. It either works, or it doesn't work. For the
question.
Leila: It's 11.
David: It's 11. Are you sure it's 11
Leila: if you don't count Z, and well, z, z
David: is another one, depending on how you flip it, because if
you flip it, like it's on the face of a clock, and you're
turning into 180 degrees, then it works. However, and we're
gonna, we're gonna pause for a second, we're here in something
weird outside, and we're back.
Leila: Okay, so
David: the, and we're just gonna leave a mystery as to what the
noise was. Like, let's imagine you have an S. and you flip it
in three dimensions to where like, the top goes backwards,
and the bottom comes forwards. And it flips that way. Yeah.
Then it's not a mirror image, it won't work. So it's not the same
letter. It's backwards. So depending on how you flip it
upside down. It either is or isn't. No, and we got the
question wrong.
Leila: I need to make a 3d model.
David: So imagine you have an s on a piece of transparent paper,
or like a transparency. And you flip it. I see what you mean.
Right? So if you try it like it's a record, it works. Yeah.
If you flip it to the other side of the paper, 180 degrees in the
third dimension, then it doesn't work. So anyway, that was just
my little rant. We lost the the trivia tournament because of
that question. We that we that's why we love it. Yeah, it made me
so mad made my whole team mad. We were very upset at the trivia
guy because I'm just telling what the answer is on the paper.
But I have a story about the buttons. That was the thing. Oh,
your mom wore one of my flannel shirts the other day. And she
had so much trouble with the buttons. Because they're on the
wrong side. She's like, how do you button this shirt? It
doesn't work. But why? Because the buttons are on the other
side of the shirt. Left or right there on the right side and you
put them into the hole on the left side. This
Leila: is the left.
David: What? Yes. On a woman's shirt. They're on the left
saying that it was on the right is it because it was my shirt?
No, but because a man is sure right before?
Leila: Yes thing? Yes. Listen. The weapons button.
David: Okay, do you want to get into the argument on the show?
Or do you want to continue the show?
Leila: Hold on. I need to look it up. Okay.
David: Listen, listen. Listen, listen. Are you listening? I'm
gonna I'm gonna explain it and you can't talk while I'm while
I'm explaining it because I'm gonna try. I'm gonna break my
train of thought.
Leila: Hold on.
David: Okay, Leila is gone. Okay, so listen, all shirts with
buttons back then. They were on the right side. Okay. It's
follow me here. And then women, rich women wanted to start
wearing buttoned up things. So the servants would go to put on
the outfit for the woman to help them put the buttons through.
And it was backwards because they're looking it's goes back
to your left and right thing. Now it's backwards for the
person buttoning it, and it makes it difficult for them to
button it because they're using their left hand and most people
are right handed. So they're using their left hand on the
intricate part. So for women's clothing, the servants who were
dressing the women went to the people making the clothes and
said hey, look. For the ladies clothes. Let's put the buttons
on the left side. So when I'm Looking at her, it's on the
right side and it makes it easier for me to button. What's
the intricate part? When you're used to doing something with
your right hand, you're taking the button and you're putting it
through the hole. Your dumb left hand can hold the side with a
hole still, while the right hand slides the button through the
whole. It's just a servant asked this the seamstresses and
tailors to do it to make it easier for them to dress the
women. Are you picking up what I'm putting down?
Leila: Yeah, okay, but I'm also why? Because, look, if your
button up a shirt for someone else, I wouldn't care what side
the buttons are
David: on. Yes, say that until you try and do it. Have you ever
tied somebody else's shoes? Yes. Was it harder to do? No. than
tying your own shoe? No. Okay, well, then you're, you're a
magical, wonderful. Do things backward? Or what do you mean?
For most people tying somebody else's shoe because you're
looking at the shoe from 180 degrees difference? It just
throws them off somehow on my own. You're just backwards.
Moving on. wasn't mad Why are you so in the weeds?
Leila: Why they make it such a big deal?
David: It wasn't a big deal. It was just a small convenience.
Leila: Because I'm pressed about this. Why did they do that?
David: The great button debate.
Leila: We need to make a button with this on it. A great button
debate on a like a pin.
David: I could I could make a really I can make a bad joke
right now. But I'm not gonna please don't if it's bad, it's
slightly offensive.
Leila: The first the first electric appliance introduced at
Chicago's World Fair in 1893 with the flat iron, the
David: Oh like ironing your push your push your volume back up
and lower that if you're too loud to yourself, because you're
not allowed. Oh,
Leila: yeah. Yeah, if you think I'm
David: too loud. Yeah. Okay. Nope, you're good.
Leila: And it has the stupid women's button to them. This is
when buttons can be so serious.
David: Do you know how they did the irons before the electric
iron came along? They would heat up boiling water, they would
just have a stove, they would just heat it up on the stove.
That's also how they made circuit boards back in the
1700s. With a soldering irons, they would just get a sharp
piece of metal and put it in the fire for a while. And then
that's how they would solve their microchips together.
Leila: What? Okay, anyways, at 93 seemed like a big time for
sewing because the furs were invented in 1893. Very
David: exciting news. I know. Right? zippers, you installed
some zippers and some stuff. Yeah, it's
Leila: stupid. I hate it and stone.
David: So positive. You're just brimming with positivity.
Leila: I know. Invisible zippers are especially the worst. And I
hate them. And it's dumb. But zippers. Zippers aren't actually
that bad. It's just the stupid zipper foot if the needles in
the wrong place. And you accidentally press the foot
down. It'll break your needle.
David: What's a zipper foot?
Leila: Okay, so a zipper foot when you have a sewing machine,
okay, you have the feet, which is where the fabric can be
grabbed onto. Oh, that little piece that drops down the visa
drops down. Okay, with the needle, you know, it has the
it's the thing that presses down on your fabric, the little fork
shaped piece? Yes, yeah. So there's a piece that comes with
most sewing machines. And you can buy separately if you don't
have it, where it's just like a little metal piece with like the
indents for the needle to go through. And it's that it's that
way on both sides. And the it can be grabbed into place by the
machine wrapper, the left or the right choice.
David: Oh my gosh, that was weird. It's specifically made
for installing except for installing zippers. Okay. And
Leila: it's useful for bias tape to Okay, a little secret.
David: I had no idea that there was a thing called bias tape
until the law started doing the cosplay stuff. So do you know
Napoleon Bonaparte is? Yes. It was his idea to put buttons on
sleeves. Why? It was first year seen during the time that he
ruled buttons on sleeves big hands are now taken for granted.
Rumor has it that Napoleon did not want his soldiers to wipe
their noses on their sleeves. So he told the uniform makers
makers to sew buttons on the ends. That's a weird reason to
put buttons on a shirt. That's so stupid like, it makes sense.
I'm like my my button up hurts like my forearms and my biceps
and forearms are so massive from all the muscles versus my wrist.
That like when I'm putting the shirt on, I have to unbutton
the, the end of the sleeve to get my, you know, to get the get
my arm through, like from rolling the sleeve up or
something. So I have to unbutton it to roll a sleeve up, because
my forearms are so massive with all my manly muscles. But if I
wanted to be tied around the wrist, I put the buttons on.
Huh? No, but if I'm wearing my watch, I use the outer button.
And then I like my right hand, I use the Enter button because it
fits a little more snugly. So you got to have different you
can do it differently or whatever. Depending on whether
you're wearing a watch or not. Yeah. So
Leila: the groove on the needle is made to allow the thread to
lie close to the needle as it passes through the eye. The eye
of the needle is the part where the thread goes
David: through. Okay, so the if there's a groove on needles,
Leila: yeah, for sewing machines. It has. Okay, yep.
Yeah,
David: I thought we were talking about regular sewing needles,
because they're just
Leila: regular sewing needles, too. But I've only seen them on
sewing machine needles. Well,
David: I know that the thin part on the back of the I guess you
would say at the top of the if it's pointing down? Yeah. is
thinner than the thick part of the needle that the eye is cut
into. So that's kind of a groove.
Leila: On some regular needles. Yeah.
David: Yeah. It's got like a little thing on the top. Yeah,
here's
Leila: a little groove for the thread to go through.
David: So the first needles are like bones and stuff.
Leila: That's neat. I would think that'd be made of like,
well, yeah, I guess bones would work. bones would probably be
the best.
David: Your microphones picking up when you scroll. Because your
laptop
Leila: wants some ASMR guys.
David: It might not come through. I don't think it's
pulling out. Yeah, but I don't know if it's picking up because
of the gate.
Leila: That's weird. It goes on
that's a neat little thing. Okay. Jenny,
David: how much how much sewing hats. Do you think you've done
this week? How many hours of sewing this week? Yeah.
Leila: Probably about three and a half. Ish.
David: Yeah, she's been making a skirt. It's a dress really.
Leila: Really,
David: it's just a couple of skirt. A couple of skirts kind
of draped on top of each other and then they're gonna bunch up.
It's like this big hole cosplay like, old fashioned thing with
a, what's a buttress?
Leila: What,
David: isn't it a buttress? underneath. It was the thing
with a bouncy skirt, a hoop skirt. I made it but she made
the hoop skirt from scratch. She had to buy metal rods to put in
there for you owning steel, but it's essentially a thin metal
rod. Right? Yeah.
Leila: Like if you check a steel metal rod and like rolled it
with a rolling pin. Okay,
David: so I gotta, I gotta I got a bone to pick you got a bone.
If I can, if I can put it that way. Sewing was one of the first
skills homosapiens learned learned is what it says learn is
learned. Correct? No, it was learned.
Leila: It is learned anywho what what was that anyone that says
David: archaeologists believe that people used to sew together
for hide skin and bark for clothing as far back as 25,000
years ago. And now not all know. Oh, no, man. Oh,
Leila: man. I think probably, um,
David: well, I'm not saying that they didn't. So things together.
I'm just saying, really one of the first things they learned. I
feel. I feel like I feel like 25,000 years ago was so long ago
that we don't know about a whole lot of stuff that happened back
then.
Leila: We don't know a whole lot of stuff about a whole lot of
stuff.
David: Oh, man, we're arguing about stuff that happened to you
know, a couple years ago, as well. But we know exactly what
happened 25,000 years ago, right? Yeah, absolutely. Anyway,
I just I, it's cool that they found evidence of things that
were sewn together that long ago. It's kind of neat that they
were you know, and they used bones and sharp, hard twigs and
stuff like that. And they would do it thick or thin strips of
leather as the thread essentially. Do you remember on
human run last when they use the sea urchin time things as
needles so they could draw blood from somebody that's crazy
Leila: All right, boom. Alright, so
David: why don't you tell me some facts about sewing
machines. I know you guys
Leila: do. Let's see Have one about Singer sewing machines.
brushed on the wall. Absolutely. Annaberg Oh,
David: it was just a small little bug.
Leila: It was a huge spider in the gym today.
David: Again,
Leila: that was a rat last time.
David: So I know singer was the first right. The first verse
would be patented. Yeah,
Leila: cast iron Singer sewing machines were some of the most
durable machines invented. Singer worried that the market
would become saturated with machines so that were being
passed down for generations, created new flimsier machines
and started by buyback programs for the originals. old machines.
were smashed with sledgehammers. That's how it gets them off the
market.
David: So they get you.
Leila: Oh, I get it. You know, it'd be my dream.
David: What would be your dream? I
Leila: think it'd be amazing, but I don't think that I would
give it the love that it deserves.
David: What's that?
Leila: A far off shore sewing machine?
David: A Fosse?
Leila: It's called a Fosse. But I need to show you how. P F A F
F. Fast. But do you know how expensive these sewing machines
are?
David: There's a Pathak town in North Carolina. There's a puff
off town.
Leila: Three F it's two days right after
David: a f f town. My gosh. Where is oh, it's up. It's over.
And now I understand.
Leila: So the regular price of this boring looking sewing
machine like this? Or yeah, I'm not showing you the price. Okay.
Okay.
David: super complicated.
Leila: $1,300 $1,300
David: for that? Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, does it? Does it magical
a does it last you the rest of your life?
Leila: Absolutely.
David: Right. B does it do things that make sewing
absolutely so much easier that look at all those stitches are?
So I'm saying if you're going into a sewing, like if you're
become a seamstress, and that's what you did for a living, it
would definitely be worth the investment because you could
amortize just the normal thing. amortize the price over like 10
years. So it'll be like $130 a year. Yeah. Because if it's
gonna last you 10 years, you know they have
Leila: quilting machines. They have embroidery machines. This
isn't sponsored by off so
David: they it says designed for artisans. That's how they
emphasize. Speaking of specialized, ridiculously
expensive equipment, there isn't. There is a audio piece of
audio equipment called meet us. What it's done by Oh, wow.
Leila: You told me about this. Weiss,
David: vise engineering, W. E. I S S. Oh my gosh, I don't care
about cooking. Cookies. I mean, what I just want a central just
individual No. Only essential very okay. It is a it's the meet
us. And it's a professional level digital to analog
converter. Do they name it after you? I don't know. Probably not.
But it is a beautiful piece of machinery. And I want to say
it's like $1,500.
Leila: Right. Go scroll up a little bit. Nope, not that far.
technical data. Oh, wait, no, keep going.
David: Okay,
Leila: I'm gonna keep going. Keep going. I'm scrolling.
product downloads for your metus
David: okay, it's funny. I'm gonna look for a dealer real
quick. See if I can. Okay, anyways. Okay. Yeah, we're,
you're done with facts. That's all you've got about sewing.
Leila: Yeah, you stole all of them.
David: What are you talking about? So, in the earliest, 20,
earliest, early early. This is the I'm just gonna say this in
the 20th century, more than 4000 Different kinds of sewing
machines are made. Yeah. Oh, I didn't even go into the whole
nine yards. Oh, you say that? Okay, so the whole nine yards is
a common phrase. They came from fabric came from the fabric that
was needed to make the fanciest coat for a man of fashion. And I
was like, No, hold on. I heard it different. So I looked up the
whole nine yards. Now I don't want the film starring Bruce
Willis. The Whole Nine Yards entomology tome at a time ology
we
Leila: think that Wikipedia is a trusted source here. Yeah, we're
David: just gonna Wikipedia. So basically, there was this story
about this guy who it was like a comical story in a newspaper and
he He wanted a large shirt. And he gave the tailor some guff
about some stuff or whatever. Anyway, the guy made this
ridiculously large shirt for him that took nine yards. It was
five yards wide and four yards tall or something like that. And
anyway, it was the whole use the whole nine yards for it. But
there's many other explanations of when it came about. And see,
I looked this up because I had always I had been told that
during one of the, when was it, I want to say it was in like
the, the 60s or the, I don't know, but it there was a machine
gun that they would mount on an airplane that the ammo came and
nine yard long clips for the, you know, like a belt fed
machine gun. And it came with nine yards. And that would be
like, line them up with the whole nine yards, you know?
Yeah. And that was where I thought it came from me too. But
then I was like, wait a minute, I started looking at it went
back way further than that. And it's been used in lots of
different ways. And you know, so that, so there you go. Oh, here
it is. Adopted by the British army before World War One, the
standard belt for the gun held 250 rounds of ammunition and
approximately 25 feet 6.26 and two thirds of yards in length.
However, the Vickers gun as fitted in the aircraft during
first world war usually had ammunition containers capable of
accommodating and linked belts of 350 to 400 rounds. The
average length of which would be about nine yards.
Leila: I hate yards.
David: I like our yard, except for all the sticks in it right
now from the storm. Yeah, and I agree. I have to pick all those
sticks up and carry them over to the burn pile.
Leila: Darn. But you know, by why our yards, why can't we just
switch over to the metric system? They'll have meters? Way
better?
David: yards and meters are close enough.
Leila: Do you want to call them like a like a nano yard or
heater? What?
David: That's what the kids are saying these days. Right? Are
the kids still saying eat? No,
Leila: I'll be a part of this.
David: Sorry. I heard I heard eat was a thing that the kids
are saying these days and 2015 Okay. I think I think that's,
you know, I think that's interesting stuff. Okay, a bunch
Leila: of okay, exclamation points. Isn't it triangles on
your screen? Yeah, the
David: website that I'm on sewing design studio.com I guess
the links are dead to the images that they had embedded in the
article. The reason
Leila: that boning is called boning is because it used to be
called it used to be made a whale bones. Okay, I thought
that was interesting.
David: Yeah, they do lots of crazy stuff with whales. Oh,
yeah. I was using up using up all the whales. And then they
got endangered. Oh, and then Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, and
all them came back from the future and saved the whales by
teleporting onto their ship. Thanks
Leila: for all the fish. No,
David: that's that's a totally totally separate property.
Leila: No,
David: that's Star Trek.
Leila: I want Captain Kirk to be in Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy. I'm starting a petition on change.org You
David: take the robot guy with the big head and have a
conversation about Kevin Kirpa managed to get his shirt off
Leila: I bet via via I certainly managed to get
David: your shirt off. If you haven't seen Galaxy Quest, go
check it out. We need to get back up with them and see if she
watched it versus the world see if she watched that. All right,
so I think I think we're going to move right into the support
section now port
Leila: 1776 Three days ago from just listening. Boost boost
boost. Now was on our New Year's episode.
David: Yep. For the New Year's episode. 2023 is so over and
1776 cents. Yep. Freedom, freedom boost freedom boost from
just listening. That was um, I believe fountain. It didn't
bring over the Yeah. From Yeah. And then
Leila: we have something from Villa Ville
David: Villa file Ville II. Go ahead.
Leila: And it was two that are 101 1000 SATs. And it says I'm
so sorry, Leila. No one is a prophet in their own country.
Here's one case Besides, because metric system just makes more
sense. Only reason to root for imperial system is sunk cost
fallacy. No, no, no, no, no. Because if we didn't have the
imperial system, we wouldn't have to learn fractions.
David: Well, maybe if the metric system was so good, it would
have came around earlier. Maybe you ever think about that?
Weren't? You ever think about that? Now I see the benefits of
the metric system? I truly do. You know, I understand it. Yes.
But it's just, it's fun to argue. And yes, my brain, when
it comes to things less than around a foot or less, it thinks
in inches, fractions of inches and feet, it doesn't think in, I
Leila: think 10 would want us to use a metric system, I
David: would be perfectly fine with them moving to the metric
system, like on the roads, like, kilometers, kilometers per hour,
things like that. That won't bother me. No. But things like,
Leila: no, no, no. Because when you're, when you're doing other
stuff, you're gonna be confused, because you're like, Oh, am I
supposed to use Imperial for this? Like, no, use metric all
the time? We're just gonna, like, get rid of Imperial, I
want my kids to be asking, what was the imperial system?
David: What was it like using the appearance? Or do I want
that to be the question? Okay, so but here's the thing, I want
to mention this, and here's Dan, here's the thing. Let's say that
we did move to the metric system, like America was just
like, Alright, that's it, we're just gonna start using metric
system, we're gonna slowly convert over the next 15 years,
it's gonna be a whole thing, right? In about 50 years, they
would start saying, Oh, look at this imperial system that makes
so much sense. That's eventually eventually it would swing back.
Leila: No, because what other countries have ever used have
now gone back to the imperial system after switching over to
metric?
David: The the ones that did?
Leila: Okay, let me look it up. Because I don't think there's
any country. And
David: if other if other countries want to do that,
that's fine. How many entries? Personally, I just think in
inches and feet, don't think in it, but centimeters and and if
the next generation wants to start using it, that's fine. But
until my generation is, in 3d printing, I use I use a metric.
Yeah.
Leila: And going back to sewing, I use the imperial system for
inches and doing the, Whoa, it's raining hard out there. But I
use it for the seam allowance. And the boning channels, right.
Because on the Singer sewing machine that I have, I have
markings for a quarter of an inch, an eighth of an inch and a
half, one inch, and then anything in between that. But
that's just for sewing purposes. And also the bias tape is
measured in fourth and half inch, you know, yeah, stuff like
that. But and yards is what
David: it is. If we were to transition, it would be such a
slow process that you're going to have to know both anyway. So
yeah, during your lifetime, how back to support out. I wanted to
get this out of the way. Get out of the way. But I wanted to talk
about it before we have anything. Yeah, we got our
monthly pay pal supporting donations that pay for our
servers and keep us rollin, rollin and we got $10 from
Steven Grimes. Monthly sustained donation, longtime listener, and
we got 1912 the Oreo donation.
Leila: Oh, yeah. Time, every single time. I see the 1912 I'm
like what
David: is that? It's not it says we talked about it every single
month. I know we do. Because
Leila: every time I see it, I'm like I know what that is. I
don't know what it is. You know? It's like a little thing fact,
every episode that I hear. Oh, yeah, remember?
David: Thank you, drub. Thank you, Steven. Definitely
appreciate those as the ones that keep keep the servers
wearing along and keeps us rolling. And we definitely
appreciate it. We finally got our DVD with the play that we
were in the Christmas Carol. And it was about a month late. But
it was fine. You know, it takes time to do things and then you
know, you forget to put it in the mail, whatever. But it was
it was I was expecting at least HD.
Leila: Oh my gosh, it was terrible. And it wasn't
David: shot terribly. It was just the camera itself was not
not a real high resolution camera. Yeah. So I was like, Oh,
I can't really it's not really up scalable either. But anyway,
we had a good time with the play. And maybe we'll get
involved in a little bit more of that later. And oh, you had you
had somebody on mastodon? I don't have it pulled up right
now. Saying they like your wigs. Oh, thank you over on the entire
circus awesome.com eventually we'll get some more stuff up
there. I'm making some 3d stuff.
Leila: My new mica wig up there. I haven't gotten it yet, but I
have a plan for it. It might it may or may not involve
woodworking. Oh, so Okay. Yeah.
David: We'll find out though, right? You should do some blog
posts about your progress on your on your costume. Yeah,
because it's got a blog section. It's not just a store. So all
right, everybody, I think that's gonna wrap it up next week. We
have Rena Friedman Watts from better called Daddy podcast, and
we're gonna be talking about reality TV. Yeah, because Rina
worked on some reality TV shows. Yeah, and I didn't know how to
get the behind the scenes scoop. I didn't know that either. We'll
talk about it more next week. But when I was talking to her
about what do you want to do for our topic? And she was like,
Well, I know a lot about reality TV. I thought that she watched a
lot of it. Or like read it read a lot. I didn't know she worked
on it. Anyway, I went and listened to some of her episodes
where she's interviewed reality TV people and good stuff better
called daddy's on all your podcast apps.
Leila: But I want to head out of here because I don't want
David: Oh, yeah, I wouldn't just save the file. Alright
everybody, we'll see y'all next week. And y'all have a fantastic
weekend. And y'all are hearing this Yeah, hopefully the power I
mean, I can always upload it to the phone but I do have to get
it saved to the phone before that happens. So okay,
Leila: all right, y'all later weekend. Wow. Wow.
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