David: Hey, hey everybody. Welcome Friday. It is Friday.
And welcome to Fun Fact Friday.
Leila: Lager Fun Fact Friday.
David: What is Fun Fact Friday Leila
Leila: for show? Yeah. We talk about fact.
David: We have Friday. We do have fun though.
Leila: We do have fun. We do have fun.
David: The fun is here every week. I don't I can't think of
many episodes where we didn't have fun. We did have one or two
episodes where we weren't able to do an episode but we still
wanted to upload things just for the algos. You know, yeah. And
we just uploaded a word or whatever episode this week.
Those weren't really fun.
Leila: So yeah.
David: Oh, how's everybody doing with y'all can't answer because
we're not live this week. So we are going to be talking about
what Leila
Leila: radiation
David: radiation. So what's your favorite radiation?
Leila: I don't know. Probably the microwaves. Yeah, yeah.
David: They make they make chicken nuggets for me. Yeah, of
course, we've been using the the air
Leila: fryer. And we tried it one time and our minds are blown
so good, like microwaves do to your brain.
David: So yeah, we're weekly podcast where we discuss facts
surrounding a different topic and have a good time doing it.
This week, has been a long week for us if you if you know cuz
last week we released on Wednesday, which was just weird,
right? So, because I was going out of town, I went down to
Orlando, to about a nine hour drive and went to pod fest, pod
fest Expo. I had a great time I met lots of people, lots of
interesting people who met almost all of whom had podcasts,
and we are going to be collaborating with some of them.
Notably, I met Claire from creativity found. She is from
Britain, and we had a really good time at the 90 Steam party
on Saturday night. And let's see, there was Calista and Holly
from book and bottle podcast that's not not safe for kids.
Definitely. And then see, next week we're gonna be having
Parker Kane on. And you know what, I'm not even gonna spoil
it. If you don't know Parker Kane is willing to have him on
next week. We're going to talk to him about some cool stuff.
And then who else I met so many people and Alan C. Paul, I met
up with him. We had a good time. met lots of good folks. Alan C.
Paul has some music over on the podcasting. 2.0 music sites.
Check them out. Really nice guy. Had a great time. But yeah,
that's Oh, and another person I met was from Baby boomer.org.
And we are now featured on baby boomer.org as one of their one
of their podcasts, which is great. Anytime we get featured
on a site or anything like that, hopefully will bring us some
listeners. If you're listening from Baby boomer.org. Let us
know and welcome and welcome welcome to Fun Fact Friday,
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cyber pod verse now. So yeah, I think Did you have anything
going on this week special or?
Leila: Not? Really?
David: I was hoping you had some fun talking. Take a drink of it.
But uh, yeah, one of the things we like to do towards the
beginning of the show is we'd like to talk about something
good going out in the world. Like I have some good news, some
uplifting news. And sometimes it's not even new, like a brand
new story. It's just something we found. That kind of gave us a
little warm, fuzzy feeling. And we feel like the world needs
some of that. So Oh.
Leila: And now. Fun Fact Friday news with your lead anchor,
David.
David: Oh, I'm the Lead tonight.
Leila: Yeah. All right. You talked about this only remember
water. Okay.
David: I put my mic down too far. And it is February 2 2024.
Which means somebody came out this morning. Punxsutawney Phil.
Yeah. And but what this weather did not provide is a shadow or
reason to hide. Glad Tidings on this Groundhog Day. An early
spring. Lang is on the way. Yay. So the groundhog did not see his
shadow early spring.
Leila: So do they ask him if he's if they saw the shadow?
David: That well, he comes out with a declaration. He's got a
written declaration in poem form.
Leila: Wow.
David: Are you familiar with the Oh, I'm not Oh, they've taught
us it at least 12 times in school, but you weren't paying
attention. You're probably like, no,
Leila: because it's not important to me.
David: It's it's, I was telling, I was telling Phaedra last night
for new listeners, pagers, my wife, Leila's mom, and we were
talking about I was like, you know, Groundhog's Day is
probably it's just, it's just fun. You know, it's a holiday,
but like, none of the stores
Leila: are closed. And you know, Valentine's Day or Halloween.
Yeah,
David: it's just a fun holiday. And Ira, I've always got a kick
out of it.
Leila: Yeah. And I think this is the first year that we didn't do
something at school for it.
David: Oh, yeah. You didn't like draw groundhogs? There's just
like a blob, though. Yeah, they're not just a blob. So
yeah, that's my good news. The groundhogs did not see his
shadow, or did Yeah, didn't didn't see a shadow. So,
alright, um, take a sip of water. Okay, okay. And, yeah, so
the movie Groundhog's Day is pretty fun, right, guys?
Everybody kind of likes that one, too fun movie. I know not
everybody likes it. All right, how's I gonna throw it to our
secondary anchor tonight Leila
Leila: so there was this kid on plane on a plane not though
plane. There's only one there's only one plane ever. This five
month old was flying with the parents. And it was a long
flight was from New Jersey to Mexico. And the baby was looking
across the aisle at this girl crocheting with the color, like
beige. And that was a colored base outfit. And the girl saw
this and was like, I'm gonna make this kid a hat. Since you
crusade a little beanie. For the for the basis,
David: you just pulled out her yarn and just started whipping
up a little beanie. Because of what you do there and at her you
do crocheting? I do. So you could like I mean, you knocked
out one of those. You could knock out those frogs and like,
what, 45 minutes now? Oh, yeah. Yeah, those little, little leggy
frogs as you call them. Yeah. Those are fun. I know, you gave
her a lot of those at Christmas time. So yeah, so she just just
gave random baby a beanie and it made it to the news.
Leila: That's pretty cool. Good news. network.org. Yeah.
David: Anybody that we have almost everything we cover on
the show, there's a link in the show notes too. So you can go
check out the story for yourself. Mine came from AP
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radiation
Leila: radio whack deals.
David: I know you hate it. You hate it so much. All right. So
what are you what what is radiation? What? What's the
what's the just
Leila: like waves or something? Yeah,
David: it's like when you go to the beach? Yeah, that's
radiation? Well, yeah, I mean, on the on the lowest form, it is
just waves radiating away from something. It's just the
frequency of the waves can sometimes be harmful, or
helpful, depending on what you're using them for.
Leila: So we don't even really have Hold on. Let me look it up
because it's not on any of our websites, like the definition of
radiation. Oh, yeah,
David: I guess. Well, yeah, we've got like different
different interesting things about radiation. I will say
linked in the show notes. It's not a kid show, but behind the
schemes that are really interesting. Long Form podcast
episode on the radium girls, which I'm going to talk about in
a little bit. I highly recommend that but again, it's not a kid
show. So, you know, Parental discretion is advised so
Leila: Radiation is an energy that travels through space at
the speed of light that can be described as waves or particles,
according to the brave summarizer.
David: Okay, so there you go, the brave summarizer has spoken.
Yes.
Leila: carry energy.
David: So, radioactive discoveries on radioactive
materials are, they can be dangerous, although there's a
lot of things that we come across in daily life that are
radioactive. And as long as you're not, you know, constantly
hanging out with them. And being near them, it's not too much of
an issue, you know, our bodies can, our bodies can take a
beatin on some things. So the reason I wanted to do this topic
is because I was doomed scrolling on the internet, and I
came across this video, I'm going to play it and I'm going
to be pausing it in the middle to just kind of describe what's
happening. Starts off there's a guy with a Geiger counter, which
is a device that determines how much radiation is how much
radiation excuse me, is emitting is emitting off of an object.
And here we go.
Unknown: Banana, uranium, marbles, uranium or Fiestaware
plate from the 1930s I mean that he's
David: moving the plate away from the testbench he's got set
up. So he has these items just lined out on the test bench to
see how much radiation each one he met. So banana, marbles,
uranium, yeah, banana, uranium marbles, and then uranium for
Unknown: background radiation.
David: A couple of clicks. He said his background radiation
areas checked his background radiation with his Geiger
counter and it's like just slightly above zero. So nothing
Banana, banana kicked it up to about point one.
Unknown: Not really. Marvel's
David: also just about point one on the Geiger counter, which is
like maybe 10% up to the little graph on the on the front of the
thing. So it's not that not much a little bit radioactive. You're
anymore anymore.
Leila: It's about a point to
David: about a two because it goes point one and then jumps to
two and then five and then like 50 like the way that the scales
so you can hear the little clicks coming off of the Geiger
counter. That means the more clicks per second the more
radioactive it is. Okay, so now he's reaching over to grab the
Fiestaware plate, which is this orange plate from the 1930s and
he starts the Geiger counter a couple of feet away from it just
so you can see know what's happening.
Unknown: Yes to where plate
David: Okay, so now he has the eyeballs that now he has the
Geiger counter directly touching the plate and receivers these
plates that they used to make in the 1930s
Leila: more radioactive than your uranium or
David: sticks or super radio. The only plate that cooks your
food for you,
Leila: honestly, but that got me
David: got me. Oh, wow. That'd be a good topic for the show.
So, yeah, radioactive materials used to be used in all kinds of
stuff and including, like, beauty supplies. Yeah, I've
heard of that one. Yeah, the the. They would, the higher the
upper class ladies would be going to fancy parties. And they
would put your radium they put radioactive glowy stuff on their
fingers and lips. So it was like, like ravers do with the
glow sticks, you know? So that they would glow and the lights
went out and we got dark during the party. They would glow not
realizing that they were like poisoning themselves with
radiation. It
Leila: was terrible hair,
David: though. I mean, they just didn't know. It's like, you
know, you don't know. It's I mean, there's lots of stuff that
people mess with. They don't know what Mercury. Mercury is
not it's not radiation, but it's poison. Yeah. And they used to
use it. And it makes you go mad. It's mad as a hatter and Mad
Hatter's would be using mercury to make the hat stiff.
Leila: Yeah. That's so cool. I love that mercury
David: poisoning is cool.
Leila: I like the expression. Oh, yeah.
David: Yeah. It's mad as a hatter because they would simply
go mad.
Leila: Yeah. So radiation has both beneficial and harmful
effects. Yes, exposure to radiation can be detrimental to
health, but it does have Good effects like smoke detectors,
cancer treatment, food preservation and medical
imaging, like X rays.
David: X rays are awesome. They are pretty cool. I don't I don't
like when you go to the dentist and you had to get the X ray and
you have to hold that thing between your teeth. And it feels
like spiking, like stabs you in the cheek while you're
Leila: sitting there and they're like, don't move and like what
David: are scaring me in a face though it hurts really bad. And
then they run out of the room. And then they come back in and a
big old lead lead suit. But yeah, do lead can lead can stop
the radiation from traveling through the air blocks it even
when it blocks it kind of sticks to the lead. So you probably
shouldn't, you know, like lick the lead.
Leila: Yeah. Probably shouldn't eat uranium either.
David: Right? Try not something that's good idea. So. So I'm on
a site. Today's homeowner.com five facts about radiation you
never knew.
Leila: I'm on facts.net?
David: Oh, yeah. Did you know that you are exposed to
radiation every day? 1/3 of the US population lives on a nuclear
shadow area, meaning they live within 50 miles of an US nuclear
power plant. Did you know we live within 50 miles of a new
nuclear power plant? No way we do. There's one up in Raleigh.
And Raleigh is about 40 miles away, give or take.
Leila: Nuclear power plants are so cool.
David: I really I think I think that we need to be local to me,
we need to be just like, we need to be moving towards nuclear in
my opinion, like the the wind power, it takes more to create
and ship a wind power mill to where they're going to put it,
Leila: then the energy you get out of it, then
David: more than the amount of energy they're ever going to get
out of it in its lifetime. Plus, they're just they're killing
birds. But well, yeah. And the solar cells, man, I love the
idea. I love that we have a ton of solar cells around here.
Because if if the grid goes down, we we can just go plug
right into the solar cells, because we're super close to one
of their farms. And you know, if society collapses and the zombie
apocalypse happens, we can go just take a couple of the solar
things because they're free if there's zombies
Leila: out there, it's free. It doesn't have a price tag on it
and zombie
David: world, all solar panels are free excuse me, bless you,
I've got something something going on coffin. So I've got
I've had a little bit of a deep dive kind of go into her you
want you gotta Yeah, I'm gonna find a better site. So radiation
originates from you like stuff that we make. And when I say
make, I mean like, we refine things down to where we can use
them, like, concentrate them and use them, like uranium comes
from an ore. But you know, there's other stuff mixed in
with it, they have to refine it, blah, blah, blah, blah. We use
it for all kinds of stuff, cell phones, nuclear plants, all
kinds of stuff. But there's also radiation that comes from like,
stars, and stuff like that. And I don't I don't know if this
actually falls under radiation. But I don't know enough about
the terminology. But basically, one of the more interesting
things that I heard about cosmic particles was a Super Mario 64
Speed runner, named Dota underscore teabag, got help from
a random particle of radiation that flew through his Nintendo
64 and flipped a bit and the memory what he was doing a speed
run and the link to the speed runners in the show notes. It's
called Mario video. He was doing a speed run. For those who
aren't familiar. Basically, you go through a video game and
trying as you can, right? Yeah, you try and beat the game as
fast as you can using glitches. Any any trick you can use to get
to the end of the game and beat it as fast as possible. People
do this in competitions for money, it's a really cool thing
to do. And it's fun. And the speed Runner was doing a speed
round, and there's a part where he magically teleported to the
very tip top of the level which is where he had to get to
normal. You have to jump on platform from platform to
platform to platform and to get up to the top but he teleported
from near the bottom all the way to the top. And people who know
the programming of this game inside and out and have tried
every possible way to do what he did. discovered that the only
way that it could have possibly been done without hacking the
game, which he didn't do because it's certified is speedrun
certified is one of those people is basically an ionic, super, an
ionizing particle went through his n 64. And it hit the memory.
And it flipped one of the bits from you know, a to g or
whatever that whatever flipped it or A to F, I guess I can't
remember the exact. I did a deep dive on this one time, but the
articles in the show notes, and it made his character jump to a
different spot in the level. And oh, it changed a bite byte from
C five to C four. And a resulted in a height change of his
character from whatever to whatever and it put him over the
top of the level which made him when faster, obviously. So he
got help from a cosmic source on that one.
Leila: So there are two types of radiation. There's
David: two types of radiation. Well, I guess Yeah, go for it.
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
Leila: So there's non ionizing radiation and ionizing
radiation. So I'm gonna start with non ionizing because I
think it's more boring. So it's a low frequency radiation that
does not have enough energy to ionize or move electrons for
atoms. So examples include radio waves, microwaves infrared light
in this invisible light, and most are harmless at low levels.
While ionizing radiation is there's a typo is high frequency
electromagnetic waves like X rays and gamma rays, or
particles that have enough energy to strip electrons from
atoms.
David: Okay, so like then so the non ionizing is like the
harmless types. Yeah, no, there you go. Like you said the boring
ones. The ionizing is the one that gives you superpowers,
right.
Leila: can damage your DNA or your human tissue?
David: How do you how do you think you get superpowers?
Layla? Point your pointer mic down little Okay. Okay. Yeah, I
moved everything on your desk. Sorry about that. You're fine. I
I'm refurbishing some old video game consoles that my brother
had. I'm taking them all apart and cleaning off the circuit
boards and making sure everything's working all hunky
dory. And I used her her desk in the studio to do all that to
move everything around. So gamma rays. Gamma rays is a type of
radiation. I know. But what does it do?
Leila: What does it do? I have a problem.
David: You got lots of problems, kiddo?
Leila: I do. Why do we get taught about gamma rays all the
time in our energy unit at school? And all the time we're
talking about radiation and all this stuff. But we never get
exposed to what a gamma ray is? No,
David: I was gonna say never get exposed to gamma rays. We
Leila: never sorry, I think I just like red exposed on my
thing. And I accidentally said that. We never learn what it
does. That's my problem with school. You don't really get my
goat.
David: Oh, we got a little rant. Leila rant incoming. The school
system? Oh, no, don't get me started on the modern school system.
Leila: Because it'll teach you something. But it won't teach
you the thing to teach new about. They're like, hey, this
thing exists. And it's kind of a part of this. But we're going to
talk to you about this. Not that. But that is a part of
this. There's
David: the bell, I'm going home. And then the next day you jump
into something completely unrelated or a substitute shows
up with the Alright, we're just gonna watch a movie today. My
Leila: math teacher, she taught us how to do the British way of
doing math. And it made me mad.
David: The British way of doing math, yes, math. I know. Math
should be unit
Leila: attraction. Okay, there's, you know, how we when
we're subtracting like big numbers and stupid numbers. We
like if it's a two on the top and a three on the bottom, we
actually put make it a 12 and then make the number next to it
a number lower than it is.
David: But but it's hard to it's hard to talk about. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I know about borrow I think they do that on the bottom
and not on the top. Oh, so they write the borrowing down to the
bottom of the problem instead of the top of the problem? I think
so everything under the line should be the answer.
Leila: No, they do it on the bottom number. Oh, so they
David: what? Why did they do that? All right, because I
didn't fully understand it. We have listeners
Leila: in I think we do have listeners in Britain.
David: We I know we do. Actually I can check it Right now I can
go over to our stats page. And we can, we can look at where all
of our people are from, actually kind of wanted to shout out a
few things because we've got some some surprising numbers in
there. Kind of to derail the whole British math thing. 74% of
our listeners, the United States, 4% of our listeners are
in Australia. 3% in Germany, two and a half percent in Spain.
Leila: That's pretty cool. Yeah.
David: So let's see. England, England. Okay, Great Britain.
6.4% of our listeners are in England. 6.4. And Scotland. Yes,
I mean, we got listeners over there. Tell us about your math.
I'm trying to find it. Tell us about your math. Find it. Great
Britain. Yeah. So we have makes me mad. Oh, that's awesome. Our
top three apps that were downloaded on our old podcasting
2.0 apps. Apple is our fourth. Most I'm getting I'm getting in
the into the stats here. All I gotta I can't be doing this.
Every
Leila: time we have because we're talking about scientific
notation. And it sucks and I hate it. But we have to subtract
like huge numbers from each other. Oh, yeah. Every time she
does that, she's just like, oh, my gosh, I hate it. Yeah,
David: scientific notation with a little E. Yeah, like the E and
a 12.
Leila: Yeah, it's dumb.
David: Yeah. Once you get into the ridiculously huge numbers
like that, there's no, there's no point in doing it on paper.
Yeah, it's time to just pull the calculator out. Because our
brains were not meant to deal with more than like, seven digit
numbers. Yeah. If that? If not, yeah, not even that. I mean,
think about, you know, 500 years ago, even. When would you ever
have to deal with anything over the number 1000? You know,
Leila: I like the idea of the little E? Because it just means
times 10 to the whatever's after the e power. Yeah. It makes a
lot of sense to me. Like, yes, I
David: go Google, you want to Google this? Yeah. Yeah. So it's
a ie 100 100 digits. That's a big,
Leila: not a small number. That was not
David: a small number. So back to radiation. Talking about
subtracting, hey, this is what we do. If you're new to the
show, we will start on one thing and we'll end up completely
completely different subject. Radium. Until I mean, like even
Okay, so I'm coming back in the beginning of the 19th and 20th
century 20th century the 1900s. With the radium girls wait.
Leila: So like 9000 to 2000 1900
David: to 9000 to 2000 It would be bad 19,000 To 200 to 2000 100
Leila: I hate that really gets my goat.
David: Leila rant number two,
Leila: saying 1700 Like, That's so dumb.
David: So I should be saying What 1900 But when when you're
talking about the years, it's like the 19 100,000 it makes
sense. It just doesn't make sense to me. You just don't like
don't like it. You if you go back to the very beginning of
the show, you have always had trouble with numbers
1000s 10 1000s 100 1000s You always have you always had a
problem with that and you're in the like advanced math class.
Leila: I'm taking high school level math right now. And it
makes me mad. I can't read numbers out loud. Yeah,
David: I mean, you know, you can work with her. You can work with
them with them perfectly, but I
Leila: can't read them right. I get the words mixed up in my
head. So
David: we talked about the radium girls a little earlier.
Basically it was girls that worked in the factories where
they made glow in the dark dials for watches and stuff. And they
would get the radium on them the paint and they would get sick
from it. I'm not gonna go into what the radium would cause but
it was not good stuff. And but yeah, so they had a whole
situation with like these they were working with these radio
materials didn't know for years that it was gonna be a problem
and then lots of problems happened. But then even still,
after all that they were still putting radium in health tonics
which health tonics in the early 1900s were crazy. You had drugs
and you had you just like whatever any. Anything you could
put in it to make fun somebody feel weird. And get the placebo
effect you all the time it was probably killing them. So anywho
Leila: Don't we have like a big radiate bomb? And Eureka,
David: we have a new Atomic we have a nuclear weapon. Yeah.
Like Gary and Eureka nearby. Yes, very close to us there is
a, if you look up, if you look up Goldsboro Broken Arrow
because Broken Arrow is the term that they use for when they lose
a nuclear weapon and happened near Seymour Johnson Air Force
Base in in Goldsboro near Goldsboro, North Carolina. And
they basically a B 52 Bomber broke up mid air dropping its
nuclear payload. So basically the bomb it's an MK 39 nuclear
weapon, mostly intact.
Leila: Yeah, got dropped and didn't explode, explode,
David: it didn't explode. Which is good. It's 3.8 Mega tons of
TNT.
Leila: Good grief. That's a big, it's
David: a thermonuclear weapon. And if I remember correctly, I'm
looking for the exact wording on it. But some of the triggers
that are required to go off for the thing to explode, explode to
explode to exposure, the some of them already been set off. So
basically, this thing is close to blowing up. But the dirt that
landed in, it's like a swampy area, the ground that it landed
in. So it kind of like sunk a little bit. And it was more
dangerous to try and dig it out. than to just let it continue
sinking. So it slowly just wasn't there. Another one
though. So then they Okay. Was safe was left in the aircraft.
What say? Well,
Leila: Eureka.
David: No, that's the one that I'm talking about. No. Wait,
what? Yeah, Eureka. It's right here on on the Wikipedia page.
1961, Goldsboro, B 52. Crash. The state and 2012 erected a
historical marker in the town of Eureka, three miles north of the
crash site coming from commemorating the crash and the
crash under the title nuclear mishap. Okay, so there you go.
So okay. But yeah, so we've got we got, you know, we got a nuke
nearby. Just yeah, just right off the road. shouldn't be
laughing
Leila: I'm just saying if Fun Fact, Friday suddenly ends one
day, it was probably that probably because expose, expose.
David: Oh, boy, we exploded. All right. All right, so we just hit
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Leila: Oh my gosh, I love it. Yeah. Well, I have a story. I
was at a convention with a friend earlier this year. And
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I remember the story you told me this one. And that's what yeah,
you just got to their
Leila: doctor into talking right?
David: She's awesome. All right. Well, why don't you read the
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Leila: stat freedom booze just listening. So that oh, this is
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Revere? Sure. They're a pair of stringed instruments. He works
with bone or I work with bone a lot. It is an amazing material
and very beautiful when unbleached. Yeah,
David: cuz we talked about bony boning and the bone that they
used to use bone to sew things. Yeah, I bet it is. But bone is a
I want to say they use bone for some parts of the guitar. Right?
Leila: I think so. Yeah.
David: I think I think I've heard that before.
Leila: On camera, what part?
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Leila: I'm smart, you guys. I promise. I have to have a pen
and paper and write stuff out to be smart. though. I'm really
good at working with numbers. I'm just not good at reading or
comprehending how big a number is. When someone says 15
million. I'm like, that's a number. That's a good number.
But if someone says 15,000 I'm like, that's the same number.
David: When you were little when you were very small. And we
weren't even like talking about you would do some of the dumbest
things when you were a baby. What would I do? So there was
just one instance we were down at your grandparents like the
trailer down at Lake and you put a sheet over your head like
you're a ghost, you know? Yeah. And you just took off running as
fast as you possibly could face first and ran to the door.
Leila: This is why I can't count
David: prizes. Why you have issues counting I'm assuming but
we used to say all the time when you would do stuff like that. I
mean, we'd look at each other you know, we'd be like oh, she's
you do some dumb stuff sometimes I do. To be honest, I can't say
I don't either. I was disassembling some electronic
devices this week. And some of them have batteries. I always
take any lithium ion rechargeable batteries to the
battery recycling place because I don't want them to explode in
our trash can. Yeah. Yeah, have you have had that happen? So I
was removing the batteries from them because I just have a big
bucket I take to the battery store every once in a while big
bucket of batteries bucket of batteries. BBB Hey, there's a I
got an idea. Anyway Yeah. Where was
Leila: it going with this? Big bucket batteries?
David: Oh, yeah. So I'm sitting there, I'm looking at this
battery and it's got two wires sticking off of it because I
unsoldered him from the board. And I was looking at it. I had
my pliers. And I was like, I wonder what would happen if I
touch my pliers to both of these leads at the same time?
Leila: I hope he's smart.
David: I almost did it. I was like, no, wait, this is dumb.
I'm about to do something real dumb. So I didn't do the thing.
I wanted to, but nobody was home. So urban, especially dumb.
So knock myself out with electric shock. Yeah, nobody
want to get in there to take me to hospital. So I think that's
going to wrap it up for this week. We have a guest next week,
and most likely the week after that. Oh, you know what, I'll go
ahead and say it's up. Parker, Cain. Parker, Cain is a
beatboxer. You know, like,
Leila: but he's good at it like that. No, just like that.
David: I met him done it. At pod fest. I was sitting there
talking to him at one of the parties. And on one second,
every go clear my throat. And like I'm sitting there talking
to him. I'm like mid sentence. He's like, Oh, one second. The
DJ is yelling at me. Because the DJ was yelling his name. And he
goes up front and takes the mic from the DJ and just starts
beatboxing for like five minutes. It was so good. And
then he comes over and he's like, sorry, I had to do that
thing. I was like, and the DJ said, Yeah, Parker Parker. He
went viral. Um, you may have seen him he was basically
beatboxing and turned a McDonald's cup into an
instrument. That's neat. It was really good stuff. But yeah,
he's coming on next week, we're gonna talk about a bunch of
different fun stuff. And he's probably going to do a little
beatboxing for us. That'd be fun. The week after that I
haven't nailed down. Exactly. So I don't want to say anything
until we've got all the details now down for that. But it will
also be a super exciting show. If that guest if we can nail
down a time that week. So yeah, I think that's all we talked
about the ads. Yeah, okay. Oh, we also had a couple of sales on
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systems already winning for 2024 That's all I'm gonna say. Have a
good one, folks.
Leila: I'm mad about it. You don't really gets my goat three
three, when people purposefully target
David: me know oh my gosh, do you feel personally attacked by
this personally attack because
Leila: I can't read numbers. You can't. I can't read numbers of
people are personally attacking me because I like the metric
system better. You can trim metrics.
David: metro systems voted the metro. Sounds like you're like
some video game where they like wanted to make up their own
words for things they didn't really need to. So we have a
thing going on the store. If you buy merchandise from the line
that says team imperial system, then that makes one point for
that team. And Team metric system makes a point for the
metric system at the end of the year. Whichever one of the items
has the most in sales is determined as the superior
measuring system for that year. 2023 that we were gonna do. We
just had to the other person had to admit lie on air that
Leila: Yeah, but that's lame. We gotta we gotta Oh, we
David: got to up Tibet. Yeah, we're gonna have to steaks.
Alright, well, I'll tell you what, let's have the listeners
decide. What should the punishment slash reward be? For
the metric system, imperial system battle, and we may think
of other ways that we can do it other than selling merch. We're
gonna we're gonna figure something out. But we gotta get
going. Because it is Friday night and I want to go out to
get some food.
Leila: We're gonna surprise, surprise my mom and my wife,
David: mom, mom and mom.
Leila: Oh my gosh, I love that job. I love not making your mom
jokes, but making my mom jokes. I think it's funny. I think it's
like a good switch a Roo.
David: The old switcheroo. All
Leila: right, well, I'm talking too much. So.
David: Bye. Bye, everybody.
Leila: That's the wrong one.
David: And the good news for the dulcet tones of Kylie bear.
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