Leila: Hello, hello. Welcome to Fun Fact Friday. We're a weekly
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ridiculous. Fun Fact Friday one that's too many letters. So we
are joined this evening by someone I met over at pod fest
down in New Orleans. Me Well, you too. Well, you're always
here though. We don't do the show without you. We're
Leila: gonna how to talk. You join me today.
David: Let's bring in our guest, Parker Cain. Parker, why don't
you tell us a little bit about yourself.
Parker Kane: Hey, thanks so much for having me. Really appreciate
you letting me hop on the show here. Yeah, I'm Parker Cain is a
pleasure meeting David at pod Fest in Orlando, Florida. That
was a good time. And I'm a beat boxer and inspirational speaker.
So I'm open at answering any questions about that. I'm sure
there's gonna be some fun facts in there.
Leila: That's rad makes a few things. Yeah. Boxing beats.
David: So like, how many beats can a beat boxer box of a beat
boxer could box beats? I
Parker Kane: don't know. But I think that's a good children's
book idea that maybe I should do
David: an idea. Yeah, we were thinking of it as a shirt. It's
like a beatboxer. You know, like, a picture of a beat boxer.
But then like a bubble over their head? No, we're talking
about, like, you know, making making the beatbox and noises
with with the face with your face. So I was at a meet and
greet, you know, like networking party at pod fest. And I'm
sitting there talking to Parker. And we're talking actually about
Fun Fact, Friday. And then all of a sudden, he's like, hold on
a second. And then the DJ starts yelling his name. And he goes
over and just starts beatboxing like crazy. And I was like, Oh,
wow. All right. caught you off guard. Right. I was like, okay,
part of the entertainment and awesome. And then we talked, we
saw each other a couple other times. And there was one point I
had walked. So, so much at pod fest, and my feet were killing
me. And I saw I was like, Oh, I'm gonna go sit down with them.
They were nice. They were nice at the party. But But yeah, so
Leila, did you have any questions right off the bat, or
besides the joke when we're above the how many? How many
beats? Like when? How does one? Was it just like something you
saw? You saw somebody doing? You're
Leila: like, Did you see a box and think that it needed beats
in it?
David: There's lots of funds. We do lots of do it. Yeah,
Parker Kane: it was actually in sync. So the boy band, you know,
1990s I was as a little kid and I loved in sync. And Justin
Timberlake actually is an amazing singer. But he's also a
beat boxer. A lot of people kind of forget about that. He does so
much with singing and dancing. But he was also a beat boxer.
And I was just obsessed as a little kid. And I saw that and I
was like nine years old and I wanted to do everything that he
did. You know, at that time to had the bleached tips in my hair
nice. Jackets. Was like, you know, just trying to be like
Justin Timberlake. Wow.
David: He's, he's actually pretty like always, I was like,
Oh, he's a boy band guy. But then he was on Saturday Night
Live a long time ago. And his his comedic timing is pretty
good, too. He's a real talented guy. So did is there like a
scene where you live of where you can go and like, like,
network with other people that are into that, that hobby? Or?
Like, is it just kind of just you hanging out with your
friends doing it or? Because you know, my
Parker Kane: friends don't even do it? No. No, I I've always
been kind of a loner in that sense. You know, I'm in. For
those listening. I'm in Idaho. And Idaho kind of is known for
being 10 or 15 years behind what other people do. I'm just kind
of often you know, coming up with my own things to do
something other than potatoes. I guess that sounds to be the
common go to.
David: I don't want to be around these potatoes my whole life.
I'm gonna be Justin Timberlake, too. Yeah,
Parker Kane: well, actually, so I have a TED talk where I kind
of spoke about that. Bing Bing from Idaho just not having much
to do and being kind of from a small town and then going on and
having like a viral video and McDonald's commercial and stuff,
some big things that have happened. And for someone like
me from where I am that just is a bizarre thing to experience.
Right
David: so like in your you live in like a smaller town or like a
smaller area that you said. Did you have say a city or just
Idaho?
Parker Kane: Oh, no. So I'm in Boise now. That's a bit bigger,
right when I was growing up, I was Pocatello, Idaho. Okay,
David: so real real small tassel like I'm sure everybody there
knows you. Like the Pocatello boys on McDonald's commercial.
Yeah, if you haven't seen the McDonald's commercial, I'm gonna
link it in the show notes. I don't want to I don't want to
get a copyright I don't want big big fast food coming for us.
Because we say we'd get a copyright strike but we don't do
that we're self hosted so we went into that with the in the
ledger be more episode vampires. talked all about how that works
with a non YouTube show. But yeah, I find it fascinating. I
had a friend who does it he's a musician. And he does mixes
beatboxing in with his guitar and rapping and you know, he's
got he does the whole thing. But he's not as good as you like he
just kind of does a little bit and loops it and in his pedal.
He looks at his pedal just because he doesn't he never
found a drummer he liked I guess. So. So when when I told
Leila that we're going to be doing a you know episode about
beatboxing she's she's like, she just starts looking stuff up.
And so we've got lots of facts about beats and boxes coming up.
But first. Oh.
Unknown: And now, Fun Fact Friday news with your lead
anchor, David
David: because Leila still reading the news stories.
Leila: I forgot. I forgot. We're doing good news.
David: All right. So grab it mine.
Unknown: Real quick, does
David: it the term New in news, it kind of goes loosely. It's
not really that. Yeah. But Lucas, the penguin. All right.
So Lucas, is a penguin in the San Diego Zoo. Who has a foot
condition. He was diagnosed with a condition called bumblefoot.
Which, which is a bacterial infection common in birds and
rodents. So basic, basically, Lucas? Got a special pair of
orthopedic shoes made for him.
Leila: Oh my gosh. So I love it.
David: The shoes were made by a nonprofit called Thera Pol. They
make custom products for animals with special needs. So yeah, so
the boots and this is a quote from senior veterinarian Dr.
Beth Beck. Nice. The boots are cushioned and velcroed in place.
So they help Lucas with fully Oh, they helped Lucas to fully
participate in the colony and showcase behaviors that are more
typical for a penguin, such as climbing the rock swimming,
nesting, and finding a suitable means. That's a long sentence
for the boots. Let him do this normal thing.
Leila: Exactly. It's like when you're trying to get a word
count. Yeah, we're doing
David: the boots make Lucas very, very, very, very, very,
very, very, very happy. Yeah, there are three other words.
Leila: My new story is this dog, that it's a border collie that
really likes chasing sticks, like dogs do. But their vet was
like, Yo, you gotta start doing that. The sticks could cut his
mouse, you know, as I get older, yeah, as they get older. And
they started throwing in plastic bottles, because it's doesn't
cut his mouth and it's like, kind of in the shape of a stick.
It's easy to carry. I guess it's what I would say is what I would
say. What?
David: The way you glanced over at me. You're like it's it's
easy to carry. Like, I didn't understand what you were saying.
Leila: Oh boy, so when they take him on walks, like get the
bottles off the street.
David: So just cleaning up the neighborhood. Yeah,
Leila: that's a huge pile in his backyard. Wait,
David: so his name scruff, right? Yeah, I'm looking at
story. So he's a bottle Collie. Oh my gosh. You get it? I get
it. I get it. Okay.
Unknown: Parker, Yo,
David: did you bring in a good news story? Or do you have some
good news you'd like to share?
Parker Kane: You know, I did not bring a story. No worries. Most
I've been trying to think if there's good news, so it's
funny. I actually right now part of my nine to five
responsibilities at my day job. I'm actually a news producer for
six radio stations in Boise. And typically, it's not good or
bizarre news, right? It's
David: kind of regular. Yeah, regular news. Yeah.
Parker Kane: So any good news, I think is funny. It's usually
about like the Boise zoo or something with animals
David: that we have found. We have found that when you go to a
good or uplifting news site that you end up with a lot of stories
about animals because it's really easy. Like, any everybody
loves animals. Yeah. Well, everybody, you know, I mean,
most people love animals, especially if it's a good story
about the animal doing something cool. Or somebody rescuing one
or, you know, everybody's got a soft spot for a good puppy gets
rescued story, you know. So it's real easy for a journalist to go
out and get get a good news story about an animal. We've
done a lot on this show. It's just practically a meme at this
point. Did you get a animal story? You know? Yeah, you saw
both both of ours, robot animals, Penguin, penguin shoes,
and a bottle Collie. Those will be linked in the show notes as
well. Oh, we already turned off the music. But this concludes
Fun Fact, Friday, when
Leila: you turn back on and turn back off. This concludes Fun
Fact Friday news.
David: So do you do you know it like have you dug into like the
history of beat boxing or like anyth any, like, any cool facts
that you would know about it? Or any particular beat boxer or you
have any, like anything you'd like to share that you've know
from being in the in that milieu?
Parker Kane: Yeah, so I have looked into the history a little
bit. I will say it's been a big part of you know, with the
origin story, I guess, of hip hop, which was awesome to see.
And usually if I meet rappers, they, of course want me to drop
a beat so they can start rapping over it, right? Yeah, but I also
think it's really interesting that beatboxing comes in so many
different styles. Because typically, you know, beat boxing
is to replace a drum set and just take care of the kick,
snare, hi hat cymbals the different parts of a drum. And
so that sounds the same on a drumset. But when you get
different people's bodies and mouths and voices and stuff,
making the noise, it sounds different, and everyone's got
like their own unique style. So I think that's cool. And it's
used as a way this what I'm trying to do with use beatboxing
for anyway is to uplift people, when you beatbox for someone
that just makes their day like they don't even know how to
react kind of like a magician do tricks with them, you know? And
so I've been inspired to use my gift I guess to help make other
days. One kind of or to be boxer kind of icons, like Michael
Winslow, he's he's like police academy and making noises. He's
awesome. Wow, that is a dream. Or go ahead.
David: I have not thought about Michael Winslow and forever but
I wanted to be that guy. When I was a kid. I wanted to be able
to make all those noises. Yeah,
Parker Kane: he's amazing. I mean, it'd be a dream to meet
him someday. And then Tom Thumb, not as famous of a name but he's
from Australia and he has a TED Talk where he does beatboxing
for every kind of, you know, country or area of the world.
The difference though, okay, music and beatboxing and that's
really showcases the different styles. Tom Thumb. Yep. Tom.
David: Leila's looking it up. She's, Oh, I thought I thought
you were looking it up. We Yeah, one of the like, one of the
things that pod fest because that's how we met up is
everybody was so all about get like editing out mistakes and,
and like making yourself and your guests as shiny as
possible. And from our experience, like we have more
good responses from the audience when we when we mess up and we
you know, show that Yeah, that's fine, whatever. You know,
Leila: Thompson is also a delivery service.
David: Oh, I got said that I wanted to Tom Tom Thumb. It's
Leila: a supermarket in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. I
have no idea where that is probably in Dallas Fort Worth.
David: Okay, real quick and I hope this doesn't get us any
kind of copyright strike but live at the Australian beatbox
championship 2019.
Parker Kane: solely for the day, you
David: Okay, so that's TomTom. Now I've got a quick question.
Are there words for the different types of cars like
I've been looking more into the beatboxing since we were going
to do this? That's like noises you make, right? So like the,
the more whistling thing that he just did, as in like, the real
deep chest reverberation thing? Right at the beginning of that,
like, is there words for all that stuff? Do you call them
things? Or is it like, you just make the noise when you want to
refer to it?
Parker Kane: Yeah, there are words. And that's kind of why I
mentioned earlier at the top of the podcast, I think it'd be a
good children's book idea, because I think you could
literally write out like, and you've got the audience for
this. You know, they could reach out to you let you know if this
is a good idea or not, if they're if their kids would
enjoy this, but literally, like right out sentences and stuff
and turn them into beats, and use different letters and
arrangements. And I haven't put enough thought into creating a
story out of it yet. But the concept is there and I have used
letters a lot. So if you guys are chill with it, I could just
share
David: some Yeah, whatever. Where's the real real laid back
show here?
Parker Kane: Okay, cool. Yeah, t shirt in your audience a couple
tricks. But you've probably heard of the boots and cats.
Leila: Yeah, that's what I do.
Parker Kane: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the boots and cats thing. My
version of that before I ever heard of that was PT K T. And I
was the kid in school that had a hard time paying attention. And
I would, would sit there with my book and I'd write down
different letters and different variations of P TK t. So the P,
the letter P, the way you kind of emphasize it is like and
that's the bass drum. And then the T is the hi hat. And then
the K is the snare. And that's the basically the same thing as
boots and cats. But it's. But then you can change the
variations. So like PTTK T, would be. And then this one's a
word, a name actually, that's pretty common. It's pretty it
works well with the audiences when I do live events. For those
who have seen who have seen Star Wars, Chewbacca, like, Chewy,
and I won't make you do the, you know, noise, but I can't do the
name chewy. If you whisper it, it's. So you could do PT K,
Chewy, PTK, chewy. It's true. And there's all kinds of
different ways to make tons more beats.
David: That's awesome. Yeah, like, I never really looked into
it. Like, how it's done. But like, it seems like you could
really just sit and like, write out in a notebook. What you were
going to do, just like you would be writing music. Yeah. I guess
I just never put that much thought into it. That's really
neat.
Parker Kane: So yeah, yeah. With the distracted kids. So Right.
Well, like put a disclaimer for any kid who hears that, you
know, this more of a disclaimer for the parents. Their kids are
probably going to do this for a while.
David: Yeah, yeah, that's fantastic. Um, so yeah, I think
I am going to ask, I'm going to send you a copy of our theme
song. And see if maybe you would, you know, do a little a
little beatbox over it. Or maybe just like a short little
stinger. A couple of seconds with Fun Fact Friday in it.
Yeah, you know, once you get your you said, your mic wet and
all set up yet, so like rearranging or whatever. That
would be fantastic. If we could get that for me. That'd be cool.
And of course, you know, if you don't if you don't want to,
that's fine. We're not fun. Yeah, I think that'd be cool.
And if we use it, if we use it on the show, we'll we'll cut you
in for the Satoshis I'm gonna get you get you set up with a
wallet and everything so we can get you a split. Wow. Thank you.
Yeah. So we'll talk about that in the value segment. One of the
things I went to look you up, right, you know, look at your
stuff, and I just Googled Parker Kane. I I'm sure you're aware of
the movie. Yes, that came up. So there's a movie Leila, there's a
movie called Parker Kane spelled how Parker spells is, right?
With K, A and E, right? Guess who's the star of Parker Kane
who Lapidus from last. And it's from 9090. So he's all young and
didn't have the beard. Oh,
Unknown: my gosh, we have to watch this movie. No. Oh, it's
very inappropriate. We can't watch this movie. I
Parker Kane: was gonna say I think it's our and I think it's
like action thriller saying the 90s Yeah,
David: it's a very like, Oh, I'm a bad boy. And I'm going to
solve this mystery about this toxic waste time kind of kind of
movie. And like he has, you know, quippy one liners. Like
the only quote on the Internet Movie Database from this movie.
was an it's an brackets. Bad guy just emptied a magazine into a
wall behind Parker Kane. And then Parker Kane says, When did
you start hating drywall? Or is it something against drywall,
you got something against drywall? So I had to go see if
this was like streaming somewhere. And there's a really
bad copy of it, like, very badly ripped on YouTube, the full
movie. So I'm gonna say I have not watched it. I'm jumping
around in it. Because I don't have I don't have time nor
inclination to watch this entire movie. But I just jumping around
in it. And I saw, like, things I didn't know you could show on
YouTube in this movie. I'm like, well, that's interesting. So
yeah, that was That was funny. I thought I'd just bring that up
and see if you were aware of it. If you were named after the
character, or?
Unknown: I sure hope not.
David: I don't really seem pretty cool in the movie. I
mean, he had those quippy one liners, you know?
Parker Kane: No, so I'll share some context on that. I, I do
know about it. I haven't seen it. I because of that I've not
been able to ever get my own domains or anything. Yeah. So I
always tell people, you know, Google me and scroll one link
down past the best. That's where I'm at. But then also, as far as
what I was named after, I think anyway, so this is a story my
dad told me anyway. My dad's name is Peter. And I'm Parker
and it's kind of a spider man thing. Wow.
David: We love to get to the family get
Unknown: paid. Exactly.
Leila: But I love Peter Parker. That's, yeah, it's interesting.
And then I know my mom
Parker Kane: at the time, too, was reading some book where like
the main character's name was Parker. Right. But I can't
remember what the book is. But I know it's not that.
David: Yeah. So yes, I named after you. Were you? It was a
whole it was a whole process naming you
Leila: because I just tell my friends. I'm named after the
Futurama character, but
David: you're not. I'm not know your name. Okay. So your
mother's name Phaedra means bright one. Yeah. And your name
means dark one. We felt like we needed to be like yin yang in
the house. But I was like, oh, Leila, like the let's pronounce
it like the Futurama character, but spell it like the Arabic
Leila: like Leila. That's what I get called Leila. Whenever it
says my name.
David: And you've got the last name that's, you know, hard to
pronounce if you've never heard it. So like, we were like, Let's
make it super hard on her so she's gonna correct everybody.
Leila: Exactly. You just set me up to fail.
David: I did. I did. And we we try it. We thought really hard
about like kids picking on you because your name and we were
like, You know what, Leila? That's That's pretty. That's
pretty tough. Right? But then like, after you're born,
somebody's like, oh, in college, she's gonna be tequila, Leila.
And I was like, Oh, no. Oh, my God. I was like, Oh, now. So
anyhow, it would be hard. So tell us about the the
McDonald's. How did that whole? Yeah.
Leila: What was it like working with them? Yeah, it
Parker Kane: was awesome. There's a really deep story
behind it. I'll try to be as brief as I can. And it's why I
feel very passionate about mental health and like making
others days and stuff and encouraging people. But I was as
the viral video that happened happened when I was in college,
and I was just in a really dark time in my life and I was
struggling to a point where, you know, I was considering not
wanting to keep going, you know, and I ended up that same night
where I was particularly struggling I had a friend of
mine, his name is Shawn, actually still keep in touch. I
was on the phone with him a few minutes before I hopped on this
podcast and anyway, he invited me to go on like a late night
McDonald's run with some friends, you know, been there
done that. Yes. And those are the some of the best memories
though in my in my life anyway. We went to McDonald's, and
obviously he knew my friend that he knew I could be a box, and
some of my other friends knew I could be box. And in
particularly, they knew I could be box with a McDonald's Cup,
which the story we can get into that part a little later, too.
That's a fun fact. But I knew how to be box with a McDonald's
cup. So they asked me to show the other friends that were
there that had not seen it. So I started showing them and I
started beatboxing and some of them pulled out their phones and
started recording it. And the whole store the whole McDonald's
restaurant went quiet and just was drawn into this thing. And
this was watching me do this. Everyone pulled out their
phones. And there's one part of the video I don't know if you've
watched the viral video, but there's one part where like, the
the restaurant employee was like order 47
Kyle Hebert: or something.
Parker Kane: They're like the one person not paying attention.
David: I still got work to do. Yeah,
Unknown: who's this guy? It was,
Parker Kane: it was freaking hilarious. But yeah, so that
video at a time, I didn't know what I wanted. And I was really
confused with where I was going in life. And my friend asked me
like, do you want this video? Do you want to post it? And I said,
No, I don't. I think it's garbage. Why would anyone post
that? You know, as I thought it was stupid. And as mainly
because of my own self negative talk, whatever, right? But my
friend Sean, he posted it on his Facebook. You know, he's, you
know, your typical, you know, friends got a couple 100
followers on Facebook. But it's not like he was celeb status or
anything. The next day, it had over 56,000 views. And by the
end of that day, it was over a million views. And by the end of
that year, it had crossed over 600 million. And today, it's
over 1 billion views. So that viral video just absolutely took
off completely out of my own control. But I took it as a sign
of like, okay, I'm meant to be here. And I meant to keep going.
And I meant to keep doing what I'm passionate about, and
helping others do what they're passionate about, regardless of
how weird or like assuming their talents are that or if they
think that they can use it for the better. Right. So that's
kind of the message but yeah, McDonald's saw that as a free
advertisement essentially. Right. And so McDonald's reached
out to me and they were like, hey, you know, thanks for the
free advertisement. Our coke sales are through the roof. tons
of kids, you know, buy tickets
David: sitting in their local McDonald's trying to do it and
just blowing coke everywhere. Yeah.
Parker Kane: Yep, exactly. And then they, they reached out and
asked if, if I would do an official McDonald's commercial,
you know, they'd pay me for us. They fly me out to Los Angeles,
we do the whole like, official thing. And then they played that
as a, like a 15 second ad for like YouTube and Hulu
commercials and streaming ad. Right. That's awesome. And I
still have it on my YouTube channel. And I've from there, I
actually went to Nashville and lived with this whole other long
story but lived with the former senior vice president of
McDonald's and did a an internship in Nashville and did
some speaking at their corporate events. And this, they really
did a lot to help me out in college and right after college
and still to this day, it's a very reputable brand to be
associated with,
David: right. Yeah, so we had some obviously not that big of a
story. But when Leila was about four, I made this silly videos
playing with a video editor. Yeah, and I made a video of her
playing her little plastic, fake drums and a video of her playing
her fast, you know, little recorder and like I had her
stand in different spots in her room and made three of her
essentially. And it was just noise, right? It was annoying.
And I was like, Oh man, somebody will get a kick out of this. I
put it on YouTube. It went it got a couple 1000 views. The
first app uploaded it. It just kind of went around And a media
company that does media licensing. Said, Hey, can we put
this in our database? Basically, you'll get paid if we ever sell
it to anybody. Well, years and years later. What's the company,
Oregon, Oregon pest control pest control company,
Leila: it was watching YouTube on the phone. Like, immediately
once I got up, so I didn't know it was happening. And I was
watching YouTube. And this ad of me pops up on my phone. And I'm
like, Why can't be me, this has to be like a fever dream. So I
wait. I wait until like, my, my friend was over my house. And we
were watching YouTube together. And I popped up on the screen
again. And I was like, this wasn't a dream. And she
David: didn't tell it. Like she didn't tell me about this.
Somebody else I know is like, Hey, I think I just saw Leila on
a YouTube ad.
Leila: about it. You just got like your own? What? Or I don't
know. Anyway,
David: long, long story short, I go and log into my account that
I made with these people years ago. So I can get paid if they
ever use anything. And let there's just a pile of money
sitting there. Oh, cool. Yeah, you gotta cut I didn't get it.
You bought a bass guitar with it? I
Parker Kane: did. That's awesome. Yeah, I've been through
that too, with the those kinds of companies and they, you know,
they get paid if we get paid if they get paid, you know, so
they're incentivized to get it out there. And that is kind of
what helped me land some other opportunities with like,
miracles got step Got Talent, Steve Harvey ridiculousness,
things like that, that that company actually was just trying
to get that video played at all those different platforms.
That's cool.
Leila: I was going to say, I don't remember in the in the ad
that I was in, it was like, working helps keep this video
this house pest free. And I was like,
David: really? Yeah, it was just, it was a pre roll ad. So
it was like five seconds long. So it was like, you know, it was
it was funny. But yeah, we're getting getting close to your
heart out. And I think we will, actually, we'll just continue
after you after you pop out. And we'll do our value for value
segment. And you can come back and listen to how we, you know,
we talked about value for value, because I know you wanted to
talk about that. And actually, let me I'm gonna pause for one
second. And we're back. And we're back. At some behind the
scenes stuff to talk about stuff that y'all can't know about.
Leila: Anywho anywho Do you have any facts about beats or boots?
I mean, boxes? Yeah. pizza boxes?
David: Yeah, yeah, the facts about pizza box,
Unknown: I would say is that for David or for me?
David: I've got a lot, but I was just gonna offer Parker Parker
Do you want us to? Do you want to shout out to anybody or any
site that you want us to plug or your podcast or any of that
stuff?
Parker Kane: Really just my website, Parker kane.co. And
there are people can find the podcasts if they're interested.
That's just inspiration for creative entrepreneurs. And then
what I'm urgently seeking right now, I guess, for 2024 is just
more events to speak and beatbox at but they can vote that
they're
David: awesome. That's awesome. That sounds great. Yeah, we'll
link to everything. We want to thank you for joining us. And
we'll talk later when we're gonna talk about some podcasts
and people I know stuff, some value for value stuff. I want to
get you on that system. It's really, really cool system. But
we're gonna let you go because I know you got other things to do.
You're busy man.
Parker Kane: I appreciate you guys for providing the space and
given me this opportunity. And I hope I was able to deliver
something entertaining and valuable to you and your
listeners.
David: I think so. Great. It was coming on. Fantastic talking to
you. And we will we will talk later I promise us. Well, that
was fun was fine. He was like, wish he could have stayed
longer. But yeah, he's got stuff to do. Like I said, busy man.
Real quick. I do want to talk about some beats and some boxes.
Oh, yeah. I wanted to beat box. One
Leila: that I wanted to say. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, you
told me the car. Yeah, there is a museum for boxes. In France, I
believe Paris. It just says France. It says France, but it's
Muzej do cartonnage it's the impedir or Pierre a. m in
Premier imprimerie imprimerie imprimerie but it translates to
like cardboard box Museum. Did you translate? Oh no, let me
look at Da
Unknown: wanted to do it. You do it.
I'll do it. Okay, you do it.
David: Okay, so,
Leila: first,
David: how do you spell MUUS?
Unknown: E.
David: Just typing pronounced. Okay, that's the Louvre.
Leila: Oh my gosh, I'm just running through translate. I
thought we're running into the France. I don't
translate.google.com
David: So it's completely dedicated to museum completely
dedicated to the cardboard packaging and boxes. Yes.
Leila: I love it sounds fantastic. If you want to go to
go to France, just say you want to go here?
David: Like Yeah. Oh, are you gonna go to that museum?
Whatever it's called. Yeah, we're gonna go to it. Oh, my
goodness. Oh, there's pictures. There's pictures. Hold on. So
these pictures of these cardboard box Museum. Okay,
let's see. Oh, it's got like the machines that make the cardboard
boxes. It's got. It's got a tree made out of cardboard. Oh my
gosh. It's got cardboard pictures like pictures of
cardboard. This place looks amazing.
Leila: Okay, so they ever go to France? We will go here. Okay,
like a million dollars. Because it might be the
David: first corrugated cardboard box. Joseph cardboard
box Joseph cardboard box when he accidentally glued a bunch of
paper together.
Leila: So when did we get that joke?
David: I don't remember. I remember the origin of it. But I
don't remember when we started it on the show. It
Leila: translates to cardboard and printing museum by the way.
Ah, gotcha.
David: So it was Sir Malcolm Thornhill made the first box of
corrugated cardboard in England. And 1817.
Unknown: Wow, wow.
Leila: So that revolution, and then the cardboard boxes?
Unknown: Oh, no. What's going on? No. Oh, the the American
Revolution little bit after the revolution. The American
Revolution was like, what
David: revolution? There's been more than one revolution and the
only one that matters that matters? No, I'll tell you the
French Revolution. I watched a YouTube video one night it was
four and a half hours long. And I watched the whole thing. It
was interesting. I love it. So yeah, we got some, one of the
things I found about beets was that the entire plant is edible.
From the total Yeah, leaves. I actually did go we actually went
up and looked up beats and boxes even though we
Leila: were just, we're just I was gonna look up Battlestar
Galactica. You get it? You get it? Because it'd be some boxes,
battles heart beats,
Unknown: boxes, Battlestar Galactica,
David: you know, get with a guy on it.
Leila: Get it got a band. Yes, ma'am. So yeah, all
David: the way all the way down. From the very tip of that little
pointy long tip of the beat all the way up to the top of the
plant is edible. So you can eat the whole thing should I go eat
when?
Leila: Sure. We are challenged for whoever loses the imperial
system thing. Oh, hold
Unknown: the whole raw, a whole raw beat.
David: And then you got to post a picture cuz you're gonna be
dyed red. I hate I've never had raw beat or cooked I've only
ever actually had like as a, like, cooked into something. And
I've only had one bite and I didn't like beet. Be like that.
So beets are high in fiber,
Leila: beets, a little turnips, folate,
David: vitamin A and K and a very good source of manganese,
copper and potassium. So yeah, this this gag of, you know,
beets and boxes for a beatboxer coming on. I don't think we need
to go that much further into that. Well, yeah. So one thing
that we did say we're gonna save for the show, because we're
gonna have a conversation about oh, my gosh, the DJ. Oh,
Leila: I can't believe we didn't talk about this with him on
their list. I hope you're still listening. Because this morning,
he was driving me to school because my bus was weird, or
something. And the DJ on Spotify. We just turned him on.
Because he sometimes has good music sometimes, but then he was
like, here's your usual beats on a Tuesday. And we're like, it's
Thursday.
David: And we figured, okay, so this was just stuck in the
queue. Yeah, probably from Tuesday.
Leila: And then later in the conversation with the DJ. It was
like, here's some usual songs you get down to on a Tuesday.
Like If like I told you anything was about Tuesday, I told
David: it to do the reshuffle thing. Like when you when you
want it to like reshuffle your DJ algo Yeah, it's supposed to
like, you know, do a full refresh. Nope. It was still
stuck on Tuesday. It was I don't know, it was just really funny.
So all day today everything. Leila narrowboats is random to
Tuesday. Because he just say Tuesday, the way he said it
Unknown: was anyway, picking me up from school on Tuesday. So
David: this is a terrible way to transition into the value for
value segment because that little segment we just did about
Tuesday was boring. Unless you were there, wasn't it? Are we
losing our grip? Are we not professional? podcasters
anymore? All right, it'd
Leila: be a good episode. Do
David: it. Well, yeah, we yeah, we
Leila: got a lot of new viewers. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we
David: we have a whole our numbers. I don't typically look
at the numbers. But I want I wanted to look at them after we
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instrument. Oh, that's what I was talking about. With the with
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Leila: Yeah, Ed Sheeran and Ed Sheeran stunt doubles. You're
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Leila: Exactly. That's exactly I was gonna add
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Because believe it or not, I have listened to Ed Sheeran
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Leila: have I promise you okay, I'm not gonna play any right
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Cardboard
Leila: boxes were made before Oreos. Yes,
David: cardboard boxes existed? What would they couldn't make
them without boxes to put them in? No.
Leila: They could have put them on the ground. Like I'm assuming
that nothing else was invented except for Oreos, and
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Leila: Oh my gosh,
David: Sherry Laurie.
Leila: That's amazing.
David: We're very excited to have Sherry Laurie on the board
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hosting costs have gone up.
Leila: The first donation we got was from Sherry Laurie. And he
was like, I was playing a video game or something. And he burst
into the room. He was like, we can donation. And I was like it
was very exciting. It was very exciting. At first like somebody
David: somebody thought our show was good enough for that money
wanted to support it. And they wanted us to continue doing it.
And they wanted to show us that by helping us out and what we
did, we immediately went and spent it on ice cream.
Leila: Absolutely.
David: Immediately. Like it wasn't even in our bank account
yet. It had gone to PayPal and eBay. PayPal hadn't even send it
over yet. We bought we spent it on credit.
Leila: It's amazing now, but yeah, if you want to support the
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David: you can support it. Actually, if you if you don't
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We're just trying to have a good time. And, you know, isn't
spread some fun facts and some goofiness in these in times like
these. Hope everybody had fun with us today. And we will link
everything in the show notes that we talked about today. And
oh some more because actually some of these beats and boxes
facts are pretty fun. A lot of them are just kind of like you
know, 80% of all products sold in the US and the EU are
packaged in cartons. Yeah, that's just kind of a pretty
Leila: like what you would think. Like, yeah, I'm pretty
sure that would be right. Yeah.
David: I mean, there's no there's no like surprising facts
about
Unknown: a cardboard box. He made the loop. Like
Leila: we should make that on a t shirt, cardboard.
David: Cardboard boxes won us World War Two. Exactly. You know
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And we hope everybody has a fantastic weekend. And next
week, we have another special guest. Oh,
Leila: who is it? Are we allowed to say? Yeah,
David: because we've we've confirmed a time. So I think if
we've confirmed a time Okay, who is it? Ashlynn speeds. Speed Oh,
Ah,
Leila: yes, I can't wait for this one. This one's gonna be
cool. Yes.
David: Ashlynn speed is a racecar driver. And she is 17
and I've been watching her videos and stuff and it looks
awesome. Like I'm a little jealous that these cars but
yeah, I have a I have a somebody that I watch on YouTube name
sound speeds. So that's why I put that s on there. That was a
mistake. And I apologize. But yeah, we'll bring that one to
you next week unless unless something goes you know falls
through scheduling wise. And we'll see y'all next week. Bye.
Leila: Bye.
Unknown: The louder now.
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