David: attempt number four.
Leila: We still got
David: we're out of practice out of practice, folks. Welcome back
to Fun Fact Friday.
Leila: fuzzing, we can figure out where it's coming from.
David: Yeah. And then we were like, we started to record like,
Leila: it's okay. I won't go through the recording.
David: I couldn't handle it. I could not handle it.
Leila: I stopped it.
David: Yeah. So we're back. That is some riveting content for the
intro of the show right there. Title issues. Welcome. Fun Fact,
Friday. This is a bi weekly podcast where we discuss topics
surrounding a different subject.
Leila: Hopefully you're back. We know we're back.
David: We're back. Yeah, hopefully you're back. Hopefully
we didn't lose a bunch of listeners. Because you know how
to us. Well, I don't I don't know if our show even involves
algos. I think we have to like know about the show and
subscribe to it. Because we're not
Leila: like we're not Yeah, we don't have advertisers.
David: We don't we don't care. We want we want our show growth
to be organic and to have a good community like we have
surrounding the show. We don't care about clicks and views and
all that stuff. So anywho we've been gone for two weeks. And we
didn't just like take two weeks off because we wanted to we oh
yeah, we missed two weeks. It's been a crazy. Three weeks.
Right. Shortly after our last episode released. We had to run
up to the hospital real quick. Leila was up at Kings Dominion.
I wasn't riding roller coasters. Doing some band stuff. Yeah, it
was rootin tootin. Yeah. And then I took a whole field trip.
Yeah, do you do want to talk about that for a minute before I
go into what we were doing here to Battlefield trip and back
down in North Carolina. So my wife Phaedra, the silent third
partner of the show, had been having some issues with pain in
her abdomen, and wasn't sure what it was. It got it got real
bad. So we ramped to the ER. We were just gonna go to like a
immediate care type thing, but it just closed when we got
there. Of course so we ran to the ER and the ER was empty on
Elijah clicked a pin I know better than you. And we went in
and it was empty. There's like one other person that you are
that never happens here. So we get right in and she gets some
some X rays and whatnot taking Well, it's her gallbladder
apparently Great. Yes. Great.
Leila: Or he's like, great, because I'm still talking.
David: She has no idea we haven't let her know anything
cuz we're not gonna ruin her or field trip. Yeah, for this, you
know. So they tell her she is going to need to get her
gallbladder removed. So next couple days, that's that's what
happened. They went in and got get rid of the Get rid of the
gallbladder just gave me the old heave ho. And we asked during
the the whole ordeal, why, why and that was for the show for
the show's purpose. That's why we asked why does the
gallbladder make stones? If it's so problematic? And the doctor
was like, oh, and what we'll talk about what gall stones are
a little later in the episode, but after she got the
gallbladder out, we stayed in the hospital a couple of days
for recovery because of and also other reasons like our hospital
doesn't have a in house pharmacy on the weekends. Apparently law
on Mother's Day. Yeah, it was on Mother's Day. So she had a great
Mother's Day getting her gallbladder removed this year.
Yeah. And then
Leila: we are rescheduling? No worry.
David: Yeah, there's gonna be another Mother's Day, and a
couple of weeks. Once everything's all said and done.
While she was in, in recovery, she was recovering came home
feeling bad, you know, missing missing a body part, all that
stuff, we get home, and she starts having the same pain that
she was having. And we're like, okay, so it's like a phantom
pain of some kind and then start looking it up and it starts
getting worse. And she has to go back in. Because one of the
stones had escaped it, it made a break for it when when that I
guess when they when they were in there rooting around it made
a break for it, and got down into one of the other internal
parts and clog something up and then it was causing all these
other issues. So back to the hospital we go. She stays stays
a night. They tell her we can't do the surgery because it's the
weekend and we won't have the team so come back on Tuesday
because Monday was Memorial Day. So she had to suffer through it
for three more days. And then we finally got to go in for the
next operation to get that last little stone taken out and I'm
okay so this this one thing was cool. They didn't have to cut
that was an endoscopy. So they sent a tube down the throat and
it had this wire on the end that comes out. It's got a camera on
the end so they can see what they're doing. And a wire comes
out and goes into one of the little ducts towards the liver,
and inflates a balloon goes past the stone, inflates a balloon
behind the stone. And then they pull on the wire, and it
squeezes the stone out of the duct. And I thought it was
really cool how they do that without having to cut or do
anything like that. It was really neat, neat stuff. So she
got that done. And then now she's back home. All as well.
She's on recovery. She's still in pain from, you know, just all
this stuff that happened not a lot of pain. She's doing good.
We did kind of mention what was going on a little bit on social
media. Thank you everybody who sent her good vibes and prayers
and thoughts and all that. She's doing great. And we're back on
track. And we just got to reschedule Mother's Day now. So
that is why we've been gone that in conjunction with Leila's end
of year testing. And her band great on She did great on and
her band performance as she had to do. We've just had way too
much going on to produce the show. And it'd be in the kind of
quality. Yeah, so ere we go. We're all caught up six minutes.
Good to go. Yeah. So in all of that, we decided that we should
talk about on this episode, as you've seen from the title,
useless, our organs, useless organs, useless body parts and
the human body. Because the gallbladder found out while not
really useless. You can you can you can live without it, no
problem. Like, it can just not be there and you're fine. And it
got me thinking, like what other parts? And we I think we all
know a few. But what are some body parts that you don't really
need? Like they're kind of they're kind of useless, or they
just aren't required. So what did we what did we find Leila is
the appendix?
Leila: The appendix appendix is a organ about the size of your
little finger? And it hangs from the lower side of your large
intestine? Okay, and it, it doesn't really do anything.
David: It doesn't do anything?
Leila: I don't think so.
David: The appendix collects toxins. So but it doesn't really
need to be there because your body can kind of just handle it
otherwise, so
Leila: many other things that can collect toxin, right. And it
can it can blow up. It can explode. Yes. It can blow up
inside of you.
David: This will into you. That will be the end of you. If your
appendix blows up and they don't get it out and get all the
toxins out. Because it's since it's collecting the toxins. It
literally
Leila: go anywhere. Yeah. Yeah, know what to do with me. It's
just like, I got all these toxins right here. I'm gonna
blow up. And then you die.
David: Yeah, sometimes no good. I know somebody who had to have
an emergency appendectomy, which an appendectomy I believe, is
the most common surgery.
Leila: Probably. Just take it out, right, there's like,
David: they're just getting there. This this article on
University Health news.com and link in the show notes says the
appendix was believed until recently to have no function in
humans. However, researchers theorized after 2007 study, that
it might actually be useful as a safe house for healthy bacteria
that a digestion. A more recent paper from 2017 suggested that
the appendix may play a role in immunity as it contains a
lymphoid lymphoid material. So they don't really no, they do
know that they can just get rid of it, though. They can just
give it the old hippo I believe theirs was on The Simpsons.
There's a clip where they removed somebody's appendix and
it was about to burst. So he like throws it like a grenade.
And then somebody runs and jumps on it with the trash can do,
like stifle the explosion. And it blows loads of Oh, so it's
funny. I'll see if I can find that and put it in the show
notes for you. But yeah, we've all still got our appendix is in
this family. And we're holding on to those suckers as long as
we can. Hopefully, it'll be a long time. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah,
I know somebody who had to have an emergency appendectomy and
get it removed, because it was about to it was rupturing, and
oh my gosh, his scar was terrible. It was like, Oh,
you're talking about jagged and ripped up? Yeah. Anywho. So
what, what other one tonsils? tonsils? So what a tonsils do
and why or why can you get rid of them without it being a
problem?
Leila: This is not health.harvard.edu Get your act
together because this isn't that interesting network of lymph
nodes throughout the body as part of the immune surveillance
system that helps trap dangerous invaders such as bacteria and
viruses. Consider your two tonsils as larger specialized
lymph nodes watching out for these intruders. These are
located at the back of your throat just to the sides of, of
an behind the uvula. Now removing the tonsils
tonsillectomy is the only recommended for people with
repeated bouts of bacterial throat infections such as strep
throat, a common condition and children once removed, other
lymphoid tissue, including an actual lymph nodes can take over
the job of tonsils. This lame?
David: Yeah, tonsils are not really necessary. Again, it's
another one of those things, it kind of catches catches.
Leila: I've never had them. Hopefully,
David: there's just not in where we live. And we're we're
fortunate to live in a, you know, cleaner place. We just
don't, don't deal with that much harmful bacteria and viruses
anymore. So it's not really necessary. I'm actually thinking
about getting my tonsils out. Since with all of the medical
expenses, we've just accrued, that we've met our out of pocket
maximum for insurance for this year.
Leila: I love my senses.
David: You love your tonsils. How much you love your tonsils?
Leila: Like, like a lot? I wouldn't want to get rid of
them. Definitely. If I did, I'd keep them keep in a jar. Yeah.
Just a jar of formaldehyde in my tonsils. That's awesome.
David: You know what else is back there with your tonsils?
Bacteria, your adenoids that your adenoids are situated back
in the nasal packet packages, nasal pass passages where your
mouth and throat meet that are closed. They're similar to
tonsils. Different adenoids.
Leila: adenoids. Yep.
David: It's as I promised, because I almost had my removed
when I was a kid. They were like we need to remove his adenoids.
And I was like, No, I love my adenoids. You know, some people
have pictures of their kids in their wallet. I have pictures of
my adenoids. That's how much I love them. But yeah, those are
just just more more lymph nodes. Same thing things tonsils. Oh,
Leila: it's just one tonsils removed. The adenoids are
generally removed at same time,
David: right? Yeah, it's it's pretty much tonsils to the
Electric Boogaloo? Yeah. So what else can we get rid of? Okay, so
we've gotten rid of the gallbladder. I didn't say what
the gallbladder does. It stores and releases bile when you're
when you need it. And that's what the stones are. The stones
is little pieces of bile. They get hard. Oh, also, little fun
fact. Because that's what the show is about. My wife had the
high score for number of gallstones in a bladder. They've
been a gallbladder that they've removed. Yeah, she got the high
score. I'm proud of her for that. overachiever.
Leila: How many hundreds. Good for her.
David: Didn't say hundreds. They said well over 100 stones.
Leila: So nice. Yeah, that's why count all that.
David: They were like, you know, when it's done then there's this
many. We're just gonna we're gonna say over 100
Leila: So yeah, so your tailbone? your tailbone? Yeah.
David: Have you ever hit your tailbone? You ever fall in such
a way that you land on it? No. Oh, it hurts.
Leila: How would you? Okay, what? How would you fall to hit
your until?
David: Like it like let's say there's like, a half size wall
that you would like sit on or something? Yeah. And you fall
backwards and it this sharp part of the wall the corner. Like you
just land right on your tailbone. Also, I don't have
much booty material. So when on people that don't have much
booty material? It can it can hit it can
Leila: hit it. Oh. Well, it's it's at the end of your
vertebrae. And it's a remnant of our ancestral tail. It's what it
says.
David: Right? Yep. It's just like, it's just like the little
the tibia vertebrae. Yeah, that and it's it fuses together. I
believe it like fuses together in when you're like, it's, it's
separate from your vertebrae. Yeah. And then as your as you
grow in the womb. It hardens into one single piece, and
doesn't really grow much more after that. So
Leila: first, you likely won't notice your tailbone unless you
fall on it and incur a break or fracture. Yeah,
David: yeah. And I've I don't know if it broke. I didn't go
get x rayed or anything but yeah, I've heard it before I
landed. And it's not fun.
Leila: I bet it
David: is not fun. No hurt my tailbone.
Leila: So the little muscles you have in your ears. If you can
move your ears. That's
David: as I can. Can you Okay? Do it audio podcasts and you're
wearing headphones. Even if we had video, he wouldn't be okay,
continue.
Leila: So Oh, that's terrible. You muted yourself and I have no
one to talk to.
David: I'm sorry. I
Leila: need it. I know. I'm sorry. I need someone to bounce
it. I know.
David: I know. I know. I'm sorry. I needed a drink really
bad.
Leila: You know how like cats can move their ears. Yes, I'm
aware of how cats can move their ears. You know, like dogs can
move their ears. Some dogs. You know, like other animals can
move their ears. Yeah, yep. No, not anymore.
David: So it's this video. Vestigial? Okay, what does
vestigial mean? Did she'll
Leila: means they are not needed anymore. Yep. Useless. You still
got them? Don't you like that one tendon? In your arm wrist
area? I don't have it.
David: Talk about that
Leila: later. Have it? You don't have what do you mean? I don't
have that tendon.
David: What tendon the tendon? It's, it's on one of the sites.
You should talk about it with the name. Okay, well, we are an
educational part we are in the education. I
Leila: didn't look at all the sites that you sent me. We are
in
David: education list and look at them all. On on all of the
directories. It's called
Leila: Maris longest. There you go. runs from the wrist to the
elbow and about 10% of Humans do not have it. Oh, am I special?
David: Okay, so you're in, you're in the top 10% or the
bottom 10%. If you want to find out on top, okay, we're gonna
go.
Leila: Acute, if you rest in the back of your wrist on the table,
and connect your thumb to your pinkie, you may see a band of
muscle pop up on your wrist. That's your palmaris longus.
David: Okay, so if you make the, the Italian thing where you put
your thumb on your fingers When the moon hits your eyes, like
make it a pizza. So the Italian thing and then put your hand put
your hand on the table. Like your arm and your hand where
your hand is palm up. And then put all of your fingertips
together with your tip your thumb and
Leila: put your pinky now let me go.
David: See it pops out more when I do the when I do my index. Oh,
I might have it. Wait a minute. Look at look at that. Oh, if
you're not doing this at home, or when you're driving your car
if you're driving in your car, especially put your hand on your
dash. Wait.
Leila: Here, Phyllis. Does that. Yeah, it doesn't pop up when I
do it like normally. Yeah, it just does. You're just isn't
very, I don't I don't think I have I think I have a different
one. On my weird donkey.
David: You've got the Paul Maris. Long, long goose among
us. You've got the Polaris among
Leila: the Palmeras among us.
David: Yeah, you're right. Yeah, so I hope everybody did that.
And let us know if you've got a palmaris longus. Or if you don't
see that, then you'd be even more special because OH, Wisdom
Leila: teeth,
David: Wisdom teeth, completely
Leila: interrupting you. That's why That's how we do how we do
wisdom tea.
David: Wisdom teeth are interesting. You'll find out
later, they wouldn't have started growing in yet. A
Leila: couple of my friends that are started. Well, not for you.
Not for me.
David: We had a real X ray recently. And we would have seen
them. So that's true. Whoa, what dogs are going crazy. So wisdom
teeth. It depends on your face and in your face as to whether
it's a problem or not.
Leila: And it might not be a problem for me because it wasn't
a problem. Either of y'all, I think
David: no, no, I had one. They were going in I had an extra
tooth and my bottom jaw. Like real far down in my jaw and it
was going to cause a bunch of problems already
Leila: missing teeth. Right. So like maybe they'll just be able
to sneak in there. Right? Baby teeth. Maybe you can just like
scratch those out and just forward. Maybe the wisdom teeth
will just be normal tea for me. Right? Yeah,
David: see, because I've got schoolwork. I've got extra
teeth. And I believe I stole them from Leila
Leila: because I Okay, you know, here's a big secret about me,
guys. You know how you have those four teeth down the bottom
your mouth? lick them right now. Okay, I don't I have three. Yep.
I got a middle tooth down there. And two next to it. Biggest
Secret y'all. Yep,
David: totally. So one of her teeth. Just it was just it was
like nah. It just never formed.
Leila: Um, what do you call these the biter chompers?
incisor incisors? Yeah. The second incisors on my bottom row
are still baby teeth, because there's nothing underneath them.
Yep, the bottom teeth never grew for those Yep, they're still
there. They're still vibing. But
David: they're there. They look fine. Yeah, they might fall out
one day, but we're thinking about dentistry is is easy. So
it's not. They'll
Leila: chill in your mouth until they get tired of you. Yep, I'm
like, Okay,
David: and what happens what happens? We figure it out. Like
I said, teeth are easy to fix. Cost of money, but
Leila: three teeth as of right now, right. And I had three
extra time I have a weirdo teeth. I have a peg lateral. So
I have to pay laterals, what's a peg? Lateral? It's your lateral
teeth next to your two front teeth. Okay. Where they grow in
smaller. So one of them is like a little triangle. I have little
shark's tooth. Oh, yeah. And one of them is just a little bit
smaller than it should be.
David: See, I have an extra one of those. And it's
Leila: very large. So if you ever see any pictures of me
smiling, you'll see it right.
David: My teeth or my teeth are really messed up. Didn't have
didn't have an opportunity to get well. I had an opportunity
to get braces when I was younger. But when I was a kid,
if you got braces, you got picked on for it. Now. It
doesn't matter because nobody gets braces. But yeah. Yeah, you
got picked on for getting braces when you were my age,
Leila: and you change out the colors every month. Pretty cool,
right? Like two days ago. I'm like I'm on and they still hurt
grief. Yeah,
David: she got a big a big upgrade wire, big upgrade of
some kind. But yeah, Wisdom teeth and then crooked. It just
basically it's been depends on whether you got room for him. If
you don't have room for him to come in. Once they start coming
in, it can be really, really painful. And it can be old
teeth. Yeah, the big old teeth that come in the back of your
mouth. As I'm sure a lot of you know, and get a flood dumps come
in sideways. Here's a fun story that makes people cringe. When I
went to get one of my wisdom teeth was causing causing a
problem only because my other tooth was a problem. Anyway,
long story short, I had to have one of them removed. Because it
was coming in whatever. Anyway, I was getting it removed. And I
I have a problem with anesthesia that it does not work on me.
It'll knock me out for a couple of minutes. Right. So as I was
in the, to the On the Table, getting getting a wisdom tooth
extracted, the way they do this, if you're you're queasy skip
forward about a minute and a half, two minutes. If they they
need to take it out. So what they do is they break it, well,
they numb you all up really good. And then knock you out.
And then take a chisel and break the tooth into multiple pieces
and then just pull all the pieces, right because that's
just the best way to do it causes the least amount of
damage. Well, I woke up as the the dentist was coming down with
the hammer to break my tooth. So like I opened my eyes, and I
just see this dude with a spike in my face. Hammer as hard as he
can to crack this tooth. He goes Oh, and he's awake. Because it
took forever to knock me out. And they thought that was weird.
And I woke up like three minutes into into the surgery. So they
gave me they gave me more and it made me drowsy enough to where I
was out. I kind of really knew what was going on but I couldn't
feel anything of course I was completely numb. But I never
really fell completely back asleep while he was doing this
stuff. So I was kind of like half opening my eyes seeing what
was going on while he was doing it. I'll tell you a waking up to
somebody who has a metal spike in your mouth and he's coming
down with a hammer. Not not great favorable not great. But
you know I just remained calm because the the laughing gas had
me nice and calm and kind of giggled about it because that's
how laughing gas works.
Leila: So the hilker Symbaloo Neris or third eyelid is a
folding tissue around your inside corner of your eye. Yeah,
that's what this little guy that catches boogers were sleeping.
David: Yeah, the pink the little pink spot on the inside of your
eye like towards the nose. Yeah. I thought that that was just
some kind of like gland or something like that. I didn't
know it was a third eyelid. Like we've seen some animals when
they close their eyes when they open them like that film. Yeah,
goes over. I'm like to keep keep environmental things out.
Apparently that's just like kind of like that. Yeah. It it does
serve a purpose though. This is a vestigial thing. This one does
serve a purpose though. Because if that wasn't there, you'd
kinda like have a little gap. Yeah, and stuff could get in
there, right.
Leila: I guess we could have like circular and
David: I will I will tell you I have blown my nose so hard that
air has come out of right there. My past my eyeball because
because it's all connected back to your head just it's just a
big hole. Connected is that yeah, inside your heads, just a
big ol connected series of tubes. Yeah, ears, nose, throat,
that's your nose, throat doctor, you know, all of that's just a
bunch of tubes all interconnected. Cool.
Leila: So that's cool. Oh, no scrolling down and there's
nothing there.
David: Gotta keep going for the win. Okay, so we've already gone
over the tailbone. Your muscles know your mom's. Oops, All
right, last areas. Goosebumps is like the little bumps that you
get on your arm. Those are from the a rector director,
Leila: Eli Lilly pie.
David: It's basically muscle fibers that produce what we
commonly refer to as goosebumps but what the purpose of them
used to be story after this, is that what this article says when
we thought about I'm I was pausing for effect. The arm hair
used to be thicker on people. And I'm like, used to be correct
or killing muscle erector pilih, erector? pilih
Leila: Pylea. Nope. Fairly, basically
David: makes the hair stand up, which creates more of a layer of
insulation works really well on me because I'm a very hairy guy.
And it says any you know, doesn't we don't need it
anymore. It's like, oh, it's an excuse me, internet.
Leila: I think I need it.
David: I am a hairy man. And the erector pilight muscles. Fibers
are? What are you getting upset? All right, are you? Are you Are
you mad about it? Yeah,
Leila: I am mad about it. Because you're pronouncing both
of the words wrong.
David: I know. Oh my gosh. So yeah, that's how you get
goosebumps. It's those little those little muscle fibers
Leila: that does not pronounce. Like a lot of words, right?
David: Do they do it for effect and comedy? No. There's a
there's a guy on YouTube that mispronounces one or two words
in every one of his shorts. As a content foreign engage
engagement farming. Engagement bait. Yeah. Or like he'll say
that a Star Wars characters a Star Trek character? Yeah.
Something like that. Well, Lord of the Rings character is a
Harry Potter character. You know? It's just genius. Just
because he knows people. He knows people. He knows. He knows
people that are not that bright, are going to be like, Hey,
idiot. You mispronounce that word. It's actually Eiffel
Tower. Idiot. But he just got a free comment. Yeah. And comments
are what brings in the algo. Right? So he's working. He knows
what he's doing. He knows what he's done. Yeah. What else we
got? What are the other useless body parts or outdated non used
body parts do we have I liked the third island when I didn't
know that one. I didn't know that either. Which is one of the
reasons we do this show. So I can learn this.
Leila: In science class this year. We learned a lot of
vestigial structures. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
David: I feel like maybe I learned it way back then.
Leila: Unlike analogous structures, hold on. I
completely forgot after I took that EOG. Right. Structure. I
don't know how to spell it. Well. It's got a you owe us in
it. So I didn't like it.
David: Do you have a bump on the rim of your outer ear? I
Leila: don't think I do. Hold on. Let's see biological
features that have similar functions, but do not share a
common evolutionary origin. So like a dolphin flipper. So like
a dolphin flipper.
David: And what else? No, no, that's comparing two things, a
bird
Leila: and insect wings. So a bird wing and an insect wing.
They're analogous structures because they don't come from a
common ancestor. So they're not related. But they're the same
like function. Gotcha in a similar way that homologous
Houma lodges are how to share a common ancestor but have
different Yeah,
David: I'm trying to see if I have one of these.
Leila: Let me look at you. Oh, no, he's
David: looking at my ear. Okay. I don't think I have one
Darwin's tubercle is a bump that sometimes appears on the rim of
the outer ear considered a harmless malformation of the
year. Um, hold on, let me let me see. Nope. You don't have one.
You do not have a harmless malformation on the outer ear.
Leila: I do have a maybe harmless malformation my hand?
Yeah,
David: you do. What's crazy, is that I've known you literally
your entire life. I was there and it's crazy. Oh, yeah. I was
there when you when you entered this world. So Leila's hand has
five has four fingers and a thumb and her other hand has
four fingers and a thumb so it's not like there's anything wrong
really missing? Both our functional
Leila: one okay, my left no, is this left one L? Is that right?
Okay, so that's, that's an L Okay. Yeah. So this is my left
hand, my left hands and normal ol hand really
David: bothers me because you can't just do left and right
without
Leila: the school system. I didn't learn my wish.
David: I wish you never learned that if you use your left hand,
you can make an L because that is a crutch.
Leila: No, it's not even a crutch anymore. Because they
both look like else. They both look like else, I can't handle
it. And if I've had to the J trick to know which one's a j,
David: if you hold you, depending on whether your palm
is facing you or facing away, you can make this
Leila: How would you know? How would you know? This is an audio
bucket. Yes. I have a normal old left hand. It's got the muscle
on my thumb and everything. I think I still have the muscle on
my thumb. But my thumb bone that comes from my wrist to like my
first knuckle on my thumb, not the one that okay, the one that
will bend your thumb inward your opposable muscle. poseable
knuckle is what I meant. That's like crooked. And it has a part
sticking out of it. Like so you can see, you can feel my bone. I
have a bump, right? Yeah, it's really cool. But it hurts when
you hit it on something, because it hurts your bone. So I will
just skin and bone right there.
David: We'll try and remember to put a picture in the chapter of
Lilo's hands side by side so you can see
Leila: thanks, because like when you're doing a handprint thing.
David: I was like, you've never told me that it stinks before.
Why would you? Why would crooked I thought you meant literally,
oh,
Leila: I have a crooked. And also my phone doesn't have its
full potential because I can't like bend it all the way
backward. Like I can look at how far this one goes down. And this
one can't go down anymore. So when I was like putting my
thumbprint on the wall the other day that I tried this farm out
first, but it couldn't bend back enough to get my thumb in the
paint jar. So I couldn't put my stupid Thumper on the wall with
this hand. So I paint all over my right hand, and I stuck my
other thumb in the paint jar. And it worked. Because I have a
normal left hand. I'm not about it. My stupid thumb. It's okay.
It's also much shorter than my other. So I have like a disabled
thumb. I'm just
David: if you ever watched it crowd that's a reference to
that.
Leila: Anyways, that's my that's my Leila rant about my phone. Yeah,
David: so she's got um, yeah, it's just like, it's just
different. And I didn't even know this until like a year ago.
Yeah, talking about Yeah, my thumb is kind of weird. And I'm
like, but I've known you your whole life. You're like almost a
teenager. And I really
Leila: didn't talk about it, because I didn't think it wasn't
that normal. Right. Everyone had a different shaped hand. But
you're and I mentioned it at some point. And it was like,
Yeah, my hands are like different lengths. And then
you're like, No, no, everyone says, Yeah, everybody's got
normal hands, you know? And then okay, so I kept this deep within
me. And I just didn't bring it up until recently. Yeah, but I
mean, it doesn't really affect it. Yeah, it doesn't really
affect it. And once I hit it, and it hurts, right, because the
bone sticks out a little. Which today I elbowed someone behind
me, because my friend and they had their their huge old Stanley
Cup in their hand. And I my funny bone. That little nerve
right there. I hit it. Dead on and my arm went numb for a solid
10 minutes. Oh,
David: no, you're funny. It's so bad. Yeah, it sends like an
electrical shock all the way up here.
Leila: Don't try to elbow someone with the Stanley Cup.
Yeah, if someone tries to elbow you and you have a Stanley Cup
using self defense those are
David: that's why you pay that's why you pay so much extra for
self defense factor. It's like there's a huge Maglites like
$10,000 for the Maglites that took like four D sized
batteries. They were just like it was like a billy club with a
little flashlight on the good stuff actually had a billy club
with a flashlight on the end we I used to keep it next to the
bed until I got more powerful forms of home defense. So I
think I think that pretty much covers it Oh no there's one more
the pyramid Dallas muscles the pyramid Allah pyramid Dallas
muscles. It's two muscles that are originate at the joint
between the two pubic bones and extend to each side of the linea
alba a line of connective dislike down at the bottom of
your abs like towards your you know, where your legs meet up
All these muscles vary in size and the percentage of humans are
a percentage of humans are missing one or both of the
muscles, but suffered no ill effects from their absence. So
it's just like this looked at the pictures, I looked it up,
and it's just as tiny little muscles down down near that
region that just don't really have a purpose. So, just another
little thing in there, they don't really do anything, just
parts. But you know, who knows? Maybe Maybe they're in there for
like, one purpose for one person, you know? It's like
gonna save their life one day, but they needed to be there and
every buddy leading up to that person knows, yeah, that's
that's the gallbladder incident a couple weeks ago, just got me
thinking about all this stuff. Like how many body parts could
could you have removed and still survive without like, needing to
be hooked up to a machine because of the machine? You
could take out a whole lot? Yeah, that's an interesting,
interesting topic. I thought it would be a fun fun show. And the
thing about this show is that it is a very, very podcast. Hey,
Leila: it's like wait, yeah, it
David: was terrible. We had a great time with the silly
speculation. Saturday, JFK conspiracies. Yeah, it looks
like Like he said, We and I said, so did I just listen and
also had had something to say sent 1212 SATs. From looks like
fountain I believe just listened to us fountain. Let's see. Yep,
fountain. 1212 That so 1212. That sounded like straight truth
to me. All the opinions that we express on silly speculation
Saturday are purely speculation and should not be taken as truth
in any way. There.
Leila: Unless you want to. It's up to you. We don't care. This
is America. That's your opinion.
David: So and then that was that was two weeks ago. And then we
got another one last week from just listening for 12. Wells
that's from fountain. That's the fountain app, you can get it
fountain.fm or on your Android or Apple device. Excellent
podcast app, and you can send boosts from it. This is from the
citizenship test episode, which was the one before the show
speculation Saturday says I'm sad how few of the history
questions. I knew all this. Okay, just listening. That's why
we're here to inform. I had a lot of reading to do. Yeah. That
there is so much rich history. Like you can just pick one topic
of American history and there's so much to read that you you
never stopped being able to learn from it. I had a friend in
eighth grade, seventh or eighth grade can't remember. But her
name was Regina. She got really into one of the wars along with
his other guy. Civil War, it was a civil war. They got like
really into that all they talked about was like the Civil War and
like the battle formations and the way that like they always
had big huge Civil War picture books and you know, all this
stuff of maps and I was like good for you guys. nerding out
about the Civil War as a they just got really into it. I've
always thought that the War reenactment like Civil War
reenactment Revolutionary War reenactment felt like it was
kind of neat how they would like reenact the entire battle
because they know so much about it from history stuff. I think
that'll be fun to do. I believe Burberry from behind schemes and
thunder row median is that does the reenactments. Oh cool, which
is just kind of cool. I always thought it might be fun to do.
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Leila: right. Yeah, you're
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