David: What's up, everybody? Welcome to mcburnie weekly show
where we discuss tax taxes. No taxes.
Leila: We could.
David: I mean, I don't want to get depressed. Yeah. We talked
about fat. And we talk about them weekly. Most most times,
sometimes we talked about silly stuff like last week. Yeah. So
it's speculation Saturday. And this week, we're going to be
talking about facts.
Leila: That aren't facts. Yeah, common misconceptions, common
David: misconceptions. I like these. But then, like, you read
the debunking of the common misconception you're like, huh,
I don't know about that either. But yeah, you hear all these
little things over Bucha squeaky chair. Oh, I'm David. I'm David
that's Leila over their way across the studio. Now. She's
right. She's right here next to me so she can mess with the road
caster. Yeah. But yeah, if we I would love
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like a what's your favorite, you know, common misconception and
be of the ones that we quote unquote debunk from these
websites. I want to hear like your debunking of the debunking.
So, in the next episode or two, I want to hear I want to hear
from you all, and we want to talk about talk about that. You
know, yeah, I feel like that would give some some audience
engagement on this one because, like, okay, for example, the
first I'm gonna I'm jumping right in Leila. All right, good.
Let's you got some what's your favorite
Leila: misconception? My favorite misconception?
David: Yes. I think that 10% of the brain thing. Yeah, they're
like, oh, yeah, you'll only use 10% of your brain. I get the
point that you
Leila: know, you, you'd like to believe that you could become a
great plant charter and you have great potential. But you're just
not quite there because you can't possibly, right? It's not
true. Yeah, you're using your
David: brain, most of your brains active most of the time.
However, everybody, you should always strive and push yourself
to be better. Yeah, absolutely. And you can work out different
parts of your brain in different ways. The what do they call the
logic puzzles that you get, that have like a grid, and they're
like, you know, Sally is 17 years old, and has red hair. And
Billy is younger than Sally but older than Tommy. And the person
who's the oldest has brown hair, you know? And there's all these
little clues and you have to figure out the grid of who has
what color hair and what their ages, you know, those kinds of
puzzles are really good for keeping mental acuity. I saw
I've heard the person selling the book. So those loads are
puzzles told me so. So you know, but now those are those are
good, because you have to think in ways that either think
sideways sometimes on this, but still remain within pure logic.
You can't make guesses. So I like that. And Sudoku, Sudoku is
good for your brain. Yeah, things like that. But it's
always good to want to, to look at you know, I'm not reaching my
full potential. Anyway, that's my favorite out of them. Yeah.
And that's number three on this list, which I don't think the
list is like their favorite are the best ones. But just I think
they just listed them. Yeah, links will be in the show notes,
obviously, for everything that we're talking about. So what
when which one is your favorite? Which one gets your goat when
somebody's like, Hey, did you know that and you're like, Oh,
no.
Leila: I mean, mine's a bit nerdy. That's alright. It's when
people say the hot today make who is holding a leak? It's a
spring again. I didn't really get my goat. Because it's so
like, common at this point. Right.
David: Most people I didn't know what a leak was. We totally
interchangeable maybe like five years ago. That's really funny.
I thought it was just a big ol onion sometimes. Didn't know is
a separate thing. But it looks the same. Yeah. And, you know,
it does look like a leak. I gotta say it does. So she I
mean, where did she get it? Did she? Did she take it? Probably
she she did what? What took a green onion? You got it.
Nevermind,
Leila: you keep making these jokes.
David: Take a leak. You've never heard us trying to get you to
get you to know I don't have the critical thinking. You need to
do some Sudoku. Goldfish have a three second memory. Hate that
one is another one. That's a made for some funny scenes in
like, what's that goldfish movie? Clown Fish movie Nemo
finding, with Dory with her short, short, short memory.
Gold. I know. But fish in general. You know, this guy says
goldfish has a reputation for having bad memories. But it
turns out the idea of an orange aquatic creatures can only
remember for three seconds is a myth. Not only has this fact
been debunked, and there's a link. By several studies
throughout the years, some research indicates a goldfish
could have a memory span of up to five months long. Wow. What I
found fun and interesting about goldfish, I didn't know that
goldfish just keep growing. And growing and growing. Like
basically, there's a set number of a set volume of water. And
like, they like know what their environment is their body does,
and they'll grow based on the size of their environment. So
the bigger the fish pond, the bigger your goldfish will grow.
So you can go to his little goldfish from the from the fair
that you win by throwing the ping pong balls. Yeah, and if
you put it in a little bowl, it stays a goldfish size. But if
you put it in a pond, it grows to like koi goldfish sized. And
also didn't then pigs are similar. Also, there's not. They
basically grow based on how much you feed them. So that's those
little small pigs can get a lot bigger, if you feed them on.
Leila: It's disproved that different parts of your tongue
detect different tastes. Your whole tongue is your tongue.
What?
David: Yeah, what? I don't believe that.
Leila: It was scientifically disproven by research found,
which found that all taste sensations come from all regions
of the tongue. But
David: I've put back when I was in elementary school, and we
were learning about the tastebuds. I put sour stuff.
Like, right? Yes, I was in elementary school one time. One
time. I was in elementary school. So but we tested it. We
put different flavored stuff on different parts of our tongue
and we couldn't taste them. No, Joe. Ha. All right, hold on. I'm
pausing. Okay, we're getting creamer. We didn't have anything
sour. We didn't have anything sour in the in the matches, and
the studio matches aren't sour. They're all sort of you know,
because yeah. And as a general rule, if you know what something
smells like, you kind of know what it tastes like. Yeah, so as
a general rule,
Leila: if you look at something, you know what it feels like to
lick it? What? Yeah, like, look, look at anything in this room
right now. If you if you like, think about it, you know exactly
what it feels like to like that thing.
David: No. Yeah, you're right.
Leila: I've discovered that it's really weird. I don't like it.
But
David: no, I specifically remember putting salt or a chip
or something salty, on a specific part of my tongue and
not being able to taste the saltiness. Well might have just
been might have just been with sour, so maybe only sour? I
don't know. But I remember being like, wow,
Leila: different parts are more sensitive to certain tastes.
David: Maybe that maybe that's it, maybe. And it's probably
like a sliding scale of how sensitive and then there's some
spots that are like really insensitive to sour. One of the
other little experiments we that I remember from that class was
showing how different parts of your body are way more sensitive
to touch than other parts. Yeah, so like we took two regular
pencils, like the little hexagonal orange pencils
collapse
Leila: every single time someone touches my side, right? That's
happened to me before, right? But I'm in school too is really
embarrassing. You take
David: two pencils and put them side by side and touch the tip
of your finger and you can feel the two distinct points touching
your the end of your finger. But if you take the pencils in the
same configuration and touch the points to the back of your neck,
you only feel One point of pressure. So you don't have to
feel anything on your neck. Right? Your neck doesn't have
the sensors. Yes, it does have all the I tell you wish it. I
wish it had more because I felt something a little tickle in the
back of my neck the other day, and it was a big ol fire. And
did you smack it? Yeah. Yeah, smash it real good he did. I've
been working on the screening in the patio, almost done, just got
to put in the screen, put in some silicone gel to waterproof
it. And then paint that we got to do touch ups for some of the
areas that had to rework. We got to repaint them. But the patio
is almost done. And we're very excited about this. So
Leila: humans do not have five senses. I mean, they do have
five senses. But they're more there's more, at least at least
five senses. But there's at least nine senses and most
Reacher's researchers think that there is more like 21 Okay, so,
I mean, no, I can look it up. The main five senses are sight,
sound, touch, taste. No, that's touch. Smell, smell. Yeah.
David: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Yeah. That's
how we experienced the world. But what else is what are all
of?
Leila: Like, sense? Balance? Balance is
David: like, that's your detecting gravity. I don't want
the five traditional senses. Because like, I know if I'm
upside down 20 census. I
Leila: mean, yeah, there's also one. I can't remember what it's
called right now. But I'm probably light, motion,
chemicals. Temperature. But that's all like touch.
David: Yeah, see? I would. Do you have got the list there.
Okay, so temperatures is this is this is a weird what? I consider
a temperature touch because you're just touching the air.
Yeah, or whatever is the heat
Leila: of the sauce was talking about? And he was like, where
are your fingers? I remember what it was. There
David: is a an image. I'm talking about this sensory
perception. There's an image of like your how your body sees
itself on like a nerve level. And like your hands are huge.
And your face is huge, because like all the nerve endings, and
it was what was really neat. I don't remember. I can't
remember. But it's alright, that people can look it up. If we
can, if we can find it while we're talking. Then we'll
Leila: be I'll put in the show notes balance proprioception.
That's the one I was. Proprioception perception is the
ability to sense the position and movement of our body in
space. So you know, where you're like, what your hands are doing
and where they are in relative in relation to other things.
Hmm, yeah,
David: um, I just thought that was. I don't know, but I guess
Yeah, I guess that's a sense of sense where things are. So
talking about like senses. You know, you can you can be blind,
and you can be deaf. And so, those other senses like the one
you were just talking about, I bet there's people who have no
concept of where their limbs are in relation to each other. And
that like, Yeah, makes them clumsy. So I bet yeah, the
proprioception has something to do with clumsiness and
coordination and whatnot. Yeah, got to Oh, thermo
Leila: ception the ability to sense temperature which kind of
goes along with Touch, touch. Magneto ception, is found in
some animals, but not us. Electro ception is the ability
to send electrical signals.
David: So not found in animals. Magneto ception is magnetism.
Leila: Yeah. Like the ability to sense maybe for some, okay, so
David: I haven't ever tested this like to see if, like, you
know, blind test with with a control and everything. But I
feel like I can sense whether there's a magnet, like a strong
magnet nearby. And I don't know, maybe I've got high iron content
in my blood. You're just a magnet. And it's also possible
that I've just, I always know, there's a strong magnet and
like, my brain is like, oh, I should feel that because
Berberine my blood Maroubra iron and my blood. So it might be
psychosomatic. Yeah, I should try that. You think it's trying
to, like get a really strong magnet like the one out in the
garage? Sure. And see if we can, if I can tell whether you're
like holding a I don't know something about the same amount
of metal on a hard drive. Like hold a hard drive near my head
or the magnet behind me with my eyes closed and see if I can
tell. Let's do it. We'll do it. Right now. Do we want
Leila: to or No, no, I want to do The thing where we went quiet
and we came back. Okay, well, I
David: did that. Okay, you ready? Yeah. Oh, wow, that was a
Leila: neat. That was weird.
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automatic. Oh boy anyway cramping when you go swimming we
were just talking about this other day Oh yeah, it's like I
was always always told do not eat
Leila: in the pool before do not swim
David: within 30 minutes of eating commonly held belief was
that your muscles will cramp should you swim right after
eating? This just isn't true no matter how many times your
parents said it was? Yes, the body requires blood to die in
order to digest but not nearly enough to prevent muscles in
your arms and legs. I don't think
Leila: I was ever really told that by y'all or anyone else. I
just always saw it in like
David: movies and crap. Yeah, I think they mentioned it and
there was something about it in The Princess Bride. Miracle Max
was wait at least an hour before he goes swimming.
Leila: I was like, Oh, good. I've never waited. Right.
David: And well, to be fair, most of the times we go
swimming. It's in a pool that we're like, you can stand up
and, you know, in you're not really in the deep end and yet a
lot of people watching you and stuff like that. Yeah. So Oh,
okay.
Leila: This one reminded me of something. All right. Number 19.
When in London, you're merely six feet away from a rat. Which
is really funny to me. That whole thing? What's
David: in London? Yeah,
Leila: it's disproved. There's one that could well be true but
hasn't been proven and has is just a rough estimate, as
rodents are not evenly spread apart. I like to think that
there's a guy in London just like making sure that all the
rats are evenly spread apart six feet apart.
David: And if you get too far away from what just chuck when
the rat Bureau
Leila: I wanted to there was a thing about a part in Canada, a
whole lake city where rats are illegal. Canada, rats don't care
about your law. No, there's people on the outside of the
city or country. Oh, hold on, I need to figure out which one it
is. Alberta is rap fee rent free for over 70 years. And the
Providence has a zero tolerance policy towards rats. Oh, that's
people outside of the city that if a rat tries to get in,
they'll shoot it. Yeah. And
David: then Hawaii? Is snake free? Because there's no there
are no snake predators on the island, so it's good. So it
would completely Yeah. If they let snakes on the island, it
would just become overcome by snakes, just like the south with
kudzu,
Leila: and they're considered an invasive species, right? That's
so crazy to me.
David: The rat Simpsons episode about that, where they brought a
frog to Australia. And it didn't have natural predator. And it
just kept multiplying and multiplying. There's frogs
everywhere. There's like a plague of frogs. But the rat one
reminded me there's a myth. You're always within three feet
of a spider. Yeah. And I think about where we live. I can
believe it. Yeah, I can believe it. I can believe it. Because
there's just
Leila: the spiders here kind of harmless. Yeah. Most of Yeah,
most.
David: Most of the spiders that live in this area that are
harmful. You got the brown little girl No, brown recluse.
The beauty of a brown recluse is that they are reclusive. They
don't want any they never Yeah, they're never out and about like
or like in the forest. Or they're well they're like under
the house. Yeah. And like as long as if you're going into an
area that you don't go into a lot. Make sure and look around,
but there'll be like in the very back corner of the cabinet.
They're not like out walking around. Yeah, we're going they
don't want the bedroom. Yeah.
Leila: They're just kind of chillin. And then
David: we've got black widows here also, yeah, which cool,
those are creepy.
Leila: And those are like, relatively small, you can get
relatively small. It's
David: just a matter of if you're if you're going into the
woods, in eastern North Carolina, you want to wear a
long sleeve. shirt and pants. Yeah, and good boots. And you
know, especially
Leila: because there's a lot of poison ivy and crap. Yeah,
especially in our backyard. Living here. I know what it
looks like, and I can avoid it. Right. But
David: we've got a lot in the woods behind the house. We do
need to go and clear it out. But anywho that's another myth.
Obviously, they're not equally spread out. Of course, but when
they, when they say stuff like that they're talking about
averages. Yeah, so like you take any 10 mile or kilometer in
Britain, and or what were well wait, they were in Canada,
right? Yeah, yeah, they use the metric in Canada. So if you're
within 10 kilometers of X amount of rats in the field and spread
out the no rat. Oh my gosh Leila, London it was, but okay,
it's okay. So London was saying that there are rats. Okay, so
yeah, I was right. Yeah. No you weren't in Britain. Yes.
Leila: You weren't the first time. Okay,
David: let's just start over from scratch in Britain in
London, London, if you're, you take any random 10 kilometer
square there's going to be enough rats in that 10 kilometer
square to even out to Yeah, you're within six feet or
Leila: six feet. They'll probably be like, two meters.
Not kilometers.
David: But yeah, I'm just saying if you take any chunk Yes,
London. Yes. There's gonna be a rat. There's gonna be enough
rats. Spread just forget about it. We're spending way too long
on this. I
Leila: know. I'm making you I'm trying to make you
David: Oh, dogs only see in black and white. Have you ever
heard that?
Leila: I have. And I know it's not true. Um, wait,
David: he says they don't see all the colors we see. Or they
do see all the colors we see. Wait,
Leila: I see. It's like less saturated. Okay, I'm
David: gonna read the whole paragraph because I'm confused.
No, your pup isn't seeing the world in black and white
veterinarian Barbara royal explained to HuffPost that dogs
quote, don't see all of the colors that we see. But they can
actually distinguish between colors. Yeah,
Leila: someone may like a filter. Somebody made a filter.
Yeah. Where you can see like what your dog see? That's mainly
like blues and yellows and greens. Or reds. I can't
remember. I can't remember. That's okay. So
David: it's just slightly off. Talking about boiling water? No,
why are you? No, I'm moving. I'm moving subjects. I'm moving
subjects. The difference between boiling water was salt and
boiling water without salt. What do you think the differences?
Leila: have salt in it? Well,
David: I see, that's why we don't edit with with that, that
we're right. There was a perfect example. A lot of podcasts will
go through and do a silence remover. Yeah. The silence is
needed sometimes.
Leila: Especially for our podcasts.
David: Because that's the gag. That's the bit is the
Unknown: Oh my gosh. Yeah, exactly.
David: Timing. Because we're a parliament comedy podcast. So
okay,
Leila: how much iron is on the Mars?
David: I'm not done talking about salt. You and your mother.
Always want to put salt when we're boiling.
Leila: Noodles live so much salt and it makes it tastes so much
better.
David: Okay, so you do it for the taste? Yes. Okay. You can't
taste a difference. Oh, I could taste the difference. But I
didn't know if you were doing it for the taste people's people
have said and this is the misconception that we're
debunking. That saltwater gets hotter faster. And I don't know.
Since like something fell. Did you hear that? Did our listeners
hear that? Pause. Okay, anyway, thanks. I just fell on the roof
or whatever it was just sound like it was right behind me.
Okay.
Leila: As long as the TV doesn't fall off the wall, we're good.
David: So the salt doesn't really heat up much faster. I
mean, it's like very, very small percent faster. However,
saltwater does retain
Leila: heat or cold and it also makes noodles taste better
David: better than yes of course. Yeah. But it retains
heat and cold better. Its absolute temperature is higher,
which means that it takes more energy to change the temperature
of it. So if you put salt in your cooler it will stay colder
longer. Like the ice in it. Have you ever seen that? They did an
experiment of it might have been Mythbusters it might have been
something else but they did a cooler with ice. And then a
cooler with salt. water and ice are cooler with water and ice a
cooler salt water and ice and then the fridge and then a
cooler or just ice and they found the best way to cool your
drink is a ice salt ice bath. Yeah, a salt water ice bath.
That will cool off your drink the quickest.
Leila: So number 24 on this website I'm looking at the Daily
Mail dako UK this says the same like 10% of your brain. But they
did set it like 10 per cent. Like they put a space in between
par and cent. So you got you got 10 per cent of your brain. Is
that valid?
David: set of valid way versus per cent? Let's see if that's a
two word spelling is more common in Canada and Britain.
Leila: So it's the EU. It's the UK website.
David: And speaking of which, don't you think that there's a
lot of little things that are different between America and
Britain? A lot of little cultural things like this
percent. And saying,
Leila: let's talk about that. Yeah. Next week.
David: Next week, we have a very special guest. It's going to be
Claire. Yeah. From the creativity found podcast. I met
Claire down at pod fest. I believe I've talked to her talk
to her talk to her. Talk about her on the show before I'm here.
I believe so because I think she may have sent in a boost or
something. Anywho she's going to join us for an episode. And
we're going to talk all about the differences between Britain
and America. Like little cultural differences, fun little
differences. I'm not going to talk politics of course, because
this show. But yeah, well I look forward to that. And we'll we
will be blasting out all of the socials once we get it posted.
Leila: So bats are not blind. Well, yeah,
David: they just they hear better than they see.
Leila: I was taught they were blind. In kindergarten. I like
to say kindergarten like it's a garden instead of the garden.
David: So what you're telling me is the public school system has
failed us and
Leila: but it was all okay. Because we played we played a
game with it. Where we go around the classroom and we bump into
crap. Your eyes closed. What? You
David: bump into crap. No. Not literal. Not
Leila: proper crap. Not proper crap.
David: Speaking of crap, Napoleon Bonaparte. Yeah, he
wasn't actually short. Yeah, he was like five seven, which is he
was average. Yeah. Which is like, one inch shorter than me.
So he's like about my height. Okay, who thought
Leila: this was real? Who thought what was real? Blood is
blue before it's oxygenated. Okay, that makes sense. No, it
doesn't. No, no. What? No, no.
David: Have you ever shined a flashlight through your arm? No
powerful flashlight. It looks blue. Yeah,
Leila: I can see that. Look. This humongous vein, because I
have a wonky thumb. Oh, yeah, you're weird thumb. Yeah, you
can see the vein because my bone is right there. You can see my
bone. Well, there's veins
David: and there's arteries. Yeah, so like Yeah, but if you
if you look at some of them, they look blue. So keep reading
keep reading keep okay.
Leila: Why? While many believe that deoxygenated blood is blue,
it's actually a myth because human blood is always red.
Although the level of redness does differ but depending on how
oxygenated it is
David: all right, so why look blue
Unknown: this literally
David: you gotta ask AI Why is it blue? Why is
Leila: he asking brave? Why is my bone No.
David: Why? Why does new
Leila: in the vein question mark
question mark, question
mark, question mark blue flash.
David: Oh, I misspelled blue.
Leila: Better than how I spelled Philadelphia.
David: Okay, I'm asking I'm asking absorb Microsoft co pilot
rents.
Leila: You're gonna get a totally correct answer there.
Yeah, go
David: ahead. Say your thing. Red light
Leila: scattering. haemoglobin what is hemoglobin Oh, it's sort
of responsible for carrying the oxygen in your blood Yeah. I
knew that used
David: to watch that show. Yes. cells or whatever it was at work
cells at work. Yeah. So okay. Why veins look blue according to
co pilot says wavelength says yes. Lame skin scatters and
absorbs light blame. I like the other one better, where it turns
red when it has. Let's go with that. We're
Leila: gonna go with that.
David: Because what is who does it hurt? Voting to believe that
I'm not voting based?
Leila: Does it hurt for me to believe in the wrong thing? As
long as
David: you're not voting on it, or voting based on the
Leila: political musical preference, you know, that?
David: I like? I've started when somebody is just very, very
wrong and doesn't seem very intelligent on their social
media site. I've just started muting him. Yeah, I just don't
want to. I just don't want I don't want to deal with mine
don't engage with Yeah, just I'm done.
Leila: So the capital of Australia is not Sydney,
Canberra, which the reason I went Wait a minute when I read
this is because Canberra is a villager and Animal Crossing.
Oh yeah, yeah, she
was actually one of my first two villagers on my new island Opala
which is Hawaiian for garbage.
David: So your garbage island called Chuck
Leila: Yeah I didn't want to call it garbage or trash I
thought that was on original so I like it into a different
language and call this garbage. Like
David: on Dragon heart. He He names the dragon and the names
and Draco because he wants to stop calling them dragon. Yeah.
And he named them Draco. And he's like, that's just dragon in
a different language.
Leila: Why not? Why not? Tomatoes are a vegetable. No,
they're not. They're a fruit. Bless you.
David: Sorry. Um, we've we've gone over that conversation. We
can't
Leila: wait to go over it again. Listen to other episodes. How
about this good. Going out in the cold with wet hair will make
you ill. You
David: know what makes you ill? Me? Germs. That's it, though.
Yes. So now your temperature may affect how well your body fights
the germs. So there's the that's the thing. What is this? What
Leila: does the article say? There is no evidence for this.
David: Wow. All right. sugar causes hyperactivity in
children. What do you think about that one?
Leila: I don't think so. I don't think it does. And I'm sure that
says it doesn't. Okay,
David: says there's no actual evidence that supports these
claims. Okay. So here's the thing. We tested this. Because
somebody somebody told us that it's not the sugar that makes
the kid act up. And okay, so it's you telling them that it
does. No, no, no, no, listen, let me let me go through the
whole thing without you interrupt. Okay. So
hyperactivity is a like, that's a diagnosable thing. Right? No,
so we're not talking about that. Yeah, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder in part of it. Right. Well, that's I'm
saying it's a thing that, yeah, it's a medical thing that they
say, right. It's a medical thing. proper medical term.
Yeah. Now I'm talking about the kid just acting up being right?
hyperactive? Am I being hyperactive? So somebody had
said, Well, it's not necessarily the sugar, that's making the kid
hyperactive. It's the fun that they're having, by eating a cake
or the ice cream, or they get excited because they got candy
or whatever. So we tested it by adding sweetness, adding adding
sugar to stuff when you were a kid. But like, why? Just to see.
Leila: Just experiment, okay?
David: And it totally affected how much sugar you got? Because
I mean, sugars, carbs, it's energy. Right? And it's highly
available energy, so your body is going to burn it. And kids,
when their body starts burning energy, they start raw, you
know, and that's when they go insane.
Leila: insane in the membrane, if you if you would, but it
David: was saying sugar and children's diet does not affect
their behavior. It's I beg to differ. I really beg to differ
on that one. And you know, it's anecdotal because it's just you.
And I don't know you're a little different than other kids.
Leila: eating cheese before bed will give you nightmares. This
says cheese is believed to give you more emotionally charged
dreams, but not necessarily nightmares. I disagree. Yeah,
David: but you're lactose intolerant.
Leila: To know that they don't have to know that. I love eating
cheese. Well, I love cheese. I don't enjoy eating cheese.
Sometimes it can be unpleasant. Because it doesn't have great
textures most of the time.
David: It depends on the cheese. Cheese. That's what I'm saying.
I'm saying I very rarely just eat cheese. Yeah, long time a
long time. That was actually a really good episode. That was
that's the one I recommend to people right when people are
like, what episode should I start with? Because there's so
many we have 192 episodes now. cheese and eggs. Cheese, top two
eggs. I really liked the we had a really good time on the USPS
episode also. That one was fun. I remember thinking that was
really fun. Nice.
Leila: spirits can help you see in the dark.
David: What I have never heard that. Well, like I've heard the
carrots is good for your eyes. balls,
Leila: your eyeballs, but everything's good for your
eyeballs. Everything's good for you. Most things that you eat
are good for your app. Okay?
David: Yeah, cuz I was like, I'm never go look at a welder doing
this thing. Do bear eyeballs. Oh my god. So I'm driving on the
road one day. And there's this farmer dude on the in on in his
little shed. Right? Yeah, I glanced over him because he, he
looks like somebody I know. I'm like, I wonder if that's him.
And right as I look, uh, maybe 4050 foot away from him. I
glance over and he fires up his his welder and starts, you know,
doing some welding. And I'm close enough that it like,
burned my retina.
Leila: And I had great for a couple of days, I
David: had a little spot in my vision right near the center of
my vision that was just like, glowing at all times for a
couple of days. And then it slowly faded over the course of
about six months, that was like six months of my life.
Leila: You should go over his house and be like, Hey, man,
David: let's punch him in the throat.
Leila: That's too good. Without explanation.
David: No further explanation. But
Leila: it's like if you're talking about going over to the
neighbor, and be like, What are you doing? And then just walking
away as there's?
David: Oh, well, actually, I'm planning plugging something out
in the yard. Yeah, our neighbor was doing putting solar lamps
in. Yeah. So he has like some light on his on his heart. And
he was over there. I was trying to see what he's doing.
Leila: What's he doing? What's he doing?
David: Let me just walk over there. Hey, what you're doing
and as he starts to explain, just
Unknown: walk away, turn around, walk away.
David: And never go back. Never speak about it again. Now, our
neighbors, our neighbors cool. They, they got free pizza from
them one time. So they the pizza people dropped the pizza off at
our house instead of theirs.
Leila: Oh, he did give us free pizza. And it was very nice. If
they
David: left it on. We have a little table up front. Yeah,
they left it on the table, which is normally what they do, and
then delivered to us. And then they left. Well, the neighbor
didn't know that they had delivered to us. So we called
him and he was like, Hey, man, where's the pizza? So they made
them old new pizzas and brought them over to the neighbors and
he walked
Leila: us out. He was like, Oh, he walked over and he just like,
hey, take this take this job.
David: I want this job. One don't want these pizzas. And I
was like, Well, I mean, you can take me on his leftovers. It's
like two days where the leftovers? And he's like, No,
you're gonna have it. That was very nice of him. Yeah, it was
very nice. Free pizzas. Hannover, Cambridge.
Leila: Although I do freak out every single time I hear the
doorbell ring. I'm like, I like hide under my desk.
David: Alright, this one's about eggs. But we already know, we
already know what do we know? brown eggs are more nutritious
than white eggs. It's just the just the shape. And
Leila: the color of your eggs. I like the triangle egg.
David: Yeah, go back and listen to the eggs episode. There's
some very, very good facts about eggs talks about their ear
lobes. Oh, yeah. So I like the brown eggs. Because the shells
seem a little thicker like and I'm just a flavor. I can't tell
the difference. How they cook. I can't tell the difference. But
cracking them open. The white shells tend to break into small
pieces easier than the brown shells. So when I go to crack
open the egg. It's easier to not get a piece of shell if I'm
using the brown X. And that's just from me. I don't know. I
don't know.
Unknown: All right, yeah.
David: A peanut is a p and neither neither P nor a nut.
It's a legume.
Unknown: Like you
David: there's a show called Third Rock from the Sun. And the
character that Laurie Metcalf plays. She was she's been on
lots of stuff. You've seen her character she plays every time
her characters on screen pretty much goes the main one of the
main characters. She's like, did you know that a peanut is
neither a P nor a nut. It's a leg you she says just one of
those people that has like that's her one piece of
information that she feels to share with everybody she meets.
Oh my gosh. That was a really, really funny show.
Leila: So this one says that Mars isn't read. It's a result
of the iron oxide on Mars. But like but it read iron oxide is
read is Oh most of the time I like arm it's actually not red
because that's actually the iron. I don't understand
David: what that means. Exactly. So when I look at it, when I
look at it with marbles, it's red with my ball is red. When
cameras look at it with their lenses is red. And you're
telling me it's not rigged? And I'm supposed to believe you.
Literally, I don't understand that. We're what side is that?
Daily?
Leila: mail.co UK
David: Daily Mail. Daily Mail. A toilet? Did you take
misconceptions? Yeah,
Leila: life's top 50 misconceptions. Got it?
David: I want to see how this is written. You continue. I'm gonna
read
Leila: Okay, oh, my hair. My hair. Oh, no, no, our hair.
Crap. Where was it?
David: That's all they said. They just say the red color with
a you okay? You because
Unknown: we see.
David: Oh my gosh.
Leila: It says a toilet flush will change direction depending
on which hemisphere it's in. Now, I was a non believer. But I
went to the Australia. Never. And what are you reading?
David: I'm gonna just talk.
Leila: Why does it change direction depending on which
hemisphere you're in? Do you turn up down there?
David: I have seen recently people saying that that's
debunked.
Leila: I hope it is because that's dumb. Well, it's like,
good. Which ways as opposed to like, it's just the just the way
that that's made?
David: I don't know. Does water spin different differently at
the equator? at the equator, there is no net swirling effect.
This is from The Guardian caused by the differential accelerates
accelerations in the ocean acceleration of the northern and
southern halves of the fluid. Because the north and south
accelerations there are equal and the same direction so Okay,
Scientific American. Here we go. That's supposed to be a
reputable thing. January 28 2001. Can somebody finally
settle this question? Does water flowing down a drain spin in
different directions depending on which hemisphere you're in?
And if so why? Now, this is Scientific American, and this is
from 2001, which means they've had 23 years to fix the two.
Leila: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Leila? Yes.
David: There's two typos in the title of this article. And
they've had 23 years to fix it. I don't trust the scientific
american.com. Well, good. Go ahead.
Leila: So the same the same thing on this website says
underneath it, a real cause of backwards flushing toilets is
just that the water jets point in opposite direction. So I was
right. They just point in different directions. What if it
was all a ruse and a prank done by the toilet companies?
David: Does that make sense? Because my we don't have jets.
Leila: We don't have jets and our toilet. They just go
straight down falls. Yeah, just like just goes down. Do y'all
have like, gravity thing?
David: All right. We got people, we got people in the audience of
this very show that have toilets that have toilets. At least half
of our listeners have put
Leila: half of our listeners have toilets. So hey, guys, go
flush your toilet right now.
David: No, no, no, I want to test it on a test set like in a
saint go to your sink. If you have the ability to make your
sink fill up with water. Some people's sinks don't have plugs,
right? You can't block them. Right? If you have the ability
to fill your sink up with water, fill it up halfway. Okay. And
then and then pull the drain. Put in something that you can
determine which way the water is spinning. If it's not a like a
real deep vortex so you can just look at it and see straight
down. The water in your sink goes
Leila: straight. Yes, it goes straight down the drain.
David: It doesn't swirl.
Leila: No, ever. I mean not ever
David: hold on. What is this after you d clog it? What do you
mean? Because unless it has a certain level of snickering not
clogged. If it doesn't have a certain level of speed, this
won't work. If it's because it's so clogged.
Leila: Look, I cut my bangs a lot.
David: You can put it in the trash. I usually do.
Leila: Okay. There's a couple of things that I don't catch and
they go down the drain. Oh Morning, guys, we gotta get like
a thing to pull out the thing in my drain so I can go in there
and clean it out.
David: I can show you how to do that. It's just kind of a pain.
Yeah. So I'll just have a clogged bed until it gets back
until till you reach that spot. We're just no more. We're done.
We're full. It's full up. Anyway, do we do we figure out
whether it actually swirls differently? Oh, no. Because
like we were like that. Yeah, let's leave it. Let's leave it.
We wanted to hear from you. I want you to go fill up your
sink, put a leaf or something in the top of the water so you can
watch the spin of it. And I want to I want to hear whether you're
in the north Northern Hemisphere, the southern
hemisphere and which way it spins. This is a listener
assignment.
Leila: This is your your call to
David: action. Oh, we're doing we're doing all the algo stuff
call. Our thumbnail needs to have one like me with like a big
ol like, ah face you know, do we do let's do that. Oh my gosh. I
would love it. We're audio punk. No, but
Leila: we have like things to cover our cover art that's sort
of gone.
David: Well, we have our rant pictures. Yeah, we could could
use those. Yeah, we were not ranting that much. Yeah, we're
talking about toilets and drain but we don't have an algo
though. We don't have we're not algos like Yeah, but if our
distribution platforms don't base anything on coming back
Friday
Leila: at 3am gone wrong. Not clickbait not
David: clickbait. 100% true. Doctors hate
Leila: among us potion.
David: Oh my gosh.
Leila: All right, well, for him that makes gray water. And he
calls it the among us potion. He mixes the pink, like Crystal
Light and the blue crystal light and it makes gray Crystal Light.
Oh,
David: he made this gray colored water. Yes. It was gray water.
It's no gray water is the water like let's say you've got an RV.
You have a freshwater tank, a grey water tank and a black
water tank. The black water tank is you know that's the one you
don't want to deal with. That's the one that that you use the
bathroom in. Yeah, that's black water. gray water is the water
that you're like, wash your dishes in. So like you don't
want to drink it. But you could use it to like you know, wash it
more dishes. Yeah. So when he said he makes gray water, and
I'm like what? Anyway, do you have any more? I've got one one
interesting thing here. Every living thing dies is a common
misconception.
Unknown: What do you mean?
David: Well, yes, most living things do eventually die.
There's one species of jellyfish that doesn't technically perish.
I believe we've covered this before, however, known as the
term trip tow pus trip. ptosis Torgny. Anyway, this essentially
immortal sea creature reverts back to a juvenile state after
adulthood. So it can live out yet another life alongside its
offspring.
Leila: Hmm, you said that completely wrong, but
David: it do die though. Yeah. How did I say well, should I've
said it? Alright,
Leila: let me let me get up. Let me let me see it and hold on.
It's on.
David: It's on best life. online.com/common-myth sir
Leila: tapas for Topsis there Dorney Dorney, yeah, there you
go. Very official. Well, it's good to see. Oh,
David: I thought you were gonna read the whole paragraph. Like I
didn't put the emphasis on the correct syllables. No. Okay. The
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Unknown: Whoa, there
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You should tell us. We should we should find out what 847 senses.
Any Oh, we got 847 SATs from just listening using the app
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it. And just listening says I thought that Philadelphia
Experiment was just supposed to be a fancy way of making cheese.
I hate Philadelphia cheese. Cream cheese is just They don't
like it. They put it in sushi. And they put it in the crab
Rangoon. They don't want to actually put crab in there. The
local Chinese place has even gotten rid of the word crab and
the crab Rangoon they now call it cheese ranking, because it's
just saying cheese with some crab seasoning. And they put it
in a wanton and deep bread. And it's just there's no crab. Like
they're just imitation crab. Wow. Sorry. What? I just I don't
know, I just got the Philadelphia cream cheese has no
business. No, I
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Leila: But
David: I wonder if Kyle's gonna show up because it's so hot.
Hey, you know what? He is cool. Go ahead and go turn the AC on.
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