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David: I pushed it. It's not hard enough. Hey, everybody read
Leila: for a half a second and then we're back
David: as money. I'll get into it man. This is Fun Fact Friday
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facts surrounding different topics each week. I've got my my
monitoring volume way too high.
Leila: Yeah. Let me put some troubleshooting. We'll get into
the
David: Oh, yeah. Fun Fact Friday, weekly podcast, father
daughter. I'm David cheese. Lila. We talk about facts. Yeah.
So we've had I have a Lila. I've had a week. Let me tell
Leila: you. I also have a week. You have had a
David: week now? Not a week. I'm gonna go into mine first.
Because to me, it's more important. Oh. No, I got I just
want to complain. I'm an old man. So you know, I got a clean
complaint about what ails me. First of all, I got an ear
infection. So I had to go to the doctor and get eardrops.
Leila: And he does this. And he wakes me up at like, seven in
the morning is like KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. Yeah, we gotta go to
urgent care. Get up. Get up. I was like, oh,
David: but we had a good time at urgent care, like this new place
down the road. They've got coffee and best urgent care.
I've been to bottled water with a patient. Yeah. And then there
was this this guy? I'm not going to divulge too much, but he was
going back and forth with his insurance and it was just not he
was not having a good time working. But there is no there
is no actual person at the front desk is just a an iPad. Like you
check yourself in you scan your insurance card. Yeah, you know,
all that kind of nice, kind of nice, but at the same time,
knowing how our stuff gets hacked and knowing how all this
stuff works. Speaking of, you know, the huge IP problem that's
worldwide right now, because of an update, but anyway, we're not
gonna go into all that. But yeah, so I was gonna go on a
different I was gonna go to podcast yesterday, but I was
just feeling really, really bad. I got up this morning. And it
was cool outside cool being you know, 74 degrees. Not like who
like, right, proper cool. Yeah. And I was like, oh, you know
what, because I've been, I've been meaning to put the gutter
up on the new porch covering. And I wanted to get it up. And
it was it was very cool outside. And I was like the, the roof
won't be super hot, because it's a metal roof. So I went up there
real fast. Started getting it done getting it done. And then
right at the very end, I fell over.
Leila: He did. And I was like, oh, okay,
David: I fell real hard. I scratched my glasses. So I got a
new glasses coming. Or a new lens, and then hit my shoulder,
my elbow and my hand and
Leila: saw that he appeared to be okay. And I just kind of like
stood there. Like, you could, yeah,
David: always try and give her like, you know, a thumbs up or a
hold on a minute, you know, one finger up in the air thing and
they lit her nose, right? But yeah, the whole lifts, the whole
entire left side of my body hurts right now. But, you know,
I'll get through. That was that was that was my week.
Leila: What didn't fall off a ladder.
David: I didn't, I didn't fall off the ladder. Because I know
that if I fell off the ladder and died, my wife would kill me,
because that's one of her biggest fears is falling off a
ladder or seeing somebody fall off a ladder because like, we
watched the fail videos, and she always like looks away when
there's ladder incidents.
Leila: It's funny, and he calls me out there to watch to make
sure nothing goes wrong. Because if I fall
David: off the ladder, and like and I'm unconscious, I want
somebody to know that I'm unconscious so that they can get
help. For me. That's usually
Leila: my job. My projects and I'm I'm glad but she
David: she also Lila's extremely good helper, she stays out of
the way and then does what I asked you like, I'm like, Okay,
grab me. Grab me three of those screws. And she grabbed me the
screws and then brings them over and then steps out of the way
again. Yeah. Let's step back into the room. But yeah, we got
that done. My week been like, you put up some shelves. Oh,
yeah, I
Leila: did. I'm converting my craft room pretty much. Yep. Or
half of my room into a craft room. And it's gonna be it's
gonna be nice. I put up some shelves to hold some of my
selling crap. I call it crap because it's crap.
David: It's tough stuff and get it. But yeah, we wanted to thank
Claire from creativity found. And that was a fantastic
episode. I forgot to talk about the metric system and the
imperial system with her and
Leila: I can't believe it because how do we do that?
Right.
David: But if you follow us on Mastodon, you can see, somebody
actually posted that first question that I asked Claire
about what's the UK what's Great Britain what's you know,
somebody posted.
Leila: So what's the UK Hey,
David: what's your favorite UK. But enough about that? We cool
we wanted to I'll pull it up for you later. Yeah. But I wanted to
just thank Claire for coming on, we had a great chat and
hopefully we'll have her on again sometime talking about
something useful. But we also last week while during that I
couldn't find the value for value that we had received in my
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He was getting stuff from like, Ryan's ago, and I was getting
and it was just Thunderbird was pulling in stuff from you know,
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we also did a homework assignment. We did and we've
gotten we've gotten the homework assignment in from by Countess
love and light. And it says homework assignment. My southern
hemisphere sink drains clockwise. Thank you. After I
got that, I went in and ran some drains. And it's counter
clockwise or anti clockwise as I've heard it called.
Leila: Are you lying? No.
David: Do you want to go inside and flush the toilet? Sure.
Okay, hold on. See? Wow. The magic of editing folks. See we
were gone for 35 Yeah, we
Leila: took a big snack break in the middle do Yeah.
David: We had got some some cantaloupe from my mom's garden.
Leila: Yeah, I haven't tried it yet, but it looks amazing. Oh my
gosh.
David: So this episode we're going to be talking about
trains. I like trains. We recently went to Do what you
like. I like trains. We went to the museum here locally, and
they have a the train tracks in our downtown area have a lot of
history behind them. And they have a whole train set set up.
It has like, what downtown look like back then. And when I was
watching the train sounds like oh man, I wish I had just like a
big old 50 foot by 50 foot garage. I could just set up a
huge train set and that would be amazing. And then we decided
we're going to talk about trains this episode and I found some
really fun facts about trains. And Lila is going to piggyback
off of my train facts because she didn't do any research. Yes,
I did. Oh, did you really listen to train? No. way this was a
quick factor too.
Leila: Early trains once relied on gravity. And rope for motion.
What? I don't know if I believe in that. Okay,
facts.net/trains-backslash
David: What does does it give you any? No, no, it
Leila: just says gravity rope.
David: Hold on. No does it can you scroll down and sit? Nope.
So
Leila: we're the first trains only going down and they like
crashed? I bought him pull them back up. I guess I Oh, I guess
so. That kind of makes sense. But only kinda. Yeah, don't
believe in that. If you like netic levitation? Yeah, MagLev.
David: What you've never heard of maglev trains. Okay. Yeah. It
just uses magnets and like, push. Not a whole lot of
friction there. Yeah.
Leila: So with how do you propel it though?
David: Okay. Okay, so there's segments of track, right? Yeah.
And the track knows where the train is. So it'll like turn on
a magnet and pull it. electromagnet. Yeah, it's a
bunch of refrigerator. strapped to the
Leila: regular all magnets. They should put electromagnetic
levitation
David: laughing so hard. That's, that's a lot of refrigerator
magnets.
Leila: Is my little Miku magnet on the fridge is like 100 of
those
David: over a little souvenir. From everywhere. Absolutely.
Just hot glued to the tracks. Five minute craft style.
Leila: I didn't put any magnets by lottery this year. I need to
next year. If you have I didn't have a friend that sticker
bombed their entire locker. Oh, no. We left a couple on the
ceiling. Your locker they didn't find it right checked on the
last day of school. It was still there
David: was something you could do. You could put up like a
magnetic sheet of some kind and put all your stickers on all on
all over. That was the fun of that and then pull it off.
Because you got to scrape them off at the end of the year
anyway, right? Yeah,
Leila: that's the fun of it. Oh, we had to like do it. sneakily.
David: Gotcha.
Leila: pretend we never went away and sneak out a classroom
script script.
David: We never really cared about stickers in our course.
Nowadays, you can order a 50 pack of stickers. Culture, bird.
Yeah, but like buying stickers back in the day was like to get
a sticker book. And it was all one theme, you know? Yeah. So
yeah, stickers are a lot bigger thing like sticker mule. You can
get as many stickers you could possibly imagine. I love it. So,
okay, one of the things that I came across while researching
Leila: you way, way way Wait, what? Don't keep going. I just
gotta remember to say this one. Okay, we'll
David: cross your fingers. And well think about hearing Oh,
you're still on your screen. Okay. Yes. So horsepower. Like I
have an idea of like when when a car says it has you know, X
number of horsepower. I can I can Okay, I know about what that
feels like driving that car right? It's a horse powder.
Horse powder is this powder that you purchase for your horse? And
you rub it on the horses hair like not all over the body hair
but like the Mohawk and you rub it in the in the Mohawk is a
horse and it makes the horse turn into a unicorn. No, I said
horse power.
Leila: I know
David: that I took it to a ridiculous place. As we do. The
to the term horsepower was corn corn was coined by Scottish
inventor James Watt. Who
Leila: at that dude, I think know, who
David: is who is often wrongly credited with inventing the
steam engine did improve technology significantly. He
arrived at the term horsepower requires a bit of math but a bit
of observation and a wee bit of obfuscation. We've it a wee bit
when what reimagined exists Steam steam engine designs in
1776. Dramatically. That's the year a year to dramatically
improve performance and improve fuel economy. They ran on coal
primarily. He needed a way to sell his new engines
capabilities to a market still driven figuratively and
literally by horses. So he figured that a better way to
show how much engines is how much better his injuries
Leila: were literally horse powder, pow,
David: pow, we're
Leila: I know. Okay,
David: I wanted to make sure you actually knew that it was
horsepower. No comment, horsepower. So he could he he
knew that everybody back then knew exactly how much a horse
could pull. Right? Yeah, and how quickly and whatnot. So saying
that something was 50 horsepower. So why don't we not
switch at the car power? Because cars have different power cars
aren't pulled by horses. But they used to be? Well, they
aren't now they still are in Amish country.
Leila: We're not Amish.
David: Well, I know. But no wind power. We're just talking about
the word. Yeah. Anyway, why don't we still use the word? I
didn't know like, mathematically what horsepower was like I knew,
like, because I kind of knew about what it means but they
calculate it. It's the power needed to move 550 pounds, one
foot in one second. So
Leila: why do they call it 550 pounds or no? Power? 50 pound
one foot in second power?
David: Because horsepower sounds better. I don't this cars 500
horsepower. You know, it's that's a lot of horsepower.
Leila: But I didn't know I didn't know its power is I
David: didn't know where the term came from. I figured it was
something like that. But I also didn't know. That's 550 pounds
per put per put. Yep, per foot. I'll edit that out per foot per
second. So 550 We're not gonna pretend you didn't hear it. Do a
brain drain. All right.
Leila: So what I was what I was wanting to say. What? What
you're saying that train travel was made popular by Abraham
Lincoln's assassination. Yep.
David: Throwback they were to our silly speculation Saturday
episode.
Leila: Absolutely. You should go listen to it right after you
listen to this episode hauls this
David: one. Go back to that. The entirety Yeah, sure. Come back.
We
Leila: don't have to watch time over here. Yeah, it's
David: we don't have no algos. What am I thinking? But yeah,
they don't good until the fact that's all is on site. That's
all it says
Leila: facts.net/training/facts. This flag,
David: I got much better ones. Okay, so after his
assassination, Abraham Lincoln went on a tour of 180 cities
across seven states, before arriving in his hometown to be
buried. The train was draped in black and was seen as a massive
publicity win for George Pullman who, as well as supplying the
carriages for the funeral train lent a number of his Pullman
sleeper carriers to two rail companies wanting to run Lincoln
specials to Springfield for mourners to pay their last
respects. So it was a big boost his big boost for so I don't
know where I heard this. So I don't have a source for it. I
will attempt to find it. But I can't I can't guarantee it.
There was an article that I read at some point, way back in the
day when train travel was becoming more popular. They were
saying that train traveling and looking at assassination was
later than that. Oh, it became like, like, everybody was riding
the trains. There was an article saying how unhealthy it was for
children to ride on trying to ride on trains. Because the land
was moving so fast past them that they couldn't focus on, on
anything. And it would make them like be stupid or something But
Leila: kids are not that dumb.
David: There's too much input. There's too much input
happening. They're seeing too many things at once. It's gonna
ruin their brains.
Leila: Oh, guess what? They want trains. They want the children
to get whiplash from the train. Oh
David: my gosh. He's American. Oh my gosh. So yeah, I can't
remember where I where I read that. But it was an interesting
article just to show you that like the news will get an idea
or though here's they'd be like, ooh, that'll sell papers. And
they'll print whatever it takes to sell papers clickbait from
the 1920s or whatever it was. Well, it's yet. Oh,
Leila: I found the thing on the Abraham Lincoln. Okay, on qe.com
Yeah, I'm not reading the rest of it because it's pretty long
after his assassination in 1865, I read that right. Abraham
Lincoln's body went on a tour.
David: From kimi.com. You did? Yes. What did you that? I have
you stopped listening to me? No, I was trying to find it.
Leila: I was trying to find it and you were reading it while I
was trying to find it out. Are you?
David: That's donating. No, there's there you got trips.
They got Oh, that's that's an aeroplane. I was I was wanting
to train trip. flights. I don't need a flight. Imagine to
LaGuardia. Why is that LaGuardia Airport in New York?
Leila: Go ahead. tv.com going on
David: kiwi.com? I don't know maybe it might be just one of
those sites that pays people to write articles. But I'm not
positive. So there is a train in where was it? Norway, Sweden,
Sweden. So the mining industry, this is also from kiwi.com. The
mining industry uses trains all the time, of course. And they're
always carrying really heavy stuff. Well, they would take
orders from up in the mountains, and load up the trains, right?
Huge, huge trains, like 70 trucks where the trains and they
would send them down the hill with all that weight on them.
But they also had rechargeable batteries. And they would use
the braking power that there, they got to hit the brakes
anyway, because the train would go down the hill way too fast.
So while the train is breaking, they use that braking power to
charge the batteries back up. And then they use the battery to
push the empty train back up the hill. So it's almost like free.
It completely powers itself. He uses gravity to charge the
batteries, and then use the batteries to go back up to the
top of the hill where it uses gravity again. But since it's so
much heavier on the way down, that it charges up more.
Basically, you're using the energy of the people that are
loading the train to recharge the batteries, if you really
think about it. That's renewable energy. Yeah, it's essentially
free, free power free because meaning that work already has to
be done. So it's yeah, they don't have to like use any fuel,
essentially, except for whatever it may take to make the
batteries. Yeah, but we don't ever count that for some reason.
So
Leila: trains are the most environmentally responsible way
to ship freight by land. This is numero four on upwork.com
David: Yep, you went up is nope, Union Pacific. It's it's the
trains website. The train company so these are all these
are all may be true but they're propaganda the onion
Leila: ocean. What? Union onion, onion,
David: Pacific Ocean got it. But the onion. Onion doesn't really
work.
Leila: On average, railroads are three to four times more fuel
efficient than trucks on a not on a ton mile basis. Railroads
can move one ton of freight more than 480 miles on a single
gallon of fuel.
David: Wow. Yeah. They also use they use that momentum. So
Leila: their carbon footprint is up to 75% less than trucks.
David: Yep.
Leila: What about boats? Oh, by land sorry. Yeah, by land, but
well, you think that they wouldn't be that like that?
Because like think draw a train right now. Okay, it's your
homework assignment for this episode. Draw a train right now.
It's got a little steam coming out of it. It's got a little
steam come out of it. Come on man. Not these
David: days. You talking about steam engines
Unknown: well
David: that have to do with anything.
Leila: Want to see the pictures that you
David: want to see everybody's trading drawings? Yeah, that's
fantastic.
Leila: Trains have cruise control.
David: That's cool as problems control, cruise control, you
know, on the vehicle in the highway and you set it Yeah, you
can just set it and forget it and just in the back.
Leila: Didn't know the name of it.
David: I thought that's how cruise control worked when I was
a kid. Because the first car that we even saw that had cruise
control. I was like 10 You're like, oh, oh, it's like what the
car drives itself. That's amazing. And people actually got
an RX when cruise control started becoming a thing because
they thought that's what it meant. I gosh, I didn't know
that just kind of hold your speed
Leila: to regulate it, right.
David: Wow. So um, yeah, trains are incredibly efficient way to
move large, heavy things. That being said, the rocket boosters
that NASA uses they fit on a train like they're just the
right size to not be too big because they are trained can
only be so wide because of some of the corridors it has to pass
through and stuff. So yeah, NASA needed to ship rocket boosters
from its manufacturing facility in Utah to Florida for Lucia was
the Artemis one mission and they use the train to make it happen.
The rockets were 1013 foot wide and 32 foot long segments and
they loaded them up on train and we're just like to to go down to
Florida. Meet Fraser cool for NASA stuff.
Leila: One locomotive weighs about as much as 108 Hippos keep
reading. What?
David: Read it read the whole No, I
Leila: don't want to know No,
David: I just don't know why. Okay, this this is on up.com,
Union Pacific's website. tier four locomotives, which you
know, newer stuff, like the really cool new stuff, weigh a
whopping 42 or 432,000 pounds. Okay. Then it says the same as
108 Hippos weighing in at 4000 pounds each. Oh. So why didn't
they just say, for 432,000 pounds, that's the same as
multiplying 108 by 4000.
Leila: Literally.
David: Gonna be in there. There's like the A I talked
about dancing.
Leila: If you had 184,000 pound weights, same as this
locomotive, right, there are 108,004
David: pound weights. Whoa, that's ridiculous. Well, so and
then they have a couple of sentences beefing themselves up
as the best trains. Union Pacific on your notion 400?
Nope. 600 railroads operate in the United States.
Leila: I believe it. Let's see
David: what this this see. This is interesting to me. Exact
Leila: same amount is in Japan, because they used to they use
trains a lot. Yeah, like their main way to get around. Yeah,
David: their population is very, I mean, Japan is way smaller
than a lot of people. So trains totally makes sense over there.
And trains, trains make sense in metropolitan areas, you know,
subways and stuff. So, freight rail shipments in the United
States travel on seven class one railroads, the largest
railroads, five of which are US based. And two are based in
China but have tracks in the States. And approximately 630
class two and three, which are the short line railroads, which
are the smaller railroads. Let's see class one railroads operate
92,000 route miles and 47 of the short lines operate
approximately 45,000 miles in the United States and the 49
states. So I'm guessing Hawaii doesn't have many trains,
Leila: I'm sure.
David: Guess how many tons of stuff freight railroads haul a
year?
Leila: Like at least three 1.7
David: billion tonnes. So that's 1.7 times 2000 pounds.
Leila: I was right.
David: That's, that's 2 trillion tonnes?
Leila: Two it's really
David: not ready to charge. 2 trillion pounds.
Leila: You guys don't know that? 1.7 billion tons is actually two
to 2 trillion tons.
David: Sounds like politician math right there.
Leila: Calm you know what happened? My mouse
David: cord got wrapped around. Oh,
Leila: we didn't tell you the troubleshooting crap. Oh, yeah.
So when we got we got out here. I gotta. I gotta we both gotta
hear it. 330 and we took this took us until four o'clock. So
first of all to clean off my chair. But that was like two
minutes. So we put our headphones we got ready to
record we were setting everything up and I was like,
Wait, there's feedback. And it was this very high pitched like
buzzing sound or like a like a, what? It
David: was just like an electrical interference noise.
Yeah, it was literally her
Leila: urine appearance. But we couldn't figure out where this
was coming from. And we were just like, maybe it's something
internal. Maybe it will show up on our recording. And I'm like,
huh, so we did a test recording. And it did. It was there. So
we're like, dang, now we gotta actually work. So it's trying to
let a match or fail.
David: I think humidity and moisture is, there we go.
Leila: He did it. Okay. Everybody say congratulations. I
know, I'm trying. I'm trying to remember what happened. So we
were, I'm bad at telling stories that I'm sorry. So
David: we did our troubleshooting. We couldn't
find out what it was. And turns out, okay, I've been messing
with our home network, because I've moved some of our servers
around and I've been read rejiggering the entire network.
And the router out here in the studio was moved slightly. And
apparently, it was just within range of our of my XLR cable
from my microphone that it was picking up the Wi Fi signals.
And my microphone cable. And it was driving us insane.
Leila: It's driving me insane. Especially because he couldn't
really hear it.
David: I could I could tell it was there. But maybe Leila can
hear it better. Because you know, she's younger years worked
better. Yeah, it was very high pitched and also might have
still have the ear infection. And it's messing Yeah,
everything I hear like this constant washing. Oh
Leila: my gosh, it was hilarious. I was trying to talk
to him yesterday. And he was in the kitchen and I was in the
dining room. And he was like, what? And I was like, Dad, you
didn't know. He has the best hearing I do. I've got really
good here. He's got better hearing than me.
David: We do those tests to see how old your ears are. And I'm
like in 19. I got really, really good hearing. I'm like at 40.
But my ears are both the left ones really bad or the right
ones not so bad. But
Leila: my right one is really bad. And my left ones really
good. Yeah. Because that was my right your button. So
David: I've I've always been fascinated. I was looking for
like the longest train. And it says, In England, the longest
train station, so I couldn't find the longest train. But the
longest train station in England is 600 meters long. That's as
large as six football fields.
Leila: And 15 hippos and 15
David: Hippos that are that are for 20 years. I don't know.
Leila: An average hippo. You've already seen an average hippo
right.
David: 40 meter long hippos if you take 15. I don't understand
the
Leila: fiend either, especially since there's like a thing that
no one knows. So what a hippo is. I was on it. No, it's no
one's just sees a hippo every day, right? Like a dog. No dog
is very inside a cat. So
David: I went to I was I was, I needed a quick question
answered. And I wanted to say, hey, let's see if AI is gotten
any better. So I asked my question about networking. I was
I was looking up a certain thing I was, maybe I'll get a quick
answer, right. One of my network devices is only getting 100
megabits per second. It's because I have a bad cable. It's
a really long cable, so I'm gonna have to troubleshoot it.
Sorry, I'm reading it says, what I'm going to pause for is a
cough button. So I asked, basically, hey, here's, here's
my network setup. Is it possible that this port is interfering
with what's going on over here? You know, just it was basic
question. My networking knowledge is kind of old. And
it's like, ah, the mysterious case of the sluggish room. Let's
unravel this networking Enigma, shall we? And then it has like
the detective emoji. And then it starts, starts. First off, kudos
for your well connected setup. You've got rooms talking to
switches, switches, chatting with routers. It's like a
digital key to praise me. I
Leila: just need to know what's wrong emoji
David: emoji. Now. Blah, blah, blah, blah. It's just it's like
now that you've got this router to juggle the data packets like
it's a multitasking wizard. Like, and then it starts talking
about dancing and it gets like really, really obsessed with
dancing. Ideally, keep the party guest list reasonable. No more
than five devices should be on The Wi Fi dance floor it once.
Beyond that things get crowded. That's so funny. And then public
Wi Fi, like a bustling Cafe can handle up to 25 devices before
it starts doing the Jitterbug and slow motion going on.
Leila: So I said, Can you please for two year old?
David: I said, Can you please give me a more concise answer
from now on?
Leila: Oh my god, I
David: said certainly, let's trim the digital fat and get
straight to the point. And then it starts talking about it
again. It's like maybe it's sipping digital tea at 100
megabits per second instead of dancing the gigabit jig.
Leila: The second one is just Wi Fi dance floor. Keep the guest
list reasonable no more than I should tell you what once beyond
that things get crowded. And then
David: investigate cables switches and any mischievious
cats. They love wires. Remember, even routers need a break from
the hustle sometimes and a bunch of emojis. If you need more
tips, just holler a bunch of emojis and then I'd say why are
you obsessed with partying and dancing all of a sudden? My
apologies if I've been shimmying around the topic a bit too much.
Let's dial it back and get straight to the point. You asked
about the slowdown on your network. And I went all disco
ball on to you. Oh my god. If you're not, I'm back in sensible
shoes. Now here's the concise version. And then it just
basically says the same exact No, it is it's the same same
exact things word for word that we just said. And then it says
except has different emojis. It says if you need more types,
just holler smiley face. And hey, no more party animals, I
promise and then the
Leila: party poverty in the paw prints emoji. Your copilot wants
to take you to a dance.
David: No. Like, Oh, wow. But yeah, I've been playing with a
little copilot stuff. It's okay for some things, but not for
most not for most it's getting worse. Actually really helped me
on some stuff with some JavaScript and some some basic
stuff like that. And but yeah, it's just getting and they've
got ads on it now too. Of course they do. So like if you ask
about something having to do with lawn furniture if it
exists, it's gonna have ads on it right Microsoft any any who
is talking about the hippo has made me think about that. And I
was in here by myself in the studio laughing so hard.
Copilot. Talking about dancing a jig on the local network.
Leila: You told me the car. I didn't know is that bad?
David: Yeah, just said the car. Yeah, the AI is really obsessed
with dancing, right? Okay. Okay, whatever. I'm on my phone.
Leila: Looking at fashion. Yes,
David: she's almost done with her cosplay outfit. So
Leila: she's pretty excited about that. But yeah, I'm in the
final stage right now.
David: The let's get back to some trains some train action so
the first American last locomotive lost a race to a
horse. So horsepower, and 1830 and industrial industrialists
designed a steam engine. There's your smoke, called the Tom
Thumb, which was capable of going 18 miles per hour. As it
underwent a test near a railroad a horse drawn train pulled
alongside it, and it was challenged to erase. Tom Thumb
quickly strode ahead, but later on, later on broke a belt. Since
this allowed the horse drawn train to finish the race first
horse train hoping to hadn't broken a belt pin a better belt,
it probably would have won.
Leila: Which is why you need the sponsor today.
David: Belts thinking that's perfect. Not any particular
brand though. You can use rope. I've used rope I've used staples
see lace up. And my wedding and my wedding. My pants were held
up by staples from the churches office. I went and grabbed a
stapler because the tuxedo pants have these like little plastic
things that clip and it broke. My rental Tux broke and no fat
jokes. I was actually fairly fit back then. But I just my uncle
came in and folded the inside of the pants and stapled like 30 or
40 staples into my
Leila: that's awesome.
David: And when I returned the tux I was like yeah, you're just
gonna take those staples out your little clampy thing broke
that ain't on me. There you go. There you go.
Leila: On you.
David: Well, but Well, I
Leila: personally can't fly
David: talking about the Maglev trains We're talking about the
Maglev trains. Do you know how fast they can go? Pretty fast.
Shanghai, China holds the fastest commercial maglev train
in the world. This train can travel up to the maximum speed
of 288 miles per hour.
Leila: How fast is that in hippo terms
David: hippo terms, that means that if you have a line of 288
mile long hippos, it can go past all of them in one hour.
Everything's hippos. Now.
Leila: One mile of hippos is 15. Hit both
David: of those are slightly less, slightly less long hippos
that I'm talking about.
Leila: Then, then multiply that by 288. And that's how how fast
you can go. Wow. Okay, so this inspiring
David: Hogwarts Express train is real. Hogwarts Harry Potter fans
will be pleased to know that you can that the train used in the
Harry Potter films can be accessed in real life and is
still currently running what they use the real train in a
movie. The line goes through beautiful beautiful sceneries
which include Island valleys, that would be a really neat
train trip, but I'm not flying all the way over there and doing
all that nonsense. I'll tell you one thing that is kind of neat
is watching the YouTube videos of all luxury travel trains.
Some of them are really neat. The
Leila: total area of contact between train wheels and rail is
a little larger than one silver dollar. How big is a silver
dollar
David: 1/100 of a hippo
Leila: it's fair to say that when I was talking in hippo
David: oh my gosh, there's a shirt Okay, um, right now.
shirt. I'm gonna make let me let me know pad note Note to self in
our new Note to self software here. So
Leila: yeah, that square length and a width of 472 What are we
talking in hippo?
David: So funny to me. So I didn't never do this on myself.
By myself, but I know some people who did it. Putting
pennies on railroad tracks.
Leila: Oh, yeah, I think I've think I've done that before.
David: Oh, in Minecraft, you've done it. On the real carts and
Minecraft pennies that exist in Minecraft on them. Yeah. So
yeah, it's really neat. They get squished. Yeah. And you got flat
pennies.
Leila: You have to get out like museums and crap, but that's
lame. So
David: I think we have scratched the surface of trains. I
wouldn't mind doing another episode. But we are getting kind
of long on time and my I need to take some more pain pills
because I'm hurting. So I think we need to wrap up unless you
have some other really interesting ones that you found.
No, I'm good. I kind of like this one. What that ghost trains
exist. Okay, this is on tv.com The underfunded and unloved
British Rail Network comes in for a kicking for all from
commuters all too often comes in for a kicking. It must be a
British ism. What's even stranger is that in order to
keep the lines open rail companies will run ghost
services that aren't advertised and operate just often enough to
keep a line or station open saving on the cost of
consultation properly possible renovation of total or total
removal so they run the trains just enough to keep stuff
running. So they don't have to go in and tear out all the
trains and do all that kind of stuff. Kind of like how Sony
keeps using making Spider Man stuff. Because they like if they
don't make anything with it they have they lose the copyright on
it. Yeah, lose the rights to it. So like that's also why a
Fantastic Four movie movies kept coming out because they were
about lose the rights if they didn't make anything with it.
Fantastic
Leila: for more like Fantastic 26
David: Well, the best Fantastic Four movie that's out is called
The Incredibles by Disney Pixar. Okay, that's essentially the
fantastic for the same basic power set. So yeah, so there you
go. That's that's good for trains for now. If anybody has
any fun train facts or pictures or any cool stuff to talk about
trains or about anything. Yeah,
Leila: just we always appreciate topic suggestions.
David: Yes, that is we are definitely need need some help
on On topic suggestions and they don't have to be something
factual we can do a silly speculation Saturday on stuff or
we can just have a random facts episode. If you find a bunch of
cool random facts, shoot them over to us. And let us know you
have coming up on episode 200. Maybe let us know your favorite.
Your favorite episode of your favorite part of an episode.
Just give us a timestamp and we'll clip it or you can clip it
for us however you want to do it. Just let us know. And guess
who audience participation go? Well, I am off my game today.
feel terrible. Everybody have a fantastic weekend. Did you have
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