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Chuck and Josh Bust a Few Everyday Myths · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to you Stuff you should know from house Stuff
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  Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Josh Clark. With me is always a Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Right,
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  Speaker 1: I am here, sir, Jerry, are you here? Yes, she's here. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: This is then stuff you should know, not not the myth,
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  Speaker 1: the legend, that's right, the legendary. We should do a
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  Speaker 1: show where we plus myths. We're about to do that
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  Speaker 1: right now now, like a TV show where we go
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  Speaker 1: out and kick myths when we bust them. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a great idea, you know, yeah, like we could blow
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  Speaker 1: certain things up we had to. We could have like
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  Speaker 1: a little assemblage of people who kind of help us
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  Speaker 1: out sometime and maybe spin off and get their own shows.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea. I I'm gonna wear a beret. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I've been thinking for years about
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  Speaker 1: whether or not to just go ahead and wear a
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  Speaker 1: beret out in public. I do at home very frequently.
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  Speaker 1: I would you should only wear a bret if you
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  Speaker 1: grow a Walrus mustache. That would be a good look.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go back to classes too, might as well. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: what will you do? I don't know. I think we're
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  Speaker 1: onto something, though, I'll just say my same affable self
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  Speaker 1: and with a slightly more stylized haircut. Ye. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're on is something. Let's pitch it to
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  Speaker 1: the bosses. Yeah, which company? Uh? Yeah, I don't know. Discovery. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Okay, the myth dudes. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a great one. All right, So Chuck, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: make a million dollars. You are, uh, you're feeling pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: I am. I'm glad. How are you? I'm good to
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  Speaker 1: your Mickey Mouse t shirt is cheering me out? That's good?
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  Speaker 1: That something is I'm cheerful. Okay, good. Um. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really have much of an intro for this, aside from
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this or not, but
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  Speaker 1: I have a little video series that I do. It's
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  Speaker 1: called Don't Be Dumb. This is virtually a podcast version
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  Speaker 1: of that show that It struck me like that as well,
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  Speaker 1: but even better than that, it is one that we're
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  Speaker 1: doing together. Yeah. And I think there was a couple
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  Speaker 1: of these you've actually covered too, right, Yeah, Like, um,
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  Speaker 1: is your blood blue in your veins? Boiler? Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to actually, you know what, you should go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and cover that one, okay, because I think you're
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  Speaker 1: the expert. I've always heard I'm pretty far from an
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  Speaker 1: expert man in elementary school, that your veins, your blood
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  Speaker 1: is actually blue because see it right under my arm
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  Speaker 1: there in my forearm. You can see it. It's blue
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  Speaker 1: until it reaches like if you get cut, and when
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  Speaker 1: it gets oxygen, boom turns red. Yeah, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: supposedly your veins that are blue because they're the ones
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  Speaker 1: that contain deoxygen eated blood. Right, that's what I always
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  Speaker 1: already used up from your organs and tissues and it's
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  Speaker 1: on route back to your lungs to become oxygen need
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  Speaker 1: it again, Right, that's not true. There's no part of again, Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in next saying David Rerenzo in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: grade lie to me. Yeah, he's a dirty liar. David Renzo.
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  Speaker 1: Um that your blood at no point is ever blue.
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  Speaker 1: The the more oxygen it has in it, the deeper
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  Speaker 1: the red. Right, But there's no blue blood in you.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing is that in an optical trick. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So your skin um is translucent see through, and it
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't have a color. It's your fat that gives
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  Speaker 1: your skin its color, and fat tends to have a
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  Speaker 1: kind of a crazy effect on light, like it scatters
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  Speaker 1: it in all sorts of different directions, right, and Um,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how deep a blood vessel is, that will
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  Speaker 1: have an effect on what color that blood vessel looks like,
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  Speaker 1: because some colors of light, some wavelengths are reflected better
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  Speaker 1: than others. Right, So if you have a blue blood vessel,
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  Speaker 1: it's usually very close to the surface, and that means
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  Speaker 1: that all of the red light has been absorbed and
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  Speaker 1: what's being reflected back and kind of scattered about is
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  Speaker 1: the blue. That's all there is to it. There's no
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  Speaker 1: blue blood in your veins. It's just the collusion. And
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  Speaker 1: your family comes from wealth. Well that's more of a
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  Speaker 1: figurative thing. Okay, Yeah, I think it would be pretty
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  Speaker 1: creepy now that they think about it, if everyone had
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  Speaker 1: like red streaks of veins running through their body. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're just so used to seeing blue if
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  Speaker 1: we saw red all of a sudden, it would be creepy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can't see, I mean some veins are red, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Depending on the depth as well, Um, you can see
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  Speaker 1: some red veins every once in a while, or red
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  Speaker 1: blood vessels, but for the most part, the ones that
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  Speaker 1: really stand out are blue. You don't think they're creepy
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  Speaker 1: in and of themselves. Yeah, yeah, I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: little creepy. It is a little creepy, but anyway, the
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  Speaker 1: point is you don't have any blue blood. It's all
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  Speaker 1: just what color is absorbed in, what color is reflected
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  Speaker 1: by the amount of fat in the depth of the
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  Speaker 1: blood vessel. Okay, I hope some kids are listening to
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  Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, and if they're not, hey, you can
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  Speaker 1: go watch Don't Be Dumb on our website. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I think most of these I did. It's like it
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  Speaker 1: all goes to elementary school. Then you hear from various
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  Speaker 1: kids or sometimes teachers. Yeah, get it wrong, you know?
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  Speaker 1: All right, I got one for you. Um, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go with the body. You lose most of your heat
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  Speaker 1: through your head. Have you ever heard that? Oh? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: This one goes back to, uh apparently two things. Some
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  Speaker 1: experiments the Army did in the nineteen fifties where they
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  Speaker 1: dressed up volunteers to give them a little whirl at
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  Speaker 1: Arctic survival, and there was a special field trip there was,
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  Speaker 1: and they put them in the big survival suits, you know,
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  Speaker 1: super warm, put them out in the in the cold.
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  Speaker 1: But they left their heads uncovered, and so most of
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  Speaker 1: the heat was lost to the heads that ended up
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  Speaker 1: in an Army training manual survival manual from which said
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  Speaker 1: of body heat comes from the head that you lose
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  Speaker 1: that's true, Then it is not true. The reason they
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  Speaker 1: lost all that body heat through the head is because
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  Speaker 1: that was the only part that didn't have anything on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. You don't lose I guess
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  Speaker 1: actually your head, your your face, and your chest are
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  Speaker 1: a little more sensitive. It's a temperature change. But um,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that you lose more heat there than
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  Speaker 1: you lose the same amount of heat. Um. No, more
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  Speaker 1: than your body heat is going to go through your
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  Speaker 1: head because it's proportional surface area. Your head makes it
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  Speaker 1: about ten percent of the surface area of your body.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore you lose about ten percent of your body heat
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  Speaker 1: through that. You like, do the same experiment with a
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  Speaker 1: ski mask on and naked from the waist down and
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  Speaker 1: see if you don't get arrested. Yeah, well, a few
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  Speaker 1: things might have happen in that situation to stay there
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  Speaker 1: and waved all. It's an experiment. You're doing great. They're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna say you lose most of your body heat
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  Speaker 1: through your genitals. In that case, I think had the
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  Speaker 1: Army been a little more swinging back in the fifties,
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  Speaker 1: you never know, they may have come up with that
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  Speaker 1: experiment and that would be the myth. So we're not
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  Speaker 1: saying don't wear a two out in the cold. You should,
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  Speaker 1: just as you should wear your parka. Yeah, just bundle up,
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  Speaker 1: bundle up. Buttercup, you got one. I do have one. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I like this one. I know you don't, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know this. Um, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain
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  Speaker 1: in the world. You didn't know that. That wasn't true.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the one I heard early on as
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  Speaker 1: just that, like little kids love saying things like that,
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  Speaker 1: they also love saying and that's actually not the case.
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  Speaker 1: I've never encountered that little kid. Yeah, I need that kid.
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  Speaker 1: It was also David Arinzo Man, that kid, he's on
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  Speaker 1: the ball. He was terrible. Um, so the the A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are saying, well, what is it then,
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  Speaker 1: what's the tallest mountain? Hold your horses it is true
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  Speaker 1: the mountain Everest is the highest mountain. It's just not
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  Speaker 1: the tallest mountain, right because of the way geologists, uh
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  Speaker 1: and geographers measure mountains. So from sea level, yeah, that's highest.
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  Speaker 1: Highest is the amount of the mountain that is above
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  Speaker 1: sea level, and Everest has that one licked. It's the
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  Speaker 1: highest mountain at twenty nine thousand, twenty nine ft above
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  Speaker 1: sea level. Right. Yes, But to measure which mountain is tallest,
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  Speaker 1: that goes from the base of the mountain to the summit,
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  Speaker 1: and in this case that's uh, mounta KaiA in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 1: This thing is huge. That makes it the tallest mountain,
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  Speaker 1: even though most of it is underwater. If you took
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  Speaker 1: away all the water and the idea of sea level
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  Speaker 1: at all, and just measured this mountain from the base
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  Speaker 1: to the top, you have a thirty three thousand, four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five ft tall mountain, which is it's
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  Speaker 1: about four thousand feet higher than Everest. That's substantial, right,
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  Speaker 1: But above sea level as far as highness goes, it's
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  Speaker 1: only seven ft high. Yeah. But I kind of feel
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  Speaker 1: bad for mounti Cab because it never gets to the
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  Speaker 1: dew it deserves because of all that stupid water. And
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  Speaker 1: there's another way to mosure the mountain to um by
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  Speaker 1: the distance from the center of the Earth. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Earth is not a perfect sphere, and it's widest
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  Speaker 1: ad its circumference, i e. The equator UM. And there
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  Speaker 1: is a mountain and equador Ecuador called the Chimbararro and
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  Speaker 1: it is um a great many meters which I forgot
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  Speaker 1: to write down from the center of the Earth. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So if you if you think about just the if
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  Speaker 1: you cut the earth, yeah, cut of mountain in half,
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  Speaker 1: and we're able to core the Earth at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you would see like, oh, this mountain is further than
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  Speaker 1: this one. That makes sense. It makes sense in a
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  Speaker 1: in a geo geographer's way. Yeah, I think um also
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  Speaker 1: to the although there's really not a gage for this,
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  Speaker 1: but just how striking a mountain might appear. You probably
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  Speaker 1: should go with kill human Jaro because it rises from
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  Speaker 1: the flat plains of Tanzania and that's like the only
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  Speaker 1: thing out there. If you've ever seen pictures or been there,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. And it's not like Everest doesn't stand out.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're in the Himalayas, you're a little bit
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  Speaker 1: taller than your brother's next door. But kill Himanjaro is
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  Speaker 1: at nineteen thousand when everything else is flat. That's pretty remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: just rising right up from the plane. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: go mountains. Just just watch what you say. Everybody is
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  Speaker 1: the point of that and tallest highest. Choose your words carefully,
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  Speaker 1: all right. This is a good one. And this is
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  Speaker 1: one that I think most everyone believes that the Great
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  Speaker 1: Wall of China is the only man made object visible
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  Speaker 1: from space. I did this one. Don't be done too,
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  Speaker 1: did this is? I love this one? Yeah, this one
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  Speaker 1: is wrong on every level because not only can you
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  Speaker 1: see other things, you can't really see the Great Wall
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  Speaker 1: of China. It's doublet wrong, right, So um, you can,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, see other things that There's also a
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  Speaker 1: big problem with this is the idea that you can
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  Speaker 1: see the Great Wall of China from space. Well, we're
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  Speaker 1: in space exactly. That's pretty broad. There's all sort of
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  Speaker 1: like lower Earth orbit is a hundred and thirty five
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  Speaker 1: miles above sea level um and apparently from lower Earth
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  Speaker 1: orbit you can see all sorts of things with the
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  Speaker 1: naked eye, and if you have binoculars you can really
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  Speaker 1: see stuff like trucks, and things like that. But you
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  Speaker 1: can see airports, dams, um, you can see roadways. Cities
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  Speaker 1: are obviously very clear, especially at night, so there's all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of stuff you can see. Um. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things you have a tremendous amount of trouble seeing and
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  Speaker 1: that you can't see with the naked eye from space
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  Speaker 1: is the Great Wall of China, the one thing that
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  Speaker 1: they say is the only thing you can see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how about that for irony and and why, Chuck? Well,
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  Speaker 1: one reason is because it's um, it's made up of
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  Speaker 1: rocks local to the area, and so it kind of
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  Speaker 1: looks like everything else in the area. It blends in
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  Speaker 1: just has had. Yeah, and it's big and it's long,
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  Speaker 1: so you would think, I mean, I see where the
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  Speaker 1: rumor got started, because it's one of the great wonders
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  Speaker 1: of the world, and it is huge in scope. It's long,
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  Speaker 1: but it's narrow. It's like thirteen thousand miles long, but
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  Speaker 1: it's like thirty feet across, So it's long, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily big. You know where this one got its
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  Speaker 1: origin in? And uh, no one knew at that point. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was Robert Ripley and Ripley's believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Wrote in a column that you can see the Great
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  Speaker 1: Wall of China from the moon. That's what it was,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody just thought it was true because everybody so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's so gullible back then. Uh. And it wasn't until
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  Speaker 1: um NASA's astronauts made it to the Moon that they
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  Speaker 1: were able to confirm that, no, you can't see the
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  Speaker 1: Great Wall of China. But the Chinese didn't believe it
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  Speaker 1: until they sent their own people into space in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand three. They were pretty bummed too. Uh, you can't
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  Speaker 1: see anything man made from the moon. That's way up there,
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  Speaker 1: they say. Um Alan Bean and Apollo twelve astronauts said,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing you can see from the moon is
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful sphere, mostly white, some blue, patches of yellow,
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  Speaker 1: and every once in a while some green vegetation, but
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  Speaker 1: nothing man made at all. So um, but that's where
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  Speaker 1: the or the original version of it was, you could
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  Speaker 1: see the Great Wall of China from the moon. Then
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  Speaker 1: we went to the moon and it was downgraded to
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  Speaker 1: you can see it from space. Yeah, and then you
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  Speaker 1: know they now they're trying to prove, like I think,
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese took photos from lower Earth orbit and they
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  Speaker 1: were like, you see there, you can make out that's
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  Speaker 1: the Great Wall of China. But um, you know it
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  Speaker 1: took like hunting and pecking and poking around and like
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  Speaker 1: a hundred millimeter lens. I think, so it doesn't count.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't count if you can't see it with the naked
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  Speaker 1: eye from lower Earth orbit, you can't see it from space.
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  Speaker 1: Dang straight eight. Okay, I got one for you that
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  Speaker 1: supposedly you've never heard, and we're gonna get to it
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  Speaker 1: right after this message break. Okay, so let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: this one. Have you ever heard uh, like on a
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  Speaker 1: trip to like an abbey or monastery, this is where
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  Speaker 1: it usually comes up as a kid like stained glasses
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  Speaker 1: maybe thicker at the bottom, or leaded glass and windows.
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  Speaker 1: That glass is a very slow moving liquid. No, I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard that, and I can tell you had I
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  Speaker 1: been on that field trip, I would have yelled at
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  Speaker 1: the docent for lying. Really yeah, even at that age,
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  Speaker 1: yeah see, I would have gone wow, Yeah, even at
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  Speaker 1: that age, it would have been like, that is preposterous. Well, you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: are much smarter than I was at that age. It
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  Speaker 1: is not a slow moving liquid at all. It is
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  Speaker 1: an a morphous solid. I've never heard that before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not the same. It's not a liquid, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a real solid. But I've never heard somebody call
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  Speaker 1: it a slow moving liquid and explain like wavy glass
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  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, well that it comes from how it's
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  Speaker 1: actually was made. Back then, up until the mid eight hundreds, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there was a process called the Crown method where you
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  Speaker 1: blow the glass, flatten it out, heat it, spin it
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  Speaker 1: um mechan on the bottom. Oh no. Uh. And you've
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  Speaker 1: got a sheet of glass and it's pretty cheap, but
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  Speaker 1: it's rippled and some parts are thicker than others. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at nature. I have the windows of
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: my house do that some of them? Yeah? You me
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  Speaker 1: and I lived in a craftsman that was like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and they were the wind blew right through. Yep. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty weird. Uh. So the difference in liquid and solid
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  Speaker 1: is all about molecular structure. Uh. Solid has arranged molecules
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  Speaker 1: and a crystalline structure. When you heat that up, the
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  Speaker 1: molecules are going to vibrate and then it will eventually
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  Speaker 1: reach a melting point when those little structures break down. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Liquid but comes to solid when it gets cooled, and
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  Speaker 1: if you super cool a liquid, it will remain that way.
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  Speaker 1: Um beyond like the freezing point. So glass is an
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  Speaker 1: a morphous solid. It's not quite as organized as the crystal,
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  Speaker 1: but it does not freeze, so it's more organized than
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  Speaker 1: a liquid. So like in any form, in any version
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  Speaker 1: of its solid form, glass is an amorphous solid, not
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  Speaker 1: just when it's wavy. I think it's just an amorphous solid. U.
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  Speaker 1: We need to do one on glass. It's pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: We could tag team it with our mirrors. My my
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: hometown was the It's like the capital of the glass
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  Speaker 1: capital of the world, the Glass City, the Glass City.
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  Speaker 1: Uh gotta be proud of something that and Tony Pecko's
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  Speaker 1: So we got a few more, but I think we
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  Speaker 1: should take a little message break and then we will
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  Speaker 1: wrap it up. Okay, what else you got, I've got one?
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  Speaker 1: Um So, Uh have you ever heard that if you
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: see a little baby bird on the ground, you you
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  Speaker 1: pick it up. That's it for that bird, Like you've
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  Speaker 1: just signed its death warrant because your stink is on
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  Speaker 1: the bird, and when the mother comes back, it'll smell
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  Speaker 1: the fact that humans touched this bird. And now it's
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  Speaker 1: spoiled somehow, and the bird will be rejected by its
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  Speaker 1: mother and starved to death. So you pretty much have
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  Speaker 1: to take the bird indoors and raise it as your
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: own child. I've heard that. Actually, yeah, did you ever
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  Speaker 1: do that? Um? Well, I've told the story about when
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I accidentally killed the bird as a lifeguard, when I
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  Speaker 1: drowned it. I think I've told it. I found a
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: bird in the pool and rescued it out, and the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: bird was still alive, but um seemingly dehydrated. So I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: got a straw and would you know, get a little
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: liquid and the straw and the bird would peck at
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: it and drink. And I was like, man, this bird
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: is thirsty because it's just drinking, drinking, drinking. It drank
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: so much water it died, man, And it kept going
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: back for more. And I thought I was doing the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: right thing. And the bird is quit moving. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the funny part of the story. All these kids, I'm
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: surrounded by like twelve year olds at this pool and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I pick up the bird and I noticed it's like
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: kind of fat and bloated. Now. And when I picked
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it up and with any I didn't even squeeze it
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: water shot out of its mouth like a squirt gun.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: The kids that screened in horror because over the course
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: of six hours, I drowned this bird that I took
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: out of the pool man drownded on land on dry land. Yeah,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it's one of my great all time awful stories. I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: never did that. Yeah, Um, I've raised squirrels before, little squirrelings.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But Umi has a pretty good story of like picking
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: up a little bird that she found on the grass
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that you know, obviously was going to die if she
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: didn't care for it. And she was a pretty little kid, um,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and she got ahold of the phone number of a
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: local VET and started calling them and asking them what
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to do, and then she go do what they said,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and then she'd call them back again and go do
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: what they said again. And apparently her mom figured out
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: what was going on. I was like, stop calling this vet.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: So she found the number to another VET started calling them,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and then she called like one and then called the other,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and she kept pesturing these people and they're trying to help, apparently,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: but they're also like, this bird's a goner. So they said,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you need to keep the bird warm. So this is
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: at a time when microwaves were pretty, and so she
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: she didn't kill the bird in the microwave, but like,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this bird spent a few seconds in the microwave eating
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and she got it out and um, it was warm,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and she wrapped it up and and took care of
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it and was really like stressing, like I really wanted
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: this bird to live and was doing everything she could
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and it just didn't work out. Man, you mean I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see you again. We actually share the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: very horror horrific stories. The point of this is that
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: neither one of you should have touched this bird in
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the first place, because it was probably in the middle
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of a flying lesson. Yeah, it has nothing to do
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: with your human stank and the mother's rejection. Um yeah,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that's another is probably trying to fly and the mom
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: was probably nearby allowing that to happen. Yes, So you
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: come along, you see a bird, You assume it fell
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: out of a nest, right, and you pick it up.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: And two things just happened. One, you interrupted a flying
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: lesson and kidnapped a baby bird. And to um the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: idea that you couldn't just put that bird back down
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: after you picked it up because your smell is on.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It is totally false too, because birds don't have a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: very good sense of smell. Yeah. In general, your average
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: yardbird isn't going to know that you had your stink
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: on it or care. No, we're not dirty to them, No,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and even if we were, they couldn't really smell us anyway.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: So the whole concept of um, the that a mother
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: bird will reject her little birdling what are they called
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: when they're a little like, you know, uh, baby birds,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: baby birds. Yeah. The the idea that a mother will
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: reject a baby bird I think was probably developed to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: keep little kids from touching them, probably so in interrupting
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a flying lesson or whatever. Yeah, so maybe we should
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: not encourage or discourage people from saying this. Yeah. But
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: at the same time we kind of backfire because it's like, oh, well,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I touched it. Now I have to kill it in
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the microwave. I have to to try to take care
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: of it to death. Yeah. And we were both had
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: our hearts in the right place too, except that was
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: like eight y Yeah, um, all right, I've got one.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Uh And this one I actually did not know until
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I studied this. Chameleons I've always thought changed their color
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to blend into their surroundings as a form of camouflage.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: That is not so they do change color, but it
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with that. Um. It is physical
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: or emotional changes. Um. They're like they want to fight,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they may want to make love. Uh, it depends. But
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with I'm gonna be green
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: because I'm in the grass, or I'm gonna be brown
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: because when your deck. No, because they're already pretty camouflaged
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: as it is. UM. When they when they change color,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they kind of go the opposite of being camouflaged and
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: suddenly they're bright orange. Um. And they do that by
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: using chromatophores, which are pigment containing cells that can move
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and bend and change to expose one pigment or another.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And they have layers of these chromatophores that work together
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in the same way that paint kind of mixes. So
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you have a layer that's yellow and a layer that's red,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and like these cells will overlap and all of a sudden,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the chameleons orange. Yeah, it'll just send a signal basically
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and open up the paint can sort of like we
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: described in the octopus the Coolest animal Ever. It's the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: same deal chromatophorce, and but they're not. They don't do
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: it to camouflage themselves. They do it to fight, Yeah,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: whereas the octopus does do it to camouflage. Um. Yeah,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: so how about that? Still a cool animal, very neat
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to be able to change color. But that commercial that
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you see with the chameleon changing color to blend in
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: with the backgrounds is a lie. I can't remember that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: It's a pink commercial, is it? Yeah, of course it is.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I think you have one more, don't you? Or do
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you have two more? I have one more? Let's hear it, Chuck,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you've got one too? Three four? Five senses sight, smell, uh, touch,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: hearing and what am I forgetting? Taste? Taste? And then
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the sixth sense, which is the one that lets you
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: know when somebody's looking at you, even when you're not
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: facing them. Yeah, like eyes in the back of your head.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: What is that Someone's why? I don't know, man, there
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that will be understood within our lifetime. But there are
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: actually way more senses than that, depending on who you ask,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: maybe as many as yeah I saw, I saw fourteen
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to one two. Um. And those five that we mentioned
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: are now these days referred to as the classical senses,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: but you can take basically human senses and lump them
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: into two categories. You have intero exception, which is our
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: sense or awareness of how we're feeling on the inside,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and our ex tero exception, which is how we sense
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the world around. It's like temperature or something like that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: would be our our sensitivity to temperature would be an
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: exteroception and sense, whereas our awareness that we have to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: pee or our sense of balance would be in ter reception.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: All right, that makes sense, doesn't it. Yeah. Um, some
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of the other senses that we have, uh, in the skin,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: we have five different types of nerve endings just in
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: our skin, So you can sense heat, cold, pain, itch,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and pressure, and you can even sense heat without touching it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So that's its own sense. Oh yeah, yeah, like that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: It's a different receptor when you touch a hot stove
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: is when you put your hand near a fire, and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: so those are two separate things. I just assume that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: there were more of them involved to a lower degree.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: But it's a different thing. It's a different thing, that's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: really yeah. And that's a more recent finding too. I think, um. Supposedly,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: our ability to sense that we need to vomit is
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: one its own thing as well. Um, hunger or sense
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of hunger. Sure. Um. Basically there's a whole world of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: sense experiences that we have that we've just totally overlooked
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: as senses. Yeah, you know, like I feel hungry, just
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just hungry. It's actually an actual sense. Pretty neat,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I think it is, uh, and I bet you they're
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: gonna further. It's not like they discover more, but as
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: they dig in, I think they find that they can
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: break it down more specifically is what it is? Right,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, they just discovered you could feel
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: fire when you're near it. They said, oh, we discovered
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: it's an actual separate thing and touching fire. Yeah yeah,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you got anything else? Oh, I got plenty else chuckers.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And if people want to hear them and see me
• 26:46
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• 26:50
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• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Be Dumb on our website, Like, you really should watch
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: this people, because I don't think you understand when Josh
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: says watch me being a weird you think, oh Josh
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: is being silly. No, he really is playing this very
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: odd strange character, and that is you know of the enjoyment.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Thanks man. And then the other is you've learned something. Okay. Uh,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So since I said don't be dumb, that means that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I should also tell you to go check out this
• 27:21
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• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I think we'll bring this article up because there's a
• 27:28
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• 27:33
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• 27:40
  Speaker 1: that means it's time now, friends for a listener mail.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this anti joke. Hey, guys, just listen
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to the Joke Podcasts, which is our live show that
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: we did called is there a Scientific Formula for funny podcast?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: That's right. My friend Derek and I are a huge
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: joke fan. It's punsters and what have you. One of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: our favorite jokes is actually called an anti joke. It's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: called that because it's so ridiculously not funny and unexpected
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that the funny part comes from people's reaction. The rest
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: of us call it irritante. So well, I'm gonna tell
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the joke. Get ready to be irritated. Guy walks into
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a bar and pauses, and at the end of the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: bar there's this dude with a big orange head. The
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: guys just kind of sitting there, and the guy asked
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the bartender, Hey, what's up with the guy with the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: big orange hed over there? It's kind of weird. He says, Oh, dude,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you gotta hear the story. Go down there, buy him
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a drink. He'll tell it to you. I guarantee it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So the guy walks over and the dude with a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: big orange het says, so, I don't know what you're doing.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: You probably want to know the story behind my head here.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And the guy says, well, yeah, if you know mine,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I'll buy you a drink. And he was like, all right, cool,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: So gone over to million times. It's basically, here's a story.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I was walking on the beach one day. I stubbed
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: my toe on something. I look down and there was
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: an antique brass lamp. I picked it up and dusted
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: it off a little bit, and uh, this enormous genie
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: pops out. It's a magic lantern. The genie says, you
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: release me from my ten thousand year imprisonment. I'm forever
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: in your debt, and I'm gonna grant you three wishes
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: as a token of my gratitude. And the man at
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the bar was like, wow, what happened? Man? This is incredible,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and how did you get the orange head? He's like, well,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: just listen. I said, all right, I got three wishes.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I guess my first wish is gonna. I want to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: be really rich, fantastically wealthy. And the genie says, all right,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: your wish is granted. All of a sudden, I have
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: rings on my fingers and a crown on my head,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: my wallets full of cash. We call these a t
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: M cards and credit cards. I've got a AMEX black
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and indeed to a mansion, and I'm totally loaded. That's so,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I said, man, this is amazing. Um. I guess for
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: my next wish, I want to be married to. Let's
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: just go ahead and say, the most beautiful woman in
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the world. I want to be married to Kate Upton. Boom.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Kate Upton is on the beach. The genie says, your
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: wishes granted. The ocean's part and there she is, in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: her bikini, walking towards the guy with the wedding ring
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: on and they're married. Is that the person that the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: guy who wrote this joke did? He pit Kate up.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: She's not the most beautiful woe in the world, but
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: she's on my mind. And uh so there's Kate Up.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Then they're married. It was incredible and rich and he's rich.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And the guy said, all right, you got one more wish.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: What's your wish going to be? So in the bar,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the man with the big orange head stopped and took
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: some beer. He is, all right, now, I think this
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: is where maybe I went wrong. I wish to have
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the big orange head. And that is the anti joke.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: It's not bad, well you laugh through it, except the punchline. Well,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I think though, um, the telling of the joke, because
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: usually what right I have to say? Like, you are
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: one of the better joke tellers I've ever met my
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: entire life. No, really, you really are. That's from Patrick
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and Derek. The anti joke, I think, I think the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I think the punchline or the anti punchline. It's not
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: that it wasn't funny, it just needed like a little
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: drumming up, like he needed to continue the stories slightly
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: more like Okay, So for my third wish, I said,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I want to have a giant orange head, okay, rather
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: than I think this is where I went wrong. I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: wished for an orange head. It fell out of the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: arc of the story, the flow. Yeah, if they had
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: said it in the same way, I think it would
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: have been fun. All right. Well I improved a lot
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: of that, but I actually did read that last bit
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: as he wrote it. So I'm not going to take
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: credit for ruining the who was that the road in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Patrick road end? But it's Patrick and Derek or the jokesters.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: So thanks, thanks Patrick, Thanks Derek. Um, seriously, that wasn't
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: irritating at all. That was a fun thrill ride. Uh.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: If you can think of an anti joke that's actually
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: worth writing in, we want to hear it. We're always
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: good for a good joke or good t joke. Um
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you if it's pretty good, maybe we'll read some on
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the air. What do you think I can read jokes
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that could have a whole different podcast called Chuck Reads Jokes. Well,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I'll sit here and quietly while you do record those. Um,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you can tweet to us. You can tweet your jokes
• 32:17
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• 32:20
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• 32:24
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• 32:26
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