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- 0:03Speaker 1: You're listening to Why we do what we do. Welcome
- 0:15Speaker 1: to Why we do what we do Mini. I am
- 0:18Speaker 1: your host Abraham and I'm your host Shane. We are
- 0:22Speaker 1: a psychology podcast. We talk about the things that humans
- 0:25Speaker 1: and non human animals do and try to understand those things.
- 0:28Speaker 1: And a long time ago, almost two years ago, we
- 0:31Speaker 1: decided we were going to start recording these short form
- 0:35Speaker 1: episodes that were just like fifteen minute bite sized chunks
- 0:38Speaker 1: into a thing, and we called them minis because they're small,
- 0:41Speaker 1: small as in short man smalls, and the file sizes
- 0:44Speaker 1: are fairly small. Yes, anyway, we started doing that, and
- 0:48Speaker 1: this is our one hundred to mini and that's that's
- 0:51Speaker 1: kind of fun.
- 0:52Speaker 2: I know, it's great, which means we're at five hundred
- 0:55Speaker 2: and sixty two separate episodes altogether, which is wild.
- 0:59Speaker 3: If you yeah, full length and minis altogether, that puts
- 1:01Speaker 3: us at over or over halfway to a thousand episodes recorded,
- 1:07Speaker 3: which is wild that we have done all that stuff.
- 1:10Speaker 3: And actually we have some numbers sort of related to
- 1:12Speaker 3: that to that in this discussion. But if you're joining
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- 1:16Speaker 3: enjoy what you hear in this discussion today, and if
- 1:19Speaker 3: you are a returning person, then welcome back. Thank you
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- 1:25Speaker 3: talking about on this this little podcast of ours. And
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- 1:41Speaker 2: Yeah, but as I.
- 1:42Speaker 3: Said, this is a mini. These come out on Mondays,
- 1:45Speaker 3: and this is our one hundredth mini. Now, if our
- 1:47Speaker 3: full length episodes are any indication of how we're going
- 1:50Speaker 3: to continue approach these milestones, we'll probably give up celebrating
- 1:54Speaker 3: the number of minis that we've done after a few
- 1:57Speaker 3: hundred more. But right now we're at one hundred and
- 1:59Speaker 3: that seems so we celebrate.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, So I'm proud of us. I'm proud of
- 2:04Speaker 2: that we have been able.
- 2:05Speaker 3: To maintain this.
- 2:06Speaker 2: This is it's not an easy feat, folks.
- 2:09Speaker 3: No, it's a lot of work.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of planning,
- 2:11Speaker 2: it's a lot of like shifting schedules, and thankfully Abraham
- 2:15Speaker 2: is the most gracious person on the planet to make
- 2:17Speaker 2: that happen, and we figured out and so here we
- 2:20Speaker 2: are and hopefully you're still enjoying it.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So today, because this is our one hundredth
- 2:26Speaker 3: we're going to talk about some fun facts with the
- 2:28Speaker 3: number one hundred as it pertains to stuff. We won't
- 2:31Speaker 3: be giving one hundred facts or else this wouldn't be
- 2:34Speaker 3: a mini or they'd be very short. But facts that
- 2:38Speaker 3: about things that have the number one hundred about those
- 2:41Speaker 3: things and you'll see what I mean when we get there. Yeah.
- 2:43Speaker 3: But yeah, that's our discussion today. I feel like I'm
- 2:46Speaker 3: missing some preamble, though, Is there anything I'm forgetting?
- 2:48Speaker 1: No?
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- 3:01Speaker 2: Or if you're Jordan Peterson, you can leave us a
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- 3:05Speaker 2: enemy of the show.
- 3:06Speaker 3: Yeah, mock mercilessly forever.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so, I think that was your preamble, But
- 3:12Speaker 2: I think we got it now.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Jordan Turderson got him. Take that all right, let's talk
- 3:19Speaker 3: about some fun things. The number one hundred. The first
- 3:21Speaker 3: thing that occurred to me is people who are one hundred,
- 3:25Speaker 3: So I thought I would talk about people who lived
- 3:26Speaker 3: to be one hundred. A one hundred year old, in
- 3:29Speaker 3: case you didn't know, is called a centenarian, also sometimes
- 3:33Speaker 3: called a centigenarian, like an eighty year old is called
- 3:37Speaker 3: an octogenarian, and that just means someone who lived to
- 3:40Speaker 3: be one hundred. We don't have great global data from
- 3:44Speaker 3: one hundred years ago about people who live to be
- 3:48Speaker 3: one hundred, but in Europe about one hundred years ago,
- 3:52Speaker 3: it was estimated that there were less than two hundred
- 3:54Speaker 3: people who lived to be one hundred years old or older.
- 3:57Speaker 3: Less than two hundred that was just in Europe, but wow,
- 4:00Speaker 3: that was the estimated number, which is a pretty small number.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Fifty years ago it was estimated that there are around
- 4:06Speaker 3: fifteen thousand people and this time it was in the
- 4:10Speaker 3: world who were over one hundred years old or one
- 4:12Speaker 3: hundred years old or higher. And now it is expected
- 4:17Speaker 3: that nearly a half a million people around the world
- 4:20Speaker 3: will reach one hundred years old or older, so it
- 4:23Speaker 3: is becoming exponentially more common, which is pretty exciting for humans.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Yeah, and they all end up on the Smucker's Jar
- 4:33Speaker 2: on the Today Show or the Morning Show or whatever
- 4:36Speaker 2: that show is when they celebrate those one hundred year
- 4:39Speaker 2: old folks here in the United States. I don't know
- 4:41Speaker 2: if you remember that at all, but that was like
- 4:43Speaker 2: a thing. There's like Smuckers one hundred anyway, that's fine,
- 4:46Speaker 2: But also I think we should thank science for that.
- 4:48Speaker 2: I think that speaks volumes to science, and it does.
- 4:50Speaker 2: They'll be thank you science.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Thank you medicine, I think is probably a huge thing.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Thank you to the policies and regulations that require preventative
- 4:59Speaker 3: measures so that people don't die needlessly from stupid things.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Thank you vaccines, Yeah for letting us get here. Those
- 5:05Speaker 3: are the things that got people to one hundred years old.
- 5:08Speaker 3: We're rolling back a lot of those, so the number
- 5:10Speaker 3: will probably decrease.
- 5:11Speaker 2: But yeah, they'll be a little bit of a dip up.
- 5:14Speaker 3: Until this point, we were succeeding at this thing, so yeah,
- 5:18Speaker 3: we'll see.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Yeah, we were doing all right for a little while.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Speaking of one hundred, and we thought about things people make,
- 5:24Speaker 2: and as a podcast, we thought that we should talk
- 5:27Speaker 2: about that. So podcasts don't actually tend to last very long.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Only about five percent of podcasts make it to one
- 5:33Speaker 2: hundred episodes, which makes us a very rare breed. Very
- 5:37Speaker 2: few podcasts make it past two hundred and fifty episodes,
- 5:39Speaker 2: only about two point five percent, so we could even
- 5:42Speaker 2: find data on how many make it past four hundred
- 5:45Speaker 2: and fifty. So like we're we're kind of like in
- 5:48Speaker 2: a space where it's almost like uncharted territory. It's like,
- 5:52Speaker 2: it's more like the Swiss family. What is it?
- 5:54Speaker 3: This?
- 5:54Speaker 2: Is it the Robinson family that got lost in space.
- 5:57Speaker 2: We've been jettisoned into some part of the galaxy and
- 5:59Speaker 2: we don't even know what this looks like as far
- 6:00Speaker 2: as podcasts go.
- 6:01Speaker 3: I think those are two different families, Lost in Space
- 6:03Speaker 3: and the Swiss Family Robinson.
- 6:05Speaker 2: But I don't know it's Swiss family Robinson is I
- 6:07Speaker 2: think it's the Robinson family. I think that's where I
- 6:10Speaker 2: messed up. It's like danger Will Robinson. Oh, so it
- 6:12Speaker 2: is the Robinson family and I got that mixed up.
- 6:14Speaker 2: So the Swiss family Robinson is shipwrecked.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like me.
- 6:17Speaker 2: But I think Lost in Space. Maybe Lost in Space
- 6:20Speaker 2: is based on Swiss Family Robinson. They're all lost and
- 6:22Speaker 2: they haven't figured out.
- 6:23Speaker 3: I don't know. They're all lost somewhere. They're lost. Everybody's lost.
- 6:27Speaker 2: If your last name is Robinson, you should carry a
- 6:30Speaker 2: compass with you wherever you go.
- 6:32Speaker 3: That's sure, all right, We were talking about podcasts. Now. Similarly,
- 6:38Speaker 3: there have been no There are a lot of musicians
- 6:41Speaker 3: who have written over one hundred songs, but there have
- 6:44Speaker 3: been very few musicians who have produced one hundred songs
- 6:47Speaker 3: or more that ended up on the Top one hundred list,
- 6:51Speaker 3: which I think might need to be its own individual topic.
- 6:54Speaker 3: The Billboard Top one hundred. Yeah, only twenty one artists
- 6:58Speaker 3: have managed one hundred or more songs in the Top
- 7:00Speaker 3: one hundred, and this includes Drake, Taylor, Swift, Lil Wayne,
- 7:04Speaker 3: the Glee Cast, Future, Travis Scott, and Micking Minage, as
- 7:10Speaker 3: well as of course many others. But those were some
- 7:12Speaker 3: that were like in the top of that list, specifically
- 7:16Speaker 3: that were more recent at least so bizarre. Yeah, that
- 7:20Speaker 3: Surros actually that that that they had that many songs
- 7:23Speaker 3: on that list.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean musicians, right, I mean Afi writes like
- 7:27Speaker 2: fifty or sixty songs just for one album. But you
- 7:31Speaker 2: know it's like like they'll say that they'll be like,
- 7:33Speaker 2: we'll just take the ten or fifteen that are the best. Yeah,
- 7:36Speaker 2: it's kind of like what marketers do, like they'll write
- 7:38Speaker 2: like one hundred ads and then then you know, you
- 7:40Speaker 2: just get the best one like this one.
- 7:42Speaker 3: So here's one hundred ads.
- 7:51Speaker 2: So hopefully those one hundred ads were very short, yeah,
- 7:54Speaker 2: or that there were not one hundred of them, you know,
- 7:56Speaker 2: like maybe it was like just like one hundred and
- 7:58Speaker 2: one second ads, Like it was like really like, you know,
- 8:01Speaker 2: real quick.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Buy big two end of ad.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Right, So we're talking about things that people create, and
- 8:09Speaker 2: we were kind of wondering how many cities were over
- 8:11Speaker 2: one hundred years old, but it turns out almost all
- 8:13Speaker 2: of them, lots of cities are. So then the more
- 8:17Speaker 2: interesting question became how many cities have existed for less
- 8:21Speaker 2: than one hundred years, And it turns out not that many,
- 8:23Speaker 2: depending on how you define city. A twenty twenty three
- 8:26Speaker 2: growth report for new cities calculated there have only been
- 8:28Speaker 2: about three hundred and fifty to five hundred significant new
- 8:31Speaker 2: city projects in the last hundred years. And that's in
- 8:35Speaker 2: the United States or globally.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Globally as far as I know, so, yeah, not that
- 8:39Speaker 3: many new cities. Yeah, No, cities I think are intended
- 8:43Speaker 3: to last for the most part, So there are there
- 8:46Speaker 3: aren't that many new ones, and the ones that are
- 8:47Speaker 3: around tend to stay around. And maybe it would have
- 8:50Speaker 3: been interesting to see how many cities like died one
- 8:53Speaker 3: hundred years ago, because a lot of them well anyway,
- 8:57Speaker 3: but that that was the point here is there have
- 8:59Speaker 3: not been that many new cities. Yeah, people have invented
- 9:02Speaker 3: some cool things that have been around for one hundred
- 9:04Speaker 3: years or more. I was kind of curious, like what
- 9:07Speaker 3: inventions are still around in their current form that were
- 9:10Speaker 3: invented one hundred years ago or more. Again, actually a
- 9:13Speaker 3: lot The wheelbarrow made its first appearance in China in
- 9:17Speaker 3: the year one hundred, so more than one hundred years,
- 9:21Speaker 3: but it was the year one hundred, so it seemed
- 9:23Speaker 3: worth including that's cool. But there were several that were
- 9:26Speaker 3: around one hundred years ago. So Aspirin has been in
- 9:29Speaker 3: use for one hundred years. Actually technically a little longer,
- 9:32Speaker 3: but it wasn't widely available until about one hundred years ago.
- 9:36Speaker 3: But it was like one hundred and fifty that it
- 9:37Speaker 3: was kind of like really being synthesized and manufactured. But
- 9:40Speaker 3: the electric blunder, popsicles, aerosol spray cans, vacuum cleaners, band aids,
- 9:46Speaker 3: radios were all invented about a century ago. Around that.
- 9:51Speaker 3: Some of them were a little bit more recent. Actually,
- 9:53Speaker 3: I think all of them were at least a century
- 9:55Speaker 3: and some of them were maybe a little bit older
- 9:57Speaker 3: than that. But it's around a century ago.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, I love it.
- 10:00Speaker 1: I love it.
- 10:02Speaker 2: So let's talk about animals because we love animals, and
- 10:05Speaker 2: so I think it's worth talking about them in different ways. Now,
- 10:08Speaker 2: there are a lot of animals that can live to
- 10:10Speaker 2: be over one hundred years old, which is I think
- 10:12Speaker 2: a lot of fun. It brings me to the conversation
- 10:14Speaker 2: of going of the kid going. I like totals, Yes,
- 10:17Speaker 2: and especially I think if it depends on how liberally
- 10:21Speaker 2: you interpret the word animal, and we'll kind of get
- 10:23Speaker 2: into that. One thing in common with all of the
- 10:25Speaker 2: animals on this list is that they tend to have
- 10:27Speaker 2: slow growth and slow metabolic activity, and most of them
- 10:31Speaker 2: live in water. This is usually associated with living in
- 10:33Speaker 2: colder environments, but not exclusively.
- 10:36Speaker 3: Yes, So here are a bunch of animals that live
- 10:39Speaker 3: to be one hundred years old or older. There's this
- 10:42Speaker 3: rare nocturnal iguana like lizard on the coast of one
- 10:46Speaker 3: of New Zealand's North Islands. The lizard is called a tuatara.
- 10:51Speaker 3: It lives to be about sixty But the reason I
- 10:53Speaker 3: included it is that experts believe they actually live up
- 10:55Speaker 3: to be about one hundred. That they can live to
- 10:58Speaker 3: be about one hundred are the estimated max lifespan, but
- 11:02Speaker 3: that's a very long time. Giant tortoises have been documented
- 11:06Speaker 3: living up to one hundred and seventy five years. There
- 11:09Speaker 3: is something called a roughy rock eye fish. They live
- 11:12Speaker 3: in about five hundred and fifteen hundred feet deep water
- 11:15Speaker 3: and they live in the coastal Pacific waters, and they
- 11:18Speaker 3: actually live to be about two hundred years old very commonly.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Wow bowhead whales also live to be two hundred years old,
- 11:26Speaker 3: making them the longest living mammals on Earth. Interesting and
- 11:29Speaker 3: then greenland sharks can live to be an average an
- 11:33Speaker 3: average of three hundred and ninety years, with so far
- 11:38Speaker 3: an upper limit presumed to be five hundred and twelve years,
- 11:42Speaker 3: so they live a very very very long time. Like
- 11:48Speaker 3: sharks have been there are some sharks who have been
- 11:50Speaker 3: around longer than most of the things we've invented that
- 11:53Speaker 3: are still around.
- 11:54Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's wild. There are sharks that not only
- 11:57Speaker 2: saw like they saw the plague. Yeah, and planes.
- 12:03Speaker 3: There are sharks alive today who were alive when Columbus
- 12:07Speaker 3: sailed across the Atlantic and discovered a whole bunch of
- 12:09Speaker 3: people living in North America and then said he did it. Yeah.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Oh man, Well, let's get in some animal like organisms too,
- 12:16Speaker 2: because there are some really interesting things to unpack here.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Ocean cohogs or clams. They're a type of clam. They
- 12:23Speaker 2: live up to four hundred years, with the oldest documented
- 12:26Speaker 2: one living to five hundred and seven. Scientists discovered a
- 12:30Speaker 2: deep sea black coral that they estimated to be four thousand,
- 12:34Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty five years old old. So old,
- 12:37Speaker 2: that is so old now. In nineteen eighty seven, scientists
- 12:41Speaker 2: discovered a glass sponge off of European coast that they
- 12:44Speaker 2: estimate to be over nine thousand years old and possibly
- 12:47Speaker 2: up to ten thousand years old. And finally, a species
- 12:52Speaker 2: called an immortal jellyfish, which can rearrange itself to revert
- 12:56Speaker 2: to its younger polyp form, and even if they do die,
- 12:59Speaker 2: there's cells can rearrange to form a new version of themselves,
- 13:03Speaker 2: so they might live in a sense for several millennia,
- 13:06Speaker 2: or one would say forever.
- 13:08Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's why they get the name immortal, because
- 13:11Speaker 3: their cells just seem to keep repairing and regenerating. Now,
- 13:14Speaker 3: to be fair, what happens in their jellyfish form, they
- 13:17Speaker 3: revert to their form, their cells get like fully scrambled around.
- 13:21Speaker 3: So if this were to happen to a human, you like,
- 13:22Speaker 3: reverted to a baby form, it'd be like you're what
- 13:25Speaker 3: was once a toe cell becomes a brain cell. Once
- 13:28Speaker 3: a brain cell becomes a tooth cell, like, your cells
- 13:30Speaker 3: would be all scrambled. When you grow back up, you'd
- 13:33Speaker 3: be nothing like what you were before. Sure, but you
- 13:35Speaker 3: technically would have never died. Yeah, yeah, for what it matters.
- 13:39Speaker 3: So there's that. It's wild, all right. Here's some random
- 13:42Speaker 3: facts about the number one hundred, just for fun. Some
- 13:46Speaker 3: of these again you will all know, but I'm just
- 13:49Speaker 3: gonna say them anyway. One hundred is a perfect square.
- 13:52Speaker 3: Ten squared is one hundred to the square. It of
- 13:54Speaker 3: one hundred to ten one hundred degrees. Celsius is the
- 13:56Speaker 3: temperature at which water boils a Google is the number one,
- 14:01Speaker 3: followed by one hundred zeros. Sure, this one's kind of gross,
- 14:04Speaker 3: but I found out that a person sheds about one
- 14:06Speaker 3: hundred pounds of skin in their lifetime. Okay, yuck, this
- 14:09Speaker 3: one's fun. There are one hundred letter tiles in a
- 14:12Speaker 3: standard scrabble game like that. An American football field is
- 14:16Speaker 3: one hundred yards long. This one was very random, But
- 14:19Speaker 3: a human sneeze can get up to one hundred miles
- 14:21Speaker 3: an hour. About that it's dangerous on the road. Yes, Indeed,
- 14:27Speaker 3: the US Senate, a broken, terrible system that sucks and
- 14:30Speaker 3: needs to be reformed, has one hundred members. Sure, and
- 14:34Speaker 3: in Belgium the emergency number for ambulances and firefighters is
- 14:38Speaker 3: one hundred, So I love. Those are some things to
- 14:41Speaker 3: know about one hundred. This episode was more than one
- 14:44Speaker 3: hundred seconds long, but less than one hundred minutes long, So.
- 14:47Speaker 2: I like that fact too.
- 14:48Speaker 3: That's a good one. That is the definition of a
- 14:50Speaker 3: mini I think, yeah, yeah, I think we made it.
- 14:53Speaker 2: I think we made it so well, Abraham, congratulations one hundred.
- 14:56Speaker 3: We made it.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Gradulation around and I think that, yeah, I think it's
- 15:00Speaker 2: a testament to the work that you do. I mean
- 15:02Speaker 2: you are the captain of this ship. I mean you're
- 15:04Speaker 2: not the executive producer obviously, Justin.
- 15:07Speaker 3: That's like you.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Newly crowned, newly crowded executive producer. Yes, Emperor producer. I
- 15:14Speaker 2: guess at this point in time, and uh no, I
- 15:16Speaker 2: think we've I think we've I'm really proud of the
- 15:19Speaker 2: work that we're doing it. I hope we keep doing
- 15:21Speaker 2: it for a while. So this has been this has
- 15:22Speaker 2: been a good time.
- 15:23Speaker 3: It's a lot of promotions very quickly from executive producer
- 15:26Speaker 3: to Emperor.
- 15:27Speaker 2: But listen, sometimes there's a power vacuum and there just
- 15:29Speaker 2: it just it just happens.
- 15:31Speaker 3: You do, it gets filled. All right, Well, thank you
- 15:33Speaker 3: for listening. If you've been with us for one hundred
- 15:36Speaker 3: minis then congratulations to you listener. And if this is
- 15:39Speaker 3: your first one, then here's two one hundred more. I guess, yeah,
- 15:41Speaker 3: thank you for recording with me today, Shane. Our social
- 15:44Speaker 3: media coordinators Emma Wilson. As we mentioned, our Emperor producer
- 15:47Speaker 3: is Justin. It's very good. If you would like to
- 15:51Speaker 3: support us, who can join us on Patreon. If you
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- 15:59Speaker 3: the list of people who support us and at the
- 16:00Speaker 3: end of our full length discussions. If you'd like to
- 16:03Speaker 3: tell us some more fun facts about the number one
- 16:05Speaker 3: hundred or comment on anything we said in here, you
- 16:07Speaker 3: can email us directly info at wwdwwdpodcast dot com, or
- 16:12Speaker 3: we just on the social media platforms, and we do
- 16:14Speaker 3: look forward to hearing from you. Is that all we
- 16:17Speaker 3: have or is there anything you'd like to add or
- 16:18Speaker 3: that I forgot Shane, I think that's it beautiful. Then
- 16:22Speaker 3: I think that's what we have to say. Thank you
- 16:23Speaker 3: for listening. This is Abraham and this is Shane. Why
- 16:26Speaker 3: we do what we do? Mini is out.
- 16:28Speaker 2: Bye.
- 16:30Speaker 3: You've been listening to Why We Do what We Do.
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