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Bloops, Bloopers, and Trees · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 67 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:32
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: So today's word or phrase is word and it is the word bloop, B L 00 P.
• 0:41
  I Hate Talking: Now this word is familiar in our family because one of our children is into creatures of a variety of kinds, but mainly sea creatures, and this is a hypothesized sea creature that produced an extremely loud noise in the ocean that lasted for, according to some accounts, one minute or even longer.
• 1:11
  I Hate Talking: And that sound that was recorded by two different hydrophones that were 5000 miles apart is now known as the bloop.
• 1:22
  I Hate Talking: So this particular sound, probably more accurately was actually due to some sort of underwater seismic activity or something within the icebergs of the ocean crashing into one another that created this mysterious ultra low frequency underwater sound that was detected in 1997.
• 1:48
  I Hate Talking: So you don't believe that the bloop is real, that what you're saying.
• 1:52
  I Hate Talking: You're going down officially as the anti-blooper.
• 1:55
  I Hate Talking: I think so.
• 1:57
  I Hate Talking: I am not completely against the existence of unknown sea creatures, but I think the more practical explanation is just what the scientists say is some sort of underwater seismic activity or ice floes or something of that nature.
• 2:15
  I Hate Talking: OK, so because our child really loves sea creatures, I'm very familiar with what it looks like and sounds like, etc.
• 2:24
  I Hate Talking: Uh, I'm not familiar with its origin.
• 2:27
  I Hate Talking: So, was it only supposedly recorded once?
• 2:31
  I Hate Talking: From two different locations, or has it been other times since then?
• 2:36
  I Hate Talking: So according to the National Ocean Service, it was a mysterious rumble recorded in the ocean in 1997 and they now say, according to this official website, that it was from a quote unquote ice quake.
• 2:56
  I Hate Talking: So why, how did they create what did they expect it to look like?
• 3:04
  I Hate Talking: Does that make sense?
• 3:05
  I Hate Talking: Like, no, I don't know if it sounds really look like anything.
• 3:08
  I Hate Talking: I guess you could look on the.
• 3:10
  I Hate Talking: The sound wave wave form.
• 3:13
  I Hate Talking: -- But -- how did they like they look at fossils, right?
• 3:15
  I Hate Talking: And then they put the fossils together and say this is a dinosaur.
• 3:18
  I Hate Talking: What about the bloop did they create?
• 3:24
  I Hate Talking: So for those, we'll put it in Instagram, for those who aren't familiar, it's like a fish or whaleish.
• 3:31
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, it's more like a fish though, right?
• 3:33
  I Hate Talking: With an extremely large mouth.
• 3:36
  I Hate Talking: Right.
• 3:37
  I Hate Talking: Is that how you word it?
• 3:39
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I suppose so, but I believe those are completely artistic renditions, -- not made by the -- scientists.
• 3:47
  I Hate Talking: That's what my question is, is every bloop, if you just Google bloop, don't do it right now if you're driving, but if you're not driving, you can Google it, and they all look the same, right?
• 3:58
  I Hate Talking: No, I've seen many different things.
• 4:01
  I Hate Talking: I think there is that one famous image with the large aquatic sea creature with its mouth wide open, and that probably has been copied, but there are some other artistic renditions as well.
• 4:13
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 4:13
  I Hate Talking: Now to answer your question, they actually did record this sound later on and according to the National Ocean Service website.
• 4:23
  I Hate Talking: They recorded this sound again in 2005 and were actually able to trace the sounds to this particular ice quake.
• 4:34
  I Hate Talking: It was basically an iceberg cracking and breaking away from an Antarctic glacier.
• 4:40
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 4:40
  I Hate Talking: So the chances of this specific creature being in that specific spot are pretty low then probably, probably so.
• 4:50
  I Hate Talking: OK, this shows how much I don't know about it.
• 4:54
  I Hate Talking: How fast does sound move in water?
• 4:59
  I Hate Talking: Well, water is more dense than air, so it will typically travel faster, so.
• 5:06
  I Hate Talking: Wait, faster?
• 5:07
  I Hate Talking: Yes.
• 5:08
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 5:10
  I Hate Talking: I would have guessed slower.
• 5:12
  I Hate Talking: I would have guessed the water would dampen the sound.
• 5:15
  I Hate Talking: And slow it down.
• 5:17
  I Hate Talking: No, I'd actually will make sound to be able to travel faster.
• 5:24
  I Hate Talking: OK, explain that to me.
• 5:26
  I Hate Talking: So, yes, according to some quick searches, the speed of sound in water is typically around 1480 m per second, which is significantly faster than the speed.
• 5:39
  I Hate Talking: Of sound and air, which is approximately only 343 m per second, and that is because of the water's density.
• 5:49
  I Hate Talking: So basically, the water molecules are closer together, so they do not have to vibrate as much for them to pass on the acoustic frequencies to the adjacent molecule.
• 6:02
  I Hate Talking: Therefore, that can move faster.
• 6:04
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, in previous pods, we have talked about my lack of chemistry.
• 6:09
  I Hate Talking: But I am correct then that water is more dense than air.
• 6:15
  I Hate Talking: That is correct.
• 6:16
  I Hate Talking: But I'm wrong, that I thought if it was more dense, it would be slower.
• 6:21
  I Hate Talking: Also true.
• 6:23
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 6:24
  I Hate Talking: So what about in space?
• 6:27
  I Hate Talking: How fast does it travel?
• 6:28
  I Hate Talking: Cause there's no air in space?
• 6:30
  I Hate Talking: Well, there is no sound of space cause no one can hear you scream.
• 6:33
  I Hate Talking: But do they really know that?
• 6:36
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 6:37
  I Hate Talking: Well, there, yeah, there's no material that can propagate an acoustic waveform in space, so really the energy from a sound can't really go anywhere.
• 6:48
  I Hate Talking: OK, so follow me on this.
• 6:51
  I Hate Talking: In the water, it's dense, lots of molecules close together, so it goes quickly.
• 6:58
  I Hate Talking: Those molecules just move fast.
• 7:01
  I Hate Talking: In the air, there's molecules, but not as many, so it kind of bounces back and forth like a ping pond.
• 7:08
  I Hate Talking: And in space, there aren't molecules, so then it's let out and then just loads.
• 7:16
  I Hate Talking: There's nothing, nowhere for it to bounce off of.
• 7:18
  I Hate Talking: Is that true?
• 7:20
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 7:21
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 7:22
  I Hate Talking: All right, look at that.
• 7:23
  I Hate Talking: I learned something.
• 7:24
  I Hate Talking: So I want to live in space because I hate A lot of noise.
• 7:29
  I Hate Talking: Well, you can't live in a vacuum though.
• 7:33
  I Hate Talking: You would still have noise within an environment suited for human habitat because it will have pressurized air within some sort of compartment.
• 7:43
  I Hate Talking: Unless you're just gonna live in a spacesuit all the time in the vacuum of space.
• 7:47
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 7:49
  I Hate Talking: I don't want, I don't like the word vacuum.
• 7:51
  I Hate Talking: I get what you're saying, but I hate the sound of a vacuum, a house vacuum, but you're saying like in an empty quiet spot.
• 7:59
  I Hate Talking: I'm saying that if you're going to live in space, you have to have air to breathe and air will propagate sound waves.
• 8:06
  I Hate Talking: Oh.
• 8:07
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I guess theoretically there's gonna be at least some, right, to bounce off, like we were talking about before the ping ponds.
• 8:13
  I Hate Talking: Right.
• 8:14
  I Hate Talking: Or if this in this crazy hypothetical, you don't need to breathe air anymore, then yes, you could just live in the vacuum and have eternal quiet.
• 8:23
  I Hate Talking: Well, theoretically, I can't live underwater either, cause either way, I would drown or I would suffocate from lack of air.
• 8:32
  I Hate Talking: But so in a hypothetical, I would rather live in space, cause I don't like the sound.
• 8:38
  I Hate Talking: -- I -- guess Both are hypothetical.
• 8:41
  I Hate Talking: They can't live underwater either.
• 8:42
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 8:43
  I Hate Talking: Which would you choose?
• 8:45
  I Hate Talking: Constant noise, really loud constant noise or silence?
• 8:49
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I don't really mind sound all that much, not nearly as much as you.
• 8:55
  I Hate Talking: So I'm quite fine in my current habitat.
• 8:59
  I Hate Talking: But that's not the question, not here on Earth.
• 9:03
  I Hate Talking: Do you want water and constant loud?
• 9:06
  I Hate Talking: Or nothing.
• 9:08
  I Hate Talking: I would say water.
• 9:10
  I Hate Talking: -- I would still want to -- have.
• 9:11
  I Hate Talking: -- You'd want the constant loud -- noise, yeah, because I would not want to deny myself that particular sense of hearing, OK.
• 9:18
  I Hate Talking: So the other reason that we chose this particular word is that it showed up in a word game that I was playing and it had nothing to do with this theorized aquatic creature, but actually had to do with a fly ball, which is sort of a callback to our on the fly episode, but a bloop can also be a fly ball that is typically weakly hit.
• 9:45
  I Hate Talking: That falls in between the infield and the outfield.
• 9:50
  I Hate Talking: So if the batter hits the ball weekly, it's sort of a pop fly, lands in between the infielders and the outfielders which will typically result in a base hit that that particular style of hit is called a bloop.
• 10:07
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 10:08
  I Hate Talking: When you saw that word on the game, did you think they were talking about the sea creature?
• 10:13
  I Hate Talking: No, I did not because, and that actually did not happen because this was a crossword style game, so it gave the clue as a weekly hit fly ball and then you had to fill in the letters.
• 10:24
  I Hate Talking: But I did not use that particular clue to solve the puzzle and use the other crossword clues to fill in the letters.
• 10:32
  I Hate Talking: But now I know.
• 10:33
  I Hate Talking: I know.
• 10:34
  I Hate Talking: And both of these words do not really have any particular language etymology in and of themselves.
• 10:41
  I Hate Talking: Basically, the bloop for the aquatic creature was sort of reminiscent of the actual sound and similarly, the bloop in terms of a fly ball is called in such a way because of the sound that the bat makes when it makes contact with the ball in such a weak fashion.
• 11:01
  I Hate Talking: And then what about bloopers?
• 11:07
  I Hate Talking: Cause I love myself a good blooper.
• 11:10
  I Hate Talking: Oh man.
• 11:10
  I Hate Talking: If I want to laugh, I'll just like YouTube bloopers of shows I watch, and that brings me so much joy.
• 11:18
  I Hate Talking: So what would the etymology be for that?
• 11:22
  I Hate Talking: Well, I'm looking up the etymology of blooper, you can explain to our listeners the definition of a blooper in the way that you used it.
• 11:29
  I Hate Talking: Oh, OK.
• 11:30
  I Hate Talking: I was gonna say, I don't have my phone, so I can't look it up.
• 11:32
  I Hate Talking: But how I use blooper is, say, the Office.
• 11:37
  I Hate Talking: I'm a big fan of The Office.
• 11:39
  I Hate Talking: If you just YouTube Office bloopers.
• 11:43
  I Hate Talking: It is things like Steve Carell laughing and not able to get out his lines cause he's laughing so hard.
• 11:52
  I Hate Talking: Or maybe an actor walks into a table and cause he's not paying attention, and then everyone starts laughing or he gets hurt or whatnot.
• 12:03
  I Hate Talking: So I find a lot of joy in watching other people laugh.
• 12:07
  I Hate Talking: And so when you're watching a blooper.
• 12:10
  I Hate Talking: On the TV, it's usually the actors somehow messed up, and they start laughing organically just as a human.
• 12:20
  I Hate Talking: And then watching them laugh at their mistakes makes me laugh.
• 12:25
  I Hate Talking: Indeed.
• 12:27
  I Hate Talking: So, it's interesting to note that the etymology of blooper also comes from a sound.
• 12:33
  I Hate Talking: So, yes, so according to the research here that I've done in 1926, coming from the US, the word bloop came to be used as referring to a radio which caused other radios to quote unquote bloop or emit a loud howling noise.
• 12:58
  I Hate Talking: So then that became used within the radio performances.
• 13:04
  I Hate Talking: And then subsequently any TV performances or other movie performances.
• 13:10
  I Hate Talking: Of any time that there was an unintended mistake, and that is how we arrive at the word blooper.
• 13:18
  I Hate Talking: Is that similar to like, say you say you keep a microphone close to a speaker and it makes that obnoxious sound that everyone hates?
• 13:27
  I Hate Talking: Is that a bloop?
• 13:28
  I Hate Talking: Or is that just a general, that's an error, the errors are bloopers.
• 13:34
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think typically in the modern vernacular that would be referred to as feedback.
• 13:39
  I Hate Talking: It might be a little bit different because this would be to speakers that are producing the sound versus an input output device that's causing that feedback.
• 13:48
  I Hate Talking: But yes, essentially the word bloop comes from whatever particular technology they were using in the 1920s for radio broadcasting.
• 13:58
  I Hate Talking: It would cause that unintended noise to be emitted from the radio.
• 14:03
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 14:04
  I Hate Talking: But they're all 3 auditory.
• 14:07
  I Hate Talking: Correct.
• 14:08
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 14:09
  I Hate Talking: I think that has a special word, right?
• 14:12
  I Hate Talking: Auditory?
• 14:13
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, I thought it was a good word.
• 14:15
  I Hate Talking: It's like on, on, yes.
• 14:21
  I Hate Talking: You're gonna save that in there.
• 14:24
  I Hate Talking: -- Keep that -- looper for real, but it's not a blooper.
• 14:29
  I Hate Talking: I was right.
• 14:30
  I Hate Talking: Yes, you can pronounce it.
• 14:30
  I Hate Talking: You can pronounce it.
• 14:30
  I Hate Talking: That doesn't happen very frequently.
• 14:31
  I Hate Talking: You can pronounce the word better than me.
• 14:31
  I Hate Talking: That be the first time ever I've said a word better than you.
• 14:31
  I Hate Talking: Whoa, we're gonna cut this and I'm gonna make this my uh ringtone when you call me.
• 14:49
  I Hate Talking: Just you repeating the word.
• 14:51
  I Hate Talking: No, when you're like struggling and I help you.
• 14:54
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 14:55
  I Hate Talking: I'll never answer the phone when you call because I want to hear the whole ringtone.
• 15:00
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, so say the word again for our listeners.
• 15:04
  I Hate Talking: So that is the definition of the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
• 15:13
  I Hate Talking: So other examples that are given here is cuckoo or sizzle.
• 15:18
  I Hate Talking: Where those words apparently came about because that is the sound of the particular bird or cooking mechanism and that became the word used to describe doing those things.
• 15:31
  I Hate Talking: Nice.
• 15:31
  I Hate Talking: So yes, all three of the usages of bloop are that.
• 15:36
  I Hate Talking: Our what?
• 15:39
  I Hate Talking: Onomo, I can't, I can't say it so.
• 15:43
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, but I don't think you're actually saying it because there's no end.
• 15:49
  I Hate Talking: You don't have it right there.
• 15:51
  I Hate Talking: Put it on the mic and here Google.
• 15:53
  I Hate Talking: What are they saying?
• 15:55
  I Hate Talking: On amatapeia -- Anna -- Matt try again.
• 16:03
  I Hate Talking: On a matapeia On the mona Pia Yeah, that time you had the T.
• 16:09
  I Hate Talking: -- You were saying it with -- an N.
• 16:10
  I Hate Talking: Yes.
• 16:12
  I Hate Talking: I shouldn't have pushed it cause I was right, and now I'm a little bit off.
• 16:17
  I Hate Talking: What do you say?
• 16:20
  I Hate Talking: It has a weird tempo to it.
• 16:23
  I Hate Talking: Let me listen to it again.
• 16:24
  I Hate Talking: That can be our word for the day next week.
• 16:28
  I Hate Talking: No, -- maybe -- it's you're like, I don't like this word.
• 16:33
  I Hate Talking: Anna Maria.
• 16:37
  I Hate Talking: I can't say it very good because it doesn't look like it's pronounced either cause it's, it looks like uh it should be on O Mattopia, but it's pronounced like the second O is a a sound.
• 16:51
  I Hate Talking: Onomato.
• 16:53
  I Hate Talking: I'll drop by onomatoia onomatopia.
• 16:53
  I Hate Talking: So, -- you said there's so -- onomatatatat oh man y'all, this is hard.
• 17:07
  I Hate Talking: OK, go on, they should have came up with a better word for let's move on.
• 17:11
  I Hate Talking: They should have came up with a word that just was like -- sounds like -- sounds like there you go.
• 17:17
  I Hate Talking: That would have been better.
• 17:18
  I Hate Talking: Well, maybe we'll save that word for next episode and we can dive into the etymology because that certainly looks like it is Greek and or Latin.
• 17:27
  I Hate Talking: OK, so that is our word or phrase of the episode, loop and got into three specific definitions there and even had some bonus words.
• 17:40
  I Hate Talking: So, now we'll move on to the topic of the episode, which, in fact, I don't believe has any relationship to our word or phrase of the episode, but we recently had some tree inspections done and it seems like all trees except maybe one or two are doing well.
• 18:01
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 18:03
  I Hate Talking: So this was brought on.
• 18:05
  I Hate Talking: We live on some property and a couple of weeks ago, we had a big storm.
• 18:11
  I Hate Talking: But I don't think it was really even a big storm, right?
• 18:15
  I Hate Talking: It was like a little mini storm, but it was intense, yeah, it was, it was like a little.
• 18:20
  I Hate Talking: on the, uh, radar, but It was intense for about 10 minutes, but it definitely wasn't our typical storms without our buildup.
• 18:33
  I Hate Talking: We had 2 trees on our property.
• 18:36
  I Hate Talking: We were so lucky because one fell between our house and our septic tank.
• 18:41
  I Hate Talking: And the other fell between the subject tank and the kids' playhouse.
• 18:46
  I Hate Talking: Like, if they had gone, what, 2 3 ft one way or another, We would have had major cleanup and major issues, -- but they fell in the absolute perfect -- spots.
• 19:00
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, we didn't have any major cleanup at all.
• 19:02
  I Hate Talking: I meant like, if it fell on our house, that would have been horrible, fell on our septic.
• 19:09
  I Hate Talking: That would have been terrible.
• 19:11
  I Hate Talking: The playhouse, it would just been a lot to clean up and a lot of back and forth on do we buy a new playhouse and swing set or whatnot, you know, that's what I'm saying.
• 19:21
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 19:22
  I Hate Talking: None of that was damaged at all, and it's amazing how perfectly it fell, cause it could have damaged a ton of stuff.
• 19:32
  I Hate Talking: But to your point, we had a ton of clean up, and I will praise Adam.
• 19:38
  I Hate Talking: Me and the boys helped him a lot, but he was the one, do you think it was 30 hours?
• 19:44
  I Hate Talking: How much hours of work do you think you put into it?
• 19:46
  I Hate Talking: He was at least 4 separate days, probably, probably like 8 hour days, yeah, probably 32 hours or so.
• 19:53
  I Hate Talking: I was estimating 30, so yeah, 32.
• 19:56
  I Hate Talking: And we helped off and on through that time.
• 19:59
  I Hate Talking: We helped a little bit in between when you weren't there.
• 20:02
  I Hate Talking: I think when I thought about it, I thought I'd probably put in a good 10 to 12 hours, different work than you.
• 20:10
  I Hate Talking: Your work was harder.
• 20:11
  I Hate Talking: I want to acknowledge that.
• 20:12
  I Hate Talking: But these are massive trees that fell.
• 20:16
  I Hate Talking: And you took it upon yourself to use our own chainsaws and chop them up, and we have firewood for years to come.
• 20:25
  I Hate Talking: So, but we had to, you chopped it all up, which took hours.
• 20:30
  I Hate Talking: Me and the boys and you transported the wood to a pile for storage.
• 20:36
  I Hate Talking: It took hours to do.
• 20:38
  I Hate Talking: And it wasn't fun.
• 20:41
  I Hate Talking: It wasn't fun.
• 20:43
  I Hate Talking: No, I mean, using heavy equipment it's a little bit fun, but it was also very, very hot, -- but -- I didn't use the use the equipment, but it was exceptionally hot.
• 20:53
  I Hate Talking: And then on top of that, we had the burn pile for all the tree branches and brush too.
• 20:58
  I Hate Talking: So I got quite hot as well.
• 21:00
  I Hate Talking: Yes, we built our own using the lumber, built our own fire pit in the yard, a large one, and we're burning things, and it was exceptionally, almost scary hot.
• 21:15
  I Hate Talking: Like, I've never really been around like a house fire, per se, or uh a fire like that other than bonfires.
• 21:22
  I Hate Talking: It would go from warm to like, almost you couldn't breathe heat.
• 21:28
  I Hate Talking: And so, kudos, I mean, firemen, what they have to do, I can't imagine because standing by that fire, as we were throwing brush in it and all that uh wood to burn.
• 21:42
  I Hate Talking: It was so large and so hot that what do you think the temperature was?
• 21:47
  I Hate Talking: You're way better at guessing than me.
• 21:49
  I Hate Talking: Like inside the fire pit or just like around the fire pit where we were standing.
• 21:53
  I Hate Talking: I was thinking what what we're refilling, but also I guess inside if you want.
• 21:58
  I Hate Talking: I mean, we were probably only feeling maybe like 120 to 130 degrees, I would say.
• 22:02
  I Hate Talking: Really?
• 22:04
  I Hate Talking: I mean, -- even that was so -- hot.
• 22:06
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, maybe you got too close to it then.
• 22:08
  I Hate Talking: The inside of the fire, I'm sure it was that 400 plus, um, probably even in the center of the coals probably upwards of 500, 600.
• 22:19
  I Hate Talking: Y'all, again, we can put this on Instagram.
• 22:22
  I Hate Talking: We got the perfect log though, that was heart-shaped, and I love it so much.
• 22:27
  I Hate Talking: So I did see it and I requested that you save it and don't burn that one cause it's the cutest little heart-shaped blog that just happened to come out that way.
• 22:37
  I Hate Talking: It encouraged me when I was really hot from the heat and the humidity, and the fire, and transporting logs back and forth.
• 22:46
  I Hate Talking: Seeing that even something simple like that, that cute little heart-shaped log, made me happy cause I'm like, OK, we can keep going, we're doing this for our purpose, for our family, for our finances.
• 22:58
  I Hate Talking: And so that gave me a little pick me up motivation to keep going.
• 23:03
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, so you made me doubt my estimates, so I did fact check myself and it probably actually was hotter.
• 23:10
  I Hate Talking: So according to Google.
• 23:11
  I Hate Talking: The wood burning campfires can actually reach 2000 degrees in the core and will be upwards of 200 to 300 in the area around the flame area that when it's burning profusely.
• 23:26
  I Hate Talking: OK, well that, that makes me feel validated.
• 23:29
  I Hate Talking: Because sometimes when we were throwing the wood in, and it would blaze quickly, it just, I think that might have been the hottest I've ever experienced, like heat.
• 23:40
  I Hate Talking: So yeah, I guess if it's 300 degrees or whatnot, and I'm standing right next to it, that would be the hottest I've ever experienced.
• 23:47
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 23:48
  I Hate Talking: And then for our listeners that are wondering, uh the rest of our trees passed inspection, so hopefully we will not have any more trees fall with the exception of one that is on like the outskirts of our property.
• 24:00
  I Hate Talking: And we're not gonna really worry too much about because it is away from the house as well as another one that they say is maybe showing some signs of decay, but again, is in a such a location that it would be many years until that became an issue and also if it did fall would fall directly away from the house.
• 24:21
  I Hate Talking: So that one will probably be for now, maybe check it again in the spring next year.
• 24:27
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, so, what we did, I sort of, not panicked isn't the right word, but I was alarmed.
• 24:34
  I Hate Talking: When these two trees fell, cause again, like you said, the storm wasn't that bad, nor did we think these trees were that in poor condition.
• 24:44
  I Hate Talking: We've lived here for a while, we've noticed trees, we've gotten them responsibly removed and such as needed.
• 24:52
  I Hate Talking: These kind of took us by surprise, but when they fell, the inside of them, you could see like, oh, that they were rotten.
• 24:59
  I Hate Talking: So, because I hadn't noticed that, I got nervous that like, what other trees do we have that are rotten that I'm not aware of either.
• 25:07
  I Hate Talking: And so I definitely got some arborists out, some professionals to teach me what I don't know, cause I'm not an arborist.
• 25:17
  I Hate Talking: So I think I am now, because as I'm driving around, I see people's stuff and I'm like, oh, that tree, I see.
• 25:24
  I Hate Talking: And I'm able to armchair it.
• 25:27
  I Hate Talking: But I wanted them to teach me and also let us know if there's others that we're unaware of, cause we were so lucky this time.
• 25:35
  I Hate Talking: But what if it fell on our house, something else, our neighbor's property.
• 25:40
  I Hate Talking: So, like you said, that one is gonna fall into the forest and won't affect any people or property.
• 25:49
  I Hate Talking: The other one is iffy, and they were giving me like 5-ish years, like 5 to 7 years, this is the problem.
• 25:57
  I Hate Talking: So that was super encouraging cause I was expecting worst case scenario, we were gonna have a lot of work ahead of us.
• 26:04
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, and the ones that did fall, to your point, did not look unhealthy after they fell, were visibly decayed at the trunk and actually they broke at the trunk, but even cutting them up, they were still very hydrated and had leaves growing and you really couldn't tell even at the upper trunk and branches that there was anything wrong with the tree as I was cutting up, but it was only at the very base of the trunk that had that interior.
• 26:33
  I Hate Talking: Issue.
• 26:34
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, the word that we were carrying and that we're burning is healthy, good word.
• 26:39
  I Hate Talking: So, y'all, I'm not an artist.
• 26:41
  I Hate Talking: Seek your local purpose.
• 26:43
  I Hate Talking: But what I've learned through this process is they did explain to me, cause we left the stumps there for them to look at and tell us what was wrong, even though we removed the rest of it.
• 26:55
  I Hate Talking: And they were explaining to me what was wrong with it.
• 26:59
  I Hate Talking: And then I, they showed me all the other trees, and none of them look like that.
• 27:04
  I Hate Talking: That's good.
• 27:05
  I Hate Talking: And then they were explaining like the tree you were talking about, the one that's like iffy.
• 27:09
  I Hate Talking: They were explaining how that is kind of on the top.
• 27:12
  I Hate Talking: So like they, they suggested cutting it out halfway almost, cause the bottom's still good.
• 27:18
  I Hate Talking: And we use that tree actually for a purpose.
• 27:23
  I Hate Talking: So they were like, the top isn't great, the bottom is good, cut it off, and you can still use it for the purpose you're using it at.
• 27:32
  I Hate Talking: And that gave me more confidence because I could see what they were talking about with what trees are hollow and what trees have decay and where the decay is.
• 27:43
  I Hate Talking: Those two trees just happen to have the decay at the bottom.
• 27:47
  I Hate Talking: And that was the problem.
• 27:49
  I Hate Talking: Where the other trees that we have, you know, we have a lot, but a few that have concerns, their decay is more at the top.
• 27:56
  I Hate Talking: Um, so that would theoretically buy the trees more time.
• 28:01
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, so lots of things that we learned about bloops and trees in this episode.
• 28:07
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, but look at your local arborist and talk to them because it is so cool what they know.
• 28:13
  I Hate Talking: Also, do you know how to preserve a tree's life when you're mowing?
• 28:17
  I Hate Talking: I have heard this before and probably need to do a little bit better care, but yeah, you're not supposed to get super close to it.
• 28:24
  I Hate Talking: You're not supposed to run over the roots.
• 28:25
  I Hate Talking: You're not supposed to hit the roots with the blades and even take care when you are trimming around the tree that you don't cause any undue damage to the bark.
• 28:35
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 28:36
  I Hate Talking: So, I learned that, yeah, when you're mowing or using maybe a weed whacker or whatnot, if you're cutting them a little bit, the roots, if they're popping out of the soil.
• 28:47
  I Hate Talking: Or the bark itself on the stumps, that it takes a really long time for it to heal and then often cause decay and infections.
• 28:57
  I Hate Talking: They don't heal like our bodies heal quickly.
• 29:01
  I Hate Talking: So what they recommended also, what one of the people recommended was setting out mulch, just a low amount, not a ton, around it to protect the tree.
• 29:12
  I Hate Talking: And I've seen trees with mulch, and I always thought it was a pretty uppity.
• 29:18
  I Hate Talking: Looked pretty but more almost pretentious.
• 29:21
  I Hate Talking: What's the word you would use?
• 29:23
  I Hate Talking: I was gonna say pretentious, so there you go, like, look, but maybe it's because they are taking care of their trees.
• 29:31
  I Hate Talking: It could be, but for the record, these two trees that fell had no exposed roots, and I would always take care to weedwack appropriately around them.
• 29:42
  I Hate Talking: There are trees on our property that do have exposed roots where I got to lift the deck and mow so that I don't hit them and it's actually more selfish that I'm not trying to break the mower rather than preserving the tree, but nonetheless, try to make sure that I don't hit the roots.
• 29:58
  I Hate Talking: So, that was not the case for these particular trees because they had no exposed roots and no particular yard work damage to them.
• 30:09
  I Hate Talking: OK, for the record, I, I'm not saying that.
• 30:12
  I Hate Talking: It was anything about the lawn care.
• 30:15
  I Hate Talking: So I appreciate you explaining that cause I didn't know.
• 30:18
  I Hate Talking: But I don't think I'm urgently looking out for mulch, mulch sales go on what March or April.
• 30:26
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, March or April.
• 30:29
  I Hate Talking: I think usually March.
• 30:30
  I Hate Talking: So I leaned, I, I like to save money.
• 30:33
  I Hate Talking: So I'd lean towards waiting till then, and then bulk buying it.
• 30:37
  I Hate Talking: And then maybe I would push towards mulching most of our trees, but I don't think it's urgent that we do it this summer.
• 30:46
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 30:47
  I Hate Talking: And then you have to pull the weeds from the mulch because you can't use chemicals to kill the weeds cause then that will kill the tree.
• 30:52
  I Hate Talking: Oh, that's more work.
• 30:53
  I Hate Talking: I hate doing more yard work.
• 30:56
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I wish I loved yard work.
• 30:58
  I Hate Talking: I really do.
• 30:59
  I Hate Talking: And I really hate it.
• 31:02
  I Hate Talking: That is true.
• 31:03
  I Hate Talking: Would you like it, right?
• 31:06
  I Hate Talking: -- When it's not 100 degrees -- outside.
• 31:08
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, on occasion when it's like not something I have to do when it's more something like I Fit into a more relaxed schedule and also when it's cooler, then it's not so much of an issue and it's actually enjoyable.
• 31:21
  I Hate Talking: It was frustrating.
• 31:23
  I Hate Talking: I mean, like, we talked about the hours amount of work, these two trees.
• 31:27
  I Hate Talking: Again, these people came, they could have removed the trees much faster for us, but we would not have had the firewood.
• 31:36
  I Hate Talking: And we would have had to pay for it.
• 31:38
  I Hate Talking: So we put our hours in and now we have firewood for a really long time.
• 31:44
  I Hate Talking: But it was one of those things that like, man, I really wish I enjoyed this, cause this is not fun, walking around picking up sticks and putting them in our wagon to walk over to the pit.
• 31:56
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 31:58
  I Hate Talking: It was a lot of work.
• 31:59
  I Hate Talking: All right, so if you did enjoy learning about bloops -- or learning about trees -- or bloops and bloopers or the other kind of bloops and the other kind of bloopers indeed or the words that I still can't pronounce on a on a PF that one then you can always like and share and subscribe and maybe we'll get into that word in our next episode.
• 32:21
  I Hate Talking: So, from your friends at I hate talking, until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.