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so I do Lila good. I'm all full of Mexican food. Me too. Well, yeah, it was good. Yeah. And it Yeah, I had the fajita, nachos. And because we went out and had dinner, we had less time to prepare for this episode. Hey, so you want to do where it's like, Oh, no. Like we always do. Yeah. This is our Thursday discussion. I get home from work. And Leila is there and like, what are we doing tonight? And she's like, Oh, I forgot it was Thursday? I don't know.
So we cram in the crib and some facts, we'll find some seven. We do find stuff through the week. And we'll like send it to each other in our family chat. And we'll have some stuff to talk about. I do think about it. I do think about hey, what am I going to do for tonight's episode? And then I'm like, oh, no, I'm gonna continue doing my tests that I have in front of me. Here's the here's the bad part is that we have these suggestions in our email box. And I always forget to go check
them because there's good suggestions in there. Team Omaha sent us like three in the last email. But anyway, we came up with tonight we're going to talk about just some cool news stories that are going on, that I've heard throughout the week. And then just what's going on with us so so you can get a little peek into our world as what we're doing. And so we do the show live on Thursday nights at seven o'clock that will be
changing. On some weeks. We're either not going to go live or we're going to go live on Wednesday night on the second and fourth weeks of the month. Right? Because Leila is I have debate club. Yeah. On those days. And I probably won't get home until like 630. Yeah, I'm so excited for her to have debate club. I think it's gonna be good for. So yeah, that's a good I think it's a good thing.
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for those real quick. Those who don't know intergalactic boombox, he does all of the voices of a bunch of different characters who are on a spaceship that's shaped like a boombox I believe and he is the intergalactic boombox he and at the very beginning of each episode, right after the intro music and little intro he's got going. There's a couple of aliens named. I can't run a conspiracy. No, that's the that's the conspiracy theory guy who does the news. You can't use
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can't stand me sometimes. Right? Yeah, yeah. When I make those jokes. They're like, Oh, as I am within sometimes. So. Yeah. So that's our supporters for this week. We may have had something in the mail but again, we decided that we just really really needed some some good Mexican food tonight. Huh? My my other station is offline. Oh, no. We have someone in chat named Ice Cube soup. Yeah. Who is that? That's ice cubes. What? Ice Cube soup. Ice Cube
soup is around. We do have a chat room when we do the show live. You can chat at FunFactFriday.com or if you have an IRC client, you can go to IRC dot zero no dotnet and get in there we are in the chat room. Hashtag Fun Fact Friday, all one word. So you can join in the fun. So let's see. I have a couple of fun stories from the news. Well, this first one is not really fun, or do you have one ready to go? Or do you want
Alright, let me do this. Get prepped, which we should have done before the show but you notice there was a lady and she kept putting new contact lenses in without removing the old ones. She ended up with 23 contact lenses in her eye. That's something that I would do on accident. If I work contacts, how did she get that many contacts Good grief.
According the doctor actually posted a video and I don't know if I'm going to even watch it. There's a link in the show notes it's when the you'll see the link it the link is to the article not directly to the video so you can make that decision on your own there. The video that went viral Of course, we wouldn't know about it if it didn't. According to the OP ophthalmologist, a patient put a new contact lenses for 23 days in a row without ever taking the previous one out. posting the
video on the California Eye Associates Instagram page. There was quote a rare occasion when somebody forgot to remove contact lenses at night and kept putting them in 23 days in a row. I got to deliver the contact lens bunch yesterday in my clinic. So glitter I shot How did she What if she were her contact asleep? I don't know. I don't her eyes in the morning. I don't wear contacts. So there's here's some tips real
quick for pearls. proper contact lens wearing, don't get get a proper initial fitting and contact litens handling Well it's hard to say contact lens handling training when first getting them. Number two, always wash your hands before taking them out or placing them in. Number three dispose of your daily contact lenses before you go to bed. Use Lee's preservative free artificial tears, such as refresh when handling contact lenses, I wonder if they're going to kick
back for doing a name brand there. We don't. Number four, use proper contact lens storage solution for extended wear contact lenses. And number five if you wear contact lenses and your eyes turn red see your ophthalmologist or optometrist for an exam to make sure that there is no infection and never sleep in your contact lenses. Indeed, so that was all in case that's why I gave it some emphasis. Yes. So that's a horrible story. Oh, yeah, I can't even I can't even like
think about one contact lens in my eyeball. Much less just stack. How did you even close your eyes? Do you think it's like close around them? True. That's like a little telescope built into your eyeball? How would that like not ruin your vision? It's like having the same glasses probably did probably mess with her. But she was like, Oh, well. So when I went to I went to play Magic the Gathering one time at
a tournament or not? tournament. It was like a little, you know, quarterly contest they did with anyway, I'm focusing on the wrong part of the story. Yes, you are how there was a gentleman there who wore glasses. And it looked like he had not cleaned his glasses. And like three years, he had so much film and stuff just like they just looked. Yeah, they were super blurry. I was like, dude, just if you just cleaned them, you could see I can't stand doing an hour without cleaning my glasses.
I clean mine probably two three times a day. Yeah. Just I touch them on. Like I go and like, I don't know, I talk to them a lot. But so yeah, don't Don't. Don't do that. 23 pairs of contacts in your eyeballs. What you got? Okay, so we did this thing called CNN 10. In school. And before, okay, before I do this, I want to say what I learned about contact lenses. If you ever, like get them back in your eye. It doesn't go into into your skull or anything. Which I
thought it did. I thought your your eye socket was like this hole. And your eye was just in it. But no, it stops after a certain point. So like a contact lens won't go back into your head. It'll stay there. Under your eyelid. Yeah. I didn't know that. It's called an eye socket. Not an eye hole. True. I watched the Vsauce thing on that. But anyways. Let's see. Oh my gosh, the political ads I'm getting more and more of them. Gosh, they're terrible. There's there's only the three people
that the media is going after right now. Yeah, Sherry Beasley Wiley, Nicole and Sandy Smith. The only three of you will the rest are fine, I guess. But I just get so much smear campaign. Then there's they had to spend so much money on getting these politicians to not be in office. Yeah, they they spend a lot of money in political seasons are big moneymakers for print shops and the post office. So we're learning about governments and science class or social studies. I need
to get that in my head. Okay. Well, that's what social studies is learn about government. Yeah. And like the three branches of government, and all that fun stuff. So I've got another quick story. And then we're just gonna talk about I'm gonna talk about a couple of projects I've been working on and then you can tell the folks besides the debate club what all you're doing, yeah, so vegan. This, this is the headline, vegan who failed to deal with mouse infestation,
and fed them instead is fine in court. So Margaret Manzoni 73 She lives in Essex and Britain. See, quote, considered the mice her pets and said they would not go to her neighbor's house because she looked after them. So she had a whole bunch of mice living in her house. And because she was vegan, you know, you don't harm animals in any way. So she just kind of like started feeding them and they were all like her pets but she didn't have them in like cages of any kind. So she was fined 1500
pounds. It's a lot of money, with the court awarding Council costs of 22,395 pounds It's just a few rats. It's her own house. It's not like it's a cafe cafe. Yeah, but non like mouse's nice mice. I guess my system. I'm so used to the computer talking about it. Yeah. The
mice, you know, they're a nuisance to other people. And if she's not keeping them in enclosed area like a pet, then they're obviously going to be going to the neighbor's house and they're going to be going, you know, all over the place. Yeah, so it's a public nuisance thing. The court actually said that they are they were sympathetic to her. Her beliefs as an ethical vegan, but they still had to, they had to find her. There was a victim surcharge of 150 pounds also. So
she was she was out quite a bit. Wow. And so servo says In England, the Queen owns the land. Yeah, that's one thing we learned in science, social studies today. Okay, let me explain to you because I explained this at dinner, but I didn't explain it to y'all. Y'all are gonna have to hear me rant about it to my history or social studies teacher. She is exactly like a science teacher. You will look at her. And you'd be like, Are you a history or
science teacher? And she, you would say a science teacher. She acts like a science teacher. I don't understand how a teacher acts like a social. You know, I guess you're right. Because yeah, I can see that because I had a science teacher who was totally a science teacher. Yeah. Like you could tell. I like her eyes. You can see the science. I think that's probably just 23 contact lenses. I mean, yeah, whose true? Want to not get it one other news story. There's a haunted hotel up for sale. Oh,
can I borrow 250,000 pounds. Nevermind. I ended up on a British site renews for some reason this week. And I'm not on a VPN. So I'm not like I was on. I'm on mirror and Sky News. I don't know how reliable these are. Yeah, no, I'm not on a VPN. I just I guess I just landed on him. And I clicked the link from one to the other. So that makes sense. And on that note this video, I'm kidding. But yeah, we wanted to just kind of talk about what we're doing.
I'm kind of excited. I'm doing a few things. Been working more on audio drama. Working on my show me this pod. Not all not all the episodes are for kids. So be sure and listen before you let the kids listen to it. If you go and listen, I'd love it if you did. I'm trying to get it to where I can release at least every couple of weeks get an episode out I just recorded Jack London's to build a fire. And that's actually the first time I've read that story. Surprisingly enough. I think I
was supposed to read it in high school. But it's a really good story will be coming out on me this pod soon. I've been working with three or four other audio drama podcasts. I'm going to be doing some narration playing some characters and you know, I'll keep I'll keep everybody informed on what they are and whether or not they're kid friendly. But I've been working a lot of audio drama stuff, but I'm also getting the shed cleaned out. We've got we think all three of us under my
direction. I've been getting the Shedd cleaned out and the reason we're doing this is because I'm going to be putting insulation and some soundproofing. And hopefully we'll be doing the
show from our studio in the next couple of months. It's going to take a little while because I can only do them off time and and all that but we've got everything out but the furniture and most of the furniture is actually staying in there we're going to couch in their coffee table we're going to kind of turn it into a little hangout area and then have a soundproof
area for recording. Okay, Darth radar I understand I'm supposed to be digging a big hole but I want to get it I want to at least get the shed ready for when I can afford to buy all the insulation. Before I started digging the hole where are you digging a hole? We talked about this when do we not talk about this? How does Darth Raider know about it if if we didn't talk about it? Yeah, remember about the pickaxe?
Yeah, it's for Minecraft. No. It's not a controller for the computer. It has no Bluetooth it has no USB it has an actual pickaxe. Oh. So what does if I'm digging a hole where like right behind the shed where the where the land drops off real steep. I'm gonna do a dugout I'm gonna make a fort. What? What, how you're gonna live in a hole No, it's just for fun. I thought you're gonna build a build a deck. No, I'm gonna build opposite of a lean to deck. Oh, shed. No. Think about
past the fence. Okay, past the fence you like where we were out in the woods the other night. Okay, okay, that's a whole is gonna be I'm gonna dig, it's not going to be a full on a whole it's going to be like I'm just making a dugout. I don't know what that is, like I'm making I'm cutting. Imagine we're playing Minecraft. Okay, there's a hill, right? Okay, and I want
to build a house that's halfway in the hill. And halfway out of the hill, I've got to clear out, I've got to clear out like a cube of dirt. digging out so you're gonna, you're gonna even it out. Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make it out, and you're gonna support the land so it doesn't fall over? Well, I'm digging out all the dirt. And then I'm gonna go get some beams. Or maybe just cut down a couple of trees. And I'm
going to make a roof for it. So we can go out there and hang out by the stream, but still have a roof over our heads and have maybe a little bonfire there or whatever and hang out. So we're like in the woods, but we're still close enough to the house where we can run it and use the bathroom for one. So, so yes, the dugout is in the plans, the converting the shed into a studio is in the plans. And I'm getting to work on it is what I'm doing. Okay. I like having a chat and call you out for stuff.
Yeah, stars radar, I'm digging a hole. I thought you're okay, I thought you were thinking about like a hole hole. A hole that goes like, like 10 feet down on the ground. It's just like this big, you're just gonna stand in it. This is my hole. I did the math. And I've got eight, eight to 11 tons of dirt to move up the ladder. Yeah, but might have your uncle will come over because he's got that auger. And that thing can move some dirt. I think he's got like
a foot and a half wide blade for it now. And that thing will dig a foot and a half wide hole just merge. And we can just boom, yeah, get it out of there. Get a couple of wheelbarrows back there. But I think it'd be a good workout, too. So that's what I've been working on is audio drama stuff and getting the getting the shed prepped, I gotta get either a solar solution, or we got to run power and internet out to it. That's
That's what have you been up to you joining? Why are you joining the debate club? Because I'm bored. Because you're bored. And I want to argue with people. Yes. There you go. It's fun. I like the fact that you're going to have to take the side of an argument that you don't necessarily agree with. I don't know about that. It's a social club. They're calling it a social club. But it sounds a lot more like a debate club. The way that the lady was talking to us,
miss. Yeah, let's not say people's names. Miss Miss potato, remind me to to edit that. 23 minutes. Give her 20 minutes. Miss potato told me that it was like just talking about stuff with other students. So oh, so might not be Debate Club. It might just be all proud. She brought up the word Debate Club. Okay, but maybe she doesn't want to over promise with her ability to
teach debate. Yeah, or doesn't want to getting too deep too deep into the debating part of it because then that might cause arguments and that sort of thing. haven't really met Miss potato much. Right. And her name is not actually miss potato. Well, yeah, obviously. You just picked a random word. So yeah, I'm interested to see what it is and that starts what next week we kind of cut or something like that. already. You don't know. But yeah, that
seems fun. You've been doing you're the student body president or I'm part of the Student Government Student Government. So um, something like that. Yeah. I like failures all why about digging a hole age kids random ideas. Read servo says, I like that Lila's all why about digging the hole? Usually it's the kid with the random ideas and the parent asking I think that we established in like Episode Three that the roles are kinda reversed with us you likes digging holes. Oh my god. Why I love
I love it. I love digging a hole. What are you gonna put in the hole you don't have to put anything in the hole. The whole purpose is to know the hole is purpose is to be a hole. The digging of the hole is the is the fun like the process First you got to break up the dirt and we've got some pretty solid dirt back there, so I gotta get the pickaxe on it. Then a hole. Once
you break it all up, you gotta get the shovel. You gotta start shoveling now, since I'm doing a dugout, instead of a hole down, I can actually use the pickaxe a lot more, because I can break it up and it's kind of rake it with the wider end of the pickaxe, okay, and then just kind of rake it all off to the sides, instead
of having to actually use the shovel a whole lot. So I'm just going to be just just driving that spike into the pickaxe into the ground over and over and over and over, tear it all up, and then just kind of rake it all off to the sides. Okay, over and over and over again. Yep, moving. Yep. 15 20,000 pounds of dirt. Yep. Indeed, it'll be neat. And I'll probably get halfway through it and then just be done with it. Because I'll probably drive the pickaxe under my foot externally. And that'll
be the end of that project. Oops. So we were cleaning out the shed. Do you want to tell him what you did to me? Yeah, I helped him help him clean our shed. You're not gonna you're not going to mention the other part. No. So we had the tailgate down on the truck, because we drove the backed up the truck to the shed so we can move things easier. And I was holding up an item because it was longer than the bed of the truck. So it could rest on the back. I was
like, okay, Lila, I'm holding it up slam the tailgate. Mm hmm. And she got me but his hand it was his fault. So he, he was trying to lift up the ladder in the back. But he wasn't all the way up yet. Yeah, so it was it was totally his fault because his arm his arm is still still there. Because he was trying to lift a lot if his arm was there, she I would have just jammed it into the ladder instead of him slammed my elbow in the tailgate. What does my
voice doing nice and hard. You're you're at a distance from the mic where the gate doesn't know whether to cut you off or not. Oh, oops, the gate is not super aggressive. But you're just right at that point. So He's unique. Lila, are you talking smack about your injury folks that are listening later? This is why you're going to be here on on Lifetime. Because? Because I'm funny. We're in the chat. We're having a good time. And yeah. So so what else you got for the for the episode?
That's just that's good. We're good. Yeah, you don't have any other any other fun stories. And movies come Oh, one more thing I wanted to talk about. Lila has to read books from a certain list. Do you want me to post this list and people can give suggestions. Now? No, because that's my school's name tied to it. No, it doesn't. Because I copy and pasted into that Excel spreadsheet. It's just a list of books. Look, there's nothing having to do with your school is literally just a list of books.
And their their Dewey Decimal Number What do you say? You already posted up and give let people get recommendations off the list. Man, okay. We won't do it then Lord of the Flies is okay. It's not my favorite book review. Book Review. I give it a let's see. What was my reading skill gonna be? Number of flies around the pig's head. Okay, spoiler alert. What else? Okay, okay. I'm reviewing a book. So I'm getting review out of fires
out of little fire fire bolts, you know? So I give it a six 6.6 6.7 fireballs out of 10 variables out of 10 fireball that set the island on fire No, that's a spoiler. It was an okay. Oh, no. You read the Lord of the Flies. Exactly. Now the the pig the pig is is on the cover of half of the versions of this book. Yeah, they're out there. So that's not a spoiler, but what you just said is a very, it's a major plot point. It's like the culmination of everything.
They're not gonna know they're not gonna know they'll forget once they're halfway through the book. Don't forget all about that part. Yeah. Oh, well. Bye Yes DARS radar it does it's it's not one of my my top 10 But it does cover some pretty pretty interesting topics that you can talk about. There's quite a few of the books on the list are a now I will say some of these are like not not things I would think that they would like recommend. Like there's a book on Chris Daughtry.
There's a book on Eminem singer, there's Eminem, but there's a Chris Brown book that might might be interesting. My grade Lexile in reading is 12.6 so there's no books in the library. There are my level the grade what? The grade point? You said Lexile. Oh, is that just what the scale they use or something? What is it called? Let me see. Okay, so yeah, this doesn't have accelerated reader level.
Yeah, that's right. Because you're your school. You're in middle school, but you're reading much higher than middle school. So you need to we need to start looking at those notes. You have to read off this look this list right? Yeah. So Miss Miss Mustard. said that. If I'm a high level I can just get like seven or eight level and above. I couldn't get anything below my grade level. There's plenty of entertaining books on here. Yeah, so Alright,
folks. Well, I think that's going to do it unless you had anything else you wanted to cover. Oh, I wanted to do we talked about the monsters already. Yeah, I think so. Okay, we enjoyed the monsters it was good. Maybe we'll have some more spooky stuff next week, obviously, because it'll be spooky time. Right before Halloween. And yeah, if you do have any good book recommendations for Lila drop us line mail FunFactFriday.com or you know just find find us
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