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Aquatic features. Until now. The natto vinader or the swimming Hunter was a long foot streamlined distant cousin of a velociraptor with a slender neck and a mouth filled with sharp teeth, leading to one of those scientists to call it a crustacean core more rant cormorant. Okay. If dinosaurs weren't real, they're bile logical forms would have certainly shown up in fantasy stories or as monsters or
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Sorry. Yeah. For all this staggering diversity. It seemed at one point the dinosaurs had been content never to get their feet wet, as no swimming or diving adaptations have ever been discovered in the fossil record. Then in 2017 How's the Koraput tour, a cool lie lay. A feathered theropod dinosaur was discovered in Mongolia, which had appeared to have some
adaptations for swimming. That fossil comparatively had comparatively similar features to certain waterfowl or even crocodilians, and a theory emerged that it could have been semi aquatic. There you go. That's my good news. So do you think dinosaurs were real? Yeah. Do you think that they lived 65 million years ago? Or do you think they'd been they were around closer to humans? I could do his whole silly speculation Saturday on dinosaurs they it's it's an interesting topic. Okay. Okay. Good.
I feel like we lived closer to when we were alive than we think. I think so too. Yeah, I don't think they were that far off. 65 million years ago. A lot. So answer bones. That's like more than 10 years. Yeah, that's it. That's That's before before like 2000 Before the year 2000. Which I mean, geez. 40,000 doesn't exist. Blueberry has 428 Dinosaurs at his house. He has informed me. And the government doesn't want you to know that the dinosaurs
in the pond to the park are free. You can just take them home. They don't belong to anybody. Know what else you can do that with? What? Nevermind. I was so refreshing. So you might hear up you. Here it is again. Yeah, yeah, like pre book one day. So I'm saying where you focus on days. Okay, so my two stories both involve the Grinch. Yeah, I mean, one and traffic laws. Ooh. I like both of those.
So the Grinch came early for an Arizona driver who tried to pass off an inflatable figure of Dr. Seuss's character, the Grinch as a passenger. They basically have what's called carpooling lanes that you can only drive in if you have multiple people in the car. It's to encourage people to carpool and save gas. Right? Smart. Yeah. Well, people have been known to use mannequins. have to you know, get around that. And apparently somebody
tried to use a Grinch. Grinch figure. Well, he had a photo of the Grinch figure with a driver's face blurred on the Twitter. Okay, okay, so there's a there's a photo linked in the article. We might get an extra pew here. I was refreshing the Hella pad because I thought it was messing up, but apparently it's not. Oh no, I have to. I have to hella pads open. So the other Grint story. A deputy dressed as the Grinch gives
onions to speeding drivers. This happened in Florida. AP reports several motorists who are speeding through an elementary school zone and Florida Keys Overseas Highway was called received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from the County Sheriff's Department dressed as a Grinch. Colonel Luke pudo. That totally sounds like a cop name. A 37 year old a
37 year veteran. Wow. That's a long career of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office who conjured up the concept more than 20 years ago when he was back on the streets, oh, no, he was back on the streets Tuesday. So he wasn't actually he's not a sheriff anymore, I guess. I don't know. The article is not super detailed. So yeah, he dressed up like the Grinch and was given them money and it catches them off guard. He says Oh, happy good. Oh, servo servo says he uses that to drive to
work the overseas keys. You know what the Florida Keys are? He said he said no carpool lanes. Oh, the carpool lanes. Okay, that makes more sense. Yeah. Do you know Do you know what the carp are on the carpool lanes? The Florida Keys are? No. off the end of like the end of Florida. You know, the tip of the bottom? Yeah, there's a bunch of little islands that extended down towards Cuba, Cuba. Those are the keys. Oh, we, me and your mom went to Key
West on our honeymoon. The crew stopped there. We went to a butterfly. Farm preserve, preserve. A butterfly house. It was it was a big it was a big building with a bunch of butterflies in it. Anyway, butterfly building butterfly building. But Keywest has lots of fun touristy stuff to do. So since we were tourists we partook servo so think you think is America's a fish too? Yeah. You got to speak more into the mic. Oh, my gosh, server thinks the Americas fish to America does
look a little bit. I've always thought of it as a fish. What have you thought of it as an America? It's its own thing. Dope like ours. So speaking of fish, Hanukkah. Yeah. Speaking of what do you what did you know about Hanukkah before we started looking into it tonight. I knew that there was this big thing they lit candles on and I knew that there was a dreidel that was the dreidel dreidel made of clay, you know, and you'd spin it as you wish. Yeah, I think
sorry, when I was your age. I didn't know much about it either. until Adam Sandler came out with a song, the Hanukkah song. It's a fun little song where he sings about Hanukkah. And it's pretty much the only Hanukkah song that I know of. There. There seems to be more in the pre stream before we started recording. We were listening to some Hanukkah music on YouTube. And it sounds like Christmas music. Hanukkah is they sell it's originally it was to celebrate a military, a Jewish
military victory. This is from Town and Country mag.com. The holiday commemorates the triumph of hey, what are you doing? Oh, you're doing the history. I'm sorry. We're professional. podcasters go for it. I might not know how to pronounce 90% of these words. It's okay. There's a big Torah words. There's a lot of noises.
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Hanukkah commemorates the Maccabean victories over the forces of the soul solicited King and futurists the fourth, a pit of a pit feigns epiphanies and the rededication of the temple on Kislev 25 141 64 BC II led by Matthews and his son Judas Maccabeus The Maccabees were the first Jews who fought to defend their religious beliefs rather
than their lives. According to one, or I Maccabees, a text of the Apocrypha, writings excluded from the Jewish canon, but included in the Roman Catholic and either or orthodox Old Testament cannons. Okay. Oops, I clicked on a link, and Theo just had invaded Judea, tried to humanize the Jews and desecrated the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Following the Jewish victory in a three year struggle against Ethiopia, and to just Judas
ordered the cleansing and restoration of the temple. After it was purified the new altar was installed and dedicated on key Kislev 25. Judas then proclaimed that the dedication of the resort temples should be celebrated every year for eight days beginning on that date. In two rack of us, the celebration is compared to the festival of soukous, the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Feast of Booths, which the Jews were unable to celebrate because of the infestation and anthias.
Hanukkah therefore emerged as a celebration of the dedication of the world itself suggests. And then has a cool Hanukkah lamp. What's a Hanukkah lamp called? Hanukkah, Hanukkah. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, okay. There's another paragraph. I gotta read. Okay, well cite what you're reading from. Since you're reading it word for word. This is britannica.com. Do you know what Britannica is? I've heard of it. It's an encyclopedia. Oh, cool. It's the printed version of
Wikipedia back in the day. Except not a wiki. Like they actually had people do research instead of just whoever knew about it writing so anyway, good. Although the traditional practice of lighting candles at Hanukkah was not established in the books of Maccabees. The custom most likely started relatively early. The practice is enshrined in the Talmud, which describes the miracle of
the oil in the temple. According to the Talmud, when Jews when Judas Maccabeus entered the temple, he found it he found only a small jar of oil that had not been defiled by Anthony Ochoa's. The jar contained only enough oil to burn for one day. But then miraculously, the oil burned for eight days until a new consecrated oil could be found. Establishing the pre
wrote the precedent. That festival should last eight days and the early day for the story, or at least, the practice of lighting eight candles is confirmed by the debate, or the first century CE scholars in all in Shami Hill and his school thought that only that one candle should be lit on the first night of Hanukkah, and one more each night of the festival, Shami GMI held that all eight candles should be lit the first night with the number decreasing by one each night thereafter.
You're like so, so much better at cold reads and I am. I stumble over my words. No, because the science books are terrible. Maybe they're just written badly, or seventh grade science books are not that good. Maybe their proofreaders aren't that great at making things flow. Also, there's typos every other word. So it is called a hunnu. Kya is like Hanukkah, except there's an eye in there. It's a type of menorah. And it's a candelabra. It's got nine candles, eight candles of the
same height and one sits apart. It is known as the shamash. Yeah, there's eight, there's four on each side and one in the middle, which is higher. And you can get all kinds of different different manures for for Hanukkah, there's all kinds of cool ones and silly ones and all that stuff. Servo says scientists are notoriously bad communicators. So what that reminds me of is the movie Office Space where this guy is about to get fired. And they're like, what is it? Would you say
that you actually do here? And he's like, Well, I I take the specifications from the customers and I give them to the engineers. It's like, well, couldn't the customers just give the specifications directly to the engineers? He's like, No, because engineers are bad with people. Anyway, that's that's a funny movie now because science books are so like, weird with the way that
they speak. Right? But what textbooks are generally not written to be like, read aloud, like you're supposed to, like, you know, kind of search for what you need them and, and whatnot. Also, our textbooks could not our English textbooks could not be more boring. They give you a text and your to answer three questions. Think about it, you have to answer and notations about it with the signposts and then you have to answer five questions about it on the last page and then make an essay
about it. And I'm like, that's really boring. So you you said that the textbooks could not be more boring. But I believe you talking about the textbooks is more boring. Oh. It's not that funny. hilarious, because I just slammed oh my gosh, that's funny. All right. So yeah, every night of Hanukkah, a menorah? The menorah is lit different candles lit after sundown. So did you know it's not? It's not? It wasn't originally a gift giving holiday. Did you know Yeah. There was well, I mean, it
was Christmas. Well, I know. But it's a tradition. It used to be tradition to give small amounts of money to one another. But that gets kind of silly because if everybody agreed, agrees to give like, you know, five money to each other, everybody's just handing everybody else the same amount of money back and forth. So and then Christmas became super popular in America and more American Jews was started giving gifts instead of cash money.
Do you want a brief summary of Hanukkah? Just read the whole thing. Give us the CliffsNotes notes. I so mean us. Like me, does that mean? Oh, in Judaism a holiday Oh. Oh, oops. In Hanukkah in Judaism, a holiday celebrating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem 164 BCE, after its desecration for three years earlier, by the order of Antonio just for epiphanies. The Maccabees led by just two days. I know I know the short version. We got the long version. We don't need that.
That's fine. Okay, we're going over. We're going over material twice in the same episode. That's not what professional podcasters do. The menorah is what the thing is called? Yeah, it's a menorah. Oh, okay. But the one used on in Hanukkah, specifically is called the Chi on Ukiah on a Ka a. Hu en No, no. Ha NUKIAH Just gonna just spell Hanukkah. No, because there's an eye on there. Hanukkah. There's two Ks and then ah, yeah. Hana. Kya. There's an eye between the keys
and the A. Oh, well, you didn't say that. I didn't know. I thought I did. Okay, I'll edit an eye in there later. Hold on. Let me get an eye. Isolated so I can edit it. i There we go. Okay, Hanukkah foods are fried for a reason. Oh, lot kiss. And Souf Gan new jelly doughnuts. Oh, apple fritters? What do you think of the food served in Hanukkah? Most of them are fried. This isn't a coincidence. People fry their food and oil for Hanukkah as a symbol for the miracle oil that burned for
eight nights straight. There you go. Fried food because the magic oil. How do they keep the candles burning? Days? Wait, what do you mean? Oh, like modern candles? So I just got a pop up ad. Don't miss a Jewish moment. Don't miss. Don't miss a Jewish moment. Get my Jewish learning in your inbox. There you go. What do you it's me? Well, no, it's my Jewish learning.com They're just trying to get you to sign up for the newsletter. Yeah. All right. So
close that. Yeah. What were you saying? Want to be Jewish? Alright. Anyways, I'm just looking at this to see if there's any more stuff that we hadn't said. At dinner, whoo. Hanukkah. Don't play an ad to play now. Yes, this is our mid roll ad. Most of our ads get eaten by the pie hole. Yeah. And we use brave so we don't get ads. So yeah, Hanukkah is not the most important Jewish holiday
isn't Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur war and Passover are much more significant in the religion, kind of like in Christianity, Easter is really the more important it's not as hyped up because the they've built a whole commercial industry around Christmas and less so around Easter. But Easter is a more significant holiday in Christianity. What Are you looking up? dreidels? Yeah. Do you want dreidel tradition? Do you want to dreidel for Christmas? Oh, I wouldn't mind a
drain all the cool looking one. Yeah, it was on my little. I've got a I've got a thing with a bunch of cool stuff on it like Dragonball Z stuff nick the rat stuff. So colorful. Got Lego up there got some decks of cards. Okay, so dreidel dreidel game is one of the most famous Hanukkah traditions It was created as a way for Jews to study the Torah. The first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Christians call these the Old Testament. It was also a way to learn Hebrew, the
language spoken by the Jewish people. They had to do this in secret after Greek king Antonio's just the fourth had outlawed all Jewish religion, religious worship in fifth one 175 BC. I'm bad at reading numbers. This is a known fact. So they they used it when they weren't supposed to be doing any Jewish religious worship. They would like have the dreidels and they would teach things from the Torah using the dreidel game. as kind of like, you know, the they kick the doors open. They're
like, Oh, y'all learned about the Torah. He's like, No, we're just playing with these little little spinny tall sayings. That's what we're doing so we can be cut out. We just like spinning these little things around. That's all we're doing. Yeah, make your own. Okay, so. Oh, wait, explain what your what's your I'm having enlightenment right now. Okay. I will explain it as you go instead of just, you know, I'm just going Yeah. Okay. So I just was looking at the printout
thing. And it has just the symbols and Hebrew and it says, like the pronunciations and what they mean, or below it, and you just like spin it, of course. But underneath it, it says do nothing. Take everything take half or put one in. So what do you use? As like the rewards like Eminem? Eminem seem holy. You could do anyone's kosher. I don't know. There's an ISO or Eminem's kosher? Yes, okay. There are kosher. They I know a lot of the bigger companies have kosher versions of things like
Oreos recently got kosher. And we're not wondering, do you know what kosher means? It means blessed by a rabbi with a yeah, there's there's different rules for things to be kosher. And there's like this whole list of how things have to be prepared and and all that but you can't just be like, Oh, this is kosher, you know. And, on the four sides of the dreidel appear four letters from the Hebrew alphabet, nun, gimel, hay and shin. Together, non
gimel. Hay and Shin translate to a great miracle happen. There we go. That's neat. And then there's a how to play and be sure to leave that tab open so we can put it in the show notes. I kinda want to look at that a little later. This is from a CBC kids. Saifullah cookies. Oh, there's there's an ad playing. Oh, no, that's just a video. Video of the article. Okay. Yeah, more and more sites are doing that, like I go to read an article. And instead of
an article, there's just a video. And it's not even like a good video, just stock images with the article on the screen. And I'm like that. That's really dumb from a bandwidth perspective, because you're serving video, which, you know, is a huge file versus just having text on a page. I'm like, don't get it. Don't get it. No, non-kosher Brown m&ms backstage. Okay, there's a there's Okay. In in showbusiness, there's a I don't remember who it was. Maybe boo can can give us a little
more info I've forgotten. But there's some of the artists that go on tour have weird demands. So they're like, I want you know, a jar of red m&ms. And my only red m&ms So that's what he says that no, no. Non kosher brown m&ms backstage can Galen Hmm Can Galen artist gallon cam I don't know. It's not on it was my mechanical keyboard. Van Halen can Galen van Why did I not get I'm like Ken Galan, what is that? Van Halen Oh see, see, man, we gotta we We can still do t shirts right?
Yeah we need a Ken Galan shirt where it's just like a very slightly off where we need to do just smell Smash Mouth guys the Smash bells guys is Ken gala that's a picture of Smash Mouth with Ken gala holding up a jar of m&ms brown brown m&ms and it has the little kosher you crossed out. Oh my gosh. I am. Wait, no sir. Who said that? Who said we're going to completely forget this. As soon as we stopped recording. We gotta write it down. I have a full thing of sharpies here but none of them work.
I've got two pens in my pocket. One of those stand up to get them out of the pocket because it's a deep bucket. Okay. Oh, there's no wrong way to spell Hanukkah is there? You may have seen it spelled like Hanukkah, Hanukkah or Hanukkah. The list goes on. The most common version is Hanukkah, but all of the spelling's are actually accurate. Wow. So descriptive, because there's no correct way to directly translate the Hebrew sounds to English. But it could be spelled a variety of
different ways each equally correct. Oh, I can just spell it however I want. Now, just like you misspelled that be like, no. This was me. We're in science class. Today, we're talking about alleles, which I hate. And they're stupid and dumb, but alleles where it was like a capital T and a lowercase t, but everyone was just reading it as T T. And I was like, can you just can you read it as a capital t, lowercase t? Well, it's like because, like, go ahead. We don't know if it's how
you say it. homozygous or heterozygous. If you just say TT, or BB, instead of capital B, lowercase b or capital B, capital B or lowercase letter, lowercase and lowercase b. So Leila, do you remember earlier when I made fun of you for being boring about talking to you about your textbook saying that it was the most boring thing ever? Think probably you talking about alleles. alleles they're so stupid. Okay. All right, this, this could be post show stuff. All right. So
before we go off on an allele tangent, again. Yeah, so the food always looks really good. On all the pictures, I've seen a big, big Hanukkah festivals and get togethers and festival food. There's there's a lot of different traditions around the world. Like in North Africa, North African communities, they hang the menorah in the doorway. Which is best tradition. Yeah, it's sort of a Leila's alleles hate alleles are so stupid. They don't exist.
And finally for me and my Hanukkah facts. Hanukkah is not deserved, not deserved, not observed on the same day, same days, every year. I'm a professional broadcaster. It like this year, it's begins. Sundown on the 18th and ends on the 26th. The Hanukkah is observed. According to the Jewish calendar. It starts on the 25th day of Questlove Kislev not sure how to pronounce that, which corresponds to a different
date on the Western calendar. So their calendar is different so it falls on different days each year. Do they have a Hanukkah ZIF? Hanukkah is Eve. Yeah, we're not not really I don't think so. I think you just since it's eight days already adding an extra day on there would just be a little ridiculous. Yeah. Oh boy. So do you have any more Hanukkah facts for us? Nope. Saying we said enough. We have a lot of Hanukkah. Team Omaha sent us a fantastic
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