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Episode 142 - Nursery Rhymes!

Jun 09, 2023Ep. 142
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Leila

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David

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David

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Leila

nursery rhymes. But first.

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1912 being the year that Oreo was invented. Here's a fun fact for you. And we also received another monthly sustaining donation of $10. From Steven grime. Oh, one of our longest waiting for ever. Thank you so much, Steven. The monthly sustaining donations where we some of it goes straight to Leila her show with Leila and David just a producer. You know what we haven't figured it out. I know we haven't done the

spreadsheet for this month. But actually that helped that pays for the the server costs and helping us upgrade some equipment. I'm about to have to go buy a new laptop because I refurbished the arena refurbished I reformatted this one I did everything I can do and it's just not. It's just not up to par anymore. And my hobbies can't handle what I'm doing. Then you spend some on your hobbies,

Leila

like the portion of $2 that I get to go to the servers.

David

No

Leila

more than that, but yeah, I mean, it's a joke. Okay. Anyways, dad. Yes. Did you know that Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall?

David

Oh, tell me more.

Leila

Well, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Oh, no. And All the king's horses and all the king's men.

David

Ah, do they fix them? They they get to them and fix them.

Leila

They couldn't put Humpty together again.

David

Well, that's. That's not that's not very fun.

Leila

It's not really nowhere in there. Does it say? Dumpty? Humpty was an egg. That yeah, he was just dude.

David

I know, fell off a wall. I know. But why

Leila

does everybody think he was an egg and all the king's men? Were like, oh, no, dude, let's try and put it back together. They were crazy. They were crazy trying to pull up dead man mega Taylor.

David

What? So? What Okay, so here's the thing. Why?

Leila

I have a solution.

David

Okay, so yeah, so every representation of Humpty Dumpty I've ever seen. It was Eggman right Dr. Eggman? Right, like Dr. Eggman from vector from Sonic. Gotta go fast like Sonic.

Leila

I love Eggman he's my favourite.

David

So, alright, so, so late on me why, why is he an egg in popular culture?

Leila

So it was originally like a riddle. Instead of a nursery rhyme. Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme. Probably originally a riddle, said probably. This is this is a loser article. This is Wikipedia. This is not a credible source. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg. Though he is not explicitly described as such, as I'm

saying. The first recorded recorded recorded versions of the rhyme date from late 18th century England, and the tune from 1870 in James William Eliot's national Nursery Rhymes and nursery songs. Its origins are obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. So this doesn't say, let me go back To the thing that I was looking at to for the solution, but the thing that I was looking at said that it was originally a riddle. meaning for you to figure out

why he fell apart. I'm just saying he fell from a big wall.

David

Well, yeah, like Okay, so the the version that I've always seen as he's sitting on a big old brick wall, being an egg, and he's got some little pantaloons on and typically has some kind of hat, and some jester shoes, and yeah, or something like that. And then he had his he has a great fall, and he falls off the wall, and shatters into a bunch of pieces

like an egg would do. And then the Aesop's really animated kings, Kingsman and on their horses came in and the horses were like trying to put them back together with their with their hooves, and they can't pick anything up, you know? And that tried to put the egg back together. And they couldn't. It was sad, but it wasn't like horrific. Like it would be just a person you know.

Leila

Okay, so the origins The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's juvenile amusements in 1797. Okay, with the lyrics Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had to re fall for score men and Foursquare more could not make Humpty Dumpty like he was before. So that's even more confusing. Oh, no,

David

see, that's less bad. It's less bad because it doesn't say because it could have just broke his leg. Yeah. Or just hurt. Understood. No. Yeah, he hit his head and wasn't quite the same, you know, mentally. So at least he didn't like shatter like the one implies, you know.

Leila

Oh, wait, but this one says humpty dumpty sat state on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Three score, man. Oh, three score more. cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before.

David

So where did the where the horses come from? Where

Leila

do you guys go? And where the horses come from? Yeah,

David

so a lot of well, they didn't write a lot of stuff back back in the day. They didn't write it all down, you know? So it was probably word of mouth. And the guy who told that one forgot about it was four. And he just said three, because it doesn't really matter how many it is because that's not the part that rhymes.

Leila

So this is a picture from 1902. And the Mother Goose storybook by WW when Denslow I said 1902? No, yeah. 92. And it just says the riddle, and then it says in parentheses in the egg, like you would see on a riddle. So I believe that its origins were rooted in being a riddle.

David

Okay, so it may be some teacher came up with it, like, oh, maybe they're doing that experiment where they have the egg and they have to drop it and not break it. And the teacher like put it to them like that. I don't know. This is all speculation. This should be on Silly.

Leila

Silly speculation. So do you go ahead. Yeah. I can't really find any hard evidence.

David

Do you know anything about Jack and Jill?

Leila

Yeah, they sustain head injuries.

David

Okay. Okay. So, Jack and Jill. They they went up a hill. Oh, it was to fetch a pail of water.

Leila

You gotta get that water.

David

Jack fell down. Oh, no. And he broke his crown.

Leila

He was Royal.

David

Apparently. Jill came tumbling after. Oops. No, you may have you may have heard this part before right. Well, Jack, did you know that there's more? There's more. There's more than Jack got up. And home that trot. Nope. Sorry. I said it wrong. Then Jack. Then Up Jack got and home did trot. Just as fast as he could caper. Dame Gil did the job to plaster his knob With vinegar and brown paper. So she put a cast on him. Neat. Sure. And then there's more than Jill came in. And she did grin to see

Jack's paper plaster. Her mother whipped her across her knee for laughing at Jack's disaster. Oh no. This made Jill pout and she ran out. And Jack did quickly follow. They wrote they wrote a dog ball. Jill got a fall. How Jack did laugh and Hulu Hulu Hulu H A L oh

Leila

man, these regulars man they keep making a word

David

I've never heard At anything past the first page yeah the for Jack Fulton and Joe came total and after like I had never heard now that says Jack and Jill so the other one says the hobby horse so I think it's all part of the same story but the the one with Dame Gil did the job, you know With vinegar and brown paper. I think that's actually a separate nursery rhyme may be called the hobby horse. And then there's Dame Gill, where mom whipped jello across her knee and I don't know

what dog ball is. And they Road Dog ball maybe the dog ball is the name because it's capitalised ball is the name.

Leila

Just kidding. nazzer whole bunch of balls for dogs. Like those little tennis balls. So what what is okay, what makes stupid computer? What is dog? Plus you

David

had a cough there. I feel like I muted it, but I'm sure you could hear it in the background from Leila's mic.

Leila

Yeah, because you leaned over to my mic to do it.

David

You were like we were like five foot apart my mind. Oh, boy. Apparently we laughed a whole lot on last episode for a few minutes. And we got some compliments on that set of my pancreas. Oh, my pancreas.

Leila

So it was fun. Yeah, I think we laughed a bit over Newton's

David

so what was the other one?

Leila

I don't know what dog Paul is.

David

I don't know. I think I really genuinely think that it's just the dog's name.

Leila

They rode the dog is a sturdy dog.

David

Well, I mean, if they're little kids, I used to ride our dog Madison. She was huge. Alright, you ready for this one? Sure. And then I'll go into the history of a little bit. Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get poor dog a bone to give the poor dog a bone. When she came there, the cupboard was bare. And so the poor dog had none. She went to the Baker's to buy some bread. When she came back. She thought he was dead. She went to the joiners to buy him a coffin. And

when she came back, the dog began laughing. Laughing he was laughing. I said that funny because of the room environment with coffin. She went to the tavern for white and red for white wine and red. When she came back. He stood on his head.

Leila

Me in gymnastics.

David

She went to the fishmongers to buy him some fish. When she got back. He was licking the dish when she went or she went to the Ale House to buy him some beer. And when she came back, he sat in a chair. She went here she went. She went to the fruit errs, to buy some fruit, the fruit herbs I guess. Okay. When she came back, he was playing the flute. She went to the shoe mart to buy him some shoes. And when she came back, he sat reading the news. These are fantastic. Just the imagery.

Really, you know, you can see it. So yeah, nursery rhymes and versus chants poems. Basically, it's things just amuse kids, and sue them. And it's fun, little, little, fun little rhyming stories, and Dr. Seuss kind of got in on the action, which it wasn't so much nursery rhymes, but it rhymed. And it was for kids. So it kinda kind of kind of was a form of nursery rhyme just wasn't as old as all of these. And it's just meant for amusement. Good fun stuff. They started coming out in the Hold

on, hold on. Technical difficulties. 13th century that's what I'm seeing. And that was the oral tradition. You know, they just handed them down, just little sayings that get passed out. It's kind of like certain things get passed down like that Super s. You know, where you draw the six lines and then connect

Leila

them. And then really old by the way, that's like a really old thing.

David

Yeah, the super essence super old hieroglyphics. Yeah. The Egyptians were doing the Super s.

Leila

They were bored and math.

David

Oh, well, I think I was. I was probably in second grade. Yeah, yeah. The second grade the first time I saw the Super s. And I was like, Oh my gosh, and then somebody showed me Look, it's super easy to draw. And I'm like, Why? Because it was all you remember.

Leila

For that,

David

I remember all kinds of stuff.

Leila

Your pancreas My stomach hurts so bad. Oh no, I don't know what it is. So

David

you ate? You ate Culvers twice today. That might be kind of greasy. Do you need me to pause recording?

Leila

Okay, okay.

David

I lost the cluster. Oh, let's see oral traditions are Nursery Rhymes and ancient but new verses have steadily entered the stream of French poem numbering the days of the month, similar to 30, half 30 days have September, was recorded in the 13th century. But such late comers is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. All right. You're ready for this? Yeah. You say you're ready. I'm ready wasn't ready. Your mic just completely came off. I'll mute it so you can put it back up there. And

I'll tell you about it. Alright, so we're having technical difficulties tonight. Twinkle twinkle little star is the same tune as the ABC song.

Leila

Yep, g h, i j, k LMNOP. QRS, t, u, v, w, x, y and z. All right, so

David

that's too fast of a tempo. Let's go with a lighter tempo and I'll sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Respectfully sorry, you. Okay, so I'll do Twinkle twinkle little star you do ABC? Oh, my mics do. Okay. Just

Leila

I'm gonna hold my mic. It doesn't matter. Okay, all right. We're going back into the olden times, holding

David

them like Alright, ready?

Leila

Hold the mic. A B, C, D.

David

Star. J K

Leila

my pancreas. Okay.

David

I don't know whether your stomach hurts. So I'm allergic

Leila

to some are some. But yeah, my mic is now on the table.

David

We pause the recording. Yes, the live you gotta hear all kinds of fun noises. Sorry about the risk screw

Leila

in the struggling noises that he made.

David

Okay, so some of the oldest Nursery Rhymes were like babies games, and like it was teaching words that rhyme or whatnot like this. This is tough to say. Handy dandy. Handy dandy prickly Pandy which hand will you Adler's? It's like any meenie miney moe sort of thing. Handy dandy prickly Pandy. Which hand will you have? You know, it's like back and forth with the pointing at somebody. And then we'll waddle and we'll Chelm handle open wound.

Leila

Sounds like saying this the

David

German the German equivalent window waddle in William channel over EU.

Leila

I was trying to learn German for a little while and I just couldn't it is it is tough, man.

David

It's a it sounds so angry. Not

Leila

like Russian. Russian just sounds like annoyed.

David

Right? That Yeah, so there's all these old little things that count as nursery rhymes. there yeah, here we go. London Bridge is falling down. It's more of a singing thing. And then there's Humpty Dumpty, which is considered a riddle rhyme like you were talking about? Yeah. Loves the frog who would go a wooing a wooing go? What?

Leila

That's one of the original nursery rhymes that were originally made for adult entertainment instead of kids. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh, I'm trying to kind of zoom out because I accidentally zoomed in and it's not going to zoom out. Oh, no. It's gonna deal with it.

David

So the earliest known publisher of nursery rhymes was Tommy thumbs pretty song book. Second volume. So I guess the first volume had other songs in it. Include included little Tom Tucker sing a song and sixpence. Who say most influential Yeah. So mother goose's melody, or sonnets for the cradle was published by firm John Newbery and 1781 almost said 1981 1781 Among its 51 Rhymes where Jack and Jill ding dong bell, hush a bye bye baby a top on the tree top. Hush a bye, baby, baby.

That was horrible. Not your rendition of it. Thanks a song itself. There's a bye baby threw me off because was Rockabye baby?

Leila

Yeah rock baby.

David

Yeah, it sounded weird. I was like I should buy. That's not right. That's puppies. Yummy. The the addition was reprinted in 1785 and America Isaiah Thomas. Its popularity is attested by the fact that the verses still commonly called Mother goose's rhymes. And the United States

Leila

Nursery Rhymes are educational. Sorry, you haven't said a fact in a little while my fact site was terrible.

David

And her laptop is, it's dying both of our laptops very

Leila

best buy today just to browse?

David

Yeah, and let me tell you, let me tell you, some laptops, they have, either. And this is the sound goes, they have either complete garbage laptops that are like a good price, a decent price $150 $200. And then it jumps all the way up to

Leila

a decent laptop with good to use.

David

Well, on the high end of decent towards actually a really good laptop. But it jumps like there's like a $500 jump in between one tear in the next year at our local Best Buy. So we're gonna do that. We're gonna look online to find some laptops don't

Leila

use my laptop for many things. And you do. Low quality one.

David

Yeah, get you? Like, a new, low quality won't be fine for you. Yeah, it doesn't have to have any, like, video editing capabilities or anything.

Leila

Yeah, cuz I don't use it for that. I mean, occasionally, I'll like,

David

Yeah, but you've got a computer for that stuff. Yeah, you gotta use what you're gonna be mainly using it for is out here because you've left that laptop out here in the studio for Yeah,

Leila

I don't know, laptop. I use my computer. Yeah, so.

David

But I want to have a good, a good workstation style laptop out here. And I'm looking around, you know, so if you have any suggestions, let me know we're looking for bang for the buck. Because you know, you want to, that's what you always want to look for. I don't I don't want to go all out and spend five grand on a laptop, but I want something that I can actually do a little work on.

Leila

So when we looked at nursery rhymes improve children's speech. Oh, yeah. And I honestly can vouch for this too, because I'm, I know a whole bunch of nursery rhymes by heart, and haven't heard them in like eight years. And somehow I know them.

David

That's how they do. And it's like songs or songs are the same way I can their songs. Well, you've seen it. I'm like, Oh, I haven't heard the song in 15 years. And I know every word of it exactly. And how it goes and everything in that, oh, hey, doors, radar, radars and chat. We're live right now. We do live either Thursday or Friday nights. We're not sure. Normally just you can keep up with us on Twitter. I'm gonna start posting it to the website also, I think.

Leila

So basically, as I was saying, I'm sorry. Teachers in elementary school used to teach us how to vocabulary eyes. And they would teach us like little tricks. Like, a comes after II but only on a full moon overfilled you know, and then I makes the eye noise or the ear or the E. Or sometimes it's silent. You know, English.

David

It's kind of funky.

Leila

The only letter that isn't silent is V.

David

So V is never silent.

Leila

Not in most, most. Ah, Trump made up a word one time. And it was silent in that call. Yeah, I think that was actually a Vsauce made a video a little short about it. It's about a book called P is for pterodactyl. And we actually got it for a friend's kid one time. Oh, yeah. Remember? It was a it's a great book. But it's terrible for learning. Yeah, cuz. Yeah. Every letter there's a word with a silent in it.

David

Yeah, that was fun. Yeah. It's really fun. It's fun, fun, fun.

Leila

Bing.

David

I moved the mic a little too close to myself there. There we go. It was too far away. But I overcompensated. We're still we're still working on the studio getting it exactly how we want it. And, you know, like I said, technical difficulties tonight. Thanks for bearing with us.

Leila

Is what ABCDEFG be considered a nursery rhyme?

David

Um, I guess because it rhymes. Right? Well, I use that every day mostly rhyme. Yeah, I can't remember I'm in my mid 30s. And I remember and I still have to do the LMNOP QRS. Okay. Yeah. The bar that messes me up that I can never like visualise without doing the rhyme is the very middle, right? No, no, it's towards the end. Yeah, the middle in the end, I have to go like to UV WX okay. Like, normally I have to start like, sorry, I'm gonna weird, like pee at the start at p LMNOP. It's

all one letter. Why no LMNOP LRP. But I have to start PQ, QRS T. XYZ. So and yeah, I've used it as a crutch my whole life I've never taken the time to go off.

Leila

And our or my hardest ones. I can never figure out where they are. Yeah, they're just in there somewhere.

David

Oh, no. Oh, no, I'm gonna most everything I run. I run everything on a remote desktop here and I minimise to the entire the entire thing. Whoopsie whoopsie.

Leila

So nursery rhymes, I think are like great for everything. Apparently, according to this website, it says let's see what the claim.

David

Oh, let's see what the claim was. It was the claim. All right, let's

Leila

go to the very top. Numero one. Nursery Rhymes are educational as proven by research on Nursery Rhymes improve children's speech. nursery rhymes grow the number of words kids know. That's a weird way of saying it. Nursery Rhymes can be used to teach the alphabet. Nursery Rhyme can develop reading and writing skills. Nursery Rhymes helped develop communication skills. Nursery Rhymes to improve children's listening skills which I kind of get that one.

They help get most of these Yeah, I am. Most of them help develop kids thinking ability? Not really. But I guess so. Nursery Rhymes enhance kids physical develop what? That's crazy. Physical development. What exactly is promotes coordination balance, physical strength and gross motor skills such as sitting, standing, skipping, running, dancing, jumping and hopping. Why is it gross motor?

David

Okay, so maybe they're talking about like, doing the nursery rhymes like a patty cake. Ring around the rosie

Leila

usually accompanies two children copying each other's hands. There's a rhyme gross motor skills involved in control of muscles in the arms, legs and torso.

David

Okay, so they're talking about the things where you actually have a action associated with the the rhyme. Like, did you ever do Ring around the rosie?

Leila

I steal the Ring around the rosie my man.

David

Did you ever do Red Rover? No, you've never heard of it. I've never played Red Rover. You've told me about it. Yeah. So like, if you're not, if you're unfamiliar with it, you have two lines of people. And they're holding hands. Nice and tight, right. And they're like forming like a wall. And you'd say and it's actually a really good way to learn your classmates names and have a little physical activity at the

same time. So like, like, we're like a five, eight people long wall and there's another five or eight people long wall across the field. And you'd say Red Rover Red Rover, send Leila right over. And then that that line would break their chain. And then close up and Leila would run as fast as she could and try and break through our wall by breaking. You know, like we're holding hands. She tried to run between us and make us lose our grip and get through the wall. If you get through the

wall. I can't remember the rules, but basically, whichever line ends up with nobody in it, when like loses, so like they'd send over Leila. If she breaks the wall. She gets to go back or gets to join that wall or something. I don't remember. I don't remember. We could look it up. But you know, I don't think I'm ever gonna play it again. To be honest. I don't think Yeah, yeah, I don't really have any contact sports or anything in PE

or anything. Do you? We actually come in contact with the other kids

Leila

gymnastics with despite each other. Oh, yeah, I guess that's also we do kickball we kind of tackled each other in kickball. Yeah, we aggressive man. We did. We don't want to do full field suicides. So like tackle each other to get the ball on each other. Competitive

David

running back and forth. field with a certain motions. Yeah, it's terrible. So but yeah, there's that and then the Ring around the rosie is you know going around the pole holding hands kind of like skipping sideways. Oh my gosh. Did you see the video of the adults trying to remember how to skip? Yes. Y'all go out and looked at. It was pretty funny. People were doing the adult skipping challenge.

Leila

I still skip.

David

I don't get my body doesn't like making that motion anymore. It's a way like I said I'm in my I'm in my mid 30s I can tell go older. Because I keep I keep losing the chat room because I've got only got the one screen right now.

Leila

gross motor skills,

David

gross motor skills like picking your nose skills, picking your nose stuff like that dig in your ear. You

Leila

called

David

Are you Google it? Yeah. Sorry moto. Brave searching it.

Leila

This is Firefox. Oh, I don't have brave and brave on here. Gross. I wonder why it's called I wonder the etymology.

David

I don't know. Let's do some investigative journalism because it's not really journalism. It's just looking stuff up.

Leila

It can be journalism, or documenting it define

David

gross motor

Leila

skills, large muscle movements, which are not precise and includes many fundamental movement patterns.

David

The child development.com.com.au So this is from Australia. So take it, take it for, you know, that's, you know, gross motor skills are those which require whole body movement and which involve large core stabilising muscles of the body to perform everyday tasks.

Leila

I think they're mainly gross motor skills are just things that babies have to learn how to do. Yeah, like standing up walking. Discovering they have feet Rubik's Cube. doing push ups. Gotta get them sigma grind sets. Gotta your burpees You gotta do your burpees when you're three months old.

David

Don't forget leg day,

Leila

over good leg day. My eight year old child

David

like it was when I was doing weightlifting in high school, there was no such thing as forgetting any given day. Like we had to do the whole the whole nine

Leila

yards and then the whole gym. We have a bench press thing behind the stage who have seen it before. Oh, I don't know why

David

we also have one.

Leila

Oh, yeah, we do. But it's not like the bar for it. Yeah,

David

we don't we use it for but that wasn't drama

Leila

rehearsal. We were all buying the curtain. Now I guess. Yes. And we were just like trying to lift the weight. It was super just the bar for like two pounds.

David

Okay. Standard. Back when I was doing it in our high school gym, which was a very old so I don't know if this is still the standard, but the bar itself weighed 45 pounds. Geez. So Well, I mean, it has to be really heavy metal to be able to stay straight while holding them

Leila

rather than 45 pounds. It was pretty light. Like comparatively, but I was also laying down and doing it.

David

Yeah, it was 45 pounds for the bar so much. The plates on we wiped it down after every use. Antibacterial little crusties hanging off. rusted up little metal spikes sticking out. Like it was sweating. The old the old middle school benchpress death trap behind the stage that we've never used. Tetanus mana on a bench.

Leila

Real? I think that's all I have.

David

That's all you got for nursery rhymes. We just kind of Yeah, it's kind of kind of we're spitting them out. Yeah, yeah, grazing the surface there. Yeah, the Humpty Dumpty thing has always bothered me why it was converted to an egg and I guess the put them back together again. You know, somebody was just having fun with that idea and

Leila

published it, you know, or why don't you make it more amortisable? Yeah, yeah. And make it you don't want to get demonetised on YouTube?

David

I mean, did we look up? Why is Humpty Dumpty portrayed as an egg?

Leila

Did you Yes, I looked that up. That's what I was talking about.

David

What you Okay, so that's exactly what you looked up. Yes.

Leila

I didn't use big man words. I said, Why is Humpty Dumpty always an egg?

David

Oh, it's from Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Leila

No, it's not. No it was came out in like 2019

David

Oh, no, sweetie, it came out in 1904. Okay, so Humpty Dumpty. According to Wikipedia, Humpty Dumpty is a character and an early in an English nursery rhyme. Probably originally a riddle. And one of the best known English speaking in the world, Humpty Dumpty. Okay, you're looking at Alice Through the Looking Glass I was talking about through the looking glass.

Leila

So, okay, so this is you looking? Yeah, I

David

know. But that was part of just let me finish. Let me finish. Okay, so you read the first part of the Wikipedia, right? Yes, he didn't continue down.

Leila

Further I did I get the

David

score. You got the I did all the king's lyrics and melody score. What I hate Okay, so this laptop when you want to scroll down you have to push

Leila

up on the you know I can take the laptop for you.

David

Do you like this laptop? Yeah like okay so adaptations so in Humpty Dumpty these are Louis the Carol's through the looking glass, which was an Alice story. Humpty Dumpty also makes an appearance. Alice remarks that Humpty is exactly like an egg, which Humpty finds to be very provoking in the LookingGlass world. Alice clarifies that she said he looks like an egg not that he is one.

Leila

So it came out in 1871 1906

David

Just calm down,

Leila

calm, just making sure

David

we don't get factcheck fall through the looking glass came out in night in 1871. That's what I said. dins Lowe's Humpty Dumpty? adapted and illustrated by WW den Lo. Yep, that came out in 1904. Nope, that's an illustration from 1904. It was published in 1797,

Leila

nicknamed the

David

nursery, but the illustration of him as an egg came out in 1904. Probably after reading through the looking glass where Alice said he looked like an egg.

Leila

1704 1604 What are you going to do? In 1504 1104?

David

Okay, so AJ learner suggested the Carol's Humpty Dumpty had ProShow prosopagnosia on the basic processing process on the basis of his description of finding faces hard to recognise. Yeah. Oh, I heard that. I did a whole thing on that. Already. Dumpty said mine. My name means the shape I am.

Leila

Humpty Dumpty got Dumpty. Like a dumpling. Oh my gosh, the yummy

David

the face is one that goes by generally Alice remark we're gonna thoughtful tone. That's just what I complain of, said Humpty Dumpty. Your face is the same as everyone has. It has two are the two eyes, marking the places in the air with his thumbs. The nose in the middle of the mouth under it's always the same. Now, if you had two eyes, on the same side of the nose, for instance, or a mouth up at the top, that would be

some help. So Humpty Dumpty in through the looking glass had ProShow prosopagnosia, prosopagnosia, prosopagnosia. Careful. All right, so Mystery. More muddled, and confusing, not solved.

Leila

So I could go on a whole rant about prosopagnosia. Okay, I could, but I'm not.

David

Your mother send a text said stop fighting. But we're fighting you to y'all.

Leila

Just know that. This dude has it. I don't know what his name is. I forgot your name. Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt has prosopagnosia? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Huh. And it basically it makes it really hard to recognise people's faces. And it makes them just look like a little blur. It can be different for everyone.

David

We had a family member with it cool. I can't remember it was some someone I never met you know, but said that he he would know people you know a by how they talked. But how they how they carried themselves and how they walked was a big indicator of how he picked out people like in a crowd or, or whatever.

Leila

You know, people with prosopagnosia can see faces but have a hard time recognising their identities.

David

Right, right. There's just it's like me with names. It's not the names get completely jumbled up in my head. I forget them. I get a mixed up. I'm terrible with it. And it's very bad when you work with like a lot of people. It's kind of bad when you're like, hey, you how you doing? It's like I've worked with you for a year. You just don't know my name. I was like, I've known it before you because you've told it to me a bunch and it's Sally right there on your desk. Hey,

Sally. And I remember everything about this person. I know everything about this person. I can't remember their name.

Leila

It's like an episode of Gumball. Where Gumball Gumball, trying to find their neighbor's name. And they tried so hard. And then no neighbor's name. It wasn't Mr. Robinson, but it was the other one. Oh, no. I forgot

David

to start the story that you can't remember the letter. All right. Well, I think we've I think we've kind of exhausted this topic for tonight.

Leila

Talking about prosopagnosia. You never

David

know what's gonna happen in this show. We are crazy because we're professional. podcasters podcasters God, Pastor story. calm face blindness. Yeah, that's what that's the that's the regular people term for it. Regular people lol. All right, folks. Well, y'all have a fantastic week. Let's listen to Kyle and his his being louder than the music knus Finally, after what a year, year and a half about. Yeah, we'll see y'all next week.

Leila

Bye.

David

Hey, Kyle. Hey, Kyle. Don't forget to turn that mic up before you start talking. All right. There you go.

Kyle

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