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Got more stuff to talk about a little, a little beginning of the show banter. As as they do, you know sometimes. So we're in the new we're on. We're not in. We're in the studio. We've been in the studio for a couple of weeks. But we're on the south side of the studio. It's so large that we have a north and a south way. humongous. It is upwards of 16 feet by 10 feet. So now that we're on the south side, it's a whole different feel a whole different sound. And
it's too quiet. It's way too I hate it is it's
we've got we've got we've been putting up more sound treatment. We've been getting it more studio ish.
But yeah, duteous as one would say.
So. Yeah, well, we're talking about hexagons. But before we get talking about hexagon let's talk about your teeth.
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so my teeth.
Okay, so we we got a message from PayPal this morning. Two of our normal monthly donors or don't support donations did not go through correctly. I don't know if PayPal is having some issue but we'll talk about that next week. If it resolves doesn't resolve or whatever, but be sure and if you've got a recurring donation sometimes you do have to go and check it on Pay Pal to make sure things are are correct with it. So yeah, so Leila went to the dentist and she's going to tell you about it.
It wasn't the dentist. It wasn't my teeth. It was my gums but mouth, you know, same thing. It's too quiet in here. The front of my mouth. I have a little muscle that connects my gum line to my lip in a cup a little muscle and sewed it all up. And in the bottom they do the same thing and then they put a gum graft over it. So my gums would stop receding but the surgery went great. They did a good job. But and this is a big but the amnesia and
I'm sorry, sorry. I thought you misspoke
Anastasia and the amnesia meds didn't work. So I was very awake and remember everything
and whose fault is that? Okay, it's yours. It's my fault. It's the genes. My family has a there was the gene that makes you resistant to anesthesia
do the opposite thing makes it makes me like your senses more heightened.
Yeah. What she said thought it might be an issue. This is the first time we last had anesthesia. So when we
purposefully pushed it back until they are were allowed to do it when I was 13. Vote, it just ended up not working. So I could have just done it without we thought.
We thought maybe it would skip the generation and it did not. It really it's no good because I've had before to the anesthesia twice. And it didn't it didn't work either time. Long stories, but yeah, it wasn't pleasant, being awake during certain medical procedures. So, but we won't go any further into that. But Lila's voice is almost back to normal.
I just had a follow up appointment like yesterday, and they took out most of the stitches because they're dissolvable
but when she had the stitches,
oh my gosh, I cannot move my lips or upper
lip did not move at all. They sewed it in place pretty much so it's he kind of talked really like it.
I couldn't move my upper lip. It was imagined me talking like this
the whole time. And it was so funny. And I was kind of hoping that we would get into an episode while she was like that, but we didn't. But uh, yeah, so we're
gonna be disappointed that my voice was weird. I did have laryngitis that one time. That was funny. We should have done an episode and when I learned Yeah, we
need to make sure to what episode either anytime either one of us has a voice issue. But yeah, so hexagons. Why are we doing hexagons because hexagons are the best guns that's what GC PGP CGP Grey says
yes. So we got the idea from stuff or how I he was just looking around the room and saying random stuff. I was funny
pointing at things and saying we should do an episode on wall or what the whiteboard with markers? No. Is it hexagons because we have these hexagon sound panels in the
room? Yeah.
So she's like, Oh, and shot me the video the CGP CGP always want to say GCP for some reason it flows better off the tongue CGP Grey did an episode hexagons the best guns school it'll be in the show notes. Yeah, I love I love that channel.
Do you want about metric paper two?
Oh, that was a good one, a four a three a two all the different sizes metric systems better. They. So we got to look into hexagons, and I am going to talk about the biggest of hexagons. But that's going to Bucha minutes Lila has some talking about to do Oh, on the basic level, a hexagon is a six sided shape with six sides. So
it's an interesting way to put it right?
Six Sides, and they don't all have to be equal. But when you think of hexagon, you think about the equal ones, you know, it's called a regular hexagon, six sides, six angles. And a regular one has all of the angles are the same and all the sides have the same size. So they can be tessellated forever meaning on a flat plane. They fit together perfectly.
Yeah. So when you think of hexagons and a flat plane, you think of beehives, or at least most people do. You know these make their beehives like that so they don't use that much wax and it's sturdy. It's a useful hive that can help the bees get the job done is what this website says
it less wall more open area. Yeah.
And it makes it super efficient to get more honey and have to make less wax because I imagine wax is hard to hard harder to make. Because I isn't honey just like be spit.
Essentially with pollen. Yeah. Oh. Ooh, listen to that jet sound that isn't a 15 strike Eagle Man. How do you know? Because I have lived on or next to Air Force Bases my entire life. That's loud. What are you doing? That used? We lived in the old house. That was all day every day? Yeah, they're rarely out in this part of the part of the county but we used to live
really close to the base. So the jets would fly over and it was really hard when I was recording my audio drama podcast meet us pod media spot.com Check it out on your favorite podcast app now for kids but not forgets. Some episodes are but you have to listen first. The Jets. I'd be standing in my sound booth and I don't care how good your sound booth is. Unless you've you've
completely isolated it from the outside world completely. Those jets would fly so close that it would like rumble the whole house and I could not get a clean take and had to sit there and wait. And there was no air conditioning in the booth. And I was like, wait for there to be a gap. And I'd say a couple lines real quick. And then I've had to stop. It was a, it wasn't fun. But that was a nice little side. So go ahead with your your hexagons, carbon,
carbon graphene. So graphene, you probably recognize that a little bit graphite from your pencils is about what this is, with some extra steps. So graphene is carbon, just it's just carbon. But when it's laid out flat, it's the strongest material ever discovered. So if you, if you tried to pull it apart, it would take oh my gosh, how many zeros, like, hang on 1-234-567-8910. So 10 zeros, and then a 13. So that's hundreds, 1000s Millions. That's that's 130 billion Pascal's compared to
only 400 million for structural steel. So it's stronger than steel, when you try and pull it apart, a lot stronger than steel, but that is one direction. If you try and pull it apart the other way, it breaks very easily. Because hexagons are very strong if you try and pull them away from each other, because of the way that they're constructed. But when you try and push on them, it's
weak. So like if you've got a poll, which made out of carbon
wood, which is why you can use it for pencils, because it will break off. Right? Can you
it'll flake sorry. Yeah, sorry. You sounded like you were kind of stopping I wasn't sure. But uh, so like, if you have a poll made out of it, you can like, pull on that poll really, really, really hard. And it's not gonna, like, break off. No, however, it's never if you swing the pole at somebody's face, it's gonna break really hard. It'll break.
That's a good, good.
So the direction that the carbon molecules are connected as a hexagon, it it's nice and strong. But the layers of hexagons on top of each other is the connection is not as strong as
if you taped a whole bunch of pieces of paper together. Like if you had four pieces of paper, and you tape them together at the seams, and you try to push on them, it would break through pretty easily. Just sitting without thinking about it, let that sink in.
Gotcha. Gotcha. I was thinking like a stack of post it notes. It's easy to pull the top one off that direction. But if you grab the top and the bottom, like and held it out, and like tried to tear the entire stack of them at one time, like tear the whole thing in half. It's tougher. You could do it, because I'm well I could I'm very strong. Nevermind, nevermind. It doesn't it doesn't work without the visual.
Even I didn't understand what I'm talking about.
Like okay, like you've got this stack of of post it notes.
Oh, have you ever seen that that payphone thing where you're weaving together and you can't pull apart?
Oh, yeah, that's okay. So like this this stack right here, right? I can stack of diffusers, stack of light diffusers. They're stacked on top of each other. Okay, okay, I can take the top one and peel it off. Yeah. But if I turn it towards vertical wedge vertical and I grab the top and the bottom and try and pull it apart it doesn't come apart. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. That's what I was saying. I wasn't using the words we're not talking about that. Yes, it's
just talking about Geez Don't listen. So what you're saying is that it's strong it's strong and light
and light because it doesn't it there's more bang for your buck. Yes, it's a well actually is less bang for your buck.
It's very useful in aviation, yes and packing materials you can make it's good for 3d printing to make the inner infill is where it's called. Make some nice strong little hexagons inside there and it makes a nice strong 3d print. Leila printed or Remy? Remy from ratatouille? Yes. I love what she's gonna do on the next time they have a hat day at school is she's gonna have a
chef's hat. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna make like a headband and strap. Strap me to the headband and put on a chef's hat. I think it'll be hilarious.
It was you goes to school people will be like, take the chef's hat off and rim you'll be under their Gosh, I'm
so happy.
This is your lane. This is my dream. You're such a nerd.
I have been thinking about this for a year now. You don't know how planned out this has been. So she's like wanting to make a Remi,
which was on the website the other day looking at different little 3d things you can print out. And I'm like, wow, I didn't even know you liked that movie.
Watch at least three times.
Okay, so there's a huge hexagon. Yeah, on Saturn. Oh, did you tell me about the huge hexagon on Saturn before today before he started looking into this stuff? No. Okay, so because of the North Pole, it's, it's at the north pole of Saturn. And it's 9000 miles long. And that's as real big. It's about 1200 miles longer than the diameter of the Earth. So they'll say, you can easily put sic an Earth on each of the six sides. And it wouldn't even like touch the sides. This is a huge hexagon.
And here's the thing. I don't even know what it is. Like they have it's like, oh, it's a cloud pattern. Big gas. And it's it's a big gas giant. That's what Saturn is, is made out of different gases. And it was discovered in 1987. This guy named David Godfrey piece together fly by views from the 1981 Voyager mission. And then also the Cassini mission, use some stuff from it, okay. And the Cassini mission, they flew, they flew by again, and got better pictures of it. They took
thermal infrared image of the hexagon. And then it passed into the sunlight. And it wasn't when they were taking videos of it. But it changed color. This this whole huge hexagon changed color between 2012 and 2016. It changed from mostly blue to a more golden color.
Now, is this because they have better quality cameras now? Or do they use the exact same camera?
They don't say?
Yeah. That was my
one thing is some changed in sunlight creates a haze the pole is exposed to sunlight due to the change in season. blogged about Robert they don't know. They don't know. They've got their theories. And then basically, the hexagon itself was formed. They believe this nobody's saying oh, this is exactly it. Maybe they
got some rest.
But uh, when essentially yeah, there's the wind is like swirling inside. north poles and gravity is causing the causing solar winds and bla bla, bla, bla, bla. And then there's other winds coming in from all the different sides and the way that the winds are interacting with each other than the heat and the just all that stuff. And it just causes a big ol huge hexagon lasts forever. Yeah, it kind of it kind of tells you how stable I mean, you know, locally, not stable, but globally. The
weather is there, if it's gonna hold that pattern. But, you know, again, it doesn't. It's just it's a bunch of gases. So there's not a lot of stuff happening on it that would which I don't know, I Oh, maybe? I don't know. There's a lot of speculation around it, but there's not a lot actually known about it. So it's neat, though, there's lots of neat pictures of it. What's crazy, is that I only heard about the hexagon on Saturn. Maybe five years ago, eight years ago. Like Why hadn't
I heard about this if it was discovered in 87? I was five years old. 1987 Why? Why? Why didn't I hear about this in school when we were learning about the planets and stuff I didn't hear about in school. I know I should have known about this. This is something like why don't they this is cool. This is the kind of stuff you're like, oh wow. You know, you can get your imagination going teach you the cool stuff. Yeah. I never do. That's why this show is here.
Because we teach you we're like school, but it's cool. We're an we're the coolest school where
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So anyways, when I'm talking about, you know, airplanes,
I am I am aware that airplanes are a thing that exists you Have
you ever think about how heavy they are?
More than you could possibly know?
Why not more?
More heavy, but I think about it a lot,
I think a lot too. So they don't be they're not that heavy.
Oh, they're heavy. They're heavy,
but they're not as heavy as you would think by looking at them. If you looked at a big airplane, you'd be like, Oh, that's heavy. But no. Because the the wings and all the little the wings is they're made of hexagons. Inside hexagons. Yeah, no, I know. But hexagons.
I was just, I'm sorry, I was just imagining an airplane with just like two hexagons, sticking off the sides instead of wings. That's what like when you said they're made of hexagons, just like two huge metal hexagons.
So a hexagon grid it kind of like a beehive. Just imagine a beehive, but huge in really long. So it's a long beehive. It as long as
well. What was that? You just as long silence
It's, it's long, and it's as long as a wing. And they just put metal around it. That's why it's so flexible. Because it's flexible and strong. And light.
Yeah, that's one of the benefits ex cons.
That's what I'm talking about that
they make them yeah, they make it because they're strong and flexible. Oh, this episode is a mess. I know. It's hot in here. It Yes. And quite 190 degrees in this room right now.
We need some noise
we've gotten we've been out here working most of the day. It's around 5pm right now. And we've been out here working probably the last six seven hours but we have the AC going full blast and a fan blowing on us.
ASO energy is just weird.
Yeah, I think it's just because we're in a new setting. We haven't gotten used to the Newton didn't we're sitting at the desks with the you know the monitors in front of us and the mics on the booms? We got the we got the road caster in between us now. So yeah, so I can play a little funny sounds. Yes, you can actually control it now easily without having like reach across. I can only fart sound on here. Let's no no fart sounds on the soundboard. We can get some. Oh, you
know we do have though. Anyways, that's for our monster segment.
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We did not do good. I got news. Yeah, me too. The good news is that you made it out alive dental surgery. What went? Well, it went well. And
they were talking about what they were going to eat for lunch.
Oh, when they were doing the? Yeah. The stuff? Yeah, cuz you remember it? I remember they feel safe because they they don't think you're gonna remember what they said. They could just talk about whatever. Oh, so I was watching a YouTube video. And I was laughing so hard. There's a couple of YouTubers who speak really good. multiple languages, like they're very fluent in other languages. And they'll go places like there was this one girl went to Chinatown. And she speaks
perfect Chinese. And she would hear people talking about her. It didn't think that she could understand them. And she would walk up and be like, Hey, let's start talking in Chinese. And that was it's very funny watching their reactions because they're not used to people understanding them. And she went into this Chinese restaurant and started speaking perfect Chinese to order and conversate with the waiter and the entire restaurant went silent. Because they're like, Oh, no. Make sure you're
not saying anything. She understands us.
Yeah,
that's funny. That's funny. Okay,
well, maybe we're gonna try to find a good news. Now, as far as too late.
It's too late. We missed it. We missed our opportunity. We're probably going to lose half our listeners because we didn't have a good news in this episode. And now, there's some good news. We're going to save you time. But you're not happening to listen to a good news segment this week. This has been Fun Fact Friday. Good news. With your only anchor David Frum. Oh, we did it. We did we can high five now across the room.
Um can both touch the road caster this there's
also another neat thing that we can do now is we can do this right here there's a, there's a button on the road caster called back channel where you can if you while you're holding it down
and you can see it just cut out. So just press the button.
Okay, so it's a back channel. So basically I can talk to Leo Leo can talk to me, but none none of the audio goes out.
I can tell him to stop scratching his beard hairs or something, right. So like if we're playing lean into my mind, because I always come back here for some reason.
If we're playing a clip, if we're playing the outro and Kyle's talking, we can I can say something real quick, without having to like slide the sliders down and then come back and try and find the perfect, perfect volume for us. Yeah, sounds great. It's neat. It's a really neat feature. i And then there's also ducking,
which if you play like the intro song and you hit ducking it'll for his mic. It won't do it for mine for some reason. We got another button for that. It will, the music will go down ever so slightly while he's talking. Right? For
example, here we go. I'll just do it. So when I talk, the music automatically is called ducking. Just a little bit. It just goes down a little bit. But it actually lowers the volume of everything except for my microphone. Yeah. All right. Did you have any more hexagon facts?
Baseball.
Oh, what Okay, talking about the baseball Okay, good. Talk about baseball.
Baseball columns are hexagons that's all I have to say.
Baseball naturally forms into hexagon. Yes. Hexagonal
hexagonal? I hate that word, but I love hexagons.
Okay, so I was gonna be like, hexagons are the best. I'm gonna list some things that are hexagons, Honeycomb, snow flake. And then like, I'm on this site, I just like things that are hexagon just like I started stray. And there's a site called studious guy.com/hexagon-examples/so It's talking about types of hexagons, but then it goes into examples of hexagons. And the first example is a honeycomb because that's kind of the first thing to think about when you think
about a hexagon right? But then it says a nut as like nuts or mechanical tools used in combination with bolts and washers to fashion to fasten two metallic pieces together fashion and then there's a picture of a little metal nut and it says if you look at the nut closely, you can observe the hexagonal shape formed by its and this is just huge picture as like if you look at it closely by looking glass so then I'm like okay, so what
else is a hexagon? This site is like snowflakes and it says a tie knot
and then I look over his screen and I'm like push ties aren't aren't a hexagons triangle but that's only me when I tie it because I'm really bad at tying ties it says do it
if you look closely at a properly tied and that's where the the key is I know but then it was like pencils stop signs up
signs are not hexagon told on those are octagons counted. counted eight first
stops installed on roadside are usually constructed in the shape of a regular hexagon or an octagon know where nowhere in the world Wait a minute not maybe in the world maybe. But in America. A stop sign has a are you looking to see if there's Yeah. Okay, so these timecard swords possess. So did you find one? Oh, no. Oh, I don't like it. Stop. dropped on space. Stop. Because it's a stop sign section. Okay. sections of a soccer ball. Okay, except for what? Look at it.
One, two. Why is the Pentagon's in there? Hold on,
because it's a sphere. Oh, because it's not all hexagons all hexagon because it has to be a bowl. Yeah, what it keeps this side is the worst. And then, like, I don't know why this person octagon I don't understand why this person didn't just stop. Or actually like go I'm so stupid 2366
sides. What do you
think? So number nine is a clock excuse me it is says some of the clocks are shaped like a hexagon
I have never seen a clock shaped like an X I have
but it's just you could shape a clock like anything like at some restaurant or you could shape it you could shape a clock like anything. And then it says cookie cookies I guess you can make a cookie to anything. And then gyms and who clipped their gems and minerals.
First off, no. Second off no
it no but what it says is it says the crystals of gems and minerals like algun tonight are gone tonight. Appetite appetite.
Yeah, it's appetite. Nice.
Aquamarine, Ben Bennett toil claw our hexagon all in shape. Some other gyms can be transformed into hexagon shapes
into a hexagon you know you can make it I don't know why this hexagon
this person who made the studious guy website didn't just like give three or four examples of things that are hexagon I mean hey, and then just say also you can cut anything into a hexagon shape.
Because you can
so I got curious about studious guy. So I went to studious guy.com Just the the class or you know the class but the site itself first off, he's using our colors. He's using our colors, which not uncommon colors. Yeah. Every anyway. This guy like complementary. This guy, this studious guy. Oh, in two routes.
Oh my gosh. He's into routes, man.
All of these posts on this blog are about routes they're about they're cool. Again, modified routes taproot modifications get nodulated routes. You got
a VIN? Sure event. It's been tedious.
Add Vin, vicious adventitious tissues, routes, modifications. Mechanical modifications, you've got proper routes got stilt routes, get cleaner routes got a bunch of screws you got climbing routes again. contractile roots got root thorns Come on you got floating roots I mean hey, this guy says roots man's guys talking about roots awesome for that we could probably do a three episode series on roots just for from Studio. One blog post from a man studious guy turn up. Turn up. Root.
Exactly. beet root beet
root beets roots Why is my man gone all in on roots?
Hey, man,
oh my gosh but he's that he's got a bunch of stuff about man getting a master's in business administration do not get me wrong other than calling for him other than calling a stop sign a hexagon I'm not making fun of this person. This person made a website they put the things they're into on it that is great. Everybody should if they want to do something like that go for your best man. Go for it. But like it's just so much about routes. But anyway, anyway, I'm not I'm not trying
to pick on the guy. The studious guy. I am picking on him for the for the stop sign thing because that's just come on. I wonder if he pulled this information from like, somewhere else doesn't have any doesn't have any sources. Oh my gosh, you
I'll be able to write a paper on why hexagons are the meaning of life thanks to your existence.
Thanks for your existence. And this person understood and he said what? All right. Okay, well, I think we're done picking on studious guy. I'm not really trying to pick on him. I think he's awesome. I like when somebody makes a site about something that they're into. Yeah. What are we doing? Right? What are we doing? What are we doing 145 episodes of us just talking about what we want to talk about so I'm sure we could easily be picked on but good for you. Studious guy.
We're sending you some traffic. If you're if you're listening this episode, check the show notes. Go visit studious guy. Leave him a nice comment. And I think I think we're about done with hexagons. Are we good? Go check out CGP Grey Good job. You did it. I did it. Go check out CGP Grey video on hexagons with the best guns goes really into how it structurally how it all works.
And it's better explaining that I am
and yeah, and If you don't like just copy everything he says, we like to goof around and have fun. And we love to take our listeners on that whole journey with us. Sorry if we sound a little weird studios, it's hot. The studio is a little bit in shambles right now. There's wires everywhere. Yep. And all right. So yeah, we'll see y'all next week and have a fantastic weekend. Oh, hexagons win. I think you got Settlers of Catan. If you haven't played the board game Settlers of Catan
there's also a digital version of it. Check it out. While at the played on stream one night. That sounds fun. Yeah. All right, everybody. Have a great weekend.
Bye.
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