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Episode 149 - Lightning!

Aug 04, 2023Ep. 149
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Leila

Hello, hi. Hi. Welcome. Ah, what? will say hello?

David

Oh, Hello. And welcome, Jeff. Yeah,

Leila

I forgot that what we did

David

every week. Well, we took a break.

Leila

Anyway when we never did that. No.

David

So how's everybody doing? This is Fun Fact Friday, weekly show where we discuss a topic each week.

Leila

Yeah, we do and talk about

David

so so we had, we're gonna we're gonna change up the order a little bit, and we're gonna talk about oh, wait, wait, wait, no, hold on. When we're professional podcasts

Leila

for podcasters we wrote down what we're doing? And are you are you going off script?

David

That's what I do. That's what I do. You were the one that made the scribe made the script. I have the power to change it. unilateralis? No, we're, our episode today is going to be about Lightning Lightning, as you probably already know, from the title

Leila

of Yeah, he click on us. You know, you'd probably

David

see it on your screen right now. Yeah, but yeah, we're talking about lightning. We're looking for a topic. And yeah, lightning, lightning. super interesting. So we're gonna talk about

Leila

that very,

David

let's talk about that. But first, this is a value for value, podcast, which means we put the show out for free, and hope you get some value out of it. If you do, if you listen, you enjoy it, get some information, you get a good a good laugh. You can send us some value back however you like. We actually got some cool value and some t shirt ideas when we got our little calm down

Leila

thing for Wisconsin and like literally everything else, we say calm

David

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Leila

And then team metric system. meters matter.

David

So you know you can and we've decided to make a little game on that one. Whichever of those two designs some more over at store dot fun fact. friday.com sells more. That will be the the waterbrush we call it

Leila

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David

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Leila

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David

Yeah, all kinds of stuff stored up FunFactFriday.com

Leila

We ordered a puzzle. Yeah,

David

we got it. We got a puzzle sale.

Leila

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David

for cod pasture. Pretty cool. I thought I'm playing with Velcro over here. That is not something we do on a podcast.

Leila

I was creating your pen last time.

David

Probably did. But yeah, check out the store. You can also send us artwork just send us ideas for for new shirts. I've got um, I've been messing with, with Photoshop around and his stuff. Yeah, I'm working on. I'm working on some video stuff, video editing, special effects, editing, things like that. I'm having a good time with it, and learning a lot about how the software works. So also for value. We received some boosts, which you can use a new modern podcast app that allows boosting

to send us value and we did get some boosts this week. We got some new boost from some new people. We got let's see what we got here. From all three are from fountain we got 10,101 So 10101 from Bully steed. Whoo. So fun. The first lesson revisited for fun facts and chapters. I would I would wear a Fun Fact Friday shirt with calm down on it. So we did and so we did. Yeah, we got that five days ago. As soon as I checked, checked our stats. I was like oh, hey, yeah, that is a good idea for a

shirt. So I sat down made it thank you so much for that bully steed 10,000 SATs says not nothing. Let me tell you every day I tell you that the Bitcoin just keeps going up. Well yeah, you're right anyway. Not gonna get in the weeds about Bitcoin prices. We got 101 SATs from last Atari. Hope I said that right. Nice. What a brilliant double act fantastic infectious laughter We try to be we try to wait we have a have a good time. And one of our keys is we don't talk to each other all week.

Yeah, we live it live in the same house. And we just we just avoid each other completely. Yeah. Then when we get together for the show, it's like, you know, we can have a good time. Going back over stuff we've already talked about 100 times. No, we do. We do occasionally say, oh, save it for the show. If we're talking about something that we don't talk about it with that episode, and then we never we please. And then 1234 sets from Kevin Hallisey from fountain flashback was great.

Leila sounded amazing, but very different. Yeah. Yes, her voice has changed some. She was very much a squeaker back in the day.

Leila

Sorry, my new computer said that it was one in his four. Oh, yeah. I had to change the time. I was like, brah. Right. It's not what time it is.

David

Bigger boosts to come. Now that fountain is functioning again. Oh, I didn't know it was down. I must have missed that. And are you cracking your knuckles? No, you're like,

Leila

they just do that I move in a crack. I'm

David

like a glow stick. Oh, no,

Leila

I don't glow though. I wish I would.

David

Hopefully, I figured out I can figure out how to fund my wallet. Oh, it's super easy to find your wallet on fountain. You just take the dollar bills and just push them into the charging port of your phone.

Leila

I don't know what he's talking about.

David

You gotta turn your money into Satoshi and

Leila

see what's next on the script. It says reading

David

Kevin Wallace, he says you're worth the learning curve. You two are a great example of why the pod father invented podcasting value for value with three exclamation points. Wow. We kind of have we have a rule where we put exclamation points on the end of everything for our show. Like any any social posts, we do anything like that we like it's kind of one of our things. Because it's not Fun Fact Friday. Right. Right. Thank you so much for the Satoshis they are adding up. We're we're

loving seeing all those all those sweet, sweet Satoshis. And also, the value kept rolling in this week. We received a letter and drawing

Leila

we did from an anonymous

David

from person. Yes. And anonymous user or user user. Excuse me. Anonymous, anonymous listener? Yeah. listener, who is six years old, and from California. And we thank you so much. We have put that wonderful piece of paper in our collectibles from the show that we've received things that we've received in the mail. Yeah. Thank you so much for that. We really appreciate it. And then we had a another anonymous user. We didn't keep saying I used to work in it,

Leila

I guess.

David

Anyway, another anonymous listener, donated a couple of laptops to us because we were talking about we had like some 12 year old laptops we were working on before

Leila

when I opened it up and sat down. It was like Sorry, bro. And I got my blue screen.

David

They were getting was like dead. Really bad. I formatted mine a couple of weeks ago, and it was a little better. But it was still really slow. Yeah, but this is pretty nice. Yes. They're very nice. I really like him. Definitely. Definitely appreciate that. A fantastic surprise.

Leila

And there was foam in the box. So I can play with a foam.

David

Oh my gosh.

Leila

I'm gonna make something with this. So

David

we're running up on eight minutes. I think we can still squeeze in one more non lightning related related thing. Oh, like we said, hit the store up store. Got FunFactFriday.com. Yeah. Now, last weekend.

Leila

I had the best weekend ever. Oh my god. I was so happy. This is probably the best best weekend I've had.

David

And what were we doing? I'll let you talk for a drink.

Leila

We were at a convention. I hate it when he does this. And he makes me talk because I have nothing to like fall back on. But it was so cool. I wear two of my costumes. One of them was handmade award the handmade ones Saturday because that's when they had the competition. And the competition is only for handmade. Like craftsmanship. Ish competition. But that's not the only award you can get. It was super fun. And I met freckles. Ella there. She's one of my favorite YouTubers. And please,

David

there was some great content contest and the contest. There were some great cosplayers that was amazing. One of my favorite somebody did a Gonzo from the Christmas carol movie, The The Muppets Christmas Carol, which is one of my favorite renditions of a Christmas carol except for the one eyed Dominus bought me a spot.com

Leila

we're talking about

David

anyway, they also did a Ghost of Christmas Future cosplay and was like what was it was a 10 foot huge maybe nine or 10 foot tall huge huge Oh yeah. And they had just just some of the best then there was all you know handmade stuff it was like they didn't just buy something off of Amazon or go to spirit Halloween and buy stuff it was all stuff had to

Leila

be. It had to be handmade. And in prejudging if it's not handmade, they kick you out. Yep. So kick you out of the contest.

David

But there was were sitting there and when they called up, there was a team of two cosplayers that went up on stage to receive their one of their medals.

Leila

I think it was a judge's award or something, right? Amazing.

David

They went up on the stage and when the girl was a male or female, when the girl turned around to accept the metal, the guy got down on one knee. And when she turned back around, because the metal shaper he was he proposed to her and like the entire auditorium. There was a full auditorium. It had to be what 1000 people in the room? Oh, yeah. Watching. Yeah, competition. There was a lot of people in their place erupted.

Leila

Yes, there was there wasn't any seats left. And there's people like standing on the walls.

David

Yeah. And she said yes. And hopefully, you'll want to be in this situation and get a No. That would be that'd be rough. But it was Yeah. Somebody was somebody was cutting onions in the room because there's a whole lot of people getting man, they were very cute couple. But Leila didn't win.

Leila

Yeah, I'm fine with that. I

David

knew I wasn't Yeah, she Yeah, the the level of I mean, these people have 1000s of dollars to spend on their costumes. Oh, yeah.

Leila

Just seeing how happy it makes people backstage like I didn't even have to be just hearing people's stories with stuff like there was two cosplayers it was a duo group. And they were cosplaying as Farrah, and Ryan Hart, from Overwatch, and their costumes were made of EDA foam, of course, and it melted in the car because they had a long drive to get there. And it was hot, of course. Very hot, by the way, and it melted. So we had to put it together at the cosplay

lounge. And that was that was a story, man. I was so like, I'm so sorry.

David

We had so bad for him. Yeah, it was.

Leila

It looked amazing though.

David

Leila had an incident where her costume got messed up at 1.3 times. There was one real bad one though. But they have a cosplay repair section at the convention where they've just have like tape thread paint. It's a whole room. There's a whole room of just stuff you might need to fix up your your cosplay.

Leila

Yeah, they also have wandering people with like a suitcase that are wandering around with like a Cosby repair station.

David

And we we went for Leila to do this competition because she's been working so hard in the costume costume. But we also like going to the artist alley, we get to see some artists and some of the money buy some of their stuff. We did okay, this time we didn't spend we only bought the stuff we really really wanted. But yeah, we got some art for the studio. Once we started doing video or you know, posting pictures that got some

cool Nintendo stuff and gorillas and stuff like that. So, all right, well, I think that that about wraps it up for the cosplay convention, right? Oh, yeah. While we were driving up there about the park. This guy walked up and pointed at us. Yeah, he lifted his hand up like he had a pistol in it. And he didn't. But it was just trying to scare people or whatever. But he had this like crazy look in his eyes. And it was kind of scary. Pretty scary. I was like, Alright, then. And I saw a

Magikarp run across the road if you check my Twitter de metus. I posted about a week ago. This Magikarp guy. It was really funny. All right, lightning. Yep, lightning round.

Leila

There's a noise outside and try to figure out what it is.

David

So lightning is your mother's one of her greatest fears.

Leila

Which Yeah, okay, but like, not really.

David

She hates it.

Leila

I know.

David

We watched his videos of like unexpected things happening you like a car, just a tire blown out or you know things like fail videos, sort of an every once in a while there's a lightning strike one. And she hates it. She's like, it just raises her anxiety so much.

Leila

I don't know why it's so rare. It is it's rare to get hit by lightning.

David

So lightning happens.

Leila

I mean, I can't talk I have weird fears. Yeah,

David

Lightning happens when a storm there's certain types of clouds when the the snow and ice and water up in the atmosphere, create a negative charge, and then all the rain hitting the ground, you get your positive then there's an inequality in the charge between the clouds and the ground. And nature always wanting to find a balance eject some of the energy out of the clouds to balance it out with the ground, and it creates a bolt of lightning. Which is what is it? 100 million volts.

Leila

Sure. I think I have it on here somewhere.

David

Yeah, we've got we've got our our fax pulled up and I've got so many that I can't find it. But yeah, it's it's a ridiculous amount of voltage. But it's not like if it hits you it's like instant death. It will cause false a billion. Yeah. A billion

Leila

as much as 80 million car batteries.

David

That's, that's more than nine car batteries.

Leila

Yeah. Or 666 million double A batteries. That's a lot of double A batteries.

David

That's how many double A batteries I went through when I use my Sega Game Gear back in the 90s.

Leila

That's how many batteries I went through this convention. Yeah, she had all these lights on. Oh my gosh. I had like a full pouch of just bad.

David

Just batteries. 12 volt.

Leila

USB, USB,

David

little watch batteries. Little coin one coin.

Leila

So many batteries. But

David

yeah, with all that energy. It creates a lot of heat. Experts say keep cracking. Okay. Experts. You guys started sitting completely still when you go insane after like 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Leila

Wait, wait,

David

what do we wait, do we have wait? What do you got? Wait?

Leila

Do you mind a conflict? Technically, lightning itself does not have a temperature. How do you explain that? You are on

David

the same side as me.

Leila

How do you explain that?

David

That's where I was gonna go next. All right, tell me why. Tell me why technically, it's not 50,000 degrees.

Leila

It technically, those 50,000 degrees are actually the temperature of the air or other materials as the lightning passes through it. Water isn't wet. It just makes things wet. Shut up.

David

Respectfully.

Leila

Sorry. I have a whole rant about the water wet thing. Wait you so mad?

David

What is water need to calm down?

Leila

Water doesn't need to calm no people. People need to calm down. That keeps saying water isn't wet. Is water wet. Google says was What bro? Wait. Okay, so water is wet pro water is an emergent property that describes character wet is an emergent property that describes the characteristics of collection of water molecules. So yes, water molecules are wet. They don't just make things wet.

David

So it's

Leila

water? Yes. Okay. And it transfers the wet on to things that it touches. Okay,

David

now, what if you had a single molecule of water? Yes. I don't think that that would qualify as wet. Yes, it would? No. Because you could have one molecule of

Leila

water. Does it qualify as being there? Now hold on, then it qualifies as one.

David

No, hold on. No. It's there. It's water. It self is not wet. But if two of them touch each other. They they wet each other.

Leila

They are wet. Yes.

David

But I'm gonna have to draw you a picture. I'm gonna I'm gonna have to make it whole animation. Just, we'll just accept it. Okay, I accept I accept your proposal. So have you ever heard the expression lightning never strikes the same place twice? Yeah, it's a myth. Yeah, that it has the same point.

Leila

I didn't finish my thing though. I just want to rant Oh, I miss facts like reminded me of the water thing. So the boat itself is not is a movement of electrical charges. And for that reason, it does not actually have a temperature itself. I kind of get that. But it has the same thing to do with the water. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just annoying. Yeah, I got

David

I got you. Yeah, it's one of those things. It's like Oh, come on. It's the same thing. Yeah,

Leila

like Seriously? I mean, tell it's not the same thing. What's another say lightning and thunder. You need to stop using thunder. When you when you're talking, you're talking about lightning. Thunder is the sound that lightning makes. No. Yes it is.

David

No. Yes

Leila

it is.

David

Love Thunder is the sound. Lightning.

Leila

Atmosphere lightning. thunder. Thunder. Isn't lightning atmosphere. No. Sound.

David

There's a shirt Thunder is lightning atmosphere sound. Okay, so Thunder is the sound that's created.

Leila

Yes. But it's not the same thing as lightning

David

when all of those particles No, I'm agreeing with that. I'm agreeing with you on that. But the way that you worded it it's the sound that is created when all of those molecules get super heated that quickly. Yes, so I just bought, Robert. That's, that's the one that sounds like, Oh my gosh.

Leila

When people are like, Oh, Thunder just hit. I was like, No. Light weight. Just

David

saying thunder just hit so many. That's right, because the sound waves Thunder is the sound waves it hits. You. Look. Look.

Leila

It's not the same thing. Don't call lightning thunder police. That's the only qualification for being a Fun Fact Friday fan. You have are using it to sign a waiver saying I will not call lightning thunder. They are two different things.

David

We're gonna get so many emails. Say saying I heard. I heard some lightning the other day. Would you agree? Would you agree that Thunder is the sound that lightning makes? Yeah, so Okay. Okay. So

Leila

this is one of my facts. By the way. I'm just going on a rant. I was planning this rant, by the way, because I was like, Ah, this is one of the things I hate.

David

So when somebody says I heard some lightning that annoys me, that annoys you, because Thunder is the sound that lightning makes. Yes. So it's like if you say I heard a horn but the sound little thing I

Leila

heard a tooth or is Yeah, or a hunk or a hunk.

David

Is that does that bother? You see what I'm saying? Yeah, I

Leila

see what you're saying. But it's so aggravating to me. thunder lightning thing. I've had this in my head ever since I was like,

David

until you look, you learn what the difference

Leila

is. I learned what the difference was. I used to get onto people. I used to get onto people for saying eight. I was a grammar. Like Stickler when I was a kid. Yeah, you were and

David

now you're totally not you say things like me though for real so talking about not like not striking the same place twice the Empire State Building gets struck around 23 times a year.

Leila

You and I'm like, That's my grammar or my my vocabulary.

David

There was a toy somewhere and she's like me with a toy. I'm like what are you talking about? me if I was a shirt so yeah, there's a place to expose

Leila

my salami. And then you expose my me when I'm

David

so there's a place in Venezuela. Where there's a storm 260 days out of the year.

Leila

Me I will live in Venezuela. And

David

a lot of times there's a lightning strike every two seconds during the storm so there's like this forever storm is what they call it. It's like everlasting Oh, yeah. Just the world constantly just constant thunder striking

Leila

so annoying. Do you have any metal objects? Can't fight because you don't have

David

you didn't catch it I said constant thunder strike. Got the stinkface

Leila

just trying to drink my water.

David

Yeah, so it it's really I want to see this. I even looked up on YouTube. I couldn't find I found a bunch of reports about it but I couldn't find Just like an uninterrupted 30 minute video lightning striking, it's probably out there. But it's such an interesting thing are we talks about it, and those people have a higher algorithm than random storm footage.

Leila

Love storm footage, man. Yeah, it's good. I watched that to go to sleep. I watch it when I'm like doing something. So

David

I looked up, I looked up a thunderstorm on Spotify. We needed some some rain noise we were to at a hotel and like, it was just a noisy Hotel. There's like all these like, anyway, I turned it on. And so we could get some sleep has some white noise. And now, Spotify thing

Leila

called the DJ. And it like takes everything that you've listened to and like compiles it and like, makes you a list and stuff and it plays it for you. But so

David

since I listened to like 20 rainstorm tracks in a row, while we were sleeping, you must really like so my algorithm is like, you know, yes, I'm Weezer, and then rain for an hour and a half, because these tracks are really long because they're meant to like put you to sleep. So I'm constantly having to skip all this rain. I've gotta get it out of my algorithm somehow. But yeah, so that yeah, there you go. Rain messing up the algo thunder can be heard 10 miles away from a lightning strike.

How? How do you tell about how far away it is?

Leila

One, two,

David

yep. It's not exact. But

Leila

and honestly, I don't do it. Because it doesn't work for me. I don't like it. And plus, what are you supposed to do, man?

David

Okay about it. Yeah,

Leila

I mean, it's how are you supposed to know how fast it's going?

David

And as as far away? And yeah, you don't know. Then lightning can strike like, Where was that? I couldn't find

Leila

the fun gimmick. But it can I think it's 30 miles away three miles away.

David

Yeah, lightning can strike me find it. They're typically about a mile to three miles long. But it can be up to 90 miles. Oh, a researcher, Martin Oman has observed lightning channels as long as 90 miles. So lightning. Even if you hear it, and you're like, oh, that's 10 miles away. Because you do the count thing. It don't matter.

Leila

Yeah. Because don't get you. Cuz. Yeah. Like,

David

what, like Roy Sullivan.

Leila

how old he is. Here he goes. So there's this dude.

David

In the early 1900s.

Leila

Wait, really? Yeah.

David

1927 I believe. I didn't hear that part of the story. That was a thing. He was born in 1927. Me? Nope. He was born in 1912. Oh, on February 7. Between 1942 and 19 7919 719 77 Sullivan claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven separate occasions. Surviving all of them. He worked in a national park. He was a ranger. And he

Leila

kept in mind when I was like me when I realize you're on air.

David

Why is your brain Amin? So Solomon's first documented lightning strike was in April of 1942. But he claims he was also struck when he was a child, but it was undocumented. Nobody else there was no he could have made it up is what they're saying. But anywho he was up in a tower, a fire lookout tower hiding from a thunderstorm. And the newly tower is built in it did not have a lightning rod yet. So the tower had been struck multiple times already. And then he got stroke, got struck by lightning.

Then a couple of years later, he got struck. He was driving down a mountain road. And the metal body of a car normally protects you and you've got the rubber tires, which is an insulator, and the car itself acts as a Faraday cage.

Unknown

What was that? Oh, okay.

David

Yep. And then the lightning comes down. It hits a tree deflects off of the tree through the open window of his truck and strikes him unconscious, and it burned off his eyebrows and eyelashes and set his hair on fire. This is a recurring theme in this man's life. His hair getting caught on fire by lightning. Also other things but I'll get to that. And 19 Seven He Sullivan was struck while in his front yard, lightning hit a nearby power transformer. And from there

jumped into his left shoulder searing it. Two years later, Sullivan was working at a ranger station at the Shenandoah National Park, and was struck again it set his hair on fire. Oh, he put it out with his jacket, ran to the restroom used a wet towel to put the rest of the way out. So, at this point, people are starting to know this guy's story because he keeps getting struck by lightning and people stay away from him. Like they're afraid of why? Because I mean, I mean, getting struck by

lightning. You don't want to be around somebody that's attracting lightning. That's okay. So anyway, and I'll get you don't get it?

Leila

I mean, not really. But well, all right, hold

David

on. I'll tell you in a few. August 7 1973. He was out on patrol and he saw storm cloud forming and he wanted to get away from it. So he started started to leave. He thought he was done. He thought he was gonna get far enough away from it and got out of the truck to look and see how far you know what the situation was. And boom, another lightning strike. Right now his left arm. I mean, good for him, knocked off his shoe. I mean, not good for him. It then crossed over to his

right leg just below the knee. He was still conscious, he crawled back to his truck. And then, let's see three years later, he got struck again injured his ankle. And then a year after that. This is this is the best one in my opinion, because it brings a whole nother a whole nother situation to mind here. He was out fishing. Right? lightning hit the top of his head. Me What about fishing? Said his hair on fire, traveled down and burned his chest and stomach. He turned to his car

when something something else happened. So he just got struck by lightning. His hair is smoldering. He goes to look back, he goes to turn to his car, right? And there's a bear. The bear was digging in his trout bucket that he had been putting all of his fish in there. So Sullivan had the strength and courage to strike the bear with a tree branch. Despite the fact that his hair was still on fire. Put your hair

out bro. He also claimed that this was the 22nd time that he had had to hit a bear to scare it off with a stick in his lifetime.

Leila

I want to go as dude.

David

He's passed away at three.

Leila

Oh my gosh, if he was still alive, that'd be I would want to go meet him. Just to have a talk like

David

there's this epic episode channel on YouTube called Bright Side and they made an animation of all of these incidents and it's pretty funny. Now, he had a wife. His wife would never be anywhere near him during a thunderstorm of any kind.

Leila

I get that but right not being near him all the time. I don't really well. I don't like that.

David

She was outside. Hey, bringing the laundry in because it was up on there used to we used to dry laundry on a wire. You just hang this wire is called a

Leila

Yeah.

David

What was it called? Laundry line. What?

Leila

Right? What do you like I know it. I know it.

David

Why is this why is this word not in my brain? Is your wording no

Leila

wording? Yeah. His wording isn't wording

David

what is it called?

Leila

What did you put what line do you hang? clothesline

David

I can think of the word clothesline. I could.

Leila

I knew what it was.

David

Okay, so yeah, that's your solar powered energy efficient. Clothes Dryer. Yeah. Okay, so anyway, my friend, his wife sees that there might be rain goes outside to bring the laundry and off the clothesline. Because that's what it's called. And then he runs out to help and as soon as he gets out there and goes down, boom, his wife gets struck by lightning whoopsie you imagine her standing there? And she's like, Oh, it looks like it might rain better. What? What's work? Hey, Roy, what's No no no?

Oh man. Poor Roy's wife.

Leila

Oh, no. Poor Roy

David

Roy. No, it actually it caused some issues with like his mental stability because he was just constantly just in constant fear. Like he never went anywhere without a bottle of water. Yeah, because he was always afraid someone's going to catch on fire and not, he wouldn't be able to put it out. I'm saying I feel bad

Leila

for Roy. I don't feel bad for her.

David

So okay, so those are the documented cases. And then the undocumented case, was that he was when he was a child, he was helping his father cut grass in the wheat field using a scythe and Thunderbolt struck the blade of his scythe, but did not injure him. So that was the first time but he couldn't prove it, you know, whoa, Thunderbolt

Leila

and lightning, very, very frightening.

David

Me, Galileo. Okay, so the statistics of this happening, just so y'all aren't out there thinking, you know, you're gonna fall into Roy's footsteps. The odds of being struck by lightning over a period of 80 years have been roughly

estimated to one in 10,000. So every out of 110, out of every 10,080 year olds, one of them has been struck by lightning in their lifetime, when you start asking people, so if the lightning strikes were independent, independent events, the probability of being hit seven times would be one in 10,000, to the seventh power, which is a one was 28 zeros behind it. So the chances of this man without any kind of like something going on, now, it is more likely because he was

out in a national park a lot. But he didn't always get struck while he was out in the National Park. Like he'd be in his car. Or he'd be, you know, maybe this is a hotspot for lightning activity anyway, and he was the only dude around. But yeah, that's the people who researched it. And they tried, they did all kinds of tests on him to find if he had, like, you know, anything different about his physiology, and they couldn't really find

anything, so it's a mystery. It's a mystery. Hmm. So do you have any more fun facts about lightning?

Leila

I don't know. We'll see. Oh, oh. Listen, a frigerator

David

compressor just taped off, made a bubble.

Leila

What do you have? How

David

many lightning strikes Do you think hit earthier? A billion, a billion billion with a B 1.4 billion.

Leila

My tabs just separated? I have two tabs. But let me see what this one is.

David

Lightning disproportionally kills men. Men are far more likely to be personally means disproportionately means if it's proportional. That means it's, it's 5050.

Leila

I learned about proportions. Yeah. So I shouldn't I don't know this. You should know that. I should know. I know. Come on. I know. I learned we had a whole month

David

80% 81% of lightning related fatalities between 2006 and 2013. Roman, I wonder if that has anything to do with men typically taking more outside jobs than women do. I don't know if that's true. Women may tort may may take more outside jobs. But just from my personal experience, when I see a construction crew or people working on the fields, it's more often men. Yeah. So I wonder if that this probably has something to do with it. I don't know. I see. Let's see. Lightning wants

destroyed a large collection of Star Wars memorabilia. Oh, yes. It should have Star Wars is garbage.

Leila

You're gonna get backlash.

David

You gotta say things people don't like sometimes because well, it raises engagement and folks are sending emails.

Leila

When you're on Twitter.

David

Twitter doesn't exist. Oh, I said earlier.

Leila

Dang. X. Dang it. Dang it. I'm still gonna call it Twitter. Yeah.

David

Yeah. Yeah, I think I think I think that's it. I think we're good on. On facts here. We're about to hit 40 minutes. That's kind of when we start thinking about time to wrap up. And oh, here's a here's a good one. A good little one. Towards the bottom of the list. A teenage girl struck by lightning in 2009 survived thanks to her iPod, sponsor, iPods aren't made anymore. The gadget diverted the 300,000 volt charge away from her vital organs and she suffered burns and was knocked

unconscious but lived. So keep keep metal objects on you while you're lightening. Apparently that's what that story is saying. Don't do that, folks.

Leila

It really doesn't. Yeah. doesn't really make a difference.

David

It just depends on the charge of the object. All right, so I think yeah, that wraps it up. We Yeah, we'll see you all next week. Do you have anything else? You good? Yeah. Cool. Everybody have Oh, two more talk about one more thing. I know we have some hardware nerds in the in the audience. So at the convention, there's this booth for mechanical keyboards. And I was drawn to it as if, you know, as if it were a lightning rod. Hmm.

Leila

Oh my gosh, yeah. Sure, why not? I'll give it to you.

David

And they had this little, they have these little macro keyboards, and it has 16 keys on it. And I got one. And it's so cool. It's got like the nice the nice, thin, thin top keycaps such a nerd and it lights up all different colors. It's cool things and you can program all the keys separately to be whatever you want them to be. So I've got me a little macro keypad. It's cool. And I've asked the the there's two people at the booth. I've asked if either one of them wanted to

come on the show and talk about mechanical keyboards. Yeah, we also have two guests coming up for our next two shows we have light bright from rough around the hedges podcast, and we have meanie Smith DeVore ag wrote too many eggs, a book a book about

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Leila

Oh yeah.

David

Me when I can't talk Kyle's always respectful when he says

Kyle Hebert

Fun Fact Friday, too

David

early. Too early. You I mean really? Here we go.

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