Episode 156 - Antarctica!

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we have flute on the soundboard now oh

my gosh. So, what are we doing?

We're doing Antarctica.

Oh, no, no.

Oh hello. This is a value for value podcast. Oh, we are fun.

There it is. Welcome. David. I'm Leila's dad. You remember I said that every episode we are weekly podcast where we discuss a different topic each week. Send us mail at Fun Fact. friday.com

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Because the cheese episode was our best episode. objectively.

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objectively, which is objectively

right. So yeah, we're accept. So it was amazing. So So Leila, what's our topic for this episode?

Antarctica,

and do this? Well, you said it in the intro. Some people skip the intro.

Losers. I mean, I love you.

Well, you know, so, yeah, Antarctica. We'll talk about Antarctica a little bit. And first, we're going to talk about a few other things, we have some stuff going on with the show, we're changing up a few things, just because of school school rescheduling after school activities, family obligations coming up, we're not going to be but basically, we're just not gonna be going live as much. We've been going live a lot lately. And it's just not it's not working with the schedule.

And you'll never know what time you record. Right? So you may just watching our show for like three hours and recorded at 10 o'clock, you would never know.

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And we still have to work on that thing.

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Because you guys, I got so much homework. Yeah, a lot of homework. The first year that I've had homework and it ramped up very aggressively. Yes. From no homework to two hours.

Yeah. Two hours a night plus we got other things We do. Yeah, lots of stuff going on here. The Fun Fact Friday studios. Yep, let's meet some media studios, but we'll call it Fun Fact Friday, the shed.

Instead production.

It's pretty cool. I like it. Oh, real quick before we get going on the show, I went and bought a tube TV. It's like a sandwich. I don't know if you've costal hollow tube, CRT TV. Like the big fat ones big ones that have like the curved screen. And the reason why is because all of our HD TVs we can't play some of the only reason we bought this TV, but I went to there's a thrift store nearby. And they had like a our house probably 32 inch.

Because our TVs too slow or too fast. It's too fast for rockband

know, with all of the connections rockband is very sound like it's a rhythm game. So you can't have that 10 milliseconds of of lag. And it's actually closer to 56 milliseconds of lag. And I did the calibration. It's still not right. So I saw this TV for $5. And I was like sold. Yeah, plus, I would get a hold of the GameCube which I think I have access to one we can play Smash Brothers Melee. The good one. Yeah, but

I came home the other day. And I was like, I bought a TV. I was like, what? Where? How when?

I also have a VCR in the trunk. It's for your nana though. I don't know. A VCR plays VHS tapes. Yeah. A VHS player. Used to be called a VCR.

VCR. What does it stand for? Sure. Any tool communication service?

virtual communication. Roads? VCR.

Oh, I said VCs.

I don't know what that is. All right. So this week, I tell you what we we do have

what we do have

Hello, no. Welcome to News. No news. We got to have the boost of

volume and we do it. Low volume.

Welcome to Fun Fact Friday news with your lead anchor

you meet Hey, David.

I'm really I'm at the wrong airport. Now. Apparently, which is something you don't like to say? Apparently, kid, so some fishmongers? In what? You know what? I've got a nice little news report. I'm just gonna play.

While preparing for hurricane Lee and a David Rogers they were moving their traps. And they're among their catch was this a lobster with a pair of Winkle blue shell. And these were locked into a million and that beautiful blue color is actually from a genetic mutation.

They found mutations are so cool. We should do a genetic mutation. Oh, we should you know that. I'll make a section in there. So neat. I'll make a section in OneNote right now for

it. I'm really into science man. New Page. Not science man. But science. Man. This

genetic mutation. Yeah. Nice time. nexmon Fun Fact. Friday.

We should. We should have Kyle did that. But next time I'm Fun Fact Friday. Hey, probably

won't he probably shoot that over to us? No problem. We're getting a cut of everything for the show. Because he does our outro Oh, yeah. So back to the news. They were, they were out there doing their lobster catching. And then all of a sudden, as if out of nowhere in one of their kind of sculpture. So it's like a shiny. It's like a real life shiny. Like just an ultra rare shade of lobster. And one in 2 million, give or take. And that's even like worse odds than the shiny

I think that's really cool. But when he was listening to that little clip, I was reading my good news. And when I heard the Blue Lobster, I was like and he was like, What are you doing?

I know what she's talking about.

So I turned my volume up on my computer and showed him the video of the Blue Lobster jumpscare. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. It's nothing super life changing. So picture of a picture of a Blue Lobster with the song over it as a key. The spooky

is a song.

You've heard a million times.

That's what was. Okay, what is your new story?

My new story is about Brains.

Brains.

All right, tell us about it. All right, so brain matter may remain higher in people who love taking a nap. And this is good news to me. Because I like sleeping. You don't ever take naps, though. But I don't have time to take naps I got Ain't nobody got time. Anybody got time for that. But some people do Vsauce music plays. So, the study recently found a potential potentially casual link between habitual daytime napping and a total brain volume, which could carry implications for saving

So we should be taking more naps. Absolutely. I got a headache. Ron take a nap though.

Me too. But it's good for you all like it. Well,

okay. Now hold on. You just made a judgment call? Is it? Is it known that losing brain mass is a bad thing? Because you says it's good for you. Okay,

what? No,

I was just making once you want to control somebody I would like to stop for. Okay, would go ahead.

What do you wanna talk before?

I was just gonna say you said casual and said causal.

Where? Where did they say right

near the beginning, you said it's a casual link.

This is casual.

Nope, that says causal. How do

you spell casual, then c a s how to spell pas you all

gotta move the s over one spot, Z.

Casual. I wanted to read this one. sleep quality and duration are key factors in the speed of cognitive decline of cognitive ability, and total brain mass. sleep quality tends to diminish with age as does cognitive ability, and total brain mass. Furthermore, frequency of napping tends to increase with age after 60. For those reasons, the authors indicate that research on the effects of napping is paramount to

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found a causal association between genetically disposed daytime napping and 15.3 cubic centimeters of increased brain volume or around 1.6% difference. secondary outcomes were hippocampus volume and two measures of cognitive performance, visual memory and reaction time. None of these showed any association with increases with habitual daytime napping.

So it was actually a decent study because like, Yeah, I've seen some studies recently, where they were like, Yeah, we did like 1000 people. Yeah, it's like that's, that's not a very big sample size. You know? No, but yeah, that's, that's, that's a good amount of people.

The hippocampus is where the long term memory is stored and your navigation sentences. Okay. So what I've learned Yeah, LLILAS I'm really into brains man, how they

work and whatnot. I found a couple of brain smart people when you know, on on X, oh, but some of them do have YouTube channels. I've just a few MIT lectures I'm gonna see about getting I'm gonna see about getting some one as a guest. But not equal. Yeah. Neurologist. Yes, I would love that. All right, so that yeah, there we go. That's good. Good news. Good

news. Take nap.

Good news. Take take a nap as good for you and then go catch a Blue Lobster. Yeah. loot. Okay. That's how we that's how we should mark the beginning and end of segments. So in dribs Scott's doing the chapters, we could just be like, shoot, then I'll meet mark the end of the chapter.

I think we get real real fast.

We change topics. So anyways,

oh my gosh, my friend is doing this thing to where you know how I say so anyways, uh huh. She says In any case, in any case, so the case she says In any case, after almost every sentence, she says no It's very silly. I love

it. I used to say, and a lot on the show. I know you did. It was my it was my crutch word, but I've tried to break myself of

it. He'd be like, bandhu

um, yeah, get a rubber band and snap it on my wrist every time I say it, or I can be like Cersei sitter, every time he says the word, like, a collar around his neck shocks him. Oh, he's programmed it to listen to him when he's doing a show. And when it detects that he said the word like, it shocks him. And it's very funny. The problem is, is that you use the word like sometimes and in a real conversation. Not just as an oh,

You could you could be like, I'm mildly love. Instead of I like

Yeah. Mildly love this thing. Just slightly under love. Like, you know, ah, you know. That's what he does. He ends up like, say that three times in a row to get shocked. Okay, so Antarctica, so Antarctica, since it's a landmass it wasn't invented, however, it was named in 1978 by a man named Joseph. When he met his mother's sister Arctica.

went deep. And if it's

if it's his mother's sister, what is it? No.

No, a loved one. I

have to explain one to you.

The original name for Antarctica was Tara or Australia's.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Tara Australia's

just hit my dogs known southern land is what it means. All right. Australia, southern land. Yeah, it's Tara. Wait, no, Tara means land. So southern? I guess mean, Australia's ah, down there.

Down Under where the up over?

Over for eight years, it did not have an official name. It was just called the Antarctic content. continent,

continent. continent. No.

No

means you. You need to wear a diaper. Oh, okay. Don't be incontinent. Don't talk about that. All right. So we I found a cool story about Antarctica. Before we get into just straight facts. Oh, which I guess this is getting streamed to the facts. Yeah, I know you're jumping right into it. Even didn't even consult me.

Well, I'm sorry. You weren't going into the facts? I was I wanted to correct you.

And American scientist was the first and only person to find a match on Tinder and Antarctica, man. You see, I have a problem with this headline. Because if he was the first and only person then there couldn't be a match. Because you had to have another person to match. Right? Yeah. Okay. So

but, but what? Why the first

and only that? Yeah, I should just say the first. Yeah, the first because there will be more people personally on Antarctica, the person that he matched nobody lives in Antarctica.

I know. But in later, like, in later in later than now. Yeah. Later, right. Okay,

so let me tell the story. I'm sorry, and then we'll tear it apart. One cold and only December died and American scientist who was conducting research in Antarctica decided to log on to Tinder just for fun. They wanted to see if there were any women out there in the icy lonely continent. At first, no profile showed up but after scientist expanded the apps location radius, he actually found someone another researcher just 45 minute helicopter ride away. He swiped right. And if he

I'm aboard panda after reading that story. I mean, listen to that story. Yeah. Yeah, I love purposefully messing up on like a comeback purposefully.

I go ahead, hit me with some facts.

Okay. There are no polar bears in our town.

Did they all go to the island from last? Okay.

Polar bears only live in the Arctic. Yep. They're like Arctic Foss, foxes, Arctic or Arctic Foxes. They live in the Arctic

in the Arctic. All right.

I hate that word. By the way. What Arctic? Yeah, I don't like it either. Because you have to say that c the C sound twice the C sound twice, like two seconds and

arc da

but I was like Second grade, and my teacher taught me how to say Arctic, and I hated it. I don't like it. I've hated it since day one.

So, in Antarctica, there are about 70 bases built by 30 different countries. And that's it. Like nobody lives there full time. And at any given time, there's around 1000 or so people. Okay, and that's just, it's just some facts. Just

okay. Those are those who already said the terror Australia's one. Oh, mushrooms, they can grow. They're, like QRadar I'm gonna say that wrong so many times. So it's a weird word. While it's the world's largest desert, there are over ways the desert.

I thought it was just ice. What's the definition of a desert?

Big sand.

It's a it's a look it up. Look up the look of the definition and tell me if Antarctica is a desert. A desert? No. Because then you're gonna get like tiramisu. Oh, tiramisu.

Oh, it's, it's a one. It's not loading up there. It is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs. There you go. Well, I don't like that definition. So my slider too far up. Yeah, it's a definition. It's not my definition. But that's

what a desert is it somewhere where there's there's no precipitation. No, there's very little. And there's hardly any precipitation in Antarctica.

Yeah, imagine there wouldn't be because it's just too cold. Yeah, there's no there's no water for to evaporate. Right. And there's like 1000 types of mushrooms. Yeah.

I tell you we have about 30 in our backyard. Our backyard is going crazy this year with the mushrooms. I hope

the puffballs get bigger so we can eat them. No, they're little tiny, right? They

scare scares me. Why? Because, like, there's the easiest one to identify. You got a mushroom, right animal? And just make sure that you know 100

It's not black on the inside. 100 Okay, don't take my word for this, but I know. I know. Just look it up before you eat stuff from the ground, please.

Okay, Leila what? I have a question. What? What time is it? In Australia? Right now?

930 It's,

it's nine o'clock. Because there's no time zones there.

No, there is. Weight in Australia. No, you said Australia. I

say Australia said Australia's because I was reading your your facts with Australia's like it was every time. It's there is no official timezone. Like, yeah, it's like all tied in with any other times. It's just like, because it's got the longitude, Antarctica time.

It's like the longitudes. It's got to make time zones.

Well, why do you hate? Why do you hate time zones?

I get it. I don't like it.

I don't get it. I,

I get it where it's the sun is. But why does it have to be where the sun is? It's kinda like my thing with daylight saving time. Daylight Savings Time. I don't care. You know, it's so stupid. It's an hour, and everyone's making you wake up earlier,

or later, or later. But I wanted to later know.

put my foot down. I hate it.

It should I hate it so much to die. I don't think it should still be a thing. It

goes forward, and then it goes back. So we could just keep it there. Yeah. And that's what I do. Like we're changing it every year. Like,

before my phone changed the time and my truck on the little clock. And my older cars. We had to manually change it. I'd never changed it. Yeah. So it was always either on time or an hour off. Yeah. So

which is another thing, but there's this like, one? five month period or whatever? I don't know about years.

So I got a question. Okay, so all wrong. So I get that. I get the the daylight savings time thing. Yeah, it's stupid to change the time. Just leave it. Leave it just leave it. The one the time zones thing I'm interested in how I'm interested in in. I'm interested in how you would mark when the day changes.

I mean, in Japan right now. It's like eight in the morning.

Yeah, all right. Yeah, Australia, Australia. It's like next week. Australia is a couple of days ahead of us or something I don't know. Now there you go up. it down. Yeah, they're like, they're pretty far ahead of us. So, like, if you know

that every minute and Australia minute passes, no. Well, now, you know,

no, I know. But no, like, if if we went to one world time where we had like, you know, we just went by UTC, right? Everybody? Oh, that's like the Universal Time. Central. Yeah. So okay. If you go down to your clock on your computer? Actually, no, you can't change it. Anyway. So yeah, like right now. We're negative five.

time.gov is Universal Time. Coordinated Time is 20 in the morning,

it's 21 minutes after midnight, UTC. So we are needed for reversal time, we're four hours behind. We're negative four. We're not going to for so if we went by UTC, I guess the day would change whenever it hits midnight UTC.

So when is where is the Universal Time? It'd be in the ocean.

It's east of us. Four hours east. Yeah, but what?

I know where it is,

it used to be Greenwich. It used to be used to be in one.

It wouldn't go through like Japan or something. No.

Where is UTC live, Coordinated Universal Time. You see this, this is our show. We're supposed to be talking about Antarctica. And we're over here with some times. Wow. So if you look at zero, it's England, or the UK. We're spherical. The UK right? But then it sneaks around France, what jumps over Spain and then goes down

may not deserve the Universal Time.

And it kind of just like, ignores that Africa

a little bit. Look at it. Greenland. Oh, no.

So Mali, in Africa, Mali, mora Tawnya Maratea, Ghana, Guinea, Ghana Ivory Coast. All of those are in the zero timezone and Icelanders

and a little bit little sliver of Greenland for whatever

reason. This map is insanely in

the wrong times. What is going on? I thought they were like straight lines.

And what another thing about timezone is like most timezones in America like the the line is in between states, but not Tennessee, it just slices right in the middle. So yeah, in Tennessee, you could stay in the same state and like I didn't know

the real crooked like that. Yeah. Really.

Don't believe just on Wikipedia world timezone map. Wikipedia isn't a nevermind, no, but I'll tell you who made the map. Hold on. There's a little a little copyright thing down in there.

When I become president I'm changing the timezone.

Oh, no, there is no copyright this just saying that the lines aren't perfect. Interesting. So I would also like to one day do an episode about maps without New Zealand. Oh, yeah. Because there's a whole lot of maps out there where New Zealand is not on them. It's like there's New Zealand really there?

I don't know. Has anyone really been to New Zealand? Okay, so

what? Rats homepage? Oh, yeah. Okay, so I was going to look at time zones and Antarctica. And ants are and I can't remember which of the articles so I'm just going to search it. Time in Antarctica, Antarctica site sits on every line of longitude. Because the South Pole is on the continent, theoretically in article would have to be located in all time

Yeah. So do you think there's trees now? You're right.

Okay, so no trees are trees and there are no trees and and Arctic, which seems

like Oh, scroll down a little bit. I put a map on there. How did you get to Australia and New Zealand?

Oh, my gosh. That's amazing.

There's a little Australia underneath newsy. blend and then another Australia like off to where Australia kind of is but it's kind of crooked

now there's a there's a Australia Antarctica direct decal direct direct directly below India, like right below it like you could you could take a little little ferry across and then one Yeah. Is it connected? crooked? Crooked ostrich

Australia was no. What does he say? Like a restaurant does

it say on the far left it says world map of Dookie.

Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, what is important? Where

did you get this?

Oh, I just looked up maps without New Zealand.

All right, we're gonna definitely have to put this in the chapter file. We'll send that to you. Yes, send a link so we can put in the show notes. It'll be in the show notes. That's hilarious. World Map of Dookie. That's de OKK. I though it's not like I'm probably making someone's fun of some extremely cultural thing. Anyway. Okay, so how big is Antarctica? Pretty big. Okay, so,

oh, it's the fifth largest continent. And I had to look it up. Because I was very mad that I couldn't remember the continents from largest to smallest. Because we learned it last year. And she was like, this is very important. You have to learn this. You have to really? Yeah.

I don't think I've ever used that information in my entire life

tried so hard to memorize it and I did for a month. And then

you asked to know this piece of information? Because it's on the test. That's why you had to know it. Yeah, it's on the test. You don't order them. loot. So. Okay, it's about the size of the United States and Mexico combined. It is. Yeah. And it's about 1.7 times the size of Australia.

I hate maps. Maps are the worst. You know why?

I don't know. Why, because they're not how bad are they? Because they're not to scale maps can be to scale. Yes. But mostly large maps that are maps that depict a large area are never to scale. Yeah, because of you know,

shape on this map. Russia is only half the size.

Okay. Antarctica will do a Maps episode. Okay, well, the last episode let's not write it down. We could do a whole maps episode, Antarctica. There used to be a show called maps with Matt maps with Matt It's not around anymore.

Mount. A Rebus is the southern most active volcano on the planet and is located in Antarctica. I want to see where Hold on one mount.

So we're doing all of our show our show research and show prep on we've got it we've got this guy, we're just we're not a visual podcasts. You have to describe the

mountain with a hole in it.

But you didn't tell anybody that you just said Look at this guy. We are an audio only podcast I offer. Video olan offered to do a

video All right.

So yeah, it was a very, very large phone with a PDF mountain with a big hole in it. Otherwise known as like a volcano. Anyway, it's,

I don't know where it is. Well, then I'm gonna look at that doesn't tell me anything. What it says map of Antarctica showing the location of Mount Erebus, and it's not on there. There's no indicator,

a map of Antarctica. This is why you got to look this stuff. We don't know what we're gonna talk about. We don't know which one we're gonna go into this

is I'm sure it's on Antarctica. So the let's go to Antarctica and find it.

Ice is about a mile deep. The average thickness of Antarctic ice is about a mile. And then the lakes there. There's like this one called deep lake. And it's so salty. Also to use that it stays liquid at temperatures down to negative four degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius. The salt here water is the cold right has to meet a freeze because of electrolytes. It's what plants crave. Yes, it's what plants crave. Oh, so they're okay. Well, not yet. Because I'm about to go off on a

How salty,

super salty. It was three times saltier than seawater and therefore, too salty to freeze. I mean, it would freeze if today negative 700 degrees. But um, anyway, the saltwater picked up a bunch of iron from the underlying rock, the bedrock down there. And the iron rich water comes up through and comes out as a waterfall. And since it's got iron in it, when it comes in contact with the air, the iron oxidizes and turns red. And it leaves blood like stain trails. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So

Totally. Absolutely. What I would have said.

All right. What else you got?

I was gonna say something. Oh, the first factor that I found on this, the coldest temperature on record. What is it? What do you think it is?

Celsius and Celsius? I don't know how Celsius works. So 700 degrees? Positive? i Yeah. So I don't know how Celsius works. That's metric. No, I don't do metric. No, no.

What was negative? Negative 700 degrees? No. Up?

Negative 900 degrees. Oh,

down. You do it wrong. Negatives when you say go up, they get smaller. The number the absolute value.

So what you would like me to say is a number

nine degree why point to negative degrees? Celsius? Which What do you think is in Fahrenheit?

I don't know. Like 170 degrees? Negative?

It's pretty close. It is 128? Yeah, that's pretty cold.

Negative 102. I think the coldest I've ever was the coldest you've ever been in? Like one rally? I guess that's true.

I've been at snow

I want to say like maybe negative 10 was the coldest

experiment, the more calculate might be more better

when I was trying to think of when you may have experienced colored net but it hasn't gone below zero since you've been born know where we live.

But I've been in like sledding. So I've had like snow all over me. Yeah, but that's not that's not the temperature temperature. Now. That's just the my internal temperature and even

even then that snow was not negative something or there

was it was it was now a good time it

landed in that month. Oh, yeah,

I did do Yeah, we

both got super muddy. It was fun, though. We cracked through the the layer of snow into the ditch that was below it. And it was just mud.

It was only half frozen. I

only got a few cuts and scrapes. So not too bad. Not too bad. Not too bad.

Not too bad. Not too bad. What else you got? No. No, I was gonna finish it. But I thought that was funny. No non native species are allowed to be taking to Antarctica. This law was passed in 1994. By Joseph no non native species are allowed to be taken to Antarctica.

Yeah, I mean, that's well, I don't know what if you're trying to do some science?

And why would you need to do an Antarctica?

Well, what if you're trying to figure out how to grow something in Antarctica? Or the sea? actings

Why would you species

because you could you could like dig and find the dirt. And like, plan it and see what happens. That's how that's how you do science. Right?

Science? Totally. All right.

Now, there was a scientist. Well, you know, it wasn't assigned his it was a military man. But he had scientists with him. His name was Admiral Richard E. Bird. And he was the dude who went down to the Antarctic back in the 1940s.

That's the wrong one.

That's the wrong one. I moved the sliders around. Here we go.

Navigation class underground learns more of the world's coldest windiest continent, where a temperature is reached 90 below and winds to 100 miles an hour. preserving food and storage lockers is no problem here. Many experts envision the Antarctic as a huge Deep Freeze cabinet. surplus food could conceivably be stored with assurance that it would be

I love these old time documentary scenes have conquered me too. I have a

dog sleds carrying vital on the expedition and their drivers abandoned Little America and returned to the ships now being loaded. A crane on the boat was longtime friend bird expeditions, the penguins in natural resources of the Antarctic must be left behind coal, oil, uranium and penguins. So I love

penguins. They're so funny looking.

Yeah, they're fun. The there are a lot of resources in Antarctica. But it's just so hard to get to them that it's not really worth it at this point. Or is my understanding. So there's you know, oil, coal all the stuff that's on all the other continents is there it's just under a mile of snow and ice. Yeah, they got a whole lot a whole lot of ice chip and the idea though ice pick and get out there and you know by hand.

So what do you think is the most abundant land animal on exotic

land animal? Yeah. I think it's some kind of worm and if

you ruin it for me,

I'm sorry. I've known that one though. That was that was one that was in my brain. It's called

a nematode, nematode, and nematode, a nematode worm attitudes.

And that's not like a it's like

a microscopic Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they are. So that's kind of cheating, though. Let's cut let's close. That's like saying bacteria are the most.

But it's a realm worm. It's just a cute little tiny. Yeah. And I guess it just it's in there. Just eaten whatever's nice. It's been probably, you know, all kinds of alien stuff. And okay, they're a little bit bigger. They're not they're not the small is they're not super,

not super small. I was just looking at one of those microscope things. So it looks like a super small,

a slender worm with a thickness of What? What? Hold on, let me see. This says this says from Wikipedia. It says okay, so brave search gives you like this little summarizer. It's like an AI thing that reads from the top three websites and it says nematode worms are very small slender worms with a thickness of five to 100 meters. And a length of point one millimeters thick. So two meters five to 100 meters wide and the length of point one to 2.5 millimeters. So it'd be like a

Guessing. Let's look at the actual Wikipedia or the actual,

actual page. Instead of reading the summarizer. Five to 100 I'm just going to hit Ctrl F hookworms search 100 M or e o

worms. We're talking about worms this point. Worms are cool. Tardigrades, we need to add certain tardigrades,

tardigrades, which, I know I've like heard that what is that? The little berry things? Yeah,

LITTLE BEAR things. The Weird Mouse.

Yeah, those can live in space. Yeah, they can live in space. What do they call there's another name for him is water bears? Water bears? That's right.

tardigrade werebear they're so funny looking.

Oh, there's a real picture of some nematode worm. I don't like it. I don't like this. I don't like that picture at all. Oh,

Yeah, it's an Oregon

gust. All right, don't look it up. Okay. Did you have a party grades though? They're pretty cool. Any more facts about Antarctica that are amazing? How about meter? meter? Right. meteoroids meet us. Alright, see this. Alright, meteorites. There's about 10,000 that have been discovered in an hour in Antarctica since 1970. I believe you the ice in the continent preserves the meteorites in a different way than anywhere else on Earth. Plus, human people are places on

around or so like, that was like, No, a lot of time. A long

time ago, people probably picked up the meteorites and and put them into a into a house. Like, like there's a meteorite in the wall because they used it as a rule. Yeah. Or they, you know, turned it into a knife or Yeah, I

think it'd be a cool knife. There's,

there's some really cool things made out of meteorites. I've seen meteorite knives. I saw a guy made a pair of meteorite pistols. Saw some some really neat stuff

meter. It's expensive.

Yeah. Overly in my opinion, but I think they're I think they're a little rock, I think. A little more common than people. Yeah.

Like diamonds.

Oh my gosh, don't get me. Started on diamonds in that whole scam. It's a scam.

So dude, cruise ships can go to Antarctica. Cruise ships can't go to Antarctica again. Why would they want to though? Because it's fun. Gotta be

in tropical tropical stuff for a cruise ship. Well, Alaska cruise would

be pretty nice, but they cannot go on land. Right. Due to how big?

Yeah, they'd have to use a little Skiff to go from the ship to land. We had to take a skiff on our first cruise. So like a little fairies, like a little small boat. Oh, you climb off and you? That's neat. Yeah, it's just gonna just move you back and forth. Because you gotta have so much water you know, underneath the cruise ship. Again just yeah, just run it up on the land. It won't work or like that one guy did with that freighter in that tunnel that a causeway? Anyway, so I

We're not one of those.

Do not if you subscribe to this show. I will find you.

I hate those two. I

hate those people too. I know the ones that are trying to make it funny.

Like unsubscribing the next three seconds or this spider will be in your bed tonight. Oh racket you guys.

I don't know how spiders work I could be telling the truth.

No, I'm definitely telling the truth. This

Okay, let's go on a little rant about YouTubers because

there's we're done with the Antarctic effects if you came here for Antarctica leave

okay they know real quick let's do let's do a support section and then we'll talk about YouTubers. Yeah.

Okay, here we go. So we had after show today we had

one Boost Post show last week. It was five days ago. Cameron I believe I could be wrong. This is the Cameron from IPF podcasting. dotnet IPFS IPFS podcasting, not net music. I'll edit that out and post. The IPFS podcasting is what we're using to host the show now which is awesome.

Interplanetary file system, interplanetary file.

Yeah. 22 airborne 22 bajillion SATs. Wow. 2022 sets. And

thank you for this ads.

Yes. Thank you so much. And Cameron says, No. Blender. Blender, or no, that was the question. My summation point. Just an exclamation point. So blender. Blender is awesome. I have to learn it though. Because they changed the whole interface on me. So I was looking

at one of my vocabulary words this week and blender stuff came up and I'm like, Oh, my blender. What was the word? I don't know. It was some history word.

Some history word. Whatever. But yes, thank you. Thank you, Cameron. If you're not the IPFS podcasting gone that Cameron hit us up with another boost and let us know.

Totally. Or you just could leave it

I believe Think I can't remember who it was. But somebody bought a keyboard from QBO. Was it a drip? No, it was not drip Scott. It was either. Was it Dwight? Oh, just hold on. I'm saying people's names on the air. Why? They're cool people. Yeah, there are people who donate we talk about it was on. Oh, I'll just pull it up on my phone. I'm sitting here trying

Oh my goodness.

I believe servo bought it from QBO because Neil was talking about it on in chat. Yeah, so it looks really cool. I don't I don't know, man. I don't know if I could do the split keyboard.

I would get used to it really easily. Right. I'm used to stuff a lot. Yeah, but I think that'd be pretty easy to get to. Because it's better for you. Although I hate those stupid mouse's that are vertical. Who need

those just turn up? No, those. Those actually get pretty comfortable after a while it actually feels really good to use. And it doesn't take long to get used to it. Anywho All right. So should we do the to do the outro firsthand, and then rant or should we?

Yeah, I guess we can. Because it's kind of like a post show because we don't have life this week.

Right? So yeah, stick around after the outro for the outro if you want to hear conversation if you don't want to hear us about rant about YouTube next week

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Okay, all they're all They're all the nerds are gone. It's only cool people

holding down the record button.

Oh yeah, just shut it off. Yeah,

I kind of wanted to like instinctively like, tell you to turn. I don't know

why we read the outro we're just talking all the time. What is wrong? If we decide that we don't want to keep this in the vinyl recording? That's fine. Yeah, we get rid of it. Nobody will ever hear this. Yeah. Okay, so you are one of my pet peeves about YouTubers these days, kids kids these days

is what is wrong with me?

I can't believe it's all so outrageous what happened to me this week and they just start shouting as soon as you turn on the video. They're just yelling at you and they yell the entire episode of whatever it is. And they just shout it's because

it's made for children. It's made for kids. And they're trying to get their YouTube channel monetized because YouTube likes kids but the shouting something

kids like Yeah. Have you ever seen a kid? No, I've never seen a child.

Okay, think of

it's like a normal person. It's like a normal person but but smaller. And they like and they like shower and like truck trucks and shouting and they like shouting they also like eating throwing stuff

all over the walls and going to school

now there's there's some good kids out there but

I don't I met a cool kid today.

I don't get in third grade. I don't get the shouting people the second the video starts

oh my gosh, I know I watched a you don't have to watch those, you know? Oh, I

don't I don't watch them. But like, what what's terrible is it like? It promotes it like the albino oats these

Have you seen that? Tick tock trend whereas the the adults you have to know I don't I just have YouTube shorts. Oh, and I see

a copy that talks. Yeah, but repost them.

They crack the egg on kids forehead. That's kind of Funny. It's not it's kind of funny. We did it. When? When I was a kid

Yes. Yes, I correct. Because you're sitting, you're sitting on the counter next to the stove and I needed to crack an egg and I was like, and you just giggled, didn't my for it does not kidding. You could exit break so easy,

hilarious if I did actually have an egg shaped deck. But it's funny. It's just I hate that people are like recording it and telling kids that this is okay.

Okay. Anything that I don't know it just any other things that turn into trends. And it's like, everybody just copying everybody else is like,

no, no, I'm so quirky type way. And I I don't like trends type of thing.

I the ones that like they're like raising awareness for charity or whatever, like the Ice Bucket Challenge, raises a lot of money for ALS, for what ALS Lou Gehrig's disease. You can look it up later, okay. It's it's just as easy. They've researching to find try and fix it and they raised a whole lot of money with that one. But

my team trees, the shorts

A, the algorithm is so jacked up.

I hate shorts, but I obsessed with them. Lou Gehrig's. Okay,

they just they will feed you. I mean, not cool, but like, okay, maybe it's just me that I'm not like the kind of person that I want to watch the same type of content.

Log in.

I do. Oh, okay. Yeah. To use the to use the premium. Oh, yeah.

Oh, I didn't know. There was ads and YouTube shorts

don't have history turned on. Yeah. So the algorithms may not know what to do with me.

But they still know you look out and click.

Yeah, so like, anyway, the algo is messed up. And other people have told me who do have their history on they've told me that algo is just messed up for shorts. Oh, yeah. Whatever.

Yeah. Like I had a few days that were. Oh, let's see you. Sorry. I had a few days there where I was using YouTube shorts. And it would show me the same five videos. Like the only those five videos, and I got so tired of it. I just stopped using it for like a full week. Yeah.

It was doing that for everybody. Yeah, it was like a really bad glitch. It's like they're pushing it so hard, but they're not making it work. Yeah, that's what we're here to talk about. We're here to talk about the people that are so would you kindly like, smash that like button?

Okay, when once I start have something to say, that's like the last thing. I hate how there's like they're copying stuff off of different apps. And I hate the idea of copying. Well, that don't get me wrong. That happens across all software. I know. But you like YouTube's trying to take tiktoks niche, and they're trying to take like the reels from Instagram, or Twitter or something. I

don't know. Tic TOCs eating everybody's lunch right now. Oh, yeah. Tick tock is is YouTube. Well, no, no tick tock is getting all of the ad revenue right now. Everybody's advertising on tick tock, because everybody's watching tick tock. You know what else I hate? No. Okay. Before you start on that one, I got one for you. Okay, what? I downloaded an app that lets you use your phone camera, you guys, so no, no, no, this is something separate. That has to do with this. I download

Like record the screen? Well, I guess no,

no, because it's gonna have Yeah, and it would have this little record circle on it. And like the timer at the top. And now the app I'm using is pretty cool. If anybody wants to know what it is just hit me up, I'll let you know. I'm not going to advertise for him on the show. It's a pretty cool app. And I think Android 14 is going to it doesn't natively now. So the camera on my phone is amazing. It's a really good

G five or 5g, whatever it is. Yes, G five or something. But it's phone cameras. Terrible. It's blurry. And so whenever you wanted to take a photo or take a photo of anything, I'm like, Hey, Dad, can I use your camera real quick? Photo?

That's what I do. I'd towel and she'll be like, Oh, take a picture that and I'll you know I got roach in general. Yeah, the one that was eating the peach ring. Oh,

it's still around. It was around. Oh my gosh, there was like three of them.

We went in. We might have been Junior, but we went in a couple nights ago. And there was a news we ran over to the refrigerator section where they were last time there were like three of them. Papa Roach Oh, my God page one too happy about it.

So we will teach you. Yeah, mom ran across the thing.

She's like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. I don't want to be near those. I don't want to be there them. I was vibing with him. And we were just hanging out. We're like, what's up, guys? We're the Petri and you want to go get you a beach ring. I'll get up drink. Boy, yeah, the YouTube stuff is.

It's ridiculous.

I need it. And you know, I'm starting the new channel, the nerd talk with the cool guy. And I'm just I'm gonna just try real hard to not get into all that. Like, oh, like, subscribe, and comment and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, people know how to use the app. They want to subscribe. They'll subscribe if they want to like it. They'll like it. It doesn't really affect anything. I like

Vsauce because he doesn't like tell you to to subscribe to anything in his video because he he made

a comment. Call to Action comment below if you

really think so. I don't think I've ever heard him say that. I have heard him like plug his other channels like Vsauce to Well, yeah,

you always want to plug your other stuff just like I was just plugging nerd goggles a cool guy.

But he wasn't actively like saying, subscribe.

Yeah, it's people know how to use us people know how to use the thing. Yeah. Your number of subscriptions. Nowadays does not get you in front of more people. Your contact us? Because it when the algorithm actually knows every word you say it knows what you're talking about? It knows. And they run that algorithm against people. Hey, is anybody else? Is anybody looking for this kind of content? And then they do it?

teachers or grown adults. Right?

Well, you have seen grown adults yelling at the screen too.

Yeah, there's a whole. Yeah,

the Mr. Beast would like words constantly on the screen, which I guess that's good. Because closed captioning is kind of boring. It's kind of nice when they actually have words popping up on the screen,

I just realized that you can, like, move the captions on your screen. Recently. You can also choose the opacity of your

caption. I hate captions being on unless I can't understand why. I like it. Why do you like it? I'm curious. Because your generate people that maybe 30 and below age wise. That's a that's a new thing. Like they all like captions to be on.

Yeah, it's because it helps. Man. All right. It helps me understand, man. Okay, like, sometimes I'll misunderstand a word. But I don't realize that I misunderstand it, like, casual. And I won't catch it. So

see, what my brain does though, is it ends up focusing on the words instead of what's happening on the screen. It looks the pictures I can't, I can't read well, I'm also trying to look at things you're gonna look at the pictures and the caption. Like my, when I'm watching a TV show or a movie, I'm always like, looking at everything. I'm looking at the background, I'm looking for little clues that, like when

No, no. Oh, that's really cool.

I know your brain doesn't do that. Because we're watching the last right now. And you're like, you can't remember people's names.

The first like three seasons, I just couldn't get people's names, right. Like I kept calling Desmond, like Demetrius. Danny, Danny DeVito. So anyway, I started blasting him.

Anyway, I started blasting. Yeah, alright, well, hey, you know, I kind of like the little after after altro talk that doesn't have anything to do with the topic. It's kind of nice stream of consciousness. Right? That's kind of like, this is like what it is in the after shows when we go live. But yeah, it's we're not going live.

So if you never catch the live show, this is kind of what it is. Except for maybe we'll

start doing this after Yeah, kind

of like it. Yeah. Give us a little stream of consciousness after the fact. Tell me tell you what, I

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