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Episode 161 - FFUTS YPS!

Oct 27, 2023Ep. 161
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Leila

lizard, fried Friday lizard back Friday. Friday, lizard back Friday, we

David

had some lizards,

Leila

lizards in the studio. So lizard invasion, and a lizard Apocalypse eaten by lizard and the lizard people.

David

So we were sitting down to record this episode, which is going to be a little short. We had a lot going on this evening. This whole week we're talking about. And we're sitting there and we're sending links back and forth. We're getting stuff ready for the show notes.

Leila

I hear a pop. I'm looking for me. And there's a lizard. Oh,

David

lizards like hair.

Unknown

And it's like jumping.

David

It's doing these little funny jumps, and then walking jumps and it lands on the wires going from the road caster into the computer. Yeah. And it's walking across jumps on the wall next to another lizard. So we had two lizards out here in the shed might be more the studio of the super professional studio. And so we I was crawling around under the table and under the couch trying to grab them and I finally got a hold of them and get them outside and they're happy and living their best life

outside now. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in here because if any bugs got in, however, they they make posts and stuff. And it's kind of gross.

Leila

If we get a little litter box forum,

David

little lizard, lizard, lizard, lizard box, little little lizard litter box at the time, t TM. Nobody steal our idea. So okay, so this episode was actually inspired by a boost that we got. And typically we've been doing so the support section at the end of the show, but we'll go ahead since the idea came from we'll do our support section at the beginning of the show this time. So we got four days ago. Well, that's from when I pulled this. I guess it was about four days ago. We got

1776 sets from just listening. And for the maps episode, and it says the Piri rise map was famous for having a depiction of Antarctica below the ice. So that hey, we had an Antarctic episode recently do I read that it was later proven to not be Antarctica, but I think that's all conspiracy to hide us from to hide from us the true power of a level 50 Master cartographer, I agree. PS Warner Chappell, claimed copyright over the song Happy birthday, but had to pay back $14 million in 2015,

when the copyright was declared invalid. So yeah, you can sing that this standard, happy birthday song is anybody can use that. Nobody, they can't come after you for that anymore. It fell out of copyright a long time ago, legally, but then people tried to claim it. And it's been it's been a legal mess. There's some links in the show notes that you can go and read the, the history of the copyright, Time Magazine did an article on it. And then I've got the Wikipedia on those show

notes. Also. It's a it's an interesting thing. The period rise map, I went and looked that up a little bit, we'll have a link to the Wikipedia in the show notes. And it is a really old map, like super old 1513. And it's like a world map from 1513. It was rediscovered in 1929. It's pretty interesting read if you want to go check that out. Link will be in the show notes for that. I like how they used to draw the old maps like it was also I mean, they they're accurate for the time.

But everything is just also it's just so much more artistic, you know? Yes. See monsters, all that fun stuff. Okay. On to the next boost. 333 sets from Veritas Love and Light sending you both prayers for your Surgery and Dental stuff. Thank you. Thank you very much. I've actually postponing the surgery I'm having I have a just some scar tissue. And it's not that big of a deal. So I'm actually gonna push that off for a little while. Mine has to happen. Yeah, hers has to happen. It's just

braces. Just braces. Then we have one more for another 100 sets from bears love in mind. Have you done a show on spy craft? We have not.

Leila

I guess what? Guess what? Guess what? Guess what,

David

that's what this episode is gonna be. You're probably already know that since you're seeing it in your podcast player. And that's the name of the episode. Maybe we'll encode the name of the episode. Oh my goodness. That the rest of the booster Monopoly game with a map and compass made me think of it. And then there's a emoji do going Ah. So all right. So that is it for our support that is boosts those coming from a modern podcast app that supports the Lightning Network payments.

Tell me if we do this. Yeah. I said that earlier, you weren't paying attention. You were thinking about lizards,

Leila

obviously, what was it?

David

So, the reason we are moving our release schedule, we're just going to tell folks don't expect it until Friday afternoon or evening. From here for a little while, because we both got parts. In the Christmas carol play for our local local theater, it's always a annual Christmas carol play that they do. I got the part of the narrator,

Leila

which I'm just stage crew,

David

your stage crew and guest number one. And then and she's playing early, Kerala, Kerala, and you're playing saxophone before out in the lobby beforehand.

Leila

Anyway, and my stage crew shirt, and my pants, and I'm playing saxophone with my band,

David

and then she's gonna have some costume changes during the play, she's gonna, she's gonna be running around like crazy. I'm literally just sitting off in the corner, reading a book. And that's the beauty of my part is that I actually have a prop of a book in my hand that I'm supposed to be reading. So I get to keep the script in my hands the whole time. It's cheating. It's so good. I get to cheat and not have to memorize my lines. So but that the rehearsals for that are Monday through

Thursday, like every every day, except for Fridays. So you know, our release schedule. We're going to try and keep it on Fridays. From here on out. We may release it a little early. So you folks who like to listen on Friday mornings or early. can get that but we can't promise anything. Yeah. So yeah, I think that is all of the housekeeping. Housekeeping we had. Had, so let's get on to the

Leila

DOM. Okay, so I kind of half read mine kind of half. Because I was like, oh, we gotta get the show on the road. Yeah. And I was like, click on it at the same time.

David

We have an appointment this evening. With a movie with a certain someone. Five Nights at Freddy's. We're gonna go sit down, apparently. So. Okay, so what's your good news story? Mike, wait, wait, wait, wait. Now for Fun Fact Friday news

Leila

with your lead anchor. Leila so there's this coal mine, right. All right. And it got filled with water. Okay. And it's heating up it's what is heating up? It's heating up okay. Britain's deep coal mines have been a become a surprising source of green energy. And it's been heating the entire town of Gateshead successfully for six months.

David

Wait. So they're not like pulling the coal out and heating like burning it? It's just getting hot by itself. I think Yeah. This this, this is see this is where it comes in. You have to read the article before we start. You were like live go do it live.

Leila

Gateshead Council's mind water project launched in March of 2023. And has now a large central heat pump that provides low carbon heating up to what 3000 What? What does that mean? 350 high rise buildings. Oh,

David

buildings figure was so new to measure me measurement.

Leila

A high rise building an art gallery, a college industrial park. I call it an industrial park. And several buildings, office buildings. Buildings offices.

David

I don't know. I'm just thought I read your story. Yeah, it's good.

Leila

So the oil and gas gradually replace coal. Britain's hundreds of miles of coal mining tunnels were gradually abandoned over the decades and on an inundated inundated by floodwaters but became heated by the Earth's core. Britain's said Britain, Britain suddenly had a semi natural occurring geothermal energy source to harvest

David

Oh, so it flooded. Like, Earth was like water. I only like hot water, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So now you got like, thermal and this

Leila

is going on with the stuff that we're talking about Matt and not enough.

David

Well, isn't that a coinkidink? And that

Leila

a coinkidink. We're talking about energy and geothermal energy and photovoltaic cells. What is that? You know?

David

Yeah, that's solar power. Yeah. That's what you use to solar stuff. Solar stuff. Anyway, when you needed a solar or something, that's what you do.

Leila

I thought that was neat. Yeah, that's really neat, like heating the whole town.

David

We started and then everywhere. So are you aware of eggs?

Leila

No. Oh, tell me about eggs dad.

David

Okay, so this this this lady back in 1951 I double checked. It's not. It's not me, me from our eggs episode work at an egg processing plant. I guess you'd call it an egory egory And she wrote on an egg. So this guy found it and held on to it. And basically on the egg, it just said, Hey, whoever gets this egg, send me send me a letter and put her name and the town she lived in and, you know, back in, like the 50s. That was enough information. You know, you'd be like Sally, Sally

Terwilliger in you know, I don't know, port town. I don't really I don't know a state. Illinois port port town. Orlando, Illinois Rolando. And she just brought this on the egg. Well, the guy who got it never, never did it. He never said the letter. I'm like, why how could you not do it? But he has message kept the egg for 50 years and then gave it to somebody else who collects weird stuff. And then this guy doesn't

send the letter eater doesn't doesn't do any any. Like research to find out if this person is still around who they you know who they already thing. So anyway, I've got a little clip from the newscast is from CBS News, the uplift and the news anchor. I think he would be a good guest on on Fun Fact Friday because Because listen to this. Oh my goodness. Let me let me turn up the volume a little bit because I think it's a little quiet. I'm taking cemetry okay.

Unknown

All those people who had egg on their Facebook hatched a plan, scrambled, fried hard to find this Mary FOSS. After 72 years, they expected an exhausting search. That would not be overeasy. But they cracked the case in less than a day. And for those of you keeping track at home, that was eight puns in 15 seconds. Do you remember writing on that egg? Oh, my goodness. Yes. And you were hoping to find someone to be a pen pal? Well, who knows? We all dream. Mary is now 92.

But as a teenager working in an egg packing plant like this one. Mary says she used to dream of meeting someone in a far off place. That fragile little message in a bottle her way of reaching out. Yes. And now 72 years later, she has finally made her connection.

David

And here it is. How are you egg this week? So I thought that was cute. For an attorney, or news music Mecca. But yeah, you can get a link to that. It'll be in the show notes. And the guy the guy they're doing like a zoom call between the lady and the guy who has the egg now. And they just both look so happy over this little egg. I'm like, how do you get an egg with that written on it? And not send the letter if I see if I see something written on a tree, that's not obvious, like just

like some initials in a heart. Yeah, if I see something written on a tree, and it's not like an English word, I'm gonna be sitting over here thinking oh, the lizard people trying to send me a message or you know, I try and decipher it and try and figure out what's going on. And normally it's just an oval teen ad. But um, that it's a reference to the movie A Christmas Story. He Hey, are you not aware of this? Have you not watched a Christmas story? What is that? It's the one where he

wants the red Ryder BB gun. For Christmas?

Leila

I don't know.

David

Okay, well, I think the new segments Yeah, I think pan. So basically, there's this movie.

Leila

Is it a Christmas story or a Christmas story?

David

I think it's a Christmas story. Okay, yeah, it's

Leila

a nine year mark of tomatoes. Yeah, it's

David

an amazing it's just a classic. Yeah,

Leila

let me see. Let me see.

David

So anyway, there's a part three, there's a part and it was really old. He gets a Thanks. Where he gets a decoder ring sigh and they've got an old time radio drama on and during one of the one of the breaks, they say, use your decoder ring and decode this message and like read out a bunch of random letters. And then like he got runs to the bathroom. And he gets the ring and he's and he's this is a spoiler by the way.

Leila

With the leg lamp.

David

Yeah, the leg lamp. Yeah. Anyway, he decodes the secret message and it's just an ad for rate for raid shadow legends. This monster today's video. Oh my god. We don't do sponsors. We get our, our support from our listeners where we can stay independent and Now, spy stuff. I wanted to be a spy so bad when I was like, Oh my gosh, maybe like 10 Maybe through like teenage years, just because of the cool gadgets.

Leila

Speaking of which, today was like career day. Oh yeah, I had nothing to wear. Because I want to be in like a neuroscientist neurologist. So I just wore like a white button up over my regular t shirt and put a paper on me that says I'm a neurologist.

David

We got to find a neurologist. Nobody knows neurologist haven't get in touch when you guessed little ones questions. So I always liked the spy gadgets on like James Bond and all this stuff. And nowadays we like the stuff is all super cheap. Like these cameras that used to be the state of the art tech. If you read these old articles about the history of spying, they were just sticking cameras and everything.

Leila

Yeah, sticking them in like, Buttons.

David

Yeah, one of these is basically the history hit.com What do you have? Oh, it's a it's a scooter in the studio. Loopy spoon. Do you want to go ahead and kill it?

Leila

Why do we have to kill it?

David

Why don't you grab this notepad right here. And then find something else flat. We have some action going on in this episode. We do if we had the lizard, we could just chuck the lizard at it. And yeah, just find something out. I'm gonna run your mic down so we don't don't smack into it. All right, your mic is down. I'm going to talk about wristwatch cameras. Like even all the way back to the 1940s. Scary they were fitting. Oh, you can just smash them in the book. It'll just

mess up two pages. We'll be fine. Plus, we'll have a little souvenir. Joe slow. You got it. You got it all the way around them. And close it they go. Okay, well, I'm not opening that. Now we have a spider book. So this wristwatch camera. It looked it looks like just a bulky watch with all these lenses on the front. And it's super obvious that it's a camera

Leila

like this, just with your with your arms in front of you. Like they're like.

David

However, it's obvious to us. Back in the old days, like nobody's thinking that could be a camera. They're just thinking that guy's watches weird.

Leila

Although me. I think everything's a camera. Yeah, and

David

it could be these days. Yeah, you can hop on any little spy website that sells stuff. You can get a camera and anything and get a camera. Team Okay, cameras. Yeah, that mean they make them so tiny. That's not again. You gotta you gotta look out for that stuff. You got to hotels and stuff nowadays? Yeah. Um, what else? Did they put cameras in? Oh my gosh, they put cameras and buttons

Leila

due to transmitter? Yes.

David

We'll talk about the duty transmitter in just a moment. Let me look for that. Yeah, all this stuff was like back in the 40s though. So that's why it was so impressive because the technology was not where it is these days. So they were using film cameras. Yeah, and putting them in stuff.

Leila

Whoa, button cameras. What Copan

David

so I was just I was just talking about how they run the the actual cameras like behind the coat. And then the lens just is just one of the buttons over here. overcoat

Leila

Yeah, it's like that one Barbie. That one Barbie with like the TV on her back. And the camera in front of me.

David

There's a what? Oh, yeah, yeah, you showed me that one time. If you look it up we gotta put in the show notes. So so just

Leila

so yeah, Google that folks. Video Barbie yourselves in video here my Barbie

David

right it's just got a TV in her back just inserted right in the back of the

Leila

back into like a camera right? Yeah,

David

one of the other really cool ones gadgets I found while looking around. This is all on history. hit.com coolest buy gadgets in espionage history. In 1970 for the CIA premiered the and secto thought talking about this one. It is a it looks like a dragonfly. But it had a little candlelight. Dragonfly. Yeah, it looks really good. It was it was really good. And it could fly. I want to say I read one of the other articles I was reading those can fly like 30 meters or 60 meters while he was chugging

us out over there. Good. Not good for you. But then it had a little microphone on it that could transmit like 300 300 meter. I don't know it had some little cool little little microphone stuff. Oh habitants are dropped, sir. Well, they've got new ones. Now. Of course, since the tech is way better. It's actually happened. Yeah, I came across a video Maybe a couple of years ago that had, it was about the size of a fly like

a house fly. Wow. And they could fly it in with a camera. And it also you could outfit it with enough explosive to take out a bad guy, if you like landed on the back of his neck. So that's pretty scary.

Leila

Tiny automatic cameras strapped to pigeons.

David

Like you This is back when pigeons were real numbers were real, right? No, no, they've never been real.

Leila

So camera cloud pigeons fitted with secret cameras were used to map military battlefields targets and territories during World War One and World War Two. And they would basically just get like automatic cameras that were that took photos not video. Yeah. But they really bulky, like as big as the patient and they chat in the like, strapped it to pigeon.

David

That's pretty good, pretty good aerial photography, their

Leila

bird's eye view, if you know what I'm saying.

David

Yes, we all know what you're saying. It's exactly a bird's eye view. That's not

Leila

like saying if you know what I'm saying. It's very obvious.

David

So we're not gonna go too much into weaponry. Just because you know, it's a family show. It's really cool if you want but there's so much cool stuff. Like there's one there's an umbrella that shoots a little dart, like little you can put whatever you want in the dark. And so like you walk around with your umbrella, you're like, oh, there's a bad guy. You know. But the radio transmitters and stuff. Yeah. So there used to be, let's talk about that used to be the show called Get smart.

And he always had like the most ridiculous gadgets. But one of the most every episode type gadget was his shoe phone. So he took his shoe off. It was basically a cell phone. But the KGB actually issued these during the Cold War. And they were transmitters. And they monitored. They were they monitored and sent off. You know, he relayed essentially you know, what to the to the, the info. What my brain just stopped working for it's different kinds of guns. There's lipstick, guns

and all kinds of calls kinds of stuff like that. KGB is also real big on disappearing ink.

Leila

Ooh, we have some of that. We have

David

invisible ink. Oh, what? The UV ink? The UV light.

Leila

There's like some radio stuff going on. Oh, did you hear? That was uh oh, I

David

think the refrigerator just kicked.

Leila

No, wasn't that Oh, it sounds like a fly on this.

David

Oh, I don't know. Who knows?

Leila

Who knows.

David

So tell us about the duty transmitter.

Leila

I'm trying to look at more information on it.

David

Okay, so good.

Leila

It says it was used to track the movement of enemy troops. But it doesn't say like what it was. It doesn't say that. It was like, an a camera or hold on. There we go. Transmitter says

David

maybe it had sensors on it

Leila

made me. So it's basically just meant to look like a dog poop or something. And it does pretty good at doing that.

David

A hard thing to replicate.

Leila

I'm trying to look for something that actually tells me what's going on. It's just a picture of it. Due to transmitter.

David

Well, I know like if if troops are moving to an area, they're gonna make noise. Oh, yeah. You know, so if they even just had any kind of vibration sensors?

Leila

Yeah, it's a radio transmission thing.

David

All right. All right. Well, it's

Leila

a t 1151 radio transmitter. Disguised as a pile of animal droppings.

David

Either a dog or tiger monkey. Yeah. It was used in Vietnam.

Leila

Huh? Oh, it would. Morse code.

David

Okay, monitored, monitored radio transmissions. Yeah, so Okay, so it was just like a radio spy. It

Leila

was just like one of the little Morse code things spy spy groups.

David

That's what we named the episode that let's see what was the other one I wanted to talk about. Oh, I wanted to talk about some super, super spy techniques of how to transmit information. But way before electronics were even a thing. So going all the way back to the ancient Greeks. History his his Darius, I guess is how you say it would keep his message messages secret. He would shave the head of a messenger Oh to the message on to scalp and then wait for the hair to grow back.

And then send the messenger to the intended recipient. And what's the messenger got there? And the messenger wouldn't even know the message. Because you know, it's Yeah, on the back of his head. And then the guy would be like, Hey, he's like, Hey, I'm the messenger. And he's like, Alright, turn around, shave his head, and then read the message. Then you have to wait for his hair to grow back before he could go back. Oh my gosh, that is the slowest way of sending Oh my

Leila

gosh.

David

Okay, let's see. Okay, so Elizabeth van Lew was a successful union spy during the Civil War. And women were really good at being spies throughout history because men underestimated them. And didn't think you know, women are

involved at all in any of this stuff. So this article says if a local man kept visiting Union soldiers in the prison, other people in Richmond would probably get suspicious after all Richmond resort a confederacy but they wouldn't stop a young woman from being charitable and supplying the Union soldiers with baskets of food or clothing or, you know, other supplies. So, oh, wow. What your you posted a link in my my screen just like stuffs happening my screen. I forgot

that we have that. That's shared. There. Yeah. So yeah, so she would smuggle in hollow egg shells concealing messages. So she'd have a basket of eggs. And some of them didn't have egg in them, like, you know, the insides they would have like, notes with information. It's very, very egg spy stuff. No, that's not even the only egg method that they've used. There was somebody what was her name? Renaissance heiress era scientist, Giovanni della porta, used an invisible ink on hard

boiled eggs. And since egg shells are porous, they would let the ink leach through. And she could write on the actual egg, the hard boiled egg inside. So in order to read the message, you would peel the egg and there the message would be there on the egg, but not visible from the outside. They have had trouble replicating this. So it may or may not. There's somebody that says that they've done it, but they won't share their recipe on how they how they've done it. So it's very secret,

very secret. And then the last one I wanted to talk about, on the cricket blog is where I'm reading all these fronts. What are some good ones it does. The proof in the petticoats is what this part of it's called. Female spies throughout history have often hidden their messages in plain sight. During the American Revolution. Abandoned spies called the culper ring found innovative ways ways to communicate their messages. And a strong message was the most creative at all, communicating

via her laundry. When she hung her laundry out to dry on a clothesline, another spy watch with a telescope from across the bay. A black petticoat meant a fellow spy Caleb Brewster was in town. The order of the rest of the laundry determined where they would meet that night. Wow. So depending on how she hung her laundry, she knew that somebody across the bay was watching. So she would communicate messages via her little secret laundry messages.

Leila

Yeah. That's super cool. Yeah,

David

it's really neat. And then the bottom one, the last one on this site is a cipher,

Leila

Caesar cipher, a Caesar cipher unseen.

David

Yeah, everybody knows about these ciphers. And it's just kind of like a decoder ring. coded messages have always been one most important ways for spies to communicate. One of the most famous in history used a code that was so simple, a child could learn it. But to an untrained eye, it's just gibberish. Basically, you take the alphabet and just shift all the letters in the alphabet to the right, or to the left a set

number of characters. So if you would start with ABCDE, f g, the cipher would be starting with D. So D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and continue with the alphabet. So you're just shifting the alphabet, a couple of letters, one right of the other. So it looks like gibberish. Until you know, okay, so we've shifted it. We're gonna go. It's kind of neat. I like little ciphers like that, that are real easy. I also like the super, super complicated ones. Did you know that there's a cipher outside

the CIA headquarters that still hasn't been solved? Like 30 years later?

Leila

Why Wow, yeah,

David

it's really believe it Kryptos is what it's called. I believe three of the four panels have been solved, but the last one hasn't been solved. As of last time I checked on it. So it's KRYP tos.

Leila

So crypto with okay. Yeah. Kryptos Yep,

David

it looks it's a sculpture made out of copper. Because the CIA or cops, coppers. Yeah, that's not where that comes from. Anyway, it is, there is a group that gets together once a year with the man who created Kryptos. And they try so hard to get him to give them a clue on how to solve this thing. They bring him sushi and fine wine and all kinds of stuff. And he has never given them a clue that they're aware of. I love it. So I like I like ciphers and things like that. If you have a good

one, send it mail at FunFactFriday.com. And I'll see if I can figure it out. I love I love those kinds of puzzles. So what what other what other gadgets? Did you think were cool about the spy stuff? Or what else did you come across? That was interesting.

Leila

A lot of ones they found interesting. Were the weapon ones.

David

Maybe you can talk about I'm just you know. Yeah, just keep it uh what is this?

Leila

I liked the lipstick. One. Lipstick weapon.

David

Oh, yeah. The lipstick gun. Yeah. Yeah, it's just It looks like a tube of lipstick.

Leila

It's just like, a long tube lipstick.

David

Ya know, keep keep one shot and lots of stuff like that. There's a glove that had a 38. One round of 38 in it. And yeah, just like a camera. Yeah, just like a camera. You can put as long as you can put a barrel and something that will ignite the powder charge. You're good to go. We did get an email that we forgot to read. As I was thinking about the email thing. This is from Team Omaha. So the guy who invented the saxophone was named adult face x. Right. But his middle name was Joseph.

So I'm gonna go ahead and go check on this before before I read it. So let's open up a window here and check who invented the X? Sachs phone? Which we may have said this on a previous episode. Yeah, you still saxophone wrong. You need to calm down. So yes, it was a Dollface x that is correct. And did adult face sex have a middle name? It is is Joseph. Oh my gosh. Antoine. Oh, it's Antoine Joseph. So it is Joseph at all. Fe adult Fe is what they call them. Like his nickname. Right.

So Antoine Joseph is his legal name with the with a hyphen in between him. And yeah, so there you go. Cool. I wait to 14. Oh, hold on. We don't have we don't have to

Leila

get a jingle for rant. loot. That's not a jingle. All right. Well, I What will Leila have a problem with this week? I have a problem with the pronunciations on like Google. When you look up a word so give me a word. Any word neighbor woman lamp All right. Lamp definition definition yawn. So Oh, some flame give me another word. Give me a big word.

David

I'm thinking of a big word. I Oh no. Any big words.

Leila

Emphasize,

David

emphasize there you go. You got to put the emphasis on Alright, so

Leila

here's how it said. Nevermind anyways, it's said to emphasize if you didn't know how to say emphasize, but the way that it's written. It's a lowercase E with a little bit with a smiley face over it pretty much without the eyes m comma f and upside down E dash s with a lot si but the eye instead of having a.as A line Z and then like a quote quotation marks. How do you say a quotation marks emphasize yes that's it. Emphasize. I know. Emphasize Yeah, well you're on Google. Emphasize

Kyle Hebert

there's a slow button Yeah, no.

Leila

Emphasize emphasize Oh, I'm okay. You're gonna make it? Yeah. Oh, it

David

is 621 Oh,

Leila

we're gonna go. Anyways, I have a I have a rant about how the way that pronunciations are said because we are spelled. I don't know how to spell pronunciations. What does an upside down E sound like? On I'm gonna ask, what does an upside down? E sound like? He probably looked this up on yours. Yeah,

David

so the so the pronunciation thing has been around forever. Upside down.

Leila

Like it'd be something useful

David

upside down a pronunciation. The symbol, you know, upside down E is used in a dictionary to show the most common weak vowel in English. Hey, pronounced your weak it's pronounced as a relaxed Okay, so an upside down is called a schwa. schwa I love that. S H. No, es si Hwa. Okay, so how do you pronounce the schwa schwa so the Google pronunciation guide is hilarious. It even shows a little animation of the mouth I'm gonna turn that up a little bit after that blur with schwa

cold or something? All right. I think we got to wrap it up. We have our we have our movie we gotta get to tonight. Yeah, we're gonna head out and I'm gonna get this episode posted real quick. Yeah, we'll see y'all next week. Hit us up. If you want to give us some some ideas for four episodes hit us with a boost in a modern podcast app from new podcast apps.com

Leila

and have a good Fun Fact Friday and have a good fun fact weekend bind our man fam.

Kyle Hebert

Oh my gosh. FunFactFriday.com early. And remember,

Leila

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