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Episode 166 - Culture!

Dec 01, 202348 minEp. 166
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Leila

Welcome. Hello, where we can show

David

we're a weekly podcast where we discuss topics surrounding different subjects each week each week we try and come up with some facts. Sometimes they're wrong. Let us know mail at FunFactFriday.com dot

Leila

org Tom No.

David

Calm. I was just amazed. So I've been told this even told by my daughter Leila that I'm very low energy. Yes.

Leila

You need to speed it up.

David

I need to I need to a kick in the pants. Yeah. So why am I low energy?

Leila

Let me tell you a story. So there's just thing called cellular respiration. There's

David

this thing called cellular respiration. No, I just wore out been doing a lot. Live has been doing a lot. So this episode's gonna be a little short. And next week. Wow, we can't really promise we're gonna put out an episode. I doubt we are. Yeah, we have like, as soon as Leila gets out of school, we have to throw some food in our faces, and go straight to rehearsal and we're gonna be there until like 10 at night. And then that's all Monday through Thursday. And then on

Friday, we have three showings of the play. And then Saturday and Sunday, we have showings for the blind. So I doubt that we're gonna get an episode out next week. We may just do a Hey, everybody, here's who supported the show this week and just do a support segment. Because some of the algos for podcasts will like kick you out if you miss a week. Yeah, it's doing anyway. Can't

have that, you know. And plus, we want to we want to thank people, even if, even if we're not doing a full show, because we definitely love the support that we get from our fans. Yeah, so yeah, that's a little low energy. I'm not gonna lie, and I'm just just a little tired. I think after we get get done here, I think I'm gonna go get my pajama pants on and

Leila

already have a pretty okay. She does. I've had him for like, four hours.

David

You got over school years like, yeah, pajama pants time. She has been working on a new cosplay.

Leila

Yes. So I got the fabric yesterday. And I was supposed to get here on Saturday, today's Friday. And obviously, Fun Fact, Friday. So it got here Thursday. And I was like, hey, it's early. But I didn't have any plans to do anything with it because I had stuff to do. Right. So I got out my patterns today. And I cut it all out. And I'm sewing it together right now. I just need to. I'm making a hoop skirt. So it has to have the bones in it. Yeah, that makes the shape shape. Yeah. And I ordered those

yesterday. And they'll get here on Tuesday. Yeah,

David

it's interesting stuff.

Leila

I kind of yeah,

David

this this was this one's gonna be big. It's gonna be a big one. It's got like a big old like, fluffy. I want a split skirt on it. I haven't said anything that you haven't said. Okay. What that it's got a big old fluffy skirt. Yeah,

Leila

so it's kind of hoop skirt. Well, yeah, it could have been a flat skirt. You never know. Why

David

would. why would why would you need the boning if you don't if you don't have any shape to it. Anyway, anyway, calmed well edited out. Nobody will know totally. So yeah, this week we're gonna be talking about cultural practices. Yeah. Some of them are like endangered traditions is how the other websites that we're pulling from you know, word it medium.com and the culture trip.com The links will be in the show notes of

course. But yeah, but we do have we do have some even though even though the no agenda show has stolen our good news segment and they already have a jingle what they already have a fancy jingle about it and I play it but it has a has a not you know not not so good word and the jingle so well. Yeah, of course. But that's pretty funny. But yeah, no agenda. Yeah, get get ready for that cease and desist letter for stealing our segment our thing that's all right, so we have Welcome to Fun Fact Friday

with your lead anchor, Leila, Leila. She's going first when you're gonna go first with your new story.

Leila

I was lost for a second. I didn't know where it was. Oh my gosh, this organized. Hold on. I gotta control plus this stuff. What? I can't see it. My eyes aren't Oh,

David

I usually I use the mouse wheel.

Leila

I don't I left my eyes inside. Yeah. I have glasses. Alright, what's your understanding?

David

So what's your story? Well,

Leila

I have a free engagement rings two couples who include cats in their plan for wedding proposal in December. So I think there's this brand named Felix cat insurance. Okay. And if you have a cat in your proposal picture or whatever, and your plans and send it to this, and you when you get a free engagement ring. Oh, so

David

that's kind of like the Garfield thing. Oh, yeah, so we were watching what's it called? Trailers, movie trailers and new animated movies coming out next year. Yeah, yeah, this year next year, you

Leila

can send in clips of your cat being like Garfield, because it's like his origin story or whatever.

David

Yeah, don't include in the movie. My theory is that Garfield is gonna start off, you know, just a normal cat. But like over time, he's gonna watch a bunch of videos of cats being lazy and and you know, like Garfield, and he's gonna like get influenced by mad Oh hold on, let me stop this music. We we really need rap music folks. So it's got to be like intense just like blue or red and then like, you know, for real? Yeah. Okay, so good rant away.

Leila

You know it makes me mad. Chris Pratt. Chris Pat if you're watching

David

know Chris Pratt is unknown listener to Fun Fact Friday.

Leila

Yeah, actually low. Not really. He's got

David

kids that were probably actually like it. We should try to mount a get credit press Chris Bratton to listen to our show. Campaign.

Leila

Yeah, I don't hate anyone. But he just has stolen so many like rolls. He hasn't stolen them. It's just he is them. And it makes me mad.

David

He's doing a lot of voice roles. Mario

Leila

is an American. So

David

Mario,

Leila

he's supposed to be like, it's I mean, your Mario not? Yo, it's me, Mario. You know?

David

I'm making beats. So, okay. My thing is that Mario has had a voice actor. Right. And I cannot remember his name. I'm going to look it up while I'm talking. But he's got an established voice actor. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just gonna like, like Mario 64 I'll just look that up on the internet database here. And it's gonna get ya, Marinette. Yeah, Charles martinet. Martin. He's Mario. He was at the Galaxy con. I think.

Leila

He was, I think definitely Chris Pratt wasn't, but he's gonna be Garfield. Bless you. He's going to be Garfield. And it makes me mad because he's like, you're so many characters at this point. Now is the

David

Garfield voice actor. not around anymore. I wonder if he's around anymore. Let's see gar feet not Andrew Garfield.

Leila

He's so weird looking.

David

He's He's okay, so Oh, Eric Garfield and friends. Garfield and friends. Garfield to me. Yeah, is Lorenzo music Lorenza I don't know if he is still around. So let's see. No, he's not around any.

Leila

But they couldn't have gotten someone that sounded like him. Yeah,

David

but you know, it's, it's okay. They grabbed CRISPR on an animated movie I don't think like I understand like, if you liked the, the way a certain actor looks, yeah. Then you know, getting them or how they act on stage or screen and their other presences and all that stuff stuff. But like, voice actors, there's like so many good voice actors out there. That aren't really screen actors, but they do so good with their voice. Look into you, Kyle. I was gonna say chi labour

chi labor. And it's a I don't know that I don't feel like they're stealing the role because the role is out that I just feel like they're they put a lot of weight on a big name. When Yeah, the movie would go seem be seen by people even if there wasn't a big name doing the main character. Like I don't I don't think anybody's like, oh, I wasn't gonna go see Garfield. But then I found out Chris Pratt was that voice actor and now I'm gonna go see it. You know. I see that as being a

thing. Where how do we get off on this? Oh, yeah, you can send in a video and your cat video might end up on on the movie.

Leila

Felix is a cat insurance company. So it's pet insurance but just for cats. Oh, back to the zoo.

David

If that was not a native ad for the new Garfield movie, I promise no.

Leila

But we were watching stuff last night and we were like, oh, it's pretty cute. It's got Chris Pratt in it.

David

So out of all of the animated movies that we saw ads for on this trailers where we were just watching trailers. Every single one of them had a butt joke.

Leila

Oh my gosh.

David

Every single one of them.

Leila

We watched the trolls trailer, and I was like, it's just about humor.

David

Oh, yes. It's just, it's just and

Leila

then we started paying more attention. We started like saying but humor to every one of the trailers. Because it Yeah, because something about it. Yeah. Even just the animated ones.

David

So like that didn't I don't remember that being a thing of kids movies when I was like, I really don't remember that being a thing. But I don't

Leila

know. Maybe they're just like, what's with kids?

David

What's hip with the kids? These

Leila

kids got much right.

David

But yeah, but most folks, yeah. So yeah, it just it just, it was funny because we we joked about it on the first trailer and then next trailer had it and the next trailer had the next I was like, wow. So yeah. Anyway, we

Leila

watched some someone look really good. My goal was to some back to news,

David

practice. Okay, so you're all done? Yeah. Okay. So mine is is a good news story from I believe India. Yeah, in India, there were a bunch of abandoned wells, like, you know, water wells. And a lot of them had, like, become like trash dumps, like, they dried up. So they, like people just started throwing their trash in there. Yeah. Well, there was like a revitalization process that went on. You could have warned me or lowered your heel. Sorry.

Leila

I have aggressive sneezes.

David

So yeah, the wells, they went and got took all these like, abandoned wells, and revitalize them, like, gave them new new pipes and spread the piping system around to get new. Better water, you know, to actually get water back into the wells. And then they decorated them in Fun, fun ways. Like one is like, a fun fun ways. One looks like a like a Christmas package with ribbons on it. And one of them's like a tea cup with a big old spoon leaning on it. And it's just neat. It's a

neat little project. They did they revitalized 163 wells. And I was like, Cool. Good job. Good job, everybody. You did it. So

Leila

I love hearing something someone else's says and I'm like, I'm gonna start saying that. That's funny. Oh, no. Like someone that was just in the hallway the other day and someone says something questionable. And he was like, check with that.

David

Streaming. I'm gonna turn the heater off. I'll be right back.

Leila

Okay. Yeah, it's getting a bit steamy in here. So I one thing that I wanted to talk about were the grading systems of different countries. Have you heard about this?

David

Wasn't ready. I wasn't ready for a

Leila

question yet. hit your head on the mic.

David

So yeah, I did I hit my glasses on my on my my pop filter. Mine inside. So the grading. Do you mean? Like the the slope of land? Or do you mean like, yeah. No, do you mean grading of scores in schools? Right? Yes. Yes. All right. Well, carry on. Carry on, carry on, then.

Leila

Here we go then. So I figured out that like a lot of European countries have a very more like lenient grading score than we do. Okay. So like, like, here we have 190 is an A 90 to 80 is a B, I thought this was like the standard. Okay. It's like a 10 point scale, or sometimes a seven point scale.

David

So what is it over there?

Leila

Well, it's different in like every country, but the one that I found interesting was Scotland. Okay. 70 to 100% is an A Hmm, so all the way from 70 which is a see a very low C

David

seven D is a low C and Merica Yeah. Yeah. can actually be can actually be a D depending on the scale. Yeah, because I'm when I was in school, we were on a seven point scale. So every seven points you lost a letter grade, or gained, depending on which direction you're going. But um, yeah, so 93 was the lowest a you could get and then you know, go down from there. And oh

Leila

my gosh, so that makes you think you can get all the way down to a C and you can pass and be accepted by universe Are cities that's a 50 fly.

David

Something's buzzing around. What?

Leila

Where's it scary? It sounds really loud so I feel like it's big. Is it? Is it in here or is it other? I heard it. It's like right next to me

David

Oh, that doesn't sound like fly. Fly. I'm scared. That sounds like a bee. Okay, pause Okay, we gotta pause

Leila

Okay, we have concluded it's a horse fly. I'm scared to horse fly. bites it has teeth.

David

Oh my gosh, I'm so I have to kill this thing. Yes. Oh my gosh. Okay, hitting pause again. Okay,

Leila

we got him this is now Fun Fact Friday with Leila the horse fly got dad. He got he got bit and then turned into a horse fly. So those two more slides.

David

Fun Fact Friday with horse flies back with worthless so that was about 10 minutes. Oh, well, unexpected adventure. This little guy was messing with us.

Leila

He was he was goofing around. Yeah.

David

I tried to I want to I wanted to catch him. I was gonna put them in a cup and then like, hold him up to the mics to get hear how loud he was. But here

Leila

I can I can give you an accurate representation

David

Yeah, this tiny little studio is like, was running back and forth, back and forth. And

Leila

we got solid and it was like,

David

Oh my gosh, the horse fly incident. I know. Right, Episode 166. All right. So what were we what were we doing before we were so rudely interrupted by horsefly

Leila

I was talking about grades, but I think I was like finished. Wrapping up.

David

So. Oh, yeah, here we go. So there are traditions, cultural traditions from around the world. That is a little odd. A little odd. One of the ones here in America that the rest of the world thinks is odd. Is Groundhog's Day. Really?

Leila

Yeah, well, yeah.

David

1887 is when it started. It's on February 2. And yeah, the nation I think we've gone over this before in a previous episode, but yeah, we got new listeners. So essentially, the this this council of the groundhog. Punxsutawney, Groundhog clubs in our circle, are a group of dedicated men who according to tradition, tend to tend to the groundhog while dressed in black suits and top hats have a lighthearted Groundhog Day celebration. Every year ceremony not celebration

ceremony. And then of course, you know, there's Groundhog's Day the movie, which I think is the only Groundhog's Day movie, there's lots of Christmas movies. Got a couple of Thanksgiving movies? Yeah. One or two Hanukkah movies that I know of. Really? Yeah. One of the reason I'm saying the movie, so he's hit or miss. So another one in America, that the other work the rest of the world doesn't really do is tipping. Really? Yeah. Tipping is a very American thing. So what how do

you feel I got a quote? How do you Leila feel about tipping? And then I'll give you my thoughts on it. I

Leila

think if the person does a good job, and you're at a place where they actually do it, and you're like, you know what? Good job and you give them like two bucks. That's fine. I don't like the would you like to pay 20%? So 100% Okay, so

David

there's, there's different there's different methods? Okay. So like, if, if I go somewhere? And okay, so where we're at North Carolina, they have I don't know what it is now. But back when I was waiting tables, it was $2.13 is what you would actually get paid by the company you worked for to work. But then in that case, it's good to have tip you got to keep well, that's that's the minimum wage in the state if and like I said, it might have gone up since then. I don't think it has

though. But, um, that that's the way you get for tipped work. So when when you're expected to receive lots of tips, that's what they pay you. When you're doing untapped work. The minimum wage is like 725 or something, which everywhere pays more than that now because, you know, economy, but um, so, when I worked at Outback, I used to average 16 to $20 an hour in tips. And that was, you know, $2,001 Nice 2002 That's really good. Yeah. So you know, I made good money waiting tables. I was

good at it. I'm a personable guy. You know? I can I can carry lots of stuff on a tray pretty good.

Leila

I'm impressive the guys that can like carry stuff on their arms. Yeah,

David

I used to. I used to carry five plates running up my arm. And then the other hand, I could carry five mugs from the bar, nice, the big the big heavy mugs. And you get you get pretty strong waiting tables. If you're at a place they have to carry all that stuff out. And then your balance gets really good. But yeah, so tipping. If If I would have gotten if they would have like said, oh, you know, why doesn't Outback just pay

their people? I would have quit. Because there's no way that Outback is gonna pay their waiters what I was making,

Leila

okay, you know what I think is stupid. What's do you need to raise minimum wage? I have argued with people. I

David

would love to go into a long conversation about you about this with you. But not on Fun Fact Friday. Okay, I'm writing this down. I'm gonna get my notepad here and I'm gonna write an open, get my boogie board. I'm writing this down. We're gonna have a discussion. It'll be a bonus episode. Yeah,

Leila

I'm gonna give you a little sum up of my ideas on this, okay,

David

from the 13 year old leader who's never had a job. Gotcha. Yeah.

Leila

The more money people are getting as a minimum, the more money's in circulation. So that means things are gonna go up in price, and she's gonna keep going.

David

Your conclusion is correct, but your mature. causation is not. But like I said, we will go into a full minimum. We're gonna do a bonus episode. When we have like a week, she's got a week off of school two weeks off school for Christmas. We're gonna have a conversation. We're gonna have a conversation. Yes.

Leila

We should make that a Patreon episode. No,

David

we're not charging for episodes ever. Yeah. Oh, well, sorry about that under donations. Okay, so that's something yeah, let me write it down. Because you're not good at remembering. Oh my gosh, I'm so bad. When I'm in like performing mode. My memory is terrible. So go ahead and read us one of Your your fun facts about cultural stuff. So

Leila

there's a poetic duel. Like an Epic Rap battle?

David

A poetic duel. Yes. An epic. What are you talking about? Oh,

Leila

like a slam poetry.

David

Okay. That's kind of what this is. Well, yes, slam poetry exists all over the world. What are you talking about? A duel? So it's like slam poetry but but dissing each other? No. So it's more like a competition.

Leila

So this is what it says. Just picture an Epic Rap battle. Now imagine it's Greek fibrotic poetry and performance a violent or loot in the background? I want to go see. I want to go see this. I think it'd be funny if we ever went to like, what is it Greece,

David

we need to we need to find if they've recorded or written any of this down on me and you need to like go back and forth with the loot in the back.

Leila

We need to find something that pleases the loot. Like, satisfies the performance improvised rhyming couplets on specific themes within a strict time constraints. So

David

it's an epic rap battle.

Leila

It's an epigraph exactly

David

what it is. Yeah. So I heard one time awesome that when two rappers get into a beef with one another, and like, right, distracts you know, that essentially it's just two guys writing poetry to each other. Yeah,

Leila

pretty much. I think it's funny.

David

That was funny. Okay, I was gonna I was gonna say that one thing I was I was gonna say that because that's what was the other one that I thought was so interesting. Shadow No, no, sorry. This is this is riveting. Okay, the Turkish oil wrestling festival so what a couple this this has been going on since 1346. Making it the longest standing annual sporting event in the history of the world. Oh my gosh. 1346 This thing's been going on every year. Hold on. I gotta do some math pill pill a

vn wrestlers traveled to ederson and Turkey for Kerch. Paneer a competitive oil wrestling festival that

Leila

677 years Yep. Each

David

that's too many one on one oily battle. What is decided by the pet Pehlivan. Who can pin the other for the long for a long enough so basically, we're just trying to pin each other, but they're all oiled up. So it's like we haven't traditionally yet well, there is a there's a thing. I don't know if they still do it, but they used to make the teachers at the high school it was a yearly thing during like spirit week, they had to catch a greased up pig. They, they would go out

onto the football field. And they and they would close off all the areas that the pig could get out. And then they would grease up the pig like super greasy with like, whatever. That's great. And then the teachers had to run around and try and catch the pig.

Leila

Oh my gosh, this is like terrifying.

David

was just like a little, a little baby. Not baby pig, but you know, like a little small pig. Pig thinking oh my gosh.

Leila

I'm gonna get oil over me. Oh

David

my gosh. I'd be like sliding around if I was the pig, but yeah, like I didn't I'd never heard of this oil wrestling. Just a couple of couple of dudes with some oil Wrestlin

Leila

Christina Aguilera.

David

No, Christina Aguilar was well, she always looked oily back in the day. Yeah. And the music videos and stuff. Alright, what

Leila

else got moving museums?

David

A moving Museum? Okay. So

Leila

there's these moving museums. All right. On July 17 of every year, the guy on festival in Kyoto in central Japan, culminates with a grand possession of Yama. Hueco floats known as moving museums, with gorgeous drape decorations. The floats are paraded through the main streets of central Kyoto.

David

Cool, so like, and it's like a museum. Yeah. And it moves. It's mobile.

Leila

So these are four protected spirit through music, dance and worship. Okay, these are really cool. They look cool, too.

David

Neat. That was that was on medium.com. Yeah. Okay. So here's one and I will story after it. Every year in Catalonia, Spain, there are festivals in which people come together to build a colorful and ridiculously tall human towers that scare old cast hills. Which means castles and catalog that's very cast Hills castles ogen kattiline. These cast Hills can be anywhere between six to 10 levels high and consist of 100 to 500 men, women and children are supported by nothing other

than sheer strength and courage. I've seen this not in person on like movies and documentaries and stuff and it is insane. All these dudes. Mostly dudes on the ones I've seen, like climb on each other's shoulders. And then like other people just climbing up the mountain of people. Oh my gosh, and one of the best. Okay, so Oh, what is that movie called AR AR AR It is a Bollywood film. And it is amazing.

Leila

Apparently it is so spent like a full night walk. It is like

David

four hours long. And I enjoyed every minute of it. My

Leila

gosh, he was like he was like coming here. I was

David

like trying to get them to come watch. It was me just some parts. They're not gonna go through the whole thing. But like there is a scene. And if you don't want to watch the whole thing, just go to YouTube, or wherever and look up our, our our scene and like, it'll show you oh my gosh, the action of this movie is outrageous. But anywho they have a scene where the guys the two main characters are like becoming friends. And they climb up one of these towers and stand on the top and

do like some Bollywood dance. It's amazing. It's just amazing.

Leila

To be on top of it. You

David

gotta climb like people are like stepping on each other's heads to climb up the tower. So it's called a Castel which means castle. Let's see Hold on a second. Local cattle. Katelyn photographer David Elliot is fascinated by these human towers and their capacity for evoking human emotion. He began photographing the pastels eight years ago and hasn't stopped since explore his glorious kaleidoscope of shots.

Okay, so on the medium link in the Castells part. There is a link to a photographer's website, and a bunch of pictures of nope, nevermind. That's a dead link. How old is this article? Some of these traditions might not be true. This is from 2014.

Leila

Nah, wow. Traditions are gone. Yeah, nobody's

David

doing this stuff anymore.

Leila

That's it show's over.

David

So I'm gonna go on a little rant. Okay. All right, right now I know. I know that there are ways to do it. So don't ask me. All right. So when I go to a search engine, and I'm looking for something right, and I type in something, I need help with something and I want something from the last Three years, you know, I need newer information, and you Google it, or whatever search engine you're using. And it's showing you stuff from 2009 and 2014. And we need to just purge the on get on

it every three years. We just need to wipe the internet clean and start from scratch. No, it's just get rid of all the old junk. No, bring in the new hotness.

Leila

Like y2k was oh my god, we're good. We don't need to do that.

David

y2k was not bad. Why did you know? That was not what I have to have to go out to explain to you what y2k is later. Not. Not tonight is too much. But

Leila

so slurping in Japan is polite. It is

David

a compliment. Yeah, it's a compliment to the chef compliment to the ship. When I was growing up. I was told that burping in some cultures was considered a compliment to the chef. When you let out a big old belt Jeffery ate some of their food because it kind of means that you're like eating too fast. Or drinking whatever you drinking too fast. But yeah, tell us about the slurping. Go ahead.

Leila

So it might have something to do with the fact that Western countries that aren't like over there, you know, in the over, like the down under, in the over and over. We swirl stuff like noodles, we swirl it with our fork and we put it in our mouth. And we like out. It was wallet. That was my chewing noise. I'm

David

gonna go ahead and ban you from making a slurping noise into the mic. Now to demonstrate

Leila

because you make mouth noises at me all the time in the mic.

David

I know. It's gross, but I don't do it on the show. Sometimes unintentional mouth. Yeah, but yeah, I'm just messing with you.

Leila

I know. It grosses me out. Since like, Japan uses chopsticks, they just pick the noodles up and put them in the mouth and slip them. Because you can't really twirl chopsticks that easily. Right? You can you can knit with spaghetti.

David

Yes. Yes, you can. So I saw a video recently. And I know this isn't like Oh, I saw a video recently type of show. But it was uh, this guy was showing off that he could pick up his whole bowl of noodles on his chopsticks. And as soon as he pulled all the noodles out, one of his buddies grabbed the ball out from underneath. Yeah, I saw that too. So he was just stuck holding this huge ball of noodles on his top stakes.

Leila

You're scared to turn into alpha male podcast, an alpha male podcast Yeah.

David

We're gonna try some new experimental features we're gonna do a controversial topics.

Leila

You know alpha male bro gains you know if we do

David

that we should we should split it off into a separate feed. Separate feed. We should just do like a Leila and David goof and show goofing. So the goofy show, we can probably just like record it right after we record this. You know, silly. Right? So, okay, so yeah, have

Leila

you seen those like, sorry, guys seen the clips of like the dude bros on YouTube? Oh, yeah.

David

The man who's talking to each other? Yeah.

Leila

And sometimes they're not talking to anyone. There's fake podcasts out there. What do you mean? Like there's just someone talking like this. Like they're just like talking to the wall. And it looks like they're talking to someone like the way that their angle is? Oh, so and, but it's just them talking. So there's been talking it looks like they're talking to someone else. But it doesn't say anything because their person there.

David

Yeah, if I turn this camera on right now, that's the angle. And like, I'm looking at the screen. It looks like I'm talking to somebody but it's coming out from the side. So there's that illusion that there's I'm talking to someone and not just blogging.

Leila

Yeah. And sometimes they just go off on a tangent. Like

David

we never do that. Nope. Never once as we're talking so anyway, slurping in Japan. I think I think it's about them.

Leila

They're about done. Online. Okay. But I just don't think it's funny. The whole podcasting. Yeah, it's

David

that anything that's distributed on an RSP or RSS feed any audio or video file?

Leila

Like I'm making fun of podcasts, right? I guess or for lame O's. Yeah. Anybody

David

who listens to or creates a podcast is a big old nerd. Yeah. I'm a cool guy. Okay, so in some countries, if somebody does anything with their left hand, like hands you something extends their left hand to shake it, you know, to shake your hand. Like, like anything. It's considered very rude, and unsalted Because oftentimes, these cultures in these countries they use their left hand for cleaning themselves after using the toilet And therefore the left hand is

considered dirty soap. Well, I'm sure that this is all old. Yes, yeah.

Leila

It's pretty funny old thing.

David

But yeah, so that was you know, that's that's the hand you used to clean up.

Leila

So it was almost 10 years ago. Yes. That's crazy.

David

That is making me feel very old. Thank you. Yeah, I fell down the stairs at the play rehearsal. So it's hard. And I had a cane. Oh,

Leila

I fell down the stairs at school. And I got my arm stuck in the handrail, so it was even worse. So it like almost dislocated my arm. I had a bruise on my hand for those that are the my forearm for the rest of the week. Right. That's funny. So

David

yeah, just saying if you're in some countries, let's see, this rule applies to several places around the world, including much of the Middle East, Sri Lanka, India and parts of Africa. I didn't know

Leila

that Sri Lanka was a place until today.

David

What did you think it

Leila

was? A concept. Sri Lanka is a concept. Did

David

you think that the concept was No? shirt? I'm feeling really bad. Because just concept for something. I was like, Where is Sri Lanka is a tip of India. Yep. Soft.

Leila

The fingers reaching for? Right.

David

Yep. So that's what Sri Lanka is down there to the bottom and

Leila

not a concept guys, not a concept found that up to a place.

David

So yeah, have you ever in those places? You know, just use your right hand for stuff? Oh, there was oh, where is it? Oh, those. Anyway, I can't find it. I don't think it's on either one of these sites. But while I was looking through this, it might have been one of the GPT you know, AI generated answers when you when you Google, Google when you brave search stuff. Now. One of the traditions I can't remember where it was, but they use their lips to point instead of their fingers. That's weird.

So like, if something to nearby things. So like if something is to my left, and you looked at me and you were like, Hey, where's the salt shaker? I wouldn't point at it. Or look at it, I would just put my lips out and a duck lips and like wiggle them to the left. It's just such a funny concept.

Leila

I know, like some tradition or some places point with their thumb. Yeah.

David

And Bill Clinton did that. Bill Clinton was advised by his people that it's less threatening to point with your thumb. So he would always make a fist and put his thumb on top of it and point with his thumb. Like instead of point instead of pointing at the camera, hunch and someone write it like he pointed with his thumb when he was talking to make the point was cool. Like I'm doing hand motions, but we're audio only podcast. So

Leila

I'm hugging you, but I'm hitting.

David

Yeah, dudes, when you hug people, you got to pat them on the back. So it's like, I'm hugging you, but I'm hitting you. I do that all the time. I can't remember the comedian did that bit. But it was one of them. Yeah, it was one of them. It was so includes our

Leila

short episode that was 40 minutes long.

David

So we did, we did have some support, support. He does have a system support. And it was let's see, we got some boosts if you're using a modern podcast app that supports boosting.

Leila

Friday. What fun maps Friday? Yeah, there. Yeah,

David

hold on. We're not there yet. I'm explaining what a boost is. On a modern podcast app, you can send tiny bits of Bitcoin directly to us through the app. And fountain is one of them. It's really easy to onboard on that one. There's a lot that used to get Alby we've got some from pod verse and there's different different ways different apps to do it, go to new podcast apps.com Or just podcast apps.com and pick up a new podcast app that supports boosting and shoot us a little

value if you enjoy the show. We also have other donation options at FunFactFriday.com. Just click the donations link at the top of the page. Your donations make this possible because servers cost money. Wow. Boring. Alright, so we did get some support this week in boost. We got 2345 sets from bullies the you know,

Leila

from bullies.

David

That was more recent. Yeah. We got 2345234512345 Okay, you read them. 2345 stats

Leila

from Kevin Hallisey. saying Happy Holidays. The show just gets better and better rant on Leila. Absolutely. I will. I promise. Respectfully Of course. And I'm thankful for Leila David and Phaedra also Dr. K. Just listening, fairness, Love and Light pod father Adam and Even JCD who JCD John C.

David

Dvorak. Ah, we had we had his wife on me, me. Yeah, we are. That's actually our most popular episode Spotify, at least on Spotify. Actually, now I looked at the OB three stats and that is our most popular episode. Dang,

Leila

we talked about eggs more often eggs, eggs,

David

big old guests on, like big popular guests. Yeah. Okay. And then we got that was 2345 sets

Leila

policy on the Thanksgiving episode. Yep. And

David

then one that doesn't have an episode associated with it. Just boosting the show in general. Nice. And that was 12,345 sets from Bully steed. And that's with Dracula. Yeah, the the emojis are pre programmed into Hello, Pat, I believe to show up when certain set amounts are set. Like tu tu tu tu is a row of ducks. Duck emojis, and then like down here 33 It gives you a star. So 3333 Gets you two stars. So there's a 33 there. It's just our because that's the magic number. That

I'm not sure what the vampire is. It's all good. Yeah, well look at it. Well, yeah, I don't know. 7777 You know, the different ones have different. Different emojis.

Leila

Cool.

David

So yeah, I got I got off on a tangent. Like I said, we never do. Bully Steve says fun maps Friday. I wonder if Pelosi was listening to the maps episode. Oh, maybe a million years ago. Monopoly game boost please check out the map thief. Ah the true crimes of Daniel Spiegelman by Michael Blanding hint antique rare map thief and if that wasn't from Bully seat, I'll be like are people dropping ads in our in our boosts? Which Hey, you know what, if you boost the show, we don't do ads. We

don't make agreements with people. But if you want to, like you know, plug your show or if you've if you're if you got your own other family friendly podcast, you want to plug it Yeah, shoot us a boost. You know what? Let us know shoot us an email. Yeah. We're actually we're actually thinking about in the new year talking to some other family friendly podcasts and doing like you know, guest swap type of thing like we'll go on their show they'll come on our show that sort of thing. But

yeah, the map thief I'll look into that. And maybe I'll get that on the Kindle or something. Give some do some reading that that intrigues me an antique rare map thief.

Leila

Cool. Map episode. Dang, that does feel like a long time ago. It

David

was a long time. So I think let me see if Threadless is having a holiday deal right now. Our store is at store dot fun fact. friday.com Just plug it Oh dang. Okay, here I'll edit that out you two years.

Leila

We had a merch store. Smash that Like where can you find it? I

David

forgot the important part. The punchline to a joke it's stored up FunFactFriday.com

Leila

FunFactFriday.com Where can you find it

David

well stored because I control stored up FunFactFriday.com And I don't want to give people like the Threadless I don't have a problem with Threadless so far, but if they you know do something that we don't like, we can point that store anywhere. We start doing our own store you know, but yeah right now starting I think it was Cyber

Monday. You can pick up a t shirt from store at FunFactFriday.com for 1250 Nice plus up to 50% off everything else so if you want some stickers that say you know team imperial system

Leila

you can go get them if you want some stickers same team metric system that will give me more points. And it's good for the economy man.

David

We got to clip that and it's good for the economy man. The oh the metric system. I know I am bad. And I the metric system team imperial system thing. If you go to store dot FunFactFriday.com and pick up an any item, it's number of items sold not money. Because we don't we don't make a lot of money off this. But if you pick up whichever team you're on. On January 1, we are going to or the week of January 1 We're going to announce the winner. January 1 is on a Monday. We're

going to cut off at midnight on January or December 31. So whichever team has the most items sold on our store. So like let's say, let's say team metric system wins by some miracle, right, then I will have to announce in public that the metric system is the superior measuring system for 2023.

Leila

You should make a sign. We should make signs and protest. Go

David

go downtown. Yeah, yes, we'll do it. We'll go we'll do. We'll make it we will make a poster board. And we will go downtown and sing the praises of whichever whichever thing oh, say.

Leila

Magic says now. And we don't use yards in inches. All right, everybody. There you go. That's what were you gonna say? By the way, what did you write down?

David

Oh, man, what am I? Oh, yeah, we, we are going to be the Christmas carol next week. Like I said, we do not plan on doing an episode next week, we may, who knows. But the Christmas carol that we're in is a we can the theater company that we're a part of a member of it wrote this version of a Christmas carol adapted it from the original. And since they wrote it, they can record it and sell DVDs. So if anybody wants a DVD of our show, let us know get in touch with this male of

FunFactFriday.com. And we will get you point to where you need to go to purchase that. I want to say be $25 plus shipping, I can you can get in touch with me I can buy one for you and mail it out. If you want to do that, that sort of thing. So yeah, just letting y'all know about that if you are interested, and that some of the money from that goes to the people who are making the DVD. And then the rest of it goes to the theatre company. It's a local community theater. It's just a fun thing.

Like they don't make any money off the shows. Everything they make off of it goes right back into costumes and sets and all that stuff. So it's just a fun thing. Local Community Theater anywho we're gonna wrap it up. It has been almost 50 minutes on our super short episode, so we're Yeah, plus the tinder chasing a fly around the studio.

Leila

I'm gonna give him my nails.

David

Go do your nails. I'm gonna go watch a movie or something. I'm tired. I fall asleep. Alright everybody, we'll talk to you later.

Leila

Why am I wow by saying that every episode.

David

Yeah, we need to make a

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