Hey, hey everybody. Welcome Friday. It is Friday. And welcome to Fun Fact Friday.
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What is Fun Fact Friday Leila
for show? Yeah. We talk about fact.
We have Friday. We do have fun though.
We do have fun. We do have fun.
The fun is here every week. I don't I can't think of many episodes where we didn't have fun. We did have one or two episodes where we weren't able to do an episode but we still wanted to upload things just for the algos. You know, yeah. And we just uploaded a word or whatever episode this week. Those weren't really fun.
So yeah.
Oh, how's everybody doing with y'all can't answer because we're not live this week. So we are going to be talking about what Leila
radiation
radiation. So what's your favorite radiation?
I don't know. Probably the microwaves. Yeah, yeah.
They make they make chicken nuggets for me. Yeah, of course, we've been using the the air
fryer. And we tried it one time and our minds are blown so good, like microwaves do to your brain.
So yeah, we're weekly podcast where we discuss facts surrounding a different topic and have a good time doing it. This week, has been a long week for us if you if you know cuz last week we released on Wednesday, which was just weird, right? So, because I was going out of town, I went down to Orlando, to about a nine hour drive and went to pod fest, pod
fest Expo. I had a great time I met lots of people, lots of interesting people who met almost all of whom had podcasts, and we are going to be collaborating with some of them. Notably, I met Claire from creativity found. She is from Britain, and we had a really good time at the 90 Steam party on Saturday night. And let's see, there was Calista and Holly from book and bottle podcast that's not not safe for kids. Definitely. And then see, next week we're gonna be having
Parker Kane on. And you know what, I'm not even gonna spoil it. If you don't know Parker Kane is willing to have him on next week. We're going to talk to him about some cool stuff. And then who else I met so many people and Alan C. Paul, I met up with him. We had a good time. met lots of good folks. Alan C. Paul has some music over on the podcasting. 2.0 music sites. Check them out. Really nice guy. Had a great time. But yeah, that's Oh, and another person I met was from Baby boomer.org.
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Not? Really?
I was hoping you had some fun talking. Take a drink of it. But uh, yeah, one of the things we like to do towards the beginning of the show is we'd like to talk about something good going out in the world. Like I have some good news, some uplifting news. And sometimes it's not even new, like a brand new story. It's just something we found. That kind of gave us a little warm, fuzzy feeling. And we feel like the world needs some of that. So Oh.
And now. Fun Fact Friday news with your lead anchor, David.
Oh, I'm the Lead tonight.
Yeah. All right. You talked about this only remember water. Okay.
I put my mic down too far. And it is February 2 2024. Which means somebody came out this morning. Punxsutawney Phil. Yeah. And but what this weather did not provide is a shadow or reason to hide. Glad Tidings on this Groundhog Day. An early spring. Lang is on the way. Yay. So the groundhog did not see his shadow early spring.
So do they ask him if he's if they saw the shadow?
That well, he comes out with a declaration. He's got a written declaration in poem form.
Wow.
Are you familiar with the Oh, I'm not Oh, they've taught us it at least 12 times in school, but you weren't paying attention. You're probably like, no,
because it's not important to me.
It's it's, I was telling, I was telling Phaedra last night for new listeners, pagers, my wife, Leila's mom, and we were talking about I was like, you know, Groundhog's Day is probably it's just, it's just fun. You know, it's a holiday, but like, none of the stores
are closed. And you know, Valentine's Day or Halloween. Yeah,
it's just a fun holiday. And Ira, I've always got a kick out of it.
Yeah. And I think this is the first year that we didn't do something at school for it.
Oh, yeah. You didn't like draw groundhogs? There's just like a blob, though. Yeah, they're not just a blob. So yeah, that's my good news. The groundhogs did not see his shadow, or did Yeah, didn't didn't see a shadow. So, alright, um, take a sip of water. Okay, okay. And, yeah, so the movie Groundhog's Day is pretty fun, right, guys? Everybody kind of likes that one, too fun movie. I know not everybody likes it. All right, how's I gonna throw it to our secondary anchor tonight Leila
so there was this kid on plane on a plane not though plane. There's only one there's only one plane ever. This five month old was flying with the parents. And it was a long flight was from New Jersey to Mexico. And the baby was looking across the aisle at this girl crocheting with the color, like beige. And that was a colored base outfit. And the girl saw this and was like, I'm gonna make this kid a hat. Since you crusade a little beanie. For the for the basis,
you just pulled out her yarn and just started whipping up a little beanie. Because of what you do there and at her you do crocheting? I do. So you could like I mean, you knocked out one of those. You could knock out those frogs and like, what, 45 minutes now? Oh, yeah. Yeah, those little, little leggy frogs as you call them. Yeah. Those are fun. I know, you gave her a lot of those at Christmas time. So yeah, so she just just gave random baby a beanie and it made it to the news.
That's pretty cool. Good news. network.org. Yeah.
Anybody that we have almost everything we cover on the show, there's a link in the show notes too. So you can go check out the story for yourself. Mine came from AP news.com. This concludes the good news segment. And now for some bad news. Oh, I was kicking around while I was reworking the website looking for good podcast apps to put at the bottom of the page. So you can subscribe in your favorite app. We recommend
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radio whack deals.
I know you hate it. You hate it so much. All right. So what are you what what is radiation? What? What's the what's the just
like waves or something? Yeah,
it's like when you go to the beach? Yeah, that's radiation? Well, yeah, I mean, on the on the lowest form, it is just waves radiating away from something. It's just the frequency of the waves can sometimes be harmful, or helpful, depending on what you're using them for.
So we don't even really have Hold on. Let me look it up because it's not on any of our websites, like the definition of radiation. Oh, yeah,
I guess. Well, yeah, we've got like different different interesting things about radiation. I will say linked in the show notes. It's not a kid show, but behind the schemes that are really interesting. Long Form podcast episode on the radium girls, which I'm going to talk about in a little bit. I highly recommend that but again, it's not a kid show. So, you know, Parental discretion is advised so
Radiation is an energy that travels through space at the speed of light that can be described as waves or particles, according to the brave summarizer.
Okay, so there you go, the brave summarizer has spoken. Yes.
carry energy.
So, radioactive discoveries on radioactive materials are, they can be dangerous, although there's a lot of things that we come across in daily life that are radioactive. And as long as you're not, you know, constantly hanging out with them. And being near them, it's not too much of an issue, you know, our bodies can, our bodies can take a
beatin on some things. So the reason I wanted to do this topic is because I was doomed scrolling on the internet, and I came across this video, I'm going to play it and I'm going to be pausing it in the middle to just kind of describe what's happening. Starts off there's a guy with a Geiger counter, which is a device that determines how much radiation is how much radiation excuse me, is emitting is emitting off of an object. And here we go.
Banana, uranium, marbles, uranium or Fiestaware plate from the 1930s I mean that he's
moving the plate away from the testbench he's got set up. So he has these items just lined out on the test bench to see how much radiation each one he met. So banana, marbles, uranium, yeah, banana, uranium marbles, and then uranium for
background radiation.
A couple of clicks. He said his background radiation areas checked his background radiation with his Geiger counter and it's like just slightly above zero. So nothing Banana, banana kicked it up to about point one.
Not really. Marvel's
also just about point one on the Geiger counter, which is like maybe 10% up to the little graph on the on the front of the thing. So it's not that not much a little bit radioactive. You're anymore anymore.
It's about a point to
about a two because it goes point one and then jumps to two and then five and then like 50 like the way that the scales so you can hear the little clicks coming off of the Geiger counter. That means the more clicks per second the more radioactive it is. Okay, so now he's reaching over to grab the Fiestaware plate, which is this orange plate from the 1930s and he starts the Geiger counter a couple of feet away from it just so you can see know what's happening.
Yes to where plate
Okay, so now he has the eyeballs that now he has the Geiger counter directly touching the plate and receivers these plates that they used to make in the 1930s
more radioactive than your uranium or
sticks or super radio. The only plate that cooks your food for you,
honestly, but that got me
got me. Oh, wow. That'd be a good topic for the show. So, yeah, radioactive materials used to be used in all kinds of stuff and including, like, beauty supplies. Yeah, I've heard of that one. Yeah, the the. They would, the higher the upper class ladies would be going to fancy parties. And they would put your radium they put radioactive glowy stuff on their fingers and lips. So it was like, like ravers do with the glow sticks, you know? So that they would glow and the lights
went out and we got dark during the party. They would glow not realizing that they were like poisoning themselves with radiation. It
was terrible hair,
though. I mean, they just didn't know. It's like, you know, you don't know. It's I mean, there's lots of stuff that people mess with. They don't know what Mercury. Mercury is not it's not radiation, but it's poison. Yeah. And they used to use it. And it makes you go mad. It's mad as a hatter and Mad Hatter's would be using mercury to make the hat stiff.
Yeah. That's so cool. I love that mercury
poisoning is cool.
I like the expression. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. It's mad as a hatter because they would simply go mad.
Yeah. So radiation has both beneficial and harmful effects. Yes, exposure to radiation can be detrimental to health, but it does have Good effects like smoke detectors, cancer treatment, food preservation and medical imaging, like X rays.
X rays are awesome. They are pretty cool. I don't I don't like when you go to the dentist and you had to get the X ray and you have to hold that thing between your teeth. And it feels like spiking, like stabs you in the cheek while you're
sitting there and they're like, don't move and like what
are scaring me in a face though it hurts really bad. And then they run out of the room. And then they come back in and a big old lead lead suit. But yeah, do lead can lead can stop the radiation from traveling through the air blocks it even when it blocks it kind of sticks to the lead. So you probably shouldn't, you know, like lick the lead.
Yeah. Probably shouldn't eat uranium either.
Right? Try not something that's good idea. So. So I'm on a site. Today's homeowner.com five facts about radiation you never knew.
I'm on facts.net?
Oh, yeah. Did you know that you are exposed to radiation every day? 1/3 of the US population lives on a nuclear shadow area, meaning they live within 50 miles of an US nuclear power plant. Did you know we live within 50 miles of a new nuclear power plant? No way we do. There's one up in Raleigh. And Raleigh is about 40 miles away, give or take.
Nuclear power plants are so cool.
I really I think I think that we need to be local to me, we need to be just like, we need to be moving towards nuclear in my opinion, like the the wind power, it takes more to create and ship a wind power mill to where they're going to put it,
then the energy you get out of it, then
more than the amount of energy they're ever going to get out of it in its lifetime. Plus, they're just they're killing birds. But well, yeah. And the solar cells, man, I love the idea. I love that we have a ton of solar cells around here. Because if if the grid goes down, we we can just go plug right into the solar cells, because we're super close to one
of their farms. And you know, if society collapses and the zombie apocalypse happens, we can go just take a couple of the solar things because they're free if there's zombies
out there, it's free. It doesn't have a price tag on it and zombie
world, all solar panels are free excuse me, bless you, I've got something something going on coffin. So I've got I've had a little bit of a deep dive kind of go into her you want you gotta Yeah, I'm gonna find a better site. So radiation originates from you like stuff that we make. And when I say make, I mean like, we refine things down to where we can use them, like, concentrate them and use them, like uranium comes from an ore. But you know, there's other stuff mixed in
with it, they have to refine it, blah, blah, blah, blah. We use it for all kinds of stuff, cell phones, nuclear plants, all kinds of stuff. But there's also radiation that comes from like, stars, and stuff like that. And I don't I don't know if this actually falls under radiation. But I don't know enough about
the terminology. But basically, one of the more interesting things that I heard about cosmic particles was a Super Mario 64 Speed runner, named Dota underscore teabag, got help from a random particle of radiation that flew through his Nintendo 64 and flipped a bit and the memory what he was doing a speed run and the link to the speed runners in the show notes. It's called Mario video. He was doing a speed run. For those who aren't familiar. Basically, you go through a video game and
trying as you can, right? Yeah, you try and beat the game as fast as you can using glitches. Any any trick you can use to get to the end of the game and beat it as fast as possible. People do this in competitions for money, it's a really cool thing to do. And it's fun. And the speed Runner was doing a speed round, and there's a part where he magically teleported to the very tip top of the level which is where he had to get to
normal. You have to jump on platform from platform to platform to platform and to get up to the top but he teleported from near the bottom all the way to the top. And people who know the programming of this game inside and out and have tried every possible way to do what he did. discovered that the only way that it could have possibly been done without hacking the game, which he didn't do because it's certified is speedrun certified is one of those people is basically an ionic, super, an
ionizing particle went through his n 64. And it hit the memory. And it flipped one of the bits from you know, a to g or whatever that whatever flipped it or A to F, I guess I can't remember the exact. I did a deep dive on this one time, but the articles in the show notes, and it made his character jump to a different spot in the level. And oh, it changed a bite byte from C five to C four. And a resulted in a height change of his character from whatever to whatever and it put him over the
top of the level which made him when faster, obviously. So he got help from a cosmic source on that one.
So there are two types of radiation. There's
two types of radiation. Well, I guess Yeah, go for it. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
So there's non ionizing radiation and ionizing radiation. So I'm gonna start with non ionizing because I think it's more boring. So it's a low frequency radiation that does not have enough energy to ionize or move electrons for atoms. So examples include radio waves, microwaves infrared light in this invisible light, and most are harmless at low levels.
While ionizing radiation is there's a typo is high frequency electromagnetic waves like X rays and gamma rays, or particles that have enough energy to strip electrons from atoms.
Okay, so like then so the non ionizing is like the harmless types. Yeah, no, there you go. Like you said the boring ones. The ionizing is the one that gives you superpowers, right.
can damage your DNA or your human tissue?
How do you how do you think you get superpowers? Layla? Point your pointer mic down little Okay. Okay. Yeah, I moved everything on your desk. Sorry about that. You're fine. I I'm refurbishing some old video game consoles that my brother had. I'm taking them all apart and cleaning off the circuit boards and making sure everything's working all hunky dory. And I used her her desk in the studio to do all that to move everything around. So gamma rays. Gamma rays is a type of
radiation. I know. But what does it do?
What does it do? I have a problem.
You got lots of problems, kiddo?
I do. Why do we get taught about gamma rays all the time in our energy unit at school? And all the time we're talking about radiation and all this stuff. But we never get exposed to what a gamma ray is? No,
I was gonna say never get exposed to gamma rays. We
never sorry, I think I just like red exposed on my thing. And I accidentally said that. We never learn what it does. That's my problem with school. You don't really get my goat.
Oh, we got a little rant. Leila rant incoming. The school system? Oh, no, don't get me started on the modern school system.
Because it'll teach you something. But it won't teach you the thing to teach new about. They're like, hey, this thing exists. And it's kind of a part of this. But we're going to talk to you about this. Not that. But that is a part of this. There's
the bell, I'm going home. And then the next day you jump into something completely unrelated or a substitute shows up with the Alright, we're just gonna watch a movie today. My
math teacher, she taught us how to do the British way of doing math. And it made me mad.
The British way of doing math, yes, math. I know. Math should be unit
attraction. Okay, there's, you know, how we when we're subtracting like big numbers and stupid numbers. We like if it's a two on the top and a three on the bottom, we actually put make it a 12 and then make the number next to it a number lower than it is.
But but it's hard to it's hard to talk about. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know about borrow I think they do that on the bottom and not on the top. Oh, so they write the borrowing down to the bottom of the problem instead of the top of the problem? I think so everything under the line should be the answer.
No, they do it on the bottom number. Oh, so they
what? Why did they do that? All right, because I didn't fully understand it. We have listeners
in I think we do have listeners in Britain.
We I know we do. Actually I can check it Right now I can go over to our stats page. And we can, we can look at where all of our people are from, actually kind of wanted to shout out a few things because we've got some some surprising numbers in there. Kind of to derail the whole British math thing. 74% of our listeners, the United States, 4% of our listeners are in Australia. 3% in Germany, two and a half percent in Spain.
That's pretty cool. Yeah.
So let's see. England, England. Okay, Great Britain. 6.4% of our listeners are in England. 6.4. And Scotland. Yes, I mean, we got listeners over there. Tell us about your math. I'm trying to find it. Tell us about your math. Find it. Great Britain. Yeah. So we have makes me mad. Oh, that's awesome. Our top three apps that were downloaded on our old podcasting 2.0 apps. Apple is our fourth. Most I'm getting I'm getting in the into the stats here. All I gotta I can't be doing this. Every
time we have because we're talking about scientific notation. And it sucks and I hate it. But we have to subtract like huge numbers from each other. Oh, yeah. Every time she does that, she's just like, oh, my gosh, I hate it. Yeah,
scientific notation with a little E. Yeah, like the E and a 12.
Yeah, it's dumb.
Yeah. Once you get into the ridiculously huge numbers like that, there's no, there's no point in doing it on paper. Yeah, it's time to just pull the calculator out. Because our brains were not meant to deal with more than like, seven digit numbers. Yeah. If that? If not, yeah, not even that. I mean, think about, you know, 500 years ago, even. When would you ever have to deal with anything over the number 1000? You know,
I like the idea of the little E? Because it just means times 10 to the whatever's after the e power. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense to me. Like, yes, I
go Google, you want to Google this? Yeah. Yeah. So it's a ie 100 100 digits. That's a big,
not a small number. That was not
a small number. So back to radiation. Talking about subtracting, hey, this is what we do. If you're new to the show, we will start on one thing and we'll end up completely completely different subject. Radium. Until I mean, like even Okay, so I'm coming back in the beginning of the 19th and 20th century 20th century the 1900s. With the radium girls wait.
So like 9000 to 2000 1900
to 9000 to 2000 It would be bad 19,000 To 200 to 2000 100
I hate that really gets my goat.
Leila rant number two,
saying 1700 Like, That's so dumb.
So I should be saying What 1900 But when when you're talking about the years, it's like the 19 100,000 it makes sense. It just doesn't make sense to me. You just don't like don't like it. You if you go back to the very beginning of the show, you have always had trouble with numbers 1000s 10 1000s 100 1000s You always have you always had a problem with that and you're in the like advanced math class.
I'm taking high school level math right now. And it makes me mad. I can't read numbers out loud. Yeah,
I mean, you know, you can work with her. You can work with them with them perfectly, but I
can't read them right. I get the words mixed up in my head. So
we talked about the radium girls a little earlier. Basically it was girls that worked in the factories where they made glow in the dark dials for watches and stuff. And they would get the radium on them the paint and they would get sick from it. I'm not gonna go into what the radium would cause but it was not good stuff. And but yeah, so they had a whole situation with like these they were working with these radio materials didn't know for years that it was gonna be a problem
and then lots of problems happened. But then even still, after all that they were still putting radium in health tonics which health tonics in the early 1900s were crazy. You had drugs and you had you just like whatever any. Anything you could put in it to make fun somebody feel weird. And get the placebo effect you all the time it was probably killing them. So anywho
Don't we have like a big radiate bomb? And Eureka,
we have a new Atomic we have a nuclear weapon. Yeah. Like Gary and Eureka nearby. Yes, very close to us there is a, if you look up, if you look up Goldsboro Broken Arrow because Broken Arrow is the term that they use for when they lose a nuclear weapon and happened near Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in in Goldsboro near Goldsboro, North Carolina. And they basically a B 52 Bomber broke up mid air dropping its nuclear payload. So basically the bomb it's an MK 39 nuclear weapon, mostly intact.
Yeah, got dropped and didn't explode, explode,
it didn't explode. Which is good. It's 3.8 Mega tons of TNT.
Good grief. That's a big, it's
a thermonuclear weapon. And if I remember correctly, I'm looking for the exact wording on it. But some of the triggers that are required to go off for the thing to explode, explode to explode to exposure, the some of them already been set off. So basically, this thing is close to blowing up. But the dirt that landed in, it's like a swampy area, the ground that it landed in. So it kind of like sunk a little bit. And it was more dangerous to try and dig it out. than to just let it continue
sinking. So it slowly just wasn't there. Another one though. So then they Okay. Was safe was left in the aircraft. What say? Well,
Eureka.
No, that's the one that I'm talking about. No. Wait, what? Yeah, Eureka. It's right here on on the Wikipedia page. 1961, Goldsboro, B 52. Crash. The state and 2012 erected a historical marker in the town of Eureka, three miles north of the crash site coming from commemorating the crash and the crash under the title nuclear mishap. Okay, so there you go. So okay. But yeah, so we've got we got, you know, we got a nuke nearby. Just yeah, just right off the road. shouldn't be laughing
I'm just saying if Fun Fact, Friday suddenly ends one day, it was probably that probably because expose, expose.
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stat freedom booze just listening. So that oh, this is from the 171 the sewing episode. So that as a loot, loss luthier Revere? Sure. They're a pair of stringed instruments. He works with bone or I work with bone a lot. It is an amazing material and very beautiful when unbleached. Yeah,
cuz we talked about bony boning and the bone that they used to use bone to sew things. Yeah, I bet it is. But bone is a I want to say they use bone for some parts of the guitar. Right?
I think so. Yeah.
I think I think I've heard that before.
On camera, what part?
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I'm smart, you guys. I promise. I have to have a pen and paper and write stuff out to be smart. though. I'm really good at working with numbers. I'm just not good at reading or comprehending how big a number is. When someone says 15 million. I'm like, that's a number. That's a good number. But if someone says 15,000 I'm like, that's the same number.
When you were little when you were very small. And we weren't even like talking about you would do some of the dumbest things when you were a baby. What would I do? So there was just one instance we were down at your grandparents like the trailer down at Lake and you put a sheet over your head like you're a ghost, you know? Yeah. And you just took off running as fast as you possibly could face first and ran to the door.
This is why I can't count
prizes. Why you have issues counting I'm assuming but we used to say all the time when you would do stuff like that. I mean, we'd look at each other you know, we'd be like oh, she's you do some dumb stuff sometimes I do. To be honest, I can't say I don't either. I was disassembling some electronic devices this week. And some of them have batteries. I always take any lithium ion rechargeable batteries to the battery recycling place because I don't want them to explode in
our trash can. Yeah. Yeah, have you have had that happen? So I was removing the batteries from them because I just have a big bucket I take to the battery store every once in a while big bucket of batteries bucket of batteries. BBB Hey, there's a I got an idea. Anyway Yeah. Where was
it going with this? Big bucket batteries?
Oh, yeah. So I'm sitting there, I'm looking at this battery and it's got two wires sticking off of it because I unsoldered him from the board. And I was looking at it. I had my pliers. And I was like, I wonder what would happen if I touch my pliers to both of these leads at the same time?
I hope he's smart.
I almost did it. I was like, no, wait, this is dumb. I'm about to do something real dumb. So I didn't do the thing. I wanted to, but nobody was home. So urban, especially dumb. So knock myself out with electric shock. Yeah, nobody want to get in there to take me to hospital. So I think that's going to wrap it up for this week. We have a guest next week, and most likely the week after that. Oh, you know what, I'll go ahead and say it's up. Parker, Cain. Parker, Cain is a
beatboxer. You know, like,
but he's good at it like that. No, just like that.
I met him done it. At pod fest. I was sitting there talking to him at one of the parties. And on one second, every go clear my throat. And like I'm sitting there talking to him. I'm like mid sentence. He's like, Oh, one second. The DJ is yelling at me. Because the DJ was yelling his name. And he goes up front and takes the mic from the DJ and just starts beatboxing for like five minutes. It was so good. And then he comes over and he's like, sorry, I had to do that
thing. I was like, and the DJ said, Yeah, Parker Parker. He went viral. Um, you may have seen him he was basically beatboxing and turned a McDonald's cup into an instrument. That's neat. It was really good stuff. But yeah, he's coming on next week, we're gonna talk about a bunch of different fun stuff. And he's probably going to do a little beatboxing for us. That'd be fun. The week after that I haven't nailed down. Exactly. So I don't want to say anything
until we've got all the details now down for that. But it will also be a super exciting show. If that guest if we can nail down a time that week. So yeah, I think that's all we talked about the ads. Yeah, okay. Oh, we also had a couple of sales on the merch store. We have a merch store and go to store store dot fun fact. friday.com and pick up a shirt or a magnet or a sticker or you know, whatever. Whatever you want to get with our little designs on we have some funny ones on there. And Imperial
systems already winning for 2024 That's all I'm gonna say. Have a good one, folks.
I'm mad about it. You don't really gets my goat three three, when people purposefully target
me know oh my gosh, do you feel personally attacked by this personally attack because
I can't read numbers. You can't. I can't read numbers of people are personally attacking me because I like the metric system better. You can trim metrics.
metro systems voted the metro. Sounds like you're like some video game where they like wanted to make up their own words for things they didn't really need to. So we have a thing going on the store. If you buy merchandise from the line that says team imperial system, then that makes one point for that team. And Team metric system makes a point for the metric system at the end of the year. Whichever one of the items has the most in sales is determined as the superior
measuring system for that year. 2023 that we were gonna do. We just had to the other person had to admit lie on air that
Yeah, but that's lame. We gotta we gotta Oh, we
got to up Tibet. Yeah, we're gonna have to steaks. Alright, well, I'll tell you what, let's have the listeners decide. What should the punishment slash reward be? For the metric system, imperial system battle, and we may think of other ways that we can do it other than selling merch. We're gonna we're gonna figure something out. But we gotta get going. Because it is Friday night and I want to go out to get some food.
We're gonna surprise, surprise my mom and my wife,
mom, mom and mom.
Oh my gosh, I love that job. I love not making your mom jokes, but making my mom jokes. I think it's funny. I think it's like a good switch a Roo.
The old switcheroo. All
right, well, I'm talking too much. So.
Bye. Bye, everybody.
That's the wrong one.
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