Episode 190 - Birthdays Part 2!

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Extra excellent way to do the intro very upbeat and, and you know with it. We're talking about birthdays,

what's your favorite birthday?

My favorite birthday is today my wife's birthday. I don't like my birthday. Because every time we have my birthday, I get it. I get a year older and have to scroll further and further on the little list of birthday. Do you like a year? Is that your favorite?

Yeah,

that's because you always get all the good stuff on your birthday. You have all the fun. I do. So she was born. Like her birthday is a week after mine. So like everybody's always like, what do you do for Leila's birthday? What do you do for Lisa's birthday? And I'm like, Oh, yeah. Of course when people ask me what often birthday Oh, yeah, just tell me happy birthday. I'm fine. Because you know, and he gets mad. Well, no, it's not that I'm mad. Like all the stuff that I want is too

Wow. So on the other hand, yeah, little trinkets. Yeah, we

she likes. We all like the little stuff. Like, I like getting a deck of cards that I don't have. I collect playing cards. I haven't mentioned that in a while. Bicycle cards, typically bicycle but I do have some other non bicycle ones, especially if they're like antique. And I have this tiny, tiny deck of cards. It's like not even an inch tall. Yeah, that I got from somebody locally here. When I told her that I liked playing cards. She's like, Oh, yeah, give them to me. It's

Happy

Cat 321 I did you get out of nowhere. I wasn't ready. You are way too fast. Are you ready? Okay. 321 Happy Happy Birthday. Our birthday song is short. There you go. Yep. That's a little song we'd like to do. So we're going to talk about birthday facts. It's gonna be a very short episode because Phaedra is in there. Just hanging out. We just got a new recliner in the living room. And she's hanging out in the new recliner. Reading the game. She's like it's so comfortable.

From a cafe locally.

Yeah, local cafe

got our little haven't candles and I forgot that we didn't so I just brought in a lighter and I was like here

call it one of the blueberries on fire.

She had eaten burnt really weary.

But yeah, we did find some we have done a birthday episode before back on episode 43. You can if you want to go back and listen to that. And I guess it's just she was 10 and she was very you know, very different voice and different presence on the show. And so it's dad. Yeah,

I had a voice isn't different. But right.

My voice is in different with my, the feel of the show. Yeah. grown up a little bit. You know, just as she grows, I can read a little more. A little less. Oh, cute. 10 year old dad, you know, whatever. So but yeah, we found some fun articles. We didn't cover much on the last episode. So we're gonna hit a few more of the birthday facts out there on the web. So why don't you go ahead and give us a couple of birth defects

the month of August has more birthday celebrations than any other month. Which celebrations what does that so gallery collection.com/blog/birthday trivia slash fun dash

bearable birthday slash. It's a terrible birthday fact whips.

Okay, because, you

know, it's

I mean, my birthday could be in March, but I have a celebration in August.

Right? It's very it's very, what do you mean? It's that's vague on what it means. Exactly. It's Is may 22 is the least common birthday October 5 is the most common birthday then they go from this whole the happy birthday song I think we covered this on the last episode but like it's it was supposedly copyrighted but then they found another version of it and then they found another version of it from a previous and then it was based on this other song with different words so it's actually

another fact on this website is what did one candle say to the other? What? Where's the very bottom? Don't birthdays burn you up? That's how you like the worst joke I've ever heard. That's terrible. Exactly. That

does have a little fun ones, but I don't know if I trust him. noisemakers were used in birthdays originated originally in Europe as a way to ward off evil.

Who does? He's been this way? The gallery color. Let's deep dive its cards. Its greeting card. Is

it greeting card reading cards? Oh my gosh. It's a greeting card and the birthday card business cards. Pocket.

Don't go to this website. Yeah.

Well link in the show notes link in case you need some Thanksgiving business cards or some

business greeting card review.

Oh my gosh. 17th annual create a greeting card scholarship contest. Well guess

it's good. Do people give each other cards for July 4? Yeah,

people give each other cards for all sorts of stuff.

It will give gifts for July 4.

Free hotdogs. Oh, that's true. Come on over. I have some free hotdogs. Yeah. Okay, so let's go to a site to have a little bit of a different site. Okay, that is linked in the show notes. It's actually the first link in the show notes birthday facts. I'll put it gallery I'll put it name at gallery birthday facts in the show notes. So you know we're talking about Yeah, Gallery, and I'll put quotes around birthdate. It's there we

before Greeks added candles to cakes. Yeah.

So why but I mean, was that did they do it? It doesn't just for birthdays. It doesn't look like it doesn't look like it just like they just did that for fun. Which is what's wrong with that?

In ancient times, the ancient Greeks offer offered round shape cakes to Artemis, the God of the moon as a form of tribute. They lit the candles to make the cake shine like the moon. Oh, so I guess that's for birthdays.

Okay, well, I guess if it's at night, and you need to see so you can offer that cake at the fire. The Greeks they actually didn't have fires fire. Because fire wasn't invented until 1978 with Joseph fire and

VA but the Greeks were invented in that same year in

1978. By Joseph Greeks. Yes, yes.

The ancient ancient Greek. Yes, Joseph in quotes, let's it's his nickname.

But this this fax dotnet the first one, the origin of birthdays. I'm like, oh, when someone was born would be the origin. But it says nope, it was the Egyptians. They're the ones. They're the ones that started the tradition of having a birthday party. Okay, hold

on, reopen close tab. The

tradition of celebrating birthdays started with Ancient Egyptians who believed that when a pharaoh was crowned they became a God. Thus making their coronation day much more important than their birth and to the world. So, yeah, you go so, so great. I mean, Egyptians and Greeks with their stuff.

Good on gallery collection.com gallery collection. Yes, because there's two websites that have now I don't trust gallery collection.com in their fat, okay, because they're a card company. And this is facts. dotnet. So obviously, it's got to be true if it's on faxed on it. On gallery collection.com It says May 22 is the least common

Hmm. Okay, so hold on, let

me more because I know people.

So we've got two sources here. And this was updated June 2. So let's ask AI, you, we're going to ask the Microsoft co pilot preview, which I believe uses open AI. So we're going to see what it has to say. So what is the most common birthday? What is the most common birthday and it's processing, and it says searching for the Pope. The most common birthday in the United States is September 9. On this day, an average of 12,300 babies are born. So I guess the United States so I don't know if maybe

This is This is revolutionary show content right here.

So it was on today.com howstuffworks.com zippia.com and time.com was where the sources from the previous answer came from. And the least common birthday is February 29. I Yep, there you go. It's because it only happens once every Oh my gosh. Okay.

What's the latest? deletion? Deletion,

second. Least Common. Okay.

It's gonna say February 29. Again,

I don't want to add an image. How do I just if it says February 29th, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be very upset. That was That was That was funny. I mean, it makes sense. It says there's a one in 1460 chance to be born this day. Okay, so it says New Year's Day, New Year, the second least common is New Year's Day. And it's interesting to note that both Christmas Day and New Year's have birth, lower birth rates compared to other dates. So there you go. Maybe a lot of a lot of births are planned now.

they've always blown up Hot Topic is telling me to buy stuff. I haven't bought stuff at Hot Topic and like three years.

So yeah, but a lot of people like plan their, their, you know, labor labor thing out now. So they can be like, I don't want to don't want to give birth on Christmas Day. So they'll planet a day or two after you know, just to make it not be on Christmas. Which we have a relative that is very close to Christmas a couple of days off of Oh, yeah. And we're like, we always just combined the party to get our birthdays. Right. You and I combined for the family.

And I'm combined tears for Father's Day. Sometimes, right?

Because it's very, very close. That's what we did a couple nights ago. We had the Father's Day father's birthday party. Yeah. So what's your birth? Oh, birthstone is Aquamarine. Yep, mine's Aquamarine. Because March so while I'm looking, however on my class ring, which typically you get your birthstone in. I got the main birthstone because I liked the color green better. And it was emerald. Who

put on blowing up so these aren't these aren't in order thing it what's the birthstones? Yeah, January's Garnet. February's? Amethyst, March is Aquamarine. April was diamond. May is Emerald. June is either pearl or Alexandrite. July is Ruby. August is Peridot. September is Sapphire. October is Opal and tourmaline. November is yellow Topaz and December is Tanzanite. Those are all really pretty. Yep. And like the October when's the best? That's really pretty. Yeah. One

of the local jewelry stores, they have a whole section of birthstone stuff. So like you can just pick your birth month and pick a ring out or you know, they have it all in order. So it's kind of neat. Yeah. Have you ever heard about the world's longest birthday cake?

No.

In India, they made a 17,000 foot long birthday.

Oh

it's back in 2020. Of course it was like the show notes. Oh, that's interesting. What one of one of my links just went on I clicked it and then went right back to the same page. That's badly we're in website. But yeah, it was I mean, 17 that's 5300 meters of 17,388 foot long. So that's, that's really long. Yeah, that's my

opening up a soda. Sorry. It was really pressurized because I haven't drink out of in a second. I'm sure my mic down.

So I read a funny one about Ireland. I think it was a camera what side it was on. But in Ireland, they have a tradition of holding the baby upside down. And like bonking its head on the ground, once for each year. Oh, that I've gotta find a possible photos post. It was right there.

It was right there. It was founded to

some of the reflections on a live link in the show notes. And the people of Ireland celebrated birth celebrate birthdays of babies in a very funny manner. They lift the child upside down and bumps him or her on the head or on the floor. These bumps depend on how old the child is believed child is it as bird leaves my Wow can't talk is believed to bring good luck. And sometimes an extra bump is also added for more good luck. And I like this tradition. I think we should do

I'm gonna be 15.

So it's crazy. Oh, by the way. I don't want to this. This has a lot of the same facts here. But we're skimming through and we're finding that there was a very expensive birth certificate. And the way that this fact is worded, it could mean multiple things. World's world's most expensive birth certificate belongs to Paul McCartney. It was auctioned in March 1997 for $84,146.

And he read me this. And I was like, well, whose birth certificate is it? Exactly. And then he was like Paul McCartney dough. And I was like, well, but

no, I looked at it. And I was like, you're correct. That was a very valid question, because the way this is worded, world's most expensive versus like it belongs to Paul McCartney. It doesn't say that it is Paul McCartney's.

Yeah. It says it belongs to him. He could own it.

I bet your money. It's Paul McCartney's birthday. I ain't bet $94,000 But I'll bet you some. Well, do you know what a golden birthday is?

Yes. What it's like, how? Whatever day you were born on, it's your age. So So mine would be 25 Is my golden birthday. Right?

Some people? Might. Yeah, mine's 18. I was about to say some people don't get a golden birthday. But that's kind of morbid. But I was thinking like, if you were if you were 55. You can't be on board in the 55th day of the month, because my brain worked backwards. Like, like,

you're only 55 Your whole life. Well,

I was thinking yours will be when you're 25 miles. 18. Right. Yeah, I'm like, oh, man, what if you're like, 32? You never get a golden Oh, well, sometimes my brain don't work, right. Yeah. So guess how many? How many people share your birthday? A couple? About 17 point 7 million people. That's it too many people average number of people. It's pretty easy number to come to you just take the world population, which is always estimated.

I know a girl with my birthday.

Yeah. Yeah. Same exact birthday. Boy in the same place. We're so cool. Like, a couple feet. A couple feet from each other, but not the exact same room. Right, exactly. Okay, there's a phenomenon known as birthday twins. Yeah, which we are all aware of. But this phenomenon is also known as the birthday paradox, like we talked about this in our previous birthday episode is the likelihood that out of 23 people, there's a 5050 chance that two of them will have the

It's not? It's not.

By the time you read this entire article, around 250 babies will have done what? Good thing? I didn't read the whole article. What you said, you don't believe that? I believe that. Oh, there's so many people that are really low. Have you ever seen people? There's like so many of them. I haven't seen people think about when we were driving today.

Also, how do they know?

There's people write stuff down sometimes. And then they take averages, like averages. I know you don't like averages. You don't like stats? We know we're well aware of your stats. A version,

but also how do they know how fast I read this? What

if I skimmed it, right? What if I just read real fast? What

if I only read that one?

It takes the average person an average amount of time to read this average length article. And then they take how many seconds that is and then they figure out how many babies are born on average per minute. And then they run the numbers and they came up with that number. And they typed it in there. Okay. Okay, so you ready for this one? No. If you think you spend a lot of money on your birthdays, think again. Okay. Are you ready to think again? Yeah. Did you think again? Yep.

27 million. Exactly.

Exactly. I don't know exactly. 27 million to the penny. But that's what the article says it's $27 million. That is awesome. For the people that made money off of that. I know. He's got it to spend and he's given it to florists and bakers and good good. Because that's $27 million out there in the hands of people who probably need it more than he does. So he just got scammed. And somebody somebody's just charging 27 plates. Yeah. And, and they were like, these are those extra

fancy ones do I would drop 27 million on those. Okay,

so out of paper plates. What What are your favorite kind? Like it? Let's say money is no no concern. But you need paper plates. Not like actual plates. I

would get the the pretty. No, I don't like big plate. I would get the little small paper plates. Super small ones, but they're like the medium sized ones. Okay, that are like covered in the in the waxy stuff.

Right? Like the.

I don't know what you call it? Yeah,

it's wax. It's wax. It's a type of wax. Yeah. It's nice and smooth. It you can pour liquid into won't like, go through the paper. Yeah. So we were at Sam's recently, it was paper plates. By the time we were going to splurge and buy some paper plates, right? Because we don't buy them all the time. But every once in awhile, we just get a big stack and we're like, oh, this is so nice when we don't have to do dishes. But um, I saw those. I want to say it's China brand.

also don't like to Styrofoam ones. No, no, I

don't like styrofoam. Anything. Really? Yeah. Except for packing. You know, for stuff we've gotten way, way off topic and this is kind of boring. No, it's fine.

Styrofoam. You're going on the bad list?

Welcome to paper plate talk with David Lidl. Paper play talk, we

just start making a bad and a good list.

stuff. I like stuff I hate.

Yeah. So Styrofoam going on the bad list?

Bad list? Yep. Maybe we'll put it on the website. We'll have like a good and bad stuff. And we won't ever use any brand names, which like like we're talking about categories of things, not specific items, unless there's a certain specific items terrible But um, so China, in China, an infant is considered age one. According to the accordingly on the birthday of a one year old in most parts of the world, an infant in China would be aged two years. What? I read that verbatim that doesn't. Okay, so

if we have learned one thing today, it is. websites don't know, how have you written? I'm

really wondering how much stuff is written by AI these days. Yeah. And they just literally don't even check it. They just, they just dump it on the internet. Because this says that this was written by reflections team. It doesn't, it doesn't have a specific writer.

So the reflections team might consist of AI guy guy,

who's like, write me an article called 15. Mind blowing birthday facts, you know what? I'm gonna, I'm gonna do this, you're gonna ask, I'm gonna ask AI. I'm gonna see what it does. I'm gonna see what it pulls up, we usually do not know, we don't ever use, we hardly ever use art on our stuff. And sometimes sometimes, and we're doing less and less of that the novelty has worn off. It was cute for a few things. And I like to use it. I have used it for some programming stuff, where I

so weird to me. It is.

And then all of a sudden we get Canadians live south of Seattle surprisingly 64 Canadians live south of Seattle is Seattle is further north in Toronto. 64% of Canadians. French soldiers in World War One more French soldiers. Birthdays immortal jellyfish. We get US government zombie apocalypse plan.

We got Froot Loops flavors. We got a tortoise named Jonathan.

Oh my gosh

astronauts aging slower in space.

And okay, Pi Day that okay, this is what the related March 14 overlaps, which is Pi Day overlaps with the birthday of one of the greatest minds in history. Albert Einstein was born on March 14 1879. Let's see people born on February. Yeah, so the vast majority of these answers that copilot Microsoft gave me are not

but they sandwich with birthday bread. Because it has like three at the top that are birthday related. The middle has nothing to do with it. And then the bottom is birthday related. Oh my gosh, this is crazy. So I guess I just assumed you're gonna read the bottom and the top.

And another thing about copilot going on AI rant here. I I've been occasionally will ask it for like a concept art just because I want to see something funny or interesting. Like Leila likes the show called Miraculous Ladybug and Cat Noir. Yeah, right. And it's just a fun, you know, it's a cartoon. It's fun. It's actually kind of a decent superhero show. And then she likes Hatsune Miku, which is a Vocaloid. We've we've talked about a lot and she does cosplay stuff with that. Sorry.

It's a lot to explain. And I was like,

oh wonder I wonder what a cross between ladybug on that cartoon. And Hatsune Miku would look like and it pulled up. And she's like, Oh my gosh, that's so cool looking. And it is it's a really cool looking like matchup that she could do a cosplay of later. And, but then there's suggestions at the bottom when you use copilot. And one of the suggestions was like, add more, more tech of autonomy, more of the tech aspect of

With a bladder with hot tonight. Yeah,

gallbladder was hot Sunni Miku. Like parts, like air, and it's very funny. I'll try to remember to put it in the, in the, in the show notes or the chapter files. Anyway, it's not the large language models are not the best. I feel like they're actually getting worse, the more input they have, because a lot of people are inputting weird stuff, and then it feeds off of itself. And anyway, yeah, that's the end of my rant. And do I have to I still have a David David rant?

Oh, thank you. I don't

know, I don't I don't have the David around the board. Anywho I think we're about done on Friday facts.

We're gonna go spend time with my mama. Yeah, it's been about

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