On The Third Day of Culture... June 10th, 1752: Ben Franklin Flies The Kite, and Girl, Makes A Shocking Discovery

day of culture, it was yes, that's right. Let's and even if it was slightly different from what we originally said, that is from now on, just before we get into a you know, it's not that I have a sty. It's just that I have eye problem and I need to ask you, the doctor in my life about it. Yes, every day I wake up and only my one eye, know, just my one eye. Can you see it looks weird? Well, you need to come up closer to the lens I'm getting up. What makes you think it's not a sty

because the sty happens below your eyeball? Like, okay, so just readers, can I just describe what's happening. I don't think that's true. When you when I wake up in the morning. For some reason, my one eye, the eyelid is a little sorry. I I know you guys see me as like this sort of dainty, hot little twink, but my one iselid is crusty. It is like something is going on with my one eyelid, and I don't know what it is as a contact dermatitis. Can you

tell I've looked something up. I can tell what you have not looked up, which is dies. And all of the images that are popping up are on the top eyelid. Oh ship, all right, so maybe I have a sty but girl, I don't know. Warm compress. Here's what you do. Do Do you do you like dry rice or something in the house? You don't. Do you think I have dry rice? You're supposed to put like rice in a saw tie at microve it for thirty five seconds and then just just or whatever hot calm preuss you can

you can reheat, Doug says pink Eye. I can see it from here. I certainly don't have. And if that's some sort of anal sex joke, it really isn't. It's not acceptable. We don't use eyes with anal sex, Doug. We don't pay our eyes in the butt. I'm not I'm not nineteen years old putting my eyes and butts. I've learned since then, just kidding, never once did that.

I have many times You've just accidentally had sex with your sucker, you sick fucker while I've been down there, and then I just kind of I kind of brushed past it with my my little my eyelash, gives it a little butterfly kiss your little feckles, gout in your eye, his feckles, dear darling, I don't really know you to be some sort of hole mancher. I just don't talk about it. It's kind of yeah, you really don't about it. You don't talk about it enough, talk about it? What

having sex? Or or have you eaten? But hole? Have I ever you've done it? And you're like, yes, of course, what about you? What about you? I'm on the record that I am a fan of it, but but you never really you always seem to be you know. But that's something that's like very easily, very easily reciprocable. It's really because some I meet some gay man in their life who don't do it, okay, but you won't do it, So are you like a DJ Khalid? But you're gay,

DJ Kalen. No, I don't know. I'm not. First of all, I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about other people and other people who who are like no, I will never eat someone's ask, but I demand you eat mine. That's not who I'm That's not the type of girl I'm talking about. I'm talking about these types of girls who are just completely just sort of like, no, the

butt holes off the table. They'll have anal sex. But when it comes to you know, the ship getting you know, let's say, a mouth on it, people are, you know, feeling a little bit dainty about it. They feel a little bit Victorian about it. They feel a little chase, they feel like a Victorian woman. M I don't understand that. I feel these men need to discover their butt holes. And I wish that straight men would discover their butt holes.

I really do. God bless the ones who have who understand they're out there, who have seen God the way that we have. Oh, hon. And I actually spoke to a straight woman recently who said she has eaten butt hole. And then I thought to myself, man's butthole a straight man's butt hole, And I thought to myself, Wow, that must be a true m Night's Shamalan horror moving. That must be truly that because when you when you pull down the pants, you know there's going to be a twist.

And the twist is it's dirty in a way you can't imagine straight men. I know they don't take care of their butth holes. I know, and let's just say this far straight engineer to be telling me, accusing me of pink I it's really gross, really because he would get pink I have even looked, if he even looked at his butt hole in a mirror. That's that's that is cold. Matt. Wow, you really smoked him out, Speaking of which I said, smoked him out. No, Doug said out.

Doug hurt. He's hurt by it. He's hurt by what We're hurt by what he said. Um, it's the third day of culture. I'm sorry about your sty I I don't think. I don't think it's just I think I just have to moisturize more. I don't know what it is, but maybe it is a style. But the size last week's stuff. Sometimes if you don't conjunctive vitus, which is pink eye. He's saying the fancy word for pink guy.

Now because he thinks we're stupid. This is why you can't trust me, because I thought that was something different. I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. And that's how you know. I have been looking all of this up, girl, because I knew the word conjunctive us. And then Doug says, I have had it many times. Well, that's that's a that's something he's wing about it. You've looked at your button mirror. It's the third day of culture. It's the third day of culture. Man, I'm so excited to keep

discovering these days. Well, you know, today actually is one of Bowen's um picks. And I think that when he said this one, I said, absolutely, this was one of the most important days of culture that I can think of. And to think that it might have missed the list of days of culture would it would just be I wouldn't be able to forgive ourselves because we have taken all the way back to the beginning and this really does about an amazing pick. Thank you so much. And

this is the beginning. I mean, this is the beginning of the rest of our lives, our lives over and over because just think about how often you use the thing that was discovered on this day. Ready, Yeah, it's a discovery. Here we go on the third today of Okay, so I'm gonna stay to date and then we say again, that's what we do. This third day of culture is June tenth, seventy two. Ben Franklin and girl makes a shocking discovery. I what do you think? Wish I could

have been there that day? I really do, because that would have been just can you imagine if you're a girl, you're you're you're a good girl. Girl, if you're a good girl, just said I'm going to fly the kite today, and you were like, yes, sister, we'll be here and we'll watch you fly the kite. We love when you fly at high And your girl's name is Ben. And he's sort of known for being a crazy person in government seventeen fifty two. He wasn't really in government at

the time. Maybe he was. He was a great mind er, he was a leader. He was a leader. You're telling me that what I actually never even thought about this. His discovery of electricity was before America, was before he was such a mover and shaker in the government. Yes, what an amazing man, amazing man create invented by focals. Ben Franklin is that girl. He is that girl that's a little culture number ten. Ben Ben Franklin is that girl. Whoa can you imagine? I can't imagine a life without glasses.

They're part of my look. No, it's there. They're a part of your look. Most crucially, they're a part of your look. And then secondarily you need them to see. I need them to see now, and now I don't need them anymore. I have contacts. But you know, do you think do you think I'm wait what I just thought about something with you? What did you think you could be a teena a? And what does that mean?

A liar about glasses? Everyone else know you are. Actually, I'm realizing that it's all flash back to me now. It's like the end of a classic thriller where you see a montage and it all makes sense. You're a liar, You're a Tina Fey about glasses. What makes you are? What are the scenes in the flashback like when did

I ever lie to you? Just like me turning around and you start of taking off your glasses and looking at them like I don't need these like you you putting glasses away like on a trip, because you don't need them. You see that I'm asleep, and then you take off your glasses and like all of a sudden, you can see better. That's that's what a Tina Fe is. Tina Fe famously doesn't really need those glasses. She wears

them as an aesthetic choice. Image. Well, for me, first of all, my first classes were very ugly, and so it became a functional. It was a functional thing that became is why you had ugly glasses. All I was able to choose from where the Costco frames. That's all you could get. That's all I could get for how long? For like until I was, like in the eighth grade, I want to say, or no, like in high school until I was I got to high school, like we got because of my perst scoop. I would always get

my eye exam at the Costco. Shout out to the Costco. I I care centers. We love you. But the selections, especially back then, we're not so great, especially if you were just going, you know, to the brick and mortar to shop your glasses instead of buying them online these like like we do these days. But I went and girl, slim pickens, I have never even thought about your sort of journey, journey through the trauma that was having to wear I wear that you didn't like. It is a trauma.

It is a trauma. Honestly, girl, I have thought to myself that from the beginning, at least when they tell little kids they need glasses, which has got to be a tough thing to hear that at least they say, but you can have the most amazing pair. But no, you think every kid who you think it's part of the That's why I have a lot of you have a lot of un learning to do. And think about the ways that that that disinformation has served you in

the past. It served me, it certainly has, and it served me in negative ways because it's set me on a course where I did not know anything about my sister's real pain, which was that you didn't have the glasses that you liked. And you are such an aesthetic person. You are such a person that is in touch with um, your image, and you love you love, you love your sort of you know things and for you through middle school,

which is such a hard, difficult time. When you say, I would say so so much bullying, so much bad language. You know, I'm crying. Oh my god, Oh my god, I'm crying. You are crying really hard right now. And to think that you had no control over the aesthetic on your very face, that really breaks my heart for you, because I know it probably chapped a young Bowen's ass. And I you know, I like to think of you as being indignant, as a child in a in a state of sort of upset, But this is like a

sort of you know, sadness. I don't want to think about you ever going through. Thank you. What was something that you struggled with in middle school? My color blindness? Oh my god. And while, first of all, while my sister, this became such an emotional episode of last college, it's crazy. It's one of the most one of the top four most emotional episodes of all time. I was listening to you. I was receiving what you were sending me just now,

your empathy, your understanding, your love, your care. I was in full consumption mode. I did not even think about the way my sister to this day, well, I cannot see colors the way that they are going to be a chapter in my book. Actually, I cannot see colors. I can't want to really get into that um, but I just want to say that my narrative with color inness has really taken over the conversation of our friendship for the past decade, and I we have not had

this conversation. I feel that you are well aware of my color blindness, whereas I was not aware of the sort of pain that came with not being able to choose your glasses that you liked until a certain age. That is truly and you would say that those are those are on the same level those pains. I would say one is a is a real handicap and one is a temporary um but debilitating setback, a thing to overcome. Yeah,

because I don't know that. I'm sorry. I don't know that you will ever overcome your color blindness with it. You will live with it. I don't know if it'll be you know, I'm living with color blindness. I'm living with color blindness. Yeah, And I've I have actually received in the past gifts. In fact, last year I got a Secret Santa sept Secret Santa gift from Chris Schniker and he got me a pair of glasses that were for color blind people. Oh, my goodness, and yes, and

by the way, he's a reader of the party. Also got me a lighter that says Adina is a base because it was famously one of the one of the rules of culture that resonated with him. And he got me this pair of glasses that's really good that we're supposed to correct my vision. And it became that moment that you see like when a woman hears for the first time, like if she hears her own voice like that those videos, those heart har warming videos. I was like, oh my god, are we going to have that moment?

But then it turns out they were just shitty glasses. And I saw like what you'd see if you wanted to, like a fun house. And here's the thing. I can choose to either believe that that's true and you're all seeing a true fun house and I would rather prefer my vision or the glasses were bad. And I'm inclined to believe the glasses were bad. What what a fucked

up life? What way of no? But well, yes, but just that the label, the packaging whatever he would give off that these were color blind glasses for color blind people experience in color blindness. You put them on like you, the anticipation of touching one with your fingers, about to put them on for the first time, thinking will this be? It feels like a scam. This is This is how

I can describe the trauma of that situation. When I put those glasses in my hand, I heard the most beautiful music, like I felt like it was the scoring of my life was swelling. I was like, this is gonna be a moment of all time, and then I was just disappointed. So I don't think I will ever really truly see you. Know, I'll never truly see you won't, And I'm sorry. I as a friend, I have to be honest with you and say you won't. That's okay.

I think the way you've seen the world so far all your life, whoa, Now I'm emotional, and then the way you've interpreted that world, and then the way you've told told us about it, like reflected it back. It's just because I think about the young kids. I think about blind kids. I think about them every day when I wake up. I think there's a lot of young color blind kids out there who can see me. Now,

you are representation, you really are. You're not. I'm I'm not joking, I know, And if you were to joke, that would be the cruelest thing you've ever done to me, was to be joking right now about how I represent and inspire color blind children across the country. You are going to take that for me? What you're Joe Biden with the stuttering. See, I didn't know if you were saying I was Joe Biden in a negative way, because I never really know. No, I'm a centrist. I love

Joe Biden. You as a centrist. Your your king is Joe Biden. My king is Joe Biden and nearer. Now, I think, what does it say that the two of us lifelong friends or friends for life hosts, the co host the host. Most importantly, most crucially, co host host and co host know everything about each other. They text all day. Savannah GA three and Al Broker, Al Roker, what is the godfather to Savannah's youngest? Is this true? Yes?

It is, Yes it is. What does it say that two of us to friends to co hosts both have our vision dysfunctions? We can't we are, but our our eyeballs are sucked up. But whose eyeball is normal? No? And you know what I say to that, define normal. Define. That's what I always go out into the streets and scream with my arms out like this, like I spin around in a crowded street, and I just say the words, define, define normal all if anyone's like stop, define normal? And

did they give you an answer? No, no one can. No one knows what to say to me when I tell them, when I put it to them, define normal, normal. I don't have to act like that. You know who didn't define normal? You know who stepped outside the boxes and as a result was an inventor and politician, Benjamin Franklin. We've been calling him Ben Franklin this whole time, and then you decided to add a gym, and I respect that. I love that Benjamin Franklin. And you know what they

that's the man is on the hundred dollar bill. He's a discovery of electricity. And I can't imagine what it was like to have been there. Was he electrocuted that girl? That girl was a little um zapped. Oh my god? You know the legend has it that he maybe almost died. I don't really know, Gay, Sorry, I almost died, right, was maybe maybe almost dime? And I'm sure he was gay. He probably thought about it. Now I think that, Oh my god, Anna, do we have an analyst? Matt read

this now. Franklin's experiment demonstrated the connection between lightning and electricity. To dispel another myth, Franklin's kite was not struck by lightning. Oh my god. If it had been, he probably would have been electrocuting experts say, instead, the kite picked up the ambient electrical charge from the storm. So I guess what we're sort of understanding from what Anna has said to us is he wasn't just flying a kite like as a hobby and then got struck by lightning and

said eureka. As it were, he sort of went out there with intent and wasn't even electrocuted and struck by lightning like we all think, like like like like myth would have it, who is your favorite founding father? And there's a correct answer. I would say my favorite founding father would be John Hancock because he absolutely took his space on that document and he said, I'm the greatest

diva of all. I will take the quill, please Mama watch me right, And he slapped his huge slapper on there and said find room elsewhere fags and then he stomped off John Hancock. What about you? This is the correct answer, none of them because they were slave owners. Honey. You got me, didn't you. That's you've been waiting to

be That's why you brought this up. That's why you brought this whole benface so you could ask me who my favorite founding father was, so you could say the right answer was none of them because they were all slave owners. Bitch. You know what I feel? What it feels really fucking like a good opportunity for me to learn you have such grace today. Yeah, well that's because, Um.

The thing is, I sort of have had, um the time, the space with the quarantine to really sit with myself, and it's been a really inspiring time and very creative. Every day I'm getting up and I'm just creating so much. And it's like if I it's like, this is how it is as an artist, right. It's like every single day I have to do something with all this energy, you know what I mean, or else the energy will turn against me. Um. So I have to be super

productive every single day. And when I wake up in the morning at I get my coffee, which I make for myself here at my apartment, and then I sit down and I'm in my chair. After just some like just you know, I run a couple of miles and then I sit down in my chair at nine am. I make sure that the latest I'll do is nine oh three, and then I just start writing. And I

don't judge myself, you know what I mean. I just write, and usually I have a few really solid um completed works by four completed works, yes, and that's when I'm ready to sort of unwind by watching film television, well, maybe have a glass of wine Chardonnay um, and then I'm in bed. I'm in bed by seven seven fifteen, my god. So during that time it's been really in my in my discoveries and in my work. I've really discovered this compassion that I didn't have before. So the

quarantine has been incredible. It's been an incredible time. That is Yeah, that's that's so beautiful. Yeah, and I'm inventing things too, like Ben Franklin did what do you oh? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, definitely definitely exercising my inner Ben Franklin while I'm while I'm in quarantine. Wait, you answer the question what are you inventing? Oh okay, so I invented. It's so you know how um plants have pots. This is a bowl. This is a bowl for a plant. Oh my god, a plant bowl. It's a plant bowl.

It's basically like like you know how you would um if you were you know, like spaghetti or soup. You need it out of a bowl. Yeah, so this is you take that same kind of bowl, fill it with um fucking dirt and then you just put that you plan a plan in there, and if you water it and put it in the sun, you will get a plant. Plant I plant, doesn't it need a hole to sort of l O L for moisture, to sorry for moisture or something to to escape like it needs some sort

of the system can't be completely closed. Well, UM, I guess TBD because that was just one of today's inventions. Oh right, and then completed words I assume means an invention. The City of Four comic books series is just like UM calendar ideas, and I'll draw out a cap full calendar UM I have UM. So basically, UM, I have a calendar idea which is the Chickens of the Midwest, And it's basically it's a picture of a chicken in every Midwest state and there's twelve, the twelve Midwest states

of course. The Yeah, so this is sort of to appeal to like young farmers, young girls that are sort of um, you know in the Midwest. I found themselves there, teachers for classrooms. This is a Chickens of the Midwest calendar, and it's really really fun and it has all the Midwest states all twelve. I think that Ben Franklin was such an amazing person. Yeah, probably gay. Who do you think he what do you what do you think this

type would have been. I think that he was like really fixated on a type that was like sort of unattainable at the time, because I think he was like I think he was like this is this sort of sucks to say, but I think that Ben Franklin was like addicted to these guys that would become president, you know what I mean, And they were like the hotter guys, like these guys that like, you know, like Hamilton's I was like hot hotter. Were they younger? There's a difference both.

I mean like at the time, it was like at the time when you were thirty five, you were elderly, so like these guys like they were like young, tighter, just like a little bit more good looking, a little

bit more charismatic. I think like Ben Franklin helped him out and put so much energy and investment into them that he he could never settle down enough to to sort of find his own attainable love because these guys nothing was ever good enough like Ben, not even Ben was good enough for them, and they just wanted to funk because they were like that's Ben Franklin, Like cloud goes up, like wow if I suck him? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like basically like just being around Ben was like enough because he maybe he was going to invent something really good, so you wanted to be fucking him. Well, Ben like held court better then would be in the back of back of the you know, the bar, just like having people gather around him, and he would just like yeah, he was a great storyteller, you know, crack wise or whatever. So it's he was amazing improviser, too, amazing improviser. At the time, it was hot, even hotter than it is now,

and so it's really hot now. Well, but I feel like Ben probably saw himself a little desexualized because he couldn't. He was misinterpreting what does signals of desire he was getting from men. Yeah, and I also just think like he wasn't as traditionally hot as the rest of them. And these guys were narcissists, Okay, they called themselves the Founding Fathers. Crazy. It's like, I mean, like Ben, it's like the wigs are there, like the men are wearing

the wigs. Yeah, you know you could, you could have worn one, yeah, but instead he was like, I feel strong, powerful with my fully bald head. But I meant at a certain point you have to acknowledge the beauty standard, and you know, there is the beauty myth. But I think things are governed by it doesn't mean it's like saying like I don't. It's like me being like, um, I don't believe in money. It's like you can't say that. You can't say that, or no ethical consumption under capitalism.

It's like true, So let's just kind of do our thing, you know what I mean, Like, yes, we'll do that. We'll do the ad for a We'll do the ad for ALEXA. So I mentioned the same way Ben Franklin probably was like, I'm smarter than the system, but he really wasn't. You cannot pace it. I I hope that he was a content person, you know what I mean. I hope that he was able to at the end of his life look at all the things he did and say, you know what, maybe I didn't slay it

relationship wise. Maybe I couldn't get these guys to fuck me like in a locked down way. Maybe maybe I never did, like, you know, hook up with and keep Thomas Jefferson, which is really what he wanted. It's what they all wanted to Thomas. Yeah, I think so. They let him write the Declaration of Independence. It's like that. He was like the golden boy, you think. And he had that red hair which made him stand out. He was married to Deborah Read for many years. Deborah Read,

you know, you know all about what she did? What did she do? She was a big murderer. Killer. Yeah, she's a big killer. She was a major killer. I think Ben Franklin was gay. I think that that's why he was married to a killer is because he was like, let's make the comic and have a conversation based on something else, because I don't want them talking about how I'm gay, so I'm gonna marry this crazy killer taking the cent off himself. That's smart, she's smart. He was

one of the smartest. Before we move on, what's your number one electrical um invention? Sing a router? Router is important, Router is really good. I would say clock. That's a clock that's so important and fun to tell time. And I really I loved learning how to tell time him in, So that was one of the highlights of Think how

long did it take free too? I mean I just I truly like it probably took like all of two days to learn how to tell time from a clock, But I felt like my brain was reorganizing itself so profoundly that it took maybe five years for me to learn how clocks worked. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy for me because I actually learned how in forty five minutes. But then I got so I knew how to tell time for like six years, and then I got really sick. I got scarlet fever, and I forgot how to walk

and tell time. So I had to relearn how to walk and lose a clock. So that's why my situation is a little bit more different. I kind of assumed it didn't exist. This is I'm sorry. I keep doing this like with the color blind thing, and um, I have to I have a lot to learn. I have a lot to learn, learning and unlearning. And um, you know who didn't have anything else to learn was Ben and we want to thank him. He had, he had

it all. We want to thank him. Thank you Ben for risking your life to give Bowen a router and me o'clock, which we take for granted. Well that to June tenth, seventeen fifty two, Ben Franklin flies the kite and girl makes a shocking discovery. That's day three of our days of culture and what we say is and for giving us a cultures fine