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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always as

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant. Hi, Josh Chuck. I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: something that you might not know about me. Oh boy,

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Speaker 1: as a youth. As a youth youth, a an older

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Speaker 1: boy in the neighborhood named Tommy Roper trained me as

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Speaker 1: a ninja, an altar boy or older older Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna train ninja right? Yeah? This Uh, this encompassed

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Speaker 1: generally sitting on top of a storage shed in my

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Speaker 1: backyard quietly for hours on end, waiting for somebody to

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Speaker 1: walk past, uh, so that we could find out whether

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Speaker 1: or not they noticed us. Then that's where you started

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Speaker 1: smoking because you were bored. Now, yet that came like

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Speaker 1: a year or two later. Yeah, you did not adhere

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Speaker 1: to the bushito. No, I don't know if smoking is

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Speaker 1: is outlawed by the bushido. I just meant the way

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Speaker 1: of the ninja. No, that's the samurai. Well, no, the

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Speaker 1: ninja though, shun the bushido, right, Okay, I got what

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Speaker 1: you say on the same page, So, Chuck, I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, I kind of carried that with me my

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Speaker 1: whole life. I'm sure i'd see a throwing star every

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Speaker 1: once in a while and be like, I know how

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Speaker 1: to throw that, you know? Did you have any of those,

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Speaker 1: Tommy did? I've never had any of those? Are big

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Speaker 1: in the eighties for little nerves to collect totally um.

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Speaker 1: I found out though, when I read how Ninja's work,

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Speaker 1: I am nothing more than a dultant. Really, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: was surprised to find that out. I believe you said ninja,

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Speaker 1: so that is not correct, right, No, it is. It's ninja.

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Speaker 1: It's like fish or deer. I know we've been drilling

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Speaker 1: that into each other's head and I'm still saying Ninja's yeah,

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Speaker 1: So if we slip up, then give us a break, So, Chuck, Josh.

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Speaker 1: One of the first things I noticed from this article

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Speaker 1: was that um Ninja, although Japanese in nature and origin,

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Speaker 1: very much, because of kind of what I was just

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Speaker 1: talking about with the Bushido was the Samurai code, where

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Speaker 1: you very respectfully would face one another, face your enemy

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Speaker 1: one on one and do battle, and the Ninja subscribe

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Speaker 1: more to the art of war school of thought right

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Speaker 1: as espoused by Sun Zu, which was a little sneakier, right,

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Speaker 1: and smarter if you ask me, it is smarter. And

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Speaker 1: I mean that's how the American colonists won the War

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Speaker 1: for Independence. The British were all like, hey, we've got

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Speaker 1: in the fourth or fifth century BC, and uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it kind of went against the grain, as it were, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: big time where you could uh. I think there's a chapter,

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Speaker 1: people to spread confusion in the ranks and paranoia, um,

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Speaker 1: through sabotage, spying, spying, um yeah, espionage, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool, Yeah, just basically underhanded stuff. Disguise was okay, yeah, deception,

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Speaker 1: I love it, right, So that is actually where it's

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Speaker 1: art of ninja, the art that ninja's practice. Yeah, ninjutsu

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Speaker 1: and it is not a martial art, but it is

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Speaker 1: sounds like a martial arts. Yeah, but it's not. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's because utsu sounds like jiu jitsu. Right, So, okay,

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Speaker 1: we've got this first seed of the ninja planet by

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Speaker 1: the way, yes, right, tell me about Prince Yamato. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Prince Yamato, Uh is in some halls called the first

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Speaker 1: That is serious ninja stealth right there. Yeah, a little

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Speaker 1: It's really tough, as the grabster who wrote this article

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Speaker 1: in some cases, Japanese historians just have admitted ninja altogether

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Speaker 1: the supernatural stuff. Yeah, okay, so Chuck, what was the

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Speaker 1: It's all coming around. Yeah. So in Ega and Coca,

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Speaker 1: giving mis information. Right. And apparently since castles were they

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Speaker 1: Well it did? It didn't age? Well you should go

420
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Speaker 1: watch it now and not the cruddy remake? Uh isn't

421
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: isn't like the rock In then? Of course that's Dwayne Johnson,

422
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 1: do you, buddy? What was the first movie? Though Josh

423
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: credited as being the first movie with the Ninja. Uh

424
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: you only lived twice. The James Bond movie it uh it.

425
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: And when the movie came out in nineteen seven, Ninja

426
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 1: just exploded in Western culture. Of course, because people that

427
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: go to see go to see the James Bond movies

428
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: are looking for any cool new thing anyway, So imagine

429
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 1: when they saw the Ninja, they were like, oh my gosh,

430
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: that's the coolest mercenary I've ever seen in my life.

431
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 1: They're like, click, those guys butchering everybody. Teenage mutant ninja turtles.

432
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: Of course I never got into them neither. And then chuck,

433
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: of course, Um, you probably haven't heard of this, but

434
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: there's this thing called g I Joe. I know, the

435
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: early g I Joe. We've been over this, the twelve

436
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: inch g I Joe with the kung fu grip, not

437
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: the tiny ones. They're not dolls, are action figures. What

438
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: you played with their dolls like, you can hug them

439
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: and cuddle them. You can't cuddle an action figure. And

440
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: they had bendable elbows and stuff like that. Did your

441
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: twelve Ventures have kung fu grip? Because a little acts

442
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,239
Speaker 1: figures it too? Did they really? Huh? Yeah. Yeah, that's

443
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: where it started, buddy. Okay. Well, um. In the two series,

444
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: a little ninja was introduced known as Snake Eyes, who

445
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: worked on the good side. Oh really, I thought Snake

446
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: Eyes was bad. No, you're thinking of storm Shadow. Storm

447
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: Shadow is a cobra ninja. And actually I was looking

448
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: on Yo Joe dot com today. Have you ever told

449
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: that site? Oh my god, it's like nostalgia central, right,

450
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 1: I did see that new movie though, the Joe movie.

451
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 1: Is it out? It's out on video now. Was it

452
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 1: any good? No? Not really? Okay, and I love the

453
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: cartoon though I don't think any uh animation had more

454
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: of an impact on the development of my personality and

455
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: the car. Yeah, every time it came on, I was

456
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 1: just like, thank you God, thank you for letting me

457
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: be alive and at an age where I can fully

458
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: appreciate the g I Joe cartoon. See, I said the

459
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: same thing about Tom and Jerry. So that's where we

460
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 1: were so well again, let me let me go back

461
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: to uh Snake Eyes and storm Shadow. Storm Shadow is

462
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: clearly a ninja. Snake Eyes is listed on his file

463
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: card on the back of the package as a commando,

464
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: although he is proficient in bladed weapons and uh martial arts,

465
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: several martial arts. Right, so I'm thinking, why why would

466
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: he be called the commando? Is he not a ninja?

467
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: And I was gonna totally throw the smack down on

468
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: the Grabster for calling Snake Eyes a ninja in this article.

469
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: I did a little more digging. It turns out that

470
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 1: snow Job and Snake Eyes were once brothers in arms

471
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: for the same clan, and actually Snake Eyes is a

472
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: trained ninja, although he's also a commando. Yeah, and then

473
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: they went their separate ways. Uh, there was a little

474
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: bit of a falling out. They went their separate ways. Uh,

475
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,120
Speaker 1: Storm Shadow of the Cobra Ninja actually went to work

476
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,120
Speaker 1: for Cobra as a disguise to find who who killed

477
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: the clan leader. Well yeah, and um, once he did

478
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: find out he was actually um brainwashed, he was discovered

479
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: as a as a spy. Uh, he was discovered brainwashed

480
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: and then actually did start working for Cobra. Snake Eyes

481
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: he always was on Joe Sigh. Dude, I did not

482
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: know that there was that much real information out there

483
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: about g I Joe. So this is all in the history.

484
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: Someone's actually written that. Yeah, well there's like there's again

485
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 1: there's a comic series you're probably not aware of. Uh

486
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: and and yeah it's pretty storied. See. I was confused

487
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: when I watched the movie. I kept waiting for Joe,

488
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: kept waiting for Franco Harris to come out, you know

489
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: with a beard who Joe always look like Franco Harris

490
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: to me, the Pittsburgh Steeler running back. Wait a minute,

491
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of who you're thinking of. Duke

492
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: was the closest to the well there was that was

493
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: the collective name of him. Yeah, I see. That just

494
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: confuses me because back in the day, back in the day,

495
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: Gi Joe was a dude, a single dude, right, But

496
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,959
Speaker 1: then they just kind of said that sucks. Let's go

497
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,959
Speaker 1: with the better version here, let's go with action figures,

498
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: Let's make the collective thing. Right. Did you see that

499
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: link to the stop action um Vietnam movie full link

500
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: Vietnam movie that I did you see my reply to that? Yeah,

501
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: you made a movie I did. My brother and I

502
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: when we were six and nine years old, respectively, made

503
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: a stop motion Super eight movie with g I Joe

504
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: dolls and had a little plot and everything. What was

505
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: the plot. Um, we had this little shiny button and

506
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 1: the button represented like uh, micro film disc and they

507
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: you know, it got stolen and Joe had to go

508
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: retrieve it from the bad guys. We shot it in

509
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: the woods near our house and it was pretty cool.

510
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: Do you have thereon now? There were no explosions. I

511
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: think we might have lit something on fire. I don't

512
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: know if it still exists. It's got to be somewhere,

513
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: but I don't want to see it. So, Scott, if

514
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: you're listening, if you have that, we would love to

515
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: see that, agreed Scott, But I don't think he has it.

516
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: We should probably get Path to Ninja, right, Is there

517
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: anything else there? There are a couple of things. Of course,

518
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: Ninja exploded in popular culture recently. It's a kind of

519
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: rival Pirates and Chuck Norris, right, well, that's what I hear.

520
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: I didn't know about that though. So there's like that

521
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: site I just showed you real Ultimate Power about how

522
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: ninjas flip out and kill everybody. They're awesome and by awesome, mommy,

523
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: and totally sweet. It tells a It tells the story

524
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: of one ninja who was eating in a diner and

525
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: some guy dropped his spoon and then Ninja flipped out

526
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: and killed the whole town. Yeah, just stuff like that.

527
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: It's the great pirate versus a Ninja thing because someone

528
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: wrote in about that that one. I don't know. I

529
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: just I know that Asking Ninja took on. Uh. Asking

530
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: Ninja dot com is another site you can ask Ninja

531
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: Ninja practical questions like how to work a new iPhone

532
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: app and stuff like that. But he does actually take

533
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: on the pirates on Pirate talk like a Pirate Day,

534
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: which we mentioned as well. So apparently there's some bad

535
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: blood between pirates and Ninja. My money is on the Ninja. Well, sure,

536
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: because they gets sneaking onto a pirate ship pretty easily.

537
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: I would. Pirates are all brash and Ninja just comes up,

538
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: puts the blade at the base of your skull, inserts

539
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: it into your brain, scrambles it dead. Pirates the pie

540
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: it's are all drunk on ram and Ninja. I don't

541
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: think they drank. No, they might hit the saki every

542
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: once in a while, but that's about it. And then

543
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: one last thing. If you're a true Ninja lover, there's

544
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: one place you have to be the first week of

545
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: April and that is in IgA at the Haku Hojoe

546
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: White Phoenix Castle known as the Ninja Museum. Yeah, they've

547
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: embraced I I guys really embraced their ninja roots and

548
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: they try to capitalize on that obviously. Yeah for money,

549
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: Well why not. It's the root of all ninja. Yeah.

550
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: I went to that website. Museum website is pretty cool,

551
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: is it? But they have they have a festival and

552
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: Ninja festival every year, including in Ninja parade. I want

553
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: to see that. I can see ninja like driving around

554
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: in a little shriner's car. Yeah, so that's ninja. That's it. Yeah. Great,

555
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: we covered just about everything. But if you want to

556
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: see some boss picks of ninja hiding in trees and

557
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: ninja weapons and stuff like that, you can type in

558
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: ninja and the handy search bar at how stuff Works

559
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: dot com. And uh, I guess now it's time for

560
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: listener mail. Huh. Yes, josh I got a short one.

561
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: I want to call this our Influence on the World. Nice,

562
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: this is pretty cool. You're gonna, I don't know if

563
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: you read this one or not, you're gonna love it. It

564
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: It just came in today, Chuck and josh I am

565
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: a geologist in Columbus, Ohio go buck Eyes, and I

566
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: often stumble across geo Is it cache? I always say

567
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: cations catch. I think you can say either one, and

568
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: I often stumble across geo cashes when I'm out in

569
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: the field during research. I always follow all of the

570
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: geo cashing rules and signed the log book along with

571
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 1: usually leaving something behind for others to find. This time, however,

572
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: I was a little different. It was a little different

573
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: because when I opened the sealed plastic container, I found

574
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: a key chain, a deck of cards, bottle caps into

575
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: Carlos Santana c d's. So so awesome. I thought this

576
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: is a little odd until I remembered your podcast on

577
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: geo cashing caching from last year when YouTube joked about

578
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: putting Santana c d's. So wait, we put a should

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00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: we go to should we go back and listen to

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00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: one part? Sure? So, like, if your average hiker happens

581
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: upon this box full of Santana c d's and they're thinking, wow,

582
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: I can just take d c d someone left these,

583
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: this is awesome. So there it is. And apparently, uh,

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00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: and that wasn't the only time we mentioned Santana c

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00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: D several times several times, and j D from Columbus says,

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00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: I thought I would let you know that at least

587
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: two Geo catching fans in Columbus listen to your podcast

588
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: and it was awesome to sort of meet one of them.

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00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: That's cool. I don't think that's coincidence to you. I

590
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: don't see how it could be a Santanas c D

591
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: and a Geo cash Are you joking? Yeah? Yeah, I

592
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: think that was our influence directly. I agree. Pretty cool.

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00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: You know, we've had another um another influence on somebody

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00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: in I believe Slovakia. Not sure, I think so. Uh,

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00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: there's a guy who wrote in and he founded a

596
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: site called weird Worm and actually started a podcast and

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00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. You should listen to it, and he

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00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: attributes it directly to being inspired by us. Very cool. Yeah,

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00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: so you should check out weird worm dot com and

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00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,479
Speaker 1: their accompanying podcast to watch. They're going to overtake us

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00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: in the ratings immediately. Yeah, sorry, thanks a lot. At

602
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: least there's people out there trading San Santa ce ds.

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00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: That'll be our legacy each other. Right, Well, if you

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00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,719
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00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: your life, influenced you in any way, or got you

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00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: to do something really really bad. We want to hear

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