1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 3 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant is picking his no. No, but 4 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: you know what, I had to be off color. I 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: had all these jokes about me generating wind, ready to go, 6 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: and then i'd like the red light came on and 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: I just went blank. I think it's probably good. I 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: think it's for the best. So can I just say, Josh, 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: I'm I'd love to generate wind. Yes, you can't. Okay, 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: that's my that's my joke. It's a good one. Chuck. Yeah, 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: you want to talk about wind generation, let's do it. Well, 12 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: let's go a different direction. First. You know bats have 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: been taken a hit lately, right as in flying bats. Yeah, 14 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: I thought you meant like baseball bats. No, I've been 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: taking a hit. I know. I wouldn't say something like that. 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: Didn't take stuff, buddy. Um bats have been taking a hit. 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: There's a um. This white fungus that basically has been 18 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: wiping out entire bat colonies and coming close to wiping 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: out entire species around the United States. Is the fungus 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: on the bat? Yeah, it's on the bat snows muzzle. 21 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: It's really horrible. Um and it's it's kind of a 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: big deal. If you study bats, you're alarmed right now. Right. Sure, 23 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: that's not the only thing that's probably the biggest risk 24 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: to the bat population in the United States. But there's 25 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: another one that UM was mysterious for a little while, 26 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: and it was bats dying near wind turbines. Really yeah, 27 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: but the weird thing was is you could walk up 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: to a dead bat on the ground near this, near 29 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: a windmill, right, a wind turbine that's used for generating electricity, 30 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: um and the bat would be totally uninjured. There's nothing 31 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: wrong with it. It wasn't bleeding, it didn't have any 32 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: um signs of trauma. So I thought the radar might 33 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: have said, like, this is food and it's smacked into 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: one of the propeller budes. No, it did not actually 35 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: um that that's addressed in this article. Wind turbines kill 36 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: bats without impact on the Discovery channel um and and 37 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: it says that bats don't run into things. This This 38 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: expert who's quoted into it says that he's like, they're 39 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: really good at with sonar, so they don't run into 40 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: things that they didn't mean to write, which is weird 41 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: because so that means when bats come down and hit 42 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: you in the head, they meant to write. What they 43 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,399 Speaker 1: found out finally that solved this mystery was that their 44 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 1: lungs were exploding because of a pressure drop. Yeah, the 45 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: pressure drop from the rotation of the blades. When they 46 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 1: got close enough to the blades, their lungs would explode. Um. 47 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: It would take about a four kilo pascal change kilopascal. 48 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 1: A pascal is a measure of pressure. A kilo pascal's 49 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: a thousand measures of pressure um to kill a bat, 50 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: it said in the article. And the wind turbines above 51 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: the turbot and right above it, um it generates a 52 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: five to ten kilopassical drop. So these baths are just 53 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: getting near and then boom, their lungs were exploding. And 54 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: then they were hitting the ground. Their little tiny lungs 55 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: would just pop. It's like the saddest thing I've ever heard. 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: So what do you do, Chuck? I mean, like wind, 57 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: wind energy is just it's wonderful. It's it's generally a 58 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: very green type of energy. I got some updated stats 59 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: for you. You want to hear some stats. Let's talk 60 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: about it. This is some wind energy stats, Josh. Last 61 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: year in two thousand nine, UM we produced worldwide a 62 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine thousand, two hundred and thirteen mega 63 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: watts of electricity thanks to wind. It's pretty good. It's 64 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: enough to power Italy for a year, the whole country 65 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: for the whole year. But that's a drop in the 66 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: in the bucket for overall electricity production, right, Yeah, very 67 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: small percentages is produced by wind. Um. They do predict 68 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: by the end of this year that it will crack 69 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand. And they have also said that since 70 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: they started this whole wacky wind capturing stuff that uh 71 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: it's it doubles every three year's capacity does so we're 72 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: heading in the right direction, it sounds like. And wind 73 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: is a great way to get energy because you put 74 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: up the thing, the wind blows, it produces. I mean, 75 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: it's as easy as it gets, right, It's very Dutch, 76 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: very very dutch. Um. The problem is, Chuck. As I said, 77 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 1: it was a very green technology, but there's a lot 78 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: of overlooked environmental impact. If we may jump around to 79 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: Tad right, these things are enormous. I've never seen what 80 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: I've seen pictures on the TV. We're on the internets, right, 81 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: and rain Man, did they have did they pass a wind? Yeah? 82 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: Like if you could drive to Palm Springs from l A, 83 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: you go by that huge like famous wind turbine farm. Chuck, 84 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear the h is back. Did I 85 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: say huge? Yes you did? Sorry I met huge, you 86 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: didn't huge? Um, okay, yeah, but they're they're enormous. The 87 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,679 Speaker 1: turbines apparently are about the size of a seven forty 88 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: seven thousands and thousands of pounds and they're catching wind 89 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: at about two feet up. They're enormous. Just one single turbine, right, 90 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: there are a lot of bat and bird deaths. And 91 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 1: to get these things in there, um, you have to 92 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: basically construct new roads. In a lot of cases, you're 93 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: promoting soil erosion, uh and habitat fragmentation. So not quite 94 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: as green as people would like to believe. Yeah right, yeah, 95 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: Josh that it can be. It can have a big 96 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: impact on the environment in setting it all up, and 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: you kind of don't think about that when you're like, oh, 98 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: I could get free wind energy or not free. Obviously 99 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: it's pretty expensive, but it's it's it's a gift from nature, 100 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: isn't it there? You go? Yeah? Um, so what what 101 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: do you do though, chuck? Because everybody wants this more 102 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: than say, fossil fuels, Well, everybody outside of the oil 103 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,239 Speaker 1: industry wants this more than aussil fuels. And by oil, 104 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: of course I mean coal as well and natural gas, 105 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: but I mean in the greener quarters of the globe. Um, 106 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: wind energy is a winner, right, So how do you 107 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: overcome these problems, these obstacles to make you know, a 108 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: wind energy truly green? I'm glad you asked, Josh. Potentially, 109 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 1: my friend, we may see little tiny blimp like balloons 110 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: hovering in the air about a thousand feet harnessing wind 111 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: much higher. And as I said, it's floating in the air, 112 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: so it doesn't have some huge foundation that needs to 113 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: be built and erode the ground. It's just tethered to 114 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: the ground by a tether, a tether that serves as 115 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: an electrical cable. Right. Yeah, So that's that's the Mars 116 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: turbine M A R S. It does not have anything 117 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: to do with the planet, the red planet. It stands 118 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: for the is it major? I did not know how 119 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: to pronounce it. I didn't want to touch that one 120 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: for the same. M A G E n N is 121 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: the name of the company, the Major Air Rotor System 122 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: m A R S. So it's an acronym, right, and 123 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: basically it's a well the CEO of we're gonna go 124 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: with majorin Okay, I'm down with that. Okay. Um. He 125 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: likened them to floating white sausages with paddle boat wheels, right, 126 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: So that what he said. That's what it says. It's 127 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: like a floating white sausage. Yeah, okay, it's just a 128 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: little blimp with some turbines on it. It looks like 129 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: a blimp with paddle wheels on it, right, Yeah, it's 130 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: sort of like I'll call a football before I called 131 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: white sausage. I don't know where this guy's head is, 132 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: but he's hungry, I guess. So he's ready for some 133 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: broad worst and you're ready for football season, Yes I am, 134 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: which also includes brought worst. So yours is all encompassingly 135 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: it is chuck. Yes, uh you you said that this. 136 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: So we've got a floating white football sausage with turbines. 137 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: It's connected to a tether at each end, right, and 138 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: the wind hits it and it spins the whole thing spins. 139 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: It's not like a it is like a pin wheel. 140 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: The whole thing, The whole thing rotates as if a 141 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: football were spiraling, right like. So the turbine is connected 142 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: to the blimp, So the whole blimp is spinning. Turbine, 143 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: blimp and all right. And then at the ends there's 144 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: electrical generators. So the tethers, like I said, actually are 145 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: double as electrical cables. It's not just a rope, right um. 146 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: And so the blimp is spinning, it's generating electricity. It's 147 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: sending the electricity down the tethers to a transformer which 148 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: serves a power station which is connected to the grid, 149 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: or stores and batteries. There's other things you can do 150 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: with it. And it's really that simple. It runs on 151 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: the the It runs an electromagnetic induction, right which I 152 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: looked this up a little bit. Let's hear it. Remember 153 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: Michael Faraday, he was on a genius list, could I forget? 154 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: So Michael Faraday one came up with this heat I guess, 155 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 1: was just sitting around his house, drunk on scotch um, 156 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: screwing with wire coils and magnets, and he discovered that 157 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: you could generate an electrical current. By passing a magnet 158 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: through a series of wire coals, you're actually changing what 159 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: should be ecstatic electrical field. Right. That was a very 160 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: big discovery, it was. And he also found that the 161 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: faster you passed the magnet through, the faster you move 162 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: the magnet, the higher the current or the higher the voltage, 163 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: stronger the current. Right. So what the the Mars turbine 164 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: is doing is the faster it turns, the quicker it 165 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: moves this the magnets through their wire coils, the stronger 166 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 1: the electrical current, right, which is one reason why they 167 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: float so high up, because the air speeds at a 168 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: thousand feet are significantly stronger than they are at uh, 169 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: you know two hundred feet where the ground based wind 170 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: turbine is located, right. Yeah, every time you double your elevation, 171 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: there's a twelve increase in wind speed, and every doubling 172 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: of wind speed there's an eight times eight fold increase 173 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: in wind power. So a two ft turbine and touched 174 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: the ground is just not nearly as effective as it 175 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: one that's floating a thousand feet up in the air 176 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: with And the reason obviously is because there's no trees 177 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: or buildings. There's no wind resistance, so it's just free flowing. 178 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: But yeah, and it's UM. It's pretty constant up there 179 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: as well. It's it's kind of windy up high, Yeah, 180 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: which helps because inconsistent wind is one of the problems 181 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: with wind generation obviously, but not only that. The Mars 182 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: turbine UM. Also we should say here that we're getting 183 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: no UM money whatsoever for this. We're just fans UM. 184 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: But the Mars turbine is is sensitive enough to be 185 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: able to produce usable electrical UM voltage with wind speeds 186 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: of as low as seven miles an hour. But it's 187 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: it can also UM withstand really strong winds that you know, 188 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: land based turbines are designed to shut down in so 189 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: I think a LAMB based turbines designed to shut down 190 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: at about forty and the Mars turbine can continue to 191 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: produce electricity in sixty three winds, I think yeah. And 192 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: anything above that, anything above sixty three to sixty five 193 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: they have UM just like blimps do. They have controls 194 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: on it, like overspeed controls and uh bait emergency deflate, 195 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: so if it gets they can do two things. If 196 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: it starts spinning way too fast they can has has 197 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: a system that kicks in that reels it in automatically 198 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: and like lowers it. And the wind might not be 199 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: as you know, as great at like three feet, so 200 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: they can keep running it. If it's really out of control, 201 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: they'll just reel it in all together. The system will 202 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: um or if there's some really big emergency like the 203 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: tether brakes and all of a sudden it's flying, you know, 204 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: over your neighbor's farm, it will automatically deflate, which is 205 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: what blimps have this emergency system, right, And and that's 206 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: one of the things that we uh should probably mention 207 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: is it's designed. Uh it floats because it's filled with helium, 208 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: right or lighter some lighter than air gas, but I 209 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: believe they use helium. They use helium, and the blimp 210 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: itself is made out of um, as the writer Jennifer 211 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: Horton put it, the same material used in bulletproof vest. 212 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: I was wondering, is that kevlar? Is that chicken feathers 213 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: or spider silk harvested from goats? I actually know the answer. 214 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: What is? I checked into this because it was slightly vague. Um. 215 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: The outer fabric is dacron, woven dacron, and that is 216 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: what's used for boat sails. The actual fins that catch 217 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 1: the wind to spend the football is vectoran and that 218 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: is what is used in bulletproof vest these days, apparently 219 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: some of them, all right. And then the coating it's 220 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: also aligned with something called ted lar, and that's the 221 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: same kind of plastic coating you find on like house sighting. 222 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: So that's what protects it from UV damage, abrasion, stuff 223 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: like that. And your new nickname is Chuck Tran. Chuck 224 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 1: Trot and check your hands, no, Chuck Tran. And then 225 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: the inner portion of it is have you ever seen 226 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: those little uh milar balloons. Yeah, it's a little funny 227 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: aluminum looking balloons. It's not aluminium, it's milar. And that's 228 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: what this thing is lined with because that holds in 229 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: your helium really well. They found it and just to 230 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: keep it even greener. If you look closely inside the 231 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: Mars turbine, you'll see little um sentiments like get well soon, 232 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: or your one year cuter. It's a boy I did. 233 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: That was one of my big questions when I was reading, 234 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,679 Speaker 1: and this was wait a minute, what about the helium? 235 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: Because I've had those milar balloons and they don't hold 236 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: it forever. No, they don't see weeks later. It's sadly 237 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: hovering it like your kneecaps. The helium um. I think 238 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: helium being held in uh milar space is greatly increased 239 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,959 Speaker 1: in cold temperatures. It's cold at a thousand feet okay, 240 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: that helps much colder um and the pressure there's less 241 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: air pressure at a thousand feet as well, right, so 242 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: there's less um. Well, there's less pressure trying to force 243 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: it out. Good point, I think. But I did find 244 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: out how much leaks because it does leak, well, yeah, 245 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: I would think it would have the point five per month. 246 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: So if you buy one of these things, and we 247 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: should point out that theoretically these are gonna be available 248 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: to consumers like early, that's what they're looking at right now, 249 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: and you it does not. The price of the thing 250 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: does not come with a helium. Just like when you 251 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: buy a new car, they don't necessarily have it full 252 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: of gas for you. You have to provide your own gas. 253 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: And the hundred kilowatt version requires two hundred thousand cubic 254 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: feet of helium, which is about wow. To fill it 255 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: up with helium. That's how they get you that, Yeah, exactly, 256 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: that's where they get you. But um, if it leaks 257 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: point five or month, that means they say on the website, 258 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: like every four or six months, just top her off 259 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: with helium for five grand and you'll be fine. Right, 260 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: But these things are built to last. The company I 261 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: think estimates it said. Um that they can float there, 262 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: I guess without being patched is what they meant for 263 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: maybe fifteen years without a need for magtenance because of 264 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: all the tough stuff it's made of, um and chuck. 265 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: If you happen to wonder, this thing is spinning in 266 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: the air right on an axis, how does the Magnus 267 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: effect factor in? Does it factor in at all? The 268 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: answer to that one, buddy, is yes. Are you talking 269 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: about the Magnus von Magnus effect or just the Magnus 270 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: effect the Magnus effect, Because the Magnus von Magnus effect 271 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: is when you are able to lift a beer keg 272 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: made of concrete in your overalls and carry it a 273 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: hundred feet. Well, yeah, everybody knows that. Much lesser known 274 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: is the regular old Magnus effect, right, and you see 275 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: it in every day. It's the spin on a curveball. Yeah. Basically, 276 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: as a UM, a spherical, round ish object travels through 277 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: the air as it's spinning on an axis UM, it 278 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: creates an actual area of high pressure beneath it that 279 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: creates lift, right, that stabilizes it right, so well, it 280 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: stabilizes that if the thing's tethered, right, which is how 281 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: the UM. So that combined with the fact that it's 282 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: filled with helium, which is lighter than air, UM allows 283 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: this thing to stay vertical pretty much vertical all the time. Yeah, 284 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: they said on the website that UM, but the helium 285 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: and the magnets effects will not allow it to lean 286 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: more than forty five degrees from vertical at any point. Wow, 287 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: even if it's like when swirling in all different directions, 288 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: it still stays pretty stable. Owner if there's a money 289 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: back guarantee on that, there's a lot of money, but 290 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: they don't pay you back for the helium. That's where 291 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: they don't, you know. Yeah, um and actually chuck that. 292 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: There's this thing called the Magnus airship that operates on 293 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: the magnets effect principle that was invented in the seventies 294 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: that gave rise to the Mars turbine, right, yeah, Freddy 295 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: Ferguson who was the founder of this company, Old Fred Ferguson. 296 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: He yeah, he invented the Magnus airship, patented it in 297 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, and then that later became he was like, hey, 298 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: I can actually use this thing to generate wind. I 299 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: bet it's pretty awesome. It's very awesome. Every once in 300 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: a while you were run across like a green idea 301 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,640 Speaker 1: that's like, wow, this could actually work really well. Oh yeah. 302 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: The bad news is it's going to be really pricey 303 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: at first at first, like all wind power. This price 304 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: is already going down, right, right. So the initial the 305 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: initial cost when this article was written, Um, the initial 306 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: expected cost is about five to ten dollars per what right, Yes, 307 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: and it's actually less now as of right now. Yeah, 308 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: look today it's four fifty to seven dollars. So it's 309 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: already dropped. And this was upfront cost. Yeah, this is 310 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: like two years old. It's already gone down much so 311 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: the take away the ten it's not five to ten anymore, 312 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: it's five or less. It's say four four dollars and 313 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: seventy cents a lot. That's way more than what you 314 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: pay for electricity as it is now. Um, but you 315 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: know you don't generally pay unless you're a Georgia Power 316 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: customer upfront costs to create electricity. You're paying for the 317 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: electricity generated, right, Um, this is you're paying for the turbine. 318 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: Like you buy this turbine and hey, here's your turbine. 319 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 1: Go create your own power. Right So um, again, the 320 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: price probably will come down dramatically, but once you've got 321 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: the thing up and running, the operating cost is about 322 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: fifteen cents to kill a watt hour? Is that which 323 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: is still more than what we pay now, but it's 324 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: half of what wind energy used to cost it when 325 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: it first really started to come along. Saying the rain 326 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: Man era, it was thirty cents to kill a watt hour. 327 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: So as wind power, as electricity generated by wind becomes 328 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: more ubiquitous, that the price for it's going to drop 329 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: across the board no matter how it's generated. And it's 330 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 1: for God's sakes, it's a green technology. It's always a 331 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,479 Speaker 1: little expensive at first, but typically the people that outfit 332 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: their houses with solar panels, it cost a little dough 333 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: to do that. Typically there are people that want to 334 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: do a little uh, favor to the environment and they 335 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: realize over time they're going to make their money back. Probably, 336 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: but not many people are going out and outfitting their 337 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,239 Speaker 1: house with thirty dollars with the solar panels because you know, 338 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: they want to save a dime. You know. Well, yeah, 339 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: that's true, but it would be helpful if there were 340 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: I don't know, rebates for buying something like this, like 341 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: government subsidies. I think they all expired. I really yeah, 342 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: we'll have to look into that, and I bet there's 343 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: still some out there. I have another question I don't 344 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: know if you know the answer to does the do 345 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: these things show up on radar airplanes? Yeah? They do. 346 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked that. You really didn't know. I 347 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: really didn't. Well, the Air Force and the government uses 348 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: uh tethered balloons up to like thousands of feet up 349 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 1: in the air, and so they're they're they're cleared with 350 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: the f a A. And in order to get one 351 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: of these things, you have to get a special permit 352 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,959 Speaker 1: from the f a A. And you have to have 353 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: a blinking tether. It's a system that it blinks once 354 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: per second. That's an extra fifty dollars blinking blinking tether. So, um, 355 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: there's some other rules to that f a A has 356 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: already put forth uh here too. Um, you cannot have 357 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: one within five miles of an airport at all or 358 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: within any flight path in North America, do you know? 359 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: I mean flight pass are? I imagine there's quite quite 360 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: a few that you have to avoid. There's at least 361 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen seventeen or eighteen flight pass and um, 362 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: you have to have the lighting system, like I said, 363 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: and then you can't have it, Like you can't have it. 364 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: You got to live out in the open. You're you're 365 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: not gonna be able to put one of these up 366 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 1: in your neighborhood in suburban Atlanta. Well, originally the thing 367 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: was designed to be used in very remote places that 368 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: are off the grid, like if you're on an Antarctic 369 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 1: expedition or an Arctic expedition, whichever one. It could also 370 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: be used in a disaster situation. That's the one I love. 371 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. It makes a lot of sense. So 372 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: if you if you um have the Mars turbine and 373 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: that um, remember that that water manufacturing device like sucks 374 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: it out of the ambient air. You're set. You're done. Yeah, 375 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: build a bomb shelter and you're you're all set for life. 376 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,479 Speaker 1: Um I should also point out before we leave, they 377 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: do um envision one day, probably five to ten years 378 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: from now, Josh, where there is a four kilowatt backpack 379 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: model that you can actually carry with you, dude, take 380 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: it camping out in Yosemite and the TV fly that 381 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: sucker up. Yeah, take your TV and your your computer 382 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: and you can online gamble out there in the woods 383 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: just like everyone else, just like home. Pretty cool. Yeah, 384 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 1: So that's the Mars turbine. Um I saw on the 385 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: site that they're taking orders for them. Yeah, and you 386 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: can also if you fit requirements, you can be a 387 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: test um location for these things. There's a lot of 388 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: requirements and imagine a lot of people that live on 389 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: farms in North Dakota by like, hey, I'll test it 390 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 1: out of my house, right, you come out and set 391 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: it up. I'll bet being photogenic has is one of 392 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: the requirements. And no bare midri of shirts. Yeah, nothing 393 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: see through. So again, if you want to see some 394 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: cool illustrations of the Mars turbine, you can go to 395 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. Type m A R S 396 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,959 Speaker 1: and the search bar and I'll bet it brings up 397 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: a lot more than just this article. Yeah yeah, um chuck, Yes, 398 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: that means it's time now for a listener mail. Correct. Yeah, 399 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: I got a couple of short ones today. We're going 400 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: right into it. You want to plug nah, okay, south 401 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 1: By Southwest, Yeah, we should say. We're trying to go 402 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: to south By Southwest next year in Austin, Texas. Um, 403 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 1: and we are trying to get on a panel, and 404 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: apparently they're d cent of whether or not they determine 405 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: we can go to a panel is decided by votes. Right, 406 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: so you can go to h T T P colon 407 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: slash slash panel picker p A N E l P 408 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: I c K E er dot s x s W 409 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: dot com. Yes, and then you register and then you 410 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: vote for the stuff you should know panel under interactive panels. Right. Yeah. 411 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: When you go to click on our little thing to 412 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: two thumbs up and vote for us, it'll um, it'll say, wait, 413 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,239 Speaker 1: you're not signed up yet, and it'll walk you through 414 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: how to sign up. And they promised that you won't 415 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: start getting email from south By Southwest's just to verify 416 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: you that you're a human. Yeah, just explore the interactive panels, 417 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 1: and on the interactive panel page you can search for 418 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: panels and under title put stuff you should know and 419 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: it should bring up ours and just ours right. Yeah, 420 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: and even if you're not in Texas, we would appreciate 421 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: your help here to get us to Texas. So um, 422 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: we can go to south By Southwest and like hang 423 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: out with bands. That's what I'm looking forward to. That's awesome. Okay, Josh, 424 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: these are two short ones. And it's funny that you 425 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: said the word search bar, because David from Sunny Canton, 426 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: did you see this one. I'm sorry, David, this is 427 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,479 Speaker 1: a good one. Darn you. Josh is how he opens. 428 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 1: I work at one of the state universities of New York. 429 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: We are a week away from classes beginning, and my 430 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: office has been besieged by calls from students and staff 431 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: related to working on campus. This morning, I took two 432 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: calls in a row of which I referred to callers 433 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: to information on our website by saying you can type 434 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: work study in the handy search bar. You're totally right. 435 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 1: It is an awful phrase, because remember you had a 436 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: big problem with us. Hate it. I hate handy search bar. 437 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: After two hundred plus times you've said you hate it, 438 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: I love it. Uh, I don't love it. I love 439 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: it that you said that, Um, Josh is an awful phrase. 440 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: But it's awful because it's awful and campy. It's like 441 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: Karma Chameleon. I hate that song, but if I hear 442 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: it just once, it's in my head. You know. I 443 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: think Culture Club is one of the more underrated bands 444 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: that came out of the eighties. They get lumped in 445 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: with like crappy bands from the eighties, but they like 446 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: They and Dream and Duran, We're actually very talented musically. 447 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: I would like to add Adam and the Ants on 448 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: that list too. Okay, they were awesome, uh and not 449 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: at all camp too. You know, he's in He was 450 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: in a mental institution for a little while. You had 451 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: a breakdown at a benefit concert. He started railing on 452 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: Christians and they took him away and said you need 453 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: some rest, really, and he's like, no, I just don'tly Christians. Yeah, 454 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: He's like, I'm rested, Fine, Let's finish this email. He says, 455 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: these things are like gray matter super glue. With great 456 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,479 Speaker 1: power comes great responsibility. Josh, you started this, you need 457 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: to finish it come up with a better meme. Help us, Obi, 458 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: Josh Kenobi, your only hope. That is David from Cooney 459 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Sunny Canton right, and David from Sunny Canton Um, 460 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: which I assumed means State University of New York. You 461 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: got it? Okay, Um, I am taking your email quite seriously. 462 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: I'm already beating you to the punch. I haven't come 463 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: up with anything yet, but I will get handy sorted 464 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: far out of everyone's head, including my own. Okay, yeah, okay, 465 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: And I got another quick one, Josh. This one made 466 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: me laugh. This is from Kurt, Minnesota. After listening to 467 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: the tick episode, Guys, I was reminded of one of 468 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: my most disgusting memories. When I was little, my neighbor 469 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: and I were sitting on his front porch playing with 470 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: his dog. Out of nowhere, the neighbor kid gets really excited, 471 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: has this look on his face, pulls a tick off 472 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: the dog and eats it. Who you didn't see this one? 473 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: The memory still haunts me today. After looking online about 474 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: similar cases, I came across someone calling them dog berries, 475 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: which makes it even more disturbing. I hope this hasn't 476 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: ruined your day, Kurt from Minnesota. It takes a lot 477 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: more to ruin our day than that, doesn't it. I 478 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: don't know, dog berries, it's pretty gross. What's sad is 479 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: our days are consistently rumoring? Yeah, every day. So thank 480 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: you for that, So, Kurt and then David, right, Yes, 481 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: thanks for sharing. We appreciate that. UM. I promise you 482 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: I will come up with something to replace handy search bar. 483 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 1: I've just kind of gone to the sterile search bar. 484 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: Now have you noticed Hinky search bar? No, not Hinky either. 485 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: Hinky's in that same group, the same ballpark as Handy. 486 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,959 Speaker 1: We've been over using it. We're gonna mix it up. 487 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: We will, all right, Frank, Okay, Jimmy, So if you 488 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: want to send Frank or Jimmy an email, you can 489 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: do that. 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