Speaker 1: It's that time of year again where you get all
Speaker 1: the countdown lists.
Speaker 2: Right, everybody has those countdowns, like on television. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: top whatever of twenty nineteen, Top whatever of the decade. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Spotify also did their end of the year rap Who
Speaker 2: was your top artist? Ari Lennox? That fits for you
Speaker 2: so much? Who was your You are a shade butter baby,
Speaker 2: I am? I am. I feel like she's my friend
Speaker 2: in my head.
Speaker 3: My top songs.
Speaker 2: I want to know artist? How do I see that?
Speaker 2: It was probably Holling Oates. Let's just say that and
Speaker 2: let's just continue.
Speaker 3: This is shady. My top artist was Summer Walker.
Speaker 2: That is fitting.
Speaker 3: Can you guess who my number two artist is?
Speaker 2: Is it the Dream? It is the Dream?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: And my number three artists is one of my favorite rappers.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know him, but I like
Speaker 1: him a lot. He's kind of up and coming, and
Speaker 1: he's from the lou Saint Louis is it.
Speaker 3: Saint Louis Is?
Speaker 1: That's what it's called.
Speaker 2: Saint Louis. No, no, not everything is French. As a
Speaker 2: kid doesn't know what the word is.
Speaker 1: Get to a friend, I know it's Saint Louis, I'm
Speaker 1: T T and I'm Zakiah and from Spotify Studios.
Speaker 2: This is dope laps. So everybody's doing these countdowns and
Speaker 2: everything like that. Yes, should I list mine? Yeah? My
Speaker 2: number two artists was the best Baby, of course. I
Speaker 2: don't think anybody was able to guess my number three artists.
Speaker 2: It was the Testy Brothers. Have you heard of them? No,
Speaker 2: it's a group. They are very soulful, okay, But number
Speaker 2: four was DJ Mustard I loved perfect. Ten was Fire.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody says, don't at me, don't at me,
Speaker 2: don't at me. I don't give on the beat, that's right.
Speaker 2: And then my number five was T Grizzly. Yes, you
Speaker 2: know I love T Grizzy.
Speaker 3: I love T Grizzly whenever I'm.
Speaker 2: Feeling down, no effort, come on now.
Speaker 1: So we have some top songs, and we also have
Speaker 1: some top moments.
Speaker 2: How is your twenty nineteen? Though my twenty nineteen was phenomenal,
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen was very exciting for us. We launched a podcast.
Speaker 3: Every other week in your Ear.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it, and y'all keep showing up, and
Speaker 1: I love you for that, right, I just feel like
Speaker 1: my internet life has grown so much. I have a
Speaker 1: whole family from people that listen to the podcast. I
Speaker 1: just go in there. I look at those stories. When
Speaker 1: I wake up in the morning, I.
Speaker 3: Say, oh, look at what great Price is doing.
Speaker 2: Look at what right I'd be like, Okay, Respiration Junkie
Speaker 2: is doing this new house.
Speaker 3: Do you see all those plants at her house.
Speaker 2: She has a lot of plans. I can't even keep
Speaker 2: my one piece lily alive, and I am very jealous.
Speaker 3: That's why I haven't brought that.
Speaker 1: I had started a plant for you, but I'm scared
Speaker 1: you gonna kill It's gonna die, and so I just
Speaker 1: keep it at my house and you can look at
Speaker 1: it when you come home.
Speaker 2: I'll enjoy it. From Afar, I think it'd be really
Speaker 2: fun if we take some of our favorite twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: moments and make it into like a twenty nineteen mixtape.
Speaker 3: Ooh, I love that girl. I'm ready. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna run through all of our twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: top moments. Yeah, for each of these topics. What we're
Speaker 2: gonna be doing is just a little mini dissection of each.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you the category, our favorite moment from
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and just a little bit of the science
Speaker 1: behind it.
Speaker 2: Tell them what the categories are Z.
Speaker 3: All right, so drum roll please, we need a real
Speaker 3: drum roll.
Speaker 1: You're always good at that, Okay, Our twenty nineteen year
Speaker 1: in review, our four categories. We're going to address our music, sports, tech,
Speaker 1: and politics. All right, So let's jump off with music.
Speaker 2: Some of the artists that I feel like really took
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen by the horns and just sword all the
Speaker 2: way to the top. Billie Eilish, Yes, the Baby first.
Speaker 1: He's a North Carolina native, and I think the Baby
Speaker 1: will replace Pete Pablo Lil.
Speaker 2: Nasax definitely took advantage of his superstardom and took that
Speaker 2: all the way to the top. You know, I think
Speaker 2: Summer Walker, oh my gosh, yes, Summer Walker and Ari Lennox,
Speaker 2: they showed up and showed out absolutely well you know
Speaker 2: who we haven't mentioned who. And I think it's time
Speaker 2: for everybody to gather around the campfire because it's time
Speaker 2: to salute our new queen. Mmmm yeah.
Speaker 1: Probably thought I was gonna say Lizzo, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Megan thee Stallion. You show me anybody else who
Speaker 1: can say, yes, I'm a woman, but I'm a male horse. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm a woman. I'm a male horse, and I run
Speaker 1: the gammuck she can. I was like, is this Pepsy?
Speaker 3: It's Pepsy back.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Megan thee Stallion is probably one of the better
Speaker 2: rappers out right now, and she has really been taken
Speaker 2: over all of the charts and has been taken over
Speaker 2: the zeitgeist because of Hot Girl Summer. Yes, and Hot
Speaker 2: Girl Summer. Everybody was talking about it. I don't care
Speaker 2: who you were, your mama, your grandmama, your granddaddy. Everybody
Speaker 2: was talking about Hot Girl Summer. My mom better not
Speaker 2: be saying hot Girl Summer. But yes, everyone was talking
Speaker 2: about Hot Girl Summer. And everybody was also talking about
Speaker 2: her extraordinary ability to work. Megan thee Stallion has vibranium knees.
Speaker 3: Yes, how old is Megan thee Stallion.
Speaker 2: She's like twenty four. I don't think I could have
Speaker 2: done that at twenty.
Speaker 3: Four, I don't think.
Speaker 2: So she gets low and she stays down there and
Speaker 2: I'm like, you, okay, sis right, somebody would have to
Speaker 2: help me up.
Speaker 1: It's amazing to me, and I thought, let's do a
Speaker 1: little bit of science behind that, because people are not
Speaker 1: really appreciating what Megan thee stallion is doing.
Speaker 3: So let's break down the art of getting low.
Speaker 2: And I think in order to do that, we really
Speaker 2: have to kind of just turn the complex twerks that
Speaker 2: megane stallion does into a basic movement. Yes, the square root, oh,
Speaker 2: like the square root of a twerk.
Speaker 3: Is a squat.
Speaker 2: Absolutely so for a squat, the major muscles that you
Speaker 2: are using are your quads, your calves, and your glutes.
Speaker 2: But there are also other ligaments and tendons that are
Speaker 2: super important, like your IT band.
Speaker 3: This is your.
Speaker 2: Illeo tibial band. Okay, this ligament is right along the
Speaker 2: thigh bone, so it extends from your knee all the
Speaker 2: way up to your hip. It is the thickest and
Speaker 2: longest tenon in your entire body.
Speaker 1: Basically your IT band and the muscles that are associated
Speaker 1: with it help you extend, abduct, and basically rotate your hip.
Speaker 1: It also contributes to knee stabilization.
Speaker 3: And that brings us back.
Speaker 1: To what you said, TG that meganistallion has knees of vibranium.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and so I think the vibranium pieces are
Speaker 2: her it band for sure. But there are also some
Speaker 2: other parts of your knees that are very important. Right.
Speaker 1: Yes, your knee has tons of ligaments to keep it stabilized.
Speaker 1: So first you have your ACL, and that's your anterior
Speaker 1: cruciate ligament. And so I think everybody's heard of that
Speaker 1: athletes tear the ACL all every other day.
Speaker 3: It's really a sad story.
Speaker 1: The MCL, that's your medial collateral ligament, and that stabilizes
Speaker 1: the inner part of your knee, and the outer part
Speaker 1: of your knee is stabilized by the lateral collateral ligament
Speaker 1: or the LCL.
Speaker 2: Okay, so ACL in the front, MCL in the middle,
Speaker 2: and LCL on the side, and all of those things,
Speaker 2: those powers combined prevent you from flipping your leg backwards
Speaker 2: like a cricket.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Keeping everything in line. Now, some of y'all at play sports,
Speaker 1: you know you've seen a torn ACL, MCL, whatever, l
Speaker 1: or just somebody taking a nail, and I haven't seen
Speaker 1: her take one.
Speaker 2: That's right. So with all those things in mind, it
Speaker 2: seems like Megan the stallion, those ligaments and tendons are
Speaker 2: just superior to the rest of us. Really, there's no
Speaker 2: way you can become like Megan the Stallion if you
Speaker 2: aren't already. Now, I've seen some of you on these internets,
Speaker 2: and some of you are Megan the Stallion adjacent because
Speaker 2: of your ability to get low and stay low. I
Speaker 2: am not there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll just continue reporting. Okay, we're ready to move
Speaker 1: on to our next category. Next up is sports. Now,
Speaker 1: first we got to shout out DC Sports.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the home team. So men Zakia live right
Speaker 2: outside of DC in Maryland. So all those DC teams
Speaker 2: are the home team, except for the football team because
Speaker 2: they need to change their name. The Nationals, the Capitals,
Speaker 2: and the Mystics, they all brought the chip home this
Speaker 2: year and so we are very proud.
Speaker 1: Another proud moment in sports was a women's soccer team.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that was so funn the watch.
Speaker 3: Yes, Megan her Pino.
Speaker 2: Is a hero. Yes anything and Sports and Sports Illustrated
Speaker 2: made her their Athlete of the Year.
Speaker 3: I'm behind that, I can see it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Team USA did their thing and they really had her.
Speaker 1: She was a great leader on and off the field
Speaker 1: this year. But the Dope Labs Athlete of the Year.
Speaker 1: My inner Dominique Dolls is very very proud Simone Biles.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Simon Bows showed y'all that you ain't never done a
Speaker 1: flip like that before.
Speaker 2: You thought you was flipping, but you wasn't. You was
Speaker 2: just standing still.
Speaker 1: You don't know what power is, and I definitely don't
Speaker 1: understand gravity or physics when it's coming. When it comes
Speaker 1: to what she is doing. I saw her do a
Speaker 1: flip in some jeens. Okay, sometimes I feel like my
Speaker 1: jeens don't even cooperate when I sit down.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, into my chair.
Speaker 2: I was sitting too long in a pair of jeans,
Speaker 2: and I thought I was going to die. I couldn't
Speaker 2: do a flip.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: Simone Biles has not only just obliterated the playing field
Speaker 2: like no one is coming close to her, she also
Speaker 2: is doing these new tricks that are being named after her.
Speaker 2: There's the Biles and then there's the Biles two.
Speaker 3: One wasn't even enough. I am blown away. I'm like,
Speaker 3: what's next?
Speaker 2: Right? So for this section, we're gonna be dissecting the
Speaker 2: Biles two, which is a triple double flip. She's doing
Speaker 2: two flips and three twists. That's how you get the
Speaker 2: triple double.
Speaker 1: So here's the biles too. She begins to jump up
Speaker 1: defy gravity, and she begins her first twist. As she's
Speaker 1: doing that twist to rotate around, she's completing her first flip.
Speaker 1: Before that flip is done, she does a complete rotation again,
Speaker 1: another three sixty degree twist. Then she completes her second
Speaker 1: flip as she's twisting for the third twist, second flip,
Speaker 1: and she lands smooth as butter perfect ten and she lands.
Speaker 2: So it just seems so soft too. I don't know
Speaker 2: how she does it her ankles. What are her ankles
Speaker 2: made of the same stuff that Megan the Stallion's knees
Speaker 2: are made out of. So the Biles two can be
Speaker 2: broken down into three basic movements, a jump, a flip,
Speaker 2: and a twist. So first you have a jump. So
Speaker 2: we're all held to the ground by gravity, the gravitational force,
Speaker 2: and that's called G when somebody's in space. That's why
Speaker 2: they say zero G because there's no gravity. So in
Speaker 2: order to just get off the ground a jump, you
Speaker 2: have to exert enough force to cancel out the force
Speaker 2: that is holding you down to the earth. Then as
Speaker 2: soon as you jump, you're exerting more force up than
Speaker 2: you are down, so you're able to get up off
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 3: Okay, so to jump.
Speaker 2: High you really have to propel yourself up.
Speaker 3: So if you want to jump up and stay up, which.
Speaker 2: Is what Simone is doing, she's practically levitating up there,
Speaker 2: you've really got to be very very strong.
Speaker 1: And then you have a flip. And the flip is
Speaker 1: your heels coming up above your head. Yes, so when
Speaker 1: we think of like a summrsault, that's.
Speaker 2: A flip exactly. But the technique that she uses is
Speaker 2: what's really special. When she's doing this flip, she tucks
Speaker 2: her arm in her leg while she's in the air,
Speaker 2: and this actually makes her speed up while she's doing
Speaker 2: the flip. What right, then you have a twist, and
Speaker 2: the twist part, she also has another special technique that
Speaker 2: she does where she puts one arm up and one
Speaker 2: arm down and it's an angular momentum twist. So by
Speaker 2: redistributing the mass, it also creates like a kind of
Speaker 2: like a counterbalance that also makes her speed up, so
Speaker 2: she's able to do the three rotations and two flips.
Speaker 1: That is crazy. So Simone Bowles is a physicist. That's
Speaker 1: what you're telling me.
Speaker 2: Yes, give that girl a PhD, doctor, Simone Biles. So
Speaker 2: far we've discussed music and sports, but coming up after
Speaker 2: the break, we're gonna jump into technology and politics. And
Speaker 2: we're back and next up in our mixtape is tech.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of great things that happen. The
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven came out. Yes, I didn't know I needed
Speaker 1: three lenses, but I did.
Speaker 2: We all did. I have three lenses Now.
Speaker 1: I think the technology that I've seen advancing and just
Speaker 1: appearing everywhere is facial recognition software.
Speaker 2: As so, absolutely it is everywhere. None of us, let
Speaker 2: me repeat, none of us have not used facial recognition technology.
Speaker 2: A lot of y'all are out there thinking that you haven't,
Speaker 2: but you have all these filters, honestly, every single filter.
Speaker 3: I think that's where it started.
Speaker 2: Snapchat. You know.
Speaker 1: I used to say Snapchat is creepy, Snapchat is crazy,
Speaker 1: And before I knew it, I had dog gears and it.
Speaker 3: Happened so fast.
Speaker 2: It was the flower crown.
Speaker 1: I was enjoying it great, and then I was like,
Speaker 1: how does it know where to put these freckles? How
Speaker 1: does it know where to put this nose because it
Speaker 1: recognizes your face.
Speaker 2: Girl, exactly. So the way that facial recognition technology works
Speaker 2: is that one it's technology that's able to recognize a
Speaker 2: human face and then measure its features. And every face
Speaker 2: has distinguishable landmarks and different peaks and valleys and things
Speaker 2: like that. Your face is a map, right, Like Zakia
Speaker 2: has big eyes and I have a big fourhead. Do
Speaker 2: you not have big eyes? I can see will the
Speaker 2: white parts don't see? But and each human face has
Speaker 2: about eighty nodal points, which are these landmarks. And so
Speaker 2: what the software does is that it measures everything. So
Speaker 2: it's able to measure the width of your forehead, the
Speaker 2: width of your nose, the length of your jaw, the
Speaker 2: width of your smile, your mouth, the distance between your eyes.
Speaker 2: And then what these social media apps do is they
Speaker 2: take the those measurements and then they're like, okay, so well,
Speaker 2: then this is where I'll put the dog ears, this
Speaker 2: is where I'll put the flower crown, this is where
Speaker 2: I'll put the whatever.
Speaker 1: Yes, And we didn't even stop there. We said thank you, Snapchat,
Speaker 1: I'll have another, and then we started doing these things
Speaker 1: where we were saying age me ten years exactly. I
Speaker 1: want to see what I'm going to look like when
Speaker 1: I'm wrinkley, And a lot.
Speaker 2: Of people did it. It's a lot of fun. But
Speaker 2: the difference, I think the difference is is like what
Speaker 2: folks are doing with that information later on, and the
Speaker 2: technology is advancing. So facial recognition used to only be
Speaker 2: two D. Now we have three D facial recognition.
Speaker 3: What what does it mean.
Speaker 2: That iPhone that you have when you have unlocked with
Speaker 2: your face. But when you were trying to.
Speaker 3: Set that up, it said to turn to the side.
Speaker 2: It said look to the camera, look into the camera,
Speaker 2: and turn your head all around. So I did it
Speaker 2: to that three D facial recognition technology knows every nook
Speaker 2: and cranny of that face.
Speaker 1: And that makes so much sense because now now they
Speaker 1: have all the markers on my face, right. So that's
Speaker 1: why when I have my sunglasses on, it still knows
Speaker 1: who I am because it has all these other markers
Speaker 1: from all around, right.
Speaker 2: Or if your phone is on the table and you're
Speaker 2: looking down at it, it still knows that it's you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know what, when I'm sleepy and I swipe
Speaker 1: up in that phone unlocks, I say thank you Steve Job.
Speaker 2: But this technology is really cool and really useful for
Speaker 2: a lot of other things. So people are able to
Speaker 2: use this, like for crimes and things like that. Like
Speaker 2: if you have a mugshot, they're able to scan that
Speaker 2: mugshot into facial recognition technology. And let's say they're looking
Speaker 2: for that criminal or the alleged criminal in a sea
Speaker 2: of people, They're able to locate that person based on
Speaker 2: that Based on that mugshot. The government already has your face.
Speaker 2: If you have a government issued ID like a passport
Speaker 2: or a driver's license or any type of government issued
Speaker 2: documentation that has your photo, they have your face. And
Speaker 2: so they use they have all that information stored.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, I felt like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna take it back. And y'all some of y'all might
Speaker 1: not remember this, but I remember y two K and
Speaker 1: people were scared of computers. Okay, we were like, oh,
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do when it resets to two thousand.
Speaker 2: Everybody's withdrawing all their money from their bank account.
Speaker 3: Yes, we had so much bottled water.
Speaker 1: And when you think about that and how skeptical we were,
Speaker 1: and now I'm like, when I can't purchase with Apple
Speaker 1: pay or PayPal or something where I have my information
Speaker 1: stored and it just needs to scan my face.
Speaker 2: I cancel it. Yeah, I'm like, no, you think it
Speaker 2: ain't worth it.
Speaker 3: You want me first of all, I'm shopping in the night.
Speaker 2: You want me. It's shopping by the light of the moon.
Speaker 2: You want me to throw those covers back. Damned up
Speaker 2: with my non MEGANI stallion knees and non someone biles ankles,
Speaker 2: risk my it band, risk it all to go get
Speaker 2: that wallet. It's not happening.
Speaker 1: And by the time I make all those steps, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you don't need to buy this. You have enough candles.
Speaker 1: How many greeting cars.
Speaker 3: Do you need to buy? I love to buy people's
Speaker 3: art own greeting cards.
Speaker 2: I said this the other day. I was like, you
Speaker 2: do not need a sweatshirt. This is cool, aunt, Yes,
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 1: The thing what people forget is that all of this
Speaker 1: technology has to be It needs data to be trained.
Speaker 1: And I feel like no one is slowing down and saying,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, is this the best idea?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Like t T said, this technology takes all of these
Speaker 1: different pieces of information and it's relational. It says, okay,
Speaker 1: I see this is these peaks are up here. Those
Speaker 1: are your eyebrows, and some of y'all drawing them too high,
Speaker 1: but that's not what we're going to talk about.
Speaker 3: And they say, these are your eyebrows.
Speaker 1: And then over here this shiny part right here, these
Speaker 1: are your cheeks, you know, And so it makes a.
Speaker 3: Match highlighter too much highlight?
Speaker 1: Okay, that nars albatross t tbot that four years ago,
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 2: And we've been painting ourselves with it Tennyson's and so
Speaker 2: it takes all this information. It says, this is a face.
Speaker 1: But one of the things that we've been seeing come
Speaker 1: up in the news about this type of technology is biased.
Speaker 1: When people are pro and creating this software, they're saying,
Speaker 1: this is what a face should look like. And if
Speaker 1: you only train these systems or this technology on a
Speaker 1: certain type of face, then yeah, you always expect the
Speaker 1: face to look narrow, plenty nose, little eyes.
Speaker 2: Some of us have big eyes. Okay, And I think
Speaker 2: it's so important.
Speaker 1: You know, this technology is only as good as the
Speaker 1: people designing it and the data sets that they use
Speaker 1: to train it. So this is great technology, but there's
Speaker 1: so much room for improvement to eliminate bias, right, and
Speaker 1: that bias can lead to technology that ends up being
Speaker 1: sexist or racist, and that's also been in the news.
Speaker 1: So while yes, we all love dog ears and flower
Speaker 1: crowns and the smooth skin filter on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's perfect on a long day, there's still so
Speaker 2: much more to do when we think about this technology
Speaker 2: being implemented in other areas and it's inclusivity. And next
Speaker 2: up in our mixtape is politics.
Speaker 3: And you may be thinking, why do we have to
Speaker 3: hear about this.
Speaker 2: Again, Well, it's because all these things are very important
Speaker 2: to our everyday lives. It's important who is in these
Speaker 2: positions of power and what they're doing and all these
Speaker 2: things like that, So we're gonna talk about it. I
Speaker 2: feel like the story of the year has been crime.
Speaker 2: Who's doing crime, When did the crime occur, who was
Speaker 2: in on the crime? How many crimes did they do?
Speaker 3: Was it enough crime? More importantly, is it enough crime
Speaker 3: to be impeached?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So our twenty nineteen political moment is around impeachment. Now,
Speaker 1: I've seen your tweets, I've seen your Instagram stories, and
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried because it seems like y'all think
Speaker 1: impeachment is actual removal from office, and I hope I
Speaker 1: don't sound ridiculous, but that's not what impeachment is. Impeachment
Speaker 1: is just the filing of formal charges. You can be
Speaker 1: impeached and still remain president. I know y'all didn't forget
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, right, who was impeached but then remain president
Speaker 1: and president. So let's get down to the nitty gritty.
Speaker 2: In Article two, Section four of the Constitution, it gives
Speaker 2: the House of Representatives the sole right to impeach an official,
Speaker 2: and an official can be the President, the vice president,
Speaker 2: or any civil officers of the United States.
Speaker 1: There is Congress, right, and Congress is split into two houses.
Speaker 1: The higher house is the Senate, in the lower house
Speaker 1: is the House of Representatives. I thought that Congress had
Speaker 1: the right to impeach. I didn't know it was only
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2: So the reason why the framers, which is the people
Speaker 2: who drafted up the Constitution, put this into it was
Speaker 2: because prior to the Constitution being drafted up, each state
Speaker 2: had impeachment laws for their government officials, and so they
Speaker 2: saw that and said, this is really important, and it's
Speaker 2: important because it keeps all of our government officials in check.
Speaker 2: They know that they are not above the law, and
Speaker 2: if they do things that will harm the public or
Speaker 2: abuse the powers of their office, that they can be
Speaker 2: tried and possibly removed from that position.
Speaker 1: So let's give the general flow chart of how impeachment works.
Speaker 1: Impeachment starts in the House of Representatives. So the House
Speaker 1: has this committee called the Judiciary Committee, and if impeachment
Speaker 1: is pursued, the House tells the Judiciary Committee to review
Speaker 1: all the evidence and see if there are sufficient grounds
Speaker 1: to impeach. Then the whole House votes on whether or
Speaker 1: not to impeach, and all it requires is a simple majority.
Speaker 1: If the House chooses to impeach, the Senate then holds
Speaker 1: a trial to decide whether the officer that could be
Speaker 1: the president or any other official should be removed and
Speaker 1: barred from holding federal office in the future.
Speaker 2: Just a quick note here, we've actually never had a
Speaker 2: president be forcibly removed from office as a result of
Speaker 2: an impeachment. We've had two presidents that were impeached, and
Speaker 2: neither of them were Nixon.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Nixon actually left before the House voted on impeachment.
Speaker 3: He was like the writing's on the wall, I'm out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 2: It was actually former President Johnson and then former President
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: So there's a trial at the Senate, and if the
Speaker 1: Senate chooses to convict the president, that president is forcibly
Speaker 1: removed and the current vice president becomes the new president.
Speaker 1: So hopefully you have a better understanding of what's going on,
Speaker 1: what's been happening, and what's coming up.
Speaker 2: This was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I could have gone on for hours, all right.
Speaker 1: So what would you say was the most important piece
Speaker 1: of cinema in twenty nineteen?
Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, Yeah, definitely when they see us.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was gonna say that and us. A lot
Speaker 1: of people are talking about Queen and Slim. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, so I haven't. I can't really talk about
Speaker 1: it right me either, but when we have to go
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 2: What is your favorite meme from twenty nineteen, it's.
Speaker 1: Kickie Palmer, hands down. Sorry to this man, I hope
Speaker 1: I don't saund ridiculous. What's your favorite thing that's happening
Speaker 1: in your scientific field?
Speaker 2: Oh? For me, I think it's the redefinition of the kilogram.
Speaker 2: So before twenty nineteen, the kilogram, which is how we
Speaker 2: standardize all weights for everything. Was an actual physical thing
Speaker 2: that is housed under vacuum somewhere in Paris or somewhere
Speaker 2: in France. Okay. And so now they have this thing
Speaker 2: called a kibble balance that uses electro mechanical measurements to
Speaker 2: define a kilogram. It's very cool. What's your favorite science moment?
Speaker 1: When I learned that mosquitoes could taste deep with their feet,
Speaker 1: which is why they don't land on you, I have
Speaker 1: my mind has been blown. They're not tasting with their mouth,
Speaker 1: they have receptors on their feet.
Speaker 2: And if you want to hear more about that, listen
Speaker 2: to our episode called Predator.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's when I went down that rabbit hole and
Speaker 1: I haven't come back.
Speaker 3: Between that and our truth Pie episode.
Speaker 1: So I started reading this book called fourteen twelve, and
Speaker 1: now I'm reading all about the landscape of the Americas
Speaker 1: before the settlers.
Speaker 2: It is wild for me. The book that I started
Speaker 2: reading after an episode was after How Not to Get
Speaker 2: Away with Murder? Our guest on there she has a
Speaker 2: book called Inside the Cell, very very good. That's it
Speaker 2: for Lab twenty. Don't forget to check out our website
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Speaker 1: are your top moments from twenty nineteen?
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Speaker 2: Some own bows is not one of us, well, she
Speaker 2: ain't me because I can barely stand up from a
Speaker 2: swivel chair without feeling dizzy.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when we were doing those circuits outside
Speaker 1: in your yard. We were doing burpies and like jumping
Speaker 1: up and stuff.
Speaker 2: I thought I was going to pass out.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine not just jumping up, but jumping up
Speaker 1: and twisting and flipping.
Speaker 2: I thought jumping up with my arms in the air
Speaker 2: was like the ultimate. In that moment, you couldn't tell
Speaker 2: me that I wasn't like the strongest person alive.