WEBVTT - Listener Mail: The Quickening 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.840 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:14.280 Works dot com. Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.200 your Mind. My name is Robert lamp and I'm Joe McCormick. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.000 And hey, we're bringing you a listener Maile episode. We've 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.279 got Carney the Robot out here with us today. Who 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.000 seems something weird is going on with Carney. I don't 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:27.960 have you figured out what this is, Robert, Yeah, I 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:31.840 just finished running the diagnosis software on our good mail 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.080 bod here. It turns out he is suffering from symptoms 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.760 of multiple Highlander personality disorder. Oh no, yeah, he was 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.040 apparently infected by that recent Highlander to the Science sing 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.519 episode that we did. And so he keeps altering his 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:53.560 ego and his character personification from being uh Rami raised 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:58.720 to being Connor, to being the Kurgan to being cycling accents. Yeah, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.600 like crazy. He was in Michael Ironside mode just a 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.800 few minutes ago, was really running amuck. Um, he settled 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.800 down a little bit. He's back in Connor mode right now. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.000 Do you know what he was talking about a few 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:15.160 minutes ago when he just kept saying it's pronounced Whovianuvian. Well, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.919 he was echoing the sentiments of a number of different 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.480 listeners who wrote in UH to tell us that fans 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.160 of the TV series and overall sci fi franchise Doctor 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.880 who are referred to as Houvian's No, that's incorrect. They're 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.320 referred to as uvi acts. I don't know, Joe, I 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.600 don't know if the data really supports this. No, I'll 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.440 be proved correct as always. Okay, al right, well, uh anyway, 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.640 despite his programming issues right now, UH Carney does have 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.920 quite a number of listener mails for us related to 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.520 different episodes that we've we've put out over the past month. Now, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.840 as always, we don't have time to respond to every 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.160 bit of listener mail or of social media interaction that 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.640 comes in, and we don't have time in this episode 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.920 to read all of the great listener mails that have 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.200 come in over the past month or so. But we're 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.720 gonna try and touch some some of the high points 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.640 and respond to some of the more conversational bits that 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.840 have come in. Yeah, But, just as we always say, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.519 if if we didn't have time to respond to you 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.520 and you're not featured on the episode, don't worry. It's 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.720 not because we didn't like your email. We just don't 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.959 have have We don't have all the time in the world. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.239 Here be it known that we do appreciate all the 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.000 correspondence we get, so thank you so much, and please 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.799 keep it coming. But I think we should go to 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.240 our first email, Robert. All right, the first couple of 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.399 listener mails we're gonna read here. I have to deal 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.200 with our bugs under the Skin episode. So this one 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.959 is from Dominique, who writes then and says, hey, guys, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.200 I was listening to the Bugs under the Skin episode 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.480 and thought and experience I had would be worth sharing. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.120 One night a few months ago, I was walking around 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.760 our backyard with a head lamp on, and as sometimes 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.400 happens with lights at night, it attracted a few different 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.959 insects that proceeded to fly around my head. It was 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.360 a little annoying, but no big deal until one of 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.880 them flew directly into my ear. Didn't hurt or anything, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.799 but it was surprisingly loud, like someone aggressively rubbing newspaper 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.600 together right by my ear. And by the feel of it, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.880 I thought it was a small moth or something, maybe 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.560 a half or inch show long or so I went 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.280 inside and had my wife peek in there with an 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.600 autoscope we have for our kids, and to my surprise, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.360 even as I was feeling and hearing this thing, she 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.120 said she couldn't see anything at all. Annoyed and somewhat 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.520 in disbelief, I proceeded to a flush my flush the 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.399 ear out with some warm water and was surprised when 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.160 out washed a tiny little white fly, maybe two millimeters 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.160 in length. Apparently a really tiny set of wings beating 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.960 directly on your ear drum can both feel and sound 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.200 deceptively large. I believe it. Though this did not answer 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.400 my biggest question, which is what were you doing with 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.000 the headlamp out in the backyard, Dominique? Were you burying 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.360 a body? What's happening here? There are a lot of 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.800 reasons to go into your backyard with a headlamp, but 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.360 mining for lead sulfide, maybe searching for the source of 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:58.840 the nile. I mean, there are a number of reasons 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.160 to go back there. Anyway, says thanks for the podcast, guys, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.320 I love every minute of it. And oh, by the way, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.080 he is he is from Florida. Of course, can be 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.880 quite buggy, so that also explains it. Now, Robert, you 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.760 mentioned in that episode that you once when you were 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.320 a kid had a bug fly into your ear and 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.640 that it was very allowed. So does this match your 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.560 experience in newspaper? Absolutely, as he described it it it 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.800 brought back sort of the sense memory of that that time. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.920 All right, we got another one about the bugs under 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.279 the Skin episode. This one is from our listener. Ming 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.520 Ming says, Hey, Robert and Joe, just listen to your 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.720 episode on bugs under the Skin. And I loved it. 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.760 Really gross and fascinating at the same time. The copious 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.040 mentions of centipedes and orifices and bugs and ears reminded 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.200 me of the duan Wu festival, so I thought i'd 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.719 write in about it. I grew up in central China, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:49.160 and every duan Wu festival, my grandfather would crush up realger, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.560 which is a arsenic sulfide mineral. I actually had to 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.000 look it up. I didn't know what that was, but 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.400 so he would crush up realger to make xiong huang ju. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.680 I hope, I said that right. It's a type of 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.960 yellow wine people drink to ward away evil as well 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.800 as poisonous creatures. As a child at the time, I 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.120 was only allowed a tiny bit of the wine to drink, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.239 but my grandfather would pour drops of it inside both 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.359 my ears. When I would ask why, he would explain 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.279 that it was to keep centipedes from crawling into my ears, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.080 because realgar was a powerful deterrent to the creepy Crawley's 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.240 This featured heavily in mythology too, where centipede monsters or 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.760 snake monsters, two of the five poisons in Chinese myth 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.600 would be undone by realger. It was only with research 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.880 just now brought on by the episode that I found 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.040 out that rialgar is an arsenic sulfide mineral. I guess 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.920 what keeps people away keeps bugs away too. Thanks as 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.919 always for the show, my favorite in the Stuff Network. Ming, Well, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.719 thank you so much. Ming. We're glad you like it. Yes, indeed, 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.039 I always love to hear from listeners who have spent 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:52.840 time in China. I want to know a little more 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.080 about this though. What does that feel like in the ear? 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.000 The arsenic sulfide? Does that burn? What does that do? 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.040 And is it indeed a preferable to an actual centipede 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.880 in the ear? I suspect that it probably is. That's 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.920 probably that's probably one of the practice emerged. Somebody got 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.040 a centipede in the ear, and then they said, well 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.520 this this kind of sucks, but it's still far better 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.040 than worrying about centipedes in the ear. Okay, this next 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.320 email concerns both dangerous foods and idiophones. So this is 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.480 from our listener Joe. She lives in Malaysia, and Joe writes, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.080 I discovered your podcast and have been slowly working my 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.400 way through all of the episodes. I happened to cross 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.640 the episodes on dangerous foods and thought it would be 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.720 fun to tell you about one that I love to eat. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.800 I don't think you've mentioned this yet, but I may 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:38.919 be mistaken Sauropus, androgynus or andrew gynus. I guess um 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.279 Here it's known as ken cook, menace, or Manechai. I 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.080 particularly love when it's stir fried with eggs. It's a 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.799 great source of vitamins and proteins. And she attaches a picture. However, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.240 when several Taiwanese people juiced and drank it, they ended 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.320 up with lung failure and then death, and she attaches 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.480 an article, but she explains the cause of death has 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.240 been tentatively linked to the high amounts of alkaloids. Papa varying, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.440 but the exact mechanism is not yet known. It's proposed 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.360 that cooking inactivates the deadly poison inside, rendering. It's something 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.160 that can be that can only be consumed cooked or 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.560 in small amounts of raw. Uh. Similar to some other 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.800 things we looked at in these Dangerous Foods episodes, such 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.480 as just common beans kidney beans. You know you should 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.280 not eat them raw. Yeah, Our various culinary practices often 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.520 are ways to make that which would kill us actually 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.920 something we can eat be either by transforming it chemically 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.240 through the process of cooking, or just uh, you know, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:42.280 regulating the amount of poison that we're taking in right. Uh, So, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.400 Joe continues, I usually take all my foreign friends to 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.320 try it once, and now I have to add a 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.400 warning to never ever consume it raw or juiced, digressing. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.280 I was also listening to the episode on idiophones, and 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.240 I laughed out loud. When you use kiki as an 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.480 example of something to mean sharper angular, there is a 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.600 word in uh oh, and I actually don't know how 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.520 to pronounce this language. H O k k I E N. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:10.080 Is that okayen maybe or maybe hokeien? Uh? Anyway, Joe 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.400 continues in that language kiki pronounced with a hard stop 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.040 after each syllable. So I guess they'd be key keys 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.680 or something uh, commonly used to indicate that an edge 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.560 is jagged or uneven. So if I were to describe 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.480 someone's haircut as key key, that would mean that their 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.920 hair was uneven. I also tested out the three Japanese 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.320 words from the episode on my friends, and they guessed 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.160 correctly each time. I was quite surprised, as none of 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.080 them knew Japanese anyway. Really enjoy your podcast and have 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.480 recommended it to so many people. Keep up the good work. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.160 Joe from Malaysia. Well thank you, Joe. All right, I'm 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.120 looking over here at at Carney, and Carney has switched 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.000 personas and now he is drinking Scotch and being fitted 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.439 for a custom suit. Oh no, yeah, so I think 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.320 he's in full Connery Ramire's mode. But but it bides 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.560 us little time. Uh, We're gonna start covering some of 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.640 the listener mail that we received concerning lists. This one 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.080 comes to us from Rachel, Hi, Joe and Robert, a 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.600 list of hosts. It came to mind that we sometimes 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.640 create terms or labels for things taxonomically, for instance, which 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.360 represents a list of traits describing these unique things. The 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.600 more obvious ones are labels like the word skateboard, which 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.800 is a board with skate wheels. Less obvious would be 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.720 a term like bellas parentus the common daisy, which is 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.400 a label for a list of traits that must be 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.600 president in order to qualify for this label. Therefore, by 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.400 giving something that label, one would be indicating, at least 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.319 to a botanist, that a certain list of things are 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.480 true of that object. I've always loved compound words for 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.600 their descriptive but sometimes easily misunderstood. Nature's take. For instance, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:51.160 the word chainsaw meaning a saw using a chain for cutting. Basically, 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.920 one could be forgiven for thinking this referred to a 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.720 saw intended for the use in the cutting of chains. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:02.120 Don't even get me started on chainsaw car in contest, Wow, Rachel, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.000 chainsaw is the best thing to illustrate any concept. Next 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.960 item on lists came from our listener, Clayton. Clayton says 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.000 Robert and Joe. I've been listening to the show for 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.200 four years now, and let's make a list, and then 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.959 let's make a list. Episode might be your best yet. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.920 I thoroughly enjoyed this one and was delighted to become 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.480 aware of all the various reasons and types of lists 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.320 humans have made throughout history. List making is a huge 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.720 tenant of my life and something that my wife and 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.880 I love doing together. The feeling of accomplishment when striking 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.640 through an item on a to do list is so 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.080 satisfying that often if we have a running list of 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.560 things like household repairs, and a repair happens that is 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.280 not on our list, my wife will write it down 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.200 after the list is complete, then just cross it off 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.400 the list. Thank you guys for the show. PS. Invention 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.479 is also fantastic. Love the theme song and the podcast 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:54.200 album artwork from Clayton. Yeah, people love love the theme 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.959 song for Invention. We keep doing crazy about it, uh 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.360 and I keep having to reply and tell everybody what 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.280 it is and where you can find it. Only the 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.840 finest stock music for our listeners ears, But no, it's 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.559 it's it's from a stock music database. But you can 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.200 also purchase it online if you love it that much 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.600 so and you know who the artist is and stuff. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.680 I think, right, yeah, you know what, I don't have 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.199 it on hand at the moment. But what I will 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.120 do is after we we leave this recording session, I 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.719 will add it to the Invention page. If you go 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.800 to invention pod dot com, go to the about section 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.000 and at the bottom, under the stuff about about about 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.400 who's hosting the show, etcetera, and our beautiful picture, we 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.280 will put We'll put a little information there about who 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.000 the artist is and where you can buy the the 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.640 the track for yourself, because it's good stuff. We we 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.480 we we looked at a lot of music that was 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.120 available to us before we decided on this particular track. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.360 And hey, if you're not subscribed to Invention yet, go 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.560 subscribe right now. Check it out. If you like this show, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.880 you'll probably like that one. But anyway, I wanted to 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.880 read this message from Clayton because I sometimes also do 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.320 this thing with the with the to do list. I 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.600 think it's a G eight idea. When you make it 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.680 to do list, don't only include what you've got ahead 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:09.080 of you also include some things you've already recently gotten 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.040 done and then crossed them off somehow. To me, this 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.680 process is really pleasing. It's highly motivating. It's like you 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.719 get a breath of wind behind you. You know, the 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.400 mountaintop Bear goddess, just pour strength into your mind and 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.840 your muscles. It's good. His His email made me think, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.880 what if you took up this task though? To keep 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.440 an ongoing list of items that you have never included 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.080 on a list before. You have to maintain this and 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.880 keep it current, so you're constantly putting new things on 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.120 and taking old things off. Remember you have to take 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.800 them off as soon as they've been as soon as 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.280 they've been listed on the list somewhere. Try it for yourself, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.600 right in and let us know how the impossible list. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.400 All right, here's another one about list. This one comes 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.640 to us from Tony. Hello, gentlemen. As soon as I 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.600 saw there was an episode on lists, I knew it 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.680 would be a winner. Several members of my family have 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.880 actually referred to me as a Mr. List. Over the years, 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.480 I've made dozens of lists on a variety of topics, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.280 from my fifty favorite R. E. M. Songs to the 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.720 most heartbreaking losses in Chicago Bears history that I have seen. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.000 As an avid movie fan, I have always loved the 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.560 Academy Awards and found my viewing of the ceremony was 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.720 more enjoyable when I had seen all the Best Picture 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.920 nominees beforehand. This triggered an idea that would become my 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.040 greatest undertaking yet, watching all of the movies that had 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.800 ever been nominated for Best Picture. WHOA. As of this writing, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.160 I have seen three of five hundred and fifty four 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.480 for a list of glist completion of se which I 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.640 think is pretty impressive. That's a lot of movies, Tony. Alas, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.199 it was only after I was well into this project 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.160 that I discovered there is no known surviving copy of 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.840 The Patriot, one of the nominees from ninety eight. This 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.400 of course means that no matter what effort I give, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.520 I'll never be able to truly complete the list. I 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.160 always hope one day I'll be mindlessly clicking around the 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.640 Internet and run into a quick news blurb that someone 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.800 found a copy of The Patriot tucked away in a 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.959 way their chest, in an old producer's addict or something 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.400 like that. One of the majority of readers would skim 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.560 right over that news. For me, it would be like 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.160 locating the Holy Grail. Thanks for your continued offering, which 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:15.360 offering switching, enlighten and entertain us all, Tony in Chicago. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.920 Of course, Thus the bears. That makes sense, Well, thank you, Tony. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.720 Uh yeah, it sounds like unless somebody finds a copy 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.480 of The Patriot, your life is a lie. Um I, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.040 I know I can understand what he means about, like 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.240 the desire to find something that you are into and 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.800 then you set the goal of completing it. Um I. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.240 I fall into this trap sometimes, so I discover a 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.359 new author that I really dig, or a filmmaker, um, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.840 an artist even or want to be a completionist. Yeah, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.480 or I've I've also done this with like if I 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.480 discover like a new say in the past, if I 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.960 discovered like a new professional wrestler, like some new Japanese 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.840 professional wrestler that I've never heard of before, and then 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.320 I'm like, well, I've got to see all their matches now. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.120 And then, of course you always run into the same problem, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.240 like either it's an actual incompleteness situation where Okay, this 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.640 film is not available or this book is is is 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.560 ass hasn't been published in in ages and now it's 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.800 too expensive to buy a used copy of or you 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.360 just run into the fact that if you become a 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.520 completest on something like sometimes you're that means consuming stuff 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.360 that's maybe not the primo material, you know, like sometimes 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:30.240 it's best just to stick to the top five um uh, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.120 you know, hits from this particular artist rather than dive 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.040 into their full discography. But still sevent completion rate on 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.640 on nominees, that's pretty good. Well, I I know, I 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.000 also see the appeal of just going down the list, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.800 even when there are other things you could be doing, right. Uh. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.480 Like I was thinking about when we were getting really 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.600 into the nineteen eight nine Underwater Peril movies, and it's like, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.320 even though you know that like Lords of the Deep 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.560 is is not going to be good, maybe not even 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.320 good bad, you're just, uh, you've just got to go 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.440 down there because you've already started. Yeah, And I did that. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.320 Luckily there was a Mystery Sentence Theater three thousand episode 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.360 of Lords of the Deep that came out this year 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.880 or the tail into last year. But I also tried 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.960 to watch for you get the name of it, Like 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.640 it's like a German underwater film, not one of the 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:22.200 like the top tier either. It was. It was, it 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.040 was really bad. It was it was unwatched, but I 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.040 had nothing of I That's why I have nothing to 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.520 even say about it. Other than it was just complete boredom. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.720 But you got to cross it off. That's true. I 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.920 did get to cross it off. Okay, Karnie's going gone 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.280 into Kurgan mode. Oh no, I think he has a correction. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.080 We have wrath coming our way. Well, okay, so this 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.120 is from Duncan. So Duncan begins by saying, hi, guys, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.320 a couple of minor corrections, if you will forgive my 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.200 O C D. I think this might be a little 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.000 more of a clarification, but we'll take it. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.800 we're in favor of clarity. Yeah. So uh, Duncan says 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.760 about gravitational physics. In our Thought Experiment episode, you know, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.000 we talked about the idea of um of uh, the 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.520 the Aristotelian view of gravity versus the Galilean view of gravity, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.639 and so what Duncan says is most people get a 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.679 couple of simple semantic distinctions wrong. When talking about the 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.160 speed of falling bodies. In the podcast about Thought Experiments, 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.399 you mentioned that if you drop a heavy object and 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.000 a light object off a tall building, they will hit 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.600 the ground at the same time. This is false. The 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.480 correct phrasing is the rate of acceleration. Caused by gravity 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.040 is the same for all objects, regardless of density. You 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.840 can also say objects in a vacuum fall at the 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.800 same speed regardless of density. The first distinction is using 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.760 the words heavy and light as opposed to talking about density. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.639 An inflated balloon weighs more than a plastic baby pellet, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.399 but the BP pellet will hit the ground first, the 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.879 denser object will fall faster. The other important distinction is 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.800 about acceleration versus speed. Objects accelerate at the same speed, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.160 but air resistance builds proportional to their speeds, so all 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.680 objects have a different terminal velocity based on their density 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.520 and also their aerodynamic profile. If you drop two objects 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.440 with different densities off of building and it is high 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.600 enough for either one of them to reach its terminal velocity, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.119 that object will stop accelerating. The other will continue for 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.320 a bit longer and therefore fall faster, hitting the ground first. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.320 This can be easily demonstrated with a piece of cotton 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.399 wool and a marble from a height of only a 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.239 meter or so. And then Duncan also goes on with 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.119 some other comments about our our previous clarifications on uses 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.560 of the word billion, like us usage versus non us 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.760 English usage. But from what I can tell, yeah, I 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.120 do want to say that Duncan's comments here about the 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.000 physics of falling bodies that seems absolutely correct. I think 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:41.720 we were speaking in a little bit of shorthand in 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.160 the episode, but but that is all true. Alright, Carney 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.159 has calmed down a bit, and now he has he 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.880 has handed me another listener mail, and this one has 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.000 to do at least partially with Blobsters. Okay, so this 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.120 one comes to us from Weldon Weldon Rights, I love 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.240 your podcast catching Up. I was listening to the second 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.480 Blobster episode when you were pointing out that some creationists 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.200 try to force the timeline to fit what they feel 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.439 the Earth creation timeline is. I am a person who 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.800 has convinced that we are far too complex and amazing, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.240 even some politicians to be accidental. So I am a creationist, 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.960 but I believe it is only people's misguided interpretation of 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.440 multiple layers of language differences that cause so much confusion. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.840 The Earth is four plus billion years old as far 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:29.680 as we can tell. The universe is somewhere in the 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.800 neighborhood of thirteen plus billion years old. How does that 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.600 not allow for God to work whatever way he chooses. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.800 When we try to cubbyhole what was accomplished, we limit 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:44.159 his ability to only what we understand, and we aren't 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.160 always that bright. Simple facts point to a longer time involved, 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.080 like a tiny bacterial found miles deep in the Earth's 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.080 crust Russian drilling expedition, or star starlight itself hitting our 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.920 eyes at night from who knows how many light years away. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.080 So keep up the good work on a great show, 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.520 and try to remember not everyone who believes in creation 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.879 thinks it all happened in a few days. Thanks Weldon. Well. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.520 I think we have intentionally pointed out that that distinction 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.400 before that not all people who believe in a creator 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.040 of some form whatever religion they are believe in, say 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.719 like a Young Earth creationist model. In fact, I think 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.320 we try to be fairly careful about that. Yeah, I 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.560 mean my take has always been that if we're dealing 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.639 with a creator God's scenario, and I like to, you know, 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.199 look at different scenarios for this sort of thing. You know, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.040