1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: I guess what, mango, what's that? Well? Did you know 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: there's a polar bear jail in Churchill, Canada? So I 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: do know that Churchill is considered the polar bear capital 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: of the world because my mom has wanted to make 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: a pilgrimage there forever. And I'd also heard that people 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: there leave their cars unlocked in case you ever need 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: to make like a quick escape from a wayward bear. White, 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: are you serious about that? You can actually just hop 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: into stranger's car and take shelter, which is such a 10 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: weird thing. And I'm sure you can only get so 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: much protection from a crazed bear in a car. But 12 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: tell me about polar bear jail. Well, according to the Atlantic, 13 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: it was built in two and it has space for 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: twenty eight fuzzy inmates. Basically, as the town has so 15 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: many bears wandering through, officials have set up a hotline 16 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: for locals. It's just six seven five Bear, So if 17 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: you see a bear on the outskirts of town, officials 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: will come and try to scare it away with whatever 19 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: they can use, whether it's firecrackers or sometimes rubber bullets 20 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: or paint balls, and generally the bears get the hint. 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: But if a bear decides he still wants to visit, 22 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: or or worse, if a bear starts loitering in places 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: that they shouldn't be. That's often what juvenile bears will do. 24 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: That's when the threat of jail time kicks in. So 25 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: the bear patrol tries to lure these big delinquents into 26 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: a giant cylindrical trap baited with seal meat, and when 27 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: the cage snaps shut, they truck them off to the 28 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: polar bear jail. Of course, sometimes the bears aren't hungry 29 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,919 Speaker 1: and they just have to use tranquilizers. But the system 30 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: actually works pretty well, so this doesn't sound like do process. 31 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: But how long do these bears get sentenced for? Generally 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: it actually is a few months, and they keep them 33 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: there until the weather gets colder or the water freezes over, 34 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: and then the older and hopefully wiser bears get sprung 35 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: back to their old neighborhoods and they'll hopefully turn over 36 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: a new leaf in the process. But that's just the 37 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: first of nine facts on bears we're covering today, So 38 00:01:53,040 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 1: let's dive in. M Hey their podcast listeners, Welcome to 39 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: part time genius. I'm Will Pearson. And as always, I'm 40 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: joined by my good friend Manes Ticketter and sitting behind 41 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: the soundproof glass wearing two big lobster claws and a 42 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: shirt that says what does it say? Says? Sometimes I share? 43 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm shellfish. That's our Palin producer Tristan McNeil, what 44 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: I love interesting, gets all dressed off as usual. But 45 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: I think we forgot to tell him that we were 46 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: changing the topic from lobsters to bears things. I'm so sorry. 47 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: Tristan will update the calendar soon. He just looks so 48 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: sad pinching those lobster claws, and I mean, do you 49 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,679 Speaker 1: have at least one lobster fact you could share to 50 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: make him feel a little better? You know? I don't? Okay, 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: well either, I do have some bear facts the trick. 52 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: So I know you started with a story on polar bears, 53 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: but do you know there's actually a bear known as 54 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: a pizzley bear. Sometimes it's also called a groller bear, 55 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: and basically it's a polar bear grizzly bear combination or hybrid, 56 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: and mostly the sort of breeding is occurred in captivity. 57 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: It produces like a really beautiful white bear with light 58 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: brown patches, but Canadian hunters have been finding more and 59 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: more of these Pizlis in the wild, and they think 60 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: that the inner bear romances trend will continue because of 61 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: global warming, though actually the two bears have actually lived 62 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: in overlapping territories for a while. That's pretty interesting. I've 63 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: never heard of either of those, the Pizley or the 64 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: groller bears. So what are these hybrid bears like in 65 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: terms of their behaviors, because those are two pretty different 66 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: types of bears. Do we know much about them? Well, 67 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: you know, some hybrids can't mate, but these are definitely 68 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: not sterile. They can continue to mate, which is pretty interesting. 69 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: They actually tend to take on the polar bears hunting skills, 70 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: so they can be aggressive and pretty skilled hunters, but 71 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: they're not actually as good at swimming as pure bred polars. 72 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: So you know, polar bears can actually swim for a 73 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: hundred miles continuously, and and they can't go that far. 74 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: But in the long run, scientists actually think these Pizlis 75 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: will probably be successful by mating more and more with 76 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: grizzly bears than polar bears. And that's just because the 77 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: numbers favor that, and also how the environment seems to 78 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: be going. What is interesting, though, this isn't the only 79 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: hybrid species that comes out of climate change. Pacific Standard 80 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: magazine has written that bluga whales are mating with nar 81 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: walls to create nar lugas. At the very least fun 82 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: to say. I mean, that definitely sounds made up. I 83 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: think I was probably in my twenties before somebody convinced 84 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: me that nar walls were actually a real thing. Anyway, 85 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: So these nar luga's, that's crazy. I do think it's 86 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: funny when you get these names like legger's and bee flows. 87 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: They're kind of fun to say. But there's some that 88 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: are just terrible, like jag lions and dog wolves, which 89 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: honestly just feels lazy to be. All right. So here's 90 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: a strange one, and it sounds like an urban ledge 91 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: and but it's actually true. There was this man in 92 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: China who bought two puppies on the border of China 93 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: and Vietnam, and then he took them home. I guess 94 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: they looked like little black chow chows, and so he 95 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: fed them and he groomed them, and then things started 96 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: to get a little weird. They wanted more and more food. 97 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: They started feasting on his chickens, and then they grew 98 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: to a hundred pounds. But he only fully realized he'd 99 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: been duped when he read a government flyer about bear safety, 100 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: and then he recognized the animals in the picture. It 101 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: became pretty clear to them that he was actually the 102 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: proud owner of two Asian black bear cubs. So now 103 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: they live in a sanctuary where they get to eat 104 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: more than just dog food, thankfully. That's pretty funny. Actually, 105 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: this is super weird, and I'm sure I've told you 106 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: this before, but my my grandfather was in the forestry service. 107 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: Then one day when he was on tour, he found 108 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: these three bear cubs whose mother had been shot. I 109 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: think the mom and bear couldn't give milk, so she 110 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: was aggressive and attacking the town. But he and his 111 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: colleagues found these bears, so he brought one of them 112 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: back with him. And the story was that my mom 113 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: had a pet bear for a little bit until they 114 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: could place into sanctuary. And so like, my mom is 115 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: unafraid of any animal. But the funny part and the 116 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: thing we always used to teach my grandmother about was like, 117 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: how did she let a pet bear in the house? 118 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: And she always just said like she thought it was 119 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: a dog, and I guess there must be some sort 120 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: of resemblance. She was just like willfully ignoring the fact 121 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: that my grandfather was bringing these ridiculous baby animals home 122 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: for the water is great, but my fact. So, since 123 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 1: we're talking about Cubs, here's the fact about the Chicago 124 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: Cubs and how they got their name. So you know, 125 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 1: even though I'm not a huge baseball fan, I do 126 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: love the strange team names that stick around for little 127 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: bits of time. Like in Brooklyn, the baseball team was 128 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: called the Brooklyn Bridegrooms for a season, and I guess 129 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: this is because like a number of them all got 130 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: married in one season and that's just the nickname they 131 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: took on. And similarly, the Cubs used to be called 132 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: the White Stockings, which you know isn't particularly useful since 133 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: they also have the White Sox in Chicago. And then 134 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: they lost their manager, who's called Track wasn't renewed, I guess, 135 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: and the team went by the name the Chicago Orphan, 136 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: so sad, you know, it's sad, And they were horrible 137 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: because obviously teams aren't great when they don't have managers. 138 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: But then they started rebuilding the team with these super 139 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: talented players, but all of them were really really young, 140 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: and that's how they got the name the Cubs. You know, 141 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: it wasn't like the super formal name. Apparently there's the 142 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: site Wrigley Ivy and it says that young players were 143 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: commonly called cubs or cults or you know, other young 144 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: animal names. But then this type that are in Chicago 145 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: may have accidentally like capitalized the description in print, and 146 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: that nickname stuck. I do like this idea that a 147 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: team could have a different name every couple of years, 148 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: just based on something the team has been up to, 149 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: or like this idea if they all got married so 150 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: they were the bride groups. But actually I looked up 151 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: to Chicago Bears and I've got a quick one about 152 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: the Super Bowls shuffle. So did you realize it was 153 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: nominated for a Grammy? I mean, it is such a 154 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: novelty song and it's hard to imagine any critics actually 155 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: liking it. Well, the stray in this part is that 156 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: it was beat out by Prince and the Revolutions Kiss 157 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: and thank thank goodness it was beat out. If it 158 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: had beaten that song, that's ridiculous and it's crazy to 159 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: think that they were even in the same category. But 160 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: one other thing I didn't realize, but the year the 161 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: Bears won the Super Bowl was also the year of 162 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: the Challenger disaster, and that happened around the same time. 163 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: So the team actually never got to visit the White 164 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: House for for understandable reasons. But they did eventually get 165 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: to go when fellow Chicago and Barack Obama invited the 166 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: team to the White House twenty five years later. I mean, 167 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: that is crazy that they had to wait twenty five 168 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: years for the kind of amazing that it happened. Well, 169 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: since we've moved into sports and pop culture, there's a 170 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: Fozzy Bear fact. I was trying to slip into the 171 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: Sesame Street episode. We did a couple of episodes back, 172 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: but I couldn't do it because he's more of a muppet. 173 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Is the fact that that you keep sending me Fozzy 174 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: Bear jokes from Twitter? Is that? Is that what your 175 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: fact is? I mean, they're so corny. Actually, have you 176 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: seen that Mike particularly especial where he talks about the 177 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: one time he had to follow Fozzy Bear on a 178 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: comedy tour, like Fozzy Bear open for him and he said, 179 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: it was so difficult because, you know, any bad joke 180 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 1: Fozzy tells, he's beloved because it was Waca Waca walk along, 181 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: the audience just eats it up, and he's a friendly 182 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: a hard act to follow up. The one thing I 183 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: was going to say was that on the original Muppet Show, 184 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: the gag was that Fozzy Bear would tell jokes that 185 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: were so bad that he'd then get no reaction and 186 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: he gets so upset that you get depressed or even 187 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: start to cry. And you know, that sounds funny and theory, 188 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: but apparently the audiences didn't know what to do, like 189 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: they mostly just felt bad for him, and it made 190 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: the segments really really awkward. So when Henson and Frank 191 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: Oz were retooling the character, they played down the sympathy 192 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: aspects and just made him this sort of eternally optimistic, 193 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: deluted bear who you know, still gets tomatoes and tomatoes 194 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: soup thrown at him, but he believes he's crushing it 195 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: on stage every time. Also, they friendly retooled his eyebrows 196 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: in the process, because they used to make Fozzy Bear 197 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: frown more, you know, when he was getting upset, and 198 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: they had this apparatus built in the puppet that frank 199 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: Oz could like pull so that the eyebrows shifted down, 200 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 1: but then the hat mostly covered them up and they 201 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: retooled the characters, so then they dropped that element. All right, 202 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try to bring this back to real bears. 203 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 1: Nothing gets fozzy, right, But I actually like reading about 204 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: all the unusual skills that they have. They have this 205 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: incredible sense of smell and and this is how extreme 206 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: it gets. So there's seven times better smelling than a bloodhound. 207 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: A polar bear can actually smell seals from twenty miles away, 208 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: and can smell a seal under the ice through its 209 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: breathing hole from a mile over as it really is. 210 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: And so they're also pretty crafty. This is according to 211 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: metal Flaws. They will roll rocks into a bear trap 212 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: in order to set them off. But the most intriguing 213 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: thing to me was that bears are apparently good at math. 214 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: This comes from nat Geo, and it says bears actually 215 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: have the largest brain of any carnivore, and scientists wanted 216 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: to find out whether they could count, so they set 217 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: up these side by side tug screens where bears would 218 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: have to paw or touch their nose to the screen 219 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: with more dots on them, and when they picked the 220 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: screen with more dots, they got a little treat. Apparently 221 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: bears are very motivated by treats. And as scientists kept 222 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: varying the size and the colors of the dots, you know, 223 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: there might have been fifteen tiny dots on one screen 224 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: and twelve on another, these genius bears kept picking the 225 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: right one. In fact, the biggest problem with the study 226 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: ended up being that all the bears wanted to participate 227 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: at the same time, and the scientists didn't have enough 228 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: testing stations for them. You know, like I said, they 229 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: are very motivated by treats. Well, we've still got two 230 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: more bear facts as you get to but before we do, 231 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. Welcome back to Part time Genius. 232 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: So you know, well, I was thinking about that story 233 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: you told about that dude who bought two dogs and 234 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: they turned out to be bears, and it reminded me 235 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: of this great story about Lord Byron at college. Apparently, 236 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: the rule at Cambridge was that you couldn't have dogs 237 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: on campus, and Byron was so irritated that he decided 238 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: to like skirt the rules, and he decided to go 239 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: out and get himself a bear, like a team bear, 240 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: and there were of course no explicit rules about having 241 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: a bear on campus, though I guess he got away 242 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: with it, and he had actually frequently walking around campus 243 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: on a leash. But the funniest part is that people 244 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: kept asking him what are you gonna do with that bear? 245 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: And his standard reply was he was going to try 246 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: to get him enrolled at the school and have him 247 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: sit for a fellowship. Apparently that part of the plan 248 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: never came through. Wow, that's pretty crazy. So is that 249 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: what you're using for your last fact? Actually, I've got 250 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: another one I want to do, so I actually think 251 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: this is pretty interesting. And I realized this when I 252 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: was reading a Barnstein Bears book about Easter to my daughter, 253 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: and as I was reading it, I realized it was 254 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: less about the chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunt, and 255 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: there was a little more overt religion in there than 256 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 1: I was expecting. You know, it was more explicit that 257 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: then i'd remembered. And I guess I was a little 258 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,079 Speaker 1: confused because I started wondering, like I had the Berenstein 259 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: Bears always been talking about religion like jars of Clay 260 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: and then I just hadn't picked up on it, you know, 261 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: And I've been confused about this stuff in the past year, 262 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: like not growing up Christian. I didn't realize that Aslan 263 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: and uh lyon the Witch and the Wardrobe was supposed 264 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 1: to be christ until one of my best friends pointed 265 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: out to me. Or I remember finding Archie comics online 266 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 1: and there's this one where Archie gets religious and uh 267 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: he converts a hippie. Really, yeah, it was because the 268 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: comic got licensed to a Christian publisher for a bit. Anyway, 269 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: I was curious that the Behrenstein Bears had like some 270 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: sort of similar agreement. But it turns out that it's 271 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: Jen and Stan Berenstein's son, Michael, who's been inserting more 272 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: religious titles in the mix. And apparently when stand passed away, 273 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: Michael actually stepped in to help his mom keep writing books, 274 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: and he'd apparently made his name by writing Christian themed 275 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: books for about thirty years. So, according to mental Floss, 276 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: when you see a title like the Berenstein Bears Show 277 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: God Love the Barrenstein Bears say their prayers? Who are 278 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: the Barrenstein Bears go to Sunday School? That generally indicates 279 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: he's the one who wrote it. That's interesting. All right, Well, 280 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: since we're sticking with fictional bears here, I'm going to 281 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: join you with a Paddington fact. So did you know 282 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: that Paddington was originally written to be from Africa? Um? 283 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: I mean, the only recent thing I know about Hayington 284 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: was a he switched from eating marmalade to marmite sandwiches. 285 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: So this ad Kevin and people were pissed. I bet 286 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: they were. They felt like Packington was a sellout. I mean, 287 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: I knew that Payington's from Darkest Peru, but why was 288 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: he from Africa before that? Well, this was a last 289 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: minute adjustment and it was pointed out to author Michael 290 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: Bond that bears don't really live in Africa, so he 291 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: pivoted to Darkness Peru and that's where he based his 292 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: creature on this spectacled bear. Well, I mean, I liked 293 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: a lot of these bear facts. I've got to say 294 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: my favorite was that bears can do math problems. So 295 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: I think you're gonna take the trophy this week. All right, Well, 296 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: thank you very much. It's an honor, and thank you 297 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: guys for this thing. We'll be back with a full 298 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: length episode tomorrow. M