1 00:00:01,550 --> 00:00:06,210 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and 2 00:00:06,230 --> 00:00:08,590 Speaker 1: there's Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave. And this 3 00:00:08,650 --> 00:00:11,460 Speaker 1: is a good old fashioned straight ahead stuff. You should 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,020 Speaker 1: know short stuff about something kind of science, but also 5 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: just really interesting in a bunch of different ways. So 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: let's go. 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: So maybe you've walked outside of your house or maybe 8 00:00:23,340 --> 00:00:25,220 Speaker 2: you're on a hike through the woods in the wilderness 9 00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:30,650 Speaker 2: nearby and you've come across this weird synthetic, uh, Burst 10 00:00:30,850 --> 00:00:32,670 Speaker 2: rubber balloon laying on the ground. 11 00:00:33,150 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: Are you talking to me? Yes, you. Well, no, I haven't. 12 00:00:37,490 --> 00:00:39,980 Speaker 2: All right. That settles that. 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:40,699 Speaker 1: Okay. 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,340 Speaker 2: But let's say you had. There's a very good chance 15 00:00:43,659 --> 00:00:44,500 Speaker 2: that could be a weather balloon. 16 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,699 Speaker 1: Yeah. I wish I had. I would love to have 17 00:00:48,740 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: an anecdote about that, but I don't. 18 00:00:51,740 --> 00:00:52,900 Speaker 2: Are you talking to me? 19 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, Chuck. Get this. I've never actually seen a weather 20 00:00:56,870 --> 00:00:57,590 Speaker 1: balloon in person. 21 00:00:59,110 --> 00:01:00,930 Speaker 2: Uh, that's what we're talking about. Weather balloons. And I, 22 00:01:01,230 --> 00:01:02,870 Speaker 2: I'm surprised we haven't covered this. These are, these are 23 00:01:02,890 --> 00:01:04,690 Speaker 2: kind of cool and kind of a perfect short stuff, 24 00:01:04,730 --> 00:01:04,970 Speaker 2: I think. 25 00:01:05,410 --> 00:01:08,890 Speaker 1: Right. So, um, let's talk about these things because they're 26 00:01:08,910 --> 00:01:11,900 Speaker 1: the workhorse of weather and they really are just a 27 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,740 Speaker 1: couple of, um, couple of components, like a handful of 28 00:01:15,819 --> 00:01:20,060 Speaker 1: components that gets launched, um, Well, I guess let's talk 29 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: about the components. The big one is the balloon, but 30 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: the balloon is really kind of the dumbest part of 31 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,380 Speaker 1: the whole thing because the balloon is there to carry 32 00:01:28,459 --> 00:01:35,110 Speaker 1: a box called a radiosonde, or radiosonde in French. It's 33 00:01:35,230 --> 00:01:38,270 Speaker 1: about the size of a shoebox. It doesn't say what 34 00:01:38,330 --> 00:01:41,670 Speaker 1: size shoebox. I mean, like, you know, Gary Coleman's shoebox 35 00:01:41,730 --> 00:01:44,870 Speaker 1: and Shaquille O'Neal's shoeboxes were different sizes, so they didn't 36 00:01:44,910 --> 00:01:47,290 Speaker 1: get specific enough for my tastes. 37 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,300 Speaker 2: I knew you were going to say Shaquille O'Neal, by 38 00:01:49,340 --> 00:01:49,540 Speaker 2: the way. 39 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: He has big feet, man. 40 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, he does. 41 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:57,180 Speaker 1: And these shoeboxes, whichever size they are, they have got 42 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: three really rudimentary crude atmospheric instruments. But it turns out 43 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,700 Speaker 1: all you really need for these things. 44 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 2: That's right. They have something called a thermistor. That is 45 00:02:08,540 --> 00:02:12,030 Speaker 2: a little ceramic metal rod, and it is a thermometer. 46 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,670 Speaker 2: They have a hydrostor. Is that how you pronounce that? 47 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: Hygrister? 48 00:02:19,180 --> 00:02:20,940 Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. One of the two. Soft G or 49 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,260 Speaker 2: hard G? We're not sure. That is a humidity sensor. 50 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,430 Speaker 2: It's got a slide with a film of lithium chloride 51 00:02:28,510 --> 00:02:33,609 Speaker 2: on it. And it reads humidity through electrical resistance. Yeah. 52 00:02:33,910 --> 00:02:34,410 Speaker 2: What else you got? 53 00:02:35,310 --> 00:02:41,380 Speaker 1: The aneroid barometer. Aneroid barometer. So it measures air pressure 54 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: because there's like a trigger here. that changes as the 55 00:02:44,780 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: air pressure around it changes and it's allowed to kind 56 00:02:47,020 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: of expand. And that's a big part of weather balloons 57 00:02:51,580 --> 00:02:55,940 Speaker 1: as a concept. The fact that the air pressure way 58 00:02:56,020 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: up high where they go, and they go really high, 59 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,209 Speaker 1: changes has kind of worked into the design of how 60 00:03:02,270 --> 00:03:03,730 Speaker 1: these things work. Yeah. 61 00:03:03,970 --> 00:03:07,350 Speaker 2: And there's a fourth thing, to me, the most important thing. Actually, 62 00:03:07,910 --> 00:03:11,929 Speaker 2: they all work together because they're all super important. And 63 00:03:12,110 --> 00:03:14,389 Speaker 2: if one of these has gone Well, actually, if the 64 00:03:14,470 --> 00:03:16,290 Speaker 2: thermometer was gone, you just wouldn't know the temperature and 65 00:03:16,330 --> 00:03:19,770 Speaker 2: you could still know the humidity and the air pressure, right? 66 00:03:21,350 --> 00:03:22,230 Speaker 1: Sure. I guess so. 67 00:03:22,550 --> 00:03:25,750 Speaker 2: I'm being silly. What I'm saying is there's a transmitter 68 00:03:25,790 --> 00:03:28,780 Speaker 2: up there, you guys. There's a radio transmitter and it 69 00:03:29,380 --> 00:03:32,060 Speaker 2: relays this information down to the ground. And the reason 70 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:37,500 Speaker 2: why that's important is because these balloons go up, up, up, up, up, 71 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:41,050 Speaker 2: and they get bigger and bigger and bigger until they're, 72 00:03:41,090 --> 00:03:43,710 Speaker 2: I think they're about five feet in diameter when they start. 73 00:03:44,310 --> 00:03:47,150 Speaker 2: By the time they get up to their dying point, 74 00:03:47,670 --> 00:03:49,810 Speaker 2: they can be as big as a moving truck. And 75 00:03:49,850 --> 00:03:53,870 Speaker 2: those things burst and everything crashes down to the ground. 76 00:03:55,250 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: There is a little parachute that engages to take that 77 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,860 Speaker 2: radio sonda down to the ground gently, but they're not 78 00:04:02,940 --> 00:04:05,900 Speaker 2: counting on finding that thing because that data has been 79 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: transmitted back already. 80 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: Exactly. And that's what makes it so much more advantageous 81 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,540 Speaker 1: than what they were using back in the 20s and 30s, 82 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: which is like kites or maybe a plane. You had 83 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:19,659 Speaker 1: to wait until the kite got reeled back in or 84 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: the plane landed to get the data you needed to 85 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:26,500 Speaker 1: start doing calculations. This is, you know, almost real time data. 86 00:04:27,820 --> 00:04:29,660 Speaker 1: I say we take a break and we come back 87 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,020 Speaker 1: and talk about weather balloon launches and some of the 88 00:04:34,060 --> 00:04:35,900 Speaker 1: other things about weather balloons. 89 00:04:36,420 --> 00:04:45,740 Speaker 2: Let's do it. Stuffed with Joshua and Charles Stuff you should. 90 00:04:45,270 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: Know Okay, Chuck, so there's some pretty neat stuff about 91 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: weather balloons that we haven't even begun to touch on, right? Yeah. 92 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,460 Speaker 1: One of the first things is how high up they go. 93 00:05:16,380 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: They go up to what's known as the stratosphere, which 94 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: is the second to last layer before you hit outer space. 95 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,380 Speaker 1: Second to last atmospheric layer before you hit outer space. 96 00:05:27,050 --> 00:05:29,770 Speaker 1: And that's something like 18 miles, I think. Did you 97 00:05:29,810 --> 00:05:31,630 Speaker 1: say that when you talked about it swelling up to 98 00:05:31,710 --> 00:05:32,510 Speaker 1: the size of a truck? 99 00:05:32,980 --> 00:05:35,820 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's about the distance that it can 100 00:05:35,860 --> 00:05:38,140 Speaker 2: go before you're in danger of rupturing. 101 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. And I mean, like, it's close to the edge 102 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: of space. Tristan Hopper, the How Stuff Works writer who 103 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: wrote this, pointed out that, like, if the weather balloon 104 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: had eyes and a brain and all that, I'm adding 105 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: that part, and it looked up, it'd be the blackness 106 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,460 Speaker 1: of outer space. But if it looked down, it'd see 107 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:57,380 Speaker 1: the blue sky below it. So it's up there and 108 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,180 Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. And then it pops and dies and 109 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,310 Speaker 1: the radio song comes back to the ground. And because 110 00:06:04,370 --> 00:06:07,529 Speaker 1: these things work so well, because they're so actually cheap 111 00:06:07,570 --> 00:06:09,370 Speaker 1: to do, I think it's like a few hundred dollars 112 00:06:09,390 --> 00:06:11,690 Speaker 1: to release one, which compared to other techniques like a 113 00:06:11,770 --> 00:06:14,380 Speaker 1: rocket launch or even an airplane ride. 114 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:14,859 Speaker 2: Yeah. 115 00:06:15,380 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: It's very cheap. And so much so that they release 116 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,419 Speaker 1: these things a couple of times a day to the 117 00:06:21,460 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: tune of like 67, 68,000 a year just in the 118 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: United States. 119 00:06:23,580 --> 00:06:30,020 Speaker 2: Yeah. They have 92 weather stations that they do those 120 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,140 Speaker 2: a couple of days. And they've been doing this for many, 121 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,540 Speaker 2: many decades. When they first figured this out, they've been 122 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 2: doing it since then. And there are more than 900 123 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,370 Speaker 2: weather stations, I think, all over the world, like you said, 124 00:06:41,390 --> 00:06:43,870 Speaker 2: that are doing this kind of thing. And the balloon 125 00:06:43,910 --> 00:06:48,490 Speaker 2: itself is neoprene. It's a synthetic rubber. It's filled with 126 00:06:48,529 --> 00:06:53,510 Speaker 2: either helium or hydrogen, depending on, you know, which big 127 00:06:53,570 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: gas you're in bed with. Hydrogen is cheaper. It can 128 00:06:57,380 --> 00:07:00,180 Speaker 2: lift a little bit better, and it's more easily extracted 129 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: from water, but it's really flammable, as you can recall 130 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,860 Speaker 2: from the Hindenburg episode. So a lot of those things 131 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:10,820 Speaker 2: have exploded. So a lot of people will go with 132 00:07:10,860 --> 00:07:14,940 Speaker 2: helium instead. But like you said, they're cheap. So they've 133 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,370 Speaker 2: been doing this with weather balloons for a long time. 134 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,310 Speaker 2: And the advantage, obviously, is that you're high up there. 135 00:07:21,330 --> 00:07:23,530 Speaker 2: I know you said they use kites before to predict 136 00:07:23,550 --> 00:07:25,490 Speaker 2: the weather, but The other thing they did was use 137 00:07:25,510 --> 00:07:27,950 Speaker 2: their eyeballs and would lick their finger and hold it 138 00:07:27,990 --> 00:07:28,430 Speaker 2: up in the air. 139 00:07:28,870 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a big point about weather balloons. The 140 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,020 Speaker 1: reason that they let them go up so high or 141 00:07:34,060 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: they want them to go up so high is that 142 00:07:35,740 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: you can really tell a lot more about weather at 143 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,980 Speaker 1: higher altitudes than you can from the ground because it 144 00:07:42,020 --> 00:07:45,140 Speaker 1: might look like a nice sunny day here on Earth. 145 00:07:46,370 --> 00:07:49,470 Speaker 1: But then just, you know, a couple tens of thousands 146 00:07:49,510 --> 00:07:52,450 Speaker 1: of feet up in the air, there's like some disturbance 147 00:07:52,510 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: in the foreground. growing that's going to turn into a 148 00:07:55,980 --> 00:07:58,780 Speaker 1: major thunderstorm that's going to produce a tornado that's going 149 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: to kill a bunch of people. So if you have 150 00:08:01,050 --> 00:08:04,490 Speaker 1: data about those things that are starting to form, you 151 00:08:04,530 --> 00:08:07,230 Speaker 1: can predict what's going to happen and warn people with 152 00:08:07,510 --> 00:08:11,310 Speaker 1: way more time than you could just from making ground-based observations. 153 00:08:11,370 --> 00:08:14,250 Speaker 1: So that's another reason why they're so relied on is 154 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: that all you need are these cheap instruments that are 155 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,780 Speaker 1: designed to basically just fall back to Earth and be 156 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: forgotten about. And you can save, you know, lives of 157 00:08:24,070 --> 00:08:26,500 Speaker 1: people from the information they're relaying back. 158 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:29,580 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. It's kind of one of those just 159 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 2: lo-fi solutions that helps. If you think like, oh, wait, 160 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,099 Speaker 2: what happens here? These things just fall out in the 161 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,949 Speaker 2: woods like you're talking about or maybe hit somebody in 162 00:08:38,990 --> 00:08:42,109 Speaker 2: the head. Thankfully, I don't think that's happened yet, but 163 00:08:42,410 --> 00:08:46,069 Speaker 2: they do become litter, which is kind of the downer 164 00:08:46,110 --> 00:08:48,469 Speaker 2: of all this. You know, they can travel hundreds of 165 00:08:48,530 --> 00:08:52,220 Speaker 2: miles if they're in a good wind current and they 166 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,429 Speaker 2: can land anywhere basically. I think, you know, the idea 167 00:08:56,470 --> 00:08:59,470 Speaker 2: of trying to send people out or trucks out or 168 00:08:59,510 --> 00:09:02,410 Speaker 2: helicopters out to go retrieve these is that defeats the 169 00:09:02,429 --> 00:09:05,929 Speaker 2: purpose of these being cheap. But, and this is a 170 00:09:05,950 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 2: very cool, to me, the fact of the show is 171 00:09:09,179 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 2: if you come across one of those radio signs, it 172 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: comes with a postage paid envelope and you can put 173 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,050 Speaker 2: that thing inside an old weather balloon and And mail 174 00:09:20,090 --> 00:09:22,170 Speaker 2: it back to the National Weather Service, and they'll send 175 00:09:22,210 --> 00:09:22,850 Speaker 2: it back up again. 176 00:09:23,290 --> 00:09:24,870 Speaker 1: They do. They send it back up, and then they 177 00:09:24,929 --> 00:09:30,170 Speaker 1: send you a Junior Weather Service Operators T-shirt. 178 00:09:30,490 --> 00:09:30,990 Speaker 2: Do they really? 179 00:09:31,460 --> 00:09:32,620 Speaker 1: No. Oh, God. 180 00:09:32,660 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 2: They should. 181 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: They should, because I'm sure they get so few back 182 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,660 Speaker 1: that you could do that kind of thing, you know? 183 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: I got a new life goal, man. I want to 184 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: find one of these one day. 185 00:09:40,860 --> 00:09:45,730 Speaker 1: Awesome. Maybe it's like the Nielsen people, and they send 186 00:09:45,750 --> 00:09:50,100 Speaker 1: you like three $ 1 bills. Yeah. Yeah. 187 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,580 Speaker 2: Before we close, I think we have to mention, just 188 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 2: to keep from getting emails, we've got to mention the 189 00:09:55,870 --> 00:09:56,570 Speaker 2: lawn chair guy. 190 00:09:57,890 --> 00:09:59,130 Speaker 1: Oh, for sure. Larry Walters? 191 00:09:59,780 --> 00:10:01,460 Speaker 2: I thought we talked about him in maybe the Ig 192 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: Nobel Awards. We may have, but we've got to mention 193 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:04,939 Speaker 2: him again here. 194 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: Okay, so he was a truck driver who, in 1982, 195 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,819 Speaker 1: decided that he wanted to float from Los Angeles over 196 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: to the Rocky Mountains. He said, well, weather balloons work 197 00:10:14,950 --> 00:10:17,390 Speaker 1: pretty well. I'm going to attach 42 of them to 198 00:10:17,410 --> 00:10:22,540 Speaker 1: my lawn chair. And see what happens. And he, he 199 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,469 Speaker 1: did this. He actually did. He lifted off and things 200 00:10:25,490 --> 00:10:28,910 Speaker 1: were going well for the first like minute or two. Yeah. 201 00:10:29,510 --> 00:10:31,970 Speaker 2: Uh, he, you know, I guess he didn't do the 202 00:10:32,010 --> 00:10:34,309 Speaker 2: math or maybe that just wasn't a strong point, but 203 00:10:34,410 --> 00:10:38,510 Speaker 2: he did Josh, man, he ended up at 16,000 feet. 204 00:10:39,110 --> 00:10:40,630 Speaker 2: And I know they made a movie about this, which 205 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:44,580 Speaker 2: I'm sure was portrayed as a, a lot of laughs, but, uh, 206 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 2: or maybe not, but I can't imagine anything more terrifying 207 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,580 Speaker 2: than being 16,000 feet above the air. No. And, And 208 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:54,380 Speaker 2: realizing like, wow, I've really gotten in over my head here. 209 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,860 Speaker 1: And this was July of 1982. So he wasn't dressed 210 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,750 Speaker 1: for 16,000 feet either, which is very chilly. Right. 211 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:02,350 Speaker 2: That's a good point. 212 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:06,370 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So this was not a great experience for him. Luckily, 213 00:11:06,590 --> 00:11:09,569 Speaker 1: even though he hadn't done the math correctly or at all, 214 00:11:09,970 --> 00:11:11,870 Speaker 1: he did have the foresight to bring an air gun 215 00:11:11,929 --> 00:11:14,250 Speaker 1: with him so that he could shoot out some of 216 00:11:14,290 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: the balloons or all of them and land safely. So 217 00:11:18,179 --> 00:11:20,439 Speaker 1: he just shot out some of the weather balloons, I guess, 218 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:23,310 Speaker 1: a little earlier than he expected to. And he landed 219 00:11:23,390 --> 00:11:27,510 Speaker 1: gently back in somebody's backyard in Long Beach, probably Snoop Dogg's. 220 00:11:28,870 --> 00:11:30,730 Speaker 2: Could you have you seen pictures of this guy? 221 00:11:31,350 --> 00:11:31,510 Speaker 1: No. 222 00:11:32,030 --> 00:11:33,070 Speaker 2: Flying over Los Angeles? 223 00:11:33,590 --> 00:11:34,610 Speaker 1: No, I haven't. All right. 224 00:11:34,630 --> 00:11:37,300 Speaker 2: I'm going to send you a picture. It's incredible looking. 225 00:11:37,420 --> 00:11:40,420 Speaker 2: It looks exactly like you think it would. Yet it's 226 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:41,220 Speaker 2: still mind blowing. 227 00:11:41,780 --> 00:11:44,140 Speaker 1: Did he have like a seatbelt on the lawn chair 228 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,350 Speaker 1: or is it just? Him sitting in a lawn chair. 229 00:11:46,570 --> 00:11:49,090 Speaker 2: It's hard to tell, but it looks... I mean, if 230 00:11:49,130 --> 00:11:53,090 Speaker 2: you zoom in... Unless this is a fake picture. I 231 00:11:53,130 --> 00:11:54,090 Speaker 2: wonder if this is fake. 232 00:11:54,970 --> 00:11:55,770 Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. 233 00:11:55,809 --> 00:11:57,610 Speaker 2: It looks like a guy sitting there watching the game 234 00:11:57,650 --> 00:11:59,740 Speaker 2: with a beer in his hand. But that might have 235 00:11:59,750 --> 00:12:00,170 Speaker 2: been the case. 236 00:12:01,130 --> 00:12:02,380 Speaker 1: Maybe. Maybe. 237 00:12:03,340 --> 00:12:04,780 Speaker 2: I'm going to send it to you either way. I'll 238 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:05,939 Speaker 2: send it to you and Jerry right now. 239 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: If I had done this and I reached 16,000 feet, 240 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,290 Speaker 1: you would... You would know that I was coming because 241 00:12:12,330 --> 00:12:15,380 Speaker 1: you would just hear my scream getting louder and louder. 242 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: And it would just be incessant and nonstop. And you 243 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:20,180 Speaker 1: would never be able to get me to let go 244 00:12:20,220 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: of the lawn chair because I'd be out of my mind, 245 00:12:23,059 --> 00:12:27,900 Speaker 1: dissociated somewhere else. And it would just be a bad scene, 246 00:12:27,990 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: I think. 247 00:12:28,870 --> 00:12:31,349 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the movie scene, it would show someone 248 00:12:31,610 --> 00:12:34,550 Speaker 2: in an outdoor cafe. And they put their fork down. 249 00:12:34,570 --> 00:12:37,870 Speaker 2: I'm like, what am I hearing in the distance? And 250 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:40,100 Speaker 2: then it just gets louder. And then everyone's looking up. 251 00:12:40,370 --> 00:12:41,250 Speaker 2: And it's not Superman. 252 00:12:42,670 --> 00:12:47,420 Speaker 1: Also, speaking of dissociation, I actually dissociated earlier in this 253 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: episode when you were making your joke. 254 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:50,620 Speaker 2: Which one? 255 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:54,500 Speaker 1: The one about the most important component. 256 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 2: Oh, okay. 257 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,590 Speaker 1: So that's why you didn't get a very good laugh 258 00:13:00,690 --> 00:13:02,330 Speaker 1: out of me because I was out of my body 259 00:13:02,350 --> 00:13:02,870 Speaker 1: for a second. 260 00:13:03,309 --> 00:13:04,870 Speaker 2: Hey, man, you don't have to explain anything to me 261 00:13:05,290 --> 00:13:09,829 Speaker 2: after 18 years. All is forgiven on both of our accounts, right? 262 00:13:09,870 --> 00:13:13,270 Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes. Okay, good. I just made the symbol 263 00:13:13,309 --> 00:13:14,750 Speaker 1: of the cross with my two fingers. 264 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 2: All right. I'm sure that means something. 265 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:19,820 Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's it for short stuff. So what does 266 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:20,580 Speaker 1: that mean, Chuck? 267 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:27,459 Speaker 2: It's out. Stuff You Should Know is a production of iHeartRadio. 268 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:32,170 Speaker 2: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 269 00:13:32,330 --> 00:13:34,130 Speaker 2: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.