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Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some real BGM Black Girl magic. Two

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Speaker 1: high schoolers, yes, high schoolers, just casually strolled into a

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Speaker 1: math class and solved a math problem that's been chilling,

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Speaker 1: unsolved for two thousand years. They're just like, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: got this. I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Mi Calcilla Johnson and Nikia Jackson from New Orleans. These

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Speaker 1: two were seniors at Saint Mary's Academy back in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Now, while most of us were out here

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Speaker 1: just trying to survive senior year, avoid senior writists, and

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Speaker 1: go to a senior skip day without getting in trouble,

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Speaker 1: these two were out here solving the Pythagoron theorem with trigonometry. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know you probably can't spell pythagora in theorem let

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Speaker 1: alone remember what it was. But it's the rule about

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Speaker 1: triangles A square plus b squared equal c square. You know,

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Speaker 1: basically saying, if you got a right angle triangle, the

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Speaker 1: two short sides add up to the longside. Simple right. Well,

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Speaker 1: we learned that in geometry turns out. Proving it in

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Speaker 1: trigonometry was considered impossible, like, yes we can land on

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Speaker 1: the moon, and yes, if I'm talking to my wife

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Speaker 1: about dish detergent as soon as I open up my

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Speaker 1: social media, dish detergent ads will be in my algorithm.

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Speaker 1: But this solving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, Nah, that's

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Speaker 1: too difficult. But Calcia and the kid were like, hold

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Speaker 1: our calculators. They use something called the law of signs,

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Speaker 1: not like stop and yield, but sign and co sign.

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Speaker 1: You remember that. Now, I'm not gonna boil you with

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Speaker 1: math because I put myself to sleep. So let me

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Speaker 1: break it down to you like I'm breaking it down

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Speaker 1: to a five year old or somebody who got the

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Speaker 1: brain capacity of cold and Martin. Imagine you got a

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Speaker 1: lego triangle. The Pythagorean theorem is like saying, if I

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Speaker 1: count the legos on this side and this side, they'll

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Speaker 1: match the legos on the lawn on side. Easy. But

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Speaker 1: to prove it with trigonometry is like building the whole

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Speaker 1: triangle with no instructions and still having it turn out perfect. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: I'm still trying to put my daughter's desk together for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I got folk screws left over, and I think I

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Speaker 1: put the led lights on backwards. Dig this. These two

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Speaker 1: teenagers presented their work at a professional math conference. These

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Speaker 1: are grown adults with PhDs, and Calcia and the kid

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Speaker 1: just walked in, like, what's up. Here's something y'all couldn't

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Speaker 1: do in two thousand years and yeah, we're seventeen. Now

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Speaker 1: fast forward to twenty twenty five, these girls are still

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Speaker 1: killing it. They're in STEM programs now publishing math papers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what were you doing at seventeen eighteen years old? Personally,

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Speaker 1: I was a felon just trying to graduate high school

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Speaker 1: on a journey to be the best car hops Sonic

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Speaker 1: has ever seen. But let's talk about how big this

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Speaker 1: is for black culture. Historically, people haven't given black folks

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Speaker 1: their flowers when it comes to science and innovation. These

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Speaker 1: girls kicked that door open and said we belong here.

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Speaker 1: In the words of Aliyah, age ain't nothing but a

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Speaker 1: nothing barn. They showing everyone that black kids don't just

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Speaker 1: play ball or rap. We can change the freaking world.

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Speaker 1: So shout out to Calcia and Nikia. They proved that

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Speaker 1: math is for us too. And they didn't just solve

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Speaker 1: an equation. They reminded all of us what's possible when

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Speaker 1: we dream big. So if you got kids, tell them

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Speaker 1: to pick up a calculator. You never know. Your little

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Speaker 1: one could be out here solving three thousand year old

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Speaker 1: problems next. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know