WEBVTT - Part-Time Genius 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:06.400 Hi, I'm Mattie Stout and welcome to Access Podcast, the 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:11.959 podcast about podcast. Fine smart guests this week Will and Mango. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.240 You might know them as the founders of Mental Floss, 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.640 but they're now the host of a great new podcast 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.600 brought to you by How Stuff Works, called part Time Genius, 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.360 and they are I think they're full time geniuses. Check 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.880 it out. Wild monkeys don't eat bananas, but civilized monkeys 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.960 who have been exposed to the finer things do eat bananas, 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.800 but they shouldn't eat them because of diabetes. Yeah, and bingo. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.040 I'm glad we've settled that, and I am so happy 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.840 to welcome a couple of blue devils, Will and Mango. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.000 They are full time geniuses who started the website Mental Floss, 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.400 and now they brought their talents to How Stuff Works 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.040 with the new podcast Part Time Genius. Will and Mango, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.840 Thanks for coming on. But you guys are full time geniuses. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.440 I mean right, I mean I suppose if you combine 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.560 our powers, maybe we're each part time geniuses. Combiner powers 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.959 were less than one genius. That's right. I think that's 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.440 probably true. I don't think so, just based on your 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.920 body of work, starting with mental Floss, which you guys 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.520 started while you were still in college, right, Yeah, we were. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.200 We were students together at Duke. We were good friends there, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.839 and it really started out of a series of conversations 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.839 where we, you know, would talk about all the things 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.240 that we wanted to know. We've come back from classes 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.360 of things that we we learned, and we we realized 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.800 that people like to feel smart, they just also like 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.560 to be entertained. And so that was our goal in 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.600 creating Mental Floss, was how do you take this body 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.080 of knowledge that people really want to know and find 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.600 a way to make it entertaining. Yeah. I mean, the 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.039 whole idea was to take all culture and treated like 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.280 pop culture. But it's one of the amazing things that 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.360 happens when you're in your twenties and your naive and 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.800 cocky and you think like, oh, I see a magazine. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.400 I can make a magazine. When you guys were younger, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.440 were you the two were you in class that the 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.720 folks that maybe would correct your instructors or professors. Uh No, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.480 I don't think that's really either of us. In fact, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.680 that that's kind of the spirit it that we tried 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.640 to infuse in both in Mental flaws and now here 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.160 at how stuff works and in part time genius that 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.079 there's a playfulness to it, but there's always we try 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.200 to have a sweet spiritedness to what we were doing. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.919 So it's not really about one upping anybody or correcting anybody. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.400 It's about sharing and all of these interesting things together. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.280 And I think that's great because I think today we 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.360 see a lot of this one upmanship, especially on social 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.959 media with somebody who posts something and everybody wants to 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.520 tell them why the wrong and post facts, just like 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.079 in general with culture today and learning, you know, I 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.720 think that this is the most connected generation ever. Do 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.000 you feel like people take advantage of it? Though? Uh well, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.400 I mean just before that, I mean I think it 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.880 isn't just about like one upmanship on social media. I 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.200 think it's also just like this constant pressure to be 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.760 interesting all the time, right, Like like you have to 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.520 like show photos that are interesting, you have to share 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.720 facts that are interesting, you have to show people that 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.359 you're reading articles. And I think there's just like so 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.760 much pressure and not enough time to just kind of 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.399 be boring. Yeah, I always want to be the Facebook. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.920 The Facebook me is so awesome. If I would say 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.960 him all the time, I would wow everybody. But I mean, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.000 obviously there are these amazing things that are brought about 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.799 by the Internet, right like the fact that like whatever 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.040 you're into that, you know, years ago, you'd just be 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.320 sort of the lone weirdo in your town. And now 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.040 that you can find like a million people that are 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.840 connected to that same idea and and and really foster 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.640 like friendships and you know, relationships and and build off ideas. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.080 I think that's all sort of amazing. Do you, guys 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.680 um in general with with with knowledge today? Do you 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.760 feel that people were seeking it out more like, you know, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.720 just based on how how you how you guys, you know, operating, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.200 you take a lot of a lot of stuff from 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.120 from listeners. Do you feel like people are trying to 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.120 get smarter because sometimes it seems like people are just 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.600 getting dumber. Well, it might go in both directions. Yeah, 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.200 I mean sometimes I wonder the uh, the same thing. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.600 But I definitely think there is something to this idea 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.080 of you know, being a nerve or a geek or 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.200 wanting to learn all the things that you can that 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.600 is very much a part of the popular discussion and 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.720 of pop culture these days. So I mean, you look 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.640 at our pop culture heroes these days, of anybody from 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.640 you know, celebrating the Mark Zuckerberg's of the world two 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.280 shows like Big Bang Theory or whatever it may be. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.719 I do. I do think there is a a large 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.640 percentage of the population that really values the idea of 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.800 of knowing a lot of interesting information. Do you ever 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.320 feel like you're losing room in your heads for everything 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.000 because you you deal with so many facts? Yeah, I don't. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.080 I mean, like people always say, like you must be 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.200 great at trivial pursuit or jeopardy or whatever, but I'm 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.600 terrible at retaining facts. Like I'm great at being enthusiastic 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.920 about facts I know at the moment, you know, but 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.760 but but I am horrible at holding onto this information. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.200 So when people stop and ask you for a random fact, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.000 you do you have like go twos that you tell them. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.680 Not always, I mean, I think for us it's it's 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.560 also a matter of that excitement around learning something new. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.560 But it is funny, and it was always strange in 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:08.000 our experience at mental flaws that people would almost expect 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.160 that we had memorized, you know, when we were doing 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.080 a print magazine at the time. Every page in the 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.320 the issue, and they'd be like, Oh, I loved that 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.640 fact on the you know, the article on turtles on 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.760 page fifty four. You remember that one. You're like, oh, crap, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.520 what is this thing that they're bringing up? But uh, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.279 but you know, we see so many every day, and 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.159 that's part of the fun of this is that every 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.240 week it feels like there are new things or new 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.839 facts that we're learning that kind of become the favorite. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.279 Right then it's not like the obvious facts like I'll 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.039 go to an episode, I'm like, wow, dog shows, Okay, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.560 let me listen to that. You know, I know this 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.479 is a trite question in a way, but how do 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.040 you get your ideas? Are they all generated from from 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.520 listeners users, or just you know, were you just walking 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.440 down the street one day and go it seems like 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.360 something we should tackle. Yeah, I mean, I think it's 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.360 a mix of that. There's certainly some input from from 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.840 listeners that that we find, but I think it's also 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.080 just being curious people. And when you're reading an article 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.479 and you see sort of a weird footnote and and 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.080 that propels you on this idea of like, you know, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.000 why why are bulldogs and competitions when they look so 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.719 you know, ugly, you know, or you know, like all 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.360 all these things that are just strange footnotes that that 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.479 suddenly propelled new ideas, and I think that's where a 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.440 lot of the ideas come from. I want to ask 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.040 you guys about some facts, just to see. I'm gonna 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:27.520 I didn't see, I'm doing just what you said not 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.440 to do. I'm gonna. I wannaky. I have three things. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:31.760 I wonder if you can give me a fact on 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.520 on each just if you can't, you can't, But let's see. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.039 How about a fact about farts? You got anything good? Yeah? 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.479 I mean, I know there was a guy, a scientist. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.120 I think he was like a German scientist a couple 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.640 of years ago who released a chocolate that was supposed 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:49.120 to make your farts smell better. And and and I 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.640 just that, like you know, now they make silver line 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.040 underwear to to um, you know, prevent your farts from smelling. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.280 It is pretty amazing. My second favorite thing is sandwiches. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.120 Any facts on sam which is for me that is 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.960 so strange. We can we will have some good sandwich 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.000 facts for you in the not too distant future, because 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.440 we've been doing these bonus episodes each week about nine facts, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.120 and there's actually one in the works that we're going 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.680 to put together that is, uh uh nine facts about 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.360 about sandwich is how to build a better sandwich. I 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.280 think part of it was based off the fact that we, uh, 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.280 we read this fact that an astronaut smuggled a corn 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.239 beef sandwich into space on NASA and and it caused 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.840 this massive controversy and congressional debate. And so there's like 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.880 in the congressional record all these people arguing about whether 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.320 or not you can take a corn beef sandwich into space, 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.720 which is kind of amazing. I can't wait. I love 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.360 I love sandwiches, everything about them. Okay, one last thing 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.640 to kind of segue into stuff I want to talk about, 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.760 any any good fact on on podcasting. I mean, I 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.800 can tell you that this is not really a fact. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.720 But part of the reason that we went into we 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.880 get the question as to why we would transition into 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.360 podcasting is that, you know, one of the eight things 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.640 about what happened at Mental Philoss was we built this 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.920 huge audience. It was twenty something million people by the 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.680 time we left, and yet what we really missed was 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:14.000 that more intimate interaction with our listeners. And there was 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.480 something amazing that's happening in podcasting right now which does 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.520 feel so intimate, and this ability to interact directly with 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.520 an audience that we noticed was going on and while 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.560 we were so eager to jump into this space, and 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.160 so we've been looking for any ways that we can 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.440 to foster that, and so we've created things like seven 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.920 Fact Hotline that's a one eight four four pt genius 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.440 that our listeners can can call in and tell us 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.680 a fun fact that they know about a certain subject, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.640 will have contest. It is still seven right. Yeah. We 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.040 we debated whether it should be a twenty two seven 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.720 fact hot line, but we decided to splurge and go 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.600 all the way and it is a committed seven fact 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.560 hot line. It's pretty amazing. I mean, I I think 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.360 as we started this podcast, we're also looking at old 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.360 ideas that maybe we could translate to podcasts, and so 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.280 we're looking at old game shows, We're looking at various uh, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.840 you know, foreign shows and whatever, and we realized one 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.559 YouTube show that would never translate is UH, a Japanese 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.559 TV program where a girl runs up a hill. It's 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.679 a five minute program, and every week there's a different 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.080 girl and a different hill. And for some reason that 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.640 doesn't translate to podcasts. We've been we've been racking our brains. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.800 We tried. We spent what three or four weeks really 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.359 trying to figure out how this could translate into podcasting. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.679 It just doesn't work. I guess you could mike her 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.880 and and like the sound of her breathing and going 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.080 up because people were into that. They like breathing and 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.880 whispering in all kinds of things. Are so they do. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.960 I don't get it, but it's true they do. What 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.480 do you love most about podcasting? I mean to me, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.800 it's it actually is kind of what I loved about 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.320 magazines too before. It was that you could sort of 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.199 peek into a conversation between smart people and and that's 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.760 that sort of intimacy is like a both this fireside 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.080 chat type feel where you know, you can just be 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.800 a fly on the wall and this is great, um, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.160 you know, debate or whatever is going on. But at 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.200 the same time there's this real intimacy and I like 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.160 that a lot, and it gives us a chance. You know, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.560 what we were doing at Mental Floss was usually a 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.680 very quick kind of tidbit oriented type look at any subject, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.000 and we love doing that. We still love doing that. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.439 What we've had the opportunity to do now with podcasting, though, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.440 is to take a single big question, you know, will 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.280 we ever live without sleep? Something along those lines, um 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.679 or how can we build a better prison? Whatever it 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.440 might be, and do a bit of a deeper dive 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.960 and there are some fun, you know, quick facts in there. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.760 But at the same time, it gives us a chance 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.720 to sit back a little bit and have a more 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.360 in depth, kind of meandering sometimes conversation around these things. Yeah, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.480 I mean, I think I think it's funny that you 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.600 can take a topic like bananas, which shouldn't be interesting, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.120 and then do like half an hour bananas and and 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.240 like that you can sort of lull someone into being 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.960 interested in something they really shouldn't be interested in. Is 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:08.640 is really fun for us. One of the things I 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.240 enjoy about watching podcasting booming. I've been in the business 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.079 about ten years, and it's just the last year or 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.480 two I feel like it's it's really catching on, especially 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.679 with millennials. I teach at university and there's a lot 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.040 of kids into podcasting right now. It makes me happy 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.360 because when you look at something like How Stuff Works, 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.000 this is a place about teaching and about learning and 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.640 about knowing new things, and it's one of the biggest 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.600 players in the podcast space. So I think it says 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.560 a lot about the people who listen to podcasts and 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.280 and that you know just what you what. I think 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.560 your fundamental belief is that people do want to learn 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.880 and and expand their minds well, and one of the 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.120 most fun parts for me. I I completely agree with 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.480 what you've said, But part of why we came to 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.480 How Stuff Works was not just that they've built this 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.200 audience that's listening to new episodes, but to your point 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.320 about people really being excited about learning. A big part 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.520 of How Stuff Works success is getting people hooked into 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.880 these topics and then a just binge. The number of 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.800 people that we hear from here at How Stuff Works, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.360 especially about the long standing, most popular shows of something 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.280 like stuff you Should Know or stuff you missed in 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.160 history classes, people jump into these and then they write in, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.760 you know, emails or call in to talk about how 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.640 they've you know, spent the past few weeks binging on 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.880 all of the back episodes. And you're talking about a 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.200 show like stuff. You should know that this year they'll 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.080 publish their one thousandth episode and people fall in love 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.680 with it. Yeah. I remember seeing something on Facebook about 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.880 someone who's listened to the Catalog three times and it's stunning. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.959 But I was gonna say what one thing is about 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.840 the connectedness question in the beginning. I mean, I think 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.320 that what used to happen on the web, especially early on, 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.280 was kind of amazing, right, Like you would we would 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.079 get into the comments section and discuss with commenters, and 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:53.520 you'd have this sort of really wonderful, friendly conversation. And 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.520 that's no longer an option anymore. Right, There's so many trolls, 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.840 there's so much negativity, and I feel like podcasts feel 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.679 a little like that early Internet to me again, where 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.240 where it there's this sort of like um, really positive 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.840 spirit and and um connection and intimacy that I think 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.640 used to exist on the online and doesn't quite exist 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:20.640 in the same way anymore. There's hope, there's hope for society. Well, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.960 there's hope for this next segment. I like to call 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.040 three killer questions. I'm gonna ask you guys three questions, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:27.920 and uh, I want to see what your answers are 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.000 The first one goes back to a topic that I 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.320 mentioned earlier. This is one of my favorite questions and 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.480 most people don't like it, but I don't care. Um, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.920 if you were sandwich per personified, so not your favorite sandwich, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.040 but if you were one personified, what sandwich would you be? 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.640 I think peanut butter and jelly is so overlooked and 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.360 but it's actually sort of a masterpiece. I was going 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.439 to go peanut butter as well, but peanut butter banana 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.560 with honey, right, a little bit of sweetness there, which 0:13:54.559 --> 0:14:01.280 some may disagree with. Elvis loves you, el This loves me. Yeah, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.600 but I can't. I can't not include peanut butter. And 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.280 I could live off of peanut butter if if I 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.160 was made to live off of one food item, that 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.640 would be But I think I'd go with the peanut 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.320 butter banana and the honey. And I'm gonna need forty 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.320 five minutes to come up with why, so I'll get 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.920 back to you on that. So what was the first 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.920 piece of technology that that totally changed your life? My dad, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.320 for some reason, had bought a Texas instrument computer when 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.800 I was a kid, so before they made calculators, they 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.320 used to make computers, and uh, I loved it. I think, um, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.800 you know, in some ways, that's how I embraced technology. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.360 For me, it was, um, it was the home computer 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.440 that we bought back when you know, people were first 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.240 buying home computers and they cost like two thousand dollars 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.520 and now these would just be about the processing power 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.240 of a basic calculator. But the reason that it was 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.359 life changing for me was because we signed up for Prodigy, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.320 right and it was before you could even really you 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.680 didn't realize. You were kind of surfing the web. You'd 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.320 have to click on like do I want travel? Do 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.600 I want sports? Do I? But the reason that it 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.760 was was changing for me was because I would log 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.680 on every single night that the Lakers had a game, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.960 and I would download the box score and print it out, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.840 and I kept these files of this and that really 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.080 was one of the early times of like needing to 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.760 collect and know a certain body of information. And so 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.560 it was like how many points did a C Green 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.080 score tonight? Or how many rebounds? How many points did 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.720 Byron Scott have tonight? And it was something so wonderful 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.240 about this collection of knowledge and that suddenly you just 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:39.520 saw the potential of enormous amounts of information being available 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.160 and accessible. I didn't know to call it online at 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.600 the time, but that's essentially what it was. It was 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.200 this body of information that you could get without having to, 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.600 you know, go to the library or find your local newspaper, 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.840 which wouldn't have had that as well. I remember sitting 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.760 and having the TV on but watching the computer to 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.280 see when exactly the Philly score would update by once score, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.080 you know, and we're just like waiting, waiting, waiting, and 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.040 then like cheered when it went off. You know, it's 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.760 just so ridiculous. It's a good thing we're not nerdy. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.800 I know, I feel dumb because I think all I 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.560 when I first got online was boobs. That's all I 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.640 look for. I don't know what you're talking about. I 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.560 would have never Yeah, that's that online these days. We actually, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.840 as a side note, we had an advisor which we 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.640 cannot name, years ago, who actually pulled us aside one 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.440 day and he was and and somebody had made a 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.480 joke about getting emails with you know, stuff about viagra 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.360 and porn or whatever. And this guy was probably in 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.120 his seventies or so, and he kind of pulled the 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.280 society was like, I don't get these emails about porn, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.960 like how where do you get porn on the internet? 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.080 And so having to pull this seventies something you're old 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.600 a side and be like, all right, man, here's how 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.680 you want to find more? And I guess online we've heard, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.120 we don't know from personal experience, but we've heard this 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.400 is how people are doing it these days. How about 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.680 podcast you binge? What's the last one you binged on? 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.560 We've we've both been really into a song exploder, right, yeah, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.320 song exploders and edible podcast. Um, I really love and 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.399 this is one obviously that's way up there that everybody sees. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.639 But I just think what The New York Times is 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.800 doing with the Daily is just brilliant. I love the 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.680 fact that they decided, rather than doing a recap of 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.560 the day's news, to pick one topic and go deep. Um. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.800 I just think they do a fabulous, fabulous job with UH. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.600 With that, I really did like the most recent UH 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.639 season of Revisionist History. I thought it was a really 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.280 really interesting thing and then it just for sheer entertainment, 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.120 Like I don't think you can beat the comedic quality 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.560 and yet sweetness and simultaneous rawness of something like two 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.000 Dope Queens. I think they're just so funny and I 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.960 I could just listen to them talk about nothing or 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:51.640 their crushes or whatever it is forever. But um, that's 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.360 been part of the fun of this. I mean, we're 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.720 listening to dozens and dozens of new podcasts every single 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.360 every single week, and then of course the ones here 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.920 that brought us to How Stuff Works. You know, we 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.720 were big you know stuff you should know fans, and 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.600 all of the other shows that they have here are 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.439 just so much fun to listen to. Well, the podcast 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.080 is Part Time Genius. I love it. If you wanna 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.240 like binge while you're looking online, you can also binge 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.560 on their Facebook page. Lots of stuff on there as well. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.359 Any other things you want to tell people, how to 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:24.359 get hold of you, or anything at all, No, I 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.679 think just check out Part Time Genius. We've done recent 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.400 episodes on how to build a better prison, on which 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:35.000 country has the best education system, on the coal a 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.000 Wars between Coke and pepsi, and many others. But we 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.560 love to dive into history and to science and a 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.200 pop culture, and as you said earlier, find those facts 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.560 that you're not going to find in every other history 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.480 book or resource that you might read. We like to 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.399 dig a little deeper to find some of those better ones. Guys, 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.160 thanks for coming on the second episode of Access Podcast. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.960 Hey Maddie, congratulations to you and thanks for doing this show. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.320 Can't wait to hear the other episodes. That was so 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.280 much fun them. Yeah, they were cool, they were really 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.959 smart guys. Now Z is in the studio. She is 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.920 my uber producer and each week she goes out and 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.320 checks out some podcasts that I may not have gotten 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.280 to or maybe one I haven't heard for a while, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.120 and tells us about them. Uh this week though, there's 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.960 a focus to what you found, right. Yeah. So since 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.240 the part time genius guys are on How Stuff Works 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.359 and they have really kick ass programming and podcasts, I 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.520 thought we'd stick to three more How Stuff Works podcasts. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.080 They have a lot of podcasts, really good ones too. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:40.679 I remember were only two they had How Stuff Works 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.560 and then I think stuff you should Know in History 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.080 class might have been from the second ones. But I 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.159