Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Mattie Stout and welcome to Access Podcast, the
Speaker 1: podcast about podcast. Fine smart guests this week Will and Mango.
Speaker 1: You might know them as the founders of Mental Floss,
Speaker 1: but they're now the host of a great new podcast
Speaker 1: brought to you by How Stuff Works, called part Time Genius,
Speaker 1: and they are I think they're full time geniuses. Check
Speaker 1: it out. Wild monkeys don't eat bananas, but civilized monkeys
Speaker 1: who have been exposed to the finer things do eat bananas,
Speaker 1: but they shouldn't eat them because of diabetes. Yeah, and bingo.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we've settled that, and I am so happy
Speaker 1: to welcome a couple of blue devils, Will and Mango.
Speaker 1: They are full time geniuses who started the website Mental Floss,
Speaker 1: and now they brought their talents to How Stuff Works
Speaker 1: with the new podcast Part Time Genius. Will and Mango,
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. But you guys are full time geniuses.
Speaker 1: I mean right, I mean I suppose if you combine
Speaker 1: our powers, maybe we're each part time geniuses. Combiner powers
Speaker 1: were less than one genius. That's right. I think that's
Speaker 1: probably true. I don't think so, just based on your
Speaker 1: body of work, starting with mental Floss, which you guys
Speaker 1: started while you were still in college, right, Yeah, we were.
Speaker 1: We were students together at Duke. We were good friends there,
Speaker 1: and it really started out of a series of conversations
Speaker 1: where we, you know, would talk about all the things
Speaker 1: that we wanted to know. We've come back from classes
Speaker 1: of things that we we learned, and we we realized
Speaker 1: that people like to feel smart, they just also like
Speaker 1: to be entertained. And so that was our goal in
Speaker 1: creating Mental Floss, was how do you take this body
Speaker 1: of knowledge that people really want to know and find
Speaker 1: a way to make it entertaining. Yeah. I mean, the
Speaker 1: whole idea was to take all culture and treated like
Speaker 1: pop culture. But it's one of the amazing things that
Speaker 1: happens when you're in your twenties and your naive and
Speaker 1: cocky and you think like, oh, I see a magazine.
Speaker 1: I can make a magazine. When you guys were younger,
Speaker 1: were you the two were you in class that the
Speaker 1: folks that maybe would correct your instructors or professors. Uh No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's really either of us. In fact,
Speaker 1: that that's kind of the spirit it that we tried
Speaker 1: to infuse in both in Mental flaws and now here
Speaker 1: at how stuff works and in part time genius that
Speaker 1: there's a playfulness to it, but there's always we try
Speaker 1: to have a sweet spiritedness to what we were doing.
Speaker 1: So it's not really about one upping anybody or correcting anybody.
Speaker 1: It's about sharing and all of these interesting things together.
Speaker 1: And I think that's great because I think today we
Speaker 1: see a lot of this one upmanship, especially on social
Speaker 1: media with somebody who posts something and everybody wants to
Speaker 1: tell them why the wrong and post facts, just like
Speaker 1: in general with culture today and learning, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that this is the most connected generation ever. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like people take advantage of it? Though? Uh well,
Speaker 1: I mean just before that, I mean I think it
Speaker 1: isn't just about like one upmanship on social media. I
Speaker 1: think it's also just like this constant pressure to be
Speaker 1: interesting all the time, right, Like like you have to
Speaker 1: like show photos that are interesting, you have to share
Speaker 1: facts that are interesting, you have to show people that
Speaker 1: you're reading articles. And I think there's just like so
Speaker 1: much pressure and not enough time to just kind of
Speaker 1: be boring. Yeah, I always want to be the Facebook.
Speaker 1: The Facebook me is so awesome. If I would say
Speaker 1: him all the time, I would wow everybody. But I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously there are these amazing things that are brought about
Speaker 1: by the Internet, right like the fact that like whatever
Speaker 1: you're into that, you know, years ago, you'd just be
Speaker 1: sort of the lone weirdo in your town. And now
Speaker 1: that you can find like a million people that are
Speaker 1: connected to that same idea and and and really foster
Speaker 1: like friendships and you know, relationships and and build off ideas.
Speaker 1: I think that's all sort of amazing. Do you, guys
Speaker 1: um in general with with with knowledge today? Do you
Speaker 1: feel that people were seeking it out more like, you know,
Speaker 1: just based on how how you how you guys, you know, operating,
Speaker 1: you take a lot of a lot of stuff from
Speaker 1: from listeners. Do you feel like people are trying to
Speaker 1: get smarter because sometimes it seems like people are just
Speaker 1: getting dumber. Well, it might go in both directions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes I wonder the uh, the same thing.
Speaker 1: But I definitely think there is something to this idea
Speaker 1: of you know, being a nerve or a geek or
Speaker 1: wanting to learn all the things that you can that
Speaker 1: is very much a part of the popular discussion and
Speaker 1: of pop culture these days. So I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at our pop culture heroes these days, of anybody from
Speaker 1: you know, celebrating the Mark Zuckerberg's of the world two
Speaker 1: shows like Big Bang Theory or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: I do. I do think there is a a large
Speaker 1: percentage of the population that really values the idea of
Speaker 1: of knowing a lot of interesting information. Do you ever
Speaker 1: feel like you're losing room in your heads for everything
Speaker 1: because you you deal with so many facts? Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, like people always say, like you must be
Speaker 1: great at trivial pursuit or jeopardy or whatever, but I'm
Speaker 1: terrible at retaining facts. Like I'm great at being enthusiastic
Speaker 1: about facts I know at the moment, you know, but
Speaker 1: but but I am horrible at holding onto this information.
Speaker 1: So when people stop and ask you for a random fact,
Speaker 1: you do you have like go twos that you tell them.
Speaker 1: Not always, I mean, I think for us it's it's
Speaker 1: also a matter of that excitement around learning something new.
Speaker 1: But it is funny, and it was always strange in
Speaker 1: our experience at mental flaws that people would almost expect
Speaker 1: that we had memorized, you know, when we were doing
Speaker 1: a print magazine at the time. Every page in the
Speaker 1: the issue, and they'd be like, Oh, I loved that
Speaker 1: fact on the you know, the article on turtles on
Speaker 1: page fifty four. You remember that one. You're like, oh, crap,
Speaker 1: what is this thing that they're bringing up? But uh,
Speaker 1: but you know, we see so many every day, and
Speaker 1: that's part of the fun of this is that every
Speaker 1: week it feels like there are new things or new
Speaker 1: facts that we're learning that kind of become the favorite.
Speaker 1: Right then it's not like the obvious facts like I'll
Speaker 1: go to an episode, I'm like, wow, dog shows, Okay,
Speaker 1: let me listen to that. You know, I know this
Speaker 1: is a trite question in a way, but how do
Speaker 1: you get your ideas? Are they all generated from from
Speaker 1: listeners users, or just you know, were you just walking
Speaker 1: down the street one day and go it seems like
Speaker 1: something we should tackle. Yeah, I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: a mix of that. There's certainly some input from from
Speaker 1: listeners that that we find, but I think it's also
Speaker 1: just being curious people. And when you're reading an article
Speaker 1: and you see sort of a weird footnote and and
Speaker 1: that propels you on this idea of like, you know,
Speaker 1: why why are bulldogs and competitions when they look so
Speaker 1: you know, ugly, you know, or you know, like all
Speaker 1: all these things that are just strange footnotes that that
Speaker 1: suddenly propelled new ideas, and I think that's where a
Speaker 1: lot of the ideas come from. I want to ask
Speaker 1: you guys about some facts, just to see. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I didn't see, I'm doing just what you said not
Speaker 1: to do. I'm gonna. I wannaky. I have three things.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you can give me a fact on
Speaker 1: on each just if you can't, you can't, But let's see.
Speaker 1: How about a fact about farts? You got anything good? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know there was a guy, a scientist.
Speaker 1: I think he was like a German scientist a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago who released a chocolate that was supposed
Speaker 1: to make your farts smell better. And and and I
Speaker 1: just that, like you know, now they make silver line
Speaker 1: underwear to to um, you know, prevent your farts from smelling.
Speaker 1: It is pretty amazing. My second favorite thing is sandwiches.
Speaker 1: Any facts on sam which is for me that is
Speaker 1: so strange. We can we will have some good sandwich
Speaker 1: facts for you in the not too distant future, because
Speaker 1: we've been doing these bonus episodes each week about nine facts,
Speaker 1: and there's actually one in the works that we're going
Speaker 1: to put together that is, uh uh nine facts about
Speaker 1: about sandwich is how to build a better sandwich. I
Speaker 1: think part of it was based off the fact that we, uh,
Speaker 1: we read this fact that an astronaut smuggled a corn
Speaker 1: beef sandwich into space on NASA and and it caused
Speaker 1: this massive controversy and congressional debate. And so there's like
Speaker 1: in the congressional record all these people arguing about whether
Speaker 1: or not you can take a corn beef sandwich into space,
Speaker 1: which is kind of amazing. I can't wait. I love
Speaker 1: I love sandwiches, everything about them. Okay, one last thing
Speaker 1: to kind of segue into stuff I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: any any good fact on on podcasting. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can tell you that this is not really a fact.
Speaker 1: But part of the reason that we went into we
Speaker 1: get the question as to why we would transition into
Speaker 1: podcasting is that, you know, one of the eight things
Speaker 1: about what happened at Mental Philoss was we built this
Speaker 1: huge audience. It was twenty something million people by the
Speaker 1: time we left, and yet what we really missed was
Speaker 1: that more intimate interaction with our listeners. And there was
Speaker 1: something amazing that's happening in podcasting right now which does
Speaker 1: feel so intimate, and this ability to interact directly with
Speaker 1: an audience that we noticed was going on and while
Speaker 1: we were so eager to jump into this space, and
Speaker 1: so we've been looking for any ways that we can
Speaker 1: to foster that, and so we've created things like seven
Speaker 1: Fact Hotline that's a one eight four four pt genius
Speaker 1: that our listeners can can call in and tell us
Speaker 1: a fun fact that they know about a certain subject,
Speaker 1: will have contest. It is still seven right. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: we debated whether it should be a twenty two seven
Speaker 1: fact hot line, but we decided to splurge and go
Speaker 1: all the way and it is a committed seven fact
Speaker 1: hot line. It's pretty amazing. I mean, I I think
Speaker 1: as we started this podcast, we're also looking at old
Speaker 1: ideas that maybe we could translate to podcasts, and so
Speaker 1: we're looking at old game shows, We're looking at various uh,
Speaker 1: you know, foreign shows and whatever, and we realized one
Speaker 1: YouTube show that would never translate is UH, a Japanese
Speaker 1: TV program where a girl runs up a hill. It's
Speaker 1: a five minute program, and every week there's a different
Speaker 1: girl and a different hill. And for some reason that
Speaker 1: doesn't translate to podcasts. We've been we've been racking our brains.
Speaker 1: We tried. We spent what three or four weeks really
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how this could translate into podcasting.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work. I guess you could mike her
Speaker 1: and and like the sound of her breathing and going
Speaker 1: up because people were into that. They like breathing and
Speaker 1: whispering in all kinds of things. Are so they do.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, but it's true they do. What
Speaker 1: do you love most about podcasting? I mean to me,
Speaker 1: it's it actually is kind of what I loved about
Speaker 1: magazines too before. It was that you could sort of
Speaker 1: peek into a conversation between smart people and and that's
Speaker 1: that sort of intimacy is like a both this fireside
Speaker 1: chat type feel where you know, you can just be
Speaker 1: a fly on the wall and this is great, um,
Speaker 1: you know, debate or whatever is going on. But at
Speaker 1: the same time there's this real intimacy and I like
Speaker 1: that a lot, and it gives us a chance. You know,
Speaker 1: what we were doing at Mental Floss was usually a
Speaker 1: very quick kind of tidbit oriented type look at any subject,
Speaker 1: and we love doing that. We still love doing that.
Speaker 1: What we've had the opportunity to do now with podcasting, though,
Speaker 1: is to take a single big question, you know, will
Speaker 1: we ever live without sleep? Something along those lines, um
Speaker 1: or how can we build a better prison? Whatever it
Speaker 1: might be, and do a bit of a deeper dive
Speaker 1: and there are some fun, you know, quick facts in there.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it gives us a chance
Speaker 1: to sit back a little bit and have a more
Speaker 1: in depth, kind of meandering sometimes conversation around these things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think it's funny that you
Speaker 1: can take a topic like bananas, which shouldn't be interesting,
Speaker 1: and then do like half an hour bananas and and
Speaker 1: like that you can sort of lull someone into being
Speaker 1: interested in something they really shouldn't be interested in. Is
Speaker 1: is really fun for us. One of the things I
Speaker 1: enjoy about watching podcasting booming. I've been in the business
Speaker 1: about ten years, and it's just the last year or
Speaker 1: two I feel like it's it's really catching on, especially
Speaker 1: with millennials. I teach at university and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of kids into podcasting right now. It makes me happy
Speaker 1: because when you look at something like How Stuff Works,
Speaker 1: this is a place about teaching and about learning and
Speaker 1: about knowing new things, and it's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: players in the podcast space. So I think it says
Speaker 1: a lot about the people who listen to podcasts and
Speaker 1: and that you know just what you what. I think
Speaker 1: your fundamental belief is that people do want to learn
Speaker 1: and and expand their minds well, and one of the
Speaker 1: most fun parts for me. I I completely agree with
Speaker 1: what you've said, But part of why we came to
Speaker 1: How Stuff Works was not just that they've built this
Speaker 1: audience that's listening to new episodes, but to your point
Speaker 1: about people really being excited about learning. A big part
Speaker 1: of How Stuff Works success is getting people hooked into
Speaker 1: these topics and then a just binge. The number of
Speaker 1: people that we hear from here at How Stuff Works,
Speaker 1: especially about the long standing, most popular shows of something
Speaker 1: like stuff you Should Know or stuff you missed in
Speaker 1: history classes, people jump into these and then they write in,
Speaker 1: you know, emails or call in to talk about how
Speaker 1: they've you know, spent the past few weeks binging on
Speaker 1: all of the back episodes. And you're talking about a
Speaker 1: show like stuff. You should know that this year they'll
Speaker 1: publish their one thousandth episode and people fall in love
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah. I remember seeing something on Facebook about
Speaker 1: someone who's listened to the Catalog three times and it's stunning.
Speaker 1: But I was gonna say what one thing is about
Speaker 1: the connectedness question in the beginning. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that what used to happen on the web, especially early on,
Speaker 1: was kind of amazing, right, Like you would we would
Speaker 1: get into the comments section and discuss with commenters, and
Speaker 1: you'd have this sort of really wonderful, friendly conversation. And
Speaker 1: that's no longer an option anymore. Right, There's so many trolls,
Speaker 1: there's so much negativity, and I feel like podcasts feel
Speaker 1: a little like that early Internet to me again, where
Speaker 1: where it there's this sort of like um, really positive
Speaker 1: spirit and and um connection and intimacy that I think
Speaker 1: used to exist on the online and doesn't quite exist
Speaker 1: in the same way anymore. There's hope, there's hope for society. Well,
Speaker 1: there's hope for this next segment. I like to call
Speaker 1: three killer questions. I'm gonna ask you guys three questions,
Speaker 1: and uh, I want to see what your answers are
Speaker 1: The first one goes back to a topic that I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. This is one of my favorite questions and
Speaker 1: most people don't like it, but I don't care. Um,
Speaker 1: if you were sandwich per personified, so not your favorite sandwich,
Speaker 1: but if you were one personified, what sandwich would you be?
Speaker 1: I think peanut butter and jelly is so overlooked and
Speaker 1: but it's actually sort of a masterpiece. I was going
Speaker 1: to go peanut butter as well, but peanut butter banana
Speaker 1: with honey, right, a little bit of sweetness there, which
Speaker 1: some may disagree with. Elvis loves you, el This loves me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I can't. I can't not include peanut butter. And
Speaker 1: I could live off of peanut butter if if I
Speaker 1: was made to live off of one food item, that
Speaker 1: would be But I think I'd go with the peanut
Speaker 1: butter banana and the honey. And I'm gonna need forty
Speaker 1: five minutes to come up with why, so I'll get
Speaker 1: back to you on that. So what was the first
Speaker 1: piece of technology that that totally changed your life? My dad,
Speaker 1: for some reason, had bought a Texas instrument computer when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, so before they made calculators, they
Speaker 1: used to make computers, and uh, I loved it. I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, in some ways, that's how I embraced technology.
Speaker 1: For me, it was, um, it was the home computer
Speaker 1: that we bought back when you know, people were first
Speaker 1: buying home computers and they cost like two thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and now these would just be about the processing power
Speaker 1: of a basic calculator. But the reason that it was
Speaker 1: life changing for me was because we signed up for Prodigy,
Speaker 1: right and it was before you could even really you
Speaker 1: didn't realize. You were kind of surfing the web. You'd
Speaker 1: have to click on like do I want travel? Do
Speaker 1: I want sports? Do I? But the reason that it
Speaker 1: was was changing for me was because I would log
Speaker 1: on every single night that the Lakers had a game,
Speaker 1: and I would download the box score and print it out,
Speaker 1: and I kept these files of this and that really
Speaker 1: was one of the early times of like needing to
Speaker 1: collect and know a certain body of information. And so
Speaker 1: it was like how many points did a C Green
Speaker 1: score tonight? Or how many rebounds? How many points did
Speaker 1: Byron Scott have tonight? And it was something so wonderful
Speaker 1: about this collection of knowledge and that suddenly you just
Speaker 1: saw the potential of enormous amounts of information being available
Speaker 1: and accessible. I didn't know to call it online at
Speaker 1: the time, but that's essentially what it was. It was
Speaker 1: this body of information that you could get without having to,
Speaker 1: you know, go to the library or find your local newspaper,
Speaker 1: which wouldn't have had that as well. I remember sitting
Speaker 1: and having the TV on but watching the computer to
Speaker 1: see when exactly the Philly score would update by once score,
Speaker 1: you know, and we're just like waiting, waiting, waiting, and
Speaker 1: then like cheered when it went off. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just so ridiculous. It's a good thing we're not nerdy.
Speaker 1: I know, I feel dumb because I think all I
Speaker 1: when I first got online was boobs. That's all I
Speaker 1: look for. I don't know what you're talking about. I
Speaker 1: would have never Yeah, that's that online these days. We actually,
Speaker 1: as a side note, we had an advisor which we
Speaker 1: cannot name, years ago, who actually pulled us aside one
Speaker 1: day and he was and and somebody had made a
Speaker 1: joke about getting emails with you know, stuff about viagra
Speaker 1: and porn or whatever. And this guy was probably in
Speaker 1: his seventies or so, and he kind of pulled the
Speaker 1: society was like, I don't get these emails about porn,
Speaker 1: like how where do you get porn on the internet?
Speaker 1: And so having to pull this seventies something you're old
Speaker 1: a side and be like, all right, man, here's how
Speaker 1: you want to find more? And I guess online we've heard,
Speaker 1: we don't know from personal experience, but we've heard this
Speaker 1: is how people are doing it these days. How about
Speaker 1: podcast you binge? What's the last one you binged on?
Speaker 1: We've we've both been really into a song exploder, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: song exploders and edible podcast. Um, I really love and
Speaker 1: this is one obviously that's way up there that everybody sees.
Speaker 1: But I just think what The New York Times is
Speaker 1: doing with the Daily is just brilliant. I love the
Speaker 1: fact that they decided, rather than doing a recap of
Speaker 1: the day's news, to pick one topic and go deep. Um.
Speaker 1: I just think they do a fabulous, fabulous job with UH.
Speaker 1: With that, I really did like the most recent UH
Speaker 1: season of Revisionist History. I thought it was a really
Speaker 1: really interesting thing and then it just for sheer entertainment,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think you can beat the comedic quality
Speaker 1: and yet sweetness and simultaneous rawness of something like two
Speaker 1: Dope Queens. I think they're just so funny and I
Speaker 1: I could just listen to them talk about nothing or
Speaker 1: their crushes or whatever it is forever. But um, that's
Speaker 1: been part of the fun of this. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: listening to dozens and dozens of new podcasts every single
Speaker 1: every single week, and then of course the ones here
Speaker 1: that brought us to How Stuff Works. You know, we
Speaker 1: were big you know stuff you should know fans, and
Speaker 1: all of the other shows that they have here are
Speaker 1: just so much fun to listen to. Well, the podcast
Speaker 1: is Part Time Genius. I love it. If you wanna
Speaker 1: like binge while you're looking online, you can also binge
Speaker 1: on their Facebook page. Lots of stuff on there as well.
Speaker 1: Any other things you want to tell people, how to
Speaker 1: get hold of you, or anything at all, No, I
Speaker 1: think just check out Part Time Genius. We've done recent
Speaker 1: episodes on how to build a better prison, on which
Speaker 1: country has the best education system, on the coal a
Speaker 1: Wars between Coke and pepsi, and many others. But we
Speaker 1: love to dive into history and to science and a
Speaker 1: pop culture, and as you said earlier, find those facts
Speaker 1: that you're not going to find in every other history
Speaker 1: book or resource that you might read. We like to
Speaker 1: dig a little deeper to find some of those better ones. Guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the second episode of Access Podcast.
Speaker 1: Hey Maddie, congratulations to you and thanks for doing this show.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to hear the other episodes. That was so
Speaker 1: much fun them. Yeah, they were cool, they were really
Speaker 1: smart guys. Now Z is in the studio. She is
Speaker 1: my uber producer and each week she goes out and
Speaker 1: checks out some podcasts that I may not have gotten
Speaker 1: to or maybe one I haven't heard for a while,
Speaker 1: and tells us about them. Uh this week though, there's
Speaker 1: a focus to what you found, right. Yeah. So since
Speaker 1: the part time genius guys are on How Stuff Works
Speaker 1: and they have really kick ass programming and podcasts, I
Speaker 1: thought we'd stick to three more How Stuff Works podcasts.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of podcasts, really good ones too.
Speaker 1: I remember were only two they had How Stuff Works
Speaker 1: and then I think stuff you should Know in History
Speaker 1: class might have been from the second ones. But I
Speaker 1: remember when we when we first put them on Stitcher,
Speaker 1: there was just a just one or two couple. Well,
Speaker 1: they've grown. But two of the ones that you mentioned
Speaker 1: are on my list that good. They're the old time favorites. Well,
Speaker 1: go ahead, tell me about the first one. So the
Speaker 1: first one, it was my actually introduction to How Stuff
Speaker 1: Works and I've been listening to them for a while. Um,
Speaker 1: it's stuff you should know. And this title says it all.
Speaker 1: It's just about how everyday things in your life work. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a funny one like how frogs work if you
Speaker 1: ever wanted to know that. Their new episode is how
Speaker 1: Giraffes work. They're pretty interesting. They're pretty interesting. And then
Speaker 1: the how police body cameras work, and just like interesting
Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's great. Yeah, so stuff you should know.
Speaker 1: For many many millennia, human dum dums referred to these
Speaker 1: animals as camel leopards, right with a tidy little hyphen
Speaker 1: in between the two to really show that they had
Speaker 1: clearly a camel and a leopard had gotten it on
Speaker 1: at some point, right and created the giraffe. That's fun,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think the one thing about these
Speaker 1: podcasts with How Stuff Works is is the host. You know,
Speaker 1: they have a passion for learning and knowledge, just like
Speaker 1: Will and Mango did. And you hear you here in
Speaker 1: every episode. Yeah, and I think that's contagious. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. That's why they've been around so long. What
Speaker 1: else you got? So? Next one, stuff you missed in
Speaker 1: history class? I know, so am I. And it's just
Speaker 1: when I started listening, these are things I've never learned,
Speaker 1: they said, like they're just popular. They're not as popular
Speaker 1: history lessons as what we would learn in high school
Speaker 1: or in middle school like that. So if you're a
Speaker 1: history nerd, stuff you missed in history class, it's a killer.
Speaker 1: So The Right Brothers shows the outer Banks of North
Speaker 1: Carolina as their testing ground because the constant wind helped
Speaker 1: with the lift. They first refined the gliders that they
Speaker 1: were working on until they were satisfied with their aerodynamics,
Speaker 1: and then they turned their attention to power, developing a
Speaker 1: lightweight gasoline engine UH and a propeller. The end result
Speaker 1: was the six pound eleven point eight one horsepower Flyer,
Speaker 1: which they tried to use for a powered controlled flight
Speaker 1: with a person on board on December fourteenth, nine O three.
Speaker 1: All right, here's a little history trivia for you. What
Speaker 1: was Dolly Madison's favorite ice cream mint chocolate chip? Do
Speaker 1: you know who Dolly Madison was Yeah, well I don't
Speaker 1: say yeah. I asked this to our staff are in it.
Speaker 1: It's San Francisco college graduates, and of them didn't even
Speaker 1: know who Dolly Madison was. They said, Dolly Madison the
Speaker 1: porn star. Oh no, James Madison's wife. Yeah, save the
Speaker 1: picture of oyster oyster. That was her favorite ice cream oyster.
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