Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 2: Podcast time now for this week's What the Fact, where
Speaker 2: we look for your facts and as you share them,
Speaker 2: we have a listener, we have a think.
Speaker 1: And hopefully they are fascinating or you know.
Speaker 2: Middling, mildly interesting, and if they are the kind of
Speaker 2: fact where you would never tell another human being because
Speaker 2: it would kill the conversations stone cold dead. Now we
Speaker 2: do have some production for this. It's been updated. This
Speaker 2: is the production for what the Fact?
Speaker 3: That of a Listen, Hey, did you know Australia is
Speaker 3: wider than the moon?
Speaker 1: What the fact? What the fact? What the fact?
Speaker 4: What about about a good fat fascinating?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 2: Right, off we go, however, but you Siria has said
Speaker 2: he's made a brand new one because Jack and I
Speaker 2: were a little bit alarmed last week by the kind
Speaker 2: of short play at the beginning of it. We know
Speaker 2: we're all in theater land, but our former top and
Speaker 2: Caitlin sort of acting out that little sketch.
Speaker 1: There a little bit of suckiness about it.
Speaker 2: Let's it some altern of production, hopefully with the suck removed.
Speaker 4: What Done Bat is a little love already?
Speaker 1: What Done Bat is a.
Speaker 4: Little segment where well, judge your fact.
Speaker 3: You don't like it, It's got a great energy. Just
Speaker 3: the lyrics. Are you know you didn't really give it
Speaker 3: a second pass?
Speaker 1: Batty?
Speaker 5: Oh, I reckon it's good.
Speaker 1: No, I reckon it's fascinating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fascinating. All right, just kick off them with
Speaker 2: some of your facts nine four one four one o
Speaker 2: four three. Kirsty's got I didn't know this. Did you
Speaker 2: know that New Zealand has no snakes?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: I knew that New Zealand didn't have any animals originally
Speaker 3: except for birds. You're kidding every every mammal like New
Speaker 3: Zealand betroduced? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 1: Are you looking at me again?
Speaker 2: Is it the Old England is bringing up their trucks
Speaker 2: of animals that don't belong in countries?
Speaker 1: Is that right? No animals?
Speaker 3: I'm going to look about resident Kiwi out the window,
Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure that's true. Thumbs up? What about
Speaker 3: the Kiwi bird?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 3: Know this and that's why the Kiwi bird became like
Speaker 3: a ground moving bird is because there was no mammals.
Speaker 3: So he thought, oh, I'll do what memos do?
Speaker 1: What does Google say?
Speaker 2: Could you tell me what Google says about New Zealand
Speaker 2: formerly having no animals.
Speaker 3: Jackie's right, Jack, several million years ago there was no wildlife.
Speaker 1: Really, that's fascinating. All right, Kirsty, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: And Jack? What about this? Then? Nomes? You know, little
Speaker 1: garden nomes.
Speaker 2: Gnomes wear different colored hats to represent their place in
Speaker 2: nomes society.
Speaker 3: No idea.
Speaker 1: What do we think? Is that mildly or fascinating? Oh no,
Speaker 1: no no.
Speaker 2: Next time you see a nome you think, well, is
Speaker 2: that the leader? We need to know what the color
Speaker 2: coding system.
Speaker 3: Is because I don't want to go to a commoner
Speaker 3: gnome and address him like some kind of royalty.
Speaker 2: Can we find out that during the song or the
Speaker 2: ass Can we find out what the hat coding is
Speaker 2: in nome society? Emma's got on average, over the course
Speaker 2: of our lives, we will spend an entire year sitting
Speaker 2: on the toilet.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that.
Speaker 1: Sam, Good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Christian, How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? So what the fact? What have you got
Speaker 1: for Sam?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: Do you know the ketch Up song?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, Once you know it, it stays in you.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well that's actually about a guy who actually goes
Speaker 7: to a nightclub, tries to remember a song, goes up
Speaker 7: to the DJ to try and remember this song, and
Speaker 7: he doesn't know the words to it. But it's actually
Speaker 7: the reference to Light by the sugar Hill Gang.
Speaker 2: I didn't know this that the Last ketchup had an
Speaker 2: origin story.
Speaker 1: This is so sugar Hill Gang, right, great song.
Speaker 2: So last Ketchup is about what it would running past
Speaker 2: us again, Sam, A.
Speaker 7: Guy goes to a nightclub and he goes up to
Speaker 7: the DJ and tries to remember the song that he
Speaker 7: wants to play. We can't remember.
Speaker 2: It, so he kind of does last ketchup.
Speaker 1: He invents a song.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's true. Interesting.
Speaker 8: I just.
Speaker 2: If it's true, it's interesting. Let's ketch up origin song?
Speaker 2: Which where we're going?
Speaker 1: Guys? Is it fascinating?
Speaker 7: Mildly interesting?
Speaker 3: Let's give her the benefit of the doubt it is true,
Speaker 3: in which case it is fascinating.
Speaker 1: How do we verify this?
Speaker 2: Do we now need to contact the people from the
Speaker 2: artists responsible for Let's catch up? Let's contact them. Fascinating pending.
Speaker 2: I love it though, Sam, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Uh Ronnie, Ronnie, Hello, hello Ronnie?
Speaker 1: What the fact what have you got for us? Mate?
Speaker 6: Did you know that female capsicum have four bumps on
Speaker 6: the underside and males only have three?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't know, but I.
Speaker 2: Tell you what that's because now you understand where there
Speaker 2: are three humps bumps, sorry, and why there are sometimes
Speaker 2: one of four.
Speaker 6: And the female capsicums are also sweeter tasting. They're better
Speaker 6: for eating raw, whereas the male ones are better for cooking.
Speaker 6: And the only difference between green and red capsicums are
Speaker 6: the red have been on the vine longer and have ripened, right,
Speaker 6: So red.
Speaker 1: Is the sweetest. Green is the more sour one, the
Speaker 1: more immature.
Speaker 7: Correct.
Speaker 6: Web And just like women, you know, sorry, females are sweeter.
Speaker 3: Okay to remember it is fascinating.
Speaker 1: Hi, thank you very much nine four one four one
Speaker 1: four three.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we have more of your facts
Speaker 2: and also and that you know about nome society and
Speaker 2: the hack coding.
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Speaker 4: What the Fat is a little segment like well Jack,
Speaker 4: what the facts?
Speaker 1: Way? What the fat? Baby? All right?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Four one four one o four three Before the ads,
Speaker 2: we were talking about one of you who had a
Speaker 2: fact about garden nomes and their little colored hats. It's
Speaker 2: the status in the NOME community. Carlie has texted it
Speaker 2: and Christian. Because I'm on the train with nothing better
Speaker 2: to do, I've googled it for you. Thank you knowing
Speaker 2: on the team ad you're hired. Uh No hat code
Speaker 2: that garden Nome hack code. Red is just a common gnome. Blue,
Speaker 2: it's an official one. Yellow is for leaders, brown, brown
Speaker 2: for criminals criminal known crime as they.
Speaker 3: Don't you have to represent all the societys.
Speaker 2: And then if you see one with a white hat,
Speaker 2: it's a thickie.
Speaker 1: Donce. Carli, thank you very much, Radio. Thanks you for
Speaker 1: your research there. Thank you, Carly.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Nika here, Come morning, Nika.
Speaker 2: What's your fact for us.
Speaker 5: Cat allergies calling this conception nobody's actually allergic to katsa. Instead,
Speaker 5: they're actually allergic to cats alive, which they of course
Speaker 5: use the groom themselves.
Speaker 1: Interesting, fascinating.
Speaker 3: I know you wanted to do the crickets because you
Speaker 3: hate cats, but I love cats.
Speaker 1: Gorgeous cat. Is that true? I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's something in the saliva specifically which triggers reactions.
Speaker 3: I think it's more mildly interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh a, Nica.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for calling in, Tony. Good morning, Hello,
Speaker 2: Hello Tony and Tony.
Speaker 1: What fact have you got for us?
Speaker 5: Well, Christian, you say how big Australia is, Well, if
Speaker 5: you go around one way and it's two thousand kilometers
Speaker 5: less than the other way, which.
Speaker 1: Way clockwise or anti clockwase? This is interesting.
Speaker 5: If you went up the east coast, yep, it would
Speaker 5: be you be on the inside lane.
Speaker 3: On the outside.
Speaker 1: That is fascinating.
Speaker 2: That's a great one, Tony, that's very very good. I
Speaker 2: love that the inside lane on the outside lane. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very good, Tony. Thanks for calling him, No worries.
Speaker 5: Have a good day, mate.
Speaker 1: I love that one.
Speaker 2: Sarah, good morning, Good morning, Jane. Go on, Sar, she
Speaker 2: got an animal fact for us?
Speaker 8: I certainly do. Other than humans, there's only a few animals,
Speaker 8: including apes, elephants, and dolphins that recognize their reflection.
Speaker 2: Are you sure.
Speaker 1: That they can because there wasn't.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that they're capable of abstract thinking, because
Speaker 2: if we can't, I thought there's only humans that do that.
Speaker 8: No, there's Scientists have done tests and they call it
Speaker 8: the marktest or the mirror test. They basically put the
Speaker 8: animals to sleep, they mark them with paint or a sticker,
Speaker 8: and when they come to they give them access to
Speaker 8: a mirror. And if they start to investigate that mark
Speaker 8: or pay interest to it, they know that they're aware
Speaker 8: of their self.
Speaker 1: Elephant's going to go.
Speaker 2: Come on, guys, draw, come on, put that swear word
Speaker 2: on my elephant forehead and lips. That we've spoken about this,
Speaker 2: it's not funny. You guys have to get my trunk
Speaker 2: and some more from Wash it Off. Okay, that is fascinating.
Speaker 1: Very good. That's a great one, Sarah, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for sharing. Christ you know Connell's show podcast