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You didn’t pay nothing, but you voted. You voted. And you’re right. Hey, there are a lot of really great songs that we collectively sang around the campfire on our camping trip. Yeah, well great is a relative word. What was it? What did we sing about? Well, it’s hard to remember, but you mentioned the whiskey part. Boys of All Ages. Okay, we don’t know everything that made the edit. Let’s just put it that way. I don’t know if every song made. You think they cut my song out? No, I don’t know, man. I haven’t watched it yet. Well, shoot. I was there though. That was a good song. Yep. There was a bedtime song. I remember that. That was it. Okay. The bedtime song was the one about the Boys of All Ages. And the Boys of All Ages is just me and Link. Right. Right. What was the other song? Well, you know. There were some other songs. There were some more. So much happened. It’s just hard to remember it all. That’s the reason why I can’t remember it all. I can remember some very specific things. Oh really? Yeah. Like vlogging in your tent? Well, yeah but I mean. Vlogging in her tent. I don’t want to spoil any of those things. Yeah. Mythical Society. Check out our camping trip. We’re super proud of our work. On a scale from 1 to 100, how confident are you in knowing both the size, like, you know, of the land and the size of populations of different countries? Land, I would say, like is it relative? Like this one’s bigger than this one? Yeah. I’d be like 44% and population, I would say 4%. I feel like we have a distinct disadvantage being American, to be honest with you, because Americans are, all we think about is America. I mean, all the stereotypes are true. It’s just like there is apparently, there’s like a country above us and a country below us that I’ve heard about and there’s oceans, but like, we’re just so Ameri-centric around here, you know? And like we just, we don’t know how big things are. We’re just a bunch of selfish, A-holes, A stands for America. So, I don’t feel great about this. So no percentages for you? I’ll give a 50. I’ll give a 50 on both of them. I actually think I might be better at the population than the country size, but. Brazil versus Australia. Okay. Which is bigger? Okay, whoa. Talking land. Oh, ho, ho, oh, hey. Which one is Brazil? Nu-huh. Is that the one that’s like clump-ish or the one that’s long-ish? The one that’s longish is Chile, right? Brazil is like half of South America. It’s the eastern part of South America. Oh yeah, yeah, Rio. And it shaped like a giant triangle. And then you’ve got Australia, which is a continent. I’m gonna go with Brazil, because when they pull Australia from under there and like wrap him up, he looks bigger than he actually is on the maps. I’m gonna go with Australia. It’s Brazil. Yes. Chase made this little motion capture movie thing. Oh yes. What’s this? I was right about Chile too. And oh, it’s gets smaller when you move it over there. It’s close. Now, are we going off of like. So who’s right? Are we going off of facts? It’s Brazil. Or are we going off of Chase’s little diagram here. No, so Brazil is 3.2 million square miles and Australia is 2.9 million square miles. So it’s very close. So close, but Brazil is such a huge country ’cause Australia is so big. Like if you start driving across Australia, like through the Outback. Yeah. It takes days man, days to get across that thing. If you make it. If you make it, that’s right. But Brazil is bigger. So population, huh? No, no, No. That’s a diff, we go through four other ones. Oh good, because there’s a lot more people in Brazil. Brazil’s got way more people than Australia, but that’s not what we’re talking about. I think when we went to Australia on tour, first of all, I loved it. Second of all, I think we met every single person. There’s more people in North Carolina than Australia, I think. I think I remember something like that. We’ll look that up. That was not one of my things. Greenland. That’s not true. Hold on, what I said is true? I mean, it’s not true about the North Carolina, Australia thing. Okay. How many people does Australia have? It is true that that wasn’t on my chart. North Carolina is 10.39 million and Australia is 25.8 million. Okay. So like Australia is two and a half off North Carolina, that’s what I meant. Wow, that’s still not a lot. Greenland Versus Argentina. And we know that there’s that effect that you talk about with the way that the, what is that effect? The cartographer knows about it. The Mercator projection. The global fotal syndrome. So, if you look at a typical map, Greenland looks giant. Oh man. Greenland and Argentina? I’m gonna go with Argentina. And I just think it’s simply because of the Mercator. Yeah, just think of all the room they have for football fields in Argentina. Yeah. You’re so smart. They’re everywhere. You are so smart. Argentina. It’s Argentina and it’s because of that thing you said. But look at Greenland and look, oh, look at it bigger! This is so cool. Chase! Chase making it large. So this is true size of.com, right? Yeah. Which was one of my recs on our podcast “Ear Biscuits.” Look how big Argentina got, when you drug it. Do that again, Chase. Start it over. Okay. Here we go. The true size of? Yep. Boop. Beup. Whoa. Greenland has been fronting on the map, this whole time. Here’s my question. Why do they have to do that? Like, why can’t they just make it small. Chase? I mean, I know that if you make it small, there’s not enough to go the full width of the map because of the way that all that stuff at the top of the map comes together into one point. That’s the North Pole and you know, the South Pole. I understand that, but it just feels like there’s a way around it. Because the rest of it’s just ocean. There’s different projections, they make one, like you can account for land mass instead of, in this way, it’s kind of preserving oceans. Oh, this preserves oceans. Yeah, this projection became popular back when everyone was traveling by boat to see relatively how far you’re traveling. Okay. Okay. What are the flat-earthers think about this? That sounds like a nightmare, traveling by boat. Because those flat-earthers have really sophisticated arguments that if you, no, I mean, they’re obviously all wrong, but like, they’re sophisticated and if you’re just a normal person who’s just like, “Yeah, the earth is a sphere,” they’ll be like, well, they’ll start asking you all these questions and things that you don’t know about because you just like believed at the science book. Like a normal person. Yeah. But what do they say about this? They’ve got an answer for everything. They’re like, “Well, this is why that happens.” I wanna take. Do we have any flat-earthers here? I wanna take a flat-earther on like a space flight. Like why is that not a show, where you take a flat-earther and you put ’em on a spaceship? I’d pay to see that. Because they’re afraid of flying off. They’ll say it’s a flat circle, right. But what if we’re like, “Yeah, but we’re gonna fly around it, brother.” And it’ll definitely be a dude, I’m just gonna go ahead and say. Women are too smart to think the earth is flat, okay? It’s a bunch of idiotic dudes and I want to do that, and I wanna take them to the North Pole and the South Pole. Don’t make generalizations about women, even if it’s complimentary. No, you can do that, you can do that. You can make those. But then isn’t that a good series? Like, wouldn’t Netflix pick that up? Like taking flat-earthers and showing ’em that it’s not flat and then like, seeing them deal with it and the mental gymnastics and like, we add like graphics, like “A Beautiful Mind” and things are happening all around their head and they’re like, “Ahh, I’m uncomfortable now.” Might die from shock. The fact is, is they would still believe it, even if after they did it and that’s why I wouldn’t be good because all the evidence is already there. Challenge us with another. That one was really close though, because Argentina is 1 million square miles and Greenland is 836,000 square miles. So again, we’re like in the same area. Yeah, I mean these aren’t easy. This is close, close stuff. South Africa versus Indonesia. South Africa. Indonesia is, how many islands did we say, 18,000 islands? But the most of them are very, very small. How do you I think if you take all those islands and you clump ’em all together until you can spot ’em. Does the website clump ’em together, Chase? No. Yeah. Chase is gonna have a difficult time with this one, when he scrolls over there. I think that. 18,000 islands? I’m gonna go with Indonesia, then. I’m going with South Africa. I think the total land mass is gonna be greater in South Africa. It’s Indonesia. Well, let’s see it. If you, if you. You have to prove it. Come, if you push ’em all together. I’m right about that. Okay. Oh wow. It’s way bigger than I thought. I apologize to Indonesia. South Africa is just dinky. So Indonesia is 735,000 square miles and South Africa is 471,000. And it actually looks like it’s even, I mean, it looks bigger than, it looks more than twice the size. Wow. Wow. Wrong answers only. Let’s develop a new game show called “Wrong Answers Only.” You have to be wrong. Yeah, I’d love to play that. It feels like that would be kind of easy to win. Yeah. Is it who’s more wrong? I don’t, all I have is the title. We call it “Morong.” It’s moles? Morong? Like Moron? Yeah. Morong. Okay. Yeah. Hey, did you hear about what happens today? I did. No. Why? You hear what was back, today? “Best Friends?” Yeah. Oh, is that today? “Best Friends Back, Alright!” Yeah. Season 3? Season 3’s back. Today? Yeah. All right, congrats. It’s big news. You survived the camping trip and now you’re making your podcast again. Yeah. All right. Check out Stevie and Neagheen’s podcast. It’s back for season 3. You never know what they’re gonna talk about and who they’re gonna talk to, but you’re gonna learn that you are in the right place. Nothing. You’re gonna learn that you’re in the right place. You’re gonna learn that you’re in the right place to learn, to learn nothing, to learn something. You can, you know, there’s always something to learn. That’s true. We do have actual experts on the show who teach us things. I had someone tweet to me, ’cause I had asked the dermatologist we had on a while back about the proper SPF level that you’re supposed to wear in your sunscreen. And? 30, 30. And someone tweeted at me that they had changed all their moisturizers and lotions because of “Best Friends Back.” Like 50’s too much? Well, I mean you’re showing your hand, that you didn’t listen to the episode, but essentially there’s recent reporting showing- I don’t use sunscreen. There was like, there was a myth, or not a myth, but a poor understanding that like at a certain point, the higher SPF you went, it didn’t matter anymore. So like there was a cap out at a certain point, but that’s not true. So basically like the higher, the better and the lowest you should go is 30. Oh. So you can go higher. You can go higher. And also we’ve got really crappy sunscreens in America. Well, and also I didn’t realize that the SPF level that’s on the sunscreen, is if you apply it like a certain thickness to like every part of the spot that you’re supposed to apply it to. But if you apply it in a thin way and unevenly, you’re not getting the full SPF that the product claims. And it’s just do your best. Wow. So when you rub it in, it’s not good. Well it’s not about, it’s about even coating, is what I’m hearing her say. Best friends are back, all right, check it out. Majority of the podcasts are not about SPF levels. Okay. This is slightly different. We’re talking about a state here, the state of Texas, Big state versus France. Oh, Texas is bigger than France. Texas. Texas is way bigger than France. Texas, way bigger. I would say twice as big. Is it? It’s bigger, but it’s not way bigger. Oh, let’s see it. 286,000 versus 247,000. Drag it, Chase. There you go. Woo. Wow. I think that made it more fast. It just, oh, it just dwarfs it. It’s actually not, it’s bigger than I thought. France is a really big country for Europe, like France is the biggest country in Europe. Is it not? It’s one of them. Rhett. I mean if, I guess if you start talking about Scandinavia up there, but mainland Europe, not including Eastern Europe. Yeah, it is. ‘Cause it says, when you Google it, says Russia, Ukraine, France, Spain. Man, France is big man. Texas is bigger. Wow. Been trying to tell y’all how big it is over here. Good ole Texas. Thank you Chase for dragging it. Okay. Now we’re gonna be talking about people, population, population numbers. Finally, we get to the people. And this is according to “worldpopulationreview.com” and should be reflective of this year’s population count. So the 25 million people in Australia, I remember that. China versus India. I’m gonna throw this, you’re gonna skewer it on there, okay? Well, we’re talking about the two most populous countries in the world, right? Now, let me start with how many people that I think are on this planet. I think we’ve broken 7 billion. Yeah, we definitely did. Is that right? Yeah, we definitely have broken 7 billion. Like I have trouble remembering numbers. I’m actually, oh there it is. Ha! No worries. 7 billion. I can do it again. I think. Man, I think India may have just passed China, but I’m gonna go with China ’cause that was always the right answer when I was a kid. I think there’s 1 billion in India. One seventh of the world’s population is in India. I think there’s more than a billion people in both countries. Really? I’m gonna go with China, you know, hold on, no, here’s the thing. 1.2 billion, 1.1 billion for China. China had a population control policy that’s been in place for decades though. India is on top now, that’s my guess. You’re saying China, Link? No, I said India 1.2 to 1.1 billion. Okay, so you’re close in terms of how many people-ish, I guess. But China has more people at 1.425 billion and then India has 1.417 billion. Oh wow. So they’re both way up there. Neck and neck. And it’s projected by the end of this year, we’ll have 8 billion in the world. Man. What’s the carrying capacity of the earth? Let’s find out. I don’t stay too well read on this, but my. Angelou? The last time Maya Angelou said that the population issue is not as like alarming as it once was because what they keep finding is that. People are smaller. No. What happens is as countries come into, you know, as countries develop population and like fertility, you know, fertility and population growth slows down. And so you kind of start, you keep reaching this upper limit. So this idea that it’s just gonna be like 50 billion people, like it just can’t happen. Like we got population decline in the US right now, right? I mean, video games. I mean, obviously the only population is immigration. Inversely proportional to horny-ness. What is the latest Maya Angelou poem say about that though? I know, when I say latest, I mean the last one she wrote. Mexico versus Germany. Mexico versus Germany in population. Whoa. First of all, this is gonna be close. You guys are tricky. ‘Cause I would say that Germany has, oh man, Germany’s got like 55 million people. I have no clue. No, Germany’s got, ‘Cause we have like 375 here. No, Germany might have 68 million people. And what was the other one? Mexico. Mexico has 72 million people. I’m gonna abstain from this. Nothing I’m gonna say is- Mexico has slightly more people than Germany. Germany has 83 million people. Okay, not too bad. And Mexico has 127. Whoa. Wow. Wow. 120. Wow. That’s a great stat to go out on. Wow. Stevie and Neagheen’s podcast, “Best Friends Back, Alright!” returns today for Season 3. So check it out.