GMMore 2260: Everyday Things We Don’t Understand

Welcome to the mythical more. You ask us to explain things that you didn’t know what they were, how they worked, et cetera. And we’re gonna, we’re gonna explain it. But first we’re gonna boogie down now! Hey, was that Carney? There he was. Did Carney come through? Yeah. He’s like, he’s like a Springsteen sax player. May rest in peace. Wow. Whew. How did that? Wow man. I don’t know. You like it? No. That is wild dude? How could that all be my hair? I could turn it into a dog. I don’t understand. That’s crazy dude. How could that be my hair? And then if you jerk your, your chin Hey Does it go back? I know it looks good, but Knock, knock your chin back. Oh, it’s okay. Okay, we’ll go with that. So how many things do you know about? All of them? Huh. Anything that the mythical beasts wanna know we can help ’em out with it. Okay. How about this? Are you gonna Are there any shortage of questions? Are you gonna, are you answering for accuracy or comedy Accuracy. Okay. I bet you that’ll be funny. [Stevie} People mowing different colored lines into their lawns. I don’t, I, Okay. I literally can’t understand it. My brain won’t let me It doesn’t make sense at brass bearded. Oh, this is simple. Yeah. I mean, you mow one way and the grass kind of lays down ’cause the grass that doesn’t get cut gets hit by the blade and it kind of sends it in a direction. And then if you come back the next way, right next to it it’s sending it in the opposite direction. So it’s kind of like combining hair while you’re cutting it. So the light reflecting off of the grass is reflecting at different angles. So you’ve got one row that’s going at this angle and one row that’s going at this angle. And so it was slightly lighter green and slightly darker green. The darker green is when you’re looking down the shaft and when you’re looking at the side of the shaft, then it’s bright. And if at different points in the day, if you go to one side of a football stadium and the sun is over here this line will be light green and this light will be dark green. And then you go to the other side of the stadium as the light gets to that side and it’ll actually switch for you. And it’ll be different. But even if it’s. So it’s not that one is actually darker. No it’s not. It’s all the same grass. And even if there’s one, if it’s an overcast day and it’s even lighting, it’ll still happen. It’ll still happen. The grass is, you know, Still receiving lights. You are looking how it’s laid. Yeah. I had had this when I was really little, we lived in a cul-de-sac and I had this neighbor who loved his lawn. Like that was his thing, I get it. It it was always perfect. And he would pay his kids to go out with like a little bucket like you could take to the beach or whatever and pick up leaves one by one, if any leaves fell into his large lawn that had trees adjacent to it. Yup yup yup. And one April Fools, my dad decided to call him on the phone and he’s like, well John, I am really sorry to say this and I don’t know how it happened, but it looks like you got some big tire marks on your lawn. And it happened in the middle of the night. And he freaked out and ran outside to see his lawn was lawn was pristine. And your dad was looking out the window at it. I gotcha. Yeah. Yeah Did he roll the window and like got dumb lawn boy? Yeah. April fools man. Gotcha. Never seen a nicer lawn than, than John’s, John’s lawn. Let us explain something else. [Stevie} Glow in the dark things from at Athena priff dunkess These are just sens. What’s, Hold on. What’s the question? How does it work? They don’t understand glow in the dark things. Phosphorescence is a phenomenon by which certain materials and even down to the cellular level Right Can pick up and reflect wavelengths of light that are otherwise not reflected except by these phosphorescent fluorescent substances. And where does that juice of phosphorescents come from? There’s another planet out there called glowy land. Yeah. And it’s, it’s flowing with milk and glowy and they, they go there. This part’s true. with buckets kind of like your story Stevie. And they, they dip the glow buckets in the glow juice and then they transport it using mind power. They just think about it coming to earth and there it is in the bottom of the ocean and it bubbles up. That same dad would pay his kids to take a bite of a new food. Like I’ll I’ll pay you a dollar if you take a scoop. Everything has a price. How rich did those kids get? They, they seemed a little wealthier than we were because they had they also got to watch PG 13 movies when they. Cause they were rich. Cause they were richer than you. Uh. Well. Higher rated movies don’t cost more Big TVs and like it’s, they seemed rich. And you’re saying rich is loose morals. Yeah. Pretty much. Oh yeah. Also, one time I was in their garage and and the mom of the family was in the garage and a bee flew up her short stung her right, right on the behind. Really? Yeah. What did she say? B-Bad words. Yep. ‘Cause they were rich. She said PG 13. They were rich they got to say bad words. Yeah Data stored in memory cards. Yeah. It’s just there in that small thing. It’s somehow unfathomable in my mind. At underscore Aleeha Aleeha, if you crack it open, it’s just ones and zeros, right? Like they, like literally it’s just ones and zeros. It’s magic And it’s magnetic. It’s magnetic ones and zero magic. And then But what are the ones and zeroes stored on Magnets? No. And then they move around. But what is it Like when you pull it In at its most physical form? What is the information stored on the disc as? Cause I know that there’s electrons moving around in a in a microchip. In fact, one of the reasons that Moore’s law is no longer holding true, and that is the idea that like the processing power of a processor goes up by doubles every two years. You remember when you asked me if this should be real or fun, let’s just make it fun. Well hold on. No, but it’s, I’m, I’m having, I’m having a fun. I know, but I’m not. You’re losing me. I’m asking you the question. I don’t know. I don’t understand the question. So, but, but legitimately like what is happening at that very, very small level? How do the electrons know where to go and what to do? Who’s telling them this, is there a little It’s paths. Is there a little man whispering in there? It’s paths, man. I think it’s a little man who whispers at the electrons. It’s it’s, no. You go there, you go there, you go there, you go there. You go there. His name is Hugo. Okay. Yep. See? So you asked me a question. See how easy And then you gave the answer I was looking for to the funny answer. Yeah. Yeah. See I was playing your game. You just didn’t let me get there. You’re getting impatient with me. Did you? I think it’s Gates, honestly. Make your hair bigger to accommodate Rhett’s hairstyle or has it been like that this whole time? Has it? Honestly, I don’t know. You mean bigger today? I was trying to, we’re trying to, There it goes there I’m back. Okay. This is a little. Yeah. I think it was from the, from the head banging. Yeah, it’s yeah. Okay. I’m back. Phew I’m back. Don’t worry. I’m going out on a date tonight. I think I’m gonna walk right into the restaurant just like this. I mean Is it a nice restaurant? It’s a nest man. I believe so. You look like you have a nest on your head. If I did some hardcore hairspray on this and here’s the thing about LA no one would bat an eye. They’d be like, Nope. They wouldn’t. Yeah The only thing is you’re so tall. That’s what would, if you were like a foot shorter and you had that hairstyle It almost looks like a turkey. It looks like a Turkey sitting on your head man. This is the head of the turkey over there. Over here. That’s the head of the, Is that the tail of the turkey or that’s the I don’t even know what part of Turkey it is. Ask us something about a Turkey. I still don’t understand how record players work. Like sure. The needle running over bumps and grooves to make a sound wave, make sense. But how does it play individual instruments in a band and voices? Isn’t it crazy? This is, this is wild. It’s wild because it’s so 20 layers of sound waves at Uni Molly. It’s, it’s, yeah, but because it’s all analog like there’s nothing digital like with the you know, like, you know, it’s digital and like the microchip stuff and the other stuff we don’t know on like a microscopic level. But this is, yeah, just grooves and vinyl that create just the, the breadth of sound. It’s like me taking this thing and scratching it across and and it makes noise when I do that. But I’m able to like make all the noises that you want to hear in a song. And the, and I think the reason it’s so scary almost when you start thinking about it as we demonstrated a moment ago when we talk about the digital storage, we so don’t understand it. That it just, it’s just, it’s a black box that we’re looking at. We think we should understand this. That’s what I’m saying. Yeah. But now, yeah, you’re looking at like, this is just somebody scratching a groove and it’s making noise and then you start really getting kind of scared about how they figured it out. I think that what they do, and this reminds me of that website, how stuff works where like way back in the day it was very popular because they They still have a how stuff works podcast. They probably still do. Yeah. They, they’ll tell you all this stuff. It’s very informative if you don’t believe our explanation. But I, I can’t help. But you don’t Serious again, you don’t believe. I think that the music is actually piped in and then is transferred to the vinyl and then that is used as a master. Like there’s a master vinyl. Yeah. How does that happen? They create the first one and then they replicate it. So they have some little machine that cuts a groove and that machine is being told It’s being, the music is being The music is being played and then it physically is, is is going in that groove. And how do they figure that out before like computers? and what’s in the groove? Like literally how did they figure that out? In like the 17 hundreds. It’s amazing. It was a little man named Hugo. I, you know what I think it is? You always wanna say it’s a little man. I think that That’s a little woman. The needle. The needle goes down into that groove and it’s little MP3 files that, that are being triggered. Mm. Yep. That makes more sense. If you zoom in close, if you have an electron microscope you will see the MP3 files. It’s, it’s, it’s MS DOS. How’s that sound Stevie? Great. With your mouth. If you blow air, it is cold but if you breathe out it says breath out. It is hot. Why? at If you breathe in it’s cold. Eddie Flohondro. Yeah. If you breathe in it’s cold but if you breathe out it’s hot. It’s hot. Breathe in cold. Is that what, is that what it said? Yeah. Well that’s what it is. If you Breathe out. If you blow it out, Out, it’s hot. It’s cold. If you, if you like breathe out, it’s hot. If you blow, it’s cold. But if I breathe out it’s hot. That’s what she said. And that’s freaking crazy ’cause it’s true. Oh. Well also, okay, that’s cold. That’s hot ’cause the air is coming from your 98.6 degree lungs. And then if you just breathe here It’s the, it’s really, the air is really, really cooling down as it comes out when you, when you don’t get a bunch of the you’re like really like getting a lot of that like lung air in there. Do you think it’s the velocity of the air Yeah has more of a cooling effect? Yes It’s not the temperature of the air. No, no. I think the velocity of the air being blown lowers the temperature of the air. So if I, so that’s why when you have those little thing those little things that send out air in a really really little space, it’s Like a nozzle? It’s freezing. ‘Cause fast air is cold Fast air is cold You can’t make hot fast air. I mean I can, I have a couple times but typically you can’t make hot fast air. It’s cold fast air ‘Cause the air, when I’m blowing We have Engineering. It’s still from my lungs. We’ve forgotten most of it. So it has to be a velocity thing. And it’s really about the hand. It’s the, it’s the the temperature changed between your hand. Well, yeah ’cause if’s You’re touching it. If you, if you are cold, if you’re hot and you stick your hand out the window to cool it cools down because there’s a radiating effect. It pulls the heat out of your hand It pulls the heat out. Making it feel cooler at a quicker rate. That’s why I think it’s a velocity thing. No, but listen But when I blow hard, it’s still hot. Even when it’s coming really, really slow that air from a distance is cold. That’s hot. I can feel it from there. Yeah. Yeah, you’re right. It changes by at least 20 degrees. Never thought about this. My mind is blown. Before we get to the next one, we wanna remind you to we’ve developed the website, it’s cutting edge technology votelikeabeast.com midterm elections are coming up. It’s very important you can go there to, to get informed all right. To make, to decide how you wanna vote. So you can check your voting status, you can register if you need to. And most importantly you can be educated. Votelikeabeast.com. So do it. Okay. Deal, Deal. We, that blew our mind, with that one. Brr. Okay. This is good X-rays, like how do you just look through the entire body except bones from at Ouch Jack. This one we should know X-rays are firing a particular particle at everything. And the the x-ray reader is basically It’ll kill you too. Is seeing those things that are reflected. And I will say, in fact I was just, I was telling you about this podcast, I was listening to that that Harvard guy, David Sinclair guy, the longevity guy who studies aging and everything. Yeah. And he is really, really anti x-ray. And he is like, he, he’s talked about he like, he talks about airport x-rays, he talks about dental x-rays and he is like, it’s a cumulative effect over the course of your life of every time you get an x-ray it does, It does damage. It does damage, it does damage over and over again. Well, I mean, Yeah. ‘Cause every time they do it, like the person comes out and they drape stuff over you and then they run away and get behind something and then say don’t move. And they’re shooting it right there at your face. And so he was like. I hold out as long as I possibly can for dental x-rays. He says, I went six years without getting any dental x-rays. Huh. And he is like, obviously if you have TSA pre-check and they send you through the metal detector, there’s no problems there. But like you should avoid the x-ray machine. Not that it’s, oh you get x-rayed a few times and you’re gonna get cancer. But every single time you get X-rayed, you, there’s irreversible damage to your tissues that then causes your genes to act up and cells to divide differently and stuff. Just look at And it usually doesn’t have an effect, but if you did it all the time, some weird stuff would start happening. So you don’t really need to be shooting yourself with x-rays as much. Way to foment fear at the end of a good Mythical More, man. Now you need to make us feel good. You’re probably gonna be okay. You don’t travel that much. You don’t go to the dentist that much. I think that’s not good enough. What do you Go to votelikeabeast.com to check your voting status, register if you need to, and stay informed for the midterm elections.

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