January 11, 2018 • 8 mins
Grab a mug of cocoa and hit play already! From Renaissance snow angels to an award-winning trick for never slipping in the snow, Will and Mango have a special wintery mix ready for your snow day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guess what, mango? What's that will? So I was away
earlier in the week, but I hear you guys had
a big snow day here in Atlanta. Yeah, that's right.
We stayed home from the office, my kids drove me bonkers,
and of course it didn't snow at all. Yeah. That's uh,
that's life in the South. I hope you get used
to it, but you know, I still feel like we
should do this week's nine Things in honor of snow.
(00:22):
So I've got a fact to kick us off here.
Did you know that in March Syracuse actually tried to
ban snow. There was this record snowfall that season. I
think it was like a hundred and sixty something inches,
and so the city council this was a great idea
that unanimously approved this resolution to outlast snowfall in the
city of Syracuse until December of the following year. I
(00:46):
like that. So obviously they're like holding it off until
Christmas Eve, which is great. But did it work not
at all. In fact, Mother Nature wasn't in a listening
mood and its snow two days later. But it did
give the citizens something to smile about, you know, during
this really tough winter season. And so that's just the
first of nine facts about snow. Let's dig in. Hey
(01:26):
their podcast listeners, Welcome to part time Genius. I'm Will
Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend
Man Guesh Ticketer and on the other side of the
soundproof glass, sitting with a snowman preparedness kid on his desk.
I was curious what this thing was. I'd look at
it before we came in the studio. It's it's just
like a ziplog bag with a carrot and some pieces
of coal and I think like a corn cob pipe
(01:47):
in it. Yeah, Tristan is always prepared. Yeah, just you
just you take it and you just wait to stick
it in a snow man. And so that's from our
good pal and our producer, Tristan McNeil to Mago. I
know you're disappointed it didn't snow more, but at least
we've got a show full of wintry facts. So so
what do you want to start with? So I've got
a pretty good one. Um. Have you ever heard of
(02:07):
yacki gossim? And I'm sure I'm pronouncing that wrong. I
have not heard of it, but I am certain you're
pronouncing it wrong. Yeah. So it's a massive Japanese snowball
fight that's apparently similar to Capture the Flag, but it's
played in three minute rounds and it's two teams of
seven people. You actually get ninety pre made snowballs for
each team to start, and then players get eliminated when
(02:30):
they get hit by the snowballs. The other thing that's
weird about it is that the players wear helmets to
protect their heads. And while I am generally wharrey of
playing any game that requires you to wear a helmet
with a face mask, this one looks really fun. So
I'm kind of ready for it to be an Olympic sport.
That does sound so fun, But I love that it
must be so rough that they have to wear helmets
(02:52):
with face masks. All right, well, speaking of dangerous snowball fights,
because I've got one here. I learned about this from
the British show q I that you and I have
talked about several times before. But it's actually a snowball
fight that you know, a parent might use as an
example of why you shouldn't participate in a snowball fight.
So back in fifteen forty six, a general named Francois
(03:13):
de Bourbon got into this snowball fight and it got
pretty rowdy, and so he ducked under a window to
get a breather from it all, and someone then threw
a linen chest out of their window. It landed on
his head, and he unfortunately died a few days later.
So you know, kids, you've got to be really careful.
This is a pretty good lesson about what can happen
in snowball fight. I'm not trying that really applies to
(03:37):
most snowball fights, but I don't know. So here's a
fact about snowman. Did you know that Michelangelo used to
carve in snow? So this is from Jake Rosen at
Metal Flass. But early in Michelangelo's career he had a
patriot named Piero da Medici, you know, from the Medici family.
But Medici really didn't know what he wanted the young
artist to do for him, so mostly he kind of
(03:59):
used him as the like personal shopper or interior decorator.
He kind of like picked out works of art for him.
And then one day, when it snowed, he got this
great idea and decided to task Michelangelo with making him
a snowman, and obviously, like Micgelangelow's skills are so great.
But uh um, there are no detailed images of how
this snowman looked, except that it is on the historical
(04:22):
record that it looked, quote very beautiful. That's pretty good.
All right, Well, here's a quick one about building a snowman.
Did you realize that building one can actually be a
pretty good workout? And Pop Sugar looked into this and
they found that building a snowman for an hour will
burn about two and eighty five calories. You can have
a snowball fight and that burns about three hundred nineteen calories.
(04:45):
And then if you spend that full hour, you know,
just an hour making a snow angel, you can burn
two hundred and fourteen calories, which is about what you'd
burn if you walked uphill for an hour, I mean,
an hour of making snow angel sounds like total torture. Yeah,
you're probably right. So you know, I'm a huge fan
of Calvin Hobbson. One of my favorite themes in the
(05:06):
strip is when Calvin builds all these hilarious and horrific
snowmen in his front yard and it's often too the
horror of his parents. But according to the History of Snowmen,
which is this wonderful book, um, this was actually a
popular activity in the nineteen hundreds. Apparently snowmen were often
used as like a comic stand in for violence and uh.
(05:26):
Illustrations from the early nineteen hundreds show them being javelin
with brooms or run through with Toboggan's. M All right, well,
here's a weird snow fact I had no idea about.
Did you know that there was a heavy snow the
day before JFK's inauguration and really heavy winds too, and
all of this was threatening the presidential parade from actually
(05:47):
being able to happen. So in steps the Army Corps
of Engineers. They worked through the night to clear the path.
They moved something like fourteen hundred cars from the inaugural route,
and they got to use, you know, in addition to
sanders and plows and all the usual stuff. Something that
I got excited to read about, they actually got to
use flame throwers to get rid of the snow. How
much fun would that be? And so in the morning
(06:10):
sent hundred boy scouts pitched in to help them finish
the job, and of course the roads were clear in
time for the inauguration. That's really sweet and I've never
heard that. So here's a fun tip I never expected
to use. In two thousand ten, the Ignoble Prize for
Physics went to this team from New Zealand at the
University of Otago, and they showed that quote. On ice
(06:32):
footpaths in the wintertime, people slip and fall less often
if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.
What a helpful fact there, Mango. Thanks for Yeah, you
can wear your socks a shoe condom. That's right, that's right. Well,
speaking of really productive science, you know that old saying
about no two snowflakes looking alike. Apparently it's not exactly true.
(06:57):
The New York Times reports that a scientist named Kenneth
liebric that the California Institute of Technology he grows twins
snowflakes in a lab. And according to the article, it's
not so much as snowflakes original structure, but it's the
path that it takes through the atmosphere, you know, all
the twists and turns and volatility, and that's what makes
it unique. But in the lab, it's a pretty different story.
(07:19):
The Libricks process takes in between fifteen minutes to an
hour or so to grow a pair of snowflakes, but
he defends his idea of making flakes that look alike,
and as he puts it, we haven't violated any laws
of physics. We just found a loophole. That's pretty cool
and it's amazing that you can grow a pair of
snowflakes in the in the lab. But it also kind
(07:39):
of makes me feel less special. Oh well, man, go
I don't want you to feel less special. So you
know what, I think the really useless fact that you
gave about the sock over the shoe, that that maybe
that gives you the prize today. So I'm going to
give you today's fact off trophy. I like using sympathy
as a way to get you to give me the trophy. Finally,
so thank you and thank you guys for listening. We'll
(08:02):
be back with a full length episode tomorrow. M
Guess what, mango? What's that will? So I was away
earlier in the week, but I hear you guys had
a big snow day here in Atlanta. Yeah, that's right.
We stayed home from the office, my kids drove me bonkers,
and of course it didn't snow at all. Yeah. That's uh,
that's life in the South. I hope you get used
to it, but you know, I still feel like we
should do this week's nine Things in honor of snow.
(00:22):
So I've got a fact to kick us off here.
Did you know that in March Syracuse actually tried to
ban snow. There was this record snowfall that season. I
think it was like a hundred and sixty something inches,
and so the city council this was a great idea
that unanimously approved this resolution to outlast snowfall in the
city of Syracuse until December of the following year. I
(00:46):
like that. So obviously they're like holding it off until
Christmas Eve, which is great. But did it work not
at all. In fact, Mother Nature wasn't in a listening
mood and its snow two days later. But it did
give the citizens something to smile about, you know, during
this really tough winter season. And so that's just the
first of nine facts about snow. Let's dig in. Hey
(01:26):
their podcast listeners, Welcome to part time Genius. I'm Will
Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend
Man Guesh Ticketer and on the other side of the
soundproof glass, sitting with a snowman preparedness kid on his desk.
I was curious what this thing was. I'd look at
it before we came in the studio. It's it's just
like a ziplog bag with a carrot and some pieces
of coal and I think like a corn cob pipe
(01:47):
in it. Yeah, Tristan is always prepared. Yeah, just you
just you take it and you just wait to stick
it in a snow man. And so that's from our
good pal and our producer, Tristan McNeil to Mago. I
know you're disappointed it didn't snow more, but at least
we've got a show full of wintry facts. So so
what do you want to start with? So I've got
a pretty good one. Um. Have you ever heard of
(02:07):
yacki gossim? And I'm sure I'm pronouncing that wrong. I
have not heard of it, but I am certain you're
pronouncing it wrong. Yeah. So it's a massive Japanese snowball
fight that's apparently similar to Capture the Flag, but it's
played in three minute rounds and it's two teams of
seven people. You actually get ninety pre made snowballs for
each team to start, and then players get eliminated when
(02:30):
they get hit by the snowballs. The other thing that's
weird about it is that the players wear helmets to
protect their heads. And while I am generally wharrey of
playing any game that requires you to wear a helmet
with a face mask, this one looks really fun. So
I'm kind of ready for it to be an Olympic sport.
That does sound so fun, But I love that it
must be so rough that they have to wear helmets
(02:52):
with face masks. All right, well, speaking of dangerous snowball fights,
because I've got one here. I learned about this from
the British show q I that you and I have
talked about several times before. But it's actually a snowball
fight that you know, a parent might use as an
example of why you shouldn't participate in a snowball fight.
So back in fifteen forty six, a general named Francois
(03:13):
de Bourbon got into this snowball fight and it got
pretty rowdy, and so he ducked under a window to
get a breather from it all, and someone then threw
a linen chest out of their window. It landed on
his head, and he unfortunately died a few days later.
So you know, kids, you've got to be really careful.
This is a pretty good lesson about what can happen
in snowball fight. I'm not trying that really applies to
(03:37):
most snowball fights, but I don't know. So here's a
fact about snowman. Did you know that Michelangelo used to
carve in snow? So this is from Jake Rosen at
Metal Flass. But early in Michelangelo's career he had a
patriot named Piero da Medici, you know, from the Medici family.
But Medici really didn't know what he wanted the young
artist to do for him, so mostly he kind of
(03:59):
used him as the like personal shopper or interior decorator.
He kind of like picked out works of art for him.
And then one day, when it snowed, he got this
great idea and decided to task Michelangelo with making him
a snowman, and obviously, like Micgelangelow's skills are so great.
But uh um, there are no detailed images of how
this snowman looked, except that it is on the historical
(04:22):
record that it looked, quote very beautiful. That's pretty good.
All right, Well, here's a quick one about building a snowman.
Did you realize that building one can actually be a
pretty good workout? And Pop Sugar looked into this and
they found that building a snowman for an hour will
burn about two and eighty five calories. You can have
a snowball fight and that burns about three hundred nineteen calories.
(04:45):
And then if you spend that full hour, you know,
just an hour making a snow angel, you can burn
two hundred and fourteen calories, which is about what you'd
burn if you walked uphill for an hour, I mean,
an hour of making snow angel sounds like total torture. Yeah,
you're probably right. So you know, I'm a huge fan
of Calvin Hobbson. One of my favorite themes in the
(05:06):
strip is when Calvin builds all these hilarious and horrific
snowmen in his front yard and it's often too the
horror of his parents. But according to the History of Snowmen,
which is this wonderful book, um, this was actually a
popular activity in the nineteen hundreds. Apparently snowmen were often
used as like a comic stand in for violence and uh.
(05:26):
Illustrations from the early nineteen hundreds show them being javelin
with brooms or run through with Toboggan's. M All right, well,
here's a weird snow fact I had no idea about.
Did you know that there was a heavy snow the
day before JFK's inauguration and really heavy winds too, and
all of this was threatening the presidential parade from actually
(05:47):
being able to happen. So in steps the Army Corps
of Engineers. They worked through the night to clear the path.
They moved something like fourteen hundred cars from the inaugural route,
and they got to use, you know, in addition to
sanders and plows and all the usual stuff. Something that
I got excited to read about, they actually got to
use flame throwers to get rid of the snow. How
much fun would that be? And so in the morning
(06:10):
sent hundred boy scouts pitched in to help them finish
the job, and of course the roads were clear in
time for the inauguration. That's really sweet and I've never
heard that. So here's a fun tip I never expected
to use. In two thousand ten, the Ignoble Prize for
Physics went to this team from New Zealand at the
University of Otago, and they showed that quote. On ice
(06:32):
footpaths in the wintertime, people slip and fall less often
if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.
What a helpful fact there, Mango. Thanks for Yeah, you
can wear your socks a shoe condom. That's right, that's right. Well,
speaking of really productive science, you know that old saying
about no two snowflakes looking alike. Apparently it's not exactly true.
(06:57):
The New York Times reports that a scientist named Kenneth
liebric that the California Institute of Technology he grows twins
snowflakes in a lab. And according to the article, it's
not so much as snowflakes original structure, but it's the
path that it takes through the atmosphere, you know, all
the twists and turns and volatility, and that's what makes
it unique. But in the lab, it's a pretty different story.
(07:19):
The Libricks process takes in between fifteen minutes to an
hour or so to grow a pair of snowflakes, but
he defends his idea of making flakes that look alike,
and as he puts it, we haven't violated any laws
of physics. We just found a loophole. That's pretty cool
and it's amazing that you can grow a pair of
snowflakes in the in the lab. But it also kind
(07:39):
of makes me feel less special. Oh well, man, go
I don't want you to feel less special. So you
know what, I think the really useless fact that you
gave about the sock over the shoe, that that maybe
that gives you the prize today. So I'm going to
give you today's fact off trophy. I like using sympathy
as a way to get you to give me the trophy. Finally,
so thank you and thank you guys for listening. We'll
(08:02):
be back with a full length episode tomorrow. M
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