Forget fake birds: China unveils the newest iteration of microdrones, which look almost exactly like mosquitoes. A Russian soldier turns cannibal. French scientists discover a brand-new blood type. Police practice improv. Florida is building an "Alligator Alcatraz," and a giant asteroid may crash into the moon within the next decade. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noel.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
They call me Ben.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
We're joined as always with our super producer Dylan the
Tennessee pal Fagot. Most importantly, you argue, you are hopefully here,
which makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
If you are joining us for our strange news program.
Welcome to get this guys, the very last day of
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June twenty twenty five. It's June thirtieth when this publishes,
So knowing that we are recording on the twenty fifth,
how do you guys see the next week going? Yeah,
roll the dice. We had a fascinating conversation and just
(01:14):
before we rolled today regarding a bit of controversy with
the Hot Ones. And we're not referring to whatever you
think other than the show facile material. Oh wow, that's
really good. Yeah, we talked. We were talking off air
about the Roan. We were talking about the show Hot Ones.
(01:38):
How would we describe the show hot Ones.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Weaponized hot sauces for interview photo op situation.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yes, it's an interview show where people eat increasingly spicy
or hot wings while they are a questions right, and
the interviewer is very good.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
It's a brilliant concept too. I mean, it really does
disarm you. And and then it says a lot about
a person how they're able to proceed when under duress.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
To that degree that Now, Matt, let's let's go to you,
because you hipped us to the controversy. What's what's going
on with the hottest of Ones?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, you know, guys, I did that thing where you
watch a YouTube video where there's actually a human being
a group of human beings doing some real research, And
they tested all of the hot Ones sauces at the
time when the video came out, and they found that
the Scoville units measured on the scale as you go up,
because the concept of the shows they get spicier as
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you go, so the capsaicin levels will be higher each
sauce you try next. And according to the findings of
this one independent study, the capsaicin levels in the two
sauces after to bomb are nowhere near as high as
to bomb beyond insanity. So it's just a little bit
strange to imagine the last dabbing thing happening right at
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the end. Maybe they should put the bomb as the
final sauce. That's what I would recommend.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
There is the one that people are always like about
to puke after trying it. Everyone describes it as being
the most disgusting thing they've ever tasted, And I just
don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I don't know. I'm halfway through my bottle of it
and I still love.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, what do you put it on everything? Early?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Everything?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Well, I'm glad to know you're not just like pouring
it in a shot glass and.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, because of it raw. The taste alone is not great,
but I will I think you will find if you
put it together with other things right and just a
little bit, it does something exciting.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And speaking of exciting, without breaking news, we are going
to have a bit of a grab bag exploration here.
Please check out our earlier conversation about shadow diplomacy, which
unfortunately just becomes more and more timely as the days progress.
We're going to talk about microdrones, We're going to get
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into some pharaohs, curses, extinction, crises, mysterious anti body science.
We're going to talk about cannibalism. We're going to talk
about an alligator Alcatraz, and space and probability science, lightning
strike me again, and then of course cannibals. But before
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we do any of that, let's say we take a
quick break for a word from our sponsors and then
go check our own internal Schoville units. You guys feeling hot.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Always and bother, and we have returned.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
We had a folks, We're gonna be honest with you.
We're recording in the southeast of the United States. I
think all of us are based in that area right
now as we record this strange news, and it is
just disgusting outside. It's like walking in hot soup. There's
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a heat advisory not just here but throughout a lot
of the East Coast and the states involved there, including Massachusetts.
For a lot of people in certain parts of the world,
the summer means mosquitoes, right, the summer means bucks. And
(05:34):
get this, the newest news coming out of China shows
us that you can't even trust the skeeters at this point.
I don't know if you guys have heard about this,
but a military Robotics Lab in China has created what
they call microdrones, and from far enough away they look
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like irregular, annoying mosquitoes.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
More sci fi y'all coming into being.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I'm so angry the birds. They came for us first
with the birds, right, No, or was it cats a
long time ago? I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On ridiculous history bats.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
The cat operation was unsuccessful. The bat thing was a
little bit too successful.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Dolphins with fricking lasers strapped to their heads.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
But in both those cases that we're mentioning here, those
were what we could consider weaponized were cybernetic organisms. And Matt,
what I think you're talking about there is the use
of things that look like birds but are not in
fact birds. And if you say so, yeah, and you
(06:49):
nailed it there with the idea of things that look
like mosquitoes but are in fact surveillance devices.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Dude, Ben, I am looking at a picture that you
shared in the link here of this thing. It's hard
to imagine a camera capable of transmitting information being that
size with wings, right.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, man.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The convenient phrase now in English is microdrone. This was
developed at the National University of Defense Technology, or NUTTED no, seriously,
that's the actor and I.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Believe or is it nude?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Either one is hilarious, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Ten ten the duos island ten ten.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Uod no notes.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
We love your language here as we're saying, this is
barely visible to the naked eye. This is one of
the longstanding dreams of trade craft. We also have to
realize that the nation of China went public with this, right,
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Uncle Ji approved of this being reported to the world,
which means one of two things. Not mutually exclusive, but
it means one of two things. One this is propaganda
agit prop meant to frighten people. Or two this has
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already been out in the wild for a minute.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Literally. And these little guys do.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Video, video, yes, video and audio.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And they are.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So so tiny. They are increasingly common in various fields
of interest, we could say, and there the applications probably
funded by military money. The apple locations are not solely
for war fighting and not solely for trade craft. Imagine
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how cool it would be if you are a documentarian, right,
or you're James Cameron type and you want to you
want to fly your little guy into a place where
it's not safe for humans to film, or where it's
too small to get ordinary equipment in, Like you can't
fit your red camera in there. I'm afraid to touch
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a red camera because they're so expensive, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm sure these little guys are too right.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, I imagine so until the economy of
scale kicks in. On a positive note, this also helps
with disaster relief.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You can, let's say a building collapses, Let's say an
earthquake or an avalanche occurs. You can fly these little
Skeeter boys into tightly confined spaces. You can detect hazardous objects.
You know, we're not too far away from putting a
series of radiation sensing instruments on there, you know what
(10:06):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
One thing I thought was interesting in terms of the
disaster stuff I've been dealing with This disaster followed stuff
with this house that I owned in a city where
it was ravaged by Hurricane Helen. And one of the
companies that went in and kind of did some of
the recon and dealt with all of the contents of
the house, they actually sent me sort of more or
less an augmented reality map of every single room that
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you can zoom through, like on Google Earth. So I
would imagine the recon possibilities with these things would be
very similar, where you can actually fly them in and
then create some kind of facsimile of the actual location
for mapping purposes and all of that stuff like the
little orbs in Prometheus they would throw out and shoot
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out the lasers and all of that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But you know, yeah, the problems are similar to other
engineering design issues. Uh, for any electrically powered device, it's
the weight of the battery. You haven't thought about the weight,
says Dennis Reynolds.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Uh, that is that that is the limiting factor and
a lot of tech in it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But I guys, I I have a clear image in
my head of someone making a delivery, right and and
just someone lugging a bunch of boxes into It's not
the secured area, but it's a secured facility. Does that
make sense. It's not like the super sensitive place.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Giff, but it's the building in which the skiff is housed.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And you're just making a delivery and it just looks
like a bug flew in with the delivery driver. Then
that's it, and now it's inside and it will it
will transmit until the battery dies. Because how in the
hell do you charge one of those things? Where's the
where's the mic, where's the USP go?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
So this is this is my proposal. First off, you
could learn more about this strange news in is like
the South China Morning Post or the Week. The week
should be free to read online. This this came out
in English a few days ago, but I think everybody
knew it was in the wind. Here is the proposal
(12:15):
I have, and I'm gonna turn this into a pitch
meeting and want to hear from you guys. First off,
all technology, as it progresses, becomes closer and closer to
biological organisms, the stuff that evolution figured out long long ago.
With that in mind, here's the pitch. What if we
(12:37):
can beat the battery weight problem by somehow creating a
device for the microdrone mosquito terminator thing to extract power
from humans. What if we can teach it to bite
not to kill? Y? Yeah, what if it can somehow
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siphon electric activity from a nearby human and do it
fast enough to not get squatted.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I do also wonder, like I'm not a scientist in
any capacity, but I do wonder the how far things
like wireless charging technology will evolve.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'm still kind of blown away.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
You can just set your phone down on a thing
and it charges it sort of, you know, directly by osmosis.
I imagine there could be advances in that where perhaps
a device like this could hold that kind of charge
out of the air, like from nearby electronics.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I just wonder, Ben.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I love your idea, and it's terrifying it. It creates
such a misery in my mind. What if you did
the thing you're talking about with humans, but with any
electrical cable. So it's got some kind of device in
it where it can land on an electrical cable and
it would have to puncture just in enough to where
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it wouldn't send all of the voltage through the thing,
or have to have some kind of device that makes
the voltage when it steps it down to the correct
I can't use the words because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's a much smarter escalation of my silly idea.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But just imagine.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
That's what mosquitoes do, and that's it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, And that's that's honestly a smarter, more sustainable idea
to uh give a a universal energy input concept. Yeah,
and I love what you're saying about wireless transmission of energy.
The reason they would want it to be able to
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bite humans also would be delivery of That's where you
get into a little bit more of offensive type of
trade craft, right, a little more operational instead of surveillance. U. Well,
what we're telling you, folks is that everything is five.
(15:05):
Everything is just dandy twenty twenty five. Beat me here, Dylan,
no notes from us, Great job, Humanity. I do have
one more story that I'd like to share. Oh, well,
we talked about this earlier, Noel. Just a side note,
there is an extinction crisis about recent study shows that
(15:27):
about five hundred separate species of birds are going to
vanish within a century.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Well, then you pitch this story to me as something
that I would rejoice in. And I do want to
just make make it clear that I have adjusted my
stance on birds because of the board game Wingspan.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I've said that before, but they just.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Added an expansion pack, Birds of East Asia, and I
know so many different species of birds now, and I
bet you some of these that you're talking about are
featured in the game, and I would be very sad
to see them go. So I'm a new man when
it comes to appreciation of birds.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'm so happy to hear that.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Man, that's not the one I'm coming out the face.
But I appreciate their existence.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah, and Matt, Dylan and I have been with you
on this journey and we're true, we're real proud of you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Man. I appreciate that animals are amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
They're not as amazing as fungus. This is where we
get to the Pharaoh's curse. I think we're all armchair
fans of Egyptology as it's called in English. Did we
ever do an episode on the curse of King Tut?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We did a video, We did a video, and then
we did one about the other pyramids, But I'm not
seeing anything about the like Towot and Commons curse.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, uh, here's here's the breaking news. Dylan, thank you
for the sound cue. There the closest thing we can
come to a provable verify of support for the legend
of King Tut's curse. It's the idea that if you
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violate the sanctity of the tomb or the burial place,
then you will die in horrific final destination esque ways.
And as time wended on the tale played telephone right,
and it became increasingly elaborate. It felt like some producers
(17:29):
were hopping in.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And giving notes.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
The closest thing we'd say to the reality of this,
if reality exists, to the story, is there may have
been a fungus. There may have been one of the
most inexplicable kind of living things in human experience that
really screwed up people's days. It's called Aspergillis flavius. Yeah,
(17:58):
Aspergillis flavus, and its street name is the Pharaoh's curse fungus.
Have you guys heard about this?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, No, this is rand new to me.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
This is I mean, I feel like, outside of a
few mycologists, I feel like most specific types of fun
guys are.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I just like call them fun guys.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I think most specific types of fun guys are unknown.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Two people.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Right, So, if you're out in the woods and you're
just trying to freestyle on some foraging, don't pick up a.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Thing you don't recognize.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Don't even touch it. Honestly, The good news is that
this humble Aspergillis flavius has apparently been used to create
a new compound that can fight cancer, specifically leukemia. So yeah,
maybe the pharaoh curse us and then said, you know what, though,
(19:04):
I'll help you out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
On the back end, the curse became a blessing. How
about that. That's cool.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Is there any further info about that, Like, are they
still testing it? Obviously this isn't something that's being rolled
out in any kind of scale. And what are some
of the features of it, like in terms of how
it could potentially be harnessed.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, excellent questions. So you can read the study in detail.
It just came out on June twenty third in the
scientific journal Nature Chemical Biology. Admittedly, it sounds like they
just threw three words together for the title, but it's
not a journal about writing titles. It's a journal about
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stem and in this they point out that fungi gave
us penicillin, right. They point out that many life changing
medicines can be derived from natural products. There's an entire
unknown world out there. This thing is not that uncommon
(20:09):
as well. Like to your point, it is found in soil.
It can infect a broad range of crops. If you
get hit with a dose of this just in the field,
it can lead to lung infections. Yeah, it's it's named
Aspergillis flavus, because it's been considered a sort of what's
(20:31):
the phrase microbial supervillain or like a little more than
a century.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, if I'm not mistaken, black mold is aspergillis, or
that is a term associated with black mole, which of
course can cause lung infections. Well, I only know this
because I recently watched a King of the Hill episode
where hankups and black mole at his house and it
was a real hullablue.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
A real hullablue. Indeed, So it's twenty twenty five. The
Miskie are spies. The Pharaoh curse ended up being a
good thing. Overall, we've got more to get to. So
we're gonna pause for a word from our sponsors, and
we'll be back with more strange news.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And we've returned, guys. As I mentioned before on the show,
I recently took a trip out to a coastal area
of South Carolina and encountered many a gator. I actually
saw alligators, and like five foot alligators. That's not even
the big big boys. But still when you when you
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behold an alligator that is, you know, almost as tall
as you are.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Long.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Of course, laying on the ground. It's a thing. It's
a it does a thing to the human body where
there's fascination, you know, if you like animals, it's that
thing where we were just talking about birds, where you go,
oh cool. But the other thing that happens is you
kind of imagine if you had to get in the
scrape with one of those things. And you know, if
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you're a little bit off the beaten path like we are,
you may have done a little reading on what happens
if you have to fight an alligator BVP. I mean,
you know, all of these things, all these things at
least ran through my mind in those moments. And this
morning when I was looking through the news, a random
(22:28):
little thing jumped out at me that I think we're
all going to be fascinated by because of you just
have to imagine the people that thought this thought and
then decided to make it a thing. Here's the thought,
and it comes to us from BBC News Florida as
in the state of Florida in the United States, building
(22:50):
alligator Alcatraz Migrant Detention Center in the Everglades for humans
for humans. Yes, it's not for alligators. The alligators are
just hanging out in the Everglades because which is a
swampy marshland area that is very large in Florida, Georgia,
a couple of areas down there, and just the concept
(23:14):
of building a detention center in the center of that
area as a way to deter people from wanting to
escape or I guess theoretically putting the fear of escape
into people's minds.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Wait, this is literally like an alligator filled moat situation, Like, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Not well, I mean, the environment itself in the Everglades
is a giant alligator filled most that's true.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's it's also uh I think to that to that
point about weaponized psychology, right, it's it's leveraging the primal
mammalian fear of the alligator, which most mammals aside from
the Cappabera have. It's very intense the see that they'll
just stroll up. I don't know why this anime creature
(24:02):
exists in the real world.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's confusing.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
But other than kapy bara, the human beings who deserve
all the dignity and rights of any other living human being,
they're not.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Going to run, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
That's that's one of the issues, right, like, if you
am I okay in assuming matin Nole that most people
have not tussled with an alligator, I would.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Say so, yeah, I have certainly have not, and I
would not unless I absolutely had to.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You don't even taste that great. I'm gonna be honest, Yeah,
I would agree with you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I've tried a few tough chicken. Maybe is the way
to describe a gamey chicken.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
So why did they pick the Everglades. Is this like
a funding government largess thing, or is this politically motivated
or all of the above.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, it's going to be funded quote in large part
unquote by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Shelter and Services Program,
which previously was used to provide accommodation and other aid
for undocumented migrant human beings that were coming through the
United States. And that is according to Christy Nome, the
(25:21):
current Department of Homeland Security Secretary, it is now going
to be used to temporarily hold immigrants migrants in this
place that was once an air strip. It was called
the Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport. It's about thirty
six miles from Miami, and it's going to cost around
(25:42):
four hundred and fifty million dollars to run this detention center.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Per year.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yes, on a yearly basis.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh great, but it's temporary, like you said.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's just temporary. It's fine. And the ICE
agents who are out there rounding people up wearing masks
over their face to hide their identities, they know they're
doing the right thing. He said sarcastically. Anyway, Yeah, I'm sorry,
I'm if you take it out of context or if
it's translated you into another right, I have to understand
(26:18):
I'm being sarcastic.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
We are collectively being sarcastic because ICE is Ice is
provably and clearly violating the understood rule of law and
due process here in the United States. That is not
a political take, that is not an opinion.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That is a fact.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
So as you can imagine, folks, Matt Noll, Dylan and
myself are extremely sarcastic whenever we say things like this.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And speaking of things that sound sarcastic, let's jump to
a quote here from someone named uth Meyer. Outh Meyer
is the Attorney General of Florida. People call him Jim
James Uthmeyer. He said that this is virtually an abandoned facility,
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and it'll only take about thirty to sixty days to
build the thing out of the you know, the existing
structures that exist there. And he said it's going to
hold around one thousand people.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, temporarily.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And here's here's the big quotation quote. If people get out,
there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Really yeah, it's like some Hunger Games type stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It really is. It's really messed up stuff. It hurts
your heart, your body, everything, it just hurts. It's just
not being good to other human beings. Speaking of stuff
that's not good for human beings because all of this,
you know, presents may your existential dread. Let's jump to
the moon and asteroids finally, woo jump into another British
(28:07):
paper here The Guardian. We love The Guardian. Giant asteroid
could crash into Moon in twenty thirty two, firing debris
towards Earth.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Good.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Good, I'm doing the old brumpy cat bean. I got
a headache with all the massive conspiratorial injustice in Florida,
and so now you know, I'm I'm I'm kind of
pro asteroid.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Honestly, you're a doom bringer today, Matthew.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, that's what I don't mean to be. I'm just
these are yes, sir again, these are these are just
news stories that pop out in pretty prominent places, right right,
So all of us we're paying attention to the news.
Everything you talked about in the previous segment, Ben, we
gotta put all that through our heads. We gotta put
all of this stuff through our heads and then just
(28:55):
keep living, like you know, the groceries need to get
be got. I'm sorry, I don't I can't speak anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Millions of people are dying, but let's make sure to
answer that email for marketing.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
And I think that's absolutely true.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
But it's also sort of the nature of humanity in
the world, right there's always, like saying, stuff going on everywhere,
and if it's not directly on people's doorsteps, it's pretty
easy to put on blinders to it.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
So I just for sure, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, first way, the way I've said in the past,
and I like to see this when whenever we're helping
people to exercise empathy, it's it's crucial to remember that
the world is ending for someone at every second, every juncture,
you know, and we hope everybody makes it through this show.
(29:50):
Let me go check the sky real quick. What's up
with this asteroid?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Okay, asteroid? You don't need to be too worried about
this thing. You might remember. Its name is twenty twenty four.
Why are four now? I think it was earlier this
year as well as a little bit last year, there
was talk of this quote city killer asteroid that is
fairly large. When it was discovered to have roughly a
(30:16):
three percent chance of colliding with Earth.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
There was a.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Whole thing that happened planetarily, with the humans who work
on spacecraft, people who work in rocketry, and people who
work in observatories attempting to find a way to prevent
a collision. Right, let's say that tiny, little three percent chance,
we are somehow actually in that window, and how do
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we make this thing not hit Earth or at least
reduce the potential impact that it's going to have on
the planet. It was a whole big deal. Then earlier
this year the chances were reduced from three percent down
to zero point zero zero one seven percent chance of
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this thing with Earth. And then the asteroid made its
way around the Sun because it orbits the Sun and
it got out of view, so things like James Webb
telescope can't get a really good picture of it anymore.
Observations and calculations can't be done in the same way.
So there's another group of folks who came through some
researchers from a couple of different Canadian universities who were
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looking at it and looking to see if it could
potentially impact the Moon. And they put through, you know,
a bunch of different scenarios with the orbit on how
it could collide with the Moon, what it would look like,
and they found that there is a very again, very
very small chance likelihood rather that this asteroid will collide
(31:43):
with the Moon. And then they thought, well, what would
that actually look like? What would happen on the Moon
if a you know, a city killer asteroid strikes it.
Could it change the Moon's course just slightly enough to
have an effect on Earth? No, probably not, but it
would create a giant crater on the Moon, which would
(32:03):
have ejecta a lot of stuff flying off of the
surface of the Moon. In those scenarios, how many would
be Earth facing, how much ejecta and debris would fly
at the Earth. They did all these calculations. They did
find that it's mostly teeny tiny debris. They would be
heading towards Earth if again, very small percent chance of
(32:24):
this could happen. But if it happens, it would be
like shooting out billions of teeny tiny little bullets that
will just burn up in the atmosphere if they do
in fact impact Earth. But there is a potential for
them to strike satellites and things that are in orbit
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above the Earth before they burn up.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
By far the more salient concern. Right, we already know
that Earth is how do we portray it brutally and
accurately previous episodes and conversations. If you are an extraterrestrial
or a non human intelligence and you happen to pass
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by this solar system, Earth will stand out because it
looks like the bad house in the neighborhood. It's already
surrounded by junk. There's a lot of stuff to hit,
you know what I mean. There are a bunch of
cars on their proverbial cinder blocks. Just some of them
are on fire, right on fire. Some of them are
in slowly decaying orbit. This will in the scenario that
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these researchers are describing this will create a situation where
it may be virtually impossible to launch out from the
terar and surface.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yes, because some of the debris would act as projectiles,
right like hitting the metal objects up there, causing havoc,
but others would just get caught in the orbit of
the Earth. And now we've got a bunch of the
Moon orbiting around our planet right doing the same thing.
Then you're talking about just clogging up all the places
where you can either get out if you're shooting a
rocket out, or put another satellite up. It's really creepy
(34:12):
because they estimate there'd be roughly a one kilometer in
diameter crater that would be created, and that would produce
millions of kilograms of the surface of the Moon shooting
out at us. It is really scary. Again, it is
a teeny tiny percent chance that this could happen.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Okay, so shout out to everybody who plays scratcher lottery tickets.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
You know what I mean. Today maybe the day.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It might be the day, and you can read all
about that in the Guardian, by the way, And if
you are getting a scratch off lottery ticket, if you
are thinking about probabilities, you are thinking about ways that
the earth could end, that you could die, all that stuff. Well,
here's a terrifying story out of Florida and it speaks
to all of this stuff. It's from The Guardian as well.
(35:04):
Man on honeymoon dies after being struck by lightning on
a Florida beach. Already, it's a terrifying and tragic story.
This is a twenty nine year old man named Jake
that got struck by lightning on New Smyrna Beach in Florida.
Here's the part that's kind of freaky. He was just,
you know, waiting in the water there on the beach.
(35:26):
There's a blue sky above him. There's a thunderstorm out
far in the distance that's occurring where you know, you
know where you can hear the thunder, but you're not
even really noticing much of the lightning. It's not that
big a deal. It's out in the distance. Yeah, right,
He's standing there in the water. Somehow, somehow a lightning
(35:47):
strike hits him standing on that beach from that storm
that is miles away, and he, you know, he is
taken to the hospital and he passes away. It's just
a a really scary thing to think about There's that
old adage that I don't know if you guys remember
hearing this at like a public pool or something, or
(36:08):
maybe a meteorologist saying it on TV. This concept of
when the thunder roars go indoors. It's something that we
used to repeat all the time, especially when we were
doing like marching band and when we were out on
a field, like a big open field doing stuff. The
concept is, if you can hear the thunder, you need
to get to shelter because just the fact that the
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sound can travel to your location means that the light
and the energy can also be transferred all the way.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
To your location and much more quickly.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yes, and without warning too. It's sorry to bring that up, guz.
I'm just I'm being a downer again. I'm next time,
I'm bringing some happy I tried.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
To interject earlier, and then I was like, never mind.
I just wanted to mention, if you want to kind
of more lighthearted slash action adventure ROMP version of what's
going on with the Moon, check out the movie Moonfall,
which is about a potential disaster involving the Moon leaving
its orbit and potentially having some secrecy surrounding what actually
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is the moon?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
And if you love books like we do, please check
out The Phenomenal The Phenomenal Story seventies. It's a novel
by just a fantastic author named Stevenson, and the first
line is one of my favorites in most of Western literature.
It starts with I kid you not. The first line
(37:36):
is something like, for no apparent reason, the moon exploded. WHOA, Yeah,
it's dope, dude, it's so good. I wish that I
wish people would adapt some of that guy's work, but
we're missing the point. Shout out to everybody who instantly
thought of the film Powder instantly thought of you know,
(37:58):
oldie songs like lightning Strike Me again. People can survive
being struck by lightning, but it is not a thing
that you want to purposely do because your odds of
survival are super not great. And I think one of
the one of the intertwining narratives in the show overall
(38:23):
here is that things can happen suddenly and quite quite quickly,
in a way that disallows preparation.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah oh yeah. Maybe the message is be prepared, but
don't let that be your primary focus, right, Be in
the moment and be prepared. But yeah, come on, can't
get too caught up on it. There's a one in
fifteen thousand chants that you will be struck by lightning
if you live to be eighty years.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Also, as a consonant, optimistic nihilist, please note the odds
that Matt just gave us are higher than winning the
power ball.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Way higher, like so much higher. Yeah, hey, guys. Weirdly enough,
two golfers were also struck by lightning in that same
place in New Smyrna Beach on that same day. They
survived because it was an indirect strike, not in the
same way as Jake's unfortunate strike. All right, that's it
(39:27):
for me, guys, be right back afterword from our sponsors.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
And we're back. And Ben, this one's for you, buddy.
Remember the Police Academy movies you're so fond of.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Oh my gosh, fuckero, you thought of me. What's going on?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Well, I'll tell you. You've heard of the Second City,
storied improv comedy organization in Chicago. Of course, we all
have big fans produced show there. We did catch a
show there, and it's produced some incredibly talented folks and
kind of been a sort of a proving ground for
SNL performers over the years.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Of course, it also had its own TV.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Series I think way back in the day as well,
and yes, we did see an excellent improv comedy show.
The improv comedy, of course, can either be the best
thing you've ever seen in your life or the most
cringe worthy thing you've ever seen in your life, and
Second City is always the former in my opinion. Well,
they are doing a thing. Apparently They've always had a
bit of an outreach wing, kind of Second City Works
(40:31):
is what it's called, where they do sort of community
betterment projects, and this new initiative that they are participating
in involves teaching improv classes to police chiefs and police
personnel from across the country. It is a joint venture
between Second City and the University of Chicago's Crime Labs
(40:55):
Policing Leadership Academy. Okay, sorry if I Baiden's switched a.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Little bit there.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
This isn't actually Police Academy the movie, but it is
a combination of policing and comedy. And we've all certainly
perhaps heard of improv classes being used as team building
exercises by corporations and stuff like that, and we've often
threatened to take some improv classes together, the three of us,
and I hope that that threat remains. I'd very much
like to do it, but I am fascinated as to
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how the skills involved in doing improv comedy could in
fact benefit leaders in police organizations.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Easy to sort of poo poo something like this as
being a bit of a headline grabbing kind of publicity stunt.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
You know, in time would we say performative one hundred percent,
we might say performative improvisational, even in a time where
the reputation of policing organizations have been suffering, And rightfully so,
you could kind of take a bit of a cynical
view of this and say that there's nothing to it,
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that it really is just a way of sort of
deflecting some of the let's just call it what.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
It is, downright, atrocities that many police organizations have been
guilty of across the country. Maybe atrocities is too strong
a word, but the very least injustices, right, So let's
just go into what the program actually is. Kelly Leonard,
who's the president of Creative Strategy, Innovation and Business development
of the second City called it yoga for social skills.
(42:29):
And there's a good article of the AP that it
actually quite in depth. And again one could look at
the headline and maybe even give the AP a bit
of a hard time for making this this kind of
feel good type piece. Comedy and crime fighting joined forces
for police learning leadership skills and images of like folks
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laughing and yucking it up and having a good time.
And again, I'm trying not to take the cynical view here,
but just wanted to kind of address both sides. What
we were trying to do, she says, is get you
to listen to the end sentence. Kelly Leonard says as
she wraps up an improvisational exercise involving you're probably familiar
with this ben where participants have to say the next
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word based on what the previous participants said. So it's
sort of like an exquisite corpse type game, but with wordplay.
What we're trying to do, she says, is get you
to listen to the end of the sentence. If my
arm was a sentence, when do most people stop listening?
Always the elbow, But then you're missing everything that goes
after and sometimes that's critical information. So I'm going to
(43:36):
stop there and just say I can see how these skills,
if truly taken to heart and treated, you know, with
respect and taken seriously, could help improve communication. Because a
lot of these things are top down kind of issues, right,
(43:59):
So you've got like leadership in place in some of
these police organizations, and that of course filters down to
the folks who are actually on the street. So you know,
having a little bit more ability to communicate properly and
hear different sides of an issue, and also maybe having
a little bit more perspective on some things could well
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trickle down in a positive way. That could not only
help improve communication with folks on the street dealing with,
you know, certain situations that arise, but it also could
potentially reduce the kinds of situations that seem to stem
often tragic situations that seem to stem from reacting too quickly,
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missstaking something like, for example, someone being mistaken as having
a weapon and being fired upon, et cetera, and just
maybe creating a little more of an environment where people
are paying attention to others as opposed to having preconceived
notions on what is happening I'm rambling.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
A little bit. Guys.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
It's a little bit of a tricky situation in Ben
and I know that you're fascinated by this, and you
have probably the most improv background of any of us.
But what do you guys think publicity, stunt or potentially
game changing partnership?
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Partnership is a tricky word. You see how I'm playing
the game already.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
I think you nailed it there, Noel, I wouldn't call
that rambling nor word solid, as you noted. I specifically
am on record for a number of years arguing that
everybody should, across industries, across demographics and cultures, take some
sort of basic improv hangout because one it's fun, Two,
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it makes you a better listener, and three, especially if
it is if it is in the remit of your job,
then your company, you know, your corporate overlords will pay
for it. That being said, I do want to go
on record apologizing for that time I talked with a
venture capitalist about improv and then we all had to
(46:12):
do it.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah at our tilly, do you remember that? Vaguely? I do?
Speaker 5 (46:16):
Again to that point, I mean, this is definitely a
thing that is used as team building and as communication
kind of leadership training in corporations, and even then it
sometimes feels like a bit of a hey, we're gonna
have fun todaly with the improv.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
Guys a bit insincere times and feel that way.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
But yeah, that's why I want to fence about it.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
Yeah, well you nailed it, though, I would think with
the point that there are serious we said, top down,
let's call it systemic. There are serious systemic issues with
the way that the concept of rule of law is
interpreted and deployed and actioned here in the United States
(46:58):
and the US people in the US hate to hear it,
but you're not unique nor special in that respect, right,
there are problems all the world around, and so perhaps
in step with things like having mental health specialist on
call instead of folks who are just having to be
first responders not trained in how to interact in those situations,
(47:22):
the improv stuff can help. I would say, if we're
being positive about it, well, if we're being negative, as
you said, artificial, performative, insincere, good headline. If we're being positive,
then we would say every little bit helps when there's
a serious problem. Right when the boat is sinking. It
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can feel foolish to be the guy with a cup
just like scooping water and throwing it out, but it
does help, even if it's a little bit.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
I do agree, and I just want to I just
want to say this and then I'm going to hear
what you have to say.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
One of the quotes from.
Speaker 5 (47:59):
A captain from Philadelphia about the program I think is interesting.
He said, the big thing for me was thinking about
the things we allow to happen because they've been that
way before us, and the ways we can change the
culture of our district by changing the thinking around why
we do things, which again does sound a little bit
like a PR line, And I get it. All sounds
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well and good, but I'd love to see more robust
data on whether these kinds of programs actually work. The
last thing, the crime Lab folks say they've actually done
some digging into this very thing. They found that district
and precinct captains have the largest potential impact on their
colleagues despite often receiving little leadership training for the job.
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So that's a point that could be improved upon. First thing,
a precinct could have high marks for morale, community relationships,
or be making a dent in crime numbers, but if
the captain changes, those gains could plummet Researchers found even
in the community, the officers and everything else stayed the same.
So yeah, I don't know, Matt, You've been quite on
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this one. I'm curious to hear you know, if you
think I'm maybe being too hard on it or not
hard enough, or how you feel.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
Well, that was going to be my question. I'd like
to know the real reasoning behind having the captains take
the courses rather than people who are actually going to
be interacting with human beings, you know, while on patrol
or something. I think that, Well, I again, I don't know.
I haven't done the research there. There's obviously some metrics
there that have been looked at before making the decision
(49:27):
to take the captains in and teach them the IMPROV classes.
I think the gaining of empathy is one of the
things that improv can teach you to do. Like or
not gaining of empathy, but the practice of to a degree, yes,
or at least that thing. Ben, you're talking about listening,
but we're really like actually listening to somebody and then
(49:51):
responding with within certain parameters, right, there's like there's rules
to improv where you've got to keep the game going,
which is, you know, you have to you have to
have a certain level of positivity and playfulness too, which
is nice because you're unlocking some of the inner child
stuff as well. I just they say that stuff about
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the captains. I just don't see it as something that
the captains maybe would benefit the most from, but I
maybe I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yeah, arguably, to interject your besiege, being at the point
of or being at the point in your career when
you attain the rank of captain means that you already
have some rhetorical, conversational, interpersonal acumen. Who I completely agree
with Matt's point, Like it goes back to what you
(50:41):
were saying the training, right, you can vilify people for
being in situations that they were not prepared for. They
were not trained to do that right. Like to Matt's
earlier example, there's nobody. There's a very small amount of
people on Earth who are trained and prepared for sudden
(51:02):
lightning strikes. It's just not a thing that comes up.
Like my earlier example about and again and again and again,
sorry wrestling alligators. You know what I mean, we've got
a nice through line here. I love the point that
you make too about about data.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
Do you see all this.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
As becoming something that might be replicated in other parts
of the country or do you is it dependent upond.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
There are folks from all over the country participating, like
even this in Canada that have you know, participated in
this program. So the jury is perhaps out in terms
of real hard data on you know, whether this actually
improves crime rates or reduces negative interactions, you know, between
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police and in the public or citizens. I will say
that I think it's funny in the photograph about comedy
and police, the show What's it called? Brooklyn ninety nine,
and in many other examples of you know, police stations
depicted in the pop culture, the chief or the captain
(52:15):
is the most humorless character in the show. He is
the absolute straight man, and that, you know, creates a
lot of less and it's a great role for folks
to bounce off all the wackiness of Andy Sanmdbriggs character
and all of his colleagues. But the captain on the
show does not get the joke most of the time.
And that is usually the case when you see captains
to pick it. They're usually very hard nosed, very aggressive,
(52:37):
and very humorless. And so I do wonder if perhaps
injecting a little bit more levity and making them listen
a little bit more and improving communication and yes ending
a little bit could potentially have a benefit from the
top on down to the street level.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
So well said, also, please, folks, if you're listening, don't
get into stand up.
Speaker 5 (53:01):
It's a painful life unless you're really really good at it.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Yeah, Sara, but then you have to be bad for
so long before you become good.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
And you have to be so tough, you have to
not be sensitive.
Speaker 5 (53:15):
And then I say that, But then I know there's
a lot of folks that push, push, push and make
it through and every heckle and every criticism absolutely hurts.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
So what they might say.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
Yeah, we love stand up, we love stand up comedy,
we love the high art of humor, empathy and wordplay.
And so I guess I should say, at least I'm
mainly joking when I tell people not to get into
stand up. It's just it's an investment of time. It's
like getting a pilot license. It will take longer than
(53:49):
you think. With that being said, shout out to our
colleague Sarah, who is just Sara France.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Yeah, she's really doing great.
Speaker 5 (53:58):
She's very funny and we've always liked you before she
went down that path, and we wish her the best
and hope to catch one of her sets out there
in Los Angeles very soon.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
I looked at the time and I was like, sheez,
I've gone long, and then I realized that I was
last today.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
I don't usually co last.
Speaker 5 (54:12):
So I will just briefly mention two other stories. One
the headline says it all one of Putin's cannibal soldiers
killed comrade to.
Speaker 3 (54:22):
Eat him for two weeks.
Speaker 5 (54:24):
The Russian soldier ate comrade's body for two weeks to survive,
then died. That is according to an intercepted phone call
by Ukraine between two Russian soldiers reportedly revealing the incidents.
I'm just gonna read the quick and dirty about this
one from Kronin Zeitung. We have a German paper, and
the ranks of the Russian arm forces is likely to
(54:46):
be more and more horrifying. Now it seems that a
soldier has eaten his comrade for several weeks. The most
recent conversation intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence personnel is a real
crime novel. The Ukrainian military intelligence service is shocked in
a statement Russians would conduct cannibalism against each other. The
translation here is nick in for some clunky reading here,
But let me see if I can find one other
(55:07):
source that shed a little bit more light on this.
And we an all love the New York Post always,
but let's just they've collated a lot of.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Different sources relatively reasonably.
Speaker 5 (55:17):
Here Russian soldiers kills eats comrade in a twisted attempt
to survive Ukraine War reporter. A Russian soldier on the
front lines in Ukraine murdered his comrade and ate the
corpse to survive the grim wartime conditions, only to end
up dying anyway. According to Kiev's military intelligence, a call
between two Russian soldiers who share the jar dropping story
of the cannibalistic Breloch who killed his countryman Foma was
(55:41):
allegedly intercepted by Ukraine's main directorate of intelligence. The quote here,
I'm just going to read it freeing hell. Brelock ate
him for me. Nobody went anywhere. Brelock took him out
and then ate him for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
Yike, Sorry, I.
Speaker 5 (55:59):
Said I was going to be bringing the joy in
this segment. No way, Holy my bald skull. Was Braylock
really found as a two hundred, the other person replied,
using Soviet ara slang for a soldier found killed in action.
Speaker 3 (56:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (56:16):
I mean, look, not trying to demonize Russian soldiers here.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
It just is the kind of.
Speaker 5 (56:23):
Thing that you just hear about so infrequently, and it
just really does cast such a pall over what is
already a horrific situation over there, you know, So I
just thought it was worth mentioning.
Speaker 4 (56:36):
And also, folks, check out our earlier episodes on cannibalism.
It's always been a at best a short term solution.
You cannot survive for a long time on human flesh
if you are yourself human. It leads to something called
rabbit starvation. We are very fun at parties, huh.
Speaker 5 (56:55):
Yup, But let's stand on a positive note, or at
least an interest. There's apparently a new blood type that's
been discovered. Scientists have identified a new blood group and
it is the world's rarest A frenchwoman from the Caribbean
island of Guadaloupe which is an island under French control,
has been identified as the only known carrier of a
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new blood type, which is being called GUADA negative. Fifteen
years ago, during routine tests ahead of a surgery, her
blood was tested and determined to have contained some sort
of mutation, and so the French Blood Establishment has been
looking into it ever since, and now they're saying this,
the fs has just discovered the forty eighth blood group
(57:37):
system in the world. This discovery was officially recognized in
early June in Milan by the International Society of Blood Transfusion.
To the interesting part here, her genome was analyzed in
its entirety using high throughput DNA sequencing, which highlighted this
genetic mutation. She is the only person in the world
(57:59):
who is compatible with herself, said Theory pr a medical
biologist at that organization who was involved in the discovery
uh and described it as being very unusual.
Speaker 3 (58:10):
They are the antibody in any kings.
Speaker 5 (58:12):
So I'm not sure what this does for humanity, but
it is interesting and the fact that she is her
only potential blood donor not super great for this person
given a situation that would require transfusion new ingredients.
Speaker 3 (58:24):
Same great taste exactly new blood.
Speaker 4 (58:27):
Shout out, Matt, I thought of you reading this story
with dol brought it to us because Guada negative sounds
like a sick new flavor of monster energy.
Speaker 5 (58:36):
Oh my god, Like remember remember ja justa with guarana?
Speaker 3 (58:40):
Yes? Y yeah like that yeative love that.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
Yeah. In that situation, genuinely, would you go and have
to set up some kind of private donation or something
to where you donate your own blood to be stored
so that it could be used in the invent of
an emergency fail in.
Speaker 3 (58:59):
That come up?
Speaker 5 (59:01):
Yeah, Well, I don't know what family members.
Speaker 3 (59:03):
Though, would work. I think it depends, right.
Speaker 5 (59:07):
It does seem to be that it is exclusive to
this individual because of a mutation, so it's not it
would not work. Family members would not be able to donate,
So I think Matt's making a good point. It's not
addressed in any of the reporting that I read. The
name Guada negative, however, does refer to the island where
the patient comes from, and it is a phonetic you know.
Speaker 3 (59:30):
Translation of that.
Speaker 5 (59:31):
And while blood types are one thing, there are many
different blood groups and they have been identified and continue
to be identified due to the advent and escalation of
DNA sequencing, So new blood groups are being discovered all
the time. However, new blood types are exceedingly rare, right,
But there have been previous discoveries of rare let's call
(59:55):
them limited addition blood types.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
In the past.
Speaker 4 (59:58):
I think that's right, Benea for any fan of Guinness
Book of World Records or you know, consumption of blood. Uh,
there there are notable cases to your question, because you
asked an excellent question. Uh, what does this mean? How
does this apply? It teaches us something similar to what
(01:00:20):
you're asking, Matt. It teaches us the importance of understoring
our own blood.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Keep it, keep it. No, we talked about it off air,
and we're going to keep it because you should.
Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Or send it to us, send us your blood. Why, okay,
no sidetracking real quick, just since we're at the end here.
Why does everybody want blood donations? Why aren't people just
you know, reaching out and cold calling you and saying, hey,
do you want some blood?
Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
M would be nice.
Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
I will say that there's a really interesting point that
is made, and maybe it's obvious, but I just do
want to bring this up. In the Smithsonian magazine piece,
about this. It is European doctors who've been responsible for
many innovations in medicine and medical science, who first began
to attempt doing blood transfusions in the sixteen hundreds and
(01:01:18):
just couldn't figure out why things often went so poorly.
I mean, blood is blood, right, But then Karl Landsteiner
in the early nineteen hundreds discovered that blood has types
and groups. Discovery of blood groups, according to the Nobel
Prize Twitter account, completely changed the view on blood transfusions,
(01:01:39):
and it didn't take long before the first successful attempts
were made.
Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
I just you love to see that.
Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
That'savity thought, what an aha moment, right, Like, why is
everyone dying? It seems like it would work. Can you
imagine being that person and just only wanting to help
and continually running up against that problem and being absolutely frustrated,
just banging your head against the wall and not knowing
what to do.
Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
And you used to do it with genius HIGs and dogs.
Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
That's true, but I think there were definitely some disastrous
human cases as well.
Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
Yeah, call them areas of opportunity.
Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Guys. Now I'm looking at objects around the room and
just thinking, like, how much blood could I fit in
the springles can and would it store?
Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Let's find out.
Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
And check out Stuff of Genius for the difference between
storing what we call whole blood storing plasma. Check out
our episode on the Factor eight scandal, which shows us
just how important blood donation remains in modern evenings and
how dangerous it can become when we don't conduct science
(01:02:45):
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this to the fore. Was so much going on, it's
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noel.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
They call me Ben.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
We're joined as always with our super producer Dylan the
Tennessee pal Fagot. Most importantly, you argue, you are hopefully here,
which makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
If you are joining us for our strange news program.
Welcome to get this guys, the very last day of
(00:50):
June twenty twenty five. It's June thirtieth when this publishes,
So knowing that we are recording on the twenty fifth,
how do you guys see the next week going? Yeah,
roll the dice. We had a fascinating conversation and just
(01:14):
before we rolled today regarding a bit of controversy with
the Hot Ones. And we're not referring to whatever you
think other than the show facile material. Oh wow, that's
really good. Yeah, we talked. We were talking off air
about the Roan. We were talking about the show Hot Ones.
(01:38):
How would we describe the show hot Ones.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Weaponized hot sauces for interview photo op situation.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yes, it's an interview show where people eat increasingly spicy
or hot wings while they are a questions right, and
the interviewer is very good.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
It's a brilliant concept too. I mean, it really does
disarm you. And and then it says a lot about
a person how they're able to proceed when under duress.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
To that degree that Now, Matt, let's let's go to you,
because you hipped us to the controversy. What's what's going
on with the hottest of Ones?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, you know, guys, I did that thing where you
watch a YouTube video where there's actually a human being
a group of human beings doing some real research, And
they tested all of the hot Ones sauces at the
time when the video came out, and they found that
the Scoville units measured on the scale as you go up,
because the concept of the shows they get spicier as
(02:42):
you go, so the capsaicin levels will be higher each
sauce you try next. And according to the findings of
this one independent study, the capsaicin levels in the two
sauces after to bomb are nowhere near as high as
to bomb beyond insanity. So it's just a little bit
strange to imagine the last dabbing thing happening right at
(03:04):
the end. Maybe they should put the bomb as the
final sauce. That's what I would recommend.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
There is the one that people are always like about
to puke after trying it. Everyone describes it as being
the most disgusting thing they've ever tasted, And I just
don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I don't know. I'm halfway through my bottle of it
and I still love.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, what do you put it on everything? Early?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Everything?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Well, I'm glad to know you're not just like pouring
it in a shot glass and.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, because of it raw. The taste alone is not great,
but I will I think you will find if you
put it together with other things right and just a
little bit, it does something exciting.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And speaking of exciting, without breaking news, we are going
to have a bit of a grab bag exploration here.
Please check out our earlier conversation about shadow diplomacy, which
unfortunately just becomes more and more timely as the days progress.
We're going to talk about microdrones, We're going to get
(04:04):
into some pharaohs, curses, extinction, crises, mysterious anti body science.
We're going to talk about cannibalism. We're going to talk
about an alligator Alcatraz, and space and probability science, lightning
strike me again, and then of course cannibals. But before
(04:29):
we do any of that, let's say we take a
quick break for a word from our sponsors and then
go check our own internal Schoville units. You guys feeling hot.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Always and bother, and we have returned.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
We had a folks, We're gonna be honest with you.
We're recording in the southeast of the United States. I
think all of us are based in that area right
now as we record this strange news, and it is
just disgusting outside. It's like walking in hot soup. There's
(05:13):
a heat advisory not just here but throughout a lot
of the East Coast and the states involved there, including Massachusetts.
For a lot of people in certain parts of the world,
the summer means mosquitoes, right, the summer means bucks. And
(05:34):
get this, the newest news coming out of China shows
us that you can't even trust the skeeters at this point.
I don't know if you guys have heard about this,
but a military Robotics Lab in China has created what
they call microdrones, and from far enough away they look
(05:56):
like irregular, annoying mosquitoes.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
More sci fi y'all coming into being.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I'm so angry the birds. They came for us first
with the birds, right, No, or was it cats a
long time ago? I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
On ridiculous history bats.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
The cat operation was unsuccessful. The bat thing was a
little bit too successful.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Dolphins with fricking lasers strapped to their heads.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
But in both those cases that we're mentioning here, those
were what we could consider weaponized were cybernetic organisms. And Matt,
what I think you're talking about there is the use
of things that look like birds but are not in
fact birds. And if you say so, yeah, and you
(06:49):
nailed it there with the idea of things that look
like mosquitoes but are in fact surveillance devices.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Dude, Ben, I am looking at a picture that you
shared in the link here of this thing. It's hard
to imagine a camera capable of transmitting information being that
size with wings, right.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, yeah, man.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The convenient phrase now in English is microdrone. This was
developed at the National University of Defense Technology, or NUTTED no, seriously,
that's the actor and I.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Believe or is it nude?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Either one is hilarious, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Ten ten the duos island ten ten.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Uod no notes.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
We love your language here as we're saying, this is
barely visible to the naked eye. This is one of
the longstanding dreams of trade craft. We also have to
realize that the nation of China went public with this, right,
(08:04):
Uncle Ji approved of this being reported to the world,
which means one of two things. Not mutually exclusive, but
it means one of two things. One this is propaganda
agit prop meant to frighten people. Or two this has
(08:27):
already been out in the wild for a minute.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Literally. And these little guys do.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Video, video, yes, video and audio.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And they are.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So so tiny. They are increasingly common in various fields
of interest, we could say, and there the applications probably
funded by military money. The apple locations are not solely
for war fighting and not solely for trade craft. Imagine
(09:06):
how cool it would be if you are a documentarian, right,
or you're James Cameron type and you want to you
want to fly your little guy into a place where
it's not safe for humans to film, or where it's
too small to get ordinary equipment in, Like you can't
fit your red camera in there. I'm afraid to touch
(09:28):
a red camera because they're so expensive, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm sure these little guys are too right.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, I imagine so until the economy of
scale kicks in. On a positive note, this also helps
with disaster relief.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You can, let's say a building collapses, Let's say an
earthquake or an avalanche occurs. You can fly these little
Skeeter boys into tightly confined spaces. You can detect hazardous objects.
You know, we're not too far away from putting a
series of radiation sensing instruments on there, you know what
(10:06):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
One thing I thought was interesting in terms of the
disaster stuff I've been dealing with This disaster followed stuff
with this house that I owned in a city where
it was ravaged by Hurricane Helen. And one of the
companies that went in and kind of did some of
the recon and dealt with all of the contents of
the house, they actually sent me sort of more or
less an augmented reality map of every single room that
(10:29):
you can zoom through, like on Google Earth. So I
would imagine the recon possibilities with these things would be
very similar, where you can actually fly them in and
then create some kind of facsimile of the actual location
for mapping purposes and all of that stuff like the
little orbs in Prometheus they would throw out and shoot
(10:50):
out the lasers and all of that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But you know, yeah, the problems are similar to other
engineering design issues. Uh, for any electrically powered device, it's
the weight of the battery. You haven't thought about the weight,
says Dennis Reynolds.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Uh, that is that that is the limiting factor and
a lot of tech in it.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But I guys, I I have a clear image in
my head of someone making a delivery, right and and
just someone lugging a bunch of boxes into It's not
the secured area, but it's a secured facility. Does that
make sense. It's not like the super sensitive place.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Giff, but it's the building in which the skiff is housed.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And you're just making a delivery and it just looks
like a bug flew in with the delivery driver. Then
that's it, and now it's inside and it will it
will transmit until the battery dies. Because how in the
hell do you charge one of those things? Where's the
where's the mic, where's the USP go?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
So this is this is my proposal. First off, you
could learn more about this strange news in is like
the South China Morning Post or the Week. The week
should be free to read online. This this came out
in English a few days ago, but I think everybody
knew it was in the wind. Here is the proposal
(12:15):
I have, and I'm gonna turn this into a pitch
meeting and want to hear from you guys. First off,
all technology, as it progresses, becomes closer and closer to
biological organisms, the stuff that evolution figured out long long ago.
With that in mind, here's the pitch. What if we
(12:37):
can beat the battery weight problem by somehow creating a
device for the microdrone mosquito terminator thing to extract power
from humans. What if we can teach it to bite
not to kill? Y? Yeah, what if it can somehow
(13:02):
siphon electric activity from a nearby human and do it
fast enough to not get squatted.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I do also wonder, like I'm not a scientist in
any capacity, but I do wonder the how far things
like wireless charging technology will evolve.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'm still kind of blown away.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
You can just set your phone down on a thing
and it charges it sort of, you know, directly by osmosis.
I imagine there could be advances in that where perhaps
a device like this could hold that kind of charge
out of the air, like from nearby electronics.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I just wonder, Ben.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I love your idea, and it's terrifying it. It creates
such a misery in my mind. What if you did
the thing you're talking about with humans, but with any
electrical cable. So it's got some kind of device in
it where it can land on an electrical cable and
it would have to puncture just in enough to where
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it wouldn't send all of the voltage through the thing,
or have to have some kind of device that makes
the voltage when it steps it down to the correct
I can't use the words because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
That's a much smarter escalation of my silly idea.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But just imagine.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
That's what mosquitoes do, and that's it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, And that's that's honestly a smarter, more sustainable idea
to uh give a a universal energy input concept. Yeah,
and I love what you're saying about wireless transmission of energy.
The reason they would want it to be able to
(14:42):
bite humans also would be delivery of That's where you
get into a little bit more of offensive type of
trade craft, right, a little more operational instead of surveillance. U. Well,
what we're telling you, folks is that everything is five.
(15:05):
Everything is just dandy twenty twenty five. Beat me here, Dylan,
no notes from us, Great job, Humanity. I do have
one more story that I'd like to share. Oh, well,
we talked about this earlier, Noel. Just a side note,
there is an extinction crisis about recent study shows that
(15:27):
about five hundred separate species of birds are going to
vanish within a century.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Well, then you pitch this story to me as something
that I would rejoice in. And I do want to
just make make it clear that I have adjusted my
stance on birds because of the board game Wingspan.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I've said that before, but they just.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Added an expansion pack, Birds of East Asia, and I
know so many different species of birds now, and I
bet you some of these that you're talking about are
featured in the game, and I would be very sad
to see them go. So I'm a new man when
it comes to appreciation of birds.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'm so happy to hear that.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Man, that's not the one I'm coming out the face.
But I appreciate their existence.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Yeah, and Matt, Dylan and I have been with you
on this journey and we're true, we're real proud of you.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Man. I appreciate that animals are amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
They're not as amazing as fungus. This is where we
get to the Pharaoh's curse. I think we're all armchair
fans of Egyptology as it's called in English. Did we
ever do an episode on the curse of King Tut?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We did a video, We did a video, and then
we did one about the other pyramids, But I'm not
seeing anything about the like Towot and Commons curse.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, uh, here's here's the breaking news. Dylan, thank you
for the sound cue. There the closest thing we can
come to a provable verify of support for the legend
of King Tut's curse. It's the idea that if you
(17:07):
violate the sanctity of the tomb or the burial place,
then you will die in horrific final destination esque ways.
And as time wended on the tale played telephone right,
and it became increasingly elaborate. It felt like some producers
(17:29):
were hopping in.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And giving notes.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
The closest thing we'd say to the reality of this,
if reality exists, to the story, is there may have
been a fungus. There may have been one of the
most inexplicable kind of living things in human experience that
really screwed up people's days. It's called Aspergillis flavius. Yeah,
(17:58):
Aspergillis flavus, and its street name is the Pharaoh's curse fungus.
Have you guys heard about this?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, No, this is rand new to me.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
This is I mean, I feel like, outside of a
few mycologists, I feel like most specific types of fun
guys are.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I just like call them fun guys.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I think most specific types of fun guys are unknown.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Two people.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Right, So, if you're out in the woods and you're
just trying to freestyle on some foraging, don't pick up a.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Thing you don't recognize.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Don't even touch it. Honestly, The good news is that
this humble Aspergillis flavius has apparently been used to create
a new compound that can fight cancer, specifically leukemia. So yeah,
maybe the pharaoh curse us and then said, you know what, though,
(19:04):
I'll help you out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
On the back end, the curse became a blessing. How
about that. That's cool.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Is there any further info about that, Like, are they
still testing it? Obviously this isn't something that's being rolled
out in any kind of scale. And what are some
of the features of it, like in terms of how
it could potentially be harnessed.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, excellent questions. So you can read the study in detail.
It just came out on June twenty third in the
scientific journal Nature Chemical Biology. Admittedly, it sounds like they
just threw three words together for the title, but it's
not a journal about writing titles. It's a journal about
(19:46):
stem and in this they point out that fungi gave
us penicillin, right. They point out that many life changing
medicines can be derived from natural products. There's an entire
unknown world out there. This thing is not that uncommon
(20:09):
as well. Like to your point, it is found in soil.
It can infect a broad range of crops. If you
get hit with a dose of this just in the field,
it can lead to lung infections. Yeah, it's it's named
Aspergillis flavus, because it's been considered a sort of what's
(20:31):
the phrase microbial supervillain or like a little more than
a century.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, if I'm not mistaken, black mold is aspergillis, or
that is a term associated with black mole, which of
course can cause lung infections. Well, I only know this
because I recently watched a King of the Hill episode
where hankups and black mole at his house and it
was a real hullablue.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
A real hullablue. Indeed, So it's twenty twenty five. The
Miskie are spies. The Pharaoh curse ended up being a
good thing. Overall, we've got more to get to. So
we're gonna pause for a word from our sponsors, and
we'll be back with more strange news.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And we've returned, guys. As I mentioned before on the show,
I recently took a trip out to a coastal area
of South Carolina and encountered many a gator. I actually
saw alligators, and like five foot alligators. That's not even
the big big boys. But still when you when you
(21:42):
behold an alligator that is, you know, almost as tall
as you are.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Long.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Of course, laying on the ground. It's a thing. It's
a it does a thing to the human body where
there's fascination, you know, if you like animals, it's that
thing where we were just talking about birds, where you go,
oh cool. But the other thing that happens is you
kind of imagine if you had to get in the
scrape with one of those things. And you know, if
(22:08):
you're a little bit off the beaten path like we are,
you may have done a little reading on what happens
if you have to fight an alligator BVP. I mean,
you know, all of these things, all these things at
least ran through my mind in those moments. And this
morning when I was looking through the news, a random
(22:28):
little thing jumped out at me that I think we're
all going to be fascinated by because of you just
have to imagine the people that thought this thought and
then decided to make it a thing. Here's the thought,
and it comes to us from BBC News Florida as
in the state of Florida in the United States, building
(22:50):
alligator Alcatraz Migrant Detention Center in the Everglades for humans
for humans. Yes, it's not for alligators. The alligators are
just hanging out in the Everglades because which is a
swampy marshland area that is very large in Florida, Georgia,
a couple of areas down there, and just the concept
(23:14):
of building a detention center in the center of that
area as a way to deter people from wanting to
escape or I guess theoretically putting the fear of escape
into people's minds.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Wait, this is literally like an alligator filled moat situation, Like, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Not well, I mean, the environment itself in the Everglades
is a giant alligator filled most that's true.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's it's also uh I think to that to that
point about weaponized psychology, right, it's it's leveraging the primal
mammalian fear of the alligator, which most mammals aside from
the Cappabera have. It's very intense the see that they'll
just stroll up. I don't know why this anime creature
(24:02):
exists in the real world.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's confusing.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
But other than kapy bara, the human beings who deserve
all the dignity and rights of any other living human being,
they're not.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Going to run, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
That's that's one of the issues, right, like, if you
am I okay in assuming matin Nole that most people
have not tussled with an alligator, I would.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Say so, yeah, I have certainly have not, and I
would not unless I absolutely had to.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You don't even taste that great. I'm gonna be honest, Yeah,
I would agree with you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I've tried a few tough chicken. Maybe is the way
to describe a gamey chicken.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
So why did they pick the Everglades. Is this like
a funding government largess thing, or is this politically motivated
or all of the above.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, it's going to be funded quote in large part
unquote by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Shelter and Services Program,
which previously was used to provide accommodation and other aid
for undocumented migrant human beings that were coming through the
United States. And that is according to Christy Nome, the
(25:21):
current Department of Homeland Security Secretary, it is now going
to be used to temporarily hold immigrants migrants in this
place that was once an air strip. It was called
the Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport. It's about thirty
six miles from Miami, and it's going to cost around
(25:42):
four hundred and fifty million dollars to run this detention center.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Per year.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yes, on a yearly basis.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh great, but it's temporary, like you said.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's just temporary. It's fine. And the ICE
agents who are out there rounding people up wearing masks
over their face to hide their identities, they know they're
doing the right thing. He said sarcastically. Anyway, Yeah, I'm sorry,
I'm if you take it out of context or if
it's translated you into another right, I have to understand
(26:18):
I'm being sarcastic.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
We are collectively being sarcastic because ICE is Ice is
provably and clearly violating the understood rule of law and
due process here in the United States. That is not
a political take, that is not an opinion.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That is a fact.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
So as you can imagine, folks, Matt Noll, Dylan and
myself are extremely sarcastic whenever we say things like this.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And speaking of things that sound sarcastic, let's jump to
a quote here from someone named uth Meyer. Outh Meyer
is the Attorney General of Florida. People call him Jim
James Uthmeyer. He said that this is virtually an abandoned facility,
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and it'll only take about thirty to sixty days to
build the thing out of the you know, the existing
structures that exist there. And he said it's going to
hold around one thousand people.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, temporarily.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And here's here's the big quotation quote. If people get out,
there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Really yeah, it's like some Hunger Games type stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It really is. It's really messed up stuff. It hurts
your heart, your body, everything, it just hurts. It's just
not being good to other human beings. Speaking of stuff
that's not good for human beings because all of this,
you know, presents may your existential dread. Let's jump to
the moon and asteroids finally, woo jump into another British
(28:07):
paper here The Guardian. We love The Guardian. Giant asteroid
could crash into Moon in twenty thirty two, firing debris
towards Earth.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Good.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Good, I'm doing the old brumpy cat bean. I got
a headache with all the massive conspiratorial injustice in Florida,
and so now you know, I'm I'm I'm kind of
pro asteroid.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Honestly, you're a doom bringer today, Matthew.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, that's what I don't mean to be. I'm just
these are yes, sir again, these are these are just
news stories that pop out in pretty prominent places, right right,
So all of us we're paying attention to the news.
Everything you talked about in the previous segment, Ben, we
gotta put all that through our heads. We gotta put
all of this stuff through our heads and then just
(28:55):
keep living, like you know, the groceries need to get
be got. I'm sorry, I don't I can't speak anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Millions of people are dying, but let's make sure to
answer that email for marketing.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
And I think that's absolutely true.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
But it's also sort of the nature of humanity in
the world, right there's always, like saying, stuff going on everywhere,
and if it's not directly on people's doorsteps, it's pretty
easy to put on blinders to it.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
So I just for sure, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, first way, the way I've said in the past,
and I like to see this when whenever we're helping
people to exercise empathy, it's it's crucial to remember that
the world is ending for someone at every second, every juncture,
you know, and we hope everybody makes it through this show.
(29:50):
Let me go check the sky real quick. What's up
with this asteroid?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Okay, asteroid? You don't need to be too worried about
this thing. You might remember. Its name is twenty twenty four.
Why are four now? I think it was earlier this
year as well as a little bit last year, there
was talk of this quote city killer asteroid that is
fairly large. When it was discovered to have roughly a
(30:16):
three percent chance of colliding with Earth.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
There was a.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Whole thing that happened planetarily, with the humans who work
on spacecraft, people who work in rocketry, and people who
work in observatories attempting to find a way to prevent
a collision. Right, let's say that tiny, little three percent chance,
we are somehow actually in that window, and how do
(30:38):
we make this thing not hit Earth or at least
reduce the potential impact that it's going to have on
the planet. It was a whole big deal. Then earlier
this year the chances were reduced from three percent down
to zero point zero zero one seven percent chance of
(30:59):
this thing with Earth. And then the asteroid made its
way around the Sun because it orbits the Sun and
it got out of view, so things like James Webb
telescope can't get a really good picture of it anymore.
Observations and calculations can't be done in the same way.
So there's another group of folks who came through some
researchers from a couple of different Canadian universities who were
(31:22):
looking at it and looking to see if it could
potentially impact the Moon. And they put through, you know,
a bunch of different scenarios with the orbit on how
it could collide with the Moon, what it would look like,
and they found that there is a very again, very
very small chance likelihood rather that this asteroid will collide
(31:43):
with the Moon. And then they thought, well, what would
that actually look like? What would happen on the Moon
if a you know, a city killer asteroid strikes it.
Could it change the Moon's course just slightly enough to
have an effect on Earth? No, probably not, but it
would create a giant crater on the Moon, which would
(32:03):
have ejecta a lot of stuff flying off of the
surface of the Moon. In those scenarios, how many would
be Earth facing, how much ejecta and debris would fly
at the Earth. They did all these calculations. They did
find that it's mostly teeny tiny debris. They would be
heading towards Earth if again, very small percent chance of
(32:24):
this could happen. But if it happens, it would be
like shooting out billions of teeny tiny little bullets that
will just burn up in the atmosphere if they do
in fact impact Earth. But there is a potential for
them to strike satellites and things that are in orbit
(32:44):
above the Earth before they burn up.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
By far the more salient concern. Right, we already know
that Earth is how do we portray it brutally and
accurately previous episodes and conversations. If you are an extraterrestrial
or a non human intelligence and you happen to pass
(33:08):
by this solar system, Earth will stand out because it
looks like the bad house in the neighborhood. It's already
surrounded by junk. There's a lot of stuff to hit,
you know what I mean. There are a bunch of
cars on their proverbial cinder blocks. Just some of them
are on fire, right on fire. Some of them are
in slowly decaying orbit. This will in the scenario that
(33:34):
these researchers are describing this will create a situation where
it may be virtually impossible to launch out from the
terar and surface.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yes, because some of the debris would act as projectiles,
right like hitting the metal objects up there, causing havoc,
but others would just get caught in the orbit of
the Earth. And now we've got a bunch of the
Moon orbiting around our planet right doing the same thing.
Then you're talking about just clogging up all the places
where you can either get out if you're shooting a
rocket out, or put another satellite up. It's really creepy
(34:12):
because they estimate there'd be roughly a one kilometer in
diameter crater that would be created, and that would produce
millions of kilograms of the surface of the Moon shooting
out at us. It is really scary. Again, it is
a teeny tiny percent chance that this could happen.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Okay, so shout out to everybody who plays scratcher lottery tickets.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
You know what I mean. Today maybe the day.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
It might be the day, and you can read all
about that in the Guardian, by the way, And if
you are getting a scratch off lottery ticket, if you
are thinking about probabilities, you are thinking about ways that
the earth could end, that you could die, all that stuff. Well,
here's a terrifying story out of Florida and it speaks
to all of this stuff. It's from The Guardian as well.
(35:04):
Man on honeymoon dies after being struck by lightning on
a Florida beach. Already, it's a terrifying and tragic story.
This is a twenty nine year old man named Jake
that got struck by lightning on New Smyrna Beach in Florida.
Here's the part that's kind of freaky. He was just,
you know, waiting in the water there on the beach.
(35:26):
There's a blue sky above him. There's a thunderstorm out
far in the distance that's occurring where you know, you
know where you can hear the thunder, but you're not
even really noticing much of the lightning. It's not that
big a deal. It's out in the distance. Yeah, right,
He's standing there in the water. Somehow, somehow a lightning
(35:47):
strike hits him standing on that beach from that storm
that is miles away, and he, you know, he is
taken to the hospital and he passes away. It's just
a a really scary thing to think about There's that
old adage that I don't know if you guys remember
hearing this at like a public pool or something, or
(36:08):
maybe a meteorologist saying it on TV. This concept of
when the thunder roars go indoors. It's something that we
used to repeat all the time, especially when we were
doing like marching band and when we were out on
a field, like a big open field doing stuff. The
concept is, if you can hear the thunder, you need
to get to shelter because just the fact that the
(36:30):
sound can travel to your location means that the light
and the energy can also be transferred all the way.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
To your location and much more quickly.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yes, and without warning too. It's sorry to bring that up, guz.
I'm just I'm being a downer again. I'm next time,
I'm bringing some happy I tried.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
To interject earlier, and then I was like, never mind.
I just wanted to mention, if you want to kind
of more lighthearted slash action adventure ROMP version of what's
going on with the Moon, check out the movie Moonfall,
which is about a potential disaster involving the Moon leaving
its orbit and potentially having some secrecy surrounding what actually
(37:14):
is the moon?
Speaker 4 (37:15):
And if you love books like we do, please check
out The Phenomenal The Phenomenal Story seventies. It's a novel
by just a fantastic author named Stevenson, and the first
line is one of my favorites in most of Western literature.
It starts with I kid you not. The first line
(37:36):
is something like, for no apparent reason, the moon exploded. WHOA, Yeah,
it's dope, dude, it's so good. I wish that I
wish people would adapt some of that guy's work, but
we're missing the point. Shout out to everybody who instantly
thought of the film Powder instantly thought of you know,
(37:58):
oldie songs like lightning Strike Me again. People can survive
being struck by lightning, but it is not a thing
that you want to purposely do because your odds of
survival are super not great. And I think one of
the one of the intertwining narratives in the show overall
(38:23):
here is that things can happen suddenly and quite quite quickly,
in a way that disallows preparation.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah oh yeah. Maybe the message is be prepared, but
don't let that be your primary focus, right, Be in
the moment and be prepared. But yeah, come on, can't
get too caught up on it. There's a one in
fifteen thousand chants that you will be struck by lightning
if you live to be eighty years.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Also, as a consonant, optimistic nihilist, please note the odds
that Matt just gave us are higher than winning the
power ball.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Way higher, like so much higher. Yeah, hey, guys. Weirdly enough,
two golfers were also struck by lightning in that same
place in New Smyrna Beach on that same day. They
survived because it was an indirect strike, not in the
same way as Jake's unfortunate strike. All right, that's it
(39:27):
for me, guys, be right back afterword from our sponsors.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
And we're back. And Ben, this one's for you, buddy.
Remember the Police Academy movies you're so fond of.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Oh my gosh, fuckero, you thought of me. What's going on?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Well, I'll tell you. You've heard of the Second City,
storied improv comedy organization in Chicago. Of course, we all
have big fans produced show there. We did catch a
show there, and it's produced some incredibly talented folks and
kind of been a sort of a proving ground for
SNL performers over the years.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Of course, it also had its own TV.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Series I think way back in the day as well,
and yes, we did see an excellent improv comedy show.
The improv comedy, of course, can either be the best
thing you've ever seen in your life or the most
cringe worthy thing you've ever seen in your life, and
Second City is always the former in my opinion. Well,
they are doing a thing. Apparently They've always had a
bit of an outreach wing, kind of Second City Works
(40:31):
is what it's called, where they do sort of community
betterment projects, and this new initiative that they are participating
in involves teaching improv classes to police chiefs and police
personnel from across the country. It is a joint venture
between Second City and the University of Chicago's Crime Labs
(40:55):
Policing Leadership Academy. Okay, sorry if I Baiden's switched a.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Little bit there.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
This isn't actually Police Academy the movie, but it is
a combination of policing and comedy. And we've all certainly
perhaps heard of improv classes being used as team building
exercises by corporations and stuff like that, and we've often
threatened to take some improv classes together, the three of us,
and I hope that that threat remains. I'd very much
like to do it, but I am fascinated as to
(41:23):
how the skills involved in doing improv comedy could in
fact benefit leaders in police organizations.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Easy to sort of poo poo something like this as
being a bit of a headline grabbing kind of publicity stunt.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
You know, in time would we say performative one hundred percent,
we might say performative improvisational, even in a time where
the reputation of policing organizations have been suffering, And rightfully so,
you could kind of take a bit of a cynical
view of this and say that there's nothing to it,
(42:01):
that it really is just a way of sort of
deflecting some of the let's just call it what.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
It is, downright, atrocities that many police organizations have been
guilty of across the country. Maybe atrocities is too strong
a word, but the very least injustices, right, So let's
just go into what the program actually is. Kelly Leonard,
who's the president of Creative Strategy, Innovation and Business development
of the second City called it yoga for social skills.
(42:29):
And there's a good article of the AP that it
actually quite in depth. And again one could look at
the headline and maybe even give the AP a bit
of a hard time for making this this kind of
feel good type piece. Comedy and crime fighting joined forces
for police learning leadership skills and images of like folks
(42:50):
laughing and yucking it up and having a good time.
And again, I'm trying not to take the cynical view here,
but just wanted to kind of address both sides. What
we were trying to do, she says, is get you
to listen to the end sentence. Kelly Leonard says as
she wraps up an improvisational exercise involving you're probably familiar
with this ben where participants have to say the next
(43:14):
word based on what the previous participants said. So it's
sort of like an exquisite corpse type game, but with wordplay.
What we're trying to do, she says, is get you
to listen to the end of the sentence. If my
arm was a sentence, when do most people stop listening?
Always the elbow, But then you're missing everything that goes
after and sometimes that's critical information. So I'm going to
(43:36):
stop there and just say I can see how these skills,
if truly taken to heart and treated, you know, with
respect and taken seriously, could help improve communication. Because a
lot of these things are top down kind of issues, right,
(43:59):
So you've got like leadership in place in some of
these police organizations, and that of course filters down to
the folks who are actually on the street. So you know,
having a little bit more ability to communicate properly and
hear different sides of an issue, and also maybe having
a little bit more perspective on some things could well
(44:21):
trickle down in a positive way. That could not only
help improve communication with folks on the street dealing with,
you know, certain situations that arise, but it also could
potentially reduce the kinds of situations that seem to stem
often tragic situations that seem to stem from reacting too quickly,
(44:43):
missstaking something like, for example, someone being mistaken as having
a weapon and being fired upon, et cetera, and just
maybe creating a little more of an environment where people
are paying attention to others as opposed to having preconceived
notions on what is happening I'm rambling.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
A little bit. Guys.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
It's a little bit of a tricky situation in Ben
and I know that you're fascinated by this, and you
have probably the most improv background of any of us.
But what do you guys think publicity, stunt or potentially
game changing partnership?
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Partnership is a tricky word. You see how I'm playing
the game already.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
I think you nailed it there, Noel, I wouldn't call
that rambling nor word solid, as you noted. I specifically
am on record for a number of years arguing that
everybody should, across industries, across demographics and cultures, take some
sort of basic improv hangout because one it's fun, Two,
(45:49):
it makes you a better listener, and three, especially if
it is if it is in the remit of your job,
then your company, you know, your corporate overlords will pay
for it. That being said, I do want to go
on record apologizing for that time I talked with a
venture capitalist about improv and then we all had to
(46:12):
do it.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah at our tilly, do you remember that? Vaguely? I do?
Speaker 5 (46:16):
Again to that point, I mean, this is definitely a
thing that is used as team building and as communication
kind of leadership training in corporations, and even then it
sometimes feels like a bit of a hey, we're gonna
have fun todaly with the improv.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
Guys a bit insincere times and feel that way.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
But yeah, that's why I want to fence about it.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
Yeah, well you nailed it, though, I would think with
the point that there are serious we said, top down,
let's call it systemic. There are serious systemic issues with
the way that the concept of rule of law is
interpreted and deployed and actioned here in the United States
(46:58):
and the US people in the US hate to hear it,
but you're not unique nor special in that respect, right,
there are problems all the world around, and so perhaps
in step with things like having mental health specialist on
call instead of folks who are just having to be
first responders not trained in how to interact in those situations,
(47:22):
the improv stuff can help. I would say, if we're
being positive about it, well, if we're being negative, as
you said, artificial, performative, insincere, good headline. If we're being positive,
then we would say every little bit helps when there's
a serious problem. Right when the boat is sinking. It
(47:43):
can feel foolish to be the guy with a cup
just like scooping water and throwing it out, but it
does help, even if it's a little bit.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
I do agree, and I just want to I just
want to say this and then I'm going to hear
what you have to say.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
One of the quotes from.
Speaker 5 (47:59):
A captain from Philadelphia about the program I think is interesting.
He said, the big thing for me was thinking about
the things we allow to happen because they've been that
way before us, and the ways we can change the
culture of our district by changing the thinking around why
we do things, which again does sound a little bit
like a PR line, And I get it. All sounds
(48:19):
well and good, but I'd love to see more robust
data on whether these kinds of programs actually work. The
last thing, the crime Lab folks say they've actually done
some digging into this very thing. They found that district
and precinct captains have the largest potential impact on their
colleagues despite often receiving little leadership training for the job.
(48:40):
So that's a point that could be improved upon. First thing,
a precinct could have high marks for morale, community relationships,
or be making a dent in crime numbers, but if
the captain changes, those gains could plummet Researchers found even
in the community, the officers and everything else stayed the same.
So yeah, I don't know, Matt, You've been quite on
(49:00):
this one. I'm curious to hear you know, if you
think I'm maybe being too hard on it or not
hard enough, or how you feel.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
Well, that was going to be my question. I'd like
to know the real reasoning behind having the captains take
the courses rather than people who are actually going to
be interacting with human beings, you know, while on patrol
or something. I think that, Well, I again, I don't know.
I haven't done the research there. There's obviously some metrics
there that have been looked at before making the decision
(49:27):
to take the captains in and teach them the IMPROV classes.
I think the gaining of empathy is one of the
things that improv can teach you to do. Like or
not gaining of empathy, but the practice of to a degree, yes,
or at least that thing. Ben, you're talking about listening,
but we're really like actually listening to somebody and then
(49:51):
responding with within certain parameters, right, there's like there's rules
to improv where you've got to keep the game going,
which is, you know, you have to you have to
have a certain level of positivity and playfulness too, which
is nice because you're unlocking some of the inner child
stuff as well. I just they say that stuff about
(50:11):
the captains. I just don't see it as something that
the captains maybe would benefit the most from, but I
maybe I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yeah, arguably, to interject your besiege, being at the point
of or being at the point in your career when
you attain the rank of captain means that you already
have some rhetorical, conversational, interpersonal acumen. Who I completely agree
with Matt's point, Like it goes back to what you
(50:41):
were saying the training, right, you can vilify people for
being in situations that they were not prepared for. They
were not trained to do that right. Like to Matt's
earlier example, there's nobody. There's a very small amount of
people on Earth who are trained and prepared for sudden
(51:02):
lightning strikes. It's just not a thing that comes up.
Like my earlier example about and again and again and again,
sorry wrestling alligators. You know what I mean, we've got
a nice through line here. I love the point that
you make too about about data.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
Do you see all this.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
As becoming something that might be replicated in other parts
of the country or do you is it dependent upond.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
There are folks from all over the country participating, like
even this in Canada that have you know, participated in
this program. So the jury is perhaps out in terms
of real hard data on you know, whether this actually
improves crime rates or reduces negative interactions, you know, between
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police and in the public or citizens. I will say
that I think it's funny in the photograph about comedy
and police, the show What's it called? Brooklyn ninety nine,
and in many other examples of you know, police stations
depicted in the pop culture, the chief or the captain
(52:15):
is the most humorless character in the show. He is
the absolute straight man, and that, you know, creates a
lot of less and it's a great role for folks
to bounce off all the wackiness of Andy Sanmdbriggs character
and all of his colleagues. But the captain on the
show does not get the joke most of the time.
And that is usually the case when you see captains
to pick it. They're usually very hard nosed, very aggressive,
(52:37):
and very humorless. And so I do wonder if perhaps
injecting a little bit more levity and making them listen
a little bit more and improving communication and yes ending
a little bit could potentially have a benefit from the
top on down to the street level.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
So well said, also, please, folks, if you're listening, don't
get into stand up.
Speaker 5 (53:01):
It's a painful life unless you're really really good at it.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Yeah, Sara, but then you have to be bad for
so long before you become good.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
And you have to be so tough, you have to
not be sensitive.
Speaker 5 (53:15):
And then I say that, But then I know there's
a lot of folks that push, push, push and make
it through and every heckle and every criticism absolutely hurts.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
So what they might say.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
Yeah, we love stand up, we love stand up comedy,
we love the high art of humor, empathy and wordplay.
And so I guess I should say, at least I'm
mainly joking when I tell people not to get into
stand up. It's just it's an investment of time. It's
like getting a pilot license. It will take longer than
(53:49):
you think. With that being said, shout out to our
colleague Sarah, who is just Sara France.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Yeah, she's really doing great.
Speaker 5 (53:58):
She's very funny and we've always liked you before she
went down that path, and we wish her the best
and hope to catch one of her sets out there
in Los Angeles very soon.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
I looked at the time and I was like, sheez,
I've gone long, and then I realized that I was
last today.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
I don't usually co last.
Speaker 5 (54:12):
So I will just briefly mention two other stories. One
the headline says it all one of Putin's cannibal soldiers
killed comrade to.
Speaker 3 (54:22):
Eat him for two weeks.
Speaker 5 (54:24):
The Russian soldier ate comrade's body for two weeks to survive,
then died. That is according to an intercepted phone call
by Ukraine between two Russian soldiers reportedly revealing the incidents.
I'm just gonna read the quick and dirty about this
one from Kronin Zeitung. We have a German paper, and
the ranks of the Russian arm forces is likely to
(54:46):
be more and more horrifying. Now it seems that a
soldier has eaten his comrade for several weeks. The most
recent conversation intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence personnel is a real
crime novel. The Ukrainian military intelligence service is shocked in
a statement Russians would conduct cannibalism against each other. The
translation here is nick in for some clunky reading here,
But let me see if I can find one other
(55:07):
source that shed a little bit more light on this.
And we an all love the New York Post always,
but let's just they've collated a lot of.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Different sources relatively reasonably.
Speaker 5 (55:17):
Here Russian soldiers kills eats comrade in a twisted attempt
to survive Ukraine War reporter. A Russian soldier on the
front lines in Ukraine murdered his comrade and ate the
corpse to survive the grim wartime conditions, only to end
up dying anyway. According to Kiev's military intelligence, a call
between two Russian soldiers who share the jar dropping story
of the cannibalistic Breloch who killed his countryman Foma was
(55:41):
allegedly intercepted by Ukraine's main directorate of intelligence. The quote here,
I'm just going to read it freeing hell. Brelock ate
him for me. Nobody went anywhere. Brelock took him out
and then ate him for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
Yike, Sorry, I.
Speaker 5 (55:59):
Said I was going to be bringing the joy in
this segment. No way, Holy my bald skull. Was Braylock
really found as a two hundred, the other person replied,
using Soviet ara slang for a soldier found killed in action.
Speaker 3 (56:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (56:16):
I mean, look, not trying to demonize Russian soldiers here.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
It just is the kind of.
Speaker 5 (56:23):
Thing that you just hear about so infrequently, and it
just really does cast such a pall over what is
already a horrific situation over there, you know, So I
just thought it was worth mentioning.
Speaker 4 (56:36):
And also, folks, check out our earlier episodes on cannibalism.
It's always been a at best a short term solution.
You cannot survive for a long time on human flesh
if you are yourself human. It leads to something called
rabbit starvation. We are very fun at parties, huh.
Speaker 5 (56:55):
Yup, But let's stand on a positive note, or at
least an interest. There's apparently a new blood type that's
been discovered. Scientists have identified a new blood group and
it is the world's rarest A frenchwoman from the Caribbean
island of Guadaloupe which is an island under French control,
has been identified as the only known carrier of a
(57:16):
new blood type, which is being called GUADA negative. Fifteen
years ago, during routine tests ahead of a surgery, her
blood was tested and determined to have contained some sort
of mutation, and so the French Blood Establishment has been
looking into it ever since, and now they're saying this,
the fs has just discovered the forty eighth blood group
(57:37):
system in the world. This discovery was officially recognized in
early June in Milan by the International Society of Blood Transfusion.
To the interesting part here, her genome was analyzed in
its entirety using high throughput DNA sequencing, which highlighted this
genetic mutation. She is the only person in the world
(57:59):
who is compatible with herself, said Theory pr a medical
biologist at that organization who was involved in the discovery
uh and described it as being very unusual.
Speaker 3 (58:10):
They are the antibody in any kings.
Speaker 5 (58:12):
So I'm not sure what this does for humanity, but
it is interesting and the fact that she is her
only potential blood donor not super great for this person
given a situation that would require transfusion new ingredients.
Speaker 3 (58:24):
Same great taste exactly new blood.
Speaker 4 (58:27):
Shout out, Matt, I thought of you reading this story
with dol brought it to us because Guada negative sounds
like a sick new flavor of monster energy.
Speaker 5 (58:36):
Oh my god, Like remember remember ja justa with guarana?
Speaker 3 (58:40):
Yes? Y yeah like that yeative love that.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
Yeah. In that situation, genuinely, would you go and have
to set up some kind of private donation or something
to where you donate your own blood to be stored
so that it could be used in the invent of
an emergency fail in.
Speaker 3 (58:59):
That come up?
Speaker 5 (59:01):
Yeah, Well, I don't know what family members.
Speaker 3 (59:03):
Though, would work. I think it depends, right.
Speaker 5 (59:07):
It does seem to be that it is exclusive to
this individual because of a mutation, so it's not it
would not work. Family members would not be able to donate,
So I think Matt's making a good point. It's not
addressed in any of the reporting that I read. The
name Guada negative, however, does refer to the island where
the patient comes from, and it is a phonetic you know.
Speaker 3 (59:30):
Translation of that.
Speaker 5 (59:31):
And while blood types are one thing, there are many
different blood groups and they have been identified and continue
to be identified due to the advent and escalation of
DNA sequencing, So new blood groups are being discovered all
the time. However, new blood types are exceedingly rare, right,
But there have been previous discoveries of rare let's call
(59:55):
them limited addition blood types.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
In the past.
Speaker 4 (59:58):
I think that's right, Benea for any fan of Guinness
Book of World Records or you know, consumption of blood. Uh,
there there are notable cases to your question, because you
asked an excellent question. Uh, what does this mean? How
does this apply? It teaches us something similar to what
(01:00:20):
you're asking, Matt. It teaches us the importance of understoring
our own blood.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Keep it, keep it. No, we talked about it off air,
and we're going to keep it because you should.
Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Or send it to us, send us your blood. Why, okay,
no sidetracking real quick, just since we're at the end here.
Why does everybody want blood donations? Why aren't people just
you know, reaching out and cold calling you and saying, hey,
do you want some blood?
Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
M would be nice.
Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
I will say that there's a really interesting point that
is made, and maybe it's obvious, but I just do
want to bring this up. In the Smithsonian magazine piece,
about this. It is European doctors who've been responsible for
many innovations in medicine and medical science, who first began
to attempt doing blood transfusions in the sixteen hundreds and
(01:01:18):
just couldn't figure out why things often went so poorly.
I mean, blood is blood, right, But then Karl Landsteiner
in the early nineteen hundreds discovered that blood has types
and groups. Discovery of blood groups, according to the Nobel
Prize Twitter account, completely changed the view on blood transfusions,
(01:01:39):
and it didn't take long before the first successful attempts
were made.
Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
I just you love to see that.
Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
That'savity thought, what an aha moment, right, Like, why is
everyone dying? It seems like it would work. Can you
imagine being that person and just only wanting to help
and continually running up against that problem and being absolutely frustrated,
just banging your head against the wall and not knowing
what to do.
Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
And you used to do it with genius HIGs and dogs.
Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
That's true, but I think there were definitely some disastrous
human cases as well.
Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
Yeah, call them areas of opportunity.
Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Guys. Now I'm looking at objects around the room and
just thinking, like, how much blood could I fit in
the springles can and would it store?
Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Let's find out.
Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
And check out Stuff of Genius for the difference between
storing what we call whole blood storing plasma. Check out
our episode on the Factor eight scandal, which shows us
just how important blood donation remains in modern evenings and
how dangerous it can become when we don't conduct science
(01:02:45):
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this to the fore. Was so much going on, it's
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