September 18, 2025 • 30 mins
We start off today discussing a huge cheating scandal in rock skimming and why 3 inches is just right, then we discuss why turning old malls into GenX retirement homes is a good idea, and how long could you survive in the quietest place on Earth?
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/orfield-labs-quiet-chamber
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
It is time believe your worries outside and laugh with
us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trey
Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Jerry cauld will be along shortly.
I have to admit something that's fairly embarrassing. My brain
(00:45):
tricked me today, trick me good and hard.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
How's that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I read a headline and I tricked myself into thinking
it was something other than it was. Okay, so I'm
going to read this headline to you, and then I'll
tell you how I misinterpreted it. A cheating scandal has
(01:16):
rocked the World Stone Skimming Championships. That headline tricked me
because I thought it meant a cheating scandal between contestants,
like they were cheating on their spouses with one another
and in collusion to fix the World Rock Skimming Championships.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It was less nefarious as far as personal matters, more
of a competitive cheating scandal because some of the competitives.
Some of the competitors were found to be using suspiciously
circular stones, and you're supposed to use natural ones. None
of this has anything to do with anybody's spouses. As
far as I know, This is how social media algorithms
(02:06):
can mess with your brain. It's been showing me too
much relationship ye stuff, and I've I started looking too
deep into a matter.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And it tricked me. So that's where I am.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And how long have white people been doing this sport?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's an excellent question. I didn't even know the answer
to that one.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And further record, that's not white bashing.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You're not saying it's bad that, you're not saying it's dumb.
And honestly, it's just stereotyping, good old fashioned stereotyping.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's okay, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Honestly, is it white?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Because it doesn't seem stupid enough to be just a
white only sport.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh, it's white skydiving, it's white.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Mountain climbing.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Mountain climbing is white skydiving. I think is kind of
if you don't have a fear of heights. I think
it's kind of open to everybody.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, but have you seen some of the videos where
they take like a trampoline up between yes, two hot
air balloons. You know, I I've that just reeks of
of Anglo.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's I don't think that's
ever been a black guy idea.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, it's like they had a TV show on called
Extreme Ironing. It was on for one season. I don't
know if you ever saw it, and it's people like
that would iron like on the side of a speedboat,
and I was like every episode, I'm like, here's the
whitest people in the world.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Sometimes, though, you can get that wrong, because if I
told you that there is a competitive bed making championship,
would you assume.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's white people? Nope? Who would you assume that is?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I would go Former Housekeeping, like fifteen year to twenty
year veteran, Hispanic male, Ok, maybe Hispanic female.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
They might have a few, so they might have a
few competitors. I don't know, but the Competitive bed Making
Championships was loaded with Asian.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Asian Oh Asian people too.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, I can see that as well. And I
tell you what, man, you want to see how to
make a fricking bed? My god?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, and that includes putting the comforter in the duvet
cover with the buttons.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Oh wow, I was I've seen a lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Things online that will blow my mind, but seeing someone
fill a duvet cover with a down comforter in seconds
every single time mind blown.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, when they when they do the when housekeeping comes
in here and they do my bed, it takes I
mean all of about three minutes and they're done, like
it's fantastic, Like it takes it takes them longer to
do like the bathroom stuff. Yeah, and it does for
the bet because they have that. It's down to a science.
And I've stood there, just just stood there with the
(04:54):
dog and just watch. I was like, look, I touched
my dog. I was like, you need to watch this.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
This is a ma. You're trying to tell your puppy
you don't know how good you have it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So anyway, the World Stone Skimming Championships were recently rocked
by a cheating scandal. Not cheating spouses that were competitors
or anything like that, now, just the actual rocks they
were using. Some competitors were found to be using suspiciously
circular stones. Here in the States, we typically refer to
(05:26):
it as stone skipping, but I guess across the pond
they call it stone Skimming Championships. According to the competition's rules,
stones must come from naturally occurring island slate and fit
through a device called the ring.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Of Truth.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
To ensure they are the right size.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'll tell you right now, it's pretty impressive that a
predominantly white sport would be brave enough to have any
item called the Ring of Truth to ensure they're the
right size. By the way, the Ring of Truth allows
for stones no bigger than three inches in diameter. So
maybe another reason why this is such a popular sport
(06:11):
among the whites.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I don't want to know how they measured the wrongs
with stones to find someone with four inches four inches.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I mean, but imagine the trash talking would just be legendary.
I skip with the stones from stone Hinge.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Their performance enhancing rocks.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yes, sorry, it was a competition hosted by the Rock.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That would be amazing. That's a beautiful branding opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The Rock Skimming Championships organizer said that when the offenders
were caught, they held their hands up and ultimately apologized.
They were eventually disqualified. He did say there was a
little bit of stone doctoring. They shaped it so that
it was perfectly circular and fitted our three inch measurer.
The problem was we didn't just notice at the time
(07:15):
that they were using suspiciously circular The event was held
in Scotland. It was actually eventually won by an American
Yay Go America named Jonathan Jennings. He managed to skip
his stones for a total of how many feet do
(07:38):
you think? How many feet do you think? American Jonathan
Jennings skipped a rock to become the world champion in
World rock skimming.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So he said, how many skips?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
How many feet?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
How many feet? Here eighty.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Raj?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And he guesses, op, he is so stunned. He locked up,
just like me the other day, Raj, What is your guess?
How many feet do you think? American World Rock Skimming Championship,
World rock Skimming Champion Jonathan Jennings skipped a stone to win?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
How many feet?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
How many feet?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Six and a half?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
All right, Trey's guess was eighty eighty feet? You are
both way way low this.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
This guy skipped a rock five hundred and eighty feet
roughly two football fields. Think about the longest skip you
ever got out of a stone. And now watch this
guy just a literated yes, because my number is zero.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You've never done it?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
No, you never?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Or is it because you tried and failed or you
just never even tried.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I've never seen the the reason to try to skip
a stone across water. Oh, my dad's never like, son,
let's let's go out by the pond and you know,
reminisce about things in the and then skip stone like
we didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It was commercial.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He didn't take you around the shoulders and pull you
in and say, today's son, I'm going to show you
some things. I'm going to show you some things that
every father shows his son.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
He did.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And then it was like math books and physics books
and calculator from.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
T I and you weren't allowed to skip any of those.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, Yeah, I'm incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I am absolutely stuck five hundred and eighty feet for
shooting a rock across the surface of a body of water.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That is stunning to me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
How big is that arm just one side? It's massive?
Or is he an ambidextrious skipper? I don't know how
that works. I don't know the categories. Is it like
you know, number of skips or length of y like
you're saying, is there purely?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's purely how far can it go?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, that's why Maybe it's that's why it called skimming,
because it's skimming off the top. They don't care how
many times it bounces.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, honestly because if if you're really thinking about it, though,
at five hundred and eighty feet, I don't think you'd
be able to physically count how many skips that stone makes,
Like you'd have to do it by computer or something.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, well, what's the what's the prize like for something
like that?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I was just more concerned about the uh, the cheating scandal. Okay,
it says here the competition does not involve millions in winnings.
It's held annually to raise money for local causes, including
several community projects and charities. So uh, basically bragging rights. Yeah,
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it's a charity event.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So not near as scandalous as the bass fishing you know,
tournament cheating that went on.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
No, because that was serious money involved, as we know
from years ago.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah, that involved stuff in weights down our.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Mouth, plus the stuff with the fish.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
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(12:14):
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A roofing guy, have you seen any zombie squirrels, any
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All Right, now that we've I've embarrassed myself enough about
(15:00):
misunderstanding a headline in the news very important, I'd like
to back that up with something really, really awesome. This
is a really great idea that I want to share
with you guys. Not my idea, just want not to
sall online, but I want to make sure we're all
aware of this. That's all great of an idea I
think it is. We've all dealt with aging throughout our lives.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We are all.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Getting to an age to where we're thinking about, you know,
how we're going to live out our golden years partly
because we've seen it with our own eyes our grandparents. Perhaps,
if we were lucky enough to see great grandparents in
nursing homes and such, we might be dealing with putting
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a parent in a nursing home soon, if not already
dealing with that type of scenario. And what to do
in the golden years is something that's kind of now
at the forefront of our minds, dealing with it with
family and thinking about the same time, what are we
going to do with ourselves? Right, And we've talked before
(16:03):
about how you know, nursing home retirement home for gen
X is probably gonna be fun because we're gonna have
some fun stuff in there. We'll probably have a bar,
We'll probably have some other types of activities. We'll probably
have video game video games setups and things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So I'm not entirely not looking forward to retirement home living.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But I saw a great idea the other day that
I think should catch on, and that is turning abandoned
malls into retirement homes. Three floors of pure nostalgia, food court, arcade,
Orange Julius Smoothies, and a movie theater showing classics on
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repeat and all.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
The women live in Forever twenty one.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Sure reclaires.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I can finally, I can finally get my piercing I've
been putting off. I don't know why this popped up,
but I have seen a couple of times. I think
it's all torn down now, But the old Colin Creek
Mall and Plano.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
There's a video.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There's like an account called Abandoned Malls or something like that,
and it showed the abandoned Colin Creek Mall. Then when
I saw the picture of this guy just holding a
sign saying abandoned mall should be turned into retiring into
retirement homes. Three floors of nostalgias like.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You get to reuse some real estate and we get
a cool environment in which to live out our golden years. Anyway,
I just thought that's a fantastic idea. No one's gonna
do it, but I wish they would. All the camember
all the people can hang out of things.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Remember it's the only store that's empty.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Why did I come in here?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You never have to stock new merchandise.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You don't, especially when you go in, especially when you
go into things remembered and you want to get something personalized,
which means you have to come back next week to
pick it up. You're just gotta have a wall full
of stuff with people's names on it that they never
pick up. It's going to be like those coke bottles
with someone's name, like Dimitria, just to have some of
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the residents run it. That'll never even get engraved. Yeah,
but you can through all the time.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But like the food court could be run by the
residents too, Like that'd be hilarious because if they just
forget your order, they're just going to keep making so
you just gotta pay one time.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Basically, the Orange Julius machine is just going to be
left open and it's just a matter of running a
cup underneath it every few seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, that would be Yeah. But like I like the
idea of a bar in a nursing home. The only
thing I saw that was close to that is when
I first moved back from LA I was just doing
quick like Uber Eats thing or Postmates, and I delivered
to a nursing home that was across from Valley View Mall,
across the highway, and I delivered from Specs and it
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was a hefty order and I was like, what is
going on? And they're like, oh, we have happy hour
every Friday, and I was like really lately, yeah, like
from five to seven thirty it's open bar and they
get the requests with what they like to drink, and.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Because not everyone in gen X is all about drinking,
because our generation was the first to be like drug,
let's do them. Next to the bar might be an
actual cannabis bar, like a microdosing mushroom stand or something.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And there's all sorts of possibilities that I feel.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Like gen X is going to embrace when it comes
to the nursing home lifestyle. But again, I just I
like the idea of doing an old an old mall
because we grew up in malls.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh yeah, malls were fun.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What better place to be stuck in until you die
than a place that you enjoyed as a child, because
it's sure as hell isn't gonna be Chucky cheese That
was not fun because for most of us, you grow
up then eventually, I like, even if you liked chuck
e cheese or showbiz pizza as a kid, then you
grew up, you had kids, and then you had to
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take them to those places and you don't want anything
to do with them anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The mall is still I think it's still in play trade.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
There's a reason.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
There's a reason that Chucky Cheese now serves beer.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yes, I think it always has.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Oh, I didn't know that interesting?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, they knew from the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And also, did you guys see the video of Chucky
Cheese getting arrested?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yes, yes, amazing. Did we not talk about that on
the show?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I had that on my list, And that's one of
the things I can ever remember, if we all, if
we talk about certain things I had that was it
happened in Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I think it was in.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Tampa, and it was Chucky Cheese being arrested for credit
card front Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But it wasn't the real Chucky Cheese, just the guy
put the Chuck E Cheese outfit on just to try
to fool the cops.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah. Yeah, that shows you how stupid he was. He
tried to He should have tried to crawl inside the animatronic.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
He should have gone in the ballpit that too, That's
a better.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Spot to hide.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
He's gonna come out with some sort of fungal disease.
You don't want to be in the ballpit they did like.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Better than the other ballpit. He's going to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
But my favorite part of that video, and it just
makes me laugh, is when they're just like literally telling
Chuck e Cheese to stop resisting.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I was like, that is hilarious to me. He's not trying,
he's not resisting. He can't get his He's.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Never worn the cost before, so he doesn't know how
to get his arms around comfortably.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It turns out the costumes a little more restrictive than
I guess he was planning. The thing I like to
think about is that's Florida. So it probably was not
the first Chucky Cheese they arrested, nor will it be
the last, Nor will it be the last. So Trey,
you look kind of skeptical. Are you not on board
with the retirement malls?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I mean, you know you could.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I mean, ice skating rink is going to be a morgue. Yeah,
I mean, and I guess you have different levels because
at a certain point, some people won't be able to
get to the second level, and.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Then some people, as you pointed out, should not be
allowed on the ice skating rink.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Oh, I think by that point the majority of people
yo broken hips of.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, or is that just where they throw you when
it's your time because it's already cold storage.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
You know that's I mean multiple uses.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, Jerry, it's time. It's time to go
to the ice drink.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
No, I still feel fine.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Oh that's a that's a great idea for a horror movie.
The ice rink.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And one of the five or six final destinations, I'm
certain they've done at least one scene at an ice drink.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
If not, then that's just opportunity.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, this could be like the nursing home version of
the Purge.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Once a year, they just let them go after each other.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I think. I think that's why they wear diapers.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's a different urge.
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Speaker 1 (24:06):
There's a lot of things I would consider doing for
a million dollars. But there's one thing that I don't
know if it's even an official competition or if it's
just you know, hyperbole. But are you guys familiar with
an anachoic chamber?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, so.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
For one million dollars, could you stay in the world's
quietest room for one night? The catches The room is
an anachoic chamber. The room is minus twenty four point
nine decibels, and that is so low that you'd be
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able to hear your own body's internal sounds, heartbeat, breathing,
even blood moving through your veins.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
That's going to be a note for me.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Supposedly, the longest that someone has been able to last
in one of these rooms is about an hour. I
initially saw this story because it's said, for one million dollars,
could you stay a night in this room? And no
one's been able to stay beyond an hour. And that's
even an extreme example. Most people can't make it fifteen
(25:27):
twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
How big is the room?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Uh, let me see if I can get you a
decent answer.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
An anacoic chamber is a specialized room designed to absorb
nearly all sound and electromagnetic waves, creating a nearly echo
free environment. These chambers are characterized by their sound absorbing
materials like foam or fiberglass wedges on the walls and ceiling.
They're used to conduct precise measurements of sound emitting devices
and electronic equipment by eliminating unwanted reflections. Visitors often find
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their resulting silence disorienting, as they can hear their own
internal body sounds, but they're also used for research and
testing in fields ranging from acoustics to electronics. The room
that I have seen is in Minnesota. It's ore Field
Laboratories in South Minneapolis, and it has been confirmed by
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the Guinness World Records as the quietest place on Earth.
It absorbs ninety nine point ninety nine percent of sound
based on the size. I'd say the size of a
good sized master closet or bathroom. And I don't know,
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and I don't know if there's a light on when
you're in.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
There, that's an even bigger no.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
By comparison, a typical quiet bedroom at night measures about
thirty decibels. This measure this chamber measures at minus twenty.
It's made of three point three foot thick fiberglass acoustic
wedges and double walls of insulated steel and foot thick concrete.
My god, this sounds like a nightmare. According to the
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place that runs the room orfield, they say, in the
anacoic chamber, you become the sound. One reporter lasted up
to forty five minutes, and most people leave after half
that time, tortured by the eerie sounds of their own body.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Ugh, I do not want to be left alone with
my own head for that long. That's from the sound
of it, no pun intended.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't think you would really be able to hear
your own thoughts over the noise of your own body.
They say, the only stay in the room for an
extended period of time is to sit down. A person's
orientation is largely secured by the sounds made when walking
or standing, and as those sound cues are taken away,
perception becomes skewed and balance and movement become almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Feats.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Ugh, I get in my mind, I just assumed you
laid down in it to begin with.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That would make sense, But yeah, the fact that no
one's been able to make it past an hour just
just sounds so. I mean, because it's one thing like
if you like you kind of feel your heartbeat, but
really being able to hear it is one thing.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Mouth noises at a normal room volume, like people slurping
and smacking and stuff that drives me off the wall.
I can't imagine. I don't think I would last five
minutes in this room because I don't like hearing moist
wet noises.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's all you are is a big ball of moist
wet noise. That's right.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The room is minus twenty four point nine decibels. The
only things lower than the decibels in this room are
the Eagles' latest ratings. If you're wondering, yes, that is
the reason why I wanted to read this story.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Huzzah.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
And no one can stay there for my very much
time either.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Time spent listening way down. Well, your long game is
certainly better than theirs.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
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Speaker 2 (29:49):
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It is time believe your worries outside and laugh with
us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trey
Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Jerry cauld will be along shortly.
I have to admit something that's fairly embarrassing. My brain
(00:45):
tricked me today, trick me good and hard.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
How's that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I read a headline and I tricked myself into thinking
it was something other than it was. Okay, so I'm
going to read this headline to you, and then I'll
tell you how I misinterpreted it. A cheating scandal has
(01:16):
rocked the World Stone Skimming Championships. That headline tricked me
because I thought it meant a cheating scandal between contestants,
like they were cheating on their spouses with one another
and in collusion to fix the World Rock Skimming Championships.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It was less nefarious as far as personal matters, more
of a competitive cheating scandal because some of the competitives.
Some of the competitors were found to be using suspiciously
circular stones, and you're supposed to use natural ones. None
of this has anything to do with anybody's spouses. As
far as I know, This is how social media algorithms
(02:06):
can mess with your brain. It's been showing me too
much relationship ye stuff, and I've I started looking too
deep into a matter.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And it tricked me. So that's where I am.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And how long have white people been doing this sport?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's an excellent question. I didn't even know the answer
to that one.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And further record, that's not white bashing.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You're not saying it's bad that, you're not saying it's dumb.
And honestly, it's just stereotyping, good old fashioned stereotyping.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's okay, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Honestly, is it white?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Because it doesn't seem stupid enough to be just a
white only sport.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh, it's white skydiving, it's white.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Mountain climbing.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Mountain climbing is white skydiving. I think is kind of
if you don't have a fear of heights. I think
it's kind of open to everybody.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, but have you seen some of the videos where
they take like a trampoline up between yes, two hot
air balloons. You know, I I've that just reeks of
of Anglo.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's I don't think that's
ever been a black guy idea.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, it's like they had a TV show on called
Extreme Ironing. It was on for one season. I don't
know if you ever saw it, and it's people like
that would iron like on the side of a speedboat,
and I was like every episode, I'm like, here's the
whitest people in the world.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Sometimes, though, you can get that wrong, because if I
told you that there is a competitive bed making championship,
would you assume.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's white people? Nope? Who would you assume that is?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I would go Former Housekeeping, like fifteen year to twenty
year veteran, Hispanic male, Ok, maybe Hispanic female.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
They might have a few, so they might have a
few competitors. I don't know, but the Competitive bed Making
Championships was loaded with Asian.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Asian Oh Asian people too.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, I can see that as well. And I
tell you what, man, you want to see how to
make a fricking bed? My god?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, and that includes putting the comforter in the duvet
cover with the buttons.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Oh wow, I was I've seen a lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Things online that will blow my mind, but seeing someone
fill a duvet cover with a down comforter in seconds
every single time mind blown.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, when they when they do the when housekeeping comes
in here and they do my bed, it takes I
mean all of about three minutes and they're done, like
it's fantastic, Like it takes it takes them longer to
do like the bathroom stuff. Yeah, and it does for
the bet because they have that. It's down to a science.
And I've stood there, just just stood there with the
(04:54):
dog and just watch. I was like, look, I touched
my dog. I was like, you need to watch this.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
This is a ma. You're trying to tell your puppy
you don't know how good you have it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So anyway, the World Stone Skimming Championships were recently rocked
by a cheating scandal. Not cheating spouses that were competitors
or anything like that, now, just the actual rocks they
were using. Some competitors were found to be using suspiciously
circular stones. Here in the States, we typically refer to
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it as stone skipping, but I guess across the pond
they call it stone Skimming Championships. According to the competition's rules,
stones must come from naturally occurring island slate and fit
through a device called the ring.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Of Truth.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
To ensure they are the right size.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'll tell you right now, it's pretty impressive that a
predominantly white sport would be brave enough to have any
item called the Ring of Truth to ensure they're the
right size. By the way, the Ring of Truth allows
for stones no bigger than three inches in diameter. So
maybe another reason why this is such a popular sport
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among the whites.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I don't want to know how they measured the wrongs
with stones to find someone with four inches four inches.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I mean, but imagine the trash talking would just be legendary.
I skip with the stones from stone Hinge.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Their performance enhancing rocks.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yes, sorry, it was a competition hosted by the Rock.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That would be amazing. That's a beautiful branding opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The Rock Skimming Championships organizer said that when the offenders
were caught, they held their hands up and ultimately apologized.
They were eventually disqualified. He did say there was a
little bit of stone doctoring. They shaped it so that
it was perfectly circular and fitted our three inch measurer.
The problem was we didn't just notice at the time
(07:15):
that they were using suspiciously circular The event was held
in Scotland. It was actually eventually won by an American
Yay Go America named Jonathan Jennings. He managed to skip
his stones for a total of how many feet do
(07:38):
you think? How many feet do you think? American Jonathan
Jennings skipped a rock to become the world champion in
World rock skimming.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So he said, how many skips?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
How many feet?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
How many feet? Here eighty.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Raj?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And he guesses, op, he is so stunned. He locked up,
just like me the other day, Raj, What is your guess?
How many feet do you think? American World Rock Skimming Championship,
World rock Skimming Champion Jonathan Jennings skipped a stone to win?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
How many feet?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
How many feet?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Six and a half?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
All right, Trey's guess was eighty eighty feet? You are
both way way low this.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
This guy skipped a rock five hundred and eighty feet
roughly two football fields. Think about the longest skip you
ever got out of a stone. And now watch this
guy just a literated yes, because my number is zero.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You've never done it?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
No, you never?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Or is it because you tried and failed or you
just never even tried.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I've never seen the the reason to try to skip
a stone across water. Oh, my dad's never like, son,
let's let's go out by the pond and you know,
reminisce about things in the and then skip stone like
we didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It was commercial.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He didn't take you around the shoulders and pull you
in and say, today's son, I'm going to show you
some things. I'm going to show you some things that
every father shows his son.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
He did.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And then it was like math books and physics books
and calculator from.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
T I and you weren't allowed to skip any of those.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, Yeah, I'm incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I am absolutely stuck five hundred and eighty feet for
shooting a rock across the surface of a body of water.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That is stunning to me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
How big is that arm just one side? It's massive?
Or is he an ambidextrious skipper? I don't know how
that works. I don't know the categories. Is it like
you know, number of skips or length of y like
you're saying, is there purely?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's purely how far can it go?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, that's why Maybe it's that's why it called skimming,
because it's skimming off the top. They don't care how
many times it bounces.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, honestly because if if you're really thinking about it, though,
at five hundred and eighty feet, I don't think you'd
be able to physically count how many skips that stone makes,
Like you'd have to do it by computer or something.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, well, what's the what's the prize like for something
like that?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I was just more concerned about the uh, the cheating scandal. Okay,
it says here the competition does not involve millions in winnings.
It's held annually to raise money for local causes, including
several community projects and charities. So uh, basically bragging rights. Yeah,
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it's a charity event.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So not near as scandalous as the bass fishing you know,
tournament cheating that went on.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
No, because that was serious money involved, as we know
from years ago.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah, that involved stuff in weights down our.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Mouth, plus the stuff with the fish.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
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about the tentacle bunnies, the Frankenstein bunnies, and recently we've
heard about the zombies squirrels. These are the ones with
(12:14):
pus filled wart sores on their heads, terrorizing backyards in
North America.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
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Speaker 1 (12:20):
A roofing guy, have you seen any zombie squirrels, any
any tentacle bunnies, any other creature that you've seen that
we need to let people know about, any any roof demons.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
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I'd be honest with you, if I saw one of
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All Right, now that we've I've embarrassed myself enough about
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misunderstanding a headline in the news very important, I'd like
to back that up with something really, really awesome. This
is a really great idea that I want to share
with you guys. Not my idea, just want not to
sall online, but I want to make sure we're all
aware of this. That's all great of an idea I
think it is. We've all dealt with aging throughout our lives.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
We are all.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Getting to an age to where we're thinking about, you know,
how we're going to live out our golden years partly
because we've seen it with our own eyes our grandparents. Perhaps,
if we were lucky enough to see great grandparents in
nursing homes and such, we might be dealing with putting
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a parent in a nursing home soon, if not already
dealing with that type of scenario. And what to do
in the golden years is something that's kind of now
at the forefront of our minds, dealing with it with
family and thinking about the same time, what are we
going to do with ourselves? Right, And we've talked before
(16:03):
about how you know, nursing home retirement home for gen
X is probably gonna be fun because we're gonna have
some fun stuff in there. We'll probably have a bar,
We'll probably have some other types of activities. We'll probably
have video game video games setups and things like that.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So I'm not entirely not looking forward to retirement home living.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But I saw a great idea the other day that
I think should catch on, and that is turning abandoned
malls into retirement homes. Three floors of pure nostalgia, food court, arcade,
Orange Julius Smoothies, and a movie theater showing classics on
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repeat and all.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
The women live in Forever twenty one.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Sure reclaires.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I can finally, I can finally get my piercing I've
been putting off. I don't know why this popped up,
but I have seen a couple of times. I think
it's all torn down now, But the old Colin Creek
Mall and Plano.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
There's a video.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There's like an account called Abandoned Malls or something like that,
and it showed the abandoned Colin Creek Mall. Then when
I saw the picture of this guy just holding a
sign saying abandoned mall should be turned into retiring into
retirement homes. Three floors of nostalgias like.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You get to reuse some real estate and we get
a cool environment in which to live out our golden years. Anyway,
I just thought that's a fantastic idea. No one's gonna
do it, but I wish they would. All the camember
all the people can hang out of things.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Remember it's the only store that's empty.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Why did I come in here?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
You never have to stock new merchandise.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You don't, especially when you go in, especially when you
go into things remembered and you want to get something personalized,
which means you have to come back next week to
pick it up. You're just gotta have a wall full
of stuff with people's names on it that they never
pick up. It's going to be like those coke bottles
with someone's name, like Dimitria, just to have some of
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the residents run it. That'll never even get engraved. Yeah,
but you can through all the time.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But like the food court could be run by the
residents too, Like that'd be hilarious because if they just
forget your order, they're just going to keep making so
you just gotta pay one time.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Basically, the Orange Julius machine is just going to be
left open and it's just a matter of running a
cup underneath it every few seconds.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, that would be Yeah. But like I like the
idea of a bar in a nursing home. The only
thing I saw that was close to that is when
I first moved back from LA I was just doing
quick like Uber Eats thing or Postmates, and I delivered
to a nursing home that was across from Valley View Mall,
across the highway, and I delivered from Specs and it
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was a hefty order and I was like, what is
going on? And they're like, oh, we have happy hour
every Friday, and I was like really lately, yeah, like
from five to seven thirty it's open bar and they
get the requests with what they like to drink, and.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Because not everyone in gen X is all about drinking,
because our generation was the first to be like drug,
let's do them. Next to the bar might be an
actual cannabis bar, like a microdosing mushroom stand or something.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And there's all sorts of possibilities that I feel.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Like gen X is going to embrace when it comes
to the nursing home lifestyle. But again, I just I
like the idea of doing an old an old mall
because we grew up in malls.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh yeah, malls were fun.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What better place to be stuck in until you die
than a place that you enjoyed as a child, because
it's sure as hell isn't gonna be Chucky cheese That
was not fun because for most of us, you grow
up then eventually, I like, even if you liked chuck
e cheese or showbiz pizza as a kid, then you
grew up, you had kids, and then you had to
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take them to those places and you don't want anything
to do with them anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The mall is still I think it's still in play trade.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
There's a reason.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
There's a reason that Chucky Cheese now serves beer.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yes, I think it always has.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Oh, I didn't know that interesting?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, they knew from the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And also, did you guys see the video of Chucky
Cheese getting arrested?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yes, yes, amazing. Did we not talk about that on
the show?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I had that on my list, And that's one of
the things I can ever remember, if we all, if
we talk about certain things I had that was it
happened in Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I think it was in.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Tampa, and it was Chucky Cheese being arrested for credit
card front Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But it wasn't the real Chucky Cheese, just the guy
put the Chuck E Cheese outfit on just to try
to fool the cops.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah. Yeah, that shows you how stupid he was. He
tried to He should have tried to crawl inside the animatronic.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
He should have gone in the ballpit that too, That's
a better.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Spot to hide.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
He's gonna come out with some sort of fungal disease.
You don't want to be in the ballpit they did like.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Better than the other ballpit. He's going to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
But my favorite part of that video, and it just
makes me laugh, is when they're just like literally telling
Chuck e Cheese to stop resisting.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I was like, that is hilarious to me. He's not trying,
he's not resisting. He can't get his He's.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Never worn the cost before, so he doesn't know how
to get his arms around comfortably.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It turns out the costumes a little more restrictive than
I guess he was planning. The thing I like to
think about is that's Florida. So it probably was not
the first Chucky Cheese they arrested, nor will it be
the last, Nor will it be the last. So Trey,
you look kind of skeptical. Are you not on board
with the retirement malls?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I mean, you know you could.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I mean, ice skating rink is going to be a morgue. Yeah,
I mean, and I guess you have different levels because
at a certain point, some people won't be able to
get to the second level, and.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Then some people, as you pointed out, should not be
allowed on the ice skating rink.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Oh, I think by that point the majority of people
yo broken hips of.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, or is that just where they throw you when
it's your time because it's already cold storage.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
You know that's I mean multiple uses.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, Jerry, it's time. It's time to go
to the ice drink.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
No, I still feel fine.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Oh that's a that's a great idea for a horror movie.
The ice rink.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
And one of the five or six final destinations, I'm
certain they've done at least one scene at an ice drink.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
If not, then that's just opportunity.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, this could be like the nursing home version of
the Purge.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Once a year, they just let them go after each other.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I think. I think that's why they wear diapers.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's a different urge.
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Speaker 1 (24:06):
There's a lot of things I would consider doing for
a million dollars. But there's one thing that I don't
know if it's even an official competition or if it's
just you know, hyperbole. But are you guys familiar with
an anachoic chamber?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, so.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
For one million dollars, could you stay in the world's
quietest room for one night? The catches The room is
an anachoic chamber. The room is minus twenty four point
nine decibels, and that is so low that you'd be
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able to hear your own body's internal sounds, heartbeat, breathing,
even blood moving through your veins.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
That's going to be a note for me.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Supposedly, the longest that someone has been able to last
in one of these rooms is about an hour. I
initially saw this story because it's said, for one million dollars,
could you stay a night in this room? And no
one's been able to stay beyond an hour. And that's
even an extreme example. Most people can't make it fifteen
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twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
How big is the room?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Uh, let me see if I can get you a
decent answer.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
An anacoic chamber is a specialized room designed to absorb
nearly all sound and electromagnetic waves, creating a nearly echo
free environment. These chambers are characterized by their sound absorbing
materials like foam or fiberglass wedges on the walls and ceiling.
They're used to conduct precise measurements of sound emitting devices
and electronic equipment by eliminating unwanted reflections. Visitors often find
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their resulting silence disorienting, as they can hear their own
internal body sounds, but they're also used for research and
testing in fields ranging from acoustics to electronics. The room
that I have seen is in Minnesota. It's ore Field
Laboratories in South Minneapolis, and it has been confirmed by
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the Guinness World Records as the quietest place on Earth.
It absorbs ninety nine point ninety nine percent of sound
based on the size. I'd say the size of a
good sized master closet or bathroom. And I don't know,
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and I don't know if there's a light on when
you're in.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
There, that's an even bigger no.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
By comparison, a typical quiet bedroom at night measures about
thirty decibels. This measure this chamber measures at minus twenty.
It's made of three point three foot thick fiberglass acoustic
wedges and double walls of insulated steel and foot thick concrete.
My god, this sounds like a nightmare. According to the
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place that runs the room orfield, they say, in the
anacoic chamber, you become the sound. One reporter lasted up
to forty five minutes, and most people leave after half
that time, tortured by the eerie sounds of their own body.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Ugh, I do not want to be left alone with
my own head for that long. That's from the sound
of it, no pun intended.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't think you would really be able to hear
your own thoughts over the noise of your own body.
They say, the only stay in the room for an
extended period of time is to sit down. A person's
orientation is largely secured by the sounds made when walking
or standing, and as those sound cues are taken away,
perception becomes skewed and balance and movement become almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Feats.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Ugh, I get in my mind, I just assumed you
laid down in it to begin with.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That would make sense, But yeah, the fact that no
one's been able to make it past an hour just
just sounds so. I mean, because it's one thing like
if you like you kind of feel your heartbeat, but
really being able to hear it is one thing.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Mouth noises at a normal room volume, like people slurping
and smacking and stuff that drives me off the wall.
I can't imagine. I don't think I would last five
minutes in this room because I don't like hearing moist
wet noises.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's all you are is a big ball of moist
wet noise. That's right.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The room is minus twenty four point nine decibels. The
only things lower than the decibels in this room are
the Eagles' latest ratings. If you're wondering, yes, that is
the reason why I wanted to read this story.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Huzzah.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
And no one can stay there for my very much
time either.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Time spent listening way down. Well, your long game is
certainly better than theirs.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
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