Explain It To Me Like I’m Five(Hour 2)

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And a little bit.

We're going to get into an interesting topic here where we got what can't you wrap your head around no matter how many times it's explained to you.

There got some good ones in there too.

Can't wait.

We'll get into that a little bit later.

But right now kicking things off.

A couple of interesting notes here.

One of the more, I would say one of the greater directors, but there's a lot of great directors out there.

I would say one of the more visionary directors.

One of the more directors, everything I was saying about actors or anybody else in their career that pushes themselves more and more where they could just sit back on their laurels.

Christopher Nolan has done this his whole career.

He could easily be doing superhero movies or certain things.

And not to say there's anything wrong with that, but he just doesn't take days off this guy.

When he has a new movie released, you can guarantee that if he's not at the release party, it's because he's working on another film.

He's just constantly working, constantly trying to push himself.

And there's that, and then there's his next project.

And it's a good thing Tom Holland is a part of this one and that Deadline already posted it because Tom Holland might have ruined this and everything already.

And I like Tom Holland.

I like Tom Holland.

I like Tom Holland.

Christopher Nolan's new film for Universal is The Odyssey.

An adaptation of the epic poem composed by Homer around the 8th century BCE the studio has revealed.

Wow.

He's going to the source.

Yeah.

Literally like of like most of Western literature starts with the Odyssey and the Elliott.

The ancient Greek poem is one of the foundational texts of Western literature.

You can tell us a story of Odessius.

Odessius.

Odessius.

Odessius.

A story that you don't need me to explain.

I imagine most people know it by now.

But this is going to be brought to IMAX.

It is going to be an IMAX made film.

So it is one of those films that you're going to want to see in theaters.

Wow.

And it is, and everything that he is saying and talking about,

it's looking like this is going to be nobody's seen telling like this of it.

A more detailed telling of Homer's Odyssey than this.

Wow.

Odessius.

That is an epic poem.

So it's going to obviously be an epic film by definition.

But man, if he's talking about details, how long is this thing going to be?

Is it going to break it into two parts, I think, because that's a long.

There's a lot of details in that poem.

And knowing him, it's probably going to be two films.

Because I mean, you can't do it in one.

Yeah.

You can't.

This isn't the first time this has been done.

Going back to 54, the Italian film directed by the great Mario Kamarini,

starring Kirk Douglas.

You can go back to the 97 miniseries directed by with Amanda Sante in it.

Which was very good by the way.

Yeah.

That was a good program.

Yeah.

Currently Ralph Fines and Julia Pinocchio are playing Odessius and Penelope in the play of the return.

Oh.

Cool.

This isn't the first certainly time this is going on.

And you can go back to even different tellings of the Odyssey with Cold Mountain

from some years ago, both the novel and the film.

Speaking of Jude Law, Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, I believe.

Oh, no.

Renee Zellweiger.

I watched Cold Mountain and I was watching it to be honest with you,

because my girlfriend at the time wanted to see it.

I was blowing away.

Really good movie.

Really good movie.

Yeah.

And of course, the Cohen Brothers overall the route, though.

Yes.

And I have to loosely base on the Odyssey.

But yes.

And so I don't get in trouble with Seth and Laura Star Trek Odyssey.

I know.

As previously announced, Nolan's latest film will start just a couple of people.

Tom Holland is in this one, Matt Damon and Half the Ways and Daya,

Robert Pattinson, Lou Payton and Noah.

Shari Starran.

She's everybody.

Why don't they just put everybody?

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, they're going to need a very big cast, too.

So.

And the story settled on by the filmmaker is far afield from the rumors of the subject matter.

They are going to be sticking to the original play it looks like.

Wow.

Let's expect to start shooting early next year, making Nolan's second film for Universal

on the heels of Best Picture, of course, of Oppenheimer from some years ago.

Come two years ago.

Man, this is something to anticipate.

I know it's going to take him years to make this thing, but.

Oh, wow.

I mean, I love the idea.

So Christopher Nolan, like you were saying, James, has never lacked for ambition.

Yeah.

I mean, like the first films he made when he was just a first filmmaker were difficult films.

You know, Memento, that's a, that's a tough film.

The follow because of the time jumps and everything like that.

But he stuck to his guns and he's always done that.

And he's created some really remarkable things.

So I think anybody can make a movie like Joker and those movies.

I'm sorry.

It's Todd Phillips is amazing director.

And I work with him in his heartbeat.

But to make amusing a movie that doesn't have any point, you know, that's a, that's, I am the walrus or something.

That is, that is just a bunch of jar, jargon and everything.

And that's, again, the Beatles, some of the greatest songwriters of all time.

But even they did silliness sometimes or things to try to confuse their listeners or critics and stuff.

Yeah.

I think for every director that tries to hard, that M Night Shyamalan in his, in his prime there,

where he's trying to make everything a twist in some of these things.

There are the people you don't have, it's, it's effortless because this is just who they are.

Salvador Dali didn't try to be different.

He just was.

Christopher Nolan has just made different man.

And so is Les Paul.

Yes, he was.

He was something else.

And the great article in WPR encouraged you to check out Jonah Belkis does good reporting over there.

Great article.

I want you to read this one.

Just going to give you the cliff notes of it and everything.

A foundation for music legend, Wisconsin native Les Paul wants to make music more accessible.

And he, they are working at this one.

Good.

Long before Les Paul won Grammy Awards and entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He was growing up in Walker Shaw and taking piano lessons.

Really?

Well, I got to start somewhere.

One day his teacher sent him home with a note pinned to his shirt.

I, I, I never got to experience that, but I, I kind of feel like that will happen to be a lot growing up.

Paul believed he was a great piano student.

He could play anything.

He was sure the note was so his teacher couldn't let his mom know how well he was doing.

His mom and no, let him, let her know how well.

But the note conveyed a different message.

And Sue Becker, program director for Les Paul Foundation noted.

He got home, quote, he got home and his mother unpin the note from his shirt.

And it read immediately, and she immediately tore it up.

She said, don't listen to your teacher.

She thinks you can't play piano.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Oh, wow.

And his mom leaned down and looked at Les and said, you're going to be great.

Oh, good mom.

The prediction from Paul's mother proved correct.

Yeah.

She discouraged him from playing an instrument like the trombone because he needed an instrument

that let him talk to the audience.

So he landed on guitars.

Guitar, yes.

Of course, everything of the rest is history.

Oh, man.

Paul is the only person to be both the national inventors in the National Inventors Hall of Fame

and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Which is amazing.

Let that just sit there for a second.

Yeah.

That's incredible.

He was one of those guys.

He didn't get the sound he wanted.

So he made a device.

He built a machine.

Yes, exactly.

That's how he was the first musician recording musician to use overdubs.

He invented a good, you know, the solid body guitar.

Which is a staple of a solid body electric guitar, I should say.

Which is staple of rock and I mean, you know, there's a guitar called the Les Paul.

The Gibson Les Paul.

Yep.

Which is one of the considered one of the great electric guitars, you know, that you can get.

So I mean, his accomplishments were astounding.

I also think it's worth noting that he had a note pinned to him.

He didn't read it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like he could have just unpinned the note and read it and then pinned it back on.

It's not like he wasn't going to do that.

It was the first thought I had.

It was the first.

That's what James would have done.

Yeah, I've said.

I don't, I like to think I wouldn't have, but I don't know.

Me as a young kid.

I probably would have.

I mean, maybe it was in a sealed envelope and you would have had to steam it open.

Yeah.

And that would have taken time, but it's doable.

I didn't even think of it.

I think that's a wonderful note on this story.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Good for you Les Paul.

No, that's actually really cool on that.

Baker said that the point is the quickest way for someone to understand Les Paul's life and career.

If you, if you just understand he's in the inventors hall of fame and the rock roll hall of fame.

And it also is a big note on where we're going with this because Baker joined the Larry Myers show

to share stories about Paul's life and explain the continuing work of the foundation that he has started,

which includes raising funds for hearing loss research and offering grants to nonprofit groups.

Oh, wow.

I didn't know they did that.

I'm making sure kids that are discouraged or come from poor areas are getting instruments and are learning music.

How to read music.

Yeah.

How to understand music.

And none of the foundation is about, hey, you're good at this.

Hey, you're bad at this.

No.

It's all about knowledge.

And they're working to do even more in the next couple of years and everything.

Again, the article is wonderful.

Go to wpr.org.

Check that out.

It's a very cool article, everybody.

Man.

He was, uh, he was an original one of a kind and man he lived forever.

Yeah.

He was like 102.

I think when he passed away, something like that.

Amazing.

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Taking a look at new movies in the theaters.

Some of these movies have been out for a week or two and some of them just coming out.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is in theaters.

That is doing extremely well.

There is also the movie Mufasa, the Lion King, right?

It does look like that is probably going to talk box office numbers on Monday a little bit more.

But that does look like, well, that started out slow.

That's doing better now.

And it may be the overall Christmas, the king of the Christmas box office and everything.

It's been more steady than the others.

Which is fascinating to me because it is interesting.

I'm not saying this as a comment on these things or anything.

I'm saying that it just isn't honest a reaction to this.

I have not met one person that has seen the live action films of any of these.

Not just the Lion King, like any of them.

I don't know anybody who's in the game.

I don't think I have.

The little mermaid, any of these things that they're doing.

I'm wondering, is Disney pulling a hustle on us?

They just made the trailers.

They didn't really make these movies.

They're just showing up in theaters and it's just an insured scam or something.

Because I don't know anybody who has seen them.

Yet they do well.

They've done fairly the worst one.

They've still made its money back.

None of them are bombs.

Right, right.

That's true.

And I have to remember now.

I have seen one.

I just realized that.

Which means that that's how memorable it was.

I saw the live action Aladdin with Will Smith as the genie and all that stuff.

It wasn't bad, but it's not going to make me forget the animated version.

Like, none of them are going to decide.

No, not at all.

Regardless of how good they are.

But I was also going to say that I know my brother and his kids have seen Aladdin

because he purchased it.

There are family YouTube accounts.

Which is there.

And I was going to watch it the other night, but I watched something else.

Oh, I watched Violet Night instead.

Melissa is just for our thing.

You just teed me up perfectly.

Christmas night.

I was dressed.

That's surprising to anybody.

It was late late and everybody was, you know, tucked in, took the Sam out and everything.

I wanted something out of the background.

And I thought about our director's cut talking about it and everything.

And I'm a big, big fan of David Harbour.

Yes.

Yes.

Big fan of his and everything.

So I pulled up Violet Night.

I pulled up and I watched it.

Nice.

I don't know if I've had a recommendation from Melissa or not.

But a couple actually.

Yeah.

A couple.

Great movie.

I love it.

Yeah.

I did not know John Lake was almost in it.

Yes.

That's one of my guys.

I'll see everything he does.

That's one of my main men.

I like him.

That was awesome.

He did a good bad guy in the movie.

He's such a good bad guy.

He's very good at it.

It's very.

He's a hateable bad guy.

He's very, he's usually a little tongue in cheek with it.

And he was with this too.

The movie is tongue in cheek.

And if you go into it just for fun and you're an adult.

Right.

You're realizing it's violence.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it's in the title, I mean.

Yeah.

But that doesn't always tell.

I got to say, just as a quick, quick side note.

I really love some of the history of Santa.

They included in it.

Yes.

And David Harboh is a really good Santa.

Like he's a great Santa.

I've been really good performance.

According to Melissa, he's a very good Santa.

I said he was hot.

What's wrong with that?

Nothing.

I just, I found it amusing.

That's all.

Hot in a way that, uh, Russell, Kurt Russell is not.

You have to listen to the director's cut.

Yes.

To get full context.

I got the latest episode of the director's cut.

Everybody knows Farat too is in theaters as well.

If you're looking for a more of a horror end of things.

This is the, uh, it is, uh, apparently like a throwback

to the original film, the original film.

Yes.

From 1922.

I want to see it just because of that.

I want to see.

Yes.

How they incorporated, you know, from that, because it's,

it's sort of based on Dracula, but it's not.

There's a lot of differences.

So the fire inside is out.

Uh, that's based on boxer Chelsea, uh, Clarissa Shields.

Uh, she trained for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Uh, Brian Tyree Henry is in this as her coach.

I love him.

He's green.

Uh, and the young lady Ryan, uh, Destiny does, looks like she does a really good job at it too.

Cool.

It's a boxing movie.

I have to see it.

Um, didn't know that, uh, a complete, uh, complete unknown.

During Timothy Shilome is Bob Dylan.

We talked about this earlier.

L Fanning at Norton, uh, uh, Boyd Holbrooke are all in it.

Uh, an incredible performance.

Wow.

Performance is all around.

Ed Norton's guardian getting no to right are getting nominations.

So I think I'm going to get nominated.

Ed Norton is citing.

Man.

Man.

He doesn't do much anymore.

But it's, uh, it's an incredible performance.

And, uh, in limited release right now, Better Man, uh, which is the, uh, the life story of British

pop star, Robbie Williams, but with him shown as a chimpanzee from, like, Planet of the

Apes sort of thing.

Uh, he, he did this in part because he, oh, he says, quote, I always felt less devolved back

then.

And, uh, the, the, I don't know if I'll see it, I'll be honest.

But the trailer and everything, like, I, I don't get to do this very often.

I'm complimenting them.

Like, well done.

Well done.

Take, taking a bio and doing something different with it.

Very different.

Everything is parody in entertainment and, and the movie industry may be the worst at it.

No, this is really big.

Oh, and then a year later, they're doing it where it, of course, is, you know, a lost

touch or whatever.

And biopics are a real big thing right now and have been for a while.

But to do it differently, like, British pop star has a rise to fame than a fall blah,

blah, blah, blah.

We know that story like it's on the back of our hand, right?

They're trying to tell it differently.

Mm-hmm.

And there is an accountability of, uh, that Rob Williams is trying to have with this, I

think.

Yep.

Um, that, that I, I appreciate, um, one of the things that gets missed on these biographies

all the time is the, the true, they think that they're being really hard and honest and

giving a real hard look at themselves and, no, they had messy hair one day.

Like, you know, it's like, okay, that isn't really giving us what, you know, the, the

true story.

What we want to see in these things is, okay, I know your hits, I know your successes.

We want to see your struggles in those things.

We want to see what makes you human.

That's what we want more and more, right?

No different than what I say about James Bond taking a punch, audiences want it from their

stars as well.

It looks like there's a lot of accountability, a lot of that in this, which it, it's just

interesting.

And then the way they chose to do it, yeah, it's, I, I don't know if I'm interested in,

like you said, the, the movie, but I like the idea of taking a chance and maybe, um, showing

a path forward for doing these in a little bit different way, right?

Yeah.

It is a movie.

You don't have to, you know, do it straight up.

Yeah.

If you want a biography biography, you write a biography, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

These movies, you can actually do a documentary on first or something like that.

Uh, I, I think that, uh, also, uh, it just shows the evolution of CGI and all these things

because it is incredible, the, the, the facial expressions and everything that the actor,

I, I can't think of the name of the actor, the plays, Robbie, but, or maybe it is, it,

it's just incredible.

The facial expressions and everything, it's, I, I never saw the plan of the, the apes

movies.

It's not my thing.

But I've seen the trailers.

I've seen enough scenes from it and everything.

Those are really well done.

I've never seen anything like that, like what they're doing in this movie with the facial

expressions, the movements and everything.

He truly does look like a human being as a monkey.

Like it's really well.

Interesting.

That stuff is interesting.

Yeah, that's fascinating.

Again, being honest with everybody, I don't know if I'm going to see it, but I love and

I compliment and I applaud the attempt and try new things, man.

I hope, I hope it's very, I hope at the very least it makes its money back so that we

can see more things like this because all Hollywood executives are waiting for us, this movie

to bomb.

And then they never have to do it again, you know, and that kind of thing.

So we'll see.

We'll see more as we come back.

We got some great stuff lined up for you, everybody.

We're going to ask you, what is something, you know, some, what, what a little bit after

our news break.

What can't you wrap your head around?

But no matter how many times people explain it to you, yeah, that's coming up in a little

bit on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

One to throw this one in there, throw it out, throw it, throw it, mix it up a little

bit.

Yeah, mix it up a little.

Throw it in there.

And I wanted to hear some Mel Tormag going to be honest.

Not a bad thing.

We'll have new bumpers on Monday, so we'll get, we'll get back to the regular things

there.

Oh, we'll get to, I like the Christmas ones quite a bit.

I do too, but yeah, I think it's time to change.

Part of what we love about them is that we only get them for a couple of weeks and

over the year.

We have some fun with them.

Our story to take you into our news break is important journalism that we have to cover

and it involves breaking records, of course.

Of course.

Of course.

We are the home of Dolly Parton news, breaking record news, and of course Central Wisconsin

news, most specifically, most importantly, Central Wisconsin news.

Yeah, we cover some of the things too.

Speed eater, Leah Scuttantr, Scuttever, took home a New Guinness World record title when

she consumed 49 grams of green cotton candy in 60 seconds.

Oh, wow.

From her, why is it green?

It's a good question.

The plate was put in front of her and she's like, why is it green?

It was, it was quite grinchy, they said.

That is hilarious.

Oh, my goodness.

A, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

they were trying to kind of get into the season of things.

Shakur would have to eat at least 45 grams of the grinch colored treat to beat the world

record.

Quote, I have sticky fingers in a very, very sticky face, but she broke the record.

Wow.

She goes, but you know what?

It was worth it.

It was absolutely delicious.

Oh, my gosh.

The competitive eater, I say that in quotes, has also set records for consuming 19 chicken

nuggets and 10 jelly donuts in one minute and three minutes, respectively.

So she did the chicken nugget thing in one minute and the 10 jelly donuts in three

minutes, 29 in one minute.

Wow.

That's a lot.

That's a lot of chicken nuggets, man.

So I, um, I, I feel like I missed my calling, you guys, um, uh, growing up, my Nana

Papa would make fun of me all the time and call me a vacuum because it just inhaled

my food.

Mm-hmm.

I should have been doing this just a little taste on the way down and you're done.

I, I, I don't, I don't know what would be the most delicious food or the most fun food

to do.

I'm not even saying break the record.

I'm just trying just to give it a shot.

Like, I've made it very clear how I feel about donuts on the air here and everything.

I love the idea of, oh, guys, oh, everybody, I'm retiring from radio.

I'm going to be dedicating my life to be able to break the world record from most donuts

eaten in a minute.

Like, and, and, you know, what, as long as I can pay my bills, like, what's the downside?

What?

Um, I, I have a downside for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Amanda, painting donuts.

Yeah, yeah.

That's true.

Because see, that's the thing.

I wouldn't want to eat something that I like in a eating competition and about the only

thing we've ever talked about that would even remotely, remotely, interest me in trying

would be cotton candy.

Oh, okay.

Interesting.

Because it melts in your mouth.

That's true.

Oh, that's true.

That's a good point.

No.

And I've seen somebody like take and shove cotton candy and their mouth really fast.

It's actually kind of funny to watch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Entertainment value.

Yeah.

It's a, it's an interesting point, Melissa.

Um, I, I think that, um, you know, you want to do this and you, you're going to be pertraining

at this.

So you, you want to like what you're eating a bit, but you probably don't want to like

it too much into the point of not getting tired of it as well.

So, uh, to me, for me, personally, cotton candy might be a good, uh, middle ground there

because I don't, I don't hate cotton candy, but I don't go out of my way to eat it.

Well, no, like, once a year at the fair, that's great.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

I can see that being a good one right there.

Right.

I think that's a good one.

Uh, I, personally, I feel that way like, uh, I like skittles, but I don't eat them that

often.

Oh my goodness.

That would be a horrible, horrible thing to eat in a contest.

Yeah.

It does.

Okay.

This is something.

You just have to swallow them.

Oh, yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh god.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's hard to eat.

Oh, yeah.

So because salad.

Yeah.

Like chicken nuggets that's.

Leg of lamb.

Take a bite.

And water with it.

Yeah.

To get it down.

Or even dunk it in the water.

Which, as a side note, is it might as well be cheating in my book.

That's not an eating competition.

If you're, they didn't do that with the pies back in the day or anything like that.

Like to me, I don't think that any one of these records should count with the eating.

If you're doing the whole dunk it in the water and everything.

Like that's something we do as kids.

Like, that shouldn't count.

I'm telling you.

There's that.

It's something's rotten in the state of competitive eating.

That's what I say.

Yeah.

We will take a quick time out, check in with our news and sports break.

We'll check in with our partners.

We'll come back and we're talking about that.

Those, those things that you hear about, but you cannot wrap your mind around no matter how many times they're explained to you.

Yeah.

Eating contest.

Like eating contest.

Yeah.

It's nicely done.

We'll be back for a show of Mortic Show at WFHR.

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Get into this one right here.

Now, there is a whole meme where people desperately ask others to explain things to them.

Like, like, they're five.

And I don't know if this gets credit enough, but especially with this birthday coming up this week.

And I believe that that stems from the movie Philadelphia, where Denzel Washington is telling Tom Hanks a couple of times.

And he says it wants to the jury, I believe.

Okay, explain it to me like I'm a seven-year-old or something like that.

Right.

So that has been going on around.

People are talking about the main subjects like this.

I bring up often when we have mid-day magazine guests on that are able to do this.

But big names as far as like Bill Nye or Neil DeGress Tyson.

People can explain a black hole and even I can understand.

Yeah.

And things like that.

And then there are things that those people will explain.

And even still, I don't understand it.

So this is a list of that.

Things that don't matter.

How many times they're explained to us, we cannot wrap our minds around.

Okay.

Like, like, how?

I don't see it on the list here.

So I'm going to go ahead and bring up how we keep losing that one sock.

You guys, growing up poor, you don't lose socks.

You can't.

So for me, growing up, my mom taught us, okay, every time you take your socks off

and you can throw them in the laundry or whatever, you put them together.

You put them together.

Put them together.

Still lose socks.

Still.

That's going to happen, man.

Don't get it.

I don't know what happens between the washer and the dryer.

I want to know.

We have other things on the list.

It doesn't look like these are in any particular order.

But I'm going to start from at the bottom.

And for some reason, there's 18.

Like, I don't know.

That's random.

That's okay.

All right.

But we go at 18 is folding a fidget sheet.

There's some, you know.

It's doable.

I know it's doable.

I have seen my wife do it.

I still can't do it.

I can't do it.

But there are levels of being able to fold the fidget sheet too.

I have seen people who can get it as flat as a flat sheet once it's folded.

Which is super impressive.

I can't do that.

But I can't at least get it folded.

Both my grandfather and my papa were incredible at this.

Yeah.

Coming from the military.

Yeah.

They learned from the...

Yeah.

That's not a too bad.

Which way is East, North, South, and West?

Oh God.

You got no help.

You just are standing there in the middle of the woods.

Figure it out.

I'm like...

It's awful.

Well, it's harder in the middle of the woods.

But it's doable.

You just have to look for the moss.

That's the one thing I learned about it.

Maybe the direction of the sun.

Or that can be helpful.

If you can see the sun, of course.

That depends on how the canopy is.

But I've mentioned it before.

I am directionally challenged.

And this is part of it.

I never know which direction is which.

No.

Blowing a bubble with gum.

Oh really?

Yeah.

That's hard to explain.

I learned that pretty young.

And then also how to snap your gum.

Yeah.

Which can be super annoying.

Oh my God.

My dad would kill...

But he would threaten to kill people.

Who snapped their gum.

He hated it so much, yeah.

There was somebody while I was in a waiting room in an airport

who was just snapping their gum incessantly.

And I really...

If I had an option to go sit somewhere else, I would have done that.

Too bad.

I think an honorable mention would be whistling as well.

That's another one.

That can be difficult on to learn.

The harder thing to learn is that loud whistle

where you put your fingers in your mouth.

And you can whistle really loud.

Yeah.

I can do that one.

Yeah, that one I've never figured out.

No.

MRIs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I can see that.

I can see that.

How a chicken can make a whole leg every day.

A whole bunch.

Yeah.

A whole bunch of eggs.

That's interesting.

How do they do that?

Yeah.

Those are both...

Do I want that?

Do I want that explained to me though?

Yeah.

Maybe I know.

I want the magic to stay, I think.

I don't want to learn about that.

Sometimes you also want to keep eating eggs.

Yeah, I do.

So I really like eggs.

Everybody wants to know how the sausage is made.

That's right.

It's the...

Head to.

Head to.

Oh.

The metaverse.

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, thank you.

If you want to learn how to fail at something.

Yeah.

There's a difference between not being able to understand something

and not caring about all.

Not caring at all.

Not caring at all.

Big difference.

Yeah.

Both clouds and the cloud.

I can only put that together.

Yeah.

The first time I got to fly in an airplane

and see a cloud from the inside,

it was not at all what I expected.

But it was cool.

Really.

Oh.

Interesting.

Being on top of the mountain and having a cloud go through you.

And feeling it.

Or even below you.

Yeah.

That is cool to see.

Yeah.

I've tried since it happened to explain to people what I felt

and what it was like.

And I still got no words.

I have no idea how to do it.

Mom top experience.

A literal.

Yeah.

And the actual cloud itself.

It holds things.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's moisture, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, the real clouds.

The electronic cloud that they're talking about nowadays.

It's in the cloud.

And though I just put it in the cloud or whatever.

Why is it called a cloud?

Yeah.

And I don't know what it is.

I don't get that.

Why is that?

Well, the one thing clouds don't really do hold things.

They actually get rid of stuff.

Yeah.

That's not really what they do.

The fact that it takes up so much resources.

It's also a disturbing thing that I don't really want to know more about.

True.

But I need to know more about.

True.

Yeah.

Especially with AI.

Yeah.

I think these next two are really fascinating.

And they're both, they're tied together.

Although their inventions came very, very decades apart.

How a cell phone works.

And how a basic wax album and record player works.

Ooh.

Both fascinating.

Yeah.

Like, you know, record.

Yeah.

Or vinyl.

Final.

Yeah.

Shorthand was called wax.

Even though it was made out of vinyl for many years.

Yeah.

Because originally, of course, it was made out of wax.

But anyway, I digress.

Does it work in the Southern hemisphere?

Here's the thing I love.

One of my favorite things about cell phones.

When people say, you know, oh, the satellite's out of the thing.

Cell phones don't use satellites.

Yeah.

We have towers.

Satellite phones.

Exactly.

Unless it's specifically a satellite phone.

But regular, the ones every most everyone uses.

It's the towers.

That's why we have towers.

It's cable.

It's fiber optic cable.

It's a great point.

These are supercomputers.

They're amazing.

Then the technology and everything.

It's way advanced.

I don't think it's, I think this is almost common knowledge.

We have, we are decades behind where our technology is.

As human beings, where our brains are and where we are

where we are evolutionary wise.

We are at the very least a decade behind technology.

Technology just moves too fast.

And we're innovators.

We're creators.

We're not just going to sit back and be like, okay, we're good now.

We're going to keep working and trying to things.

That's the human spirit.

That's who we are.

But we are, there is no way that we are caught up to technology.

Both whether it's in our brains or it's with our laws or anything else.

Definitely not our laws.

And so, to me, it's just fascinating.

The cell phone is interesting and all.

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how they put sound on a vinyl record.

And you put a needle on it and then sound comes out right there.

And yeah, there you got Beethoven.

I can't even, like we can't even caught up to that.

That's not even common knowledge.

How a cell phone works?

Like we can't, okay.

Your average person doesn't even know how vinyl works.

What we're doing right now.

Including me.

What we're doing right now.

Okay.

Yes, radio waves.

How bizarre is that?

Yes.

Travel out through waves like this over super long distances.

I mean, which you can't see.

It's fascinating.

It's fascinating.

It's all super cool.

The unfortunate thing and what that you mentioned there, James, is that our laws are so far behind.

Because we're being exploited.

Yeah, absolutely.

Straight up.

Straight up.

All of those things on your phone.

All of those apps that are collecting your data.

We don't even know the ways that we're being exploited yet.

And this is how far we're going.

It's terrifying.

It's terrifying.

That's an incredibly strong point.

But it's not even where I was thinking of.

I was thinking of where we are with so much of the sex crimes and different things that are happening on the internet and some of those things.

And how our laws are not...

To just show an example of how behind we are.

Both Melissa and I were thinking of two different things that are both equally important.

That's just how big this subject is and how many layers there are.

The sad thing is it's going to be on the next generations to tackle those problems and they already are.

Yeah.

Here's a fun little tidbit that I don't think most people know.