What happens when the unpredictable forces of nature collide with the very predictable monotony of everyday life? In our recent adventure, Hurricane Idalia threw a wrench into our plans while we found ourselves dealing with Labor Day work and birthday celebrations. And, if you're up for a good laugh, there's a hilarious tale of my face-off with a 13-year-old while gaming online in Rocket League.
Shifting from the comical to the grave, we journeyed down memory lane, looking at some historical events that shook the world. We delved into Ferdinand Magellan's global voyage, the chillingly monstrous walk of Howard Unruh, and the contemplative life of Chris McCandless. Brace yourselves as we also share the bizarre antics of a Japanese scientist who attempted to bond with birds by dressing as one. Adding an eerie layer to our discussion, we pondered over instances where people were declared dead legally, yet were still breathing and living. If that wasn't enough, we questioned the future of boozing with the advent of synthetic alcohol - a hangover-free promise.
To close our rollercoaster of a show, we dissected the peculiar phenomenon of grilled ice cubes that went viral in China. With a heated debate on whether this snack should be classified as hot or cold, we also touched upon the influence of social media and its manipulation by influential figures like Elon Musk. As always, we are grateful for your support and would love to hear your thoughts or ideas for future episodes. So buckle up, because another weekend rendezvous awaits us!
Support the show in any way possible! Rate the episodes! Share if you can!
What happens when the unpredictable forces of nature collide with the very predictable monotony of everyday life? In our recent adventure, Hurricane Idalia threw a wrench into our plans while we found ourselves dealing with Labor Day work and birthday celebrations. And, if you're up for a good laugh, there's a hilarious tale of my face-off with a 13-year-old while gaming online in Rocket League.
Shifting from the comical to the grave, we journeyed down memory lane, looking at some historical events that shook the world. We delved into Ferdinand Magellan's global voyage, the chillingly monstrous walk of Howard Unruh, and the contemplative life of Chris McCandless. Brace yourselves as we also share the bizarre antics of a Japanese scientist who attempted to bond with birds by dressing as one. Adding an eerie layer to our discussion, we pondered over instances where people were declared dead legally, yet were still breathing and living. If that wasn't enough, we questioned the future of boozing with the advent of synthetic alcohol - a hangover-free promise.
To close our rollercoaster of a show, we dissected the peculiar phenomenon of grilled ice cubes that went viral in China. With a heated debate on whether this snack should be classified as hot or cold, we also touched upon the influence of social media and its manipulation by influential figures like Elon Musk. As always, we are grateful for your support and would love to hear your thoughts or ideas for future episodes. So buckle up, because another weekend rendezvous awaits us!
Support the show in any way possible! Rate the episodes! Share if you can!
Hey guys and welcome back to this episode of the weekend rundown.
Speaker 2:I'm your host, drew and I'm your host, daniel. We didn't end up doing a show last week because we had Hurricane Adalia that we were dealing with Adalia, which luckily it missed us. It went a little farther north. Yeah, it kind of hit some other people, but we still had to prepare and get our homes ready and everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people like Lawson Powell and stuff.
Speaker 2:it was awkward yeah we got this little studio we've built flooded out. We wouldn't be able to do anymore shows. Yeah, real bad stuff. But anyways, welcome back for another one, and we'll just hop right in and ask Drew how his weekend was.
Speaker 1:Oh, my weekend. It was good, man. I worked because it was Labor Day weekend. I was supposed to be busy and it wasn't busy.
Speaker 2:It wasn't busy on Labor Day weekend. I mean it was.
Speaker 1:I guess Saturday, but I went to that event that you went to for Matt on Saturday.
Speaker 2:Oh, but didn't you have to leave and go to work?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they gave me like, if you work with me and you snitch me out and you post this to someone, you suck. But they gave me so many jello shots at that thing for free.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:When I went to work I was like, can?
Speaker 2:I just like go home.
Speaker 1:And did they let you? They almost did not let me.
Speaker 2:They almost did not, which would have been a disaster for everybody.
Speaker 1:I think they all realized that Somebody wasn't on the charts and they're like I drove all the way here, I really want a spot and I go, you can have my spot. Because, like, and already actually shushed me and I was like, are you on my team? Okay, I'm gonna walk away, whatever happens, happens. And then they're like Drew, you still want to go home. I was like I said it like seven times but yeah, other than that, yesterday was Sunday, right Sunday, I had a show in Wesley Chapel, north Tampa. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:How many people were there for that?
Speaker 1:So it's like an old movie theater or a theater that's been converted into comedy clubs. So all the lower seats have been removed, like you know where the bar is, like the lower part, how it's like a stadium seating kind of yeah. So everything from the bar under was removed and it was like tables that people could sit at and there was probably like in those seats like three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, probably like 12 people down there, 11 people down there, and then up top, where, like past those ceilings were, there was like four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten Probably like there was probably like 35 to 40 people there at any given point, it wasn't bad.
Speaker 2:No, it's not a bad turnout.
Speaker 1:And it was cool because it was inside a movie theater, you know, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it was like one of the most real looking stages, you know.
Speaker 2:I saw it. It was pretty funny. I didn't see it live, but I saw it.
Speaker 1:Oh, you mean you saw the set and you thought it was pretty funny. Thanks, man, I'm working pretty hard to be funny, so I appreciate that that means a lot to me. I don't know, you guys can't see I'm smiling right now.
Speaker 2:You're smiling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, other than that man, my weekend was like just preparing for Austin in a few weeks. So how's your weekend, dude? What'd you do?
Speaker 2:My weekend was full.
Speaker 1:You're kind of far away from your mic my bed.
Speaker 2:My weekend was full of birthday parties.
Speaker 1:Oh wow. Oh yeah, it was your wife's birthday and your son's birthday.
Speaker 2:Well, my son's birthday was a week ago. Yeah, the hurricane weekend.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's why that got fucked.
Speaker 2:So actually that got messed up because my kids had strep throat, but so we ended up having to do that this past weekend. So we had that birthday party on Friday. It was my wife's birthday on Saturday, and then on Sunday we attended the birthday party of a friend who, like their child, for my kids Like it was like a pool party thing All my kids went to.
Speaker 1:Oh, I see, so it was like you kind of had to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got drug along because I had way too many kids, and so it's too hard for one parent to take three kids at their current age anywhere alone.
Speaker 1:Brutality, brutality At its finest.
Speaker 2:We do do it. I'm not saying we don't. We have to do it all the time, but it sucks and it's a lot easier if we both go, it's just easier.
Speaker 1:If both parents go, it's like, hey, I could do this, but everyone's going to have a bad time.
Speaker 2:But then yesterday I went off on a 13 year old boy 13 year old boy.
Speaker 1:Let me remind you the listeners at home. He's talking a lot about kids and his kids and other people's kids. None of his kids are that old. None of my kids are what. None of your kids are 13, because the segue there kind of sound like you went off on one of your kids.
Speaker 2:No, I'm saying there was. I'm talking about Rocket League. I don't know if you've ever played Rocket League.
Speaker 1:See, guys, it sounded real bad at first. It sounded like he went off on his kids and I know that those aren't his kids. But Rocket League is even funnier because that's just some kid trying to enjoy his day after school.
Speaker 2:He was not trying to enjoy his day after school. It's actually Labor Day, so he shouldn't have frickin.
Speaker 1:He should have been at the barbecue with the fam. Is what you're saying? Yeah, he shouldn't have even been playing the game. Are you dadding this kid when you're not his dad? You gotta know all the facts. But that's kind of funny.
Speaker 2:So I'm playing a tournament and then a tournament. It's two verse two. I don't get a pick who my partner is, I'll just get random. Sometimes, never, never do I get a piece of shit like this kid. First time first time I ever got. I've been banned from this game one time because I said something really really mean like as mean as you can think of to somebody. I've heard you say some mean stuff. I won't put it out there.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it had something this time I didn't say anything that mean, because I knew he was a child and this one was on the mic. But yeah, so I'm playing the game and the other team scores the first goal and he didn't fly up and save it. And I'm not even wearing my headset, it's just over on the table and I hear this kid say something like okay, hit the ball. And I'm like he's got to be talking about himself.
Speaker 2:There's no fucking way this guy's talking about me right now. You know there's no chance, and so then we keep going and then I score a goal and he says you should have passed it. It's fucking strange. I scored the goal. Anyways, I still don't put the headset on. I'm, like this kid's, pretty toxic.
Speaker 1:It seems a little like you're still in in the sludge, yet not even putting the fucking headset on.
Speaker 2:And then I scored another goal. And then I don't think he said anything that time. He didn't say anything that time. And then I set him up for a perfect goal. And then the other team proceeded to pour goals onto us and we went from leading 3-1 to being down 5-3. And Once we were down 5-3, I hear this little shit say oh, it's because my teammate fucking sucks.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I was like this bitch, are you kidding me right now? So I immediately grabbed the headset.
Speaker 1:That's the moment he just I unmuted it.
Speaker 2:And I said are you fucking kidding me? You can eat shit, little boy. How fucking old are you? Why the fuck aren't you in school? And he said dog dog. And I said shut the fuck up, you're a little white kid from the Burbs. He said you are too, and I said I'm not calling you my dog. And then I told him oh. And then he told me to quit the game. He said quit the game. And then what he called me dog water, he called me dog water.
Speaker 2:So I ended up just calling this kid dog water for the last 3 minutes of the game and I didn't move my car and I said why don't you get one fucking shot? If you get one shot on their goal or save one of their shots, then I'll start playing again. And I'm just watching this kid try to get a shot or something. He's like oh, you could have saved that. I'm like why would I save it? Do I want to win this match and play another one with you? No, you're fucking dog water, kid, you're fucking dog water. Oh, look, you can't make the save because you're fucking dog water. And so that's my new thing is dog water.
Speaker 1:You're gonna steal it from this kid yeah.
Speaker 2:Dog water. I feel like I can't get banned for dog water. I haven't been banned for it yet, like the incident.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he says, yet, which means you've been using it since earlier.
Speaker 2:No, I'm saying from that incident it's been like it's been a little bit of time since that incident.
Speaker 1:I usually get emails when they're gonna ban me. Maybe he didn't report you because he's like dude, I was being a piece of shit. Yeah, I snapped the one.
Speaker 2:I put that headset on. I was just like why don't you just go eat shit, you little fucking bitch? I was so mad man, oh man my thumb was shaking, I was trying to like. That's why that's really why I stopped playing. It was because I couldn't press the buttons. I was so fucking mad at this little kid.
Speaker 1:I mean, I play games like that sometimes, where I have to stop playing because these people piss me off and they try to be like, oh, like jungle different and I'm like me. Are you talking about me when you were the one who literally walked away and it's like I wanted to leave?
Speaker 2:That's what I wanted to do, but since he told me to do it now, I was like now I gotta fucking stay in this game for three minutes calling this kid fucking dog water. Ha ha ha, and it was just unbelievable. It was just.
Speaker 2:You're like freaking dog, water kid, and that will be the most memorable moment of this weekend, even though there was three birthdays, I promise you, because I was fucking shaking with adrenaline Dog water kid Fucking dog water. Plus, I'm going to use that for the rest of my life. I'm going to be 90 years old, calling bitches dog water.
Speaker 1:Well, we heard you still, but you were a little bit away from your mic. Oh, I'm a little closer now, yeah it doesn't matter, dog water. People are going to be dog water Steam's dog water.
Speaker 2:The Chiefs are going to lose on Thursday because they're fucking dog water. You're.
Speaker 1:Why is it going to be like oh, how's this brisket I made? You're going to be like oh, dog water, Ha, ha ha.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't dare.
Speaker 1:I was like definitely not dog water. Oh man, Stupid, that's fucking stupid. But maybe we should not talk about our weekends anymore and go into the next part. What do you think?
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's go ahead and do it.
Speaker 1:All right, so what do we have today? We have September 6th, so it's September 6th. Past moments reported presently with Daniel.
Speaker 2:There you go, almost fumbled there, I fumbled a little bit. I picked it back up, you picked it up, I got it All right. So today, September 6th in 1522.
Speaker 1:A long time ago.
Speaker 2:Ferdinand Magellan's ship becomes the first to circumnavigate the globe. The Victoria arrives at San Lucar de Barometer in Spain.
Speaker 1:Sounds fun.
Speaker 2:Becoming the first vessel to circumnavigate the globe. Three years earlier, ferdinand Magellan had set out from Spain with the Victoria and four other ships, in hopes of finding a western route to Indonesia.
Speaker 1:And four other trips.
Speaker 2:But though the Victoria made it back to Spain, Magellan didn't. He was killed in battle in the Philippines in April 1521. Dumbass.
Speaker 1:Made it almost around. Made it almost around.
Speaker 2:It had a year before it came back though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because after that they were like, bro, we just need to fucking go back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 1901, september 6th, president William McKinley was shot. Does it say what president?
Speaker 1:he was Because I don't know, president William.
Speaker 2:No, it doesn't, but I think you can look at that. I'm going to do it. President William McKinley is shot by Leon Zolgos at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Though McKinley initially survived, he succumbed to gain green on September 14th. Oh, that sounds like rock. Rock Zolgos was executed that October and McKinley's vice president, Theodore. Roosevelt became president. Mckinley was the 25th president of the United.
Speaker 1:States. Says he was assassinated in 1901. Is that true? Says he was assassinated in 1901. Is that what this says?
Speaker 2:1901? 25, yeah 1901.
Speaker 1:25 is a good number, even though we got assassinated. So wait, if you get killed by the gain green, you're still assassinated, the gain green was due to the gunshot.
Speaker 2:Goddamn, that's that long gone If you didn't get killed with the gun.
Speaker 1:If you didn't get shot, you wouldn't have got the gain. Green that guy was like at home and he's like I know what I'm going to do I'm going to shoot him in the foot. He's going to get gang green. He's going to get gang green.
Speaker 2:Well, and it took. It didn't take that many days. It took what? Seven or eight days? Because he died on September 14th.
Speaker 1:I don't know if back then they could remove the things. If they were in your body, the bullets, oh I'm sure they could If it was in a limb, not if it was in you, in you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:I mean also, I don't know anything.
Speaker 2:I'm just speculating. Tell me where he was shot.
Speaker 1:I'm just guessing. If you got shot in the torso, it would be a lot harder than them to get a bullet out of the leg.
Speaker 2:1949, Howard Unruh commits to America's first mass shooting.
Speaker 1:Oh, discounting all the times we mass shot Native Americans.
Speaker 2:Right Howard Unruh kills 13 people in Camden, New Jersey.
Speaker 1:That place is fucked.
Speaker 2:Considered America's first mass shooting, he was unfolded over just 12 minutes as Unruh went on a walk of death Metal. He allegedly set out on the rampage after squabbling with his neighbors Jeez, and later told a psychologist that he would have killed a thousand if he had enough bullets.
Speaker 1:Jesus dude, can you imagine the guy where he ran out of bullets that got to beat the living fuck out of him?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got 1951, william S Burroughs kills Joan Volmer.
Speaker 1:Jeez dude, this is a dark ass day. Yeah, William S Burroughs shoots and kills his wife Joan Volmer in Mexico City.
Speaker 2:Darker Volmer allegedly died during a drinking game when Burroughs told her to put a gin glass on her head so he could show off his new pistol. Burroughs was able to buy his way out of jail in Flem Mexico for the United States, but Mexican authorities convicted him in absentia of manslaughter.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're like hey, just because you got out doesn't mean that we're like okay with it.
Speaker 2:Right 1992,. Chris McCandless's body is discovered on September 6th. Brutal McCandless's body is discovered in an abandoned bus along the Stampede Trail in Alaska, near Denali National Park. About two years earlier, after graduating from college, mccandless oh no Wait, I'm back. I'm sorry. Mccandless had set out to live a nomadic lifestyle. His travels brought him to Alaska, where he died at the age of 24, possibly after ingesting toxic seeds. Now, if you don't know, chris McCandless is the person portrayed in the movie Into the Wild.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's this kid who, basically he's super smart doesn't Really like the way that societies ran, so he decides he's gonna, kind of is it? Does he hitchhike to Alaska?
Speaker 2:He like, yeah, he burns all of his money. Oh no, I think he drives there and then he crashes his car, burns all of his money and sets out to Like he didn't even care, like, like.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure he was like working out a Burger King to like, raise money to keep going.
Speaker 2:He had, like a Harvard degree scholarship no, like a scholarship was right out of high school when he went.
Speaker 1:Was it.
Speaker 2:It says he died at 24. Yeah, that says he died at 24, so maybe it wasn't right out it says he graduated from college. So maybe he did go to college, but it was like a nice college and His parents paid for a good school.
Speaker 1:He came from a good family the thing is he didn't.
Speaker 2:He hitchhiked at some point because I read an article that said that Some hitchhiker told him that he didn't think he was dressed well For Alaska yeah, for the wilderness and he said, oh no, I'm fine. And he asked him if he had a map and he said no. And the guy offered him a map and he said no, I don't need one. And he went out. Well, if he had taken that map that map or any other map clearly had marked on it that Two mile or so. So the issue was he couldn't cross this river because it was too like fast-moving yeah the the summer like warmed it up.
Speaker 2:It was frozen when he crossed it originally and then it warmed up and he couldn't cross back over. Now if he had a map, he would realize that two miles down there was actually a bridge that crossed over that that river, right, but yeah, no idea cuz you don't want the. Yeah no idea because he didn't have a map and about Three miles like a mile from that point was. Also that would have been marked on any map was a shelter that was stocked all the time with food and water.
Speaker 1:So he, just like, did it to himself because he didn't want. He was a very like. He didn't want help.
Speaker 2:It's a very ex like Wild place that he was at. I'm not saying like, oh, he was right, by the interstate. These are things that were built in the wild by other people that venture out there right, right.
Speaker 1:But he could have like hiked three miles and have food and shelter.
Speaker 2:He he had. Yeah, he could have got across, and if he would have had a map, he would be alive today.
Speaker 1:Right, that sucks. Yeah pretty shitty stuff man. That's a pretty, a pretty dark in today.
Speaker 2:How's the dark one?
Speaker 1:they're usually dark yeah, usually it's about people dying or being born, not a lot of births. No one, no is Is what it is, though I'm gonna go into my next article unless you have anything else you want to say about that no. First article today. This one's fucking stupid. You ready? Yeah, All right. It says. Scientist wears giant bird head for a year to befriend real birds comma.
Speaker 2:I said people without him says, he fails make friends with birds he fails.
Speaker 1:A Japanese scientist studies the language of birds. Who studies the language of birds? We're a giant bird mask on his head for an entire year in order to trick a nest of Great tits to allow him to approach them. I feel like that's gotta be made up.
Speaker 2:Hmm I.
Speaker 1:Toshi taka Suzuki. That sounds made up. Sounds legit and associate professor at the University of Tokyo, recently shared a bizarre photo of a man wearing a giant bird head on Twitter. It turns out that the photo taken somewhere in the forest of Nagano prefecture shows a fellow scientist who decided to wear the disguise quote For an entire year in order to get close to a nest of great tits without triggering their distress calls.
Speaker 2:But they still distress called.
Speaker 1:Says, orthologists and bird bird behavior Experts had noticed that certain bird species were capable of remembering human faces and that they would stop their usual chirping to put out warning calls whenever they saw these individuals approach. Having wound up on the blacklist, the Japanese scientists decided to disguise themselves as a bird. Be able to approach the other birds Didn't work. It's literally a picture of a dude with a giant pigeon head on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw that I was. It's pretty ridiculous. If I was a bird I wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't look believable.
Speaker 2:Imagine if you saw somebody. It's like a really, really unproportioned head. You would be like, yeah, he looks like a human, but I'm not buying it.
Speaker 1:It literally. It literally looks like that, like just a shitty mask. That's it it says. At one point, the unnamed scientists who conducts research on behavior and evolutionary chemistry of bats and birds had to approach these I'm gonna stop staying these birds, the the birds nests and weigh their chicks. And ever since the birds would switch from their usual tripping to the characteristic P, twoop, p warning calls whenever they spotted him, because he's fucking with their chips. Chicks, right.
Speaker 1:And made it hard for the man to conduct his research on their language, so he came up with the idea of the disguise. According to the professor Suzuki, his colleague wore the disguise for an entire year, but his experiment ended in failure. Whenever they noticed him approaching, they started emitting their warning calls, regardless of the mask.
Speaker 2:So they could like smell him or yeah, and it shows him on twitter with some pretty cool kanji.
Speaker 1:Um, but it's just funny, this guy failed, failed real hard At some point. Do you think he was like, like, like, uh, almost done, like 90 don, and he's like Bro, I know it's a failure, but if I don't make it to the full year, that's even more of a failure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure it was more like uh, I set this goal, I got a completed, type of thing like even if it fails, yeah, jesus. Yeah, that's a pretty nice. That guy just looks goofy.
Speaker 1:In fact it fails to think that that guy's getting paid and labeled a scientist right, uh, it makes me know that I'm uh can label myself as a comedian, you know there you go.
Speaker 2:Uh, you can be anything you want, just call yourself it.
Speaker 1:Yeah and just do it a lot. Well, what do you got going on?
Speaker 2:Um, I got a brazilian man that spent 28 years of his life legally dead. He's a 71 year old man from brazil Is he alive still Um. He was pronounced dead in 1995 based on the testimony of his ex-wife and two witnesses. He spent the next 28 years of his life legally dead on where In brazil?
Speaker 1:like this, like how did no one know he was alive?
Speaker 2:I'm getting there.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm sorry, I was just asking questions on august 16th uh.
Speaker 2:Manuel march marchiano De Silva. Finally with a name had his death certificate and no that for a two year long court battle.
Speaker 1:Can I try to say his name? Yeah, manuel Marchionno de silvia.
Speaker 2:There you go Did.
Speaker 1:I say it good, I think it was good All right.
Speaker 2:Um to the brazilian authorities, he had been dead and buried in the public cemetery at terry of oscan august Denopolis so like did he have friends? Into cantons For 28 years. He only had all my friends became a problem for the man himself about two years ago, when he couldn't collect his pension and he couldn't get access to free healthcare based on his insurance. That's when he started investigating his death and learned that it had been his ex-wife and two witnesses who had declared him dead to us.
Speaker 1:Or do you think that maybe they lied just so that, like this guy's, like I, I need a pension? Um, I don't know. And he stole this man's identity even though he's dead 28 years ago.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they did some sort of sort of DNA to us. It's unclear why manuel's ex-wife declared him dead back in 95, but he claims he only found out about it in 2012, when he tried to vote in a local election, only to be told that he was not on the list and that he appeared as deceased. At the time he didn't really care too much about it, can you imagine, but in recent years his deceased status started affecting his life more significantly.
Speaker 2:Manuel Marciano de Silva lost his pension and was unable to make medical appointments, among other setbacks, Can you say the other sentence again? Resurrecting, even if only on paper, was much, much tougher than he had ever imagined in the end, sep. What the hell the septuagenarian Needed to hire a lawyer to contest the death certificate, obtain a brand new birth certificate. Why the fuck would they?
Speaker 1:use that word? Can you, can, you, can you say that other sentence again? That was so funny. What's that? Um?
Speaker 2:at the time he didn't really care too much about it, but in recent years his deceased status started affecting his life more.
Speaker 1:His deceased status started affecting his life. I.
Speaker 2:Only this man has had the opportunity to say that he was off the fucking grid for a while.
Speaker 1:How do you not find the irony and that whole statement, like his status as a dead person is affecting his ability to live? Of course it is because he should be dead.
Speaker 2:He's supposed to be dead. Oh, maybe I just have dark sense of humor a papilloscopic test of his fingerprints helped prove that he was alive.
Speaker 1:They do have fingerprinting.
Speaker 2:But he also needed several witnesses to confirm that he wasn't actually dead. In the end, he managed to come back to life, but the mystery of his death still linkers. Manuel's children believe that their mother, who is illiterate, was misled into declaring him dead, but manuel himself doesn't really care why it happened. All he cares is that he is back among the living. Interestingly, manuel's case is far from unique. In the past, we wrote about india's living dead A man who spent 18 years proving he is alive. An exacerbated, an exasperated woman who asked to have her remains Tested to prove she is alive. And a woman who fought the government after it declared her dead.
Speaker 1:So a lot of people have to go through this, yeah people die and don't actually die all the time. That's Sounds like maybe there's not as many dead people as we think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's crazy, that guy was dead.
Speaker 1:He's not dead. I'm looking at him.
Speaker 2:We have to pay taxes for 28 years. I'm sure they see if you're in america.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, can you imagine the back taxes from that? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you're in america, you would not want to let him know.
Speaker 1:He needs his pension and he needs the health care.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've been fucking dead for 28 years and just working.
Speaker 1:That's so bad, terrible, yep, you want me to Want me to go on, or do you want to say anything else about?
Speaker 2:I got nothing more on this. I just think that's crazy. Do you want to?
Speaker 1:talk about some weird shit in china? Or do you want to talk about some fake alcohol?
Speaker 2:Fake alcohol is pretty cool.
Speaker 1:So if company is working on synthetic alcohol, that has none of the negative side effects of the real thing, so no hangovers, I mean that's what I'm kind of gathering from that. It says london-based gaba labs is working on a type of synthetic alcohol called a fuck alcaroll.
Speaker 2:Al, you got it hard.
Speaker 1:I did al carale, so you can see that it's a weird word which reportedly provides the relaxing effects of alcohol Without hangovers, balanced efficiencies or any of its other negative side effects balanced efficiencies, so you can drive with that shit.
Speaker 1:So what's saying the gamma? God damn it. Amino bitriac Acid, aka gaba, is a neurotransmitter that blocks certain signals in the brain. That's producing a calming effect. When alcohol reaches the brain, it binds to gaba receptors and produces the same effect, relaxing and calming people down. The problem with alcohol is that it also has other negative side effects like hangover, movement difficulties, speaking and thinking problems, etc. Gaba labs is currently working on a type of synthetic alcohol which is like sounds like star trek centale. It's called alakaria. That is supposed to provide all the positive effects.
Speaker 2:That's pretty crazy, dude.
Speaker 1:It feels like what a glass of wine feels, like this Founder says but it feels relaxing. It makes me a bit more chatty, a bit more socially engaged with people.
Speaker 2:I mean, it fits real.
Speaker 1:It says we know where in the brain alcohol has its good effects and bad effects and what particular receptors mediate that. Gaba glutamate and other ones such as serotonin and dopamine. Nut this guy's name is nut told the guardian. No yeah, the effects of alcohol are complicated, but you can target the part of the brain you want to target. This sounds like a guy who like, Loves alcohol but also is fucking genius.
Speaker 2:Like, like it's gonna put, it'll put bud light and everybody out of business.
Speaker 1:Who they bud lights gonna have to start making their own, like every beer company patterns.
Speaker 2:it is good, right, it has to wait like 10 years, oh my god, dude, patents are weird. I mean, it's like a new product.
Speaker 1:Apparently, Alka-car-lili is a tasteless substance that can be added to other drinks, alcoholic or non-alcoholic, to boost their tipsiness potential. Oh my God, you could put it in your alcohol to get more fucked up.
Speaker 2:You could put it in your milk.
Speaker 1:You could put it in your protein shake, yeah.
Speaker 2:I did.
Speaker 1:I don't know where you just like you put this in and you just wanna talk to your wife, right, and it wouldn't make you dizzy or anything it says. It makes you a little slack around the jaw, a little bit chatty, mellow, so I'm pretty confident people will find it does what they want it to do. That's what the guy says. They hope to launch it by 2026. So I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna buy, I'm gonna put-.
Speaker 2:You nearby stocking that?
Speaker 1:Is that fucked?
Speaker 2:It's gonna put shit out of business, Bro. People love alcohol. They hate those other parts though.
Speaker 1:I know it could do a mad. This shit's gonna be so expensive. It says the product's been in development for quite some time, but the regulatory approval process has been very slow. One potential stumbling block for this is the fact that it has no natural product, unlike alcohol, which has been produced and consumed by for millennia. However, the founders of Gab Labs claim that just because something is natural doesn't automatically make it good for you. That sounds like fucking bullshit.
Speaker 1:What the natural things yeah plus, they are betting that for many, enjoying the positive effects of alcohol without the hangover will be pretty powerful reason. I mean I'm gonna agree with that. But when you try to tell me natural things aren't as good as non-natural things, I don't wanna.
Speaker 2:I just don't wanna. I mean, I just I think that in some cases maybe it's true.
Speaker 1:But when you say it like that, fuck you Learn how to say it better.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:You don't make a convincing argument when you don't ask me why. I think that you know. If you're just like, say a fucking statement and try to be like I make fake alcohol, I'm smarter than you. Yeah, I know you are Fuck off Like I don't know. That just offends me a little bit.
Speaker 2:Is that what he's saying? He's smarter than.
Speaker 1:I think when he says it like that, yeah, he's trying to say he's smarter than me. Oh, just because something's natural doesn't automatically make it good for you. All right, bitch, who's trying to sell something.
Speaker 1:Like oh yeah, he's trying to sell something, yeah like when you're trying to sell something like butter, up a little bit, put some butter on that bread. Don't just feed me some stale bread and shove it down my throat. I don't know. I'm getting kind of pissed off at this guy. I'm looking at his face and he's making me mad. It's like I don't even wanna buy this shit anymore. No, I want to, but not from him, from maybe his son when this guy dies before 2026. Cause he's old and pretty ugly. That's funny. When you say that's funny, do you mean it's mean?
Speaker 2:That's mean, but it's funny mean.
Speaker 1:It's just how I feel, because I don't like when old people talk down to me, you know.
Speaker 2:I know what you're saying. I try not to talk down to younger people, but from Florida it happens all the time. Oh fuck, it does.
Speaker 1:God, that's why I'm leaving this place. Oh man, but that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a cool one.
Speaker 1:The fake alcohol. It reminds me of Star Trek hardcore and I know you're not into Star Trek, but they have a thing where when you're on duty you can't drink alcohol and the replicators can't make real alcohol it's illegal so they make synth ale and it's like that and it has like the good effects without the bad effects, but it doesn't have the bite of alcohol. So, like people who are used to alcohol, don't like it, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel it yeah like the people rough around the edges. Yeah, you got something for us here, man, you got a funny one. Do I get to pick between your two, or are you just gonna pick for me?
Speaker 2:This is my last one.
Speaker 1:Is it? Oh, it is, you're right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it is a good one we got. A man puts his head into one of the world's most powerful water fountains.
Speaker 1:Can I make a statement before you even continue?
Speaker 2:Go for it.
Speaker 1:I saw in one of those Facebook like hour, hour, minute and a half videos where they tell you a bunch of random videos it said water was one of the most concentrated. Jets of water was one of the most powerful things, even powerful enough to shape and break diamonds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty intense, if you've ever felt that.
Speaker 1:I'm just imagining this guy might not have an eyeball left. Yeah, I mean, just imagine like when you're washing your car that pressure wash, he put his fucking head into it. I saw an Instagram girl get her head like she died cause she was doing a video and she hit her head on a sign and a sign is solid, but those jets, I don't know. This guy's probably dead. Is he dead? I'm gonna let you go on.
Speaker 2:It says, the Swiss man ended up in the hospital after reportedly putting his head into the jet de-o giant water fountain in Lake Geneva and being thrown several meters into the air.
Speaker 1:Oh, from his head fuck several meters.
Speaker 2:According to I, went and supports the 20 something man whose name has not been revealed, somehow breached the security perimeter around Geneva's famous jet de-o water fountain.
Speaker 1:Somehow.
Speaker 2:And put his head into the nozzle of what is essentially an extremely powerful water cannon. Water cannon engaged the jet de-o pumps out 500 liters of water per second at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour to a height of 140 meters or 460 feet into the air. When the water sprouted out of the fountain, the young daredevil was catapulted backward by the force, which was actually a lucky outcome, considered the alternatives. However, this was only his first attempt.
Speaker 1:Attempt at what.
Speaker 2:Like how high it blows.
Speaker 1:There's no. Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Imagine if it blew your head all the way up. Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1:What's funny to me is this is gonna sound so bad. He got sent several meters into the air by the pressure of this water cannon and all he put in there was his head. And your neck can only take eight pounds of pressure. This guy's paralyzed bro.
Speaker 2:He has to be Seemingly not one to be content with having survived a giant water cannon shot, shut up, stop, stop right now, just stop right here. This was bad. Once again, climb the jet down. Ha ha, ha, ha, this time in an apparent attempt to embrace it. No, when the powerful jet of water shot out of the fountain, it sent the man flying several meters into the air.
Speaker 1:He did it again.
Speaker 2:From where he crashed onto the cement platform around the jet down.
Speaker 1:Did he die?
Speaker 2:The man managed to get up from his fall.
Speaker 1:Ha, ha, ha ha. I hate this guy.
Speaker 2:And threw himself into Lake Geneva. Ha ha, ha ha. Why? From where the police?
Speaker 1:I can't hear you Alerted from where the police alerted by. I still can't hear you.
Speaker 2:From where the police, alerted by eyewitnesses, ended up fishing him out. He was rushed to the hospital to have his injuries checked and his condition remains unclear. Jesus Christ, I would say bad, his condition is bad.
Speaker 1:When they sit on clear they mean Ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha. Oh my God, dude, I can't believe that guy. He wants to die Like that was like. He wants a cool way to die, that's it right.
Speaker 2:SIG, the electricity company that owns and runs jet to owe.
Speaker 1:When you keep continuing the article, I'm like what more could there be? Ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 2:One of the world's most powerful water fountains Reportedly intends to file a complaint against the man for trespass. Oh my, God.
Speaker 1:That's the only way to make it safe for them. That's crazy, bro. I'm sorry, I think I broke the fucking camera, or the camera, the fucking computer, whenever you actually.
Speaker 2:That's the fountain.
Speaker 1:I said he went back here so far away from the mic. That's the fountain right there. He put his head into that. It looks like a reverse water spout.
Speaker 2:Like a fucking geyser.
Speaker 1:Literally like death. It literally has so much pressure that the top is bigger than the bottom. Like it's. You don't do it. It's not a smart man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not like that.
Speaker 1:What kind of guy was this? A Finnish man.
Speaker 2:Swiss.
Speaker 1:So it was the Swiss force gump who did this. Yeah, look at that. I don't know how other, just how else to say that?
Speaker 2:Besides the R word off the top of his head off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, that's why I went. He's dead dude. This guy has to be dead.
Speaker 2:DED dad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, super dead. Oh, you know what else I did this weekend. Can I go back to my weekend for a second? So much boondocks cartoon bro.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I really enjoyed that. I Know you enjoy the boondocks cuz boondocks are funny. Yeah, I just recently found out that one actress does both the voices of both of the the brothers. Yeah, I knew that she's a badass dude when. I saw her doing it Bad ass shit. Yeah so I got one more. You want me to go into it.
Speaker 2:Let's hear it.
Speaker 1:You know what it is right.
Speaker 2:I Remember grilled ice.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, grilled ice. I said it twice because it's so silly how do you even grill?
Speaker 1:is apparently a real street snack in China. I kind of read into this little bit before when you were off doing some stuff. It says videos of people grilling ice cubes and seasoning them with sauces and spices have been going around on Chinese social media and leaving people with unanswered questions, although I have a feeling we're gonna answer them by continuing. Moreover, stir-fried stones those guys are a thing of the past. It's time for grilled ice cubes to enjoy time in the social media spotlight.
Speaker 2:They got to be cheap. It's just water.
Speaker 1:Can, if you listen, I'm gonna tell you. According to a number of news reports from China, the bizarre street snack was made famous by a short clip of a street food stall in Nanchang, shanghai province. I'm so glad that I knew how to say that before I read it, because if I had to read that, goddamn. In it we can see large ice cubes. Large ice cubes being cooked on the open grill. They basically just cook it so that the seasoning and sauces and spices that they put in on the ice cubes stay on it. Then they serve that on a plate, and now in the video no one actually sees anyone eating the dish. But apparently it's a very popular dish on summer days, especially since it's offered as a free treat.
Speaker 1:Free treat free doesn't sound bad yeah so basically what they do, is they like put sauces and spices. You're getting like barbecued and spiced up ice cube.
Speaker 2:I don't think I let my kids eat spiced up ice cubes from a stranger.
Speaker 1:When you say spice like I guess not, it's like Star Wars spice, but spike like the in Japan, it's not a straight, it's street food man, it's just straight.
Speaker 1:I get that? Yeah, I guess it's just a viral video. China news outlets managed to track down the street food stall operator and learn more about it. Apparently, the man came up with the idea for grilling the ice when it was a really hot day as a way to cool people off. It was meant as a joke, but people ended up loving it, so he kept making it because, like you, got to get people coming back right. Right, the bizarre street food doesn't cost anything, but people wanting to try it and there are reportedly plenty have to request it in advance. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. Does this count as cold or hot food? It's tricky because it's cooked over an open flame, but it's not enough to for the ice to melt completely. It's really just like spiced ice, it says. Does it? Does it work with stir-fried pebbles, where you can suck the sauce off the stones before spitting them out, or do you just eat the ice as well? No one really knows. You do whatever you want. I feel like mom would eat the ice.
Speaker 1:For sure should I eat it while it's hot or should I eat it while it's cold? One person said what is this? Do you not say tweet anymore? Is it X? Are you supposed to say X posted? Because I'm not saying that, because that makes it sounds like I'm like Do you general right shin and like suck it.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean, that's what it's called. No.
Speaker 1:I'm not doing it. It's still tweeting. It still says Twitter. It's right here as a. Whenever you click on like extra buttons and stuff yeah, it's like it's called X on the app but like through other people that they have like a button it still says Twitter like so fuck that. I Don't know why we're talking about Twitter. Elon Musk just wants to be different because he's more autistic than the rest of us. Yeah, man, I don't know. You look like you're. You're in the zone about something.
Speaker 2:No man, it's just getting late.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you are a dad and you've got two jobs and you got to work a shitload, so we got to do these when we can, because they're important.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you it's only 151 dude it's like to, if we were rounding.
Speaker 1:You would have to round up. I, I get it, I get it. Your kids are in school and you know terms.
Speaker 2:I wasn't complaining. You asked what the problem was. Zoning and I'm telling you.
Speaker 1:I thought you were just like looking at that score over there.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Well, looks it. Looks and sounds like Daniel's little tired. So do you want to start by saying good night to these people, daniel?
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah. I appreciate them joining us and I Hope that they come back next week and I hope we record a little earlier next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think. I think it's rougher whenever, like, you need to work both your jobs in the same day, you know.
Speaker 2:It is rough.
Speaker 1:It beats you up, but we appreciate you, daniel, for doing that. No, I think our listeners appreciate you. Um, my point is we still have eight new listeners, or eight downloads. Last week and we didn't put something out because of the hurricane. What's her name? Or rock?
Speaker 2:Adalia.
Speaker 1:Adalia, like at my show last night, a lady was talking about how it sounded like your black grandma and she wasn't scared of it, cuz like she was gonna make her some good collard greens. Yeah, you're really far away from the mic now. Your things kind of falling down some. It's okay. We'll end this on a note of Daniel saying thanks for joining us and joining us back next week. And I will say the same thing. We appreciate you guys. We're gonna keep making these episodes for you and If you like anything or don't like anything, let us know. If you want to hear something new, let us know. And yeah, come back for another episode of the weekend rundown. Oh,