The Boys Chat Podcast
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The Boys Chat Podcast
Discovering the Hidden Mysteries of Human Life
Prepare to illuminate your minds, as we, Darren and Colby, address the marvels of being human. We promise to share intriguing tidbits of information you've probably never heard before. Did you know that the power of your brain could light up a dim bulb? Or that as a species, we spend a collective six months of our lives waiting for red lights to turn green? We also dive into the lesser-known facts of our existence like our unique ability to engage in trade and commerce. It's a truly mind-boggling trip into the wonders of humanity.
Now, if you've ever blushed and wondered why, or been fascinated by the quick healing power of your tongue, we've got some delightful insights for you. Only humans have the ability to blush, and that's just one of the many intriguing facets of our biology we explore. Not only that, we discuss the heart's Herculean task of pumping about 2,000 gallons of blood daily and how every individual's tongue print is as unique as a fingerprint. We also cover some amazing records like a hiccuping spree that went on for 68 years. So, buckle up for a ride through human biology that will leave you marveling at the wonders of our species.
Alright, welcome back to the boys chat. You got Darren and Colby, not Darren Tanner. There you go. It's been a long day. It's been a long day you got ten or Colby here with you today. Today's topic is random facts about humanity, so you got one off the top here to go. I Wax the type of sweat. Well, you really.
Speaker 2:I think so.
Speaker 1:Interesting. It's kind of gross.
Speaker 2:All right, it's like boogers, same type of deal. Oh, really Clucks the dirt like I Kind of. I guess I don't know. I'm not a biologist, I'm not a doctor, I know nothing, we're not, we're not experts.
Speaker 1:We're not experts, man, we're gonna milk that until yeah we're even forever Getting that for all to work. Yeah, all right. So some of these are kind of like oh duh, you just don't really think about it when you bring it up. It makes a lot of sense, All right. So first up, we got. Humans are the only species known to engage in trade and commerce.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, I mean besides aliens, but yeah, those are real now. Yeah, those are real now. I mean most animals. I mean they don't, they just steal from each other, they don't trade nothing. So makes sense.
Speaker 1:I've seen videos of people, like in zoos, will they? They're like throw something to One of the monkeys with a rangatang is a big one that I see Like the orangutan will have something, or they'll throw food to the monkey and then they'll throw something back. So it's like, yeah, there's some trade going on, a but it's not like the trade that this particular thing is talking about. You know commerce where it's like I give you this and I get X amount or whatever. So, unless you count, like, oh, what is it called? It's like the birds in the hippos. You know I'm talking about birds.
Speaker 2:I said by all relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or it's like the bird lands on the hippos and does something for you know, eats something or whatever.
Speaker 2:It's like the bugs or whatever bugs.
Speaker 1:So it's like the bird gets fed and the hippo Gets a clean or doesn't eat. It stays healthy, right, or like, I think, sharks and certain fish as well. The shark will sit there like its mouth open and little minnows will come and eat all the excess stuff and the shark gets its teeth clean. So it's healthy and yeah, but I it's a symbiotic, I guess you kind of call it trade.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's technically trade, because they're each exchanging something for something else, but right, but it's not like a monetary All right, right, this one, this one's, I Hate. The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green. I hate that.
Speaker 2:That is so sad, see, and I would almost say that we would spend less time like us, because we don't live in a big City like, right, we're in some bigger towns and bigger cities and stuff, but it's not like we're in downtown LA, that every block you have a stoplight, I mean, or a New York, or New York like, granted, people that live in those types areas, I feel like don't drive everywhere like we do, I guess, but I guess that's kind of an average thing of six there, yeah, so they walk, unless they live like out of the city but they have to commute in for work.
Speaker 1:then they're probably waiting more, or like people that like taxi drivers or they price been right sharing. Yeah, yeah, so I guess you know. It says the average person. I don't know what the average person is.
Speaker 2:If they qualify the average person living in a city, I would assume the average person probably lives in a smaller town, like a small city and I would say they probably took Wherever they're getting this they probably took Are people from LA, people from a small town that just kind of grabbed some people right and that's how they get their average of Okay people in LA or New York or Chicago or wherever they're spending a year or two years at a red light, whereas somebody from Circleville is spending Maybe a day or two like right.
Speaker 1:This one's, I don't know. This is another one. That's like how much time I guess we're wasting. In a given year, we will spend four months asleep, I, oh yeah, it's ridiculous because if you sleep for the recommended eight hours at the 30-year day, so a third of your year is spent sleeping. Right well, and I saw it.
Speaker 2:I saw a tick tock a while ago where it's like man, why did we fail this year? And it went through like well, there is a hundred days were spent sleeping, or like it went through all this stuff and then the one day that you had free it was your birthday. So like yeah, it broke it down. It's kind of funny. I'll need to find it, send it to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've seen something like that. It is true, though it's like we really don't have time. Yeah, so Spend it wisely. All right, I don't know how they would figure this one out, but the human brain can generate about 20 watts of electrical power, and that's enough to power a dim light bulb.
Speaker 2:Hmm, again, don't know how they figure that out, maybe like they scan it, I guess yeah, doing like a brain scan or like some, something like that they can look at the brain and brain activity and what's going on. Okay, up to a computer, yeah, see, just plug you into an outlet and see if Sparks fly. I don't.
Speaker 1:And the brain is Brain, is nuts. It's the only organ that knows. It's an organ and it named itself and it knows what all of your Organs do and all of your body does, because it's the one that tells it what to do. But it can't tell us what it does or how it works, like, I don't know how my small intestine pulls nutrients out of food. I don't know, I just know it does it.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I mean you people learn about it and stuff like you can write, but I mean the normal human being without being taught it doesn't know.
Speaker 1:But even still, we can only guess. We don't know exactly how it works, we don't know how our memory is stored. We don't know how, like we take one thing and we can remember it and some people can have better memories and others like Like an idetic memory or like a Photo memory, what's it called?
Speaker 2:Let's go differently.
Speaker 1:My camera oh my gosh, I think I have it somewhere. Oh my word, how can we not photographic the photographic memory? You know it's like. Why do only you know one percent of people have those? And then there's other people that you know Develop all simers and have a poor memory, right, so there, why does that? Why does that work? But oh Well, oh well, I'm not a scientist. Yeah, that's a bookshelf. Thought we close the books and put it back on the shelf and we go about it. Anyways, humans are the only animals that cry tears of emotion. I'm pretty sure I've seen a video of a dog crying, though.
Speaker 2:Well, like a dog that cries really doesn't like cry it, cry their. Their eyes are watering because there's something in it. So that's, the water is trying to get something out. That's the main purpose of tears for other species and stuff. But like, yeah, he ones are the only ones that emotionally cry. Mm-hmm, which is which. But pansies.
Speaker 1:All right, so the world's oldest known recipe is for beer, and it dates back over 4,000 years. Nice, really, I guess.
Speaker 2:That doesn't seem right to me. I Understand it's been around for a long time, but like now I think. I think the.
Speaker 1:The catch to this is recipe, so it's probably written down. That's probably you know bread and stuff like that have been around for longer than that, but they haven't written down like an actual recipe card, right?
Speaker 2:I guess that's true, that would make.
Speaker 1:Everyone knew how to do it. Everyone knew, or Villages or towns had certain people that knew how to do it and they passed it down. I didn't say like listen how you do it. I guess that's true, so that might be the caveat probably.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:What. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. That actually makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean because you think of all right, how many chess pieces are are there? I don't, couldn't even tell you off the top of my head 26.
Speaker 1:I don't know. So there's two rooks, two knights, two bishops, a king and a queen, so that's eight pieces and that many identical pawns. So 16 per side, so 32 totally 32.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mean, you think about that, you think about that combination Plus the combination of two different people making their set of choices to move those 16 pieces on each side, like I make sense. I mean, and honestly Is it? Is it an 8 by 8? Yeah, I could remember. Yeah, so 64 squares. You add that into it as well.
Speaker 1:That's even right, but I mean it makes sense, because technically, the universe is like ever expanding, but at any given second it is a finite space, right, and so there's only so many, but granted, if you do like the whole laws of Whatever matter cannot be created nor destroyed, just Transferred what it transferred or something.
Speaker 2:It's something among yeah, change right.
Speaker 1:It's like I can't also just boom atoms. So there's a there's a finite amount of atoms, but on a chess game there's an infinite number of moves I can make right. Well, not At any given point. There's so many moves, but I move. Sam move one pawn, you know one space. The next person has so many moves that they can make, but then after that I can do that same thing, and there's, you know so many moves. But it's like I can move my bishop One, two, three, four, five spaces, and then the next move. I can move it one, two, three, four, five spaces back. You see that over and over again and the game still goes on right. Yes, that's true, eric's. My brain math checks out Human share about 50% of their DNA with bananas. Oh my god, the son coming in.
Speaker 2:See, I've heard that one before and I don't know that I believe that at all. Like how, how is that true? Like you can look at DNA and you can study it, whatever, but like we got as Kara I.
Speaker 1:Kara might know. Karen, I know I Think I skip. Yeah, yeah. So human DNA, if uncoiled, would stretch from the earth to the Sun and back over 600 times again.
Speaker 2:Don't know how they know that but I again, I think that's just to illustrate how much DNA you have, because I mean you think about where DNA is stored and what it's like within all your cells and whatever, like I might be saying that wrong but you think about how how many of those make up your, your whole cell, right? So I mean it makes sense. But again, how do they actually measure that Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Wow, the average person will spend six years of their life dreaming. That's what they dream. Yeah, cuz I guess some people don't. I.
Speaker 2:Mean I, I can, I'm sure I dream, I just don't remember it.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, I think the average person has like eight dreams a night or something like that. But it's just, you don't remember all eight, you only remember a couple of them, right?
Speaker 2:And again, how do they know that? I think that just goes back to the brain activity you want. Yeah, I think they brain scan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you see really what dreams are. It's loading screens in between levels of the.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw some of you know your alarm clocks, your theme song for every day. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1:Gotta pick a better one then. But it's just the generic Apple. Oh yeah, so that's what I go with. But maybe seen that that one video where it's like waking up to like Apple alarms or Android and Apple, it's like it turns on, it's like a war zone, it's like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, you know, you don't know what's going on and it's like waking up to Android, it's like some nice, like music and you're like, yeah, waking up that well, I can tell you, I've known people with Android phones and there are sometimes one of the worst ones to get woke up because they just sleep through their alarms. Because of that, because it's it's almost too nice. There needs to be a balance because, like with the Apple alarm, it totally some mornings that goes off like oh crap, what's going on? Like right. But I think, yeah, samsung could step it up too.
Speaker 1:So I mean, I saw a hack where it's like Choose a song that you just I can't not sing and dance to like pick like one of your favorite songs, like you can't help yourself but to move and sing and whatnot, and have that be your alarm because I'm gonna goes off every morning. You can't help yourself, you're gonna start singing, dance and it gets your brain moving and wake yourself up so you can't go back to sleep. That's very nice. So, yeah, all right, humans are the only animals capable of blushing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, that was that.
Speaker 1:Excuse me, is that only a thing? Because we're also Someone like the most hairless creatures, I would say so but like most other animals have fur hair All over their face.
Speaker 2:I mean, but you think about it like a rhino or like an elephant, it they have hair, but it's not like totally covers them, like a woolly mammoth or something like that. Like right, true, I mean it's, it's a little hair, like if you hadn't shaved in a day or two. That's what's on their face of them, face covers their body. But I think it just has something to do with probably like the pigment of your skin too would probably be part of it.
Speaker 1:Well, isn't it Just blushing, just like a rush of blood to your?
Speaker 2:face. Yeah, so, and there must be more blood vessels or something in our face as compared to other species. Yeah, there's problems with that. It goes back to the emotions thing.
Speaker 1:We have the ability to perceive emotion better than any other animal or something.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:This is interesting your taste buds have a lifespan of 10 to 14 days. Huh, that's true. Your tongue is one of the fastest healing organs. You have Right, it's also the strongest.
Speaker 2:Right. Well, I guess that makes sense too with new taste buds and stuff, because, like, if you burn your tongue, like if you have a hot thing, a soup or coffee or whatever, it is Right, you can't taste for a day or two, yeah, and then you're perfectly fine, mm-hmm, because that makes sense, yeah All right.
Speaker 1:So the human heart pumps about 2,000 gallons, or 7,570 liters of blood per day. What the heck's a liter? Nobody cares about liters. All right, I just know the two liter. There you go. That's the other thing.
Speaker 2:Why do we measure like gasoline and gallons, but we do sodas and liters and we do milk gallons. Like why can't we like I understand Ice cream too, ice cream too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I understand the US has to be weird about stuff and like has to have go back and forth between standard and metric, but why can't like we all be on the same page with something like that? I don't know, I don't know, I mean I don't know Whatever.
Speaker 1:All right, everyone's going back to the tongue. Every person's tongue print is unique, just like their fingertips.
Speaker 2:I guess that makes sense, I mean it's. I mean you even think about your face shape and your, like your just your face in general Pretty unique yeah, like really no two people have the same body shape, or anything like that as well.
Speaker 1:Identical twins, though you know it's like if like the embryo or the egg, like splits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it comes from the same DNA, though, and same Right, so then they're the same.
Speaker 1:then theoretically they'll come out pretty much the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean. So that's the exception to that rule.
Speaker 1:I mean, but how often do identical twins get born? That's why it's more than that. You know, yeah, but you even know them. This one I have a hard time believing this one because it's just like, how would they track this? Like, how is this a thing? You just taking their word on it? And it's the longest hiccuping spree recorded, lasted for 68 years. Yeah, how do you like? How do you record, like, when you're sleeping, are you still hiccuping?
Speaker 2:Yeah, or like do you have somebody just staring there watching you or are you just taking their word at face value for that?
Speaker 1:In 68 years. It's like when did it start? Let's say, you started when you were a child. You'd be in your 70s, if not older. Yeah or stopped.
Speaker 2:I mean or killed you. If you think you're hiccuping that much, you would think you'd go to a doctor and try to figure it out.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That one's a?
Speaker 1:I don't know how that works. Who knows? Yeah, right, so again about humans being only animals to do something we're the only animals that can willingly delay sleep, yeah, I guess. I guess we're the only ones that can push through the tiredness. Now, I think other animals can, but they can only last for so long and then they're just going to. They're done.
Speaker 2:Right, and I guess kind of where my mind was going is like if you have a deer or an antelope or something that's getting chased by a cougar or something like Predator versus Prey, like their adrenaline's going to kick in on either side make them go last longer running. But I guess eventually, they will.
Speaker 1:The kicker is willingly. Yeah, if they're getting chased, it's I got to keep going or else I'm no more, I guess that's true. Or like if you have, like a workhorse or you know a work animal and you're pushing it more and more. It's like you're pushing the animal and like forcing it to stay awake and to keep doing work.
Speaker 2:Whereas it's up to them.
Speaker 1:They're done they would yeah, I guess that's true. I think we got to take a thing out of their book, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I might need to.
Speaker 1:All right, this one, this one's crazy too. In the last 50 years, the population of the world has doubled.
Speaker 2:See, and I thought we are on a decline in population. No.
Speaker 1:Oh no, no, we are growing more and more every day there and the reason, one of the reasons that I've seen is just like modern medicine, like if you look at it, you look back. My fixed bank can see is longer. Yeah, you look back 100 years people didn't live past their 60s.
Speaker 1:You know, If that yeah, or way back in, like the old West days, it's like if you hit 40, 40, you're old, Whereas now it's like 40 is like right in the middle. You know it's better diets, better science to keep us going, better medicine. You know it's just stuff like that is just getting better and better. And I saw something that was saying like in the next 10 or 20 years, scientists believe that they can. They're saying like people are going to be able to work and live until they're 120. Right.
Speaker 2:Which I might add. I will say this If you look at like videos and recordings of time from like the 70s or the 60s, even the 80s and into the 90s, if you look at videos and like clips of that stuff, when do you ever see like larger people? You don't, you don't. Which is so weird to me, because you say that we have better health, like medicine, better diets and stuff, but yet you go to McDonald's, McDonald's is not going to be as good for you as it was back in those time either.
Speaker 2:I mean it's more processed.
Speaker 1:Everything now is more processed.
Speaker 2:Right, and it's just interesting to me that, like that, that, if that is true, that you I mean it is true that you live longer now than you used to but like no, it's just crazy, I don't know. I agree.
Speaker 1:It's like our food quality is going down, at least here in the United States, and other countries have it better, but here in the US, you know our food quality is going down but we're living longer, right? So it's like. It's like an inverted inverse. It doesn't make sense, yeah.
Speaker 2:Inverse. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1:But oh well, All right. So the strongest muscle in the human body is the mass, the masseter, which is your jaw muscle, which makes sense. Humans have a biting force of just gnarly of what we can.
Speaker 2:Like compared to other animals and species, it's like so small. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But On average a person will spend about 25 years of their life asleep and I guess that's assuming that the average person lives to 75. I think it's in the US. Men live on average to like 75 and women live on average to 80.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean it goes back to that one third of your life or one third of your day. Like, if you just take that multiply, all right, one third of your day is spent sleeping. All right, that's one third of your year. All right, over your lifetime, that's one third of it. I mean Right.
Speaker 1:Which is nuts. But yeah, it is what it is. All right, humans have the ability to distinguish over 10,000 different sets.
Speaker 2:I would believe that again, it's like how do they measure that? Well, we'd certainly like Do you have somebody just sitting there sniffing stuff, or like I no idea.
Speaker 1:I mean but again, compared to other species, like it's so minimal, but also humans can smell rain better than sharks can snow blood in the ocean.
Speaker 2:I did know that and again, one of those things I keep going back to this is how do they know how far a shark can snow blood? And really sharks don't like an emo where you smell blood and then they're on, they go crazy. Yeah, they go crazy, and on the tank, that's just a stereotype.
Speaker 1:They're on site, man. They're on site, yeah, but I don't know science man. I don't get science man.
Speaker 2:Science is difficult when people try. I always struggled with it.
Speaker 1:When people laugh, I don't think I necessarily struggle with science. I actually enjoyed it, like physics. I loved my physics class Because that's math, it was practical. Yeah, it was math, it was practical, you can prove it. But what I don't get is when people use science to win facts and I, well, the science said yes, it's like okay, yes, but at the same time it could be different, like science versus religion. Science says one thing, religion says something different and people are like, well, scientifically we know that it's XYZ. When religion says it's this and it's like, no, we've disproved that. But it's like if you go back through the ages, the smartest person of their day would be baffled by what we have today. Right, who was it? Galileo? Someone back then thought that everything revolved around the earth, but then later someone disproved that and said no, we revolve around the sun. And then someone else just said something like we didn't know about gravity officially until Newton.
Speaker 2:You know, like you think about it, with like, especially with like, the geocentric fishes, whatever the sun one is, whatever that one's called Like. Again, it was just a theory.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That's really all science is Is. Nothing is 100%. It's always just theories that are proved, that everybody can agree upon until it's disproved.
Speaker 1:I can't remember what the other term is for it, but at that time, though, it wasn't a theory. That's what was fact, right Was. This is what it is. You can't prove it otherwise until it was proven wrong it was, you know. Now it's different. Like the Big Bang and all that stuff, they don't have enough evidence to say this is how you know the Big Bang, that's 100% how it happened, because we don't have enough evidence to prove it or disprove it. Right, right. So it's like that's the most widely accepted theory, whereas other things are proven. So it's like science is always changing, and yet people use that to say no, religion's wrong. God doesn't exist, because science says this.
Speaker 1:But it's like, really, though like there's more evidence that Jesus walked the earth than Christopher Columbus. So just gonna leave that out there. Just gonna leave that out there. So let's keep going. Let's do a couple more Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Why don't you pick a number between? Let's see, we do from like 25 to 40. Let me pick a number 38. We ain't got time to go through all these, All right, 38. Your brain uses up to 20% of the body's total oxygen and calorie intake.
Speaker 2:That makes sense because you're if that's what controls everything 20 watts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a lot of power. There was one that I saw that I wanted to. The human skeleton is made up of 206 bones. If you're a man, it's 207 in the morning. But you know which is funny? Because when you're a baby I think you have more or less when you're a child, can't remember.
Speaker 2:I want to see you have more. So now I was gonna say less, because you grow, but what do I know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they don't have bones in the wrist that haven't formed. I don't know what it is, I just know babies have a different number and then the smallest bone is inside your ear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Sure, I can't remember what it does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that. The human brain can process information as fast as 120 meters per second, or 393 feet per second. What is that in miles per hour?
Speaker 2:Well, it's gonna be very. I mean, one mile is 528, 5,280 feet Right, and how many feet did you say?
Speaker 1:393 feet per second.
Speaker 2:That's like less than a mile an hour. That's.07 miles per hour.
Speaker 1:I think you did your math backwards. I've already done it backwards, so I looked it up and it says to convert feet per second to miles per hour, you can use the following so one foot per second is approximately equal to 0.68 miles per hour. So to convert 393 feet per second, you multiply that by the number whatever, whatever, blah, blah, blah, Out to just under 200, it's 268.18 miles per hour.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't do that. That's quick. Seconds to hours is what I didn't do.
Speaker 1:That's quick. I mean, your brain is the fastest supercomputer on the planet. It's just a matter of you know, let's see. Well, this one, this one's just dumb. Your taste preferences can change over time. What you enjoy eating as a child may not be the same as what you enjoy as an adult. That's just like a. That's yeah, well, no, duh, yeah, so granted. One thing that will never change is my love for Legos.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:Lego knows this, lego knows this. They almost went bankrupt a bunch of times, right. And then they hopped on like licensing, better licensing. So they hopped on Star Wars. They got Star Wars Legos out Boom, that helped them. Harry Potter came out Boom they snapped on that. Marvel stuff Boom, they stopped on that right.
Speaker 1:But in the last couple of years, like with video games and like Fortnite and the free to play shooters coming out, so much I have just shooters, just free to play games. Kids want to play those more because it's more like a instant gratification serotonin dopamine boost. So Lego has very smartly flipped a lot of their marketing to target the people that grew up loving Legos to their adult stuff. So the black series stuff, so like the Banzai collection, the different flowers, the more decorative Lego sets that you don't play with as much. It's more just like oh yeah, I've got this for decoration because it's cool. So they target a lot of these. You know like you've got all the like the heads of like Star Wars characters, you got some of Marvel characters, you get like Thor's hammer, the infinity gauntlet, all the different cars, all these other things that it's like you wouldn't really play with that but it's cool to have, so they flip their marketing. Smart, smart little guys. That's what I love.
Speaker 1:All right, let's finish off with a good one. Laughter is a universal human behavior and people from all cultures and backgrounds laugh, although things that trigger widely differ. But everyone knows that laughter is a universal language. If you can get some of the laugh, you're good to go. Same with music. Same with music. Yeah, so it makes sense. Those are some universal languages that everyone can get behind. So, all right. Well, that's all we got for you today. Comment below what your favorite fact was, or you want to let us know what your favorite human fact is? Just let us know down in the comments below. Please like subscribe. Click the bell so you're notified when we release a new video. New videos come out on Mondays and we'll catch you next week. Bye, adios.