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Episode 13: Reading
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reading. something alot of people, including me, rarely do. what can you do to start?
Good day to you, fellow hobbits. It is Second Breakfast Podcast with your host, Hobbito. It is the last Wednesday of March. You know what that is. It is week 13 in this beautiful year of 2026. Crazy. 13 weeks in. It has been a hell of a day. I got reflecting to do today. I got a lot of stuff to do. I don't know if you do, but I do. So we're going we're gonna make this fun, but we're also gonna try to make it quick because Lord have mercy. Anyways. Today is March 25th, 2026. Today is National Waffle Day. Now, today you can have any waffles you want, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, blueberry, peanut butter, uh chocolate chips, whatever you want to call it, confetti, cake, whatever you want. Today is National Waffle Day. Celebrate by eating as much waffles as you want, just like Donkey does in Shrek.
SPEAKER_00Now, on this day in history, in 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is a very significant piece of history. Now it sounds weird.
SPEAKER_01It was a pivotal tragedy in the US history that exposed deadly sweatshop conditions and directly spurred major worker safety reforms. It this event is significant for several interconnected reasons that transformed American labor laws, unions, and public policy. It galvanized public outrage in the labor movement. It triggered sweeping legislative reforms in New York. Its impact rippled nationally.
SPEAKER_00It just overall it made the workplace safer than what it was.
SPEAKER_01For weekly wacky news, here are some of the wildest, most bizarre news stories from around the world from March 18th to March 24th. In Thailand on March 18th, there was a man arrested after climbing into viral pygmy hippo moodin's enclosure, whatever the fuck that is. Why you would want to do it, who knows? Uh in Australia, March 18th, there was a real live possum found posing among plush toys in airport gift shop. You know what that reminds me of? It reminds me of that scene in Ted when that that guy that's obsessed with him tries to get him and he poses with all the other Teds. Uh March 19th in the USA, media right hunters descend on Ohio hunting fragments of a seven-ton space rock. I remember that because that was all over the news because it was like a big boom, is what they were calling it. And it was in it was like in northern end Ohio next to next to the lake. But um I don't know how close it was to the lake. I I just looked at a map and it was close to the lake. Um but I remember that one. Uh in March 20th, Belgium drops the Cerreillus World Cup away jersey honoring Renee Margritti. I could be butchering that name, and I'm sorry if I am, but that's how I'm gonna pronounce it right now. Uh March 24th, Philadelphia Airport set Guinness's world record with a thousand two hundred and ninety-one cheesesteaks in a line.
SPEAKER_00Crazy.
SPEAKER_01Fun fact for today ancient Roman catapults constructed were constructed using ropes from human hair. Now, those of you that don't know, human hair is supposed to be one one of, or if not the strongest fibers out there. So they used hair. Imagine, imagine if it wasn't the strongest fiber in the world and they just did it because they like scalping people, and and then the rope snapped every time they would like they would fire a catapult.
SPEAKER_00Um, anyways. A uh what if scenario.
SPEAKER_01What if dinosaurs never went extinct? I'm gonna go ahead and mark that off so I don't redo it. But what if dinosaurs never went extinct?
SPEAKER_00They would more than likely still dominate the planet.
SPEAKER_01Modern Earth would look more drastic in wild areas, vast herbs, uh trampling savannas, enormous browsers reshaping forests, and big carnivores keeping mammal population in check. Um mammals and humans probably wouldn't be dominant or might not exist as we know them. It depends on it depends on how many carnivores were out there, you know, because I mean shit. They could be smarter than us, who knows? It was a long time ago. Uh what about intelligent dinosaurs? I mean, they had decent brains for reptiles, and there are that there are some that were pretty smart.
SPEAKER_00That's what I was just talking about.
SPEAKER_01Uh what would happen if dinosaur was still here today? A wilder, more dangerous modern world. Like, instead of going outside, and the worst thing you could have is like a bird attack you. You'd have a fucking two-story dinosaur, a a two-story foot dinosaur, damn, a two-story like dinosaur staring at you about to eat you. You know, you'd have a lot more fears going out to your car and and whatnot, and just driving the work would be while it would be cooler because you could see all the little er the all the little herbivores and and and birds flying and stuff, you'd still have to watch out for like the small dinosaurs or the big ones that's gonna eat you.
SPEAKER_00Um it'd be very different. A what the hell is it called?
SPEAKER_01A myth that's uh versus fact is gum takes seven years to digest when in fact your body cannot fully digest the gum base, the rubbery part made of synthetic synthetic polymers, resin, waxes, etc. However, the rest of the gum, sweeteners, flavorings, and softeners is mostly broken down or dissolved in your mouth and stomach. The gum base itself doesn't stick to your stomach or intestines once it loses its stickiness in the moist acidic environment of your digestive tract, it gets moved along by normal muscles, contractions, just like any other non-digestible material and travels through your stomach, small intestines, large intestines, and then exit out your poop. How long does it really take? Typical time frame for gums, uh, it passes through the entire digestive system in about 24 to 72 hours for most people, some estimate pinpoint about 40 hours. It very it varies depending on your diet, hydration, metabolism, bowel habits, and etc. etc. In rare cases, it might even take up to a week, but never years. Now, for those that you want to ask, is swallowing gum harmful? For a single piece or occasional swallow, no, it's harmless and will simply come out the other end. The real risk is only if large amounts are swallowed repeatedly, especially by young children, which combined with constipation could rarely form a mass and cause intestinal blockage. That's extremely uncommon and usually involves many pieces over time, not one accidental swallow. Bottom line, if a swallowing gum behaves like any other digestive bit of food. It doesn't digest uh, but it doesn't linger for seven years or even seven days. Your digestive system effectively put efficiently pushes it through and out in a matter of days, just like any other food. I don't know where that came from. The the myth of like gum takes seven year seven years to digest. I think it was just a habit of trying to get kids not to swallow gum because people thought it was gross. I don't know. Let's just call it that.
SPEAKER_00Uh next conspiracies.
SPEAKER_01The lochness monster is a surviving uh plesiosaur. I don't know, it could be like plesiosaur, I don't know, but the lochness monster is a surviving dinosaur, pretty much. Now, of course, people think the lochiness monster is real, some people might not.
SPEAKER_00It just depends. But the theory is that it's still it's a surviving dinosaur. Lord have mercy. I did I need to go down and and look at more of the uh myth versus facts, because I do have plenty of them written down now.
SPEAKER_01I I got I got a lot of these written down. I got about 20 something of the what if scenarios written down that I haven't done yet, so it'll it'll take me about half a year, and then we can go find more or do whatever. But now that I'm more organized with that, it'd be great. Um Main subject is reading. Now I really don't have much to say on reading. I don't know where I was going with this other than reading and school. Now reading can be a good hobby, but if you're like me, reading doesn't come easy, and I'm not saying easy as in like I have trouble reading, it's more of I have trouble concentrating on reading. It I don't know if it's the ADHD part or if my brain just shuts off when it comes to reading because school. Now it and I could be blaming school for this, but I'm gonna be I'm gonna be blaming school. That I don't like reading because school forced it too often over dumb things, and and it was just it's just no, it's it's like a teenager. Uh, when your parent tells you to do something a lot, you just you just shut it off when they you your brain just shuts off when they tell you to do something because you don't want to do it, right? That's pretty much me. I have books. I have books. I got Harry Potter, I got Lord of the Rings, I got Dexter, I got Artemis Phoul, I got a couple of Stephen King books. Uh I got a I got a variety of it. I just I don't read. It's it's not because I don't want to, it's it's hard for me to do it. Um hell, even senior year, you know, we had that AR shit and and had to take tests on books, and it was like a big ass percentage of your grade and all this stupid crap, right? And I'm just like, even I didn't I didn't do a single book test, and I still got a B in English. I might have got a C when I graduated. It was one of the two. Either way, it doesn't matter. When when reading is that big part of your grade, they're forcing you to do something stupid. And I get it, reading's important, I do, but when you're forcing a kid to read, because it's either you pass or fail if you read, it's dumb. A kid shouldn't pass or fail English just because you're forcing them to read, you know, 500 pages, you know, like every three months. Or so I I I because it it it stopped being AR points, and it was how many pages can you read, you know, in a time frame. Of course, you had to take a test over it and pass it, but because then you would get the pages, but still, it's it's just dumb. Cause like, because the harder you try in reading, the more pages you're expected to read. So, like, say like you're you're top of the class, like, well, you're expected to read 2,000 pages in in this time frame. Bitch, I don't want to fucking read that many pages in a time frame. Like, I don't want to do it for work. I I would I would rather read that many pages because it's fun than because it's work. Because once you do it for work, it's just it doesn't become fun anymore. And that's just with anything, right? Say, like you like cooking, right? You you enjoy cooking, but once you start doing it for work, you don't want to do it for fun anymore because you do it for work. It's the same shit. I think that's why I don't like reading. And I could be wrong, it could be something else that I'm just not wanting to care to think about. But that's that's what I think. Um, I just got a I got a buggy in my nose and it tickled. Yeah, anyways. Um I really don't have much on this one because it it's it's reading, it's something that I don't like. But if I had to say anything to the kids with reading, if you're worried about your grades in English class, read. Read, take tests, do something stupid. Read read books that don't have like 700 pages or 500 pages, read the ones that have like a hundred to two hundred pages. Read, you know, just read the small shit. Uh hell if you if you want some ideas. Uh it depends on if you're a nerd or if you like fantasy, nonfiction. I'm not a fan of nonfiction. Now, nonfiction movies, like based on a true story or based on real events, that shit I liked, but those are movies. Now, books, like I said, I have a couple of Stephen King. I got the whole Harry Potter, I got the whole The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Artemis Fowl is a book series I found in school. I started with the third book, not realizing it was the third book, and I really enjoyed it. So I went to look for other ones, but of course that was towards the end of the year to when I didn't even need to read anymore. But I got those. I got the Dexter, you know, like the TV show Dexter, like with Dexter Morgan, the serial killer. Um, that's about it. I don't really have a lot, but uh, those are some ideas that you can have to read. Uh Artemis Fowl should be in the the school library. I don't know what it would be under, depends on what your library is like categorized as, but I recommend it. It it's it's a different take on the fantasy world from what I'm used to. And no, I have not seen the movie because I want to read the books again before I even watch the movie. Anyways, um for those of you that want to pick up a hobby and read, uh, I guess the same thing goes as find something you're interested in. If you like sci-fi or fantasy, go for those books. You like uh you like historical stuff, read historical books. Go from there, and then you can build you can build your uh genres that you want and want to get into and this and that and everything else in between.
SPEAKER_00Um other than that, I don't know what else to say.
SPEAKER_01Uh I I really don't and I wish I did, but it's it's reading. There's not really much to do it. I'm not a reader, so I can't really do anything. Um next week, April 1st, April Fool's Day, um, I will have a podcast. Uh I'm not gonna be joking too much, uh, because of course this podcast is not only just to have fun, but at the end of the podcast, it's always about something serious, and hopefully I can reach out to people and help people and stuff. I do have I do have uh I do have uh topics I know at the beginning of my topics were like on a serious matter and they're just becoming bleh, but you don't realize how many subjects I've had to write down, and they weren't really in order, it was just whatever came to my mind first, and of course from the the first like what 10 they were like need to know, and then now it's just like little bits here and there. But reading, I mean, it is important in the long run, it really is. It's just don't beat yourself up if you're not at a 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade level. Uh I I remember I remember a long time ago that a teacher of mine or a teacher in general told my mom not to worry that I wasn't interested in reading because the newspaper I let that date me, the newspaper uh is at like a fourth grade or is at a third grade or fourth grade reading level. So like if I'm not reading at a fifth grade reading level, who cares? You know, nothing really when it when it really comes to it, and you think about it, the the the important shit that you have to read, instructions, uh rules and regulations, terms and conditions, yada yada, they're all at a fourth, fifth grade reading level tops. I mean, they're not gonna have bullshit vocabulary, uh big words, anything like that. It's just it's gonna be stuff that everyone can understand because they gotta make it to where everyone understands. So they can't be like, I told you so. And so be like, well, you did use a big word. I'm like, sorry about that. We'll make it dumber next time. They gotta make it dumber for people like me. But anyways, I hope you enjoyed this podcast as usual. I mean, it's nothing too fancy fancy. I'm getting the hang of what I want to do. Um it's April 1st, it's April 1st next week. It's already spring, and it's fucking showing that it's crazy weather. Crazy weather indeed. I got a shower. I am filthy with dirt. Oh Lord mercy. But, anyways, I hope you had a good day, and I will see you next week on April Fool's motherfuckers. Adios, amigos.