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Science vs. Myth: Busting Common Misconceptions
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Ever believed that bats are blind, that the world is flat, or that you shouldn't swim after eating? These widely-accepted "facts" are actually complete myths – and they're just the beginning of what Hannah and Davy tackle in this eye-opening father-daughter conversation.
With a perfect blend of scientific curiosity and playful banter, the duo examines ten persistent misconceptions that have somehow survived despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. You'll discover why flat Earth theories simply don't hold up against basic physics, why your hair doesn't actually grow thicker when you shave it, and why that childhood warning about swimming after ice cream was completely unnecessary.
Their discussion about lightning strikes repeatedly hitting the same places leads to a hilarious tangent about car accidents and proper safety procedures, while the revelation about bats having excellent vision (some can even see in color!) sparks jokes about these creatures "pranking" humans for centuries. The hosts' genuine surprise at discovering some of these scientific truths makes for an authentic listening experience that's both educational and entertaining.
What makes this episode particularly valuable is how it demonstrates the importance of questioning inherited wisdom. Many of these myths persist simply because they're passed down through generations without scrutiny. By the end, you'll find yourself wondering what other "common knowledge" might actually be completely false.
Whether you're a science enthusiast or just someone who enjoys lively conversations that challenge conventional thinking, this mythbusting journey will leave you with fascinating facts to share at your next social gathering. Subscribe now and join the growing Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter community as they navigate our complex world with humor, insight, and an unquenchable curiosity.
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. What are we talking about today?
Speaker 1:We are going to talk about science versus myth.
Speaker 2:Science versus myth.
Speaker 1:We're going to do a little bit of myth busting.
Speaker 2:Whoa.
Speaker 1:We've got. We originally had 25 and we've cut them down to 10.
Speaker 2:And we've got our guest star Mythbusters here. We really haven't. Wouldn't that be so cool. I want the Mythbusters here. Let's get. That should be our goal for this podcast. We get so famous that the Mythbusters know who we are.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:There we go. All right, okay, that's the goal, okay, that's the goal, unrealistic goal, but it's a goal Very unrealistic.
Speaker 1:So we've got 10. Science versus myths.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do.
Speaker 1:And we're going to talk about them and see what the myth is, see what the science is. And the conclusion.
Speaker 2:Okay, yep, I like it.
Speaker 1:You like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you like it, let's go for it. So, science versus myth First one, this is a funny one, funny. So, Science versus myth.
Speaker 1:First one. This is a funny one.
Speaker 2:Funny.
Speaker 1:Funny.
Speaker 2:Oh, it is quite funny yeah.
Speaker 1:Earth is flat versus earth is round.
Speaker 2:Now flat earthers are a group.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are a special breed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the belief that the flat is round, what, that the earth is flat.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I think Terry Pratchett is to blame for this.
Speaker 1:With the tortoise turtle, space turtle, with the earth on the top, with the elephants.
Speaker 2:So yeah, four elephants holding up the disc world. That's right On top of the, and they were trying to find out what the sex of the turtle was right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So, I'm sorry with this one, so I'm sorry with this one.
Speaker 2:It's really hard to approach this sensitively because there's so much evidence to suggest it's round, so it's a real struggle to understand where the flat earthers are coming from.
Speaker 1:Do you know what?
Speaker 2:So the idea is that the earth is a disc, okay, and that if you travel too far, you could fall the edge, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think that's it, but I I genuinely don't know where they've got this conclusion from no, I mean water would fall off the edge yeah right, unless, unless gravity is holding it, and it goes around and there's a there's a bottom earth and a top earth. Although I did hear something funny the other day. Go on In that the earth is flat, right, right, but underneath the earth, on the other side of the earth, is a different time zone, so you've got dinosaurs.
Speaker 2:That live on the bottom. That's where the dinosaurs went.
Speaker 1:And so when the dinosaurs die, and they get buried they come in.
Speaker 2:We're digging up the fossils. That actually makes a lot more sense.
Speaker 1:No, it really doesn't. It really doesn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm really struggling to sensitively put this.
Speaker 1:I saw. I don't understand I saw a really good TikTok the other day of Brian Cox and someone was talking to him about flat earthers and he got asked a question something along the lines of oh you, about flat earthers? And he got asked a question something along the lines of oh you know what? What would you say to a flat earther on a plane? Oh yeah, and he said, well, flat earthers wouldn't be on a plane because I can't remember what actually was there, but it was. It was really, it was really funny.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll have to find the video and send it to you. There's a lot of evidence out there to suggest that the earth is not flat there's all the evidence and to in to ignore that is odd odd yes very, very odd yeah yeah, I. I struggle to to word this sensitively, to be honest well, I like the.
Speaker 1:Uh, what's it? Someone said it was a flat earthers have, uh, lots of members all over the globe, all over the globe, all over the globe, the globe, all over the globe yeah yeah, I think this one is, I think, the flat earth theory. It just completely ignores centuries and centuries of factual evidence gravity, satellite imagery and space travel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can clearly see that we live on a globe yeah I mean also shape someone said to me as well the other day about one of the most compelling arguments for the flat earth. Well, for the, the fact that flat earth doesn't isn't a real thing is pearl harbor right, okay because if japan had attacked pearl harbor, they would have had to have gone all the way across the world to attack pearl harbor right because it would have to go that way rather than that way right, I see, yeah, yeah I think just flights in general really. Yeah, just kind of just aviation aviation, just kind of travel holiday yeah, so, yeah so sorry, flat earthers.
Speaker 2:I don't understand. I'm trying to be as sensitive as I can, but I, I, I'm sorry. It's. Yeah, I'm sorry on this one the world is round yeah, that is it yeah uh.
Speaker 1:So the next one.
Speaker 2:This one's really interesting, so it's the fact that humans only use 10 of their brains versus the full brain usage okay, so I think this came from I I know this is not true, um, and I think this came from basically a mis um, a misinterpretation of what was going on. Okay, so I think it's. We don't use only 10 of our brain, so there's not a part of the brain that is only used, but I think in one go. I think what they're saying is that we can only process 10 of our brain power at one time yes but not at no, there's not a percentage of our brain that we don't use at all.
Speaker 2:We use all of our brain. 100 of our brain, yeah, but I think at a capacity perhaps of 10, we have not unlocked the, the way to use all of it, or some among those.
Speaker 1:Some people say the myth says that if we were to so, we only. There's a myth is that we only use 10 of our brain. If we were to so, the myth is that we only use 10% of our brain. If we were to unlock the other 90%, we could have superpowers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think that's the myth.
Speaker 1:Now have you seen the film Lucy?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that is very much based on that theory and on that myth. Now, but we do know that science of direct brain scans and you're absolutely right, we use pretty much our entire brain, but different parts for different things, so it's a complete misunderstanding of that so yeah, I agree with you on that one yeah so yes, just a misunderstanding of how the brain functions completely although wouldn't it be cool if we could get superpowers?
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, it would be great, um, but lucy didn't fare that well. If, yeah, it would be great, but Lucy didn't fare that well, if you remember the ending she died.
Speaker 1:No, she didn't die. She became everywhere, didn't she?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She became everything.
Speaker 2:But you wouldn't be human anymore.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:If we follow the Lucy trend.
Speaker 1:No, you wouldn't. It was actually a really good film. It wasn't a very long, long film, but it was a bloody, good film.
Speaker 2:I don't remember it being good. I remember feeling, thinking oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I quite liked it a bit meh it had Morgan Freeman in it it did have Morgan Freeman in it.
Speaker 2:I am Morgan Freeman. I can only think of him as God like to me. He is God in Bruce.
Speaker 1:Almighty to me he's, he's red in Shawshank, redemption.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course he is. Yeah, that's how I remember Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman is God. Yeah, he's brilliant With the filing cabinet and Jim Carrey yeah.
Speaker 1:Excellent, excellent. So the next one let's rock. Lightning never strikes plate. What?
Speaker 2:Do you want to try reading again? You need to use a little bit more percentage of your brain there. Yeah, yeah, so lightning never strikes the same place twice. Well, my understanding of lightning is that it strikes a high point.
Speaker 1:That is well conducting right it's, it looks for conducting things so like tall buildings metal spikes which would people's brains to me, people's brains well, did you hear about that guy who got struck by lightning like five times? Yes, he keeps getting quite unlucky?
Speaker 2:yeah, he's just, but keeps getting quite unlucky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, he's just, but he is just unlucky yeah, every time there was a storm you just think, oh, here we go yeah you would, wouldn't you just be like I'm staying here. I'm gonna put my rubber shoes on yeah, rubber room yeah and I'm just gonna stay here have you heard of that?
Speaker 2:uh, crazy, I was crazy once they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room for the rats. The rats made me crazy, crazy. I was crazy once they locked me in a room, rubber room, a rubber room full of rats. The rats made me crazy, crazy. I was crazy once, and it continues and it continues.
Speaker 1:Why?
Speaker 2:is that? I don't know, it's just a thing.
Speaker 1:It's a thing. It's a thing. I've never heard that before. You've not.
Speaker 2:No, it's a viral sensation've never heard that before. You're not. No, it's a viral sensation.
Speaker 1:Nope, never crazy frog never heard that references further episodes so, but lightning does strike the same place twice, okay it does that?
Speaker 2:makes sense it?
Speaker 1:does because it can, even because that's why skyscrapers have that, the certain conductors don't they I assume.
Speaker 2:So I assume the burj khalifa has some sort of what do you want? Burj khalifaers have that. The certain conductors don't they, I assume? So I assume the burj khalifa has some sort of what you want burj khalifa. What's that? The tallest building in the world to buy oh, sorry that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah sorry.
Speaker 2:I wonder what you were talking about, oh, no, it's just a really the tallest building in the world right, okay and I was like well, I'm pretty certain that would have some sort of fail safe for being struck by lightning. I don't know if dubai suffers particularly from thunderstorms and lightning, but they did recently, didn't they?
Speaker 1:they had a big old. They got really rained out not that long ago I mean, they're in a desert, aren't they? No, but there was a big conspiracy about that, people manipulating the weather and all of that for that one, but yeah that's a myth, yeah trees get hit often a lot as well.
Speaker 2:Big old trees, yeah that's why you shouldn't shelter under a tree in a storm right, yeah am I wrong? No, no. Why are trees good conductors?
Speaker 1:I think it's probably just because they're tall. So I think lightning just looks for something and just like, oh, that'll do. It looks for something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a sentient being yeah it's like you know what trees actually thinking about it.
Speaker 1:So lightning is a funny thing, isn't it? Because you've got like sheet lightning yes and you've got the. What's the other type of lightning, called forked forked lightning?
Speaker 2:yes, yeah, I don't know much about lightning, I'm just agreeing with you. I love a thunderstorm. No, I'm in the rubber room with the rats and they make me crazy. Yeah, crazy, crazy. That was crazy once.
Speaker 1:All right. So basically, the conclusion is the myth is false, so lightning will strike in the same place more than once.
Speaker 2:Including that bloke. Including that bloke, that poor bloke.
Speaker 1:I even think I might have got this wrong, but I think he did die and I think his gravestone even got struck by lightning.
Speaker 2:That is not true. That not true.
Speaker 1:I think a gravestone is tiny I know, but I honestly think it's almost like there he is, there's brian.
Speaker 2:Have some of that I don't think that is true. I genuinely think it can't be true yeah, I think so okay, is his name actually brian? No, it's not brian so yeah, so um.
Speaker 1:The myth is false. Lightning follows conductive paths and can strike the same location repeatedly. It will look for that conducting area.
Speaker 2:Good to know, good to know For future references. There you go, lightning.
Speaker 1:So if you're right out in the middle of a field and there's nothing around and you're the tallest thing, and you're the tallest thing Lay on the floor Hit the deck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Hit the. I don't know if that's Preferably in a rubber room. Yeah, make sure you've got your rubber shoes on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it goes in and comes out, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:I was going to say can you touch? What if lightning strikes your car? Are you safe until you touch the metal?
Speaker 1:You Because of the rubber tyres.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think so. I think that's it.
Speaker 2:So if lightning, does strike, you stay in the car Science or myth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you stay in the car. You don't get out.
Speaker 2:Yes, I've heard this, Because it will conduct around. I've heard in any accident just stay in the car unless the car's on fire.
Speaker 1:But we didn't.
Speaker 2:When we had ours we got out. Oh yeah, but our car we did get out of the car then.
Speaker 1:That was the slowest car accident, I think, ever yeah.
Speaker 2:Wasn't it. It was very slow.
Speaker 1:We were going what? Five, ten miles an hour.
Speaker 2:I don't even think ten. Honestly, I don't think even ten.
Speaker 1:We just slid into a ditch, yeah basically, the road was so icy, wasn't it? Black ice and the tyre just went into one of the drainage ditches and just slid and the car just flipped I just can't remember.
Speaker 2:All I can remember is it slowly flipping. But I don't I don't remember how how that was possibly I don't even know how the physics of that work because the the, the wheel went into the ditch, yeah, and that was enough momentum for it to carry on and tip and flip the slowest way possible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it went over really slowly, didn't it?
Speaker 2:I mean, there's obviously a roll mechanism in cars to do that. Right they're, they're designed to crumple and roll, so perhaps well, it takes, it takes the brunt.
Speaker 1:Your mum might remember that one, because she was on actually driving where's the fact? Check, oh yeah oh yeah, where's the?
Speaker 2:fact checker. Oh yeah, where's that?
Speaker 1:Fact checker.
Speaker 2:The thing is, we haven't got her to fact check here.
Speaker 1:I know we haven't. Did you know, with this we could actually make calls? I haven't set it up, but another day we could actually give her a call.
Speaker 2:Give her a ring.
Speaker 1:Give her a ring through the roadcaster and she'll come through. Won't work on the video though, no, but it will come through on the audio podcast. Yes, but we'll come through on the on the audio podcast, yes, yes, yeah, lightning that we go back, basically go back to lightning.
Speaker 2:Yes, because we kind of tangented it doesn't strike, it can strike.
Speaker 1:Sorry, the same place twice it can, indeed, it can, strike the same place twice, lovely, uh. So I actually know the answer to this one before I even looked at it hair and nails keep growing after death versus dehydration effect I assumed they did keep growing after death, so maybe I'm wrong no, no, it is a myth I did know this?
Speaker 1:because, yeah, if you, if you were to exhume a body die yeah, or dig a body up. Yeah, and you opened it up. It would look like the hair was longer and the nails were longer. Right, okay, the reason being is because when the moisture starts coming out of the body, the skin shrinks.
Speaker 2:Right, so it actually retracts Right.
Speaker 1:So, yes, makes sense it makes it look like they've continued to grow.
Speaker 2:So your head shrinks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the whole skin, everything will shrink.
Speaker 2:Okay. So, and they shrivel.
Speaker 1:They shrivel.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Essentially that.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So your fingers, yeah, and your nails and your hair look longer and toenails will look longer, because the skin has shrunk through dehydration. The shrinkage so that is the reason why. So there you go.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:So the myth is that the hair and nails continue to go after death, but it is an illusion. It's not actually true. It's post-mortem changes lovely there you go post-mortem change post-mortem changes. So next up, the great wall of china is visible from space I know this is not true okay the reason it's not true is because it's not on satellite photos at all. The wall is actually too thin. Yeah, it's not the length, it's the thinness of said wall.
Speaker 2:It's not on satellite photos at all. The wall is actually too thin. It's not the length, it's the thinness of said wall.
Speaker 1:It's not the length, it's the girth.
Speaker 2:It's the girth. It's the girth of the wall.
Speaker 1:But the myth was that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space.
Speaker 2:That's what people said, but no, not true. It's not Not true. Yeah, so cities, roads and airports are more distinguishable, and that's due to the light that they produce.
Speaker 1:That's true. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:I think if you had something that was girthy and, yeah, took up a large space on a country, you might be able to create something that could be seen from space but, why would you do that?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What's the? Point just just to hold that record, I suppose I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, you must admit that the great wall of china is a fantastic piece of engineering. It's a long boy. It's a long boy. It's a fantastic piece of engineering, isn't it?
Speaker 2:well considering, or construction, construction, considering. That's when they made it in.
Speaker 1:I don't I don don't know how long it took to make.
Speaker 2:Oh, I imagine several years. Yeah, that's got to be a decades project.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah, that wasn't a weekend job. No.
Speaker 2:Not with our council. No.
Speaker 1:But it always used to make me laugh about the Great Wall of China, because I think, well, you just walk to the end and just walk around it.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, walk around it well, yeah, or up and over it, right there.
Speaker 1:What well? There was a theory that it wasn't designed to keep people. It's designed to keep something in something something in there's a conspiracy there was a conspiracy about the great wall of china. It was there to keep something in oh, some sort of beast how long would it take you to walk it people?
Speaker 2:have. Do you know? I'm just how many kilometers long? Yeah, I'm just gonna google how long?
Speaker 1:how long is the great wall of china?
Speaker 2:and what's the average run time? Also, when was it made? Because we have come into this episode with a very much lack of research here I know oh and myth. Let's talk about the science, but there actually is no science behind this one.
Speaker 1:So it is. It's what? 5,499 miles long oh, what's that in KM? No, sorry. The total length of all sections of the Great Wall of China ever built adds up to about 13,000 miles, including overlapping sections that were rebuilt. The thousand miles including overlapping sections that were rebuilt. The wall constructed during the ming the ming dynasty. The most well-preserved section, is about five thousand five and a half twenty one, so that's twenty one thousand one hundred ninety six kilometers so if you were to walk it it would take you several days it would take you 18 months to walk it yeah, yeah, I suppose it.
Speaker 2:If you, if you, if you averaged about 30 kilometers a day, yeah, it would it took 2 000 years to construct it 2 000 years 2 000 years someone's project way back went. Oh, let's, let's build a wall across china yeah, that's insane, and that carried on through the generations. That's more impressive that that. Made it out the group chat that's more impressive.
Speaker 1:Made it at the group chat yeah, that's more impressive to me than yeah anything else I've ever known, ever so the first walls date to the 7th century bc no one at any point thought now we're not going to complete this yeah, so how cool is that so 700 years before christ it's actually quite recent, to be fair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's that's quite recent, isn't it?
Speaker 1:that's, that's insane. Is what? Yeah, one of the seven was voted one of the new seven wonders of the world in 2007 yeah, there you go yeah, utilize troop barracks, garrison stations although this is wikipedia, so I don't know how true this is, but yeah, that's actually, that's actually insane. Uh, the great, that's blown my mind.
Speaker 2:Honestly, that's blown my mind.
Speaker 1:The great wall of china cannot be seen by the naked human eye from the moon, do you think they? Do you think? When neil armstrong went up there, he just they asked him can you? Can you see the great wall of china, neil, neil or buzz buzz aldrin? Yeah so yeah that's yeah so there you go. That's interesting. So shall we move on to the?
Speaker 2:uh, the water rotating differently yeah, so I think this came from. Honestly, I think this came from a simpsons episode. That episode was all about like they went to australia and the water was spinning a different way in the toilet to the other way and while that, I think, while it affects something to do with like I haven't actually read, but I think it's something like it would affect large water systems but it wouldn't affect a toilet.
Speaker 2:It just so happens that they've built their flushes differently well, they think it's to do with the coriolis effect yeah so the yeah, the, the sorry flat earth.
Speaker 1:earth is the curvature of the earth. Yeah, so it does. Yeah, so the myth is that toilets apparently flush in opposite directions in the northern and southern hemispheres due to the Coriolis effect. But science comes in and says the Coriolis effect will influence large-scale weather systems yeah, large water systems. But not small amounts of water. Toilet flush direction is determined by drain design, not by hemisphere yes, yeah, yeah so in basically their toilets are built differently exactly so.
Speaker 1:Essentially, the myth is is a misinterpretation of physics, and the coriolis effect applies to hurricanes, not toilets, oh okay, it's even weather systems rather than not water systems, not water systems, weather systems, so hurricanes.
Speaker 2:Spin the other way yeah.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:There we go, learn something new every day.
Speaker 1:Indeed, indeed.
Speaker 2:Don't say, we don't learn you anything.
Speaker 1:We don't learn you anything, oh dear. So next one shaving makes hair grow thicker I know this is not true okay now.
Speaker 2:You were always told this in school or like when you uh in your teenage years and you start this is more of a woman thing probably uh and shaving your legs, and they say, oh, don't shave your legs too early on, because you'll be shaving them for the rest of your life and they always grow back thicker, not true?
Speaker 2:the reason they feel thicker is because when you shave, they blunt the hairs, yeah, and therefore it feels thicker to the touch yeah the only thing I think that would stop, like the growth of hair and why people tend to wax more, is because you're actually kind of damaging, I think, the hair follicle. Mom would know more about this than I would, but I'm pretty certain that you're damaging the hair follicle. That's why it appears that it's not coming back as thick but shaving. You're not removing the hair follicle or where the hair comes from. You are just cutting off the top like growing grass yeah, you pull out grass, you're topping it yeah, if you pull out grass it's likely that it will reseed and grow again.
Speaker 2:But if you just cut grass, you know it will just keep growing and growing and growing yeah. Just like the hair on your head.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:I don't think anyone has ever shaved off their hair on their head and gone. Oh, my hair grew back thicker. Different circumstances. If you've had chemotherapy or something like that, because it does chemically change your hair.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's fair enough, but I don't think anyone has ever shaved off their head and gone. Huh, it's grown back thicker no in fact, a lot of people that shave off their heads, shave off their hair because they've got baldness and doesn't grow back at all yeah so whoever come up with this is a fanny and the reason I'm so strong about this subject is because I'm not afraid to admit that I shave my mustache right.
Speaker 1:Well, the thing is, I I wonder, I wonder if that's because, like so, I have a beard you do, I have a beard, yeah, so we now have a visual podcast.
Speaker 2:So people, can see that you have a beard so it is.
Speaker 1:The beard hair is much more coarser than the hair that's on my head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and and because it's facial because it's facial hair.
Speaker 1:Now, have you heard that theory about facial hair as well? Go on, so apparently, the people who can grow beards, they're within their dna. This, this is again. Actually, this is another science. Science we miss them. So that fact that I can grow a beard suggests that my ancestors, throughout the time, were warriors. Because when you punch someone in the face, the beard was there to protect. Because if you point someone in the face who's got a beard, yeah, they genuinely might not get their jaw broken, but if you punch someone in the face who's clean shaven, the chance that you're more likely to break their jaw because of the cushioning does it really create that much more cushioning?
Speaker 2:does it really create that much more cushioning? I would yeah for the audio listeners.
Speaker 1:Father is punching himself in the face right now if you had a big bushy beard it would do I mean a big, like massively bushy viking style.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would do wizard beard? Of course it would yes, but then they would also have to put the wizard beard around like in their helmet. I guess they could tuck it in and create some sort of insulation. I'm not um, but that is a myth, that that's not calling bullshit yeah, that is bullshit, that is bullshit, we are saying that's bullshit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're saying it's bullshit, but that is one of the theories that's been put forward, that it, yeah, that is, uh, that's the reason why people can grow beards, because it's why men grow, because it because a warrior a warrior, a warrior, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, shaving hair does not make it grow thicker.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:The reason you get more hair is because you're growing older and you produce more hair on your body. That's just what happens.
Speaker 1:Exactly From being a little babby to a grown human. Yeah, hair grows. Yes, indeed. The next one traumatized me as a kid. Okay, right, yes, indeed. The next one traumatized me as a kid. Okay, absolutely traumatized me in the fact that you should wait 30 minutes after eating before swimming. Why? Because I was always told that as a kid but, why?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't know, but they never give a reason to this? Because it will you, you might drown, it will cause stomach cramps and you might drown. I was told this as a kid I mean, you can get stitch yeah, which I guess is a type of cramp well, they reckon, because the your body's too busy digesting the food, the muscles will cramp up and you'll drown some rubbish like that. But yeah, I got told that as a kid.
Speaker 2:Okay, don't, don't, don't swim after eating, you'll die, was basically it I mean to be honest, I wouldn't have a full meal and then go for a run.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:So I think there is probably some truth behind that. There is probably something that it doesn't feel very pleasant.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's probably not advisable, but would it kill you. I don't think so.
Speaker 2:Just make you feel a bit icky. No, no one wants to feel icky, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it does say here that digestion does divert some blood to the stomach, but not enough to impair muscle function. Studies show that there's no link between ink, between eating and an increased drowning risk. Sorry I just bit my nail off. Do you think it's one of those things that somebody says something, but then it gets distorted?
Speaker 2:Chinese whispers, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:And it gets distorted to scare people.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of myths come from that. Like, you've got a lot of old wives tales like putting conkers in the corners of your rooms, will you know, will mean that spiders won't be in your house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, that doesn't work.
Speaker 2:That doesn't work, does it? That doesn't work. Spiders still come in. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Although we don't get many spiders in our house, I think the dog yeah the douche, I think they are which which I like, because you know my feelings on spiders. I do know your feelings yes, not a fan spider repellent. Yeah, not a fan of spiders.
Speaker 2:We have a lot of spiders in this house because recently I've been noticing that we've got a lot more cobwebs. Like there's a cobweb in that corner which I've forgotten you're telling me this now.
Speaker 1:Yes, okay but I've.
Speaker 2:Weirdly enough, we get a lot of cobwebs, but I don't see the spiders. That's concerning Maybe Aragog is in his house with his whole army of spiders.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's another myth, isn't it, that you swallow so many spiders at night?
Speaker 2:when you're sleeping. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't like the idea. I'd like that not to be true. I don't think it is true and I would definitely like that not to be true I don't think it is true and I would definitely like that not to be true.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's true either. I'm not a mouth uh open sleeper. I don't dribble or anything. I'm a closed mouth kind of gal but why would I know that? Because you're asleep I, I know, because when I, when I go and travel on a plane and sleep on a plane because, you're upright, my mouth opens and it wakes me up. Okay, so I know that at bedtime my mouth is closed because it doesn't wake me up okay because, honestly, I woke up on the plane to vegas, right?
Speaker 2:I don't know if we've mentioned that I went to vegas on the podcast, because we did, but we did on one of the episodes that went horribly wrong?
Speaker 1:yeah, we had about 15 minute conversation about vegas, which is lost lost in the ether.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I was on the plane and I could feel my jaw going like this and it woke me up every single time because I was worried that I was going.
Speaker 1:Talking about planes, I'm going on a plane in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:You are. I'm taking you to get wickiest.
Speaker 1:In fact, this episode will probably come out after we're back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'll probably come out after we're back.
Speaker 2:Maybe, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1:Because we're going to Florida.
Speaker 2:You are We'll see Mickey Mouse. Yeah, and the crew.
Speaker 1:And the crew yeah.
Speaker 2:Mickey Mouse and the crew Nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's nice. So I think the conclusion is is that, while heavy meals might cause yeah, let's get back on track, shall we? Let's get back on track, shall we? Well, they might cause mild discomfort. Absolutely no scientific reason whatsoever to avoid swimming after eating.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 1:But I will caveat that with just look after yourself, Because I don't want anyone there coming back to me and going.
Speaker 2:you said that would be all right. Yeah, can you imagine if we get sued?
Speaker 1:for that. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:We're not doctors or scientists or experts in any of these. We have chat-GBT'd the entire script. Yeah, we have looked on the interwebs of which it might be wrong.
Speaker 1:It might be wrong, so we have one more, one more, one more.
Speaker 2:Let's go. Bats are blind and they rely on echolocation I have believed all my life that bats black bat bats are blind I have always believed that bats are blind and that they use sonar to find their way around yeah, and we're about to prove ourselves wrong and guess what? We're wrong. They can see bats, have really good vision and some species can even see in colour.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What yeah? Echo location is an additional sense, not a replacement for sight.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, so there you go. So bats use both vision and echo location to navigate hunt and survive.
Speaker 2:I am never going to use the phrase I'm as blind as a bat, because that's normally what I say when I say to people yeah, Because they'll see me without my glasses and they'll be like, oh, you normally wear glasses. I'm like, well, I contact those because I'm blind as a bat.
Speaker 1:Have you ever been dive bombed by a bat?
Speaker 2:I can't say I have I have. What other situation have you been in where you've been dive bombed by a bat, working nights?
Speaker 1:Oh, so. So I have been where bats have flown around and literally flown just over my head. Every single time I ducked.
Speaker 2:So what you're saying is they can see very well and decide to still choose they're taunting me. Yes. Or taunting us, they chose violence.
Speaker 1:They're like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's basically Dracula Just playing pranks on you. Yeah. Bats are prank artists knew there you go they've pranked everyone for years. They are actually sighted they are sighted.
Speaker 1:They can see very, very well. They're just winding us up. They're just having a laugh with their other bat friends using their echolocation using their echolocation, using their echolocation.
Speaker 2:That's actually their laugh Boop boop, boop boop.
Speaker 1:Boop boop, boop boop. What's?
Speaker 2:it a sonar, Sonar yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, it's the sound, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Bouncing off, bouncing back, bouncing back. So dive bombing you, maybe because you're a moving object.
Speaker 1:Possibly general.
Speaker 2:What do I think? What's your feeling on bats? I think they're quite cute I like them, but they do carry diseases.
Speaker 1:They do, which might be you know the reason covid is a thing, see science or myth.
Speaker 2:Yes, because you said some twat ate a bat. That was your whole thing.
Speaker 1:When covid come out, you're like well, some twat ate a bat, we were told, weren't we? We were told, we were told that, yeah, yeah, someone ate a bat, and we ended up with the global pandemic.
Speaker 2:I didn't know there was cultures that ate bats.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize bats were like some people eat anything, weren't they? Well, I suppose you know, I suppose there's a limit to that. Well, I mean that quite flippantly, but you know different, different cultures different, different animals.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, even in the uk people eat rabbit, but I don't think I'd eat rabbit because that's a pet to me. Yeah Well, they're duck I mean, when you look like ducks, you don't have a pet duck though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, but when you look like a mallard on the river, you think that's not the sort of duck that you eat, is it?
Speaker 2:It's a different. Assume they were mallards. Yeah, what do we eat as other types of duck? What other types? I have no idea, the one duck you know. No, we don't eat that one yeah, we don't, yeah, we don't I mean chickens are pets, I guess, or can be pets, yeah, but they're like anything can be a pet. Well, that's true, yeah, yeah, some people have monkeys and panthers yeah, some people have spiders, tarantulas and I don't think I could eat a monkey some cultures do if someone said to me oh, here's a bit of monkey.
Speaker 2:I don't think I'd eat it no, no but weirdly I have no problems eating a baby lamb.
Speaker 1:I have eaten ostrich before an egg or no, no, an actual ostrich, ostrich meat.
Speaker 2:What's that like? Because it's poultry, isn't it?
Speaker 1:It's like really rich beef Beef, Like really really rich beef.
Speaker 2:I thought you were going to say like really rich turkey. Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:It's a yeah, it's quite, it's a weird taste, Okay.
Speaker 2:Weird taste Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, people eat all sorts.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, but someone did.
Speaker 2:Someone did Once. Someone has definitely eaten a bat at some point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, someone ate a bat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's not many things like meat-wise that I wouldn't eat in a typical British UK sense. I don't think there's many meats that I personally avoid, other than fish if you count that as a meat, but I don't know, just rabbit just doesn't appeal to me.
Speaker 1:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:I just can't eat a rabbit, just doesn't appeal to me. No, no, no. I just can't eat a rabbit. I can't get their little cute little faces out my head. But then that's also saying I can't get a cute little baby sheep out of my head exactly, yeah, it's a lamb, I know you like lamb I do like lamb yeah so anyway, yeah, so basically, bats are not blind, let's spin it back around.
Speaker 1:yeah, bats are not blind, spin it back round.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bats are not blind they can see They've got excellent vision. I definitely believe that yeah.
Speaker 1:So just going through them all, so we can say number one the earth is definitely round.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's not flat. Humans use all of their brains.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Lightning will strike more than once in the same place.
Speaker 2:Yep Hair and nails don't grow after death.
Speaker 1:It's a dehydration effect. Shrinkage Yep. The Great Wall of China is not visible from space, cannot be seen from space at all. No, toilets don't flush the different way depending on where you are.
Speaker 2:It's just to do with the way they're made.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and shaving has way depending on where you are. It's just to do with the way they're made exactly, and shaving doesn't has no effect on the thickness of your hair. Fantastic news. Yeah, eat when you want and go swimming.
Speaker 2:In regards to swimming, yeah, swimming eat when you want.
Speaker 1:Have have a, have a snack, go for a swim, crack on uh, yeah all is well death is unlikely death is unlikely, not out of the question, but unlikely, but unlikely yes unlikely, and bats are jokers yep, yep, they are in fact sighted they are sighted.
Speaker 2:They've been winding us up for years, pranking us they've probably been, you know, trying to get some sort of benefit for not being able to see yeah yeah and um. Now, now that they can't- Exactly. I reckon they were just like that benefit was like yeah, let's prank the humans and they're going to benefit from it, because they're like, oh, let's leave them alone.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because they're blind.
Speaker 1:Because they're blind. So you feel a bit sorry for them, but actually no, no, because yeah. They've got their middle finger up to us the whole time.
Speaker 2:Be finger up to us the whole time, beepers. Yeah, I'm pleased that bat got it now I think. I think it probably has benefited the bats. That's what I mean. Like getting eaten, no, no, no, no. Like the sightedness, because maybe people are like, oh, I can't, I can't, I can't shoot a bat, they're defenseless. Well, you can't. Too bloody quick, well, no. I just mean, if they're, like you know, hanging from the top of a cave, they're easy to pick off. I would have thought, but if someone was like oh, they're blind.
Speaker 1:That's weird in itself, though, isn't it? They sleep upside down, like hang down, yeah, does the blood not rush to their head? Well, maybe their heart isn't in the same place as our heart take a load of bats sleeping, spin it around.
Speaker 2:It looks like a goth, like a goth nightclub. Yeah see, that's their prank all along yeah, they are goth, aren't they?
Speaker 1:they are goth, they're so emo. They're proper gothic. That's the benefit of being blind. I think yeah, emo, yeah, okay, yeah, should we leave it there?
Speaker 2:I think we're gonna have to. Yeah, how much I keep talking about the benefit of bats being blind. Okay.
Speaker 1:Or not blind, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Well, if you enjoyed this episode, we have plenty of other episodes left in the bank.
Speaker 1:I think we've gone past 75 episodes now, haven't we? We've gone past 75 episodes?
Speaker 2:yeah, and I didn't celebrate it, even though you asked me to.
Speaker 1:No, I think this one will probably be 80, 81 episodes. Whoa, wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 2:Dude, we're getting close to 100.
Speaker 1:Getting close to 100. Well if you like this episode.
Speaker 2:We have plenty more, as I've just said, but if you are an avid listener and this is the last episode that you've listened to, all in order, thank you, basically Sorry. Thank you for that, and I guess it's the only thing to do is cue the outro. Thanks for joining us on Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. Don't forget to follow us on all our socials and share the podcast with someone who'd love it. We are available on all streaming platforms. See you next time. Bye-bye, outro Music.