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The idiom cut to the chase means to get to the point and skip unnecessary details. It originated in the early days of silent films, specifically the practice of film editors cutting directly to exciting chase scenes, often after a slow or romantic introduction to maintain audience engagement.
SPEAKER_01:Hello,
SPEAKER_02:and welcome to the Mochaverse. I'm Lynette. And I'm Skip. And I love that. That is such a nice little nugget. That makes perfect sense. And it's like, Why wouldn't you think of that's what Cut to the Chase stands for? That's perfect. I love it. Yeah. Oh, that's so good. And it's a movie thing, which is like also right up my alley. Yeah. Oh, that's so good. I love that. How did we not stumble on that before? I
SPEAKER_00:have no idea. When I looked at it, I goes, did we ever talk about that before? And I couldn't think of a time we did. So I says, let me just take a shot. And if we did, you'd probably remember it.
SPEAKER_02:Right? No, no. I mean, I... It's possible I may have read that someday at some point, but I definitely forgot it. That's cool. That's really awesome. Well, hey, folks, you're here sitting on our couch with us once again. I have another week of cool trivia and random facts and weird stuff. I've got a few. You've got a few, too, also? Yeah,
SPEAKER_00:I do. Let me start one, which is this is a popular myth.
UNKNOWN:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:Not a myth is a myth.
SPEAKER_02:I was going to say, are we myth-ing the point?
SPEAKER_00:We're myth-ing the point. George Washington's teeth. Oh, I know this. Yes, go ahead. Yeah, it's a source of lifelong struggle and pain for him. He had multiple sets of dentures made from various materials. The most likely material was hippopotamus, maybe even elephant. Yes. Yes. Contrary to the popular myth that his dentures were not made of wood.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:It really gave him a lot of pain through his whole life. I think that, you know, he started in his early 20s losing teeth. There's even the theory, and probably founded in fact, that the pitcher... that's on the$1 bill of his expression was really because he was in pain from the teeth.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. And if you look at any of his portraits, because once I read this fact about his dentures, I mean, everybody kind of knows, they always said he had wooden teeth, not true, but he always had dentures. But as soon as you find out as a kid or whatever that he had dentures, you look at him whenever you look at the portraits, or at least I did. Every one of his portraits, he's holding his mouth in such a way that does not look comfortable. And I think I read somewhere that he had different sets for different occasions as well. So he would have his like portrait dentures and he would have his speaking dentures and stuff. But yeah, he did. He did have them made out of different materials. And I listened to, I think it was... It wasn't Stuff You Missed in History class. Shout out to that podcast. But it was another podcast. I think it was Ridiculous History, maybe.
SPEAKER_00:And
SPEAKER_02:they were talking about his teeth. And they did talk about the hippopotamus teeth. And it gave me a really funny... Something stayed with me that was really funny that I still use today. Now, back in those days... They didn't really call hippopotamuses hippopotamuses. They used to actually call them river horses or seahorses. Oh, okay. Because they, I don't know, it was either a nickname for them or it was just the name they called them before they referred to any kind of scientific names or anything like that. So when you're reading, when this guy was reading about George Washington's teeth, he said, They were described as, you know, either this kind or this kind or straight seahorse teeth. And you're like, wait, what? First of all, he was like, wow, that sounds really weird because you're thinking of a seahorse, like a little tiny seahorse with the tiny teeth. But then he thought. Yeah. But then he also thought it was a really cool phrase, straight seahorse teeth. Kind of like if you're like, wow, that's really bananas. That that fact is really bananas. And like, wow, this situation is straight seahorse teeth. So they kind of started using it on the show, which is very funny. And then the other thing I want to say, I don't know if you read this when you were reading up on this fact.
UNKNOWN:Mm hmm.
SPEAKER_02:the other kinds of materials that he used to have?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think that there was animal teeth, some human teeth, cow or horse, maybe an elephant, gold, metal springs.
SPEAKER_02:There was metal. Yeah, the fact that I had learned about was the human part. And I guess it makes sort of sense that you would make dentures out of human teeth, especially 1700s time. into the 1800s. They were doing that because, you know, what's the closest thing to teeth? Teeth, right? Yeah.
UNKNOWN:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:But I don't know if you've ever kind of thought about where they would get those teeth.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I think I know what you're talking about. I've read this before. Yeah,
SPEAKER_02:most of them. I mean, they were all from dead people. But most of them were from, like, battlefields.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, they were from battlefields. They would go around to the different corpses, and they would take teeth from... They would look at the teeth of the person. If they looked relatively... If they looked healthy, they would take them. Because... I think people had a lot of issues with teeth back before we knew about dental hygiene, if you will. Sure. So that really was the basis for doing dentures. That was how they accumulated them. And they would get them from enslaved people as well. They would.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. They did get them a lot from enslaved people as well. And like the dead people from battlefields and the enslaved people, you're basically talking about organ donation without consent. You know what I mean? Pretty much. And it's just kind of creepy. But at the same time, I don't think that the people doing it were doing it out of malice or It was just necessity. Like, well, they don't the enslaved people. That's a whole other ballgame that I don't want to touch. But the dead people, it's like, well, do they need them for anything currently? I mean, you use teeth for one thing. You know what I mean? So, yeah, you use them for eating food and opening up packages. So so I don't think they need them anymore. They're not opening up. They don't have to open up a package of scissors anymore. Anyway, so that's a fascinating one. Did you ever see the miniseries, the John Adams one that came out like several years ago?
SPEAKER_00:John Quincy Adams? No, John
SPEAKER_02:Adams, the one with- Oh, yeah. What's his name? Paul Giamatti. Yes, Paul Giamatti. It was very good for a lot of reasons. And Richard and I reference it to each other a lot because it was pretty historically accurate in a lot of ways. There was a lot of interesting things they pulled out. But one of the things that was really interesting that they don't usually show in movies, which I kind of thought was a good touch, was as everybody was getting older, in particular, John Adams and his wife, their teeth were getting yellower and like browner. And like, great. Like they actually did makeup on their teeth as they were getting older, more so than the aging with the makeup. Like they kind of did it alongside with it, but they did it even with more detail. And I was like. that's an interesting detail that most movies wouldn't even bother with, you know? And I was just like, yeah, of course her teeth are like janky. She's like, she's like 65 and it's the 1700s, you know? So I, yeah, I thought that was an interesting touch, but yeah, really glad that I don't live in those times. Not that I go to the dentist as often as I should, but yeah. This one is cool. I don't know if this is interesting to you. It involves science, but it also involves nerdiness. So there's a trilobite, like a 450 million year old trilobite, so obviously like a fossil, that they named Han Solo. Really? Yeah, that's its literal scientific name. So I don't know if you're aware of this, but like, so when... a new species or a new animal is discovered, which happens a lot, by the way, there's always like a new fly that's being discovered or a new ant or something. The person who discovers it gets to name it. And so generally scientists, I think a lot of scientists, uh, sort of lean towards the nerdy side of things, because when you, when you study science, you study things in a lot of like minutia and you study things that are fascinating to you. You kind of have to be obsessed with them. And the kind of person who is obsessed with things is also usually the kind of person who's a fan of things, right? We talked about this before. If you have any kind of obsessive tendencies, you're usually a fan of something. And so a lot of these scientists are super nerdy with either sci-fi or literature or whatever, whatever have you. Um, So there's a lot of really cool animal names and I have some examples. So, but first I want to talk about those, the little rules. So there are some rules about how they are supposed to be named. Uh, the name has to have two names. So the name of the animal, it has to have the genus name, which is like, well, I always, I forget the differences between genus and species and sub whatever an animal, this or whatever, uh, animalia or kingdom, but it has to have the genus name is first and then the species name is second. The other rule is that it has to be either Latin or Latinized. So Latin sounding. And that's as far as the rule goes. That's as loose as it is. So it doesn't have to be real Latin. It just has to be like kind of like Latin-ish.
SPEAKER_01:yeah
SPEAKER_02:exactly so because of these loose rules some scientists who are also like goofy and stuff they have a little fun with it so there's one called it's a dinosaur that was discovered called draco rex hog hogwartsia okay it's named after harry potter um there's another one for harry potter that was named like Something else Hogwartsian, but it had to do with the fact that the animal looked like a sorting hat. There you put it. It's very funny. This one I really loved. This is a species of snail that was named Crikey Steve Irwinny. Named after Steve Irwin, who always said Crikey. Crikey. Crikey. That's really cute. There's one I've I actually heard about this one on also I think on Ridiculous History or something like that. It's Scaptia Beyoncei. Okay. And it's a species of fly that's named after Beyonce. The reason it's named after Beyonce is because it has like a big butt. And of course, that reminds me also, did you know about the, you know, the first cloned animal was the cloned sheep. You remember that? When that happened, you remember its name was Dolly?
SPEAKER_00:Dolly Parton.
SPEAKER_02:Dolly the sheep, right? Yes. She was named after Dolly Parton. Do you know why? Why? Because she was cloned from mammary cells.
UNKNOWN:There we go.
SPEAKER_02:So that's that. Okay, so I have more. There's a whole bunch of wasps in the genus Polemystis or Polemystis. And they're all named... after star wars characters so there's like you know how they would put like just the letter of the of the genus name like you would see like staphylococcus aureus it would be like s aureus or whatever so they're named p yoda p chewbacca and p vader eye and they're all these different wasps um there's a spider named heteropoda david bowie it's just david bowie Without a space. Just straight up David Bowie. Well, he was when he was doing that when he did that concept album back in the 70s. The group was called the Spiders, if you remember the whole Ziggy, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I knew Ziggy Stardust. I didn't know it was the
SPEAKER_02:Spiders. Yeah, it was like Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. So, yeah, there's a parakeet named Veni Vidi Vici.
SPEAKER_00:which
SPEAKER_02:is was isn't that i came i saw i conquered
SPEAKER_00:yeah i saw a game i saw i conquered
SPEAKER_02:yeah yeah uh there's oh there's a that that was a good one okay this is spelled h-e-e-r-z for the first name and the second name is l-u-k-e-n-a-t-c-h-a it's a wasp and it's pronounced here's looking at you.
SPEAKER_00:Here's looking
SPEAKER_02:at you. There's another group of wafts named it's spelled P-I-E-Z-A so it's like pizza and they have pizza pie, pizzeria and pizza cake. K-A-K-E. There's also a water beetle named the first name is spelled Y-T-U and it's named E-2 Brutus. isn't that great that's great yeah oh and there's literally millions of them online yeah i had to stop myself because i was like oh my god i could find a hundred more i'm just gonna like shut it down so maybe we could do another yeah yeah we will do another set of those at some point but i was like oh my god this is so much fun yeah
SPEAKER_00:you've heard about the curse of the bambino Right? Yes. Yes. Okay. How about The Curse of the Colonel?
SPEAKER_02:I told you this story once.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. Is it about the statue of the colonel tossed in the river?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. It's actually on my other podcast, Sofa Spuds History. But yeah, you can talk about it if you want to. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah. Well, I've got another one, which we probably didn't have. So apparently, this Hassan Tigers baseball team were cursed by Casey... KFC founder and mascot after the statue of the colonel was tossed in the river by the celebrating team at the 1985 World Championship. By the way, that sort of speaks about when Tom Brady tossed the Super Bowl trophy across from one boat to the other. Yeah, they caught it. So that that Nothing happened there. But the team endured an 18-year streak of futility. And the incident, they haven't won a championship since. But this one here, this is one that's even better. I probably should live with this one. I've taken a couple of baseball ones. Cleveland pitcher Bob Feller once threw a pitch that was fouled off by the batter and hit his mother. Oh, no. The kicker. The kicker. It was Mother's Day.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, no. Happy Mother's Day. And also, can we just say, like, it's Mother's Day and you make your mother come to a baseball game? Yeah. I mean, I know she's probably proud of her son to be like, oh, I'm here with my son's baseball game. What a great Mother's Day. Yeah, well, maybe next year go to brunch, right?
SPEAKER_00:And here is one that's sort of... You may or may not know this one, and if you do, you can stop me. Just before he became the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin relieved himself on the wheel of a bus that had driven him to the launching pad. Today, urinating on the wheel of a bus is still a launch day tradition among Russian cosmonauts.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, Russians, aren't they funny? Did you? That's good. I was watching a, you know, we're always watching weird documentaries. And we were watching a documentary about submarines and life on submarines. And it was a Russian submarine. And it was modern day. Yeah. And, you know, they have a tradition. on this submarine when you're first come on like you've got your crew and you first getting started before you you know you're all getting to know each other you're all doing the thing whatever it is that military people do there's going to be traditions and you know rituals and things and one of the rituals they have it's kind of like an initiation these are all like young people probably like 1920 yeah they take like a light fixture like the glass that goes on the light one of the light fixtures take it down fill it up with seawater And they all have to drink this big, basically a big cup of seawater.
SPEAKER_00:Which will make you throw up.
SPEAKER_02:And I think it, yeah. And I was talking to one of my former coworkers who's Russian about this. And he's like, no, you're not going to throw up. You're, you're a military guy in Russia, you know, it's, you're fine. It's like, and none of them did. I was watching for it. Yeah. Cause I have this curse where everything I watch, there's a vomit scene and I have like a phobia about vomit. So I'm like, just cursed that everything that's on TV today has a throw up scene. And I'm, you know, we're watching this documentary and they're like, Oh, they all have to drink seawater. I'm like, Oh, here we go. Here we freaking go. None of those guys. And they're all like 1920. None of them threw up. None of them even coughed. They were all just like super
SPEAKER_00:stoic. Yeah, you know, that's... There was a story I was reading today in the paper. It was... You remember the scene from Jaws where they were talking about the Lexington sinking?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, the Indianapolis, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Indianapolis, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And so I was reading the story today and... One of the things that killed a lot of the sailors was not just the sharks, but they had poisoning from drinking seawater. Yes, they did. Because what happens is we're made of water and salt. And basically, by drinking the seawater, it attacks all your organs because your organs are trying to compensate for the fact that you have too much salt in your system.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Your cells can't take it because the seawater, yeah, the seawater won't let fresh water in after a while. It's like a whole osmosis problem that happens. Yes. A lot of those men died from like dehydration as a result of that and malnutrition. They also died from exposure and sharks and just like, I mean, I'm sure some drowning, but also like you're exhausted. You're not sleeping and you just like, It was a horrible, horrible thing
SPEAKER_00:that happened. Well, there was 900 sailors that went into the sea. Yeah. And only 300 survived. Yeah. And, you know, the biggest issue was that they were on a secret mission to deliver parts for the atomic bomb. They were. So they didn't even know they were missing. Correct. And they were just found by accident. plane just flew over and saw them in the
SPEAKER_02:sea yeah it was a it was a guy yeah it was a young guy actually who was just in and they had flown over many times before he saw them and it was around the same areas and nobody had seen them and then he just went you know what i'm just going to go one more time and he saw them and um the other thing that was really horrible about the men was when they were pulled up after when they were doing the rescue A lot of their skin was coming off because they had been in the water so long. And yeah, the thing about the Jaws thing, Robert Shaw did a good amount of research when he wrote that monologue. The only thing he got wrong was the date, really.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:It happened in July, not in June. He said it was June the 29th, but it was actually in late July. It was around this time. It was like either the 30th or the 31st or the 29th or something
SPEAKER_00:like that. Something like that. I was just reading it. It was. And the other thing about that, and I wasn't planning on getting into this, but the other thing about that was the captain who survived was court-martialed. Yeah. And because, you know, they say he didn't, he didn't do enough to protect them. He didn't zigzag and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_02:Yes,
SPEAKER_00:I saw about that. And they even, even the, they were able to interview the Japanese sub commander. And he said that it wouldn't have mattered if they zigzagged. Yeah. He said we still would have got them. And Later years, that captain actually committed suicide. He did, yeah. But it's fairly recently where his honor was restored. I saw that. It's only rightfully so.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we actually did watch a documentary about that fairly recently, actually. And there was like a letter-writing campaign from some of the survivors that contributed to his exoneration, basically. Because... everybody really kind of knew that he wasn't to blame right for that uh and that was a very touching story it was one of those documentaries that you know he always puts it on on the weekends and then we always end up crying because there's these like old guys crying you know every time we watch like a pearl harbor documentary and there's all these guys like i was 19 years old and they're like These old guys that are like crying and I'm like, stop it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But I mean, it's so good. Get so much information.
SPEAKER_00:It really is, you know, and you probably know this one, which is really related. This is related to something happened at the sea that the writer Morgan Robertson wrote a book about the British ocean liner called the Titan. yes it sank when it hit an iceberg
SPEAKER_02:years before the titanic yeah 14
SPEAKER_00:years before
SPEAKER_02:yes yeah i know that was actually i think the first time i read about that was in one of those you know books like that i used to collect all the time a book of toilet facts or something you know like like the uncle john's bathroom reader or something uh my fascination with this stuff has gone back way back yeah isn't that amazing though it's like It's kind of creepy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it is. When I saw that, I go, it's kind of creepy that that would be the case. By the way, recently, and I go back to the ship that sank, it took them years and they finally discovered the ship.
SPEAKER_02:They did, yes. I think that was, as a matter of fact, that might have been the documentary I was watching,
SPEAKER_01:was like
SPEAKER_02:It was about the people who found it. And then they also were talking with, you know, they had multiple parts of the documentary. It was like, you know, the people going to look for shipwrecks and then also survivors and the story about the captain and all of that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty amazing stuff. And I've heard many retellings of the Indianapolis. And it got a lot of recognition, I guess, because of Jaws. Because of that monologue, because it was relatable. All of a sudden, people who would never have heard about it started hearing about it, and then they were curious about it, and then they do research, and then they learn more. It's very interesting how that can happen.
SPEAKER_00:I'm sure a case like that where you hear this monologue And you get curious and you go, did they just make this up? And then you look into it and say, holy crap, it's a true story.
SPEAKER_02:Well, yeah. I remember as a kid watching Jaws, I knew he was talking about a boat. I didn't know it was a real one.
SPEAKER_00:You know what I mean?
UNKNOWN:I thought he was just talking about something that happened.
SPEAKER_02:And then years later, I listened to a podcast and they were talking about the Indian lap. I was like, oh, that's the one they're talking about in Jaws. And then... even much later watching i've watched jaws so many times because it's one of my favorite movies everybody in that room knows what it is yeah at you know what i mean except well actually except for brody brody doesn't know anything about anything but that's okay but i mean hooper do what it was hooper's much younger yeah he wouldn't have even been he wouldn't have been alive
SPEAKER_00:yeah
SPEAKER_02:and yet as soon as he asked him what his what the mark was on his arm and he said he had a tattoo removed and it was the indianapolis hooper stops laughing and he's like wait you were on the indianapolis you know and that's when the story starts so it's like crazy so yeah very uh very interesting i have a short short one okay That might lead into some banter. And then I have another listy one. So my short, short one is this. I don't know why this fascinated me. There's a restaurant in Italy. It's called Osteria Franciscana. And it's one of those restaurants that I'm never going to go to. It's one of those, you know, those gastrochemistry places. biology scientific experiment like restaurants where you're just like the plate has like a little gelatinous cube on it and you have to eat like an edible balloon filled with smoke that's from cooked food you know what i mean like this like there's like rocks and stuff you know it's one of those kind of restaurants right yeah but the names of their dishes are One of them that caught my eye, it's called the crunchy part of lasagna.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. We know there's a crunchy part to lasagna. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And I'm thinking to myself, wait a second, wait. I would totally eat that as a dish. Can I make that? Can I make a restaurant? Can I make a food truck that just has like the crunchy parts of food? Like I can have the crunchy part of lasagna, the butt of the bread and like the ends of brownies, like just the edges of brownies. It's like the Seinfeld thing with the muffin top. Now, there were no. There was there were no descriptions of the dishes. There were some pictures. It's one of those websites that, you know, they spent like ten thousand dollars on the website itself. It was really way too fancy. And the FAQ section is just pictures of the chefs like, OK, whatever. But also on the menu, it's like the names of these dishes. Onions dreaming of caviar. Yeah. That's the name of the dish. So like, I'm just imagining. And you know, what's funny is that I'm not imagining a dish with onions and caviar on it. I'm imagining the person who comes and brings it to you and they give you those instructions on how to eat it, you know?
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:They're telling you they're like, this is an onion that dreams of caviar. And it's not even an onion on the plate. You just said it's like a spoon of some like goop and you have to put it in your mouth and you have to put yourself in the place of that onion. And imagine what he dreams of when he goes to sleep at night. Is it caviar guilt, like about all the bad things that caviar said to them over the years when they were little or what?
SPEAKER_00:Something fishy there.
SPEAKER_02:Something fishy, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's another one called In the Forest. It's just called In the Forest. Maybe it's mushrooms. I don't know. There's one. I like this one. I think you would like this one. It's a question. It says, where is the pasta fagioli going? That's the name of the dish. Where's the pasta fagioli going? Well, I hope it's going in my mouth. What kind of restaurant? Is this an enema? Is this a pasta fagioli enema? If so, I'm not interested.
SPEAKER_00:Well,
SPEAKER_02:where's it going? I don't know. It shouldn't be going anywhere. It's food. Is the pasta fagioli walking? Wait, I know the pasta fagioli is going. It's like the Billy Joel song, you know, like left a note on the door and saying move out to the country. So maybe the pasta fagioli is moving out to the country. Yep. And to get a house in Hackensack.
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Because that's all you get for your money. All right. So the last one on this menu is called jazz duck colon improvisation. Jazz duck. So when I think of that is my question is, is jazz duck anything like disco duck?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I, you know, when you said it, all I could think of was, you know, and all that jazz.
SPEAKER_02:So it's like a duck with like really bad, like heavy makeup wearing like lingerie doing jazz hands with a, with the top hat with glitter on it, you know, with sequins doing like some doing like some Chicago. What was the name of that? What was the name of that? director who did all of those like Chicago and all that jazz and yeah Fosse he's doing like the Fosse dancing Bob Fosse yeah and actually wasn't that wait wasn't that a movie that they made all that jazz wasn't that the guy from Jaws who was in there to play Brody
SPEAKER_00:could be yeah yeah
SPEAKER_02:yeah yeah I think it was wow we're making connections yeah so So does that sound like a restaurant you'd like to
SPEAKER_00:go to? Hard pass.
SPEAKER_02:Right? That's the kind of restaurant you go to and then afterwards you stop by McDonald's and actually eat some food. So pretentious. Oh my God. So that was my little quick one. And my listy one is one that I think you would like. I think we talked about this briefly before when we were talking about roadside attractions. I got a list of weird museums. Oh, OK. So in Kansas, there's a barbed wire museum, which sounds like a lot of fun to go to. And actually probably is pretty historical because barbed wire has been around for a long time
SPEAKER_00:and a lot of different designs.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, my God. Wait, that's at the end of the show. Wait your turn, mister. There's a pencil sharpener museum in Ohio.
SPEAKER_00:Because
SPEAKER_02:why not? And wasn't there a pencil museum? Didn't we talk about a pencil museum?
SPEAKER_00:We actually did an episode about pencils. We did an episode about
SPEAKER_02:pencils, yes.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I don't know if there's a pencil museum. I bet there is. Yeah, we did a thing about pencils,
SPEAKER_02:yeah. There's a museum in Italy. You know, other languages always make things sound so much better than they are. This is called the Museo della Merda. Do you know enough Italian to know what that might mean? No. Okay. The word merda means shit.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, see, I knew it wasn't good.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's the Museum of Shit in Italy. Another crappy
SPEAKER_00:story.
SPEAKER_02:Another crappy story, yes. There's another one in Arizona called the Poussium.
SPEAKER_00:The Poussium, okay.
SPEAKER_02:And it's all poop. There's a cockroach hall of fame museum in Texas. And this is one of those places that rather than being a museum, I think it's a big art installation. Have you ever seen the thing where, well, kind of like what my mother used to do with the mice, where she took the little mice and she would put clothes on them and they would be doing all different things. There's, there's different little mini museums and different little art installations where people take like taxidermied animals and make them do things like there's a squirrel person who does that and there's one there's this one really old piece that's taxidermy it's like a taxidermy frog that's like standing on its back legs and it has a sword and it's like fighting with the sword um but that's what this person does they have actual cockroaches and they're all preserved and they're like in different situations like they put them in little uh little scenes like ones on a beach, you know, sitting in a beach chair with like a little drink and.
SPEAKER_00:Right. Exactly. I
SPEAKER_02:had one in, I had one in my kitchen. We, we just did like the, the brown gel, you know, to get rid of them. And of course, so you're going to see some dying ones crawl out after a while. And there was one kind of dying one on the, in the kitchen. And I sprayed about a third of a can of, of bug spray on it, even though it was already dying. Because I just do not play with those little mofos. But yeah, so that's the cockroach museum. There's a bunny museum in California.
SPEAKER_00:I'm sure you have.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, it's got a giant bunny topiary. And actually, it looks a little too childish for me because it looks very, it looks like they focused on the Easter thing a lot more than I would like. But yeah, there's like bunny stuff everywhere. There's one place in Croatia called the Museum of Broken Relationships, which sounds to me more like an art installation. It's like jewelry and keepsakes and probably birthday cards, all from relationships that are over. And they're just like on display, which it kind of reminds me of. Do you ever hear of like smash rooms that they do now?
SPEAKER_00:What?
SPEAKER_02:Smash rooms. So it's like, so you could go and you could like take a sledgehammer and smash stuff. Well, there are some smash rooms that you can pay extra to bring your own stuff. Like if you want to bring like, like a picture of your ex to smash things like that, a mug he gave you or whatever. So that's what that reminds me of. In Wisconsin, there's the National Mustard Museum. So not cheese, but
SPEAKER_00:mustard.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, mustard museum. In Turkey, there's a hair museum, which is literally just all people's hair. That's kind of creepy. And this place is not in Salem. It's called the Witch Board Museum, and it's all Ouija boards. All different Ouija boards. But it is not in Salem, which is very disappointing. And then in a town called Boring, Oregon... There is the North American Bigfoot Center, which I've heard of before. And it's a museum of Bigfoot. And it also like, you know, you can go on Bigfoot tours and like try to find Bigfoot yourself. It probably sells like, you know, the big shoes you could put on your feet to like make Bigfoot tracks and stuff. The whole experience. The whole experience. Yeah. So that's... So that's just a few weird museums. That's another thing that has a million, probably has a million examples. So yeah, so that was that. Do you have any other little ones or?
SPEAKER_00:You know, it was one, but I really don't have it written up.
SPEAKER_02:Oh,
SPEAKER_00:okay. Okay, I'm going to do this one here. And it's like, okay, what can you tell about a man from a shoe size? Okay. Stop sniggering. You know, in most cases, it won't even tell you the size of his feet. Right. Right. You know, back in 2002, there was a published study by a Britain Journal of Urology International, naturally. And a scientific approved, there's no link between shoe size and penis size. No. You know, They measured the foot size and penis length of 104 men. In each case, the penis was generally stretched before it was measured. No correlation was found.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they're always stretched before they're measured, just so you know. Yeah, that's right. Just stretch it out. Never trust a person to measure their own. They have
SPEAKER_00:to have somebody else to measure it for them. You never do that.
SPEAKER_02:There is a museum dedicated to that particular organ. Oh, okay. In Norway. Oh,
SPEAKER_00:yes. I think that's, yes. I think I've read that too. Have you ever
SPEAKER_02:heard about that? Yeah. So the thing I, I watched a way too lengthy documentary on it, like seriously, um,
SPEAKER_00:yeah,
SPEAKER_02:basically they've got them from every species you can think of. And in most animals, it's actually a bone. Uh, there's a bone there. Um, But I don't know if you, when you heard about this museum, did you hear about the guy who wanted to be, like, the ultimate exhibit there? No. So there was a guy who was really interested in this museum, and so he donated his own member after he died so that it could be in the museum. And he wanted to donate it much sooner, but they, like, wouldn't let him.
SPEAKER_00:Was it... Wasn't there a story that they did that with Napoleon?
SPEAKER_02:I think there is a thing about Napoleon. And I think... It may be a myth. Yes. Or like either Napoleon or Rasputin. Or one of those. One of those two guys. Yeah. But yeah, this guy, he... he kept telling the museum like he wanted to set up he even set up his own little case for it and everything he said this is what the display is going to look like he tried to get permission from like the government of norway to allow himself to have it removed while he was alive so that he could see it in the museum. He's like, I don't want it anymore. Can I donate it? And they're like, no, there's no doctor who's going to do that for you. It's like, and so they didn't. So after he died, he was 95. He had it donated and it's the, it was the only, the first human, human exhibit in the museum. Have you, but have you on that note, have you ever heard of people who have like limbs removed for that kind of reason? There's like a, yeah, there's like a, I don't know if it's actually termed a psychological disorder or if they're kind of getting away from calling it a psychological disorder or not. I'm not sure about the current terminology. But at the time I saw information on it, it was considered a psychological disorder where as a person, you feel like your leg or your arm doesn't belong there. And it feels really wrong to you to have it. And so... like the treatment for that is to have it removed and to have it amputated. And after this amputation, these people feel so much better and they feel like their true selves and they feel like they feel whole after they've had this weird, this, this like foreign limb that they think is not supposed to be there removed. And it's actually like a fascinating thing. It's a fascinating condition to have, and I don't know if it's still considered a psychological condition. I know a lot of people will just make fun of it or whatever, but I would say that it's real. A lot of people would say that it's just bullshit, but I do believe that sort of thing about your psychology, about how you feel about your identity, and how you feel like if your identity feels wrong, you would feel completely just not yourself until part of it was changed. Like a trans person, you know, kind of thing. So I always found that fascinating years ago when I learned about that. But yeah, I guess there are still people who have like their leg amputated or their arm amputated because they feel something's just not right if it's there. It's very interesting to me. But yeah, so... Okay. But yeah, so those are, I mean, I have other facts, but they can definitely survive to another episode.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And I have, I have more too, but like I said, they can survive to another episode.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah. I think we did. I think we did a nice little, little bundle there. So I guess that leaves me to say, folks, please send us an email at motiverse at gmail.com. M-O-C-C-I-A-V-E-R-S-E at gmail.com. Come and visit us on Apple Podcasts and subscribe to us there and rate us. Give us a nice big juicy rating on there. Write us a little review. We could use it. It would help people find us in search engines and it would be kind of cool. Or if you just can't be bothered to do that, just tell somebody about it and tell somebody to listen. You can find us on any of the podcast platforms. We're on Spotify. We're on Amazon. We're everywhere. Just Google us because I Google us every couple of weeks just to see if anybody's written a review about us.
SPEAKER_00:We're everywhere.
SPEAKER_02:We're everywhere. We're the Mochaverse. We are all-encompassing. So with that, do you have some groan-worthy dad jokes?
SPEAKER_00:Yes, I do. Nitrous oxide is not a laughing matter. Oh, wait. Yes, it is.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, it is. It is exactly a laughing matter. I
SPEAKER_00:have the easiest recipe for a banana split. Cut it in half.
SPEAKER_02:That is how you split a banana.
SPEAKER_00:That's right. What do you call a cat that eats lemons? You know this one.
SPEAKER_02:What?
SPEAKER_00:A sourpuss.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, my God. Okay, whatever.
SPEAKER_00:If you forget to pay for your exorcism, will you be repossessed? Oh,
SPEAKER_02:I like that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Hey, listen, I think I said this one before that my ex misses me, but her aim is improving.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Did you hear the story about the fire at the shoe factory? All those poor souls. Hundreds of souls were lost. I was close. And you know, I'm really kind of upset. Some guy stole my mood ring. Oh, yeah. Still don't know how I feel about it.
SPEAKER_02:That's a good one. Oh, my gosh. Is that all of them?
SPEAKER_00:That's it.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, we did it. We lived through it, folks. All right. So I guess we'll see you in a couple of weeks. Bye. Okay, bye.
SPEAKER_01:Bye. Oh,
SPEAKER_02:that's okay. You froze anyway, so.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you froze
SPEAKER_02:too.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's okay.