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EP 45 - 20 Questions Later

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This week on Unapologetically Us The Podcast, we put our brains to the test with a general knowledge trivia challenge… and the results are exactly what you’d expect.

From geography and history to science, space, sports, and random facts, we see just how much we actually remember from school. Along the way we question ChatGPT, debate whether Antarctica is really a desert, struggle through the planets, and somehow end up having an entire conversation about why English muffins are called muffins.

If you’ve ever yelled answers at a trivia game or realized you forgot something you definitely learned in school, this episode is for you.

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No. This is Antarctica.

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It's not a desert.

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That's what I was thinking.

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Okay. Well, you need to learn how to cuss out that thing and be like, bitch, this is not right. Everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Unapologetically Us the podcast. I'm David.

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And I'm I'm just I had to watch him the whole time. And I'm gonna.

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And apparently we're about to see how dumb I am.

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So I went ahead and I uh first off, I got new things, so I get to play with new things. And David comes over and he looks at me all crazy because I don't remember what password I set up, but you know, it is what it is. Um okay, so I went on ChatGPT. Okay, and I asked, I said, please give me 10 easy general knowledge trivia questions.

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Okay.

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Okay. And then I said, make them a little harder. A little harder is what I prompted.

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Okay, and then how hard did it go?

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Yeah, good luck to you.

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Do you have the other 10 questions still?

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Yeah.

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Okay, why don't you do a mix?

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No, I'm gonna do the 10 easy. So and then the 10.

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Oh, we're doing all of them.

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Yeah, well, it's you know, it's only 20 questions take away.

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Okay, well.

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It's you know.

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So, and watch me not be able to answer any of them. Oh my god. Is there any math?

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Um Let's not do those. No math.

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Okay, good.

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How do you this is very new.

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You we need to s we'll figure out your your scroll is naturally.

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Dude, that was backwards. It's backwards.

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We're gonna we'll switch.

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Can we s okay? I was gonna add that. See, that was another question I wanted to ask.

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Mine is backwards. I can't do it the way that it comes.

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God, no.

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This is They say that's natural, but it's not.

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That is not natural. In what fucking country that's natural, I have no fucking idea. Because what in in Japan?

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I don't know.

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Where they make these things.

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Do they make them in Japan?

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I don't know.

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I don't know either.

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All right. Question number one.

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Jesus Christ. Okay.

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What is the longest river in the world?

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What just came to mind is probably wrong, but I want you to keep score. Oh. Yeah. Okay.

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I want you to keep score. Yeah.

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Okay.

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You get a question right and you get yourself a little dot. That's not an eraser, it's on the end.

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Okay.

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We've done this before.

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I'm just doing tick marks.

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Yes, tick marks. Okay. Okay. What is the longest river in the world?

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Okay, my first answer that came to mind is is I believe it's wrong. Um my answer I'm gonna go with. I'll walk in. Um. But it's in the world, right?

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In the world.

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I'm very torn. I don't know. One of them is watch them both be wrong. So I'm gonna lock in, and this is probably wrong, but I'm gonna lock in the Mississippi River. Wrong. But the first thing that came to mind, and this might be right for all I know, is the Nile River.

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The Nile River.

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Okay.

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Always go with your gut.

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Yeah, I know.

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Okay. Which which element has the chemical symbol AU? Remember, these are the easy ones.

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Well isn't oh fuck. AU is that gold?

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Yes. How many players are on the field for one soccer team during a match?

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No idea.

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Um didn't you play soccer as a kid?

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No. No.

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I wouldn't get it either. That makes you feel any better. How many players on the whole field are on the field for one team during a match?

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Nine?

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No. Eleven.

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Oh. Well, I didn't get that.

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Who wrote the play, Romeo and Juliet?

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I don't know.

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Come on.

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Um, Shakespeare.

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Yes. Don't doubt yourself right off the rip. This one. This one I I didn't even know, and I was like.

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Oh Jesus.

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What is the largest desert in the world? Wait. Yes. What is the largest desert in the world? Which this doesn't make any sense, so I think Chan Chibi T might be fucking with us at this point. Um you're not gonna get this right.

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The Sierra?

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No. It says Antarctica.

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That's not a desert.

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That's what I was thinking.

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Okay. Well, you need to learn how to cuss at that thing and be like, bitch, this is not right.

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Okay, and what year did humans first land on the moon?

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Oh god, I don't remember. Um 65.

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69.

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Okay, I was close.

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Do you know what today is? 67. Shit. Okay, sorry. Which U.S. state is known as the sunshine state?

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Florida. Yes.

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Why did you look confused?

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I was wondering why it was a question that you actually asked.

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I used everything that they have.

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Okay, so you put zero effort into these questions.

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Zero effort into these questions. Yeah.

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Okay, gotcha.

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What is the hardest natural substance on earth?

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The hardest natural.

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Did you give yourself the Florida tick mark?

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What question are we on?

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This is number eight.

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Um the hardest substance.

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Natural substance on earth. Hardest. What is unbreakable? Cannot be destroyed. Made under pressure.

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Steel?

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No.

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I meant well that wait, what wait, hold on. Didn't you say what it Natural. Steel is made. Be correct.

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Natural substance. It's made under pressure.

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Silver?

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No.

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I don't know.

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Diamond.

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Oh. Excuse me. Well, most of those aren't real. Or not anymore.

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They're lab-grown now.

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Yeah.

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Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?

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Oh god, why am I gonna get this wrong? Wasn't it France? Yes. Yeah.

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Woohoo! You're not gonna get this one right. What is the smallest bone in the human body?

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Um I don't know, you're a pinky toe.

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It's called this the pictures. Fucked up. Hold on. Oh Lord. I'm trying to do things.

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Oh my god.

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The sta the staple? It's located in the ear.

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Well, I was gonna say an earbone, but I wasn't really sure because then I started thinking that I know that there is a bone in your ear at least, but I thought most of it's a bone in your ear? There is. Most of it's cartilage, but most but there is a bone. Um yeah, I did know that. Anyway.

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He says he did. Okay, how do I get to the next picture? Oh, there we go. This is fun. Okay. Then I put in make it a little harder. Okay. Okay.

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So this is the second set.

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Which I think these are way easier than the did I do this backwards? I might have done this backwards. Those might have been the hard ones.

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Okay, so I got four.

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Right. Okay. What is the capital of Par of France? Fuck! I just gave a fucking answer!

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Paris, I'll I'll take it.

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How many days are there in a leap year?

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364?

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No. A leap year.

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Isn't that just one extra day? Oh wait. So 366.

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Yeah, well, you ain't getting that one.

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Yeah, okay.

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What is the largest planet in our solar system?

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The largest planet? Earth?

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No. Not even close.

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What is it? The moon? The moon Planet! I can't even tell you the planets right now.

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Try to name the planets from the sun.

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In order? I I don't even know their names, much less in their order of the sun. Just try. Earth, Pluto, Uranus, Mercury. These are not in order. These are just names I can remember.

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Okay, I'm about to say, bitch, what I absolutely have no desire to know.

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Earth. Earth, Venus, Pluto, which is not one anymore, I think.

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I think they brought it back in.

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Okay, so Earth, Venus, Pluto, Mercury. I'm missing one. I'm missing a lot. But Saturn.

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Um what's right after us? Fuck, I don't know.

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Do you know?

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Yeah.

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Mars? Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Jupiter. And that's it.

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Uranus.

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That's eight. Neptune. How many is there?

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There's nine.

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Oh, I thought there was seven. See? Jesus. Anyway, next question.

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Do you want to try to put them in order? No.

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I don't give a fuck. They're in the sky. I don't. They're up there. We're good.

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Okay, so the largest planet in our solar system is what? You said Earth, but you want to take another guess?

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Um. No.

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Jupiter.

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See, I would have went that would have been the smaller ones. I don't I I have no fucking clue. I know that there is stars in the sky. There's planets.

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Uh-huh.

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And I don't know anything. And I know nothing else about other than that that shit's up there. No clue. Constellation, there's a dipper and a big one and a little one. Uh-huh. No clue where they're at. Didn't know that. Don't remember that. Vaguely. I don't give a fuck about that shit. So continue.

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Which ocean is on the east coast of the United States?

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The East Coast? That's the Atlantic.

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Uh-huh. What color do you get when you mix red and blue?

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Are you kidding me right now?

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I think I've Purple? Yeah. I think these were the easy ones.

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I mean, clearly.

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Um, how many sides does a triangle have?

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Oh my god, three.

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Who painted the Mona Lisa?

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Um, no, I know it, but my mind went blank.

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Oh, fuck.

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Yep. I can't skip that one. Come back.

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Come back?

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I don't think so.

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What is the freezing point of water in degrees Fahrenheit?

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45 degrees Fahrenheit? No, 37, right? I don't know. What is 32? Why would I need to know that?

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When we go to New York or Baltimore or if we ever go to Montana one day.

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If it's under 60, I just need to know to pack warm clothes. I don't need to care when it's gonna freeze.

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Which animal is known as the king of the jungle?

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The lion?

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Yes. What is the name of the galaxy that contains Earth?

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I don't even know. Wait, the Milky Way.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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You know about fucking galaxies, but you don't know what order our fucking planets. Did you ever make a solar system as a kid for your science company?

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Okay, so now I don't know if our science teacher is watching this or has ever watched. Was it Miss Mathis? Don't hate me. Um, if I ever made that, your mom did it. I didn't make shit. My mom did it. So, no, I never made a solar system and could never talk about it.

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But But you showed up with this fucking thing.

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Absolutely did and got an A on it. Absolutely.

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How many projects did your mom do for you?

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All of them.

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Oh my god!

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Why did I need to do it?

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For instances like this!

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No. We're good.

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Who painted the Mona Lisa?

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I don't remember. Um, as soon as you say it, I'm gonna go, oh, okay. Um Mona Lisa.

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Now you know which one's the Mona Lisa, right?

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Yeah, it's fucking half-cocked smile.

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There is no smile in the Mona Lisa. They people make jokes about making her smile.

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No, I know that. But she's got like a straight.

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It's resting bitch face.

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Well, yeah. Half-cocked smile, resting bitch face. It's all the same thing. Uh oops. Um I can't think of his freaking name.

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He's also a He painted the ceiling. No, that's a whole different guy. Yes. Okay.

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I might be mixing them up now, and I can't remember either of their names, so why can't I remember their names?

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There do you need help?

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Maybe. Can you help me in any way?

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Ninja Turtles.

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Oh. Um now.

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Now I want to know which one. Which one? Yes.

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I think Leonardo da Vinci did the ceiling. Nope. He did Mona Lisa? Who did the other one?

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Another Ninja Turtle.

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Oh, Michelangelo.

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Yes.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. He did the Nintendo.

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Is that how you have to like remember things?

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No. But until you said Ninja Turtles, it didn't really the names weren't coming to my head. Wow.

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Like you weren't even thinking No, it never. How many did you get out of 20?

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One.

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Ten.

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Oh, 50%.

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Yeah.

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Ten.

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Okay.

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Because I did the ripe age of 45.

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Yep. And yeah, I don't need to know most of half of this shit.

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Alright. I have just another um question for you.

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Okay.

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Um. What makes an English muffin a muffin not a muffin? Like an English muffin, okay?

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Okay.

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Like the thing that you eat for breakfast. Right. And then you have muffins.

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Okay.

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So why does the English muffin get its name and it doesn't even look like a muffin?

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The same reason that those fuckers call a biscuit a scone.

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No. The scones are hard.

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But no.

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Yes.

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They are. Here. But over there, they're not. They're a biscuit. They are our biscuit.

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They call our fluffy biscuit.

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A scone. Now I don't know that they're always fluffy over there, but yeah, they call them scones.

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Have you seen well no, I d I just don't understand why they would call it an English muffin. So I eat the fuck out of them things.

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Yeah, I do too.

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I like it when I put uh the peanut butter on it, and the peanut butter gets in the nooks and cranny crannies.

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So but don't they make that with not always though. There's flour ones and corn ones, right? Aren't they?

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I haven't had a corn one. But the new ones that I've been I've been using is the bayes, and there's regular, there's brioche and sourdough that you can choose. Three different kinds. And let me tell you, them brioche ones.

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Are they good? I don't know what makes them the difference. Why don't you go on chat GPT and see what it says?

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You want me to do that right now?

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Yeah. Because I don't know. I would like to know the difference.

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The difference or why? It's backwards. I'm new.

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I know. That's why I was telling you.

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Why can't I just go on Google?

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Do whatever you want. I don't care. Just get me an answer. The top results on Google are always AI too, so it doesn't matter.

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Why is it called an English muffin when it doesn't look like a muffin?

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Oh my god.

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They're called English muffins to differentiate them from the sweet cupcake style quick breads Americans already called muffins. The flat yeast leavened round was the original muffin invented in the UK. The cake-like muffin was created later and is largely an American invention, hence why we're fat pieces of shit. Um the original muffin. Muffin men. Okay, the muffin. Oh, the muffin man sold small round griddle-baked yeast breads to the British working class in the UK. Okay. This flatbread is still just called a muffin. So they're flatbreads.

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They call them muffins over there.

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What the fuck, man? Like this. Okay, I'm going backwards. I could have said that the other way.

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And them are so backwards.

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But we all came from the same whatever. Okay. The American adaptation, the late 1800s, an English immigrant named Samuel Bath Thomas. Thomas's English muffins.

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Well, I don't think that has anything to do with it.

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Yes, it does. Absolutely.

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You think? I mean, they do sell. They do they sell other shit.

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Who is the maker of Thomas's English muffins?

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Is it the same name? No.

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Samuel Bath Thomas in 1880.

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Okay. Well.

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Okay, anyway, back to what I was saying. Um, the immigrant Samuel Bath Thomas moved to New York City and began baking these treats using his mother's recipe. I don't think they're treats. I think they're just another vehicle to shove butter or peanut butter or an open-faced breakfast Sammy down my gullet. Uh, the naming strategy, because Americans had already adopted the word muffin for the sweet shape. For the sweet cup-shaped baked goods you buy at coffee shops. Thomas marketed his flat griddle baked bread as an English muffin, which then he later branded them with the famous Nooks and Crannies slogan, making them a breakfast staple. So then little history there.

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The McDonald's just took off the English and added the Mac.

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Oh, the Mac muffin?

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Mm-hmm.

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Do the English call an English muffin just a muffin? Yes, confusingly, muffins, yeah.

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So what do they call a muffin? What do they call an American muffin?

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This is on Reddit. So hold on. American muffin?

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We call a muffin to us.

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So you want me to ask, what do the English call?

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An American style muffin. I can still type fast too. This is great. She just got this new computer the other day and has barely like.

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It was still closed when he got here.

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She's trying to learn.

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Okay, in the UK, fluffy sweet cupcake-shaped baked good is simply called a muffin, just like it is in the US. If someone needs to differentiate it from the flatter savory bread, they may call it an American muffin. That doesn't make any sense.

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To us, but over there, I guess it does.

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So an English muffin is called a muffin or breakfast muffin or toasting muffin in the UK.

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Oh.

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American muffin called a muffin is blueberry muffin, chocolate chip, whatever. But yeah.

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Okay.

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Stop yawning. That's completely fucking rude.

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Well.

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Unbelievable.

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Sorry, this is boring as shit.

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Why? Because you only got 50% correct.

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Yep, because I suck.

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Uh next next week you'll have to um you'll have to quiz me.

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Okay.

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But maybe not just general knowledge, because I'm actually kind of pretty good at that.

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I'll figure out something, don't worry.

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Yeah.

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Don't worry.

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Don't you worry.

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You'll fail next week. Or the next time, because they're yeah, we'll figure it out.

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Great. Y'all have a great week.

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Peace out. Bye.