Speaker 1: That I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's time for strange science. God needs a break,
Speaker 2: rang sience.
Speaker 1: It's like weird science but strange.
Speaker 2: Well, let's start with the just make it popey the science,
Speaker 2: but make it religious, right the papal pyrotechnics that we
Speaker 2: have seen.
Speaker 3: Of course, conclave lasted just a little more than twenty
Speaker 3: four hours as the cardinals elected a successor to take
Speaker 3: over for Pope Francis. We know, of course, that it
Speaker 3: is going to be Pope Leo, the fourteenth cardinal, born
Speaker 3: and raised in Chicago, of all places, spent a lot
Speaker 3: of time in Peru, but he was announced this morning
Speaker 3: right as the show started.
Speaker 1: Bro, that's white smoke.
Speaker 2: I can believe I said that.
Speaker 3: Actually, I think, to be clear, I think it was
Speaker 3: that's white smoke. Bro, we'll have to go back in take.
Speaker 3: You said it was black smoke or you couldn't tell.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell because.
Speaker 2: I and I clearly saw it white. And that's when
Speaker 2: I had to emphatically say, that's white smoke. Bro.
Speaker 3: The sun was behind the chimney, so I didn't have
Speaker 3: a good It's okay, bad lighting.
Speaker 1: That's bad lighting.
Speaker 2: Sorry. When you're closer to God like this one right here,
Speaker 2: you'll see the right.
Speaker 1: Colors has already removed the scales from your eyes. Is
Speaker 1: that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: Anyway, Pope Leo the fourteenth announced when the white smoke
Speaker 3: came out of the chimney at the Sistine Chapel today,
Speaker 3: but that was after at least three rounds of black smoke.
Speaker 2: Black smoke it is the easiest to make. According to scientists.
Speaker 2: It is a mix of potassium percolate, an anthracine, and sulfur.
Speaker 2: In this reaction, the potassium percolate is the oxygen oxygen
Speaker 2: rich oxidizer. That's a fun thing to say, a role
Speaker 2: it frequently serves in fireworks. Actually, it's very safe. It
Speaker 2: gives easily up to oxygen, and so it's a it's
Speaker 2: a quick thing. Now, the white smoke more challenging. There's
Speaker 2: a reason why they wait till the end.
Speaker 3: Well, and think about what we've talked before about fires,
Speaker 3: wildfires and you see black smoke, that usually is an
Speaker 3: indication that it's active fire.
Speaker 1: I thought the symbolism was interesting because if.
Speaker 3: You get early on a fire, the smoke tends to
Speaker 3: be black, as it's more active when it gets sprayed
Speaker 3: down when it's less active.
Speaker 1: That's when the smoke turns gray and often white.
Speaker 2: Black involves fuel, right exactly. So there you go. So
Speaker 2: now you know the chemistry, you can wow all your
Speaker 2: friends at cocktail hour. Hey, did you guys know how
Speaker 2: they make that black smoke?
Speaker 3: The zinc chloride, the immuni ammonium chloride, of the reasons
Speaker 3: why you see the the white smoke. They now have
Speaker 3: a recipe that calls for potassium chlorate, lactose, just common sugar,
Speaker 3: and a type a type of pine rosin sometimes known
Speaker 3: as as Greek pitch, and then they throw that in
Speaker 3: there and that's why the white comes out. This is
Speaker 3: a fun story though, this one about there used to
Speaker 3: be a show on TV. I think it was a
Speaker 3: History channel that used to do this program called I
Speaker 3: believe it's called After People or After Human Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it was let's assume that something happened and humanity was
Speaker 3: wiped out, not animals, not all animal life, but just humans.
Speaker 1: And it was a.
Speaker 3: Show that would basically describe what would happen a month
Speaker 3: after life on Earth without humans a year and ten
Speaker 3: years and describe what how plants and animals would overtake
Speaker 3: you know, major cities and things like that.
Speaker 2: Where are we on that Soviet spacecraft that's hurtling towards
Speaker 2: Earth and we don't know where it's going to land
Speaker 2: and it weighs eleven pounds three two inches.
Speaker 1: I believe its Saturday is still the day there.
Speaker 2: Saturday is the day.
Speaker 3: Look up Cosmos two eighty four, I think is the
Speaker 3: name of the spacecraft.
Speaker 1: They may have narrowed it down a little bit.
Speaker 3: As we get closer to it, they'll have a better uh,
Speaker 3: because I haven't.
Speaker 2: They've been very quiet about it today, haven't they.
Speaker 1: You know what today? They have been quiet about it.
Speaker 1: Maybe they know something that they're not telling us.
Speaker 2: Maybe this we wouldn't get a new pope and then boom,
Speaker 2: it's all over? Would we maybe may.
Speaker 1: Be listen, it's not our design.
Speaker 2: It is not.
Speaker 3: One of the other big stories today came out of Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. President Trump announced a trade agreement, a huge
Speaker 3: trade deal with the United Kingdom. He wrote today on
Speaker 3: Truth Social the agreement with the UK is a full
Speaker 3: and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the
Speaker 3: United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come.
Speaker 3: They held a held a news conference there in the
Speaker 3: Oval Office to make the announcement. He was flanked by
Speaker 3: some British representatives but also the economic team that he's
Speaker 3: been working with.
Speaker 2: Somebody has put the pope speech as dubbed over the
Speaker 2: Pope's speech like bad lip reading. Still can't believe the
Speaker 2: Pope said this during his first speech. God bless you all,
Speaker 2: except those for who live in Green Bay, Wisconsin. You
Speaker 2: may have more Super Bowls, but f the packers so good.
Speaker 2: I caught him so easily amused by NFL memes awful.
Speaker 3: Organizers of the Golden Globes have came out with a
Speaker 3: huge announcement. They're going to introduce a best Podcast category
Speaker 3: starting next year for the eighty third Golden Globe Awards
Speaker 3: Best Podcast.
Speaker 2: There's already podcast awards. To Keana's point that she made
Speaker 2: on The Conway Show yesterday when they spoke about this.
Speaker 3: Top twenty five podcasts is what they're going to choose
Speaker 3: from and then make six nominations out of those twenty
Speaker 3: five cool.
Speaker 2: Uh. What you'd eat after the apocalypse if a global
Speaker 2: catastrophe disrupted international trade and fuel supplies, what would our
Speaker 2: survive hinge on? Get ready for this list? Are you
Speaker 2: sitting down and are you on a toilet? The diet
Speaker 2: would be of peas.
Speaker 3: Let me point out that they will not be using
Speaker 3: toilets after the apocalypse.
Speaker 2: Holes in the ground if you're lucky, water, if you've
Speaker 2: dug it. If you've dug it, Yeah, peas, sugar beets, spinach,
Speaker 2: and potatoes. Wow, my husband picks peas out of chow man.
Speaker 2: That's how much he likes peas.
Speaker 1: Well. He may be one of the first to go.
Speaker 3: Then he will be. He will be one of the
Speaker 3: first to go. They said of the crops that they studied.
Speaker 3: Peas would require the least land area to provide the
Speaker 3: protein and food energy needs of one person.
Speaker 1: Peas would I love peas?
Speaker 2: I could eat peas all the time. I'm a big
Speaker 2: peas fan.
Speaker 3: They're also talking about different kinds of apocalypse. Sees would
Speaker 3: produce different results to this question, because, for example, a
Speaker 3: pee would survive a catastrophe where the climate is similar
Speaker 3: to today's.
Speaker 2: But not nuclear winter.
Speaker 1: Not nuclear winter, no, that scenario.
Speaker 3: Nuclear winter would be soot that's caused from these large
Speaker 3: scale nuclear explosions to block sunlight and cool the planet.
Speaker 3: Would shorten the growing season, lower the average temperature. And
Speaker 3: in that case, they said, sugar beets and spinach would
Speaker 3: take the lead, both of those hardy spinach.
Speaker 2: I gotta pay my spinach, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I can't just eat raw spinach like a Popeye. I
Speaker 2: gotta have some garlic, some olive oil, all the stuff
Speaker 2: that the apocalypse has gotten rid of.
Speaker 3: And even Popeye's spinach most of the time was canned.
Speaker 2: Might it be so pissed if the apocalypse comes and
Speaker 2: I don't get wiped out?
Speaker 1: If you're stuck, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine just sitting there alone like the guy
Speaker 2: in Twilight Zone with no glasses, all those books and peas,
Speaker 2: But you wouldn't have the books.
Speaker 3: Just outside the city, they say, they're talking about that
Speaker 3: being the peas and the beat root. Sorry, the peas,
Speaker 3: the beats and the spinach would be inner city stuff
Speaker 3: where you've got like garden building, top gardens and rooftop
Speaker 3: gardens and stuff like that. But they said, outside the city,
Speaker 3: you could still use some of the industrial farming methods
Speaker 3: that we have developed over the years if there's enough land,
Speaker 3: et cetera, and you could probably get by with a
Speaker 3: bunch of potatoes.
Speaker 2: That's the last time you saw a rooftop garden in
Speaker 2: the city, Any city, Name a city, city, name a city,
Speaker 2: any city. I saw him in Nashville, or did you? Yeah,
Speaker 2: in people's homes.
Speaker 3: Tops of apartment buildings and things like that. Wow, potatoes
Speaker 3: can feed people using minimal land. They said they can
Speaker 3: be sensitive to frost, but obviously that would be bad
Speaker 3: if there was a nuclear winter.
Speaker 1: But did you ever see that?
Speaker 3: Did you ever see that documentary about Matt Damon When
Speaker 3: he went to Mars, he was able to live on
Speaker 3: potatoes for a long time before they rescue him and
Speaker 3: brought him back so that he could make another born movie,
Speaker 3: The Martian I think that's what they called it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he was there for a while. He was
Speaker 1: there for a year or two.
Speaker 3: But he grew potatoes and lived on potatoes for quite
Speaker 3: a while until they caused him gastrointestay, did he talk.
Speaker 2: To the potatoes like Tom Hanks did in that documentary
Speaker 2: about him and the volleyball?
Speaker 3: I believe so, Yeah, because Tom Hanks almost died in
Speaker 3: that plane crash.
Speaker 2: Tom Hanks almost died in several times. He almost got AIDS.
Speaker 2: Remember when he almost got aids? Did he get the aids.
Speaker 2: You think so, well, I don't know. He saw the
Speaker 2: movie right, but he didn't die from the aids. He
Speaker 2: was also a cowboy at one point. Remember when Jenny
Speaker 2: left him and came back with AIDS and a child?
Speaker 1: I do? Do you remember that? Thanks for the spoiler alert.
Speaker 3: They also say researchers said that their methodology about food
Speaker 3: after the apocalypse could help cities worldwide assess their food
Speaker 3: security and try to develop land and land use policies
Speaker 3: that will boost resilience in the event.
Speaker 2: At the end, Meg Ryan never tried to kill Tom Hanks.
Speaker 1: M Oh, that was Billy Crystal. She tried to what
Speaker 1: I saw that movie with the orgasm? Is that what
Speaker 1: she was doing?
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Speaker 1: that's white smoke bro. That's white smoke bro.