SciShow Tangents - Teaser: Big vs. Small Patreon Bonus Episode

Episode Date: April 3, 2024

A wild teaser appears! This little snippet is the first part of our revisit of Big vs. Small and answering even more questions that we didn't get to in the episode. You can listen to the rest, and also a bunch more bonus content, on our Patreon. It's one of the best ways you can support the show and keep Tangents going and free for everyone. Head over to Patreon.com/scishowtangents and join in all the learning and shenanigans! Thank you so much to all our Patrons - we genuinely would not get to do this without you, and we really like doing this, so it rocks that we can. THANK YOU!

Hello and welcome to the SciShow Tangents Patreon bonus podcast. We've called it extra snacks last time. Can't remember why. Oh, man, I could use a crunch right now. And Hank's here this time, Hank. Hey, I was just thinking about crunchy things. I want a crunch. Do you like a you like a crunchy snack instead of a soft snack?

I yeah, I mean, don't don't we all I could I'm happy to have like a baked good, I suppose. Oh, yeah. Cookie. But no, I want to I want to crunch. What about like a slim Jim? Those are soft kind of aren't they? What I actually have in my desk. Yes, beef jerky is my favorite snack of all snacks. And I can't decide if...

This is what I snack on. I got a bunch. It's like just in case. Because my house is like 20 feet away. So you never know. In case of emergency. He just held up two more bags. Yeah, you never know if you're going to get snowed in there for a couple days.

You're going to have to ration. Yeah. Have to drink this old spin drift that I have had on my desk for three weeks. There's still liquid in there. Hank brought us on a tour of all the various drink receptacles on his desk. There's a lot. There's some sodas I've never heard of before on there. That's how old they are. They're like decades old. They're completely gone out of business. You see over there, he's got a tab on there. A new Coke. Before Sam was even born, just drinking these sodas, setting them aside. Oh no.

And Sarie's here too. Hi, Sarie. Hello. Always here. Sarie, what year were you born in? Had I had a soda when you were born? Wait, can we guess? 1990.

I don't know. Five. Who knows? 1994. Nice. Yeah, I'd had a soda when Sarah was born. For sure. I'd had way too many Mountain Dews already even. We came up in the age when your baby was allowed and encouraged to have soda Yeah to stick it. It's an orange soda. It says orange right on the label. Yep. That's a fruit

It's a color and a fruit. We're not sure which one is referring to so we'll just assume fruit I think I had a soda pretty early on too. It was when I saw I was born in new jersey Um, and my dad born in new jersey Yeah, that's a yeah, if you was born in New Jersey. And my dad, I think... You were born in New Jersey? Yeah, that's a... Yeah, if you're born in New Jersey, they give you a Coke right out of the moment you're born. That's the ego kid. Mix it with the breast milk.

Wow, you're a New Jersey native. That is amazing to me. Yeah, I thought you knew that. I guess we've talked about Alabama a lot, but we don't talk about my work. You're not made of stern enough stuff to be from New Jersey, I don you knew that. I guess we've talked about Alabama a lot, but we don't talk about my work. You're not made of stern enough stuff to be from New Jersey, I don't think. Wow. Didn't put enough coke in your breast milk growing up.

Well what's your soda story? My soda story is that my dad tried to be really healthy when I was a baby and a toddler, including I think when my sister was born. But then when my grandparents visited, my grandpa would bring me to McDonald's and gave me my first fries and soda because my dad was like, that's not unhealthy. But then I loved my grandpa immensely because he gave me the good stuff. Salty, salty McDonald's fries, delicious orange soda. I might door dash right now, you guys. This is hurting me.

This is making it hard to be me. That sounds good. I would love an orange soda. I just got done having COVID and I can finally taste meat again. Anyway, enough about that. For each episode of Tangents, the regular show, we ask our audience for science couch questions and every week we get a whole lot of them, but we can only answer one per episode. But we don't want a bunch of good questions to just get thrown in the trash.

So each month we answer on this podcast, some of your questions that didn't quite make it to the show, lightning around style. So here's your questions from our episode about big versus small. The famously the episode I wasn't on. So I don't even have So I don't even have. I don't even know what the regular science couch question was. He doesn't listen to the podcast, you guys. I just produced it. You know,

it's like you think who's a celebrity, Jeremy Renner watches every movie he's in. No, he doesn't watch every movie he's not in either. More to my point. Yeah, especially doesn't watch the ones he's not in. Yeah. He only watches the ones he isn't. That's what, that's right. When you go to Jeremy Renner's house, what do you watch? You watch the Hurt Locker. That's what happens. I would not doubt it. No disrespect to Mr. Renner. So the first question is from Mike2369 on Discord and it is, what's the tiniest possible measurement? Is it measurable? And if so, how is the tiniest

possible measurement measurable? I don't think it counts as a measurement. What a cliffhanger. Hi Hi Tangents listeners, Sam here. The fascinating conversation that you just heard is just the beginning of a super special extra cool bonus episode. You can listen to the rest and also a bunch more bonus content over on our Patreon. Honestly, the Tangents Patreon is basically the hottest club in town. It's got everything.

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