Weird World Variety with Matt and Jesse
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Weird World Variety with Matt and Jesse
Navigating the Curious: Car Thieves, Christmas Lights and Collapsing Aquariums
Ever wonder about the strange and exciting underbelly of our everyday world? Get ready to encase yourself in a bubble of intriguing tales, from the unexpected technical mishaps of work events to the heart-racing world of Black Friday shopping. We're here to ignite your curiosity, so buckle up for this wild ride!
Who knew a car thief could be so considerate, filling up the stolen car's tank before returning it to the owner? Or that you could get trapped in a jewelry vault overnight? Prepare to be fascinated by our deep-dive into these bizarre real-life stories. We also juggle with the idea of starting an online school, drawing from our own experiences and the current surge in remote learning. Wait till you hear about the inverted Jenny, a rare stamp that turned the world of philately upside down!
But, that's not all! The journey continues as we navigate through the mesmerizing world of aquariums. We spill the beans on the collapse of the Aquadom Aquarium in Berlin and a peculiar lobster with a split personality. And as the holiday season dawns upon us, join us for a magical tour of the most spectacular Christmas light displays. So, plug in those earphones and get ready to embrace the weird, wonderful, and unexpectedly festive with us!
I Know I'm secrets. Give you all the secrets. What secrets? Give me all them secrets. What secrets? Whatever you got, I don't have no secrets, are you sure?
Speaker 2:Okay, I might have a few you definitely have a few, because I have a few.
Speaker 1:I'm not giving those secrets. I might have more. Hey, you remember that one Thanksgiving story we talked about the family with so many secrets they didn't know their mom went to the yeah, yeah, that's hilarious, bro. Yeah, I mean, what are you doing in your life that you got that many secrets?
Speaker 2:It's just easier not to tell people stuff honestly like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for real. I don't know if I'm that Secretive I am I. I do have a story for you, though, so my weekend was crazy. As you know, this past weekend was Black Friday and Thanksgiving and all that, and Was today, today's cyber Monday.
Speaker 2:Monday yeah, cyber Monday, cuz kids are off school.
Speaker 1:Do you?
Speaker 2:ever pay attention to the cyber.
Speaker 1:Monday deals.
Speaker 2:I didn't even know that was a thing until today. I don't really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, about the school thing. Yeah, like what Some people are off school. Some people aren't because the college kids were back in school, but some of the high school and, like elementary kids and stuff like that, they get off school the holidays or whatever. I think is out of control. I think it's just another excuse for them to be like, hey, we don't want to put up with your kids. Another.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm starting to think, dude, because that would have never been the case for us.
Speaker 1:We definitely have a lot more holidays with the added Technology of at-home learning me and Justin.
Speaker 2:We're just talking about all the Weird random holidays.
Speaker 1:Juneteenth, you know a lot of the kids get laptops now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have the at-home learning thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah so they give a lot more days off now because they have the kids just do their schoolwork at home, days that they don't want people to come in like, what's more to school, if you're gonna get my laptop and I hear you, I don't know we might as well. Just you know we should start on school I think I think school needs to be reset.
Speaker 2:I think we should just start our own you gotta talk a chair or somebody else into that. No, it'd be really easy.
Speaker 1:It'd be really easy. You'd have your full Academy online. You could pay people to come in and teach classes and record a session. They record the whole session. They could use that class for the entire year. That's what they do for online college classes a Lot of stuff. There is interactive elements, like there's some college classes where you could Interact with a teacher, but there's another element to where it's just recorded videos.
Speaker 2:The teacher does why that's no different than like Coursera or something right yeah?
Speaker 1:I mean, that's what online learning is, and now you'll have modules that you learn and do homework and whatnot. But most of us just recorded videos. Now, bro, even my kids online learning a lot of those recorded videos and Modules, that's it, I see. Yeah, so we should, we should, we could start our own school. We could make a ton of money off that.
Speaker 2:Start an engine I.
Speaker 1:Actually, we do have a ninja Academy here in Ohio where. Columbus, is it? Yeah, it's a whole facility. Is it a? It's legit?
Speaker 2:No way, yeah. How the heck am I not? Why am I just not learned?
Speaker 1:Well, it became more of a thing. After American Ninja Warrior got famous, their businesses started opening up their own ninja gyms.
Speaker 2:So if I knew that about, like right after I was going to try to get into it?
Speaker 1:My kids trampoline park has a ninja course. Now what? Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:Better get them into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, all right, so my story about this weekend.
Speaker 1:So I was on my way to work as I made it work if and Said workplace where I was set up at, because I went to the venue and the venue is this big Restaurant looking very nice place, right, you see, you open up the menu. I open up the menu at the venue and they told me that I was going to set up my stuff in this corner over here by the patio. I was like all right, cool problem the patio has Incandescent light bulbs, which are really cool. They look nice at night but they draw a lot of power if you know it's were old crappy lights.
Speaker 1:They're. They're like the. No, they're new, like they still have them. They make them around Christmas time. They look like the old-fashioned lights, but they're nice looking. They look like park lights, you know, like the one my dad has like oh, okay, across, that's what they look like. So they had those. And then they had the like these flat-looking heaters overhead that would turn on every once in a while and Heat wherever you were sitting at, which is really cool. But they had like 16 of them. And then on top of that, in the same circuit said circuit they had three brand new quartz heaters which draw a lot of power and Because the patio was not warm enough, so they plugged in those three heaters on the same circuit. They wanted me to plug in to said circuit.
Speaker 1:And if you don't know anything about me, I have an inner like I have an entertainment system. I am an entertainer, but the entertainment system I turn, I get everything set up and plugged in and my subs not working. Uh, faulty wiring, it's straight up feedback, okay, and I'm wondering myself if my sound system just broke. So I'm like, oh great, now my sound system is broke and I'm gonna have to like go home, right? No, turns out Because they have so much on one circuit. That outlet was bad and there was nowhere else for me to plug into and that was the only outlet period.
Speaker 1:So I did the yeah, so I did the entire event Without my sub. I had the the regular speakers on which it. It worked out. Okay. The whole event ended up working out. Everything was fine. But I knew it was the outlet because when you turn up the base too high, everything would cut out and the feedback coming in through the outlet and you could hear the heaters from the patio Pulling the electricity from that outlet and from the said circuit that it was on. So it was very interesting and I was like. I was like no, I'm, I'm never doing this again. And then I get through the whole event. Right, I get through holding the whole event, everything goes fine.
Speaker 1:I look down at my mixer for my entertainment system and there's liquid not A liquid, not a liquid that I recognize. You know how, like sometimes, you look down, you can tell if it's pop, you can tell if it's water Oil, yeah, or something right. Well, this looks like a brown liquid. I'm like what the heck is going on? I take my towel, I wipe it up. I look over I. There's more liquid. Where is it coming from? I don't know. I take my towel, I wipe it up. I look to another part of my mixer. There's more liquid On your mixer. Yeah, and I wipe all this. Was there a?
Speaker 2:pipe above you.
Speaker 1:Uh, no, no pipes above me. I didn't have any pipes above me. Uh, it was just the heaters and the lights.
Speaker 2:So I'm like what is going on?
Speaker 1:I don't know what's going on. I look down and then I look to my left hand your left hand and my finger is cut wide open.
Speaker 2:You couldn't tell it was red.
Speaker 1:No, because I had my lights on and the whole patio was like this blue kind of atmosphere that I've had going on. So I had no idea what color it was, because I was just like wiping it up with my towel.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what to do. Every time you wiped, you bled a little again.
Speaker 1:I had this mystery liquid. I couldn't tell where it was coming from. I looked down. My fingers cut wide open. I'm like what is going on? I'm going to wipe up with the blood. I didn't even feel it.
Speaker 2:I didn't even feel it. I've done that before, dude. I've had like boards and metal and everything like gash open my arm and like I'll be bleeding profusely on the ground or whatever, and but I wouldn't know until somebody said hey man, you're bleeding. Exactly, exactly. My nerve damage. I can't tell.
Speaker 1:I had no clue at all.
Speaker 2:What happened?
Speaker 1:I had no clue at all whatsoever. And I take the towel, I wrap my arm up and for the last 10 minutes of the show I am running the show with my wrapped arm and I'm running the whole show with one hand like a pirate, just like just running the whole show with one hand. We finally get done. I asked the people at the at the place if they had bandages. They gave me bandages. Everything got fixed up. But it was just so funny. You know, that day was just one thing right after another and it was all downhill all the way to the end. But everything went fine, everything turned out fine. But you know, when you do entertainment, or you run shows or you just going to run into issues, no matter what you do, if you're running a business, if you're running, you're just going to run into issues and you kind of just got to roll with it. Man, like I had to roll with the punches. I did the show without a base. I did the show with a cut hand, you know like absolutely necessary Right.
Speaker 1:So well, what I did was I ended up turning the base up in the speakers a little bit so that it sounded like there was somewhat, there was some base on the floor. So I was able to turn it up enough to where it sounded. Pretty decent. They love the show and everything went fine. But man, just one thing after another and I'm like I told the staff, I'm like I don't suggest anybody plugging into that circuit anymore.
Speaker 2:That's not a good idea. Need more plugs. That's what I was saying. Hey, where are the rest?
Speaker 1:of the plugs at, or they could have run, and what I was tempted to do was to run an extension cord into the venue, deep, you know, into the restaurant part into the main.
Speaker 2:I probably would have done that.
Speaker 1:So next time, if I end up there, I will be running long extension cords, probably into the restaurant. Cause there's no other way to do it. You've got 20 heaters and five strands of incandescent light bulbs on one circuit. That's enough to blow everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that sounds a little bit much like it was not smart.
Speaker 1:Whoever wired that was, it was not smart, all right. So yeah that you know my weekend was a little bit weird. And speaking of weird, let's get into our fun stuff for our audience this week. What do you say?
Speaker 2:Let's do it.
Speaker 1:Let's do it, man. All right, here we go.
Speaker 2:So I found a story from back in October October 25th 2023. We meant to do this on the last show, but we ran out of time as one of the stories Okay.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:What you got for us Back on the AP news website. Okay, the title is man trapped in jewelry vault overnight is freed when timer opens the chamber as scheduled.
Speaker 1:Wait. So a man got trapped into a jewelry vault. We don't know why he was there yet, because I'm not going to spoil it, but we don't know why he was there, but do, got trapped inside a jewelry. We can only you know what. I'm not even going to spoil it. Let's see what you got. What's what happened? Tell us what happened.
Speaker 2:A man was trapped in New York. A man was trapped inside a steel reinforced concrete jewelry vault in New York City overnight after firefighters had to abandon an attempt to rescue him for safety reasons. Fortunately, the vault was on a timer and opened on its own Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1:Officials A few moments later.
Speaker 2:The fire department was called to the Midtown Manhattan building on Tuesday evening after the man became trapped while trying to access his safety deposit box. Assistant fire chief John Soraco said the building at 5 85th Avenue is known as the World Diamond Tower. That sounds pretty cool and tells us several jewelry businesses. Soraco did not explain how the man became trapped. Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1:So the building was known as the World Diamond Tower. Yes, did, was the guy working there? What the guy that got trapped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who was the guy trapped?
Speaker 1:Till it just says a man.
Speaker 2:That's all I see so far. Hey man, he was accessing his safety deposit box. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:So he was a customer. He was a customer, so they locked a customer in there. What happened?
Speaker 2:Fire and police department personnel were in communication with the man inside the vault and could watch him on a security camera. Soraco said the fire department's rescue units have tools that would be able to break through the vault's 30 inch steel reinforced concrete walls. Wow.
Speaker 2:Process was started to breach the wall at the vault, he said in news conference after about 10 hours. Soraco said the firefighters reached the steel plating and decided to hold off going any further, fearing their rescue attempts could harm the man trapped inside. Problem with the plating is we'd have to use our torches, he said, which would affect the environment for that person inside the vault. The doors open as scheduled around 7 AM and the man was freed unharmed. So it sounds like, since there was a timer, it was automatically shutting on its own.
Speaker 1:Okay, and it was scheduled to open, all right, so the man just picked a bad time I can't believe that. That's a wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 2:Hey, I gotta go check my box, but I didn't realize it was about to close.
Speaker 1:Wrong place, wrong time. But wait, what if it was one of those things where he walks in and goes, I'll just be real quick? You know how people in like 2023, they're like, they're like, yeah, I'll just be real quick. Like you try to tell them the rules. You try to tell them like hey, we are closing, or this is closing, and there's all of those people that come in the last five minutes before closing, we are closing, and then they're surprised when they're locked in the store and it's like we told you we were close. What if? What if he walked in and was like I'll be real quick, I'll be real quick, don't worry about it, don't worry about it. And he walks in Boom.
Speaker 2:That'd be pretty scary, honestly.
Speaker 1:Does that bring out your claustrophobia? Claustrophobia?
Speaker 2:Hey, I've been like in the camera going. Hey, you said you were going to close the door. Hey, you see me. What are you doing? I've been like I'm motioning with my hands. You got to get me or not.
Speaker 1:Like there's a safety deposit box. You said it was a. Was it a jewelry vault?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Jewelry In the world.
Speaker 2:It says, houses several jewelry businesses.
Speaker 1:That's epic. What do you you imagine if you could say you had a safety deposit box in the world diamond tower. That's pretty epic. That's flexing.
Speaker 2:That guy must be yeah.
Speaker 1:That guy's. That guy's making something money. I don't know of anybody that just has a safety deposit box in the world diamond tower. Do you have one? Nope, I don't even have a regular one.
Speaker 2:We're just not in that bracket yet.
Speaker 1:Well, and I might, but I don't know it. Just it's. It seems interesting to me. Speaking of a lot of money, I got one for you. How about a single stamp that was sold for $2 million? You want to hear about this, I want to find it Cool. So here we go. Why a single inverted Jenny stamp inverted Jenny, that's what it's called. Okay, uh, sold for $2 million, and I'll explain the Jenny here in a minute. Uh, at auction, history, intrigue and a misprint combined, so that a single stamp has sold for $2 million.
Speaker 1:Well, what is it? Well, at the basic level, it is a U S postage stamp from 1918, but this stamp's got lower. The design which normally shows the quote unquote, jenny Curtis biplane the right way up, was already important because it was used on the stamps for the world's first regularly scheduled government air mail service. So this is when air mail was involved, yeah, yeah, so that's why it was historically significant. What makes this particular stamp noteworthy is that the glorious uh, the glory, the glorious, the glory induced rush of stamp making. At the time, the workers who were printing this sheet accidentally placed the Jenny upside down. The single sheet of 100 so-called inverted genies was sold before anyone caught the mistake and they have become a treasured collector item ever since there were a hundred of them.
Speaker 1:There's a hundred of them.
Speaker 2:So there's still 99 out there.
Speaker 1:Yes, well, hold on. There are 96, because this sheet has four that I have a picture of it. The sheet has four, it's on display.
Speaker 2:So he's got $8 million.
Speaker 1:It's on display since 2021. Yeah, I mean. Well, no, I mean they probably sold this sheet for two, so if you could find four or more, you could probably sell it for another two at auction. Um, so it's a big deal. Question mark Uh, it is the icon of stamp collecting, according to Scott Trappell, the president of Segal auction galleries in New York and an expert in the stamp field.
Speaker 1:He says to keep in mind that planes weren't particularly common in 1918. People were not familiar with what they look like and the so-called inverted plane on the stamp slipped through the inspectors. Uh, it also slipped through the clerk at the post office. Means, no one noticed it because I didn't know what planes look like. And even he said you know, look, don't blame me, I don't know what a plane looks like, so I didn't recognize it when I sold it. Oh, it's so cool, man, this is such a cool story.
Speaker 1:Trappell says this one is extra special because it's in really good condition after being in storage for decades. It never exposed, it was never exposed to the light. The colors were beautiful, the paper was bright, the back of the stamp, um, and the gum has never been hinged and put into an album. So what now? While there are still other inverted genny stamps floating out there? One was stolen in the 1950s and has yet to resurface, so there might be on the black market somewhere. Mr Pell says that this recently sold one named position 49 for its place on the original sheet of a hundred. So this was in the sheet of a hundred. This one was number 49.
Speaker 2:Where there's a 96 act.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we gotta find them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's go to the oldest antique and other stores that we can find. Look for this inverted Jenny.
Speaker 1:Imagine. I have a picture of it if you want to see it. Yeah let's imagine if you found that. Oh, my Lord, okay, I'll send you the, I'll send you the link.
Speaker 2:I'd sell it for gold, though.
Speaker 1:Would you yeah, I don't know man, I would sell it for the money and then I could get gold later. But like, can we still get gold? Yeah, you can still get gold, everybody's yeah, I know you can exchange. I think buying and trading gold now is is much more popular than ever because of the state of the economy.
Speaker 2:I think people, I thought the government seized most, or I know most of it, but I thought they were.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't think so because we have jewelry and they were trying to get it all. We have tons of jewelry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that's, but that's mostly your stones now. So no, we've got.
Speaker 1:we've still got solid gold. Oh, yeah, yeah, I was going to say they can't take all of it. That would be impossible, wouldn't it? They try to track down every single ounce of gold. I wouldn't even be impossible now. All right, I sent it to you, I for them. I sent it to you, the article, so you can see the picture.
Speaker 2:Oh, inverted Jenny. Oh, inverted Jenny, cause I ain't got that open right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're good, you're good, I got you Hang on a second, so I'm going to keep reading while you're looking Okay, so I'm going to go from one to a hundred in terms of the centering of the design, with the preparations or perforations around it. So I can't talk, and this one is a 95 and there is no better.
Speaker 2:Hold on. So the plane is referred to as a Jenny.
Speaker 1:Yes, and it's the inverted Jenny is definitely upside down plane, that's a weird looking plane.
Speaker 2:Now it kind of looks like a, it's like the biplane.
Speaker 1:I'm like the early. You remember the Wright brothers? Oh yeah, what was there? Was there a plane? Did their plane have a name? Oh cause, I don't want to say inverted Jenny, and what if this, what if this was the name?
Speaker 2:No, but I don't ask me to tell you, cause I don't know Wright brothers plane 24 cent stamp Initially huh 20.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was called the right flyer, okay. But yeah, it looks kind of like the Wright brothers playing. You know it's if for people listening online it looks like the Wright brothers playing, except it's inverted upside down, and I just thought this was cool. Now the tail looks a little bit better, tail looks a little bit more modern, looks like they did a little bit more design on it.
Speaker 2:It definitely looks ahead of its time also.
Speaker 1:Right, like I feel like the cockpit and everything back looks like a World War two plane. This was what? When was this? He said it was? It was it was more recent, it was 1918, right, yeah, 1918. So it was after a while of modern work on planes, I'm sure, but people just didn't know what they look like. What the article? Because there wasn't very many, right? Yes, exactly, there weren't a lot of planes. Nowadays we got a lot of planes, we know what they look like, but back then they did not.
Speaker 1:I don't know what a plane looks like and it says if this story has given you FOMS fear of missing stamps, there are some delightful In his. Says Strega non-themed I think it's for another article Strega non-themed ones available for just 66 cents a pot.
Speaker 2:That's something. Trying to sell stamps, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, someone's trying to sell stamps there are. There's no 98. The rating that they got in terms of quality on this one was a 95. So that was the best one they've ever gotten on a Jenny stamp Super old. For those of you out there, if you find an inverted Jenny stamp, keep them. Yeah, you know, if somebody's selling them by their stamp collectors.
Speaker 2:Somebody's about to have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but what if you just found one accidentally? Bro, you know, listen, you ever watched antique auctions? No, People like okay, people buy stuff from garage sales and stuff all the time Pickers Don't know how much it's worth. Then they take it to a they don't, they take it to an antiques dealer and they find out it's worth like 200,000 or you know, like something crazy, Like that happens all the time. So if you find the inverted Jenny stamps, if you want to know this NPRorg, you can go there and check out the picture for yourself. Keep an eye out. You might find one of the 96.
Speaker 2:I'm definitely gonna be keeping a lookout for the 99 one.
Speaker 1:Or the one that was stolen in the 1950s. You can find that one, yeah.
Speaker 2:But then you would be in possession of stolen property. You said no way.
Speaker 1:Well, not if you're turning the stamp back in. This one was sold at auction. I'm sure it's a historical thing. If you turn the stamp back in and sold it to like a museum or something somewhere, I'm sure it wouldn't be counted stolen.
Speaker 2:I don't know who rips off for and keeps 96. And then it's misplaced.
Speaker 1:Also, you might get a reward if you found the stolen stamp. Let's find it. Returned it to the original. Let's find it and get reward for him. You might, you actually might, because that's worth a lot of money, man Like. You return the stamp, you like. Hey, I'll charge you a few thousand dollars if you take this and it's worth two million dollars. I mean, you can't beat it.
Speaker 2:This is NPRorg, if anybody's interested in looking at these stamps.
Speaker 1:All right, what else you got for us? Yes, you got another one for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do. What do you feel? How do you feel about aquariums?
Speaker 1:I love aquariums. The my most favorite aquarium is Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg, tennessee. That is a fantastic aquarium. It is a little bit more expensive but you can spend all day there. It's one of those things you can spend all day there. It's huge. There's plenty of things to do.
Speaker 2:Well, I can't name a single one, except for this one.
Speaker 1:Well, what makes I mean?
Speaker 2:I've gone to him but I don't remember the name.
Speaker 1:What makes this one so strange? What do you got for us? It makes me think of Dory.
Speaker 2:Looking at the title. It says prosecutors close investigation of Berlin Aquarium collapse. As the cause remains unclear, Talk about a horror movie they need to make. Something broke, smashed something is what I'm assuming.
Speaker 1:We have a lot of shark horror movies, but we don't have one about an aquarium collapse.
Speaker 2:But having in real life.
Speaker 1:That's got to be scary, though right, just having one collapse in real life. What happened?
Speaker 2:This aquarium picture reminds me of Finding Dory. Do you ever see that? Yeah, yeah, I remember the big aquarium where she went looking for her parents.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep, I remember.
Speaker 2:This reminds me of that, okay, berlin, this is on October 24th. Oh man, oops, Found another October one. There you go. Prosecutors in Berlin said Tuesday that they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December. What Okay? This happened last December After an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst. The Aquadom Aquarium, which stood in a hotel lobby in the center of the German capital, burst in the early hours of December 16th, sending 1 million liters Geez 264,000 gallons of water gushing into the building and the street outside.
Speaker 1:And it's got to be that much right, because when you look at aquariums, I mean there's a lot of water in just one section of the aquarium.
Speaker 2:Two people were slightly injured.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, that's good. Nobody died in this right. That's good that they were injured.
Speaker 2:No no, no, that's good that nobody died in this right, nobody died.
Speaker 1:Okay, good, as far as I can tell you. Slightly injured we can get medical treatment for.
Speaker 2:but you know, prosecutors said they have closed an investigation of persons unknown on suspicion of causing bodily harm by negligence, after evaluating the expert report commissioned by the building's owners, which they received on October 6th Negligence.
Speaker 1:Oh, somebody was doing their job, basically.
Speaker 2:Its author, engineer Christian Bonton, has presented three theories but said there was no clear evidence to prove any of them.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's scary, isn't it what the aquarium just collapses, you have no evidence of why.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's some theories or the hypothesis where that an adhesive seam holding together the cylinder may have failed, that the tank may have been damaged by a dent in its base when the aquarium was modernized in 2020. Or that the tank may have been refilled too late after that modernization. Drying the acrylic glass while it's out too much Okay.
Speaker 1:I don't mean to laugh, but to talk about fueling every kid's nightmare.
Speaker 2:I mean I was laughing at Slightly Injured the one thing.
Speaker 1:Okay, you know how, as a kid, you get a lot of intrusive thoughts right. So when you go to the aquarium, the one thought you were thinking as a kid is Shark's gonna. Yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Like the aquarium bursting, tap the glass too much and it starts cracking the spider cracks all over.
Speaker 2:the Spider web cracks come from the surface.
Speaker 1:Okay, there's one advantage, though. There's one advantage Most aquariums we do see scuba divers in the tank, right, have you ever seen that? They do a lot of shows with the scuba divers feeding the fish and the sharks.
Speaker 2:I've seen it occasionally.
Speaker 1:I've taken my kid to a lot of them and they put scuba divers in there and they feed the fish and the sharks. If an aquarium were to quote unquote, burst, if it's not something poisonous like a, let's say, a jellyfish, like a, you know whatever or something that's gonna sting you most of the time, you can be 100% sure that you're gonna be safe. And the reason why is because those fish and the sharks get fed around the clock a lot, yeah, okay so. They are not hungry at any point in time, okay so, and they have scuba divers that feed them all the time. They're constantly, and if anything were to break, I'm sure they can honestly throw some food in and the fish would be distracted. Everybody can get out safe. Honestly, the only thing you'd have to worry about maybe drowning, I don't know. There's so much like the Ripley's aquarium is humongous If anything were to break there. You're talking millions of gallons of water like not just thousands it's.
Speaker 1:It would be insane. But other than that, like I said, I'm glad you know it's only minor injuries. Everybody got treated. But man, that's scary Talk about nightmare fuel. It makes you want to think twice about going to a aquarium.
Speaker 2:I don't know I'm not just getting splashed, I might get drowned.
Speaker 1:I might be swimming with the fishies. Speaking of aquatic life, I've got one for you. Actually, another one, yes, along the same line. This one's kind of cool because it's rare. Do you like rare, rare animals? Yes, I love rare animals and this one kind of cracked me up. I had a little chuckle when I left it. His name is Bowie the Lobster.
Speaker 2:Larry the Lobster, larry the Lobster, bowie the Lobster, okay.
Speaker 1:Bowie, the Lobster is half blue and half red. That's awesome, all kinds of rare.
Speaker 2:He's a two tone lobster.
Speaker 1:He was caught by a fisherman and no harm was done to him. Just so everybody knows. He was caught by a fisherman and he was very well adored because of his rare colors. Contrary to what a certain casual dining chain might suggest, lobsters come in many colors. I did not know that. Did you know that?
Speaker 2:I thought they were all like dark red.
Speaker 1:I thought they were all the same color too. Apparently they come in many colors there are blue lobsters, orange lobsters and even calico lobsters, but Bowie, named after the pop icon David Bowie, is a rock star lobster.
Speaker 2:Like the knife Bowie, David.
Speaker 1:Bowie.
Speaker 2:Bowie knife, sorry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like the pop star, you know, like the pop rock star.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not familiar.
Speaker 1:Bowie is half red, half blue, half male, half female.
Speaker 2:What he's a hermaphra lobster.
Speaker 1:He is apparently a mutant.
Speaker 2:Hermalobster.
Speaker 1:A bi-colored lobster is a one in a 50 million occurrence, according to New England Aquarium biologist Jordan Baker. The split color crustacean blue side is adherence to gender reveal party norms Male, while the red side is female. Bowie was caught by a lobster fisherman off the shore of Maine and has since clawed its way to internet stardom. Jacob Knowles, a friend, brought him the rare catch, which Knowles has shown off in a series of videos. He's got a bunch of videos here. It's pretty cool. A lot of Instagram videos. There's some pictures of them. I was very blown away by it, he told NPR. Knowles is a fifth generation lobster man who shows off the Atlantic sea creatures to his millions of followers on tiktok and Instagram. Nobody I've talked to in the harbor has ever seen one like this either. He said so. That speaks pretty loudly. Bowie got its name from commenters who favor, favor this. I can't talk who favored.
Speaker 2:Come on, you can do it.
Speaker 1:I can do it of naming it after David Bowie roughly 50,000 times. A rationale was that David Bowie was famously and drug and this and appear to have. Yeah, it appeared to have different colored eyes. I didn't know that. Some other suggestions to face icy hot and lobster McLopster face.
Speaker 2:Lobster.
Speaker 1:McLopster face. I wrote. I wrote that one Knowles personal favorite was 50%, 50%.
Speaker 2:I mean he's half blue, half red, right he's 50%.
Speaker 1:He's a 50. So how does a lobster end up looking like two fused together? It happens during development, says Baker. There are these embryo mutations or changes in the ontogenetic development. I think that's how you say that the combination of embryos or division that basically makes up two different animals. Proteins and pigments in the lobster shell create different shades, which can even change as the lobster molts or based on its diet. And it is possible for Bowie to lay eggs, which Knowles hopes it'll happen. Another cool lobster fact they can taste with their feet.
Speaker 2:That's super weird. Hey let me go taste this food. Walks out there, touch.
Speaker 1:Bro, I would not be walking anywhere.
Speaker 2:I'd have to walk on my hands.
Speaker 1:If you're in the car right now, walk on your hands. I Don't have to walk on my hands all the time. There's no way.
Speaker 2:I thought you just said he could feel it. Oh wait. No, he said he could taste with his taste, with a feet.
Speaker 1:Okay, Well, the I wonder if that's active. So, now, this is my personal, just Fascination. I wonder if that's active 24-7 or that's like a switch they can turn it on and off.
Speaker 2:That would be interesting right to find out you don't turn off taste bud or off and on taste buds.
Speaker 1:So yeah, but it says they can taste with their feet doesn't mean they do it 24-7, they're walking everywhere at their feet, so they're tasting stuff constantly, is what I'm assuming maybe I don't know that sounds. I would be very curious to find out if it's active all the time or if it's something they can turn off.
Speaker 2:It probably ate hungry very much.
Speaker 1:And that's usually how we get them to eat is rubbing a food item right where they're walking and and they'll find it because of that unique ability, baker said. For now Bowie is kept in a cage in the ocean where nolls regularly checks in. Nolls is mulling what comes next for the Rockstar Lobster? He's trying to figure that out. Baker hopes he'll consider donating Bowie to her aquarium, which is also home to several other strange huge lobsters. A lot of lobstermen in our area and main and the rest of New England have been generous, have been really generous when they find these rare lobsters and offer them to us.
Speaker 2:She said that makes me wonder if there's an aquarium somewhere with all manner of strange animals and creatures well, it says right here she's got one.
Speaker 1:so Wonder if I just lobsters? It's Said well, that one was just lobsters. I wonder if she lets people come and seize it? That would be cool. Um, if she let people come and see it, that would be sweet, but I thought that was cool. Considering your aquarium story, yeah, I had to get that out of there. Do you have any more for us, or we? We?
Speaker 2:get I'm. The only other one I have is the Christmas one he's in.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, cool, we'll. We'll get to that themed. Let's head into our next section. I want to talk about some stuff this weekend. All right, so real quick. This is not gonna be a long section, but I wanted to talk about some things about this weekend because, as you know, this past week was Thanksgiving, we had Black Friday, we have Cyber Monday and, of course, people go crazy usually. So I want to talk about some stuff that's going on For this Black Friday and it turns out people are not going crazy on Black Friday anymore.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, no, I didn't see anybody pushing anybody around or anything. No, um, I also saw. I don't know if you saw, but on.
Speaker 1:Tiktok and Instagram things. I saw a few videos talking about how the parking lots were not full of campers. Remember years ago when we had people camping out the night before just to get a deal on stuff? Yeah, I haven't seen that for years. There was a video posted online of different parking lots and they had the tape offline, you know, for the next morning, where they have like a taped off line outside the store and you could camp there if you wanted to or whatever. Thanks, there was nobody.
Speaker 2:Well, no new systems came out. The lots were empty. That was a big part of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the lots were empty. Um, and I think it has to do with online shopping, because nowadays, online shopping is more popular than ever. Well, I look this up and it turns out I was right. Black Friday has generated 9.8 billion in online sales, and I don't know if that's just for the US. It sounds like maybe for the US.
Speaker 2:I didn't expect those sales to be online, though 9.8. I thought that was a store only thing.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing Everybody's doing Black Friday sales and I found you know, typically when you walk into a retail store, the sales honestly, let's be honest, they're not that great, Not really. Everybody is fighting over some sales that'll save them maybe $10 or so at most right. Um, here's the thing online sales can deduct their prices a ton more 50, 60.
Speaker 1:I saw 70% this weekend. You know 50, 60, 70%. How can you argue with that, right, yeah, so people are doing their Christmas shopping online now more days than ever, and that number speaks for itself $9.8 billion, which is a 7% jump from last year. So, people are tired of the pushing and shoving.
Speaker 2:People are tired of the camping out in the cold, you know because I don't think anybody wanted to keep up with the cold this year. I've never done that, I just thought that was dumb.
Speaker 1:Now we can talk about this a little bit, but you were with me for Black Friday shopping, right, you went with me, yeah, so some things we did see, and we talked about this when we were in the car. It is becoming more of a bonding thing, which is kind of weird if you think about it. You and I went out Black Friday shopping and what did we see? We saw a lot of moms and daughters hanging out and shopping together. Remember that we talked about it. We were in a mall together, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I mean that's a good thing.
Speaker 1:I think it's more it can be. I think it's going to be a thing where people are going to be shopping online, and this is just my theory. I think people are going to be shopping online for Black Friday and I think the people that go to Black Friday shopping it's going to be more of a family bonding thing Because, I'll tell you, some of my friends and you know some of them, some of my friends that live around us they go Black Friday shopping now to hang out with their family. Basically do some Christmas shopping hang out with the family, kind of poke fun at it. I think Black Friday is going to become a meme where, like you know how, people used to go crazy for it.
Speaker 2:I kind of want to make one now. I bet I could.
Speaker 1:You know how people used to go crazy for it. I think people just go out as a family thing now. Now you and I also talked about, we did notice that Black Friday became more crowded around the afternoon, so the stores are still.
Speaker 2:Nobody really likes getting up early.
Speaker 1:The stores are still being crowded around the afternoon, but nobody's camping anymore and it's not as bad as it used to be. We don't have chaos running in through the front door. We don't have people getting trampled.
Speaker 2:Well, like I said, I'm pretty sure that's because there's no new system that came out, because those are usually what caused that.
Speaker 1:Maybe, but you know the old Black Friday used to be TVs, Now everybody's got it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, tvs, everybody's got a TV. Everybody's got one. Yeah, four, six.
Speaker 1:You can get them for cheap. Now I saw a 55 inch or for a hundred, some dollars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty good Like you can get them super cheap now, so it's not as bad as it used to be, thank God, I think. I think we're getting past the Black Friday thing, but I think it's going to be more like we said. It's going to be more of a family outing where moms and daughters can have fun together. I think families can shop together. I don't think people are going out for the deals anymore. I'm going to be honest. We went out that day. There was not that many deals.
Speaker 2:It's probably just a social thing.
Speaker 1:now, yeah, it was not that many deals. I didn't see a lot of cutbacks on prices, and I think that has to do with online shopping, because you just can't compete. I mean, you're talking about retail stores doing a 20, 30% markdown and you got online stores like Amazon eBay and that are like 50, 60, 70, 80%, even markdowns on products.
Speaker 1:So yeah, as far as I know, I just don't think it's a thing. I'm going to read some more stuff on it and see what's going on. Let's see CNBC reported on it, cnn reported on it, a bunch of news people report on it, fox Business reported on it, but people are holiday shopping, like we said. I mean, 9.8 billion is not anything to laugh at 9.8 billion.
Speaker 2:what?
Speaker 1:Dollars and sales. So people are shopping, just not so much in the retail aspect.
Speaker 2:Well, we can't afford to anymore. I mean, nobody can really People are sick of it, man.
Speaker 1:You got high gas prices, you got overpriced things. I mean, I don't know the material thing, I don't know how long it's going to last. To be honest, yeah, here's a quote. Consumers this is from CNN Consumers are a little fatigued because the season started as early as October. If you noticed, in October they started putting up Christmas stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was really just one, but they didn't even get all the Halloween stuff out, they had already had Christmas.
Speaker 1:They were basically trying to skip Halloween and Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas, whilst foot traffic was quote-unquote good into stores, black Friday discounts were averaging in the 25 to 30 percent range. What did I say? 80, 90. Yeah, and these and the retail stores were in the 20 and 30 percent, just like I said. So yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about right there. So 25, 30 percent. Honestly, I don't know. It's crazy, but what we have from this is people tired of waiting in lines and they just want to get stuff delivered to their house now because people can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1:I mean shoot again, why not? I think if the world does enter an apocalypse, I think the main driving factor that'll help the world survive it's probably online shopping. I if it's when, brother, I think it'll you'll it. One of the only things that'll help us survive is probably wanted online shopping and having things like the post office. Think about it every war that we've been through, what's the one thing survived?
Speaker 1:the postal service, uh-huh that is kind of odd if you think about it and I think so like even with the wars over the supply lines and things throughout history, the one thing that survived is the delivery services.
Speaker 2:That's crazy, I think in that insane like Okay, that's job security. Right there, that is job security. That's the definition of it.
Speaker 1:That's why people want to work for UPS and postal service and all that. You don't have to worry about ever not having a job. You will constantly have a job, because somebody's always gonna need food, somebody's always gonna need Letters or supplies or something. Something, though, is somebody's always gonna need something doesn't matter whose side wins the war right it is, somebody's always gonna need something, so you always have a job when in doubt and law works for the post office when in doubt, delivery it out.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh shoot. But you know what we're talking about. Friday we're talking about Thanksgiving. We are in between the Thanksgiving and the holiday kind of Area right now. This is the end of November. We're kind of going into December.
Speaker 1:So I have one last Section that we should talk about only three days till December that you can do with your friends and your family or whoever you have with you, and it is kind of fun and it's something to do between the holiday seasons that it really is. Anybody can do it. It's a lot of fun and, the best part, yeah, don't always have to spend money on doing this. This is a very easy thing to do and it's free most of the time. You ready for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So what I was describing before Before the break Was something that you don't always have to spend money on. It's very easy to do, anybody can do it. It's something fun in between the holidays and that is going to see Christmas lights.
Speaker 2:Oh, going to see them yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes, I used to have to buy home if you're gonna have now if you're deck, yes, if you're decorating your house, you do have to buy them, unless you're like our family. You've kept your Christmas lights for 20, 30.
Speaker 2:If you buy them one time, you never buy them again.
Speaker 1:That if you take care of your Christmas lights, they can last a long time. Yeah, but yes. So I thought it would be fun and I believe I sent you the article, jess If we would go through.
Speaker 1:Now this is in the US. This is by the pioneer woman. It's a magazine company. But this is 40 and we're probably not gonna make it through all 40, but we're gonna try to get through some of them. The 40 best places to see Christmas lights because that's something you can do. It's a lot of fun. You can hang out with your friends and your family. You don't have to spend a lot of money on it. Usually, somebody else spend a lot of money and they put up a display and you can go see him.
Speaker 2:So Some people go Danny DeVito crazy.
Speaker 1:Can you guess what number one is? Can I guess yeah?
Speaker 2:Yes, what's wait? Like where the most lights are? What do you?
Speaker 1:think of off the top of your head when you think of Christmas lights, cuz I know what I think of. I'll tell you what state I think of. What do you, what do you think of when you think of Christmas lights? Now, ohio, ohio, ohio's a good state. Ohio's a good state for Christmas lights, but besides that, Michigan, maybe.
Speaker 2:Michigan, okay, north more okay, so they're used to cold and maybe the cold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind of like a, it's like a comparison of Montana.
Speaker 2:Or Washington, maybe because they're also yeah.
Speaker 1:I think of New York, you know rock, rock, a fella Rockefeller Center yeah you know what I'm talking about Rockefeller Center. You know the whole Christmas tree, the big light.
Speaker 2:I would got to eventually.
Speaker 1:Well, number one on our list is Pennsylvania. I can't believe that's number one, I had no idea Burnville, pennsylvania, and I'll tell you why. Generations of families have been visiting Cozy, ours K o Z I a r, cozy, ours Christmas Village, since its stunning debut in 1948. This family owned holiday attraction features more than one Million Christmas lights adorning buildings, barns and landscapes. Bro, that's not that far away. We should go check it out. No, not really we should go check it out.
Speaker 2:I mean not, not really like. No, was not do it. I mean not really like yeah, that's not that far.
Speaker 1:No, it's not that far away. What was number two?
Speaker 2:Atlanta Georgia.
Speaker 1:Hey, I Didn't know that one over at one point I didn't know Atlanta, Georgia was famous for lights either.
Speaker 2:What do they got? The garden lights holiday night show at the Atlanta Botanical Garden shines bright this year from November 18th 2023 to January 14th 2024. That would be fun. New additions include 144 foot long wintry White Skynet and even larger flock of illuminated metal birds, deer and more.
Speaker 1:That sounds fun. Look at that picture.
Speaker 1:It looks like a bunch of strands. Yeah, that's pretty cool. It's like a like a forest of strands. Now they're on a deck so it looks like there's a walkway through the trees. That would be even more fun if there was a walkway through the trees. That would be. That would be more fun. Number three Riverside, California. The festivals of lights at the mission in Hotel. And I didn't know about these places. What the heck? The mission in hotel and spa in California is one of the country's biggest holiday light collections. It was even voted best public lights display by USA Today. Join the more than 500,000 people who visit this See attraction every year and you won't be disappointed. Look at the entrance, bro.
Speaker 2:That reminds me of a Another country, that's got to be net lights.
Speaker 1:Right that entrance because look how thick the lights?
Speaker 2:are the ones that are beamed? I don't know, that's not really tell.
Speaker 1:I think it's net lights, I think it's LEDs. It's typically how they do that, but that is so many. Okay, well, I did not know that there's another one in California. What's number four? No, we're not California.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this number four says no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:I said number three was California.
Speaker 2:Oh, number four bad number four is blowing rock, north Carolina. It's hard not to laugh at that name, but all aboard tweet see I can't.
Speaker 1:It's a family show.
Speaker 2:Tweety Christmas offers the unique opportunity to tour the attractions. More than 1 million Christmas lights and a glowing Open-air train car Okay, that would be cool. Visitors can also enjoy a live Christmas variety show. Hey, look at that variety show. There you go friendly amusement, rides and meetings with Santa and his gingerbread house.
Speaker 1:Oh, now, that would be a fun family thing, bro, oh that train.
Speaker 2:the train has covered in lights.
Speaker 1:That looks pretty cool it looks like you're getting on like. I Wouldn't say necessarily the polar express to help.
Speaker 2:As a kid you got to feel like it right. Looks a little like the Hogwarts.
Speaker 1:It's pretty cool. Oh my gosh, they even got a wreath on the front of the train, like that would be fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1:I'd never expected that open-air train ride, heck, yeah, sign me up.
Speaker 2:I love trains. Dude train right on the train is so peaceful.
Speaker 1:You're winning the train, and there's so many countries that have like these advanced train systems. I want to try.
Speaker 2:Japan, japan's bullet trains, oh my gosh, or I mean, they seem a little scary but isn't there.
Speaker 1:Isn't there one in Okay, maybe I'm wrong, is there one in South Korea? I'm not sure about, but there's, there's. There's so many. I would love to try them all. Man, and the regular scenic train rides that are just. They're not super fast, but they're scenic trains. Those are a lot of fun too. I've been on one of those. Those are glass cars. I remember riding one.
Speaker 1:Oh glass, wait, a glass car yeah so, like you, the the bottom half of the car is a regular car and it's a dining room Right where you can like sit and eat. The top half of the car is all glass so you can see out all directions. Wow, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I didn't know, they had glass tree. Yeah, they have a metal frame between the windows.
Speaker 1:Okay, so they have like it's mostly glass, but they'll have like metal frames metal windows so it's not like ribs or something. It's not like somebody could tap on the roof of the car and it break right.
Speaker 2:You know like, not like that I remember riding a train in like first grade, I think it was like I know. I Think we went to Marietta or something like I can't remember exactly, but well. I just remember it being like real peaceful.
Speaker 1:You know the worst part is we have so much access to trains here in America.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you can't ride on them.
Speaker 1:Train rides are so expensive. Like you can ride them. They still have a lot of scenic trains, but you can. They're getting expensive.
Speaker 2:I was trying to hop some trains not too long ago or earlier this year, instead of trying to get on a bus or whatever. They're expensive, man I was not having any luck at all. No like because they were all taken, or whatever you know.
Speaker 1:I found a railroad once that you could reserve your own private Like dining room. You could reserve one for your party, but even that was expensive. It was like I. Wish, that was hundred to three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2:I wish that was the normal way to travel, like one of the normal ways of travel.
Speaker 1:Still, honestly, it was like three hundred dollars for an hour or something. It was crazy terrible yeah it was expensive. And now, well, that was for a whole party, but like man, that's a lot of money. Five Olney, maryland I didn't know this one either. If you're in Washington DC area which you did say Washington, you'll want to pay a holiday visit to winter city lights and nearby Olney.
Speaker 2:Well, I meant Washington state.
Speaker 1:Gotcha. It boasts more than 1 million twinkling lights across its sprawling 18 acres of land. Tickets include a magical hike Along a five mile long trail of Christmas lights. So get out your walking shoes. Displays and holiday music. That would be fun. Man, that's a lot of walking, but that would be fun.
Speaker 2:Looks like they're looking at snow coming down.
Speaker 1:I know there probably was, though I Don't know.
Speaker 2:wait, you think that is, though not lights.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure. I can't tell if the pictures edited or not. Neither Um number six.
Speaker 2:Oh, look what. We're back to Pennsylvania again, can it? Why is it so?
Speaker 1:weird Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:No, can it. Squares. Longwood gardens is lit up with more than 500,000 lights for its annual holiday display. This year's winter wonderland features an elaborate outdoor light display, festively decorated trees both indoors and outdoors, not to mention holiday Horticulture like poinsettias, amaryllis and fragrant paper whites.
Speaker 1:And we already talked about that tree, that that picture you're showing Like a dancing fountain and a tree behind it.
Speaker 2:Led blue, tree light, led blue.
Speaker 1:That's looks like two Christmas bushes or trees on each side. It's pretty epic. It looks like something out of a fantasy storybook. Like that's unreal. Okay.
Speaker 1:So Kenneth Square added to the list man number seven, pine Mountain, georgia, named one of National Geographics top 10 light displays in the world second, georgia to the Fantasy, yeah, fantasy, in lights at Pine Mountains, kallaway, georgia, or, I'm sorry, kallaway Gardens Features 8 million twinkling ball, 8 million cheese and is nothing short of spectacular. You can drive or walk through the forest of cascading lights and Larger than life Christmas scenes featuring towering nutcrackers, gigantic snowflakes and more. That really does look like a forest of lights, bro.
Speaker 2:That's in my chili.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not saying you can walk or drive sick and it are be Sorry, hang on.
Speaker 2:I'd be pretty mild in Georgia. I would say yeah imagine walking through that.
Speaker 1:That's in, that's so bright.
Speaker 2:That picture right there looks like it might be blind when you come back.
Speaker 1:I know like there's a okay for our, for our listeners. There is a. It's a black at night picture. The forest is lit up so brightly that it looks like daytime on the walkway.
Speaker 2:All right. Number eight, number a Chicago, illinois. There you go. The Chicago Botanic Gardens annual light display lightscape is a one-in-one Quarter mile path of pure magic. Visitors will be treated to festive displays like the winter Cathedral, laser light shows and the singing trees. Plus, this year's event features even more new delights.
Speaker 1:That's crazy looks like. That tunnel they're walking through looks like a tunnel of light that that looks like a cathedral, you know, like a church cathedral, with the top roof.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what it's called, winter Cathedral, oh, oh well, there you go. I didn't see that man I'm good at this.
Speaker 1:I should do this more often, man. No, but that's that's crazy. That looks awesome. I would. I would definitely check that out. That's sweet. I love Chicago, so that's one of my just there too.
Speaker 2:You said right.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was there for a comedy show. It was awesome, spent two days there. It was fantastic. Chicago is his chaos man, it's just chaos there's. It's awesome, though it was awesome number nine. Here we go. Brooklyn, new York, brooklyn's, diker heights I have diker heights, that's. I'd say it. Yeah, brooklyn's, it's D Y K Y R, diker Heights. I don't know how to say it, but neighborhood is a beloved Christmas attraction for both locals and tourists. Each year, residents light up their homes with colorful bulbs, festive figures and Fairy lights. The best displays are usually found between the 11th and 13th avenues, from 83rd to 86th Street. So this is just a whole community saying, hey, we're gonna put up Christmas lights, that's all. That's what this is.
Speaker 2:I mean, this is not like an attraction.
Speaker 1:You could drive there and see this all for free. This is a whole community in New York saying hey, let's do this.
Speaker 2:They'd be nice to see more doing that.
Speaker 1:that's pretty cool yeah that's awesome, I love it.
Speaker 2:Number 10, asheville, north Carolina, this. There was not very many lights in the picture, but every year at the holidays the stunning built more estate in Asheville transforms into a Christmas spectacle worthy of American royalty. During the day, stroll through the home and grounds to admire more than a hundred hand decorated Christmas trees, 25,000 ornaments and a hundred thousand holiday lights. You know why?
Speaker 1:because it's mostly inside.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The picture is not doing it justice, but now it is not.
Speaker 2:When night falls, experience the estate by candlelight and firelight, much like the Vanderbilt family did on Christmas Eve 1895 when built more welcomed its first guess.
Speaker 1:So if you wanted the royal treatment, there you go, asheville, north Carolina. I would have never thought to go to Asheville, north Carolina for the royal treatment, but there you go.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Let's do a couple more here, and then what we're gonna do, since we're running out of time today, is we're gonna save some of these for next time. I think we should continue this on another show and Give the audience, our members, some more ideas to go see lights, because we don't know who's listening or where they're from, and, yeah, this might give you some ideas on what to go see this Christmas, just for fun. And guess what? Some of them, a lot of them, are free.
Speaker 2:How many is there? 50 total, 40, 40. Yeah, and we're around 11, or he stopped at 11.
Speaker 1:So let's do, let's go through 15, and then we'll do 15 next time, and then we'll do another 15 later. So let's force one. Yeah, you know what I mean like last few, we'll do later.
Speaker 2:I gotta tease you a little. No, you know, you always pull on my leg.
Speaker 1:The 11 is number 11, it's the Bronx, new York. The annual holiday event at the Bronx Zoo Celebrates wildlife with immersive light displays, animal lanterns, colored tunnels and Arches, lit up trees and more, and animal lovers will enjoy more than 260 lanterns representing Almost 70 animal plant species, with even more lanterns making their debut at this year's show. That's pretty cool Now.
Speaker 1:I will say if you can't afford any of these, on the ones that we're saying, also, check your local area. I know our local area. They set up lights all the time houses. I know our court houses. They set up displays all the time out here and they're all free. So go for it. What were you gonna say I?
Speaker 2:Was just gonna describe the picture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 2:There's one of the lights looks like a big Green and blue ladybug. Yeah, some sort.
Speaker 1:So it's that paper lantern material that you see in like a Chinese lantern. You ever seen the line?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:It's that same material. But they made animals, flowers and all kinds of other things out of that Okay. Material looks pretty cool. Yeah, 70 animal and plant species and over 260 lanterns. So there you go. Wow, number 12, I would love to check this out.
Speaker 2:Flint Ridge, california, looks like another lit, lit up forest Inchanted. Just north of Los Angeles, you'll find the enchanted forest of light at Discanado Gardens. Let's go an interactive nighttime experience featuring a one-mile walk through sparkling installations and lighting effects. You won't want to miss the town of magical stained glass creations by contemporary sculptor Tom Fruin.
Speaker 1:Tom Fruin. Yeah, now see, it's only one mile. It's not too far, it's not. It's not that much of a hike, but that's, that's awesome, bro, like oh man. So the picture looks like a foggy, enchanted forest out of a storybook. I don't know how to describe this to you other than that it's blue, it's green, it's like the whole forest is lit up.
Speaker 2:It's blue and green.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, no, like seriously, like the trees look blue, which is it's crazy.
Speaker 2:There's people walking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it looks awesome. I would definitely do it, and it's not a long hike it's only a mile, so definitely worth it. Well so long, dude? No, well, the one that we talked about was five miles long, hey, so there you go. Okay, maybe not as long, but I mean, the other one was eight miles long so, oh, but that definitely looks cool. It does so English pretty sweet do yeah, and I have like a whole village of that. That would be an epic 13 Leavenworth.
Speaker 1:Washington hey, look at that you go I called it earlier, be dazzled by 500,000 lights when the gorgeous Bavarian style village of Leavenworth Transforms into its annual Christmas Town Festival. The town also hosts lighting ceremonies, sleigh rides, christmas carolers and visits from Santa Claus.
Speaker 2:Very cool Now dang fries are done. Dang fries are done.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you know this, but we have a village here in Ohio that was set up by a local family and they celebrate Christmas every year by transforming an old West town into a Western Like a ghost town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it looks like an old West, like you would step into an old West town. Oh, now the movies and they transform all that into a Christmas old West town and you could go see the Grinch, you could see cowboys, you can see Indians, you can go see Santa Claus all in the same village. Now it's only certain times of the year so you got to look up tickets, but it is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Time's gone.
Speaker 1:All right, give us number 14.
Speaker 2:New Orleans, louisiana. Yeah, new Orleans annual celebration in the oaks is an incredible light display future and more than 1 million bulbs throughout the 25-acre Park of sprawling oak trees. 25 acres, that's more than eight miles. Maybe look this one top. To addition to the light displays, you can also enjoy a driving tour, amusement park rides in a botanical garden.
Speaker 1:They got amusement park. Oh my goodness, that's a whole like theme park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of just. I mean, all you see in that picture is like a little park.
Speaker 1:Yeah, picture doesn't do it justice, but it. It would be fun to see Number 15, last one of the day, here.
Speaker 2:Williamsburg, virginia, williamsburg, virginia. Williamsburg's Bush Gardens boasts one of the biggest holiday light displays in North America, donning a total of 10 million bulbs for the amusement parks Christmas town event. You can also learn how the colonists Celebrate the holidays by visiting the parks. Jamestown settlement there you go, history and Christmas lights all.
Speaker 1:Clock lit up. Yeah, it's a clock tower Right in the middle of.
Speaker 2:Jax, down, there you go that now.
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