Mindless Super Diamonds

[00:00:10] Instead you gotta tell me I fucked shit up In new ways I'm doing the best I can Well, do the best you can at the intro Because that's what we need right now Welcome back to Mindless Prattle The podcast where I get insulted That's Jordan, I'm Ripley And we're your hosts We're gonna prattle on about shit you probably don't care about But you're still gonna listen

[00:00:39] Because you're here Take it away Jeeves Was that a question mark or you were just stating facts No, just stating facts, you said facts are the best Wow, just so cruel, that's crazy Just telling people what to do now So like when you were editing Could you see the shakiness of the camera? Yeah, because you keep shaking your knee every time And then every time I'd have to cut away Because you're just in the middle of stretching And you're like, I don't stretch that much And I'm like, I'll be recording this as a little ways Why do you gotta cut away? What's wrong with me stretching?

[00:01:08] Huh? Look, if people want to see your armpits They gotta pay, alright? There's no No free pits here There's no free, alright? No free pits Just saying The most exciting part of my life this past week Has been the plants Which plants, Ripley? So Jordan and I planted a fuck ton of things We got a bunch of seedling starters And I haven't planted a lot of stuff before So we got heirloom tomatoes Anaheim peppers

[00:01:38] Was it basil or? Don't look at me Rosemary I'm just a credit card What? But basically Just a bunch of like Fruit or vegetables and herbs But they sprouted up so quick And now every time Jordan and I go to look There's another sproutling And like Is that what they're called? Are they called sproutlings? That's what I call them I thought that I was going with seedlings for some reason Could be a seedling

[00:02:08] Could either one Where am I getting seedling from? Is that in a game? I think like the things say seedling starters Maybe that's where I got it from I don't know I just think sproutling is a cute word I don't know if it's a real one But it's what I'm saying Those motherfuckers are thirstier than you though Let me tell you I gotta fucking water them like three times a day Yeah it's like giving milk to a baby They're growing I'm pretty sure that they drink more water Than you used to I drink a lot of water now That's why I said you used to Because I know you've been drinking more water

[00:02:38] You've been doing good I'm a thirsty asshole Staying hydrated one night You were thirsty back then too But I think the depression Just kind of overrode the thirstiness And the soda And the soda probably didn't help either Yeah Now I'm like a Once in a while soda person I still can't get over Dr. Pepper though Dr. Pepper is just too fucking good Like did you ever see that old lady Who lives to like 100 something years old And when they asked her why She said I drink a Dr. Pepper every day And I avoided men

[00:03:07] Oh I think I have read that Yeah I don't remember the men part I don't remember the Dr. Pepper part Yeah I think you threw that in there Just to Yeah no no no She was like I drink a Dr. Pepper Every single day And everybody was like Every single day Like shouldn't it be bad for you And she's like nope I drink one every single day Interesting Wait a minute So you said she was over 100? Yeah I think so When did Dr. Pepper come out? I'm looking it up now When did it come out?

[00:03:38] She was 104 years old And she said Oh three Dr. Peppers a day Not one Dr. Pepper a day Oh my bad Three Dr. Peppers a day And let's see She lived to be 106 She passed away in 2017 Her name was Elizabeth Sullivan And she was from Fort Worth, Texas Okay She said she did it since she was 60 years old Oh since 60 Okay That's pretty impressive Also I just found this Dr. Pepper was first sold in 1885

[00:04:07] In Waco, Texas That's pretty cool Started nationally marketing in 1904 Back when Cokes were Coke You know They should put the cocaine back in Coke I think it would fix the country Pharmacist Charles Alderton Created Dr. Pepper in the 1880s He experimented with fruit extracts and sweeteners Hmm Wade Morrison The owner of Morrison's Old Corner Drugstore Named the drink Dr. Pepper

[00:04:36] After Dr. Charles Pepper I don't know who that is Damn your cat is needy today She's yours She always wants your attention more than mine Never Became popular when it hit the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Nice In 1906 a three story building was built at the corner of 5th and Mary Just for the purpose of bottling and shipping the new drink Pretty cool I love that this It was like we made it in 1885 right

[00:05:03] Went public 20 years later in 1904 They didn't add a different flavor to it Until the 2000s What'd they add to it? Like the Dr. Pepper like cherry And like the flavored versions of it Oh They didn't come up with those for 100 years Dr. Pepper doesn't need it Honestly We don't need it Every time I've gotten a flavored Dr. Pepper It has made the Dr. Pepper worse Like did you ever try the strawberries and cream Dr. Pepper? Yeah that one's bad

[00:05:32] It's so bad It tastes like fucking medicine Like what? Mm-hmm I think there's I think there was one that I liked But it's not I don't think I liked it well enough to just look for it You know No and then Dr. Pepper cherry seems redundant to me Because it already has cherry in it It's just like Extra cherry You want stronger cherry Yeah You gotta have extra cherry in there you know That's what she said

[00:06:02] Don't look at me like that No I'm just talking about Staring What were some dumb things you believed as a kid? Mm Do you remember like some episodes ago When it was like What did people miss from the 90s? And it was like a general sense of Safety and like hope for the future I remember having that at once Yeah And you say I make things depressing Yeah I said it with a smile

[00:06:32] Although I So I found this list And like one person did say That I would understand everything as an adult I think I understand less Yeah I mean when you're a kid You just make stuff up As an adult You just gotta make stuff up with consequences Like I don't Yeah everybody's like Okay kid And then you become an adult And they're like That guy's crazy Yeah This person thought clouds Were the ghosts of dinosaurs I mean technically Sort of Dinosaurs die

[00:07:01] And then part of them becomes like the water cycle So yeah I can see it Unfortunately I don't know a lot of the things I believed Cause like The trauma Okay Alright Alright Like I don't even remember a lot of time Just giving the breeze on through I got tricked This week Into doing what? Lots of things And I was Watching YouTube As one lazily does Yes When one's wife is at work Yes I'm just the worst

[00:07:31] What was What? I'm just saying I was watching YouTube While you were gone Gosh Yeah yeah Get to your tip story So angry And An ad popped up And it was like Would you like Some attire? And I was like Yes I would like clothing Cause it looked really good So I clicked on it And I was like Google doesn't Advertise Wrong things They're Google They do And Yeah I'd say Probably about 50% Of ads out there Are scams Yeah

[00:08:00] So I clicked on the You know I went to the website And right away Just a bunch of pop ups That were like Enter your email You'll have chances To win all these things And I was like No Never Not a chance So I closed all those They didn't pop back up So I was like Okay I'm good with it The clothing looked really nice Except most of the people Looked very AI generated Yeah And I was like That's a little off Like the kind Where they have like Six fingers Or like No just the kind

[00:08:30] Where they like They were all in like Very similar poses In like very fake Looking backgrounds Like they were all It was like a Nordic Clothing line That it was advertising So all of them Were in like these Hand knit Like wool Sweatshirts And shirts And they all Had great designs on them They looked really nice But But the people Looked very Like if you typed in I need A Viking In a sweatshirt

[00:09:00] And like They popped up And I was like Damn these guys Are fucking huge Like they were swole The shirts looked really good And I was like You know what I'm just sitting here On YouTube I've been on YouTube For like an hour I was like I need to go to the gym Especially if I'm gonna Buy these clothes I can't look You gotta get swole Yeah I'm not swole enough To wear these shirts That was my exact thought And I gotta go to the gym Get swole One day That's all it takes And So I went to the gym I actually did Good on me And

[00:09:30] Came back Showered and whatnot And then I went back To the website And I was sitting there Just thinking about it Looking through everything I couldn't find Any reviews I couldn't find You know Phone number Anything So I started looking up Other people's reviews Of it And like 80% of what I found Was just like Yeah They don't actually Make all these good things It's a company in China That just prints things On like a t-shirt Like you get at Walmart Nothing about it Is hand stitched Or woven Or anything That it's advertising

[00:09:59] And I even saw A picture That someone had gotten And they were like I'm surprised I even got the product Because I bought it Before I saw All these reviews And it was It just looked like A regular t-shirt Even though Well like a regular Long sleeve t-shirt Even though it was Definitely not advertised Like that And I was like Wow Good thing I'm not Buying that And that closed out Every time I find A new website now I google it first Because I've Like lost money To that before Like when I was 18 You know So now I'm really Cautious about it Because I'm like

[00:10:28] I don't trust nobody Even if it looks legit That's part of the reason Why I'm I'm like Well Guess I'll go back To Amazon Because at least Then I can Fight things If it doesn't Show up or whatever That's also why I like to buy things On my credit card Because they have More like protection For chargebacks And things like that People are like Oh you get banned If you charge back And it's like Okay They're a fake website Anyways Like oh no Who are we Banning from Although I have Had it a few times Where like Like when I bought

[00:10:57] Things through PayPal And they never showed up Like they would give me A fake tracking number And then PayPal would be like Well the company says That you got it So fuck you They says that you got it I'm like yes They would say that Like so I'm really Cautious about it now Yeah but so I was upset So I just went through Like Amazon Didn't buy anything On Amazon But Definitely Picked out a bunch Of clothing That I was like I like this stuff I'm gonna get this stuff

[00:11:27] So you know Good and bad Didn't fall for the scam Went to the gym Didn't get the cool clothes That were advertised to me But you know It's alright We Excuse me You alright You look like You're about to start crying Your eyes got real watery I just water when I yawn They got watery Before you yawn What do you mean Yeah They were like The yawn's coming Watery eyes This is your warning It's time to yawn So did you see They created a super diamond

[00:11:58] No One I don't understand Why like anybody Would like Like regular diamonds Anymore Like mined ones Almost all of them Are mined with slave labor But they also have now Created an ultra hard High quality super diamond That is many times stronger Than naturally occurring diamonds Which they're already Pretty fucking hard You know Yeah They were 10 On the hardness scale But They said that It'll Help With A lot of industries And key sectors But

[00:12:28] These New ultra hard diamonds Instead of having like A cubic structure Like natural And synthetic diamonds These have a hexagonal Crystal structure Which is what makes Them so strong Yeah So I think that was Pretty cool Also Like regular diamonds Are more expensive Usually Yeah I don't get it Like We've decided That this shiny rock Is better than All the other shiny rocks And Like Regular diamonds

[00:12:58] Actual diamonds When you shine Light through them It reflects Like white light Right Like just normal diamonds But The fake diamonds You about to yawn again No I yawned already Okay I taught myself To yawn through my nose Did you yawn internally Because I had a teacher In high school That would like If you yawned They'd like Call you out And be like Oh am I boring you And shit So I learned How to force the yawn Through my nose Like oh no It's not you It's just everything That you're talking about I'm not good enough For that

[00:13:27] But I was really scared Of teachers Why What are they gonna do Not teach you The fuck It's their job You were disrespectful You called me out For yawning Because their subject Is boring I don't know What to tell you And it's like You know You don't even yawn When you're bored Like They haven't figured out Like what the purpose Of a yawn is yet Yeah Like the best solution They can come up with Is to try and get Or the best theory They can come up with Is to try and get More oxygen to your brain To keep you awake A little bit Like longer Like why wouldn't You do that

[00:13:57] During Like all throughout The day then Instead of just When you're getting tired And like that's weird Yeah And I don't think It's just when you're tired I think like sometimes When you just need oxygen You start yawning Because I'll know sometimes Like I'll have like Shortness of breath From like anxiety Or stuff And then my body's like Yawn bitch It's because you suck At breathing Every time you're like I don't like this feeling I'm like have you Taken a deep breath And you're like No but I yawned I'm like alright Well that's close I need a coffee

[00:14:27] I don't know why You didn't bring any That's crazy I just didn't want To take up more time Because I took too long In the shower Yeah I mean you We have energy drinks And whatnot But you know They changed my shift At work today So I'm also Like normally I wake up later Not that much later What Yeah but I've been Waking up around 10 a lot Since I've been closing Why are you laughing at me Just over there Like rubbing out The yawn

[00:14:57] I literally can't stop I don't know why Stop talking That direction For one I'm just trying to get The yawn away From the mic And the camera Okay You started talking As you were turning That last time Okay Enough about my yawning Yeah Speaking of I need to finish That diamond story Oh yeah One of the Do you know One of the easier ways To tell The difference If you have Like an actual diamond Or the What is it The moissanite The fake diamonds You scratch it On something No

[00:15:26] They're the same They're about the same Toughness It'd be hard to tell Unless you have Like another diamond But diamonds make Like a line Like a dark line When you scratch Them on things And like That's how women Used to be able To tell If their wedding Rings were fake Or not Okay There's a much Easier way to tell What You can just Shine light on it Oh Like I said The regular diamonds Actual diamonds They reflect white light But the The lab grown diamonds They reflect All light So you'll see it Reflected in like A rainbow

[00:15:56] Oh That's pretty cool It reflects color Yeah I think that's better That's what I'm saying Like you get A little bit of rainbow Also For all like The accuracy That scientists Usually go for They Do not care about Hardness Of things What do they care about? I'm just talking about The scale Like the hardness scale Is one through ten And it is not Precise at all It's not? No Diamond is ten

[00:16:25] And one is I think talc And you remember Do you remember Doing this in school Where they would give you Two different things And like scratch one Against the other And see which one's harder Yeah we did it In like geology Yeah well there's There's ten minerals From talc up to diamond That if you scratch it On something And it's It scratches that Then whatever you have Sorry Your voice changed All of a sudden Like When you're talking To the mic What? Like I don't hear it The way I did before

[00:16:55] Like it sounds quiet Again What are you talking about? Are you? Alright? I'm not hearing you Through here anymore But I was a second ago I don't know What to tell you Did you turn the volume Down on your headphones Somehow? I don't No Nothing changed It shows me Still talking Okay I just was worried That it might like Mess up the video But Nope Still recording Okay sorry You're right Keep going You need to get Your ears cleaned Shut up My ears are I suddenly can't hear

[00:17:25] Alright my bad Sorry grandma But anyway You remember that That test you used To do in school And they're like Which one's harder This one Scratch that one This one Scratch that one Well it's not Like there's way more Than ten things In existence So like If you If you have like Mineral number five And six I don't know what They are on the scale But if like Five doesn't scratch it But six does All you know Is that the hardness Of the thing That you have Is somewhere between Five and six

[00:17:54] On the scale But you don't know Where In that So like It's It's generally Just a test Of like Which one Scratches another one But it's not Accurate at all Does it Is it not like More specific For Like actual Geologists Or is it just No They do It's like It's just between Two numbers On the hardness Scale It's like the Mohs hardness Scale M-O-H-S Pretty sure Yeah that's right Mohs hardness Scale

[00:18:24] It's a Relative scale Meaning each Mineral can scratch Those below it But be scratched By those above it So one is talc Two is gypsum I don't know Yeah two is gypsum Three is calcite Four is fluorite Five is appetite Six is orthoclast Seven is quartz Eight is topaz Nine is corindum And ten is diamond Yeah this also says That like it's got Practical uses in geology

[00:18:53] Material science And industry To determine Wear resistance And durability But it doesn't Measure absolute Hardness like Vickers or Brunel tests Which use pressure And it also Doesn't account For toughness Or how well A material Resists breaking No it's just Hardness So I'm sure Like actual Geologists use The other scales More frequently Yeah But I saw A video From Who was it By Oh it's from Mark Rover And he's like The hardest thing In your house

[00:19:23] Might surprise you Guess what The hardest thing Was The hardest Material And we have some What is it On The hardness scale According to this According to the Hardness scale The Mohs hardness scale The hardest thing We have is Sandpaper Cause it doesn't Account for Toughness Tearing Pressure Nothing It's just The Mohs hardness scale The hardest thing We have Sandpaper

[00:19:54] Yeah Cause I mean It's designed To Scratch away Everything else You know It's I thought that was funny Which is how imprecise It is I always thought Sandpaper was fun I used to sneak Into my grandpa's Workshop And like Just sand Things I don't know Why I would just Sand things Okay What

[00:20:24] Why I just thought It was fun I didn't know What sandpaper Was It was just like On a table And I would Use it What kind of Things were you Sanding Just wood Like we had a lot Of firewood And stuff Okay What Why are you Looking at me Like that You were like Other people Whittle I sand I don't even I didn't doubt I knew what Whittling was And you know It's crazy You think like When you're a kid That you're so big And like All this stuff

[00:20:53] And then I look Back at pictures Of me From my Grandparents farm And I'm like I was like Three feet tall Like I was so little Crazy But Also I want to do A Sorry to interrupt I want to do A hearing test With you Not right now Because I don't Have a way to Play it right now I did one online And it said that My hearing Was fine In like My right ear And that my left ear

[00:21:22] Showed signs of strain I was just talking about Like the The hertz Like the increasing Hertz frequencies There's like Age brackets That you should Be able to hear And shouldn't Be able to hear I'm slightly Below Where I Should be For like Our age Is it all The gun I think it's Just gunfire Yeah But I thought It was interesting Because I don't Use it too much Yeah We'll try that later What were you saying I just thought This was a really cool fact So you know

[00:21:52] The birds of paradise No Okay so birds of paradise Have that like Really big crest On their head Like the plumes That come out Of their head And they use These colorful plumes To attract mates Are we talking about The bird Or the plant Bird Like an actual bird The bird Okay because birds of paradise Are also a plant Which are kind of more common So that's what I was going to say Yeah I'm talking about like The bird Paradise Birds of paradise So like Usually They have bright feathers They dance Scientists just found out

[00:22:22] That They can actually glow So Nice So 37 of the 45 species Of tropical Tropical forest birds Are capable Of biofluorescence Or you know UV light Reflecting light Making The glow But I don't know how It took them this long To find it Because I mean I mean depending on The level of Bioluminescence It's hard to detect Like the only reason That it became

[00:22:52] So apparent In fish Was because Scientists went down Deep enough To where light Didn't like reach Those depths But there were still Glowing fish And you're like Where's that That come from What is that So for the males They were biofluorescent In areas that would be Prominent during mating displays Like the feathers On their head Neck, tail, or belly As well as the Inner mouth, throat, Bill, and feet Females emit a glow As well But mostly on the Belly and chest

[00:23:22] The fact that it's More present in males Than the females Makes sense That you know They're using it To attract people But they said What they're actually Doing is taking The UV color That they can't see And re-emitting it At a wavelength That is actually Visible to their eyes So in this case It's like a bright green And green yellow Yeah Have you ever seen A tiger in the jungle And then through The eyes of like Most animals There's a side by side Comparison picture And it's like

[00:23:51] How are animals So stupid They can't see An orange cat In a green jungle And like we can see it Right Sometimes But a majority Of the animals Their wavelength That they can see They can't see orange And it just looks green So like if they put Their pictures side by side You can't see the tiger In the second one You're like Oh he's there somewhere Damn nature You're scared Just another like Frightening fact I don't know If you've ever Thought about it But Just as an example

[00:24:20] Of what you just said The birds of paradise Obviously the birds Right Not the plant But there's a plant Right Birds of paradise And it looks Just like the bird And there are a lot Of plant species That do that So the question is How do the plants Know what the birds Look like This might sound silly Go on But I Think everything Is connected That's fine

[00:24:52] You know like When they New tests have revealed Like Like plants Are connected To each other And they Like warn each other About things You know So I feel like It's possible That the entire planet Has a sort of Symbiotic relationship Where either the birds Evolved to look more Like the plants For protection But I don't know The birds evolved To look like the plants Yeah it's possible Cause like I don't I mean

[00:25:22] Maybe the plants Do know what the birds Look like Cause They are living Organisms And we don't Quite understand How plants Communicate with each other And Like Like I said If you talk to your plants And like Are nice to them They'll grow quicker But if you're mean To your plants They don't grow that well So like They don't grow that well Yeah like They respond to Positive comments And like Being talked to And sung to And

[00:25:51] Things like that Which I just think Are so cool Cause You know We think about plants As being Not sentient So congratulations Vegetarians You're still harming things I mean Everything harms Everything Yeah Vegans harm the most Stuff though How so? Hmm? How? To grow like Vegan food You have to Kill Like everything That's in A field To grow Vegan food Like you kill More insects

[00:26:20] And animals That are in the Field To make the food Vegan Than you would If you just had Vegetarian food Or regular food That's so fucking Stupid They're plants Yeah But if you let You eat them And you're vegan Yeah no If you let Like If you let The insects Or the plant Or the Insects Or the The animals In or eat it Or whatever It's no longer Vegan That is not How it should work Like what? That is the dumbest

[00:26:50] Thing I've ever heard Yeah And I've heard A lot of dumb things Farmers have to Kill more Species To make things Like vegan Compliant Than they do With vegetarian Or just regular Food But also Our Our country The biggest Issue with our Food right now Is the What's called The land use I don't know If you've seen That Like 90 I think It's No It's like 70 to 80% Of the produce That's For the entire Country

[00:27:20] That we That we Eat Is made in California Is grown in California Not made Now You're thinking That's one state You're right There's a lot Of land That is used To grow Produce But like 90% Of the land In the US That grows produce They grow that Produce to feed To animals So that we Could slaughter them Like we're using So much of the land Just for Growing food For our food

[00:27:49] Yeah I've seen Like that's it That's why I think A lot of People have said That if we Reduce our Meat consumption That you know It decreases That Yeah Yeah It's such a Huge waste Of land And resources To just Feed cattle And pigs And whatever Else This is why I think Small farmers Are so important Like Mass farming Kind of terrible For the environment But like The small farmers Like your family You know they have Their own little farm Like people like that

[00:28:20] That's ethical farming Things should be like that I just got the chills The fans off I don't know I know Okay Supposed to be Pretty nice today Supposed to be Supposed to be I don't know I just haven't felt Right lately Like I thought I was gonna get sick And then I didn't But then I keep Just getting like The chills Randomly I thought I was Getting sick Last night I had I I don't know What it was I got back From the gym

[00:28:49] Showered Had some dinner Felt fine And then there was Like an hour straight Where I was just Was shaking And couldn't stop sweating And I was like What the fuck's Going on right now Yeah It's like the same Like I'll just I'll feel fine But then I get goosebumps As if I have like A fever or something And I'm like Is this the bird flu Like what's going on here Yeah Dude I got What's up Just about the bird flu Did you see they tested Like veterinarians And like Something like 70 to 90% of them

[00:29:19] Had come in contact With bird flu And not even known it Probably Yeah But you were going to say Oh I got I got tricked a second time This week And it was from We talked about it last week The game Avowed Yeah Coming out Came out on the 18th Midnight on the 18th I was like Let me try it Didn't work I was like Oh It says you're too early When I tried to open the game And I was like I'm not too early That's a problem For a different room In this house And It's fine

[00:29:49] We'll get there The joke will land eventually And so So I was like Oh we're too early That's fine So I was like You know it's midnight I'll go to sleep anyway Because you had just gotten home Yeah So I went to sleep Woke up this morning 7.30 I was like Doing it again Clicked on it Too early And I was like Alright Now I'm just googling it Now I'm upset And I was like Oh yeah Even though it says It's releasing on the 18th It's a global release So it's all at the same time And I was like Cool

[00:30:18] What time is it then It's at noon It was at noon on the 18th And I was like Gotcha So then I had to wait to play it Okay So you'll be able to play later Yeah Yeah Then you'll be gone I want to play it Can you install it for me No I'm busy Speaking of busy Check out this dude I printed out A Gengar He's a little container You put stuff in his mouth He got big ass mail He got a big mail I think he's pretty cool though

[00:30:48] He is pretty cool It looks so cool Actually I gotta fix some of the settings But otherwise I think it turned out pretty good Wow thanks Is this one gonna be ours? Call me a piece of shit That's the demo one I'm gonna give it to my My friend See if he likes it I got a friend who Wants to buy some of these So I'll uh The teeth look nice I'll see If he wants to To buy them or not Yeah I'm gonna do it But

[00:31:17] That's all I've got Ripley Take us out of here Since I did the intro Oh my lord Jordan I mean you don't have to Worship me but Well This has been another episode Of Mindless Prattle We hope you like What you heard I'm Ripley That's Jordan We're the ones who prattled So I like that like Self confirmation And he's like Yeah We did it Next time If you like what you heard

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[00:32:16] Plus mine I said our Yeah I didn't feel Included in that I've seen a mirror You should feel included But We'll see you next time Goodbye Do do do do