Turthnado

Get the Lead Out

It's time for a truthnado! 

Today's Truthnado, we're going to be talking about lead! 

But don't scroll because I'm going to get to my first truthnado right now, which is that lead. Lead was once used as a spermicide. 

Yep, I don't know how that works, but according to the EPA, one of the uses back in the day was for a spermicide. Lead was first recorded as a spermicide about 6500 BC around Turkey. 

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And lead really took off during the Roman Empire. Romans liked the lead. They use lead in their pipes. The word plumbing comes from the Latin word for lead. They use it for jewelry. They use it for dinnerware. They used lead, which is good for pigment so they used it for makeup and a long time in paint. 

There was an old term crazy as a painter because painters would go a little crazy from lead poisoning yeah which is my other truthnado. 

Lead is very useful and malleable, but it gives you lead poisoning, and even the Romans knew that because the people who worked in the lead mines all went kind of crazy, it gives you a lot of pain and gastrointestinal issues and eventually kills you but they thought that just, the Romans thought well we're the aristocracy we're not in the mines just using lead won't matter but it kind of does. 

Lead has so many uses.  

State Laws Be Trippin! or Law-Law Land

It's time for a truthnado! 

Today we're going to be talking about weird state laws. Just about every state has some law that seems full of... baffling how it got passed. But here's my first truthnado. 

If your state has a one-party majority and some rich people want some shit done, it's not that hard to get a law passed for it. 

So let's take a look at some rather odd state laws that have been passed, such as in Louisiana you can't unsolicitedly send a pizza to somebody. That's a form of harassment. So clearly at some point, some dude was into just shoving pizzas at people, maybe as a form of flirting or something. Someone had enough of it, enough to pass a law, a $500 fine to send somebody a pizza they didn't ask for. 

In Michigan, you can't sell cars on Sunday. That's just the churchy people getting involved not wanting stuff done on Sunday. 

Now in Mississippi, you can't enforce nutritional labels. Like nobody can tell you to put calorie counts on your label or nutritional information on a menu in your restaurant. And I think that's just them turning off their noses despite their fate. Someone wanted to make that a law and they're like nobody's telling us what to do. "Small government baby" so he passed a law that would be beneficial to the to the general public. 

And here's my big, here's my, my big truthnado law. In Arizona, it's illegal for a donkey to sleep in a bathtub. That's right they can stand in the bathtub, they're not unreasonable in Arizona; but a donkey can't sleep in a bathtub. 

The reason is one time in the 20s a donkey liked to sleep in the bathtub, ranchers donkey sleeping in a tub mindin' his own business and the dam broke and the tub got washed away with the donkey in it. And they had to have a rescue effort that probably cost some taxpayers dollars. 

So donkeys can't sleep in a bathtub. I find this law especially weird because how are we gonna enforce it and if your donkey likes sleeping in a bathtub, it gives you that donkey face. Who's not gonna let a little law stand in the way of letting that donkey sleep in the tub. That's it for truthnado. 

Platypus Fun Facts: Our Favorite Weird Animal is an Egg Laying Mammal

It's time for a Truthnado!

This Truthnado takes us to the animal kingdom.

We're going to talk about a very weird animal, but it's a real one.  Of course, from eastern Australia, I'm talking about the Duckbill Platypus.

A lot of you may have heard about the Duckbill Platypus, and kind of looks like it's got a bill like a duck, furry long body, tail like a beaver.

Weird.

It's, like you know the drawer you have in your house?

It has some rubber bands, Chinese takeout menu, and a cable for something you're not sure what it's supposed to charge, and hopefully a flashlight, except when you really need it, then it's not in there.

That junk drawer, that's kind of the Duckbill Platypus' design.

It's like the junk drawer of the animal kingdom, all thrown together.

In fact, when the first Europeans saw a preserved specimen in 1799, they were sure it was a fake just sewn together.

But here are some Truthnados, fun facts about the Platypus.

The Platypus is a mammal, but it lays eggs.

The Platypus is a mammal, but it's also venomous.

Males have a spur on their back foot that has venom.

Name one of the other animals is venomous.

I'm going to let you do your own research on this to learn all the Latin names and species and stuff.

But these are just fascinating creatures.

Platypus’s fur is waterproof, so they were hunted for their fur for a while.

They got a little endangered, but they're bouncing back.

Here's my F5 Truthnado about Platypus.

Platypus is a mammal, so it produces milk, but it doesn't have mammary glands, so it just kind of sweats milk.

Although it's in the water, so it doesn't really sweat, but it kind of...

you could say a Platypus sweats milk.

I'd love to hear your thoughts about the Platypus.

Platypi.

Why Would Real Vampires Leave New Orleans for Ohio?

It's time for a special nighttime edition of Truthnado. 

Now, why am I filming this particular Truthnado at night with slightly different lighting? You may have noticed this. That's because today's Truthnado deals with vampires. 

Is my Truthnado going to be that I have hardcore proof that vampires exist? No, no, it's not it. I don't believe vampires exist. There might be people who think they're vampires. 

Vampire: Woo!, 54 years old, been drinking blood since I was 11, a sanguine vampire. 

Eddie: No. But my Truthnado is-- there are people who think that vampires not only exist, but they are migrating from New Orleans to Ohio, like the Cleveland area. 

There was a documentary filmed about it, Netflix has it they were going to air it. They decided not to air it. But there are people out there saying that vampires are leaving New Orleans for Cleveland. And I find this hard to believe. 

So I've been to New Orleans many times.  And it does have a vampire vibe to it. Walking around at night, you know some bars and places are open 24 hours. It's got that old world feel. It feels vampiry. 

I've been to Cleveland too. Not so much. Not so much. No. Cleveland, is more of a maybe a Big Foot at the edge of town kind of place. A lot of bars there close at 10. Latest bars open tonight on a Saturday night, it's when I'm filming, it's 2.30. 

So if I were in Europe, and I did happen to come upon a vampire, thinking about coming to America, he was like, "I heard Cleveland's very nice". I'd be like, try New Orleans instead. I think I'll have a better time. Thank me later. 

Why would vampires move from New Orleans to Cleveland or Ohio? Here's my truth speculation. or Here's my Truth theory. 

Vampires wouldn't move from New Orleans for better schools or a better job market. So no, it could only be one thing. They want some of the Ohio Skyline Chili.

I think that's what's gonna get them there. Thanks for watching, as always, click like subscribe. 

Jarts: Javelin Darts for kids!

News Report: This isn't child's play according to the Food and Drug Administration. 

Eddie: It's time for a Truthnado. 

[MUSIC] All right, now this is definitely true because I was there and I lived it.

Back in the late 70s and 80s, there was a toy called Lawn Darts. We affectionately called them Jarts, perhaps that was a brand name. 

What they were, there's a circle and you had this dart, metal tip. And you kind of like horses, you try to throw it under hand into the circle. 

Here's a truthnado about those Lawn Darts. Given the attitude of the person holding them, they were just as effective as a weapon as they were a toy. 

These were dangerous things. In fact, a 1990 report from the National Library of Medicine said there were 675 emergency room visits for Lawn Dart accidents. 

And they were dangerous enough when used properly. Kids goofing around, we'd stick our feet in the little thing at AMAT and play chicken the last one and pull their foot away, lost. 

And it's, boy, we're just kids, but if you were, there was alcohol involved. That would account for a lot of them.  And ironically, not ironic, not surprisingly, the majority of injuries were by males, three to one males to females.  So that's some boy horse play there. 

And sadly, there were fatalities too. 

Here's another truth, I guess is my truthnado takeaway. 

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This was more of a suburban problem than city kids, cuz a lot of city kids didn't have lawns. So no lawn darts. 

There you go, there you have it, lawn darts friends. Like, click, subscribe, thanks for watching, enjoy. 

The Best Way To Predict An Election

It's time for a Truthnado! 

Well, the election is soon to be upon us, depending on when you're watching this. And so there's a lot of talk about polls. Before every election, a group of people try to forecast the future. 

They're the soothsayers of politics, the pollsters. While their successes fill headlines, if they get it wrong, their failures do too. 

Quote: If this exit poll is right, Andrew, I will publicly eat my hat. 

Various organizations conduct polls, some more conservative, some more liberal, to get a finger on the pulse of what people are thinking, how they're going to vote. There's always a percentage of like 3-4% margin of error. 

These dots show the margin of error in every election poll since 1965. An average can then be taken. For example, 100 days before the election, the polls are usually about 4 points off the end result. 

And this leads me to my Truthnado, about polls. The one thing all demographics of people polled have in common is that they're the kind of people who take polls. 

One key issue that we have with polls is they tend to be responded to by people who are politically engaged. Now, I do not take polls. I am a Pole. 

POLISH NATIONAL ANTHEM

I'm Polish, but I don't click links that people I don't know send me, 

I don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. 

But that makes me and people like me who don't do that stuff, don't take polls, we're not represented so much in that. 

Do you take polls? Leave a comment, let me know. 

So what's the best way to predict an election? The first critical part of polling is to get a sample that looks like the population. That means hitting the right quotas in terms of demographics of age, gender, education, social class. 

The wording of poll questions can vary a little bit, but on one level it's incredibly simple. If there are elections tomorrow, how would you vote? It's the same the world over. Having a good sample and simple question is the key to an unbiased poll. 

Thanks for watching Truthnado and get out and vote. 

Labor Day Fun Facts

It's time for a truthnado! 

 So Labor Day is fast approaching, depending on when you watch this. And I thought I'd just give a couple of fun facts, some truths about Labor Day. 

So the first celebration of Labor Day was Tuesday, September 5th, 1880. 1882 in New York City. That's the first recorded celebration of what we call Labor Day. 

By 1894, 23 more states started to celebrate Labor Day, which is great. And then on June 28th, 1894, Grover Cleveland, President Grover Cleveland, signed that the first Monday in September will be Labor Day and will be a national holiday. 

So those are some fun facts, and I guess this would be my F5 truthnado. 

AI and robots are taking over a lot of jobs in the labor force, so fire up that grill, grab a cold one while we can, and celebrate Labor Day. 

What hunter has the best success rate in the animal kingdom?

It's time for another Truthnado. 

This one is going to start with a question. If I ask you in the animal kingdom, what animal is the best hunter? What would you say? You might go something like lion or wolves that hunt in a pack.  And either way, you'd be wrong.  You'd be way off. 

The best hunter by far in the animal kingdom is this guy. It's the dragonfly. That's right.  Why? Well, I'm no entomologist, but big eyes on those suckers. And they've got those four wings.  They can control each of them individually. So they are agile in the air.  

And here's the truthnado, about how good they are. They have up to a 97% success rate when they hunt. Now, hunters out there, I bet a lot of you would be really impressed if you had an 80% success rate hunting. 97%. That's almost never missing. 

 Eagle: Damn. 

Some of the things about dragonflies in Japan, they were seen as a symbol of courage, strength, and happiness. But in Europe, symbolically, they were the baddies. They were the baddies. 

And the only other thing I know to share about dragonflies is that there were a whole mess of them in Rhode Island. 

Quotes: Everybody's freaking out right now. All of a sudden, ireless blue comes this big mass of-- I don't know if you've ever seen bees kind of in the comics. They come through like in a big swarm. It was exactly like that. It was so weird. The whole beach just filled the sky with dragonflies. At that point, there were so many dragonflies that I took my towel and I put it over my head. Because I mean, I kind of have a lot of hair. I didn't want to have to bring any dragonflies home. Thankful I came here. This is so bad. 

Dog Days of Summer

It's time for another Truthnado! 

Today's Truthnado is about a very simple topic, walking the dog. 

Now the term walking the dog is not an accurate term, but the truthnado about it is, walking the dog is a euphemism for the dog has to poop and we don't want it to poop in the house. 

So to some people, I live in a building with a lot of dogs, some people see walking the dog as an unpleasant chore because it involves picking up poop. Hopefully pick up your dog's poop. So some people find it a chore, but my, this is a not really a truthnado or is it? Yes, it's a truth NATO. It doesn't have to be unpleasant, sure there's some poop picking up, but if that's, if that's just a small part of the walk, it could be real enjoyable. 

Take your phone and put it on mute or silence and just have some time at you and your dog. Take a walk, throw a ball, get a drink, do whatever this is and enjoy yourself. Make it like an active meditation. 

Chicago River Pollution Causes Greatest Feat of Engineering in the World...

It's time for another Truthnado! 

This one's a geographical I guess you'd call it. I live in Chicago and in Chicago we have the Chicago River and here's a truthnado, if you don't live in Chicago you might not know. 

The Chicago River flows away from Lake Michigan. It's the only river that flows away from the lake. Why is that? Here's is a truthnado on a why. 

Back in like the mid 1800s to like later 1800s the Chicago River was used as dumping grounds for the slaughter houses, raw sewage, industrial chemicals and lots of animal waste from the old stockyards. 

Chicago was known as the hog butcher to the world, so people were dumping rotten pig carcasses in it. All the raw sewage from the city was dumped right in there. Chicago was also the hub of manufacturing. We had so many factories and they were dumping whatever industrial waste they had back in those days in the river. 

I don't know exactly what the environmental standards were for dumping industrial waste in the river but they wasn't much. They wasn't much so, the river was filthy. So polluted it was causing e-coli outbreaks and people were, it was unsafe to be near. 

The lake got unsafe to swim in. With the diseases it was producing, rich white people were actually starting to die so something had to be done. So in 1887 the powers that be got together and figured well we can we got to we got to stop polluting it. We've got to get some strong regulations about what you can put in the river and we got to have a really advanced hardcore cleanup effort or we could have some marvel of engineering and reverse the flow of the river and dump all that crap into the Mississippi and that's exactly what they did. 

You're welcome Missouri. Yeah 

VO: and here's how it worked. Just west of Chicago is what we call a subcontinental divide. It's a high point geographically but since the area is so flat you barely notice it. Still any water on the west of the divide flows westward down toward the Mississippi. Anything to the east flows toward the Great Lakes. Chesboro thought if we could only dig a ditch or canal through the divide and make it deeper than both the river and the lake then gravity would do the hard work and carry all of Chicago's dirty stinky water in the other direction and away from the Great Lakes. 

But yeah they got it so the river flows into the Mississippi and all that garbage and trash was going right to the Mississippi. But here's a brighter Truthnado. 

The Chicago River is much cleaner these days. No thanks to the Dave Matthews Band by the way. 

News Report: The Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of human waste on a river cruise that was going underneath the Kinsey Street Bridge. The boat passengers on the architectural tour say it ruined their clothes and made several of them sick. The band's tour bus driver admitted to doing it, paid a fine and served a year and a half of probation. 

Can you eat the fish out of the river? I wouldn't but there's more there's over 80 species in there now there used to be less than like even far as the 70s and can you swim in it? No I wouldn't I wouldn't swim in it yet but it's getting cleaner and hopefully one day it'll be a pristine body of water. Wouldn't that be nice?

VO: Chicago had solved its drinking water crisis and also accomplished what is still considered one of the greatest engineering feats in the history of the world. 

Well thanks for watching Truthnado.

Andre the Giant in Lost TV interview plus Giant Fun Facts.

It’s time for another Truthnado! 

Host: Ladies and gentlemen, Andre the Giant, here you go. Now you've got a good idea. Alright, is this chair ok? 

Andre: Yeah, okay. 

Host:  Just got to check. Alright. You checked that out to see.  Where are you from originally, Andre? 

Andre:  I'm from France. Yes, it is. I'm from Grenoble, France, in the French Alps. 

Host:  In the French Alps? 

Andre: Yeah. 

Host:  Was it always apparent that you were going to be tall? Did you know you were going to be... 

Andre:  Well, first, I don't know I'm going to be tall, because my mother is five-two, my father is six-two. But when I started going to school I was bigger than other kids. And when I was nine years old my father started to talk to me and he said, "Don't worry, my father was seven-foot-eight, so you'll probably be the same size." 

Host: Your grandfather was seven-foot-eight? 

Andre: Yes. 

Host: Oh my goodness. 

Truithnado:  As always, please share, like, subscribe, make negative comments on my personal appearance, whatever you like. Thank you. 

Host: Do you like wrestling? 

Andre: I love it. Yes? Oh yeah. 

Host:  You must love it if you win all the time. What's that going to hurt you? 

Truthnado: I also had follow-up fact on Andre the Giant. 

Host:  Someone said today that you are the highest-paid wrestler in the world. Is that the term, sir? 

Andre: Oh yes, that's been Guiness book. 

Truthnado: So Andre the Giant, fun facts. Here's a true tornado on Andre the Giant. In his childhood Andre was sometimes driven to school by the playwright Samuel Beckett. I think they like to talk about cricket together. So there's that. And this one is not confirmed, we call these funnel clouds. I think I got this off Jim Cornett's podcast.

But he did wrestle early in his career as a giant fairy, based off the French folk character the Grande Ferre, who's kind of like Paul Bunyan; but in Europe. A giant lumberjack guy. 

But when Andre came to the States, a wrestling promoter was like “I'm not putting “the Giant fairy” on my card. What's the guy's real name? His real name is Andre. All right, he's Andre the Giant” and that's how it stuck. 

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Truthnado: How to Lower Your Rent

(wind blowing) ...Spent more than a third of their income on rent, but there is a way to lower your housing costs.

 - It's time for another truthnado. Who likes paying higher rent? You? Bet not. How'd you like to get your rent lowered? 

 - Landlords just out of the gate are not gonna offer to lower your rent, like full stop, that very, very rarely happens. 

Well, I've got a couple tips that might actually make that happen.  First one is a real truthnado. Truthnado one, to get your rent lowered.  Don't be a jag bag. 

Be a good tenant.  Pay on time, don't trash your place. Take care of the property.  Be a tenant, your landlord wants to keep around. So when the time comes, he does raise a rent.  Know your market. 

 - While many renters think the price is set in stone, you might be surprised to hear your monthly payment is actually flexible. 

- It's actually set by the market. 

- Rental expert Jonas Bordeaux, getting your rent lowered is possible, but 90% of tenants don't ask. 

- It's kind of like buying a car in that way. You have to go in expecting it to be a negotiation and thinking, what does a landlord possibly want in the situation? What do I want in the situation? What's important to me?  What are the trade-offs that I'm willing to accept? This is a situation where you can and should negotiate. 

Say to him, like, jeez, I don't really want to move, but there's a similar place that's $75 less a month. I think I'm just gonna move there. That'll get his interest. Now, when you're talking, you've opened a negotiation, be willing to give a little too.

Like, you know, I'll sign a two-year, maybe a three-year lease. - Another tip? maybe a two or three-year lease, that can be really valuable to the landlord and that can really help you keep your rent down now and in the future. 

- If you lower my rent or at least don't raise my rent, now you're offering something to him. Negotiation, think what the other person wants. The other person doesn't want to have to find a new tenant.  He doesn't know if they're gonna be a good tenant or not. If you're a good tenant, use that equity. 

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Truthnado: Apple Pie is actually British and Other British Stuff We Do Better

Happy July 4th!

Now, we've all heard the term American as apple pie. I know we have because if you haven't until now, I just said it.  

Um, but apple pie might not be as American as you think. Because here's my Truthnado: Apples are not indigenous to North America. 

 "But get the fuck out of here!"   

No, they were found in Central Asia in the area of Kazakhstan. Actually, so they were imported here and the first recipe we know of for apple pie is from England.  and not America.   

 So think of that. 

Um, but you know,  taking things from different cultures and bringing them here and making them better in the U.S. maybe that's what made apple pie American in the first place. 

 What's the matter? You don't like a little cheese with your apple pie? 

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