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Ep. 51: Solar, so good

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In this episode, our trinity of babblers talk about solar energy in the light (hehe) of Tesla announcing the Gigafactory will be powered by the sun. What's a Tesla? What's a gigafactory? What's a sun? Don't worry - we answer it all. And (sorry) Chuck does a pun run on all things celestial. Even the Gods were not spared. Say hello to our hosts on Twitter: @chuck_gopal, @shenoyn, @Srikeit The Simblified podcast is also available on iTunes: https://goo.gl/S5t15w You can find us on Audioboom: https://goo.gl/43zsI7 Or generally, just about any app you use to get your podcasts; Stitcher, Overcast, Beyond Pod, Podmalaxmi (that is not real, but don't you wish it was?) Follow Simblifed on Facebook: https://goo.gl/UlU34v This is an IVM Production; for more such awesome podcasts, come find us: Website: Indusvox.com Facebook: https://goo.gl/P130uw Twitter: https://goo.gl/7P7Uec Instagram: https://goo.gl/qH3PHm

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I, V, M. NN938 According to a Census, I didn't actually go, I didn't actually go, and con … It's technically more than the population of 81 countries. Are you serious? Yeah, that's right, it's actually bigger than my previous homestead, Bahrain, as well as other luminaries like to be able to help veggie, Bruhne, and of course, the Vatican City.

So, there you go, if we had been, even if you were in the country, we would have been the best podcast in that country. Not a bad idea. We should move to the Vatican City I think, unless it's citizen number one, decides to serve someones to a daily recorded internet audio medium. We start with the profundity of the week.

Hardcore listeners of this podcast will remember all their committees. I think we have hardcore listeners. I think of us. And our producer, who doesn't have a choice.

A hardcore listener saw this podcast with Rambha last week. I had erased all the media files from my phone, hence rendering it impossible for me to put my hand into the vat of goodness that is a family WhatsApp group. The fuel that feeds its goodness onto this particular section of the show. But this week, I knew I needed to step up to the plate and my group delivered.

Yes, cricket, yes, not in my group delivered. And delivered how? Delivered like a Fred Truman delivered a cricket ball. Sample this masterpiece.

Happiness doesn't obey the laws of mathematics. When you start dividing it, among others, it actually multiplies. Good morning. That is so awesome.

And this also becomes our second mathematics based profanity of the week in a row. Not anyone there for a last show. But we get dug out of mathematics based profanity from this whole session. It's all this useless mathematics that's remaining when you're great day to adult life.

And it seems like all the family groups need to get it out one forward at a time in forms of like this. Are you saying that next year we will start getting calculus based? The differential of your life integral to my life. The limits of...

I think you should consider a profanity of writing for it. I think family groups will pay you money for it. If they start becoming snarky, it will be like suppose like somebody's girlfriend left them, they'll say, it's all for text. This mathematics to be shot.

You have to destroy him, powder him, send him to the sun. No, it's more and more. I'm thinking more like ancient times like hang, draw and cut out. You'll say, go, go, go.

Go, go, go. So then when I came and I was in a very foul mood because of generally the government of India, people of India, the roads of India, everything but now the judges would be into a... Right, I please to him. Moving on, we will now begin the relatively sensible part of this week's episode.

So the relatively sensible part of this week's episode. With this news, Tesla will power its Gigafactory with a 70 megawatt solar farm. Now there are many many things to discuss over here. First of all, Tesla, the company that's attempting to revolutionize the world one electric car at a time and like we discussed on the last show's recap is attempting to nullify whatever Donald Trump has done.

So basically the conclusion was at the end of four years we'll actually be as good as 2016. Because whatever good Tesla does will be negated by Donald Trump. That's a negative way of getting it. What about that?

Trump does will be negated by the goodness of Elon Musk and Tesla. So anyway, Tesla is building what they call a Gigafactory. This is not a factory that dresses up in outrageous outfits and has a sequence of number one hits for that. It's a Lady Gaga factory.

And so I love how we guess the punchline. Very nearly just stop laughing and encouraging him. This is getting out of hand now. It's actually evil after.

I'm a factory okay and I'm a fabricator and we deal with metal and also I'm thinking of devising evil implements to sort of imprison and sort of powder chuck and whatever the sort of driven pain and that makes me laugh. So you want your factory to keep you quite that'll make it a gag trick. No I have one more. Neither is it 10 raised to 9 into 10 raised to 9 minus 1 etc.

which should be a Gigafactory. Seriously. If you go back and rewind little bit you'll hear a slight groan apart from the first time you managed to get a producer to groan light. So consider this a great achievement.

Anyway thank you for that reception. So the Gigafactory is ambitious project by the man who was sent from space to make sure that he still have a working planet after a century Elon masses. They are building a massive supply of lithium ion batteries in order to power Tesla's electric cars. They see battery production as being the key element.

So heck why not just take out a massive area of the Nevada desert an area that's used for the reason apart from writing articles about Las Vegas to say in sharp contrast to the mass desert area nearby and build a giant ice factory over there to churn out these batteries every year. So this is the way he measured how advanced technology is to produce energy is the distance that is established from the energy is created by explosions. Any kind of explosion will create energy. Now the more advanced technology the more the distance of that explosion from your crotch.

Now in case of internal combustion engines the explosions are of any of your crotch. But in case of like the energy is like electric part then the explosions are happening at a practical fact. So it's happening in a coal part electricity farm or something where the explosions are some miles away. In case of solar energy which is seriously advanced the explosion are happening on the surface of the sun.

What this also means is that the earliest form of transportation was flatulence. Imagine if it's a stand on a skateboard and that it is generally a let it get it. The explosions are happening inside you. That's the closest possible form.

Of course. But then with these batteries why are they all being produced at one place? So economies of scale basically. This is the hopes that with single sourcing manufacturing and optimisation of batteries all in one place the cost of the batteries will come down by 30%.

And that's a big deal. Given that the batteries are a key component of the electric cars. This is I suppose not a very own quota which is mass manufacturing to create machines. The only difference is they can think for themselves.

Who? Okay I'm not going to answer that. So why can't I am Gigafactory? Is it just like you know is it just made up term like Google or is because it's sound school or your company YML is going to host musical events and call it Gigafactory.

Not you, Nari and come on. You know it only takes so much in one episode. I think this episode of the award for most funds made from the World Gigafactory. There's a phenomenon called absorption where there's carbon activated charcoal and then it exols.

I'm like active pure like carbon but then all this evil chuckness gets absorbed on it. But with all the pressure you will eventually become a diamond. Absolutely. It's so bad.

Moving right along. This episode is clearly segregated into who can make secret puke the first. Okay to answer your question I know there are no concerts that happen in Nevada. I mean concerts in Nevada who would think it right.

I'm glad you have clearly not heard of the burning matter as well. And you haven't heard of Saka's anyway. The annual battery production of this high powered enterprise. See what is there?

Okay now is 35 gigawatt hours. Okay most houses just to put that in perspective most houses use about 150 to 250 kilowatt hours a month and one gigawatt hour is yes one million times that. Wow so every year the Gigafactory produces enough energy to. Yes I've done the math.

35 gigawatt hours which is the annual output of the Gigafactory can run an average TV for 599 years. By which time QK Satsby Gawy Boti would have ended. Hopefully it can power. Is it still going on?

You started before your born now. No the VNAs are surely going on some start channel somewhere. At one time a good half the cost to stay in Malar. So yeah if we just wander around and you could see it.

And you would come back really pleased with it. But isn't Malar basically like a giant K-series by itself. Like Malar the entire place has that right. It's the aura of the place.

Like randomly two houses will start walking down the road and shouting at each other. And you are like walking by with your earphones plugged in. So you are like a generation bigger than that will put something in your mind. Which part did you visit?

Okay back to what the Gigafactory can power. You can power a single incandescent bulb for around 900 years. A fan for 3600 years. An AC for 360 years.

A Wi-Fi router for 500 years. And a little bit over one last memory festival. Oh wow. And most importantly 500,000 Tesla cars which is really a goal that Elon Musk and who still sounds more like a deodorant than a Montebillion has given his company.

So this will also be increased to 150 gigawatt hours in the next few years. So I think by 2022 is this goal. So you can do the math. It's a huge amount of cars.

It's also those solar powered solar city. And those that the power needs to be stored in some batteries called the power wall. So these batteries are going to be both for the power wall. And his dream is to completely take America off the grid.

Or rather the world of the grid and use only self. I mean each house should be able to create its own solar energy source and store energy in these power wall batteries. Yeah I know. We all know another man who wants to use a world to make America great again.

Well played. Well done. Where would you be without Trump? Actually let's not answer that.

Anyway. Definitely poorer with the quantity of electricity. So let's tell you a little bit about the battery itself. These lithium ion batteries are same type as you're using your smartphone, your camera or your laptop.

The difference being these are way way more powerful. These are thousands of lithium ion cells. Let's not get into how they work. But if you're interested in a past episode we spoke about the generally combustible nature of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that will give you the dope on how these batteries work.

You will install a charger at home which charges twice as fast as a regular wall charger. And there are also superchargers that will give you 270 kilometers on an hour's charge. So basically if they do go the Samsung 7 route the entire world will become one gigantic Roochiti film. Everything is exploding.

Wow that looks like a movie out of the house. I know. Probably if I'm not going Michael Bay doin. Me?

Me? I know. Have you seen the explosion in Roochiti movies? I have no idea why we started talking about Rooch.

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So before the break we said that there are these superchargers which will give the Tesla 270 km on a single Rs charge. Not bad considering that to get an equivalent in cold terms, you would need to wait for a few million years and for some dead brontosaurus to hurry up and decompose itself. But the key news here is not all this but the fact that it's going to be entirely powered using a solar farm and the Gigafactory is what I'm talking about. We have the entire Gigafactory with all these numbers, it's going to be entirely powered with a solar farm.

So that literally means that all the Tesla cars are going to be actually green for the environment, not just shifting the base of pollution from the house which is what green usually means. This is the world's largest roof mounted solar installation which definitely one must say is a much better thing to do with roofs than providing a base floor to jump off and commit suicide or draw giant 3D spiders onto scared people off. That's really a thing. So next to some airport in the US people draw, this is Prankster who draws huge 3D spiders and aliens and things.

So people are coming to fly so we could freak out. I think it was in one of the other cities like Tennessee or something where at the approach some guy had actually written on the top of his house, welcome to Ohio. Like everyone who turns up over there is like freaked out, oh my god I took the wrong flight. But including the pilot.

Why not always do that whenever I go and find a Bangalore run that this guy will come on. He will apply a pilot to reporting on a flight deck. He will come you to the flight to and then he is leaving through his thing. Dude you're in the air today.

Don't you know where he is? Well I have to have 15 second pause Bangalore. So one reason why I looked at this is I've always been curious about solar energy. So Elon Musk and Gigafactory awesomeness aside, I looked at a little bit of how solar energy itself actually works.

So let's start with a very fundamental question. Just how much energy to the sun, the fame, the light and what has been coming off for the years according to the Beatles. The Earth produces 3.8 x 10 raise to 26 watts of power. And let's just say there's going to be little more than enough to reach out your mobile phone.

In one hour, it produces 3.8 x 10 raise to 23 kilowatt hours or 10 raise to 16 gigafactories. So every hour it produces 10 raise to 16 gigafactories. What do they do in one year? Yeah, yeah.

So it seems criminal to have to resort to burning coal to move a bloody car doesn't it? Sadly, all getting all the energy from the sun isn't as easy as using a 149.6 million kilometer long USB cable. I counted it. Is it regular or type C?

You actually lay a cable and then you find out the wrong type. No, but then if you're in like Indian also like you'll cut the cable. You'll have to put the wires out into the tube. Very much in the Douglas Adams territory.

Yes. They want to wipe out a remover because you want to make a express of it. But you can't destroy it because Adobe is updating. So solar panel consists of what are called photo-voltage cells.

Which is the process of photo-voltage. Is that possible? Flashback is happening in school flashback. Yeah.

Is the process converting light into electricity? Essentially, there are materials that will convert light into electricity such as mono crystalline. Incidentally Einstein got his Nobel for explaining the photo-voltage effect. Wow.

But really it was for relativity but nobody had the balls to go into it for a little bit. Because no one knew that it was wrong. It might be like a giant toll. It's like Google's annual.

The New Year's Spine that Google pulls out every year. So Einstein got it for the relativity thing. Wow. He got it for photo-voltage.

So there are a bunch of materials that can convert light into electricity. The conversion of light into electricity is one of the most amazing transformations we see on our planet. The others being a caterpillar into a butterfly and an engineer into an MBA. The electricity is produced as a photons of light are changed into electrons.

Which every science student has tattooed at the back of their group as Maximus produces electricity. Simple. As we should say. Yeah.

Photons lead to electrons moving which leads to DC which along with being a successful comic and movie franchise is also type of electricity. Which is then converted into AC which is then used by TV, TV, player, speaker and IOT connected Garbage bins. Yeah. So I remember one of our physics profs was trying to explain DC current and AC current.

And he really really wanted to simplify it for us. So he actually said that there are two types of electricity. DC and AC. Now one is in waves and one is in a straight line.

Still no reaction from Shrud. So he said that this is basically it. If you get stuck to the point, one will give you a chat car. The other will screw you up completely.

And then that clearly got everyone's attention. And then at that point we were like, this is completely understandable. We know exactly what Shrud is. So I'll take this a step further.

This is something one of those urban legends that happened in our college. Every college has their urban legends. All of which came together on three idiots clearly. So out of DC and AC only AC can pass through a capacitor.

Correct. So we had a very hard time remembering this. Then somebody brought up a story. So if you draw a capacitor DC will come and knock a bang right into the capacitor.

Whereas AC jumps like an over a curtain or something. This is a much more effective visual joke that it is through audio media. I never thought that would make it to an audio media. Wow.

So how many years about capacitor in like 15 years? In my time they were also called condensers. So there were different kinds of condensers. But now because of global warming there are no more condensers.

Oh god. I really should. So there is, you know, different. But what did they use them for?

In your time there was electricity only. Rubbing stones. So any echo, the thing I'll go to tell you is, before I forget, in my advanced years, I had been there were different kinds of condensers. So there were different kinds of condensers.

So there were electrolyte. There were also something known as disc condensers. So there were little chips. There was one guy.

And poor guy never got a dig. So there was a fancitor's competition. He made one big disk and wore it. And he started singing, I am a disc condenser.

I never got a price. So that's it. Around that time I realized that justice was worried. So when beats, you know, as a double effect.

I forget where we were anyway. So anyway, let's start with a very fundamental question. Did that section of a bike? I don't know.

I don't know. He is like, okay. He is like, okay. He is like, okay.

He is like, he is like, okay. He is like, sorry. He is like before and after last episode. So one would think that this discovery nobody would ever need to pump out oil again, right.

So what stopped that from happening? Yeah, there is always a span of the works, right? So the primary problem here is that the material itself is damn expensive. It's like five to ten times more expensive.

And correct me if I am wrong. Okay, but if all of us likes data updates about going green and if you work in advertising, certainly it's one cochamami, go green campaign. Oh, for sure. Yeah.

But if we are asked to pay ten times more to use our ACS fans, EVS, refrigerators and IoT connected and IOT connected to brushes and whatnot, I don't think we would mind actually adding a little more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. And it's not just that, solar cells are extremely inefficient. 20 to 40% is pretty bad. Actually not even 20% yeah.

But right now it's moving towards this 20 to 40%. 40 is spectacularly, yes. So this is actually pretty bad, which puts it just about Indian politicians two years into office and right alongside Voli from Dilbur. I also know that solar panels are expensive.

About a lakh per kilowatt approximately last I checked. And since it needs experience people, that's not likely to go down significantly. Even though the cost of production might be low. The initial investment is what makes a lot of people say, eh, and why?

That's actually a very go on thing now and go on. That is the universal expression of disgust. I have, it might still be possible with economies of scale, like massive massive solar parks, around five acres per megawatt is needed. These are usually in remote access, remote areas and transporting the electricity back will make it a little more expensive.

Even if you put it out there, this is cost of getting that cheap electricity back. Another reason is what happens is transmission and distribution losses are directly proportional to current carry. So if you want to reduce the current for the same amount of power, you have to step up the voltage. So that's why high voltage transmission lines are like 11 kV for 40 working, whatever.

So V into I is the power, so V increases, I decreases and the loss is I square R. So the lower the current, the lesser the losses. That's all right. The standard market is weak.

So the upshot, yeah. The upshot, the thing about all this is DC, which is solar, is difficult to step up. So you have to chop it up, make it into AC, step it up, then transmit it and then bring it down and so on. So a lot of fancy electronics is required, which is a part of cost.

Again the cost, it's all, yeah. Also maintenance also issue because the solar panels need to be like super clean and stuff. Just like an engineering student just needs one excuse to bolt out of class. Solar panels need just the smallest amount of dirt for their efficiency to drastically go down.

And let's not forget, you need the damn sun to be shining at all times. Otherwise the solar panel would be just as useful as the raul part of Raul Gandhi. You should take a little break. I mean, Raul Gandhi is like the magic word.

When we say it, we need like a minute take a break. And then we'll get back to looking at solar energy. And indeed whether Tesla can come to India. Which means stuck stream of finally falling around on mass feet might actually become reality.

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See you folks. And we are back and guys since we are having some procedures discussion about solar energy and its profound implications for the future of mankind. I think that we need to start the section with a pun run about the sun. Oh God, please, please, please, excuse me.

So Shriyika, have you heard about Metallica's Bright Drama? No. That would be Solar's Ulrich. Next, the sun's been shining for so long with so much poise.

You could say it has a lot of flair. But it's the only thing producing lights, so it has a monopoly. You could almost say it's a dawn. The light has led to many plans growing.

Crop's I remember meeting a farmer who asked his kids to feed him the day's harvest. He said, sun lies. Okay, Narayan, please go for help. I've locked the door in case.

If you even have a place to escape, we have a bounce around. Who's by the way trying to learn friends? So he'll say, hey, queen Knox. Ouch.

Oh God. Get it. Move on. No, I don't see why you're so hungry.

Have a bowl of. No! I'm starting getting celestial gods. Why like this?

That's just a lot of stuff. Well played. You seem to be in pain, Shriyika. Let me heal your scars.

Heal your scars. I check all the gods. I'm literally going to get like the Greek gods to come and punish you for this. I'm going to say that.

I've listened to a lot of the bugle lately. Of course. That's a lot of the links. I'm glad you got that out of your system, Shark.

Shall we talk about solar cells now? Worst and most unexplainable, inexplicable transition since now, George Singh moved from BJP to Congress. Actually, now George's most inexplicable transition was from committee books to politics. But anyway, all from cricket to the committee was a big cover.

You know, from basically like some talent and to insanity. In the previous section, we spoke about how solar and the D-work and what is problem for, primary of those being as expensive. And the moment something starts getting expensive, India starts having a problem. Because after spending three crores on a lavish wedding, ten crores on jewelry that you're going to lock up and never see, ten likes a year on school fees and 30 likes a year on temple donations, who really has the money to pay for the best way of making electricity.

While it's not been mass adopted in India as of yet, it's actually very rapidly going. In fact, India is actually going to become the third biggest market for solar energy in the world. Anyone who spent a day in April and Mumbai will not be surprised. In 2016, India had accumulated 3.63 gigawatts from solar, which is actually pretty good.

The government is actually doing a lot of stuff and they're actually looking to step this up to 100 gigawatts from this rooftop solar by 2022. And it's easy to see why actually, one calculation says that if all of India were just to be filled with solar panels, given that we get only X amount of sun every day or whatever, we would still have 5000 trillion kilowatt hours per hour and Tesla can go suck that. Unfortunately, there are like the minor matter of some 2 billion people in the way here and Mukesham Mani's house. And definitely you have to discount the fact that there will be the table as being made on solar panels.

I'm sorry. Several states including Tamil Nadu, Rajasnath, Gujala, are actually entirely upping their solar game. Solar products have increasingly helped to be through a lead, incidentally. And by the end of 2015, a total of 1 million solar lanterns were sold in the country, reducing the need for kerosene, which is more expensive and more polluting.

In addition, a cumulative total of 30,000 odd solar powered water pumps for agriculture and drinking water installed. And in 2015 alone, there were like close to 1.2 lakh solar home lighting systems installed and lots of numbers like street lighting installations, solar hookers, distributors and things like that. And the Kamuti Solar Power Project 90KM from Adurai is the largest capacity at a single location on the world, 650, 648 megawatts. Do you have anything else that I know you have something like that?

Yeah, I've been sort of dabbling with things in solar. So one of the things that some people feel is that solar cells, because virtually all solar photovoltaic panels are made in China. And they are not entirely green, the production is not entirely green. So people feel that there are other ways of generating electricity or generally using solar for generating power.

And one of them is to convert, to use big parabolic reflecting noise and concentrate that vaporized water and use this steam to generate power. There are a lot of technical problems and I could go on and on and on and extremely unfunny and boring technical problems. But the short thing is that the capital expense tends to be much, much larger than the photovoltaic cell. So if you want to raise, generate a megawatt, if it costs you X, a megawatt from this other mirror and thing would probably cost 4X.

But V is about 35, really smart scientists for whom I do all the fabrication. If they get their way, they are likely to reduce that cost to half the cost of solar solar. So watch this space. It's amazing.

So Arin works in manufacturing, speaking of the networking marketing. So when we say that we do fabrication, we have to do two different ways. Your fabrication is in a factory, ours is on people. My fabrication is better than yours.

So that's all we have for the world of solar. And it doesn't look like Tesla has come to India any time immediately, although one can keep hopes of. I mean, there is only so long he can resist a Modi hug. Yeah, I mean, the incentive for him to stay in his own country is, he's also an immigrant.

No, he's a South African. So they'll kick him out eventually. And as we know from his history, South African is having history of coming to India and who he will. And you know what, my really priced thing would be Modi gives Elon Musk his trademark hug.

And then he goes back to Parliament and Amicha asks him, do you smell good? So he says yes, it's bad. So I'm very proud of you. But basically Modi walks up to one of the Gigafectories, kicks it on the side and asks Kith Narithya.

Anyway, let's also what I want to do is before we end this podcast, I want to actually revisit a segment we haven't actually done in a while. Early listeners of Simplified, all three of which are in this room. Remember that we used a segment called Etymologies for lack of a catch your word. So each episode we pick up a couple of terms or country names or whatever and talk about how we came into being.

So I'm going to start with one. It's a very small one actually. It's probably very apt for this podcast and so word disaster. Okay, it comes to the Greek, this meaning bad and aster meaning stars like that.

So because they used to blame anything bad that happened on the stars. So this aster. So that's how that came into being interesting. You guys have one?

Yeah, so the word that I looked up and it was something that was called innocuous but then turned out to be something quite incredulous. It turned out to be innocuous. In the office it has to be innocuous. No, no, no.

Thank you, Jack, for your esteemed opinion on this. But why word resited here for your esteemed consideration is Turkey, the country and the world. The country got its name for the national feeling of deli voice. So that might be related to that country meaning because it got its name first and its origin first date forward.

Turok or Turok which meant strong in old Turkey. When it came to the world though, it's when things got interesting. Actually, batch it in. So stay with me here on the crazy etymological journey of the bird Turkey.

The bird was originally native to North and Central America. It was domesticated by the Aztecs who were conquered by the Spanish conquistadors. They introduced it to Europe through Constantinople which was a major trading port at that point in time. And through the which was under the Ottoman Turkish rule.

So you're here with me right now. So the English thought well it came from Turkey and then aimed it accordingly. You would think that is that. No wrong.

No. Each country and language decided to make their own theories about where the bird came from. The French, Polish, Italians and the Turkish themselves called it variations of the word India or Indian chicken. What do we have to do with it?

Thinking it had come from India. Why? Because they thought that if things have come because there were a whole bunch of Indian traders around at that time. So they were like, so if it came in Turkey it must have come from India.

Or they must have realized if there's a weird looking thing that makes a lot of noise it must have come from India. The Dutch took this to another extreme calling the bird Kalkoen thinking the bird had come from Calikat. It's actually named Kalkoen after Calikat. The global government must have come from the world.

Meanwhile, the Portuguese idiot came up with the bird brain idea that Turkey came from South America. And called it Peru. What? Now, and just like Christian or Ronald Roti shirts, this was happily adopted by the Indians and Pakistanis who called the unfortunate bird Peru in India and in the Uldu.

So Peru is basically a Portuguese cow guy thinking it has come from South America. And called Peru in a country where it is called Indian bird, in other countries. Yeah, exactly. In French it's actually called Dind, which means of India.

Oh. And the rest of the world decided to embrace the madness and I said ran the origins to the bird with the word in Arabic meaning Roman or Gullicicikin. In Malay it's called Dutchikin. In Vietnam it's called Westernikin.

Wow. I have to tell you, when I got married, I was very excited. I never mean to buy a sword before that. I was really excited.

I think in life was to go to my son and have my son and my son and my son would be so cool to have it. And I went all over my son and I know my son and my son. But then I went to a couple of restaurants. My son and my son would say no.

And then one guy said no, but we have bombed my son. So, yeah. Are we done with the Turkey? No, not exactly.

In fact, many other languages have a ton of different, like regardless of the origin. They have a ton of different meanings for the Turkey from Big Bird to weird chicken. But Swahili has the most badass word for it, which is Bata Musinga, which literally translates to duck cannon. Bata Musinga, which translates to duck cannon.

That sounds like a chapel that Sheldon Cooper would wear. I'm sure the Turkey right now just wants to use this duck cannon to shoot all these moron humans who have made a gigantic cluster of **** in aiming a simple goddamn bird, which is not even from a real country. I mean, it's very fitting that the metaphorical meaning of Turkey is a failure of some sort because this clearly is one of the largest etymological fields of all time. Simplified the word for the largest etymological field and I think it's a fairly niche word.

But this has to be the most awesome etymological expedition that I've ever had. So that was fun. Hope you guys enjoyed all that. So this reminded me of this famous expectation from King Lear, one of my favorite ones.

It goes like this. This is the excellent property of the world that when we are sick and fortunate, often the surface of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters, the sun and the moon and the stars. As if you have a villain's necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, naves, thieves and treacherous, with spherical predominance, drunkers, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. And all that we are evil and divine thrusting on an admirable evasion of whoer master man, lay his gothish disposition to the charge of a star.

Wow. Shakespeare, you sit for a six-year-old. Hope you guys enjoyed the episode. Hope you guys enjoyed life.

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