Quarter Past a Cricket's Leg

Hi Weirdos!  Or should I say… high weirdos? Welcome to a very special episode of KEEP IT WEIRD– your one stop shop for all things strange and unusual, stoned and spooky, blitzed and bonkers & everything in between. What makes this week so special is that it's our BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION for the best co host that side (or THIS side) of the Mississippi.  Lauren and Ashley have been best friends for going on fifteen years now (EW how did we get so old) and were sick and tired of not being able to PARTY TOGETHER on special occasions. So we did a little "gardening" and poured ourselves some fruity beverages and set off to BLOW EACH OTHERS MINDS with some absolutely crazy science, biology, history and trivia. We cover how stars and planets are made, how many blimps we have on Earth, how you can tell the temperature based on a cricket's chirp, which famous horror director had to say goodbye to his bellybutton, an ancient city full of skyscrapers that you didn't know existed, where the sound comes from when we snap our fingers, and even alligators who can gallop faster than Gunpowder (that's Ichabod Crane's horse… obviously) So buckle your seatbelts, maybe take a toke or two yourself, relax, melt into the couch, WAIT too much melting.  Don't forget to breathe.  Yes you ARE breathing.  Chill out, relax, meeeelt into the couch.  There we go. Open your mind to weirdness.  Let it flow through you. Check out some LINKS below if you want to do any further reading on the topics we discussed today! SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube Channel! FOLLOW US on social media @keepitweirdcast JOIN OUR PATREON for 2 bonus episodes every month + discounts on merchandise and (NEW) DIVINATION READINGS for our Most Loyal of Listeners!  https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stars/ https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00092 https://courses.ansys.com/index.php/courses/fluid-statics/lessons/simulation-examples-homework-and-quizzes-3/topic/simulation-example-blimp-buoyancy/#:~:text=Blimps%20fly%20using%20the%20same,a%20blimp%20in%20the%20air. https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-old-are-sharks-older-than-trees-the-north-star-more#:~:text=Plants%20first%20showed%20up%20on,need%20to%20really%20take%20hold. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5411662/giddy-up-new-study-reveals-some-crocodiles-can-gallop-1.5410648 https://entomology.unl.edu/k12/crickets/temperature.htm#:~:text=The%20simplest%20method%20is%20to,published%20in%201897%20by%20A.E. https://www.plansponsor.com/tuesday-trivia-dab-toothpaste-sits-top-toothbrush-called/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/does-the-brain-eat-itself