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[@CatherineLu]

I've just been so excited and delighted at every single guest this month. Tangents is really setting a high bar for the future

[@SciShowTangents]

i do sort of have guest fever now, so there will definitely be more coming soon! - sam

[@llsilvertail561]

@@SciShowTangents Nice. I'm definitely looking forward to them lmao

[@jebus456]

same!

[@santoast24]

I LOVE SAM SKULLS!!!! -The guy with the sign that said "I LOVE SAM SCHULTZ"

[@paulkinzer7661]

As a high school student in the 1970s, someone in the group of kids I hung out with (it could have been me) came up with the re-made idiom, 'cool as a computer.' They were just starting to become accessible to the average person. (We could play Oregon Trail on a keyboard connected to an off-site computer, in a special room set aside just for that purpose. Our interface was through a Western Electric telephone handset placed in a really crude, very slow acoustic modem). So this seemed a hep thing to say. I only bring this up here because whenever I watch/listen to SciShow Tangents, geeky tangents become my mental thing.

[@jeronijoks2]

Hank, we have fun sized Coke in the Philippines. It's 200 ml, and could be downed in one gulp or two. Here, it's marketed as Coke Swakto, a play on the Filipino phrase "swak na swak" and "sakto" which means "just right" and "exactly" respectively; but I think oyther countries have it too and is marketed as Coke Solo.

[@jamesonmoore1837]

Just realized that I haven't seen Jackson Bird in like 7 years. My man has grown up like a dang bamboo.

[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

SO OFTEN while learning history, I think, "I'm glad THAT'S not my job".

[@Mockingbard]

33:33 Some plants actually don't need to be in the same genus to hybridize! Orchids are probably most famous for hybrids across closely related genera, and since orchid hybrids continue to cross and form more hybrids, you can even get some with parentage from three or four genera. I've also come across some frequently cultivated Amaryllidaceae species that can form intergeneric hybrids

[@ceriley]

Thanks for sharing!! I have SO MUCH to learn about plants & botany :)

[@andrineslife]

I love to see that Jackson doesn't just get all decked out for Christmas but Halloween too!

[@yesdnilegiap788]

I grew up in a town with a Nestlé factory. Which sounds great, but the amount of feckin crunch bars I was forced to eat for 18 years. I'm sorry. But Nestlé chocolate is waxy AF. So, sorry, Ceri, I do not understand.

[@Tooobuhz18]

I'd love to hear you guys talk to crime pays but botany doesnt

[@disky01]

Just want to say I heard about Tangents from the Drawfee episode Hank was on and I'm addicted now. Been watching SciShow for ages but I hadn't heard about Tangents. So glad you mentioned it Hank!

[@anna-graceschumann8869]

We have a local historical Farm that's still operating as a kind of living museum and I got to taste a cucumber straight off the vine. It was a jarring experience because I've only ever eaten them cold, but it was a sunny day out and the cucumber was really pretty warm

[@annasfischer]

no please no gourds for other seasons! keep them confined! (I'm severely allergic to all of them)

[@dstinnettmusic]

God….I fear fall for normal allergies. I can only imagine what it’s like to have an entire season of food allergies.

[@annasfischer]

@@dstinnettmusic I can't even be around them, so it goes way past a food allergy. But nobody puts watermelons or cucumbers or pumpkins or anything on labels to say this was made on Machinery that also made things with these allergies in it, which makes things very difficult

[@jn651]

Yikes! That's a bummer. Diet imperatives are hard to work with

[@davidfoss4808]

I carved a watermelon one year it actually came out really cool with an eerie Green Glow. I typically just throw out the pumpkin guts so one year I thought hey watermelon I can eat the insides anyway and waste nothing.

[@swagilyph]

bottle caps are my all time favorite candy

[@daemonicanfamilyschannelof9253]

And, they preserve so well, we can use them as our currency after we turn the world into a wasteland.

[@swagilyph]

Mad Max Money if you will

[@daemonicanfamilyschannelof9253]

This should definitely be a crypto.

[@chillsahoy2640]

Whoever wins a Halloween episode is crowned the King of Halloween. But whoever wins the Gourds episode becomes the Pumpkin King.

[@iriandia]

Hank and Jackson podcast when?

[@jn651]

Ol' Pumpymelons gets me every time!

[@kitsu_noshi]

The german word for gourd, pumpkin, squash etc is "Kürbis" as far as I know we only have one word for it all. The german word for cucumber is "Gurke".

[@agntvbb]

You want some botany? Check out Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't! Amazing!

[@ponyote]

Wait, so there actually may have been a real life time where someone could have shouted "Get the cheese to sickbay!"

[@jamesirvein5458]

My roommate grows cucamelons on the patio! They're just litlle cukes that are weirdly round compared to other cucumber strains. :) Sometimes humans are overly creative naming things, lol.

[@leelarson1952]

Now I want to carve a watermelon for Halloween. Way better guts inside one, versus a pumpkin. Though roasting watermelon seeds would not be nearly as rewarding as pumpkin seeds. Nice Truth or Fail fabrications, Ceri.

[@loveisinportant5570]

Radical idea for Hank's problem about coke amount... Buy a bottle and pour yourself an adequately sized glass when you want the drink!

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

Reese’s are boring, seriously?! Sam’s right, they’re the best! Each size and shape has a slightly different chocolate-to-peanut-butter ratio and different thickness to parts of the chocolate, and don’t get me started on the variations… Nutrageous was one of my favorites for quite a while because of the peanut butter nougat, but Take 5’s are in the lead right now (among the variations) because of the pretzels. Yum 😊 eta: the smallest eggs and the pumpkins have the best ratio of all in my opinion

[@TimberGeek]

I've had Zucumber & various Squmpkins volunteer in the compost heap. The former were quite tasty.

[@HalfTimeLazer]

Alleged cucumber-melon hybrids are almost always the result of people picking melons too early, because melons are white in the middle through most of their development and only develop color later. Crosses are quite rare between different cucurbit species but not impossible, as the Japanese Tetsukabuto squash is a hybrid of C. Moshcata and C. Maxima. Certain plants can hybridize across genuses (for instance, the shipova fruit is a hybrid of pear which is genus Pyrus and whitebeam which is genus Sorbus), but as far as I know none of the cucurbits can bridge that gap.

[@KM683250]

But cucumbers and cantaloupe ARE part of the same genus (Cucumis). Could they not cross-pollinate at least on the rare occasion?

[@andrewspohrer7183]

Growing up, we accidentally made cuzinis and they were huge

[@ivytarablair]

I'm with ya Ceri! the pumpkin & egg shaped reeces cups are so GOOD :D best ratio, to my taste buds :P

[@ericmoore5394]

Cucumelons are a thing, but they aren't a cross between a cucumber and a melon but are in the cucurbit family.

[@jebus456]

wudup!

[@thekathleenab]

Cucumbers are a type of melon, so they are the same genus as cantaloupes, and they can and do hybridize

[@WhiteSpatula]

Board games are just what we call them. Games for when you’re bored.

[@jebus456]

Does Sam stand while recording?

[@SciShowTangents]

I do. I stand while I work in general I don't get sleepy... - sam

[@jebus456]

@@SciShowTangents dope!

[@laylahame]

I'd pick games to be obsessed with lol ...

[@dstinnettmusic]

I demand Ryan Reynolds!

[@SciShowTangents]

i secretly was hoping that Hank would surprise us with him at some point... - sam

[@dstinnettmusic]

@@SciShowTangents my parasocial impression is that John might have more pull with him. Forget genders and sexes. “Are you a Hank person or a John person?” is all I need to know to get a read on someone

[@IceMetalPunk]

Ceri: "Plants are great." Every druid in D&D ever: "Finally, someone gets it!" Keyleth of the Ashari: "Aren't plants just the best? 🥰"

[@Sloth337]

widePEEPOhappy

[@dstinnettmusic]

Board games are games. Games and toys are related, or at least the objects of games and toys are related The difference lies in toys lacking direction and games having a predetermined goal. I saw a tree diagram once that broke down toy vs puzzle vs game vs sport Toys lack direction, puzzles have direction but are collaborative. Games have direction and are combative in nature. Games and puzzles become sports when the individual games have a wider structure in which the games have a wider meaning.

[@cameronwilsey9334]

I always think of ppp when I hear/see a butternut squash and was going 'go in circles around the birthday boy!' as it was brought up. Spooky

[@sacredweeds]

I’m not the only one who does Halloween watermelons!!!🎉