Get ready for Everest like you've never heard before! The first part of our Mt. Everest deep dive.
Get ready for Everest like you've never heard before! The first part of our Mt. Everest deep dive.
We talk about the Sherpa baddies, how much Everest costs, what to do with your poop, the surprise boners, and more!
ExpedReview - How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mt. Everest
https://www.expedreview.com/blog/2022/11/how-much-does-it-cost-to-climb-mt-everest-in-2023
Adam Ruins Everything- Mt Everest
The Darker Side Of Life Podcast- Mt. Everest: Life in the Death Zone
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2jfHigySUmUJqOVBexUKKW?si=dA6GxSTrQiWJMxI-pMV4eQ
Journey- Everest Base Camp By Ryan Wolf
https://open.spotify.com/show/5QlS4bv6WmPXJUCSLJ0HzD?si=9md9-Uh6QP6iMlBkHN-e6A
Mt. Everest Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest
Why Climbing Mt Everest Gives People Weird Boners
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Speaker 1 0:00
As we were watching Married at First Sight this morning we spotted a dude with a boner.
Speaker 2 0:25
Was 100% of boner. she sent me a picture and there's no denying.
Speaker 1 0:30
It was like a two couples out playing some game in a park. And it was like, yeah, oh, whoever wins gets the, you know, be kissed by their spouse wherever they want. And then, you know, they're
wherever they want. Yeah. Oh, so he was anticipating, like getting a kiss on the peener perhaps
Speaker 1 0:49
well, he said, he got a kiss on the belly button. It didn't show kisses anywhere else. Okay. It also showed the other guy and chick kissing on the lips. So maybe he's just got into their relationship. But yeah, so anyway, they're all sitting cross legged. And then they stand up and just for this, like, brief second, I just saw Boehner and I was just like, Boehner, there's a Boehner then like me and Brandon like rewatched it and they were trying to freeze frame it. And we got really close to the TV inspecting this patella and I'm pretty sure it was a Boehner
Unknown Speaker 1:24
he agreed. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he agreed. And it was kind of funny because like, after we looked at a little more, he was like, you know, it could be that he was in this like, specific kind of position where this and this and this I was like, Is this about me is too complicated.
Speaker 2 1:41
it was very Boner ish. We will definitely be posting a picture on Instagram.
Speaker 1 1:45
Yeah. And speaking of boners, you got to boners right here
Unknown Speaker 1:53
cold boners.
Unknown Speaker 1:56
Yes,we're gonna be getting a little chilly today.
Speaker 1 1:58
Little little chili dogs. Wrap up tight. For this episode of nervous laughter podcast.
Unknown Speaker 2:05
Yes. Welcome.
Speaker 1 2:06
I'm Jamie.
I'm Alyssa. Today we're going to be talking about Mount Everest. Which we learned that you can get boners when you go mountain climbing in an airplane. Yeah. Which we'll get more into later. But those boners just tied together. So
Speaker 2 2:26
yeah, the voters vote entered into each other.
Unknown Speaker 2:31
Like, this is like crashing your fingers together. Is that Is that how many how gay men have said? Like what a conservative Christian like,
Speaker 2 2:45
twice us on the office where he's like, just one man's penis open up to accommodate? Let us know. We're just gonna assume that's how it works. Yeah.
Speaker 1 2:56
You know, anyway, Mount Everest.
Speaker 2 3:01
Mount Everest. So a little history about the mountain. It is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. In 2020. It measured at 29,031 feet and eight and a half inches.
Unknown Speaker 3:19
Lancelot a mouthwash.
Speaker 2 3:21
That is my next bullet point. Oh, yes. How many? So keeping in mind a standard mouthwash company cup is two inches tall. Do you want to take a guess how many Everest is?
Speaker 1 3:38
No, because you gave me the feat? And I feel like I have to do quick calculations and I'm freaking out.
Unknown Speaker 3:43
Okay. Are you sure you don't want to guess?
Unknown Speaker 3:47
Count and my mind just goes to like 600,000
Speaker 2 3:51
So I asked carboy number three this and he fucking guessed it within like a couple 1000 You he does like really quick mental math. He's the opposite of me. It is 174,186 mouthwash cups. He guessed 175,000
He needs a prize.
Speaker 2 4:15
I'm gonna make him a statue of Mount Everest out of my very nice spray painting goals. So it's like a trophy. And a little perspective on that. Got cheese throws. I haven't even had cheese today. Commercial Airplanes fly between 33,000 to 42,000 feet so you're basically like the height of being in a fucking airplane. And they're just out
Speaker 1 4:44
like gave me like a chill up my spine. I was just like, Nope, I'm not just gonna be
Speaker 2 4:49
Yeah, free ball and gravity that way.
Speaker 1 4:53
I was in some of the videos. I was watching for this. Like It's beautiful up there. And I can kind of understand that too. occasion but also, just No,
Speaker 2 5:03
no, thank you. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah, I had never seen actual pictures of people being on the summit until we started talking about this. And it kind of looks like they're like, Well, I mean, like they're in an airplane.
Unknown Speaker 5:21
Like from an airplane window. Like,
Speaker 2 5:23
better? Yeah. To me, it was like, Whoa, it's like they're in space, but an airplane would be a more realistic explanation. Um, basically, there's a two week period at the end of May for climbing, the actual like, to the summit. I'll talk more about this a little bit, but it can take you 40 to 60 days to get to the top. Okay. Yeah, but you have that tiny little window because otherwise the weather is just, you can't fucking do it. So crazy.
Speaker 1 5:59
I assume there's kind of like a lot of people there at the same time. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Speaker 2 6:04
A lot. That's actually their fucking lines now. Whoa, show you some pictures. Yeah, it's fucking in.
Unknown Speaker 6:13
My mind feels blown. Yeah, I
Speaker 2 6:15
had no idea that it was gonna be like five people. But now it's like hundreds of people at the same time. Wow. Yeah, it's nuts. The Windchill can get down to negative 148 degrees. Whoa, yeah. There are two climbing routes to the summit. One of them is in Nepal, which is kind of like the standard route. And the other one is from Tibet. So it's kind of in between those countries. Okay. Well will end up talking about the Sherpa people. They're basically put they're the gangsters of the mountain. They're fucking amazing.
Speaker 1 7:02
Yeah. And I'll get to some of the stuff with the Sherpas later, just with rescue stuff, but like, man, they are fucking
Speaker 2 7:12
batty. Yeah, it's fucking insane the stuff that they do. So gangsters at the mountain, they believe that Mount Everest it has some spiritual significance for them. It's blessed with good spiritual energy and that when you're on the mountain, you should treat it like you're passing through a sacred landscape. And when you're on the mountain, the karmic effects of one's actions are magnified. So it's best to avoid impure thoughts. So Blowfly girl should not go on Mount Everest. No, steer clear bitch.
Speaker 1 7:57
Oh, God, I can just imagine she'd just be like looking rummaging through all like the trash and like, oh,
Speaker 2 8:04
yeah, we'll talk more about trash later. But basically, Mount Everest is becoming the world's tallest dump. Oh, that's unfortunate. It's sad. So since its pride month, I wrote the British were super gay for climbing Mount Everest. And a mountain is kind of like a painter. So I stand by stand by that. So in 1924, there was a guy named George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. They had made several attempts, but they made one in June and they never returned. So it's kind of been debated whether or not they were actually the first people to summit but there's no proof that they were and the first people to actually make it to the top or Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, and they did that in 1953. Okay. And just a couple quick things about the summit itself. It's been described as the size of a dining room table. So really, not many people can go up there at once. And there's also reports of people being fucking assholes up there and wanting to get their pictures and their videos and shit, but like, I'll talk a little more about why that's bad. But basically, like when you're climbing, you fucking get up there and you get down. And if you don't, people could die.
Speaker 1 9:37
Like oh, shit, okay, okay. So below
Speaker 2 9:40
the actual summit itself is a place called Rainbow Valley. And they call it that because it's filled with people wearing their brightly colored like jackets filled with dead people. Oh, so you just see everybody's like neon climbing stuff, all these bodies and then you get a little Further down at around 26,000 feet, and that's called the death zone. Because the lack of oxygen and pressure makes it so when you're in this area, your body is basically like actively dying. So the spinal stretch like it's up and down. Damn, this is where the fucking lines are. So if somebody's fiddle fucking around like you can die, damn. So you're putting trust in all these random strangers that you've never met before. And it said that it takes most climbers up to 12 hours to walk the final mile to the summit. Well, I see you're just like, a couple steps. Stop couple steps. So and sometimes people can get into this thing called paradoxical undressing. Yeah, I've heard about that before. Yeah. Which basically like your body just like, loses its fucking shit. And it starts getting really cold, but your brain tells you that you're really hot. So you start taking off all your clothes. Yeah, so there's a bunch of weird things that can happen in this area. So fat heads if you ever climb Everest, go up, go down. Keep don't take too long. Because the donors tucked in.
Unknown Speaker 11:24
Close. Yeah, time
Unknown Speaker 11:26
short buds while
Speaker 1 11:30
most importantly, yes. That's crazy, though. Like, um, I've heard that like, it's difficult and stuff, but I didn't really like look into like those details of it. And that's just like, I don't know, it's just mind blowing that I didn't think that there would be like a line up there. And people being assholes. Of course, there's people being assholes up
Speaker 2 11:49
to me, it looks like these people are fucking Disneyland. Like, it's insane.
Speaker 1 11:54
But the Sherpas are like fucking people. Man, yeah, that's like a butt too, but line of people. And there's like, you know, there's no handrails or anything you're like, on this little mountain edge. Just,
Speaker 2 12:09
I think at that point, there's kind of like a cable. And you can click on to the cable. Oh, but that's it. And then before you get to that cable, they have these things I forgot. I think they're called Snow bridges. It looks like the shittiest ladder. You could have fucking imagine. You just walk in across it. Oh,
Speaker 1 12:30
okay. Yeah, thanks. Yeah. I mean, I know, it's like, the top of the tallest mountain in the world. So what kind of infrastructure am I expecting? But it's kind of also like, you know? Yeah,
Speaker 2 12:42
very risky. Yes. And I think you have some cost breakdown for us.
Speaker 1 12:49
So you might have heard us, you know, say rich people, um, because that is exactly what you have to be to climb Mount Everest. I'm so obviously the cost of a triple berry, depending on like, oh,
Unknown Speaker 13:08
you said a triple berry. Like
Unknown Speaker 13:12
what happens when you don't clean your butt?
Speaker 2 13:15
Triple berries. Okay, I'm following.
Speaker 1 13:21
So, you know, just depending on like, you know, any cat luxuries or anything like that, that you might want to add on, but it can be anywhere from 32,000 to 200,000 US dollars. And I got this information from an expert review, like expedition review. And so yeah, according to their data in 2023, the median price was about $50,000. So if you're getting ready to take a trip to Everest, you have to do a bunch of stuff before you even go to the mountain that cost money. So you have to get your immune immunizations that are in Nepal, or Tibet. I think you said that's another entry. They are
Speaker 2 14:09
no anti vaxxers allowed again, yeah. No,
Speaker 1 14:13
um, travel costs and you know anything along with that, so like, you get a plane ride, you get a hotel because layover is blah, blah, blah, all of your gear that you need. So like food, oxygen, and oxygen accessories,
Unknown Speaker 14:35
from Tibet and Hank hill
Speaker 1 14:40
you know, fuels, fuel fuels, fuel and the crampons which is like the spiky shoe things I learned. Yeah, you know, anything else that you need to get up ever safely. You also have to have to pay to transport your gear. A lot of people rent a yak when they get to train To help transport all their shit, you have to get a climbing permit, which is $11,000 per climber. And there are additional fees that come with getting this permit that include things like a company that has to process all the paperwork. So that's like 2500 bucks, a trash deposit, just $4,000 a liaison officer, which is $3,000. And then some other things that you have to buy is evacuation insurance is required, okay. I don't really know about the required part, because like, I'll mention it a little bit later, whenever I talk about some rescue stuff, but like, there was someone who just like refused, like, was like, I'm not gonna pay that. So I don't I don't know. We'll get to that later though. Health insurance is required in a lot of cases. And trip cancellation insurance is usually suggested. Because it's an expensive fucking trip. Seriously. And then you have to pay for like your guide and like your troop, whatever, it's kind of going up there. So like the Sherpas that will take your money and take you up there and try to make sure you don't die.
Speaker 2 16:27
I have a little bit more about kind of the commercialization of Everest
Unknown Speaker 16:33
the long lines
Speaker 2 16:35
it's fucking weird. So apparently, it kind of started in 1985 there was a crazy wealthy businessman that went up there
Unknown Speaker 16:49
for deeds uncle.
Speaker 2 16:52
Uncle, which Jamie reminded me he was an amateur climber and he'd only been climbing for four years. Wow. But he kind of hired like they call them celebrity guides, like the really high end people that could basically get like any dumb is up there. Oh, okay. A bunch very seasoned.
Unknown Speaker 17:15
professionals can get up there dumb it
Speaker 2 17:28
Yeah, I just picture him like putting you on their bag. And like taking you up there. You take a picture. And they just like carry right down. This fucking people. But a lot of the companies that will do this for you. It's kind of considered like Buyer beware. Because in Nepal, it's one of the poorest countries. So there is a lot of shady Enos as far as like, people kind of lying about what you get with your excursions. So you could find yourself like totally fucked if you're not careful. Okay. And of course, that's not most of them. But you know, there's assholes.
Unknown Speaker 18:12
Out in the country. So I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2 18:14
they could just like talk about it in front of you. And it's, you know, that's such a big part of their economy, like Everest tourism, that people who work on the mountain can make like twice what a typical person living in the country makes. Oh, wow. So it's a big moneymaker. But it's super risky. super risky. But yeah, it's become a thing where shows you the picture the line, like tons of people want to do it. And I personally feel like you should have to meet some requirements to do it. Yeah, like you need to have climbed, you know, other shit. There's a lady I'll talk about later. But basically, they had to teach her how to put on her crampons or climbing shoes before she caught the mountain. And she ended up dying. Ah, well. It's just I think it's super fucked up. Because it puts people's lives at risk. Like, yeah, if somebody's trying to save you and they die like they die because you're a fucking dumbass.
Speaker 1 19:22
No, I agree. Like, I mean, that's like a really tough mountain. That's the hardest mountain. And it's the tallest. Um, so like, I feel like you need to have like a resume of mountain climbing.
Speaker 2 19:39
Absolutely. I mean, like money should not be the only thing they get you up there.
Speaker 1 19:44
Oh, yeah. I mean, maybe even some type of like, other experience that can be beneficial to you up there. Like, do you have any sort of like medical training or CPR certification at least or something like, because there's not many I mean, there's a lot of people out there now but compared to like, the rest of the place, but like, they could at least help each other, you know, instead of just having like a bunch of dead weight because they paid to get up there and
Speaker 2 20:11
the way I see it, like, if you're going up here, like no matter what I feel like you're kind of on your own because it's like a survival situation. Like, I do think that when you can, you should help other people. But I also don't think it's fair to expect anyone to like, risk their life to help somebody
Speaker 1 20:31
because yeah, I think that's totally fair. I guess I was thinking more of like, if the person gets like, brought down to base camp and like, I can cook for them. I know how to cook or just not like life risking, but just like a little useful. Yeah, so limited on resources. Yeah,
Speaker 2 20:53
but yeah, there's a bunch of people that I think kind of expect that like, oh, well, I paid this person so they have to risk their life. Yeah. I'm the first man that reached the summit. Tenzing Norgay, his son has this quote in 2003. Oh, in a son's name is he probably pronounce it Jam Jam Ling but I'm like, jam Ling.
Speaker 2 21:28
He was quoted in 2003, saying that his late father would have been shocked to discover that rich thrill seekers with no climbing experience. Were now routinely reaching the summit. His quote is you still have to climb this mountain yourself with your feet. But the spirit of adventure is not there anymore. It is lost. There are people going up that have no idea how to put on crampons. They are climbing because they have paid someone $65,000 It is very selfish. it endangers the lives of others. Which I 100% agree.
Speaker 1 22:02
Yeah, I think I totally agree with that, too. Yeah, it's just like a little trip to the beach are serious like life staking.
Speaker 2 22:19
Yeah, and other people's lives can be like in your hands. Just a few do some stupid shit on accident. Insane if you take too
Unknown Speaker 22:26
many selfies at the summit. Yes.
Speaker 2 22:29
People die. Imagine putting that much trust in strangers.
Speaker 1 22:36
Yeah, I know. I feel like we do it when we drive every day though.
Unknown Speaker 22:41
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 22:43
Randomly think about that. Sometimes. I'm just like, Oh, yeah. Strangers with like, very large, heavy things that go fast and can kill you.
Speaker 2 22:53
I've been thinking about that a lot recently with the whole like, submersible thing. Have you heard anything about the Titanic? Yeah, like we will take risks every day. But some risks like that. And like Mount Everest. I'm like, okay, that's like an unreasonably high risk. Like you have to be okay with the fact that like, you could pretty easily die.
Unknown Speaker 23:15
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 23:18
Yeah. I saw the thing that I felt like applies to this to somebody said like, I can't care more about your safety than you do or something. So I'm like, that's a really good
Unknown Speaker 23:30
way to phrase it.
Speaker 2 23:33
So, we'll talk a little bit about that. I'm gonna fuck up this word a lot. So I'll probably just make up another word but acclimatisation?
Unknown Speaker 23:48
acclamation ekomi.
Speaker 2 23:51
Boehner, yes. Yes, acapella. So to acapella yourself to this.
Unknown Speaker 24:01
This is how yodeling was invented
Speaker 2 24:05
is going to try to yodel but lost my confidence. So I wrote the Achieving this level of badass salary requires altitude acclimatization owners, club owners, which can take 40 to 60 days for a typical expedition. So you need to have like multiple months set aside for this. So somebody that lives at sea level that is exposed to like this atmosphere and altitude at Everest. If they didn't acclimatized themselves, they would lose consciousness within two to three minutes. Whoa. So if you just plopped a human on top of Everest, they're done. Damn. Yeah. Um, basically people just on general on Average, they'll take 20 to 30 breaths per minute. But when you're climbing, your blood oxygen level is lower. It's harder and harder for your body to operate. So you could take 80 to 90 breaths per minute. Wow. And you can exhaust yourself to death by merely like trying to breathe do that sounds exhausting? Yeah. Okay, it is can die, Buck. And this is my little story about being at 10,000 feet when I'm used to being at like 500. But that week that we're in Colorado, I was wearing my Apple watch, and it keeps track of like your blood oxygen level. And it popped up with a stat that like, for the five days that I had been there, my blood oxygen level was 5% lower than it usually was. Wow.
Speaker 1 25:58
Damn, how did that feel? Like? Did you feel any different?
Speaker 2 26:02
I was like, this makes sense. It was really hard to bring down. I was like, Oh, I guess I wasn't like being a bitch. This was like a real effect. Did you get a boner? Yeah. Did it make it hard? In the way
Speaker 1 26:26
knock stuff over like someone calls calls your name, you turn around a cup off.
Speaker 2 26:33
Pretty much. That's pretty much what happened. And you can get if you don't o'clock. acapella yourself. You can get altitude sickness. So basically with that headache, vomiting, insomnia, reduced performance coordination, stuff like that. And really severe cases, you can get fluid buildup on your lungs and your brain and you can just fucking die. Yeah, I didn't.
Unknown Speaker 27:08
Because I made a new kind of
Unknown Speaker 27:12
people's brain
Speaker 2 27:20
I listened to I forgot to say my sources. But one of them was a podcast by this Australian guy, which was fun to listen to. Because he's Australian. Yeah, it's called a journey Everest base camp. And it's a guy named Ryan Wolf. And he was saying that like, you know, your fitness level, your age, stuff like that. It kind of factors in but also like, say you went to Mount Everest twice. Like the first time you go, it could be really easy. The second time you go, you could have a total opposite experience. Part of it's just kind of like chance. Okay. So yeah, even if you like do everything right, you can still just die sometimes. And like, give me
Unknown Speaker 28:06
chills. I just don't like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2 28:08
there was a I started listening to his podcast, and there was a lady in his group that just died. Because she
Unknown Speaker 28:19
didn't know she was wanting to know.
Speaker 2 28:22
She was like, she was tired of the Boehner. So she jumped out loaded. Yeah, but it's crazy. Because you're kind of supposed to go like even the base camp is like 18,000 feet, which is super high. So what'd you do? You kind of climb and then you climb back down a little bit. So they say like climb high sleep low. So you're climbing up climb back down sleep there? Give your body like a couple days. Then you go a little bit higher. Come back down a little bit. Stay there. So you're kind of like II scientific Yeah, your burners like
Unknown Speaker 29:06
it's going up a little bit.
Speaker 2 29:10
Yeah, so you have to do that was your boner for like, a month or two to get to the top. So pretty fucking crazy.
Speaker 1 29:17
In some way. I saw in some of the things I've watched. It seems like usually there's like a group of more experienced climbers or something that go to the base camp ahead. I guess. I'm kind of like, set up, prepares stuff. Throwing that in there.
Speaker 2 29:34
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's pretty crazy. But oh, I guess now we're actually to the Boehner section Boehner, Boehner. So we were talking about our opener with the guys Boehner and we were like, oh shit, do people get boners on Mount Everest? Yeah. Like how does that was that like, it turns out, they
Speaker 1 29:57
did. The He doesn't say the climate change the pressure change will bring boners about I guess and I guess like yes I happen on an airplane Landon know that I never knew that when I start keeping keeping an eye out for
Speaker 2 30:14
voters there's a vice article called climbing Mount Everest can induce uncomfortable boners. So Thank you Vice you never let us down. And there's several other ones that yeah, there's something with like the blood oxygen level and blood flow that you can be poppin owners.
Speaker 1 30:39
And in that article, the guy was like, What did you do when you got your first ever is Boehner and he was like I went and woke up my Sherpa because I didn't know what to do. And he said it wasn't normal. And it was kind of like I don't know, just an adult person
Speaker 2 31:03
I know when we were talking about it, we're both like yeah, I would probably just like risk it risk dying rather than ask someone
Unknown Speaker 31:12
I'm just gonna go become a landmark and
Unknown Speaker 31:15
ever so I'm gonna die of Boehner
Speaker 1 31:19
death pipe. It's like part of the markers just like the Boehner sticking up
Speaker 2 31:27
and I guess this was just kind of the weird section here. I'm also gonna talk about poop. Get ready, get ready. So I watched a an Adam Ruins Everything video and it talked about this. Okay, cool. But basically, Mount Everest is becoming like fucking disgusting. There's just shit everywhere. There's trash everywhere. Like I saw some pictures that were truly disgusting. Like, it looks like a literal dump. Damn, like how a dump just has like shit all over the ground. All over. And yeah, and people's tents are just like in this trash. Because, you know, there's only so many routes you can take. So there's only so many places you can put your tents so
Speaker 1 32:19
you can put it right here. I'm pointing out my crotch. That's a boner, Joe.
Speaker 2 32:24
Yeah, you're pitching a tent left and right on this amount.
Speaker 1 32:28
I guess that would explain the $4,000 trash,
Speaker 2 32:32
they probably need to charge like 20,000 Yeah, it is nasty up there. Of course, not all of it. But around the camps. There are six camps that you can stay at. at base camp, which is like that first marker that you get to they have it's basically like a bucket with a toilet seat. So you can go there. But once you get higher up it's not like you can dig a hole to shit. downhill. It's frozen. So usually it gets it is frozen. Yeah, you can't dig a hole like you normally would.
Speaker 1 33:15
Did we talk about this on the podcast already? Frozen poop knife.
Unknown Speaker 33:20
We think we talked about poop knives.
Speaker 1 33:22
Okay, but like not that someone was able to make a knife out of frozen poop.
Speaker 2 33:27
Oh, I don't think we did. That sounds kind of familiar, but I don't think we did.
Speaker 1 33:32
It's a thing that people can do. Just I just saw
Speaker 2 33:37
a knife. You just like throw some shit in the freezer. Yeah, Fashion One out of your poop. Next time I see a YouTube video from an Everest climber. I'm gonna be like, actually, you can make actually. Oh, yeah, they have toilets at base camp. But once you're getting up there, like, you kind of have to like piss in a water bottle or they have these special bags that you poop into and you just have to pack it out with you. Oh, okay. Yeah, so You're shitting in bags. snow suits have what they call a rainbow zipper for the butt. So it's like a rainbow shape and it's a little but flat. Because you also have to keep in mind like you're gonna get frostbite like really fucking fast if you take your hands off or like have it uncovered for too long. So yeah, you have to hurry. And I found a thing that said the Napoli government now requires each climber to pack out eight kilograms of waste, which I forgot to do the conversion
Speaker 1 34:56
but it requires them to do what with the waste
Speaker 2 34:59
Pack. Get out. So like you have to bring trash down with you. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 35:03
Okay, gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, they might need to increase that.
Speaker 2 35:10
A little more maybe. Yeah. And another thing I saw, like the poop say that you don't poop in a bag like you're supposed to, like.
Unknown Speaker 35:20
The context is fantastic.
Speaker 2 35:22
You know, like, everyone does. Yeah. Like, if you don't do that, I mean, you're sure it'll stay on the mountain. People are gonna be stepping in it. Yeah. But then eventually, when it does kind of thaw, and it comes down the mountain. It's fucking running down the mountain into these small towns water supply, so it's contaminating everything for the locals. Oh, yeah. And apparently, there's just like, there's areas where it's just a bunch of human shit. That's coming down the mountain.
Speaker 1 35:56
That's it's like a shit album. Yeah, sure. babbling
Unknown Speaker 36:02
of avalanche.
Speaker 1 36:04
Yeah, that's, um, I don't know. Those are interesting problems.
Unknown Speaker 36:09
Yeah, I never would have thought me.
Speaker 1 36:13
Um, like, I kind of assumed that there would be some like trash up there. But not like a fucking, like, garbage dump. That's insane. It's really sad.
Unknown Speaker 36:25
There's trash shit, and it's like the grossest place to be. Welcome the Earth. This is what we do. I guess now we're gonna get off the topic of poop.
Unknown Speaker 36:44
You're welcome, Rob.
Speaker 2 36:46
For now, at least. This is gonna be divided into two episodes, because there's just so much weird shit with Mount Everest. Yes, it's, you'd be surprised. It's a very weird topic. I have a couple random facts before we close out. So Mount Everest is the tallest mountain, like, on the actual earth not explaining this very well. But the actual,
Speaker 1 37:15
we did not include exoplanets. In this study.
Speaker 2 37:19
We Well, there is a taller mountain and it's actually in Hawaii. Um, when it's measured from its base to the top, it's 33,464 feet. But the base of the mountain starts under sea level. So there are taller mountains, just not on top of land.
Speaker 1 37:43
Okay, so like if we drained the water, yeah, just leveled everything out. Okay. Okay.
Speaker 2 37:49
So you would have to go down 13,796 feet below sea level to find the base of this mountain in Hawaii. Wow. It's called Mountain. Okay. Which I'm sorry. I'm stupid white person. Probably not saying it correctly. But that is the actual tallest mountain which I thought was interesting. Like, I never thought about mountains in the water. Yeah, to me makes it scarier.
Speaker 1 38:18
I just thought of mountains above sea level, I guess. Yes. Like mountains don't go underwater. There. That's not a mountain. Yeah. But yeah, I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2 38:30
Off topic. But did you see that there's a volcano erupting in Mexico
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right now. No,
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I think it's like 45 minutes outside of Mexico City, but people are having to evacuate. Oh, crazy. Which No way I found out about it. Oh, no. It's not bad. It's just like very fucking ridiculous. And also, I think like Russia started a civil war. There's a civil war like that just started
Speaker 1 38:59
the Wagner group that went back. Yeah, the way that I found out crazy. It is.
Speaker 2 39:05
The way that I found out about both of them is I fought a count on Tik Tok, and it's called Bikini Bottom news is basically that fish
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is a fucking fish wearing a suit.
Speaker 1 39:30
I feel like that's the most effective way to get news across to our generation.
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I will definitely be putting a video of that on Instagram.
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I can't wait to see how the news changes in the next 10 years.
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Just like this. So I need my news delivered
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to cartoon characters and crew streamers. What's up guys? Johnny with the breaking news.
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I'm drinking my Celsius energy drink I found this article use code drink 30 people died. So the world is ending.
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for 10% off. Oh, a very scary thing that I found is the there's a black jumping spider that lives on Mount Everest. Oh,
Speaker 1 40:29
I think I saw that too. But there were tiny little ones I saw
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I didn't look it up because I was scared.
Speaker 1 40:36
Okay, they're tiny. Okay. They're not huge, because I was like, Oh, I could. Because I was trying to find like different animals. Oh, yeah, I really found was like, this little Jumping Spider. And I was like, Oh, I don't know if I should bring that up. Because Alyssa might not like that. No, it's like when I looked it up, it was tiny. And I was like, oh, maybe it's not interesting to talk. So you brought it
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up, so I brought it up.
Unknown Speaker 41:06
No, I just didn't. I don't want to bring up a spider. No, I appreciate that. I'll let you if I do. I'll give you a warning.
Speaker 2 41:12
I'm okay with spiders. Just not like a hand sized spider. Okay, or palm sized Eve. Okay, tiny one little person. That's fine. I could step on it if I
Speaker 1 41:22
mean are you on the daddy long? Oh, five kilos. Okay, just bother me.
Speaker 2 41:28
Yeah, I was trying to get some cobwebs down the other day and I had like a towel and almost fell on me. And I was kind of scared but this was not a shot by the way not in our house with a house full spiderwebs
Speaker 1 41:43
Well, I have I have a little corner right here that has a little cobweb and I decided to keep it because I saw the spider getting a fly and I was like well this used my little buddy now. I was so yeah, got a little little it's like a little Jumping Spider if it was one that would like harm me or my my children meaning my cats then I would know I don't fuck with that. I go straight for it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, well, spider buddy.
Speaker 2 42:15
Um, this says that it is possibly the highest in elevation living non microscopic creature on earth because they live it up to 22,000 feet man, you
Unknown Speaker 42:32
go little spider.
Unknown Speaker 42:33
I know.
Unknown Speaker 42:34
I want one now. One of them.
Unknown Speaker 42:37
Okay, well, we need to risk our lives
Speaker 1 42:41
bring in and then we'll have to like let the spider acclimate to the Oh, yeah, pressure changes.
Speaker 2 42:48
You know, I wonder if you bring something like that down if it's just like a super breather and only needs to breathe like once a minute because there's like so much Yeah,
Speaker 2 42:59
I wonder if you might get in trouble for bringing it down because it's like you're introducing a different species to somewhere it's not supposed to be probably have to do it discreetly. Let us know biologists if there's any biologists whistling events they do really they probably get angry all the time. Yeah, cuz I've only been out of the country once and when you do like your I forget what it's called like bringing your chip back with you. There's all these questions like Do you have any fruit from the country? Yeah, the plants that said about it
Speaker 1 43:39
that show I was telling you about with like the Australian like airports and stuff that's like exactly what they're like looking for. And so there's always people that just don't declare their food and they just get taken away so
Speaker 2 43:52
just like oh, I really wanted this banana I think it was big deal.
Speaker 1 43:58
Like it's you might drop a seed and then that plant will grow and become an invasive species.
Speaker 2 44:04
So I won the banana. Daughter Jasmine Lin loves banana knows.
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I need the bananas daddy are Luiza Mount Everest bananas that's what we call my boners
Speaker 2 44:27
Mount Everest banana. One last little thing here. I couldn't find a ton of information on this. But in Tibetan folklore, there is a zombie like creature called a rolling. And I think I first saw it on the Wikipedia page for Mount Everest. But then when I tried to look up like these things on Mount Everest, I couldn't really find very much Okay. But it's like a zombie, they can't really binge. So they have like the typical zombie world to I guess in Tibet, they'll make their doorways low so that these creatures can't walk through it since they can't bend Oh. And they're created by a certain spirit that has broken its oath to the afterlife and becomes evil. Or once your human consciousness has left your body, then this evil spirit can enter the body before it's buried, and then it becomes a zombie. Oh, and I guess they infect humans by touching them on the head. So that's just like, my cat. But I thought that was pretty cool. I wish I could find more. But
Speaker 1 46:10
yeah, that's kind of that's kind of scary. But I'm also kind of like, what if it's just like people like get like stuck on a mountain and learn? They're like, Oh, finally I'm off the mountain. And then they just
Unknown Speaker 46:25
actually, this isn't America, they probably wouldn't get shot. Not everyone has a gun 24/7
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taken to a hospital.
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given access to health care received
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attention for free. Boom. Oh. Well, I guess that wraps up our first episode of Mount Everest. Things.
Speaker 2 46:53
That was a fun one. Thank you for talking about poop and trash and boners we can't wait to discuss that further. Next episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1 47:02
poppin loners. Um, so yeah, we will see you guys in the next episode. Fat heads by birdie on
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