Four Hot Mercuries - Hot Stuff Theme

Sups 0:01

Yeah.

Andi 0:01

I love that. It's hot too. Yeah hot.

Sups 0:05

And they also use it in thermometers and in PMO man meter.

Tanner 0:10

Yes.

Andi 0:12

so you're hot planted. Isn't so hot.

Tanner 0:15

Apparently.

Andi 0:16

But otherwise he wore nothing.

Tanner 0:18

He's always naked. He's always

Andi 0:19

naked. Very

Sups 0:20

confident about his body. And rightly so, That's

Andi 0:24

always kind of interesting, but super weird and creepy. I don't like the idea in the least. Hello and welcome to this episode of the adjective known podcast. The trivia podcast that can't be trusted each week. Our Quizmaster presents you with four big facts on a topic, but one of those facts is a lie and we are finishing off our hot stuff themed month. So Our Quizmaster is Tanner.

Tanner 0:47

Hello?

Andi 0:48

And he is doing quite an unusual topic. He is going to be presenting. Four facts each about a different hot mercury. So it should be interesting. Join me, Andy and our other host soups in figuring out which one of his facts is a lie.

Tanner 1:05

Yeah. as the mercury is rising, things are getting hot.

Andi 1:09

Yeah. So we have four different Mercurys all of them are hot.

Tanner 1:13

Right. So let's start with low hanging fruit. on the periodic table of elements? What is the chemical symbol for the element mercury

Andi 1:21

HG

Tanner 1:22

That's right. HG short for HRU DRM. Yeah.

Andi 1:28

whoa.

Tanner 1:29

which is taken from the ancient Greek, hydro OSE, meaning water silver. Yeah, very similar to the other English name for mercury quick,

Andi 1:37

quick silver. Yeah. Which

Tanner 1:39

like living silver.

Andi 1:40

Right Cause the quick is like an old timey word for the living core of something.

Tanner 1:46

Yeah. Right.

Andi 1:47

so what's our first mercury

Tanner 1:48

first mercury is the element

Andi 1:50

All right.

Tanner 1:51

fact, number one, the element mercury is rarer than silver in the Earth's crust.

Andi 1:58

Okay, because it's quick silver. I mean, I guess sure. I guess you're getting at the fact that silver used to well it's still very valuable and it was used as money is currency, right? The word for money in French is just silver. So it's rare. But mercury is rarer more rare.

Tanner 2:16

Silver is a precious metal, mercury is not.

Andi 2:18

Yeah. I could believe that, but also it's hard to know how much mercury is out there because it's dangerous. So it's not like we're digging it up and using it for stuff anymore So I don't know. It's in the fish

Tanner 2:32

true

Sups 2:32

And it's bad for your health. Yes.

Andi 2:34

Oh

Tanner 2:34

Oh yeah

Andi 2:35

right

Sups 2:35

And they also use it in thermometers and in PMO man meter.

Tanner 2:40

Yes. Yes. Lots of medical instruments

Andi 2:43

they used to use right. They don't

Sups 2:46

Yeah Now you've got the electric ones,

Andi 2:48

Well, even the red stuff in like the old timey ones it's not mercury anymore.

Tanner 2:53

Yeah. Older thermometer had about a half a gram of mercury in the bottom but. If you have a thermometer and it has liquid in it, It's not mercury. It's probably dye alcohol.

Sups 3:04

Ah,

Andi 3:04

oh. Okay,

Tanner 3:05

it's the only liquid metal at room temperature

Andi 3:09

mm-hmm

Sups 3:09

Mm,

Tanner 3:10

Which is why it's so weird. It's why it rolls. And

Andi 3:14

Yeah. So. Mercury the element. Yeah. So it's associated with being hot because it was used in thermometers. Exactly. But it's a very bizarre thing.

Tanner 3:22

Yeah. It's been mined for a long time. So it's founded in deposits in the crust So if you're going mining for mercury, you won't find it in his liquid form. it's mercury and sulfur in a rock that's red that we call cinnabar

Andi 3:37

Oh. They used to make pigments out of

Tanner 3:38

that. Yeah.

Sups 3:39

And nowadays mercury is in the same category as led in terms of being dangerous.

Tanner 3:45

Yeah. I mean it's very harmful to fetuses. So as you're developing, you are more susceptible to heavy metals in the womb than you are as an adult.

Andi 3:54

Okay. If your brain is still developing, it can mess with that exactly process. But once we're old or fine

Tanner 4:00

well, yeah. As long as you're not Exposed to it a lot.

Sups 4:04

All right. And it's rarer than silver.

Tanner 4:07

That's right

Sups 4:07

Okay. I mean it's logical.

Andi 4:10

yeah. I know there are other metals that are more rare than even silver and gold are the classic

Tanner 4:16

mm-hmm

Andi 4:16

too. So that kind of, that makes sense, but I mean, it's playing on this idea that like, well, silver is valuable because it's rare. is quick, silver, more rare.

Tanner 4:27

That's the

Andi 4:27

Could be okay. So what's our next hot mercury

Tanner 4:31

Fact, number two, the planet mercury has ice on its surface,

Andi 4:37

water, ice,

Tanner 4:37

water, ice. What we're talking about hot stuff and you, would think that the closest planet plan into the sun would be too hot for ice. Yeah.

Sups 4:45

yes, I would totally think that is it in like some corner of mercury where the sun doesn't

Tanner 4:52

reach exactly It's on the poles.

Andi 4:54

Oh

Sups 4:56

okay.

Tanner 4:56

Yes. So mercury. Closest plan to the sun.

Sups 4:59

First planet is pretty small.

Tanner 5:02

Yeah. Smaller than our moon.

Andi 5:03

Yeah, exactly. It's small. I know it's ti locked. So it means that the same face of mercury is always facing the sun. Right. So one side is super hot because it's always facing the sun, but the other side never sees the sun.

Tanner 5:17

Yeah. Yeah Like The poles on the top and bottom of mercury, if you think of it that way. Yeah. They don't see the sun as

Andi 5:23

much. It doesn't wobble. Like the Earth's axis is a little off. Right. So,

Tanner 5:27

It also has tons and tons of craters. Like our moon, because it has almost no atmosphere. And so what NASA found was there were very shiny craters on mercury and when they sent more spacecraft they discovered that that shininess was frozen water ice in craters on the poles, because those don't see

Andi 5:49

mm-hmm so you're hot planted. Isn't so hot.

Tanner 5:52

Apparently.

Andi 5:52

Okay. Water I like that. ice. Hmm. like though. I mean, I mean, really,

Sups 6:04

Let's hear the other two and then

Tanner 6:05

we

Sups 6:05

can compare

Andi 6:07

soups

Tanner 6:07

don't wanna

Sups 6:08

reveal

Tanner 6:09

much

Andi 6:09

Soups feels good about this one. He's like this one's I, I know this. I saw this on, I follow NASA on Instagram.

Sups 6:16

no,

Andi 6:19

Weird that it's water. Ice. cuz like usually when you hear about icy moons and stuff, it's not necessarily water ice, it's like some other kind

Tanner 6:28

like methane

Andi 6:28

yeah Yeah. but I also don't know how common water and water ice are, so, oh boy.

Sups 6:34

and also the fact that, you mentioned water. And if the fact that there was another planet, you know, Mars is being talked about that Okay There's potential

Andi 6:42

Well, Mars definitely has

Sups 6:43

has water. water No, no. I mean now in terms of like,

Andi 6:45

living there, Uhhuh

Sups 6:47

Yeah. The planet. And then mercury has water eyes and you know, it didn't catch anybody's

Andi 6:53

Well I don't think you'd wanna live on mercury.

Sups 6:55

no, I mean,

Andi 6:56

that would be a nightmare. Yeah.

Tanner 6:57

Yeah, it's extremely hot and extremely cold. It doesn't sound very nice to me.

Andi 7:01

No

Tanner 7:01

but you might be able to get ice there if that's true

Andi 7:04

Okay

Sups 7:05

Water,

Andi 7:05

ice, water, ice, maybe

Sups 7:07

Maybe

Andi 7:08

Yeah.

Sups 7:09

We'll find out.

Andi 7:10

Let's hear about our next hot mercury.

Tanner 7:12

All right. fact number three. Mercury was the Roman God of merchants, doctors and thieves

Andi 7:20

Wait, merchants and themes

Sups 7:22

and doctors.

Andi 7:23

Yeah, I kind of like that. Okay.

Sups 7:25

That's a good mix. Yeah. I'm trying to picture them in one category. the three

Andi 7:31

Well, I know for sure. Merchants. that's where mercurial

Sups 7:34

yeah, exactly.

Tanner 7:36

Right. And merchandise, these are all taken from the same word.

Andi 7:39

So that one I know, but, thieves, but that would fit mercury though. So he's kind of like a bit of. Trickster God in the Roman Pantheon. So I could see that he's both the merchants and the

Tanner 7:49

th

Andi 7:50

That's kind of funny.

Sups 7:52

and the doctors, because he's always trying to sell you something. Yeah.

Andi 7:55

Yeah, right. Yeah.

Sups 7:56

sell you treatments.

Andi 7:59

yeah. Like a Cton.

Sups 8:01

Yeah.

Andi 8:01

I love that. It's hot too. Yeah hot. definitely, he was a favorite of sculptors and he never wore anything except his very important hat and his very important shoes. But otherwise he wore nothing.

Tanner 8:11

He's always naked. He's always

Andi 8:13

naked. Very

Sups 8:13

confident about his body. And rightly so, if you had a figure like mercury show off.

Tanner 8:18

Yeah,

Andi 8:19

a bit too much of a twink

Tanner 8:21

frame

Andi 8:21

personally, but

Sups 8:22

but I guess

Andi 8:23

it. I get it.

Tanner 8:24

Yeah, he was very popular for sculpting in ancient Rome. and the God of. Shopkeepers merchants, travelers, thieves, doctors, and the dying. So he takes you to the underworld.

Andi 8:37

Right.

Tanner 8:38

And so his symbols, like you mentioned, are the winged shoes.

Sups 8:42

Yeah.

Tanner 8:42

So he is got the hat. Yeah.

Andi 8:44

And nothing else, man. all he's ever depicted wearing is the shoes and that,

Tanner 8:49

And then he carries a Cauc.

Andi 8:51

Oh,

Tanner 8:51

yeah Which is the healer's rod with two snakes and wings.

Sups 8:55

Right? That's the stethoscope from the Roman times

Tanner 8:59

Yes.

Andi 8:59

They hit you with it and if you live then you're

Sups 9:01

You're good. Yeah, exactly.

Andi 9:02

Yeah. That's why that's the symbol of like a lot of hospitals and stuff.

Sups 9:07

right? Yeah.

Andi 9:08

Okay.

Tanner 9:09

He flies around on wing of shoes. And so this is why the element and the planet are named for.

Sups 9:16

And also Nike has a shoe range called mercury

Tanner 9:20

Do they

Andi 9:20

Oh

Sups 9:21

And now it makes sense. Yeah.

Andi 9:23

Yeah He's fast I still find I mean, it makes sense. He's a trickster, so it would be thieves, but It's kind of odd that he would be the God of both the merchants and the thieves. He's just playing both teams that also kind of fits him. I feel like, I guess he plays both sides, then he always wins. Yeah.

Tanner 9:39

Yeah.

Andi 9:40

All right. Yeah. So we have one more hot mercury. That's

Tanner 9:43

That's right. Fact number four. Freddy mercury had four extra teeth.

Sups 9:51

yeah, Wow. I mean, I know

Andi 9:54

was lot of things about

Sups 9:55

Freddie mercury. Teeth is not one of them.

Andi 10:00

Oh wow So first of all, I really love that he's included among hot

Tanner 10:05

Yes

Sups 10:05

definitely. Is he the hottest

Andi 10:07

of the Mercurys? I think the planet probably wins.

Sups 10:12

Yeah, sure.

Andi 10:13

But then this fact. He had four extra teeth. So he had like 36 teeth instead of the normal 32,

Tanner 10:20

that's right.

Sups 10:20

With the molar,

Tanner 10:21

Mm-hmm they're in the back of his mouth. Yeah. They push the rest of his teeth forward, giving him his trademark over pipe.

Andi 10:27

Okay. That kind of makes

Sups 10:29

He sure. That was the reason

Andi 10:31

I've never heard of anyone having a second set of wisdom teeth Yeah. That's very bizarre. I actually only have 31 teeth. So I guess it's not crazy that you could have not 32

Tanner 10:44

teeth.

Andi 10:44

Yeah. But the whole thing with humans, our teeth are such a problem because our mouths are too small for all of the teeth we have. That's why so many people have to have their wisdom teeth

Tanner 10:53

Mm-hmm

Andi 10:53

but then evolution really just dealt for any mercury, even worse and was like, you get an extra set.

Tanner 10:59

extra teeth or supernumerary teeth? They,

Andi 11:03

I hate medical.

Tanner 11:04

they could basically happen for any reason. you developed extra teeth and maybe they come in and they cause a problem. Maybe they don't. So more people probably have these than they know. Cause they can just stay in your jaw and not cause a problem. Okay. But his were coming out of his upper jaw and pushing his other teeth and he was very self-conscious about. so some people say that he covered them up with his lips or his

Andi 11:26

Yeah I was gonna say, is that what the mustache is for? Yes.

Tanner 11:28

And he definitely could have had it taken care of, but he didn't want to have any surgeries because he was afraid that it would change his singing style.

Andi 11:38

Oh, like in his

Tanner 11:39

mouth, it would change the shape and structure of his mouth. And so he would sound D.

Andi 11:43

Okay.

Tanner 11:44

but it can cause a lot of problems if you have extra teeth they won't align And that causes of chain

Andi 11:51

Oh yeah

Tanner 11:52

Not to mention like you can get embarrassed cuz teeth are very visual

Andi 11:56

Yeah. well, and then even that's cultural though. Mm-hmm yeah. Americans are super weird about teeth.

Tanner 12:01

Yeah.

Andi 12:01

Yeah. Other cultures don't care as much about it, but Americans are like, Everyone in Hollywood has fake teeth because that's like the first thing you have to do, if you don't have perfect teeth, you can't even work.

Tanner 12:10

Yeah.

Sups 12:11

Right. Yeah.

Andi 12:12

Okay. But circling back to hot

Tanner 12:14

this hot mercury.

Andi 12:15

Yeah the fact on the one hand, it makes sense, but it also seems like it could be a lie because a lot of people, when you talk about singers and artists who are like very unique, a lot of people want to give some kind of like physical quality. They wanna say it's because of something they have, like their bodies are different or something. And. I don't really like that. I feel like it can make it seem like it's less like that they worked really hard and did something really amazing. But then on the other hand, I mean, like, humans are weird. Yeah. Humans have weird anomalies, so it could be something different. Like, he had a very huge mouth. You can't sing like that. If you have a small mouth that can't open really far. So I guess like maybe some extra teeth, they like, look how much space I got in here. I'm gonna come in and I mean your teeth, they affect your vocal quality and the way you speak. I mean, certain sounds are literally dentals. They are made by your tongue, touching your teeth. So, I could kind of see this, but I also could see people just making up be reason why he was special instead of just being that he was special.

Tanner 13:15

Mm-hmm he was very unique He wasn't born Fred mercury changed his

Andi 13:18

name. Oh, really? His name wasn't mercury. Yeah.

Sups 13:22

was Well he has Indian roots, right? Yeah. He was parse.

Tanner 13:25

Yes exactly

Sups 13:26

then they moved to England when he was a child. Yeah Yeah.

Tanner 13:30

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah He was a very unique guy And part of it was his huge vocal range his aesthetics. and his teeth played a part of that

Sups 13:38

Yeah.

Andi 13:39

Yeah. That's kind of weird and creepy. I want to believe that it's not real, but also humans are humans. Okay. Those were interesting facts. About four different hot Mercurys. Can you repeat the four of them for us please? And we'll guess which one is a lie?

Tanner 13:54

All right. Fact, number one, the element mercury is rarer than silver in the Earth's crust fact. Number two, the planet mercury has water ice on its surface fact. Number three. Mercury was the Roman God of merchants, doctors and thieves. In fact, number four, Freddie mercury had four extra teeth. One of those is a lie.

Andi 14:28

oh man, that's pretty hard.

Sups 14:31

That's difficult.

Andi 14:32

Yeah. Hmm.

Sups 14:34

I'm thinking. Number two,

Andi 14:35

The water ice.

Sups 14:36

Mm. This water puts me off in mercury.

Andi 14:39

Yeah. You were very

Sups 14:40

skeptical

Andi 14:41

from like the whole time yeah, you had a very like incredulous face. So he is just sitting here, like smirking shaking his head.

Sups 14:50

I dunno. I mean, this whole thing about water. no discussions about it. Elon Musk is not interested yet in going and

Andi 14:58

yeah exploring

Sups 14:58

this. I know, I don't know something about it. Ice makes sense, but maybe with some other gas, right? Like in other planets, but water, that's the key word, but I think all the others seem relatively logical to me. I know but I would pick two. What are you

Andi 15:17

Okay Mm. The teeth I'm really on the teeth. Four extra teeth, he said specifically four extra teeth, but I don't remember hearing about four teeth. I remember hearing about two teeth mm-hmm but then that's also kind of that's a ridiculous lie. They'd be like, oh, he only had two extra teeth. Like that seems silly. the murky or the God, the thieves thing. Could be a lie. But I don't know those gods, they were like, gods are like a million things. Exactly. Um The other one was like the first one, maybe we dismissed that too quickly. Maybe mercury is actually quite common, but it's in like compounds. Like he was saying it's in cinnabar. Like it's in a compound where it's not dangerous so it's actually quite common. Maybe. Cause a lot of people, they say that with like vaccines, they're like there are compounds with mercury and vaccines and it's like, yes. And mercury is dangerous, but when it's combined with these other things, it's not dangerous anymore. So maybe it's something like that. maybe I'll go with that one number one

Tanner 16:11

All right. So we have fact number one and fact number two. Yeah. All right. The lie is fact number three.

Andi 16:19

Oh no.

Tanner 16:20

God one. So mercury was the God of merchants and travelers and thieves, but not doctors.

Sups 16:29

Mm

Andi 16:29

oh, that's Apollo.

Tanner 16:31

Yeah. So Apollo was the God of

Andi 16:33

oh, I knew that

Sups 16:35

Yeah. no it made sense

Tanner 16:36

Totally.

Andi 16:37

But I was just the, the Cadus that's why that's what really got me was I was like, oh yeah, I know he carries the KDS. So he's doctors

Sups 16:43

but that's the thing, because I know that in India we have a huge chain of hospitals. called Apollo hospitals and Apollo pharmacy. And I totally knew that Apollo is the yeah. But the way you phrased it, I just, yeah. Okay. And when you talked about the Kius and I'm like, yeah, totally makes

Tanner 16:59

sense. See, that's the thing, the is not actually the healers rod. That's a common mistake people make. Okay. So the Kius is the one that mercury has. It's a rod with it's

Andi 17:10

definitely his symbol.

Tanner 17:11

Yeah. It's two snakes. And it's winged. this symbolizes messengers and heralds. The healing rod is a single rod with a single snake around it. That's called the rod of Aus, who is the God of healing. snake. Yes but the ride of Acus is not the Kous.

Sups 17:29

Right.

Andi 17:30

Okay totally makes sense. So tricky.

Tanner 17:33

Marrie has nothing to do with

Andi 17:34

I didn't even really analyze. I was all on like how funny it is that he's the God of merchants and

Sups 17:39

Yeah. Yeah,

Andi 17:40

we didn't really talk

Sups 17:41

into like I was doctor. Oh, okay. Yeah. Doctor's trying to sell him something. Yeah.

Andi 17:45

I was like, oh, is the KDS for sure. Like, yeah. Okay. So it's a misconception.

Tanner 17:49

Yeah. And the connection with the dead and the underworld is just because he's for travelers, right. And

Andi 17:55

a messenger.

Tanner 17:56

He has nothing to do with ailments or dying or

Sups 17:58

doctors.

Tanner 17:59

Of

Andi 18:00

okay. Yeah.

Sups 18:00

Yeah

Andi 18:01

and the water is

Sups 18:02

Yeah

Tanner 18:02

That's totally true. Okay. But it's very recent. So they suspected it was ice in the nineties in 2012, they discovered water ice. And then in 2017 they specifically pinpointed the craters that it has ice in. Yeah.

Andi 18:19

Wow. Okay. And the teeth.

Tanner 18:21

Oh yeah. That's totally true.

Andi 18:22

Ew

Tanner 18:24

I think that's the least interesting fact about Freddy mercury

Andi 18:27

honestly Yeah. Yeah That definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it is always interesting. You know, somebody uses something other people see as a flaw and make it like who they are and they kind of,

Sups 18:36

but he used it to his advantage and his uniqueness and yeah. Music. That's

Andi 18:41

always kind of interesting, but super weird and creepy. I don't like the idea in the least. Then we're talking about teeth. can we put a moratorium on teeth at that I should known podcast for a while. I've had too much about teeth, right Okay. Okay. No teeth for a while. Agreed. All right. But wow. Yeah, I I really should have scrutinized That That was really all on me. I should have known

Sups 18:58

I should have known

Andi 18:59

Thanks for listening to this episode of the IHA known podcast. If you are more scrupulous than me and soups, send this to someone and see if they are as well, and as always, thanks for listening.

Tanner 19:12

yeah I definitely think he's hot.