Lighting the Internet on Fire

[00:00] Coalson, you're under Googleables. I enjoy it every week, and I'm hoping, again, you got
[00:08] something for us to just make up a bunch of things for.
[00:23] We do under Googleables. That was the play of Super Excited.
[00:26] I told us we had to.
[00:30] You said we signed up for it. In the end, it's going to be better and more true than
[00:36] Google can give you.
[00:40] It's lighting the internet on fire, I think.
[00:46] Is that the question, how to light the internet on fire?
[00:52] Take a match. I actually know this one.
[00:56] Joey does know this one. Give Coalson a hyperlink to your computer.
[01:05] This one may have come from you, Joey. Or maybe it came from Sharpie.
[01:14] This week's question is, why are dogs' noses wet?
[01:21] Does anybody know the answer to that question?
[01:25] Why are dogs' noses wet? I think it has to do with how they sense the world, right?
[01:32] At some level.
[01:33] Better smellers. Does the moisture help your smelling?
[01:39] Yes.
[01:40] Okay. I can't smell underwater. Explain that.
[01:45] Dolphins can't smell underwater.
[01:49] Dolphins do not have a sense of smell. That's true.
[01:52] There are certain cues, which you call volatile cues, which are aromatized.
[01:59] You got us going deep now.
[02:00] Those things are in the air, right?
[02:04] You don't need them to be in liquid.
[02:05] There are a whole other set of odorant cues that are soluble, so they have to be in a
[02:12] liquid for you to taste them.
[02:16] Dogs especially, they do a lot of communication through scents.
[02:23] If you ever take your dog for a walk, you notice they'll sniff and they get right
[02:27] up in there and absorb almost that stuff on their nose.
[02:32] Then even they have a whole other system called the accessory olfactory system that humans
[02:38] don't even have.
[02:42] They'll actually lick and pull their tongue into their mouth and then shove it up into
[02:48] their nasal cavity basically.
[02:52] What?
[02:53] Yeah, yeah.
[02:54] Lots of pheromones and things like that are those type of cues where you have to have
[02:59] very close contact.
[03:00] That's my theory.
[03:01] It helps with the perception.
[03:05] That didn't sound much like a theory there, buddy.
[03:07] I was going to go with something like, oh, I can't breathe it down through their nose
[03:12] and there's humidity or something.
[03:14] I'm going to go with what Jason said.
[03:19] Yeah, exactly.
[03:21] Truth be told, we have joint lab meetings with a group that works on the olfactory system.
[03:28] You stayed awake, so props to you.
[03:30] This is why people come to the Undebutables to get knowledge.
[03:34] I don't know if that's why they ... That doesn't explain why the exterior of their nose
[03:38] needs to be moist.
[03:40] Maybe at some level it does because it helps reveal things in there.
[03:45] My dog actually, his nose will get really dry and winter and it drives him nuts.
[03:50] I think it's a sensitive exterior surface on a dog in some sense.
[03:59] It would be like the equivalent of humans getting chapped lips or something like that.
[04:03] Or dry eyes.
[04:06] I thought it was like a heat thing that they were expelling.
[04:10] When you sweat, you feel cooler.
[04:13] I don't know.
[04:14] I guess that doesn't make sense.
[04:15] Dogs don't have sweat glands.
[04:18] Yeah, dogs can't sweat.
[04:20] That's why they pant.
[04:21] Panting is more effective for that, I think.
[04:25] So they don't have sweat glands?
[04:27] They would get cooler through a wet nose then, wouldn't they?
[04:31] If the wind breathes and sort of thing?
[04:33] That's probably not why it happened evolutionarily.
[04:35] That gigantic tongue is ...
[04:37] Maybe there's an aspect of it, but the gigantic tongue is a more effective distributor of heat, I think.
[04:42] Yeah, yeah.
[04:43] Because their nose doesn't take up a ton of surface area either.
[04:47] Unless you're Sharpie.
[04:49] Right, yeah.
[04:50] Old big tongue Sharpie, we called him.
[04:53] So I'm thankful for Jason who knows crazy stuff.
[04:57] That's awesome.
[04:58] That was amazing.
[04:59] I don't even think we need to Google this yet.
[05:01] I'm not Googling that.
[05:02] We will not find a better answer on Google than that.
[05:06] Which makes Coles's prediction correct.
[05:09] We are better than Google.
[05:11] Yeah.
[05:13] Oh, the top hit is that ...
[05:17] Was it our website?
[05:18] Oh, no.
[05:24] So one of the reasons, apparently, is for a temperature control at some level.
[05:30] Good.
[05:31] John's random theory actually is ...
[05:34] Panda.
[05:35] But then also it's ...
[05:38] Yeah, so they'll sniff and then lick their nose and then pull that in.
[05:42] Oh, yeah.
[05:43] I see them do that.
[05:45] Yeah.
[05:46] Okay, so they're absorbing smells just like you said into the liquid stuff that we can't smell out of the air.
[05:54] Yeah.
[05:55] Yeah.
[05:56] That is super dope.
[05:58] Cesar Milan has five reasons.
[06:01] Okay, what are the five?
[06:03] One, because they secrete mucus.
[06:06] That's why they're wet.
[06:07] That's not a why.
[06:08] That's the cuz.
[06:09] Yeah, that's right.
[06:10] These are all the cuz things.
[06:12] And two is because dogs tend to lick them a lot.
[06:15] No, that's not why their nose is wet.
[06:17] Three is because it helps them to cool down.
[06:21] Four, because dogs' noses tend to pick up moisture.
[06:25] I think that's the scent thing.
[06:27] I don't know.
[06:28] They're just saying because they ...
[06:29] That makes another why.
[06:30] Why does their nose tend to pick up moisture?
[06:32] And then number five is because they're born that way.
[06:36] Oh, man.
[06:37] I don't like that website.
[06:38] Come on, Cesar.
[06:39] Come on, Internet.
[06:40] I feel like they told him to write an article about that and he's like, I got one, one and
[06:45] a half maybe.
[06:46] I see if I can make one and a half into five.
[06:51] Just vamp that.
[06:53] The thing is, how many times have you read one of those list articles when it says one
[06:58] and a half reasons why anything?
[07:00] I think that should be our new website.
[07:04] One and a half reasons why.
[07:06] Dot, dot, dot.
[07:08] But the general consensus seems to be it's for smelling and regulating body temperature.
[07:17] Bam.
[07:18] That's what we did.
[07:19] Because they're born that way.
[07:20] They're born that way, man.
[07:25] So I really like this next question.
[07:28] How many NBA players are left that came straight out of high school?
[07:35] That's a good question.
[07:38] We have at least three on the Pacers.
[07:41] Three?
[07:42] Yeah.
[07:43] Monta Ellis.
[07:45] Al Jefferson.
[07:46] Al Jefferson.
[07:47] C.J. Miles.
[07:48] Oh, yeah.
[07:49] C.J. Miles came straight out of high school?
[07:51] Yep.
[07:52] Yeah.
[07:53] Oh.
[07:54] Texas.
[07:55] Okay.
[07:56] Well, I didn't know that.
[07:57] Well, there's three.
[07:58] So there's three.
[07:59] There's three.
[08:00] There's LeBron James.
[08:01] Yeah.
[08:02] LeBron James.
[08:03] And Dwight Howard clearly are the two I thought of immediately.
[08:07] Kevin Garnett's retired.
[08:09] Yep.
[08:10] Kobe retired.
[08:11] Kobe's retired.
[08:12] I think that's why this is a question, probably.
[08:14] All the high schoolers are retiring.
[08:19] Baby Al retired.
[08:20] So I think Monta Ellis was the last year.
[08:23] So he's like 30 now.
[08:25] Okay.
[08:26] So what was the year?
[08:27] Because it was it was it LeBron James year?
[08:29] I thought it was the thing open until LeBron James got drafted.
[08:32] And then they're like, all right, we shut it down.
[08:34] Yeah.
[08:35] I think that's the thing.
[08:36] Conspiracy theory mode.
[08:37] Yeah.
[08:38] It was right around.
[08:39] It was either that year or the year after that.
[08:42] I thought it was.
[08:43] I thought it was in the last class.
[08:45] Okay.
[08:46] So he was drafted in what?
[08:47] Two thousand and four, three, four.
[08:51] I thought four.
[08:54] But I can go four, I think.
[08:57] Okay.
[08:59] Which would make sense.
[09:00] So you got to be 30 or older, essentially.
[09:03] Right.
[09:04] Well, I mean, it's just there's three on the Pacers.
[09:07] We'll assume that's the sample set.
[09:08] There's 30 teams, 90 dudes.
[09:10] Yeah.
[09:12] Great.
[09:13] Yeah.
[09:14] So we have five and three of them happen to be on the Pacers.
[09:18] There's got to be more.
[09:19] There's got to be more than that.
[09:22] Yeah.
[09:23] There definitely has to be more than that, I would think.
[09:25] There definitely are.
[09:26] But I mean, even back then, I didn't feel like it was that common a thing.
[09:31] Right.
[09:32] Exactly.
[09:33] And a lot of guys.
[09:34] We are a statistical outlier.
[09:35] A lot of guys washed out, too.
[09:37] Right.
[09:38] So I don't think the numbers got to be that high.
[09:40] I mean.
[09:41] So would you say it's over under 20?
[09:43] Yes.
[09:44] I think the over under is 25.
[09:46] No.
[09:47] I think the over under is 15.
[09:49] That's what I'm talking about.
[09:50] Wow.
[09:51] Okay.
[09:52] Yeah.
[09:53] Because the way you think about it, like.
[09:54] Are you checking the odds on this one?
[09:55] Well, no, but you think about it.
[09:57] If, if, you know, the average NBA career is what?
[10:01] Five years.
[10:02] And, you know, we're, we're now.
[10:06] Whatever.
[10:07] 12 years away from, um, you know, I just, I just think you're.
[10:12] And you said yourself, Harper, that it's not, it wasn't that rampant.
[10:16] At most a quarter of the guys drafted came straight out of high school.
[10:21] And like, look, a lot of guys did wash out, but all of those guys had ridiculous talent.
[10:29] Mm hmm.
[10:30] Right.
[10:31] So you can get along the way.
[10:32] But I mean.
[10:33] You can be a bench player in this league with not great skills, but great athleticism.
[10:36] Well, Andrew Bynum, you know, out of the league, I mean, there's, there's a, you
[10:40] know, a lot of, um, who else would be.
[10:44] Out of high school.
[10:47] I'm going 25.
[10:49] JC or JT.
[10:50] What you got?
[10:51] I think it's probably around 20.
[10:53] 20.
[10:54] Yeah.
[10:55] Go free.
[10:56] Got a number.
[10:57] Oh, man.
[10:58] Uh, I'm going low.
[11:01] Gerald, Gerald green.
[11:03] He can't start a high school, right?
[11:05] Is he, is he still in the league?
[11:07] He is still in the league.
[11:08] Yes.
[11:09] Absolutely.
[11:10] All right.
[11:11] So there's six.
[11:12] We got six.
[11:13] I don't think we're going to be able to count them all.
[11:15] No, I'm just trying to say, like, if I can.
[11:17] I'm going to go.
[11:18] I can't think of that.
[11:19] What was, what was yours, Jason?
[11:21] Uh, 20.
[11:22] All right.
[11:23] I'm going to go.
[11:24] I'm going to go 15.
[11:25] I think it's low.
[11:26] You and I'm going lower than you, Joey.
[11:29] I'm going to go.
[11:31] Uh, 14.
[11:32] No, no, no, no.
[11:33] I was going to go.
[11:34] I'm going to go.
[11:35] I'm going to go 12.
[11:36] You're going.
[11:37] That was my original number.
[11:38] So you think that we have a quarter of the league's guys?
[11:42] Yes, I do.
[11:43] I really do.
[11:44] I think we're a statistical, uh, aberration.
[11:47] Is Darius Miles still in the league?
[11:51] No.
[11:52] No.
[11:53] Okay.
[11:54] I mean, I just, I'm running out of guys I can even think of.
[11:58] And I feel like we should be able to think of these guys.
[12:00] I think we're, Harper, I think you and I are way over.
[12:03] So.
[12:04] That may be, but I'm pretty sure that if you ask someone who's not a Pacer fan, if CJ
[12:10] Miles came straight out of high school, the answer would be, I have no idea.
[12:13] Yeah.
[12:14] I didn't, I didn't know that.
[12:15] Why are you talking to me?
[12:20] So the, the 2005 draft was the last one to allow high school players.
[12:25] 2005.
[12:26] Okay.
[12:27] And when Lebron was drafted, when?
[12:30] 2004.
[12:31] 2004, I think.
[12:33] And there were, uh, there have been a total of 44 players drafted straight out of high
[12:40] school.
[12:41] Ever.
[12:42] Ever.
[12:43] So like you're talking about Moses Malone.
[12:44] Oh, wow.
[12:45] Like way back.
[12:46] That, that is surprising.
[12:48] I think, according to my brief Googling, hold on, uh, yeah, according to Wikipedia, there
[12:56] have been 44 NBA drafties straight out of high school.
[13:05] Three of them.
[13:06] Well, there was like a big, yeah.
[13:09] So I mean, what?
[13:10] Surge toy van.
[13:12] Sure.
[13:13] Uh, for the record Lebron James was the 2003 draft class.
[13:17] Okay.
[13:18] All right.
[13:19] So it went on for two more years.
[13:21] Huh.
[13:22] Okay.
[13:23] I can't find a list of active players.
[13:24] I've got, I've got a list right here.
[13:26] Actually did.
[13:27] Okay.
[13:28] Um, well, I've got the list of all of them.
[13:30] Um, is, I have a list for Leonie Young still in the league.
[13:35] I did not know that was a thing.
[13:37] And duty.
[13:38] Ebbie.
[13:39] Who are these people?
[13:40] Tyson Chandler.
[13:42] Came straight out of high school.
[13:43] Forgot about him.
[13:44] So he's still in the league.
[13:45] So there's seven.
[13:46] Okay.
[13:47] Amir Johnson.
[13:48] Amir Johnson came out of high school.
[13:50] All right.
[13:51] J.R.
[13:52] Smith came out of high school.
[13:53] So that's nine now.
[13:56] Lou Williams.
[13:57] Okay.
[13:58] Ten.
[13:59] It's ten.
[14:00] You got, you counted Gerald Green already.
[14:05] Is Martell Webster still playing?
[14:07] I don't think so.
[14:11] Derrell Wright.
[14:12] He's got to be on the team somewhere, right?
[14:13] I don't think he's still playing basketball.
[14:15] Derrell Wright's not playing anywhere.
[14:18] What about Josh Smith?
[14:19] Josh Smith.
[14:20] Didn't he retire?
[14:21] Martell Webster is on the whiz.
[14:23] Okay.
[14:24] Yeah.
[14:25] Wait, Martell Webster is still in 2015.
[14:28] Okay.
[14:30] Sean Livingston.
[14:31] He's still playing.
[14:32] So that's 11.
[14:34] Robert Swift.
[14:35] Robert Swift.
[14:36] No, he's out of the league.
[14:39] James Lang.
[14:41] Andre Blatch.
[14:42] Sean Livingston.
[14:43] That's amazing.
[14:44] It's a Sonny and Gia.
[14:50] Does that count?
[14:51] No, he's not in the league.
[14:53] Andre Blatch, is he still in the league?
[14:54] No, he's on the flying Tigers.
[14:59] He's in A-League.
[15:01] He's in A-League.
[15:02] All right.
[15:03] So, 11 is what I'm doing with.
[15:05] So, I'm closest to the pen.
[15:08] What's up?
[15:10] You guys got J.R.
[15:11] Smith?
[15:12] Yeah.
[15:13] Yep.
[15:14] 11, okay.
[15:15] Wow.
[15:16] And three of them are on the Pacers.
[15:19] That's really strange.
[15:21] That's a fun question.
[15:22] I like that question.
[15:23] Yeah, that was good.
[15:24] It's a significantly lower number than I would have thought, the total number that were drafted
[15:29] straight out of high school.
[15:30] Also, the Pacers had all of them.
[15:31] We had Bender.
[15:32] We had J.O.
[15:33] We've got three right now.
[15:35] We had a lot of these guys.
[15:37] Kendrick Perkins.
[15:39] There's 12, sorry.
[15:42] He's still apparently in the league.
[15:46] Who does he play for now?
[15:48] The Pelicans.
[15:49] Oh, really?
[15:50] Okay.
[15:51] Play is a strong word.
[15:54] I nailed it.
[15:55] You did.
[15:56] You're paying him money.
[15:57] You did nail it.
[15:58] That was impressive, Coalson.
[16:00] Thank you.
[16:02] Let's get into the game of the week here, guys.