Massive and Complex

[00:00] But yes, it is time for everyone's favorite segment, game show, whatever it is, it's lighting
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[00:11] The Undo Googles.
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[00:59] So shout out this week to Erin Triplett, who sent in this Undo Googles question.
[01:07] Shout out.
[01:09] She asked, what's the tallest mountain in the United States, the contiguous 48 states, the
[01:17] United States?
[01:18] So the tallest mountain, not in Alaska.
[01:24] For me, I need to start this by saying all of the tallest mountains are in Alaska, right?
[01:31] Hawaii might have one as tall as the contiguous 48.
[01:35] What did they rename Denali?
[01:37] Didn't they rename it?
[01:39] That was the rename.
[01:40] Oh, that was the rename?
[01:41] Kenley.
[01:42] That's right.
[01:43] Well, it was originally Denali, and then we renamed it McKinley.
[01:47] And then Obama did it right and renamed it Denali.
[01:52] Okay.
[01:53] So that's the tallest mountain in the United States.
[01:57] So this question is, what's the tallest mountain outside of Alaska in the contiguous 48 states?
[02:03] So I guess not Hawaii either.
[02:05] And how much shorter is it than the next tallest mountain that is in Alaska?
[02:12] So that's a tough question.
[02:15] So basically-
[02:16] Very specific question.
[02:18] So basically, we need to find the smallest mountain in Alaska, and then the tallest mountain
[02:24] in-
[02:25] Well, a mountain is, by definition, 2,000 vertical feet.
[02:29] So-
[02:31] Is that right?
[02:32] I didn't know that was the definition.
[02:33] I do.
[02:35] I'm pretty sure that's the thing.
[02:36] You did not know that.
[02:38] Okay.
[02:39] If we know Denali-
[02:40] Well, how tall is Denali?
[02:41] Does anybody know?
[02:42] It's like-
[02:43] It's like 18,000 feet or something.
[02:44] Yeah.
[02:45] Yeah.
[02:46] Or maybe it's taller than that.
[02:47] Maybe closer to 20.
[02:48] It's taller than that.
[02:49] Okay.
[02:50] And so here's my only knowledge, because I'm not going to be able to offer much on this
[02:53] at all, except that I lived in Colorado.
[02:56] You lived in Colorado.
[02:57] You lived in the mountains.
[02:58] Well, no.
[02:59] No, that's what I'm saying.
[03:00] Well, no.
[03:01] And I was going to give you my living experience.
[03:03] I don't know the name of a lot of tall mountains.
[03:04] Did you ever look up at any mountains?
[03:05] The Fourteeners is a big deal, right?
[03:08] Right.
[03:09] So have you hiked a Fourteener?
[03:11] Fourteeners are kind of the max of what's out there in Colorado.
[03:15] In the West.
[03:16] So there's a ton of them, but I don't think there's a mountain taller than 14,000 feet
[03:22] in the Rocky Mountains.
[03:23] I don't believe so.
[03:25] So that's my baseline of knowledge.
[03:28] Wait, there's a 14,000 foot mountain in Colorado?
[03:31] No, I think there are a few Fourteeners in Colorado.
[03:35] No, there's a ton of Fourteeners.
[03:36] Okay, right.
[03:37] Yeah, yeah.
[03:38] What I'm saying is I don't think there's any Fifteeners.
[03:40] No, I agree.
[03:41] I totally agree.
[03:42] Yes.
[03:43] And I know names of a couple really tall mountains.
[03:46] The tallest I know, there was Mount Massive, Mount Evans.
[03:51] Mount Massive has my vote.
[03:56] Mount Massive and Mount Evans are the two that pop into my head as mountains that were
[04:00] mentioned as tall mountains.
[04:01] So that's all I have.
[04:04] In Pike's Peak, it seems like a famous thing.
[04:08] Sure.
[04:09] Is that a 14 footer?
[04:11] It is a Fourteener.
[04:13] It's a Fourteener, but I don't think it's bigger than Evans or Massive.
[04:19] Okay.
[04:21] I'm assuming that all of these things must be relative to sea level and not some other
[04:25] baseline metric, right?
[04:26] Yes, correct.
[04:28] Okay.
[04:29] Yeah.
[04:30] Yeah.
[04:31] And sea level like 20 years ago before it started like all the way up, you know.
[04:35] Gotcha.
[04:36] So, okay.
[04:37] So we're saying Denali is like 18 and we're saying that there are mountains.
[04:42] I think it might be 20.
[04:43] 20?
[04:44] Okay.
[04:45] So we're saying it's 20.
[04:46] So Denali is like 20.
[04:47] Let's go 20.
[04:48] Yeah.
[04:49] I like 20.
[04:50] What's the tallest?
[04:51] Is Everest or K2?
[04:52] I never get...
[04:53] Well, it's definitely not K2.
[04:55] I think it's Everest.
[04:57] It's Everest.
[04:58] It's Everest by most metrics.
[04:59] And I think the other one might be Kilimanjaro.
[05:02] Oh, really?
[05:04] But it all depends on how you measure it.
[05:07] I think Everest is generally considered the tallest.
[05:10] And it's like 27K.
[05:12] 27 plus.
[05:13] Something like that.
[05:14] Right?
[05:15] Yeah.
[05:16] Okay.
[05:17] Yeah.
[05:18] So Himalayas, there's a ton of tall mountains.
[05:21] Everest is tallest.
[05:23] We're going to Alaska.
[05:24] We got 20,000 feet.
[05:27] I didn't even know we had any 15,000 footers here, so...
[05:30] No, like I said, I don't think we do.
[05:32] I don't think we do.
[05:33] I think those ones in the Colorado's are the highest in the...
[05:36] I think they are.
[05:37] I think the Rockies have the tallest outside of Alaska.
[05:39] It's definitely not going to be Appalachia.
[05:41] The only other thing in contest would be the Sierra Nevadas.
[05:44] And I think they're out.
[05:46] Great.
[05:47] Yeah.
[05:48] No, I'm going Rockies.
[05:49] And I'm going it's somewhere like 14...
[05:51] Let's say like 14.8.
[05:53] And I don't know the name of it.
[05:54] Because I'm going Mount Massive or Mount Evans.
[05:58] And it's going to be like 14.8.
[06:00] So now I've got to decide what the...
[06:03] What the...
[06:04] I do want to say that...
[06:06] Alaska mountains.
[06:07] For some reason, in my head, it seems that the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States is in California.
[06:13] Ooh.
[06:14] Ooh.
[06:15] Okay.
[06:16] Okay.
[06:17] I'm all right with this.
[06:18] What would that be?
[06:19] I don't know what it would be.
[06:20] It's in the Sierras.
[06:21] Mount Sierra Nevada.
[06:22] Right.
[06:23] Mount Lagunitas.
[06:27] Mount Lagunitas.
[06:28] We're just naming breweries at this point.
[06:34] That's how this game began.
[06:35] It's only fit.
[06:36] I'm going to give a shout out.
[06:37] I'm drinking a...
[06:39] Well, we're talking about mountains.
[06:40] And I'm drinking a beer from mountain country.
[06:43] From Great Divide Brewing in Denver, Colorado.
[06:47] It's an Oak Age Yeti Imperial Stout.
[06:52] Which is massive and complex.
[06:54] So it's just good.
[06:55] I think it's perfect.
[06:56] I think that's a hint.
[06:57] And it's super tasty to my palate.
[07:00] Is it massive and complex to your palate?
[07:03] Yeah.
[07:04] Oh, yeah.
[07:05] And it's like 9.5% alcohol.
[07:08] Nice.
[07:09] So we need to end up...
[07:10] That's the massive part.
[07:11] Exactly.
[07:13] So let's wrap this under Googables.
[07:15] I'm going to grab the rest.
[07:19] I'm voting with my limited knowledge here for Mount Massive.
[07:22] I also like Mount Massive,
[07:25] but I don't actually think it's the right answer.
[07:27] It's just the right answer for under Googables.
[07:30] And it's based on actual some limited knowledge.
[07:34] We have...
[07:35] And a beer bottle.
[07:37] And a beer bottle, right.
[07:39] And how much shorter is it than the next tallest mountain
[07:42] that is in Alaska?
[07:43] Which is complicated.
[07:45] Well, I'm going to say it's...
[07:46] Well, let's just say how much shorter is it
[07:49] than the tallest in Alaska.
[07:51] Yeah, that's the...
[07:52] Because there's going to be peaks in Alaska
[07:54] that just keep going down and down.
[07:55] So we're saying Denali is 20,000 feet
[07:59] and then we're going to say that Mount Massive
[08:01] is like 14.8 and it's like a 5,000 difference.
[08:05] Sure.
[08:06] I'll go greater than but at least 5,000.
[08:09] Greater than 5,000.
[08:10] Yeah.
[08:11] All right, I like it.
[08:12] All right, so let's Google this, chef.
[08:14] All right, Denali is 20,000, 310.
[08:18] Look at us.
[08:19] Nailed it.
[08:20] Bang.
[08:21] And then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
[08:27] Okay, Mount Whitney is number 11.
[08:30] That's California, right?
[08:32] I should have known that.
[08:33] Yeah.
[08:34] And it is 14.5.
[08:36] Okay.
[08:37] Is that California?
[08:38] Mm-hmm.
[08:39] Yes, sir.
[08:40] Yeah.
[08:41] You know, you said that and I had an inkling
[08:43] that it was right, but I had nothing to back it up with.
[08:46] Yeah.
[08:47] I have never heard of Mount Whitney before this moment,
[08:49] but nice work.
[08:51] All right, and then we've got Mount Elbert,
[08:53] which is Colorado, and Mount Massive right after that.
[08:57] Hey, not too bad.
[08:58] Okay, so we were right there.
[08:59] Not bad.
[09:00] And then where's Mount Evans?
[09:01] And then Mount Harvard.
[09:03] Yeah, Mount Evans is down like 15 from there.
[09:07] Mount Evans is 14.264.
[09:10] Oh, and Mount Rainier.
[09:11] We should have thrown that one out.
[09:13] Oh, yeah.
[09:14] Pike's Peak is number 39, but at 14, 1, 1, 5.
[09:18] I mean, there's 400 feet that separate it.
[09:20] Yeah, right.
[09:22] All right, so Mount Whitney was the answer.
[09:25] There's a bunch of Ivy Leagues.
[09:27] There's like Mount Yale, Mount Princeton, Mount Harvard.
[09:31] That's weird.
[09:33] Kyle has hiked Mount Lincoln, and there's like four of them
[09:39] that she did, Mount Princeton.
[09:41] It was a bunch of the Ivy Leagues.
[09:43] Wow.
[09:44] All right, so Mount Whitney was the answer.
[09:47] Mount Massive was the third highest outside of Alaska,
[09:51] so we're sort of close.
[09:53] And we nailed the difference.
[09:55] It's like 5,500 feet.
[09:58] All right, we're not that much dumber than Google.
[10:01] I'm seeing a Mauna Kea as the highest in Hawaii
[10:05] at 13,803 feet.
[10:09] Okay.
[10:10] So Hawaii is not higher than the Rockies
[10:13] or the Sierra Nevadas.
[10:15] Right, and Mauna Loa would be the next one.
[10:18] Mauna.
[10:19] How do you say that?
[10:20] It's M-A-U-N-A.
[10:22] I think it's Mauna.
[10:23] Mauna, yeah, that's right.
[10:25] Because you say every vowel in Hawaiian, right?
[10:28] Yeah, okay.
[10:30] We learned so much.
[10:31] Nice.
[10:32] Good work, guys.
[10:34] That's what we like about the Unaguguals.
[10:36] The educational part, the part of the pod,
[10:39] the rest of this is just trash, but sometimes you'll...
[10:42] Well, I mean, the funny part is,
[10:44] there's probably an equal chance that people will remember
[10:47] all the wrong stuff that we said,
[10:49] to the right stuff we said.
[10:51] We might be un-educating America.
[10:53] Oh, it's fine.
[10:54] We live in a post-fact world,
[10:57] so it doesn't really matter.
[10:58] I was proud of this.
[11:00] It was also, it was like the jumping through Neptune thing.
[11:05] Sometimes we have knowledge, I like it.
[11:07] I don't know that jumping through Neptune
[11:09] actually exhibited any knowledge, but...
[11:13] Pretty sure you can't just jump through Neptune.
[11:17] It was a really weird sentence,
[11:19] so that counts for something.
[11:21] It was memorable.
[11:23] It was, it was.
[11:25] And we found out that scientists were still debating
[11:31] whether there's rocky cores at the center of gas giants.
[11:34] My favorite part of that was the roiling liquid metal sea.
[11:39] Yeah.
[11:40] That was my favorite part.
[11:41] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[11:42] That was why it's so magnetic.
[11:44] That's why there's no probes.
[11:45] Yeah.
[11:46] That's awesome.