The Proof Was Once Clear

[00:05] Oh, we doing under Google rules that was the playa super excited told us we had to
[00:17] we said we signed up for it in the end it's gonna be better and more true than
[00:25] Google can give you this has been on the list a long time and I feel like I
[00:30] brought it up a few times and nobody wanted to do it so I'm gonna make us do
[00:33] it cook the books why do you cook the books we cook the books so that the feds
[00:43] can't get you that's why yeah that's why you do it but but why is it called cook
[00:51] the books hmm good question because it rhymes oh thank you that's probably the
[01:02] answer see short ones today no but so let's so cooking the books is basically
[01:09] keeping an alternate set of books keeping a book for the actual money that comes
[01:14] through and then a second one is a false accounting that you would submit to the
[01:20] IRS I don't know I don't know if I yeah I assume that it's keeping illegitimate
[01:28] books so I suppose that would be yeah you're right an alternate booking book
[01:33] keeping system or just burning your books before the feds come maybe that's
[01:41] all it is just just throw it under the just throw it in the fire yeah maybe it
[01:47] may predate the feds maybe in medieval times yeah they just throw it in the
[01:52] fire and call it good when the tax man showed up sure yeah yeah I think of
[01:57] this is like a 1920s like gangster phrase sure is that is that but do you
[02:04] think Harper maybe it goes back earlier I mean I suspect that people have been
[02:09] keeping faulty accounting records for many many many many many centuries
[02:14] there was a lot of stuff in the Bible about tax collectors so you know yeah I'm
[02:20] assuming people have been cooking the overman pinchers were not read for tax
[02:24] collectors really they have short tails yeah they don't bite very hard but they're
[02:31] scary yeah is that so that is that they have the bobtails so they don't wag them
[02:38] so they look scarier I mean they also crop their ears again it's a scary
[02:43] thing yeah because my floppy ears are cuter yeah they are cute all right so
[02:55] just 1920s you throw your books in the fire I think by the 1920s we probably had
[03:02] more sophisticated ways of yeah I think it's just a clever turn of phrase so that
[03:10] rhymes basically it's possible that there was you know someone came up with sort
[03:15] of you know they get those like invisible ink compounds and oh sure you
[03:21] know if you do you know subject them to heat perhaps you can get your you can
[03:30] make your information visible again there could be a there could be a
[03:34] chemical explanation at work here I I like the world that you live in Harper
[03:39] I like the idea that there's people using invisible ink when they do there I
[03:46] mean we know the CIA did it during the Cold War so okay so you gotta heat up
[03:53] your books potentially I don't know I don't know most most inks you know are
[04:00] designed for like black white stuff so but potentially potentially you could do
[04:04] that I think it's older than the 1920s though I'm gonna go yeah earlier
[04:19] specific yeah I'm just I'm trying to figure if I should go back to Rome or
[04:24] not like there's gonna be plenty the younger thing that's come down yeah this
[04:29] could be I just I suspect that Jason's right that is a clever turn of phrase and
[04:32] so that makes me well so it's Shakespeare so yeah I mean it can be
[04:36] Shakespeare it's gotta be Shakespeare right or Ren see I just assumed it was
[04:47] like you know gangsters in the 1920s well they certainly use the phrase a lot
[04:56] right if popular medias to tell us anything but if good fo says anything to
[05:02] say about it yeah right you know Italians love food okay sure we just put the
[05:10] books in the in the meatball stew or maybe they like hid the the the false
[05:19] accounting book you know with the cookbooks or something like that so that
[05:23] nobody would go looking for it yeah go get the go get the cookbook mmm the
[05:32] cooked book all right so what's our final take on this then what do you
[05:37] think arbor I think you're going Rome I think at this point I got like I said I
[05:43] think I'll take Shakespeare oh you're taking Shakespeare I thought that was my
[05:47] guess all right you'll take Shakespeare I'll take 1920s Jason you could pick
[05:53] both of those or neither or something else I'll go plenty the younger oh I
[05:59] love it just throw that in there and see what we see would come up tax
[06:06] evasion cook the books according to chat GPT thinks it likely originated the United
[06:19] States in the early 20th century well I am seeing dictionary says from mid 17th
[06:30] century hmm a metaphor based on cooking whereby ingredients are changed altered
[06:37] and improved thus financial statements can also so be modified to benefit the
[06:44] but there is no good citation for why it's 17th century okay the grammarists
[06:55] local expression we use in English to describe manipulating financial records
[07:00] the whole idea is usually undertaken by people or businesses to make them we
[07:05] understand all right art of usage appeared in the adventures of peregrine
[07:14] pickle written by Tobias Smollett in 1751 1750 1751 I'm seeing even earlier
[07:32] tutor England Earl of Stratford and his letters and
[07:38] dispatches 1636 the proof was once clear however they have cooked it since
[07:44] that's the idea of cooking yeah yeah mixing ingredients to creating your own
[07:59] end result makes sense so yeah I think we know that 1950s well we got as early as
[08:18] 1630 we have a reference for so all right not Shakespeare though well
[08:25] contemporary contemporaneous we should like that the accepted euphemism for it
[08:45] is creative accounting doesn't have the same ring to it no it's like falls on the
[08:58] same category so I'll turn it alternate truths yeah I think I may have found
[09:06] Joey stat of the week oh really oh good lay it on me Joey stat of the week
[09:13] there's an amateur puzzler probably and in the UK who stumbled upon a new shape
[09:22] one which turns out to be the first true Einstein shape so an Einstein shape it's
[09:33] from one stone which means that the one shape can cover a plane alone without
[09:38] ever repeating a pattern so it's a 13 sided shape in the world of mathematics
[09:45] called an a periodic monotile and so he got this to some math nerds and this
[09:52] the one that he found he actually had to flip over at one point in order to
[09:56] create the plane but they tweaked it a little bit and they made a new shape
[10:00] that that is the first true Einstein when we call that hat the hat yep does it
[10:12] look like a hat no no it wasn't all kind of added jigsaw puzzle piece this is an
[10:20] un-googleable how do we why is it called a hat it's a 13-sided hat or a 13-sided
[10:29] poly kite shape so that helps right poly kite shape okay cool yeah that wasn't
[10:40] what's the stat was that 13 sides stat is a new shape bro you know what I love
[10:49] about you Harper's that you understand the essence of Joey Stanley which is
[10:53] there's actually no number I mean because you can make an infinite plane
[10:59] without ever having to repeat oh man my mind is I get it now okay so they're
[11:05] like tiles so that you can they can plug together yep I get it okay cool and it
[11:13] just not allowed to get it I'm not I can't get it so if anything it kind of
[11:18] looks like a t-shirt like if you google it it'll make sense like you see a
[11:23] picture of it I'm just in my head it's just gonna look like a hat so okay
[11:32] kind of looks like a hat sure like it's funny looking hat it looks kind of like
[11:37] that hat that Pharrell wear wore you know for a while the big goofy cowboy
[11:43] hat all right cool all right so we checked off all the boxes guys we did
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[12:46] oh it's the party a little British there yeah no it's actually it's funny I was
[13:00] did you guys listen to it's all up at all they had a guest comedian and he said he
[13:09] said everybody could do a Michael Caine impression this is all you've got to do
[13:19] is say my and then say cocaine so my cocaine I'm my cocaine so I think that
[13:39] inspired me a little bit okay cool that's good the dollop is there anything they
[13:44] can't do cocaine my cocaine that works yeah I didn't it didn't totally inspired
[13:57] me halfway through so I didn't get my Michael Caine impression in but it's close
[14:01] enough or not yeah I'll work on it actually I won't it'll always be bad
[14:17] just just just hold on to the fact that my ultra will always be bad yeah on the
[14:24] bright side we now have a show that's titled my cocaine our parents are so
[14:36] proud
[14:56] we yeah my favorite title is gate gate but I think my cocaine just gate gate is a
[15:06] true classic