101: Why is the Sky Blue & Speech Disfluency

It's LLE 101, and to celebrate new learners we're trying a technically family friendly episode! Why is the sky blue? Well it took some pretty advance science to figure that out! And why is speech disfluency? Well, um... you'll have to see! Images we Talk About:Green FlashMartian Sunset Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:43) Why is the Sky Blue (00:54:29) Parable Mythbusters (01:40:45) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: It’s like playing Mozart for children, mystery spires, atmospheric optics is responsible for all the bangers, they didn’t have a word for blue but they could perceive it, Davinci and Newton were on the right track, and thus the liberal lie of the greenhouse effect was born, tyndell was just trying to clean an air sample and saw it turn blue, Baron’s used to be useful at least, Tom’s mind gets rocked by rayleigh scattering, why isn’t the sky purple, When was the sky blue? the great oxidation event, sky is atmosphere, why is the sun so tiny OH ITS FAR AWAY, Ella pulled a Tom at the intro, Ella’s filler montage, no swearing no fillers challenge, there’s no fillers in the speech we watch on TV and movies, we actually um-dope our podcast in post, people used filler words in the past too, it’s found in poems and the earliest recorded sounds, the valley girl like, natural language corpuses, the 2 genders are uh and um, fillers in other languages, parasite words, uh is almost universal, the function of filler, back channeling, measuring um reaction times, a visit from Gretchen, um is like a swiss army knife, like as quotation marks or hedging, right *slaps knees*, the power of saying something which technically means nothing.