Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network 

Show Name: Hyperfixation Nation

Episode Title: Weird but true 

Episode #8

You are listening to Hyperfixation Nation, the podcast with your host Blake. In this episode of Hyperfixation Nation I will be talking about some questions/brain twisters and weird facts about the world. These facts will make you laugh, will leave you puzzled, and make you question everything you know, hopefully at least.  

Hello! So I have been wanting to do this episode for a while because I always have these facts in my back pocket and I like starting debates with the brain twisters because it spices life up! I always enjoy learning cool little pieces of trivia that maybe will help me win a game show some day, who knows

So these are some cool facts about the world that I have found over the course of my life and thought were really cool. I actually have a note on my phone where I put new ones whenever I find one. I also did a little research for this episode but a decent amount of these are facts that I have come upon randomly.

• Scotland's national animal is unicorn
• Australia is wider than the moon - moon is 2,113 miles wide and australia is 2,485 miles wide
• The eiffel tower gets taller in the summer because the iron heats up and thermal expansion occurs making it 6 inches taller when it is hot
• Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
• An 11 year old accidentally invented ice pops
• Warm water increases dopamine so we are more creative in the shower so if you’re struggling with a problem that involves thinking outside the box, take a hot shower
• Supermarket apples can be a year old!
• Wasabi paste is often actually horseradish instead of real wasabi because wasabi is expensive
• People used to say prunes when taking pictures - how did that change to cheese?
• Competitive art used to be an olympic event
• Cat pee glows under black light - ew but cool!
• J-lo is the reason we have google images in the search engine - so many people wanted to see pics of her 2000 grammys green dress that google added the feature
• British military tanks can make tea 
• A blue whales heartbeat can be detected from up to 2 miles away
• Easter island heads also have bodies - what the heck happened to them?

Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network 

Show Name: Hyperfixation Nation

Episode Title: Keeper of the Lost cities

Episode #6

You are listening to Hyperfixation Nation, the podcast with your host Blake. In this episode of Hyperfixation Nation I will be discussing the book series Keeper of the Lost Cities. I will cover why I love the series, my thoughts on the morals of the 3 main groups of people, and Team FosterKeefe vs Fitzphie. 

I have been reading this series since I was about 8-9 years old and it has kept me hooked ever since. Keeper of the Lost cities is a fantasy book series that has some romantic drama - but it is not the main plot point, it has relatable characters, and it has a decent amount of representation. If you enjoyed Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan and Harry Potter by JK Rowling, you will probably like KOTLC. I have loved these books for so long that one could say that it is just a love and not a hyperfixation but every time I read one, I cannot stop, I just keep reading and reading and reading. My interest levels may go up and down but I still adore the series and will talk about it with anyone at any time. I love so many aspects of it and that is what I will be getting into next! ALSO SPOILER ALERT. I will be talking about everything that has happened in published books so far. 

• The villains aren’t just villains, you can see that they are human and they aren’t really ALL bad
• The good guys aren’t all good either- they have done things wrong and they have mixed history with their actions also
• while the characters are fighting bad guys and have magic abilities and such, you can still tell that they are just teens also
• The love web - it isn’t just a triangle

• Neverseen 
• Bad guys
• Lady gisela doing everything for her son - in a very twisted way
• They want to accomplish the same thing as the black swan but have different methods
• Black Swan
• good guys
• used to be a step ahead and now doesn’t know anything more than the kids
• keeping secrets - good or bad?
• the genetic stuff they did to Sophie
• Council
• sometimes good sometimes bad
• just trying to maintain an image 
• want what is best for the elves