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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor Protection of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie

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Speaker 1: Reese and I'm Lauren vogel Baum.

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Speaker 2: And today we have a classic episode for you about

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Speaker 2: cotton candy. Yes, yes, yes, uh huh. All right, So

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Speaker 2: this originally aired in July of twenty eighteen. What innocent

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Speaker 2: youths we were.

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Speaker 3: Then speaking of? Though?

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Speaker 2: So okay, spoiler alert, Annie is real? What was real

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Speaker 2: mad about cotton candy in this episode?

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Speaker 3: Annie? Are you still mad about cotton candy?

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Speaker 1: It's funny that you asked, because my knee jerk when

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Speaker 1: you said cotton candy. I was like, Oh, that's still

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Speaker 1: it's still it's still around.

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Speaker 4: Oh it still hurts you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah it does. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the

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Speaker 1: only one, but they are just memory I have from

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Speaker 1: being a youth. Where I was, I was usually roped

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Speaker 1: into a task I didn't want to do, and cotton

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Speaker 1: candy was a big, messy.

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Speaker 3: Pain, uh for me, literal pain.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was a pain, but it was I

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Speaker 1: was in a very small marching band. There weren't that

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Speaker 1: many people, and the volunteer the volunteer staff was run

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Speaker 1: by my best friend's mom, and so she kind of

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Speaker 1: roped me in, and my mom and my dad.

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Speaker 3: And someone had to make the cotton candy.

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Speaker 1: Someone had to make the cotton candy. So yes, Lauren,

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Speaker 1: the answer is yes. But I think it has mellowed

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Speaker 1: a bit. I think it's it's mellowed from where I

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Speaker 1: was at this point. That's good.

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Speaker 4: That's that's good. That's good to hear.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad for you.

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Speaker 3: Than sorry up a painful topic.

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Speaker 1: That's all good. Was there any particular reason this was

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Speaker 1: on your mind to bring back?

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Speaker 2: It's a summary topic I was kind of looking through,

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Speaker 2: and I didn't want to rerun our quiescently frozen Snack

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Speaker 2: on a stick episode quite yet, because we've done a

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Speaker 2: couple episodes about brands really recently, and that's a very

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Speaker 2: brand heavy episode. So so yeah, it was like cotton candy. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: It's like it's like festival and fair time out there,

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Speaker 2: and so yeah, yeah, it's a fun one. Despite or

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Speaker 2: perhaps because of, your extremely strong reaction to cotton candy.

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Speaker 1: I can't the imagery, the smell, the stickiness, it just

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Speaker 1: it just comes back to me every time I think

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Speaker 1: about it. I remember a very specific time and place,

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Speaker 1: and it was not a time and place that I liked.

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Speaker 1: It was a time and place where I was tired

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Speaker 5: Well, I am so sorry to bring it back up,

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Speaker 5: except I and I hope that everyone out there is

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Speaker 5: going to have a nicer time listening to this one

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Speaker 5: than you did recording it or in the studio right now.

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Speaker 5: But I suppose with that, to avoid further further pain,

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Speaker 5: let us lead former Annie and Lauren take it away.

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to food Stuff.

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Speaker 4: I'm Any Ray and I'm Lauren vocal bam, and today

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Speaker 4: we're talking about cotton candy, the delightful thing that everyone

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Speaker 4: finds delightful.

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Speaker 1: That's where you're wrong, Lauren. I have such strong feelings

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Speaker 1: about cotton candy. I feel like I'm about to get

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Speaker 1: into a fight right now. And in the outline when

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Speaker 1: I was doing this series, it is littered with all

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Speaker 1: caps literal booze. Yes right at the top.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, she's I don't think i've seen Annie

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Speaker 4: this angry since the Tipping episode.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was a more legitimate reason to be angry.

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Speaker 4: That was certainly a more legitimate reason because at this point,

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Speaker 4: I don't you call it one of your arch nemesies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah. You know, everyone's got to have at

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Speaker 1: least one food arch Nemesis and cotton candy. It turns

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Speaker 1: out as one. And it kind of took me by

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Speaker 1: surprise because I guess I haven't really thought about cotton

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Speaker 1: It was lying underneath.

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Speaker 4: I don't I do not understand this. I'm like Annie,

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Speaker 4: who hurt?

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Speaker 1: You?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 2: What? Like?

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Speaker 1: What happened? Oh? I can tell you what happened. I

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Speaker 1: was in marching band, okay, And as part of marching band,

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Speaker 1: you had to volunteer at the concession stand okay, at

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Speaker 1: the football stadium, yes, okay, and also at various fairs,

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Speaker 1: local festivals. And I was in charge of the cotton

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Speaker 1: candy machine.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay.

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Speaker 1: It was on wieldy, It came with no instructions. It

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Speaker 1: would burn your fingers and stick everywhere, and it was

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Speaker 1: a thankless, thankless job. Oh man, Oh wow, I need

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Speaker 1: like a cotton candy therapist.

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Speaker 4: You apparently do. Oh I mean, okay, I see you.

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Speaker 4: You're you're seeing, You're in You're in a safe place.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lauren.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna get this. We're gonna get through this episode together.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna try not to have two new flashbacks

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Speaker 1: of just like pink fluff sticking everywhere and hearing people like,

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Speaker 1: where's that cotton candy? Annie? Yeah? Wow?

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Speaker 4: Uh all right, So cotton candy, what what is it?

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Speaker 1: Well, it is a food that I find you you

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Speaker 1: don't see much outside of a carnival or amusement park.

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Speaker 1: I personally can't think of a time I had it

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: We had a machine at a housetuff Wick's Christmas party

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Speaker 4: a few years back. There was it was that year

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Speaker 4: that we like skyped with Santa.

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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know Santa was on Skype. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: to us. I think that was the last Rock Sand party.

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Speaker 1: She threw great parties.

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Speaker 4: She did one of our ex ex managers, Rock Sand

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Speaker 4: Lovely Woman.

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Speaker 1: Anyway. Cotton candy, it's made up of primarily one thing,

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Speaker 1: and that is sugar and maybe food dies and flavorings,

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Speaker 1: but mostly sugar.

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Speaker 4: Yes, cotton candy is a non crystalline form of sugar candy.

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Speaker 4: It's made from sugar syrup that's cooked and then spun out,

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Speaker 4: like literally into these brittle threads that are pliable to

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Speaker 4: microns wide, which is something like the width of a

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Speaker 4: human hair. Cotton candies frequently served as in a sort

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Speaker 4: and looks a little bit like a cotton ball or

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Speaker 4: a cloud, or like fiberglass, one of these things you

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Speaker 4: should not eat. Cotton candy is technically an amorphous solid

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Speaker 1: All right, all right. You can get all types of

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Speaker 1: flavors of cotton candy, blue, raspberry, banana, raspberry, watermelon, chocolate.

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Speaker 4: There's artisanal cotton candy, earl, gray, horchata, lightea, green tea, mango, chili, champagne,

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Speaker 4: champagne cotton candy. But the baseline cotton candy flavor is

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Speaker 4: just vanilla. It's like pink vanilla, so it doesn't I mean,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, if you look at the nutrition value of

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Speaker 1: cotton candy is not no no, but I mean of fair.

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Speaker 3: Foods, Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Because for one out serving it's got about one hundred

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Speaker 1: and five calories. Those are mostly sugar calories, and that

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Speaker 1: does make it almost one hot undred percent profit after

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Speaker 4: And I guess electricity to heat it. Sure, there is

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Speaker 4: that one hundred and five calories serving only about twenty

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Speaker 4: six grams of sugar, which is about two thirds of

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Speaker 4: what's in a can of coke. It's really mostly air.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, as you said, like as fair ground foods go, like,

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Speaker 4: it is certainly not the worst you can do.

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Speaker 1: Oh, no, more than more than once in the past,

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Speaker 1: like two weeks, people have brought up fried butter in

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Speaker 1: my presence and I'm still curious, curious, horrified, curious.

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Speaker 4: I've never had it either.

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Speaker 1: So our listener sent in message about the Texas Fair

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Speaker 1: and Cheer saying that they had fried margarita's and I

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Speaker 4: Huh. I wonder if it's one of those like like

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Speaker 1: Maybe we really will find a way to fry just

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Speaker 1: about anything here. And there's the USA, A I bet

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Speaker 1: there's fried cotton candy.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm positive there is. Now that you mention it.

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Speaker 4: You know, calories just find a way. Calories find a way.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. Jeff Golbloom said that, Yes, I made

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Speaker 1: that joke in a recent podcast. He's on my brain lately.

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Speaker 4: I guess he's on everyone's brain.

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Speaker 1: Sure, thank you, Lauren. Anyway, hmm, well, let's talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about how it's made. If we look at

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Speaker 1: a semi automated machine making cotton candy, it can hold

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Speaker 1: hundred revolutions a minute, and that turns out about four

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Speaker 4: And let's talk a little bit about how that works. So, Okay,

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Speaker 4: a cotton candy machine works like this. You heat sugar

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Speaker 4: toffee stuff like that. That's about three hundred degrees fahrenheit

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Speaker 1: I read that you used to get free cotton candy

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Speaker 4: Huh, I believe it. I mean I never went there.

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Speaker 4: It's closed now hypothetically they're rebooting it like later this year.

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Speaker 1: She just did a looking at her watch motion.

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Speaker 4: Even though I'm not wearing a watch and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: And also an audio medium that you frequently have discussed. Eh. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's another weird thing about cotton candy. And I'm really

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Speaker 1: trying to contain my emotions here, but National Cotton Candy

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Speaker 1: Day is December seventh.

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Speaker 4: That's a strange time for I mean, probably the summer

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Speaker 1: I didn't know they're like any day that's free pearl

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Speaker 1: Harbor happen this day cotton candy.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think that anything. I mean I thought they

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Speaker 4: could overlap anyway, Yeah, December seventh. Yeah, but it's not

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Speaker 4: just a thing in the United States. It's also called

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Speaker 4: candy floss in the UK, fairy floss in Australia, sugar

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Speaker 4: thread in Italy. I mean like an Italian and Papa

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Speaker 4: is beard in France, labarb apapa. Oh, I'm not making

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Speaker 4: that up. I mean, yeah, it makes sense. It's yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's very beard like. Sure, both of us were again

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Speaker 4: making a physical gesture, Yes we were. And this is

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Speaker 4: get back from a break for a word from our sponsor,

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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you. And the history of this one does

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Speaker 1: remind me very much of our popsicle episode no quiescently

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Speaker 4: According to me, we did.

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Speaker 1: We did have a discussion about this before the podcast starts.

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Speaker 1: What is this a now? And later ooh boy?

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Speaker 4: for a word from our sponsor.

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Speaker 1: And we're back. Thank you, sponsor, Yes, thank you.

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Speaker 4: So this is not the first candy that we're talking

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Speaker 4: those then lose water and react with one another, forming

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Speaker 4: not a whole lot of it. So exposing the sugar

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Speaker 4: And the sudden change back to room temperature when the

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Speaker 4: but this time their structure is not orderly and crystalline,

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Speaker 4: Ah okay, all right, Like like left to its own devices,

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Speaker 4: the molecules will naturally order themselves in this very particular

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Speaker 4: crystalline way, but through particular heat treatment, we can form

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Speaker 4: them into any shape we like. And in the case

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Speaker 1: Well, if you know what you're doing, you can form them. No,

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Speaker 1: it was the machine's fault. Don't blame yourself.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, no, that was they. At the very least,

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Speaker 4: me what someone I mean, you were a teenager and

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Speaker 4: they gave you something that was heeding something too, certainly

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Speaker 4: above three hundred degrees, and they were just like, good

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Speaker 4: luck kid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And yet I did it every Friday for like years.

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Speaker 4: You never let you were never like hey, hey, Barry,

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Speaker 4: you come, you come get the Cutton candy machine.

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Speaker 1: Today I did try to like con this one parent

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe seven minutes and then just walked away and

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Speaker 1: he's like, I'm not making it anymore. WHOA, yeah wow.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, man, adults failing you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, every turn. I know. It's like a very chame

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Speaker 1: version of Harry Potters exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I'm glad that you've lived through that. It's

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Speaker 4: helped make you the person that you are today.

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Speaker 1: You are so kind. I obviously have some issues to

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Speaker 1: work through when it comes to cotton candy, and I

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Speaker 1: appreciate everyone bearing with me as I attempt to wade

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Speaker 1: through the trauma that is working in the high school

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Speaker 1: band concession stand.

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Speaker 4: I think that everyone understands. I think that you know,

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Speaker 4: we all have our we all have our cotton candy.

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Speaker 1: We do all have our cotton candy. And I do

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Speaker 1: not begrudge or I try not to begrudge people for

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Speaker 1: liking cotton candy because it is very cool. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's neat science behind it. History is interesting, even if

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Speaker 1: I'm still a little perplexed about the dentist.

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Speaker 4: So many dentists.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, but yeah, and enjoy way. I remember it

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Speaker 1: being a very fun experience as a child, mostly just

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Speaker 1: again because it was like kind of brightly colored and

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Speaker 1: an interesting experience, and it usually met you at some

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Speaker 1: kind of fun event.

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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, the excitement, the kind of sugar rush.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And that brings us to the end of

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Speaker 1: this classic episode. We hope that you enjoyed it, perhaps

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Speaker 1: more than I did, or you've got enjoyment or related

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Speaker 1: to my angst. Yeah, I do want people to be

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Speaker 1: happy about things, so I hope you know, sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: just a nice event, but yeah, I want you to

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Speaker 1: be happy and enjoy your summer treats. Maybe appreciate, appreciate the.

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Speaker 3: Poor fan goes to them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the band volunteer or anyone or anyone. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but I think it'd be cool if anybody wants to encountered.

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Speaker 1: Sounds so dangerous. If you've seen any cotton candy flavors

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Speaker 1: that are unique to you, or you've had any good

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Speaker 1: or bad cotton candy experiences.

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Speaker 2: Or perhaps if you had a food service gig that

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Speaker 2: you would like to vent about just a little bit.

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