1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. This is Josh, 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 1: there's Chuck, Jerry's here, Dave's here. His heart is at 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: least we carved it out of him like it was 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: the temple of doom. And this is short stuff about 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: one of my deepest fears. Your house smelling. Yeah, I'm worried. 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: It's a general concern of mine that my house smells. 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: And I don't know it, but everyone who comes over 8 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: knows it. Well. Can I start this off with a 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: very quick little story. Sure, When I lived in l 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: A many years ago, my friends Breton Stacy lived in 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: a house in Pasadena that had a very distinct smell. 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: It was a good smell. It wasn't like a bad smell, 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: but you know all houses have an odor. Uh. Many 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: years later, I went to the house of our mutual 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: friend and e Crra, writer of the hit movie Palm Springs, 16 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: and his wonderful wife Amanda and their two kids, and 17 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: their house they lived in near past it Na smelled 18 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: the same way. And then last year I went to 19 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: l A and I went and dropped by our mutual 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: friend Ben Harrison's house. Ben and his lovely wife Rachel 21 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 1: been of the greatest Generation podcast and their house smelled 22 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: the same way, and they live in Highland Park, not 23 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: too far from Pasadena. I don't know if it's a 24 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: Pasadena thing or that part of the valley, but all 25 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: of these houses smelled exactly the same, and it was 26 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: so evocative. When I walked in, I was like, Ben, 27 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: your house smells like my other two friends houses. It 28 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: may be an l a thing and maybe part of 29 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: the products out there. I have no idea what it was, 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: but it was identical and very very strange to witness 31 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: with my notes. Can you describe the smell? No, not 32 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: at all. It's a house smell. How do you It's 33 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: not like it smells like cigarettes or or dog poop 34 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: or anything. It's it's just it's a it's a house smell. 35 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: It smells like right on, Yeah, I mean it's a 36 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: it's a good smell. Like their houses all smelled fine, 37 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: but it was the same fine smell. So chuck um. 38 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm little disappointed that story because of two things. One, 39 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be apropos of my fear. 40 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: Two I thought that it ultimately is going to squash 41 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: my fear. It didn't do either of those things. Everyone's 42 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: house has a smell, you just don't know it if 43 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: you live there. This is just getting worse and worse 44 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 1: for me. All Right, let's talk about how smells, because 45 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: if someone's house smells, it is really possible, and more 46 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 1: than that, entirely likely that that person really genuinely has 47 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: no idea that it smells. Even in some of the 48 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: worst cases where like it stinks and reeks of like 49 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: set impet odor, like years and years of pet odor 50 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: that has just not been cleaned up and is in 51 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: the ductwork and is on the baseboards and is everywhere, 52 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: that person genuinely probably doesn't know that their house smells 53 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: like that. And the reason why is because we become 54 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: a sensory adapted two things like smells. We've talked a 55 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: lot about this, remember latent inhibition when we first rain 56 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: into that one. Sure, I think that was in our 57 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: schizophreny episode. Maybe, Yeah, It's basically that it's there is 58 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: a point where your your senses no longer need to 59 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: tell your brain what they're encountering. Your brains like, okay, 60 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: got it, I've already determined the house smells like cap 61 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: heat doesn't matter. Let's be on the lookout for threats 62 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: or enticing things, and we become desensitizing. Apparently we become desensitized. 63 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: It smells particularly quick. Yeah. I think out of all 64 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: the senses, smell is the first one that you get 65 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: used to. Uh. There are experts that say just a 66 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: few and I think this came from our our old 67 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: colleagues how stuff works, uh, and they, to their credit, 68 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: like with do interviews and stuff with experts, and one 69 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: of the experts said, it just takes a few breaths 70 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: sometimes even to get used to a smell. Um And 71 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: you know it takes They say about if you're gone 72 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: for about a week, you can become desensitized and then 73 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: when you come back to your house you could re 74 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: smell that smell. And this horrifies me because when we 75 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: used to go on long trips, I would come back 76 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: and be and think it was our house sitter would 77 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: have this sort of funky musky smell. And now I 78 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: think it's just our house smell, which it has to be. Man, 79 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: We've always had at least four pets, always two dogs, 80 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: and at least two cats, sometimes three dogs, and our 81 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: house has to smell. It's it just it has to. 82 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: There's no way around it. Okay, I am going to 83 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: demonstrate what a friend does. Okay, Chuck, I've been to 84 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 1: your house multi times with your dogs there, and I 85 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: can tell you that your house is not smell in 86 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: any kind of offensive way or any way that people 87 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: are talking about how your house smells behind your back. 88 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: Your house smells fine. Well, I will say this to you, 89 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: my friend. I know you, and I know you me, 90 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: and I know that you guys are very clean, like uh, 91 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: I wouldn't say clean freaks, but or obsessive, but you 92 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: really are into like having things clean and tidy. I 93 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: guarantee you your house does not smell in some uh 94 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: some funky terrible way, I hope. So. I appreciate that 95 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: it feels like I had to pull your teeth out 96 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: to get it, but I appreciate it. But I guarantee 97 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: you it does have a smell. Yeah, I just hope 98 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: it's it's a good smell, because it's true. Some people's 99 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: houses just smell good. They smell like a mumu or something. Yeah. 100 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: I mean we we are pretty good about cleaning, but 101 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: there's just only so much you can do. Like the 102 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: front couch in our sunroom is the dog couch and 103 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: that thing stinks. Yeah, I'm telling you about it. Your 104 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: house is not it's not your house doesn't smell. You 105 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: don't have a smelly house. Okay, all right, so so 106 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: but yes, I I know that fear because I've come 107 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: home and after like a week and been like, does 108 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: is this where house smells? Like? This is weird? I 109 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: don't I don't like this. What can we do about this? 110 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: You know, well, just stay and stay around for about 111 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: an hour and then it's like, oh, it doesn't smell. 112 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: Thank goodness, because I forget. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And other 113 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: than up two is don't make any friends, don't have 114 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: anyone over. Then you don't have to worry about it. 115 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: So the reason you become so desensitized to your house 116 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: smells because you're not only being like exposed like, um, 117 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: you know pretty quickly after just a few breaths, you're 118 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: constantly being exposed to your house smells. So it's impossible 119 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: for you to smell your own house. But if you 120 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: are like, Okay, um, there's some things that I want 121 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: to do. I want to make sure that my house 122 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: doesn't smell. There's steps you can take, and I think 123 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: we should take a break and then we'll come back 124 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: and talk about them after this. If you want to know, 125 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: then you're in luck. Just so if you're like, guys, 126 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: I'm not convinced, I'm worried that my house still smells. 127 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: We're here, actually are in the house. To forks are 128 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: here to suggest some things you can do. And the 129 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 1: first thing is is just look for low hanging fruit, 130 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: Like do you have towels bunched up in the corner 131 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: that have mildrew growing on them? If the answers yes, 132 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: you might want to get rid of those because they 133 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: might be making your house smell. Yeah. Keep your ducks clean, 134 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: keep your litter box emptied. Uh. You know if you 135 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: have mold and mildew, that's gonna make your house smell. 136 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: So get your sort of filtration system checked. Uh. That 137 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: kind of thing like that is the lowest of the 138 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. Is clean your litter box more regularly, definitely. UM. 139 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: And then some people step it up and say, okay, 140 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: I've done all those things. Not only do I want 141 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: to get rid of bad smells, I want to make 142 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: my house smell good. Well, there's an entire industry that's 143 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: dedicated to that. UM. I would recommend something natural like 144 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: a nice bouquet of dried lavender or a bouquet of 145 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: dried eucalyptus. Those are two of the greatest smells in nature. 146 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: Those will certainly help. You can even go step further 147 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: and put them in your return air duct, which is 148 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: pretty great because then it gets that sent throughout your house. Yeah, 149 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: it's a nice I don't want to say hack. Don't 150 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: say hack. I didn't certainly don't say life hack, but that, 151 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: but that also demonstrates smells get around your house through 152 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: your h v A C system just f y I 153 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: good or bad your house is h VAC system doesn't care. 154 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: It's going to send them around your house. Yeah. I 155 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: like a citrus smell. So sometimes I'll do a little 156 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: lemon squeeze on a on a filter or something, and 157 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: you know, that's it's a pretty short lived experience. It's 158 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: not like that filter just smells like lemon for months 159 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: and months or anything like that. But it's a nice, 160 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: like citrusy blast throughout the house. Do you when you 161 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: squeeze the lemon, do you say simple fimple? I do, actually, 162 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: simple fimple lemon squeezy. That's right, So you can also 163 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: use one of the most one of the best selling 164 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: products of the like beginning of the twentieth century, something 165 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: called Fabrize. And we don't normally do buzz marketing, and 166 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: we don't mean to do it here, but Fabreeze actually 167 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: has one of the most interesting stories of all times. 168 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: It's actually taught in marketing classes in business school, because 169 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: when Fabreeze first came out, it was a total fullop. Yeah, 170 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: I think and I remember this. When Fabrize first came out, 171 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: it was marketed as, Hey, if you've been to a 172 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: smokey bar or something, um, or if your you have 173 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 1: a couch like Chuck Bryant does, uh, you can get 174 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: rid of these these foul odors uh and make your 175 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: your corduroy coat that was in that bar not smell 176 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: like cigarettes anymore. And those were sort of the basis 177 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: of the early commercials, and they didn't work out very 178 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: well at all. So they they shifted very successfully to 179 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: a campaign that was more like, Hey, after you've cleaned 180 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: your house and you're done, just let this product be 181 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: sort of the final cherry on top, right um. And 182 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: the reason why it didn't work at first is be 183 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: because they realized that people become desensitized to their houses smell, 184 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: and so the people who needed fabreeze to get the 185 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: smelly noss out of their house were the ones who 186 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: weren't aware that they actually needed it, which means you're 187 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: not gonna sell a lot of fabrieze. So they changed 188 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: it like you said to saying, no, this is the 189 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: this is the punctuation mark on your cleaning. It's the 190 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: last part you do. It lets you know the job's done. 191 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: It's a little kiss of cleanliness. And fabreeze just took 192 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: off like a rocket from there, that's right, and they have, uh, 193 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: it's a very big piece of the market because they 194 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: realized they could expand to all kinds of quote unquote 195 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: air freshening products that I was looking into it. I 196 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: found a little thought co Um article on how fabreze works, 197 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: and basically it's a it's a carbohydrate called beta cyclodextrin, 198 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: and it's like a donut shape and it actually it 199 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: attracts odor molecules into the donut and basically wraps around them, 200 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: which means those the molecules can't come in contact or 201 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: when they do come in contact with their noses, they 202 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: can't bind to our our odor receptors. So they're still there, 203 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: but they literally can't we can't smell them. It's impossible 204 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: for us to smell them, that's right. Uh. And if 205 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: you look up stuff like our products like this toxic online, 206 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna find a lot of opinions. UM. One thing 207 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 1: we should say is that the US law allows companies 208 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: to um basically hide things under the label fragrance. Uh. 209 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: There's like four thousand different chemicals that can be included 210 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: as in a product as fragrance. Uh. Some are safe, 211 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: some are are great. Uh, some are very much carcinogenic. Uh. 212 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: The Environmental Working Group, which we talked about before, did 213 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: a very famous study uh and I think two thousand 214 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: nine where they found that Fabriz had eighty seven more 215 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: chemicals in their product than they listed, some of which 216 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: were highly toxic. I think they have changed things since then, 217 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: but this was a big shocking report. Uh in the 218 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 1: in the mid I guess, yeah, mid Odds, is that right? Yeah? Yeah, 219 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: I think I think things have changed since then. But 220 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: in order to not get served divorce papers, you know 221 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: what I have to talk about for a second. Yes, 222 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: my wife's company, Uh, Mama Bath and Body because Emily 223 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: makes room spray and she makes soy candles and I 224 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: told her about this and I was like, well, what's 225 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 1: in your room spray? Name all the ingredients. She said, water, alcohol, 226 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: and essential oils. That's it. That's when her gets in 227 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: her room spray and in her soil. Candles are soy wax, 228 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: essential oils. And then here's the key, um, well two keys. 229 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: Soy wax is a key because most candles that you 230 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: get in the store paraffin wax, which is a petroleum 231 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: byproduct gross gross gross uh and cotton wicks, so the 232 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 1: wicks are made out of cotton and most of the 233 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: wicks and paraffin candles are not, so they're actually the 234 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: smoke that is coming up, that black smoke from a 235 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: candle is no good to be in your house. So 236 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: you know, if you're interested in you go to love 237 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: your Mama dot com to check out her room sprace. 238 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: See I told you guys, we don't do buzz marketing. 239 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: I have to, man, this is her passion and like 240 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: stuff like when I mentioned mass marketed uh smell good 241 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: products in your home, she just, uh, that's a big 242 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: as you know, trigger for our house and our family 243 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: these fragrances that people think, oh, it just makes your 244 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: house smell great, and uh, to us, it makes a 245 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: sneeze and allergies and stuff like that. Yeah, or like 246 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: the clip on air fresheners that like give you a 247 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: migraine even though you've never had a migraine before in 248 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: your life. That kind of you put on a cars 249 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: air event. Yeah. Part of the study from the Environmental 250 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: Working Group studied a bunch of stuff like that. Uh, 251 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: And they did tackle for breeze a little bit, but 252 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: the real offenders were some of those nasty like gelatin 253 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: toilet you know, things you'll drop in a toilet or 254 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: plug into a wall. Yeah. I don't know if they've 255 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: cleaned up their act or not, honestly, but we don't 256 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,719 Speaker 1: use that stuff either. I mean you could spell them. 257 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: They smell like chemicals. It doesn't smell like an actual smell. 258 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: Like they have to make up new names for these things. 259 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: They're not, like we're not legally allowed to call the citrus. Yeah, 260 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: I know it's a problem. I really think that when 261 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: historians look back, or even average people look back at 262 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: hundred hundred and fifty years, this is going to be 263 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: one of those periods where like, Wow, the federal government 264 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: really did not protect uh the American people and in 265 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: fact sold them out pretty hard every which way. It's 266 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: a shameful time to be alive. Agreed, and I get 267 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: to be married another day. Good job Chuck uh, and 268 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: good job Emily. With love your Mama dot com. 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