WEBVTT - A Nostalgic Look at Crayons 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.600 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:13.560 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.720 There's Charles W Chuck Bryant, There's guest producer Matt Yeah, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:24.920 and Jerry's not here because Jerry is a storm sufferer. Yeah. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.840 How did you fare? Pretty good? I mean powers out 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:30.960 for a little while, cables out for a little bit, nothing, 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.320 nothing bad. Yeah, we um, we're talking about Irma. If 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.920 this is this is obviously in the future, there maybe 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.279 another hurricane by then for all we know. Yeah, well, 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.839 Jose is starting to circle background. I think, yeah, that's 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.040 what I see. Uh. But yeah, Irma came through Atlanta, 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.879 which is weird for a hurricane and then eventually tropical 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.840 storm to reach that far inland. Uh. And I was 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.120 kind of like, well, you know, we get bad thunderstorms 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:00.360 in Atlanta, will be fine. Didn't make you. I bought 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.960 some extra milk for the kid, and but I didn't 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.360 like go nuts with you know, prepper style stuff. But 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.840 it was surprisingly scary. I'm here to tell you. Were 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.759 you scared? Yeah, I mean that was like in our 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.039 our part of Atlanta got hit the hardest. Um, sort 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:22.000 of the Eastlake Decatur, Kirkwood, decap County area. Uh, And 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.880 there was one there was one moment where the trees 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.039 and we have all these old you know, Atlanta for 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.000 those of you who don't know, as a city built 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.240 in the middle of a forest. So there are these 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.440 old oak and pine trees that apparently have shallow roots 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.520 from past droughts and things, because the roots kind of 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.440 come towards the surface. Just not good. Yeah, And I 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.080 was kind of wondering, you know, us like we like 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.160 to just sort of study things in general, and I 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.920 was looking at these trees swaying, and I was wondering 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.960 about the physics of an uprooted tree. And then it's 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:01.120 probably like you know, and the roots give and every 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.640 time it swings, it probably just gets a little more unstable. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:09.320 And then the big gust and then so we had 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:15.120 before like five huge trees down within a thousand feet 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.760 of our house. So we were just sort of waiting. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.880 I was just literally like, all right, which one is 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.640 coming to hit us? And there was one huge gust 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.320 that came through at one point where it was so 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.240 scary sounding that we grabbed the animals and our daughter 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.360 and like ran into the hallway and Emily stayed there 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.440 with her and the animals. You know, I could not. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.240 I was pacing from window to window the entire time. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.839 What's going on? It was like, if I can see 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.359 it coming down, I might give us a half a 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.120 second to get out of the way. But I did 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.480 see one come down behind my house in real time, 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.160 which was scary. I'll bet that must have been kind 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.480 of amazing to see though, too. Yeah, and the sound 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.320 like obviously we we got nothing like uh Florida, so 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.320 I'm not trying to compare, but um, it was a 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.919 little scary. And we didn't have power for three days, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.600 which is not fun. So I've never seen a tree 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:12.119 fall down in real time, so subtle a bet? Okay, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.120 does it make a Wilhelm scream? He started to follow 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.520 the wine. We can get Jerry to dovin Wheah the 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:26.400 wrong one. Uh So anyway, it was I mean, it 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.720 was fun at first not being not having power, uh 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.120 And then also wanted to announce because people care so 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.080 much about our pets because they're part of the show. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.920 On Monday or Tuesday, it was Tuesday, we took the 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.120 Wizard in because he had been like hiding and whenever 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.480 animals start doing weird things like that. You know, it's 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.600 not good. Uh, and you know, like the rest of 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.880 the other three over the past nine months, tumors all 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.920 over his body. So we put him down yesterday with 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.400 no power, but had one really great night the night 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.520 before with like we were forced to just be quiet 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.880 and there were candles lit because it ended up being 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.520 this like peaceful candlelight vigil because the power outage kind 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.720 of forced that upon us. Works out like that sometimes. Yeah, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.400 I was going, you know, if that happened, we might 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.479 have just been watching TV with him and you know, 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.560 still petting him and caring for him. But he's just 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:28.560 like game quick Game of Thrones. Well, I'm sorry, Chuckers, 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:33.520 did I quick Game of Thrones from everybody? I'm sorry. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.200 I appreciate that. Man, it was Emily. I mean I 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.840 was wrecked, but Emily is destroyed. Is this cat like 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.039 was attached to her body? Fifteen years? Is that how long? 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.920 How old he was? Yeah? And you know, we got 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.520 great lives atle lurn buckleyan wizards, so they were good, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.000 longful lives. But when you get together with a human 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.279 and you get four animals in the space of a 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.800 year or so, it's all good times and you don't 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.960 think about the end of that. Yeah you know. Oh, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:07.440 well like the secession of deaths in quick order that 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.200 can happen. Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean. You know. Yeah, 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.160 now they're all here. Now they're all gone. Yeah, like 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.800 I thought maybe like we'd lose one a year or 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.520 every couple of years, but it's like, no, November, February, September. Yeah, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.320 that's that is quick secession. It's not fun. Yeah. So anyway, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.880 I just want to get that out of the way. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.720 Hang in there, man, and hats off to you for 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.800 coming in. Yeah, than just being like nope, well we don't. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.120 We don't pad the queue like we used to know, 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.039 which is good. It keeps it fresh, but there's also 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.640 less room to just be like nope, yeah, we can 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.320 bring breaking news one crayons, right exactly. I was gonna 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.920 say during IRMA, did you guys with your power out 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:56.040 scribble anything with crayons? Uh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.000 eventually we sent, uh sent my daughter over to my 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.479 grandparents just as parents her grandparents. Yeah, and it's just 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.040 she was getting a little kg, and quite honestly, I 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.640 think we were getting a little kg. But at first. Yeah, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.880 it was that was greyon play yeah, play the big 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.120 fat kind. Yeah, she has the big big daddies right now, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.200 because I mean she's got a little hand, so that's 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.680 what she uses. That's the only kind she con grita 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.760 better to scribble with. Right, her fine motor neurons are 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.400 not quite refined enough to hold the normal traditional size crons. Well, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.000 I mean she would hold it, but she would hold 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:37.159 it like she holds a long sword. Right, Yeah, yeah, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.960 I know, I know what you mean, the deathly purpose right. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.279 So um, it turns out, Chuck, I don't know how 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.560 much of this, you know, having a young one with crayons. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.440 I don't know if like you read the back of 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.200 the box and they're like, okay, that's the history of crayons. Huh, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:54.760 how was it on the back of the box. Maybe 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.640 I don't even know. I haven't seen a cran in years. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.279 But I have a question for you. Is it normal 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.440 to weep quietly while you're research and crayons? Didn't you 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.920 have a nostalgia vers Yes? Yeah, I mean just like 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.160 the idea of that that box with like the logo 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.520 and the smell of them. We're talking about Crayola crayons. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.160 I might as well just go ahead and get that 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:18.880 out of the way. And it's really funny because this 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.880 this how stuff works article went to great links to 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.480 just be about how crayons work. A nice effort. Yeah, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.000 but they you know still, I mean, it's Crayola that 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.280 you're talking about in the United States when you're talking 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.440 about crayons for the most part. Yeah, and so much 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.880 so that, Um, the author didn't even really talk about 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.520 Crayola as a company much, right, And I thought that 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.040 was wrong. I thought so too, So we're going to 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.600 correct that in the podcast. Um. But I've found out 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.960 from this research that there is hydros Oreo situation going 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:53.440 on in the cran world. Prang, which is at best 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.320 and also ran in the Kran competition. It was actually 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:01.800 around before Crayola or making Crans. Remember Praying I think 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:07.400 they're still around Praying Ones. No, No, I think they 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.960 were just an off brand, but they were. It's like 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.440 Hi Drocks. Everybody thinks Hi Drocks is a knockoff. No Oreos, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.520 the knockoff but better, but the superior cook exactly same 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.720 with Crayola, crayons and pranks, Like, what did we do 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.160 why did you pick us? I'm sorry praying this is 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.320 just the reality of the situation that I'm pointing out here. Yeah, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.280 I think so. Um. I learned a lot about this, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.840 but more than anything, I was just taken back to 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.720 my childhood because childhood in Crayola go hand in hand. Yeah, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.080 Plato Crayola crayons, and we need to want Elmer's glue 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.360 at some point. Sure, just knock off the Big three 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:48.640 or paste. I had the purple kind with a pirate 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:54.720 on it. Do you remember that one? It was highly edible, toxic. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.319 It made you know it wasn't toxic, I mean as 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.160 far as I know, but the it made you want 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.040 to eat it, Like you wake up and be like, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.840 I think I'm gonna eat a little that paste today 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.640 at school? Yeah? Why not? It's funny you mentioned nostalgia though, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.720 because I did, you probably did too. Went to the 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.840 Crayola Effects and Figures page uh, And there was a 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:19.640 Yale study that found Yale University that is um. They 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:25.559 found that the smell of the crayon, the Crayola crayon Yes, specifically, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:30.599 is ranked number eighteen on the most recognizable sense for adults, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.199 just ahead of coffee. And peanut butter. Yeah, Like that's 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.720 how And I would bet your play outs up there too. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.800 Isn't it crazy though that somebody's like, oh I I 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.199 would have never guessed that was coffee, but they got 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:47.320 they got yeah, weirdos, Yeah, peanut butter, what is that? 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.480 It was like weird concoction? Yeah? Is that a turd? 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.200 That word is just borderline acceptable to me. I think 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.480 it's one of the great gross words because the way 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.680 it's spelled, more than anything, the way you spit out 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.760 the words t U r D is just looks gross, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.160 but you almost you make the sound that that you 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.400 make when you're when you encounter the smell of poop 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:19.440 in a bathroom or something like third right, I think 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.880 that's one of the reasons why I don't like it. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.600 It's just too visceral. Oh man, all right, so let's 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.000 get into this. Okay, So crayons have not been around 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.600 very long, Chuck. The crayon as we know it as 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:38.080 in the little round childhood writing implement has only been 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.480 around since the latter half of the nineteenth century. But 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.320 this article goes through great pains to talk about a 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:50.280 bunch of things that are not crayons. But waxy forms 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.079 of art, so we might as well talk about a 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.280 little bit of that. Like, did you find out how 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.480 to pronounce this bot or batique? Well? I said bautique 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.960 because I did this. Believe it or not. Oh, you've 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.720 done batique before? Nice? It was weirdly, well, not weirdly, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.480 I guess my My elementary school, of which my father 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.440 was principal, as we know, had a a lot of 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:19.480 interesting programs. I can't remember the name of the class, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.319 but it was like it was sort of like an elective, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.719 but for elementary school. It was the eighties, so it 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.160 was probably called that, but it was just different kind 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.079 of you know. We did photography and all sorts of 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.120 cool stuff that usually don't get to do in great school. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.600 But we did a bautique course and my dad got 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.479 really into it for a while, So we were boutiquing 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.080 in our family for a short time. Was this like 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.199 right before he got into bedazzlingk uh, he never got 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.439 into that. He was into photography and batiquing. So we 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.760 would batique like the only thing that I remember was doing. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.240 You're gonna think this is good. We did herschel Walker 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:03.120 Georgia Bulldog bautique canvases nice that we framed. Yeah, so 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.800 let me figure this out. Unpacked that one there was 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:14.840 like a h an image of herschel Walker on a canvas. Yeah, Walker, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.200 it would look nothing like herschel Walker. So how did 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.520 you How was it a herschel Walker camp? I think, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.400 if I remember correctly, like we would get an artist 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.440 to do it, and then we would batite on like 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.280 a cloth canvas and then we would batique that so 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.439 you would take wax and trace it over it or 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.680 something like that. Yeah, I don't think it may not 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.840 have been true in the batique style. For we're dancing 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.480 around this a lot and people are like, what the 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:44.000 heck is batique? It is a is a method of 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.520 dying cloth where you create these patterns. You spread this 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.880 hot wax over a cloth and then and then he 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.400 died and then the the pigment doesn't get where the 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.360 dot where the waxes, and then later you remove the wax. Right, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.120 But I don't we may have done just some weird, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.839 uh Southern version of that, because I remember like waxing 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:13.360 already inked things and then you would crumple them up 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.640 and wrinkle them and then it would give this cool 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.040 like you know, like when you would wrinkle waxy fabric, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.640 that might look like shabby chiking. Maybe I don't know, man, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.600 So batique strikes me as kind of like tyde. It 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.040 was well, I mean, the end effect could look sort 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.280 of like tyed. It didn't have to that, but it 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.160 didn't have to. But the point was, and the whole 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.640 reason it's making an appearance here is that it's not 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:44.160 like wax in a pigment. Right, So, at least two thousand, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.240 possibly even as far back as four thousand years ago, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.560 there were people who had put together that you could 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.160 do cool things with wax and pigments. Yes, right, but 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.360 fatique has is really not cry on in any way. No, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:02.200 it's not. It's a process, right, but it's the it's 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.840 the seed, the kernel of the beginning of the idea 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.520 of a crayon. Yeah. I think the antacoustic art is 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.720 much closer. Okay, well, like a caustic art is um 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.720 acoustic acoustic? Yeah, it's basically where you take a deconstructed 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:22.760 crayon and rub it on something that's that's acaustic art. Basically, 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.960 it's taking pigment and then some sort of waxy substance. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.000 UM and melting it together and then just yeah, using 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.160 it to decorate. Maybe it's like a finger paint or 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.080 something like that, and then I guess the wax hardens 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.120 and you've got art. Yeah. I mean some of the 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.800 stuff looks really cool. Did you look at any any 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.080 acoustic art? Really beautiful stuff? Really so, like, what kind 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.360 of art would you make with this? Well, I mean 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.480 any kind Like if you if you just looked at 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.960 it on a picture on your phone, you would just 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.240 think it looks like a regular painting. Oh? Really? Is 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.480 there like a three dimensional quality to it though? Because 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.440 it's why maybe that's what I would guess, Like it's 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:58.760 one of those things where you get up close to 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.040 it and you go, oh, I see, because I'm always 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.160 doing a museums, right, I know, I've been to a museum. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.200 Oh all those doses that it just man if a 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:15.240 nickel for everyone. Uh. And then of course very famous 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.720 artists like Da Vinci and Edward Munch and basically it 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.640 sounds like kind of all of them we're making their 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:28.280 own crayons in the truest sense of the word crayon, 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:35.480 which is a French for pencil from cray which means chalk. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.960 Right c r a I E. Right, yes, and that's 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.120 from the Latin creta, which meant chalk. Right, So this 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.880 was not chalk, No, it wasn't, but chalk is kind 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:49.720 of similar. And in fact, the earliest manufactured cryan, the 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.520 conte crane um, basically grew out of chalk. Chalk is 0:15:55.240 --> 0:16:00.960 pigment and chalk. Yeah, I guess that's it. Uh And 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.760 um artists would use chalks like you can use still today. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.520 Some some people create art using chalks, right, um, right, 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.200 past cells, That's what I was looking for. So you've 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:17.840 got past cells. It's not a really difficult hop skip 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.960 and jump to say, well, how about instead of chalk 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.000 we use wax and see what happens. And that's where 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.680 the content cran came from. But the problem is is 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.400 UM I believe it was made from beeswax, as most 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:34.360 crans were up to the early nineteenth century. UM, and 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.280 you I think had to warm it before you used it. 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.080 So you probably had to take a flame to it 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.240 for a little while, melted a little bit, at least 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.560 get it a little malleable before you could use it. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.840 And the earliest content crans were black, brown, and red. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.720 Get a load of the beauty of those three together. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:57.160 If you looked up is it contra Conte? I'm saying Conte, 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.880 I'm splitting the difference between the two. By the way, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:05.680 have you seen the response from the psychopathy who says 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.879 it like that? Nut jobs say it like that. Apparently 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.640 that's your psychopathy? Is just wrong, wrong, wrong? Yeah, it's 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.720 apparently a real pet peeve with some people. You really 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.920 need to calm down. And it's psychopathy. I don't say 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:24.520 it like that. I never will. Yeah, psychopathy, psychopaths. It's 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:29.200 like that guy's a real psychopath. People would just edge 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.680 away from you. Uh, psychopathy. Wait and spoiler alert, where 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.040 I'm gonna read an email from a legit psychopath. Yeah, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:41.560 we got a few emails from psychopaths. Sorry, Kapas. But 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.480 if you look up the Conte crayon and a photo 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.680 of it, you would see that and go, oh, I've 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.639 seen those in art stores. Uh. As soon as I 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:51.960 saw it, I was like, oh, I know what those are. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.680 It's it's kind of like for adults, adult artists who 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.720 want to do crayon art. But that's where crayons came from. Yeah, 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:01.879 I was legit art, right, And like you said, a 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.320 lot of the earlier artists, pre pre mid nineteenth century 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:09.199 artists made their own and then the first manufacturers of 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.880 crans were making them for artists. Correct, So we'll we'll 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:14.960 we'll get back into the history of crans after we 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:45.040 take a break. How about that. Let's do it, okay, Okay. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.720 So when we left off, the manufacturer of krans was 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.199 about to begin and it was all for artists. I'm 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.760 in the corner batiquing herschel Walker. I don't even know 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.119 what you were doing. Well, I don't think it was batiquing, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.240 though it was definitely batiquing. I bet you my dad 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.120 still have some of this stuff in this basement. Well, 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.760 can you bring one to work for Show and Tell? 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.240 Maybe I will. Okay, I'm gonna hold you to that. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.400 I'm gonna bring it up every episode. Uh So, where 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.840 do we leave off? The modern crayon is in its infancy. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:19.960 So the kant cran the content cran um is invented 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.560 and I think that was the late eighteenth century and 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.720 then by the eighteen twenties. So apparently it's lost to 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:30.160 history who actually created the first cryan that we would 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.720 recognize as a krean today. Yeah, which surprises me. But 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:37.600 this article points out um a manufacturer named Joseph Lemercier 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:44.040 who by the eighteen twenties was producing wax crans. Right again, 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.359 though these things are um, bees wax is not easy 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.919 to work with. It was way easier to go to 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:52.960 the store and buy them, but once you bought them, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.400 it was still kind of a pain to use. Yeah, 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.000 and there was I thought this was funny too. There 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.400 was another company in Germany about fifteen years later, J S. Statla, 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.440 that had the same crayons, but they were all encased 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.600 in wood, which just seemed like a very German thing 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.880 to do, right, you know. I don't know why, but 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.560 I don't know. It just struck me as very German. Yeah, 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.600 I can see that, you know, they don't they wanted 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.560 to be clean and they don't want to get their 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.520 hands dirty or anything. Uh So, like you said, beeswax 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.480 no good. Um, I was doing the job, I guess. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.760 But this is before kids were using this stuff at all. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.399 I think. Yeah, again, they're making them for artists, but 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.920 even artists are like this is this is not easy 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:42.480 to use. If there's one thing that can be traced 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:48.080 back to the Industrial Revolution, that depends on the Industrial Revolution. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:53.200 It is the cran tons of other stuff forward, economic progress, 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:58.119 all that wealth capital, all of that depended on the 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.199 Industrial Revolution. But so too did the krayon like to 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:07.600 a surprising degree. And it starts with um coal mining, right. What. Yeah, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.639 in Eastern Europe they were mining coal and they found 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.960 from the coal mining in um, the process of mining coal, 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.280 there was a byproduct called saracen. I'm a big fan 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:25.600 of byproduct. Use pretty neat, you know. Yeah, sarason was 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:29.080 softer than bees wax, which was a big, big plus 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.800 cheaper than bees wax, which is always good if you're 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.639 in the money making business. And so there was a 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:40.879 check company Offenheim and Ziffa who started making crayons out 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.720 of that stuff. And as our article puts it, it 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.720 was soon praised for its durability of the marks that 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.280 it made. Right. So it was the good stuff, right. 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.360 It was easy to use and it left a good 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.879 mark behind, which are two things you want in a krayon, 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.520 especially if you're an artist, right, You don't want disappearing ink. 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.320 So somebody said, oh, what else can we get from coal? 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:04.439 In a few years down the line, h right around 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.439 the Civil War. A little after the Civil War a 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:12.760 guy named Charles A. Bowley Boli, let's say Bowli. He 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:18.119 was a manufacturer from Massachusetts who started using something called paraffin. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.200 Everybody's heart of paraffin wax, right. Have you ever seen 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.159 a package of paraffin wax that you get at the 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.359 at the grocery store? Um? Sure I have. Have you 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.159 ever noticed that most of the paraffin wax is Golf brand, 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:35.400 the same Gulf that owns the Gulf seventies six gas stations? 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:38.680 Have not because it's a byproduct, Yes, And I never 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.840 knew that until today. I'm like, why would Gulf be 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:46.520 into gas stations and wax that you buy at the 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.280 grocery store. It never made any sense to me. Now 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.720 I understand because it's a it's a byproduct of fossil 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:57.760 fuel mining. Yeah. Like why does Yamaha make keyboards and motorcycles? 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:00.800 That's a great question. I don't know that there's an 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:05.320 answer to that one, like diversification. Maybe that's I would 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:07.240 like to be in on that meeting. Like, you know, 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:12.359 we're really good at motorcycles. So I'm thinking keyboards, thinking 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:16.600 key tars. Uh? Yeah, So I need to look at 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:18.760 parafitt in the store. Where is it usually like in 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:22.600 the baked goods or yeah, like wherever you'll find like 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:25.600 Mason jars that kind of thing. Oh so like an 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.520 old country store. No, they have it at the grocery store. 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.560 You just always walk past it unless you're looking for it, gotcha. Yeah, 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.960 all right, we'll check it out. And it's golf usually. Yeah, 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.000 that's been my experience. It's always golf. I better walk 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:40.840 past it a million times. But all right, we I'm 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:42.959 gonna keep a lookout next time of them in the 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:48.919 the grocery store. No, the the bell Jar aisle. I 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:51.800 think that's probably the baking good aisle. Okay, yeah, bell 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:55.280 Jar is that right? Huh. I'm getting on my I'm 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:57.399 just I'm not on my game today, so I appreciate it, 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:01.560 all right, man. Uh So that was also derived from 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:06.360