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Speaker 1: Thinking Sideways Information. It's a mystery short stories of things

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Speaker 1: we simply don't know the answers to. This week with

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Speaker 1: a very special episode of Thinking Sideways Short, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do short short. Yeah, we're gonna talk about a couple

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Speaker 1: of little mysteries that are just kind of kind of

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Speaker 1: too short to actually spin out into a whole hour

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Speaker 1: long show. So we get a cover cover two really

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Speaker 1: interesting topics and then categorized, and we're gonna categorize from

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Speaker 1: the two of them as things that go bob in

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Speaker 1: the water, things that go bob bob in the water.

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Speaker 1: First of all, all, I'm gonna mangle the pronunciations of this.

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Speaker 1: It's the tip of tier blocks, and I'm sure that's

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Speaker 1: not the way it's supposed to be. It starts with

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Speaker 1: a T and a jay. I'm just gonna tipotier blocks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have no idea on this. Yeah, these rubber these weird

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Speaker 1: rubber oblong rectangular blocks with rounded corners, and they have

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Speaker 1: going to spell it out T G I P E

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Speaker 1: T I R, which turns maybe the T is silent.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's Jupiter. Maybe it's Jupiter or maybe it's Jitpiter.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's Jupiter. Maybe it's maybe they're

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Speaker 1: like the tiles Jupiter. You never know, Like in Welsh,

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Speaker 1: for example, you know and Welsh, if you have two

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Speaker 1: l's following each other, it changes to the first L

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Speaker 1: changes to sound. So like there's a town called Clan

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Speaker 1: didn't know, Clon didn't know, which is a coastal town.

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Speaker 1: It's starts with two L so it's end. Didn't know.

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Speaker 1: It's like, languages are weird. I don't even try, don't

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Speaker 1: How do you keep all of that? Yeah, I've been,

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Speaker 1: I've been the crime didn't know. It's a it's an

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Speaker 1: interesting town. So but back to our thing. So, these

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Speaker 1: things have been washing up on the shore is of

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Speaker 1: northern Europe now for a while now. Lots of people

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Speaker 1: have been collecting them, and a lot of people were

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Speaker 1: wondering what exactly these things were, where they come from.

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Speaker 1: And this is actually not so much of a mystery.

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Speaker 1: It turns out that these things are these things are

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Speaker 1: actually produced in it was a Pakistan, No, Indonesia, that's right, Yeah, Indonesia.

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Speaker 1: They were produced in Indonesia a long time ago though apparently, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a plantation. These things are this this

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Speaker 1: place chip. The name that's in there is the side

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Speaker 1: of a nineteenth century rubber plantation in Indonesia, which is

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Speaker 1: where these things were come from. And apparently they're also

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Speaker 1: not rubber. They made it something called gutta percha Gutta perca,

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Speaker 1: which is a substance that comes from a tree as

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Speaker 1: native to Malaysia, and it's pre day's plastic and it

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Speaker 1: was used for all kinds of stuff for for installation,

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Speaker 1: waterproof coating and stuff like that, Teddy Bear's noses, bookbindings,

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Speaker 1: hot air balloons, and it was a very useful thing.

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Speaker 1: So lots of it was produced in Indonesia, loss of

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Speaker 1: it was shipped all over the world. And you would

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Speaker 1: ship it in bricks, right, yeah, I mean it would

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Speaker 1: it packs nice and compactly in a in a nice

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Speaker 1: little brick form. Right. And when were they When were

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Speaker 1: they being produced, I'm sure well into the twentieth century,

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Speaker 1: but it was in the nineteenth century. Well yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, but I'm sure they were still producing them

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Speaker 1: because they were using them for in submarines and stuff

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Speaker 1: people that collect them. But this is not quite a mystery.

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Speaker 1: They think that's it's not totally clear, but it's believed

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Speaker 1: gutter perket balls. Yeah. The British government believes that this

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Speaker 1: And why they're showing up like now, show up now, yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: Miyazaki Maru, which was a Japanese carrying Indonesia. That's cool. No,

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Speaker 1: one if you have one and you listen to our

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Speaker 1: show and you want to send us one as a gift.

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Speaker 1: The best thing about one of those ones would make

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Speaker 1: you're not going to miss your coaster. That's true. Well

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Speaker 1: Thanks that They're great, great little story. Sorry we couldn't

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Speaker 1: any other theories that you'd like to expand the alien

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Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, as I think we've we

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Speaker 1: There they were bath toys, rubber duckies. Cargo ship dropped

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Speaker 1: And for the next fifteen years, people would randomly on

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Speaker 1: This happened. This mystery had happened. In nineteen sixty seven,

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Speaker 1: the U. S. Coast Guards found a crate that had

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Speaker 1: Once there that somebody put out is that they were

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Speaker 1: styrofoam peanuts and seven that they have styropham puts. That's

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