1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: Charles Demi, Chuck Bryant. Hello, sir, that makes this stuff 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: you should know? Right, that's right, unless I'm in the 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: wrong place. You're a little under the weather. Still, aren't 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: you just as sick as I was when we recorded 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: Fainting Goats? Not not ten minutes ago? Yes, so Chuck 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: hasn't been sick all week. It'll probably just be a 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: couple of days ago. Clear, if you have a robust 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: um immune system for a man of your age, remember 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: when you were actually sick for weeks and weeks like 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: in year one? Yeah, and I think like eighteen podcasts 15 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: were screwed up because I was just I could not 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: get better. I thought, you are those are the unhealthy day. 17 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: So you lead a much healthier lifestyle, much much healthier. 18 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: You're not. We don't need to check you into the 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: sanitarium like we had to back in the day. I'm 20 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: okay now I'm not. I've gotten over my consumption. Hopefully 21 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: you will very soon. I have all faith that you will. Right, So, Chuck, 22 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: while we're waiting for you to recuperate, I have I 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: want to talk to you about technology, specifically some of 24 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: the oldest technology known demand clothes. Clothing is technology. Yeah, so, 25 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: I think, Chuck, probably more than anything else, the thing 26 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: that defines humanity is our desire and our ceaseless striving 27 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: to become more than more than human, to take ourselves 28 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: out of the rat race of evolution, the crapshoot of genetics, 29 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: and to basically take hold of our biological destiny. Right. Yeah. 30 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: We sort of did that with clothing many many, many 31 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, so that's that's what we do. We 32 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: use technology to do that, and clothing was one of 33 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: the earliest ones. Because we are a subtropical species humans 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: are We're not supposed to live in really cold places, right, 35 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: but we do. We've managed to migrate from you know, 36 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: somewhere near the equator where we can run around without 37 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: clothes too. Yeah, because we're what they call the sexy 38 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: epochs um to some colder climbs. Thanks to close along 39 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: the way, we um figured out that we could use 40 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: hammers and or use stones for hammers and other tools. Um, 41 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: and we figured out that we could build our our 42 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: own shelters make things warm on the inside. Right, So 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,399 Speaker 1: eventually over the years we figured out enclosed heating systems. 44 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: And then now thanks to all this, we have swedes, right, involvos. 45 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: Involvos thanks to the swedes. So the technology evolvos are 46 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: a direct result of the technology of clothes in a 47 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: weird way. You're exactly right. But somewhere along the line 48 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: there was a branch of that linear development of thought 49 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: and talent of technology all the way to enclosed shelters 50 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: that house swedes, where somebody figured out that you can 51 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: make it enclosed shelter out of blocks of hard packed snow. 52 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: And we know those today as ig loose. Yes, And 53 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: do you know what the Inuit called the igloos? Your question? 54 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: That's a good that's a great That was a good 55 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,839 Speaker 1: question though, because, yeah, it's an Inuit word for what 56 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: believe it means snow house. So the Inuits are just 57 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: among the most pragmatic speakers on the planet, very cut 58 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: and dry. Yeah, they call their snow houses igloos, right, 59 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: that just makes outter sense. Yeah, we're talking about the 60 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: Canadian tundra, Josh, and they, uh, you know, tps and 61 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: castles and other things that were being built were all 62 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: well and good. If you're in in Europe, or if 63 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: you are in a warmer climate, let's say, like the 64 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: Florida Panhandle, you don't have to take through of ice 65 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: to quarry stone exactly. But if you're in the Canadian tundra, 66 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: those aren't really good options. So, uh, snow, hard packed snow, 67 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: but aim the masonry, if you will. For the Inuits, 68 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get to this Eskimo thing. Yeah, yeah, um. 69 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: Eskimo and Inuit are one and the same. There are 70 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: two different terms for the same group of people. These 71 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: people who um inhabit areas spanning from Siberia to Alaska, Canada, 72 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: Greenland um thirty five hundred mile range, right, which makes 73 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: them the most widely spread Aboriginal group on the planet. Yeah. 74 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: An Aboriginal, for those of you don't know, doesn't just 75 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: refer to the Aborigines in Australia. It's any um any 76 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: any any indigenous indigenous the first people in that region, yes, 77 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: or would be Aboriginal, Yes, that was the ones who 78 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: get pushed around by the Europeans aboriginal um. And if 79 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: you want to insult in Inuit, you just go ahead 80 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: and call them an eskimo. Yeah, apparently it's a derogatory 81 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: term because it was a term that the white man gave. 82 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: It was another tribe, was it, Yeah, but it was 83 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: an outside group. I was just figure it's a white man. Yeah, 84 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: so it was another group named them eskimos, which um, 85 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: it was thought to mean eaters of raw meat or 86 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: raw blubbers what I've heard as well, blubber. But then 87 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: they later thought that eschi moment to netch snowshoes, to 88 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: build snowshoes, and linguists can't prove it, although that's kind 89 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: of what they think. But in the glory that is language, 90 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 1: things can go from their original meaning to a popular meaning, 91 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: and it's old meaning is meaningless. It's only what people 92 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: think or use right, right, which is how l o 93 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: l is a word, that's right. So we're going to 94 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: refer them, refer to them as Inuit, because that's the 95 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: that's the way to do it. We don't want to 96 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: alienate anybody, no, especially the Inuit, because they are tough 97 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: people and they have survived for many, many, many years 98 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: in conditions that don't seem to be survivable, especially way 99 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: back in the day. But they made it through and 100 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: they're thriving actually too. We'll get to that in a second. Yeah, 101 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: I was surprised to see that, but um, chuck a 102 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: couple of other facts about these uh the Inuit, which 103 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: means the people, right, So they call their snowhouses they lose, 104 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: they call themselves the people. It's just it's very spare. 105 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: I could have been a get anyone, I think. I 106 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: think so too. Keep things simple, fall down, goat, Yeah, 107 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 1: so they don't. They they have never really established a 108 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: formal system of government. It's the family is generally the 109 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: the center of the community. Yeah. Um, the males are 110 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: the figure heads. Yeah. No, class system is pretty cool. Um. 111 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: And basically, if you're a boy, you're a hunter. If 112 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: you're a girl, you marry a hunter and hopefully produce 113 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: more boy hunters because the everyone's equally responsible for coming 114 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: up with food and I imagine every family, um is 115 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: That's what that means. Every family is equally responsible for 116 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: contributing to the food in the community. Yeah. Yeah, so 117 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: the more boy hunters the better. So, um, fascinating group, 118 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: and they have never lived in it loses permanent shelters. Huh. Well, yeah, 119 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: And it's important that you mentioned hunting because clearly, if 120 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: you are living on the Arctic tundra, there's one thing 121 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: that you're probably not gonna have, and that is a 122 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: vegetable garden. So they are very carnivorous as a as 123 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: a people. They do a lot of hunting. They did 124 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: a lot of hunting of seals, which is probably they 125 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: were called blobberry working bloober eaters. And where there are seals, 126 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: is gonna be a lot of ice sea ice, Yeah, 127 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: which leads to another peculiar trait of the Inuit. Peculiar 128 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: meaning unique. Um kayak angst. Remember we talked about that 129 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: on the webcast like a long time ago, remember that, 130 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: And everything was cut off in the middle of it, 131 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: and like it was get Kawasaki day. Oh yeah, And 132 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: I wrote a blog post on thing like as I 133 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: was saying before I was cut off, And kayak angst 134 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: is this, um, it's a it's a condition specific only 135 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: to the Inuit, where an Inuit males too, where you 136 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: become afraid of going out to hunt seals in a 137 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: kayak usually following an episode where you've been up for 138 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: several days. The sun very rarely sets because at summertime, 139 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: which is the only time you're when when you can 140 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: hunt seal really um, so you have a loss of 141 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: sense of time. You're completely without any landmark or reference point. 142 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: It's all just horizon and sea ice. So you're without 143 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: any no bearings, no sense of time, and you doze 144 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: off and wake up, and you have no idea how 145 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 1: long you've been asleep, how far you've drifted, and you 146 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: may be out there drifting for the rest of your life. 147 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: And you finally do find land again, you make your 148 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 1: way back to your community, and you become terrified at 149 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: the thought of getting back in a kayaking kayak angst Yeah, 150 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: specific only to the Innuit. I don't remember that at all. 151 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: That's so weird. Well you should read my blog post. 152 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: I usually have an inkling, but that that one doesn't 153 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: ring true for me. So, uh, the Inuit did not 154 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: live in Iglas Josh as he said, that is not true. 155 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: People might think that um Innuit tribes just had it 156 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: loose all over the place and that was their house. 157 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: They were really hunting shelters. Yeah, it's like a hunting 158 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: camp like um, Robin Williams, uh, fishing camping, insomnia, yeah, 159 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: except nutty because of no sleep and two yeah, well 160 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: al Pacino was yeah, that's right. That was Christopher Nolan. 161 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: You know, yeah, he's just amazing. Yeah, although you had 162 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: inception problems, right, it was really just Ellen Page get 163 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: her out of the movie. You're okay. It wasn't even 164 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 1: her necessarily, although I'm not a big fan of hers. Um, 165 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: I think she's a she's a good actress and everything, 166 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: but you know, I'll never figure it for Juno. But um, 167 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: it was more her character. Like clearly character was put 168 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: in afterward because the producers were like, or the studio 169 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: execs are like, wait, what is going on? So they 170 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: wrote in Ellen Page's character to explain everything to everybody 171 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: at each step so that you can keep up with 172 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: this really dense movie. You love getting me wound up 173 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: at that inception around John So all right, where were 174 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: we the innuits? They were hunting camps, like we said, 175 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: and uh, they're still around today and they're booming. Um 176 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: not igloos. Actually they're they're not quite as common. But 177 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: they did a study who was just a human rights 178 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: program in Canada. In Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage said 179 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: that there could be as many as sixty eight thousand, 180 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: four hundred Inuit in Canada and only in Change. So um, yeah, 181 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,479 Speaker 1: they're they're booming as a people. Pretty cool. So they're thriving. Igloos. 182 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: Are were never um, permanent shelter or structures for them, 183 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: and um they had kayak angst One other thing too, 184 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: Eskimo kisses. Yeah, what's the deal there? So you know 185 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: it's like rubbing the tip of your nose. Yeah, it's cute, 186 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: it is. It's not entirely accurate though, I'm sure, but 187 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: they did kiss with their noses. Yeah, but it was, Um, 188 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: you would put your notes, your nostrils to the face, 189 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: usually around like the cheeks, right below the eyes. Um. 190 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 1: The you would put your nose to a loved one's 191 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: face like that and inhale deeply. And that was that's 192 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: the real Eskimo kiss for are Inuit kiss? Interesting, isn't it? 193 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: Yeah they had it wrong though, you know how it right? 194 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: The French Yeah, they figured it out and everyone was like, oh, yeah, 195 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: this is the way to kiss. Forget that no stuff, 196 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: all right, So let's talk about igloos. For a second, 197 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: they're built out of blocks of ice. They are not 198 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: built out of the kind of snow that you probably 199 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: have in your front yard in Ohio in the wintertime. 200 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: It depends on how out what it was. Yeah, although 201 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 1: my cousin in law, Alex Schreiber, Ohio State University student, 202 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: built an igloo last winter. He and his buddies. Check 203 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: this thing out, dude, nice, Wow, I should post this. 204 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to post this. It's like seven ft 205 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,959 Speaker 1: tall at least. It's huge, and it's it's like really 206 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 1: well constructed. He's sitting on top of it and it's 207 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: not caving in. If I built an igloo that, you know, 208 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,719 Speaker 1: it wouldn't last very long. Pretty cool though. That is 209 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: a backyard in Ohio too. Yeah. It's great day, leafless 210 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: trees everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, he and his buddies, you know, 211 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: clearly had enough boredom in time to build this. Alex Schreiber, 212 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: huh yeah awesome. Is he listening right now? I hope 213 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: so yeah he listens. And I told I get my 214 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: heads up. Yeah, we have to post that. He's gonna 215 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: right back and say, don't mention the iglu don't they 216 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: always yeah, so chuck. Even though like um say, hunting 217 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: expedition now or even a single hunter went out and 218 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: built an igloo. Um that that it wasn't just the 219 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: single igloo every single time. Sometimes they lived in them 220 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: for longer periods. Sometimes more people lived in a group, 221 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: and they would actually um create compounds out of igloos 222 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: by you know, melding them together, creating walkways, breeze waste. 223 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: And there were some that um basically igloo cities that 224 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: came about where you I think they would have like 225 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: halls for banquets and beasts and like balls and stuff 226 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:39,559 Speaker 1: like like Inuit balls held in um uh, well, an igloo, 227 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: a big large igloo. Pretty cool. Though I didn't know this. 228 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I always pictured just the single 229 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: and I also thought they lived in them. So this 230 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: was this one. I was controlled like the totem poles. 231 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 1: And we should probably also while we're just like busting 232 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: things left and right. Um Chili, Willie, helpful little penguin 233 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: from the He was so cute. I went and watched 234 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: when to refresh my memory. Willy, he was very cute. 235 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: He wasn't I I thought he would be mischievous or 236 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: I remembered him being mischievous, like Woody Woodpecker, who was 237 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: a jerk. Um. No, Chili Willie was a very helpful, cute, 238 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 1: sweet little baby penguin. Um. And his little igloo with 239 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: the typical igloo that you think of a dome with 240 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: like a rounded entryway pretty much dead on. Yeah, but 241 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: it looks like your your cousin. They don't, uh cousin, 242 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: cousin in law. It looks like he he knows, he 243 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. Alex h Matthew, No, I said, nephew. 244 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: Oh sorry, Uh yeah. There's no penguins in Alaska either, 245 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: so that's the other problem as well. Chili will he 246 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: was not accurate, but cute. Nonetheless, No, but the igloo 247 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: he built was accurate. That's right. And Josh, since we're 248 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: talking igloes. Um, here's here's what a a naive person 249 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: might say. Why in the world, if you're freezing cold 250 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: out in Alaska, would you build a room out of 251 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: ice and snow to sit in? How warm could that be? 252 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: It would take somebody pretty I easy to say something 253 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: like that, though, you know how warm it could be, 254 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: up to forty degrees warmer than it is outside. Of 255 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: the iglu, buddy, Yes, And why chuck, where these furnaces 256 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: coming from? Well, your body, for one, human body is 257 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: a pretty good furnace. And um, when you cut down 258 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: the wind chill, you're gonna take a big bite out 259 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: of the cold. And you put a couple of warm 260 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: Inuit bodies in there, and imagine these are big tough dudes. Anyway, 261 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: they're probably just like exuding warmth. That'll it'll you know, 262 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: radiate out and insulate. The igla will insulate the heat 263 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: in it traps the heat. Yeah. So I mean, if 264 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: you're talking negative forty degrees, that's really cold. But if 265 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: you could bring that up to zero, that's still cold, 266 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: but it ain't like negative forty, which is the same 267 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: in Celsius san fahrenhegh. Oh Yeah, yeah, good point. So, uh, 268 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: the snow is an insulator, right, Yeah, it cuts down 269 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: on the on the wind um of the melting. That's 270 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: the other thing too. Yeah, when when you build an igloo, 271 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: and don't worry, we're about to give you step by 272 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: step instructions on how to build an igloo. We should 273 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: get alex on the orange um. At the very least 274 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: you can verify it, right, that's right. Um, when you 275 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: build an igloo, you uh, the sun when it does 276 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: come out, or if it's out the whole time, especially 277 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: during the day. Uh, it'll heat up enough possibly to 278 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: melt some refreeze at night, which is what you want, 279 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: melt refreeze, and um, you you your body heat also 280 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: may melt it from the inside out something. And then 281 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: when you go out to hunt, it'll refreeze every time 282 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: more likely, it's probably the more likely scenario. So this 283 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: um thawing and freezing and thawing and freezing basically turns 284 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: the igloo into this really um strong and insulated structure. 285 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: And about a boom bought a being. You got yourself 286 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: an insulated place to fish or at least to bunk 287 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: down while you're fishing. So, Josh, are we at the 288 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: point where we tell people how to build englu? I 289 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: don't think we can delay it any longer. Oh we can. Okay. 290 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: You mentioned that iglu igloos are kind of out of 291 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: fashion with the Inuit these days. Yeah, not as common, 292 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: but they are becoming increasingly common at a ski resorts apparently. Yeah, 293 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: if you are such a ski junkie and that you 294 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: want to just basically wake up, roll out of bed, 295 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: put on your skis and start skiing immediately. They have igloos, 296 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: usually on the slopes um that you can rent igloo 297 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: villages that you can run an igloo overnight or for 298 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: as long as you stay there. Pretty sweet, huh. Or 299 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: if you're, you know, feeling squirrely, you can build on yourself. 300 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: True down is that a segue? It is if you're 301 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: if you've done it before, like your cousin in law, 302 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: it could take as little as an hour. If you 303 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: don't know what you're doing, it could take six or more. Yeah. 304 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: I want to ask Alex actually how long it took 305 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: because the first pictures are are at night, so it 306 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: clearly took them longer than a few hours. Yes, Like 307 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: when I saw that someone could build one an hour, 308 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't believe that. I'm 309 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: pretty sure if you were raised as an Inuit, and 310 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: you were, I don't know, in your twenties, I'll bet 311 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: you could build an igloo in an hour. Yeah. And 312 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: it looks like Alex and his buddies used a tub, 313 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: like a shallow plastic tub to pack the snow down. 314 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: And that's smart. Inform the blocks. Yeah, so the way 315 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: we're going to teach you how to do it requires 316 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: a snow shovel, which looks an awful lot like a 317 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: dry wall or not a snow shovel. It does require 318 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: a snow shovel, but a snow saw which looks an 319 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: awful lot like a dry wall saw. Um. And basically 320 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: you want to go find some ice, like you were 321 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: saying you normally wouldn't find ice or snow. Um, that's 322 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: just fallen. It's gonna work for an igloo. Yeah, you 323 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: want to find um, wettish, hard packed like that's more solid, 324 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: the better snow. Right, And what do you want to 325 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: do with that snow chuck? Well, you want to use 326 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: a little saw. You want to cut large blocks? Um, 327 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: I guess you can very the size, but they recommend 328 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: in the Complete Wilderness Training Guy, they recommend three ft long, 329 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: fifteen inches high, eight inches deep. Once you get your blocks, 330 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: you want to start building, Uh, you know, put your 331 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: foundation in a circle and start building up that foundation, 332 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: working your way up as you go, decreasing in size 333 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:24,199 Speaker 1: as you go. And you also have to shape it 334 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: at a at a slant obviously, or you're just gonna 335 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: have a ice block tower and not a domed roof, correct. Yeah, yeah, 336 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: you um, you want to shape it at a slant 337 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: like you said, but you also want to make the 338 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: blocks decrease in sizes you get bigger decrease and and overlap. 339 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: See you you did some some brickwork, and that's sort 340 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 1: of the same principle there. I never built anything that 341 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: was tall enough that I had to really build it 342 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: back to stagger it. And when I did, it was 343 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: like the pre made castle rock wall that's designed to 344 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: set back right right, so it didn't require any thought. 345 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: But yes, if you if you kind of have something 346 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: that's technically at a slight incline, it will provide structure 347 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: if you can get it to connect as a dome 348 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: like Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome exactly, very super strong structure. 349 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: So as you're building this and then you start to 350 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,959 Speaker 1: make the dome part, it should support itself if you've 351 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,199 Speaker 1: done it right, but you can always use sticks on 352 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 1: the inside to support it temporarily until you get the 353 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: dome complete, and then it's all pressing against each other. Uh, 354 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: And then how do you finish it off with with 355 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: the top. Well, you want to take a chunk of ice. 356 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: You're what you're gonna have is this perfect dome, some 357 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: variation of a perfect dome. Um. And there's gonna be 358 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: a central hole in the top, right, Yeah, like a 359 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: little chimney. Yes, um, but you actually want to plug 360 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: this one. That's right. This is one chimney you want 361 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: to plug. And you take you cut another block that's 362 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: going to be bigger than the hole, and you want 363 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: to shape it so that it basically fits this this 364 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: hole that's left over, um, which should be something like 365 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: an octagon maybe roughly l shape, UM. And you want 366 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: to fit it in there perfectly. You want to cut it, 367 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 1: shape it, put it in there so it's in there 368 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: perfectly packed in there. Because this is your load bearing keystone. Basically, 369 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: as long as that thing's intact, everything else should be fine. 370 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: You'll lose that, you're in a lot of trouble. Um. 371 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: And then after that, you're ready to start insulating it, 372 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: filling in the cracks. You want to shovel snow on 373 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: top of everything, and the loose snow that is what 374 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 1: you want. Now you want to work with it, and 375 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: you're going to use some insulated gloves on your hands 376 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: or else you're going to lose your hands to gangreen 377 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: in a few days. Um. And you fill in the 378 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: cracks with the snow. You just kind of smooth it 379 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: over with your hands so that the snow packs into 380 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: the cracks, and all of a sudden, this um separate 381 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: block pattern is lost and you have a basically a 382 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: smooth dome is what you're going for. Yeah, And at 383 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: the end, it's it's a lot harder to try and 384 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: build a door into your thing. It's easier just to 385 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 1: build a dome and then cut your door out after 386 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,959 Speaker 1: it's finished. There's a good point. And UM, A lot 387 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: of people, UM, a true aficionado of the igloo would 388 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: build a little L shaped entryway tunnel because that will 389 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: cut down on the wind coming in even more because 390 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: the wind has to turn a corner, right. Um. So 391 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: you cut that hole in whatever shape you want, whether 392 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,679 Speaker 1: a key shape UM or a lot of people use 393 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: like a tent shape and a frame, and you then 394 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: you cover it with blocks. You make like an entryway 395 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: shelter basically, And then like you said, you you might 396 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: want to put it as an L. And then you 397 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: dig a hole into the snow so that you can 398 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: get into it. But basically you're kind of crawling into 399 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 1: the entryway it looked like, right, Um. And then after 400 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: that you get inside and there's a very vital step 401 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: that you might not think of, and that is drilling 402 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: air holes. Yes, because once you've packed it full of 403 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: loose snow and it's um, it's basically mortared um, and you, uh, 404 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: the thing melts and thaws and freezes and thaws and 405 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: freezes and becomes even more of a solid structure. If 406 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: you don't have air holes, you'll suffocate and die. Yes, 407 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: especially if you do something like bring a camp stove 408 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: or a Colman lantern or that kind of thing in there. Uh. 409 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: We don't want to see that happen. No, And I 410 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: don't even know that we should recommend bringing a stove 411 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, which this article says you can as 412 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: long as you have enough air holes for ventilation. I 413 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: just say build it for fun and just keep the 414 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: noxious fumes out of it altogether. Yeah. I I should 415 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 1: say that this article also specifically says that it is 416 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: in no way, shape or form a meant to be 417 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: a comprehensive guide to building. And equally, it's just the 418 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: basic Yeah, there are some good how to photos. So 419 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: if you want to check it out, for sure some 420 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: really good illustrations right as How Stuff Works is lousy 421 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: with that's right. So guess that's it for igloos. They 422 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: are everything we thought they were and more. Yeah. You 423 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: know a lot of times you think, oh, I bet you, 424 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 1: it's just our interpretation that you see in the movies 425 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: all these things. But they really do look just like that, 426 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: and they're built just like that, and not a lot 427 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,679 Speaker 1: of surprises here, which is kind of reassuring in a 428 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: lot of it makes me feel good. Yeah. So I 429 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: guess if you want to catch up on your Chili Willy, 430 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: we won't blame you. I found plenty on YouTube. He's adorable, 431 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: more better, more better, more syrup more sirrup. I don't 432 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: remember that one. That was a good one. Um No, 433 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: that's a parquet commercial, now, are you sure? Okay? Well, 434 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: um check out Chili Willy and be sure to um 435 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: go onto how stuff Works dot com and type in 436 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: igloo I g l o O and is going to 437 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: bring up a pretty cool, um step by step illustrated 438 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: guide to building your own igloo sans camp stove with 439 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: air holes. That's right, Um, I think, did I say 440 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: handy search bar just did? Okay, Well, then it's time 441 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: for a listener mail. 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