Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works
Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.
Speaker 1: There's Charles W Chuck Bryant, and this is Stuff you
Speaker 1: Should Know podcast. Yeah, what are you excited about this one?
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to be excited for everybody enough
Speaker 1: for everybody, because I imagine, like there's a you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there who don't listen
Speaker 1: to every single episode. I just I find it biting
Speaker 1: in weird because I do that with my podcast. So
Speaker 1: if I'm like, if I'm listening to like if I
Speaker 1: look at Mark Marrin', so I listen to that one.
Speaker 1: If it's a guest that I'm not super into, I
Speaker 1: want right, that's other podcasts. I'm talking about Stuff you
Speaker 1: Should Know. Man, you must be confused. Yes, I feel
Speaker 1: like every single one of them is worth listening to.
Speaker 1: I agreed. I suspect though, that people are going to
Speaker 1: skip over this one. Well, I am going to take
Speaker 1: the rap because I picked this out. I like it,
Speaker 1: but as I looked into it, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't know how an aerosol can work,
Speaker 1: and I would like to and it's not super complicated.
Speaker 1: It's not. In a matter of fact, now that you
Speaker 1: read this and researched it, you understand how an aerosol
Speaker 1: can works. You can go to the hardware store on
Speaker 1: a Saturday when your board is just stand around and
Speaker 1: explain it to people and get like applause. I could
Speaker 1: do that. Every anyone who listens to this episode will
Speaker 1: be able to do the same thing. That would be
Speaker 1: like ACE Hardware, and there'll be some seventy five year
Speaker 1: old guy with the red vest next to me. Like
Speaker 1: all piste off, they always have old timer's working there. Well.
Speaker 1: They are big on keeping the economy going on the
Speaker 1: backs of aged baby boomers and that there's a slogan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's ACE is the place. Well, you have
Speaker 1: to read between the line, Um, chuck. Have you ever
Speaker 1: seen a movie called Style Wars. It's a documentary from
Speaker 1: Uh no, I haven't. It's pretty cool man. It's it
Speaker 1: basically arnicles the the rise of graffiti, hip hop, clothing
Speaker 1: and stuff, and break dancing, just that whole culture. And
Speaker 1: it's amazing the stuff that people were doing, like even
Speaker 1: back then as far as graffiti goes, and breakdancing and
Speaker 1: hip hop and all that, sure, but it's just like
Speaker 1: the seminal documentary that you just kind of have to see.
Speaker 1: It's just so cool. It's like it kind of makes
Speaker 1: you feel cool watching it, you know what I mean? Well,
Speaker 1: I need that in my life. But the what the
Speaker 1: reason I raised style Wars is because the graffiti that
Speaker 1: was being carried out would not have ever been able
Speaker 1: to be done had it not been for a Norwegian
Speaker 1: engineer named Eric Rothheim who in put in the first
Speaker 1: patent for an aerosol can in Norway and then five
Speaker 1: years later the first one in the US. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they had the little photo of some of his initial drawings,
Speaker 1: and the author of this article points out that although
Speaker 1: it has evolved somewhat, it's he's He was pretty right
Speaker 1: on with that first, is right, you know, almost out
Speaker 1: of the gate, because as we said, it's kind of simple.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, one of them was simple to me. One
Speaker 1: of them I didn't quite understand. Well, okay, so um
Speaker 1: so Rothheim he comes up with this, this patent files,
Speaker 1: it kicks back and waits for the money to come
Speaker 1: rolling in, but it doesn't. It took many many years
Speaker 1: or so maybe a little less before anyone fully understood
Speaker 1: the value of an aerosol can, and it was um insecticides,
Speaker 1: bug bombs, cans of um insects spray that was being
Speaker 1: used by soldiers in the Pacific and World War Two.
Speaker 1: When people finally said, oh, that is a good idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder if I mean they had atomizers and things
Speaker 1: at the time. I wonder if that was his initial
Speaker 1: inspiration was to take that concept and jam it into
Speaker 1: a can basically, because that's what's going on. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: atomizing product. Yeah, and there's a lot of um advantages
Speaker 1: to atomizing. Number one, if you spray something in a
Speaker 1: fine mist, it doesn't hit the ground. Is a bunch
Speaker 1: of liquid that seeks into the groundwater usually sticks to
Speaker 1: whatever you're spraying it to. Sure, and it's delightful if
Speaker 1: you wear perfume or have you ever like had the
Speaker 1: rose water sprayed on your face, like the face sprays. Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you meant like an aerosol can of perfect
Speaker 1: no atomizing in general? Yeah, sure, sure, I'm fresh. I've
Speaker 1: I've had an avian sprits sprayed on my face. You
Speaker 1: mean I have before? It's very nice. Yeah, I've had
Speaker 1: like the rosewater. Emily will spraying me occasionally. It's very nice.
Speaker 1: It just feels good. Does she like hide behind around
Speaker 1: a corner and yeah, no, that's the mace. Oh she
Speaker 1: mazes me occasionally for kicks. Um. So yeah, there's advantages
Speaker 1: to atomizing things. There's reasons. It's at the very least
Speaker 1: it's lovely. It is um and the whole premise behind
Speaker 1: this though, the delivery method of an aerosol can Like
Speaker 1: we said, it's very basic, it's very old, and all
Speaker 1: you have to do is understand a little bit about
Speaker 1: fluid dynamics to to get what's going on. So let's
Speaker 1: let's do let's give a brief prime around fluid dynamic
Speaker 1: shall yeah, and fluid period Like you know, fluid isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily liquid like you might think it's an actual thing.
Speaker 1: Fluid is any kind of substance that has free flowing
Speaker 1: particles that it's made up of that and it could
Speaker 1: be something liquid, could be something gas that those are
Speaker 1: both fluids. It just can't be a solid basically pretty much. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: as long as you got those free flowing particles. Um,
Speaker 1: these particles, uh, if it's a liquid, they're loosely bound,
Speaker 1: but they're still bound. So it means it's gonna have
Speaker 1: a fixed volume if it's a liquid. Yeah, which is why,
Speaker 1: like when you put water into a glass, it doesn't
Speaker 1: just keep going and going and going. That'd be terrifying. No,
Speaker 1: it would make it. It would have a gaseous um characteristic.
Speaker 1: Then that's right, because gas does expand to fill the
Speaker 1: volume that you put it in. That's right, and well,
Speaker 1: spoiler or that's what happens with gas. It expands. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you heat liquid um applying energy to it, basically
Speaker 1: it's gonna vibrate and it's gonna break those forces and
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be bound together anymore. Then you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a gas. And that's called boiling. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: mean we think of boiling is like applying enough heat
Speaker 1: that you will burn your skin. But boiling points vary
Speaker 1: for different types of fluids. Um. So any volatile fluid
Speaker 1: is a fluid that um boils or turns from a
Speaker 1: liquid state to a gasy state. That's boiling um at
Speaker 1: room temperature, right, Yeah, Which that that's the part I
Speaker 1: had a hard time getting my head around because I
Speaker 1: associate boiling with like heat and hot. Yeah. Because you
Speaker 1: think of boiling, you think of water, Yeah, exactly. And
Speaker 1: it takes a certain amount of temperature, of heat of
Speaker 1: heat energy to break those intermolecular bonds to turn water
Speaker 1: from a liquid into a gas, that's right. But it
Speaker 1: takes less for alcohol or for propane or whatever you
Speaker 1: want to use. Right. And so lastly there's another fluid
Speaker 1: dynamic trait that we have to have down and then
Speaker 1: we'll have all of the stuff in place to understand
Speaker 1: an aerosol can expansion of gas. Yeah, So so we
Speaker 1: said that when you put gas into something and expands
Speaker 1: to fill the volume, Yeah, and gas will decrease in
Speaker 1: pressure as it expands, which is why like a tiny
Speaker 1: little CEO two cartridge, it's like got tons of pressure
Speaker 1: in there, and that's why it can shoot your awesome
Speaker 1: industrial arts model car down the track. Because did you
Speaker 1: ever do that? Really? I had a Pinewood Derby racer once.
Speaker 1: What's that like the car you sit in? No, that's
Speaker 1: the cub scout car. Okay, it didn't have any CEO
Speaker 1: two though you'd be immediately disqualified. Yeah. In high school,
Speaker 1: we we made the little cars that have the CEO
Speaker 1: two cartridge in the battle. I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And we raced each other and my brother one county
Speaker 1: of course, and then and then flashed this winning smile,
Speaker 1: and three years later, it's so funny. I forgot all
Speaker 1: about this. I tried to be his car design when
Speaker 1: I took the class, and mine was not nearly as like,
Speaker 1: it just wasn't quite right, and I didn't win county.
Speaker 1: I didn't even win my classroom. Somehow, the the compressed
Speaker 1: air decompressing into the atmosphere made like a sad trombo
Speaker 1: and sad is it so cool? And that really kind
Speaker 1: of just sums it all up with my brother and I.
Speaker 1: He was always really great at stuff, and I always
Speaker 1: tried to do that and was not nearly as good
Speaker 1: at it. You're good at other things. Well, I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: I can run my mouth, if that's how you want
Speaker 1: to put it. Anyway, So that's compressed gas. And when
Speaker 1: gas is compressed, it can you know, do some great
Speaker 1: things like shoot the car or in this case, spray
Speaker 1: paint or something. Right, right, exactly, Okay, So you have
Speaker 1: compressed gas, you have all these fluid dynamics, and you've
Speaker 1: had everyone now right, Okay, So all an aerosol can
Speaker 1: is is all of these principles kind of put into
Speaker 1: a very simply mechanically functioning state. Right. Yeah. So you
Speaker 1: have a can and you have to to things in there.
Speaker 1: You have the propellant, which is the stuff you use
Speaker 1: to force the other thing, the product out. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: it could be hair spray, bug spray, could be painting oil,
Speaker 1: could be that foamy stuff you ever use that, the
Speaker 1: stuff to like seal like insulation or sure or like
Speaker 1: fix the flat. All that, all that has myriad myriad uses. Okay, right, So, um,
Speaker 1: you've got the product in liquid state. Yes, uh say,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of floating in the bottom of the can.
Speaker 1: You put it in the can, seal it so it's
Speaker 1: there's there's no air going it's air tight. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is part one. There's two two ways to do this.
Speaker 1: This is the first, right, This is the simple way.
Speaker 1: And then you add some sort of compressed air to it,
Speaker 1: call it air compressed air. Okay, okay. So you have
Speaker 1: this um the propellant in there, and it's it's basically
Speaker 1: filling up as much of it as it can until
Speaker 1: it's reaching the top of the can, the side of
Speaker 1: the can, in the top of the water, and it
Speaker 1: pushes all that product down to the bottom, which is
Speaker 1: one reason you gotta shake it chack it up exactly.
Speaker 1: So you have a tube going down from the nozzle
Speaker 1: at the top of the can valve system all the
Speaker 1: way down to the bottom of the can where the
Speaker 1: liquid is right and that look, that valve has a
Speaker 1: seal that's being pushed up by a spring. So the
Speaker 1: head the nozzle when it's when it's not being pushed,
Speaker 1: it's stealed tight. But when you push it down a
Speaker 1: channel opens. It goes below the seal and you now
Speaker 1: have the outside atmosphere, which is at a much lower
Speaker 1: pressure than inside the can um opened up to the
Speaker 1: inside of the can at that much higher pressure, and
Speaker 1: it drives it up the tube out the little tiny,
Speaker 1: tiny hole which atomizes it. And that's basically the simpler
Speaker 1: method of the aerosol can. Yeah. The air pushes the
Speaker 1: liquid down and then up the tube. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 1: like I want to get out too exactly. It expands. Done.
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty easy. Yeah. So the second way
Speaker 1: that this can happen, and I didn't know this is
Speaker 1: the more common way, but it is. Uh they use
Speaker 1: liquified gas, so uh, that is the propellant. You've still
Speaker 1: got the same product. And the product is is sitting
Speaker 1: there at room temperature just fine as a liquid. So
Speaker 1: they just pour that in. Then they steal it up,
Speaker 1: and then the same way with the other way. They
Speaker 1: pump in this liquefied gas and it mixes though this time,
Speaker 1: right or does it press it down? This is where
Speaker 1: I got a little confused. So a liquefied guess you said,
Speaker 1: is um, it's a gas that goes into a liquid
Speaker 1: state under a certain amount of pressure, right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so under high pressure. Yeah, so it does mix because
Speaker 1: it's all liquid in there. Once it gets in there,
Speaker 1: the whole thing turns liquid, and you keep that pressure
Speaker 1: up so it doesn't have any room to expand, so
Speaker 1: it's just in their mix together. And then when you
Speaker 1: press the nozzle down own and you break the seal
Speaker 1: as it were, um, the you form a channel with
Speaker 1: the outside air and the inside air. That change in
Speaker 1: pressure converts some of that propellant into gas, and it
Speaker 1: does the same thing is that standard can. The gas
Speaker 1: presses down forces the liquid up, but some of that
Speaker 1: propellant is still in liquid form mixed with the product,
Speaker 1: and as it goes out, it evaporates, it turns into gas,
Speaker 1: and it also kind of um, it turns that liquid
Speaker 1: product into a finer miss. Yeah. But what I don't
Speaker 1: get is is that it actually boils in the liquid
Speaker 1: gas system. It's like, once you relieve that pressure, it
Speaker 1: starts to boil, and that's what does it. That's what
Speaker 1: I was a little confused about. Yeah, I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that this is a different part of fluid dynamics,
Speaker 1: that it's not necessarily the boiling point, although it could be,
Speaker 1: because I don't think any average gas turns into a
Speaker 1: liquid under under all under pressure. There's just certain kinds
Speaker 1: that do. I think. Okay, so I think, what's your question, Well,
Speaker 1: it's actually boiling in the second in the in the
Speaker 1: liquid gas type of aerosoli, at the very least, it's
Speaker 1: converting into a gassy estate because of the release of pressure, right,
Speaker 1: all right? And why did they can sometimes get cold?
Speaker 1: Did you figure that out? Okay? Boy, there's some guts.
Speaker 1: There's some people in chemistry lab right now that are
Speaker 1: just like, oh my god, you guys, I thought we
Speaker 1: had this one, man. I think we had we do
Speaker 1: I had it, and I could have done a tap
Speaker 1: dance doing this earlier, and now it's like, but wait,
Speaker 1: let me complicate it a little more. Now, I think
Speaker 1: it's I think the message got through. Um. If in
Speaker 1: the case of paint, sometimes you need a little help
Speaker 1: mixing these things together. So that's why a paint can,
Speaker 1: spray paint can will have the little metal ball bearing
Speaker 1: on the inside, right, because you actually do want to
Speaker 1: mix the propellant and the product together in a liquefied can,
Speaker 1: liquefied gas can, right, because it helps atomize it. As
Speaker 1: you said, that's very pleasant, exact. Um, what about the
Speaker 1: rounded bottom of this very can you know why that's
Speaker 1: that way? If it was flat, it's so pressurized, it
Speaker 1: could be a bad scene. It could actually go the
Speaker 1: other way. And everyone knows if you studied architecture, that
Speaker 1: a dome is more structurally sound than just a flat surface.
Speaker 1: So that's basically the same concept at play. So that's
Speaker 1: one reason, Um, it's to protect the integrity of the can.
Speaker 1: And the second one is is so you can help
Speaker 1: get all of the product out, because if it was flat,
Speaker 1: it's like when you're down at the bottom of your
Speaker 1: of your soda cup with your straw and you're making
Speaker 1: that terrible little noise and you're tilting the cup and
Speaker 1: trying to stick the straw on the little corner where
Speaker 1: it meets the edge. This does it for you. If
Speaker 1: it's a rounded bottom, it just puts all the product
Speaker 1: there at the edge and that's where the little tube is,
Speaker 1: and so you're all set. Yeah, And did you know
Speaker 1: there's about nineteen billion steel and aluminum cans that include
Speaker 1: aerosols and other products that are recycled every year and
Speaker 1: that's equal to enough to build twenty golden gate bridges. Wow,
Speaker 1: isn't that amazing? So we mentioned there's a variety of
Speaker 1: different products that you can have that you're trying to
Speaker 1: get out of your can, from foam to like whipped
Speaker 1: cream to a bug spray, stuff like that hair spray,
Speaker 1: although does anyone still use aerosol hair spray? I think
Speaker 1: some people do, is it? Remember? Do you remember the
Speaker 1: Bizarre Ways to Die episode? The deodorant boy asol deodorant
Speaker 1: that he died totally man, that was a long time ago. Um.
Speaker 1: So the way they accomplished this though with a different product,
Speaker 1: um is you can have a variety of consistencies. And
Speaker 1: what they do is they just play with, UM, the
Speaker 1: ratio propellant to product. Maybe maybe the chemical makeup of
Speaker 1: the propellant the product have to be just right. Maybe
Speaker 1: the pressure of the propellant has to be a little
Speaker 1: different depending on what kind of product you're working with.
Speaker 1: And then um, the size and shape of the valve system.
Speaker 1: Like in the case of a fix, the flat that
Speaker 1: you put in your higher it's not the same as
Speaker 1: you know, a spray can. It's not atomizing. It's got
Speaker 1: like the tube hooked up and it's Uh. If you've
Speaker 1: ever sprayed that stuff in your house, like the Philip Crack,
Speaker 1: like a whole can of it, It's amazing how much
Speaker 1: stuff is packed in there. Like when it gets out,
Speaker 1: you're just like wow, it's like the clown car of
Speaker 1: the industrial engineering scene. Um, do you want to know
Speaker 1: a little bit about CFC's chlorofluora carbons. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to look into this, but I'm glad
Speaker 1: you did so. Prior to the late twenties, there was
Speaker 1: people were using ammonia and refrigerators and dying from ammonia leaks,
Speaker 1: and it was just a bad scene. And so everybody said, well,
Speaker 1: we've got to figure out some sort of toxic, non
Speaker 1: toxic chemical that we can use as a refrigerant, and
Speaker 1: a general motors engineer of all people came up with
Speaker 1: what du Pont later turned into free on, a chlorofluora
Speaker 1: carbon which supposedly was non toxic. It was. It basically
Speaker 1: changed everything. Um it was much less harm harmful compared
Speaker 1: to like ammonia. UM. It allowed us to make cheap refrigerators,
Speaker 1: car A C, A C window units, like all those
Speaker 1: things came from the advent of chlorofluora carbons, right, And
Speaker 1: it was also very ubiquitous as a propellant in aerosol
Speaker 1: can sprays. Well. I think that's why everyone, you know
Speaker 1: quit using aquinette, right, because everybody was going in the
Speaker 1: spraying these things, and they were going up in the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, look at them. Go it's cool.
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, innert, non toxic chemicals going up
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere, but we're all getting cancer. The problem
Speaker 1: is when a CFC enters the atmosphere and gets high
Speaker 1: enough and it's exposed to UV radiation, it breaks down
Speaker 1: and into its constituting components, one of which is chlorine,
Speaker 1: chlorine reeks, havoc on the ozone layer. One atom of
Speaker 1: chlorine can destroy about a hundred thousand ozone molecules, and
Speaker 1: we need those molecules. The ozone layer protects us from
Speaker 1: UVB ray from the sun, which are they kind of
Speaker 1: give you skin cancer and destroyed crops. So in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four some scientists realized that CFCs were doing this
Speaker 1: in the ozone layer and is gonna be big trouble.
Speaker 1: And then in the eighties we figured out that there's
Speaker 1: a hole in the ozone layer over the Arctic. So, uh,
Speaker 1: a bunch of countries I think seventies signed on to
Speaker 1: basically outlaw CFC production. Yeah, and then later on another
Speaker 1: like hundred and twenty I think signed another treaty. So
Speaker 1: it's very very difficult to find CFC's these days. But
Speaker 1: they're still around, are they. Yeah? They still use them
Speaker 1: in some um nasal sprays UM and they're also used
Speaker 1: in halan, which is a fire extinguisher for airplanes. Did
Speaker 1: they not still use free on? No? I don't believe. So, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's basically like we did away with those. It's gonna
Speaker 1: take a while to repair. But they found that the
Speaker 1: ozone layers no longer growing the hole in the ozon
Speaker 1: layers growing, it's just holding steady and hopefully patching itself
Speaker 1: back up. They just forced people to go out and
Speaker 1: be innovative and find different ways to do these things exactly.
Speaker 1: And if you compare your airsol can propellant today to
Speaker 1: one that had CFCs before, you're not going to notice
Speaker 1: the least bit different. So that's canna aquinit that looks
Speaker 1: exactly the same as it did in nineteen seven is
Speaker 1: no longer dangerous, not to the ozone layer. It is
Speaker 1: the spiders though, if you have a lighter. Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: ever do that. Kids. Ah, that's it for airsol cans
Speaker 1: unless you have like another ten minutes on it. Uh No,
Speaker 1: that's all I got. I mean, what else is there?
Speaker 1: I genuinely looked in There is nothing else. Ye, go
Speaker 1: out and do some graffiti, That's what I say. Um
Speaker 1: artful graffiti though, don't tagg and stuff. You should probably
Speaker 1: practice at home first. I hate that. Just stupid. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: educate yourself on different types of nozzles, like practice, don't
Speaker 1: do don't be a punk, agreed, be an artiste. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you we want to learn more about aerosols, or
Speaker 1: at the very least, want to see the article where
Speaker 1: we told you everything there is to know about aerosolis.
Speaker 1: You can type that word A E R O S
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Speaker 1: the search bar, which means it's time for message break
Speaker 1: and now it's time for listener mail. I thought you
Speaker 1: might say it, okay, Josh, listener mail time. UM, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call this uh police sketch eye witnessed stuff. It's
Speaker 1: from Terry Bennett. Um, Hey, guys, uh listen to the
Speaker 1: police Sketch episode, and wanted to share my story. I
Speaker 1: was robbed when I was a teller of a bank
Speaker 1: in n and at that time, bank robbery was a
Speaker 1: federal crime, probably still is. I was immediately taken into
Speaker 1: the back room of the vault and the FBI was
Speaker 1: called in. When they arrived, a sketch artist brought a
Speaker 1: large binder, not full of women, but full of pictures.
Speaker 1: They aces and eyes and noses and mouths, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Transparencies of face shapes were the base, and the rest
Speaker 1: of the face was built on the base, one eye
Speaker 1: and nose at a time. UM I was not allowed
Speaker 1: to talk to anyone, including the staff of my bank,
Speaker 1: until I talked to the FBI. I was instructed to
Speaker 1: write everything I could remember about the robber and the
Speaker 1: robbery before talking to anybody else. In those days, of course,
Speaker 1: we did not have digital cameras in the film had
Speaker 1: to be sent out for processing. Um, all of it
Speaker 1: in those days. I mean, it's the same like seven
Speaker 1: years ago. Um. Actually when did digital come around? The
Speaker 1: early two thousands? Seems like it became. I guess it's
Speaker 1: more than seven three years on. So uh. The pictures
Speaker 1: took a couple of days to get back, and my
Speaker 1: composite drawing was posted in the paper, and my robber
Speaker 1: was actually caught a couple of days afterward at a
Speaker 1: methodon clinic in town. When the film was developed, the
Speaker 1: side by side pictures were incredibly closed. So she did
Speaker 1: for good job. Sounds like, by the way he was
Speaker 1: caught using my composite and not the true picture. We're
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, it's very cool. We were trained to
Speaker 1: observe all these details and also to watch for the
Speaker 1: six ft mark as the robber left the building. And
Speaker 1: you talked about the call it stores. Yeah, Um, I
Speaker 1: guess I visit banks. Luckily, even though I was only
Speaker 1: twenty years old, the training had taken a hold gave
Speaker 1: me great resources to catch this guy. And to this day,
Speaker 1: I always observed shady or odd things in everyday life,
Speaker 1: including license plates like you talked about. By the way,
Speaker 1: my robber had robbed eight other banks up and down
Speaker 1: the coast in California. And I got to be a
Speaker 1: hero for a minute. And that is Terry Bennett. And
Speaker 1: that's a cool story. Yeah, that's very cool, Terry. Um,
Speaker 1: thanks for Sharon. I bet she just eyeballs everybody, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she said that like a weird lady. Now she takes
Speaker 1: out methodon clinics. Yeah, what are you doing? Just getting
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