1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Hello, friends. I hope you're enjoying your Saturday, and you're 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: gonna enjoy it a little bit more if you listen 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: to this Stuff you should Know. Select episode from October 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, How Pez Works. I love these pop 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: culture episodes. Everyone Pez. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: A production of I Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, there's guest producer Noel And this is stuff 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: you should have to do. The peas at nice. I 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: like that another Null cast as well. Yeah, pretty exciting. 11 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: It's part of the Null spint. We then old stint. 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: We're gonna fell it. Uh. Do you like pest? I 13 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: like Pez? Do you like the candy? I? Do you 14 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: like to taste? I like the taste of Pez. Yes. 15 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: Describe to me what happens when you can put a 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: candy has candy in your mouth? Well, I put a 17 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: PEZ candy, I pull the head back, the kicker kicks 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: it out. Pop. Yes, it's nice, and I take it 19 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: from the Pez dispenser with my tooth. Oh you don't 20 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: really you'd like go mouth the mouth with it? Sure? 21 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: Well tooth tooth to kicker, okay uh and then I, um, yeah, 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: what do you do? Use your hand? Well, I don't 23 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: eat PEZ, but back when I was eight, I would 24 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: be delighted when I would pull the head back the 25 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: little candy with chewed out. Now pick it out with 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: my hand, put in my mouth. Yeah, I use my teeth. Interesting, 27 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: I would feel like I was like going into to 28 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: make out with a daffy duck or something. If I 29 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: did that, Oh, let's half the fun. Oh oh boy. Anyway, 30 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: I don't care for the candy though, I wasn't done 31 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: describing PEZ. Go ahead, sorry, And then I take it 32 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: onto my tongue right, and I start to savor the 33 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: flavor of it. Typically I prefer maybe um, well, definitely 34 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: one of the fruit flavors. I've never had a mint 35 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: PEZ or chocolate pets, which is new. I would try 36 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: the chocolate one, but say, like orange, We'll just go 37 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: with orange. I'm sitting there. I let it sit on 38 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: my tongue for all of like six nano seconds, and 39 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: then I started to bite into it, and it's very 40 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: much like um. This explains why I like pets, especially 41 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: orange pests. And once eight almost an entire bottle of 42 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: orange flavored baby aspirin for the taste. That's why I 43 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: like pests. How old were you then, would be a kid? 44 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: It was like twenty something, Yes, I was a kid. 45 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: Well did you what did it hurt? You know, nothing 46 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: happened to me. We talked about that before. It feels 47 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: like because they aren't even it isn't even medicine. I 48 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: wonder it's just a placebo. But how could you use 49 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: a placebo and a little kid? I mean, I guess 50 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: it work, but certainly there's an age where they're just 51 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: like I feel like half of parenting is probably placebo. Probably, 52 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: well you would know now, well not yet, Well let 53 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: me know she doesn't believe my lies yet. That will 54 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: come later. Yeah, I mean, I'm surely kids are pretty dumb, 55 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: so you can get them to believe anything. Sure, but 56 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: there seems like there would be an age where they 57 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't They wouldn't make that connection, and a placebo wouldn't work. 58 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: I don't think of placebo would work, like say, from birth, 59 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: And I don't remember what age you can start giving 60 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: kids baby aspirin. Baby, I don't even children aspirin anyway. 61 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: I like pez I like how it tastes. I like 62 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: the experience of eating a pets, all right. I don't 63 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: care for pets. I also like the shape the brick, 64 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: the brick that it helps with the taste. I saw 65 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: we did the l a podcast pest this last weekend, 66 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: and I can't remember her name, but very nice young 67 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: lady brought us some different candies and things. The Lego candies. Well, 68 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: you jumped on that bag. It's like, you want these 69 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: lego brick candies and you're like, yeah, give me a 70 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: second time, man. I love those things. Yeah, And that's 71 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: sort of this. I put those on in the same category, 72 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: which is just like compressed sugar right in like a 73 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: brick form. As a matter of fact, it turns out 74 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: the Pez company to the state, uses about fifty thousand 75 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: pounds of sugar every four days making its Pez candies. 76 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: That's right. And here's a factoid for you, all right. 77 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: It takes three thousand pounds of pressure to compress the 78 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: Pez ingredients, which is not just sugar into the delightful, tiny, 79 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: disgusting brick that you love. I don't think it's disgusting. 80 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: I don't like candies. I have another one for you. 81 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: They make twelve million tablets a day at their Orange, 82 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: Connecticut facility, the headquarters of Pets, and three billion PEZ 83 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: bricks are consumed in the US alone each year by 84 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: people like me who like Pez. Yes, roughly twelve at 85 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: a time, because that's how much the standard dispenser holds. 86 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: And if this kind of thing floats your boat right now, 87 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: go check out how Stuff works brain Stuff series on YouTube, 88 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: and specifically look up the one on pop rocks that 89 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: I did a year or two ago. It was really 90 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: interesting stuff. Candy manufacturing is fascinating. I don't care what 91 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: you say. No, I like manufacturing processes. I just don't 92 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: like to eat candy. I got you. You know what 93 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: I mean? You just go to the plant watch it 94 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: made and then turn down the free samples like no, 95 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: thank you. I find that disgust. They're like, now, would 96 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: you like to try some? Yeah? I don't do that. 97 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: On beer tours, I'll sample that. You mean, I went 98 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: to the maker's mark distillery. Oh, did you dip your 99 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: own bottle? Yes? No, yes, we definitely have one, but 100 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: I don't remember if we. I guess we did dip it. Yeah, 101 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: I think that's a thing. But it was like a mini, 102 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: so maybe not. Maybe we bought a mini that was 103 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: like just a man need to commemorate it, and they 104 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 1: made you buy like a fifth or something and dip 105 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: your own bottle. And we're like, man, it's fine because 106 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: we'd we'd be like, we would want to open it that. Yeah, 107 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 1: we didn't dip our own. Body forgot. That was exactly 108 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: the conversation we had. Wow, you guys to put a 109 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: lot of thought into that one. Anyway, it's a pretty 110 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: cool tour, to tell you the truth. I strongly recommended. 111 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: I've never done a distillery. I'd like to do that. 112 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: There's there's a new one here in Atlanta, Avandale Whiskey Distillery. Well, 113 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 1: I can tell you go on any whiskey tour and 114 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: you will find what Mila Kunis is talking about with 115 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: the angels share stuff. It's a real thing. The evaporating 116 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: whiskey fills the um whatever the place where they're aging 117 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: em barrels, and it's actually really dangerous, like the place 118 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: could blow up at any time because like very much so. 119 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: We're a sugar factor, right, um. But the smell is 120 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: one of the most amazing smells I've ever experienced in 121 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: my entire life, like smell good or just weird good 122 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: great eat like the the half of a percent of 123 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: whiskey that is just glorious. It's in the air, right, 124 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: it's amazing. Oh man, now I'm thirsty. All right, So 125 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: let's talk pez Um. In two thousand and eleven, this 126 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: is something I didn't know. There was a wedding while 127 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: I didn't know this part um in the United Kingdom 128 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: between a guy named William and a little lady named 129 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: Kate Waity Katie? Do people call her that? Some? Some 130 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: people did? What like that she's overweight? No? No, that 131 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: she waited around? Oh okay, it's like, man, how mean 132 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: can people get? Yeah? That would be. So they made 133 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: um specialty pez dispensers out of Prince William and Kate 134 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: for that, and they were expensive, three sixty dollars at 135 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: a charity auction. Clearly that's the most expensive pez dispenser 136 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: ever sold. Not so, my friend, what uh? Supposedly that 137 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: is the thirty two thousand dollars in two thousand and 138 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: six for an astronaut limited edition Astronaut deemed It was 139 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: from the two World's Fair and there were two of 140 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: them too in existence. Yeah, that's why it's expensive. And 141 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: what's neat is that that's that Um was that auction 142 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: took place on eBay, which is very appropriate that peest 143 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: dispenses are sold on eBay because the guy who founded eBay, 144 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: what's his name, Pierre Um, Pierre r Right, He Um 145 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 1: founded eBay and party. He was inspired to found eBay 146 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: because his girlfriend at the time, I think his wife 147 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: is his wife. Now, Um collected PEZ and he thought, hey, 148 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: this would be a really great We may not have 149 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: eBay today if it weren't for Pez peest dispensers electing 150 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: peest dispensers, which is a relatively new thing. It really 151 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: took off in the eighties, late eighties. Actually, it wasn't 152 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: until the late eighties that people really started collecting peest dispensers. 153 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: And now I felt you of the Tweetie Bird episode. 154 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: I had to go back and look it up. But 155 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: once I did, I started to remember, Yeah, I think 156 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: Elaine and Jerry and George Ritta George's girlfriend's piano recital, 157 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: and Jerry put the Tweetie Bird pest dispenser on his 158 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: lap or on Elane's lap, and Elaine started laughing, ruined 159 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: the performance, and then she was later outed when she 160 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: laughed again in front of that lady right, and then 161 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: the Tweetie bird um Pez Dispenser also factored into the 162 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: plot because Jerry and his friends had an intervention for 163 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: another friend who had a drug problem and he was resisting, resisting, 164 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: and then for some reason, Jerry brought out the Pets 165 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: dispenser in the wave of nostalgia that washed over this 166 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: guy caused him to admit that he had a drug problem, 167 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: but then he became hooked on pest. Well in nostalgia 168 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: figures in a lot. Uh, it really does. Kids from 169 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: the well, kids of all ages grew up with pez 170 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: kids of all ages? What am my circus announcer? Step 171 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: all on up? What do they calls? I was gonna say, 172 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: circus himself, Barker, ring master, your circus Barker. Well, there's 173 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: two different Those are two different things. I think unless 174 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: you're in like a low budget carnival, then it's maybe 175 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: the same thing. Yeah, that's I would be. But the 176 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: Barker is the one who's like, step on up, we'll 177 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: guess your weight. The people he's trying to get people 178 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: to come in. The ring master is the one who's 179 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: like running the show. Once the show starts, I feel 180 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: like I'd be the barker. Would you need to be 181 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: the ring master. You'd have to wear a straw boater 182 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: hat and like striped suits. Yeah, I'd be the barker, 183 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: and you'd be the guy that like swings from things 184 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: with his teeth. Do strong teeth as opposed to my 185 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: little when I fell off and there's some of my 186 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: teeth jammed into the trapeze bar. Still, well, you like 187 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,719 Speaker 1: a Loonington's cartoon now, yeah, but imagine it in reality 188 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: even worse it is. Uh, I feel like we should 189 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: take a break and regain our composure. All right, we'll 190 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: be back right after this. All right, So we're back, 191 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: and I think we should uh start in the traditional 192 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: way that when we handle our pop culture casts and 193 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: talk about history, because well I thought it was a 194 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: pretty interesting history. Actually, yeah, I'd love this article. Eduard 195 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: Hass the third he was an Austrian. Um he was 196 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: he made sweets. He was a confection ere. Well, his 197 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: family was in the grocery business and he was successful 198 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: in that. But yeah, his heart was in candy like yours. 199 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: His heart was in candy. It was also in hygiene. 200 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: I get the impression that he was very strong germophobe. 201 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: Well it's probably good when you're running a candy factory. Yes, 202 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: you know. He was also anti smoking, and he decided 203 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: he went to a chemist, uh, pharmacist, and said, hey, 204 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: give me some really strong peppermint essence. And he used 205 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: that with some sugar and made mints basically a proto 206 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: altoid um, and put him in little tins and marketed 207 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: them as quitting smoking or smoking cessation aids. Basically, if 208 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: you're trying to quit, you needed something to put in 209 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: your mouth, just chew one of these pez mints. That's right. 210 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: And he got the name Pez from the abbreviation the 211 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: German word for peppermint, which is uh. It starts with 212 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: three consonants, which is always fun. Come on, you took German, 213 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: you know Germany. Well, I mean I would just say, uh, 214 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: fefa mints. I would say, I like that better. That 215 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: sounds like the remix version. But it does start with 216 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: two p's in an F, but shorten that and take 217 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: out letters from the beginning, middle, and end and you 218 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: get peasy. So uh, like you said, he said, you 219 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: can either use this to try and quit smoking as 220 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 1: a sort of an early version of Nicarett gum, even 221 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: though I had no nicotine in it that we know of. 222 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: Or you can use it if you do smoke, to 223 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: make your breath fresh, because no one wants to smell 224 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: you stinky smokers. Uh. And we'll see, we'll we'll wrap 225 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: them up in like a little candy bar at first, 226 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: and that's how we sold him for like a year. 227 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: Well yes, um, they were also sold in tins, right, 228 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: and he invented Pez and that's when they first set 229 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: the market. Um. But again I get the impression that 230 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: he was a germophobe and he didn't want everybody to 231 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: put their grubby hands into the same Pez tint and 232 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 1: touch the other ones that other people were putting in 233 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: their mouths. And he probably imagined all the poop and 234 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: bacteria who knows what on those people's hands German sausage 235 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: touching his beloved Pez. So we thought there has to 236 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: be a better way to dispense Pez. We need some 237 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: sort of I don't know, Pez dispenser, that's right. And 238 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: so there was an employee of his company, oscar Uxa, 239 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: And you know what Oxcar Uxa does he's a dispenser genius. 240 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: And he says, hey, how about this, Why don't we 241 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: make a dispenser that looks like a cigarette lighter, because 242 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: this is for smoking conson And I'll have a little 243 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: contraption on here, that kicker that'll spit out one at 244 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: a time. And he said it's genius, right. Edward Hoss 245 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: kicked the Kleenex boxes off of his feet and stood 246 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: up and hugged oscar Usa. Yeah. And by the way, 247 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: they're selling them in tens again now in Peppermint with 248 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: a little throwback retro looking um. One of the Pez 249 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: ladies girls. Yeah, the Pez girls, which were supposedly like 250 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: this very sexy thing to sell Pez. Did you see them? Yeah, 251 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: they look like bell hops. Oh yeah, they're They're basically 252 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: drawn like pin up girls, except not nearly as racy. Um. 253 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: And they had a little bell boy hats. Sure a 254 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: lot of them did. Um. And they went from the forties, 255 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: I think, all the way up until the early eighties 256 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: they used Pez girls to market Pez. You know what 257 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: they reminded me of was um back in the day 258 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: when you would have like be at a club and 259 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: a and a woman would come around. Yeah, cigarettes Yeah, 260 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: they would have a little tray around that was hung 261 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: around their neck with cigars and cigarettes and mints and uh, 262 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: who knows what else. Pez. I guess Pez. I guarantee 263 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: you Pez was in there. You're probably right. So um, 264 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: so they were a hit among adults in Europe big times. 265 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: Yeah they did. They did the trick the Yeah, they 266 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: were already pretty popular. But when once they packaged them 267 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: into these um cigarette lighter dispensers, like they really cemented 268 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: themselves as like iconic candy. People say, look, you just 269 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: pop it open and the candy comes out and you 270 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: put your teeth on it. It's right, it's wonderful pop off. 271 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: So they went, they went nuts for the stuff. And 272 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: then he said, you know what, let me expand the 273 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: United States is where it's at. Uh. He found out 274 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: that kids in America. We're delighted over this because I 275 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: guess kids in America were like adults in Europe at 276 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: the time. Um, and they love the way these things 277 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: popped out. Plus it probably made them feel a lot 278 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: like they were smoking. You think, probably I never got 279 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: the tie to the lighter. It was completely lost on me. 280 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: So you like flick a lighter? I got it now, 281 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: but I never had made that association until I knew this. Okay, 282 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: so imagine a Peest dispenser without the head. Oh yeah, 283 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: that's what the original. Can imagine that because I used 284 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: to take the heads off my okay, all right, but 285 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: so that's the original peest dispensers, which are called regulars now. 286 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: The first before they started adding heads, very much resembled 287 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: like a nice slim lighter. So if you're a kid 288 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,120 Speaker 1: like this kind of thing, like there's a there's the 289 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: manual thing where you're flicking a lighter. Then there's the 290 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: oral fixation that's satisfied by putting the mint into your mouth, 291 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: and it's mimicking smoking, which is one of the reasons 292 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: why it was one of the ways it was marketed. 293 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: The idea was that it would it would alleviate that 294 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: desire for those those Freudian fixations that you had when 295 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: you were a smoker, if you were trying to quit, 296 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: if you're a little kid and you wanted to smoke 297 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: but you just couldn't get your hands, and cigarettes yet 298 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: a good way to do that. I didn't have arms, right, 299 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: but in the fifties, yeah, probably, I saw candy cigarettes 300 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: the other day in the store. By the way, I 301 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: thought those work. Believe they make this, Yeah, I thought 302 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,959 Speaker 1: they were completely gone. Okay, if you want to know 303 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: a candy that I think is abhorrent and disgusting, candy cigarettes. 304 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: Gum cigarettes are awesome. Do you remember those, the kind 305 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: where you puff them? Oh, those are great. The candy cigarettes, 306 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: they're just like sticks of candy that are disgusting. No, 307 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the gum that would blow out fist smoke. 308 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: I love that they still make those. But the gum cigars, 309 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: I think we're gross. They have some weird chemical taste 310 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: to them. I never saw that they were not one 311 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: and the same, which is surprising. And they still make those, 312 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: and they still make big league chew yes like it's 313 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: it's amazing that they can, still, like with good conscience, 314 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: market tobacco products to children, and that they're allowed to. 315 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: I remember um probably the greatest tasting gum of all time, 316 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: Big Red No. No, it was a Rambo gum that 317 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: was sold to commemorate Rambo three. Yeah. No, it had 318 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: like a It was marketed as like black raspberry or 319 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: something like that, but it didn't taste like that at all. 320 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: It had I've never tasted anything like you know, usually 321 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: like you run into a taste years later, like there's 322 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: only ten tastes or ten cents, you know. Um, this 323 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: was I've never experienced it before after and it was 324 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: the best tasting gum ever. But it was in the 325 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: big league chew pouch and it was big league to shreds, 326 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: So clearly it was made by the same company for 327 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: the makers of Rambo. But the flavor they used was 328 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: perfect sweat and gunpowder and you could get it for 329 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: like one summer. What did it have a cartoon version 330 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: of of stallone on it? No, it was a photo 331 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: of him with like the very famous rocket launcher okay, 332 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: the rocket from Rambo three um, and uh it was 333 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: just a picture of it on the big League two pouch. Yeah, 334 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: and I loved it. I guess they had to market 335 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: it that way because first blood gum didn't go over 336 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: so well. Exactly tastes just like blood. Uh man, I'm 337 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 1: wondering all kinds of things. Well, hold on, hold on, 338 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: we're getting ahead of ourselves. Oh no, we're getting super distracted. 339 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: That's what it is. In the fifties, kids very surprisingly 340 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: liked pez but they were like this is pretty strong mint. 341 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: And I'm a little kid sure like fruity flavor and stuff. Yeah, 342 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 1: I like the dispenser, but gonna get your game going 343 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: with the candy exactly, and and Hass and company listen 344 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,719 Speaker 1: big time. So they kept mint pez still, but they 345 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: started releasing lines of of fruit flavored ones and cola. 346 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 1: They had one called chlorophyll coffee flavored, a yogurt one 347 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: that probably was just European. What is the chlorophyll? I 348 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: couldn't get a read on what that was like. Um, 349 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: and I looked. I think it's like a um, it's 350 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 1: a mint. It's a definitely mint flavor. Um. Did they 351 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: just use the wrong word. There's another there's a gum 352 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: out there that has a similar sounding names. It's just 353 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: like a very bright like mint, not peppermint. It's not 354 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: as sweet. It's mintier. Um. But yeah, chlorophyll is interesting. 355 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: But they had other stuff too, like orange and I 356 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: think cherry maybe something like that traditional flavors, but not peach. 357 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: There's a fun trivia effect for you. They have had 358 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: peach flavor, but it was never released in the US. Yeah, 359 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,479 Speaker 1: I'm a weirdo. I don't like peach flavors or peaches. 360 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: So since they realized that kids are going bonkers for 361 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: this candy. Um with bonkers. That was another good candy too, 362 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,479 Speaker 1: But I don't know what that is. It came out 363 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: in the eighties. It was great. Um. They they decided 364 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: to try to make Petz a little more parent friendly 365 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: because even back in the fifties, I think parents were like, 366 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: I don't want you teaching my kid to smoke with 367 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: this candy. So they said, well, let's change it from 368 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: a cigarette lighter into something different, a toy, and we'll 369 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: add like a beloved cartoon character on there. How about that? 370 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: And that's fine. It was genius because what he did 371 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: was he combined candy with a toy, uh, and not 372 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: only a toy, but a collectible and it was it 373 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: was genius for kids. That was all they needed. Um. 374 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: They were pretty cheap and so kids could buy them. 375 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: They could like go around and probably finding money on 376 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: the ground in a given day to go buy a 377 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: little pet dispenser, right, or build like, uh, like a 378 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: soapbox racer and sell it to the rich kid in 379 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: the neighborhood buy a bunch of pez did. Yeah, that's 380 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: another thing too. I didn't like the the stick that 381 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: you had to lick, but the sugar was just great. 382 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 1: So the sugar stick that you dipped into the sugar, 383 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: the sugar stick didn't have enough flavor for me. Yeah, 384 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: it just I was thinking about fund it the other 385 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: day when I was driving for some reason. It was 386 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: just remarkable to me that they would just make a 387 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: sugar stick that you dip in different flavors of sugar, 388 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: and you would then eat the sugar off the stick 389 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: and then eat the sugars right. Well, they they didn't 390 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: even try back then. Like it's like that smacks used 391 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: to be called sugar smacks, and then they changed to 392 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: the honey smacks and they're like, let's just go with smacks. 393 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: That wasn't just called smacks, I believe. So it's not 394 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: sugar smacks. No, it hasn't been sugar smacks for years. 395 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: I don't need much cereal. Like they would get chased 396 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: out of the grocery I whenever they tried to restock that. 397 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 1: If they still call it sugar smacks, I just don't 398 00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:59,959 Speaker 1: mess with Captain Crunch peanut butter. That's all I got 399 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 1: to say. Captain Crunch has one out now. I saw 400 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: in the cereal all the other day. It's sprinkled donuts 401 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: Captain crunch and it looks awesome. Yeah, I just the 402 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: peanut butter is so good. Even though it tears of 403 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: the roof of your mouth, it's worth it. But that's 404 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: a fatal flaw, don't you think? Not to me? Ali, 405 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: I'll get a box of that, like every three or 406 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 1: four years. I'll get a box of that, like when 407 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: Emily's out of town dinner time, because if she would 408 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: come home and see that, she'd be like, what are 409 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: you doing this in our house? Are you a child? Yeah? 410 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: Have to save those moments, all right. So it's a 411 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: ninety Um hass is super rich because he's selling tons 412 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: and tons of these dispensers. He sells the company and uh, 413 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: they move well. The manufacturing of the dispensers is actually 414 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: now in China and Hungary and like um, Slovenia, I think, 415 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: to the Central Europe and now as well. But the 416 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: actual candies are and have been for a very long 417 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: time made, to believe you already said at a plant 418 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: in Orange, Connecticut. Um, and they kept it going. PEZ 419 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: was always a privately owned company. I don't think it's 420 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: ever been public Um. But they kept the whole thing 421 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: going even after Hassa departed, and that was helped very 422 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: much by this this um explosion in collecting that came 423 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: from the late the mid mid eighties, I would say. 424 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: And as a result, um Pez itself added feet to 425 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: the dispenser so that they can be displayed from that 426 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: point not and they realized, like white people are collecting these, 427 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 1: there's like a secondary market that's generated exactly UM, and 428 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: so they added feet to it. So now a PEZ 429 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: dispencer can stand up. But that was introduced in seven. 430 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: So if you see feet on your Pez dispencer, you 431 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: know that it's at least un on. All right, So 432 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: let's take another quick break here and we will come 433 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: back and talk a little bit more about the odd 434 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: collecting of Pezz dispensers. So, Chuck, people started collecting Pezz 435 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 1: dispensers partly because they came of age at a time 436 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: about the mid eighties when they were high on cocaine 437 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: and had a lot of disposable income, and we're nostalgic 438 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 1: for their childhoods. Yeah, I have a theory, and it's 439 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: not like I'm sure everyone knows this, but I think 440 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: pets dispensers became collectible because you can throw them, throw 441 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: it away like you would eat the candy, and what 442 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: are you gonna do As a kid. You can be like, okay, 443 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: let me throw away this Garfield toy. Now, well, not 444 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: only that, you can put it on your chef, right, 445 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: your chef, you're if you're like, dance still, chef, stop 446 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: making that stew weird so I can put this. Participants 447 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: around the bully of base can wait. Um. But the 448 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: the whole thing is they're reloadable, like you get the 449 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: little uh, the little packet of twelve, pop it in 450 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: there and you want more, like if it's uh, it's 451 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: one of those same deals like collect all four. But 452 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: this is not all four. This is constantly new licensing 453 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: deals being cooked up, everything from Looney Tunes to Star 454 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: Wars to Hello Kitty. Which was the other stroke of 455 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 1: genius was partnering up with these uh iconic brands and 456 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: cultural icons to uh to say, hey, a Chewbacca head 457 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: on this thing, like they're grown adults little by that. Right. 458 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,479 Speaker 1: The thing is is Lucasfilm UH definitely charges a pretty penny, 459 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: or did before they sold the Disney and now it's 460 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: even more I'm sure to license anything from Star Wars, right. 461 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: So Pez also very frequently came up with their own 462 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: stuff as well. There were the Pez pals. There was 463 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: a very famous misstep called make a Face Pez, which 464 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: is like a tiny Mr Potato head where you could 465 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: put on different eyes and mouth and stuff. But of 466 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: course these things were a major choking hazard. And actually 467 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: there's a lore among Pez collectors who are called Pez 468 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: heads that if you look at some of the nineteen 469 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three Indian chiefs that were released, their head 470 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: dresses are marble, they have marbled color, and they're saying 471 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: that those are ground up make a face um dispensers 472 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 1: that they reused in the head dresses. That sounds like 473 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: a Pez enthusiast conspiracy theory, but it's pretty cool. And 474 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,919 Speaker 1: another one that they released was a series for the 475 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: bi centennial that includes the funniest character of all time 476 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: in my opinion, the Colonial soldier with the head wound. Okay, 477 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: I thought you can say the Paul Revere. I think 478 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: there is a Paul Revere. No there is, which is 479 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: I thought would be a pretty weird there's a Paul 480 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: Revere Daniel Boone, who looks like he has like a 481 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: a well formed beehive on his head rather than a 482 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:10,239 Speaker 1: queenskin cap an Uncle Sam. Yeah, there's a Betsy Ross uh. 483 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: And then there's the Wound, the head Wound Soldier. He's 484 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: got like that white gauze on his head with a 485 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 1: little blood dot coming through, and he looks just kind 486 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 1: of out of it. It's a really weird Pezzi spencer. 487 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: That one is probably my favorite, although I like a 488 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: lot of the Halloween themed ones from the seventies. Some 489 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: of those glow in the dark, which is pretty neat, 490 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 1: Like Mr Skull Did you see him? Their Doctor Skull? 491 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: I think I think he's probably my favorite. Or the 492 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: Pumpkin from the seventies on the Green Stem is probably 493 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: the best Pezzis spencer of all time. Well, there have 494 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: been four hundred more than four and fifty dispenser since, 495 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: including three different Santas, and the Santa is the best 496 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: selling of all time, which makes sense of course, especially 497 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: the first one because he was his dispenser wasn't just 498 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: a little Pezzis menser. It was like the whole body. 499 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: But then they're like this is way too expensive. Yeah, 500 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: they're like I betch you of people just buy it 501 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: with the head. Yeah, and they did the Salvador Dolly tribute. 502 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a tribute. I bet it was. 503 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: UM is my favorite in psychedelic hand. It was a 504 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: hand with a green eyeball and it's just very cool looking. Yeah, 505 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: like I would I would want one of those. Of 506 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: course I wouldn't bay thousands of dollars for it. No, 507 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: I'd like to just find one on the streets. And 508 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: it's pretty neat though. Yeah, do all of them cost 509 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: that much? But what that specific collectible? No? But I 510 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: mean I would say they range in the hundreds and 511 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: it's really rare. But what was interesting about this um? 512 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: I think Patrick Kiger pointed out, like it's compared to 513 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: a lot of other collecting hobbies, this is dispensers are 514 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: relatively cheap, not too bad. You can get into them 515 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: pretty easily with you know, a minimal amount of money. Um. 516 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: One of my favorite dispensers is the pez gun series. 517 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,719 Speaker 1: Oh really, First there was a ray gun, and then 518 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: they made it into a handgun, and then when Star 519 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: Wars came out in Like Night, they released another space 520 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: gun that looked an awful lot like Han Solo's gun, 521 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: but it wasn't really them, um, but the kid would 522 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: put the gun in his mouth and pull the trigger 523 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: to dispense the candy. Wow. Yeah, really yeah, unbelievable. They 524 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: have had some kind of weird ones over the ears, 525 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: like the airline pilot and stewardess, which I don't know, 526 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: is that a big seller. I don't know. Well, this 527 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: was back in the day. I think when they were 528 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 1: they were revered figures and culture. Yeah, the pilots weren't drunks, 529 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: and the flight attendants weren't flight attendants. They were stewardesses, 530 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: and they were you know, fancy clothes, and but they 531 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: have like hard chiseled features. They look like they look 532 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: like real people. They look like pilots and flight attendants 533 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: from the Mother Road during the depression or something, you know, 534 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: like really chiseled features. And actually, apparently the Pets Company 535 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: says that they very infrequently do real life humans, that 536 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: those those bicentennial figures where the first humans they ever 537 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: did a real life humans, I should say, And they 538 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: didn't even do fictitious ones very often, like a stewardess 539 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 1: or the pilot um, because they just found that the 540 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: human face wasn't nearly as interesting as say, like a 541 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: bubble man. Yeah, you know, in two thousand and six 542 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: they issued the first ever pets dispensers of living humans 543 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: when they decided to pay tribute to the fellas from 544 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: Orange County Chopper. It makes me so sad that goes 545 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: down in history as the worst one ever. But I 546 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: mean those were the first guys to ever have living 547 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: Why why a licensing deal? And it opened the floodgates 548 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 1: after that. After that it was on. There's like a 549 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 1: kiss collector set. Well, of course because Gene Simmons and 550 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: he'll put his face on anything. Um. There was what else, Well, 551 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: people get turned down a lot um. You said that 552 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: other little fact sheet. Kim Kardashian wanted a peest dispenser. Um, 553 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: they said no, Yeah, they turned down people all the 554 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: time because apparently everybody wants one. I would suggest just 555 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: go make your own bubblehead because you can get that done. 556 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: It sounds the same. Well, you could just put candy 557 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: in your bubble head. There are newsletters, there's a pez 558 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: Collector's news, there are conventions, and there is even a 559 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: museum that a husband and wife started in California that 560 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: started out weirdly as a museum for computers and Pez dispensers. 561 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: I know, I think they were a computer sales company. Oh, 562 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: I thought they displayed like vintage computers. I think they Yeah, 563 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: there was a computer dealer and they they were selling computers, 564 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: and just to kind of make the place look a 565 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: little more interesting, they also displayed Peest dispensercane, gotcha. And 566 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: they found that people were way more interested in coming 567 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: to see the Pezz dispencers and weren't buying computers, so 568 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: they transitioned over to a straight up Pez museum, the 569 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: pez um or the Museum of Pez Memorabilium, Berlingame, California. Yeah, 570 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: and you can pay some money to go in there 571 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: and look at all their rare and vintage Peest dispensers. 572 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: They have one. He paid three grand for the pineapple 573 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: wearing sunglasses because in the early seventies thing. Yeah, it's 574 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: nothing special to look at, but again it's rarity. They 575 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: didn't make many of them because it was ugly. Probably, yeah, 576 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 1: that's kind of cute. Did you did you like the 577 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: California raisins? Yes, okay, that explains it. Have you seen 578 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: straight out of Compton. Uh, no, not yet. It's a 579 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: good Oh you haven't seen that yet. I haven't been 580 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: to any movies. You should. The California raisins appear by mentioned. Wow, 581 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: they're mentioned in a surprising way. I look forward to 582 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: seeing them on television. You should go see it, man, Yeah, 583 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: all right, le't go see it in the movie there. 584 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: What else? Uh? They tried vitamins for a little while. Yeah. 585 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: I didn't think that was a bad idea. Put a 586 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: little vitamin C in there. Parents might be more willing 587 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 1: to throw up some money for the for the kid. 588 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,320 Speaker 1: But um, they said, no, we're not in the vitamin business. 589 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 1: Let's just stick to the sugary pressed candy. No. And 590 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: the guy who said that was a guy named Scott mcwinnie. 591 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: Scott mcgwinnie was president. He started out, I think General 592 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: Mills or something in General Foods, and um he moved 593 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: his way over to PEZ in the nineties or the eighties, No, 594 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: the eighties, because that quote was from He was president 595 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: of PEZ little and he um, much to his chagrin, 596 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,439 Speaker 1: got into a um a war, basically an economic war 597 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 1: with the guy who was known as the Pez outlaw. Yeah, 598 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: you dug this up. This was really interesting. Uh. The 599 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,280 Speaker 1: article what was it called. It was a terrible title, 600 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: like Michigan farmer makes four million dollars in PEZ dispensers 601 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: in three years or something. It's a terrible title. Should 602 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 1: have been called the Pez Outlaw. But it was in 603 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: Playboy and it was pretty good long form reporting. Yeah. 604 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,439 Speaker 1: Basically what happened was in the nineties, a dude UH 605 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:20,799 Speaker 1: named Steve Gleieu g l e W found out that, Hey, 606 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,399 Speaker 1: over in Canada, they're selling different dispensers that you can't 607 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 1: get here in the United States. So let me go 608 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 1: over there, let me buy some of these and resell 609 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 1: them to collectors. And it worked, and all of a sudden, 610 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,799 Speaker 1: the lightbulb went off and he said, I think I 611 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: can actually make money getting Pez dispensers from other countries. 612 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: And he found a hook up that mysterious woman who 613 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:48,439 Speaker 1: approached him from the Eastern Bloc wherever she was from. Yeah, 614 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 1: and he ended up He and his son Joshua um 615 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: started making trips to Central Europe um oftentimes right along 616 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,399 Speaker 1: the border of like war torn Croatia, and found these 617 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: factories or pezz is being made and found very bribable 618 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,800 Speaker 1: factory workers who would take like molds and make um 619 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 1: new Pezz dispensers to his liking, and then he would 620 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: sell them as like basically like Pez freaks or or 621 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 1: one offs or something, and for hundreds and hundreds of dollars. 622 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: But he would spend a quarter or maybe a dollar 623 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: on each and he supposedly made quite a bit of money. 624 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 1: He claims four million. Yeah, I believe it. For if 625 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,720 Speaker 1: they made the number of trips that they were making, 626 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,399 Speaker 1: I think that he did. His downfall was that he 627 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: over extended himself. He took out a massive loan and 628 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: uh basically hired a factory to make a bunch of 629 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: misfit Pezz dispensers and downfall and Mark mcwinney took him 630 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:52,400 Speaker 1: on and started releasing basically Pez his own version of 631 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: these counterfeit weirdo dispensers at a lower price and drove 632 00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,280 Speaker 1: the dude out of business. This could be a little documentary, easy, 633 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: you know easy? Also that reminds me. Have you ever 634 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: seen the Jellybelly documentary? Oh, it's so sad, but it's 635 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,359 Speaker 1: so good. What's it called? I don't remember, Just look 636 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: up jelly Belly documentary and weird owls in it. Oh wow, Yeah, 637 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: well then I definitely won't see it. No, you really should, man, 638 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 1: it's a great documentary. It's just it's very sad. And 639 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: that one and the show Biz Pizza one documentary right 640 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,279 Speaker 1: to Yeah, I used to love show biz. You will 641 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,880 Speaker 1: love this documentary. I like show biz more than chucky cheese. 642 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,319 Speaker 1: Even there's a huge backstory to it that you were 643 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,359 Speaker 1: unaware of. Can I read you this one excerpt? This 644 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 1: is from the story about the Pez Outlaw uh ninety 645 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: convention changed Steve's life forever. As he tells it, a 646 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 1: mysterious woman opened her jacket and showed him a silver Globeez, 647 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 1: holy grail for Pez collectors. She whispered to him in 648 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,760 Speaker 1: broken English, there are many more where I come from. 649 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: That's still great? Do you believe that? And then she 650 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 1: I get the feeld. She was like two guys and 651 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,839 Speaker 1: overcoats and sunglasses came in like hurried her away. Yeah, 652 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: he said, but but what's your name? Or two centmbites 653 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,440 Speaker 1: came out of the woodwork and like pulled her down 654 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,760 Speaker 1: to hell Ivanka. Uh yeah, it's a pretty good article. 655 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:21,680 Speaker 1: Look up stupid title Michigan Farmer Pez Playboy and it'll 656 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,399 Speaker 1: bring it up. I think long Form had it at 657 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 1: one point speaking of Ivanka, Should I talk about Donald Trump? 658 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: Probably not? All right? Um, I was surprised when I 659 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 1: found out I found mention of like PEZ dispensers being nostalgic. 660 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: I was like, definitely not for me. Then I went 661 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 1: to PEZ dot com and clicked on collectors Corner and 662 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,680 Speaker 1: they have well they have pictures of like every every 663 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: single one they've released over the years, year by year, 664 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,879 Speaker 1: And I definitely felt nostalgic. And I don't even think 665 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 1: of PEZ is factoring in largely into my childhood at all. 666 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,399 Speaker 1: Same here, but I was a little nostalgical. It's cute, 667 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,080 Speaker 1: So go to PEZ dot com and check out the 668 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 1: Collector's Corner and I think you will waste a lot 669 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 1: of time there, agreed. Uh, And I think that's it 670 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,399 Speaker 1: because Chuck described the listener mail email, which is usually 671 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,879 Speaker 1: a signal for me to shut up because it's mean 672 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,400 Speaker 1: to me after the mics aren't recording any low please uh. 673 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,200 Speaker 1: And if you want to know more about PEZ, type 674 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: that word in the search part how stuff works dot 675 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:28,919 Speaker 1: com and uh, it's time for listener mail. I'm gonna 676 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 1: call this. You guys are right screw college. Remember when 677 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,880 Speaker 1: we had a little soapbox moment, was this from the animator? Yeah? 678 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 1: I thought this is good. Hey, guys, want to shoot 679 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,360 Speaker 1: you a quick email to thank you for mentioning the 680 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: idea that you don't need to go to college for 681 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,359 Speaker 1: some professions on the How Publicists Works episode, it really 682 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,680 Speaker 1: struck a chord with me. I'm an animator, and I 683 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,680 Speaker 1: desperately wish it would be treated as a trade, which 684 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,239 Speaker 1: it is, and not as a high art form that 685 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 1: requires a fancy, one thousand dollar degree. Most of what 686 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,840 Speaker 1: I learned I actually learned on the job. Got almost 687 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,880 Speaker 1: nothing from my college classes, while the contacts I made 688 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,800 Speaker 1: in college were very valuable down the road. And nothing 689 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 1: is quite as nice as moving out and being on 690 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: your own in art school, it came with a hefty price. 691 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,440 Speaker 1: It is now ten years later. I've been working steadily 692 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: this whole time, and I'm still paying off my college 693 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,760 Speaker 1: student loans and I make a good amount of money. 694 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 1: That's just sad. And I know so many people were 695 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 1: in the same position without but without steady work. Uh. 696 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:26,880 Speaker 1: And she says that she worked at Adult Swim for 697 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: a while too. By the way, Uh, there's a stigma 698 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: about not going to college, and I think it's part 699 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: of the reason so many people are being crushed by 700 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: student loan debt. Now it's a very American stigma too, 701 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,040 Speaker 1: It's not like that all around the world, stupid Americans. 702 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 1: I think there's probably a lot of these kinds of 703 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: jobs that don't need college degrees out there, like podcaster, 704 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: and it might be cool to hear a podcast on 705 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,600 Speaker 1: that sometime. I'm not sure what you call it. Maybe 706 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: how not going to college but landing a nice job 707 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,480 Speaker 1: and making a living anyway and sticking it to your 708 00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:02,439 Speaker 1: parents works. Maybe just do one on student loans or something. Anyway, 709 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,480 Speaker 1: thanks for keeping the company while I animate keep it up. 710 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,560 Speaker 1: You guys are top notch. And that is Margie. Thanks Margie, 711 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,279 Speaker 1: that was a great email. Agreed, we appreciate that. And 712 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 1: that's not about college altogether. Sometimes it's very useful. Yoh yeah, 713 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,360 Speaker 1: it's just not the end all b l for everyone 714 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: on the planet didn't have to go to college. Yeah, 715 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,000 Speaker 1: I know it's true. There, I mean it's true, and 716 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 1: I think that there hopefully is a large awakening going 717 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,440 Speaker 1: on because a lot of people say that the current bubble. 718 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 1: If you're looking around for the next bubble student loans, Uh, yeah, 719 00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,319 Speaker 1: we should do something about that. Sometimes, let's do it. 720 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,320 Speaker 1: And actually, Margie gave us her UM the U R 721 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: L for her blog. It's m A R J I 722 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: B O R D N E R dot blog spot 723 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,359 Speaker 1: dot com. I imagine you can go check out her 724 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:55,359 Speaker 1: stuff there when you think yes, sir. Nice. 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