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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Stuff

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Speaker 1: You Should Know Saturday selects Mr Chuck here, Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant one half maybe one third of Stuff you

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Speaker 1: Should Know, It depends on the day. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: this week with how Twinkies Work from July nine, two nine.

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Speaker 1: This was a fun one. I like my uh or

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Speaker 1: rather our pop culture editions. I like our food episodes,

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Speaker 1: and it all kind of came together with Twinkies, that

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Speaker 1: magical little a little little snack that no one quite

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Speaker 1: understands and knows what it really is. Is it cake?

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Speaker 1: It's cakey? Is it creamy? It's creamy? But what is

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Speaker 1: it really? Where did they come from? Is it true

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Speaker 1: that twinkie will last for a thousand years? We get

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Speaker 1: the answers to all this and how Twinkies work right now.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to arguably the most important

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Speaker 1: podcast Chuck Bryant and I will ever record. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: This is Stuff you Should Know, and brother, I am

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Speaker 1: jacked up me three you're ready? Yeah, I'm speaking for Jerry.

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Speaker 1: So she's the Marcel Marcel of our group. Yeah, she's

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Speaker 1: she's always wears the white gloves. I hate mimes. I

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Speaker 1: actually don't hate moms. It's just a cliche to say

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Speaker 1: you hate mimes. Mimes are cool. It says who that

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Speaker 1: mins are cool? Yeah, I just said it, jerk. Chuck

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Speaker 1: and I have clearly been eating far too many twinkies

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Speaker 1: in preparation of this. Yes we have, yeah, Chuck, Yes,

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Speaker 1: what do you know about the twinkie? Let's talk about twinkies.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about twinkies. Everyone knows the twinkie is a

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Speaker 1: popular junk food snack cake. Yes, legendary junk food snack cake.

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Speaker 1: I would say, I would say ten day as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we're doing something light like this. Yeah, just

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Speaker 1: lighting sponge. Yeah, yeah, Chuck. How long is it twinkie?

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Speaker 1: Twinkie is uh four inches long? How wide is it? Twinkie?

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Speaker 1: Inch and a half? Did you know that originally it

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Speaker 1: was first invented it was made with banana cream filling. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: let's get into this, buddy. Okay, those are just some teasers,

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Speaker 1: all right, So the twinkie was first invented in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirties. Yes, Continental Bakeries. Yeah, they're the vice president

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Speaker 1: of Continental Bakeries, which is already doing business as Hostess,

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Speaker 1: which we know and love, is the maker of Twinkies

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Speaker 1: and what I consider to be the greatest snack food

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Speaker 1: of all time, the crumb cake. Oh really, you a fan?

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Speaker 1: I like the nutty bar, the little Debbie nutty bars.

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Speaker 1: We're not we're talking host is here, buddy? Yeah? Um,

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Speaker 1: they will assassinate you. What are those They're like pink balls?

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Speaker 1: What are those snowballs? Chuck? Alright, So back in the

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Speaker 1: vice president of Continental Bakery, he's a guy named James

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Speaker 1: what is it, James Dooer. James Dooer not a Scotch maker.

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Speaker 1: His brother could have been. Um. He decided that the

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Speaker 1: company's idle machinery that was used to make a strawberry

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Speaker 1: be put to better use. Well, the machines were idle

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Speaker 1: because seas, yeah, seasonal, because strawberries only grow certain times

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Speaker 1: of the year, right, so the rest of the year

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Speaker 1: came up with a little, uh, little yellow cake filled

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Speaker 1: with creamy filling. Jammy frosting if you were that could

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Speaker 1: be made year round. Um. And apparently on his way

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Speaker 1: I would never buy shoes called twinkle toe shoes. Sure

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Speaker 1: you would, you dream sailor totally. Uh. And that was it.

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Speaker 1: So these days it's actually up to the nine ingredients,

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Speaker 1: We'll shave some years off our life. Seriously, Uh, excuse me?

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Speaker 1: Should we talk about the the process of how they

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Speaker 1: apparently the ceiling process is really where the preservation comes in, right,

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Speaker 1: original run of Twinkies, which actually is is clearly a

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Speaker 1: lie because they would be banana flavored. Um. But the

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Speaker 1: her onto the show, and thanks a lot, keep up

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Speaker 1: we got her through. That's excellent, pretty cool. Thanks what's

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Speaker 1: her name but cool? Robin of Portlands or Robin all right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for writing in, Robin, And if anyone else out

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