1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: All right, everybody, it's Chuck here. It's Saturday, and you 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: know what that means. It's time for Stuff you Should Know. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Select episode curated by me. This one's about igloos. How 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: much fun? Right from March two eleven, and this one 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: should be landing here in the winter as well, so 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: you can go out and build an igloo yourself, That's 7 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: what I say, but be safe while you're doing it. 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: There's a fun episode. I remember enjoying this one quite 9 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: quite a lot, so I hope you guys like it. 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: Clark with me as always as Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Hello, sir, 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: it makes this stuff you should know. All right, it's right, 14 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: unless I'm in the wrong place. You're a little under 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: the weather still, Aren't you just as sick as I 16 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: was when we recorded Fainting Goats? Yes? Not not ten 17 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: minutes ago. Yes, So Chuck hasn't been sick all week. 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: It'll probably just be a couple of days. So clear. 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: If you have a robust um immune system for a 20 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: man of your age, remember when you were actually sick 21 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks like in year one. Yeah, and 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: I think like eighteen podcasts were screwed up because I 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: was just I could not get better. I thought, you, 24 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: those are the unhealthy days. So you lead a much 25 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: healthier lifestyle, much much healthier. You're not. We don't need 26 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: to check you into the sanitarium like we had to 27 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: back in the day. I'm okay, now I'm not. I've 28 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: gotten over my consumption. Hopefully you will very soon. I 29 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: have all faith that you will. Right, So, Chuck, while 30 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: we're waiting for you to recuperate, I have I want 31 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: to talk to you about technology specifically. Some of the 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: oldest technology known to man clothes. Clothing is technology. Yeah 33 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: so didn't think so, but it is, Chuck, Probably more 34 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: than anything else. The thing that defines humanity is our 35 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: desire and our ceaseless striving to become more than more 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: than human, to take ourselves out of the rat race 37 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: of evolution, the crapshoot of genetics, and to basically take 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: hold of our biological destiny. Right. Yeah. We sort of 39 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: did that with clothing many many, many years ago. Yeah, 40 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: so that's that's what we do. We use technology to 41 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: do that and clothing was one of the earliest ones. 42 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: Because we are a subtropical species humans are. Yeah, we're 43 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: not supposed to live in really cold places, right, but 44 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: we do. We've managed to migrate from you know, somewhere 45 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: near the equator where we can run around without clothes too. Yeah, 46 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: because we're what they call the sexy epoch um to 47 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: some colder climbs. Thanks to close Along the way, we 48 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: um figured out that we could use hammers and or 49 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: use stones for hammers and other tools. Um, and we 50 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: figured out that we could build our our own shelters 51 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: make things warm on the inside. Right. So eventually over 52 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: the years we figure out enclosed heating systems. And then now, 53 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: thanks to all this, we have swedes right Involvos. Involvos 54 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: thanks to the sweds. So the technology of Volvos are 55 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: a direct result of the technology of clothes. Wow, in 56 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: a weird way, you're exactly right. But somewhere along the 57 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: line there was a branch of that linear development of 58 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: thought and talent of technology all the way to enclosed 59 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: shelters that house swedes, where somebody figured out that you 60 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: can make it enclosed shelter out of blocks of hard 61 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: packed snow, and we know those today as ig loose. Yes, 62 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: and do you know what the Inuit called the igloo igloos? Question? 63 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: That's a good that's a great. That was a good 64 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: question though, because, yeah, it's an Innuit word for what, 65 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: believe it means snow house. So the Inuits are just 66 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: among the most pragmatic speakers on the planet. You're very 67 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: cut and dry. Yeah, they call their snow houses igloos, right, 68 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: that just makes other sense. Yeah, we're talking about the 69 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: Canadian tundra, Josh, and they uh, you know, tps and 70 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: castles and other things that were being built were all 71 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: well and good if you're in in Europe, or if 72 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: you are in a warmer climate, let's say, like the 73 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: Florida Painhandle, you don't have to take throught of ice 74 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: to quarry stone exactly. But if you're in the Canadian tundra, 75 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: those aren't really good options. So, uh, snow, hard packed 76 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: snow became the masonry, if you will, for the Inuits. Right, 77 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get to this Eskimo thing. Yeah, yeah, um, 78 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: Eskimo and Inuit are one and the same. There are 79 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: two different terms for the same group of people. These 80 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: people who Um inhabit areas spanning from Siberia to Alaska, 81 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: Canada Greenland UM thirty five hundred mile range, right, yeah, 82 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: which makes them the most widely spread Aboriginal group on 83 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: the planet. Yeah. An Aboriginal, for those of you don't know, 84 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: doesn't just refer to the Aborigines in Australia. It's any um, 85 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: any any any indigenous indigenous, the first people in that region. Yes, 86 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: or it would be Aboriginal, yes, okay, that was the 87 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: ones you get pushed around by the Europeans Aboriginal um 88 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: And if you want to insult in Inuit, you just 89 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: go ahead and call them an Eskimo. Yeah. Apparently it's 90 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: a derogatory term because it was a term that the 91 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: white man gave. I think it was another tribe, was it, Yeah, 92 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: but it was an outside group. I was just figure 93 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: it's the white man. Yeah, So it was another group 94 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: named them Eskimos, which um it was thought to mean 95 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: eaters of raw meat or raw blubbers what I've heard 96 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: as well, blubber. But then they later thought that eskimoment 97 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: to netch snowshoes, to build snowshoes, and linguists can't prove it, 98 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: although that's kind of what they think. But in the 99 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: glory that is language, things can go from their original 100 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: meaning to a popular meaning, and it's old meaning is meaningless. Yeah, 101 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: it's only what people think or use, right, right, which 102 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: is how l o l is a word, that's right. 103 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: So we're going to refer to them, refer to them 104 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: as Inuit, because that's the that's the way to do it. 105 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: We don't want to alienate anybody, no, especially the Inuit, 106 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: because they are tough people and they have survived for many, many, 107 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: many years in conditions that don't seem to be survivable, 108 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: especially way back in the day. But they made it through, right, 109 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: and they're thriving actually too. We'll get to that in 110 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: a second. Yeah, I was surprised to see that. But 111 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: um chuck. A couple of other facts about these, uh, 112 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: the Inuit, which means the people, right, So they call 113 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: their snowhouses, they glues, they call themselves the people. It's 114 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,799 Speaker 1: just it's very spare. I could have been a good Innuit, 115 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: I think. I think so too. Keep things simple, fall down, goat, Yeah, 116 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: so they don't. They they have never really established a 117 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: formal system of government. It's the family is generally the 118 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: the center of the community. Yeah. Um, the class system. 119 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: Males are the figure heads. Yeah. No, class system is 120 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Um. And basically, if you're a boy, you're 121 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: a hunter. If you're a girl, you marry a hunter 122 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: and hopefully produce more boy hunters because the everyone's equally 123 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: responsible for coming up with food and I imagine every family, 124 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: um is that's what that means. Every family is equally 125 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: responsible for contributing to the food in the community. Yeah. Yeah, 126 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: So the more boy hunters, the better. So um, fascinating group. 127 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: And they have never lived in it loses permanent shelters, huh. Well. Yeah, 128 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: And it's important that you mentioned hunting because clearly, if 129 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: you are living on the Arctic tundra, there's one thing 130 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: that you're probably not going to have, and that is 131 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: a vegetable garden. So they are very carnivorous as a 132 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: as a people. They do a lot of hunting. They 133 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: did a lot of hunting of seals, which is probably 134 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: they were called blubberry marketing blood reads and we're there 135 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: are seals, is gonna be a lot of ice sea ice? Yeah, 136 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: which leads to another peculiar trait of the Inuit. Peculiar 137 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: meaning unique specific um kayak angst. Remember we talked about 138 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: that on the webcast like a long time ago, remember that, 139 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: and everything was cut off in the middle of it, 140 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: and like it was Guy Kawasaki day. And I wrote 141 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: a blog post on it saying like as I was 142 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: saying before I was cut off, and kayak angst is this, um, 143 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: it's a it's a condition specific only to the Inuit, 144 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 1: where an Inuit males too, where you become afraid of 145 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: going out to hunt seals in a kayak, usually following 146 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: an episode where you've been up for several days. The 147 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: sun very rarely sets because at summertime, which is the 148 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: only time you're when when you can hunt seal really um, 149 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: So you have a loss of sense of time. You're 150 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: completely without any lamb mark, a reference point. It's all 151 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: just horizon and sea ice. So you're without no bearings, 152 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: no sense of time, and you doze off and wake up, 153 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: and you have no idea how long you've been asleep, 154 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: how far you've drifted, and you may be out there 155 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: drifting for the rest of your life. And you finally 156 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: do find land again, you make your way back to 157 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: your community and you become terrified at the thought of 158 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: getting back in a kayak again. Kayak angst Yeah, specific 159 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: only to the Innuit. I don't remember that at all. 160 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: That's so weird. Well you should read my blog posts. 161 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: I usually have an inkling, but that that one doesn't 162 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: ring true for me. So the Inuit did not live 163 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 1: in iglas, Josh as you said, that is not true. 164 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: People might think that um Inuit tribes just had igloos 165 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: all over the place and that was their house. They 166 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: were really hunting shelters. Yeah, it's like a hunting camp 167 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: like um Robin Williams uh, fishing camping, insomnia, Yeah, except 168 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: nutty because of no sleep and too much sun. Yeah. 169 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: Well al Pacino was yeah right, that was Christopher Nolan, 170 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, he's just amazing. Although you had inception problems, right, 171 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: it was really just Ellen Page. Get her out of 172 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: the movie. You're okay. It wasn't even her necessarily, although 173 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of hers. Um. I think 174 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: she's a she's a good actress and everything, but you know, 175 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: I'll never forgere it for Juno. But um, it was 176 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: more her character, Like clearly her character was put in 177 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: afterward because the producers were like, or the studio execs 178 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: were like, wait, what is going on? So they wrote 179 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: in Ellen Page's character to explain everything to everybody at 180 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: each step so that you can keep up with this 181 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 1: really dense movie. You love getting me wound up about 182 00:10:43,960 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: that inception around John All right, where were we the Innuits? 183 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: They were hunting camps, like we said, and uh, they're 184 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: still around today and they're booming. Um not igloos. Actually 185 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: they're they're not quite as common, but they did a 186 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: study who is just the human rights program in Canada 187 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: in Canada Department of Canadian Heritage said that there could 188 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: be as many as sixty eight thousand, four hundred Inuit 189 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: in Canada only in Change. So um, yeah, they're they're 190 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: booming as a people. Pretty cool. So they're thriving. Igloos 191 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: are were never um, permanent shelters or structures for them, 192 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: And um they had kayak angst One other thing too, 193 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: eskimo kisses. Yeah, what's the deal there? So you know 194 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: it's like rubbing the tip of your nose. Yeah, it's cute, 195 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: it is. It's not entirely accurate though, I'm sure, but 196 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: they did kiss with their noses. Yeah, but it was um, 197 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: you would put your no, your nostrils to the face, 198 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: usually around like the cheeks, right below the eyes. Um. 199 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: The you would put your nose to a loved one's 200 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: face like that and inhale deeply, and that was that's 201 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: the real Escobote kiss. Who are Inuit kiss? Interesting, isn't it? Yeah? 202 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: They had it wrong, though, you know how it right? 203 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: The French. Yeah, they figured it out and everyone was like, oh, yeah, 204 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: this is the way to kiss. Forget that no stuff, 205 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: all right, So let's talk about igloos for a second. 206 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: They were built out of blocks of ice. They are 207 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: not built out of the kind of snow that you 208 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: probably have in your front yard in Ohio in the wintertime. 209 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: It depends on how what it was. Although my cousin 210 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: in law, Alex Schreiber, Ohio State University student, built an 211 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 1: igloo last winter. He and his buddies. Check this thing out, dude, nice, wow, 212 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: I should post this. I'm gonna get to post this. 213 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: But it's like seven ft tall at least. It's huge, 214 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: and it's it's like really well constructed. He's sitting on 215 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: top of it and it's not caving in. If I 216 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: built an igloo that you know, it wouldn't last very long. 217 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: Pretty cool though. That is a backyard in Ohio too. 218 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: Yeah it's gray day, leafless trees everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, he 219 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: and his buddies you know, clearly had enough boredhom in 220 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: time to build this cool. So Alex Driver huh yeah, awesome. 221 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: Is he listening right now? I hope? So yeah he listens, 222 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: And I told I get my heads up. Yeah, well 223 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: you have to post that he's gonna right back and say, 224 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: don't mention the iglu don't they always huh yeah, so chuck. 225 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: Even though like, um say, a hunting expedition went out 226 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: or even a single hunter went out and built an iglu, 227 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 1: um that that it wasn't just the single igloo every 228 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: single time. Sometimes they lived in him for longer periods. 229 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 1: Sometimes more people lived in a group, and they would 230 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: actually um create compounds out of igloos by you know, 231 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: melding them together, creating walkways, breeze waste. Pretty cool. And 232 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 1: there were some that um basically igloo cities that came 233 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: about where you I think they would have like halls 234 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: for banquets and beasts and like balls and stuff like 235 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: like Inuit balls held in. Um. Uh, well, an igloo, 236 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: a big, large igloo. Pretty cool. Though I didn't know this. 237 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I always pictured just the single 238 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: and I also thought they lived in them. So this 239 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: was this one. I was because we're like the totem poles, 240 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: we should probably also while we're just like busting things 241 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: left and right. Um Chili Willie, helpful little penguin from 242 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: the He was so cute. I went and watched when 243 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: to refresh my memory. He was very cute. He wasn't 244 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: I I thought he would be mischievous or I remembered 245 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: him being mischievous like Woody Woodpecker, who was a jerk. Um. No, 246 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: Chili Willie was a very helpful, cute, sweet little baby penguin. 247 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: Um and his little igloo, the typical igloo that you 248 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: think of a dome with like a rounded entryway, pretty 249 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: much dead on. Yeah, but it looks like your your cousin, 250 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: They don't, uh cousin, cousin in law. It looks like 251 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: he he knows, he knows what he's doing. Alex, not Matthew, No, 252 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: I said, nephew, Oh sorry, Uh yeah, there's no penguins 253 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: in Alaska either, So that's the other problem as well. 254 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: Chili will he was not accurate but cute. Nonetheless, No, 255 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: but the igloo he built was accurate. That's right. And Josh, 256 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: since we're talking igloes. Um, here's here's what a a 257 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: naive person might say. Why in the world, if you're 258 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: freezing cold out in Alaska, would you build a room 259 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: out of ice and snow to sit in? How warm 260 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: could that be? It would take somebody pretty naive to 261 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: say something like that, though, you know how warm it 262 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: could be up to forty degrees warmer than it is 263 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: outside of the iglue buddy, Yes, And why chuck, where 264 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: these furnaces coming from? Well, your body, for one human body, 265 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: is a pretty good furnace, yep. And um, when you 266 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: cut down the wind chill, you're gonna take a big 267 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: bite out of the cold. And you put a couple 268 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: of warm Inuit bodies in there, and imagine these are 269 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: big tough dudes. Anyway, they're probably just like exuding warmth 270 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: that'll it'll you know, radiate out and insulate. The igloo 271 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: will insulate that heat in it trips the heat. Yeah. 272 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: So I mean, if you're talking negative forty degrees, that's 273 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: really cold. But if you could bring that up to zero. 274 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: That's still cold, but it ain't like negative forty, which 275 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: is the same in Celsius san fahrenheigh. Oh yeah, yeah, 276 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: good point. So, Uh, the snow is an insulator, right, Yeah, 277 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: it cuts down on the on the wind um of 278 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: the melting. That's the other thing too. Yeah. When when 279 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: you build an igloo, and don't worry, we're about to 280 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: give you step by step instructions on how to build 281 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: an igloo, we should get alex on the orange. Um. 282 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: At the very least you can verify it, right, that's right. Um, 283 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: when you build an igloo, you uh, the sun when 284 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: it does come out or if it's out the whole time, 285 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: especially during the day. Uh, it'll heat up enough possibly 286 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: to melt some refreeze at night, which is what you want, 287 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: melt refreeze and um you you your body heat also 288 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: may melt it from the inside out something. And then 289 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: when you go out to hunt, it'll refreeze every time 290 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: more likely, it's probably the more likely scenario. So this 291 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: um thawing and freezing and thawing and freezing basically turns 292 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: the igloo into this really um strong and insulated structure 293 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: and about a boom, bought a being. You got yourself 294 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: an insulated place to fish, or at least to bunk 295 00:17:41,520 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: down while you're fishing. Yeah, so, Josh, are we at 296 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: the point where we tell people how to build eglue? 297 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: I don't think we can delay it any longer. Oh 298 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: we can. Okay. You mentioned that igloo igloos are kind 299 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: of out of fashion with the Inuit these days. Yeah, 300 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: not as common, but they are becoming increasingly common at 301 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: a ski resorts apparently. Yeah, if you're such a ski 302 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: junkie and that you want to just basically wake up, 303 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,880 Speaker 1: roll out of bed, put on your skis and start 304 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: skiing immediately, they have igloos, usually on the slopes. Um 305 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: that you can rent igloo villages, that you can run 306 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: an igloo overnight or for as long as you stay there. 307 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: Pretty sweet, huh. Or if you're, you know, feeling squirrely, 308 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: you can build one yourself. True down, is that a segue? 309 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: It is if you're if you've done it before, like 310 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: your cousin in law, it could take as little as 311 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: an hour. If you don't know what you're doing, it 312 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: could take six or more. Yeah, I want to ask Alex, actually, 313 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: how long it took because the first pick yours are 314 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: or at night, so it clearly took them longer than 315 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: a few hours. Like when I saw that someone could 316 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: build one an hour, I don't know about that. I 317 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: don't believe that. Well, I'm pretty sure if you were 318 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,239 Speaker 1: raised as an intuit, and you were I don't know, 319 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: in your twenties, I'll bet you could build an iglue 320 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 1: in an hour. Yea. Yeah, And it looks like Alex 321 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: and his buddies used a tub, like a shallow plastic 322 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: tub to pack the snow down, and that's smart inform 323 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: the blocks. Yeah, so the way we're going to teach 324 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: you how to do it requires a snow shovel, which 325 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 1: looks an awful lot like a dry wall or not 326 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: a snow shovel. It does require a snow shovel, but 327 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: a snow saw, which looks an awful lot like a 328 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: dry wall saw. Indeed. Um, and basically you want to 329 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: go find some ice like you were saying you normally 330 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: wouldn't find ice or snow. Um that's just fallen. It's 331 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: gonna work for an iglu. Yeah, you want to find 332 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: um wettish, hard packed like that's more solid. The better, snow, Right, 333 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: And what do you want to do with it, snow Chuck, Well, 334 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: you want to use your little saw. You want to 335 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: cut large blocks. Um, I guess you can vary the size, 336 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: but they recommend in the Complete Wilderness Training guy, they 337 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: recommend three ft long, fifteen inches high, eight inches deep. 338 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: So once you get your blocks, you want to start building. 339 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,239 Speaker 1: Uh you know, put your foundation in a circle and 340 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: start building up that foundation, working your way up as 341 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: you go, decreasing in size as you go. And you 342 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: also have to shape it at a at a slant obviously, 343 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: or you're just gonna have a ice block tower and 344 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: not a domed roof. Correct. Yeah, yeah you um, you 345 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: want to shape it at a slant, like you said, 346 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: but you also want to make the blocks decrease in 347 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: sizes you get bigger decrease and and overlap. See you 348 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: you did some some brickwork, and that's sort of the 349 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: same principle there. I never built anything that was tall 350 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: enough that I had to really build it back to 351 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: stagger it. And when I did, it was like the 352 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 1: pre made castle rock wall that's designed to set back right, 353 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: so it didn't require any thought. But yes, if you 354 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: if you kind of have something that's technically at a 355 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: slight incline. It will provide structure if you can get 356 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: it to connect as a dome like Buckminster Fuller's geodesic 357 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: dome exactly, very super strong structure. So as you're building 358 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 1: this and then you start to make the dome part, 359 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: it should support itself if you've done it right, but 360 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: you can always use sticks on the inside to support 361 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,479 Speaker 1: it temporarily until you get the dome complete and then 362 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: it's all pressing against each other. Uh. And then how 363 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: do you finish it off with with the top? Well, 364 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: you want to take a chunk of ice. You're what 365 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: you're gonna have is this perfect dome, some variation of 366 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: a perfect dome. Um. And there's gonna be a central 367 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 1: hole in the top, right, Yeah, like a little chimney, yes, um, 368 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: but you actually want to plug this one. That's right. 369 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: This is one chimney you want to plug. And you 370 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 1: take you cut another block that's going to be bigger 371 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: than the hole, and you want to shape it so 372 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: that it basically fits this this hole that's left over, UM, 373 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: which should be something like an octagon maybe roughly L shape. UM, 374 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: And you want to fit it in there perfectly. You 375 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: want to cut it, shape it, put it in there 376 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: so it's in there perfectly, packed in there. Because this 377 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 1: is your load bearing keystone. Basically, as long as that 378 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: thing's intact, everything else should be fine. You'll lose that, 379 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: you're in a lot of trouble. Um. And then after 380 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: that you're ready to start insulating it, filling in the cracks. 381 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: You want to shovel snow on top of everything, and 382 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: the loose snow that is what you want. Now you 383 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 1: want to work with it, and you're going to use 384 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: some insulated gloves on your hands or else you're going 385 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: to lose your hands to gangreen in a few days. Um. 386 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: And you fill in the cracks with the snow, you 387 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: just kind of smooth it over with your hands so 388 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: that the snow packs into the cracks, and all of 389 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: a sudden, this um separate block pattern is lost and 390 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: you have a basically a smooth dome. Yes, is what 391 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: you're going for, right. Yeah, And at the end, it's 392 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: it's a lot harder to try and build a door 393 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: into your thing. It's easier just to build a dome 394 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: and then cut your door out after it's finished. There's 395 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: a good point and um, a lot of people, Um, 396 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: a true aficionado of the igloo would build a little 397 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 1: L shaped entryway tunnel because that'll cut down on the 398 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: wind coming in even more. Yeah, because the wind has 399 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: to turn a corner, that's right. Um. So you cut 400 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: that hole in whatever shape you want, whether a key 401 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: shape um or a lot of people use like a 402 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: tent shape and a frame. Yeah. Yeah. And you then 403 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: you cover it with blocks you make like an entry 404 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: way shelter basically, and then like you said, you you 405 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: might want to put it as an L and then 406 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: you dig a hole into the snow so that you 407 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: can get into it. But basically you're kind of crawling 408 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: into the entryway. It looked like yeah, right, um. And 409 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: then after that you get inside. And there's a very 410 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: vital step that you might not think of, and that 411 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 1: is drilling air holes. Yes, because once you've packed it 412 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: full of loose snow and it's um, it's basically mortared 413 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: um and you uh, the thing melts and thaws and 414 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: freezes and thaws and freezes and becomes even more of 415 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: a solid structure. If you don't have air holes, you'll 416 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: suffocate and die. Yes, especially if you do something like 417 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: bring a camp stove or a Colman lantern or that 418 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 1: kind of thing in there. Uh, we don't want to 419 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: see that happen. No, And I don't even know that 420 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: we should recommend bringing a stove at all. Yeah, which 421 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: this article says you can, as long as you have 422 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: enough air holes for ventilation. I just say, build it 423 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,959 Speaker 1: for fun and just keep the noxious fumes out of it. 424 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: Yeah all together. Yeah, I I should say that this 425 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: article also specifically says that it is in no way, 426 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 1: shape or form a meant to be a comprehensive guide 427 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 1: to building an iglue. It's just the basic. Yeah, there 428 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: are some good how to photos, so if you want 429 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,479 Speaker 1: to check it out for some really good illustration, right huh, 430 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: as how stuff works is lousy with That's right. So 431 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: I guess that's it for igloos. They are everything we 432 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: thought they were and more. Yeah. You know a lot 433 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: of times you think, oh, I bet you, it's just 434 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,360 Speaker 1: our interpretation that you see in the movies all these things. 435 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: But they really do look just like that, and they're 436 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: built just like that, and not a lot of surprises here, 437 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: which is kind of reassuring. In a lot of words. 438 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: It makes me feel good. Yeah, so I guess if 439 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: you want to catch up on your Chili Willy, we 440 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: won't blame you. I found plenty on YouTube. He's adorable, 441 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: more better, more better, more syrup, more syrup. I don't 442 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: remember that one. That's a good one. Um. No, that's 443 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: a parque commercial. Now are you sure? Okay? Well, um, 444 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: check out Chili Willy and be sure to um go 445 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: onto how stuff works dot com and type in igloo 446 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: I g l o O and is going to bring 447 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: up a pretty cool um step by step illustrated guide 448 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: to building your own igloo sans camp stove with holes. 449 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: That's right? Um, I think did I say handy search bar? 450 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: You just did? Okay, Well, then it's time for a 451 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: listener mail. Yeah, this isn't so much a mail. This 452 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: is something I want to mention a long time ago 453 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: and kind of forgot. Remember the life straw podcast? Yes, 454 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 1: you don't do a quick recap of what a LifeStraw is. Yeah, 455 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: A life straw is a portable device for purifying water. Um, 456 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: and it's cheap, it's easy to hang onto, it lasts 457 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: for up to a year, and if you were in 458 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: a place that's invested with guinea worm. You still need 459 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: to drink water, but you don't want guiney worm. LifeStraw helps, 460 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: and I think the rotarians are big into getting them 461 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: all over the world. They are, and so is Steven Neeman. 462 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: And Steven wrote on our Facebook while after the LifeStraw 463 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: podcast that he was pretty blown away by this thing 464 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: and he thoughts pretty cool inventioned and that he and 465 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: his company the result of this podcast, their company is 466 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: going to donate a minimum of six thousand lifestraws this 467 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 1: year and nice six thousand not bad, huh. And I 468 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: asked him if he minded us mentioning this. He said 469 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: not at all. His company is Eleventh Hour Search in Alexandria, Virginia. 470 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: It's a very small staffing firm, so it's not like 471 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 1: even some huge company that's doing this. And he said 472 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 1: his wife works in Haiti for the US, and that's 473 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: where he is right now. I don't know if he 474 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,199 Speaker 1: still is. Is a little while ago, and they like 475 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: the podcast on Haitian voodoo and so good an you 476 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 1: brother donating six thousand lifestraws. That is awesome, So we 477 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: just want to reckon more than awesome. I mean, that's 478 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: very cool. That's gotta be worth a T shirt. I 479 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: would say so Stephen shirt. I don't have his email, 480 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: but if feels right in, yeah, right in. Send us 481 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: your email, Stephen in your T shirt size. Sorry it 482 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: took so long to mention this, it got lost in 483 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: the shuffle. Well, good going, chuck Um. If you are 484 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: saving the world, we want to know how, because we 485 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: want to send you a T shirt. If you're saving 486 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: the world in a verifiable and inspirational manner in a 487 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: dramatic fashion. 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