WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: How Igloos Work 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.280 All right, everybody, it's Chuck here. It's Saturday, and you 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.480 know what that means. It's time for Stuff you Should Know. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.680 Select episode curated by me. This one's about igloos. How 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.720 much fun? Right from March two eleven, and this one 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.000 should be landing here in the winter as well, so 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.239 you can go out and build an igloo yourself, That's 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.600 what I say, but be safe while you're doing it. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.440 There's a fun episode. I remember enjoying this one quite 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.639 quite a lot, so I hope you guys like it. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.080 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:42.760 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.760 Clark with me as always as Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Hello, sir, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.960 it makes this stuff you should know. All right, it's right, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.080 unless I'm in the wrong place. You're a little under 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.880 the weather still, Aren't you just as sick as I 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.680 was when we recorded Fainting Goats? Yes? Not not ten 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.240 minutes ago. Yes, So Chuck hasn't been sick all week. 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:03.640 It'll probably just be a couple of days. So clear. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.560 If you have a robust um immune system for a 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.559 man of your age, remember when you were actually sick 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.240 for weeks and weeks like in year one. Yeah, and 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.039 I think like eighteen podcasts were screwed up because I 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.039 was just I could not get better. I thought, you, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.319 those are the unhealthy days. So you lead a much 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.800 healthier lifestyle, much much healthier. You're not. We don't need 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.920 to check you into the sanitarium like we had to 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.920 back in the day. I'm okay, now I'm not. I've 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.600 gotten over my consumption. Hopefully you will very soon. I 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.120 have all faith that you will. Right, So, Chuck, while 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.080 we're waiting for you to recuperate, I have I want 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.240 to talk to you about technology specifically. Some of the 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:49.800 oldest technology known to man clothes. Clothing is technology. Yeah 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.040 so didn't think so, but it is, Chuck, Probably more 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.640 than anything else. The thing that defines humanity is our 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.880 desire and our ceaseless striving to become more than more 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.120 than human, to take ourselves out of the rat race 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.799 of evolution, the crapshoot of genetics, and to basically take 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.600 hold of our biological destiny. Right. Yeah. We sort of 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.840 did that with clothing many many, many years ago. Yeah, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.440 so that's that's what we do. We use technology to 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.480 do that and clothing was one of the earliest ones. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.160 Because we are a subtropical species humans are. Yeah, we're 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.080 not supposed to live in really cold places, right, but 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.320 we do. We've managed to migrate from you know, somewhere 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:36.320 near the equator where we can run around without clothes too. Yeah, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.800 because we're what they call the sexy epoch um to 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.400 some colder climbs. Thanks to close Along the way, we 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.720 um figured out that we could use hammers and or 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.040 use stones for hammers and other tools. Um, and we 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.200 figured out that we could build our our own shelters 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.400 make things warm on the inside. Right. So eventually over 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.280 the years we figure out enclosed heating systems. And then now, 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.639 thanks to all this, we have swedes right Involvos. Involvos 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.320 thanks to the sweds. So the technology of Volvos are 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.800 a direct result of the technology of clothes. Wow, in 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.520 a weird way, you're exactly right. But somewhere along the 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:21.480 line there was a branch of that linear development of 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.400 thought and talent of technology all the way to enclosed 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.400 shelters that house swedes, where somebody figured out that you 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.720 can make it enclosed shelter out of blocks of hard 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:37.600 packed snow, and we know those today as ig loose. Yes, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:43.240 and do you know what the Inuit called the igloo igloos? Question? 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.000 That's a good that's a great. That was a good 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.760 question though, because, yeah, it's an Innuit word for what, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.840 believe it means snow house. So the Inuits are just 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:56.240 among the most pragmatic speakers on the planet. You're very 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.520 cut and dry. Yeah, they call their snow houses igloos, right, 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.440 that just makes other sense. Yeah, we're talking about the 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.840 Canadian tundra, Josh, and they uh, you know, tps and 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.240 castles and other things that were being built were all 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.640 well and good if you're in in Europe, or if 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.720 you are in a warmer climate, let's say, like the 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.800 Florida Painhandle, you don't have to take throught of ice 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.560 to quarry stone exactly. But if you're in the Canadian tundra, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:24.400 those aren't really good options. So, uh, snow, hard packed 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:29.160 snow became the masonry, if you will, for the Inuits. Right, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.680 let's go ahead and get to this Eskimo thing. Yeah, yeah, um, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.440 Eskimo and Inuit are one and the same. There are 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.960 two different terms for the same group of people. These 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:45.120 people who Um inhabit areas spanning from Siberia to Alaska, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:50.360 Canada Greenland UM thirty five hundred mile range, right, yeah, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.920 which makes them the most widely spread Aboriginal group on 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.120 the planet. Yeah. An Aboriginal, for those of you don't know, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.920 doesn't just refer to the Aborigines in Australia. It's any um, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.919 any any any indigenous indigenous, the first people in that region. Yes, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.839 or it would be Aboriginal, yes, okay, that was the 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.120 ones you get pushed around by the Europeans Aboriginal um 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.039 And if you want to insult in Inuit, you just 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.840 go ahead and call them an Eskimo. Yeah. Apparently it's 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.080 a derogatory term because it was a term that the 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.920 white man gave. I think it was another tribe, was it, Yeah, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.400 but it was an outside group. I was just figure 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.080 it's the white man. Yeah, So it was another group 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.800 named them Eskimos, which um it was thought to mean 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.960 eaters of raw meat or raw blubbers what I've heard 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.520 as well, blubber. But then they later thought that eskimoment 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:46.159 to netch snowshoes, to build snowshoes, and linguists can't prove it, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.320 although that's kind of what they think. But in the 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.760 glory that is language, things can go from their original 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.920 meaning to a popular meaning, and it's old meaning is meaningless. Yeah, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:03.080 it's only what people think or use, right, right, which 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.440 is how l o l is a word, that's right. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.400 So we're going to refer to them, refer to them 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.919 as Inuit, because that's the that's the way to do it. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.080 We don't want to alienate anybody, no, especially the Inuit, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.840 because they are tough people and they have survived for many, many, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:24.400 many years in conditions that don't seem to be survivable, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.280 especially way back in the day. But they made it through, right, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.080 and they're thriving actually too. We'll get to that in 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.080 a second. Yeah, I was surprised to see that. But 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.720 um chuck. A couple of other facts about these, uh, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.880 the Inuit, which means the people, right, So they call 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.640 their snowhouses, they glues, they call themselves the people. It's 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.799 just it's very spare. I could have been a good Innuit, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:51.720 I think. I think so too. Keep things simple, fall down, goat, Yeah, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.080 so they don't. They they have never really established a 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.599 formal system of government. It's the family is generally the 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.520 the center of the community. Yeah. Um, the class system. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.560 Males are the figure heads. Yeah. No, class system is 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.640 pretty cool. Um. And basically, if you're a boy, you're 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.480 a hunter. If you're a girl, you marry a hunter 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.560 and hopefully produce more boy hunters because the everyone's equally 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.920 responsible for coming up with food and I imagine every family, 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.880 um is that's what that means. Every family is equally 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.880 responsible for contributing to the food in the community. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.320 So the more boy hunters, the better. So um, fascinating group. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.400 And they have never lived in it loses permanent shelters, huh. Well. Yeah, 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.240 And it's important that you mentioned hunting because clearly, if 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.760 you are living on the Arctic tundra, there's one thing 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.440 that you're probably not going to have, and that is 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.160 a vegetable garden. So they are very carnivorous as a 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.960 as a people. They do a lot of hunting. They 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.440 did a lot of hunting of seals, which is probably 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.280 they were called blubberry marketing blood reads and we're there 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.960 are seals, is gonna be a lot of ice sea ice? Yeah, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:10.160 which leads to another peculiar trait of the Inuit. Peculiar 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:15.320 meaning unique specific um kayak angst. Remember we talked about 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.960 that on the webcast like a long time ago, remember that, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.200 and everything was cut off in the middle of it, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.040 and like it was Guy Kawasaki day. And I wrote 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.680 a blog post on it saying like as I was 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.920 saying before I was cut off, and kayak angst is this, um, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.160 it's a it's a condition specific only to the Inuit, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:39.679 where an Inuit males too, where you become afraid of 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:44.120 going out to hunt seals in a kayak, usually following 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.760 an episode where you've been up for several days. The 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.360 sun very rarely sets because at summertime, which is the 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.240 only time you're when when you can hunt seal really um, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.280 So you have a loss of sense of time. You're 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.120 completely without any lamb mark, a reference point. It's all 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.480 just horizon and sea ice. So you're without no bearings, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.680 no sense of time, and you doze off and wake up, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.440 and you have no idea how long you've been asleep, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.040 how far you've drifted, and you may be out there 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.840 drifting for the rest of your life. And you finally 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.800 do find land again, you make your way back to 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:23.480 your community and you become terrified at the thought of 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.200 getting back in a kayak again. Kayak angst Yeah, specific 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:28.720 only to the Innuit. I don't remember that at all. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.079 That's so weird. Well you should read my blog posts. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.160 I usually have an inkling, but that that one doesn't 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:38.199 ring true for me. So the Inuit did not live 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.680 in iglas, Josh as you said, that is not true. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.679 People might think that um Inuit tribes just had igloos 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.839 all over the place and that was their house. They 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.440 were really hunting shelters. Yeah, it's like a hunting camp 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:54.840 like um Robin Williams uh, fishing camping, insomnia, Yeah, except 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.320 nutty because of no sleep and too much sun. Yeah. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.280 Well al Pacino was yeah right, that was Christopher Nolan, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:07.560 you know. Yeah, he's just amazing. Although you had inception problems, right, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.760 it was really just Ellen Page. Get her out of 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.640 the movie. You're okay. It wasn't even her necessarily, although 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.880 I'm not a big fan of hers. Um. I think 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.360 she's a she's a good actress and everything, but you know, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.880 I'll never forgere it for Juno. But um, it was 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.760 more her character, Like clearly her character was put in 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.120 afterward because the producers were like, or the studio execs 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.640 were like, wait, what is going on? So they wrote 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.480 in Ellen Page's character to explain everything to everybody at 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.920 each step so that you can keep up with this 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:43.959 really dense movie. You love getting me wound up about 0:10:43.960 --> 0:11:11.640 that inception around John All right, where were we the Innuits? 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.800 They were hunting camps, like we said, and uh, they're 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.160 still around today and they're booming. Um not igloos. Actually 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.840 they're they're not quite as common, but they did a 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.200 study who is just the human rights program in Canada 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.640 in Canada Department of Canadian Heritage said that there could 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.240 be as many as sixty eight thousand, four hundred Inuit 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:40.080 in Canada only in Change. So um, yeah, they're they're 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.160 booming as a people. Pretty cool. So they're thriving. Igloos 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.439 are were never um, permanent shelters or structures for them, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.960 And um they had kayak angst One other thing too, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.840 eskimo kisses. Yeah, what's the deal there? So you know 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.040 it's like rubbing the tip of your nose. Yeah, it's cute, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.000 it is. It's not entirely accurate though, I'm sure, but 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.480 they did kiss with their noses. Yeah, but it was um, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.400 you would put your no, your nostrils to the face, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.520 usually around like the cheeks, right below the eyes. Um. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.240 The you would put your nose to a loved one's 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.960 face like that and inhale deeply, and that was that's 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.760 the real Escobote kiss. Who are Inuit kiss? Interesting, isn't it? Yeah? 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.280 They had it wrong, though, you know how it right? 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.760 The French. Yeah, they figured it out and everyone was like, oh, yeah, 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.080 this is the way to kiss. Forget that no stuff, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.040 all right, So let's talk about igloos for a second. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.840 They were built out of blocks of ice. They are 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.720 not built out of the kind of snow that you 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:45.440 probably have in your front yard in Ohio in the wintertime. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:50.680 It depends on how what it was. Although my cousin 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.440 in law, Alex Schreiber, Ohio State University student, built an 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:04.319 igloo last winter. He and his buddies. Check this thing out, dude, nice, wow, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.880 I should post this. I'm gonna get to post this. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.000 But it's like seven ft tall at least. It's huge, 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.040 and it's it's like really well constructed. He's sitting on 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.080 top of it and it's not caving in. If I 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.160 built an igloo that you know, it wouldn't last very long. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.760 Pretty cool though. That is a backyard in Ohio too. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:24.840 Yeah it's gray day, leafless trees everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, he 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.720 and his buddies you know, clearly had enough boredhom in 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.560 time to build this cool. So Alex Driver huh yeah, awesome. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.360 Is he listening right now? I hope? So yeah he listens, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.280 And I told I get my heads up. Yeah, well 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.320 you have to post that he's gonna right back and say, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:43.679 don't mention the iglu don't they always huh yeah, so chuck. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.960 Even though like, um say, a hunting expedition went out 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.679 or even a single hunter went out and built an iglu, 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.440 um that that it wasn't just the single igloo every 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.320 single time. Sometimes they lived in him for longer periods. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.319 Sometimes more people lived in a group, and they would 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.000 actually um create compounds out of igloos by you know, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.920 melding them together, creating walkways, breeze waste. Pretty cool. And 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.839 there were some that um basically igloo cities that came 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.760 about where you I think they would have like halls 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.040 for banquets and beasts and like balls and stuff like 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:26.240 like Inuit balls held in. Um. Uh, well, an igloo, 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.320 a big, large igloo. Pretty cool. Though I didn't know this. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.400 I had no idea. I always pictured just the single 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.680 and I also thought they lived in them. So this 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.880 was this one. I was because we're like the totem poles, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.440 we should probably also while we're just like busting things 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:43.320 left and right. Um Chili Willie, helpful little penguin from 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.360 the He was so cute. I went and watched when 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.200 to refresh my memory. He was very cute. He wasn't 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.000 I I thought he would be mischievous or I remembered 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.880 him being mischievous like Woody Woodpecker, who was a jerk. Um. No, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.560 Chili Willie was a very helpful, cute, sweet little baby penguin. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.760 Um and his little igloo, the typical igloo that you 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.520 think of a dome with like a rounded entryway, pretty 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.560 much dead on. Yeah, but it looks like your your cousin, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.120 They don't, uh cousin, cousin in law. It looks like 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.360 he he knows, he knows what he's doing. Alex, not Matthew, No, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.080 I said, nephew, Oh sorry, Uh yeah, there's no penguins 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.600 in Alaska either, So that's the other problem as well. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.680 Chili will he was not accurate but cute. Nonetheless, No, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.320 but the igloo he built was accurate. That's right. And Josh, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.440 since we're talking igloes. Um, here's here's what a a 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.440 naive person might say. Why in the world, if you're 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.640 freezing cold out in Alaska, would you build a room 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.240 out of ice and snow to sit in? How warm 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.080 could that be? It would take somebody pretty naive to 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.200 say something like that, though, you know how warm it 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.600 could be up to forty degrees warmer than it is 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.600 outside of the iglue buddy, Yes, And why chuck, where 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.960 these furnaces coming from? Well, your body, for one human body, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.440 is a pretty good furnace, yep. And um, when you 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.400 cut down the wind chill, you're gonna take a big 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.200 bite out of the cold. And you put a couple 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.960 of warm Inuit bodies in there, and imagine these are 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.360 big tough dudes. Anyway, they're probably just like exuding warmth 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.920 that'll it'll you know, radiate out and insulate. The igloo 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.120 will insulate that heat in it trips the heat. Yeah. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.160 So I mean, if you're talking negative forty degrees, that's 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.320 really cold. But if you could bring that up to zero. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.720 That's still cold, but it ain't like negative forty, which 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.960 is the same in Celsius san fahrenheigh. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:40.360 good point. So, Uh, the snow is an insulator, right, Yeah, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.560 it cuts down on the on the wind um of 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.480 the melting. That's the other thing too. Yeah. When when 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.720 you build an igloo, and don't worry, we're about to 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.640 give you step by step instructions on how to build 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.760 an igloo, we should get alex on the orange. Um. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.440 At the very least you can verify it, right, that's right. Um, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.600 when you build an igloo, you uh, the sun when 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.520 it does come out or if it's out the whole time, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.600 especially during the day. Uh, it'll heat up enough possibly 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.600 to melt some refreeze at night, which is what you want, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:16.120 melt refreeze and um you you your body heat also 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.560 may melt it from the inside out something. And then 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.000 when you go out to hunt, it'll refreeze every time 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.240 more likely, it's probably the more likely scenario. So this 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.600 um thawing and freezing and thawing and freezing basically turns 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:33.720 the igloo into this really um strong and insulated structure 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.119 and about a boom, bought a being. You got yourself 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.440 an insulated place to fish, or at least to bunk 0:17:41.520 --> 0:18:02.040 down while you're fishing. Yeah, so, Josh, are we at 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.080 the point where we tell people how to build eglue? 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.320 I don't think we can delay it any longer. Oh 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:11.480 we can. Okay. You mentioned that igloo igloos are kind 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.280 of out of fashion with the Inuit these days. Yeah, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:18.080 not as common, but they are becoming increasingly common at 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.040 a ski resorts apparently. Yeah, if you're such a ski 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.320 junkie and that you want to just basically wake up, 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.880 roll out of bed, put on your skis and start 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.800 skiing immediately, they have igloos, usually on the slopes. Um 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.520 that you can rent igloo villages, that you can run 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.840 an igloo overnight or for as long as you stay there. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.400 Pretty sweet, huh. Or if you're, you know, feeling squirrely, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.000 you can build one yourself. True down, is that a segue? 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.920 It is if you're if you've done it before, like 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.439 your cousin in law, it could take as little as 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.040 an hour. If you don't know what you're doing, it 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.359 could take six or more. Yeah, I want to ask Alex, actually, 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.560 how long it took because the first pick yours are 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.000 or at night, so it clearly took them longer than 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.840 a few hours. Like when I saw that someone could 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.159 build one an hour, I don't know about that. I 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.280 don't believe that. Well, I'm pretty sure if you were 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.239 raised as an intuit, and you were I don't know, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.800 in your twenties, I'll bet you could build an iglue 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.439 in an hour. Yea. Yeah, And it looks like Alex 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.280 and his buddies used a tub, like a shallow plastic 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.800 tub to pack the snow down, and that's smart inform 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.120 the blocks. Yeah, so the way we're going to teach 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.800 you how to do it requires a snow shovel, which 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.159 looks an awful lot like a dry wall or not 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.000 a snow shovel. It does require a snow shovel, but 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.240 a snow saw, which looks an awful lot like a 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.439 dry wall saw. Indeed. Um, and basically you want to 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.760 go find some ice like you were saying you normally 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:49.800 wouldn't find ice or snow. Um that's just fallen. It's 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.280 gonna work for an iglu. Yeah, you want to find 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:58.560 um wettish, hard packed like that's more solid. The better, snow, Right, 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.960 And what do you want to do with it, snow Chuck, Well, 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:02.280 you want to use your little saw. You want to 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.359 cut large blocks. Um, I guess you can vary the size, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.879 but they recommend in the Complete Wilderness Training guy, they 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.440 recommend three ft long, fifteen inches high, eight inches deep. 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.720 So once you get your blocks, you want to start building. 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.239 Uh you know, put your foundation in a circle and 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.560 start building up that foundation, working your way up as 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.560 you go, decreasing in size as you go. And you 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.520 also have to shape it at a at a slant obviously, 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:34.520 or you're just gonna have a ice block tower and 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:39.080 not a domed roof. Correct. Yeah, yeah you um, you 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:40.480 want to shape it at a slant, like you said, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:42.879 but you also want to make the blocks decrease in 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.240 sizes you get bigger decrease and and overlap. See you 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.520 you did some some brickwork, and that's sort of the 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.880 same principle there. I never built anything that was tall 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.800 enough that I had to really build it back to 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.240 stagger it. And when I did, it was like the 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:02.400 pre made castle rock wall that's designed to set back right, 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.760 so it didn't require any thought. But yes, if you 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.399 if you kind of have something that's technically at a 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:13.120 slight incline. It will provide structure if you can get 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:17.119 it to connect as a dome like Buckminster Fuller's geodesic 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:21.280 dome exactly, very super strong structure. So as you're building 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.200 this and then you start to make the dome part, 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.760 it should support itself if you've done it right, but 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.240 you can always use sticks on the inside to support 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.479 it temporarily until you get the dome complete and then 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.879 it's all pressing against each other. Uh. And then how 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:36.960 do you finish it off with with the top? Well, 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.600 you want to take a chunk of ice. You're what 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.879 you're gonna have is this perfect dome, some variation of 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.119 a perfect dome. Um. And there's gonna be a central 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.639 hole in the top, right, Yeah, like a little chimney, yes, um, 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.080 but you actually want to plug this one. That's right. 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.399 This is one chimney you want to plug. And you 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.879 take you cut another block that's going to be bigger 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.639 than the hole, and you want to shape it so 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:05.280 that it basically fits this this hole that's left over, UM, 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:10.920 which should be something like an octagon maybe roughly L shape. UM, 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.359 And you want to fit it in there perfectly. You 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.400 want to cut it, shape it, put it in there 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.280 so it's in there perfectly, packed in there. Because this 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:23.399 is your load bearing keystone. Basically, as long as that 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.240 thing's intact, everything else should be fine. You'll lose that, 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.480 you're in a lot of trouble. Um. And then after 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:33.520 that you're ready to start insulating it, filling in the cracks. 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:37.480 You want to shovel snow on top of everything, and 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:39.560 the loose snow that is what you want. Now you 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.440 want to work with it, and you're going to use 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.160 some insulated gloves on your hands or else you're going 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.920 to lose your hands to gangreen in a few days. Um. 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.240 And you fill in the cracks with the snow, you 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:54.080 just kind of smooth it over with your hands so 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:55.879 that the snow packs into the cracks, and all of 0:22:55.920 --> 0:23:00.800 a sudden, this um separate block pattern is lost and 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:04.080 you have a basically a smooth dome. Yes, is what 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.560 you're going for, right. Yeah, And at the end, it's 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:08.520 it's a lot harder to try and build a door 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.400 into your thing. It's easier just to build a dome 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.200 and then cut your door out after it's finished. There's 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:15.800 a good point and um, a lot of people, Um, 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:19.320 a true aficionado of the igloo would build a little 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:22.639 L shaped entryway tunnel because that'll cut down on the 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:24.800 wind coming in even more. Yeah, because the wind has 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:28.119 to turn a corner, that's right. Um. So you cut 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.040 that hole in whatever shape you want, whether a key 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.760