1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the all new Toyota Corolla. Welcome 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 3 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is stuff you should 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: Know too. Hot addition, this is an addition to our 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: long standing circus arts suite. What else have we done then? 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: Human cannonball? Sure, we've done lion taming. Yeah, lion taming, Goodwin, 8 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: or animal tamming in general? Maybe I think it was 9 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: called um that there seems to be like a couple more. Yeah, 10 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: maybe to we do the you know that sphere that 11 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: the motorcycle guys right in the what did they call 12 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: that thing? The probably the cage of death because it's 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: the most dangerous thing ever. It's a pretty dangerous. Yeah, 14 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: Gosling did it though in that movie? Did he actually 15 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: do it? Okay? Of course not what movie was that? Um? 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: Pines one? Yeah, place beyond the pines, among the pines, 17 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: beside the pines around the pines has something to do 18 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: with the pines, had a pine smell to it. Yeah, 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: that was a great opening shot, though, I have to say, Oh, 20 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: is that I haven't seen that movie. It's this long, 21 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: continuous shot that eventually takes him from like his trailer 22 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: into that sphere of death. Well, now the whole movie 23 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: spoil You might as well tell everybody what the what 24 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: the final final part of the plot is. They called 25 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: the Daniu Mall resolution. Yeah, the last act called Daniu 26 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: Mall Frenchie. All right. Circus Arts continued with fire breathing. 27 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: I just did it? Did you see that, Chuck or 28 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: what are some of the other names, because breathing is 29 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: technically kind of a weird thing to call it. The 30 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: fire blowing is the one fire aspirating, And apparently I 31 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: read something on how some somepoi dot com, which is 32 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: basically a fire arts website. Um, they were saying, like, 33 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: there's two there's a medical term for aspirating, which is 34 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: to introduce air into the lungs, and they wanted to 35 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: go out of their way to point out that that's 36 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: not what they were talking about when they call it asperating. 37 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: They were using the other definition, which is, uh, exhaling, 38 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: a missed vaporous missed. So aspiating is probably the best 39 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: term technically for it, but everybody calls it fire breathing. Yeah, 40 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: because a circus, uh what do they call the people 41 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: that yell a barker, isn't gonna say step right up 42 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: and see the fire aspirator. Yeah, they may have. Some 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: of those old timing circus barkers were like they were 44 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: into big words fire aspiration. You'd have to say it 45 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: like that, exactly, like Walter Winstel exactly. For some reason. 46 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: Uh chuck, Yes, have you ever seen somebody breath fire? 47 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: Sure you have in real life? Yeah, okay, yeah, like 48 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: the smaller circuses lollapalooza. Well, well I did see the 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: gym Row show. Do they have a fire breath? Then? 50 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: I don't remember. Just remember the guy that hung from 51 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: needles through his and I remember dudes eating glass and stuff. 52 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: But there had to be a fire breather in there. Well, 53 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,399 Speaker 1: apparently that was around the time of the fire breathing Revival. 54 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: There was a They think that it's possible people were 55 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: fire breathing back in ancient Persia. Apparently that's where naphtha 56 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: was um discovered, which we'll talk about um and the 57 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,959 Speaker 1: fire breathing as we know it probably came about around 58 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century, around the time when circuses started, as 59 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: we understand them, medieval traveling players gave way to traveling circuses, 60 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: which gave way to right uh, and then it just 61 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: kind of died off for a little while until a 62 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: little known guy named Gene Simmons started doing it at 63 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: shows for the band called k I S S. Yes, 64 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: what is it stand for? Nights in Satan's Service? That's 65 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: not a rumor? Is a rumor? Yeah? That's not true? 66 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: At are you getting me there? Like they just want 67 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: to party to Jewish guys from New York that or makeup. 68 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, Jean Simmons used to do it on stage 69 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: at Kiss shows. I didn't know that, did you that 70 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: he did that? And say, oh yeah, that was a 71 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: big trick. So you've been in a Kiss tribute band before? 72 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: Did we dressed up as Kiss for a Halloween concert? 73 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: That we did the same thing. We did not play 74 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: a single Kiss song though, Oh gotcha, because they're kind 75 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: of crappy. Well, did Dan go in brief fire? I 76 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: should have. I should have had the blood capsules too, 77 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: you know. So Gene Simmons taught a guy who was 78 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: in a tribute band called Black Diamond Um how to 79 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: breathe fire, so he could do a better tribute act. 80 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: And that guy eventually started this whole well, he kind 81 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: of introduced fire breathing to the whole urban tribalism raver 82 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: goth culture, and then there you have it. Now, now 83 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: we have fire breathing. Jeans Emmons is responsible for the 84 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: resurgence in the nineteen seventies and fire breathing pretty much 85 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: all right. So, um, if Gene Simmons can do what 86 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: you say, anybody can do it, and you're pretty much right. 87 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: But the thing is that it takes a certain kind 88 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: of person to breathe fire. And with that, I feel 89 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: like we should see away here, like this is fire breathing. 90 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: So there's actually stuff called fire arts. It is a 91 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: subsection of the circus arts, and it's basically anything dangerous 92 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: to do with fire, juggling, breathing, eating, eating, anything you 93 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: can do with fire is pretty dangerous. Fire breathing is 94 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: far and away the most dangerous of the fire arts. 95 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: It is extraordinarily dangerous. It is you could say, extremely 96 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: dumb to do. And I used to think that when 97 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: I saw it, I was like I could do that. 98 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: You know, you just put it in your mouth and 99 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: you just blow the fine mist just spit it out. 100 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: But that's you will end up burned and disfigured if 101 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: you just try that on a whim, which we'll get into. UM. 102 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: I was reading an article by Pendult about fire eating, 103 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: and the whole time he was talking about you know 104 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: how dumb it was, and don't do it, but then 105 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: he's giving a step by step which is what we're 106 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: gonna do kind of um. But he was saying that 107 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: fire eating and fire breathing, any of the fire arts 108 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: are one of those rare things where even if you 109 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: do it right, you're still going to get hurt, if 110 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: you're not gonna come away unscathed. And in addition to 111 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: the immediate problems you're gonna have, you can have long 112 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: term problems, which we'll get into as well. But we 113 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: should say that just from the outset, people who are 114 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: fire breathers typically won't teach you how to do it 115 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: if you ask them to, and they will also tell 116 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: you don't listen to podcasts, don't read magazines, don't read books, 117 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: don't go to websites, like, all of those things have problems, 118 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: and you if you really do want to learn how 119 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: to breathe fire, then go find somebody who does this 120 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: and has done it for years and knows what they're doing, 121 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: and ask if they will teach you how to do it. 122 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: That's the only way you can possibly even remotely safely 123 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: learn how to breathe fire. That's right. And for this article, um, 124 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: who wrote this? Uh, this is a Tracy Wilson jam 125 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: Well you know it's thorough, but um, she interviewed a 126 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: couple of professional fire breathers, Mike Garner and a lady 127 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: with the stage name of Pelee, And so we're gonna 128 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: be quoting from them and a lot of this is 129 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: their expertise on the page. So we just want to 130 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: shout out to them. Yeah. I don't know if they're 131 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: still doing this, but um a bit they are, Like 132 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: who hangs up their boots their spurs If you're a 133 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: fire breather, I think when your mouth falls out. Well 134 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: they've both been hurt. Yeah, all right, so let's get 135 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: into it, all right. So, um, with fire breathing, Uh, 136 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: you've got basically two things that you need. You need 137 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: a fuel source and a flame source and a mouth. Yeah, 138 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. Yeah, you don't even take thickly 139 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: need a hand you could use some sort of robotic 140 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: arm to hold your flame source. So really you just 141 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,679 Speaker 1: need a mouth, a fuel source, and a flame. Um. 142 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: And like you said, it's just you thought you could 143 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: just do that. You put a little fuel in your 144 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: mouth and you spit it at the flame and you're fine. 145 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: I was just gonna do a tiny bit too. Well, 146 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: apparently that's all you want. You want about a shots worth. UM, 147 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: so I already would have done too much, probably thinking 148 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: it was little and I have a huge beard, which yeah, 149 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: that's another big one to Some people say that you 150 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: should do this, um unclothed from the waist up, just 151 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: to prevent your shirt from catching on fire or whatever. Um. 152 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: But the the the key to fire breathing, apparently is 153 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: the mist you produce. You don't want to the fuel 154 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 1: to be You want to kind of atomize the fuel 155 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: in your mouth with the spit. You want to create 156 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: this mist because if it's not misty enough, the fuel 157 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: will be too heavy or catch fire and land on 158 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: the ground and just burn the grounds. Right And if um, 159 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: this is something that eventually you want to try and 160 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: do professionally, and you get hooked up with a professional 161 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: and they're gonna give you lessons. They're not gonna hand 162 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: you a cup of Colman fuel and say let's give 163 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: this a try. They're gonna hand you a cup of 164 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: water and then say we're gonna be getting this missed 165 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: correct and the angle correct for the next two years 166 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: until you ever touch fuel to mouth. And uh, speaking 167 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: of angle, that angle needs to be between sixty and 168 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: eighty degrees because if it's too low might get on 169 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: your body. It's too high, it might fall back onto 170 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: your face. And that's that's really important angle. That's the 171 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: angle of the miss coming out of your mouth in 172 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: relation to the ground. Yeah, okay, is that confusing? Okay, 173 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: They're like, what are you supposed to lay on a 174 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: board at a certain angle? Uh? So the first thing 175 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: you want to do, or the first thing the professionals do, 176 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: is examine their surroundings. They gotta check the wind, of course, 177 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: even if they're indoors um and Gardner says, uh. Actually, 178 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 1: Pale says, to actually watch the flame on the torch 179 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: is the best way to tell what the wind is doing. Yeah, 180 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: but it can all change in a moment. Oh yeah, 181 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: it definitely can. Win. Wind changes correct a direction and 182 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: you're in trouble. Yeah. Um, you also want to This 183 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: is not something you want to show up to. You 184 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: just put the fuel in your mouth and blow into 185 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: a flame. You want to do a little recon work first. Um, 186 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: you want to make sure there's no power lines around 187 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 1: where you're gonna be blowing fire. Um that you want 188 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: to make sure that you know where the people are 189 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: going to be and where they're not going to be. 190 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: You want to know which direction you're standing, the wind direction, 191 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: wind speed, all of that kind of stuff. Trees, Yeah, no, 192 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: low hanging fruit nearby, that's right. Uh. And then once 193 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: you've kind of got your your miss down, your angle 194 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: of your head, and the knowledge that you don't want 195 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: to blow fire toward power lines. H, it's time to 196 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,679 Speaker 1: investigate what kind of fuel to use. That's right. There 197 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: are all kinds of fuels. Um. One thing that you 198 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: want to always avoid is gasoline or just straight up alcohol. 199 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: It's not safe. Yeah. Methyl alcohols are extremely toxic, and 200 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: Pale points out ethyl alcohols can induce drunkenness. You do 201 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: not want anything approaching drunkenness while you're You want to 202 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 1: be a sober as a judge, A sober judge while 203 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 1: you're while you're fire breathing. Yeah, And both those alcohols 204 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: are very low um flash points to which makes them 205 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: more dangerous. And here's why. So there's something called blowback. Um. 206 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: If something has a low flash point, that means it 207 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: ignites at a low temperature. Right, So if you're spitting 208 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: fuel at a fire source of flame source, that fuel 209 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: that's close to your mouth, if it has a low 210 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: flash point, could conceivably catch fire. So the trail of 211 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: fire can follow the path back to your mouth and 212 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: then catch your mouth on fire while you have a 213 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: mouthful of fuel. Yeah, like, uh, you know the trick 214 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: that you also should never do, which is what the 215 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: aerosol can and making that into a flame torch. I've 216 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: seen it crawl back up towards the nozzle when someone 217 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: else was doing it, and that's really dangerous. That's the 218 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: same thing, same exact thing, right, But imagine you don't 219 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: have a cap that closes a valve with your mouth 220 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: and you have fuel all around your mouth from the 221 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: little spittle miss that you've been making with it. It's 222 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: a bad scene when blowback happens. And so to avoid that, 223 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: you you I should say, fire breathers use um fuels. 224 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: With high flash points. Yeah, so you want to look 225 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: at your flash point. You want to look at the toxicity, 226 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: even though most of these are going to be fairly 227 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: toxic because you're putting this in your mouth. You know, Well, 228 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: there actually is one that's non toxic that works. Corn 229 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: starch y. Yeah. Apparently corn starch processing plants used to 230 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: blow up in the nineteenth century a lot um. Do 231 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: you remember that sugar plant blew up in Savannah? Well, 232 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: a sugar plant blew up in Savannah, and it blew 233 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: up because of sugar dust. Anything that's that small can explode, 234 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: can not. So corn starch can as well. So it's 235 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: non toxic. But the problem is if you get it 236 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: into your lungs, then it can cause problems. But they 237 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: actually use that professional fire. But I saw it on 238 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 1: house some poy Yeah, ok, and hey they know what 239 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: they're talking about. Love You said that like it was 240 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: the National Archives or something, I mean, and pretty it 241 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: pretty much is. It's the National Archives of fire breathing. 242 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: Uh So the taste in the smell, you know, because 243 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: like we said, you're gonna put this in your mouth 244 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: and there's also going to be people around, and you 245 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: don't want to you know, offend people with some malodorous, 246 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 1: toxic fumes. You don't want all kinds of awful smoke, uh, 247 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: and you want it to make a nice plain that 248 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: has nice color and it's very visible. All this goes 249 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: into choosing your fuel, that's right. Um. The fuel, The 250 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: most prevalent fuel that I came across and researching is kerostene, 251 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: which is also known as paraffin um and it's toxic, 252 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: but as far as the fire breathing fuels go, it's 253 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: one of the least toxic ones. Paraffin's actually used medicinally 254 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: is a LA positive, which means that you can suffer 255 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: anal seepage as a fire breather if you use paraffin 256 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: as that's one of the side effects of paraffin laxative use. 257 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: But that's not all right, never mind. Um. They both 258 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: have kerosene in lamp oils another one. They both have 259 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: high flash points, so they're a little bit safer, um, 260 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: and they burn a low temperature but they're bright. Yeah, 261 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: but they are smoky, and they do have a pretty 262 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: nasty smell, and neither one of them is really safe 263 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: to ingest um. And they do have toxins in the additive. 264 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: So like you know, nothing's like perfect. No, I like 265 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: choosing the lesser of the evils. I think there was 266 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: a um A lamp oil that was colorless and odorless, 267 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: but it turned out to be extremely carcinogenic. Carcinogenic because 268 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: whoever was making this stuff used additives to make it 269 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: colorless and odorless, and those things were very deadly. Isn't 270 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: that weird? Yeah, that's weird. I mentioned Coleman fuel earlier. 271 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: That's what I use. Like camping, a lot of camp 272 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: stoves and stuff use common fuel. That's what pend you 273 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: let uses for fire reading a k A white gas 274 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: or lighter fluid or naptha and that has a low 275 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: flash point. UM. So it's more volatile and its toxical 276 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: course um and a lot of people say it is 277 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: more dangerous inside with the kerosene over the common fuel. 278 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: And that's a common brand name fuel by the way, right, 279 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: But it's so it's almost like tile and all fuel 280 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: or cleanex fuel. UM. So that we talked about avoiding 281 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: alcohols in general. You got your fuel, you got your 282 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: mouth at the right angle, and you get the miss 283 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: going on. Now you need a flame source. Just look 284 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: like a match, right, No, you'll catch your whole hand 285 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: on fire. You want something that you can you can 286 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: keep away from your hand. Uh So a torch. Usually 287 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: there's actually torches that I think are made for this 288 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You can make your own, but you 289 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: want to be uh I should say. Fire breathers can 290 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: make their own, but they want to be careful with 291 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: the the materials they use. Like for example, let's say 292 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: you had a lot of cotton and that was your 293 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: that you were gonna dip in naptha. Right, makes sense, 294 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: but the water of cotton is not going to stay there. 295 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: You need to wrap it around with something. Well, you 296 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: have to be careful what you wrap it around with. 297 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: If you wrapped around with rope, it can break and 298 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: fall into your mouth. If you're doing a fire eating trick. Um, 299 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: same thing with like nylon rope. That stuff will melt 300 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: and drip into your mouth and just burn until it 301 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: feels like going out. Um. So, you want to be 302 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: careful what you use. And from what I understand, you 303 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: want to kind of pony up for the torch, the 304 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: pre made torch that's designed by a professional not to 305 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: burn your face off if you're gonna if you're gonna 306 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: be a professional fire eater. You're not gonna cheap out 307 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: on the torch, right, and I mean really, that's gonna 308 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: be your most significant investment unless you have to pay 309 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: somebody to teach you. Because how much is lamp oil? 310 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: How much is your mouth? Your mouth is free, you know. Yeah, yeah, 311 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: this is pretty low buying. I guess it is, but 312 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: a high cost let you do it wrong. Well, let's 313 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: talk about the hy uh well dangers in safety. There's 314 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 1: one thing called fire eater pneumonia um, and that is 315 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:20,120 Speaker 1: a condition that they're prone to called hydrocarbon uh pneumonitis. 316 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 1: Basically that's from inhaling fuel and they've nicknamed it fire 317 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: eater pneumonia because it must just be a common thing 318 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: in that trade. Yeah. Um, it can lead to coma. 319 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: One of the signs of it is stupor um collapsed 320 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: long You can also get a fluid build up in 321 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 1: the lining of the lungs. It's not it's not good, 322 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: no good. Um. That's not the only problem. We also 323 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: talked about blowback, because if you think about it like 324 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: you can, you can influence the direction of the flame, 325 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: but you're incapable of controlling it, especially outdoors. So first 326 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: of all, even without blowback, the wind can direct the 327 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: flame in a different direction that you wanted to and 328 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: all the sudden you or somebody you care about is 329 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: on fire, or maybe someone you don't even like that much. 330 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: But you don't want to be in the book for 331 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: setting exactly, you can still be liable trees on fire. 332 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,479 Speaker 1: There's there's things that catch fire when you're fire breathing, 333 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: if if even under the most perfect of circumstances. Uh, 334 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: some of the lesser effects over time um skin irritation, 335 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: ulcers in the stomach, gum disease in dry mouth, poisoning, 336 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: and um general respiratory distress. Like if you're a pro 337 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: fire breathering, you know it's it's not a normal thing, 338 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: right to put this toxic fuel in your mouth and 339 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: blow it back out, So over time it's gonna catch 340 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: up to you. Yeah, and don't forget anal seepage. Who 341 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 1: can that's another for using paraffin. But they do take 342 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: a lot of safety precautions. Pale points out that they 343 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: work with partners who are very adept at putting out fires. Um, 344 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: they train them in how to put out, the tools, 345 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: how to put out the person, how to put out 346 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: the area around it if anything bad happens. And it's 347 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: basically just an assistant there in case anything goes wrong 348 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: with all of the accoutrement. Like fire A wet blanket, Yeah, 349 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: like literally a wet blanket. I guess that's where the 350 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: term came from. Fire breathing. Don't be a wet blanket. Uh. 351 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: In this case, we want someone to be a wet 352 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 1: blanket right at the right time. Um. And the person 353 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: is not only good at extinguishing a tree or a 354 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 1: loved one, Um, they're good at extinguishing the fire breather 355 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 1: himself or herself. Um, and calling nine on one. Yeah, 356 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: it's probably good idea. How the old cell phone handing. 357 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: But you want to have someone you trust and who's 358 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: not going to panic. Yeah. You also want to have 359 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: a first aid kit and make sure you have everything 360 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: you need. Um. You just don't drive up willy nilly. 361 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: If you're a pro, You've got all this stuff squared away, 362 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,479 Speaker 1: You've talked to the local authorities, maybe the fire marshal. 363 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: You've said, here's what we're gonna do, is it okay? 364 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: Here's my fire plan? Um. One was saying like she 365 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: contacts the local fire department or the local fire marshal 366 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: and says, hey, I'm going to do this. Are we cool? Yeah? 367 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 1: And then yeah, here's what happens if if things go 368 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: out of control. That's that's the fire marshal says, ah, yeah, 369 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: that looks good to me. Hey, Jimmy, pass a lasagna 370 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: over here. Right, fire marshals are known for loving lasagna. Yeah, well, 371 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: I think that's all those guys do is eat, right, 372 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: eat lasagna? Well, just good food. Yeah, that's why people 373 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: go into that business, right, I don't know, hang out 374 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: with the dudes and eat good food. That Dalmatian that No, 375 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 1: they're saving lives, buddy. We talked about where Dalmatians became 376 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: associated with firefighting, right at some point we didn't. It 377 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: wasn't stand alone. I wonder what it was. I can't remember. 378 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: Uh So. Another thing you can do to minimize the 379 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: effects of fuel on the body is to, um, you 380 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: want to in between acts, you want to make sure 381 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: all that fuel is cleaned off of your face and hands. 382 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: Don't one forget any of that. I mean, like literally 383 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: what they do is they blow, they put the torch 384 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: down there, um, they wipe their mouth with a wet 385 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: rag and then they spit whatever fuel remains in their 386 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: mouth back into like the the fuel cup and wipe 387 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 1: their mouth and hands again. And then that's one blow 388 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,719 Speaker 1: of the thing. That's one blow, ideally one breath. Uh. 389 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: They also recommend um, or some of the tricks of 390 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: the trade at least is to eat um like bread 391 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: and drink milk and an an acid. Yeah, I'm just 392 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: kind of funny anything about it. Pendela was saying, like 393 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: the burps that you will have after this there are 394 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: indescribable interesting and a little puff of smoke comes out 395 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: or I think it's worse than that. That be the 396 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: car smell and the taste of it are just horrible. Wow. Uh. 397 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: There are associations, real professional associations. The North American Fire 398 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: Artists Association and the National Fire Protection Association have guidelines 399 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: for all this stuff with performance safety. So does Home 400 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: of POI. M let's go ahead and get to the POI. 401 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: So the POI um we didn't even mention it in 402 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,360 Speaker 1: the Maori episode, did we know? So? POI are two 403 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: heavy balls on a string that you've seen like hula 404 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 1: danswers um like swing and thanks to the centripy centripedal force. 405 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: They maintain this distance, although it takes a lot of 406 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: like agility and strengthen your arms to spin these things. Well. 407 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: Somewhere along the way, some Maori said, hey, let's light 408 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 1: these on fire because it will look really cool, and 409 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 1: it does so POI are one of the implements you 410 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: can use for fire arts. Yeah, it's a it's a 411 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: it's not juggling, but it's almost it's sort of like juggling, 412 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: you know, it's fire spinning. You can juggle with fire 413 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: as this one person points out, pretty much any juggling 414 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: prop you can catch, you can let fire. Yeah. And 415 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: we talked about fire eating too, um, which is basically 416 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: taking your torch or whatever. Um, you get your mouth 417 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: really really wet with spittle, apparently so wet that you 418 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: conform ast spit bubble very easily across your mouth when 419 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: you open it, and then you put the torch in there, 420 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: um and extinguish it, close your mouth around it without 421 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: touching it. So that apparently is where all the practice 422 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: comes in for fire eating, is you don't want the 423 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: torch to touch anything inside your mouth, and when you 424 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: close your lips to extinguish it. You don't want them 425 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: to have to touch the torch itself. It's probably hot, 426 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: it's very hot. Um. And then also if you have 427 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: just recently dunked your torch, um, some of the fumes 428 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: will stay in your mouth and catch fire, and you 429 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: can hold fire in your mouth and have somebody light 430 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: a cigarette or cigar or what have you off of it. 431 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: Pretty cool. That's a that's a trick. Um. There are 432 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 1: different ways of breathing fire, uh different, you know, depending 433 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 1: on what kind of um plume you want. You can 434 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: alter your mouth and how you blow the stuff out 435 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: into different types of tricks like the basic pop or 436 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: the volcano or the fire breathing from palm flame. Oh 437 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: but that the old ground lifter or the old challenger 438 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: classic fire breathing moves. And if you go to which 439 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: one website was this probably home they have little video 440 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: demonstrations of each one of these the around the world. 441 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: The one beat weave connected, the shuffle to get the carousel, 442 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 1: and you can just you know, they're all they're a 443 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: little bit different, and I guess you know, if you're 444 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: a fire breather, then you want to master each one 445 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: of those. And there's a record chuck for the pillar, 446 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: the straight up pillar of fire. Um, somebody exhale the 447 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: twenty ft pillar of flame once. And it's all about 448 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: breathing too. I don't know if we mentioned that. It's 449 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: not just forming a mist like you have to do 450 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: breathing ex sizes so you can take a huge deep 451 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: breath first, because you can't breathe with that fuel in 452 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: your mouth. You'll aspirate the vapors. Like. You have to 453 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: be exhaling the entire time. Yeah, just exhale, So you 454 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: have to be able to um take a deep breath 455 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: and then exhale it at a steady rate or um 456 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: control it however you want, and also atomize this fuel 457 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: with your mouth. There's a lot to it. Yeah, it's 458 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: not it. It isn't something that anybody can just do 459 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: and know. It takes a lot of practice. Yeah, we've 460 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 1: got should we go over someone more of these world records? Yeah, 461 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: let's give these folks their due. Most flames blown in 462 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: one minute by preacher uh mua dib in Italy in 463 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: a minute that's like pooh pooh, pooh, pooh pooh pooh. Yeah? 464 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: Was that the was that the rhythm? I don't know 465 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: we'll get five at least most people at once two 466 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: participants in an event in two thousand nine in the Netherlands. 467 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: That seems very dangerous. Yeah, how about this one continuous 468 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: fireflame okay nine point nine six eight seconds by Frederick 469 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: Carlson in Sweden and November two thousand eleven. That's a 470 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: long breath. Heck, yeah, that's a real long breath. And 471 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:18,439 Speaker 1: uh Antonio Restivo in January two twelve in Vegas breathe 472 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: a plume twenty six ft five inches. So I sawt 473 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: beaten out Antonio. Yeah, maybe you're else. Antonio is the 474 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: one that or Antonio has a rival and they continually 475 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: best each other by like six inches each year. It's 476 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: his older sister. One of them dies of mouth cancer probably, 477 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: And that's a nice plumber way to end this. Well, 478 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: I think I want to remind everybody. Yeah, it's dangerous. 479 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: It is very dangerous. Be careful out there. Yeah, and 480 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, burning, We've talked about burning. It's not a 481 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: fun thing to go through. It's like it's not something 482 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: you should be playing around with. That's what we think, 483 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: that's what we hit upon is the worst way to die. 484 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: I remember, Yeah, if you want to hit on a 485 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: constant pain that won't go away, that morphine can't even 486 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: take away, then burn yourself really badly. All right. I'm 487 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: the one with the bummer ending. Huh. Hey if you're 488 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: into that, so you got anything else? Got anything else? 489 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: All right? 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You should know listeners who went and helped 508 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: out students through co ED and if you're interested in 509 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,439 Speaker 1: learning more about it and figure out how you can 510 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: help out. No matter what time of year, what goal 511 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 1: they've reached, they're always very happy to receive a donation 512 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: or help of any kind. Sure you can go to 513 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: co ED. You see c O E d U, see 514 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: dot org and that will lead you to all of 515 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: the places you need to go. Very cool. Alright, so 516 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: listener mail, Yes, I am going to call this American 517 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: werewolf in London. Dudes, guys who just listening to the 518 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: Wearwolf podcasts. And I'm also a huge fan of that 519 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: movie and I thought i'd share my experience of the 520 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: first time I saw it when I was eight years old. 521 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: It was a big family affair as we were the 522 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: only ones who had a VHS player at the time. 523 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,239 Speaker 1: I remember that stuff, so my uncle and aunt came 524 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: to watch it too. My uncle was my hero at 525 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: the time as he was serving in the Navy and 526 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: also the Navy boxing champ. He told me that if 527 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: any werewolves came knocking on the door in the middle 528 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: of the night. Uh that he would be safe as 529 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: long as he stayed behind him. So anyway, we watched 530 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: the movie. I loved every minute of it. I was 531 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: only a little bit scared, not too much. But around 532 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: midnight that night, I went to bed, safe in the 533 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: knowledge to Uncle Allan was in the next room. Just 534 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: then I started to drift off and I heard a 535 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: blood curdling scream from outside my window, followed by shots 536 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: of help and he's going to kill me. I was 537 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: out of bed in a flash, getting ready to bravely 538 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: run away hide behind Uncle Alan, when I see a 539 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: figure running up to the front door through that weird 540 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: eighties bubble glass that was all the rage back then. 541 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: Then this figure starts frantically banging the door, shouting He's 542 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: gonna kill me, He's gonna get me, He's gonna kill me. Naturally, 543 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: I had brown underpants at this moment, as most eight 544 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: year olds would after watching that movie and then hearing 545 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: and seeing this person screaming through distorted shapes. By this time, 546 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: my uncle, along with the rest of us, were up 547 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: and he opened the door to see what all the 548 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: fuss was about. I was expecting to see a bloodyed 549 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: and torn to shreds victim of a werewolf attack. But 550 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: it turns out it was one of our neighbors. I 551 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: found out later I had mental health issues. I was 552 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: having a delusion that he was being chased by monsters. 553 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: It's pretty weird timing. Yeah, that took a really sad twist, 554 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: you know, the night this kid sees this though, it's 555 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: like bad, bad timing. Plus his neighbors like that bad 556 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: off mentally, it is sad. But guys, we calmed him 557 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: down and made him a nice cup of tea because 558 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: in England that solves everything. And mom took him home 559 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: when he was okay enough to think rationally. So they 560 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: took care of the guy. And that is from Al 561 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: who was now in Australia. Wow, that's a heck of 562 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 1: a story. Yeah, it beats my werewolf in Lindon story. 563 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: So I went to bed. Yeah it was pretty uneventful. Uh. 564 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: If you have a story about something that we've talked about, 565 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: I know that's vague and nebulous, but that's good. 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