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Speaker 1: Ho ho, everybody. Santa Chuck here continuing on with our

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Speaker 1: twelve Days of Christmas Toys playlist. I'm gonna stop doing

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Speaker 1: that silly voice because I'm not Santa Claus. I'm just chucking.

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Speaker 1: I am here to introduce it smells good, it tastes good.

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Speaker 1: I just hope it sounds good, the salty goodness of Plato.

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Speaker 1: How Plato Works.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from HowStuffWorks dot com.

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Speaker 3: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's

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Speaker 3: Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and this is the first of

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Speaker 3: two Stuff you Should Knows that were recording today. My

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Speaker 3: voice already sounds weird to me. What do you mean? Hmm?

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Speaker 3: It doesn't sound a little weird, you know how like

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Speaker 3: when we get toward the end of the second one, or.

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Speaker 1: It gets a little like a worn out or something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's been extruded through a Plato fun Pat.

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Speaker 1: What's all that is set up? Or do you really

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Speaker 3: That was off the cuff? Baby?

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Speaker 1: Okay, No, it doesn't sound weird to me. Your voice

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Speaker 1: never sounds weird unless you're sick.

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Speaker 3: Jerry Judge McCall, Yeah, Jerry brooklet tie. She sided with me.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jerry wears headphones, but you and I fight the

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Speaker 1: broadcasting business by being the only people that don't wear

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Speaker 1: headphones or cans. I never get it. I'm like, you're

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Speaker 3: I know, and I don't want to hear myself anyway.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to hear myself better. No, it's terrible.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like torture.

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Speaker 1: That How about this for a new SYSK T shirt?

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Speaker 1: No more cans? Okay, just have a little X through

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Speaker 3: I think when you make a stuff, you should know

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Speaker 3: decree from now we should have like a fairy wand

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We's like, here's this for a new T shirt. I

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Speaker 3: decree it be made into existence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we get We're gonna by the way, since I

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Speaker 1: some good like some fan designs even yep, pretty exciting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we and we do have some now that people

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Speaker 1: I like those first designs we had.

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Speaker 3: And I well, let's just have this out on the air.

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Speaker 3: It's not an argument, but let's have this discussion. Are

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Speaker 1: Oh, unless there's a reason. I think perpetuity is the

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Speaker 1: way to go. But someone might like the dancing you

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Speaker 1: know what we call that, the skeleton would cut Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fa parade of dancing skeletons.

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Speaker 3: The macabre parade, that's what I would call it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's a good one, all six of them. We're excellent.

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Speaker 3: The baby with the fly on its forehead.

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Speaker 1: It's still my al time favorite.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good stuff. If you don't know what we're

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Speaker 3: talking about, good of stuff, youshould know dot com our

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Speaker 3: venerable website, and in the top navigation there's a store

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Speaker 3: button and it will take you our store and you

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Speaker 3: can see with your own very eyes what the heck

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Speaker 3: we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was off the cuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't like, oh, we gotta plug the T shirts.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, you very rarely say things as fretfully

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Speaker 3: as that. Okay, Chuck, Yes, you want to talk about Plato.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we promised to do this recently and here we are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in my defensive was already on the list. Oh well,

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Speaker 3: and call of anybody's like, do Plato do this? No,

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Speaker 1: List dance monkey.

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Speaker 3: Right. Did you play with Plato a lot when you

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Speaker 1: Oh? I played with it. I ate it.

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Speaker 3: I don't recall eating it. I do specifically recall eating

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Was the paste? Did it have a on the

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Speaker 3: That was the best tasting paste on the planet.

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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I think that paste might

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually, I want to revise my statement. I taste,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I never I don't think I ever ate Plato

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Speaker 3: it's unmistakable, unmistakable. It's so unmistakable in fact, that apparently

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Speaker 3: back in two thousand and six, Plato or has bro

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Speaker 3: which it bought off of Kenner. Yeah, which Kenner bought

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Speaker 1: Actually they bought it from Tonka. Tonka bought it from Kenner.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, how'd I forget Tonka? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And for this fiftieth birthday party, they had a scent

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Speaker 3: a Plato perfume released that smelled just like Plato.

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Speaker 1: Can you buy that? A wonder?

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Speaker 3: I looked, and I think you can get it, but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't want to wear it. I was just curious.

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Speaker 1: But don't spray that stuff on me.

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Speaker 1: Oh was it just like it? Yeah, one of those things.

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Speaker 3: It's a mood stabilizer. Okay, you know what I mean? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: spray in front of your face, and you just go,

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Speaker 1: Right, Remember when I was a kid and less violent.

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Speaker 3: Right, somebody give me some paste to eat.

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Speaker 1: They should do that.

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Speaker 3: Well back when you were a kid, did you know

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Speaker 1: Oh no, not at all.

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Speaker 3: I didn't either until today or yesterday when I started

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Speaker 3: researching this plato everyone And in this article by Tracy Wilson,

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Speaker 3: who hosts Stuff You Missed in History Class, she says

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Speaker 3: and from what I understand, it's the truth.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the truth.

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Speaker 3: There was a dude named Joe mcvickers who had a

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Speaker 3: which was wallpaper clean.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. His father and uncle started it and they were

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Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, but it's true. And your wallpaper can still

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Speaker 3: and McVicker's company had this putty. It was kind of

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They sold a lot of the stuff for a while,

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Speaker 3: and so got these little kids hooked on Plato. It

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Speaker 3: named Captain Kangaroo. Yeah, he went to what is Captain

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Speaker 3: Kangaroo's name?

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Speaker 1: Bob Bob Keishan.

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Speaker 3: I think Bob keishen nice memory, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: I pulled that out from I don't know how many

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Speaker 3: He well, did you watch Captain Kangaroo? Oh? Yeah, me too,

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Speaker 1: have been yeah, Captain Kangaro a little bit more. It

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Speaker 1: I didn't watch that. It was for real old kids. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Captain Kangaroo had a show and Joe McVicker somehow

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Speaker 3: awesome stuff. The kids in Cincinnati are crazy for it.

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Speaker 3: We're calling it Plato right now. It's an off white,

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Speaker 3: or it used to be, but now we have four colors, red, blue, yellow,

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Speaker 3: and white. Those are the four original colors of Plato

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Speaker 3: by the way. Yeah, and he gave someone to Captain

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Speaker 3: Kangaroo said I will give you two percent of gross

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Speaker 3: a week. Yeah, he played with it.

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Speaker 1: Bob Keishan was a money grubber, that's what we all know.

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Speaker 3: He I think he believed in this product.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's a smart guy, he is, And he.

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Speaker 3: Believed in it so much that he upped the number

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Speaker 3: of mentions without any additional compensation, from two times a

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Speaker 3: week to as many as three times a week. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he would play with Plato on TV and it just

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Speaker 1: That was his additional compensation that he got free.

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Speaker 3: Plato.

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Speaker 1: No, he had a percentage. So oh, yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 3: You're right, But it suggests that he believed in it.

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Speaker 1: That's right. He did believe in it.

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Speaker 3: And do not shatter my image of Captain Kangarhood.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he just wanted to make more money.

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Speaker 1: Of course not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, big fan of that guy too. They formed the

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Speaker 1: Rainbow Crafts Company, you know. They wanted to take it

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Speaker 1: That was your dad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a mechanical engineer.

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Speaker 3: I think he also just thought they were pretty. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's where you get it with your shirt pocket thing, right,

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Speaker 3: And then now he's just gone, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Not at all. Now it's a can with arms and

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Speaker 3: I don't like it. Yeah. I like Plato Pete, the

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Speaker 3: He was great.

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Speaker 1: That's what we grew up with. It's nostalgia.

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Speaker 3: and only just do away with him like he's nothing.

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Speaker 1: That's another shirt, Bring back Plato Pete. Yeah, we'll get sued.

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Speaker 1: Well, plus we could tell him, you know, we sold

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Speaker 1: nine t shirts. Here's your seventy three dollars. So Plato,

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Speaker 1: we all played with it. It was fun for modeling,

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Speaker 1: but it was not like you. If you were like me,

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Speaker 1: would make it into a permanent exhibit. Yeah, but it

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Speaker 3: Clay no I was on Plato's site and they readily

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Speaker 3: admit that as a matter of fact, they say, if

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Speaker 1: You get some Sculpy. I don't want a buzz market,

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Speaker 3: but they say, if you want to make a permanent thing,

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Speaker 3: go get some modeling clay. It's not what Plato's for.

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Speaker 1: No, it's for being in the moment making fun things

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Speaker 1: and then put smashing those and then putting it back

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Speaker 3: And driving your mom crazy because she can't stand colors

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Speaker 3: Which again Hasbro has some helpful suggestions for how to

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Speaker 3: clean this stuff up. Sure number one and you will

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Speaker 3: What they say, if possible, if you have the patients

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Speaker 3: brush it out of the carpeting, vacuum it up boom.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll discuss that very soon after this message.

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Speaker 1: Fish.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: So Plato is fun enough on its own. Like when

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Speaker 3: I don't recall having anything but just the Plato too.

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Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty that I said, you know what, let's

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Speaker 3: That's like, that was it.

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Speaker 1: That was it, And you could put Plato into various

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: There are hundreds of different things that you can buy

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Speaker 3: Yes, for sure, and different types of Plato too to

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Speaker 3: make different looking things as well. Yeah, but the original

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Speaker 3: these are basically what it is. An extruder.

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Speaker 3: Is what these guys came up with. And I guarantee

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Speaker 3: they had colored felt tip pens in the fronts of

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Speaker 3: if you took all Plato. By the way, here's a

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Speaker 3: No, I'm sorry, it would wrap around the Earth three

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you could go to the moon and back

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of playto man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they've sold nine hundred and fifty million pounds of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they apparently make about one hundred million cans

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Speaker 3: What I find heartening is those are current statistics.

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Speaker 3: No, but this article that Tracy wrote was apparently written

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Speaker 3: in two thousand and six. Yes, she said that they

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Speaker 3: make ninety five million cans, So they've upped their production

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty psyched about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and all the stuff they have now, Like they've

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Speaker 3: And they have a long standing tradition too of making

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Speaker 3: call it documentary. It's almost just a compilation of Plato

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Speaker 3: And there's one from the eighties where you could make

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Speaker 1: Probably it's filtered down to kids. And with the gluten

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Speaker 3: But if your kid has a peanut allergy or a

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Speaker 1: the general. I mean, it's a it's a very proprietary

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Speaker 3: Right, it's a US patent number six seven one three

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Speaker 1: But if you look that up, you're not gonna find

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Speaker 3: No, like you said, it's proprietary. They they do give

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Speaker 1: But we'll list those really quickly, and then we're gonna

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna get to the chemical molecular base of

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Speaker 1: But in broad terms, it is water. You got a

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Speaker 3: Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? But you remember how salty it tasted.

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Speaker 3: No, I said I never did I ate the paste?

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I never tasted But the smell was the

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Speaker 1: Just sweet enough to get a kid to eat it.

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Speaker 1: Salt, you got your lubricant and all this will make

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Speaker 1: sense in a bit a surfactant, preservative, hardener, a humectant,

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Speaker 3: From what I saw, they've admitted to vanilla. Oh really,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the colors, we should also say, Chuckers. They

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Speaker 3: And then they added a couple more than they had

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Speaker 3: whole rainbow, a whole galaxy of different colors.

444
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Speaker 1: I never got the white because it just it looked

445
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 1: dirty so quickly. Yeah, I never really understood the purpose

446
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:41,879
Speaker 1: of the white.

447
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 3: I liked it. I thought it was a nice juxtaposition

448
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 3: with the primary colors.

449
00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were in artiste.

450
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,679
Speaker 3: No, I was just a kind of sore.

451
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Speaker 1: All right. So now the rest of the show, we're

452
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about chemistry.

453
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 3: You're not happy about this, are you?

454
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 1: Well?

455
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,879
Speaker 3: What'd you think about this article?

456
00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 1: I thought it was It was good, you know, because

457
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 1: that's what how stuff works does, is they tell the

458
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 1: story behind things, Like we can't just talk about surfing.

459
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: We have to talk about the physics of a wave, right,

460
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: I get that, But yeah, chemistry was not my bag baby.

461
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 3: This one, this one kissing and roller coasters. You were

462
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 3: kind of like you had a little bit of protest

463
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 3: going on, like, come on, this is fun stuff.

464
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're talking about kissing, you want to talk

465
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Speaker 1: about you know.

466
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,200
Speaker 3: Remember the title of it was a rigid, sterile look

467
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:27,920
Speaker 3: at Kissing.

468
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,360
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if the title for this will

469
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Speaker 1: end up being what I wanted, but it was going

470
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Speaker 1: to be taking the fun out of Plato. No, it's

471
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Speaker 1: called how Plato Works, all right, but you heard it here.

472
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Speaker 3: That was my It was the working title. Yeah. All right,

473
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 3: Well I will kick the chemistry off and maybe I

474
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Speaker 3: will spark your interest. Are you ready?

475
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Speaker 1: Yes?

476
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Speaker 3: Do you have your beret and your smock on.

477
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: This isn't even the fun chemistry you get to burn things.

478
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 3: No, this is the chemistry of compounds. You're just adding

479
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 3: them together. Yeah, yeah, there's a little involved, as we'll see,

480
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:06,159
Speaker 3: so possibly you could start that flame. Okay, So the

481
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 3: whole basis of Plato, it turns out, is an interaction

482
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 3: between starch and water and starches. Are there polysacchrides, which

483
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 3: are sugar molecules, and there's basically two varieties or two

484
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:27,400
Speaker 3: types that combine. There's amelos and there's amelopectin, and amylos

485
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 3: is like a string. Amelopectin is branched, and when they

486
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Speaker 3: get together they form a starburst shape. They form a

487
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Speaker 3: molecule in a starburst shape, and it's arranged around a

488
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Speaker 3: central area a hollow called the highlum hi l u

489
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Speaker 3: M the hylum, and it's all held together thanks to

490
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 3: hydrogen bonds. And then you have all that these polysacchride

491
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 3: chains all mixed together with hydrogen bonds forming a starburst.

492
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Speaker 3: And my friend, you have a starch molecule. And when

493
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Speaker 3: you have the starch molecule, you have one of the

494
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Speaker 3: two bases of Plato.

495
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this one, this article does have some pretty

496
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Speaker 1: handy illustrations. If hearing this doesn't make as much sense,

497
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 1: you can follow along on your own computer look at

498
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Speaker 1: the illustrations. If you add cold water to starch, the

499
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,120
Speaker 1: granules are gonna absorb some. But when things really get

500
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: interesting is when you add warm water or when you

501
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: heat up that cold water to be warm water. Like

502
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: you can mix it ahead of time and then warm

503
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Speaker 1: it up, and basically what you're doing is making a

504
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: gelatin just like when you make jello. It's got to

505
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: be warm water.

506
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Speaker 3: Right. Like if you've ever had like corn starch or

507
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 3: flour whatever and you add cold water to it, they

508
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 3: just kind.

509
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,120
Speaker 1: Of separate, right, It's really untoor it.

510
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 3: It doesn't do much. It's almost like this starch protects

511
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 3: itself against the cold It's like, yeah, you stay over

512
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 3: there cold water. But when you use warm water or

513
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 3: mechanical action of mixing it together, it forms, like you said,

514
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 3: it gelatinizes. That's right, and how you're starting to get

515
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 3: the basis of play dough. But the problem is when

516
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 3: you just add warm water and the starch in this

517
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 3: case it's wheat starch that they use, right, because they

518
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 3: have to gluten more against gluten. When you add those

519
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 3: two things, they mix together well, they form a nice

520
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 3: gelatinous goo. But as it dries, you've got the problem

521
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 3: of retrogradation. That's right, and that's trouble.

522
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it really depends on the breakdown of amelos

523
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: to amelopectin is the key. If you have a lot

524
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Speaker 1: of ammelos, it's going to take more swelling to gelatinize, right.

525
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 3: But you get a nice robust gel when you have

526
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Speaker 3: a lot of amlose. But the problem is that excess

527
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 3: ammelos separates some from the water, binds to itself, and

528
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 3: then you have something that's not a full compound anymore.

529
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Speaker 3: It's basically like a couple of It's like you've got

530
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 3: that gel and then some extra amylose and it's dry

531
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Speaker 3: and brittle and it's not good.

532
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,439
Speaker 1: Well. Yeah, and in the case of making a product

533
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: for kids to play with, it's too firm, Like they

534
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: had to get this recipe just right to make it

535
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: firm but still pliable, right, And a lot of a

536
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: lot of work went into this, I'm sure.

537
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, because at anytime, like they started with a starch

538
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 3: in the water, put it together fantastic, but then that

539
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 3: created this problem, yep. And then when they went to

540
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 3: solve this problem, it created this problem. So then they

541
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 3: had to solve this problem. And then after adding like

542
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 3: seven things, they finally have this like precariously balanced compound.

543
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Speaker 1: That's perfect.

544
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 3: That's perfect, but it's pretty neat. It's really complicated, and

545
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 3: it's self complicating, which I find very interesting it is.

546
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Speaker 1: And what they ended up settling with as far as

547
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: percentages goes for that wheat startch was twenty five percent

548
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: amelos and seventy five percent amelopectin. They found that to

549
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: be the secret sauce, right, as our buddy Chad likes

550
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: to say.

551
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Speaker 3: And the reason they have the amelopectin is because the

552
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 3: amelopectin is a waxy starch and it keeps the amelos

553
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:03,959
Speaker 3: from binding to itself. So you have you've prevented that

554
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 3: retrogradation problem right where the amelos separates from the water

555
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 3: and just binds to itself. The problem is now that

556
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 3: you have this extra amelo pectin. The amelo pectin, it

557
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 3: keeps the whole thing together, but it does it too much,

558
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 3: and now you have a sticky tachy compound.

559
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want it sticky.

560
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 3: No, And anybody's ever played with Plato and tried to

561
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 3: make something. You can't make it sticky. I'll stick to

562
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 3: your hands, or I'll stick to itself. It's not going

563
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 3: to make a cheeseburger like that. No, No, so they

564
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 3: added something else, a lubricant.

565
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Speaker 1: That's right in this case. I don't know if it's

566
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Speaker 1: that's part of the secret or not, but it's probably

567
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Speaker 1: some sort of a vegetable oil or mineral oil.

568
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Speaker 3: Well they think possibly it's it's a mineral oil which

569
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Speaker 3: is derived from petroleum, which petroleum which is why it's

570
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 3: non toxic, but you still shouldn't eat it.

571
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I did see that there was petroleum. I bet

572
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Speaker 1: you they're going to come out with a gluten free playto.

573
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised they haven't already.

574
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Speaker 1: But that would almost be like it minting. Your child

575
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: is eating this or can eat it?

576
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 3: Well, some of that new stuff like the Sweet Shop stuff. Yeah,

577
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 3: I'm actually I would be very surprised if they hadn't

578
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 3: done some R and D of different flavored play dough, right,

579
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 3: you know, because they have the different colors and this

580
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 3: is supposed to look like this frosting. This is supposed

581
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 3: to look like this frosting. So I wonder if they

582
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 3: were like, well, we can't make this taste like vanilla

583
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 3: or or you know, cotton cany or whatever. But yeah,

584
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 3: and then they kind of shook their heads off, and

585
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: we're like, wait, we can't have kids eating this stuff.

586
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: Or I wonder if they've done R and D on

587
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 1: how much of it you can eat before it makes

588
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: you sick? Surely, Like if they're making something that looks

589
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: like a cupcake, yeah, some kid is probably going to

590
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: eat that entire thing at some point.

591
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 3: And like we said, they've pretty much always been like,

592
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 3: you can make fake food with this.

593
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pizza Hut gave us money to do this, but

594
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: don't eat it.

595
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 3: Right, it's a weird mixed message.

596
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: It is a totally mixed message.

597
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 3: But you were saying they use the petroleum oil for

598
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 3: as a lubricant.

599
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that keeps it from being all sticky. So

600
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: if you've ever played with it, you know it like

601
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: it's very pliable and moist, but it's not going to

602
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: stick to your fingers, which is the key.

603
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 3: Right. So you have added the mineral oil or some

604
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 3: sort of lubricant to prevent the extra amlopectin from making

605
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: it sticky. And the whole reason you added amelopectin was

606
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 3: because too much amelose can cause retrogradation. So you've got

607
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: all these solutions and you've got the lubricant solution. The

608
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 3: problem is you can't just put like, you can't just

609
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 3: drop it into lubricant and expect it to stick. The

610
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 3: lubricant won't bind within this compound. Yeah, so you have

611
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 3: to add yet another thing, the surfactant.

612
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Surfactants you'll see in a lot of household cleansing

613
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: products if you use that chemical junk to clean your house.

614
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: But a surface active agent is another name for it,

615
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: and it basically they're artificially manufactured. They're molecules, but it's

616
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: gonna suspend some water. It's the whole keyt of being asurfractant.

617
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 3: Imagine, a surfactant has two ends, and one end is hydrophilic,

618
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 3: which means it attracts water and is attracted to water,

619
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 3: and the other is hydrophobic, which means it repels water

620
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 3: and it's actually attracted to fats lipids.

621
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, are afraid of it. Even.

622
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 3: The cool thing about a surfactant is that if you

623
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 3: take it and you throw it into a solution of

624
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 3: water and oil, fats and waters, right, one end will

625
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 3: attract the fat molecules and another end will attract the

626
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 3: water molecules. And what the end result of all of

627
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 3: this is that you can basically suspend fats in water

628
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: or water in fats, so that you have effectively, molecularly speaking,

629
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 3: something a compound that's all mixed together. It's not going

630
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 3: to separate like oil and water, because the whole thing's

631
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 3: being held together by surfactants. That's right, that's pretty amazing.

632
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it actually binds to the molecules of the lubricanty

633
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: chemical reaction is taking place.

634
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 3: And keeps them all mixed together. It won't allow him

635
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 3: to separate. So we've got the lubricin in there. Yeah,

636
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 3: the whole thing's being held in place by their surfactant.

637
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: All looped up, ready to go.

638
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 3: We've got a little extra water, chuck, what are we

639
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 3: gonna do?

640
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: Well? I don't think we mentioned earlier. The reason it

641
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: dries out to begin with if you leave it out

642
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: overnight is just because of evaporation.

643
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 3: Right, And Hasbro recommends that if this happens, you take

644
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 3: your Plato modeling clay. Yeah, and you wrap it in

645
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 3: like a damp paper towel, put it back in the camp,

646
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 3: but the cover on it leave it overnight should be

647
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 3: good as new.

648
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I've seen you can also add a little

649
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: water to it as well. Yeah, but I've never tried that,

650
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: so that, my friend is it's a very fine tuned mixture,

651
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: like you said, they had to. I'm sure it took

652
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: a lot of work over the years to get it

653
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: just exactly right. And we're going to learn how you

654
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: can make your own right after this break.

655
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 3: So chuck. Yeah, we should have said. There's a couple

656
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 3: other things that they add, Like you get excess to water,

657
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 3: so they added a little salt. Yeah, sure, and apparently

658
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 3: for the excess salt they brought in a new chemist.

659
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 3: So it's just fine, perfectly fine tune stuff.

660
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Speaker 1: And you get a color it of course, and give

661
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Speaker 1: it its sent.

662
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then possibly make it taste in the future.

663
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 3: Who knows. I'm betting on that.

664
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know, the salts also adds a little

665
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: anti microbal element to it.

666
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 3: Right, which is nice, so it has it acts as

667
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 3: a preservative as well. And to make Plato, you just

668
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 3: put all this stuff in these in the right measurements

669
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 3: and apply heat to it and mix it together and

670
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 3: package it and that's Plato.

671
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's got to have that shelf life like

672
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: this is. It's really hard to come up with a

673
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: product like this that meets all those needs, and we'll

674
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: still like, you know, I'm sure there were times early

675
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: on where like, oh, this stuff's two weeks old on

676
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: the shelf, it's like a brick back to the drawing board.

677
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: Ye put on your beret and your smock.

678
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Speaker 3: Remember in our How Twinkies Works episode they dealt with

679
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 3: that initially.

680
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: Of the shelf life. Yeah, right, so they just made

681
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: it infinity. Man, that was such a good episode. No,

682
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: it's good, one of my all time favorites. Agreed. We

683
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: still get emails from people that are like, I found

684
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: the banana Twinkies.

685
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have them in like limited release from once

686
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: in a while. Yeah, I have yet to try one.

687
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: I remember trying one years ago, but it wasn't my bag.

688
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: I don't like banana flavor things, but I like bananas.

689
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 3: Huh. You're a very complex Manchuck.

690
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: Well, they don't. They don't quite get it right. I

691
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: don't think ever, I've never tasted a banana flavor thing

692
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: that got it right, gotcha. I'm hard to please, So.

693
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 3: Man, you just totally threw me off. What were we

694
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 3: talking about?

695
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: We were I think we were at to a point

696
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: where we're going to make our own right.

697
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 3: Right, So it's very tough to make what until you

698
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 3: come upon the recipe. But apparently a lot of people,

699
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 3: even though it's a proprietary recipe, a lot of people

700
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 3: have come up with their own recipes for play though.

701
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: Sure, and it's fun to do with your kid, you know,

702
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: like if they like playing with it, then you can

703
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: teach them a little chemistry along the way, right, get

704
00:32:58,760 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: a learning moment if.

705
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 3: You want to save some money, or you you don't

706
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 3: want to feed the corporate beast that too, or yeah,

707
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 3: you just want to do something with your kid and

708
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: make it. You can do all this stuff. It just

709
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: takes a little elbow grease and work. And there's recipes

710
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 3: all over the internet. There's some for like glowing the

711
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: dark plato. Oh really, there's some for glittery plato. There's

712
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 3: a couple of recipes in this article on how stuff works.

713
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 3: But basically you're doing the same thing. You're adding starch

714
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 3: to water, you're adding some sort of lubricant to it,

715
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 3: something to hold the whole thing together. In this recipe,

716
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 3: it's a cream of tartar yes which stiffens eggs and

717
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 3: gives plato homemade plato its firmness. But there's a lot

718
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 3: of recipes online that if you want to not only

719
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 3: just play with Plato with your kid, but make it.

720
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 3: That's a great chemistry teaching experience. I think, agreed.

721
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: And you can explain, you know, what each ingredient is doing,

722
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: and then at the very end, gonna have plato and

723
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: your kid's gonna say this Plato stinks. It's not nearly

724
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: as good as the real thing.

725
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 3: Unless it's the peanut butter variety. And I'll bet you're like, ooh,

726
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 3: this is tasty plato.

727
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: Do they have that?

728
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a recipe for it in this article.

729
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: So peanut butter is one of the ingredients.

730
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 3: Yes, interesting, Yeah, or you know what, you could make

731
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 3: it with your kid. Wow. You listen to us stumble

732
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 3: through the explanation. Yeah, and to everybody who's doing that

733
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 3: right now, Hello, Hello everyone, and.

734
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: Your kid's gonna say, who are these jerks? And why

735
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: does my plato not work?

736
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 3: Can we just go to the store and buy some

737
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 3: plato please?

738
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: Yep?

739
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well we're portable. We go around on MP three players,

740
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 3: so we can go to the store with you two.

741
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: Exactly what else you got and then you can listen

742
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: to our episode on temper tantrums on the way to

743
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: the store.

744
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 3: That was a good one too. It was what else

745
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 3: do you got? I've got nothing else, I got plenty more.

746
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: Oh well, please.

747
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 3: Mister Bill remember him from sarat Life. Of course he

748
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: was made a Plato. Yeah, they made the first mister

749
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 3: Bill short for twenty bucks.

750
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: That's pretty good stuff. What else you got? Fun facts?

751
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: Playoff fun facts.

752
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 3: There's a there's not just one, but two at least

753
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 3: Plato three D printers on the market right now. Really, yeah,

754
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 3: it's pretty awesome. So you put a hunk of it

755
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 3: in there, different hunks in there, and oh no, no, no,

756
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 3: and it I was about to say, a hunk in there,

757
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 3: and then it whittles it down. But that's the opposite

758
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 3: of three D. No, no, it extrudes it. It builds up.

759
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.

760
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 3: There's one on think Geek for like fifty bucks that

761
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 3: plugs into your iPad, so that's where your schematics are,

762
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 3: and it tells it what to do, and it makes

763
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 3: pretty cool little three D Plato stuff.

764
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:42,479
Speaker 1: That's kind of fun.

765
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 3: It is at the same time, it's kind of like,

766
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 3: you know, I mean you're you're really building a little

767
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 3: geek there, but the imagination and the hands on things

768
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 3: kind of taken out of it a little bit.

769
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: Well, I think that that's the new imagination, my friend, I.

770
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 3: Guess, so to follow forms and schematics the.

771
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: T maybe so it would be cool as if you

772
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: could design your own schematic and then.

773
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 3: Which I'm treated you can. Yeah. And then Plato has

774
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 3: one called the do Vinci. I saw that, and that's

775
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 3: a three D printer too. And then one other thing

776
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 3: I found we were talking about plato ads earlier. There

777
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 3: is a series of band plato ads that were published

778
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: in Singapore a couple of years back.

779
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: Oh, band is in? I thought you meant like bands

780
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 1: recorded music.

781
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 3: No, no, like d taboo plato ads that are very

782
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 3: adult centric.

783
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: Really yeah that can you say?

784
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 3: What?

785
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: Well?

786
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: How about this?

787
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: Yeah?

788
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 3: I made a slideshow of them on our site. You

789
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 3: can go check them out. They're pretty crazy. They're not

790
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 3: like naked or not adult in that way, but like

791
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 3: kind of violent and a little dark that this ad

792
00:36:54,520 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 3: agency made basically without the approval of has Bro clearly,

793
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 3: and Hasbro came in and like denounced it and everything.

794
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 3: But they're pretty great. So if you go to stuff

795
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: you should dot com and search a band Plato ads,

796
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 3: it will come up.

797
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,479
Speaker 1: And Hasbro had a news release it says we don't

798
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: endorse this use of Plato brand multiple Clay Right, they

799
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: just kept working the name in there.

800
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I learned all about something called

801
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 3: scam ads, where advertising agencies basically create ad campaigns based

802
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 3: around brand names without the brand names permission, simply to

803
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 3: submit them for awards consideration to expand their prestige.

804
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, and if you want to be a TV

805
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: commercial director, you have probably made some spec or fake

806
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: ads yourself, right, just to have on your reel, Like

807
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to make a Dorito. Well, Dorito

808
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 1: says said coast every.

809
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 3: Year, right, So this is that same thing. But sometimes

810
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 3: they really run a foul of like the spirit of

811
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 3: the brand. Sure, and there's yeah scam ads.

812
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like you're a pan commercials which are always

813
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: way better than risque and like funny. Yeah, get with it, America.

814
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 3: So if you want to learn more about Plato, including

815
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 3: a few Plato recipes, you can type Plato into the

816
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 3: search bar house stuffworks dot Com and say said search bar,

817
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 3: it's time for a listener mail.

818
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to call this another MPAA called the Golden

819
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: f Bomb. Hey, guys, I discovered your show and he

820
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: says Helloa Jerry and spilled her name right too. Oh

821
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Speaker 1: that was nice, which doesn't happen aten, No, the spelling

822
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Speaker 1: that is. I discovered your podcast while looking for something

823
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: interesting to listen to while I worked on my organic

824
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: farm in Kawhi nights, I heard the MPAA show and

825
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: I just had to write. In growing up, my friends

826
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: and I were always looking for a way to sneak

827
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: into movie theaters via the exit door, having an older

828
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: friend or parent, biased tickets, using a ticket, single ticket

829
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Speaker 1: stub passed back through to get in on the same ticket,

830
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 1: et cetera. He had all sorts of ways of stealing.

831
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Speaker 1: Our goal was to get into an ra the movie Underage,

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00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: with NC seventeen being the ultimate prize PG. Thirteen always

833
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: felt like we had failed or were settling, So to

834
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Speaker 1: make it fun, we would count how many expletives were

835
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: we heard and compare notes after the movie. He really

836
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: took things to a different level.

837
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it must have been a time when movies weren't

838
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 3: as good as they are today. In the theaters.

839
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: No, movies have never been this bad.

840
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 3: I know, man, it is really out of kate. It's terrible.

841
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: One pattern we soon realized was that PG thirteen movies

842
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: are allotted one F bomb. Listening for that one f

843
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: bomb became the looked for a moment, making the PG

844
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: thirteen movie experience. It's had more interesting and something I

845
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: look out for to this day. Still there are some

846
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: real classics, including Ron Burgundy's and Anchorman, most recently in Skyfall,

847
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: when Judy Dinch uses that naughty word.

848
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 3: She did, I don't remember that, Judy.

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00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: The first one in the Bond series, heclaimed, Judy, Judy, Judy, Oh,

850
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: I just saw Filamina by the way, finally, what did

851
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: you think.

852
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 3: Think that it was fantastic? Was that just an amazing

853
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 3: change of pace for her? She always plays like the

854
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 3: sharp pulled together like yeah yeah, like boss Lady, and

855
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 3: this one she was just kind of just working class. God,

856
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 3: that was a good movie.

857
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: It was really good.

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00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 3: I love that movie.

859
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: Highly recommended. And then I noticed the rating rule is

860
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: not ironclad, however, because recent examples of Lincoln and Philamina, Hey,

861
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: how about that had two of those naughty words a piece.

862
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 3: Lincoln had it in their hunts that Spielberg gets away

863
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 3: with anything.

864
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 1: Well, he's the one that had the whole thing changed.

865
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he was the one that created it.

866
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: PG. Thirteen. Yeah, and then he ran a foul of it. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: My absolute favorite PG thirteen Golden Goal naughty word not

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00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: mentioned anywhere else that I've researched, was the one that

869
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Speaker 1: got me out of my seat cheering like the President's

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00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: speech and Independence Day is from Oblivion. Tom Cruise's character

871
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: waits to the very end of the movie to deliver

872
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: the perfectly timed line to his enemy that movie.

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Speaker 3: Stunk, didn't Yeah, I heard the other one was pretty

874
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: good though, Edge of Tomorrow.

875
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really good. Oblivion stunk. And he closes

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Speaker 1: by saying, mahalo nue loa, thank you very much for

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00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: all you do to infotain us. And that is Evans

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Speaker 1: on Kawhii. Yeah, sorry, Evans, Oblivion was no good. He said,

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Speaker 1: he liked it a lot, but you know, to each

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Speaker 1: their own, I'm not gonna poopooit his taste.

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Speaker 3: Good for you, Chuck, thanks for.

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Speaker 1: Your game and your thievery.

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Speaker 3: If you want to talk to me and Chuck about movies,

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Speaker 3: we are always down for that. We love to talk

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Speaker 3: we just just say have you seen this movie? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I love that one for like a half hour. There'll

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Speaker 3: be a couple of people out there there like, oh,

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Speaker 3: this is a good episode.

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Speaker 1: There were podcasts liked exactly like that. You know that?

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