WEBVTT - Can quicksand kill you? 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:16.520 from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.720 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Bryant. Chuck Bryant. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:22.520 You pointed at me as if I was supposed to 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.279 say hey, and welcome to the podcast. Almost did. I 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:30.400 was like, the trick is to point and start talking 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.360 almost the same time. There needs to be like a 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.839 maybe eight or ten millisecond delay. All right, all you 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.440 journalism school students broadcasting tips from Johns. Was everybody off 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.559 of their game? It's good point, Like, you know what 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.440 I just did. I just assumed domination of this podcast, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.120 the whole thing when you did that every time. That's 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:57.760 not true. So, Chuck, have you ever seen Gilligan's Island? Yeah, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.880 A bunch of bunch of times. Did you know that? 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.720 By my estimate, Gilligan's Island holds the record four most 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:09.120 number of episodes used by a television show featuring quicksand 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.160 as a device. I've got five five, Yeah, me too. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.360 Gilligan Got caught, Skipper got caught. Mr Howell faked his death. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.880 Remember that one? No, what did you just put the 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.360 hat on top of some Quicksand that's exactly what he did. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.480 I do remember that he changed his will to include 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.399 the castaways, and he thought they were trying to kill him, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.000 so he ran away and faked his death. But they 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.000 were really just planning a party for him, I'll bet. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.920 And then uh, botanist Lord Beasley, who was one of 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.040 their random guests that they had. I don't remember him, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.200 and Ginger Marian apparently got caught one night. Huh some 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:47.280 sexy quicksand yeah, so um, I don't think there's anybody 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.360 out there who's unfamiliar with Quicksand it's just such a 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.600 great little throat to anytime there's a jungle scene or 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.960 something and things are getting boring and you're a writer 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.200 and it's nineteen fifty seven or ninety eight or nineteen 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.400 eighty five, you say quicksand yeah. You don't see a 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.640 lot lately in films and TV. Though we've gotten slightly 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.200 more sophisticated. I think people realize some point not really 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.680 a big thing. I don't think it's just with quicksand 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.880 I think we have gotten generally more sophisticated. Um, in 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.359 the eighties, who were pretty much throughout the whole decade 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:26.200 the biggest box office straws oh Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe, um 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:32.399 so yeah um John Claude Van Damn. Not a very 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.400 thinking decade, right, yeah, good point. Then you move into 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.360 the nineties and you have more guys like Edward Norton 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:44.760 r DJ whoever that is, right, yeah, who I am 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.040 very hardened to see is making quite a comeback. He's 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.880 gotten off of the black tar and into uh life 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.560 and into box office cold. Yeah. Have you seen Sherlock Holmes? 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.119 I have seen that movie like eight times. We ever 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.120 got to talk about quicksand so quicksand Chuck can it 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:07.639 kill you? Uh? I saw a thing that said theoretically, 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.480 if you were stuck over your head and you couldn't 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.480 get out, obviously you could drown in it. But I 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.280 believe you have a scientific study to refute that. There 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.160 was a study. And we found from researching, reading an 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.640 article on the site and just kind of looking around 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.480 there's a very finite amount of information out there on 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.239 quicksand because there's just a finite amount to know about 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.800 quicksand it's not as exciting as it is in the movie, 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:36.880 So I'll say that, which explains my Robert Downey Junior tirade. Right. Um, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.120 there was a two thousand five study that pretty much 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.800 put the period on the sentence about quicksand. It said, 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:49.360 it's physically impossible for human being too to sink into 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.440 a pit of quicksand and die. Okay, I think this. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.120 What I suppose was if you were like dropped on 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.840 your head into the quicksand. But it's usually not even 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.960 so deep as to be taller than a human So no, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.160 there there. If if you're just just a guy, if 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.400 it's just you or I and we you go into 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.080 a you fall into a pit of quicksand that is 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.920 say seven ft deep, which is exceedingly rare. Right, most 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.359 of the time it's much shallower than that, so you 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:24.560 just stand up, all right, Um, we are less dense 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.080 than quicksand are. The density of the human body is 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.440 about one gram per cubic centimeter or about one gram 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.760 permilli leader of water. All right, Quicksand is about twice that. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.359 So if you just sit there, you become buoyant. You 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.240 float on water, and quicksand is denser than water, so 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:47.160 you'll definitely float on quicksand exactly, so you can't. We 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.320 we could be um. But let's talk about sand and 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.719 the properties of quicksand, which, by the way, is falls 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.520 under the purview of a field of science called reology. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.200 It's the study of um. Basically, it's the study of 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:07.919 the flow and deformation of unusual things like mayonnaise or 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:13.039 silly putty or quicksand seriously um. So reology studies quicksand 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.880 foam things like that. Um things that like mayonnaise. When 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.560 you carve some mayonnaise out with a knife, it doesn't 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.080 go back to a flat surface. It should, but it's 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:30.560 still liquid. Technically it should have flow. It doesn't. Yeah, reology, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:35.640 I love Mayo, Mayo Man, Josh quicksand is if we 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.200 want to define it, it's solid ground. Actually, it's not 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.120 like the oatmeal. I tried to find out what they 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.520 used in movies, and the closest I could find was 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.039 Fuller's earth, like mixed with water. You ever heard of 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:50.599 Fuller's Earth. It's just really really powdery dirt, light brown, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.280 and use it a lot on film sets for all 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.200 sorts of stuff. But that's what I think it is. Anyway, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.840 it looks like oatmeal to me. But in reality, it's 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.839 solid ground and it's just liquefied solid earth because it's 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.279 been super saturated. Yeah uh. And there's generally two ways 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.200 that it can occur, right, Um. There is the upward 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.800 movement of water, say from a spring or um an 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.640 earthquake can kind of loosen it. And then you couple 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.360 that with the introduction of water bam, quicksand not too 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.560 far from a sinkhole in some ways, No, not too 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.880 far at all. Frankly, we've been on a geology kick lately. Now. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.279 I was thinking that we're kind of completing in Earth 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.880 Sciences module here where this is our elementary school science 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.680 project exactly. Yeah. Um, so that's pretty much the two 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.680 ways that quicksand can form. Um and especially with one 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:45.640 say where you have um a an upward movement. All right, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.960 let's talk about sand in general. Dry sand. Yes, you're 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.520 walking along the beach, you're getting a friction from the ground, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.719 which is why you're not falling down right. Um. The 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.120 sand has a something that's called the friction chain, I believe, 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.360 and that means that the the force that you're putting 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.040 on it is distributed across the particles, so it forms 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:15.560 the solid layer. Solid resistance right, Um, with quicksand the 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:21.720 water molecules have been introduced and enough, um they're agitated. Right. Well, no, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.080 you don't even need to agitate it. You can get 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.800 water in there, say through a spring floating upward. Um, 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.960 the water molecules are forming basically little pockets around the sand. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.040 Particles are not they're not connected by friction any longer. Right, 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.920 so they're they're not solid, they're not stable. And then 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.920 if you add, um, some sort of movement, say an 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.560 earthquake or somebody's foot for the force of somebody's foot 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.520 going on it, then it just that that whole um, 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:56.360 whatever friction there is that keeps it stable is lost. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.400 So like you've been to the beach, right, remember when 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.240 you were a kid and you've never been to the beach. Yeah, uh, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.720 I've been in the beach with you, my friend San Diego. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.440 That's not although we didn't you know, frolic or anything. No, 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.600 it's kind of cold. There's no time December, no time 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.680 for frolicking unfortunately. Um. But you remember, like when you 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.280 were a kid, Let's say you would walk into where 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.440 the water is coming up and then receding and you 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.520 would start to sink a little bit, and then your 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.240 feet would kind of you know, if you let yourself go, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.840 your feet would become stuck. And I remember being a 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.160 kid and thinking, wow, that's kind of frightening because they 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.280 would really become locked in if you get up to 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.480 let's say your ankle. And that's kind of just the 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.400 same principle, right, right, that's the exact same principle. It's 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.920 the same thing with like a wet concrete too. When 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.200 you when your foot, say your foot or your leg 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.800 goes in there and it is occupying space, you're creating 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.640 this density, right, which I guess creates some sort of 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.880 suction force like a vacuum vacuum, which makes it very 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.960 difficult to pull out. Um. That two thousand five study 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.400 in Nature concluded that to pull your foot out of 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.960 quicksand at a rate of one centimeter a second, which 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.680 is fairly moderate, I think I can do that. That 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:09.079 looks like one centimeter a second, isn't that um To 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.199 do that when it's stuck in quicksand requires the equivalent 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.480 amount of force that it would take to lift a 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.040 medium sized car. So like only Chuck Norris could probably 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.000 do that. Chuck Norris and only Chuck Norris definitely not 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.319 John claud Band. That's crazy, right. So you don't want 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.520 to try to move your feet at um, you know, 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.760 a centimeter a second. You want to slowly move them, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.680 and you want to wriggle them. From what I understand, wriggle. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.560 You want to wriggle actually, because what you're doing is 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:44.760 you're very slowly creating um space pockets around your legs 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.200 which are stuck. That allows the water to come in, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.560 which allows it to break up the sand sediment. Right, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.240 So are you talking about how to actually get out 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.480 of quicksand it feels like that's what we just moved into. Yeah, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.000 I mean it. That's the one part that I've found 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.040 is similar to the movies. Everything else is kind of 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.679 really just a movie type of type of thing, but 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.679 it is true. They say if you the more you 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.640 move and struggle, the more you'll sink, right, just like 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.640 a regular water. Though if you were drowning. They say 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.440 the same thing. If you were drowning and you actually 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.040 calm down, you could you would float, But you're constant 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.320 thrashing about will pull you under, right, and it it 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.840 creates a stronger vacuum. Basically the more you move right. Um. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:32.079 Have you seen that Man versus Wild segment where he's 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.719 in quicksand See the guy gets into um a thing 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.640 of quicksand real life quicksand and shows you how to 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.960 get out and it's have your cameraman and your rope. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.720 That was another thing too from that study in nature. Again, 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.440 this thing is like the you know you don't need 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.400 to do it's been done. No, no other study needs 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.040 to be done in quicksand. Um, but they they said, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.040 one of the authors said, don't um ask your friends 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.959 to pull you out, say with the vine or that's 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.800 what they always do in the movies. I know it 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:12.400 could consumably pull you in half. Yeah. Yeah, one of 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.760 the authors of that that study, that rheology study said, 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.760 you don't want to do that. What bears? He slowly 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.640 wriggled his way out right. And the weird thing is 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.600 he's It's just the oddest thing. I would recommend everybody like, uh, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.440 I'm sure Discovery has it. We probably have it not 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.680 I'm sure you can find it on YouTube. But you know, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:37.280 bear and quicksand or something like that. Um, he's in 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.959 this it looks like a beach. You know, the how 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.360 how the beach looks at like, um, kind of medium 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.320 tied or something. So it's like there's the sand, but 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.840 then there's a thin layer of water over it, just 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.720 kind of floating on the top. Um. He's in that, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.760 and he's up to about his waist in in quicksand, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.600 and he's pulling himself out. So he's got his elbow 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.480 up on the very quicksand that the rest of his 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.360 body is in, but it's resting on top of it. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.760 It looks really odd. I might have seen that. Actually 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.400 it's pretty cool. Um. But he slowly pulls out. And 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.640 what you want to do is get into a soup 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.720 pine position on your back because you're just gonna float 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:22.120 because again, you're less dense than quicksand. Good point. Obviously, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.280 you're gonna find quicksand, and you can find it anywhere 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.800 if the conditions are right, but generally you're gonna find 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.520 it more around like marshes and rivers, oceans, uh, where 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.520 there's ground water. Yeah, that kind of thing. And uh, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:39.000 if you are hapless enough to get caught in quicksand, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.079 um in like a along a beach on the shore, 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.720 you're gonna want to get out of there very slowly. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.079 But surely, because eventually the tide's going to come in. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.800 You're in big trouble, especially if you've seen Creep Show. Yeah, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.200 you know what happens to Ted Danson. Yeah, buried up 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.120 to his head, wasn't he? By Leslie Nielsen's right? And 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.440 that was no naked gun joke. That was the real deal. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.439 It really was. What else we got? Uh? Well, dry 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.520 quicksand you send that article to me? Yeah, that article 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:13.559 was written by our buddy Alan Bellows. We've actually never 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.839 met and don't know, but I have a tremendous amount 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.080 of respect for he's over it. Damn interesting. I think 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:22.160 he's the founder. Yeah, um, and he wrote an article 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.839 on quicksand and was talking about, like you said, dry quicksand, right, yeah, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.440 and this is not, um anything that they've observed in nature, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.880 but they have created this in a lab right where, Um, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.640 I think the sand is sort of like a house 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:39.160 of cards. It's so loose that, um it's it barely 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.679 can hold its own weight. Right, It's like kind of 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.320 I think it is. So you had sand kicked up 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.199 by a dust storm and then when it's deposited again, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.880 if it's deposited theoretically, because like you said, it doesn't. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.280 It's it's never been proven to exist outside the lab. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.840 But theoretically, if it was deep enough, it could look 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.200 like it was solid and for all intensive purpose says 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.360 it was stable until you walk on it. The problem 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.839 is is if it's deeper than you are tall, there's nothing, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.560 there's no water to make you buoyant. You're you're gone. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.080 It will kill you. It will swallow you whole. Uh. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.600 And and yeah, it's like so when you go down 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.200 it puffs up some sand. Yeah, I think so, like 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.280 the movie Dune or something like, you would be swallowed 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.200 into the very sand. Frank Herbert quite a visionary. Yeah, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.440 but that's a folklore as far as you know, although 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.240 it has been, like you said, done in the lap 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.920 and there's a cool Um, there's a cool like series 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.880 of photos. Um. It looks like an apple on top 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:41.680 of some dry quicksand thunder. And if you look at 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:46.480 the time, it's like seven hundreds of a second or 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.040 maybe seven tenths of a second, almost like a sinkhole. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.320 Yes again, geology special, Yes, what should we do next? 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:59.360 Like crystals? Okay, well crystal skull caves and crystal skulls. Uh, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.160 should we talk a little bit more about the movies 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.520 and TV. I think we should, Um, again, you got 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.680 anything else not a lot about quicksand it. Ah, it 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.560 sounds conciliatory, like I'm sorry we did this one, Josh 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.840 Blazing Saddles. Of course, I always mentioned one of my 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.960 favorite films had a quick scene quicksand scene early on, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.600 very funny. Um, there was a movie in nineteen sixty seven. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.160 Actually we should point out we got all these from 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.000 quicksand Movies dot net, and they, I think literally have 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.000 every reference of quicksand ever in film and TV history. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.800 It's your one stop shop for quicksand movie reference. So 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.200 I just plucked a few interesting ones that were relevant 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.160 to us. Um. Well, actually this one isn't relevant to us, 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.160 but the rest are. There was one movie called The 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.080 Acid Eaters a k a. The Acid People from nineteen 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.240 sixty seven. Four average middle class couples become weekend hippies, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.960 riding motorcycles, frolicking nude and having a climactic I can't 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.600 say that word. Um adult party on a large white 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.600 pyramid of LSD. During a topless cat a woman is 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.960 thrown into the quicksand up to her bare chest as 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.600 several bad actors stand around and watch. The next shot 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.240 is just her arm above the surface, giving everyone in 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:14.360 the finger. That sounds like a classic. Uh. We talked 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.040 a little bit about TV. It's been in one episode 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.880 of mcgiver, yeah, three episodes of Benny Hill, Yeah, I 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.040 saw that too, three g I Joe cartoons, three episodes 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.160 of Dynasty, four episodes of Fantasy Island. Of course, I 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.560 knew that would have been a little higher. I love 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.480 this one. Four episodes of General Hospital. Yeah, let's just hope. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.480 She just said in a hospital had four quicksand incidents. No, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.240 I think I saw one um back in like eighty 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.840 one or eighty two, and Luke and Laura were trapped 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.000 on some island or something. Yeah. There there's always like 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.400 an island scenario in a soap opera, and there's always 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.840 quicksand when there's an island. Of course, magna p I 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.680 you want to talk about this one? I want you to. Uh. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.520 The show was called Operations Silent Night from nineteen eighty. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.520 The guys were stranded on a bar an island at 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.639 Christmas because the helicopter broke. Not just a barren island, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.680 a barren island. That's being used for naval bombing exercises. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.160 It's very tense. And while gathering palm fronds, Rick walks 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.040 into a mud bog thinks it's quicksand and he sinks 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.000 up to his chin before the guys tell him to 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.360 stand up and get out. Yeah, and if you ever 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.760 do fall into quick sand, keep your keep calm. If 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.639 you're with your friends, make sure that you've hit the bottom. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.200 I've actually done this before. And what you're just describing 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.160 happen to Rick, happen to me. And it's terrifying. I'm 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.200 not kidding. It's terrifying. I was screeching like help give 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.080 me out right, and I realized that my feet were 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.640 on solid ground. Right, I'm not kidding. This really happened. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.560 I believe it. Okay, thank you, um and uh. It's 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.520 very scary, but once you realize you have your footing, 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.720 it's very relieving. But if you can kind of keep 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:52.479 the fainting afterwards, you just stop, hold out your hands 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.720 and go to and hippie Rob will say, oh man, 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.119 that was a close one. Actually wasn't Hippie Rob. It 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.479 was another hippie friend, Justin, who was Yeah, he can 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.960 attest to it. I guess we'll close out with three 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:08.040 episodes of The Simpsons. Let's moleman was in quicksand at 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.159 one point the cat of the Simpsons. I think there 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.960 was a water leak or something, and then the litter 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.679 acted as quicksand and suck the cat into it. I 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.680 don't remember that. And then of course the scene where 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.520 the episode or margin Homer went to a spa. Homer 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.600 is getting the massage by the woman and she's walking 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.600 on his back and she starts sinking into his back 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.880 fath He tells her not to struggle. Yeah, he'll only 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:34.240 sink faster. So there you go. It's it. That is quicksand, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.600 done and done. If you want to see a pretty 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:41.639 cool flash animation of some guy in of sleeveless T 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.640 shirt sinking in quicksand. And if you want to read 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.560 the only article on how stuff works that explicitly cites 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.960 the worst case Scenario handbook, just type quicksand one word 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.360 into the handy search bar how stuff works dot com Again, 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.119 check out damn interesting article. It's very cool. And if 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.720 you can find anything about reology, check it out. It's 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.880 pretty interesting stuff. Right. You know, I knew a guy 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.160 in l A that knew the dude that wrote those books, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.720 the worst case scenario books. We have a fan who 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.359 wrote a I'm sure who wrote a zombie survival handbook? 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.280 Did you ever read that? It is excellent? It is 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.960 way excellent. I love that book. I read it from 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:30.040 cover to cover, Chuck, really, first time ever? So um, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.720 go ahead? Oh yeah, which means it's time for listener mail. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:37.960 I acted like I couldn't go forward. Actually, Josh and 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:39.560 Lou listen to mail this week. This is gonna be 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:43.080 fun today on Facebook with your permission, I said, you 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:44.880 know what, listener mails getting a little dry, So why 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.119 don't we just take some questions from the Facebook fans 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.760 and we'll answer like ten quick ones on the air 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.040 and uh highlight some for you. And we got like 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.760 a hundred and eighty questions inside an hour. Are we 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.080 just doing like what's it that many? And climbing? I 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.199 had to cut it off. Did we are we just 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.520 reading their first names or first and Lance? I would 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:11.600 say just first? But what about the privacy settings on Facebook? 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.800 Renee says, do you discuss what points you'll cover ahead 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:19.400 of time? Or does it happen more organically? And as 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.639 most people know, we we kind of don't prep that 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.040 much with each other at all. We just do our 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:25.679 research and then we come in and we have our 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.639 first conversation right here. That's right. Um, today we broke 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.760 protocol with me sending Chuck that damn interesting article. That's 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.520 about as close as we come to really sharing information. 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.800 We're very Um. We jealously guard our own research, don't we. 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.919 If it feels spontaneous and conversational, it's because it is. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.680 Okay you ready? Yeah, I got one. This is from Nick. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.600 If one of you couldn't make a recording and the 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.679 oat Hare had to choose a replacement, Dash, who would 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.720 be your fantasy recording partner? Yeah, I can never record 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.400 with anyone else. But yeah, that was very sweet. I'll 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.359 say the same thing though there. Uh Nicholas says, how 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.840 does Josh get prepared when he writes an article? And 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:09.400 how do you managed to remember all the names when 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:13.520 you're recording? That's for you, all the all the names 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:15.359 when we're recording. What do you mean? Well, how do 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.399 how do you get prepared when you write an article? 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.119 And how do you remember all this junk that we say? Oh? Um, 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.000 I have found that my brain is a lot more 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:28.000 sponge like than I ever realized before. Sometimes you've seen it. Um, 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:30.560 I'll just be sitting there spouting stuff off, and I'll 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:32.840 like give you this look, like, can you believe that 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:34.880 I'm not looking at a piece of paper right now? 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:40.200 It's awesome to get prepared. I um drink two raw 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.800 eggs out of a glass rocky style, Uh huh, And then, um, 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.560 I find that I podcast best. I'm at my most 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:51.359 relaxed when i'm pantsless, as I am right now. Tony 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:53.680 to Jerry. If Josh and Chuck were trapped in a 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.480 burning building and you only had time to save one 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.080 of them before it collapsed and kill the other, who 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:04.439 would you save? And here's Jerry's response to that. Oh Jerry, 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:06.760 that was so nice. Thank you for saying that I 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.240 have one. This one's from Anna. Where did you each 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:14.080 go to college? And what were your majors? Chuck? I 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:15.840 know where you went to college. We went to the 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.920 same college we did. You a University of Georgia. Yes, 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:21.280 go dogs. How are we looking this year? We're gonna 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.320 have a decent football team. You can never tell fingers crossed? 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.879 Uh English major? Here? I think you were to write 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.560 no history and I'm minored an anthropology. I knew that 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.400 when you saying it. So there you have it. Jessica Crouch, 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:37.000 h Facebook fan and a looker. She says, what's what's 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.240 our biggest pet peeve? I think mine is the cell 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.040