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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: And since we're here together, you can't see us, but

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Speaker 1: we are here. Don't be so solipsistic. Thanks. Did I

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Speaker 1: get that all right? I think so? Okay, Um, it's

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Speaker 1: a stuff you should know. But yeah, here we are. Um,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? I'm great? Oh, I'm glad. I

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Speaker 1: like these little top tens. I think they're a nice

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Speaker 1: digestible light form of Hey, I'm gonna tell a couple

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Speaker 1: of these at the next dinner party. I throw. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're like or dervs. Yeah exactly. They're like, um, pigs

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Speaker 1: a planket. They're like cocktail wheaties in that particular barbecue

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Speaker 1: catch up mixture that stuff. I um, yeah, they're all

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Speaker 1: that and more chunk. That's right, I've got one for you.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about ten accidental inventions. Um, and I know

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this a lot, but I think it

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Speaker 1: bears repeating the accidental discovery of LSD of acid. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: probably one of the funniest things that's ever happened to

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Speaker 1: a chemist ever. Ye. Sure, Alb Alb Hoffman back in

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Speaker 1: the I think, started working at Sandos Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland,

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Speaker 1: and he decided, who's going to get to the bottom

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Speaker 1: I believe our fungus I'm sorry that grows on rye

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Speaker 1: in particular um and has long been known to like

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Speaker 1: maybe the Salem witch trials were the result of air

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Speaker 1: got poisoning. Sure, or the Enlightenment was a result of

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Speaker 1: got poison It's possible at quote unquote poisoning, right, Eric

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Speaker 1: He was trying to figure out, you know what what

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Speaker 1: referred to his bicycle day about those hippies and one

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Speaker 1: connected with power. Um. Alfred Nobel, Swedish scientists, accidentally discovered dynamite.

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Speaker 1: up next, Chuck, I feel like we should talk about sacharin.

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Speaker 1: line here, aren't we It's an extradental invention number seven? Okay? Well, um,

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Speaker 1: about slogist in the twentieth century. He left his window open,

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Speaker 1: right anyway, Um, the mold, the strain he found was

422
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: he couldn't reproduce it mass quantity. So there for you know,

423
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 1: by definition, it was useless as medicine. Uh. And then

424
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: like thirteen years later, a trio of guys Floory, Heatley

425
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 1: and Mowyer um found a strain of penicillin that they

426
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: could just grow very quickly in large amounts. BAM antibiotics

427
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: millions and millions possibly billion lives safe, but don't take

428
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 1: too much of it. No, And I think I think

429
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: these days, but you should always know your limits. Now

430
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying back, I think penicilla is one of

431
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: these days people get thrown up penicilla into moxicilla, like

432
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: for everything these days. Right. Well, the other part of

433
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: the problem, supposedly, UM, is that they if you don't

434
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Speaker 1: finish your course, that makes it that much easier for

435
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Speaker 1: UM bacteria. Yeah, that's what I hear. Microbes to evolve immunity. Yeah,

436
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: I almost never finish my course though, because you're part

437
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: of the problem. Gives me bad, bad, bad diarrhea. Well

438
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: you need to ride it out, as they say, get

439
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Speaker 1: yourself an Uncle John's bathroom reader. In fact, when I'm

440
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: on penicillin for one reason or another, I call them

441
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: diarrhea bills. I have to take my diarrhea bill because

442
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: I take it, and and they say, you know, that's

443
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: a possible side effect, but of course with me, it's

444
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Speaker 1: a certain side effect. At least you don't get a

445
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Speaker 1: pre epism from it, all right, Number one, Josh our

446
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Speaker 1: last one. I thought this was pretty interesting because going

447
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Speaker 1: back all the way to the eighteen hundreds, we used

448
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Speaker 1: to think people are all stuffy, didn't know how to

449
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Speaker 1: have a good time. All they did was just go

450
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: to school, go to church, walk to work, and study hard.

451
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Speaker 1: Turns out that they were having laughing gas parties and

452
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Speaker 1: ether frolics ether frolics where they would sit around and

453
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Speaker 1: suck on laughing gas and just laugh the night away,

454
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Speaker 1: which is where the phrase it's a gas comes from.

455
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Speaker 1: Oh that's nice, that makes sense, sure, you're a big

456
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: time in entomology, aren't and entomopagy. Yeah, that's right. Uh.

457
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: So what happened was anesthesia was accidentally discovered by It

458
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: seems like a few different people realized about the same

459
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: time from those parties. Yeah. Crawford Long, he's been Atlanta,

460
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: got right, Yeah, he's somewhere around Atlanta. Yeah. William Morton

461
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 1: and Charles Jackson and Horace Wells, um, they had all

462
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: experiment experimented with nitrous ox side um. Maybe maybe not

463
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: went to some of these parties. I don't know if

464
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Speaker 1: we can verify that. I I have seen that they

465
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: were at these parties. I went back in time and

466
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: looked in the way back machine. At some point someone said, Hey,

467
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: I just whacked my legoral hard and it didn't hurt

468
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: at all and it was bleeding. Yeah, and there was

469
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: no pain experience from it. And I think it was

470
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: Crawford Long that was like, what do you mean you're

471
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Speaker 1: not experiencing any pain? Do it again? Yeah, and let

472
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: me hold your ether for a minute exactly. Uh. And

473
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: then they started experimenting with it um and I think

474
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: Horace Wells used it for dentistry um and uh, it

475
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: comfered long. I was using it for surgery, Yeah, for

476
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: minor surgery, copper long like amputations and stuff like that,

477
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: because this is at a time when it was like

478
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: here's your broomstick, there's your bottle of whiskey, your leg off,

479
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: and like the a skilled surgeon was quick. That was

480
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: the that was the definition of skilled surgeon. Somebody you

481
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: could take your leg off in less than a minute. Well,

482
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: I think with you your best case scenarios that you'll

483
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: pass out from the pain, right, But they also loaded

484
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: you up on like booze and drugs, like you'd smoke

485
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 1: a lot of opium first or take a lot of

486
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: opium somehow, right, so you just wouldn't really care. You

487
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: Have you heard about the flesh eating bacteria that's going

488
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: around right now? Yeah, it's crazy watching out with the

489
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: netty pots, dude. Yeah, I actually I haven't netted in

490
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: a little while. Just remember bill water and then maybe

491
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: boil it already more boil it anyway. Yeah. Well, at

492
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: the very least, I do a lot of camping and

493
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: fishing and rivers. I'm not getting in with any open

494
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: sore anytime soon. No, But that that girl in Georgia, Um,

495
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: she was on the zip line, she fell and created

496
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: an open sore, and um, it got in there pretty

497
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 1: good apparently. Yeah, Emily, and I've been following that story closely.

498
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: That's like, but she's got a great attitude apparently about it.

499
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: And oh really yeah, like she you know, her dad

500
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: went in said, you know, finally told her we're gonna

501
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: have to amptate your hands your other foot after her

502
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: leg was already gone. She was like, let's do it.

503
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: So you have been telling me about this and she

504
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: was saying, like they just got her fingers that her

505
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: hands are intact right now. I don't think so. Are

506
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: her hands gone? I think so? Um. Wow, Yeah, it's

507
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: very sad. This one ended on a strange twist. Have

508
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: any more accidental inventions? I know you do, but don't

509
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: say them. Nope, there's a few more. Go to the

510
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: web site and read all about it. Yeah, type accidental

511
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: inventions in the search bar at how stuff works dot

512
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: com and it will bring up this fine article. There's

513
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: actually a few articles, um that I have similar ones,

514
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: but different ones too. You'll just read them all you

515
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: love them? Um, I said search bar at how stuff

516
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: works dot com again, which means it's time for listener

517
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: to mail. Actually wait, wait, we can't do listen to

518
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: Melia this again. Yeah, okay, it's plug fast time. Um so, Chuck,

519
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: we have a horror fiction contest going on, don't we

520
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: That's right, real quick, give them the broad stroke. Well,

521
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: if you're familiar with our Halloween episodes the past two years,

522
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: we do readings right from u PO last year and

523
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: uh what's his Face? The year before that, HP love

524
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: love Craft and this year we want to read a

525
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: story written by you someone out there. So we are

526
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: throwing a contest, and Josh wrote a great blog post

527
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: outlining the details. You can find a how stuff works. Yeah,

528
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: you can go to blogs that how stuff works and

529
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: it's called um the Stuff you should knows Horror fiction contests.

530
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: Get your official rules right here. It's got everything you

531
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: need to know on there. Everything. What's the highlight? Well,

532
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: the highlights are that it started on June eighteenth and

533
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: it runs until July twenty. Uh you it has to

534
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: have been previously unpublished and includes websites. If you put

535
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: it up on your own blog, I think it's okay,

536
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: But like if you gave you to somebody else and

537
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: they published it sorry. Um, and uh, it needs to

538
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: be between three thousand and four thousand words, no more,

539
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: no less. And this is really really, really really important

540
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: your stay. When in the email that you send this in,

541
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: you send it by the way to how stuff works

542
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: Underscore contests at Discovery dot Com. In that email when

543
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: you enter your submission, Um, you need to write the words.

544
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: By entering this contest, I agree to abide by the

545
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: contest rules. Without that, it's it's we have to disqualify.

546
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: So that space sically, you're signing off that you understand

547
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: the rules by by acknowledging that statement. Right, Okay, go

548
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: to the blogs and read the rules first. Take a

549
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: quick glance at them. There's if you have a question,

550
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: it's probably answered there. Yeah, and sadly we know and

551
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: we understand that this is only for residents in the

552
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: United States, and we're sorry, but that's just how it goes.

553
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: I've said it a million times. We can't win your

554
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: country's contest either. It's just our contest work. Yes, pick

555
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: it up with the contest Gods. If you're seventeen, even

556
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: if you're going to turn eight team within the contest,

557
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: you're out of luck. Here to be eighteen as of

558
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: Monday July or June eighteen. People don't like rules, No,

559
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: they don't, but we're not making them. Gotta have them. Yeah,

560
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: so it send it off us and maybe a couple

561
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: of other writers or editors will judge these things. We're

562
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: gonna select the top sixteen and then enter him into

563
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: a bracket contest, then let the people vote, and then

564
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: we picked the and then the winner has chosen and

565
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: we read it on hearticle. Yeah, alright, what else? We're

566
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: going to Comic Con in San Diego for the first

567
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: time ever and Thursday we don't have the time yet,

568
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: but Thursday July, well, well, we will be doing a

569
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: live podcast panel with special guests. Yeah, what are we

570
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: doing it on? You want to say? Do you want

571
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: to keep it a suppris, Let's keep it a surprise

572
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: for now, all right, So comm Con, if you're gonna

573
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: be there, come see us Thursday, I think, right, yeah,

574
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: you'll be able to find out. Well, we'll post it

575
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: once we can reveal all the story details. Very cool.

576
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: So um, there you go. That's plug fest and now

577
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: it's time for listening. Now, right, Josh, I'm gonna call

578
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: this what we're gonna call medical marijuana. Uh. Um. And

579
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: by the way, on email, I've been answering more and

580
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: more lately because I've had more time. UM. But still,

581
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: if you write in and I don't answer, we have

582
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: read it, I promise. And if you have sent in

583
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: just a simple suggestion for a show, we log those. Um.

584
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: But you may not get the email back on something

585
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: like that. So just I don't want anyone to feel

586
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: bad if think emailed like we didn't respond. You're a valued,

587
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: valued member of our fan base. Okay, medical marijuana. Uh.

588
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: Your show on m m J is what some people

589
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,479
Speaker 1: have been calling at. Realize that I always think it's

590
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 1: like Key Martin and you or something like and John. Uh.

591
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: It reminded me of a funny story I can share.

592
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: During the early eighties, my father had a rare cancer. Um.

593
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: It's even rare these days from the surprise my doctors

594
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: have when I give my medical history. At one point,

595
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: my dad's doctor suggested he tried marijuana to help with

596
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: the chemo sickness. Um. Of course, there was no way

597
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: to prescribe it back then. You had to get it

598
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: on your own. My parents started asking around to see

599
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: whose kids could get some trustworthy stuff. With no luck

600
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: where we lived, my mom turned to a relative who

601
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: lived in another state. So clearly like the stoner cousin,

602
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: like two states over, Um, she could get it, but

603
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: I don't know the details how. Yeah. The next problem

604
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: was how to get it to us. Um. She often

605
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: flew to visit every few months, but it was a

606
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: pray to putting it in her luggage or mailing it,

607
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: even though everybody used to do that back then. I

608
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 1: bet um. So one of her co workers had an idea.

609
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: They worked in a doctor's office and decided she would

610
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: hide it between her breasts and bandage her as if

611
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: she had recently had breast surgery. She was sent with

612
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: the note saying under no circumstances, with the bandages to

613
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 1: be removed. They thought that if she was hassled the airport,

614
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: a note would get her out of trouble. They did

615
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: this actually a few times. It never got caught. Oh

616
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: my god, I an't that crazy. As it turns out,

617
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: my father couldn't smoke the stuff. It made him sicker. Um,

618
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know. So he decided to brew

619
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: it in tea, and I'm sure there was a little

620
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: h baked snack put in his lunch bag every now

621
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Speaker 1: and then. Unfortunately, my father passed away in when I

622
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: was sixteen. I wasn't completely involved in all this other stuff.

623
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: The stories were retold later, but there are a lot

624
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: of hijinks going on in the house over those years,

625
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: so this is totally plausible. I remember vividly the little

626
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Speaker 1: t ball sitting in the sink when I washed the

627
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: dishes every night, asking can I clean the thing? And

628
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,959
Speaker 1: I would get a resounding no from about five people

629
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Speaker 1: in the house at the same time. So that is

630
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 1: from Cindy, and uh no, that's anybody. But she asked

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