WEBVTT - 10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.520 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:16.400 from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.400 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.360 And since we're here together, you can't see us, but 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:30.160 we are here. Don't be so solipsistic. Thanks. Did I 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.680 get that all right? I think so? Okay, Um, it's 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:40.040 a stuff you should know. But yeah, here we are. Um, 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.280 how are you doing? I'm great? Oh, I'm glad. I 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.320 like these little top tens. I think they're a nice 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.080 digestible light form of Hey, I'm gonna tell a couple 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.560 of these at the next dinner party. I throw. Yes, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:57.640 they're like or dervs. Yeah exactly. They're like, um, pigs 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.400 in a blanket. Yeah, oh good hum it, pigs in 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.120 a planket. They're like cocktail wheaties in that particular barbecue 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:09.840 catch up mixture that stuff. I um, yeah, they're all 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.200 that and more chunk. That's right, I've got one for you. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.800 We're talking about ten accidental inventions. Um, and I know 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.600 we've talked about this a lot, but I think it 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:26.120 bears repeating the accidental discovery of LSD of acid. Yeah, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.400 probably one of the funniest things that's ever happened to 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:34.080 a chemist ever. Ye. Sure, Alb Alb Hoffman back in 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:39.000 the I think, started working at Sandos Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland, 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.319 and he decided, who's going to get to the bottom 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.440 of air got? And air got is it's a mold. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.320 I believe our fungus I'm sorry that grows on rye 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.640 in particular um and has long been known to like 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.840 make people do crazy weird stuff. And they think that 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.280 maybe the Salem witch trials were the result of air 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.200 got poisoning. Sure, or the Enlightenment was a result of 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.720 got poison It's possible at quote unquote poisoning, right, Eric 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:10.760 got um craziness. Uh. And Albie Hoffman was trying to 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:15.440 um go like Alb, Yeah, he's dead, he can't hear okay. Uh. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:17.919 He was trying to figure out, you know what what 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.600 you can do with us. He's been studying it for 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.880 a while and he came up with lysergic acid, dicyltamide 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.679 and um. He made several attempts at it and on 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:32.480 his derivative LSD. He got some honest hands, I guess 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.519 ingested it somehow fingertips. So he he has it on 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.919 his fingers and he goes home to lay down. He 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.880 starts seeing like fractals and colors in a kaleidoscope, and um, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.760 the interested him, I guess you could say. So he 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.280 started researching heavily, like injecting it and getting bike rides 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.440 to him, his assistant and all that stuff. He took 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.720 it on. He took it on accident, and then three 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.799 days later he was like, maybe I should try that 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.799 for real, and then he got to ride home on 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.080 a bike from his assistant in April. Sixt Is now 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.640 referred to his bicycle day about those hippies and one 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.480 of his quotes that I thought was really great when 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.440 he first described it, he said it was quote a 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.200 not unpleasant, intoxicated like state. And that was on the 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.919 first time. Apparently by the bicycle trip got a little harry. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:26.280 Oh really yeah, But then you know he passed through 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.280 that wave into the wave of not unpleasant once again. Right, 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.800 So he would say it was an accidental discovery of 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.080 the nature of the psychedelic nature, and he said we 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.520 should start using this stuff for like medicine. Yeah, well 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.040 the hippies had other ideas. Yes. He ultimately referred to 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.560 um LSD as his problem child. He wrote a book 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.600 called My Problem Child in I think it was kind 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:55.960 of one of those ones where it's like, you're my 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.800 problem child. Come here, here's some money. He wrote that 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.960 eight Why I believe so? Boy, I didn't realize he 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.520 lived that long. That's pretty cool. Yeah, he was an 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.000 old guy. Well, I mean he he drank a tablespoon 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.279 of LSD every day and that's what gave him his longevity. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.520 I think. Uh so that's number one, right, or that's 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.480 actually number ten. That was the intro. Well it counts. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.240 I don't think it should count. So you got another 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.400 one then an extra? Yeah, I'll just make it up. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.720 Is apparently is what we do, uh, Josh. Number nine 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:32.040 corn Flakes is fictionalized in the TC boiled book The 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.159 Road to Wellville? Was that a TC boiled book? Yeah? 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.039 I didn't know that. He's great. Uh did you see 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.120 the movie? Uh? Yeah, I've not seen the movie or 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.200 read the book. Yeah, Matthew Broderick, Anthony Hopkins, it was good. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.920 I've been the Battle Creek before that. Oh you really have? 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.520 When and that's the home of cereals, right Kellogg series 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:57.080 basically Kellogg's Cereal Here we go. Uh, Will Keith Kellogg, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.000 he was um interested in medicine, and he was working 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.120 as a doctor at the Battle Creek Sanitarium with his 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.000 brother helping him out with and this is in the movie, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.120 you know, like with their diets. He was trying out 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:13.040 sorts of weird treat huge on enemies. He also discovered, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:18.080 uh or created the first acidophilis soy milk. Oh really yeah, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.240 and some sort of meat alternative that ultimately led something 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:26.000 to something like American tofu or something. Yeah. Boy, what 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.760 a genius. Uh. And he is responsible, by accident for 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.159 corn flakes. Oh, Will was, and I'm sorry John Harvey, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.400 his brother was responsible for those two things. Well it 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.440 runs in the family. Yeah. Um. He was making bread 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.840 one day at the old sanitarium there in Battle Creek. Uh. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.440 He left a boiled wheat sitting out for a little 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.840 too long. He came back and he rolled into the 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.320 dough and it became flaky, which is not what he 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:50.720 was looking for. But he was like, you know what, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.320 I thought this in the oven anyway, Let's see what 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.800 happens and it baked these little flakes that the patients 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.200 he were like, boy, these are delicious. We should pour 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.320 some milk over this stuff and cut a banana into 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.160 it and put it in a box. Can we get 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.360 some freez dride strawberries added? Exactly? And uh, eventually he 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.680 tinkered with it and switched it over to corn as 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.679 the main ingredients of wheat, and uh, that was corn flakes, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.360 my friend, That's how I took off what's he added 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.960 or used corn? I'm sure it was kind of like, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.599 this isn't good, but what is this? Wheat easies are terrible? Yeah, exactly, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.160 And then he tried it with corn and they were like, oh, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.840 that's really good. And that formed the Battle Creak Toasted 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:36.920 corn Flakes Company, which eventually became Kellogg's Accidental series. Whenever 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.239 he came up with the Battle Creak Toasted corn Flakes 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.960 Company name, you know he's wearing spats that that name 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.360 just like scream spat. What are spats of those the 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.040 little white covers that go over your shoes like Mr 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:54.960 Monopoly orbs are still learning that terrible movie as Yeah, Oscar, 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.920 I thought spats might have been the little sock leggings 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.040 but those are probably just eld soccer looking. I think 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:07.160 those are called sends or garters. We should bring that back. No, No, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.360 let's die out for a good reason, all right, moving on? 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.400 Or do you have any other Kellogg's facts. I have 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.640 neither Kellogg's facts nor any more spats jokes, So I 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.840 think we should go on because this next one is 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.440 dyno might damn names for the Greek Greek route meaning 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:32.320 connected with power. Um. Alfred Nobel, Swedish scientists, accidentally discovered dynamite. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:38.280 Uh when he was working on basically with nitroglycer and 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.040 he's working on explosives trying to make it stable. Well, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.360 his father built mines. Oh is that how that started? 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.440 And you built minds using explosives, specifically nitroglycer But back 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.360 then it was kind of like, okay, eighty people died 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.880 because this nitroglycerin just exploded because someone looked at it wrong. Yeah. Well, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.480 because we have it in a jar in the back 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.000 of a horse guard, right, that's part of the problem too. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.679 But um, he law the brother and three other people 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.680 UM at his lab in Stockholm when he was trying 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.800 to figure out how to stabilize it. Um. But he 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.120 kept with it, uh, And so in the article it 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.520 says that he was transporting it and saw it packed 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.080 in the stuff this mud that we like to call 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.400 keisel ger, right, but I read it elsewhere that it 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:28.000 wasn't that. Ultimately, he came up with using Keiselger that 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.400 he dropped it and sawdust. He thought he was going 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.360 to die as he watched this vile fall nitroglyists and 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.679 fall out of his hand, but it landed on sawdustin 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.000 was absorbed and he went hot. That's weird. So then 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.600 he started if you mixed it within a nert material um, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.679 you could conceivably blast it by adding a fuse to it. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.000 He finally came up with keisel Ger, which is like 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:58.640 this kind of it's like sedimentary mud, right, yeah, it's 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.319 like it's real powdery. It's a domination of crust, fossil, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.040 crushed fossil and marine life. Gotch like. It's what they use. Actually, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.840 you'll probably see that it's what they use on film 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.400 sets when they want to make stuff look dirty, because 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.319 it's just like super light and powdery and makes it 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:19.079 look really super dirty. Kilger. Ye. Well, he also that 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.840 would be something he figured out how to stabilize nitroglycering 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:27.440 and created a stable explosive. UM. But he he combined 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.760 it with another previous invention of his based on the 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.640 initial ignition principle, which is not just using a fuse, 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.439 but having a fuse go to a blasting cap and 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.760 having a smaller explosive blow up your bigger explosive. He 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.640 put all that together and that was dynamite. Truly dynamite 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.240 it was. And um he again he was doing this 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.120 to build mines, but in his lifetime he saw his 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.720 invention used to like destroy human lives. He blew up 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.760 a lot of things himself by accident, a lot of 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.240 his factories. It wasn't just that one time. They basically 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.120 said you can't do this anymore on the mainland. So 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.640 he started work on a barge, and I think the 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.080 barge amount of even blown up. I'm sure everything blew up. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.360 He was like King Midas, but everything exploded, that's right. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.800 But um So, as part of his legacy, he created 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:21.360 the Nobel Peace Prize UM two. Well, I guess he 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:26.120 bequeathed it to basically say, hey, I a lot of 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.600 people have died because of my invention, so um, let's 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.040 let's promote safety and harmony and peace and then later 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.760 the ig Noo bells, Yeah, which kind of brought it 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.920 full circle in a way. Uh. He first named it 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.800 no Nobel's blasting powder, and then eventually it became dynamite. Um. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.520 Not to be confused with T and T. It's different. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.240 So A C. D C was wrong, T and T 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.920 I'm dynamite. It's not true. I know what you're saying. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.439 What they should have said was T N T I'm 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.880 not quite dynamite. I'm less effective than dynamite. That should 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.000 have been the song. So what is T and T is? 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:12.480 Um is dynamite is sixty greater energy than TNT. Wow. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:17.079 That's so it's two totally different things. It's not just 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.160 like a lesser degraded vernon. They're both high explosives, meaning 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.120 they detonate instead of like burning. But um, yeah, two 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.520 different things. So Scott was he was on the drink, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.120 as we all find out, really like died because of 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.960 the drink. The dude with the hat, now that's that's 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.800 the second guy. Brian Johnson, the first lead singer UH 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.680 for the first however many albums, died in his car. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.160 He passed out after a night drinking and did the 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:52.280 old choke on the vomit thing. But he was the 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.120 one that saying t NT yeah, Dynamite. I thought those 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.160 two guys were like what I thought T and T 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.920 and Dynamite wear up until then ago Now. Brian Johnson 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.920 came along later with Back in Black was his first album, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.120 It's All That Good Early a c D sponsor. Gott 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:15.800 what do you think about? Sammy Hagar? So saccharin is 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.680 up next, Chuck, I feel like we should talk about sacharin. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.920 Let's do it? Well, weird just really going down the 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.760 line here, aren't we It's an extradental invention number seven? Okay? Well, um, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.839 so there's a guy who is named Constantine Fallberg. He 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.880 was working he was a chemist working in the labs 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.120 at Johns Hopkins under a guy named Ira Remsen. Yeah, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.240 I recalls Constantine a jerk. He does, but not quite 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.280 for the reasons that are displayed here. Um so, uh, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:53.320 Fallberg and Remsen are working on apparently substitute for coal tar. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.480 That's all I could come across his quote. He was saying, like, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.920 I've made many discoveries in my search for coal tars, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.079 one of them accidental and here's one. But he doesn't say, like, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.920 what I was doing was synthesizing chemicals in a search 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:07.800 for substitute for coal tarts. So I'm not going to 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:09.599 stand in a hundred percent behind it. But that's what 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:14.120 I think, right, okay? He uh. He said he was 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.600 in a great hurry and left the lab without washing 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.520 his hands. Apparently he wasn't wearing gloves or anything either 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.520 while he was working in the lab with these chemicals 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.920 that he didn't know what they were. Any Way, home 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.200 and he ate dinner and he was eating a piece 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.000 of bread and his bread was like really sweet, and 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.160 he realized that that was weird, so he put the 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.480 bread down and wiped his hands in his mouth and 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.880 his beard with the napkin kin. Yeah, he thought the 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.120 napkin was super sweet. He's like, okay, there's something we're 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:42.880 going on. He put two and two together and realized 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.800 it must have been that powder that he had on 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.000 his hands from the chemical that he spilled on it 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.760 that he didn't think to wash off before he ate 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.520 with his hands exactly, and it turned out to be sacharan. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.599 So what does he do well? He he says, I 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.040 can probably make some money off this, and I'm of 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.520 the impression that he he shut out Remsen. So what 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.599 he did was Remsen was a total research He was 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.040 a total labrat. He didn't care a thing about patents, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.840 and he was apparently fine with the idea that Fauberg 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.839 went off and independently patented this until it started making money, No, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.720 until he started telling people that he was the one 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.120 that created this thing, but he was the senior researcher. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.200 Then now he's screwing with Remsen's like lab rats status. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.160 That's when Remsen was like, shut your mouth. So it 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.600 didn't have as much to do with money. His rep 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.600 exactly interesting. Yeah, So um Falberg ended up with the 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.520 patent for sacharn, and uh, years and years and years later, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.880 the eighties happened. People are all cooked up, they're looking 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.360 for ways to like lose some weight, and sweet and 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.960 low comes along. It's sacharn and it has so few 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.440 calories and it apparently five calories a graham that it's 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.520 just listed a zero calories because you know that those 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.760 packets are a lot less than a graham. Um And 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.480 reason why it's non colork is because it's never metabolized. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.960 By the body. It just goes out the way in 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.640 the same form it came in. Yeah, has zero food 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.360 energy value. Um. It's like if you were trapped freezing 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.200 in the woods and you had a big bucket of 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.440 sweet and low, it wouldn't be the same as if 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.080 you had a big bucket of sugar. Yeah, you'd want 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.040 the big bucket of sugar trapped in the woods. With 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.560 a big bucket of sugar. Huh, Well you got food 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.520 energy trapped in the woods of the big bucket of 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.360 sweet and low, You're screwed. Yeah. Can you imagine like 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.440 the fuzzy jackets on your teeth after eating a bucket 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:38.800 of sugar in the woods? Uh. Since it was brought 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.480 on the scene, it's kind of been added and removed 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.480 quite a few times too. The you can eat this, 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.000 it's fine, and it's probably not great for you list, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.800 but right now it's in good standing. It is. It is, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.440 you know, approved, because I remember in the late eighties 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.000 early nineties, like after everybody'd been drinking it for a while, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.080 they took like a hard look at sacharin and we're like, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.560 well it may cause cancer, and labrand I put it 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.040 in my unsweet iced tea I've seen, because that's the 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.960 only thing I can find that. You know, you put 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.560 sugar in there and it just sinks to the bottom. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.920 What what Yeah, well that's why you have to use 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.720 the simple syrup. Yeah. Or put this sugar in the 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.760 hot brewed tea where it will melt. But you're not 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.680 going to do that. The new simple syrup is fine, 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.080 it works really well. Or just drink unsweet tea, for 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.480 God's sake. I'm on an unsweet tea kick right now. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.160 A little lemon, yeah, see, I like the sweet tea, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.360 or or if I drink green tea obviously that's just 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.640 straight up yeah, not the same. Have you ever had 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:36.760 this long tea? Yeah? Sure, yeah, that is something la la. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:42.040 It's crazy, all right, josh, Um, I didn't think the microwave. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.640 I feel like we've talked about that before. We have. Yeah, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.920 so let's skip it, okay. Viagra, Yeah, I hadn't heard 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.440 of this one. I didn't realize it was accidental. You 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.600 haven't heard of viagra? Please? I've heard of yes, but 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.400 I haven't heard of the story behind it. When oh, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:04.399 I see you're insinuate um. Simon Campbell and David Roberts 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:10.680 were researching proviser trying to develop some blood pressure and 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.920 heart medication for angina, and they tested it on people 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.040 doing some trials, and these guys were all like, I 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.840 still have some angina and I have a massive erection, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.879 which is a weird side effect. You might want to 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.480 look into this, Yeah, And they did, and they went, Wow, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.320 this could pay dividends in the infelis. Yeah. They basically said, Okay, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.960 if d A forget everything we said, forget the angina, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:42.520 where the nitrate um. Instead, we're gonna we're gonna just 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.320 start over do more clinical trials, but we're gonna needs 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.160 to treat e D. And we're going to target um handsome, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.400 salt and pepper haired men of a certain age, um 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.639 who like to bathe and bathtubs outdoors next to their 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.480 partners who are also in bathtubs watching sunrise. It is 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.640 our target market, that wasn't. Yeah, it's all the same, though, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.680 I wonder if it is all the same, you probably 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.200 just got us suit by the pharmacis. Actually they're not 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.959 all the same. They have each one has a different 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.959 um covalent bond. I'll bet it's covalent bond. Well, they 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.160 just have different properties. Some some work for like twenty 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.480 four hours, some work for like two hours. Some you 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.360 take every day just in case you happened to run 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.159 into someone and need to have sex. Yeah, yeah, but 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.879 all of them, all of them. Noism is not funny. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.840 So I don't think it's funny because it's not. No 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.200 of course not. Okay, it's not. But it was popular. 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.000 Um sales peaked I think in two thousand eight at 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.960 one point nine billion dollars and new US alone, and 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.840 since then, obviously Vigor was the first on the scene, 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.919 but it has been chipped away at by its competitors. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:56.000 But uh see Alis and uh what's the other one, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.320 the vitra or is that heart medication? I can't keep track. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.000 I think we found all. Yeah. Anyway, I mean that's 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.080 this was this was for originally for the treatment of Evangelina, 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.840 and it works some I think that that happens quite 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.280 a bit. Actually, well, it's all about blood flow, so 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.760 oh yes, it makes sense that it had that side effect. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.760 I guess it's all about blood flow and self confidence. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:24.200 That's right, pacemaker. I thought this one like, my eyes 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.800 started bleeding during this one. All right, we can skip 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.160 it because, as people know, when we do our top tens, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.520 we generally do like six or seven of them. We 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.920 like to drive traffic to the site. That's right, Velcrow, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.399 this one I have to give a shout out. I 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.320 wanted to. I want to tell everybody this is so amazing. 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.399 So I first heard the story of Velcrow when I 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.240 was just a young young pop. The story of Elcrow. 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.040 Yeah you're aware, right, the real story, yeah, okay, not 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.680 the fake in a s A story. No, not the 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.280 NASA story that George de Mostral story. He was a 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.359 Swiss Swiss um, I don't remember what he was, but 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.240 he turned out to be a Swiss inventor, electrical engineer, okay. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.719 And he was hiking the Alps with his dog one 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.960 day and came home and there were birds attacher's dog 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:12.040 and he he said, that is ghastly. He said, um, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.280 he what what's going on here? Why are these birds 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.480 attached to my dog? I'm going to take a closer look. 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.480 And he realized that the birds were composed of little 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.280 hooks and that his dog fur were acting as little loops, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.440 and the hooks went into the loops and stuck and attached. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.440 And he said, I can recreate this. You know what 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.680 I recreated with nylon, and that's what he did, and 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.840 that's what all velcro is is a system of hooks 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.000 and loops made of nylon. Now, I first learned that 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.679 story when I was probably like seriously eleven or twelve, 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.560 and I read it in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. And 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.920 every Christmas I would get in a bathroom reader, and 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.240 every every like December twenty nine, i'd be done with 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:56.240 like the five page bathroom Reader and wait like another year. Yeah, 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.440 like a lot, just for this reason, and I would 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.000 be reading this this book like over and over, like 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.840 just constantly, and so like one of the reasons that 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.960 we're here today. One of the reasons I'm here today 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:13.800 is because my curiosity was developed in hone through Uncle 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.280 John's Bathroom Readers. Yes, and it's been good in bath 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.240 like they were. They were also where I learned that 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.080 Genghis consumposedly killed like one point eight seven million people 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.320 in one hour, which kind of led to that article 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:29.280 and all that. Um, but my eyes were open. We 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.320 shouted out to them like recently, and they tweeted that 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.840 we shouted out to him, and I realized that they 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:39.359 listened to this podcast. So It's like the highest honor 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.920 I I have ever enjoyed as far as my career goes. 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:47.120 Like that, was it like this group that like made 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.600 me in part, in large part who I am today 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.320 is a fan of what we're doing. Yeah, I imagine 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:55.399 Mad Magazine could only come close if they got in 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.240 touch with you. Yeah, they would definitely be out there 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:01.239 as well. That's awesome. Okay, So that's yeah. And um, 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.760 a couple of more little factoids. It's a combination of 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.960 two French words, the lures, which you means velbot and 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.200 crochet which is hook yea and valor does not breathe 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.919 very well as a fabric. That's right. Nylon was very 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:14.360 new at the time, so he had a hard time 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.040 with it. And this is a lesson for all you 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.560 kids out there who fashion yourselves as or fancy yourselves 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.480 excuse me as the libenters. Don't give up. It took 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:28.080 him ten years from the moment he discovered what bell 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.439 Crow could be until the time that he could manufacture 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.359 it successfully. And he worked and he worked and he worked, 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.000 and ten years later he marketed it as the zipper 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.239 Less Zipper and the rest is history. And don't get 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.560 cheap velcro because you can tell the difference. Oh man, 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:46.639 you really can't same as cheap duck tape. Yeah, you 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.040 really get what you pay for. Yeah, that's definitely true 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.040 with duct tape. You don't want duct tape that doesn't 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.440