WEBVTT - How SuperBalls Work 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:12.600 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.079 Josh Clark. Just's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.520 We're just bouncing off the walls here. I'm sick. I'm 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.360 not bouncing anywhere. I'm bouncing to the doctor. Are you 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.680 right after this? You got the funk, I got the chests, 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.480 got the chests. Your kids not even in preschool yet. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.879 I'm not sick because I hurt. Well, why did you 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.760 get sick? You know, people get sick from other things. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:39.960 I thought once you had a kid, like that's the 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.040 only way you got sick. Now, I don't know what 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.800 it is. Man camping in the night, it was cold, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.440 That's what it is. But I don't know you got 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.200 a wood fungus. I didn't treat myself like I should 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.040 have on that camping trip either. Oh yeah, you know 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.880 what I'm saying. No, that wasn't you know, going jogging 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:01.560 and drinking juice. You're eating chocolate bars. No, not chocolate. 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.600 I got into the whiskey, though. I didn't help things out, 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:06.959 I see, not on a cold night. It's been cold 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.360 here recently, it's weird. I mean like cold and it's 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:18.120 mid May. It's unusual, it's global warming. So, Chuck, have 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:26.040 you ever heard of the NFL's Big Game? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.560 can we even say that? I don't think so. All right, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.679 uh so the Big Game? Actually it sounds a lot 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.679 like super Ball, which is what we're talking about. There's 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.200 no that's actually a thing. The reason why it is 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.240 because it's named after the Super Ball. Did you know that? Yeah? 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.640 I did not, and I thought this was a little dubious, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.320 and the story still it seems fishy to me. But 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.760 so a guy named Lamar Hunt, right, he founded the 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.800 the Dallas Texans I think is what they originally called, 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.800 but they went on to become the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.400 And he founded this team because he couldn't get an 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.560 NFL franchise in Dallas, so he just founded his own 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.519 league as well, and he created the a f L, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:13.720 the American Football League, because Dallas is such a football town. Yeah, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.040 you know, I don't think they had a problem with Dallas. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.280 I think they had just a problem maybe with this guy. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.239 Who knows. But he was not the type of just 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.040 take things lying down. Instead, he went and founded a 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.200 different football league rival one right, And so as time progressed, 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.679 they tried to get the NFL and the a f 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.760 L uh integrated, and to smooth the transition, they decided 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.160 that they would have a year end championship where the 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.800 best team from the NFL would play the best team 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.160 from the a f L. And they couldn't figure out 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.800 what to call it, and apparently at one of the meetings, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.400 Lamar Hunt said, how about the Big Game? That's not 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.200 what he said. He said, the sbright because my kids 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.480 been playing with this Super Bowl at home, and why 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.560 not name a the final football game of the season 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.720 after the toy that has nothing to do with it, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.720 that's right, And so all all the all the guys, 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.200 we're like, well, we're ready to go to the gentleman's 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.800 club and eat some steaks. So fine, we'll go with that. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.720 And apparently later on Lamar Hunt said he said in 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.720 a quote, I guess it is a little corny, but 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.440 it looks like we're stuck with it, so no one 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.480 really likes it. They didn't use it for the first 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.000 big Game, No, that didn't they call it like the 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.679 Ultimate Bowl. I think it was just the a f 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.280 L NFL championship or something, and then by year three 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.400 they said, uh, I guess we need to have something 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.520 more catchy. But all that because of the super Ball, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.240 a little child's toy that everybody went crazy four and 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.520 in nineteen I think starting in n yes, and we 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.560 can just file this in the bucket with the slinky 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.600 and Silly Putty and Barbie Barbie and played. Oh did 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.600 we do that one? Yes? Or did we just sit 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:02.440 around and eat it? I think we did? Okay? Uh yeah, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.200 what were you gonna call these pop culture of the 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.520 nineteen fifties and sixties? Okay, did we did the frisbee 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:13.520 or the hula hoop? We did the hula hoop? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.960 we did. And we did the boomerang. That's more a 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:21.840 weapon than a toy. Uh boy, it's getting harder and 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:26.120 harder to remember which once we've done as old age. Yeah, well, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:33.640 it's it's our what's the word prolific nature, right, which 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.400 is really not that much. It's just two a week 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.640 over the year's adds up. Well, it's prolific, yeah, but 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.000 it's not like recording twelve episodes a week or anything 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:46.360 that's prolific. That's insane. This is just regular like taxes 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.760 and death. Do you know what would happen to us 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.760 if we recorded twelve episodes a week? Well, I do, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:59.360 I would quit. It would be the final twelve. Uh So, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.880 all right, let's go back in time. Should we hop 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:11.080 up in the the old way back machine? Yuh? Go 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.039 back to the Cold War and the space race, which 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:19.080 we've talked about quite a lot. Yeah, and the United 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.960 States feeling like Russia got up Sputnik and or I 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.159 guess it was the Soviet Union got up Sputnik, and 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.200 we're in big trouble because they did this before us, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.000 and we're all scared in the United States that we're 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.400 not competing like we should. Yeah, I was reading about it. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.640 I was reading it. Just it's really hard to overstate 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.039 the effect that Sputnik had on the US because post 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.080 war America was all like, look at this gadet, look 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.800 at this toy, make your life comfortable, get fat, and 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.440 sit around in your lazy boy chair. Right, the little 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.839 satellite came along and disrupted all that because like, America 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.280 woke up and um. Stephen King actually said that Sputnik 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.479 instilled in him the dread that informed the work for 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.159 the rest of his life. It was all based on Sputnik. Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.000 I had a lot of really far reaching effects. But 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:11.120 one of them was that America said, scientists, get you 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.560 to work. Yeah, get off your butts. Yeah, because you're 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.680 not doing anything. Yeah. Uh, you're sitting around playing pinnuckle. Uh. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.080 And so a guy named well, they did a lot 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.520 of work actually, and they took it very seriously. And 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.120 this one dude, his name was Norman Stingley. Um. He 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.120 worked for a company called Bettis Rubber in suburban l 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.960 A and Whittier, California. And um, he was a scientist. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.280 And he said, you know what, well, we should caveat 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.279 this with if you work for a company like that 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.520 as a scientist, you know, going in you sign away 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:50.320 your life rights and basically say that anything I create 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.360 under your employ and even if I'm at home tinkering 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.560 around in my spare time, yeah, with stuff that I like, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.880 you know, learned from work, then you well, it depends 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.520 on your contract. You either on it or your first 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.000 rider refusal for it the company does, right, And I 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.280 gain have the impression that UM with Bettis the company 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.400 that Stingly worked for, Um, they had first rider refusal. Absolutely, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.800 So he began working on some stuff on his own 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:22.360 for fun. Uh in the ve he compressed into a 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:27.720 ball this uh gooey substance, and um said, hey, this 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.440 is pretty neat. This little synthetic rubber ball actually bounces 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.280 quite a bit more than any ball I've ever seen before. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.160 And I might be onto something, and by Lord, is 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.920 still bouncing and bouncing and bouncing unless I throw it 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.520 too hard and then it just comes apart, which is 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.320 not good. No. No, the earliest Um, the earliest incarnation 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.800 of the super Bowl. We just disintegrate when it hit 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.480 the ground too hard. And that's actually stingly said, Okay, 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.880 I gotta take this to my employer. He's you know what, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.560 I'll hand it to him. I would have totally tried to, like, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.920 you know, I would set up a shell company. I 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.040 would create a false person, yeah, with the fake social 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.520 Security number, like Jackie Chan. What he's like, the one 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.720 person who's been out in so far in the Panama papers? 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.480 Oh really, Jackie Chan? No way, what'd he do? He 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.800 hid money that he taxes and offshore shell companies. I 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.440 haven't been keeping up with that lately. It's been a 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.600 bit of a bus But I also have the impression 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.600 that a bunch more stuff is coming. Well, hey, if 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.520 they got Jackie Chan, then it was all worthwhile. But 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.480 that's what they got was poor Jackie Chan. He's probably 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.200 looking around like really just me? Yeah, He's like, what 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.679 about Wesley Snipes? Wesley SIPs is like they already got me. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.640 I'm doing Samsung commercials now? Is he really? Yeah, there's 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.120 a really great Samsung commercial. Let's got all these like 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.640 random stars and he's one of them, and he's like 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.199 kind of making fun of himself a little bit. Boy. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.320 I bet he would love to hear that he's random 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.520 start num before. Uh all right, So he went to 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.360 Bettus and, like a good dude, said I've made this thing. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.160 Let me show it to you. Uh you first rider 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.360 refusal and they said no, that thing kind of stinks. Um, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.360 it bounces and it's kind of neat, but it I 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.839 threw it hard and it broke. Yeah, what what kid's 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.959 gonna want this? No kid could love you and they 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.240 spit on it. I wonder what the rules are though, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.959 with Like, I wonder if you could take a cruddy version, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.200 you know a little bit of like a shell game, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.600 take a poor version and say, what do you want 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.120 this and then make it better afterwards after they refuse it, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.280 you know, because it's a whole episode in defrauding your employer. Well, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.920 I mean that's sort of what ended up happening. Of 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.040 course it wasn't on purpose, but he he then took 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.680 it to the people that made the most sense in 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:49.920 the world, the chiefs at Wammo, right, and where else 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.400 would he take it? I mean, these dudes dick Ner 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:58.200 and Arthur Melan melanur mel often confused with Larry Bud 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.120 Melman or spud we. Uh. Yeah, I just didn't mind 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.880 to meet him when I was a kid. Bud Mom, No, 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.800 it's Bud Web. I could see that. Yeah, I was. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.040 He was a big deal back then, but I had 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.559 a knack for standing in line for meet and greet 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:18.480 autograph sessions. Uh. Brett Butler the baseball player, Bob Gibson 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:25.760 the baseball player, Dominique okay yes um. And Cheap Trick 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.800 the payer. Yeah, I went to the record bar when 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.360 I was like twelve and stood in Lyne to get 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.319 my album autographed. Yeah, like a twelve year old fan 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.760 boy does. And congratulations to Cheap Trick, by the way, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.040 for finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.319 of Fame this year. Uh just happened this year? Huh 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.120 just happened? Crazy. It's rock and Roll's greatest tragedy that 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.720 it took this long agreed, long overdue. Uh so where 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.280 was I? So he took it to WAMO and these 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.640 dudes had made a mint selling the hula hoop, and 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:02.000 um were they? They were the frisbee, but not the slinky. No. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.319 I think the slinky was its own company. I think 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.959 that's another one we did too. Yeah, that's a good one. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.440 So they said, this is kind of neat, but it 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.720 doesn't work so great, so get to work on it. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.480 And he did, you want to take a break and 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:36.840 talk about it some more. That's a nice cliffhanger, all right. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.760 So you said the last thing you said was knockoff, knockoff, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.200 And that means that someone said, hey, this thing is neat. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.480 And while there's a patent on that particular process to 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.760 create that particular ball, you can't stop me from creating 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.719 a bouncy ball of my own. Like M d M 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:01.800 A is illegal, but m d M A plus ZPT 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.680 there's no law against that same same principle. I don't 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.280 think that's true. I think it is all right. So 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.160 it's like you can just take something and and adjust 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.120 to add like a covalent bond or something like that, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:22.200 and it's still practically the same stuff. But on paper 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.400 it's not the same thing, because if you go look 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.480 at the Zectron patent, you're gonna see exactly the um 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.680 the chemical description for it. And if you have something 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.800 that's even just slightly different from it, it technically is 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.839 not the same thing. It's like vanilla ice adding the 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.760 extra bass note to under pressure. Did he add an 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.400 extra note? Yeah? Under pressure is doom doom doom do 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.800 do doom, Doom doom doom doom doom do doo doom doom. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.520 I've never noticed that. Yeah, that was this whole deal. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.840 That's how he tried to get out of I thought 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.240 it was all like music sampling. Was music sampling. He 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.600 tried to pretend like it was different by adding a beat. Yes, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.920 And I don't remember how. I don't remember the result. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.920 If he that either got him off or people said 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.320 you jerk. I think I think people said you jerked, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.360 whether he was legally on the hook or not. And 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.040 we'll get three emails explaining it all to us, maybe 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.960 from Vanilla Ice himself. He has like a home renovation 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:22.959 show now whips Houses. I've seen it, have you? I'm 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.000 aware of it. No, I've never watched. No, I've watched 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.960 like a couple of full episodes. You well. I mean 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.719 I like the home RUNO shows, which is why I 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.839 watched it. Not because I was a Vanilla Ice fan. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:33.839 So I was just curious and it you know, it 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.480 wasn't It was kind of like all the rest. It 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.599 was nothing different because it was him. So he's not 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.880 like a larger than life personality or anything. It's not 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.559 like a Flavor Flavor home runof he was. He was 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.120 just sort of normal. And he didn't like, you know, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.000 they didn't make it super. He didn't like show up 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.880 to this site and say, hey, stop collaborate and listen everyone. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.360 That would have been really cheesy. That is all I 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.920 would say if I were him. Um, but you know, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.719 he was Vanilla Ice. He like, we're gonna make this 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.160 pool so fly, like you're not gonna believe it. It's 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:08.040 gonna be dope. Uh. All right, So let's get back 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.760 to the knockoffs. People started making these things obviously, it's 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.440 gonna put a debt because they were a little bit cheaper. Yeah, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.240 by like yeah, and you get out of a gun 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.840 machine like super easily. And you know, back in the 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.480 nineties sixties, of a parent could pay a quarter for 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.520 something or a dollar for something, they would probably, you know, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.440 pick the cheaper one. Parents never changed. My parents would 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:38.040 have parents just don't understand. Yeah, I used to where 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.240 um nights of the round table clothes? Do you remember those? 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.160 The Polo knockoff? Yeah, my mom would be like, you 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.720 can't even tell it's a flag. I'd be like, everybody 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.880 can tell it's a flag. Instead of the club I 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.560 wore this. I had the knockoff that wasn't the Eyesod alligator. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:15:01.280 It was a gecko. I remember that. Yeah, I'm just kidding. Well, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.600 you got me on that one. Maybe there was, I 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.480 don't know. Yeah, there was definitely an ISA knockoff. Oh 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.520 yeah there was, But I don't think it was a lizard. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:14.040 Well was it? Was it a dragon? I do remember. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.840 I totally remember an ISA knockoff. The dragon though, I 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.720 think was its own like cool thing. Maybe all I 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.440 know is that I didn't buy those. What I would 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.800 get was the the polo that the collar was sown 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.000 wrong or something. Oh, so you get like the real polo. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.960 But it was like a what do they call them 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.400 remnants or something like you know, there's an factory defects. Yeah, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.960 factory defects because there was a place, a store that 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.520 sold them, and that's we were there a lot. I 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.600 got ones. They were just fine. They were just total knockoffs, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.920 which is better. I wonder a developed factory defected because 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.320 what kid's gonna be like your callers, just slightly misstitched. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.400 I think the factory defects that right, Um, kids like 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.880 Josh is poor he's wearing a Knight's T shirt Knights 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.560 of the Round Table. But I could also be like, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.280 so are you None of us were wearing polo stuffinitely 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.240 all wearing Knights of the Round Table, so it didn't matter. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.560 So the super ball knockoffs, but a big dent. And uh, 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.520 they were, like I said, usually a little bit smaller. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.200 The regular super ball um was one point eight seven 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:27.120 five inches and if by comparison, you've ever held a raccketball, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.320 that's about two point two five inches. Oh yeah, okay, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:34.800 a little smaller than rocket. You got it. I like 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.200 the plumb comparison because it was also the color of 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.520 a plum. Yeah it's dark, yeah, like purple or black, right, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.760 and in said made with amazing zectron. Yeah, which was 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.920 a big you know, that was a big draw. Uh. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.680 So let's talk about how cool this thing was. It 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.240 wasn't just a bouncy ball. And we keep saying was 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.200 there're still around? Yeah, but I mean at the time 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.840 when people were all aware of super balls, Like even 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.760 Jerry was like, I don't know what that is. Do 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.040 you know what it is? Yet? Is it ring a bell? 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.800 She made her fingers in the shape of a circle, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.760 a plum plump size, a little smaller than the racket ball. Uh. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.440 The cool thing about these well, there's a lot of 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.119 cool things, but one thing is how high it would bounce. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.359 It had it would bounce back. They would claim a 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.280 resilience of So if you just drop it from twelve 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.040 inches onto something hard like a desk, it would bounce 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.080 back ten inches. Then on the second bounce nine point 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.480 seven to third bounce eight point seven five on down, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.640 which is remarkable. It is it had a high coefficient 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:44.080 of restitution, that's right, and it would conserve its elastic 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.520 energy which is basically like the amount of kinetic energy 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.800 that's preserved once an object is deformed and then reforms 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.480 back to its original shape. Yeah, because when it hits 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.520 that desk, if you took a snapshot of that or 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.920 a slow motion high speed shot, you know it flat 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.440 and out right. It does a little bit, sure, and 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.399 when it flattens out. The reason it doesn't have a 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:09.280 hundred percent um coefficient of restitution or uh what was 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.440 it what was it called resilience, Yeah, or why it 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.720 doesn't have a d percent because when it drops, when 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.480 it deforms and hits a surface, it um a little 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:25.359 bit of heat energy is released as it deforms. Yeah, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.159 So that so it loses there's a little bit of 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.520 energy loss, ten percent energy loss every time it strikes 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.320 a surface. Yeah, like when we did this episode recently 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.480 on crumple zones. Like if something hits something else, there's 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.080 gonna be a loss of energy. Uh. And in this case, um, 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.520 it was lost as heat like you said, But because 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.640 it's so elastic, it retains a lot of its kinetic energy. 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.119 Like a bowling ball, when you drop it, it might 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.520 bounce a little bit. It retains a tab bit of 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.240 kinetic energy but it just places it pretty quickly, so 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.760 it might bounce like just you know, an inch and 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.680 then now a quarter inch and then nothing like the 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.720 one drunk guy at the bowling alley that throws it 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.640 like fifteen ft down the lane before it hits the floor. Yeah, 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.440 it'll usually bounce like one time. Right, you can also 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.160 do that if you're not drunk. I can tell you, Yeah, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.679 what's the purpose there? I don't get it. I've never 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.439 got that. What slinging the bowling ball down that far? 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:22.040 It's just totally accidental. Okay for me, it's always been accidental. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.040 I thought it was like watch this, Oh well, yeah, 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.760 then you're just a drunk guy, Like, who's a jerk? 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.560 You need to go home? Your thumb gets stuck, yeah, 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.359 or something like that, or just you know, forget to 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.200 release at the right moment, that kind of thing and 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.680 it just goes up. And then, yeah, we're not good bowlers. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.360 I think that's a better way to put in. I've 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.600 had a couple of good games in my life. I 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.040 actually took a bowling class in seventh grade or eighth grade. Yeah, 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.600 I did too. That's when I get hooked on Starburst. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.840 Did really Yeah, there's this vending machine in it, like 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.040 the Starburst just look perfect in it. And every time 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.159 I would just buy Starburst and then I can go 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.480 back and buy more Starburst. You would go to the 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.159 bowling alley for the class. Dude, are bowling? Class was 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.320 in the gym, like they would just set up bowling 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.879 pins and put tape down on the floor. Everybody's bowling 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:17.000 in their factory defect polo shirts and eyes I knockoffs, 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:18.680 and then you had to take turns setting up the 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.760 pins by hand. No, we went to like South Wake 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.879 Lanes and Woe that's crazy. Had a venue Michie was 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:30.520 Starburst kids sneaking beer and stuff. No, they didn't. We 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.359 were good kids. That's good at least at that age. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:40.520 Good Toledo kids Tolden's to Ladians, Toledo white ians. What, oh, 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.920 Toledo owens. You're just making stuff up. Toledo pens, I 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:47.880 think is what they're called. They're going to take back 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.320 your key to the city. I never got that guy 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:55.400 gave up. I wonder how he's doing. There's a guy everybody, 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.879 I guess we can let you in on this private 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.000 conversation right right now. There's a guy who was an 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.960 early fan of stuff you should know who decided that 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.879 it was his mission to see to it that I 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.440 got the key to the city of Toledo. Wonderful. He 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.080 really tried, Yeah, I mean yeah, he was a nice 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:18.679 guy for sure, but he would harass the Congresswoman Marcy Captor, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.080 who was a former Toledo mayor, and like everybody could 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:27.000 really really tried, it didn't happen. You need someone higher 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.240 up on the chain to be a fan. Yeah, but 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:30.880 hats off to that guy. He was nice. I don't 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.679 remember his name, but he was a good guy. Yeah. Alright, 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:38.399 So should we talk a little bit about the Polly 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:42.280 Beute tad d N me how did you say it? 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:48.320 Polly Beuta dying polly beta dye. So those are three things. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.879 The beaute beaut four part carbon chain h E N 0:21:53.960 --> 0:22:00.480 E double bond d I too, right, So beaut beauta 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:05.320 dyne by itself, it's just a compound for carbon chain 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:13.399 double he looks two double bonds, right, Do people care? Really? 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:17.920 There's some chemists guy out there's like, yeah, no, I 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.800 mean they superballs are all over science class. Oh yeah, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.600 they really are, and not just because they are amazing 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.560 chemically or their need at least chemically, I don't know. 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.439 I'm impressed by it, right, um, but also the physics 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.000 of them, not just their co of coefficient of UM 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:39.880 restitution and their elasticity, but also they have another UM 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:43.520 coefficient of friction. Yeah, this is pretty cool. It's like 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:49.600 totally um different than their their elasticity. They have a 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:54.639 surface that basically grips whatever surface or object that's thrown onto, 0:22:55.640 --> 0:23:00.560 and it grips it so hard that the surface can 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:03.680 spin it a different way. So if you throw a 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.960 super Bowl with some backspin at an angle, it will 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:12.840 basically hit the ground and spin back towards you. It 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:17.120 changes its spin because it's there. There's so much friction. Yeah. 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:19.320 And if you get a super Bowl and you are 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.680 in a room with nothing breakable, uh, and you start 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:25.159