1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Guess what will? What's that mango? So I've always had 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: this fascination with like trick houses, you know once with 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: secret passageways and bookshelves that hide safe and whatever. And 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: Murphy beds kind of play into that, you know, the 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: beds that kind of just pulled down from the wall. Right. 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: But I was chatting with Stacy about this this week 7 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: and she pointed me to Murphy bats. Did you know 8 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: what that was a thing? I have never heard of those. 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: I do remember that you love the word Murphy, so 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that you're talking about this. But so 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: were they? Were they popular? Yeah? I mean enough that 12 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: there were a few variations. So she pointed me to 13 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: this Montgomery ward catalog and it had this thing called 14 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: the folding bathtub that was an a wardrobe and it 15 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: could just fold out. And of course that wasn't the 16 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: only one. During the same era, this company called brush 17 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: Key and Rick. You know Brushki and Rick, right, of course, right, 18 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: they made this bathtub sofa combination, which I desperately want now. 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: Like there was a water tank under the sofa, and unfortunately, 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: a sofa is sometimes caught on fire, so it didn't 21 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: last long, but it did make me think. Since National 22 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: Bathtub Party Days this week, we uh, we have to 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: talk about some bats of facts, so why don't we 24 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: dive in? Heay their podcast listeners. Welcome to Part Time Genius. 25 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my 26 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: good friend Man Guesho Ticketer and the man on the 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: other side of the sound proof glass isn't Tristan. I 28 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: don't know how our our listeners are going to handle this, 29 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 1: but you're in luck today, guys, because Tristan might be 30 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: out celebrating National Bathtub Party Day with twenty four hours 31 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: in his bathtub, but we have another brilliant producer with 32 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: us today. We've got Ramsey in the booth instead. He's 33 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: waving back good good of course. We've got our pal 34 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: Gay up on the phone joining us as well. Good morning, Gabe, 35 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: Good morning. How's it going good? Pretty well? All right? 36 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: So for listeners out there, we're recording this on December five, 37 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: in honor of National Bathtub Day. Now, I know what 38 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: you're all thinking, isn't October seven Bathtub Day? But actually 39 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: that's that's only in England if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, 40 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: but even if you're in England, you can still get 41 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 1: in the bath on other days. I think I think 42 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: that's the case. But all right, well, let's get to 43 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: the bathtub facts. A mango. You kicked us off with 44 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: a Murphy bath fact, and it's a pretty good one, 45 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: and I'm proud of you for being able to get 46 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: the word Murphy in again. So, Gabe, what do you 47 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: have for us? First? I'm gonna tell you a little 48 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: bit about rubber ducky. The concept of a rubber duck 49 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: actually goes back over two hundred years. And those early 50 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: duck models they were solid cast rubber, which meant they 51 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: were way too heavy to actually float. And this is 52 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: because they weren't originally meant to be tough toys. They 53 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: were two toys, um. And so the ones that we 54 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: know of that actually floats, those are made of vine 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: and they didn't come along until the forties. An artist 56 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: named Peter Denine. He's credited with making the first floating 57 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: rubber duck. He was an artist who made animal sculptures, 58 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: but they weren't selling so well, so to create some 59 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: cash flow, he later maturized some of his pieces and 60 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: had the meat into toys, and obviously the most popular 61 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: one was the rubber duck, and more than fifty million 62 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: of them have been sold to date. I liked the 63 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: idea of being known as the guy that started the 64 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: floating rubber duck. I mean, you know what, like, after 65 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: you've finished your life, that just feels like something. So 66 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: that's a good first fact. Gave good job on that one. Now, 67 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: speaking of being known for things, I want to talk 68 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: about a family that's known for something very different today 69 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: than what they started out doing, and that's the Jacuzzi brothers. 70 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: So I don't know if you knew this, but they 71 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: actually started out by making airplanes. They had opened up 72 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: a shop in the Bay Area and invented things like 73 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: the Jacuzy toothpick propeller and also created the first airplane 74 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: that was designed with an enclosed cabin. Now, sadly, after 75 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: an airplane crash in one of their test flights, they 76 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: decided to shift directions and started creating things very different 77 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: from that had other inventions, including water pumps, and that's 78 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: actually what led to the invention that we know of today. 79 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: They developed this hydrotherapy system that was actually meant to 80 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: help one of their relatives who had juvenile arthritis, and 81 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: they started mass marketing this product and then got a 82 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: big break in the sixties when their product was featured 83 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: on the TV game show Queen for a Day. And 84 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: so that's why we know the Jacuzzi brothers for what 85 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: they've done. All right, Mango, let's go onto the second round. 86 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: What do you have for us? So? Have you heard 87 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: about these oil bats and Azerbaijan? Apparently they're like this 88 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: age old tradition there and you can go to a 89 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: health spa and soak in a unique grate of warm 90 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: crude oil. Supposedly the oil helps quote heal more than 91 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: seventy diseases, including neurological diseases, skin conditions, and impotence. And 92 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: I'm not sure why, but impotence is always thrown on 93 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: this list of things that you can cure, what nonsense remedies, 94 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: but so many things cure it. Yeah, that's pretty great. 95 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: I can't say that I have heard of these oil 96 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: baths and as Azerbaijan, but I can't say that I 97 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: can even say Azerbaijan correctly. Apparently, but that's pretty good. 98 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: All right. Well, I've got another one here, speaking of 99 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: baths and cures for things, Apparently obesity might be one 100 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: of these things. So actually some studies have shown that 101 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: taking a hot bath might be almost as good for 102 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: you as exercising, and there have been several studies to 103 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: look at this, and so they were looking at blood 104 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: sugar control and blood sugar levels as well as calories burned. 105 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: One of the studies compared an hour long bath versus 106 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: an hour of cycling, which may seem ridiculous, and of 107 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: course an hour of cycling did result in more calories burned. However, 108 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: an hour long bath resulted in about as many calories 109 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 1: burned as about you know, maybe like a half hour walk. 110 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: It was a hundred and forty calories. And then when 111 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: they compared the blood sugar levels after after the hour 112 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: of cycling and then eating versus taking a bath and 113 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: then eating later, they actually found that the peak blood 114 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: sugar levels was a little bit lower in those that 115 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: just took the hot bath. And so this has led 116 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: to a lot more research in this area of what's 117 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: called passive heating, you know, rather than the type of 118 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: exercise and active sweating that you think of with uh, 119 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: with other ways of either losing weight or exercising. So 120 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: it's interesting to see what's going on in this area. 121 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: So I'm I'm planning to incorporate this into my exercise 122 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: routine going forward. I like that. All right, Gay, what 123 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: do you have for your next fact? Well, so I 124 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: actually have more to tell you about rubber ducks. Oh good, Yeah, 125 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: it's the time that they helped scientists understand water current 126 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: So thousand rubber ducks were dumped into the North Pacific Ocean. 127 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: This is when a cargo ship accidentally dropped the container 128 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: that they were in, and the ducks spent more than 129 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: a decade traveling with seeds. Um that he washed up 130 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: on shores from everywhere from Alaska to Hawaii to Scotland, 131 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: and they were cited as late as the mid two thousands. Um. 132 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: But there was an upside of this. Researchers were able 133 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: to use the ducks to study water currents and you 134 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: know how long it takes for objects to travel from 135 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: ocean to ocean. That's pretty great. And he gave I'm 136 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: proud of you for being able to come up with 137 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: two rubber ducky facts. All right, Well, my last fact 138 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: of the day here, um, I do have to put 139 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: one bathtub rumor to rest here. And this is a 140 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: sad one because it's one we've heard many times before, 141 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: and this is about President William Howard Taft. Apparently he 142 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: didn't actually get stuck in a bathtub. He did have 143 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: this giant bathtub installed in the White House a couple 144 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: of weeks into his presidency, and it was about seven 145 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: ft long forty wide. There's actually a couple of photos 146 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: of it that you can find. There's there's one with 147 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: four men sitting comfortably inside the tub. So, you know, 148 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: a tub of that size, even at three hundred and 149 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: fifty pounds, he probably wouldn't have gotten stuck in it. 150 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: So you have to wonder, like where did this rumor 151 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: get started? And it was actually started by Erwin Hoover, 152 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: who was the White House butler at the time, actually 153 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: the White House butler for forty two years, and in 154 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: his biography, Hoover wrote that Taft would quote stick in 155 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: the tub and would require assistance to get out each time. 156 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: And so I think that's probably where it came from. 157 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: People did have a lot of fun reporting on this bathtub, 158 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: but they're real really no reports of him actually getting 159 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: lodged in the tub. Sadly, that is said, alright, mango, 160 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: what's your last fact of the day. So I don't 161 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: want game to have the last word on rubber Duckies. 162 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: And Will knows I love Ernie and Sesame Street and 163 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: I particularly love that song You gotta put down the 164 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 1: ducky if you want to play the saxophone. You know 165 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: they made on two videos that NonStop. Yeah, they made 166 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: two different videos for it. But did you know that 167 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: the original rubber Ducky song that Ernie sang rubber Ducky Year, 168 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: the one was done in nineteen seventy and it actually 169 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: hit number sixteen on the Billboard charts. Isn't that insane? 170 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: And uh, that is unbelievable. Also, in the original video, 171 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't done with a blue background, like a bath 172 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: in front of a blue background. It was actually Ernie 173 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: in the middle of his living room. And I guess 174 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 1: he moved the bathtip to the bathroom after some home 175 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: renovations in the second season of Sesame Street. But but 176 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: that's just something to think about. Wow, alright, well you 177 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: got to say the name Murphy and talk about this 178 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 1: song that you've always loved. So it's gonna be tough 179 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: to top. A Gabe, you get to go last. You 180 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: get one more fact. You got something. I'm hoping this 181 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: one's probably unrelated to rubber duckies. Well, actually, at the 182 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: risk of seeming a little obsessed, I'm going to go 183 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: ahead and take the final word on rubber ducks here. 184 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: I just have to tell you about the world's largest 185 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: rubber duck. Um. This was. This was from two thousand 186 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 1: seven when a toy loving Dutch artist named Florentine Hoffman. 187 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: He created a hundred foot tall rubber ducks for an 188 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: art installation and then you kind of released it into 189 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: the wild, and it's actually been floating all around the 190 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: world ever since. Um. It's strapped to a giant pontoon 191 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: and guided by the computer in its head. And this 192 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 1: this massive duck, it just fails from port to ports, 193 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: spreading gear and probably a little bit of confusion to 194 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: wherever it goes. And the artist behind the duck, he says, 195 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: it's meant to remind us that quote, when we are 196 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: living on one planet, all global water has become your bafta. Wow. 197 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: So this almost turned into an episode on Nine Things 198 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: about rubber ducks. I'm not sure how I didn't get 199 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: the memo on this, but but gave just for the 200 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: courage and sharing three facts on rubber ducks. I feel 201 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: like maybe you deserve the trophy, Mango, what do you think? Yeah, 202 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: that was a bold move game, but I'm gonna give 203 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: it to you as long as it's a rubber duck. 204 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: So that's it for today's episode. Now, we've heard from 205 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: so many listeners with ideas for future nine Things episodes, 206 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: and we love hearing from you, so if you want 207 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: to reach out to us with any ideas for those, 208 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: you can always email us. 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