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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should Know, a production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: podcast everybody. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck trans

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Speaker 1: Drip Drip Drip Bryant over there. Jerry's somewhere out in

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Speaker 1: the ether, floating along in an alternate dimension of chaos

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Speaker 1: and disorder. Uh. And this is stuff you should know,

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Speaker 1: that's right? Uh. Inventor series, well, sure, inventors in this case,

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Speaker 1: lots of inventors. Um. First, I want to say check.

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Speaker 1: I gotta fully prepare the studio, the little house studio.

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Speaker 1: Here there we go. So I've just sprayed a couple

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Speaker 1: of sprits is of Mama Brand Grapefruit tangerine aromatherapy room spray,

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Speaker 1: and I'm feeling energized and ready to go. Oh good,

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Speaker 1: that's very nice. That is some stuff, man. I need

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Speaker 1: some of that in my basement. Oh you should have

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Speaker 1: loads of it? I should? I do? I just don't

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Speaker 1: have it down here? Where where could somebody find it

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Speaker 1: if they weren't me already know where to find it?

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Speaker 1: I wish you gotta love your Mama dot com and

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Speaker 1: support small businesses that sell soap. When you need soap.

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Speaker 1: Very nice, Chuck, very nice, and yes, I can attest.

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Speaker 1: This is some fine room spray. And you're washing your

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Speaker 1: hands a lot, so get some motion because you're probably dry.

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Speaker 1: I'm just using the room spray as everything. Oh yeah, yeah, lotion, soap,

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Speaker 1: what else you know? Essential oil? Stuff like that lip bomb,

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Speaker 1: all all the good things to make you slippery. So,

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Speaker 1: speaking of slippery, Chuck, you know something that's not really

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Speaker 1: slippery when you use it correctly, a zipper. It's been

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Speaker 1: a while, as far as the segway goes, so give

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Speaker 1: me a break. It's been a while. Yeah, I I oh, oh,

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Speaker 1: you just reminded me of something. Hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 1: I'm very sorry. I gotta do this. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: you reminded me. Though. So you sang that song somehow

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Speaker 1: it reminded me of breakfast at Tiffany's. That song that

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Speaker 1: duo is friends with our buddy Toby hal Brooks. Toby

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Speaker 1: hal Brooks and his lovely wife and Nell just had

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Speaker 1: their first baby. Oh Toby had a baby. Yes, So

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Speaker 1: congratulations to Toby and and Nell. They have a cute

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Speaker 1: little baby too. I've seen a picture of her and

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Speaker 1: she is adorable. So congrats guys, and way to go.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. I'm very happy for them. Toby is a

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Speaker 1: great guy. And I don't know if I met his wife,

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Speaker 1: have I It don't know. I don't think I have.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's south by Southwest. Maybe that was a long

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Speaker 1: time ago. It was a while back. Yeah, I remember

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Speaker 1: eating a drinking and eating Bloody Mary's with bacon and cheese,

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Speaker 1: and that was one of those places that had it

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Speaker 1: all in the glass. Yeah, it was nice at the

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Speaker 1: Drexel Hotel. Right, Yeah, that was a good day or

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Speaker 1: driscal dri driscyll all of that from It's been a while.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about buttons and then zippers. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: I um thought that this was a pretty cool intro

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Speaker 1: if you ask me, because if you think about zippers,

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Speaker 1: you think zippers they're great. Who needs to think much

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Speaker 1: about them? Well, you do, pal, because you are blessed

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Speaker 1: to be living in an age where zippers exist. Because

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Speaker 1: it was not too long ago, um about a hundred years,

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Speaker 1: a little over a hundred years that there weren't zippers.

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Speaker 1: You had a button basically, maybe some clasps, nothing that

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Speaker 1: you were going to be happy dealing with. And most

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Speaker 1: of the time. For most of human history, it was

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Speaker 1: a button that was our only option to to to

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Speaker 1: which is more important than you would think. Chuck, the

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Speaker 1: dumb clumsy button has been around. I think the earliest

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Speaker 1: button that we found comes from a settlement settlement in

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Speaker 1: the Indus Valley civilization which is now modern day Pakistan.

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Speaker 1: Uh And it was a curbed shell. It's about five

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Speaker 1: of even pre buttonhole they were they were loops. Um.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever had one of those cool old school

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Speaker 1: uh well, some pea coats have the have the loops,

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Speaker 1: corduroy coats have had. Or like if you were a

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Speaker 1: cape and probably you've probably encountered something like this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my cape definitely has a loop and bone. One of

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Speaker 1: my capes, say Pakistan, but like Sammy Davis Jr. Pakished

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Speaker 1: on babe, very nice, very nice. So um, the button

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Speaker 1: But for the most part it was an adornment. It

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Speaker 1: guild formed in France in twelve fifty. That was a

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Speaker 1: They basically everyone was like, guys, we've had buttons for

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Speaker 1: taking these things seriously. Yeah, this is it's been amateur,

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Speaker 1: our bush league stuff up to this point. Let's let's

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Speaker 1: stopped and thought, well, we can make this better. Forget

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Speaker 1: that loop that you put things through, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the button can just fall right right back through. What

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Speaker 1: and make what we'll eventually call a button hole. How

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Speaker 1: about that? And this act really as simple as that

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Speaker 1: is just made clothing technology jump by light years. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was a big deal because, uh, those loops can

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Speaker 1: break off, and often do, but sometimes they just dissolve

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Speaker 1: I guess if you were really hard on them, they

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Speaker 1: could eventually split to the seam. But there were a

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Speaker 1: lot better than those loops. And you know, buttons they

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Speaker 1: were the thing. They were around for a long time.

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Speaker 1: They were just sort of the way that you've fastened

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Speaker 1: was like, there's got to be a better way. Like

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Speaker 1: every great invention, not every great imation, but many great

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Speaker 1: inventions were built on someone trying to do something in

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Speaker 1: a better way. Yeah, because I mean even when the

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Speaker 1: together with the uton might be held at the button point,

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Speaker 1: but above and below that button there's a big old hole,

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Speaker 1: and who knows what's sticking out of there, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm sure buttons can also pop off.

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Speaker 1: So his idea was, you you saw some reinforcements to

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Speaker 1: them with all these, uh class a series of clasps,

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Speaker 1: not on it like later inventors would be. No, but

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Speaker 1: enjoining it together in its wake. That is the clearly

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Speaker 1: But he left everything just sitting there in his patent.

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Speaker 1: seeing economy type terms. That's right. So the father of

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Speaker 1: man from Chicago named Whitcomb Judson. This is about forty

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Speaker 1: four years after Howe's had. How had filed his patent

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Speaker 1: But back then he was like, this thing works great

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Speaker 1: for shoes, uh, and shoes are kind of a pain

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Speaker 1: they invented another um UH invention called the button button hook,

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Speaker 1: times inventors like to toil away in the shop and

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Speaker 1: Is it always a colonel? Yeah, Colonel Tom Parker, Colonel Sanders,

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Speaker 1: got together with Walker, Colonel Walker, and launched the Universal

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Speaker 1: Fastener Company to manufacture and sell the Judson Security Fastener.

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Speaker 1: Very clever there the letter c dash Curity Fastener. Uh

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Speaker 1: And like so many huge products, were debuted at the

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Speaker 1: City before it? Man, you're really gonna like it, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, it was that world's fair. God the Guide

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Speaker 1: and like the importance of it. As far as I know,

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Speaker 1: get that anywhere near a kid. So, as is usual

423
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: with fashion, the children's fashion leads the way, um, and

424
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: paved the way for zippers to come in. Like I said,

425
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: to men's trousers. Eventually, women's clothing and then women's genes.

426
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: Zippers were finally added to jeans because of women. Apparently

427
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: Western women were totally fine with the buttonfly, but back

428
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 1: East they were a little more modest and decided the

429
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: buttonfly allowed too much breeze to blow through, and so

430
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: Levi's added zippers to their jeans to try to market

431
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: them to women in the East and the mid forties.

432
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm surprised women were wearing jeans in the mid forties.

433
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: I was surprised by that too. Smells like Catherine Hepburn's

434
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 1: work if you ask me, But on those jeans, ladies,

435
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: that was amazing. So these I used to do a

436
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: pretty good Catherine Herburn. That was not my best effort,

437
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: it was still pretty good. Uh, you old poop. So

438
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: they went from producing the Hookless Fastener Company twenty four

439
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: thousand zippers that first year in nineteen seventeen in nineteen

440
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 1: thirty four sixty million, by nineteen seventy one two point

441
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:42,479
Speaker 1: three billion, Yes founding, and by nine seventy one they

442
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 1: had changed their name again from Universal Fastener to Hookless

443
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: Fastener to now Talent. Make a note of that. Oh

444
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, I put a little pin in that Okay,

445
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: so uh, these were zippers that were uh and we

446
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: have all the name. These were called closed ends sippers.

447
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: That is, it's on a pair of jeans or something.

448
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: It's not like you're trying to put together to completely

449
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: unattached things like a jacket. Let's say, right, that would

450
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: be the next big thing that yeah. So yeah, there's

451
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: actually apparently three main kinds of zippers which I wasn't

452
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: aware of. But the the the ones like on jeans

453
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: or whatever, that's the close end. The ones separate like

454
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,959
Speaker 1: on a jacket or something like that that opens all

455
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: the way. Those are open end. And then you've got

456
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: the show offs of the zipper world, the two way zippers.

457
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: They think they're all that, yeah, but apparently, and there's

458
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: like all sorts of subcategories to like, for example, there's

459
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: the two way closed zipper where when the when you

460
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: open the thing you have to pull, the zipper slides

461
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: toward one another and when they meet they keep one

462
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 1: another from from sliding off or opening further. But if

463
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: you look at the say suitcase or whatever, it actually

464
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: forms an X with the two zippers lines in the middle.

465
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: That's an X type two way closed zipper in industry lingo. Yeah,

466
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: and it's here that I should point out that, um

467
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: something that I don't think I've ever talked about much

468
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: on the show. But I am a bag enthusiast. Oh yeah, backpacks,

469
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: luggage over the shoulder, bags, messenger bags, Merses, I've got.

470
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: I do have a merse um. Shout out to nut Sack, Merses, No, No,

471
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: and ut Dash s A C. Sure it's great. Still

472
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter now it's that's the name of the company.

473
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: Oh got, It's got a little acorn on the front

474
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: of it. That's it's very cheeky, obviously, But I stand

475
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: by my Nutsack. It's great. Let me ask you, how

476
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: did you end up becoming like a bad guy. I

477
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: don't know, man, there's something about finding the perfect bad

478
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: bag with all there's something about all the compartments that

479
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: fit just the right things. I don't know. I think

480
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit of a O. C. D spectrum

481
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: thing um that I've talked about here and there over

482
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: the years, with stepping on cracks and doing certain things

483
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: an equal amount of times with each foot in each hand,

484
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: Like I don't let it drive me or control me.

485
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: But all that stuff is in there and I think

486
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: it has something to do with my bag thing is

487
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: having seeking out the perfect bag that holds all of

488
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: my things in exactly the right way. Very nice. But

489
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: I mean, when did this start? Was it like middle school,

490
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: high school? College? I think I always was sort of

491
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: into them, but like I was happy to just have

492
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: the backpack that was just okay because I was young

493
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: and broke. But now that I'm an adult, you know,

494
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: I can I can try a couple of different bags

495
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: out and I recycled them. I don't have a room

496
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: full of bags. Emily will will disagree and say that

497
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: I have far too many bags and some that don't

498
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: get used. But I did just recently sell a bag

499
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: um to to a guy like how like on the

500
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: street now it was I put it on Facebook and

501
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: it was ended up going to a husband of someone

502
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: I knew that. He was like, he wants this thing.

503
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: I was like great, so um, anyway, I have a

504
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: bad thing. And there's a sub category of people on

505
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: the internet travel people that are really into bags and

506
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: especially zippers. That's where this all comes in. There is

507
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: a lot of zipper talk on these sites because they're

508
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,719
Speaker 1: not all designed well and you've got to have a

509
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: really great zipper system in order to be a great bag.

510
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: That is the thing. That's one of the best easiest

511
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: ways you can tell a knockoff bag, even a well

512
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: made knockoff bag, from the real thing is how good

513
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: is the zipper? Yeah, I get the impression that really

514
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: nice zippers aren't the cheapest things to include in a bag. No. No,

515
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: because anybody can dash off a zipper. Yeah, we could

516
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: make one right now if we wanted to. Sure it

517
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: was arts and crafts time, but it's not. It's talking time.

518
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: It we couldn't make a really well made zipper. No.

519
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: And a complaint you will see oftentimes on these websites

520
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,239
Speaker 1: is travel websites is great bag. But boy, why did

521
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,479
Speaker 1: they put this zipper on this thing? Right? And so,

522
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: I mean, when you put a zipper on a bag

523
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: or a pair of jeans or something like that, it

524
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: is done, like there's not any any redoing this this thing. Like,

525
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: if it's a good zipper, great, If it's a bad zipper,

526
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: you just ruined the bag or ruined the jeans. And

527
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: then once the zipper inevitable inevitably breaks, the bag is useless.

528
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: The genes are useless, and that's actually a mark in

529
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: the favor of buttons. You can replace a button that

530
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: pops off when the zipper breaks, Yeah, you can fix it.

531
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: There's definitely videos on how to deal with different um

532
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: zipper issues. But when it's broken, broken, there's there's it's

533
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: a problem. It's a lot more of a problem than

534
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: when a button pops off, I guess, is what I'm

535
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: trying to say. Yeah, I agree. Um, And here's the

536
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: point where we uh where I'm going to call on you.

537
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll take a break. I knew you were going

538
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: to do this. I am because you somehow made describing

539
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: how a zipper works confusing. So this is on you

540
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: and we'll talk. Josh will explain exactly how a zipper works.

541
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: Right after this. Oh man, I want to learn about

542
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: a rosortic college actol, how to take a perfect with

543
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: all about fractal kiscon that's a little hun the Lizzie

544
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: Border murders, that they kind of all runs on the plane.

545
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: Everything that's we should know. Word up, Jerry, So let

546
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: me think of some movies. Uh have you seen? Have

547
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: you seen Altered Carbon? I know it's not a movie,

548
00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: it's a good TV show though. I have not. That's good. Um,

549
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: I already talked about ozarks recently. Right, are you putting

550
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: this off? Yeah? All right. I'll describe how to use

551
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: a zipper because I didn't realize this before. Did you

552
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: know just how a zipper worked? You did not? I did?

553
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: You can look at it and tell how it works. Well,

554
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: I've looked at plenty of zippers, and I guess it

555
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: hasn't sunk in. I finally had to read what's going

556
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: on down there? Magic? I thought a little magic wizard

557
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: lived in each zipper slide and would be like Alec Gazoo.

558
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 1: I think what you're saying is you didn't realize all

559
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: those parts had names. Maybe that's definitely part of it,

560
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: but no, I also didn't understand the physics. I'm gonna

561
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: do this. You're ready, stand back? So uh. With every

562
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: kind of zipper, you have teeth, and you put the

563
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: teeth together and you have a zipper chain. You have

564
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: the thing that moves up and down the zipper that's

565
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: called the slide, and the slide itself is usually made

566
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: up of the slide body that the zipper teeth go through,

567
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: a bridge that's connected to the slide body, and a

568
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: puller or a tab that's connected to the bridge. Okay, okay,

569
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: So when these teeth are manufacturers will talk about in

570
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: a second. They're made so that they're all the exact

571
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: same size and shape, but then when they're connected, they're offset,

572
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: so that if you take two teeth in between the teeth,

573
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: a little hole or hollow or valley forms and the

574
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: teeth on the opposite side of the fabric that's going

575
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: to be connected. The tooth fits into that hollow just so,

576
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: but it doesn't fit in just so so that it

577
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: could just pull right out. It has a little hook

578
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: on the end of it, and so when the slide

579
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: body comes in contact with the teeth on either side,

580
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: it has like wedges inside the slide body that kick

581
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: those teeth up at an angle or down at an angle,

582
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 1: and it also pulls them together. So it actually takes

583
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: the tooth and puts it at an angle so that

584
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 1: it fits into the hollow between the other two teeth

585
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: on the other side. And then as it passes by,

586
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: that tooth goes back to horizontal and it's locked in.

587
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: The little hook on the end locks it into that hollow,

588
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: and from being locked in, it provides stability for the

589
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: teeth that are connected on either side above it, and

590
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: so on and so forth, so that as the slide

591
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: finally reaches at the top, it hits a stop which

592
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: keeps the slide from going off the end um. And

593
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: it's done. It's a little job when it comes back down.

594
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: When you pull down on the slide to un zip,

595
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: it actually uses a reverse wedge of plow to kick

596
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: those wedges back up and separate them so that they

597
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: can easily the hook tooth can easily pull out of

598
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: the hollow and separate. And that, friend, is how a

599
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: zipper works. That's great. Oh, I haven't pressed your court.

600
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: I just went ahead of Mike's mighty good ramen. I

601
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: had one of those two. I had the kimchi one

602
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: out of the pork um. That was good, chuck. If

603
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: you hadn't it checked out, you would. I was frankly

604
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 1: expecting a little round of applause. Oh, people are clapping

605
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: all over the world right now. Good good, Okay, So

606
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: it is great. Uh. It's such an elegant design because

607
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: what you're doing here, and it's easy to take for granted,

608
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 1: but what you are tasked with with doing with making

609
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: a quality zipper is making something that is very very

610
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: easy to zip up and down or back and forth,

611
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: because you don't want that thing to get hung up

612
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: or to be hard to pull. It's got to be

613
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: really easy, but it also has to be super super secure.

614
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: And the and the marriage of those two things I

615
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: think is kind of really speaks to the elegance of

616
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: the design of the zipper exactly. And the more the

617
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: more well designed and well manufactured the teeth are, the

618
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: tighter that bind is going to be, yeah, because they

619
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: fit together so precisely. Yeah, if you've had zipper problems

620
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: and bad zippers, that's when it that's when you really

621
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: need to to thank your lucky stars that people are

622
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: out there designing and making great zippers, right, which are

623
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: just too expensive to easily be attained. Or like when

624
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: that stop doesn't work and you go to zip up

625
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: at that jacket and all of a sudden, you're you're

626
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: holding that bull tab and the bridge right like a dummy. Yeah,

627
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: so there are things there. It's the worst you can

628
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: So there's actually little clamps that you can put on

629
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: a zipper broken zipper. I saw a video about this

630
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: that fit in between like the top two teeth on

631
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: either side, and then you just take some need on

632
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 1: those pliers and basically clamp it on the on the

633
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: inside and outside of the zipper fabric tape and that

634
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,959
Speaker 1: will stop that slide. So if the slide ever comes off,

635
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: because this one of the stops broke off, you can

636
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: actually take um not at all drastic measures to fix

637
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: your zipper. Not me, man, I throw that jacket in

638
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: the garbage right to set it on fire force at

639
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: least all the methane inside. I do, and then I

640
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: sweep up the ashes, a urinate on them, and I

641
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: put it in the garbage. You turn it into a

642
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: six pack ring and throw it into the ocean. Now

643
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:24,919
Speaker 1: that is a good tip actually, because there are ways

644
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: to darn socks and fix zippers. And we live in

645
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: a disposable society. So if you have a cheap zipper,

646
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: or you know, if you really like a jacket and

647
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: it has a terrible zipper, you could take it to

648
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: a place and they could probably put the zipper of

649
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: choice on there. But that's a lot of work. It

650
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: is a lot of work. There are things that you

651
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: can do yourself. You can also um if the zipper

652
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: slide is not doing a very good job any longer

653
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: of connecting the teeth. It's probably because the wedges inside

654
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: are a little loose, a little far apart. Again, needle

655
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: nose pliers are your best friend. Pinch the zippers from

656
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: the side and from the front and back. You're not

657
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: the zipper the slide mechanism. Sorry, and it will, um,

658
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: it will. It'll produce a tighter grip on the zipper

659
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: teeth from that point on. Again, basically you're breathing new

660
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: life into your zipper slide. Yeah, and uh failed to

661
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: mention that I'm also an outdoorsman and camper my whole life,

662
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: so aside from my bag fetish um sleeping bags intense.

663
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: That's a real big deal to have the right zipper

664
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: on those things. Yeah, that'll that. This the worst is

665
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: and especially on tense, the design such that, um, when

666
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: you're zipping it, the little flap gets zipped up in

667
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: the zipper. Yes, that's pretty bad. It's awful. It is,

668
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: um and that's something you can deal with yourself. But

669
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: zippers can also get stuck over time, especially if it's

670
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: a metal zipper and it's starting to corrode. They don't

671
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: like to slide nearly as much. There are little things,

672
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: little tip tips and tricks you can do to unstick

673
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: a zipper that's a little corroded. One of the first

674
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: things you can do is take a graphite pencil and

675
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: rub it on the teeth just below the zipper. And

676
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: graphites a dry lubricant and it'll help you unzip it

677
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: if the If the pencil doesn't work, try a little

678
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: bit of bar soap, dry bar soap, and if that

679
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: doesn't work, to spray a little squirt tiny stream of

680
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: windex on there and let it sit for a little

681
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 1: while and that should unzip your corroded or gunky zipper too. Yeah,

682
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: very good tips here from Uncle Josh. Right. So there's

683
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: some other things, Like we just basically described how zipper works.

684
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: What is zippers made out of um? Or what the

685
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: components are. There are some other things that they make

686
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: some little fancy dancy kind of a kouchruma to zippers um.

687
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: One of the things UH that comes in handy is, say,

688
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: like with a tent or something, when you want the

689
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: zipper to stay up, is a locking slide to where

690
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: it won't like you could pull the zipper apart and

691
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: it won't come apart because that slide won't move. It

692
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: only moves when you pull on the tab because it

693
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: lifts the locking mechanism as you slide up or down.

694
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 1: That's a good one. They also make magnetic zippers, which

695
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: is good for one handed zipping and unzipping. It's amazing.

696
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: I think so too. So let's talk a little bit

697
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 1: about how it's made and then we're going to bring

698
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: it home with a little manufacturing and medical action. Okay, Yeah,

699
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: so zippers, it depends on what it's made out of. Obviously,

700
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 1: with how it's made. UM a lot of zippers, you'll

701
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: see her metal um. They can be flat or they

702
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: can be profiled. They can be made of aluminium, nickel, brass, nickel,

703
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: free white brass, nickel, aluminum, brass, aminium right, nickelodeon. I'm

704
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: just reporting what I found on the internet, not making

705
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: fun of you. Uh. They can be die cast out

706
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: of zinc alloy directly onto that tape and you end

707
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: up just sewing that or gluing that onto the material.

708
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: And I imagined that might be a bit of a

709
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: more robust zipper. Yeah. The that that machine that Gideon's

710
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: sunback Um came up with is still The design principle

711
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: of it is still in use in some zipper manufacturers

712
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: where they take wire and just like pinch and pull

713
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: and clamp the zipper teeth out of wire onto this

714
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: zipper tape the fabric that's going to be put onto

715
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: the material that the zippers applied to you. That's right.

716
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: If you're working with plastic, there's basically two main ways.

717
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: And I saw really great how it's made. It's like

718
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: five minutes long, but it just explains it all um.

719
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: With plastic, there's a couple of reasons why you would

720
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: want plastic. You can actually manufacture plastic two more precise

721
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: design specifications if you're doing it right than metal zipper,

722
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: which means that it may actually provide a stronger grip.

723
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: It also doesn't corrode, although metal zippers are typically thought

724
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: of as is tougher over time, but they they they

725
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: will corrode. Plastic doesn't corrode. But if you're making plastic,

726
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: you can make it a couple of ways. One you

727
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: can make it basically just like a metal zippers made

728
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: by die casting it. And then another way is to

729
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: actually print it onto the tape, so like the whole

730
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: zipper to the exact length you want is just basically

731
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: formed and melted onto the fabric tape, and then there's

732
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: your zipperty. It can be super super solid. It's not

733
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: like a plastic zipper has to be cheap, no uh.

734
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: And then if you want a flexible plastic zipper, there's

735
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: something called a woven coil nylon zipper. And you've probably

736
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: seen this before, like on a dress that's meant to

737
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: have movement or something like that. It's a it's a

738
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: very thin um it's almost like a nest of of

739
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: nylon woven on either side, and the zipper just moves

740
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: up and down it. You've seen those before, I'm sure

741
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: I have. Don't play me bro. Most of my dresses

742
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: require movement, that's for sure. So I think we should

743
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about y K k uh. If

744
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: you've ever looked down and seen a zipper, the chances

745
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: are you have if you've ever worn any article of

746
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: clothing and seeing y KK. That stands for Yoshida Kogyo

747
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: Kabushiki Kasha, which is UM a Japanese company that makes these.

748
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: Where else making Georgia. Yeah, that's like their biggest plan

749
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: is in making Yeah, and I knew it was in making.

750
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: Actually they make about five million zippers a day. Uh.

751
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: They started making zippers the Japanese company in four They

752
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: make theirs out of copper alloy, and they're really smart.

753
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: This is a company that UM. They build the machines

754
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: that make the zippers, they build the boxes and make

755
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: the boxes that they ship them in. So they have

756
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: a lot of control over the the pricing of their

757
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: supply chain, which is a great way to make a

758
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: lot more money than you would if you were outsourcing

759
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: that stuff right exactly. And so y k K kind

760
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: of came up. They started in the ninety four, but

761
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: by nineteen seventy they really started to take over the

762
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: zipper industry, so much so that prior to nineteen seventy

763
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: a little company called Talent, which you might know of

764
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: as the hookless fastener company, UM had seventy percent of

765
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: the market share. Seven out of all ten zippers that

766
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: you found in the world were made by Talent, And

767
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: by nineteen seventy one suddenly y KK had like of that,

768
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: and they were the big kid on the block for

769
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: decades until basically recently, when UM some Chinese firms started

770
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: to really come up to yeah, and the Chinese firms.

771
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: There used to be hundreds of these and they have

772
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: now sort of been consolidated down to like how many

773
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 1: do they have over there now? Yeah, but there's really

774
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: two big ones now, SPS and y KK. Right, and

775
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: a lot of these Chinese companies will be called things

776
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: like y q Q or y c C right obviously

777
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: trying to uh sort of rip off the y k

778
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: K company. And it's like any business where there are

779
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: some big, big players, there's fierce, fierce rivalries in the

780
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: zipper industry. Yumi said that when she was a kid,

781
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: her mom wouldn't buy something if the zipper wasn't y KK.

782
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 1: Sure you know it's quality zipper right there, made by

783
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: relatives of the Allman Brothers problem. That's right, that's where

784
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 1: the museum is so um. So that's why y KK

785
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: has found on most your zippers because of this company

786
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: that has been doing this for a very long time. Right,

787
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing. And I feel like, Chuck, we would

788
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 1: be remiss in talking about zippers if we also didn't

789
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: talk about, as you kind of teased earlier, Genitalia getting

790
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: caught in zippers, which is one of the big drawbacks

791
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: of zipper technology. Yeah, the very famous Signfelt episode when

792
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: he's remarking about his button flies. You want to do

793
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: your best Jerry Seinfeld. Here, this is the one place

794
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: on my wardrobe. I do not need sharp, inter locking

795
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: metal tee. Oh I think you had Seinfeld confused with

796
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: Silence of the Lambs. Which fun Buffalo Bill or Hannibal

797
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: elector Seinfeld of the Lambs. Oh wait, let me see

798
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: if I do it. Just do one place on my wardrobe.

799
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: I do not need sharpen or locking metal tea. Except

800
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: he would not have a zipper on his kimono. Was

801
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: that better or worse the second time? I don't know.

802
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 1: They were both great. I think worse. I'm going with

803
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: so Yeah, it's um. There are zipper injuries, mostly with

804
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 1: boys and men. That was a group in two thousand

805
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: thirteen and the urologists in San Francisco that's published an

806
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: actual study about zipper injuries in between two thousand two

807
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: in there were close to eighteen thousand men and boys

808
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: who had had zipper accidents um at the emergency room

809
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: with some variation of a something about mary type of injury. Yeah,

810
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: that's that's not that's just the ones that were bad

811
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: enough to go to the emergency room. Yeah, not the

812
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: ones that are like, ah, let me just put some

813
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: ointment on that, right, But that's exactly the treatment that

814
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: those guys got at the at the emergency room. Apparently

815
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: the treatment for it was described by a doctor, a

816
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: pediatric doctor, who said, I'm just gonna read this whole thing. Okay, Yes,

817
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: you want to just pour mineral oil all over the

818
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: patient's genitalia and the zipper be generous, that's the key.

819
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: This is pretty cheap stuff. Then let the patients sit

820
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: there for twenty or thirty minutes, pack him in a

821
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: room somewhere, and when you come back, the four skin

822
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: will have simply slipped out of that zipper, although in

823
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: some cases you may need a cotton swab to help

824
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: it along a bit. You know, my favorite part of

825
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,479
Speaker 1: that whole quote, right, what it was when he's talking

826
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: about how inexpensive mineral oil is. Right, because you know,

827
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: mineral oil, you can just afford to just douse your

828
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 1: testicles with that stuff because it's pretty cheap. This isn't

829
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: like you know something, um Martin. Sure Kelly would invest

830
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: in what god farmer bro. Yeah, he would never buy

831
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: into a mineral oil company not profitable enough. I guarantee

832
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: that he's trying to get rich off of coronavirus. I

833
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: think he's in prison again. No, he's still He's probably

834
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: got his minions. Um, yeah, probably so. Yeah, you can

835
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: get your your junk zipped up in there. Uh, I

836
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: had I don't understand why a man would go commando

837
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: to me, the underwear is one of the biggest benefits

838
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: is to avoid zipper related injuries. But people do it,

839
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: and I just imagine you've got to be super careful. Yeah,

840
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: not just men too. There were five women in that

841
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: group of seventeen thousand, six hundred and sixteen emergency room visits.

842
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: Five women got caught in there. But for young boys, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: I thought this was the fact of the podcast. The

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Speaker 1: number one cause of penile injury was not zippers. Zippers

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Speaker 1: were second. Number one was getting smashed by the toilet lid.

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Speaker 1: How for real? Yeah, I mean you know they're they're

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Speaker 1: right there at lid height. I guess so I was

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Speaker 1: forgetting about the height difference. Okay, that's sad. You got

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Speaker 1: anything else, guys, I got nothing else? Well, that's zippers, everybody. Um,

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Speaker 1: we made it through Zippers is the new Sun. And

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Speaker 1: since I said zippers is the new Sun, it's time

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Speaker 1: for a listener. Male. Ah, this is from Kirsten and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna uh not exclusively, but I like reading these

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Speaker 1: emails about how we're helping folks out during this weird,

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Speaker 1: weird time of isolation, and this is this is one

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Speaker 1: of those. Hey, guys, thanks so much for the podcast.

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Speaker 1: My boyfriend Matt introduced me The Stuff You Should Know

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Speaker 1: our relationship. You see on car rides and road trips,

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Speaker 1: he always wants to listen to something that he will

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Speaker 1: learn from. I, on the other hand, am much more

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Speaker 1: interested in listening to something funny and lighthearted. Your podcast

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Speaker 1: strikes the perfect balance. Every time we listen to your show,

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Speaker 1: we always laugh together and we both learn a little

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Speaker 1: something too. Kirsten, we've been trying to explain that in

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Speaker 1: such a sixtinct way for twelve years now. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was really well done. Matt works in the I c

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Speaker 1: U and has been working long hours amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Speaker 1: To pass the time alone at home, I've been listening

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Speaker 1: to a lot of Stuff You Should know. So I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you guys for keeping me company. And

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Speaker 1: if you wanted to give a shout out to Matt

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Speaker 1: and all of our amazing healthcare workers across the country,

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Speaker 1: that would be awesome and we certainly certainly want to

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Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, give it up, like it's eight pm

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Speaker 1: for all of the healthcare workers, including Matt. That's right.

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Speaker 1: That is uh, you know, beyond everything that's going on

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Speaker 1: with this there. It's not like everyone decided to take

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Speaker 1: a break from getting hurt and needing to go to

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Speaker 1: the emergency room. Have you been Have you been more

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Speaker 1: careful than usual just to make sure you don't, like

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Speaker 1: accidentally need to go. No, I can't think about that

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Speaker 1: stuff because that's when I will get hurt. I thought

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Speaker 1: about it climbing up a ladder my house, Well, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I'd be doing a ladder work right now.

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Speaker 1: I had to look, well, I'm glad you were careful,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's um. That kind of just hit me

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Speaker 1: the other hospital stuff that has to happen right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's true. I have a friend who's a oh, our nurse.

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Speaker 1: I believe even she was saying that she'd been basically

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Speaker 1: furloughed for the moment because any elective surgery was um,

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Speaker 1: was explaining that elective meant like your gall blighter needs

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Speaker 1: to be removed, or you have a tumor that needs

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Speaker 1: to be removed. It was considered elective at least temporarily.

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Speaker 1: I think that she's back at work again. But that's

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Speaker 1: how bad it was. It was just like, if it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to do with COVID, no, just say no. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I was. I was just about to schedule

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Speaker 1: while to do that. Yeah, yeah, I can imagine, I

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Speaker 1: can imagine. Um. Well that was great. Who is that from?

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Speaker 1: That was from Kirston and Matt. Yes, well, thanks a

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Speaker 1: lot Kirston, and thanks a lot, Matt, and thanks a

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Speaker 1: lot to everybody who's fighting the good fight on the

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Speaker 1: front lines of the health care battle right now, looking

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Speaker 1: out for all of us. Our hats are off to you.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with us like

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Speaker 1: Kirston Matt did. We'll get in touch of this via email.

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Speaker 1: Wrap your email up to thank you do on the bottom,

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