WEBVTT - How Soylent Works 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:13.800 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.279 and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry over there, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:23.040 which means it's time for stuff you should know. He's 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:27.760 the He's the DJ, I'm the rapper. Who's the DJ? 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.720 Don't you remember? That was the first, first or second 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.279 d J Jazz Jeff and the Fresh Prince album. Now 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.760 wouldn't need them. Everybody was totally confused as to who 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.120 was who, so they actually named their album He's the DJ, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.120 I'm the rapper, and like Will Smith is pointing at 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.839 himself and pointing at Jazz Jeff. And then their newest 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.920 album is called He's the movie Star. I'm the one 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:52.880 who asked you if you want fries with that soda? 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.520 Poor jay Z Jeff. That's so mean. I'll bet he's 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.480 a like a successful producer. I bet he is totally 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.959 successful and probably way more successful than me. And I'm 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.200 just a jerk. It's a little late now, I know. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.560 I thought it would be funny. And I also insulted 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:18.000 fast food industry workers too. It's like that that one 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.479 Simpsons where somebody I think was calling Homer a chicken, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.000 and some giant chicken walks over and goes he's insulting 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:30.000 the both of us. This show just gave and gave 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.200 and gave for decades. I think DJ Jazzy Jeff, I'm 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.520 looking right now. I think he's still uh a DJ 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:44.640 record producer and still a DJ called like DJ DJ. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:52.520 I'm just mean. Sorry, Jazzy Jeff. You know who's not mean? You? No, 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.160 I'm pretty mean? Okay. Um, A kid named well, I 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:57.760 don't want to call him a kid. I want to 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.400 call him a kid because he's younger than me. But 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.800 he's a dude now. Yeah, his name is Rob Brian Hart. Yeah, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:09.520 not Rob Reiner, No, no, no, no adult Rob Brian Hart. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.760 Although he had a movie called When Harry Met Soilent. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.880 That's pretty good. That was good. And you know what 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.440 I'm ashamed to say, I didn't even see that coming. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.520 Was so bad. Emily always laughs when I left. She 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.760 always like, you really cracked yourself up, didn't you. Like, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.720 I'll just be walking down the hall laughing at myself 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.600 and she that's a way to say, Chuck's drunk. Chucks drunk, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.079 and you're not as funny as you think you are. Oh, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.920 I see what you mean. Yeah, you really crack yourself up. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:44.840 Sometimes you should say, somebody's got to alright, Soilent, this 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.520 is not a paid promotion for soiling Let's go ahead 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.120 and just get that out of the way. No, but 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.720 it's they're they're it's gonna pay off for him big time. Well, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.919 I mean, we're gonna talk a lot about a specific brand, 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.679 but um, I think it's worthwhile because it is the 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.600 innuine I think it's a genuine revolutionary product in a 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.000 lot of ways. And it's not an endorsement. I'm just 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.960 saying it's really super unique. Yeah, it's not not to 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.880 endorse or whatever, but it's probably the single greatest thing 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.560 humans have ever invented. Have you ever had it? Have I? 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.880 You know? I have not. Actually I wanted to try 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.400 it today. But you can't just go down to the 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.680 corner store and get it. No, you can't. You have 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.160 to order Soilent from their website, soilent dot com or Amazon. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.280 Of course, I didn't know you could get it on Amazon. Yeah, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.080 they you can get it there. Now, that's good. The 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.880 prices have come down from so we're working from an 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:42.760 article we should say from probably two fourteen in tech 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:47.560 industry years, that's like ten years ago. And this is 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.040 definitely a cornerstone of the tech industry. And what we're 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:56.440 talking about is, is well a food replacement UM called 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.360 soilent or not a food replacement? Well, yeah, originally it 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.000 was intended to be a food replacement or a meal 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.160 replacement or no, I guess it was originally intended to 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.800 be a food replacement where you could just live off 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.640 of this stuff you didn't need other food. And then 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.400 now it's intended to be a meal replacement where you 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.800 would eat other food, but you could say, have this 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.640 instead for lunch or whatever. Yeah, or you could eat 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.720 it along with your meal. Sure, Like let's just call 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:34.760 it beige food. Yeah, my liquid state, Yeah, pretty much 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.200 entirely liquid. It's like pancake batters. That what I kept 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.960 running across the consistency, And I mean, doesn't everyone I 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.600 want to drink pancake batter. I've been known to take 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.960 a sip of pancake battery. It sounds really gross. Um, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.919 we haven't tried it, and I really wanted to, like 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.640 I said, for this, but um, we may or may 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.279 not get Um. Our colleague Jonathan Strickling here. It just 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.159 depends on if we can find him. Uh, he's been 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.520 he was being tattooed by NASA the other day. Oh 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.440 that happened. Huh, not by NASA, but sort of with 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:17.320 NASA for NASA, under NASA's supervision. Maybe. I mean he 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:23.280 got a tattoo for work via NASA. Yep. Um. So 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:24.960 I haven't seen him since then, But if we can 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.599 get him in here, he did the soilent thing for 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.880 a while. Uh, and he loves to talk, so he 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.720 would be good. As a matter of fact, let's just 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.480 add a thirty minute silent part here, but we can 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:42.680 insert what he'll say after we introduced him. But anyway, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.160 I did not get to taste it, but it has 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.120 been likened to everything from pancake batter two um, meta 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:53.800 musel or cream of wheat or a tasteless milkshake. Um, 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.240 although they do have flavors out now, which we'll get to. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.680 But um. What the original intent of soilent taste wise 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.359 was that it was just really just neutral and bland 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.719 for the purposes of we don't want people to get 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:14.480 sick of eating this. Yeah, and probably the best meat. Yeah, right, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.080 exactly that if you don't have a taste, you can't 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.960 really get sick of a taste, right, But I disagree. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.039 I'm sure he could totally get sick of this. Sure, 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.600 but it also is something of a blank slate that 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.200 people can add their own tastes and flavors to, like 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.920 maple syrup or fruit or peanut butter or something. Yeah, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.160 which I didn't think about. That's a great idea, right, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.480 So they specifically wanted to create this product for a 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.760 number of reasons. And like I said, that guy who 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.599 I said was nice, he actually is nice. From the 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.240 Broad a New Yorker profile of him, SAME's Rob Brian 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.080 Hart And um, he actually he went to tech. He's 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.000 in Atlanta, boy, Yeah, And he was in San Francisco 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.680 working at a tech startup out of his house with 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:03.200 some of his roommates. And he decided that um, eating 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:10.040 was taking up way too much of his time and money, time, money, effort. Um. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.240 It was just something he wasn't very interested in. And 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.360 he also was, um, I think concerned with exactly what 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.440 he was eating. I think he was just basically living 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.520 off a ram And he said, which is not the 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.360 healthiest thing you can possibly eat sure. So he decided 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.680 to take a little time and research nutrition and how 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.600 it relates to human physiology. And he had this idea 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:38.000 that if you could get rid of the unnecessary parts 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.720 of food, like food is kind of a clunky, inefficient 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.160 vehicle for delivering nutrients. If you could get rid of 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.200 the clunky part and just have the nutrients, you could 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:55.920 you could live fairly healthily on just the raw materials 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.600 of food that we need from food, right, just the nutrients. Yeah, 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:04.000 Like I can save money, I can save time, um 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.000 from going to the grocery store and cooking and cleaning, 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.080 and I can get everything I really need to have 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:15.600 a genuinely healthy diet um right here in this. I mean, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.240 I guess i'll call it a drink. I mean it 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.680 goes down like a drink, right, Yeah, okay, so we'll 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.120 call it a drink. But it's not to be confused with. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.000 I mean, there have been all kinds of meal replacement 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.880 drinks over the years, uh, from like insurer to slim 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.280 Fast and muscle milk, Yeah, protein shakes and stuff like that. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.600 This is not that this is supposed to give you 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:41.720 everything you need in your body for a meal. Yeah, nutritionally. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.160 Other meal replacement drinks are meant to be meal replacements, right, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.600 Like if you couldn't get enough nutrients from your food 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.280 because you're recovering from surgery, you need an extra bit. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.440 Your doctor may say, like drink and ensure every day whatever. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.240 Or like you said, protein chakes like muscle milk. If 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:04.280 you're a weightlifter, you need uh hit a protein after 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.440 you work out, you you will probably drink some sort 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.600 of protein shake afterwards. Right, So there's very specific um 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.000 reasons for the meal replacements or supplements that have been 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:20.040 invented up to soiling. What's that soiling apart was that 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.720 it was created intentionally to be a replacement for food, 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.240 Like this was all you needed. You never needed to 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.800 eat food again. All you had to do was eat 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.200 soiling every day, every day, and and ingeniously, and I 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.720 don't think he intended to even he was just looking 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.120 for something for himself. He wasn't looking to change the 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.440 food industry or to start a company. I don't think, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.640 not of a food company. But he very ingeniously started 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.040 a blog against when thirteen called how I Stopped Eating Food, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.400 which is super grabby on the internet. Title wise, like 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.319 someone's going to see that and go, well, what in 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.880 the world is this all about? And that's what happened. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.840 It went viral, it blew up. He detailed on there 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.640 that he lost weight. He said his intellectual and athletic 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.000 performance improved. He said he spent a lot less money 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.520 on groceries, but he put he put athletic and scare quotes. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.760 He's like, if you know what I mean, because he 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.680 did go to tech and he was a software engineer, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.280 I meant sex. But yeah, yeah, the other way that 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.920 joke worked. He said he spent a lot less money 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.439 on groceries and he only spent about five minutes a 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.280 day making this stuff. And he described it as a 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.760 quote sweet succulent, hearty meal in a glass end quote, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.200 and people were all over it. He said, like after 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.480 a week he would see ads for food and it 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.120 would just be nauseated by him. He any that he 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.760 came to crave um the soiling, which wasn't called soilent 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.559 at that time. No, he did call it soilent. Oh, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.120 I thought he didn't call it until he like got 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.400 the Kickstarter. Going from what I saw, I actually saw 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.520 that blog post, and I believe he calls it Soilent 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.600 in it. Okay, well whenever he got it, he got it. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.400 Spoiler alert by the way, upcoming. There was a movie 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.559 in nineteen seventy three called Soilent Green, very famous, uh, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.319 kind of classic cult classic sci fi movie with Chuck 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:24.320 Heston and the big reveal and soil it's about this, uh, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.040 this future world, this dystopian society where um, these people 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.280 are fed these rations and in the end you realize 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.680 that's it's revealed that people are eating other people. Soilent 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.680 Green is people people, right, so um. And for that reason, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.280 because that was just such a famous ending, Like if 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.600 that actually spoiled the movie for you, like, let us know, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.800 so Chuck can come hit you with a hammer because 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.320 everybody knows the ending of the twist and Soiling Green. Yeah, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.840 I'm just you know, but he he yeah, I know. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.600 That was nice of you. See you're not a mean person, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:05.600 You're nice. Um. The he he was lobbied by investors, friends, family, 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.880 Everybody's like, you gotta change the name of Soilon. But 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.600 he would explain to him, it's actually not based on 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.200 the movie. He's based it on the book that was 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.880 the source for the movie Soiling Green. The book was 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.040 called Make Room, Make Room, and it was written by 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.760 a guy named Harry Harrison, and it's it was basically 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.320 about overpopulation and in the book that people are fed soilent, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.679 which is a food made of soy and lentils, And 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.960 that's what he based it on, was that book, not 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.360 the the food being made from people, which apparently the 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.559 makers of the movie used some pretty deep artistic license 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.000 to totally alter it at the end. Yeah, So it 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.679 started out nerdy, and it got nerdier because he was like, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.920 it's actually a deep cut right exactly from make Room, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:13:02.360 Make Room exclamation points. But he he um, he did 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.199 detail in this blog post, and I'm pretty sure he 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.200 did call it soiling in it, and he thinks very clever. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.440 I think it was a really kind of a funny 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.480 wink to call it that. Sure, but he um. He 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.120 posted the recipe that he went by in a follow 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.000 up post and it's still up there. You can go 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.360 see how to make soilent yourself, And as a matter 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.840 of fact, a lot of people do. There's this um 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.839 subculture of d i y soilent enthusiasts, people who are 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.000 like so into it that they're creating their own blend 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:40.280 for themselves from scratch self soil enters, yep, soilent preppers. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.240 So he started that Kickstarter got about three million bucks. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.120 Uh because people thought it was a cool idea. UM, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.839 submitted it to the f D A right, yeah, and 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:57.320 that went whatever, but they classified it interesting instead of 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.440 a dietary supplement. They said, now this is a food 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:05.120 like knock yourself out, NERD go get sued. We don't care. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.800 And then he got a co packer, Rosa Labs in 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.240 l A and um, they produce it for him still 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.240 and people started eating or drinking this stuff up. Yeah, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:21.120 I mean especially other um people who work twenty three 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.200 hours a day um and didn't want to be bothered 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.960 with having to eat because they didn't really care about 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.480 food and or they were like, all I'm eating is 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.920 mac and cheese, Like what what am I doing? Like? 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.280 If I'm gonna care that little about food, then I 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.080 might as well eat something that's healthy that takes even 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.760 less time to make them mac and cheese and just 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.800 the whole um. Uh. The mentality behind soil it really 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.080 like tapped a nerve and that stuff took off like 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.480 very quickly. Um. They started selling like thirty thousand units 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.960 of it a month. I guess packets a month by 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.240 two thousand fourteen, and it was it debuted. The first 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.440 shipments sold. They're shipped in May of two thousand fourteen, 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.000 so like within seven months they were selling thirty thousand 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.240 units a month. Yeah, it went gold right away. Uh, 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.360 it's like round and round by. We'll take a break 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.360 here and um I'll see if I go find Strickland 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:43.480 and we'll be right back. No, no Strickland yet. Oh yeah, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.720 he has not appeared since the New year. You know, 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.920 he's in Las Vegas right now? Right? Oh was he 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:52.240 at c E S. Well, that makes sense. I didn't 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:57.240 read my company blog. Uh yeah I did. Actually I 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.840 did see that on our internal blog, right that we 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.000 all post our daily goings on and last each other 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.520 so silent. Uh. Again, we said that the taste isn't 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:13.120 the big thing. Um, but they really aim to just say, hey, 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.680 it's convenient, you're gonna save some money. And if you're 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.040 you know, like you said, if you're someone who doesn't 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.560 put so much care into what you're making for yourself, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.840 like you could like you said, you could eat nothing 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.680 but this, but even the owner said, like you could 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.040 but like, what do you want to food is great? Yeah, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:38.520 And they've walked that back tremendously. I think the more invested. Yeah, 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.000 the more they've walked that back. So originally it was 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.080 and he would give interviews and just tell everybody like, yeah, man, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.280 you can you can just live off of this indefinitely 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.240 if you want. Now they say it's not intended to 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.520 replace every meal, but it can replace any meal. Yeah. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.160 I think it's a really good I don't know if 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:05.560 they've if they've tapped into the doomsday prepper segment, but 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.720 like this seems to be the kind of thing that 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.280 somebody could and should have, like in the trunk of 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.360 their car or along with their canned goods and roll 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.520 of masking tape. Yeah, you know, I mean I literally 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.320 when I read this, I was like, you know, I 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.560 wouldn't mind having a case of this in my trunk. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.760 Be a disaster, Yeah, pick up check that doesn't work, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.160 but you never know. I mean, I doubt if I'm 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.200 ever gonna be like lost in the wilderness, but if 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.760 i was, it'd be nice to have food for a week. Yeah, 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.000 you know, for food for a week. I mean, these 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:46.199 the sealed packets, unopened apparently last for a year. Al right, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.120 so I'd have to on day three sixty four every year, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.600 I'd have to drink them and get some new ones. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.440 You'd have to drink nine months worth of food on 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.880 one day if you're a heck of a New Year's Eve. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.320 So we are officially on version one point seven. Yeah, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.560 that as of about two weeks from this recording ago, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.440 they issued one point seven And as of a couple 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.800 of days ago, they introduced two new flavors um Yeah, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.320 and that's soilent two point oh. Oh is that official? Yeah, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.439 that's like um as technically a separate product. It's like 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.919 pre mixed soilent drinks. All they have. They've had those 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.400 in in the natural flavor since the beginning though, Oh 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.119 is there right? I thought they just started with powder 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.840 and then came and added the drink, and then now 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.320 they added those two flavors to the drink. I think 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.119 the new flavors are new. They've had the drink for 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.840 a while. And they also now have a bar, a 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.639 soilent bar that's unavailable right now. And about why in 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.000 a little bit, because it's quite interesting. I did not 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.640 know that um do they have the coffee ist is that. Yeah, 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.320 that's out. So that's soilent in a bottle with caffeine. Yeah, 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.600 so that's your morning. Well, I guess whenever you want 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.600 the calf angeled, I would say morning, but you never 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.840 know what your schedule is. That that sounds dangerous because 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.239 I mean, like this is food, right, and people have 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.000 a tendency to pound coffee. You don't want to pound 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.200 the stuff like you'll gain weight. I mean, I guess 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.560 if you're trying to gain weight, sure do it, but 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.600 like this is this is the stuff is engineered to 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.960 be just what you need to sustain you or maintain 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.680 your weight. Or I guess if you wanted to gain weight, 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.200 you just drink more of it pounded, you know, supposedly 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.439 lose a little weight if you go like a soiling 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.520 only for a few weeks. But it's all anecdotal. I 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.080 don't think they make any claims. No, I don't think 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.199 so either. So they're on one point seven now and 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.600 each version supposedly they just you know, they're tweaking the recipe. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.119 They're listening to people, which sounds like the right thing 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.920 to do, Like it sounds like they're really listening to people, 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.040 and people are saying, oh, it's um, it's too thick, 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.760 Like I don't like one point six, So they'll say, 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.760 all right, a little xanthem gum take that out. Uh. 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.680 They switch the primary source of fatty acids from fish 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:06.080 oil to algible oil. But now I think the algae 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.960 oils out now right, No, no, so the alga oils in. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.600 And they actually the reason why they switched out of 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.439 fishal well two reasons. It made it vegan when they 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.439 change from fish oil to algible but they also like 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.480 it it um has far less of an environmental impact 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.800 algae um farming does, but they even took it a 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:30.400 step further, and they're not using oil from farmed algae. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.920 They're using oil from bioreactors, which take up even less 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.840 space and use less energy for algible oil production than 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.919 farming does. Right, So they're really like trying to narrow 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:46.760 the impact environmentally that this stuff has. Yes, And the 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.160 reason why is it is very much linked to our 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:57.359 artificial sweetener episode. Somebody introduced whole algile flower to the market. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.480 UM as I think a thickener. I think it also 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.080 is an emulsifier UM, and it just creates a pleasant 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:10.280 mouth feel. I think um. And it's also somewhat nutritious supposedly, 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:14.480 but it also can make people violently ill. And so 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.560 all of soilent one point six had to be suspended, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.760 including the bar. That's why the bar is not available 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:25.160 any longer. Um because it all contained this whole algile flower. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.720 They had to basically stop selling it, and then they 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:32.240 tinkered with it, and that's why one point seven came out. Uh, Well, 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.920 if if you're if you don't know much about soilent 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:39.080 and you're literally screaming at your at your car radio 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.960 right now or wherever you're listening, but what is it really? 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.199 Then tell them what it's mainly derived from. Oh, it 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.480 is soy protein. They replaced the brown rice and the 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.080 oat flour and potato starch, and rice starts with basically 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:57.320 just soy soy protein, another a couple other carbohydrates, So 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:02.160 it's mainly soy, just a soy based meal, soy algeil 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:08.240 oil um, something called um I so malt malte loose. 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.720 It's a which they synthesize from beats. It's a carbohydrate 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.879 but also a bit of a sweetener, canola oil. I 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:19.240 think they took it. I think they took that out 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:24.800 and the reason. Okay, so there is rice starching it. 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.320 They definitely took the brown rice, the oat flower, and 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.679 the potato starch out. Because if you go to their website, 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.679 it's so cool. At the very bottom the bottom navigation, 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:38.879 they'll they'll say release notes, and it will bring up 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:44.400 PDFs of the notes about what they changed and why. 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:49.760 UM for every single version of UM soiling, so it'll 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.280 say we took this out because we found that this 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.920 is actually better for the environment, or that this delivers 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.480 the vitamin that we're trying to get better, or UM 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.880 for whole algile flower. They said that they removed it 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:10.040 to improve customer experience, which means not making you violently. Yeah, 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:11.840 it's I mean, like I said, it sounds like they're 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.360 they're continually striving to get it right. Yeah, but they're 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:20.960 also more than that, they're also sharing what they're doing 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.040 because the whole thing was kind of based out of 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:27.040 that open source tech ethos, and so they've kind of 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.600 maintained that open source thing ever since. They're just very 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.480 transparent as a company. Yeah, looking at the as of 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:41.360 January third, nutritional facts and one bottle fo calories one 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:44.679 grams of total fat two grams of saturated fat. And 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:49.399 this is for the the regular natural, right, so I 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:53.480 keep calling natural? Is that what they call it? Uh? Original? 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:58.879 Let's just say non flavored yet original a ridge. How's that? Uh? 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.479 Cholesterol nocles are all which they've had from the beginning, 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:08.320 ugrams of sodium, thirty six grams total carbs, three grams 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:12.920 dietary fiber, nine grams of total sugars, nine grams of 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:17.080 added sugars, and then uhs of protein, and a whole 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:22.520 host of vitamins and minerals. Yeah, and those vitamins and 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:27.200 minerals are important. That the essential nutrients UM, which are 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:30.879 nutrients like vitamins and minerals that our bodies need but 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:35.159 can't make. UM. They apparently went to the n I 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:38.840 H and the FDA and several other UM groups and said, 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:42.400 you know, what does the human body need to function 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:45.280 and thrive? And they that's what they put in there. 0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:48.639 They have this blend of vitamins and nutrients that they 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:53.080 include as part of the recipe for soilent. One of 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:55.960 the things that soilents I don't want to I guess 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:59.119