1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. Happy Friday, Everybody. I'm Tracy be 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: Wilson and I'm Holly Fry. This week on the show, 4 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: we talked about John Cleave Sims, who had some kind 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: of offbeat ideas about the structure of the world, and 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: as I was researching this, I kept thinking, if the 7 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: sky were alive today, he would have a YouTube channel. 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: It would not be a good YouTube channel, but he 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: would have a jillion very vehement followers. Yes, yes, absolutely, Yeah. 10 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: We did not get into the fact that, like they're 11 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: there's still the sort of like hollow Earth pseudo science 12 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 1: slash conspiracy theory that has like some devoted followers today. Uh, 13 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: and you know, based on all scientific of a understanding 14 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: that is not how it works. I want to say 15 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: a thing, but it's really unkind, so I'm not going 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: to say it. Um. I will also say that I 17 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: refrained from bringing Star Wars into the discussion for a 18 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: reason that probably is silly and not at all what 19 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: you would expect, which is when you got to the 20 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: part in the outline as I was reading it and 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: we were talking about all of these virgins where things transition. 22 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: It made me think of Qui Gon talking about discovering 23 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: a virgence in the force, which is not quite the 24 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: same at all, but it sounded enough the same that 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: my brain couldn't stop doing it. I also like that 26 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: he was like the king of confirmation bias everywhere. Yeah, 27 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: he absolutely was um and the like. There were multiple 28 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: people who encountered him and we're like, this guy, he 29 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: has read so much and he knows so much, and 30 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: man he manages to warp all of it to be 31 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: about about about this whole hollow Earth situation. Yeah, no 32 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: matter how disconnected it is from that, he was just 33 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: so It's it's funny to me that that both he 34 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: and Edmund Halley seemed really devoted to this idea in 35 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: their own way. Right. But again, Hallie's was based on math, 36 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: wrong math, but like actual math, yeah, less like I 37 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: have a thought, or like I had a thought and 38 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 1: then I did some research and here's where I think 39 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: that thought sits. Yeah. The one thing that that, like 40 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: I said in the episode, like, there's part of me. 41 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: It's like, is he an epic flam flam man? He 42 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 1: unlike some other fakirs pseudo science people. I'm suddenly thinking 43 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: about William Mumler and his spirit photos. He really did 44 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: seem to be earnest. Yeah, yeah, which buys him a 45 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: lot of points. And I really enjoyed the idea that, um, 46 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: his family was very devoted to him and they supported 47 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: him through all of this. Yeah. That made me think 48 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,399 Speaker 1: of another one we recorded recently that is not out 49 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: as of when we were having this discussion about Coxey's army, 50 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: because there were people in Coxe's family who were like, oh, 51 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: he's crazy, um, yeah, and this was not the same. 52 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: He seemed to get pretty fairly universal support from his 53 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: his immediate family. Yeah. I mean, as far as we 54 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: know that the two he had two sons that took 55 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: the time to like write all of this stuff down 56 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: and continue to promote it decades after his death. The 57 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: son that published the three part thing in a in 58 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: a newspaper, Um, definitely like he reprinted a lot of um, 59 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: a lot of newspaper articles that were really critical of 60 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: his father. But he didn't seem to be like and 61 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: that's why my father was wrong. Like, he really more 62 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: seemed to be like, this was what my father was 63 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: up against in his whole ideas. One thing that we 64 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: also didn't get into was that. According I think it 65 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: was in one of the son's accounts of his father's life. 66 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: He and his wife were apparently very devoted to her 67 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: and she did either did not speak uh any English 68 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: or did not speak much English when they first met. 69 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: She was French, um, and he learned French to be 70 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: able to talk with her better. Like they seemed to 71 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: have had a really uh loving and affectionate relationship. Um. 72 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: So yeah, he it's he had such weird ideas, but 73 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: at the same time he seems to have been so 74 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: completely dedicated to them in a way where like he 75 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: was not making money off of it like some of 76 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: the other flim flam people. If he was really just 77 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,239 Speaker 1: a flim flamm person. We've talked about some flim flam 78 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: people who got either money or notoriety. Um and he 79 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: only he really only got the second one. He did 80 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: not make any money off of this. Yeah, if he 81 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: was an pick flim flam man, he was bad at 82 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: that part. Uh. There is a charm about him, which 83 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: is tricky. I feel like when when you look at 84 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: somebody like this and thankfully you know the outcome is 85 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: fairly benign, you do see how people can get fished 86 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: into pseudoscience stuff. Yeah, and and really want to believe it. 87 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: According to the son who had written that series of 88 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: newspaper articles, he had so many adherents at Harvard that 89 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: Harvard had to have these sort of like anti pseudo 90 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: science workshops. But I didn't put that into the to 91 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: the episode because I could not find confirmation of that 92 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: anywhere else. Besides, like in this one son's writing, and 93 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: I was like, you seem to be really dedicated to 94 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: your dad. Were you the best, uh most reliable source 95 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: on this my my Pollyanna overly positive. The way that 96 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm leaving this subject is to think, like, may we 97 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: all be so imaginative and have such devoted families? That 98 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: seems great. This Weekly talked about canning, something as we mentioned, 99 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: you and I have each been talking about doing for 100 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, the the episode not doing any 101 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: canning of my own, right, No, me neither. Uh. Did 102 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: you grew up in a canning household? Right? Absolutely? Yes? 103 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: And you mentioned your grandmother putting putting her canning jars 104 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: into things so that if they broke. Yeah, so you 105 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: also canning and your upbringing, Yeah, yeah, she would make 106 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: little like um fabric sacks out of like leftover quilting 107 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: material and stuff. Because she was always fretful that a 108 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: can would break and um of jar would break. She 109 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: usually did the mason jar method. And my mom had 110 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: some canning, although over the years I think, as with 111 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: many families, that phased out. Yeah, we we grew essentially 112 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: all our own vegetables. Um. Like I if we ever 113 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: bought a vegetable in a store, something specific was happening. Um. 114 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: And it was like when my parents bought their house 115 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: before I was born, they specifically bought a house that 116 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: would have enough room for them to have a garden, 117 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: um and uh and that garden number one. The garden 118 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: was possible because my brother and I were labor for 119 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: it in in the summer. Like my parents both did 120 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: a huge amount of work. My dad was the person 121 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: who was doing the plowing and the like the staking 122 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: out the lines and a lot of the planting, and 123 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: my brother and I were helping with My mom was 124 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: doing all of this like helping harvest and can and 125 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: freeze and all of that stuff. But my brother and 126 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: I were doing a lot of making things, a lot 127 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: of snapping the beans and shelling the peas and stuff 128 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: like that, and then the whole summer there was this 129 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: ongoing process of canning things and freezing things. For the 130 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: most part, like most of the stuff that we grew 131 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: was either canned or frozen, except for things like potatoes 132 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: and onions that were kept in the cool dark of 133 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: our basement. Um, it was a lot for sure. Yeah, 134 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: that's a lot of work to provide fruits and veggies 135 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: for a family of four for a year. Yeah, is 136 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: no small task, no, And so like I have vivid 137 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: memories of we were doing this in a stovetop pressure canner, um, 138 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: and my mom's like clear admonition not to touch that 139 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: as long as the little indicator that that showed that 140 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: there was still pressure was still sticking up, right, because 141 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: if you tried to open when that was when that 142 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: was sticking up, like, it might blow up in your face. Um. 143 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: And then I also remember her having this just almost 144 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: visceral disagreement with her mother in law, my dad's mother also. Uh, 145 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: Like they also had a whole lot of garden space, 146 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: and they also were like pretty much growing all of 147 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: their own vegetables, and um, they had a difference of 148 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: opinion about whether they needed to fully cook things before 149 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: canning them, which was my mom's opinion, or whether it 150 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: was okay to just blanch them, which was my grandmother's opinion. 151 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: My mom was always like, anytime we got canned food 152 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: from my grandmother, my mom would like boil it for 153 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: extra time before serving it because she just did not 154 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: trust that blanching was sufficient. And I don't know what 155 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: the f d a's actual rule because in the US 156 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: here in the US, like a lot of the standards 157 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: that you read about how to can things safely, like 158 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: a lot of that comes from the U. S d A. 159 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: So anyway, like this is one of those topics that 160 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: near near and dear to my heart from my childhood. 161 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: But also I did not have the fondest memories of 162 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: parts of the canning process. Yeah. Yeah, it always just 163 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: mostly for me, seemed like it's super stressed my mom out, 164 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: and she was kind of an anxiety monkey anyway. So 165 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: I was always like, oh, canning is happening, I'm out, 166 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: Like I'll take my tiny child briefcase and I'll be 167 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: like i'll see you at nine pm, Like I'm going yeah, 168 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: um yeah. So I wasn't involved in much of that, thankfully, 169 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: because she was always afraid everything would explode, and my 170 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: dad would be like, then, why are you doing this? 171 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: You don't have to, and she would be insistent that 172 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: somehow it was magical or created something we would not 173 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: have otherwise. My mother was a complicated woman. But I I, 174 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: it's interesting because I am one of those people who 175 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: definitely does not love canned food. And I don't know 176 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: how much of it is just tied up with that 177 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: I associated with that, um, although I do love a 178 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: canned peach or a canned pair like there's no tomorrow. Yeah, 179 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: the home canned green beans specifically, we're like such a 180 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: staple at our house that fresh green beans. When green 181 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: beans were actually in season and we had just picked them, 182 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: I was like, this is gross. This is not how 183 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: green beans are supposed to taste. And then I was 184 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: well into adulthood by the time store bought canned green 185 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: beans tasted normal to me. Um, because like there was 186 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: just a flavor difference. Some of that also being how 187 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: Southern people cook green beans. Right, that's another thing too, 188 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: that's a factor in it, right, Like different regional cooking 189 00:11:55,040 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: styles treat vegetables and fruits differently anyway, So for some 190 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: canning is a more perfect option than others. That's a 191 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: whole other layer of like whether people think they like 192 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: canned foods or not. Yeah, this is also this episode 193 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: is also a case where there could have been an 194 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: episode that was just the effects of canning on the world, 195 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: because it's one of those things like it's I would 196 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: I would say a lot of people in the world 197 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: just take it for granted that you can open up 198 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: a can that has tomatoes in it in any season 199 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: of the year, and having tomatoes anywhere in any season 200 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: like that was not a thing before. You could have 201 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: tomatoes if they grew near you when they were in season. 202 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 1: And that's it. Um. We have been during this during 203 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: this time of of pandemic. Uh, Like our household has 204 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: really shifted our our food habits a lot and now 205 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 1: like almost all of our produces coming from our local 206 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: farmers market. Yeah and that uh like realizing just how 207 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: short the strawberry season is in Massachusetts. Wow, Yeah, I 208 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: did not realize that until this year of my life. 209 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: All of this canning talk has given me a flashback 210 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: to a brief period of time where I was working 211 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: in the summers during college for the Georgia's Shakespeare Festival, 212 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: and I was wearing in the costuming department, and it 213 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: was one of those cases where if you have ever 214 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: been to the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, which is now defunct, 215 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: the costuming like they didn't have a regular facility for 216 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: a long long time, so the costume shop kind of 217 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: had to find a place in town where we could 218 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: set ourselves up every summer. And one summer we were 219 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: some member of the Shakespeare Festival support community wrangled us 220 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: the basement of a country club and old country club 221 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: that was not in use to use, and when we 222 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: went into set up, we discovered that the gross basement 223 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: where we were was filled with exploded cancuds that had 224 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: been left there probably in nineteen when they shut their 225 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: doors and had not been touched again. The most hilarious 226 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: was like some of the cans, and these were tin cans, 227 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: were rusted and had not yet exploded, but like it 228 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: you knew everything was on a hair trigger. So like 229 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: there were these giant gallon sized cans of whipped cream 230 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: and some of them had gone and some of them 231 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: had not, so you'd have to kind of like get 232 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: a plastic bag and tackle it. Before it went off, 233 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: and like hope it went off in the bag and didn't. 234 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: Those were wild times and I haven't thought about it 235 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: in years until all of this talk of exploding food. Yeah. 236 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: This this reminds me of a time in the relatively 237 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: recent past where we had um some from a small 238 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: brewery that was using a new canning line and like 239 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: a new canning process, and then we stored that beer 240 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: in our very hot Somerville, Massachusetts kitchen and it all exploded. 241 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: It's very sad. That is very sad, enormously alarming if 242 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: you've been in the room with some beer can started exploding. Anyway, 243 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: Now everyone knows more about our personal experience with canning 244 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: can kids. 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