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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Ye well, by,

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Speaker 1: now you know what that music means. Welcome to the show,

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Historians. It's hopefully your favorite non history experts coming

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Speaker 1: to you relatively live from our respective bunkers. Yet again, Hi,

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Speaker 1: my name is Ben. What does it mean? Ben? What

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Speaker 1: does it mean? The music? It means that our show

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Speaker 1: is still on. No, we're we're recording an episode now,

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Speaker 1: and I gotta say, uh, we are. We are upping

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Speaker 1: our camera game. All three of us look pretty great

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Speaker 1: from what I can see on the screens. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: there's the parts that you can't see on the screen

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Speaker 1: that should concern you, my friend. And there we go.

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Speaker 1: Maybe concern is a strong word, but you know, working

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Speaker 1: from home is as a slippery slope. You know, putting

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Speaker 1: on pants really does become optional. Yep, yep, agreed. As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I was talking to one of

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Speaker 1: my friends who was a no fool and kind of

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Speaker 1: productivity expert, and one of her big recommendations for people

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Speaker 1: working from home is that when you wake up in

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Speaker 1: the morning, you go ahead and get dressed like you're

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Speaker 1: going somewhere. It kind of primes your brain I've I've

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Speaker 1: had a hard time with that. I've I've been rocking

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Speaker 1: more of like a sort of a sweatsuit situation. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I've been starting my day off with a nice walk. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and so it's appropriate the sweatsuit for that, but then

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Speaker 1: Is that weird? No? No, not at all, man, not

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Speaker 1: at pregnant pause, ban that pregnant pause. I hope that

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Speaker 1: was just the lag in our communication, because I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say, you know, you're really doing a favor for

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Speaker 1: the sweatsuit industry because if they if people on the

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Speaker 1: streets see Noel Brown Rock in a sweatsuit, their first

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Speaker 1: question is immediately going to be what how can I

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Speaker 1: get one? So you're welcome sweatsuits. Hey, thank you Ben

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Speaker 1: for giving me that that confidence boost. I appreciate him.

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Speaker 1: So I was thinking of an interesting segue in here.

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Speaker 1: Uh and I wanted to see what you and are

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Speaker 1: of people, now that we're at home or self isolating,

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Speaker 1: a lot of us have been cooking more and more.

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Speaker 1: You've been cooking, Nold, I've been cooking, Casey. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you have you been trying your hand at

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Speaker 1: the pot in the pan. Uh, My cooking repertoire consists

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Speaker 1: of uh, such delicacies as frozen pizzas. Let's see what else.

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Speaker 1: some wings. We do wings the other night. But now

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Speaker 1: handling most of the duties. I help out where I can,

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Speaker 1: but she's the expert. Well that's nice, you know. We

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Speaker 1: we all have our strengths, and we can all agree

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Speaker 1: that whether you consider yourself a a top not chef

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Speaker 1: or an amateure or just a cooking enthusiasts, people love

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Speaker 1: people love food, and wherever you go in the world,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the topics that you can easily talk

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Speaker 1: to anyone about, regardless of your cultural differences. Here in

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Speaker 1: a long time, which is the best thing since sliced bread. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've all like heard of that before, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: but today's show actually does concern slice bread. Isn't that right?

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Speaker 1: It is right, But I got a bone to pick

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Speaker 1: with this whole concept is slicing bread really that hard

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Speaker 1: think it's not so much that it's hard as much

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Speaker 1: be doing something productive with that time. There we go

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Speaker 1: could save. So today's story is so weird, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: our titles and our descriptions. This is a story about

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Speaker 1: that time the US government banned slice bread and it's

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Speaker 1: it's a weird journey. It's a journey that begins around

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Speaker 1: of Otto f raw Waiter, raw Weather. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: Otto was he was a bit of a renaissance man.

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Speaker 1: was a trained ophthalmologist who went into jewelry for the money.

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Speaker 1: And his story and speculate that while he was selling

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Speaker 1: thick or thin slices. Well, I have a question, why

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Speaker 1: can't they do it like they do with those Deli

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Speaker 1: total of fourteen fifteen years of struggle, he did get

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Speaker 1: bread slicing machine and he installed it at his baking

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Speaker 1: company in Missouri. The original name was sliced Clean made

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Speaker 1: me called duck corner. Cafe, and the corner is spelled

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Speaker 1: with a K, and cafe has spelled with a kid inexplicably, Like,

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Speaker 1: are they trying to communicate some level of quirkiness that's

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Speaker 1: going to translate it to their food? Like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: consume less flour. But what what about the wax paper conservation?

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00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: So pre sliced bread had to use wax paper that

425
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: was way thicker than the loaves that were sold whole

426
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: and that was because you know, again they were trying

427
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: to preserve the freshness and keep it from growing stale.

428
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: So that was wrapped in wax paper. So it wasn't

429
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: like in a plastic sleeve like we see today with

430
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: a bread tie. It was literally the whole thing was

431
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: just wrapped in wax paper. Yeah yeah, yeah, that replaced

432
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: the pin. And you know, other unsliced loaves also had

433
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: wax paper, but they had much thinner wax paper. And

434
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 1: so the thing that's weird about this is that bread

435
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: companies already had a ton of wax paper supplies. They're

436
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 1: like those people who hoard toilet paper. They had enough

437
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: wax paper to keep them rapid loaves for months and months,

438
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 1: even if they didn't buy anything else. So it really

439
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: seems like there wasn't a big thing to like, a

440
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: big benefit to gain from banning wax paper. The wheat

441
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 1: flower argument makes a little bit more sense, but even

442
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: that doesn't check out. I mean, this this is why

443
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: some historians say it was maybe more an issue of

444
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: conserving metal, because, like you said, no, those electric bread

445
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: slicing machines are heavy duty. Huh, that's true. I mean,

446
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: they really do almost look like a implement of war.

447
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: You could probably make, you know, a handful of machine guns,

448
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, with the materials you would use to make

449
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: one bread slicing machine. And at the end of the day,

450
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 1: isn't it just kind of a luxury? You know, I'm

451
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: trying to see both sides here, Like there's really nothing

452
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: about if anything, I would think maybe slicing bread does

453
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: make it go bad quicker because there's more touch points

454
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: right um, and and every time you reach in there,

455
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: you're touching the bread. I don't know, I'm overthinking this,

456
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: but I do think that, you know, slice bread is

457
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: a luxury, and even today, sure, I guess it's convenient.

458
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: But when I buy my bread from the baker or

459
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: like a baguette or something, I don't get it pret sliced.

460
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: I sliced it my damn self. Yeah, I I tend

461
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: to I tend to like the bakery bread more than

462
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: the slice bread on the shelf. Not to be elitist

463
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: or something. It's just like, if I have the opportunity,

464
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: then I'll try to get what in my head I

465
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: call the good bread. You know what everybody has, something like, Yeah,

466
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: a good steamy loaf, quit steamy loaf. Uh. In context,

467
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I'm talking about. Out of context, Oh,

468
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: I wonder if something else entirely, Yeah, I wonder if

469
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: that clips gonna come back to haunt us the way

470
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: that this policy came back to haunt Claude wickered, Thanks man. Uh.

471
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: It's true, though, isn't it Like even though we can

472
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 1: guess at what he was trying to do, it really

473
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: looks like he was just trying to save a couple

474
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: of pennies in the budget, and he had to pay

475
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: a grievous price for this because people did not take

476
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: this well, oh, yeah, that's putting it lightly. I mean

477
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: it was you know, people don't like to have the

478
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: things taken away from them that they are have. You

479
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: have have become accustomed to that in their minds. Is

480
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: is a natural born right, and the right to sliced bread.

481
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: Everybody remembers that one from the constitution. Um. But no,

482
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: at the very least, it was incredibly unpopular. On January Uh,

483
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: Sue Forrester Um, who was a woman from fair Fairfield, Connecticut,

484
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: wrote a letter to the editor in the Times, the

485
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: New York Times. Um, and she was speaking on behalf

486
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: of all of the country's housewives. We have We have

487
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: this from an article from Mental Flaws, the time US

488
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: government banned sliced bread, and she says, I quote, I

489
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: should like to let you know how important sliced bread

490
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: is to the morale and saneness of a household. Okay, okay,

491
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: the morale and sane this of a household. They really

492
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: didn't like slicing that bread, did they? Yeah? Yeah, and

493
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: uh they go into detail about this. Sioue Forrester says

494
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: she's been forced to hand cut more than thirty slices

495
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: of bread every day for family. She says this is

496
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: a waste of American time and energy, and it's also

497
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: a waste of money because you know, she says, a

498
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: good bread knife is difficult to find, let alone afford

499
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: during the war. And that's not to mention a good man.

500
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: There we go, right, Oh, what about our marriage prospects

501
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: to list? Sigh. So people got as mad at this

502
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: band as they did at things like gasoline rationing. We

503
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: have an account from a nineteen three issue of Time

504
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: where they have the falling expert US housewife says Time

505
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,479
Speaker 1: vainly searched for grandmother's serrated bread knife, routed sleepy husbands

506
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: out of bed held don conferences over bakery handouts, which

507
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: read like a golf lesson, keep your head down, keep

508
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: your eye on the loaf, and don't bear down. They

509
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: were the time was basically saying, a bunch of people

510
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: have forgotten how to slice a loaf of bread. I

511
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: think we buried the loaf here. Keep your eye on

512
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: the loaf. Yeah, that's just that is some some very

513
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: powerful rhetoric right there. Um it really, it's got me

514
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: all full of fervor and patriotism. Yeah, and this this

515
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: is interesting because this leads us to the saying that

516
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: we all know today. Because of this band, people started

517
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: referring to things as the best thing since slice bread.

518
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: That's true. Nothing I'll make you appreciate something more than

519
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: when it's taken away from you. And the New York

520
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: Times published, uh that, more than one letter from other

521
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: very um crestfallen housewives homemakers, and it really became kind

522
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: of part of the zeitgey so that this was a real,

523
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: a real blow tomorrow during a very difficult time already. Yeah, yeah,

524
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: it's in fact, it was it was so unpopular that

525
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: no one in the US government wanted to confess to

526
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: having the idea or supporting it. So Claude wickered was

527
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: really caught out there. You know he was gonna be, uh,

528
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: the scapegoat in this situation. Oh and okay, all of

529
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: my trash talk about bread slicing, I want to walk

530
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: that back a little bit. I am not a head

531
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: of household with multiple children that has to be responsible

532
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: for meal prep. And let's not forget the sandwich. The

533
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: humble sandwich was kind of the uh, the centerpiece for

534
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: a lot of these grab and go meals. So let's

535
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: get a little deeper into this letter to the editor

536
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: from our Connecticut housewife. She goes on to say, my

537
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: husband and four children are all in a rush before, during,

538
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: and after breakfast without ready sliced bread. I must do

539
00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: the slicing for toast two pieces for each one. That's ten.

540
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: For their lunches, I must cut by hand at least

541
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: twenty slices for two sandwiches a piece. They get two

542
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: sandwiches a piece. That's it was a different time, it

543
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: really was. Afterwards, I make my own toast twenty two

544
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: slices of bread to be cut in a hurry. They

545
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: look less appetizing than the baker's neat even pieces. Haven't

546
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: the bakers already their bread slicing machines and for thousands

547
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: of loaves? Yeah, and she's coming from a real sincere

548
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: upset place, like you said, she's She's not the only one.

549
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: I didn't think about the numbers. They didn't think about

550
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: the math behind this. That's a lot of bread slicing,

551
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: and the numbers add up really quickly, all right. So

552
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: another thing that made this rule so unpopular was that

553
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: it caught everybody by surprise. The Chicago Tribune reported the

554
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: governmental band on the sale of slice bread, effective yesterday,

555
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,239
Speaker 1: caught hundreds of cargo housewives by surprise and sent them

556
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: scurry into hardware stores to raid depleted supplies bred knives.

557
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: I don't know why he sounds like that, but that's

558
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: the guy. Oh no, it's absolutely the guy. I remember.

559
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: I remember the newscasts. Now, there were some there were

560
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: some some loopholes. So hotels, restaurants, and railroad dining cars

561
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: were given a sixty day grace period, uh to prepare.

562
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: Bakeries that didn't play ball until the line got hit

563
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: with some pretty steep fines and they were warned that

564
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: the government was prepared to take stern measures if necessary.

565
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: But some other, uh, some other proponents seemed like they

566
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: they quickly regretted their decision. That's where we gotta we

567
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: gotta mention this one guy, just because I love his name,

568
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: A Meal Fink. I bet he got a bad rap

569
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: for like being like a scoundrel. You know, you can't

570
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: have a last name like that, and and and and

571
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: emerge unscathed. Yes, a Meal Fink. He was a baker

572
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: and also a member of the New York City Baker's

573
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: advisory committee. And actually he was kind of the villain here.

574
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: He's the one who pushed hard for the bread slicing band.

575
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: But a year later, Fink found himself in a courtroom

576
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: forget this slicing brand, hypocrite, bad look. Yeah. The New

577
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: York Times reported um that U S attorney read Fink

578
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: the Riot Act and and and said Fink called upon

579
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: the government to enforce the regulation rigidly. And at the

580
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: very time his bakery was violating the law. He was

581
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 1: fined a thousand dollars. You want to inflation and calculate that,

582
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: b boy, I'm gonna say five thousand dollars. Let's see,

583
00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: let's see so, casey, if we could get a drum roll, please,

584
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars in nineteen forty four is equal to

585
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand, six hundred dollars today. I was way off.

586
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: I was way off, and that's a pretty steep penalty.

587
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: But I think he had it coming for that. Uh,

588
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: that most egregious sin of hypocrisy. Yeah. Yeah, and and

589
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: Baker like it makes you think that Fink had I

590
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: feel bad. I feel like it's nominative determinism to call

591
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: him Fink, but but it feels like it feels like

592
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: his angle was that he wanted to make sure he

593
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: was one of the only bakeriries selling slice spread to

594
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: get ahead. He was trying to make a big I think, despicable. Despicable,

595
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: but the band wasn't even saving money at all. Like

596
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: Baker's were losing cash because of this. Oh yeah, it's true.

597
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: The sale as were dropping in the neighborhood of five

598
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: as much as ten percent, according to the Harrisburg Telegraph.

599
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: There's a quote from that article from nineteen forty three

600
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: in February. Uh. While all bakers have varied reasons for

601
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: the prevailing decrease, they all agree at the absence of

602
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: sliced bread is at least playing some part in the drop. Uh,

603
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: where's your boy auto in all of this? That's a

604
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: great question because Otto was very much alive. He lived

605
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: until November eighth, nineteen sixty, so he definitely had I'm

606
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 1: sure he had strong thoughts about this. He was, you know,

607
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: this was his career. He sold the patent to his

608
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: invention to another company. Like he was, he was doing

609
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: pretty well off. So he definitely had a race in

610
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: the game. But he had already made his nickels by

611
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: the time this this kicks in. That's right? Is that

612
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: a did I make that? Is that? I think people

613
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: say make your nickels, that's the thing. But I tell

614
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: you what isn't a thing? Is he already had his

615
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 1: race in the game. Think I think you were combining

616
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: skin in the game with horse in the race in

617
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: the games. I love it. No, No, I think we

618
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: should use that. That should be our new thing. He

619
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: already had a race in the game. I really really

620
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: like that a lot. Actually, Oh, thanks man, thanks for

621
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: the catch. It's it's wild over here, folks, No worries. Dude, Hey,

622
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 1: we gotta keep each other on at while we're slowly

623
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: losing our mind in isolation. Oh yeah, yeah, Well hopefully

624
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: it will be to the enjoyment of you, dear dear

625
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: ridiculous historians. Uh. We have a little bit we have

626
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: a little bit more to add here, which is that

627
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: the band was thankfully lifted only three months after it

628
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: went into law. Right. It was like march, I want

629
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: to say, m that's right. Um, it was lifted and

630
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: there was a public statement made from the war production board. Uh.

631
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: And it actually, do you know, to his credit, kind

632
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 1: of cop to the thing being a failure, saying, quote,

633
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: savings are not as much as were expected, leaving it

634
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: at that uh, and that there was enough wax paper

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Speaker 1: to go around and wrap sliced bread uh for four months.

636
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Speaker 1: So you know, bully for them for sort of owning

637
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Speaker 1: their their debacle. You know, if we could, I think

638
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Speaker 1: a good place to put a button in a bow

639
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Speaker 1: on This story is a great headline from the New

640
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Speaker 1: York Times when when the band was lifted, The New

641
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Speaker 1: York Times published an article reading, slice bread put back

642
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Speaker 1: on sale, Housewives thumbs safe again. Thank God, Thy God

643
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: for think of the thumbs, all the thumbs. Oh yeah,

644
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: I mean at the very least they're getting nicked left

645
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: and right. Uh. I would love to see some statistics

646
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: about how many outright, uh, severed thumbs occurred at the

647
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: hands of unsliced bread. I mean that that slice math

648
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: really gets to you. You know, I'm glad you put

649
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: that in. Oh. I want to say before we end

650
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: today's episode, guys, I want to do a clarification because

651
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: you know, credit where credits do is very important to me.

652
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: And earlier, uh, in a previous episode, we went on

653
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: this delightful little run of Quentin Tarantino based Quarantine puns.

654
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: You remember that. I'm gonna be real with you, guys.

655
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: They weren't very good. Can we do better this time?

656
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: Can we raise the bar? Well? I wanted to credit

657
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: one of our friends on Twitter because you guys said, oh,

658
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: Quentin Quarantino is pretty good. It got me thinking and

659
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: I was like, did I make that up? Because that's

660
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: really good for someone like me to make up on

661
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: the fly, And I wanted to give a shout out.

662
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: I think I've found this and just acts like misremembered

663
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: it on Twitter. We have a Twitter friend who goes

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Speaker 1: by the hand dole Quentin Quarantino, so kealthy at Kealthy Underscore.

665
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Speaker 1: If you're out there, thank you so much when I

666
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Speaker 1: wanted to give you credit where credit was due, because

667
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 1: I think it just got stuck in my head. I

668
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: love that name. It happens and that's true. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Kealthy. Is it Kelsey and you

670
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: just developed a list all of a sudden or is

671
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Speaker 1: it no? Kealthy? Okay, kealthy. That's interesting. It makes me

672
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: feel like I'm speaking with a list. Well, this was

673
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: a fun episode, Ben, Can we take a minute. Uh,

674
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just have this idea, uh to

675
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: to grab find an object that's around you, somewhere in

676
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: your workspace and describe it to the listeners. Uh yeah,

677
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: yeah here, Um, let's see, I'm in a weird spot.

678
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: Why don't you want to do the honors? Yeah, I got,

679
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: I got, I've got. I've got one just in mind.

680
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,479
Speaker 1: It's something I bought it a cheap o dollar store.

681
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: It's a w W F R E uh miniature figures

682
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: and they're like little mini wrestlers, just Jake the Snake

683
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: and all Timate Warrior and this guy wearing chains and

684
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: they're all completely flesh nude colored. Here, let me show you, guys,

685
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: you can actually see. Oh nice. But they're called muscle.

686
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: But it's an acronym, and you know how much I

687
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: love acronyms. So there's a dot between every one of

688
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: these letters, and it stands for millions of unusual small

689
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: creatures lurking everywhere that's not sinister at all. They didn't

690
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 1: so it sounds like the oh is not part of

691
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: the acronym. There. They often leave the oh. It's usually

692
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: only the capitalized letters in a in a title, right,

693
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: the oh is a there's a word for it. But yeah, okay,

694
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: so that's my object. Okay, I've got I've got something

695
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 1: uh that just stuck up there. I think you'll you'll

696
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: like your noel I have. I've been cleaning up a

697
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff and I found how weirdly synchronistic is this?

698
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: I found my old shoe box of muscle men. Do

699
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: you remember these guys muscle men? Yeah, you know what

700
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 1: I'm talking about? Are they kind of like my little

701
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: muscle guys? They're exactly the same. I think they might

702
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: be the same. There's this is an old school kind

703
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: of toy. I think some of our listeners will remember yeah,

704
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: but their nude color, their flesh color, they're all flesh color,

705
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: just like my little guys. Yeah. Oh, I've got some

706
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 1: that are like, I don't know what color this is,

707
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: but I've got something like that. Okay, Yeah, and then

708
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: they've got some knockoff ones. That's so weird that we

709
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 1: both that's really funny. And they're they're the they're the

710
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: most useless little toys. They don't bend or pose. Choking

711
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: hazards is what they are. Really. Yeah, but they're stylish.

712
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: I thought that would be more fun than looking at

713
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: the hydrated food I have that we uh, we recorded

714
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: another show today, folks for stuff they want you to

715
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: know with our rideer Dies Paul, Mission Control and U

716
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick. Where we were we were talking about some

717
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: of the things in our in our quarantine zones. But

718
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: that's a fun game, man, you wanna you wanna make

719
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: that a regular thing. I don't know. It's just kind

720
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: of fun to humanize our our spaces and show that

721
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: we're just nerds like everybody else, and that we have

722
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: a cluttered, uh messy desks just like every just like

723
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Speaker 1: everybody else. Casey, did you find anything in your closet space.

724
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: All right, Well, this space is primarily for books and

725
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: movies and camera equipment, so I don't really have anything

726
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: endearing like a you know, a figurine in a toy

727
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: or something in here. But I did find this book. Uh.

728
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: It's by Otessa Mashveg. It's called My Year of Rest

729
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,479
Speaker 1: and Realaxation, and uh, it came out maybe a couple

730
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: of years ago, and it's about a woman who, through

731
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical means, decides that she's going to sleep for an

732
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: entire year. So, um, I don't know. I thought that

733
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Speaker 1: was an appropriate pick for a current to quarantine situation.

734
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: I bet that I would be down with that at

735
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: least for a couple of maybe weeks or maybe a

736
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: month or so. But yeah, wow, very very appropriate for

737
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: these are plague times. It reminds me of that sleep

738
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: study that was going around for a while where they

739
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: would pay participants to lay prone for like thirty or

740
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: ninety days. Uh. I had a friend who got really

741
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 1: close to actually doing that. Sounds yeah, you had to

742
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: lay down, that was the rule. You had to always

743
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: be laying down because they wanted to see what kind

744
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 1: of horrible things would happen to your body and then

745
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: nuts basically right bed swords. You probably lose muscle tone,

746
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: I bet because you're not walking around. But let's not

747
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: end on that note. Let's end on let's end on

748
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Speaker 1: a big thank you, So thank you, not just to auto,

749
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: but thanks to everybody for tuning in. You know, we

750
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: hope you're healthy, we hope you're happy. Uh. We hope

751
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: that if you are hanging out on the Internet, like

752
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: a lot of us are these days, uh, that that

753
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: you drop our digital way and say hello to us

754
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, not just as our show ridiculous history,

755
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: but also say hello to us as individuals were. Um,

756
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: we're online a lot. It's true. You can find me

757
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: exclusively on Instagram at how now Noel Brown, where you

758
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: can follow my quarantiney situation. Uh. I might be posting

759
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: some of these ambient dreamscape guitar pieces that I've been

760
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: sort of talking about here and there. Um, so stay

761
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: tuned for that on my on my stories and you

762
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: can find me at Ben bolan hsw on Twitter. I've

763
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: been fielding a candidly. I've been fielding a lot of

764
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: questions about prepping or survival kind of situations. I'm always

765
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: around to answer those. Uh. And I'm also updating to

766
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 1: the minute with developments both here and at another show

767
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: called Strange News Dailies. Do you check it out? You

768
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: can see my misadventures on Instagram at Ben Bolan. Uh.

769
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: You know, I fell for starting to post a lot

770
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: of memes. I'm sorry, you know, I know the world's

771
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: in a real troubled place, but the memes they give

772
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: me light and love in troubled times, you know, say,

773
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: my friend and I always find light and love all

774
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: over your stories and uh and your feed my friend,

775
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: uh and I appreciate that very much. And please do

776
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: check out Strange News Daily for a daily dose of

777
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: exactly what the show name implies, strange news and these

778
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: are strange times. Oh man, thank you so much. Well,

779
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: we'll see how it works out. We just quick by

780
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: peep behind the curtain by the way. Uh. In addition

781
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: to doing our show, Ridiculous History that's very near and

782
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: dear to our hearts, Uh, the three of us are

783
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 1: continually making a ton of other shows, and we don't

784
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: always shout them out because we don't, you know, Uh,

785
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: we want to make sure each one is special. But

786
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: we also we sometimes at least for you guys. Sometimes

787
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: I lose track of which ones are already out and

788
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,439
Speaker 1: which ones are still secret. But I just want to say,

789
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: and I hope you don't get mad at me about

790
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: this though, I just want to say that are my

791
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: good friend. Mr Brown here has has quite a few

792
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: fascinating things on the way, uh, including of course Dear

793
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: Young Rocker. If you haven't checked that out, give it

794
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: a listen. Yeah, thanks, Ben. That one just wrapped up

795
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: in partnership with Jake Brennan, who does the wonderful rock

796
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: true crime kind of hybrid show Disgrace Land. He has

797
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: an imprint called Double Elvis uh that he has several

798
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: shows um partnering up with us on the I Heart

799
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: podcast network, and one of them is Dear Young Rocker

800
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: with Chelsea Urson, who you saw or heard rather on

801
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: the show very recently talking about the Ponzi scheme, the

802
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: history of the Ponzi Scheme. He also has another one

803
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,240
Speaker 1: that's really great that just came out called Citizen Critic,

804
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:41,959
Speaker 1: where Scott Janovitz and Greg connolly h take on hot

805
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: takes from professional and amateur critics alike. So it's a

806
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: show where they critique the critics and it's quite delightful. Uh.

807
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: And that show is ongoing on the I Heart podcast

808
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: network as we speak, bless shout out. This is just

809
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: this is a fun one and we want to mention

810
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: it to you might hear it on our feet. Um, Noel,

811
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: you and I a while back when people could still

812
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 1: travel more easily, you and I went on Food Court,

813
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: which is the show we appeared on. Maybe our good

814
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: pal Christopher hasciotis hosted by none other than Richard Blaze. Uh.

815
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: That episode is coming out or should be out soon.

816
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: And I listened to it. I don't know what you thought, Noeld,

817
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: but I thought it was a lot of fun. It

818
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: was a good time. I think I may have shouted

819
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: that out previously and said that it was already out.

820
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: That was not true. Uh, it is now by this

821
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: point out in the world. I think, as it comes

822
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: out on Tuesday of next week. In this episode also

823
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: comes out on Tuesday of next week, so they should

824
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: be dropping the same exact day we debate with each other. Um,

825
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: two sides of a very hot button food issue. Um.

826
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: I took the side of sausage and you the side

827
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: of bacon. And you'll have to listen to find out

828
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: who who came out on top. But it's a wonderful show.

829
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: Richard Blaze is a fantastic host and judge, very fair

830
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 1: and uh, I was really he's done. He actually followed

831
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: me on Instagram and I felt like a million bucks.

832
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: And he's been posting all these great isolation cooking videos

833
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: on his story and he was making a something called

834
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: a ramen. Uh lot key saw that, Yeah, and it

835
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: looked really, really fantastic. And he's a really sweet guy.

836
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: So check out food corep with Richard Blaze. His nachos

837
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: are on point too if you're if you're a food

838
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: pick fanatic like me and he and he has a

839
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: chicken restaurant called crack Shack that they don't have any

840
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:30,240
Speaker 1: around here, but it looks incredible. Talk about good looking,

841
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: decadent chicken sandwiches. Yeah, he's he's my internet buddy. Now

842
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: we're hoping to get him on our show soon. So

843
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: get a preview of our our interaction by checking out

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Speaker 1: Food Court. As always, thank you so much to our

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Speaker 1: but thank you, thank you as always for being the

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Speaker 1: good at the math. But also thank you as always

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Speaker 1: the gab Lozier. Gabe Lozier indeed, and we hope to

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Speaker 1: have him on very very soon. Thanks to Jonathan Strickland,

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Speaker 1: the notorious quiz Sir. I think we already thank Christophrastiotis

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Speaker 1: in talking about Food Corp. Huge thanks to Alex Williams

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Speaker 1: who composed this very theme that you hear within your

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Speaker 1: ear holes. Um and uh and thanks to you Ben

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Speaker 1: for being a pal and being a Quarantine podcast mate.

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Speaker 1: Um I, I really I look forward to these times

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Speaker 1: and and look forward to keeping it rolling with you, sir. Likewise,

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Speaker 1: likewise no uh in In the meantime, of course, as always,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, we like to think that we're our

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Speaker 1: show is a community. Uh So if you want to

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Speaker 1: contact us on on a personal level, we always love

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Speaker 1: to hear from you. Let us know what's going in

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Speaker 1: your neck of the woods and let us hey, let

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Speaker 1: us know what your weirdest uh food history story is.

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Speaker 1: We could read about this all day. We'll see next time, folks.

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Speaker 1: For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the I

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