1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 1: There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry rolling in there, 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: and this is stuff you should know for all the 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: kiddies out there. For the cats, the kiddies, there was 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: a D d oh, two d s and an I E. 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: Not no, not the nice call back man. Yeah, that 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: was a good one, Bass Salts. Probably shouldn't mention that 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: on the one for the kiddies. Uh, Chuck, Yes, have 10 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: you ever tested a toy? Um? No? Did you ever 11 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: want to? Well? Yeah, I mean I've done some product 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: testing before because I have a friend or had friend 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: that worked in market research and she would occasionally hit 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: me up for a burger taste or a beer drink 15 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: or a tool test, but never toys. Wow, I'll bet 16 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: the beer drink was fun. That's great, drink a little 17 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: beer and you get paid like a hundred bucks. But 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: she's like, no, no, you can't swallow. You have to 19 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: switch it around in your mouth and spit it out. Actually, 20 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: most of the beer one is the only one I did. 21 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: I think there was only one that was a taste 22 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: a lot of times it's just like, what do you 23 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: think of this logo type of thing? Oh? Really? So, 24 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,559 Speaker 1: like the beer wasn't even in the room with you? 25 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: What a tease? Yeah? They just throw things up and 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: I just go boring. Yeah where you like, you probably 27 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: could have explained this better when you asked me to 28 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: test the beer. Well you get that little envelope with 29 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: a hundred bucks? Also, who cares? Oh nice? Is that 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: how much that pays? Sometimes more sometimes fift. I did 31 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: a frozen yogurt one for fifty bucks one time, but 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: it ranged between fifty and a couple of hundred. Very cool. 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: Yeah cash money? Yeah, why not? You know you can 34 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: go buy a lot of beer with that. Totally well. 35 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: I remember hearing about the idea of toy testing as 36 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: a kid and just being like, how how do I 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: do this? My parents are like, I don't know, we 38 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: both work, we're busy to go be a latch key kid. 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: Especially after the movie Big Oh. Yeah, there was like 40 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: a lot of toy testing in that right, Yeah, I 41 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: mean that was his job, and I forgot about that, 42 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: totally forgot about that. I just remember the piano scene 43 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: and then the scene at the end, Well, don't spoil it. Okay, 44 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: I didn't. I said the scene at the end hopefully 45 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: didn't spoil it for anybody that big ends eventually. Yeah, 46 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: don't spoil it. But it has something to do with 47 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: it a dirty bomb, right, that's the next st episode, 48 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: the big surprise ending. So anyway, I remember wanting to 49 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: be a toy tester and it never panned out for me. 50 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: And now that I have grown up a little bit 51 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: and I've read this article, especially doing a little research, 52 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: toy testing still sounds awesome if you're a kid, but 53 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: if you're a parent, it does not sound all that great. 54 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: What do you mean, like if your kid does that, Yeah, 55 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: it sounds like a lot of work, man, Like getting 56 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: the toy and having your kid play with it. Yeah, 57 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like that's the end of it. 58 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of a lot of extra stuff 59 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: you have to do. You have to pay attention to 60 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: your kid while they're playing with it. You have to uh, 61 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: you've got to write reports and stuff. There's like if 62 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: there's work to it if you're the parent, for sure. 63 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: So in other words, you have to take them out 64 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: of there. Uh, they're small plane brick room and actually 65 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: let them play, Yeah, take off their hannibal lector face 66 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: mask and their straight jacket. I never thought about it 67 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: that way to work, and then put them back in 68 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: after they were done with their toy. Um. No this again. 69 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: If you're the kid, great job. If you're a parent, 70 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: it seems tough. Plus also, one of the things that's 71 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,119 Speaker 1: tough about it is that this is not something that 72 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: UM is easily come by. I think, although it's a 73 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: lot easier today to get a job for your kid 74 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: as a toy tester than it was, say like in yeah, 75 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: I think back then you had to literally depend on 76 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: someone getting in touch with you, right, or you had 77 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: to like go show up at headquarters and be like, hey, 78 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: what do you think you kid? Huh? You know? All right, well, 79 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: let's let's go a little further, a little further back, 80 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: because there's a lot of different testing that goes on 81 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: with toys. There's the kind I was just talking about 82 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: research market research, right, like you and your beer logos? Yeah, 83 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: like playing with this toy, kid, what do you think stink? 84 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: There's also the kind that UM that has to do 85 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: with like actually making sure it's safe, which is another 86 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: kind of toy testing. And we're going to cover both. Um. 87 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: But the idea of testing toys to make sure that 88 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: they didn't you know, disembowel the kid that was playing 89 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: with them with some weird sharp edge or missile that 90 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: was actually you know, could would would stick in your 91 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: gut and catch fire or something like that. That's actually 92 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: a relatively new concept, like surprisingly new. Actually yeah, I 93 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: mean toys have been around for thousands of years. Like 94 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: they found toys that are potentially four thousand years old. 95 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: I saw a rattle that was from Turkey that maybe 96 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: like four thousand years old. And by all accounts, this 97 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: Italian find was a sort of like an early easy 98 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: bake oven kit. Yeah, it was like a toy kitchen 99 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: basically kitchen stead. Yeah. So, like little kids have always 100 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: wanted to play with stuff. It's just part of being 101 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: a child. Whether it's took Took Jr. Or uh, you know, 102 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: all the way up to modern times. Uh. And in 103 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: the eighteenth century it became a thing to where the 104 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: Enlightenment philosopher said, you know what, learning through play is 105 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: a really valuable thing. So, like legit toys started being 106 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: developed for the first time. Yeah, I think this is 107 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: about the time maybe a little before. But this is 108 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: probably the seeds of where childhood came from, and we 109 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: need to do an episode just on childhood. I think, 110 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: man like when it was allowed. Yeah, like, this is 111 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: not it's not like a a natural. It may be natural, 112 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: but observing it is not a longstanding thing among humans. 113 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: It was like, well, you're five years old, time for 114 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: you to get to work. Exactly Like here you get 115 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: a little more cold dust on your face. You look jobless, 116 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: you know. So, Um, the idea of kids playing, especially 117 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: to kind of learn and grow into adults. That that, yeah, 118 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: that's like finds its roots in the Enlightenment. And so 119 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: you've got that that that one branch or that one 120 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: sapling coming up and it starts to integrate and merge 121 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: with another one that comes up later on in the 122 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: nineteenth century industrialization. Yeah, so now you have the idea 123 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: that kids should play with toys because prior to industrialization, 124 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 1: families may have made them themselves. It may like the 125 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: kid may have been just playing with a kitchen utensil, 126 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: forced to use its imagination. Um. And I just realized 127 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: it keep referring to the kid as it yeah, his 128 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: or her imagination. Um, like a broom becomes a horse 129 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: pretty easy. Yeah, or you know, I mean, look at stickball. 130 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: Is there anything simpler than cutting a broom into a 131 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: broomstick and and playing baseball? Right? Or um, A a 132 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: nice ladle can become an electric guitar. Sure, that was 133 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: always my thing. I always played air guitar or whenever 134 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: I could, I would give entire God Man, when I'm like, 135 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: now that I am older, how torturous must this have been? 136 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: I would give entire concerts of like bon Jovi's Slippery 137 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: when Wet, but like it would be an either air 138 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: guitar or a drum set made of like country croc 139 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: lids for symbols and then the tubs for the drum themselves, 140 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: or like a quicker Roads box or something like that. 141 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: But I have like a whole like Tommy Lee drum 142 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: kit made up. All right, I got some questions here, 143 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: I wasn't I wasn't done. I was on us there more. Yeah, 144 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: we give this whole concert, and like everybody would come 145 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: into my room and sit there and listen to like 146 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: the first song and be like, okay, one more, and 147 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: I try to go through at least one whole side 148 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: of the tape. Okay, I don't think I ever made 149 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: it through a whole side, but my aim was to 150 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: do the whole album. All right, Well, that that answered 151 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: all my questions. Actually, Okay, I want to know how 152 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: long were these performances? Who you subjected them to? My family? 153 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: And they were long, and they must have been excruciatingly long. Okay, Yeah, 154 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: that pretty much sums it up, right, So I'm not 155 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: even sure how I got on that. What my point was, Well, 156 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: because of your imagination of turning household items into fantastical toys, 157 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: that's right. So thanks to industrialization and mass production, toys 158 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 1: could be made and sold and distributed, and all of 159 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: a sudden, now you have something like the beginning of 160 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: a consumer culture, especially in America. Yeah, and we're talking 161 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. It became a real thing. Except back then 162 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: the toys were highlyly to injure or kill your child. Right, 163 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: I'm not highly like it, but but a lot of 164 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: them were pretty dangerous. But there, I found this one 165 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: stat from nineteen sixty eight, and like I've seen it, 166 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: like question, no one was keeping track. Apparently no one 167 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: really started keeping track two toy injuries and deaths until 168 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: like the twenty one century, isn't that jaw dropping? Man? 169 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 1: UH century is when they started releasing reports with injury 170 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: and death statistics from toys. So I saw this one. 171 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: It was a guestimate, but I saw seven hundred thousand 172 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: injuries from toys in nineteen sixty eight. And that's not 173 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,479 Speaker 1: including jungle gyms and swing sets, bikes, trampolines, probably scooters, 174 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: nothing like that. These are just straight up toys. By 175 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, I saw that there were eleven children 176 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: who died in the US. Um five of them were 177 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: from tricycles, two of them were from scooters, two or 178 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: from balloons. So really technically only two children died from 179 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: what you would consider like just a straight up toy, 180 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: like a dollar stuffed toy or something like a crane 181 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: or plato. I think both of them were asphyxiation. So 182 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: the idea that there was this huge change from very 183 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 1: very very dangerous toys into actually a pretty safe industry 184 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: that has to do largely with toy testers. Yeah, And 185 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: it was that they finally passed what's known as uh while, 186 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: the first Federal Safety Standards for toys into law, and 187 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: then the National Commission on Product Safety that same year, said, 188 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: all right, we've got eight recommendations for banning toys. And 189 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: I look these up in picture because they're they're kind 190 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: of fun to look at. The Empire Lady Empire Little 191 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: Lady stove, which is basically an easy bake oven, uh 192 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: mixed with a pottery kiln six hundred degrees fahrenheit. This 193 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: thing would kit's sixteen degrees celsius like your home of 194 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: and doesn't get up to six hundred degrees. Probably it 195 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: genuinely does not. I think mine goes to five fifty. 196 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: Maybe in cleaning self cleaning mode it gets up that high. 197 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: But this is not something a little a little toddler 198 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: needs to play with, right and self cleaning mode it 199 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: locks itself, shuts he can't open the door even uh 200 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: what else? The Bird of Paradise sling shot, which looked 201 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: um innocuous enough, but it uh. The deal with that 202 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: one was that had these sharp missiles that could make 203 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: you bleed. But yeah, I think sling shot it just 204 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: begins and ends at that as far as the safety 205 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: is concerned. I looked up sling shots today because I 206 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: had remember the wrist rockets, Yeah, I do. Those things 207 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: were so dangerous did you have one? No, I was 208 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: never allowed to have one, So I had a wrist 209 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: rocket And I looked up today after this article. I 210 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: was like, I wonder, what what's going on in the 211 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: world of sling shots? And dude, you should see some 212 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: of the sling shots on the market today. Are they 213 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,719 Speaker 1: even more dangerous than the wrist rocket? Oh? Yeah? And 214 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: like there are YouTube videos with people with these things that, 215 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 1: uh they look like little musket balls that you can fire. 216 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: And I mean this guy was shooting these balls with 217 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: a sling shot through like half inch plywood. It's like 218 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 1: a gun that is a dangerous toy. Wow. Yeah, it's 219 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: it's really just look up extreme sling shots at some 220 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: point and uh and go get one. Yeah, if you're 221 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: eighteen year older and don't have like some you know, 222 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: grudge against anybody. This last one, the Zulu blowgun. Um, 223 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: was was that period in America where you could have 224 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: some kid's toy that was highly raised, just in very dangerous, 225 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 1: all in one one convenient box. Yeah. I can't imagine 226 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: what the packaging looked like on that one. It looks 227 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: like what do you think it looks like? So um 228 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: kids were choking on the darts, I'm sure, like putting 229 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 1: the dart in then taking a deep breath exactly. They 230 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: were like, I should have thought this through first, pretty 231 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: much no thing, and that was that, right, So that 232 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: that was That was the first time they started taking 233 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: toy safety seriously. And prior to that, the last time 234 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: they had looked out for little kids was I think 235 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: in the fifties, because in the forties there was a 236 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: lot of um like flash fire deaths among children wearing 237 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: like pajamas because pajamas were made of ray on, this 238 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: new material at the time, and I guess no one 239 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: had ever tested it around a flame. And it turns 240 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: out that it could burn up real quick, and not 241 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: only could it burn the kid badly, possibly to death, 242 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: it could also of them from smoke inhalation from their pajamas, right, 243 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: And even if they survived, they were again very badly burned. 244 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: So Congress passed the flammable um not flammable. Flammable um 245 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: fabric act, I think is what it's called, not flammable. 246 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: And can we can I go off here for a second, 247 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: can we all come together and just agree to drop 248 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: the word inflammable together. There's no reason for it. It's 249 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: just a dangerous word. Uh yeah, I'm still I'm still 250 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: beating the druma on that one too. Yeah, it's dr Nick. 251 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: He's like, flammable means flammable. Uh okay. So they so 252 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: Congress passed this Act to basically say all kids wear 253 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: UM needs to be flame retarded. Now, the problem is 254 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: is the chemicals they used to make the close flame 255 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: retardant was um. They were not. They were the opposite 256 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: of flammable in their credit, but they supposedly were linked 257 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: to kids um an increase in hyperactivity and a decrease 258 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: in i Q. And still today it's very, very tough 259 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: to get kids pajamas that aren't flame retardant with those 260 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: same chemicals in them. But apparently in the mid nineties 261 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: Congress allowed a loophole they keep going where if the 262 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: pajamas were of a snug fit, they could be not 263 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: flame resistant, right, they didn't have to have the flame 264 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: retardant chemicals because um, to to burn fire needs oxygen 265 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: and if there's no oxygen really between the kid's skin 266 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: and the pajamas because they're snugly, snug fitting pajamas, then um, 267 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: the fire is probably not gonna happen. So they don't 268 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: have to have flame retardant chemicals. That's the one loophole. 269 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: Isn't that fascinating? Well, yeah, and now we can get 270 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: back to the long standing tradition of leaving a lit 271 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: candle in your baby's for the first month. Well, there 272 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: was one other thing I saw, chuck too. There is 273 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: a long standing rumor that it was actually the tobacco 274 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: industry that got the Flammable Fabrics Act pushed through because 275 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: they were trying to deflect the blame for um death 276 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: by fire accidental fire from cigarettes to the actual fabric manufacturers, 277 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: even though a lot of people die in their beds 278 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: from their mattress going up because they fell asleep with 279 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: a cigarette in their mouth. Smoking in bed it seems 280 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: like such a such a thing that nobody would do anymore. 281 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: But I know people still do it, yes, but it's 282 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: still shocking when you see it in a in a 283 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: movie or TV show, which I used to us see 284 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: that all the time in movies, But now when you 285 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: see it, you think people really smoke in bed. I 286 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. I don't I 287 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: don't smoke. All right, Well, let's take a break, um 288 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: and we will come back and talk a little bit 289 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 1: more about different kinds of toy testing right after this. Alright, so, um, 290 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: there are mechanisms in place and regulatory bodies in place 291 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: now that are in charge of making sure toys are safe, 292 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: and these are constantly It's not like they wrote the 293 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: book on it and said all right, we're good. Um, 294 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: as toys expand and are developed, the safety standards need 295 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 1: to be changing all the time, and they do, which 296 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: is great. So um. One thing I saw, ironically enough, 297 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: is that somebody actually did write the book on this. 298 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: Well yeah, but it's not a finalized version, right Oh yeah. 299 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: See do you mean like they updated as new science 300 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,120 Speaker 1: comes in? Yeah, yeah, agreed, agreed. Um. But even that, 301 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: you know, just the idea of creating standards again is 302 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: pretty new because I think until like the nineties, Um, 303 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: they they didn't really update the toy safety requirements for 304 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: a while. It started to finally pick up, I think 305 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: in the nineties, and then in the two thousands there 306 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: is a group, um, an organization called a st M. 307 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: Could not for the life of me find what that 308 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:28,880 Speaker 1: stands for, but they created the Standard Consumer Safety Specification 309 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: for Toy Safety, which apparently is the universal guidelines for 310 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: toy safety, American standards for toy manufacturers. Maybe that's not bad, Chuck, 311 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: all right, that was my first stab at it. That's 312 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: pretty good. Uh. You also have companies like in our 313 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: article here at how Stuff Works called Intertech, not in 314 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: a tech? What's in a tech? I think that was 315 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: office space, wasn't it? Oh? I think so um Interchech, 316 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: which basically they they're professional toy testers. They have laboratories 317 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: where they have technicians that say, here, let me um, 318 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 1: let me see if I can bite the eyes off 319 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: of this doll into my mouth, and let me see 320 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: if it's so small that I can swallow that I 321 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,719 Speaker 1: let me rip it apart, let me light it on fire. Uh. 322 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: In England they have I think actually not even just 323 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: England and all of Britain. They they have a rule 324 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: that a toy burn rate can be no more than 325 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: one inch per second, with the idea that if a 326 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: toy does catch on fire, at least your kid has 327 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: enough time to throw it away, throw it towards the 328 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: gas can and run. And then the EU has their 329 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: own set of standards too. So with that burn thing, 330 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: I should say, at least if if a toy burns 331 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: faster than thirty millimeters a second, which is a little 332 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: over an inch, um, then it can't be sold in 333 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: the EU. Right. And then if it burns between ten 334 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: millimeters second in thirty millimeters a second, it still has 335 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: to have a warning that says warning, keep away from fire, 336 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: right right? Um? And yeah, the whole idea is like, 337 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: if the kid sees the thing on fire, they're gonna 338 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: throw it and run and the household kitch on fire. 339 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: But the kid's not gonna burn up, right unless the 340 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: kid goes and tells the grown up. I think that 341 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: should be in the in the warning too, Throw doll, run, 342 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: tell grown up, right, don't go make like a ham sandwich. 343 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: I saw this really great video from inter Tech and uh, 344 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: it's called Teddy Bear testing. Did you see it? It 345 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: is great. It's that they clearly are aware of what 346 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 1: that what they're doing is bizarre and morbid if you 347 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: just start standing there watching it as an observer. But 348 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: you know, the point to the whole thing is actually 349 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: quite quite noble and heroic. But one of the things 350 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: that they did was there's this like three pronged It 351 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: was almost like you know those things that a jeweler 352 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: uses to pick up diamonds with tweezers kind of. But 353 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: they have one that's like a three pronged thing where 354 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: you push down on the end and the prongs extend 355 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: and open a little bit, and you pick something up 356 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: and then release the end and it it draws it 357 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: up and tightens it and holds it. Snuck's that's gonna 358 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: be in the O E. D one day, I think. 359 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: But with this that was a little bigger and much sturdier. 360 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: And they hooked the dolls, the teddy bears I to 361 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: this thing and then pull the teddy bear back to 362 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: see how many pounds of pressure it could be saying 363 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: before it came off. And that's the other thing too. 364 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: They're not just like pulling this and like having fun 365 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: like they're they're making measurements and they're using like standardized 366 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: um like force that they're applying to this, right, Like 367 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: the the seems the sewing has to um be able 368 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: to withstand like one kilogram of wait for ten seconds 369 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: without opening up. Just things like that, right, And it's 370 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: thanks to these groups like the EU or the A S. T. 371 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: M and who who have gone through and said this 372 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: is like if your toy makes a sound, it should 373 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: be no louder than this. Or if you are manufacturing 374 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: a toy gun, it should be marked like this, so 375 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: it's obviously a toy and not a real gun. Like, 376 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: just comprehensive standards that everyone could adhere to to keep 377 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: little kiddies two d's safe. I just think it's great 378 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: that there's people out there doing that because it's a 379 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: kind of a new thing. Well sure, and they ostensibly 380 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: have done the research on, like they really cover all 381 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: their bases, like what what could we imagine a child 382 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: doing with this thing? You know, I suspect that even 383 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: as much time as they spend doing that, kids still 384 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: come up with some black stuff to do with toys. Yeah, 385 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,479 Speaker 1: I mean, I told the story during the Evil Kneedl thing, 386 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: we used to make uh coat hanger hoops and dip 387 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: them in gasoline to jump. I wish I would have 388 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: known you back then so I could stand there and 389 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,719 Speaker 1: watch that. Man. Well you would have been putting on 390 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: your we would have been running the pyrotechnic for your 391 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: bon Jovi concert. Oh wow, good thinking, Gott and I 392 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: would have been all over that. You know, it's not 393 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: too late, that's true. Um, all right, so that's toy 394 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: making sure toys are safe. Um. Once the toy is safe, 395 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: then there's this whole second thing that we were kind 396 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: of talking about from the movie Big. Um, like the 397 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: great scene when Tom Hanks is first and uh, growing 398 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: up Josh Baskin is in the office. What did you 399 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: look up his name? Or do you just walk around 400 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: knowing it? No? No, I know the movie Big Inside. Now, Wow, 401 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: is that one of your favorites? I you you've been 402 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: running around asking people on movie Crush with their favorite movie? 403 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: Is what's yours? It's Big It No, no, no, but 404 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: it's up there. I love the movie Big I've seen 405 00:23:56,119 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 1: it a dozen times or more easily. Josh bat Yes, 406 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: a little Josh Baskins all grown up in the office, 407 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: and um, what's his name? Was it? John? Heard that 408 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: he recently passed away. He's the the evil corporate executive 409 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: that has his idea and remember his famous line stop 410 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: having fun? Yeah? And he he makes his big presentation. 411 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: I think it was like a building that turns into 412 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: a robot. And Tom Hanks very sweetly just raised his handset. 413 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: I don't get it. He's like, what do you mean? 414 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: I don't get it. Uh, And that's basically what they 415 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: want to ask kids, like, do you want to play 416 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: with this? Is it fun? Like? Adults design these things, 417 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: and they might. I would assume that if you're a 418 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: toy designer, you have a mind of a child to 419 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: a certain degree, but you're still not a kid. Yeah, 420 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: it's got to pass that test, right exactly. That's the 421 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: whole point of having toy testers. It's it's kids like 422 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,959 Speaker 1: that's they're not adult toy testers. Maybe their parents are 423 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: there or something like that. But the whole point of 424 00:24:53,920 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 1: actual market development toy testing is by just giving did 425 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: some toys and seeing what they do with it. That's right. 426 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: And there's a lot of a lot of places that 427 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: do this right, Like um, apparently Mattel has something called 428 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 1: the Mattel Imagination Center in El Segundo. And if you 429 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: live around Al Sagundo or willing to travel to Al Sagundo, 430 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: and you have a child at zero to thirteen, there's 431 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: a pretty high likelihood that you will be able to 432 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: get into the door and your kid will be able 433 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: to play with some toys and and be watched by 434 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: scientists behind two way mirrors. But that's pretty I mean 435 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: that's a little I think that's pretty close to reality. 436 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: I think that the places where you go to actually 437 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: test on site with toys are a little more fun 438 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: than like a like a room with a two way mirror, 439 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: But it's still the same principle. Generally, you're being observed 440 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: while you're playing with toys as a kid. Yeah, and 441 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: there's um to get these gigs, the dream job for 442 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 1: a kid or I guess you think the job from 443 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,479 Speaker 1: hell for a parent. Um attention, Like sometimes they might 444 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: get in touch with you. Sometimes you might can follow 445 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: the social media page of like the Mattel Imagination Imagination Center. 446 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: Uh they I mean if you just google toy testing jobs, 447 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: there are pages and pages on places where you can 448 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: submit your name and uh it's you know, from there. 449 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: It's probably a bit of a lottery like experience, depending 450 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: on what exactly they're looking for. Like you might fit 451 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: your kid might fit a demographic, but there's still a 452 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,199 Speaker 1: lot of kids in that demo that they have to 453 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: sip through. So it's not like you can say, you know, 454 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: don't promise your kid you can get them a job 455 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: as a toy tester. Right, Well, yeah, you may want to. 456 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: I don't even tell them that that's a job until 457 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: you've secured it. Just don't even say the word toy 458 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: around your kid. Yeah, that exactly. Um, So there's that's 459 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: there's The old school way is like going directly to 460 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: the company, like to go to Mattel or um Fisher 461 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: Price maintains something called its play Lab, and you can 462 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: email these companies directly and basically send your kids resume, 463 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: maybe a video of your kid playing with a toy. Um. 464 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: What they would be looking for, Like you said, they 465 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: might be looking for a certain demographic um, but they 466 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: more often than not if they're just looking for like 467 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: a go to toy tester to where your kid actually 468 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: has the job of being a toy tester, where somebody, 469 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: some company or companies are mailing your kid toys to 470 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: test you. You basically need to audition for that, and 471 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: you would want to include a video and that your 472 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: kid in the video would want to be using like 473 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: coherent words that express how he or she's feeling about 474 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,400 Speaker 1: that toy at that moment um, and you may get 475 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: picked up. That's the old school way of doing it, 476 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: although if you want to do super old school, like 477 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: use a video camera and sending like a VHS tape 478 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: of your kid playing with the toy. That's the old 479 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: school way to do it. Now you can go onto 480 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: onto social media, like you were saying, Chuck, and um, 481 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: they there's a lot it's a lot easier for companies 482 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: to reach out in a targeted way, um to to 483 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: basically tap kids to become toy testers. Yeah, if you 484 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: are a mom, mommy blogs are huge. They are huge 485 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: on the Internet and they get sent everything from you know, 486 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: um baby products that they can use to mommy products 487 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: to toys. So tell your mom start a blog, become 488 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: a top blogger, and she'll thank you because then she'll 489 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 1: be rich. Yeah, say, mom, start a viral blog today? 490 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 1: Who is it? Ellen degenerous as a as a show 491 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: feature where she has these kids that come out and 492 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: test toys on TV. Um, you're not gonna get that 493 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: job because these two kids already have it. Well that 494 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: one of the kids. I'm not sure what trade Hearts 495 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: background was, but Noah Ritter, he was the apparently kid 496 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: on Allen Remember him, m No. He he came off 497 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: ride and was asked by a local newsperson like what 498 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: he thought of the ride? He's like, well, apparently Um, 499 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: I thought it was great. Had me scared half to death. 500 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: You've never seen the video of that kid. It's beyond adorable. 501 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: He's one of the two toy testers now, so that's 502 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: how I got that gig. Yes, good for him. What else? 503 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: You can start a YouTube channel? There are actual kids 504 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: out there with their own YouTube channels where they test toys. Uh. 505 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: And beyond that, I want to recommend have you ever 506 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: seen our buddy Joe Randazzo's Lego Dude reviews? Yeah? I have. 507 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if you have to be a friend 508 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: of Joie or not, but go out there and look 509 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: at Lego Dude reviews, Lego City Logging Truck and our 510 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: friend Joe formally of Onion, informally of at Midnight Fame, 511 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: our comedian writer friend. It's just the funniest thing I've 512 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: ever seen. And it doesn't translate everyone because there are 513 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: comments like is this guy for real? Right? Yeah? Because 514 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: it straight But it's like all those reviews like they 515 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: start off with the box that it comes in and 516 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: said Joe starts off of the box and how well 517 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: taped up it is. It's just it's just really funny. 518 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: He's a nice, nice spoof leg reviews, Lego Dude reviews, 519 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: and there are all kinds of those, but specifically Lego 520 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: City Logging Truck. Uh. And you'll you'll just see that 521 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: sweet face of Joe's and you'll know it's him. But 522 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: there's a boy called well, I don't know what his 523 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: full name in was. Evan tube HD is a YouTube channel. 524 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: Yeah he didn't his sister do reviews. Yeah, and he is. 525 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: He has four and a half a million subscribers. Is 526 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: that as of today? Yeah, yeah, four point six. I 527 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,959 Speaker 1: noticed that they did like a pizza challenge where they 528 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: just put weird stuff on pizza and it has like 529 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: sixty five million views. Unbelievable. It is unbelievable. It's crazy, Chuck. 530 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: If you if you ask somebody like back in to 531 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: conceive of like what TVs like in the future, and 532 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: they said, Um, it's people just opening up toys on 533 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: on TV and that's it. And you'd be like, that's 534 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: a pretty good, pretty good description. I would buy that. 535 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: Well the futures. Now, well there's the other one, the 536 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: um Disney Collector. Br Right, this is who I'm talking about. 537 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: Nine and a half million subscribers, and like you said, 538 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: there It is literally nothing but the hands of some woman, 539 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: some anonymous uh robot ai creature. Right now, it's a 540 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: real person's hands opening up toys and playing with them 541 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: and talking a little bit in a very creepy voice. 542 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: If you ask me, I think it's great. You think 543 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: the voice is great? Dude? Yeah, Pepper Pig. It creeped 544 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 1: me out. Oh I liked it. Her Okay, So her 545 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 1: name probably is Vera crid didiou woman, vera money bags. Yeah, 546 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: a woman. Yeah, get this, she's she's even more wealthy 547 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 1: than you realize. She's a woman in winter Park, Florida. 548 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: If her, then that's so. That's that's that's supposedly her 549 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: and her husband, messiest critdio um. He has something called 550 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: Blue Toys Club Surprise, which is the boys version basically 551 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: of Disney Collector b R. And together they seriously are 552 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: probably clearing twenty plus million dollars a year, making a 553 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: video every day and uploading it. And she will say 554 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: Peppa Pig or something like that and say what it 555 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: is the product that she's holding or opening or playing 556 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: with or whatever, and that like that's it. Man, It's 557 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: like you were saying, like all you see her her hands. 558 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: She's opening the packaging. She's actually really good at opening packaging. 559 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: She never gets frustrated. I didn't see her like, um, 560 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: I didn't see them have to cut and like there 561 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: was no jump cut or anything like that. She's really 562 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: good at opening packaging. Um. And then she kind of 563 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: says what it is out loud and then just like 564 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: sets it down to the side. And I was watching 565 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: it like, this is ridiculous. This is the first ten seconds. 566 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. People actually watch this. I can't believe this. 567 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: And then the next thing I knew. The next four 568 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: minutes were me sitting there with my mouth kind of 569 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: open a little bit, just zoned out watching this. I 570 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: think that's the whole point. It's um, kids love it. 571 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: Toddler's love watching. I can see why her husband though, 572 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 1: or I should say Blue Toys Club Surprise, he didn't 573 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: talk at all. And then I find a little creepy. 574 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: He he just like plays with them. He plays with 575 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: them more than she does. She just opens them. He 576 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: opens him and plays with them, but he doesn't talk. 577 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: But again, you just see the hands. Twenty million dollars 578 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: a year. What a world. It is quite a world. 579 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: It's the future. All right, should we take another break? Yes, 580 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 1: all right, let's do that, and we're gonna come back 581 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: and finish up with a little fun with some of 582 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:24,800 Speaker 1: the most dangerous toys of all time right after this. Okay, 583 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:29,240 Speaker 1: we're back, man, Are you ready? I'm ready. So this, 584 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,879 Speaker 1: this list could go on for years. Yeah, there are 585 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: lots of lists like this out there, so in this 586 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: and it's not meant to be comprehensive. This is just 587 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: a selection of some of our favorites. Huh so um. 588 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,760 Speaker 1: One that I saw was the snack Time Kid cabbage 589 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: Patch doll, yes, which you could feed real stuff to 590 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,800 Speaker 1: her that in the ad they feed like the cabbage 591 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 1: Patch kid a French fry or two or maybe I 592 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: think it came with food, That's what it was. It 593 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: came with food and you could feed it and it 594 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 1: would just keep chewing and swallow and then bam, the 595 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: plastic French fry was gone. Your cabbage Patch kids just 596 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 1: ate a French fry, can you believe it? And that 597 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: was the whole thing, right, But they they would chew 598 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 1: no matter what was placed in their mouth, yeah, like 599 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: fingers or hair, right, and they wouldn't stop either. Yeah. 600 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 1: So you're a little kid could end up with like 601 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 1: a crushed finger, lose a big tuft of hair, and 602 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: the cabbage patch kid would just be all fists and 603 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,879 Speaker 1: elbow saying more and more and more, give me more. Yeah, 604 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: that's a here's that's something for your nightmares. Is a 605 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 1: cabbage patch kid just chewing their way towards your exactly 606 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: connected by your hair to you. Uh so that was 607 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,919 Speaker 1: recalled by Mattel So they did the right thing there, Yeah, 608 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,359 Speaker 1: they did. Um. Probably the most famous one of all 609 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 1: time is lawn darts. Yeah, lawn darts. Uh, I played 610 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: it when I was a kid. If you haven't seen 611 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,719 Speaker 1: lawn darts, just you're of a newer generation, just google it. 612 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: And they were you. You would have two big kind 613 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: of hula hoop rings, uh, kind of like a horseshoe game, 614 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: and you would launch these large plastic, sharpish darts plastic 615 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: on one end. Yeah, the fins were plastic. Yeah, that 616 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: the stick part or the what would you call that 617 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: the dead end? The pizzer sure, yeah, was metal and 618 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: it was sharpish. It wasn't like a you know, like 619 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,839 Speaker 1: a a razor or anything, but it was sharp enough 620 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: to where if you launch this thing from across the 621 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 1: yard and you look up and go, I can't see it. 622 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: It's in the sun. All of a sudden, it's in 623 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 1: your eyeball and you're blind. Yeah, that happened to some people. 624 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: Like people were getting injured by these things. Apparently there 625 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: were seven thousand reported injuries from lawn darts. Would you 626 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,799 Speaker 1: call them jarts? M M no, I never said that. 627 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,360 Speaker 1: I thought you'd call them charts earlier. Okay, Um, that 628 00:36:58,480 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: is the thing, though, I've heard of yarts. What are they? 629 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,279 Speaker 1: I thought that was the same thing. So maybe that 630 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,880 Speaker 1: was the brand name. Maybe I'm not sure, but they 631 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,239 Speaker 1: they were banned. Actually, they didn't even have a chance 632 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 1: to be recalled. They were banned in so it is 633 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:19,839 Speaker 1: illegal to manufacture, sell, possess, and certainly play with lawn 634 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: darts in the US by punishment of death by lawn darts. Yes, 635 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 1: I just looked it up quickly. By the way, darts 636 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: was the brand name for at least one of them. 637 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,880 Speaker 1: I'm sure there was more than one kind. There definitely was, 638 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:36,360 Speaker 1: because the one I saw was Franklin yard Darts. Franklin. 639 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: They made the shuttle cocks that my family used to 640 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,840 Speaker 1: play badminton with Did you know I was like a 641 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,600 Speaker 1: world class badminton player. I'm just learning so much today 642 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 1: now that I think about it. World class is probably misleading. 643 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: Neighborhood class. Neighborhood class for sure. Yet I could destroy 644 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,440 Speaker 1: the neighborhood at least. Yeah, I will still play a 645 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: game of badminton. My brother set one up a couple 646 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,320 Speaker 1: of years ago. Of course, how did you do? It 647 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,319 Speaker 1: was okay? Good enough? Yeah? Have you ever watched like 648 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:11,720 Speaker 1: Olympic Babin. Oh, it's it's awesome. It's so it is amazing, 649 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 1: But I can't even follow it. I'm just they might 650 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 1: as they could be out there faking like there is 651 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 1: no shovel cock and I would never know. Yeah. The 652 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: only way it could get better is if Disney collector 653 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 1: b R commented on it but didn't even talk about 654 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: what was going on. She just said extra squeezy. Alright, 655 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,239 Speaker 1: So this next one is um Actually, these next two 656 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:41,320 Speaker 1: are legit scary. The atomic energy Laboratory in a. C. 657 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,839 Speaker 1: Gilbert invent of the Erector set, and he released this 658 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,399 Speaker 1: energy lab like a it's sort of like a little 659 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,279 Speaker 1: chemistry lab set thing, but it actually had uranium. It 660 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: had real radioactive materials, so you could see, like you 661 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: could create mistrails and things. Yeah, it was like a 662 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,840 Speaker 1: chemistry set for kids, but with radioactivity. That was the 663 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 1: point of it. This is at a time when the 664 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,319 Speaker 1: government was like, no, no, it's all fun radio activities. Fine, 665 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,000 Speaker 1: it's good for you. It gives you a healthy glow. Yeah. 666 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,879 Speaker 1: And the next one the c s I Fingerprint Examination Kit. Uh, 667 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 1: this was on I O nine's list, was the number 668 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 1: two most dangerous toy of all time. Yes, I think 669 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,879 Speaker 1: also thanks for saying that. The last three were from 670 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: the Band Toy Museum online. Yeah, And like we said, 671 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 1: all these and I've looked at a bunch of these 672 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,719 Speaker 1: lists and it's mostly the same stuff, which is good 673 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,719 Speaker 1: to know that it's not you know, like, there's really 674 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,399 Speaker 1: a hundred things and we're just picking our favorite. Uh. 675 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 1: So the c s I Fingerprint Examination Kit, you could 676 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,799 Speaker 1: play c s I get dust for fingerprints, uh with 677 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 1: trim a light, which is one of the deadliest kinds 678 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,919 Speaker 1: of asbestos. The powder that you used to dust had 679 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,760 Speaker 1: about seven percent trim a light. And this was really 680 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,759 Speaker 1: scary and it's amazing that it got through because this 681 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: was not the nineteen fifties. Yeah, No, it was just 682 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: like the early two thousands, I believe because it was 683 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,600 Speaker 1: a C s I brand fingerprinting kit and I guess 684 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,600 Speaker 1: so I saw that that that, um what is it 685 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: trema light? Yeah? Is it's an actual like I think 686 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,959 Speaker 1: they used actual fingerprint dust and that's like part of 687 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: something that fingerprint technicians have to work with. Is this asbestos? Um? 688 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 1: But they packaged it up and sold it for kids, 689 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,600 Speaker 1: and the company went bankrupt pretty quickly. Yeah, I would imagine. 690 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,839 Speaker 1: So what about Buckie Balls. It's kind of a legendary one. 691 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 1: Do you remember those? Yeah. I didn't know that these 692 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 1: had a had a a bad ending because I remember 693 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: my nephew and niece got Bucky balls for Christmas, um whenever, 694 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,880 Speaker 1: I mean not too long ago, and they were awesome 695 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 1: and cool and I played played with them like crazy 696 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,319 Speaker 1: at their house. Yeah, they're fun. There, There were great. 697 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 1: They're like ball bearings that are super strong magnet. Right. Yeah, 698 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,080 Speaker 1: it's really neat, so far, so good. You can build 699 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,279 Speaker 1: stuff out of them, you can hold stuff to a 700 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 1: refrigerator with him, whatever you want to do. It's just 701 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,960 Speaker 1: a great round magnet. But um, the problem is is 702 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 1: that if you swallowed more than one, you could be 703 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,720 Speaker 1: in big trouble because these things were very strong magnets, 704 00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,000 Speaker 1: and if you had one in your intestine and another 705 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 1: one and a part of a different part of your intestine, 706 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,240 Speaker 1: they would come together and your intestine would be pinched 707 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,319 Speaker 1: off right there. Yeah, and this actually happened to the 708 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:33,680 Speaker 1: extent where um about a thousand or so kids required 709 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 1: surgery to get these out. And they were a big hit. 710 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: It was kind of one of those, uh, just one 711 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 1: of those Christmas toys that really captured. Yeah, must have 712 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: Christmas toy. And the I guess the inventor did not 713 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:52,040 Speaker 1: want to acknowledge this, so he basically said, I'm not 714 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,880 Speaker 1: recalling these. These are a hot item. The federal government 715 00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:00,160 Speaker 1: sued him. He dissolved his company instead of funding a recall, 716 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,319 Speaker 1: and so they went after him personally to try and 717 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,120 Speaker 1: get fifty seven million bucks out of him. Yeah, supposedly 718 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:11,240 Speaker 1: settled for about one percent of that. I know, fifty 719 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,520 Speaker 1: seven million down to what Yeah, that's that was my 720 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 1: calculation too, But I was like, that's so small. I'm 721 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 1: not very confident about saying it out loud. Thank you 722 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,600 Speaker 1: for swooping in. Well, I think that's right, And I 723 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 1: didn't calculate it, and I'm terrible at math. We'll find 724 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,799 Speaker 1: out I am too, buddy. Um, and look look how 725 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:35,040 Speaker 1: far we've gotten in life. Yeah, uh so, thank you 726 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,720 Speaker 1: for using the UM. And then lastly, Chuck, we've mentioned 727 00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,720 Speaker 1: it before. We mentioned the prototype four that was banned, 728 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,400 Speaker 1: the Easy Bake Oven itself, the famous one that was 729 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,960 Speaker 1: in the National Hall Toy Hall of Fame in two 730 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:54,000 Speaker 1: thousand and six. Um, was itself banned? Yeah, this one 731 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 1: did not. So was that to deal with the other 732 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,279 Speaker 1: one that was a prototype? No? No, I mean it 733 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,080 Speaker 1: was like a predecessor to is what I mean? Yeah, 734 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,120 Speaker 1: because Easy Bake Oven never got up to six hundred 735 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,040 Speaker 1: degrees No, but it got up to two hundred degrees 736 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,760 Speaker 1: celsius four hundred degrees fahrenheit. That's it's that's you don't 737 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,120 Speaker 1: bake anything that like that much like that hot? That 738 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,920 Speaker 1: is hot? Yeah, like you could go campizza in that thing. Yes, 739 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,480 Speaker 1: not well but you could, yes if you had time. Sure, 740 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,000 Speaker 1: But they had some problems with him over the years. 741 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,200 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a is a like you said, 742 00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,960 Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame toy. It's been around forever and 743 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:35,880 Speaker 1: beloved by boys and girls for generations and two hundred 744 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 1: and fifty incidents reported, uh, sixteen cases of second or 745 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,840 Speaker 1: third degree burns. Yeah, and it was specifically a design 746 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: flaw that that got little kids fingers trapped in the 747 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 1: oven when it was hot. Um, and one one little 748 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 1: girl apparently had to undergo a partial finger amputation, says I. 749 00:43:56,200 --> 00:44:00,319 Speaker 1: Oh nine, very sad. It is sad, But we know 750 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:04,719 Speaker 1: about this stuff if it weren't for consumer protection. And 751 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,879 Speaker 1: I guess that that's the moral of the story. That's 752 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:12,000 Speaker 1: becoming the moral of the story lately our Restaurant Inspector's episode. 753 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:17,359 Speaker 1: Now it's toy testing. Yeah, there you go. Good point. Uh. 754 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,279 Speaker 1: If you want to know more about toy testing, you 755 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,080 Speaker 1: can type those two words into the search bar houseolforks 756 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,560 Speaker 1: dot common and will bring up an article. And since 757 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,959 Speaker 1: I say that it's time for listener mail, I'm gonna 758 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,480 Speaker 1: call this, uh something we missed in the FOIA episode. 759 00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,520 Speaker 1: Hey guys, a long time listener, first time writer, just 760 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:38,440 Speaker 1: listen to the Freedom of Information Act episode acknowledges he's 761 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,719 Speaker 1: a little behind and I wanted to bring something to 762 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:44,400 Speaker 1: your attention. Many states have laws modeled after the FOIA 763 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,120 Speaker 1: and there's a disturbing trend the last few years. There 764 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,239 Speaker 1: are many special interest groups and activists out there that 765 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: have begun using FOI request to stall legitimate research. This 766 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:58,560 Speaker 1: sounds familiar, Yeah, exactly. With facilities having hundreds of terabytes 767 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,800 Speaker 1: of data to potentially sift through complying with the request 768 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:06,719 Speaker 1: or say every interdepartmental email from two thousand to sev 769 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,759 Speaker 1: they can completely shut down an operation with only a 770 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,320 Speaker 1: handful of researchers. Another tactic is to cherry pick from 771 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,440 Speaker 1: tons upon tons of data to attempt to piece together 772 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: an argument to discredit unfavorable study results. The group's making 773 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,040 Speaker 1: the request know this, so it's a win win for them. 774 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,200 Speaker 1: They get tons of private emails to look through to 775 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,960 Speaker 1: spend into something nefarious, and even if and when they 776 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,960 Speaker 1: find nothing, they still throw a wrench into legitimate research 777 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,120 Speaker 1: and endeavors. How about that man, He said he was 778 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,919 Speaker 1: a little disappointed we didn't mention it. But um, first 779 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:43,440 Speaker 1: of all, Brandon I didn't know about this sore, that's why. Uh. 780 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,640 Speaker 1: But he said, you guys, I realized you focus more 781 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,120 Speaker 1: on the federal version, so that's not much of an 782 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,520 Speaker 1: issue there. So yeah, he says, you guys are awesome. 783 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: Keep up the great work. Uh, sincerely, Guy you should Know, 784 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,719 Speaker 1: Brandon ben Zack. Thanks a lot, Brandon, it was pretty smart. Um. 785 00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,759 Speaker 1: Thanks for letting us know so we could, in turn 786 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:06,040 Speaker 1: let everybody else know terrible stuff. I gotta look into 787 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,080 Speaker 1: that now. UM. If you want to alert us to 788 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,440 Speaker 1: something that we walked right past, please do. We always 789 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,840 Speaker 1: want to know that kind of thing. You can tweet 790 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,560 Speaker 1: to us at s y ESK podcast or joshuam Clark. 791 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,960 Speaker 1: You can hang out on Facebook at Charles W. Chuck 792 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,600 Speaker 1: Bryant or Stuff you Should Know. You can send us 793 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,840 Speaker 1: an email the Stuff podcast at how stuff Works dot 794 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: com and has always joined us at our home on 795 00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:33,439 Speaker 1: the web, Stuff you Should Know dot com. For more 796 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,759 Speaker 1: on this and thousands of other topics, is that how 797 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:47,239 Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com