WEBVTT - Short Stuff: Magnet Fishing 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.240 Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, and 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.280 there's Chuck and this short stuff. As I said already, 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.680 and this is short stuff, so let's go. So when 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:14.760 I was a kid, I don't know if your dad 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.000 ever did this. Something tells me your dad may have 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:22.800 had a brief foray into metal detecting. Yea. It seemed 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.040 to be maybe a little bit of a I don't 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.720 know about fat or craze if it was that widespread, 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.120 But I know quite a few of us in our 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.760 age group who's mothers and fathers. For some reason, more 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.280 fathers than mothers, uh, and there were generally more mothers 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.080 going seriously like, you're kind of spent three hours on 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.479 the beach doing that, uh, roaming around the beaches and 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.600 forest of America with a metal detector hoping to In 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.360 my dad's case, I think he was probably hoping to 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.520 strike it rich was some rare find. Yeah. I think 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.080 all of them were secretly some of them might have 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.640 tried to play like you know, they were really just 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.520 in it for the science or whatever, but they were 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:05.320 hoping to find some roaming horde for some reason in Indiana, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.360 And I thought it was cool at the time. Because 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.920 I would do anything to to try and get my 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.720 dad to pay attention to me. So I would tag 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.000 along and I would metal detect right alongside of him, 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.200 and I thought it was pretty cool. Uh. And I 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.120 found myself when I heard about magnet fishing just recently 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.399 I learned that this is a thing, saying, oh, wow, 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.679 that looks like something I might want to try. And 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.800 then I went, oh my god, I've become my father. Yeah, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.039 where you like, maybe I'll strike it rich. No, but 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.920 I just think it's kind of kind of cool and fun. Well, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.560 the idea of it. I think you can get into it, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.400 and it will be easy to get into because the 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:48.800 barriers for getting into magnet fishing our purposefully kept low 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.880 so that everybody can't get into it. Because it's supposed 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.680 to be really fun past time, and we should tell 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.200 everybody what magnet fishing is. I mean, if there's ever 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.080 been a term that we needed to define, it's magnet fishing. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.720 Are you fishing for magnets? Yes, are using magnet magnets 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.200 to try and get a fish out of a lake. Yeah, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.400 there's so much mercury and fish now that you can 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.920 magnets to catch them. No, that's what not when magnet 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:16.480 fishing is magnet fishing is having a rope tied to 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.320 a dope, very strong magnet magnet, which we'll talk about 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.520 what these magnets are and how they work and stuff 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.080 and that, and dropping it in a canal or a 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.919 river or a lake or off of a bridge into 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.280 any of these bodies of water, dragging it along and 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:38.240 hoping that you pull up uh something cool or valuable 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.760 or both. Where does the dope come in? I don't know. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:46.920 I guess you should well never mind, So yeah, I 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:51.800 can use my imagination. So um from looking at on YouTube, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.480 what I've seen, more often than not, what comes out 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.400 of the lake or the river the canal is not 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.600 anything most people would want to touch. So I think 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.000 like being a magnet fisherman, you're you're you have to 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:11.080 be fascinated by icky things, rusty things that were once 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.720 not rusty or ikey, and that the fact that they're 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:19.760 underwater now makes them by nature interesting to magnet fishers. Yeah. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.480 And this is, by the way, comes from our old 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.120 colleagues at house stuff works dot com and they aptly 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.040 point out that this is pretty it's it's caught on 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.320 here in America pretty well, especially during the pandemic. They 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.000 did interview someone who in our own state of Georgia 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.040 who opened a magnet place to like kind of furnish 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.040 supplies for people, and he was like, man, this it's 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.880 like during the pandemic and during lockdown, things really blew 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.520 up because you can socially distance. It got people out 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.920 of the house. It really passes the time something you 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.520 can take your kid and do. So it's really been 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.920 booming in the States in the past couple of years, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.160 but it's long been popular in Europe, and for good 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.800 reason because Europe is old are and they're more interesting 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.360 fines and you're way more likely to find some old 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.360 unexploded munition that you might want on yourself, even though 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.800 it's very dangerous then you might in America. Yeah, we 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.400 should buzz market that dude too, because he seems okay. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:21.320 But brute magnetics in North Georgia. Yeah, Clay Copeland, so 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.360 um what what they've put together are And he's actually 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.360 the reason that I said that this is this um 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.760 hobbies being kept accessible purposefully because the he said that 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.680 the most powerful magnet that they sell, the top of 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:43.039 the line can pull over two thousand pounds of metal 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.160 out of whatever waterway you're fishing in. Um, it's still 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.680 only like two dollars. Yeah, not bad for a hobby. No, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.480 And if you stop and think about it, you could, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.520 like there's a two thousand pound piece of metal that's 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.919 getting close to like a car, you know, didn't it. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.560 I don't know how much carve's way. I don't know, 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.919 Like two thousand pounds is what I'm guessing. Probably the 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.039 topped out at two thousand pounds, so like a hummer 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.720 probably weighs two thousand pounds. Okay, I think that might 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.680 be wrong. But the point is this, there's a two 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.840 thousand pound magnet or a magnet that can pull two 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.760 thousand pounds or two hundred bucks. That's a good deal. Okay, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.880 that is a good deal. Uh. You know, any kind 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.640 of hobby when you're buried or entries a couple of 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.960 hundred dollars and you could spend hours and hours like 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.960 with your kids or something, not bad at all. You 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.000 should be sure of a few things. One that you 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.279 have that you're really good at tying knots, because what 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.599 you don't want to do is lose that magnet and 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.279 then have to get a magnet to fish out that 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.279 magnet so be good, really good at tying knots. You 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.680 want to a rope that's fifty two d feet depending 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.520 on you know, if you're obviously dropping off a bridge, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.880 you're gonna want the longer rope. And I saw that 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.360 nylon pair record is a really good option because it's 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.200 like a thicker one because it's it's got that perfect 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:03.039 mix of tough toughness and elastic city. And the magnets 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.679 that you would buy two are not your normal refrigerator magnets, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.200 which are made of fair rite um. The ones that Mr. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.960 Copeland cells are made of neodymium, is how I'm going 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.760 to say it. I think that's right. And neodymium is 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.520 a it's a rare earth metal and they mix it 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:24.120 with a boron an iron and it's just again super strong, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.919 Like you're not going to pull anything approaching two thousand 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.679 pounds with a a refrigerator magnet, even if it's super 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.120 super big um. And that's the point. You want to 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:38.040 fairly compact magnet that is also designed in a streamline 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.960 manner so it's not gonna get hooked up on all 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.880 sorts of muck. And kelp and seaweed and all that 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.080 stuff too. Should we take a break? I think so 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.640 we're really just getting started with magnet fishing. Everybody, all right, 0:06:49.680 --> 0:07:16.680 We'll be right back by the way during our break. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.360 I just looked it up. The average weight of a 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.920 car is about pounds, okay, so I think like one 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.640 of those smart cars maybe about two thousand pounds. I'll 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.720 take smart car. It's basically the same thing as a hummer. Uh. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.640 And before I forget the other thing I meant to 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.600 mention on what you might need to get started is 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.440 a tetna shot. I mean, it's kind of funny to say, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.920 but that is no joke because you are pulling old, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.600 rusty things out of the water inevitably, and that's the 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.280 nature of magnets and metal and being underwater. So you 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.280 do want a tetna shot and to have like some 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.040 like gloves and stuff like that. You also want to 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.480 have um some common decency because one of the reasons 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.880 that um some magnet fishers fisher people have a bad 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.400 reputation in some places like the UK and Germany are 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.040 apparently two places where they kind of frown upon magnefishing 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.280 because people magnetfish pull out some metallic junk that they 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.920 don't want and just like leave it on the side 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.640 of the river or the sidewalk that like the walking 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.960 path alongside a canal or something like that. Kind of 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.760 get the impression that if you haul something out, it's 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.840 up to you to either keep it or throw it away, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.720 not just leave it there, yes, or turn in in 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.000 the case of unexploded munitions, if you find an old 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.920 World War two hand grenade or bullets. I mean, it 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.559 seems like I looked up a lot of these fines 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:48.559 and stuff, and it is disturbing how many weapons are 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:53.000 in bags in rivers. Uh. It really makes you wonder 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:57.040 why it's in there. But lots of guns are found, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.960 tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of bullets are found. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.000 I saw one where this little six year old girl 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.679 and her parents pulled six hundred bullets out of a lake. Uh. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.240 And like I said, like a K forty seven someone 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.680 found a Tommy gun. Wow, that's a pretty good find. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.480 That's revolver pretty good. Fine, But you know people are 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.680 dumping dangerous things, uh era like Civil War era swords. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.880 Pretty good fine, Um, but there are dangerous things down there. Uh, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.440 and if anything is unexploded, don't just I think the 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.920 assumption is it's always dangerous, so you should probably get 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.880 in touch with somebody about it. Yeah, and that's especially 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.040 true in Europe, where a lot of World War Two 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.800 artillery and ammunition. Until welighing around. Yeah, um, I saw 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.920 a blog post Chuck that I guess I hadn't heard 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.960 about the Tommy gun because it was called like the 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.040 the greatest magnet fishing fines of all time, really, and 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.720 one of them was like a bench, like a park bench, 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.280 and the caption was who couldn't use a free bench? 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.280 Like they were really trying to sell? So I guess 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.720 that the Tommy gun hadn't been found yet. I saw 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.439 one guy who there was a picture of him holding 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:17.240 up a machine gun standing beside no why. It was 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:22.679 either eight or ten of those stupid rental scooters electric scooters. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.600 People just throw those in bodies of water. Yeah, and 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.880 shopping carts too. You know who does that? People did? Teenagers? 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.160 I saw one guy found a human body that had 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:40.000 handcuffs on. No, yes, no, yes, boy. I used the 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.199 wrong search terms for magnat fishing fines because I didn't 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.920 see anything like that. I just searched for like most 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.640 interesting fines A body with handcuffs? Are you for real? Yeah? 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:54.960 I mean you know that's what this one goofy website said. Goodness, wow, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.840 that was pretty much my worst fear when I was 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:04.240 a young STERVEYK. Shanning in Lake Erie. Yes. Yeah, and 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.400 just bumping into a body that I just knew was 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.240 out there five feet away from me, headed right towards me. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.800 The idea of finding one magnet. Oh my god, I'm 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.880 gonna have to go like chill out for a little 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.440 bit before we record our next short stuff. Well, could 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.880 you imagine they're pulling this thing out and it's it's 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.320 coming up handcuff first, So either around the ankles, are 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.839 around the wrist. Yeah. So I mean that's that's a 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.800 pretty crucome discovery. Yeah good Lauren, Well thanks for ending 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.959 it like that. Sure, Well, we're not quite done. It's um. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.320 I just wanted to say how discouraging it is that 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.080 people are pulling out so much trash. It's great the 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.040 people that are doing this to pull out the trash 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.040 and dispose of it. Well, but as I was researching 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.280 this yesterday, Emily texted me that our house is next 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.600 to sort of this bamboo forest with a creek, and 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.400 she saw a truck pull over and throw a gigantic 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.200 microwave into the creek and speed off and it Now 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.040 I have to go fish that microwave out. She got 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.600 his license plate. But I'm like, what are you gonna do? 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:09.280 You know, over to be like the cops in the 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.680 Big Lebowski. Oh yeah, we got a whole team of 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.960 guys working on it. But now I gotta go fish 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.560 this microwave about it Just there's no way I can 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.119 let it sit there. You're gonna get yourself a two 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.319 dollar magnet magnet from Mr Clay Copeland of Brute Magnetics. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.560 I probably should, because that'd be the easiest way to 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.160 do it, and it would be legal in Georgia. Legality wise, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.880 we should mention that it's everywhere so far except for 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.560 South Carolina. It is legal because in South Carolina it 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.640 falls under the South Carolina Underwater Antiques Act, which prohibits 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:45.040 you from collecting things with equipment deployed from the surface 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.920 of the water. And that even means magnets. Yeah, especially magnets, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.360 is what I heard. Yeah, in Europe is a little 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.679 more controlled, not controlling, but they have more restrictions in 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.560 things in place. Right. Yeah, again, there's a lot of 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.080 unexploded ordinance. It's just the right age to blow up 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.640 in your face accidentally when you're inspecting it to figure 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.199 out what it is. That's right, So it makes sense. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.079 So that's magnetficient. Go forth, check out brute magnetics. Get 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.560 yourself a magnet and throw away the stuff you don't want. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.600 Don't throw it back or just leave it on the 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.920 side of the road. Okay, uh, that's it for short stuff. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:27.679 Since Chuck agreed, that's official. See you later. Stuff you 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.200 Should Know is a production of I Heart Radio. For 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.280 more podcasts my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.400 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.