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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant

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Speaker 1: with his hair looking mighty fine. Today is a good

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Speaker 1: hair day. Yeah, oh, it's a great hair day. Thanks man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're doing great. You're feeling good, pet people energy and happy.

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Speaker 1: My hair is happy, yeah, Chuck, Josh, Hey man, let's

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Speaker 1: before we get started, we should plug Facebook, Twitter and

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Speaker 1: your mom's cooking. Uh, my mom's cooking is great. Facebook.

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Speaker 1: You can find us at Stuff you Should Know in

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Speaker 1: the search bar, and we're personally interacting. Now. It's not

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Speaker 1: a ghost writer, it's not it's not a net bot.

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Speaker 1: And you'll be able to tell because it's clearly our

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Speaker 1: silly and a in voices. Yeah, and we chuck started

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Speaker 1: the trend that solved a big problem of saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: Chuck here because our profile pictures the album art for

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Speaker 1: our podcast. I don't want people to get what we're

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Speaker 1: saying confused, but me, my words are my words. I

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Speaker 1: don't want them to be like I didn't know Josh

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Speaker 1: was an old crotchety man. Yeah, he's just a young jerk.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know Chuck was in a fight club. Um.

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Speaker 1: So that's Facebook, and we already had a page, but

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Speaker 1: we consolidated him. If you were a fan of the

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Speaker 1: old page, they ain't around anymore. Joined the new one,

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Speaker 1: will you. Let's get with it and Twitter. We're tweeting

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Speaker 1: our account and should be funny and fun and I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to follow Cocoa's lead. Oh yeah, well I was

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Speaker 1: anti Twitter until I saw Comen O'Brien's I think I

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Speaker 1: told you that, and they were just they were funny,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, you know what, I could do that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well of course you can. You're Chuck Bryant characters. I

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Speaker 1: can do that. Yeah, we're t he in sixty pal

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Speaker 1: that was it. I don't know and I will figure

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Speaker 1: middle of the sentence. Alright, So we're doing with plug

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Speaker 1: Fest two thousand ten, right, okay, Chuck, Josh, Mr Jake

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Speaker 1: Jillen Hall. He uh, he's finally arrived. Donnie Darko himself. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: h much to his chagrin. He was not a member

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Speaker 1: Time Machine, but he was cast in the starring role

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Speaker 1: for Prince of Persia the Sands of Time or something. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I saw the trailer for that the other day. As

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Speaker 1: a result, Mr Gillen Hall will now have his own

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Speaker 1: Lego Mini figure. Well, and as a result, he's very

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Speaker 1: buff now you see it. He got all the jacked

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Speaker 1: but again, what we're focusing on here is the Lego

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Speaker 1: Mini figure. Well, but is the Mini figure buff? It

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Speaker 1: has stubble and there's something of a resemblance to Hi,

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Speaker 1: which is that really kind of a new trend among

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Speaker 1: be branded like that. Well both they started branding or

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Speaker 1: working with licensed brands with Star Wars and they were like, oh,

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Speaker 1: we don't know, this kind of goes against our corporate

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Speaker 1: philosophy letting kids use their imagination. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: And we should say, well, this is a no way,

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Speaker 1: in no way our Chuck and I Wilfer Brimley esque

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Speaker 1: So to answer your question, Um, they started doing the branded,

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Speaker 1: of This is a stat heavy extravaganza. Yeah. Yeah, Chuck's

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Speaker 1: have to, so, Chuck. Over the years, you just spanned

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Speaker 1: I just want to snap box together hot wheel model cars.

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Speaker 1: I was into model cars. Yeah. I would get them

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Speaker 1: some pretty cool uses of Legos have done some pretty

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Speaker 1: there is a thriller done in Legos, all fourteen minutes

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Speaker 1: shot for shot, and it was clearly done in like

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Speaker 1: and Chewbacca, Well there should be icons um in I

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Speaker 1: think two thousand eight, Lego and Kellogg's combined shared the

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Speaker 1: Blindingly Obvious Danger Award from Consumers International for producing the

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Speaker 1: spilling out, and he's made of legos. You keep leaving

420
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Speaker 1: that all of this is made of legos. Okay, all right?

421
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: And then there's this other dude, Sean Kenny, and he

422
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: is New York based two and I get the feeling

423
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Speaker 1: that they kind of battle a little bit force well,

424
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: New York Lego supremacy at least because both of their

425
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: websites say our studio has more than one point five

426
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: million Legos. Both of them have one point five million Legos.

427
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: But I mean how many I could have one point

428
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: five million Legos and do nothing with them and slap

429
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Speaker 1: a website together. It's what you do with the legos,

430
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 1: not how many you own. Well, let me show you

431
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: what Shaun's done. He's done um work for companies like

432
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Speaker 1: Google and Nintendo and JP Morgan and Samsung. And he's

433
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 1: been featured on I mean everything, you name it, he's

434
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Speaker 1: been featured. Has it been featured on Timmy Kim Well?

435
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: Ah no, But look at this. He did a Yankee stadium.

436
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 1: Check that out. And I hate the Yankees. I was

437
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna say, if I like the Yankees, I'd be really impressed.

438
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: And he's pretty talented guy too. And he is a

439
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Speaker 1: member of the what are called the Certified Professionals, and

440
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Speaker 1: I think there's eleven of them. Now, Yeah, that Lego

441
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: was actually certified these people as professional artists or whatever. Yeah.

442
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: I got the impression that um, as he became better

443
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: and better, he stopped paying for Legos along the way,

444
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Speaker 1: and this is like ring ring, I need more Legos now,

445
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: I would think, so I need grain And Old Kirk

446
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: Christensen is like, okay, all right, Old Kirk, should we

447
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 1: go off some of these fun facts? Yeah, Lego fun

448
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: facts aren't all facts associated with Legos fun? Yeah? I

449
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: think so. Okay. I like this whole around the world

450
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: stuff though, because every company has one of these. Wait, first,

451
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Speaker 1: have you been on Lego dot com recently? Did you

452
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Speaker 1: go on for this? Yeah? Yeah, it was pretty awesome,

453
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: wasn't it, like all the little movies associated with each one.

454
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: I haven't been to Lego Land though, You've ever been there?

455
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: One of their theme parks that they actually sold. You

456
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: had a Merlin Entertainment or something like that to Merlin

457
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: Olsen his ghost made a deal with Old Kirk Christiansen's

458
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: passed away recently, didn't he very sad? Uh? Yeah? They

459
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: sold those because they became unprofitable, so they kind of

460
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: restructured and move some things around. Now they're in the

461
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: in the red, in the black, in the Black fun facts. Josh,

462
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: here we go. More than four hundred million children and

463
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Speaker 1: adults will play with Legos this year. Yes, and I

464
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Speaker 1: don't know what year they said that was, but it's

465
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Speaker 1: probably every year. I saw the two thousand nine Investor

466
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Speaker 1: Catalog or Um Perspectus, I guess, and it said that

467
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,719
Speaker 1: same stats. So you can put all your money in Legos.

468
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a substantial amount of it actually privately owns.

469
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's possible. M hm uh. If you

470
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Speaker 1: built a column, Josh of forty billion Lego bricks, it

471
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: would reach the moon. Had to count those zeros. I've

472
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: got one, go ahead. Lego is the largest tire manufacturer

473
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: in the world. Yeah, little teeny tires, pretty pretty cool. Sat.

474
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Speaker 1: How many do they make a year? Oh? I don't know.

475
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Speaker 1: Do you have that stat Yeah? I do, three six million.

476
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Speaker 1: That's what I get to. Somebody else is in the

477
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Speaker 1: two thousand nine Investor perspective on average, Josh, they are

478
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Speaker 1: this is the one. This is my favorite one. There

479
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: are sixty two Lego bricks for every single person on Earth. Yeah.

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00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: I like that one too. Uh. Four billion hours. That's

481
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: the amount of five billion, five billion hours. That's how

482
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: much people will spend playing with Legos in a year

483
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: on average, not one person, not per person, by everybody

484
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Speaker 1: playing with Lego you had a fun fact. I'm not

485
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Speaker 1: a fun fact. I mean there were more, but I've

486
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: got one for you. Remember we talked about I'm fascinated

487
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 1: with the mini figures, the mini figs as they call them.

488
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: If you're in the know, if you're one of the

489
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Speaker 1: eleven certified artists. Um we uh. We talked about how

490
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: they're they were originally gender neutral, um, race neutral. They

491
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: were also emotion neutral too, And it wasn't until nine

492
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: when Lego released their oil started releasing their Pirates set

493
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: that they realized, hey man, we might need some facial

494
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 1: expressions on these people. And they came up with a

495
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: good figure and a bad figure and an I patched

496
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: figure and I think scowl and smile to differentiate between

497
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: the good guys and the bad guys. I'm sure from

498
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: that point on they started having facial expressions for them. Uh.

499
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: And I think I have one an other Yeah, I

500
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: was Fisher Price. We should do a podcast on Fisher Price.

501
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: That was my bag. I was way into that. I

502
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: liked Playmobile, but I did love Legos as well. Um

503
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: and then Chuck the Mini figs four billion of them

504
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: on the planet. There's only six point five billion people um,

505
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: four billion on the planet technically makes them the largest

506
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: population group in the world because they're so tiny. That's

507
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: so cute. And I think that's it, buddy, I think so.

508
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot more. We didn't cover all

509
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: of it. No, there is something else. All the press

510
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: you were talking about them selling Lego Land. They did

511
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Speaker 1: this huge restructuring in I think two thousand four because

512
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: they peaked in with their Star Wars sets and after

513
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: that they actually started losing money, and you said they

514
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: were back in the black. Part of it is because

515
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: of their selling Lego Land restructuring the company. But um,

516
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: one of the reasons, actually, probably the main reason why

517
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: Legos took such a hit was because of Mega blocks

518
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,719
Speaker 1: no electronics. Oh, I thought their patent ran out too.

519
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: That's something to do that. That was definitely part of it.

520
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: But they think that the you know, Legos are having

521
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 1: trouble competing with MP three players or video games are

522
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: all that. So Lego remains optimistic, Buddy. I have a

523
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: little tidbit of nice Danish optimism in broken English for you,

524
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Speaker 1: courtesy of the Lego Group. You ready, yes, I quote,

525
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: but the Lego group is in no doubt that the

526
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: Lego brick will continue in future to be relevant to

527
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: children of all ages period. A world of imagination and

528
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: total absorption. Period. That sounds like they literally said that

529
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: and their native language and then just typed it into baby. Well.

530
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: You know they have the my nephew, uh know what

531
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: plays with the the PlayStation game they have but Indiana

532
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: Jones Lego game. Yeah, so they're trying to get a

533
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: piece of that market too. I think they got a

534
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: good piece of it. They have a Star Wars game too.

535
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: I think they have more than the trilogy in Lego. Yeah,

536
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: they'll be around. They're fine, I think so. Yeah. So

537
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: that's it, man. If you want to see really honestly,

538
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: I know we say this every time, like go read

539
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: the article on the site. Sometimes we've covered the article

540
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: gone beyond the article. This is not one of those cases.

541
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: If you want to see just a series of super

542
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: cool Lego pictures, um, a Lego brick field guide, complete

543
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: with precise measurements, uh and just a bunch of other

544
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: information that we didn't even touch on, type how Lego

545
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: bricks work, because technically there isn't a word called legos,

546
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: it's Lego bricks. But you know, hey, we named ours

547
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: how legos work? Right, type how lego bricks work in

548
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: the handy search bar at how stuff works dot com

549
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: and it will yield that article right indeed, listener Milk,

550
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to give a little shout out. I had

551
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: met a couple of fans this weekend. Finally it never happens.

552
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: What about the Henry Clay people. Well, yeah, but I mean, yeah, sure,

553
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: you're right, Okay, I'm gonna plug your album. Actually it's

554
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,479
Speaker 1: coming out in June. They got a new album coming out.

555
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: But I'll wait on that plug when it's when. Interest Uh.

556
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: Jerry and I over the weekend went to a play sorts.

557
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: I think it's so cute you to your dating wildlife

558
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: theater We're not dating, uh, called looking Glass Alice based

559
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Doug and

560
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: Lindsay or in the show Lindsay's Alice. And actually there's

561
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: only five people in the show, so literally one whatever

562
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: whatever percentage of the cast that is, are fans of

563
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: the show. And so Jerry and I went with Emily

564
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: with my wife and I met up with them afterwards

565
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: in the green room, which was really green, and they

566
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: were super cool and we're gonna take him out for

567
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: barbecue while they're here, and uh, I just wanted to

568
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: thank them. Are they still here? Yeah, they're there. It's

569
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: like a six week run where you going for barbecue. Well,

570
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,239
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like Daddy D's, but that's my

571
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: friend little Dingy let me yeah, but it's really great barbecue.

572
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: Daddy d Is is listening your barbecue rocks. I would

573
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: recommend that. Or Fox Brothers. Well, Fox Brothers is a

574
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: little more the kind of place you would want to

575
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: take someone from out of town. But they're kind of

576
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: into fat mats. They want to get fat mats. Okay,

577
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: you know that made an appearance in Up in the Air.

578
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: Yeah indeed. Yeah. Okay, Well that's it for the Atlanta

579
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: barbecue scene, right, And I also wanted to shout out

580
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: to uh. Emily had a craft show last weekend and

581
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: one of her fellow crafters her name was Julie. Oh

582
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: is it Julia? Now I feel like a jerk. It's

583
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: just to say both. It's either Julie or Julia. She

584
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: was really nice and what she does she has bought

585
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: some of these and I've seen other people that do

586
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: this now. And I'm mentioning it because it's just so

587
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: cool those old print printing presses from like the eighteen hundreds. Yeah, no,

588
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: you don't. She's resurrected these things and they're huge and

589
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: she does like real printing on cards. Just no computers involved.

590
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: It's just because those DAGNEVITC computers, I know. But that

591
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: showed pictures are in front this huge machine and you

592
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: crank it with your foot and it turns all these

593
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: gears and just like the punk and she was, yeah,

594
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: it is very steampunk. But her she has a website

595
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: called red Bird Inc. Dot com. And I don't know,

596
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 1: I think you should support people that like resurrect She said.

597
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: Machines have been used in like seventy years. Why don't

598
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: she got ahold of them? People used to have to

599
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: walk uphill both ways in the snow to use those

600
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: machines to print. All right, Josh, this is a listener

601
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: mail in honor of Mother's Day that should come out

602
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: sometime near Mother's Day. Hold on, we haven't even laid

603
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: a part where we can do the music, Chuck, is

604
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: it time now for listener mail? Yes, Josh said in

605
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Speaker 1: JERRYO so, like I said, hopefully this will come out

606
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: sometime around Mother's Day because is from Nora, signed Nora

607
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Speaker 1: a mama from Missouri. Hello fellas. While driving my oldest

608
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Speaker 1: son to start a freshman year of college this fall,

609
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: I was trying to be cool. She put cool in

610
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Speaker 1: quotes and ignore all the mommy emotions bubbling up so

611
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: she was getting sad. Thank you for translating. For the

612
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: hour and a half drive, my son out his radio

613
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: iPod gizmo and entertained his brother and me with your podcast,

614
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: starting with the one on a pumpty schemes. Uh, you

615
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: know how to say it, clearly. We were totally involved,

616
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: thought provoked, and sparked a great conversation for two. After

617
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: handling the separation without too much embarrassment, and upon arriving home,

618
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: I decided to go for a run to help shake

619
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Speaker 1: off my mommy blues. The inspiration came to look up

620
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: the podcast and load some on the iPod gizmo, thinking

621
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Speaker 1: while running and listening, I headed that part. While running

622
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Speaker 1: and listening, I was struck by the whole circle of

623
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Speaker 1: my baby teaching me a trick or two as he

624
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: heads off into the world. Now I get warm fuzzies

625
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: each time I had out for a run and choose

626
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Speaker 1: my topic. Didn't it And I look forward to running

627
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Speaker 1: more than a half for a while, So extra bonus.

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Speaker 1: Now my son, my youngest son, looks for podcast he

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