1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: M Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 1: s Y s K Selects, I've chosen spam. There's so 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: much to understand about spam, including one of my favorite 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: facts of our entire show that spam never goes bad. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: So enjoy spam. Now, welcome to Stuff you Should Know 6 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 7 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: the podcast on Josh Clark. I am Josh Clark, and 8 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and that's a stuff you 9 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: should know. Let's all go home. Some people are probably 10 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: already home. Well, go to bed, Okay. He told me 11 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: that in the email the other day. Go back to sleep. 12 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: I don't get that. You're just being goofye okay, just 13 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 1: lightning the moon like um, yeah, hey buddy, Hey Josh, 14 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: I have a story for you. All right, let's hear it. 15 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 1: So last November, not too many months ago, stop looking, 16 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: just listen, all right, Uh, there was a carnival cruise 17 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: liner that had a little fire. The Carnival Splendor was 18 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: on a seven day trip to the Mexican Riviera and 19 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: about forty four miles off the coast of Mexico, it 20 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: went adrift because of fire in the engine room just 21 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: knocked everything out so they lost power, which means it 22 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: was basically just like UM being on an abandoned boat, 23 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: but filled with people ghost ship a ghost ship and 24 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: filled with not just people, filled with two hundred and 25 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,919 Speaker 1: fifty magicians who were on a convention. Um. That sounds 26 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: like my idea of hell on Earth. Okay. In addition 27 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: to the magicians, which apologies to any magicians listening, we 28 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: got sculptures melting. You've got magicians they can't find their 29 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: rabbits um. You've got UM toilets of their own flush. 30 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: You've got UM cabins that are UM stuffy. You have 31 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: UM warm food or warm drink. Yes, so Carnival in 32 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: their credit did UM give away free beer and wine 33 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: and all that. But it was warm. So for three 34 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: days all these people were just sitting adrift, right, and 35 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: a very just They weren't very happy. The US Navy 36 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: flew sorties out to this UM this ship and dropped 37 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: off supplies. They dropped off canned lump crab meat, they 38 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: dropped off pop tarts, they dropped off a little something 39 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: called spam canned meat. And when the ship was finally 40 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 1: I think towed back to uh Port. The people dubbed 41 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: this crazy vacation. What do you think do you think 42 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: they they dubbed it the hop tart Cation? Now do 43 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: you think they dubbed it the lump crab meat Cation. No, 44 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: of course they dubbed it spam cation two thousand ten. Yeah, 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: that's like Chad's story. Our buddy Chad was on a 46 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: cruise remember when he was younger, that the power went down. 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: He never told me this one. Oh yeah, he said 48 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: it was like Sodom and Gamora for a couple of days. Really, 49 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. He said that people were having a 50 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: lot of fun and engaging inside of me, just in 51 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: Gamore and me having a good time, is what he 52 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: how he characterized it. That's crazy. I wonder if he 53 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: just didn't realize that it would have been like that 54 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: either way, with the power on or off. He was 55 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: just exposed to the power off part. I don't know. 56 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: He kind of made it seem like that with the 57 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: power down, people just it was a little nutty. It 58 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: was sort of like the end times are here. We're 59 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: on a cruise ship adrift, and let's just have have 60 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: fun with each other. Crazy. Yeah, I've never been on 61 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: a cruise, you know. Yeah, I'm not a cruise guy. 62 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: My dad he's turned into a cruise guy. He and uh, 63 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: he and my step mom and the cruises. But they 64 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: know my dad's way into him. Every time they go, 65 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: they come back with like a stomach bug or the 66 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: flu or just apparently they just it's like the epidemic 67 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 1: just goes through like crazy, like wildfire. My friend Andrew 68 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,239 Speaker 1: in New York or from l A, but from the Bronx. 69 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: Andrew his uh, he showed me the tape of his graham. 70 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: I think it was his grandmother. Maybe it was his 71 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: aunt this, you know, like the old Jewish lady and 72 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: you talking about a cruise and she was explaining about 73 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: the cruise and how much it costs and how much 74 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: you get, and she was like, it almost costs, he said. 75 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: She said it costs more to stay at home, Like 76 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: she thought it was cheaper to go on a cruise 77 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: than to just live her life at home. Huh, well, 78 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: she doesn't live in New York. It was very funny though. Yeah, 79 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: I didn't tell her right, but Andrew, if you're listening, 80 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: I still remember that. And if you're listening, Chuck, sorry 81 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: for that one. I am. So that was spam cation 82 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: two thousand ten, and of course they named a spam 83 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: cation spam the food. By the way, if you were 84 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: hoping to hear about spam, email, sorry, we'll mention that. 85 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: We'll mention that briefly. But this is about the iconic 86 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: potted meat, right, which, by the way, Chuck. Next July 87 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: five will be it's seventy fifth birthday. July twelve, it 88 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: was interruced to the public twelve, it will have been 89 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: seventy five years since it was trademarked and technically born. Yeah. 90 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: And then now in twenty five years there will be 91 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: a spam tennial is what they'll probably call it, yes, 92 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: which will be fantastic. So, Chuck, um, let's talk about spam. 93 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: It's shrouded in mystery. No one has a clue what's 94 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: in it, or in what degree, or what it's made of. 95 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: So Chuck, what is spam? Josh? Spam is a pinkish 96 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: brick of meat that is canned and it is We 97 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: actually do know what's in it. It is pretty easy. 98 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: It's uh, pork shoulder and ham. Yeah, and ham's from 99 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: the butt, right, it's from the rear, hind legs and 100 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: rear end of a pig is what ham is. It's 101 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: also got a lot of salt because you need that 102 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: to help flavor and preserve the meat. And I got 103 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: a little bit of sugar for flavor and uh water 104 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: and then a tiny amount is what they say on 105 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,239 Speaker 1: the Hormel site. They use the word tiny A tiny 106 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: amount of sodium nitrite, which keeps the botulism away. It's 107 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: keeps a botuli is um away. And it also keeps 108 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: the pink a shoe because if not, spam would turn gray, 109 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: which is not very appetizing. It's they're doing their best 110 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: to keep it pink. So um. I don't know that 111 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: the pinker the gray with spam specifically would make a difference. 112 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: But the grabster, for some reason who wrote this article 113 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: how spam um? He didn't He left out potato starts 114 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: for some reason. How was that in there? Yeah, potato 115 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: starts in there too. I did not see that spam 116 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: has a Hormel on the website says the shelf life 117 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: is indefinite. No, yes, wow, they say it's indefinite. They 118 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: recommend you eat it. It It is amped within three years 119 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: of the stamped. Because the flavor quote gradually declines. It 120 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: declines to the bottom of the can. Yeah, but it's 121 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: still abedible to shake it up. I'm sure it goes 122 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: right back. Yeah, that's really something. So should we do 123 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: history first or should we go into the production? Um, 124 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: we need to make sense to do history first. Well, 125 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,239 Speaker 1: let's do history then. You know, before it was called spam, 126 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: there was a product on the market UM called Hormel 127 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: spiced ham. Did you know that? I did not know that. 128 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: And it wasn't selling very well. Well because Hormel was 129 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: in the fresh meat biz, right, And apparently it's just 130 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: it was hard to make your name in the fresh 131 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: meat biz because it was just kind of all the 132 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: same looking right, like, look at this turkey breast. It 133 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: looks like the turkey breast next to us. Imagine they 134 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: still have the same problem today. But they decided to 135 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: get into the can meat business. Well, that was George 136 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: Hormel's problem. Jay Hormel was the one who said, well, 137 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: let's just let's yeah, get into canned meat. And he 138 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: was the son of George the found or. And this 139 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: was in the late eighteen hundreds in Austin, Minnesota, Yes, 140 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: which is still the home of UM. Hormel. Yeah right, 141 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: and where it's one of two places it's produced. No, 142 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: there's a few others. Oh, they added, Yeah, there's a 143 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: care South Korea, Denmark, and I can't remember where the 144 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: third one is. Okay, in North America. You're right, Fremont, 145 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: Nebraska is the other place. So, Um, Jay Hormel is 146 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: I guess the he comes into his father's business and 147 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: just revamped him and probably kept it going today can 148 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: meat exactly. Um. One of the reasons why he got 149 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: into caned meat was because they were just not able 150 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: to make a name for themselves in the fresh meat, 151 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: but also because he came into the business um during 152 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: the depression, and there was a lot of thrifty nous 153 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: so people wanted something that um was cheap and delicious 154 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: that they could feed their family but meaty, right, and 155 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 1: jahor Mel gave him spiced ham. But it wasn't called 156 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: spam at first, like I said, it was called spiced ham, right. Yeah, 157 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: Well he had he had problems at first, um packaging 158 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: it because it took a lot of trial and error 159 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: because canning meat it was a pretty new fangled thing 160 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: at the time, and apparently sell walls the heat would call. So, yeah, 161 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: we need to point out that spam is cooked. Yeah, 162 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: it comes like you can eat it right out of 163 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: the can. It's I have already have you man? Not me? 164 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 1: I mean I haven't eaten spam literally since college. But 165 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:34,839 Speaker 1: we used to take him on camping trips and fried up. 166 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: Well yeah, that's not right out of the can. No, 167 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: but I could also eat it out of the can circumstance. 168 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: I've never eaten it out of the can. Yeah, it's 169 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's the tastes the same, but man fried 170 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: like I was remembering that taste today. I mean, it's 171 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: been twenty years, though probably not fifteen. It's been a 172 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: lot less than that for me. Really. Oh yeah, you 173 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: and his families from Okinawa and Okanowan's are crazy for 174 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: spam really. Oh yeah, like Hawaiian. Yeah, we'll get to 175 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: that too. Uh so, uh, the cell walls would break 176 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: down and release the water from the meat. So what 177 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: would you would have was as dry meat floating in water, 178 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: which is pretty gross. It's separate because the cells would lies. 179 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: That's right, It's just not good. So over time they 180 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: figured out the canning process, which meant a lot of 181 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: salt in the precise uh temperature that you need to 182 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: cook it at to preserve it to where it is moist. 183 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: And it also has to be mixed in cannon a vacuum, 184 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: which is really important. The key. That's the key. If 185 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: you yeah, if you mix it and can it in 186 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: a vacuum, you should be okay. And speaking of key, 187 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: remember when you needed a key to open it? No, 188 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't alive, then you are. It wasn't that long ago. 189 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: I wasn't paying attention to spam. Yeah, there was a key. 190 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 1: It came attached to the can, and you would take 191 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: off the key and insert into a little thing and 192 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: roll it back like I guess like old sardine cans 193 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: used to do the same thing. Okay, yeah, now I've 194 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: seen that in like cartoons from the sixties. But I 195 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: didn't know spam had that sam key before they went 196 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 1: I guess with the pole tablet? Was that like a 197 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: giveaway though, like a spam key, like you'd send off 198 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: for it or would they tell him at the story 199 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: came attached to the bottom of the can. Oh, gotcha, man, 200 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: those are the good old days. It was self contained 201 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: and fairly explainatory. All right, So J Hormel figures out 202 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: how to can meat. But he's not. He's he was 203 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: a born marketer. The guy sold um. He came up 204 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: with Hormel's Chili kuncarnate. He hired a twenty piece Mexican 205 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: band to go around the country like touting it's goodness, 206 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: and that was Los Lobos, right um and Gypsy Kings, 207 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: I think, and uh so like he would come up 208 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 1: with great publicity since he was good at marketing, but 209 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: he was he was hamstrung by U by the name 210 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: Hornmel spiced Meat. It wasn't selling well. He had he 211 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: had he had it figured out, uh and he later 212 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: on kind of messed a little bit with the recipe 213 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: to come up with spam as we know it today. 214 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: But there was something similar called Hormel Spiced ham. So 215 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: he was having trouble um coming up with the name. 216 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: And he had a New Year's Eve party, right yeah, 217 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: Well he had a contest before the party, yeah, and 218 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: it yielded nothing. It yielded names like brunch and Baby 219 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: Grand and he was like, we can do better than that, um, 220 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: And we should probably give a shout out to Nito Rama, 221 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: who had a pretty good little blog post about it 222 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: was that where he saw it. Um, so hormels like, 223 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: we need to do better than that. I'm gonna have 224 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: a New Year's Eve party, and I'm gonna tell my 225 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: guests that I will. They can get a free drink 226 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: for every name they write down on a slip of paper. 227 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 1: And there's a quote from him saying that along about 228 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: the fourth or fifth drink, people started using their imaginations. Right. Uh. 229 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: And finally a an actor named what was his name, Chuck? 230 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: His name was Kenneth d A I g n e 231 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: a U Danielle daniel We'll go with that, Okay. He 232 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: was a Broadway actor, I believe. Um, he came up 233 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: with the name spam and one bucks. He had like 234 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: five slow gin fizzles and came up with spam right, 235 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: one hundred cash right, and that was it. I guess 236 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: he had to sign away the rights. Oh, I'm sure 237 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: right there on the spot. Yeah, He's like, I'll sign it, yeah, spam. Yeah. 238 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: I wonder how he came up with it, besides the 239 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: fact that he was drunk. It's introuded in mystery. It's 240 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: lost to mysteries a lot of If you go onto 241 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: the Spam official site and they're like, what what does 242 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: spam mean? And there's a lot of there's a lot 243 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: of conjecture that it means things like um uh something 244 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: posing his meat, like it's an acronym um, or that 245 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: it's a it stands for stuff pork and meat. Okay, 246 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: it's another acronym. Apparently there's dirty ones too. Yeah. But 247 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: what we need to point out though, again that spam 248 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: is not some weird mystery meat with all sorts of 249 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: like disgusting part. It's it's unless you think pork shoulder 250 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: and ham is disgusting, right, I mean, we know what's 251 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: in it. That's true. Um, So apparently it's lost to time. 252 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: They think it's just basically taking spiced and ham and 253 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: put together. But again, if you go on the official 254 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: spam website, they're like, spam meat, spam, Now that's what 255 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: we're going with. Sure. Um So that's where the name 256 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: came from. That Hormel trademarked it, introduced it to the public, 257 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: and it started to take off pretty well. But it 258 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: was actually aided by um in a an obscure act 259 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: by the US Congress that that was past in one 260 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: called the Lend Lease Act. Right, that has something to 261 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: do with the exportation it did so in America was 262 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: neutral still in the in what was becoming World War Two, 263 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: and they the Congress passed the Lend Lease Act saying 264 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: that the President had the authority to send weapons, supplies, 265 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: and food to countries that were fighting the Access Power, 266 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: which effectively reversed the neutrout neutral stance we had. Right. Yeah, 267 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: and spam is a good thing to send because it's 268 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: you can have it forever, it's in a can that 269 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: can get dented up, and soldiers apparently could eat a 270 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: lot of it, and not just soldiers, people in other 271 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: countries in restaurants. They shipped a hundred million pounds of 272 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: this stuff. Yeah, So Hormel was like, hey, we've got 273 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff for you, give us a contract, 274 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: and they did, and it became ubiquitous in World War two, 275 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: especially in the CIFIC. Right, So, two things are going 276 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: on with the g I s. Well, two things are 277 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: going on with World War Two. One, the g i's 278 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: are eating this stuff or what they thought was spam, morning, 279 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: noon and night and hated it because they've got so 280 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: sick of it. And then secondly, it was also being 281 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: shipped to countries that were part of the Pacific and 282 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: European theaters. And then after World War Two stopped, these 283 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: people had developed a taste for spam. Well, even the 284 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: soldiers that hated it came back and they were kind 285 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: of like, boy, now I kind of misspam. They could 286 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: really go persone spam exactly. So World War two is 287 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: like this incredibly strange, perfect marketing platform for spam. Yeah. Uh. 288 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: And then right after World War Two, apparently J. Hormel 289 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: recognized what was going on and he um let out 290 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: another advertising blitz back here in the States, and that 291 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: was a household name. From that point on, it was 292 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: a perfect sporm if you will. Sorry. Uh, Now, does 293 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: that explain why it's popular in Hawaii and Japan because 294 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: the Pacific thing? Yeah, and especial sleep in Okinawa. Um, 295 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: there've been marines there forever and um Apparently anywhere the 296 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: American military goes and has like a very big open 297 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: presence in the local population, spam is a big thing. 298 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: But for some reason, people of Asian descent are crazy 299 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: for spam. Well they make it. I know in Hawaii 300 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: they have it and like sushi rolls and stuff like that. 301 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: Imagine they do in Japan too. Yeah, it's um. I 302 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: haven't seen it in Japan. It's called um sam spam musubi. 303 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: It's slices spam on a slab of rice wrapped in newry, 304 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 1: which is a seaweed. There's your not even like avocado 305 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: or row or anything like that. It's spam. Man, Is 306 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: it cooked or is it raw? It looked cooked in 307 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: the picture I saw. Well, I'm sure you can find 308 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: it anyway. You're talk cooked. But it was like cooked again, right, okay? Um. 309 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: And in in Hawaii also Burger King and McDonald's you 310 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 1: can find like spam, rice and eggs on their menu 311 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: their breakfast. Man. You it's everywhere it is. It is ubiquitous. 312 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: And they're nearing their eight billiant can of spam pushing 313 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: it out there. Yeah, all right, so that's the history. 314 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: Oh we should also say the Hormel Corporation is um 315 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: often like alleged often has alleged unfair labor practices and 316 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: stuff like that these days. Um. But J. Hormel was 317 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: dubbed by I think Fortune magazine the red Capitalist because 318 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: he was really progressive with labor relations in a good way. Yeah. 319 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: There was like a three day strike once and He 320 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: had a platform built so he could meet with the 321 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: labor leaders, and he hammered out things like UM an 322 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: annual wage, uh A, fifty two weeks notice before termination 323 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: for workers a year, like a year from now you're 324 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: going to be laid off, UM profit sharing, all this 325 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 1: stuff that was unheard of. He became like a really 326 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: like and he managed to create really good relations with 327 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: his employees, which helped, you know, get them to really 328 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: work hard to turn this stuff out. I'd say fifty 329 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: two weeks is almost foolish as an employer, Yeah, because 330 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 1: when it near, it's like, no, no, we need to 331 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: don't worry about that. Yeah, all right, So that's the 332 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: spam history. Now we should talk a little bit, Josh 333 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: about spam production because it's pretty neat. Oh, like we said, Austin, 334 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: Minnesota and Freemont, Nebraska's where it's made here in the States. 335 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: And it is such a highly automated process that apparently 336 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: it only takes thirteen workers to run the spam factory. 337 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: And imagine a lot of those are shaving trimming ham 338 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: because Ed says, pig pieces arrive at the plant machines 339 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: the street. Yeah, they grow, the grow the pigs they 340 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: they grow and kill the pigs across the street. The 341 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: machines removed the pork from the bone, but the ham 342 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: is trimmed by hand. Uh. They grind it up into 343 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 1: eight thousand pound batches, flash, cool it, blend it and 344 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: mix it with the other stuff, and then pipe it place. 345 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: Love it when meat is pipe pipe it to a 346 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 1: conveyor belt where it's pumped in a can and sealed 347 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: shut right off the bat right, and then it's cooked. Right. 348 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: It is cooked in these in the can. It's cooked 349 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: in the can right in these six story cookers that 350 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: can hold up to like sixty six thousand cans at 351 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: a time, which is something because I think they they 352 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: all of the um the capacity for all of I 353 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: think five spam factories is something like umto thousand cans 354 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: an hour, so they need this huge capacity to cook 355 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: that many cans at once. Your stomachs growling, Sam right now. 356 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: I almost I thought about bringing some in because we 357 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: kind of regretted with the Twinkie cast not eating Twinkies 358 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: live on the air. But um, yeah, spam, Jerry, do 359 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: you have any spam? She's fresh out, Okay, nothing fresh 360 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: about it. So it is cooked in the can that 361 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,719 Speaker 1: hills the bacteria and obviously cooks it, wash it and 362 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: cool it, and then applied the plastic label. Used to 363 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: be lithographed on the can itself, which I remember, and 364 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: it had a different picture. It had a loaf of 365 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: spam with clothes in it, and now it's a spam burger. 366 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: I prefer the old picture. Yeah, and that the lithic 367 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 1: the lithograph one away, and I think and they went 368 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: with probably the cheaper plastic rap on the can. I 369 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: imagine that's why they did it. Lithography is not cheap um. 370 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: And then it is shipped all over the country and 371 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: then they license it, like I guess they they probably 372 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: don't ship it all, well, they probably should it. You 373 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: know the ones here, the two and the one in 374 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: Nebraska and the one in Minnesota supply North America, South America, 375 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: and Australia. Okay, Yeah, And they say on the Hormet website, 376 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: if you've ever wondered what spam tastes like, it is 377 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: a quote wonderful combination of a savory, salty, sweet taste 378 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: that will make your taste buds dance. And now they 379 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: did a lot of self promotion on the official website 380 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: if you ask me dance and tastes. Oh yeah, of course. 381 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: It was like did you go through all the questions? 382 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: It was like, how should I eat spam? Eat delicious spam? 383 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: Anyway you deliciously spamily want to spam? Uh. They have 384 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: a museum, of course, the Spam Museum, which is free, 385 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: which is as it should be, and it sounds awesome. 386 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: Did you read the Roadside America article on it. Yeah, 387 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: and I looked at some of the pictures too. It's 388 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: it's cool, like it's a cool museum. There was one 389 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: guide on the Roadside America article named John who seemed 390 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: to tell it like it is like he talked about 391 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,719 Speaker 1: the hog place across the streets, like they slaughter twenty 392 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: thousand head a hog across the street there every day. 393 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 1: It's like at the spam meats you. That's in the 394 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: spam Museum. It was one of the guides, and apparently 395 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 1: they employee retired spam factory workers as guides. And this 396 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: guy was just like a straight shooter, right yeah, So 397 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: if you go, you should ask for John. That's what 398 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: I That's what I gathered. I can't wait to hear 399 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: from people from Minnesota about this that live near there. 400 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: I wonder what the man the smell that gives. Uh. 401 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 1: So let's get to the health benefits of a spam. 402 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: It's not healthy, it's not apparently a twelve ounce cam. 403 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: Wh's just the standard size. There's two sides, the twelve 404 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: and the nine than the seven. But if you're eating spam, 405 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: you're you're going for the twelve. Yeah, that's the one 406 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 1: you normally see. The twelve ounce can. That little twelve 407 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: ounce can has six servings in it. Yeah, I would 408 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: say that's about a slice roughly, wouldn't you say? Yeah, 409 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: I'd say, like a sort of thick ish slice is 410 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: a serving. So there's six of them in there. So 411 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: so one slice basically has thirty a third of your 412 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: recommended intake of daily of sodium. Yes, so a full 413 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: can is a hundred ninety percent of your daily sodium 414 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: and take. Yeah, that's two times what you should be eating. Yes. Um, 415 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: it has a lot of saturated fat. A lot of fat, 416 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: and a lot of it is saturated n grams and 417 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: in total in the twelve ounce can, which and you 418 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: always got to do the big Matt comparison, A single 419 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: can of spam is a little bit less than three 420 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: big max stuffed in that little can. Uh. They do 421 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: have reduced sodium and light versions. They do. We need 422 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: to point that out. Who's eating that the health conscious 423 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: fam eater? Yeah, I mean surely people are eating it. Yeah, 424 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: they're going down the grocery store Asland going like I 425 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: could go from the spam, but I really should watch 426 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: myself and I'll get the spam light. All right, I 427 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: need to point out in fairness, we're making some jokes 428 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: here about spam eaters, but there are poor people who 429 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,919 Speaker 1: rely on things like spam, and I just wanted to 430 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: point that. I don't want people to right and say, 431 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: you know, like like I used to have one on 432 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: one or to the Golden Pantry and Athens, I would 433 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: have these daily like cheap hourly workers come in and 434 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: buy like potted meat and spam. A sausage is huge, 435 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: and it would spend literally like the little pack of 436 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: crackers and the pot of meat was their lunch and 437 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: they would spend like a dollar fifty on it because 438 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: it couldn't afford anything else. So we're not making fun 439 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: of those people. Were making fun of rich people who 440 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,880 Speaker 1: eat spam. I'm not making fun of anybody. Okay, um, 441 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: and actually, if you bring that up, because you brought 442 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: that up, spam was born out of the depression, Yeah, 443 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: well exact. Apparently, now during the recession, it's production is 444 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: through the roof again. It's demand is just crazy for it. 445 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: So we're not mocking but spam and they seem to 446 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: take it. I mean, it's all advertising for them. They've 447 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: embraced the the culture of spam and everything that it entails. 448 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: And it's just so it's the cheesiest meat around. It's 449 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: impossible to not make fun of, do you know what 450 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, sure, it's a pop culture, I und 451 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: which is why we're doing this podcast exactly. We're not 452 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,239 Speaker 1: doing one on well. I guess we could do one 453 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 1: of being a sausages also made by Hormel i ate 454 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,959 Speaker 1: one not too long ago at the School of Humans. Wow, 455 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: they served ving A sausages at their little rat party. 456 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: Nice and h They taste exactly the same as I remember. 457 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: I've never tasted one, but I can tell just by 458 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: looking at it exactly what it tastes like, sort of 459 00:26:10,880 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: Bolognay esque in a tube. Two. Alright, So there has 460 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: been some research that suggests that potted and processed meats 461 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: might increase the risk of cancer. Yes, the FDA still 462 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: says no, No, it's fine, but there's two. Five was 463 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: a big year for that was that the University Hawaii study. Yeah, 464 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: and they found that six your sixty more likely developed 465 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: pancreatic cancer if you consume large amounts of processed meats. 466 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: And the reason why is because that sodium nitrite. That's 467 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: what they think sodium well, this is this is why 468 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: they think it. That's correlated. Right, Sodium nitrite itself is 469 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: not a core carcinogen, that that preservative that they put 470 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: in UM. But if you combine nitrite with amines, and 471 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 1: amines are found in meat UM. When they combine and 472 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: they're metabolizing, they combine, they form nitros SA means nitrosamines. Yeah, yeah, man, 473 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: I wish I would have said that right the first time. 474 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: Those are cariscinogen. Most of them are UM. I can't 475 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: remember who did it, but somebody sampled three d UM 476 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: nitros amans and them were carcinogenic UM. So we can 477 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: make as as far as people think um nitrite into nitrosen. 478 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: Nitrosam means so if we're eating cured meat, we're converting 479 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: it into a carcinogen in our body. That's the fear. 480 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,719 Speaker 1: Cured meat or process process cured meat, but anything that 481 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: has um sodium nitrite in it, bacon, cooking bacon makes 482 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: it carcinogenic by under this logic. So there isn't like 483 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: a direct um causal link, which is why the FDA 484 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: is not doing anything. Is price surprised, but the logic 485 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: is there. That's where the fear comes from. Okay, that's 486 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: where the fear sets in. And we mentioned that that 487 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: was done by the University of Hawaii, and that is because, 488 00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: as we said, Hawaii and Hawaiians love their spam. Do 489 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: you have any stats on that? Yeah? What was it? Uh? 490 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: I think the for every Hawaiian they's six pounds of 491 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: spam per year. I think so they definitely eat I'm sorry, 492 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: three pounds. So so I've seen different numbers here. I 493 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: saw six cans per person per year. If you spread 494 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: it out across the population evenly as a whole, the 495 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: state eats eight million of the hundred million cans that 496 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: are made UH that are consumed in the US every year, 497 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: which seems low. Yeah, I got all sorts of It's 498 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: all over the place. The numbers are all over the place, 499 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: but Hawaii leads the nation in spam consumption. Well, and 500 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: they said it's far and away, so they didn't They 501 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: didn't tell me who was second place. Um, I imagine 502 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: Georgia ranks. It's probably up there scrapple. I'll bet Georgia 503 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: leads in scrapple consumption. I bet California is pretty low 504 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: on the list of space so um. But yes, Hawai, 505 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: it's crazy for you if you can find it in 506 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: a McDonald's. Uh, it's it means that it's part of 507 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: your local culture. And remember in fifty First Dates it 508 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: was a big, big thing. Uh sort of saw that, 509 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: but don't remember the spam references. It was, Yeah, anytime 510 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: they were at the restaurant, there was like some spam joke. Okay, 511 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: I think I might have checked out it, like The 512 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: First State. It was a cute movie that drew Barrymore. 513 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: I love her. We have to mention Monty Python's Flying 514 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: Circus because they a had the Broadway show or have 515 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: spam a lot running. I think so somewhere. I'm sure 516 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: it's on the road, big hit. And in the nineteen 517 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,239 Speaker 1: seventies they're awesome show. The Flying Circus was. They had 518 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: a very famous skit about spam. Did you watch it? Yeah? 519 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: I watch it at end of the day. I'd seen 520 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: it before. I think my favorite part is the beginning 521 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: when the couple just comes down on wires into the chairs. Yeah, 522 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: I liked Who played the wife? Was it Terry Gilliam now? Uh? 523 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: I think it? Oh shoot, I can't remember his name. 524 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: The other Terry Terry Jones maybe, Okay, I'm not sure. 525 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: He was hilarious in it. And the joke was that 526 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: there's a spam is on the menu all over the 527 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,479 Speaker 1: place in this diner in England, and that there's also 528 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,959 Speaker 1: a big group of Vikings that starts singing a spam 529 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: song in the diner. It's just just just type in 530 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: money Python spam and go for the one that has 531 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: three million views. Is vintage Um A little uh back 532 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: to the history for a second. Um Hormel was so 533 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: involved in the war effort that they had a wartime 534 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: mascot called Slamming Spammy. I did not see that, which 535 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: was an armed pig throwing grenades. Really ostensibly at Um Hitler, 536 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,239 Speaker 1: oh of course, And to Joe, sure, yeah Hitler, Yeah, 537 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: you gotta throw spam a hitler. No throwing grenades. Oh, 538 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: they weren't made of spam. No, they were grenades. Okay, 539 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: he was like he didn't even look like a cute pig. 540 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: He looked like a like the kind of pig you'd 541 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: see like painted on the front of an airplane in 542 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: World War Two. Okay, I thought it. They were throwing 543 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: like spam grenades. No, No, you wanted to keep the 544 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: spam from the Nazis. Yeah, you don't want them to 545 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: want You want to ring death upon them, not spam, 546 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: right right, that makes sense, although if you dropped spam 547 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: from high enough it would kill you. Yeah, I guess 548 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: it wouldn't be very good marketing if they're throwing spam, 549 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: just trying to uh what else we got we have? Well, 550 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: we should talk about the email um version of spam 551 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: and where that came from. The story I got is 552 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: that in the early days of the internets, remember bulletin boards, 553 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 1: if a bulletin board user wanted to scroll you off 554 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: the screen, they just started typing spam and copy pasting 555 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: it until you were removed from the screen. That's what 556 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: I heard. That's a good one. And then and they 557 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: got that from the Monty Python thing evidently, and then 558 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 1: early chat rooms same thing. Uh that it was initially 559 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: called flooding, and then simply spamming, and then eventually the 560 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: email version came around. And it does not stand for stupid, 561 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: pointless annoying message. Yeah, that's stupid. That's just a fault. 562 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 1: So that makes me want to beat someone up. What 563 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: else we got? Uh? You? My personal experience of spam 564 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: has been pretty pleasant. Let's hear. Um, let's see, I've 565 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: had it in curry. It's very, very good in curry 566 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: with rice nice. Um. I was in Switzerland once I 567 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: had metzker Rosti, which is one of the greatest things 568 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,719 Speaker 1: I've ever had in my entire life. It's um like 569 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 1: fried hash brown potatoes, slice of fried spam, fried eggs, 570 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 1: and then this divine gravy sounds so good and I 571 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: ate that as often as it could. Surely I've mentioned 572 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: it before. Mets he throws some French fries on there, 573 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 1: and your permanes. Yeah, I've never had permanes. Uh. Muppet 574 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: Treasure Island featured a character UM called spam s p 575 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: a apostrophe A m is that what that was? On? Yeah? 576 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 1: And he was a big wart hog who also wore 577 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 1: a necklace of shrunken pigheads, so that kind of ties 578 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: back in when their shrunken head thing. So he was nuts. 579 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 1: He was nuts, and it's The Hormel Company sued the 580 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: Jim Hinton Company for quote a noxious appealing wild boar 581 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,839 Speaker 1: who was quote intentionally portrayed to be evil in poor 582 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: sign form named Sam. I guess they called him spam 583 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: and the Hinton company was like, we're just kidding around, 584 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: like can we settle this. It's get a sense of humor. 585 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: And I think it was settled. I don't. I don't 586 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: think either that or they just lost the lawsuit. I 587 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: got a world record for you. Oh yeah, let's hear 588 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: Richard Lefevre orlefarv eight six pounds of spam in twelve minutes. Wow, 589 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,359 Speaker 1: and I think he holds the record. Still wait, hold on, 590 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,959 Speaker 1: you keep talking. I'm gonna do some math. And there 591 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,240 Speaker 1: is uh if you want to go. There are different 592 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,799 Speaker 1: um spam festivals, but I think the big daddy is 593 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: in Waikiki, the waiki Ki Spam Jam. Um. They're just 594 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: tell their eighth one in April, and I believe they 595 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: hold it every year in April, and that is where 596 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: lovers of spam congregate two trade recipes and uh spam 597 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,320 Speaker 1: related products like t shirts and mugs and Christmas ornaments 598 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: and just all things spam. There's spam sculpting contests to um, 599 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: how many? How how fast did that guy eat six 600 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:49,880 Speaker 1: pounds twelve minutes? He ate um eight cans of spam, 601 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 1: eight twelve ounce cannons of spam in twelve minutes. Then 602 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,880 Speaker 1: so what's that? What's the sodium in that? Oh? I 603 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 1: didn't do that math. Well, if that was two it 604 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: of your daily intake in a can. So he ate 605 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:08,840 Speaker 1: eight of his sodium intake for the day in twelve minutes, 606 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 1: and he loved to tell about it as far as 607 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, he's alive, and well, well let's spam. 608 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,759 Speaker 1: I got nothing else. You know, I would like to 609 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 1: do some time Barbie. I'll bet that would be fascinating. 610 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,280 Speaker 1: That lawsuit you mentioned like made me think of Barbie. 611 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: Mattel loves to sue anybody and everybody. They can you 612 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: just want to push push their buttons. No, it's just interesting. Yeah, 613 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: we've had um I sort of like these pop culture ones. 614 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: We had someone say we should do peanuts, Charles Schultz's Peanuts. 615 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 1: You know, I looked into that and I may be 616 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: writing the articles, So maybe we'll do that. That would 617 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: be awesome. Yeah, and yeah, we're long overdue for the 618 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 1: Doctor Sue podcast too. Okay, well, there you go. Keep 619 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: listening because it will eventually get better. Okay, that's what 620 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: we just basically promised. If you want to learn more 621 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:59,279 Speaker 1: about spam and read about Ed Grabanowski's take on it. 622 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,760 Speaker 1: He tries it the first time while he's writing this article, 623 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 1: and there's a step by step picture graph of how 624 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 1: to make fried spam and cheese sandwich. Just type spam. Actually, 625 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,799 Speaker 1: we should probably do everybody a favor. Go to your 626 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:22,360 Speaker 1: favorite search engine, type spam food and then how stuff works, 627 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,800 Speaker 1: and it will bring up the spam article. Is it 628 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 1: the number one hit? It's it's it's up there, but 629 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: it's tough to find on our site because so much 630 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: computer spam articles. Uh, do that and and then go 631 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,879 Speaker 1: into the handy search bar and type whatever you want. 632 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,839 Speaker 1: And I said handy search bar, So that means it's 633 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 1: time for listening. Mail. Yes, Josh, I'm gonna call this. 634 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: Uh From Kristen, our sixteen year old fan from Toronto, 635 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: which is in Canada. She has. She sent us a 636 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 1: really nice email about how she listens to it with 637 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 1: her family and how she learns things and all the 638 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: different things she's learned, And then she got to a 639 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 1: PS which I'll skipped to PS. I've always wondered, how 640 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: do you guys distribute your information so evenly between the 641 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 1: two of you. Maybe it's just me, but I remember 642 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 1: an elementary school almost every group presentation ended in either 643 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: tears or a fight because someone spoke more than their 644 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,919 Speaker 1: fair share. I know you guys aren't in the fifth 645 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 1: grade anymore, but you seem like nice civil guys. But 646 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,239 Speaker 1: be honest, have you ever had any disagreements off the 647 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 1: air over someone stealing the thunder? And if you haven't, 648 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,719 Speaker 1: how do you avoid that? Because your listeners would want 649 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 1: to know? But it's on the spot. Yeah, I think 650 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:40,800 Speaker 1: it's just it's equitable. You know, some shows might speak 651 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,799 Speaker 1: a little more some Josh does, and it's just it 652 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 1: does no good. I think you grow up a little 653 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 1: bit and you realize this, just it's silly to think 654 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,920 Speaker 1: of things like that. Yeah, And I think by doing that, 655 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,760 Speaker 1: we've just kind of even out. And I think Also, 656 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,760 Speaker 1: if one of us gets the impression that we're talking 657 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: too much, we usually tee the other or not. Yeah, 658 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,959 Speaker 1: that's to mutch it it's gonna be a boring answer, 659 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,879 Speaker 1: wouldn't it, Toda, It's it's just not being in fifth 660 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,239 Speaker 1: grade anymore. I think I remember. I don't think I 661 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,680 Speaker 1: wanted the spotlight in the fifth grade, Like I think 662 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,279 Speaker 1: I was one of those is like, I'll write it, 663 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,560 Speaker 1: and you you were like the evil genies behind the 664 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:20,120 Speaker 1: scenes dance puppets. Yeah. Yeah, So there's your answer, fish bulb. 665 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,920 Speaker 1: If you have a question for us, you want to 666 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,920 Speaker 1: look behind the scenes, that's fine. It was like Kristen, 667 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,319 Speaker 1: Kristen from Toronto. Thank you Kristen from Toronto. Um, if 668 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:31,960 Speaker 1: you have a question for us, you want to peek 669 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: behind the scenes, we'll answer anything, but we probably won't, 670 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,280 Speaker 1: but we'll say we will because we like interesting questions. 671 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: You can send them to stuff podcast at how stuff 672 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 1: works dot com for more on this and thousands of 673 00:39:52,160 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: other topics. Does it how stuff works dot com