1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: Josh Clark. With me is always as Charles w chuckle 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: Bryant said, and uh, this is stuffy snow, Josh. We 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: let me stand next to your fire. Sure, okay, come 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: over here right now? Okay, sorry, Well it's nice and 7 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,599 Speaker 1: warm over here, isn't it. I'm feverish and it's smoky 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: and there. I feel like there's chemical reactions taking place 9 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: before my very eyes. There are. That's why there's fire. 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: If fire is nothing if not a chemical reaction. Yeah, 11 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: I got so. Okay. Have you heard of the Winecoff Hotel? Yeah, 12 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: but born and raised here, Yeah? Uh the Ellis Hotel? 13 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: Was that the hotel fire? Yeah? Yeah, you know that. 14 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: It's now the l Hotel. It's at the corner of 15 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: Peach Tree and Ellis, nice refurbished hotel. Back in nine 16 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: it was called the wine Cough Hotel and it was 17 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: the site of the most disastrous casualty wise hotel fire 18 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: in US history. In December d nineteen people died right 19 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: right here in a very sty four. Just under forty 20 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 1: four years later, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The MGM Grand 21 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: had a hotel fire. People died. Do you remember the 22 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: MGM fire GM Grand fire? It was a big deal. 23 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: Not at all you you. I'm surprised because I kind 24 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: of remember, like seeing footage of that. When was this? 25 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't remember. So both of these fires 26 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: and all the loss of life associated with them were 27 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: the direct result of hubris towards fire. The wine cough 28 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: their fire exits one stairwell for the whole building. I 29 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: think it was like nineteen stories or something like that. Um, 30 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: the MGM Grand, they they didn't put up like sixty 31 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: dollars for a fire detection system in this one part 32 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: of the hotel that would have saved everyone's lives. A 33 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: part Hubrist, part financial shenanigans. Right, But isn't that kind 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: of based on Hubrists. My point is is that if 35 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: there's one thing that we shouldn't have, hubris towards its 36 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: fire agreed. We do. You think we might control fire 37 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: thanks to Prometheus being given it by the gods, yea, 38 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: But fire controls us when it really comes down to it. 39 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: That's right. You gotta face off a tete a tete 40 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: with fire. You're gonna lose buddy because you're combustible. Yeah. 41 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: So also we should say here that this fire as 42 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: um it should be a prequel to the how wildfires 43 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: work and how um spontaneous human combustion works. Those two 44 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: episodes are great. I agreed, this will seal up our 45 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: triumvirate and now we're gonna explain how fire works. Yeah. 46 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: I do have a couple of quick stats. We're talking about. 47 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: The deadly nature of fire does kill more people than 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: any other force of nature. I couldn't find that any 49 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: source for that, but I saw I was searching for it, 50 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: and it brought up like a handful of plagiarized versions 51 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: of this article on the internet. Yeah. Those are always fun, 52 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: especially when it's your own. This one is not mine. 53 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: This is a Bill Harritt, Tom Harris, Tom Harris. Um. 54 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: But I do have some stats in the US, at 55 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 1: least in two thousand ten for residential building fires, over 56 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: people died that year. And that's sort of in the 57 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: wheelhouse that fluctuates between about thirty two hundred a year 58 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: from building fires. Uh, cooking is far and away the 59 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: leading cause of the building fire and arsonist number two huh, 60 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: which I would have thought like falling asleep with a 61 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: cigarette would would be above arson um and then total 62 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: in two thousand nine, and I guess this counts like 63 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: any kind of fire in the US, they were close 64 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: to thirty deaths that year, so that you know, that's 65 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, I mean that's more than um, I'm 66 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: sure killed by volcanoes in the US every year. I think, 67 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: you know, that's just one or two people falling into 68 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: kill aweya from getting too close. Have you seen that 69 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: footage of that scientists going, Um, he's collecting some sort 70 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: of I guess magma from an active volcano in Hawaii, 71 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: and um, it was really nerve racking because he goes up, 72 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: takes a sample. He's climbing up the rim and then 73 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: climbs back down and right when he steps away from it, 74 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: the magma comes up over the rim exactly where he'd 75 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: just been climbing like five minutes before, and so it 76 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: would have like just just completely disintegrated him. I imagined, 77 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: what did he say? I don't know, like, holy crap, 78 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: did that Well? The guy who was filming it was 79 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: like narrating like this is so stupid. Yeah, it's very cool. 80 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what you'd search, but it's up there 81 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: on the internet somewhere search WU and that should do it, 82 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: so Chuck. The Greeks thought that fire was one of 83 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: the four elements earth wire, water, wind and fire. Earth 84 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: wind and fire and water and nash and young silly Greeks. Uh. 85 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: The reason why that doesn't really hold up is because um, earth, fire, air, 86 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: these are elements. They're matter, Yeah, they're made up of atoms. 87 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: Fire is the physical manifestation of matter changing form. It's 88 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: pretty cool, like when you think of it that way. 89 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: And we're going to describe how this happens, all right, 90 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: I can tackle some of this. Chemistry is not my 91 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: forte but it is a chemical reaction at its core 92 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: between oxygen and um fuel, which I mean, we'll probably 93 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: let's talk about like a camp fire. Let's go with wood. 94 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: Wood fire is probably easiest way to describe it. But 95 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: the wood is the fuel. The wood is the fuel. 96 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: Oxygen's found in the air, that's right. But for these 97 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: things to uh make fire, you gotta have something called combustion, yeah, 98 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: and which means you're gonna have to have some sort 99 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: of a spark um. Well, actually not always, because as 100 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: we find out, some things can combust without a spark. 101 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: I think if they get hot enough, Like the heat 102 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: is just so intense that it doesn't need any spark, right, 103 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: But for wood, you have to get it up to um. 104 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: Uh it's ignition temperature, which is about three hundred degrees fahrenheit, 105 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: which is where you're gonna start seeing some smoke because 106 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: that is cellulose burning away. Uh. And it just occurred 107 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: to me reading this today, like where there's smoke, there's fire. 108 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: Not true, Yeah, because things can smoke without there being 109 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: a fire. Yeah, actually a byproduct of fire. You know, 110 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: um doesn't smoke. So I guess in order to if 111 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: you're one of the people that now says bottom of 112 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: the totem pole or instead of top of the totem pole, 113 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: then we can for they reinforce this obnoxious quality by 114 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: encouraging you to say, where there's smoke, there is ignition 115 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: temperature of a combustible fuel, there's volatile gases. It's nice 116 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: way to go chucked, all right? Thanks? So yeah, heat 117 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: is heat decomposes fuel where will to say wood, And 118 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: in the case of wood specifically, it decomposes the um 119 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: volatile gases contained in the solid matter, Right, so these 120 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: volatile gases start to heat up themselves, and while they're 121 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: doing that, the cellulose, the solid stuff, is decomposing and 122 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: turning into what's called char. Yeah, I got a little 123 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: thing on cell cellulotional quest and then you can just 124 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: take it home. No man, because that's where I get confused. 125 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: I'm confused to cellulose about of wood is cellulose, and 126 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: that's what like, that's where you make paper, that's what 127 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: you make paper from. That's what you make cellulosic ethanol from, too, 128 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: and it's what you make cellophane out of. Cellophane is 129 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: regenerated cellulose. So it's it's like it looks like plastic, 130 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: but it's not. I had no idea. It is a 131 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: man made as I'm sorry, it's a natural polymer. Plastic 132 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: is manmade obviously, So cellophane is nothing more than regenerated 133 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: paper in a way. Wow, like they had some other 134 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: stuff to it. But that's why it's biodegradable. And I 135 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: always wonder why, like supposedly cellophane is biodegradable. It's like 136 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: that's impossible. It's plastic, but it's not plastic. There's this 137 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: old telephone and from like the fifties maybe, and it's 138 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: like good things coming twos and it's like this, this 139 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: pair of twins wrapped in cellophane and they're just like 140 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: kind of looking around. But yeah, you can imagine they 141 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: only have them in there for a few seconds before 142 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: they snout the picture. I did not know that about cellophane. 143 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 1: Back to the podcast right there, and I don't know 144 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: about that. Hats off to you, all right back to you. 145 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: I know what the fact of the podcast is. You're 146 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: gonna save it for when it comes. We can't save it, okay, okay. 147 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: So um, you've got the cellulose, the solid matter of 148 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: wood separating now from the volatile um gases that are 149 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: starting to lift off. That's smoke, right, Okay, the wood, 150 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: the solid matter is starting to turn into char um. 151 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: And that is basically if you if you burn would 152 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: if you heat it up and you separate the gases, 153 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: which are the smoke, what remains is carbon and what 154 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: what charcoal is is charred wood that's had the volatile 155 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: gases burned out of it, which is why when you 156 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: have a charcoal fire, you don't have smoke, yeah, or 157 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: not much at least, Yeah, because the gases have already 158 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,319 Speaker 1: been burned off. Yeah, and charcoal too. That got that 159 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: kind of got me on charcoal filtering because these charcoal 160 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: is a filter, and I think that is a scrubber 161 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: two on smoke stacks. And uh, if you're like I 162 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: did some of those survival articles at one point, and 163 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: one of the things you can do to purify water 164 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: is take your char from your fire, put it in 165 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: like you know, cool it down obviously, and then put 166 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: it in, then put it in like a hanky, and 167 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: then running creek water through that to collect it underneath. 168 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: That's awesome. And uh, and there's like real charcoal filters too. 169 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: But apparently charcoal has a quality because once it's pure 170 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: carbon like that, it um has a knack for filtering 171 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: out things like impurities like chlorine and letting other stuff 172 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: get through. So that's why it's used as a filter. Yeah, 173 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: because essentially what you're making is a carbon filter. Yeah, 174 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: charcoal is like basically pure carbon with all the impurities 175 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: burned off. Yeah, those impurities burned off as smoke. They're 176 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: volatile gases, So that's pretty neat. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. 177 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: Little survival tip man, you're killing it today. Well now 178 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: that this is when I go to sleep though. Okay, So, um, 179 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: the third component of burned wood. You've got the volatile 180 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: gases smoke, you have the char, the charcoal which is carbon, 181 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: and then you have ash, which is unburnable minerals like um, 182 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,719 Speaker 1: calcium or phosphorus. I believe. Yeah. And if you like 183 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: you ever cook with briquettes, charcoal briquettes, you're gonna get 184 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: a lot more ash with that because it has a 185 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: lot of more like byproducts in it. Then if you 186 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 1: use like real wood charcoal, right, but they're not gonna smoke, 187 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: They're just not gonna burn. You're just gonna be left over, 188 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: like you can't get rid of it. You can pounded 189 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: into oblivion, but it's still there. Yeah. But if you 190 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: use the real wood coal then char, then you'll notice 191 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: you don't get a lot of that stuff. Oh is 192 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? Okay, but the brackettes aren't as nasty 193 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,199 Speaker 1: synthetic briquettes. No, they're made from char and like binding 194 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 1: agents and stuff like that. And saw that. No. I 195 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: actually used to hear that like, oh, you can't cook 196 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: with briquettes are so nasty, But they're really I look 197 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: into it. It's not super nasty. I mean you probably 198 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: should cook somewhere in between nasty and super nasty. Yeah, 199 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: well it's not It's not as bad as I thought. 200 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: I thought it was like a bunch of chemical agents 201 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: and glue and cement. And that's not the case I got. 202 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: It's not the hot dogs of King materials. That's the 203 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: corn dog. Okay, um, okay, So we've got the components, 204 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: right um. As these volatile um gases continue to heat 205 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: up um to about five degrees fahrenheit two d six 206 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: degrees celsius, they the molecules break apart, and when they 207 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: break apart, they go to combine with oxygen oxidation. Right um. 208 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: And the same thing happens with the carbon in the wood, 209 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: but this takes place in place much more slowly. But 210 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: one of the the stars of this chemical reaction, this 211 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: change of breaking down to these molecules and then the 212 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 1: recombining into other things like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide. Water. 213 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: Isn't that weird that fire produces water? Um, That's why 214 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: sometimes you have steam coming from a fire. Right um. 215 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: The star of all this chemical reactions, all these chemical reactions, 216 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 1: is heat is produced. He the energy is released, which 217 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: allows us to cook and be comfortable and feel secure 218 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: and all the good stuff that comes with fire. And 219 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: because of the heat that's released as these things are 220 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: heated up, um, it is sustainable. That means the fire 221 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: is sustainable so long as there's fuel and there's oxygen present. Yeah. 222 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: That was the kind of creepy part. And not creepy, 223 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: but it's self perpetuating, like that flame is gonna heat 224 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: up any fuel near it to the point where it 225 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: can release those gases to recombine with oxygen. It's pretty 226 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: elegant and think about it. Yeah, another big star of 227 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: fire besides heat is light and part of that is 228 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: from the same um the carbon atoms right, yeah, that 229 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: are combining, that are being torn apart, the molecules that 230 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: UM form up the char breaking down in their constituent 231 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: carbon atoms when they combine with oxygen, right recombine, Yeah, 232 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: I think that would make carbon monoxide. But as they 233 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: change UM, they they're electrons will go up, an energy 234 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: level will change orbit and when they come back down 235 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 1: they admit they release some of that energy that they 236 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,359 Speaker 1: have and they release it in the form of photons. 237 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: They produce light UM and yeah, it's it's heat producing light. 238 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: Like we talked about bioluminescence, where basically you heat up 239 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: a filament in a light bulb and it glows. That's 240 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: the same thing with the fires, the same based on 241 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: the same principle, which is incandescence. Pretty awesome, and depending 242 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: on the temperature, Uh, different colored light is going to 243 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: be produced. Yeah, Like, uh, you remember the buns and 244 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: burners back in chemistry class and how the buns and 245 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: burners have little slots on the side that you can 246 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: vary the amount of like oxygen getting in there. You know, 247 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: there's the little flickering orange flame of a buns and burner. 248 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: Then if you let a lot more oxygen in, it's 249 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: going to be more it's gonna be more hot. And 250 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: that's why that's when it's gonna be that blue jet 251 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: the same as when you see like a jet plane, 252 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: like right next to where the flame comes out, it's 253 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: gonna be like really blue and then it gets more 254 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: orange and yellow, you know, like the batmobile. You know 255 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I know exactly the original batmobile. No. Um, 256 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: we've seen a bunch of batmobiles recently. There's a documentary 257 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: about the batmobile. That's what all those were there for 258 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: a comic con. Okay, we had and I had her 259 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: picture taken with it with which one the new one, 260 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: the tumbler, that's what they called the new one, is it? Yeah? 261 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: The chrystalin one is called the tongue. The chrystal was Yea, 262 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: it's awesome, it's pretty cool. Uh so yeah. The the 263 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: reason why the blue one happens to be a different 264 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: color and hotter is because there's more energy being released, 265 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: that's right. Uh The lower energy and slightly less hot 266 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: part of the flame that glows orange yellow is at 267 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: the top. And the reason of flame is pointed. This 268 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: is this is pretty awesome, not the fact of the podcast. 269 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: The space part is Okay, I think, all right, go ahead. Then, 270 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: So a flame is pointed and it burns upward because 271 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: the gases that are burning what you're burning right there 272 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: are volatile gases. They're being burned off right. Um. As 273 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: they as they burn, they're they're hotter, but they're also 274 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: less dance and they're moving upward towards the less dense 275 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: air above it, which causes it to be pointed. But 276 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: if you were to light you take it for granted, 277 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: but it's kind of cool to know how that works. Yeah, 278 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: that's why it always burns upward. It tends to burn upward. No, 279 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: it always does, always burns upward. And that's also why 280 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: it's pointed too, because the air around it is dense 281 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: and it's pushing it in right. Pretty awesome, But if 282 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: you were to light a fire in zero gravity, it 283 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: would burn as a sphere. I want to see this. 284 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: I mean, can it be done if we go into 285 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: zero Yeah? But I mean they have zero gravity environments, 286 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: is do they? At Tech? Surely someone has started a 287 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: fire in one of those just to see this. I 288 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: think it's a really bad thing if a fire starts 289 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: in the zero gravity environment, I guess. So that's I 290 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,719 Speaker 1: just gotta think that someone's tried this. I'm sure. I'm 291 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: sure there's a video of it on YouTube. Now there's 292 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: probably a good reason why. And someone's gonna write and 293 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: some hute dummies. Don't you understand that when you start 294 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: a fire in zero gravity that we all die? That's right? Okay? 295 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: So steam, let's talk about steam, because because we talked 296 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: about the recombination of atoms, when these gases are released, 297 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: the same thing happens when you boil water. You know, 298 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: you get this this gas mixing with oxygen the air, 299 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: but it's not going to combust, thank thankfully, or cooking 300 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: would be much more dangerous. Um. It's because some of 301 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: these atoms aren't as attracted to each other. In the 302 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: case of water, for sure, they're tepid towards one another. Yeah. 303 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: If you're talking fire, though, they have carbon and hydrogen 304 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: which are really attractive to oxygen, and so they like 305 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: to get together and uh, combine, recombine more easily. Right, 306 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: pretty simple. Uh. And then we've been talking mostly about 307 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: wood as a fuel, but tons of things are fuel. 308 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: Gasoline is a good fuel. Gasoline doesn't produce char. Basically, 309 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: heat vaporizes gasoline into nothing but volatile gases which burn. Yeah, 310 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: that's so there you go. And I always heard too 311 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: that gasoline ignites like the vapor ignites, not the liquid. 312 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: Is that true. Yeah, it's not the it's not the liquid, 313 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: it's the gas. But heat causes all that liquid to 314 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: turn into the gas, which. Um, So different fuels are 315 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 1: going to catch at different temperatures, and no matter what 316 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:52,120 Speaker 1: the fuel, it'll have a piloted ignition temperature and an 317 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: unpiloted ignition temperature. Basically, the piloted ignition temperature is that 318 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: um that point that temperature where the volatile gases are 319 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: being released and they're heated up to the point where 320 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: if you introduce a spark it would blow up. That's right. 321 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: One of the defining characteristics of a volatile gas is 322 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: that UM. It basically disperses at room temperature. I believe UM, 323 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: so at some point, introducing a spark is gonna set 324 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: that off at some temperature, which I guess means that 325 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: like if you have gasoline cooled to enough of a temperature, 326 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: just lighting a match next to it won't set off 327 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: the gas. I don't know if this is a question 328 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: we should be raising a general audience. Don't try this. 329 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: I'm curious, so we'll have to check that out. But 330 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: the unpiloted ignition temperature is basically when something gets hit 331 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 1: by lightning and the heat is so intense that there's 332 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: no need for a spark. It just heats it up 333 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: the point where now it's on fire, where it come bust. 334 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: Pretty cool, And I try to get to the origin 335 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: of pilot like a pilot light, which is the same 336 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 1: thing I guess I couldn't find it. I don't know 337 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: where that came from, because, yeah, I think about it, 338 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: You've got the gas burning and that it's glowing, yeah, 339 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: and then you just hit the spark and then bam, 340 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: you just ignited the gas. So it's at the pilot 341 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: the piloted ignition temperature in your hot water heater. But 342 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: I'm sure someone knows the answer that, so if you 343 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: do send it in. We're raising a lot of questions 344 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: in this one and giving some answers. Um the shape, 345 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: and by shape usually they mean like surface area of 346 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: a of a fuel effects how efficiently it burns and 347 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,199 Speaker 1: how easily it burns too. Yeah, I mean this is 348 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: pretty basic. Like if you have a big thick log 349 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: obviously you're gonna have way less surface area exposed and 350 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: combustible then if you had like a toothpick. Yeah, and 351 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: they can absorb a lot more heat too, big thick 352 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 1: log um. But yeah, if you have a bunch of 353 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: little pieces of wood, it's gonna burn more quickly catch 354 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: more easily because there's more exposed surface surface temperature, and 355 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: more of that fuels is exposed to the heat than 356 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: a big Like you said, a big log or something. Yeah, 357 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: and that's why when you're starting. You know, if you 358 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: ever watched a bear grills do this thing or or 359 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: less stroud, they try to get the little like tiny 360 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: little shavings from the inside of h like you peel 361 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: away the bark on a tree and then get the 362 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: shavings off of the tree itself. And that's the stuff 363 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: that's gonna like really combust easily through friction with like Uh, 364 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: you know, there's different ways of doing the little I've 365 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: never been I've never done that. Have you? Have you 366 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 1: started a fire using like friction? Have you? Really? That's impressive. 367 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: I do that stuff when I go camping now for fun, 368 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: like in front of the real fire. You know that 369 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: we started with our big lighters and I'm sitting there 370 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: with my beer in my Southern comfort and my comfy 371 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 1: chair and the steak is on the grill. I'll do 372 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: some little survival stuff just kind of for fun, you know, 373 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 1: until I get tired of it and give up. But yeah, 374 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: it's fun. Um, Well, hats off to you for no 375 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: how to do that? Well, it's pretty easy. I mean 376 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: there's different ways. There's the plow method or the little bow, uh, 377 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: where you make the little string to bow. Yeah, and 378 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: do that little number. Yeah, I've seen that one. There's 379 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: the castaway one. Yeah, that's the plow method. Oh that's plow. Yeah, 380 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: that makes sense to be called that. Do you got 381 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: anything else? I don't think so, do you think Do 382 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: you feel like we explain this correctly? And well? Yeah, 383 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's pretty basic chemistry. We're basically heat 384 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: breaks down a fuel so that it can combine with 385 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: oxygen and ignite. Yeah, and then burned. That's right. And 386 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: it's self sustaining so long as there's fuel and oxygen. 387 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: And then all you need is a bear skin rug 388 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: and some cinemax and you're all set for Friday night. Awesome. 389 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: If you want to know more about fire, you can 390 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: type fire into the search bar at how stuff works 391 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 1: dot com and that will bring up this article and 392 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: plenty of other stuff too. Um, maybe even some survival 393 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: stuff by one Charles W. Bryant. Uh, And I said 394 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: search bar. So it's time for a listener mail, Chuck. Yes, 395 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: we should tell everybody about something very special and due 396 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: to our hearts New York City. That's right. We are 397 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: going to Comic Con and we will be doing a 398 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,239 Speaker 1: live podcast on Friday, October twelve at Comic Con at 399 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: the jab At Center. It's like our new thing. We 400 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: did San Diego, now we do in New York. That's 401 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: right next up Albuquerque. So if you are going to 402 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: Comic Con, you should come back and see that. But 403 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: after Comic Con, we have one of our famous that's 404 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: famous to us, All Star Trivia Nights. Um, where is 405 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: it gonna be the Cutting Room. It is at the 406 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: grand reopening of the Cutting Room in the flat Iron District, 407 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: which is what's the address? It is forty four East 408 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: thirty second Street in New York. And uh, it's in 409 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: the flat Iron you said. And doors open at seven thirty. 410 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: Trivia goes down to eight thirty. And what is first come, 411 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 1: first serve? Right? Free free, free, first come, first serve. 412 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: We will have a bar there that you can buy 413 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: a drinks. Yeah, you can buy us drinks. That's right. 414 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: We're gonna basically be having a really good time if 415 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: you if you're not familiar with our trivia nights, like, 416 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: just come out and check it out. It'll be worth 417 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: your while, absolutely, and stay tuned for info on Facebook 418 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: and Twitter about the makeup of the All Star team. 419 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: We're filling that out as we speak, but we will 420 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: have some special guests that you will want to meet. Yeah, 421 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: and at the very least you can come take on 422 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: me and chuck right, yeah, okay, it's just fun. So 423 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: what is that? That's Friday, October twelfth, right, yep, the 424 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: panels that went. The panel is at at beleave okay, 425 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: and then we're gonna be at the cutting room starting 426 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: at thirty. Trivite starts at eight thirty doors at seven thirty. 427 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: Be there, be square. You're good at this, Thank you? 428 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: All right? The time for listener mail. I'm gonna call 429 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: this email bad to the Bone, so Jocelyn Stone here 430 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: in Victoria, BC, Canada apparently hates bad to the Bone 431 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 1: just as much as I do. So we are we're 432 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: friends in that way, uh, she says. A few years ago, 433 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 1: my partner, or Tim, discovered that he could set anything 434 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: on his heart desired on his alarm clock for his 435 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: cell phone. He searched for the perfect song and decided 436 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 1: on bad to the Punt. Uh. Tim believed, in order 437 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: to slowly get himself ready for the day, he needed 438 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: alarms at five am, five thirty and six. I on 439 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: the other hand, wake up without an alarm at six 440 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: thirty without fail, which is what I do all right. Um. 441 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 1: Every morning I was shocked by the full volume darronn 442 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: or an airn Air. I would there's the way to 443 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: wake up right. I would blast up to a sitting 444 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: position in bed, my heart exploding out of my chest, 445 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: and look next to me at Tim, who was sleeping 446 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: through the whole event. I would punch him, get up, 447 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 1: turn off the alarm myself, and then repeat this two 448 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 1: more times. What kind of business partners are these? I 449 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: don't think their business partners. That was like an American 450 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: beauty remember that? Oh yeah, It's like I'd like you 451 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: to meet my partner. He's like, oh, what line of 452 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: work you guys? That was a quantum bleat meeting lone star? 453 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: Huh wow? Yeah, what could you um? For some reason, 454 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: no matter how much I begged him, he wouldn't change 455 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,239 Speaker 1: the song or let me turn down the volume. If 456 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: I secretly changed it before bed, he would change it back. 457 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: But I tried to turn it off and hide his phone, 458 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: he would find it and turn it back again. If 459 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: I turned the volume down while he was sleeping, his 460 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: spidy sense would start tingling and he'd wake up and 461 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: turn it back on. It turned into a game that 462 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: lasted a full year, finally ending when I told him 463 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: the slipper of amusement I found in the game was 464 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: gone and I would throw his phone into the ocean 465 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: if he didn't change it. So eventually she just had enough. 466 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: It's like, this isn't fun anymore. I ended up buying 467 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: an alarm clock radio, which he also sleeps through. Now 468 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: thanks to Tim, every coming here bad at the bone 469 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: in public, I immediately leave the area lest I explode 470 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: in a muddy, scalding rock going rage like the Wamano 471 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: guys er, Well nice, yeah so, And then she said, 472 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: ps do a podcast on accordions after all that? Who's that? 473 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: Jocelyn from Victoria? Duci can thank you and Tim? Tim, 474 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: good luck, Tom and Jocelyn. I help you guys find 475 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: a yes song you can both agree on. Agreed? And Tim? 476 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: Just get up, dude? Is it time? For some people? 477 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: It's hard. I never understood the snooze because wouldn't you 478 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: rather to sleep that time? No, I'm with you, but 479 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying like, instead of being woken up everything, that's 480 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: not that easy to just wake right up and right 481 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: eyed and bushy tail and to accept others as they are. Uh, 482 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: let's see what do we what do we want? Um? Geez, 483 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know either. We'll have to 484 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: figure it out. Yeah, um yeah, send us anything. I 485 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: guess this is the it's a generic call out. You 486 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: can send us anything via Twitter at s Y s 487 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 1: K podcast. 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