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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: My friend Charles W. Chuck Bryan is here too, and

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Speaker 1: it's just the two of us rolling and and having

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Speaker 1: some fun outdoors, making snow angels and most importantly making

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Speaker 1: snow people, which means this is stuff you should know,

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Speaker 1: the snow people addition, that's right. Uh, And I just

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Speaker 1: want to mention if you feel a presence among us

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Speaker 1: because Emily, Emily's in the room with me. Oh hi, Emily.

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Speaker 1: Now she can't hear you. I told her she had to.

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Speaker 1: She had to sit there and be quiet. She's, you know,

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Speaker 1: we got a sauna finally because of her lime and uh,

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Speaker 1: well not the line part, but the sauna part. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: which she's she's feeling better for now, by the way,

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Speaker 1: which is great news. But if you want to learn

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Speaker 1: about the health benefits of the sauna, go back and

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Speaker 1: listen to episode on the auna. But she was going

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Speaker 1: to this membership place and driving like, you know, forty

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Speaker 1: minutes each way, like four times a week, and so we, uh,

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Speaker 1: we've broke down and got one. So she is quietly

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Speaker 1: sitting back there sweating. Isn't it? Like? Have you used

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Speaker 1: it yet? Yeah? I love it. It's really nice. Um,

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Speaker 1: I do it's and it's also the solitude and just

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes of quiet time because you shouldn't take your

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Speaker 1: phone in there and bake it out. No, but um,

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Speaker 1: does yours have bluetooth? It does. So I downloaded like

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Speaker 1: a couple of bird song albums and nature song albums

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Speaker 1: the bluetooth and just turn it real low. But it

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Speaker 1: adds a little extra something to a sauna. Do you

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Speaker 1: know what I do is I put on so Far

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Speaker 1: music for airports from Brian Eno and try to not

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Speaker 1: fall asleep. I could. I'm gonna give that one to try.

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Speaker 1: I'll trade you one of my bird song albums for

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Speaker 1: that Brian Eno album. Yeah, we'll meet in the middle

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Speaker 1: and literally exchange records. No, we'll just swap phones for

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Speaker 1: a few weeks, that's right. So anyway, and I have

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Speaker 1: a hot, sweaty wife behind me. Okay, gotcha. So speaking

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Speaker 1: of hot and sweaty, we're obviously talking about snow people today.

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Speaker 1: Snow man. But you know what you don't want to

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Speaker 1: do is put a snowperson in a sauna. No you don't,

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Speaker 1: but that is a recurring theme of the legends and

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Speaker 1: tales of snow people chuck, which we'll get too later.

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Speaker 1: They all melt, they do. They're ephemeral, they're fleeting and um.

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Speaker 1: There's this guy who wrote a book. He's a humorist

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Speaker 1: wrote like the book on snowman and snow people is

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Speaker 1: called the History of the Snowman, and he did the round.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot like a lot of snow research

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Speaker 1: or snowman research brings up his stuff. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: impossible to avoid. But one of the reasons why it's

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Speaker 1: impossible to avoid is because he actually did some like

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Speaker 1: really good scholarship on on snow people. And one of

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Speaker 1: the things that he is SERTs it's probably true, is

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Speaker 1: like our early ancestors had an aptitude for art. A

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Speaker 1: snowman or a snow person is a pretty basic shape,

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Speaker 1: and when you put those two together, there's a really

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Speaker 1: good chance that humans have been making snowman, snow people,

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Speaker 1: snow whatever for tens of thousands of years, if not longer.

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Speaker 1: Most likely that's right, and I think did you you

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Speaker 1: didn't mention the Book of Hours just then? Did you know?

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Speaker 1: first known depiction of an actually in a manuscript of

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Speaker 1: out with this? Yes, it's it's Dutch. It's a coney kruk. No, no,

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Speaker 1: the coney kluck biblio. It still cracks me up after

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Speaker 1: all these years. People say I'm happy to help you

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Speaker 1: out with pronunciation, and we say never. It's a part

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Speaker 1: So why is that jay even in there? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Randau places. But what we're saying is the coney whatever

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Speaker 1: and it has on a yamakle. So how you say

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Speaker 1: as like the history of snow people or snowman um.

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Speaker 1: But it gets a little better from here on out

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Speaker 1: Angelo was commissioned in four ninety four by Piero the

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Speaker 1: Unfortunate of Florence. Love that name. That's gonna be my

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Speaker 1: you're the fortunate. Uh yeah, michel Angelo was commissioned to

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Speaker 1: Michel Angelo wasn't the only one, that's right, and that

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Speaker 1: a short stuff let's do it. So. Um, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Up to this point, Chuck, snowman. Snow people have been

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Speaker 1: basically like the providence of artists. Uh. They've been used

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Speaker 1: Victorian era, that's when the snowman finally took the shape

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Speaker 1: of the snowman as we recognize them today. Like they

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Speaker 1: were the part of winter. They were happy, jolly, They

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Speaker 1: and talk about Christmas snow people right after this. Alright,

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Speaker 1: So snow men are popping up all over the place

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Speaker 1: cultural things around the world over there, Yes, and there's

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Speaker 1: terrible stuff he was doing. As far as his son

423
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: Julian alone was concerned, I was like, wow, I had

424
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: no idea. Yeah, he was a complicated guy and had

425
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: a really rough childhood and was a bit of a

426
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: jerk in general. It's just one of those things, you know, well,

427
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: not a good guy. So back to Bowie. I don't

428
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: want to lose the magic of this chuck because Bowie

429
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: did in Raymond Briggs was replaced with David Bowie. And

430
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: this is like the ninth he needed two Let's Dance

431
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: or eighty three Let's Dance era, Right, So he's got

432
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: his platinum, spiky blonde hair and he does the intro

433
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: basically saying like I was this boy, and look, I

434
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 1: even have the scarf that the snowman gave me as proof.

435
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: And then did you just say he had spiky hair?

436
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: It was high it was high hair, spiky ish. No, no, no,

437
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 1: that was that was ziggy started Sarah when he had

438
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: the spikey. No, I don't mean that. I don't mean that. No,

439
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: big pompadour and let's dance. It was a pompadour, wasn't it. Yeah,

440
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: I guess it wasn't spikey. Okay, thank you for that.

441
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: So he had a big let's dance pompadour, but it

442
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: was platinum. We're agreed on that, correct, Yeah, I was

443
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: just I was trying to cut off the David Bowie

444
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: Penancy would email us stop that dead in its track.

445
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: You people know this, but David Bowie religiously listens to

446
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: stuff you should know every week, did he? Oh that's right.

447
00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was even listening to Black Are the

448
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: other day. It's great. So, um, that's the UK's version

449
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: their own Snowman. It's just simply called The Snowman. And

450
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it, go watch it because it

451
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: is very touching with or without David Bowie. That's right.

452
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: We have a few more touch points for the United

453
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: States culturally. Um Calvin and Hobbs never read Calvin Hobbs,

454
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: but apparently Um Calvin was the Boy or was Calvin

455
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: the Tiger? You're gonna get us some mail for that one, buddy, Yes,

456
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: Calvin was the Boy? All right, I don't if you

457
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: don't if you don't know something, you don't know it. No, No,

458
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: it's true. But the people who are into calvinant Hobbs

459
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: are like really into Calvin and Hobbs, and they're gonna

460
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: be like, how can you not read Calvin and Hobbs exactly?

461
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: Those are the kind of emails we're going to get. Well, Calvin,

462
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: I guess built great snowmen. Yeah, good ones, real dark

463
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: ones where like they would be run over by a

464
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: train or something like that. Just good ones. There's a

465
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: people have posted like collections of all of the ones

466
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: that were printed over the years. They're definitely worth check

467
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: it out. There's, of course Olaf from Frozen, which I'm

468
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: dying to know if you're the one or if you

469
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 1: got this from somewhere else who said he's widely considered

470
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: the best character in the movie. I got it from

471
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Really, Yeah, who's the best of that? Who's

472
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: the best? I don't remember one of our sources. Interesting,

473
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: who who's the best character in the movie? Well, I mean,

474
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: I think if you ask any young girl who saw Frozen,

475
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: they would they would say Anna or Elsa, the two

476
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: lead characters. Maybe this was a from the parents point

477
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: of view. I don't know, you know, he's the I

478
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: take it you you haven't seen Frozen or Frozen too. Uh No,

479
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: I have not seen It's uh he's He's like the

480
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: character that you have in every Disney movie. He is

481
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: the comic relief, the donkey, sort of the gun. He's

482
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: the donkey. Yeah, I got you. Yeah, yeah, I think

483
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: people like Josh gadd As well, yeah, yeah, But I

484
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: just I thought it was funny. I don't know if

485
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 1: anyone would consider him the best character in the movie. Well,

486
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: I and I've never seen it, so that was very funny.

487
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: Um that we also have to shout out Chuck the

488
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: movie Jack Frost Um from I Think Yeah. It was

489
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: starring Michael Keaton as Jack Frost, snowman who is a

490
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: reincarnated reincarnated him. Yeah. I think people you could just

491
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: do yourself a favor and watch. If you have two minutes,

492
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: go watch the Jack Cross trailer online. It's got every bad,

493
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: dumb joke you could think of on a snowman from

494
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,959
Speaker 1: like his arms falling off. There's one scene where they

495
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: throw snowballs at him and they land on him as

496
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: as breasts and he goes, oh, not for me or

497
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: something like that and rubs those off. Uh. He he

498
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: gets shaved down to go through a skinny crevass as

499
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: he's sledding, goes, boy, I've really gotten thin here, or

500
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: something like that. It's the worst thing ever. But at

501
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: the very end of this trailer it says Jack Frost

502
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: coming to the blah blah blah, featuring music from Hanson.

503
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a real ninety eight selling point. Yeah.

504
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: Hansen um famously lobbied, uh launched the lawsuit to have

505
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: themselves taken off of that movie, but to no avail.

506
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me because it was really bad. And

507
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: Roger Ebert hated this movie and has has a part

508
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: in his book I hated, hated, hated this movie. Yeah,

509
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,239
Speaker 1: he said, Jack Frost could have been co directed by

510
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg and still be unwatchable because

511
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: of that damn snowman. The Snowman gave me the creeps.

512
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: Never have I disliked the movie character more. It looks

513
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: really bad. And Roger Ebert has seen a lot of

514
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: movie characters, and he's saying, like Jack Frost is the

515
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: worst of them all. For me, it might be right.

516
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: You want to take another break and then come back

517
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: and wrap up some some snowman stuff. Let's do it. Okay,

518
00:29:52,880 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: We'll be right back everybody, Okay, Chuck. So, one of

519
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: the thing about snowman, snow people, snow citizens are that, um,

520
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: they are like inextricably associated with winter, right, yes, So

521
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: some people around the world have hit upon the fact

522
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: that you can use a snowman as a stand in

523
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: an effigy for winter, and that if you can get

524
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: rid of a snowman in some spectacular fashion, you may

525
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: also be able to symbolically banish winter in favor of

526
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: being replaced by spring. And the people of Zurich, Switzerland,

527
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: have done just that. They have a festival called sex allot,

528
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: which sounds hotter than um. It actually is sex fillountain.

529
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: Uh translates to the ringing of the six o'clock bells.

530
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: That's right, And this is actually a spring festival and

531
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: it's a little bit akin to our our Groundhog Day celebration,

532
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: and that it signifies the end of winter, we're ready

533
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: to move on, and so we're gonna blow up a snowman.

534
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: Uh to do so, And they load this thing up

535
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: with literally a hundred and forty sticks of dynamite in

536
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: its head. It's built out of cotton and straw, and

537
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: it is lit like a wicker man basically on a

538
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: big pire. And then in the time that it takes

539
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: those flames to reach the dynamite and blow up is

540
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: how much longer it's gonna be till summer. So that's

541
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: sort of the the tie into Groundhog Day. Yeah. Um,

542
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: I think the faster it burns, the warmer the summer

543
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: is going to be. And they're like, yeah, the springs

544
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: um here and now um and gay Lord Michigan has

545
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: a alpinfest and they adopted this as well, but they

546
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: have a slight modification where um, rather than banishing winter,

547
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: the townspeople write down like their problems or worries or

548
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: concerns on a piece of paper and all those get

549
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: stuffed in the snowman. So when the snowman burns, their

550
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: problems burn away as well, which I think is right.

551
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: It's no hundred and forties sticks of dynamite, but they

552
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: they came upon something that's that's good too. Should we

553
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: go over some world records? How could you not? How

554
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: could you talk about snowman and snow people without talking

555
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: about world records? Like this would be an incomplete episode,

556
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, let me see. Here's one that was

557
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: pretty good. In and Bethel, Maine. They made Angus King

558
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: of the Mountain after Senator Angus King. Uh. And this

559
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: bad boy was a hundred and thirteen feet tall and

560
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: had a real deal trees for arms and car tires

561
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: for buttons. That was big until too, that was an

562
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: eight when that they did Olympia after Olympia snow another senator.

563
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: They love their senators in Maine, Yeah, they really do.

564
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: And this thing was thirteen million pounds and a hundred

565
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: and twenty two ft and if you look at pictures

566
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: of this, it's pretty impressive. Like they said, sixty people

567
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: built it. I was surprised it wasn't more than a

568
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: couple of hundred, yeah, because it was apparently just about

569
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: thirty ft shorter than the Statue of Liberty, the actual

570
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: statue itself without the base um which is this is

571
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: a really huge snow man um or snow woman, I

572
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: should say in this case, um, and so they held

573
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: it may still hold the record that was when two

574
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: thou eight. I think they might. Apparently prior to that,

575
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: Dartmouth College they have a winter carnival that National Geographic

576
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: Ones called the Marty Grove Winter or the North or

577
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: something like that, and they used to hold the record.

578
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: I think they held it as recently. Um, so it's

579
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: possible that Bethel Maine still holds the record for tall

580
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: a snowman. It's wonderful. And then um, for the most

581
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 1: snow men ever built, you would just have to get

582
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: in your way back machine and travel to Supporto, Japan

583
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 1: in two thousand three, where you would find twelve thousand,

584
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy nine snowmen. But you'd also say,

585
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute, they're cheating because they're

586
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: only doing two balls rather than the traditional three bald snowman.

587
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: And people would say, no, that's how the Japanese build

588
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: snow men. Did you know that? That's right, little two

589
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 1: bald snow man. I like the two balls already. It's

590
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: very cute. Apparently it's based it's called the Yuki Daruma.

591
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: Yuki means snow and daruma is a little around Japanese

592
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: doll that's based on the um what's his name, Bodhi Dharma,

593
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: the guy who is alleged to have brought alleged who's

594
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: thought to have brought um Zen Buddhism from India to

595
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 1: China and just kicked off the whole thing. So that's

596
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: why the Japanese make their doll or their snowmen to

597
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: two ball snowmen. But here in the United States we

598
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: do three balls, and the bigger the better, and name

599
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: him after your senator or else you're a commie. So

600
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: if you want to build a snowperson, you want to Uh,

601
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: the snow has got to be just right. They're not

602
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: just right. There's there's a range. But um, some snow

603
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 1: doesn't work as well as other snow. You want good

604
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: packing snow, so you want temperatures that are closer to

605
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: melting point and the snow flakes being a little little

606
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: wetter helps out a lot. Yeah, So you take that

607
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: packing snow chuck and you start with the snowball and

608
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: you roll it along the snow. You don't want to

609
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: go too deep rous you're gonna get a lot of

610
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: crud like leaves and pine straw in there, and that

611
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: is just unsightly as far as the snow person is concerned. Uh.

612
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: And there's this guy named Keith Martin that Martha Stewart

613
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: Living interviewed. He's an ice sculpture. He said, big tip here,

614
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: when you're halfway through, cut to the left or cut

615
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: to the right, because then your ball is going to

616
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: keep a rounder shape rather than turning into like a

617
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: giant snow cigar or something like that. Yeah, that's the

618
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: hardest part, I think is uh. And if you really

619
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: want it super round, and you don't want it to

620
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: look like a like a cylinder, like some small rugs

621
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: stacked on each other, right like carpet runners. I guess

622
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: that's what mine always ended up looking like because I

623
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: didn't follow that tip. You gotta alternate directions. Um. So

624
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: that's a big one. And then also Martha Stewart says,

625
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: um that you need to decorate and dress your snowman

626
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: or snow person. Um. And that quote a pine cone

627
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,479
Speaker 1: still attached to its branch makes a distinguished pipe, which

628
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: is a great tip. You know, Jerry's meant Martha Stewart,

629
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, that's right, Jerry. I think last

630
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: year I think we did something with a of the

631
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: company and Jerry actually got to go up there to

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Speaker 1: her house. Oh I remember that. Yeah, yeah, and she

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Speaker 1: like stole a vase or something it was associated with it.

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Speaker 1: Don't out her. Yeah, I forgot about that. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: She said. It was just as amazing in real life

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Speaker 1: as you would expect from what I was like. It

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Speaker 1: was very cluttered. He's kind of messy. So one last

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Speaker 1: thing we got to end on this. Okay, there's a

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Speaker 1: kids site called kid addle k I D A d L.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to do Yes, we are going to

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Speaker 1: do these because they are well I'm not so there's

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Speaker 1: a kid the site kid addle says, don't just finish

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Speaker 1: your snowman or snow woman snow kids, no baby, even

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Speaker 1: if you want to impress Chuck Um by just you know,

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Speaker 1: giving it a distinguished pipe, you gotta name your snow

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Speaker 1: creation as well. And don't just name him or her

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Speaker 1: Frosty or Crystal, right um. And they came up with

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Speaker 1: a big list of suggested names, and Chuck is going

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Speaker 1: to join me here in in trading off these names. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna read any of these because I know

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Speaker 1: if you build a snowperson with your child. The only

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Speaker 1: thing you can do is let your child name that

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Speaker 1: snow sure. But if your kids, like I can't think

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Speaker 1: of anything, here's some suggestions like mistletoe, jolly leaves, it's

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Speaker 1: a good one. What else, Chuck, I don't know. My

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Speaker 1: kid would name it fart poop the snowman. Or what

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Speaker 1: about peppermint cuddle pudding? That might be my favorite? All right,

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Speaker 1: sugar vone, Carrol's Teddy McCole. And then the last one

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Speaker 1: is twinkle Prance a lot. That's a great name for

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Speaker 1: a snow person. That's right. So I think the moral

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Speaker 1: here is if you have trouble naming your snow person,

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Speaker 1: get online and get some suggestions from a search engine.

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Speaker 1: From cadattle, that's right. Are they sponsoring us or something?

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Speaker 1: But that came up with some adorable names, and I

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Speaker 1: thought they deserved to be shouted out for that. So

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Speaker 1: they are shouted out, and we should also shout out

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Speaker 1: all of the other sources. Um, there were a ton

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Speaker 1: of them, but they include Smithsonian Atlas, Obscure, the Farmer's Almanac,

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Speaker 1: the Garden, fairy Tales dot biz because there's big money

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Speaker 1: in fairy tales online the Library of Congress song facts,

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Speaker 1: and Martha Stewart Living am more. So thanks to all

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Speaker 1: of those sources too, and thanks to everybody Chuck who

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Speaker 1: joined us for this great holiday themed episode on snow people. Huh,

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Speaker 1: that's right, not our Christmas episode. That will be one

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Speaker 1: of those, don't right. That's right. And so since Chuck said,

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Speaker 1: don't worry everybody, that means it's time for a listener mail.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna shout out our friends at co ED

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Speaker 1: here at the end of the year. Yeah. Uh. If

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Speaker 1: We went down to Guatemala years ago with him. They

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Speaker 1: And they're in the home stretch of reaching their target

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Speaker 1: they have the last ones, and they just need a

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Speaker 1: that's where they are, that's what they're trying to do. Yep.

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Speaker 1: So it's eighty dollars a month to change a kid's life.

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Speaker 1: As they put it, you can fully sponsor a student,

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Speaker 1: or you could do half of that forty dollars a

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Speaker 1: that will be one. And like you said, what they're

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Speaker 1: they're just a couple dozen short of their goal. And

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Speaker 1: I think Stuff you Should Know Listeners can definitely get

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Speaker 1: have some statistics from how Stuff you Should Know Army

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Speaker 1: members have helped out co ED over the years, UH

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Speaker 1: four hundred and forty six supporters have collectively raised more

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Speaker 1: Twenty nine of you have actually gone down to take

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Speaker 1: I think we can double triple quadruple that um just

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Speaker 1: hopefully with this call out, because I think the more

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Speaker 1: more people who are gonna want to help out. So

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Speaker 1: That's right. And if you actually want to pick out

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