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Speaker 1: to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry over there, and

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Speaker 1: this is stuff you should know. A rama. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of funny that you did that little do

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Speaker 1: right off the top. We're doing this show in Molder Rama,

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Speaker 1: which spoiler is a machine that makes that made and

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Speaker 1: still makes these little plastic things but has maybe one

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Speaker 1: of the worst trade names ever, moldor rama. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and plug this. There's a YouTube

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Speaker 1: video from this young lady um where she shows off

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Speaker 1: her molder rama um little plastic toys that she's collected

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Speaker 1: carpet bagger dot org molder Rama. Just look up that YouTube.

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Speaker 1: She is adorable and she's the best. And when she

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Speaker 1: of the Disney Disneyland toy factory molder ramas. I saw that,

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Speaker 1: so I know who you're talking about. She's great. So um,

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Speaker 1: that was nice of you, Chuck. Well, let's wait for

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Speaker 1: everybody to come back from watching her YouTube video show.

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Speaker 1: Let's wait for I think five or six minutes and done. Yes,

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Speaker 1: time passes faster here. Stuff you should know, doesn't it?

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Speaker 1: It does. I'm eighty years old, so so with you.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, mold Rama, it is a I've seen

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Speaker 1: you who don't know, it is UM basically an on

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Speaker 1: demand UM injection blow molded plastic toy dispenser. That is

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Speaker 1: that that's a technical definition for And while that might

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Speaker 1: not make sense yet, it all will make sense in

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Speaker 1: about thirty or so minutes. All right, how about this

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Speaker 1: picture this? All right? Let's start over? Should we wait?

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Speaker 1: this all in? Alright, picture this. You walk into a room.

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Speaker 1: Or a or a a world's fair or something. Um.

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Speaker 1: when one J. H. Miller Tyke is his nickname. I

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Speaker 1: But I and I did not see why they went bankrupt.

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Speaker 1: let's take another break. We'll come back and talk a

426
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: little bit about some of these fun figures and the

427
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: people that are still trying to keep this tradition alive.

428
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: All right, So here's the thing that I wanted to know,

429
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,919
Speaker 1: and that our article didn't get to till three quarters

430
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: the way through. I was like, can do they have

431
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: different things for each machine? The answer, sadly is no.

432
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: If it spits out a dinosaur, it can only spit

433
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: out a dinosaur unless you change up that mold. Yes,

434
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: but you can change the color and you'll have a

435
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: different color dinosaur. Well until they started using the single

436
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: color pellets, right, Well, no, then they just put in

437
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 1: a different color when they refill the thing, and all

438
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: of a sudden it went from a purple dinosaur to

439
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: a green dinosaur. Right, But could you say purple and

440
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: hit a purple button or it's whatever the kid who

441
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: worked there decided to put in that morning. That's exactly right.

442
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: The thing is, though, is is and again it's not

443
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 1: even just the toy that comes out. The toy is,

444
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: especially as a kid, invariably disappointing, sure, but it's the

445
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: process is watching this thing happen, and the mold mold

446
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,239
Speaker 1: Arama machines will have like little little different lights that

447
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: light up like now we're cooling, Now we're about to

448
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: launch the toy to you. You know, it's it tells

449
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: you what's going on, so you're following the process, which

450
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: is at least is probably of the the appeal of

451
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Stand back right now, because if I

452
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: were to explode, it would be during this next eight seconds. Right. Um,

453
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 1: all right, so your mom is standing there, missing her

454
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: one arm from saving you in a car wreck. It's

455
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: like he probably should stand back exactly. Um. No one

456
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: knows exactly how many of these molds were made, but they're,

457
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 1: like we said, our enthusiasts who collect these, and uh,

458
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: this one dude, Bill Bollman, who owns one and runs

459
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: moldville dot com. Bad bad. You are all there, right, Yeah,

460
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: it is bad. I gotta say. I looked it up

461
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: and it's a dead domain. But he's got a Facebook

462
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: thing that he does. Now that's where he's moved to. Yeah,

463
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: that's where he went my Space and then he went Facebook.

464
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: But there will never be another site better than Facebook.

465
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: So I'm sure it's all over right, probably so he Um,

466
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: his estimate is about three hundred designs. I bet it's

467
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: more than that. I don't know. This guy knows what

468
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: he's talking about. He he counted a hundred and nineties

469
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: six original ones, and then he said after the sixties

470
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: more people started to make them. They weren't just commissioned

471
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: by Aero Mark who was keeping track of these things.

472
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: And and I would I would say this guy is

473
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: probably the person on earth who could estimate how many

474
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: there are the closest and not just me guessing randomly.

475
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 1: And what's cool though also is again like if you

476
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: were you could be anybody, if you wanted a mold

477
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,919
Speaker 1: Arama thing at your event, you could it could happen.

478
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: Like I found there was a Circleville, Ohio Pumpkin Festival

479
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: mold Arama. So one of the three hundred molds is

480
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: a pumpkin from Circleville, Ohio's pumpkin Fest in the seventies.

481
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: Another one, So apparently Toledo was crazy about these things,

482
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 1: because again there's ten at the Toledo Zoo. There's the

483
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: one tam O Shannon that I got a mind from.

484
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: There was one in the eighties at the Toledo Mudhans Stadium,

485
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: and there's a Mudhan's figure which is pretty cool actually,

486
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: And I looked and there's like zero for sale anywhere.

487
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: But now I'm kind of on the lookout for that thing.

488
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: But all you had to do was just make a

489
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: bold get your hands on one of these, and bam, Circleville,

490
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: Ohio's pumpkin Fest went from zero to hero right, and

491
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: you two could have a snowman, or a Grammin's Chinese theater,

492
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: or a space lab or a Lawrence Welk. Yeah, yeah,

493
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: NASA had a a lot of these things. Actually, I'm

494
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: sure what else was there? Um, well, the Lawrence Welk.

495
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: None of those were jokes. Those are real. Oh yeah,

496
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: for sure. There was a Titan three C missile and

497
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: a Lawrence Welk, says other famous people. I'm kind of curious.

498
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: I didn't see anybody besides presidents and Lawrence Welk. There's

499
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: one of the Georgia State Capital building. Oh really? Yeah?

500
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: Um there were some cool ones actually, the St. Louis

501
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: Arches surprisingly cool. You wouldn't think it'd be that cool.

502
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,239
Speaker 1: The Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile mm hmm uh. This one

503
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: was kind of random. It was it's a high alli player.

504
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: And then at the basis, says Hi Ali in Miami. Okay, um,

505
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: the water skier from Cypress. I think Cypress Gardens Florida

506
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: and the Mermaids from Wiki Wachee Springs, Florida. We talked

507
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: about them. Um oh, here's one. Universal Studios had one

508
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: that made a Frankenstein coin banks. That's kind of cool.

509
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: It is very cool. Like a lot of these are

510
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: actually super cool, especially the original retro ones you can

511
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: actually see like, um, I can't remember the woman's name,

512
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: but there was a woman who was hired by one

513
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: of the companies that still operate these things, uh to

514
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: start making molds, and she's been making them for the

515
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: last twenty five years and compared to some of the

516
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: ones from the sixties, like she's just head and shoulders

517
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: above the people who are sculpting them. Then, like these

518
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: are really really well made sculptures, not only in like

519
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: the actual sculpture that she's making, but the decisions she's

520
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: making produces just a better mole orama toy because again,

521
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: you're you're dealing with melted plastic in a mold that

522
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: is two halves pressed together. There's a lot of like

523
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: details that can go wrong, and this, uh, this great

524
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: sculptor is is um taking all of them into account,

525
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: making some really boss ones like the wan Or mobile.

526
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: It's it's art to behold this. The detail in it

527
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: is really really nice. Should we talk about a couple

528
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: of these companies that are still still going strong? Yeah,

529
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: for sure, or at least going now. They're going strong?

530
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: Man good. Um. There are a couple of them, one

531
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: called Replication Devices, one called mold a Rama Incorporated um

532
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: Replication Devices, founded by Elden Irwin, who bought a bunch

533
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: of these, it says dozens in the early sixties, eventually

534
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: passed down through his family, and right now his grandson

535
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: and his wife, the Strigg owls Um in Florida, are

536
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: operating sixty or seventy of these. Yeah, and let's think

537
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: about this for a second. So Elden Irwin, but dozens.

538
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: Now they're up to sixty maybe seventy. And those mold

539
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: Arama machines have supported three generations of this family. Fully

540
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: from what I understand, Yes, I saw an interview with

541
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: Tim strigg Owen. He said he was surprised that the

542
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: business was still going when his parents took it over,

543
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: and now he the grandson and his wife operated and yes,

544
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: from what I understand it fully supports it. The San

545
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: Antonio Zoo estimated that they make a hundred and thirty

546
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: thousand figurines a year from their one mold a rama

547
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: two bucks of up. That's two hundred and sixty thousand

548
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: grows times sixty or seventy. So yeah, they're doing just fine.

549
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: This other one molder rama inc Like, we're not asking

550
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: anyone to open their books for us, No, for sure,

551
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: and I certainly don't want to shine a light on

552
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: these people's finances, but but I'm just saying, like, it's

553
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: it's astounding to me that these machines built in the sixties,

554
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: left out in the elements for fifty years, are managing

555
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,959
Speaker 1: to support three generations of the families who have been

556
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: operating them. I just think that's super cool. Yeah, I

557
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: mean it sounds like, uh, it's kind of like people

558
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: are on car washes. Isn't it like a front always

559
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,719
Speaker 1: too to launder money from drug sales? I would guess.

560
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: I think it's low hanging, easy to buy. I'm just

561
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: kidding everyone out there that owns car washes. I've watched

562
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: too much Breaking Bad. Oh, that's right, that's right. But

563
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: I think that is like a legitimate thing, like like, yeah,

564
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: cash businesses are are right for the picking. I forgot

565
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: they bought that car wash. So um mouldar Rama Inc.

566
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: Like I said, William A. Jones Company. Uh changed her

567
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: name in two thousand eleven. But they got into this

568
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: in nine when William A. Jones bought some of these

569
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: from one of the guys who worked for the original

570
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: moldar Rama. Then they expanded, um bought more machines and

571
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: it is still a family business. Again. They got about

572
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: sixty of them, yep, and they they were the William A.

573
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: Jones Company. And then I guess they got their hands

574
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: on the molda Rama trademark in two thousand eleven and

575
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: they changed the name of the company to moldar Rama Inc.

576
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: Again because that's originally what it was called back when

577
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: Aramark was running it. Yeah, and they're mainly in the Midwest, Minnesota, Michigan,

578
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: bunch of them in Illinois and one in Texas that

579
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: looks like right, not bad. And then every once in a

580
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: a while you have just some independent operators like Knoxville

581
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: Zoo owns their own. They apparently got there from Dollywood,

582
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: which man, mold a Rama's at Dollywood that make your

583
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: wigs spin. Uh, there's this one cool thing I wanted

584
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: to shout out this toy store in Chicago Roto Fugi

585
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: or Rhoda Fuji, that's sure you pronounce it um. They

586
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: repurposed their own moldor rama. They bought one and repurposed

587
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: it that was originally the l A Zoo and they

588
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,879
Speaker 1: call it the Rhodo a Matic. And they have something

589
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: called a helper Dragon you can get for six bucks.

590
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: And if you look up the Helper Dragon in these dudes,

591
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: it is clear that they are Simpsons fans. Did you

592
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: see this thing? Yeah? I did. I saw a video

593
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: of it, but it was kind of out of focus. Yeah,

594
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: Like just Google image the Helper Dragon, Rhodo Amatic and

595
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: it is to me at least clearly the Cyclops alien

596
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: from The Simpsons with it with its head stuck on

597
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: the body of a winged lion. That's my take on it.

598
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: Very nice. And then there is this one other guy.

599
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: He is a Disney World imagineer named James Durand, and

600
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: he has built his own moldar rama called the Mini Molder. Uh.

601
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: And you just look at this guy, you know, he's

602
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: an imagineer. You look at this machine and you're like,

603
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: I would hire that guy to build and do anything

604
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: because he's clearly a brilliant genius, really cool looking thing

605
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: and a bit of a show off. Frankly, you think, so,

606
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: I've got two more things. The mold of Rama used

607
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: to be fifty cents in its original incarnation in nWo, which,

608
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: again thanks to our friends at West Egg inflation calculator

609
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: tells us is about four dollars and twelve cents in

610
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen money. Today you can get a

611
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: moldar rama for two bucks, which means that the price

612
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: has gone down by half over the last fifty years.

613
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: Pretty cool. And then lastly, so after Tyke Miller got

614
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: out of the plastics injection molding business, he had another

615
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: invention that he called the Golden Goat, and it was

616
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: this big machine that apparently he invented to put out

617
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: in parking lots at like grocery stores, and it would

618
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: take up about two parking spaces, and customers would come

619
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: in and put in their used aluminum cans, and then

620
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: the Golden Goat would weigh it and then give him

621
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: some money in return, and then it would compact those

622
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: cans and then later on that is that aluminum would

623
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: be sold as scrap for recycling. The thing is, this

624
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: was years before the green movement was ever even thought

625
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: of this. That's how ahead of his time this guy was.

626
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: And I don't think the Golden Goat ever made him

627
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: a lot of money, but it's a pretty cool invention

628
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: that this guy had. He had he was like one

629
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: of those great Midwestern tinker inventor guys. Hats off to him.

630
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: So there you go, Nativity figures plastic. If you want

631
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: to know more about Molder Rama man, you can fall

632
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole just looking at pictures of him

633
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: on the internet. So why don't you go do that?

634
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: Take some time for yourself, you know, why do you

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Speaker 1: it's time for a listener mail. We call this just

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Speaker 1: She says, how about a shout out for my son Jake.

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Speaker 1: He listens to every episode more than once. He's got

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Speaker 1: So young Jake is out there spreading the word and

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Speaker 1: we appreciate that, Jake. Uh, and you love the show

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Speaker 1: so much? Um you named well, not quite yet, but

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Speaker 1: Jake says he wants to get a puppy and call

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Speaker 1: it Charles W. Chuck Bryant. And he says this. Most

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Speaker 1: of the time he will be called Chuck, but when

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Speaker 1: why did you do that? Well, Jake, we have a

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Speaker 1: special out there. I'm just kidding. No, we're just kidding, Jake.

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Speaker 1: There's not a puppy at your back door unless your mom.

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Speaker 1: Jenny heard this beforehand and is the best moment in

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Speaker 1: to write in and let us know. So way to go,

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Speaker 1: Jake for listening to us. Thank you, Thank you very much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Jake, Thank you, Jenny. We count literally count

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Speaker 1: on people like you to spread the word, so we

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Good luck with your eventual puppy too named

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant. When he's bad. If you want

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Speaker 1: to tell us about well, you're a cute kid, we

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Speaker 1: want to hear about him or her. You can tweet

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Speaker 1: to us at joshum Clark or at s Y s

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