WEBVTT - How Play-Doh Works 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:13.800 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.560 There's Charles W Chuck Bryant, and this is the first 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:19.960 of two Stuff you Should Knows that we're recording today. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.520 My voice already sounds weird to me. What do you 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.800 mean it doesn't sound a little weird, you know how 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.840 like when we get towards the end of the second one, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.680 or it gets a little like worn out or something. Yeah, 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:36.080 like it's been extruded through a Plato fun factory. What's 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:37.440 all that is set up? Or do you really feel 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.120 that way that was off the cuff? Baby, Okay, No, 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.199 it doesn't sound weird to me. Your voice never sounds weird. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.199 Mus you're sick, Jerry Judge McCall, Yeah, Jerry Brooklyn Ti 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.600 she sided with me. Well, Jerry, were headphones. But you 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.839 and I fight the broadcasting business by being the only 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.760 people that don't wear headphones or cans. I never get it, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.320 like your two ft from me when my headphones, I know, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.000 and I don't want to hear myself anyway. I don't 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.000 want to hear myself better. No, it's terrible. It sounds 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.280 like torture that. How about this for a new s 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:09.120 Y s K T shirt? No more cans just have 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.039 a little X through some headphones. I think when you 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.960 make a step, you should know a decree from now 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.760 we should have like a fairy wand sound effect. We 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.400 just like, here's this for a new T shirt. I 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.040 decreate be made into existence. Yeah, we get. We're gonna 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.160 by the way, since I mentioned it, we're gonna have 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.240 some new shirts coming soon. Yeah, some good like some 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:33.640 fan designs even yep, exciting. Yeah, we and we do 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.480 have some now that people can go by if I 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.920 like those first designs we had, and I well, let's 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.160 just have this out on the air. It's not an argument, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.759 but let's have this discussion. Are we going to retire 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.480 the original six from the contest or should we just 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.240 let them keep going in perpetuity? Oh, unless there's a reason. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.000 I think perpetuity is the way to go. But someone 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.880 might like the dancing uh you know what we call that, 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.840 the skeleton would cut Yeah, perfect parade of dancing skeletons, 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.080 the maccab parade, That's what I would call it. Doesn't 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.960 give him All six of them were excellent. The baby 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.240 with the fly on its forehead. Still my altime paper. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.480 Good stuff. If you don't know what we're talking about, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.600 go to stuff you should know dot com are venerable 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.239 website and uh in the top navigation there's a store 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.280 button and it will take your store and you can 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.320 see with your own very eyes, what the heck we're 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.680 talking about? That was off the cuff. Yeah it was. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.680 I wasn't like, oh, we gotta plug the T shirts. No, no, no, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:32.560 You very rarely say things as fretfully as that, chuck. Yes, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.680 do you want to talk about Plato? Yeah, we promised 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.560 to do this recently, and here we are. If, in 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.400 my defensive, is already on the list. Oh well, so 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.160 it's not like, you know, I'm at the beck and 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.040 call of anybody's like, do Plato do this? Do that? No, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.480 it was already on the list. Um did you play 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.240 with Plato a lot when you're a kid? Oh? I 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.840 played with it. I ate it. I don't recall eating it. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:04.440 I do specifically recall eating the paste that was an 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.440 off brand that had a purple pirate on it. Oh, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.480 he was. He was a pirate wearing a purple hat. 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.360 And I think maybe it an orange parrot. Yeah, it 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.040 was the paste. Did I have a on the inside 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.080 the lid? Did I have a applicator attached to it? Yeah? 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.320 I totally ate that paste. That was the best tasting 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.320 paste on the planet. As a matter of fact, I 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.720 think that paste might have been manufactured in part to 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:30.240 eat like it's served to like kids, some bad kids. Yeah. Actually, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.720 I want to revise my statement. I take I licked 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.360 and tasted Plato. I don't remember like swallowing it, but 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.240 I remember, like, you know, tasting it and then maybe 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:40.520 you can put it in my mouth and spitting it 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.280 back out. But I don't think I got you. Yeah. Um, 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.760 I never. I don't think I ever ate Plato in 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.560 any form or fashion. But the scent of it, it's unmistakable, unmistakable. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.040 It's so unmistakable in fact that apparently back in two 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.760 thousand and six, plato Or has growth a year long 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.080 celebration for Plato, which it owns, which it bought off 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:09.440 of Kenner, which Kenner bought from a dude named Joe McVicker's. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.800 Actually they bought it from Tonka. Talk about it from Kenner? 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.600 Oh yeah, how do I forget Tonka exactly? Um? And 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.440 for this fiftieth birthday party, they had a a cent 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.400 a Plato perfume released that smelled just like Plato. Can 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.120 you buy that? Wonder? I looked, and I think you 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.920 can get it, but I don't think as easy as 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.080 you could. Back in two thousand six. Yeah, I wouldn't 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.040 want to wear it. I was just curious. I think, yeah, nostalgia, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.719 I like them. I would like to smell it, but 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.360 don't spread that stuff on me. I don't think you're 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.359 supposed to wear it. Was it just like, yeah, one 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.400 of those things, the mood stabilizer. Okay, you know what 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.440 I mean. Yea spray in front of your face and 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.520 you just go, oh yeah, okay, should put this lead 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.200 pipe down and rethink things? Right? Remember when I was 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.440 a kid and let's violent, somebody give me some paste 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.039 to eat? They should do that. Well back when you 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.800 were a kid, Um, did you know much about the 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.760 origin and play Plato? Oh? No, not at all. I 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:08.000 didn't either until today. You're yesterday when I started researching 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:12.080 this Plato everyone and in this article by Tracy Wilson, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.359 who hosts Stuffy miss in History class Um, she says 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.920 that it's lower, but I've seen it all over the place, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.120 and from what I understand, it's the truth. I think 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.280 it's the truth. There was a dude named Joe mcvickers 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.280 who had a company and his company, uh produced, from 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.400 what I understand, mc vicker's invention, which was wallpaper cleaner. Yeah. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.520 They his his father and uncle started it and they 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.239 were called Coutole Products and it was a soap company, 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.320 and but their big seller was this wall cleaner because 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.279 when we heated our homes with coal, your house would 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.960 get coal sit on the walls, which is really weird 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.440 to think of now. Yeah, but it's true. And your 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.560 wallpaper can still get dirty, grease from cooking things, food fights, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.440 what ever, your wallpaper can get dirty. Let's just face facts, everybody. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.040 And mc vicker's company had this putty. It was kind 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:13.240 of a pliable, gooey putty that you slapped up against 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.840 the wallpaper and rolled up and down and it just 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.839 took that suit or that grease or that spaghetti sauce 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.800 clean off. And it was wallpaper cleaner and it was 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.720 doing okay. I guess I don't think they were like 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:32.120 hurting necessarily. But Joe was married to a woman, or 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.400 was his sister in law. Was a teacher. Yeah, it 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.640 was Cincinnati. Yeah. They they sold a lot of this 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.880 stuff for a while, but then natural gas came around 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.320 and so they fell upon hard times. But um Joe 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.679 took over from Cleo. Uh as Cleo's was his father 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.960 and his sister in law, cash Fall of New Jersey, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.760 read about kids that were making Christmas ornaments out of 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.360 that stuff and she said out of the wallpaper cleaner. Yeah, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.080 and uh, much like kids do today with Plato. And 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.280 she said, hey, you know we're hurting, why don't we 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.120 try and turn this stuff into a toy. And they 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.200 did so, and in ninet he made a non toxic version, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.119 added some almond scent, and you had your first little 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.880 off white Plato. Yeah. Kind of exactly what you would 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:26.160 think of when you think of a gummy colored like dough. Yeah, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:31.040 off white khaki almost yeah. Um and mc vicker was 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.320 a pretty smart dude as far as business goes. He 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.720 um donated a bunch of cans to the Cincinnati City 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.640 school system. Very smart, and so got these little kids 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.840 hooked on Plato. It was a huge hit, but it 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.760 it might have just been a regional hit. Uh. And 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.560 if he hadn't have approached a dude named Captain Kangaroo. Yeah, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.920 he went to, Uh, what does Keptain Kangary's name Bob, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.480 Bob Keashan. I think Bob Keashan nice memory, Chuck I 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.240 pulled out from I don't know how many years ago 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.600 heard that name. He well, did you watch Captain Kangaroo? 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.760 Me too, love Captain Kangaroo. I like Captain Kangaroo more 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.320 than Mr Rogers. I liked them both, but yeah, I 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.840 think I might have been Yeah, Captain Kangaro a little 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.120 bit more. It was a haircut and I was Electric 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.000 Company over Sesame Street Amon. Yeah, I like both, but 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.040 I like the Electric Electric Company more. But I like 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.040 Pinwheel most. I didn't watch that. It was for real 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:31.200 little kids. Um. Anyway, Captain Kangaroo had a show and 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.600 Joe mcvickers somehow got in contact with Captain Kangaroo and said, hey, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.440 I have a little deal for you. We've got this 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.280 awesome stuff. The kids in Cincinnati are crazy for it. Um. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.880 We're calling it Plato right now. It's an off white 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.880 where it used to be, but now we have four colors, red, blue, yellow, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.120 and white. Those are the four original colors of Plato. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.840 By the way, and he gave someone to Captain Kangaroo said, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.160 I will give you two percent of gross sales if 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.880 you mentioned this on your show two times a week 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.320 he played with it. Bob Keashon was a money grubber. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.200 That's so we all know he I think he believed 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.200 in this product. Yeah, and as he's a smart guy, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.600 he is. And uh, he believed in it so much 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.000 that he upped the number of mentions without any additional compensation, 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.160 from two times a week to as many as three 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.280 times a week. He would play with Plato on TV 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.360 and it just took off like a rocket from there. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.120 That was his additional compensation that he got free Plato. No, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.439 he had a percentage. So, oh yeah, you're you know 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.880 what I'm saying. You're right, But it suggests that he 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.680 believed in it. That's right. He did believe in it. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.240 And do not shatter my image, Captain Kangaroo. I'm not 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.439 saying he just wanted to make more money, of course not. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.520 Isn't that the show that Mr green Jean's was on. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.200 Big fan of that guy too. Uh. They formed the 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.079 Rainbow Crafts Company. Um, you know, they wanted to take 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:55.560 it out from under the Cotole Products banner and got 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.320 famous wildlife artist John Ruthven to design that first package 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.680 with Originally it was very briefly it was an elf. Yeah, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.800 and those I think you're probably if you have a 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.600 can of that, you probably it's probably in a museum 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.120 or something that wasn't around long. And then they went 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.679 to Plato pete Um the kid with the smock in 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.080 the beret, because all little kids wore berets and smocks 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.040 back then, or you wore your dad's dress shirt like backwards. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.640 That made a good smock too. Yeah, the one he 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.160 didn't want anymore, or that you thought he didn't want anymore, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.439 but he really got mad at you. He got paint 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.280 on it. That's my good short sleeve dress shirt. Uh. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.800 And finally it took all the way until two thousand 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:41.439 two did the Herbal Elvis wear short sleeve dress shirts 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.960 with slacks and ties. Yeah. My dad usually as a 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.160 principal wore a coat. But when you take off the 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.440 jacket and you've got the short sleep that's something else. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.040 With a blue felt tippin, a red felt tippin, and 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.079 green felt tip pin in his pocket front pot it 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.480 that was your dad. Yeah, he's a mechanical engineer. Oh 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.280 so each one had a different use. I think he 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.640 also just thought they were pretty Yeah, like they kind 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.880 of they made it. They made a shirt pocket. Pop. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.000 That's where you get it with your shirt pocket thing, right, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.680 all right. It took it until two thousand two for 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.920 that beret to become a baseball cap, and then now 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.840 he's just gone. Yeah I was looking like somebody anymore 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.240 at not at all. Now it's a can with arms 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.280 and the lids kind of pulled back, and in between 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:33.720 the rim of the can in the top of the 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.240 litter a couple of eyes. It looks a bit like 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.480 a garbage can, but it's obviously a Plato can, but 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.720 just kind of I don't like it. I like Plato Pete, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.520 the kid with the beret, Yeah, me too. He was great. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.760 That's what we grew up with. His nostalgia. Yeah, but 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.920 he was around for a really long time. And just 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.440 do away with him like he's nothing. That's another shirt. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.640 Bring back Plato Pete. Yeah, we'll get sued, although I 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.360 didn't get the impression that they were too terribly litigious. Well, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.760 plus we could tell him we sold nine T shirts. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.640 You're sure seventy three dollars two percent. So Plato, we 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.600 all played with it. It was fun, uh for modeling, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:19.319 but it was not like if you were like me, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.600 your your hopes were dashed a bit when you modeled 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.360 something and left it out overnight because you thought it 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.280 would make it into a permanent um exhibit. Yeah, but 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.880 it would really just kind of break apart. It's not 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.559 like you can't cure it like you do modeling clay. No. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.760 I was on Plato's site and they readily admit that 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.800 as a matter of fact. They say, if you want 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.880 a permanent thing, go get your some modeling clay. You 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.240 get some sculpie. Um. I don't want to buzz market, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.400 but sculpies a lot of fun. Okay, um, we're talking 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.160 about Plato though. Yeah, that sculpie is fun. Um So, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.319 but they say modeling clay. They don't say sculpie. But 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:56.760 they say, if you want to make a permanent thing, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.719 go get some molling clay. It's not what Plato's for. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.000 It's it's or being in the moment making fun things 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.000 and then put smashing those and then putting it back 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.840 in the can, doing it all over again every day, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.920 and driving your mom crazy because she can't stand colors 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.600 to be mixed together. She sits there and pick them 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.160 apart or whatever. Or it's in the orange sad carpet, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.960 which again has bro has some some helpful suggestions for 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.440 how to clean this stuff up. Um number one, and 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.360 you will understand eventually by the end of this podcast. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.880 Why do not use warm water when you're cleaning up 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.600 Plato from the carpet. Yeah, it will make everything a 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.840 million times worse what they say, if possible, if you 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.959 have the patients of job, just go ahead and let 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:46.200 this thing dry, turn brittle, use a stiff brush and 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.280 just kind of brush it out of the carpeting, vacuum 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.160 it up boom, or do the reasonable thing and get 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.880 hardwood floors. All right, Well we'll discuss that very soon, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:10.360 um after this message. Alright, So Plato is fun enough 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.760 on its own. Like when I was a kid, I 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.400 had zero, a couch rum all to go along with 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.840 my Plato. I don't recall having anything but just the 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.520 Plato to All I had was the Plato in my imagination. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.920 And uh, I said, you know what, let's get a 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.080 couple of engineers from General Electric to design what's going 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.200 to be called the fun Factory. That's like, that was it. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.200 That was it. Then you could put Plato into various 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.080 forms and molds and press it and have it come 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.760 out like sausage or spaghetti or just whatever they decided 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.080 to design. Like, have you been to the site recently? 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.160 There are hundreds of different things that you can buy 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.240 now with your Plato, of course, yes, and different types 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.120 of Plato to to make different looking things as well. Yeah. Um, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.760 but the original fun Factory things basically just a hand 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:03.440 pushed lever that shoved the Plato inside through a hole 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.680 a sausage and then basically and then in front of 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.240 the hole. Um, you had just kind of like different 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.840 um shapes that you could make this thing into what 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:18.800 did you say, spaghetti and the rope. Speaking of the rope, 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.680 all of these are basically what it is. An extruder. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.400 This is a Plato extruder. Is what what these guys 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.480 came up with. And I guarantee they had colored felt 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.880 tip pens in the front of their pockets too when 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.960 they designed this thing. But this, if you took all 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.160 the Plato. By the way, here's a Plato fun fact. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.880 If you took all the Plato ever created, and ran 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.400 it through the fun factory and extruded it into one 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.080 long rope. It would wrap around the earth three thousand 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.440 times how many big maxes that no, I'm sorry it 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.680 were wrapped around there? Or three hundred times let's not 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.240 let's not go crazy on. Yeah, and you could go 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.600 to the moon and back ten times with that rope. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.760 You could make a pretty good little break that would 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.080 be kind of crumbly by the next day, but it 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.480 would be colorful. That's right. That's a little lot of Plato, man. Yeah, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.200 they've sold nine hundred and fifty million pounds of this stuff, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.560 more than two billion cans since nineteen fifty six. Yeah, 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.920 and they apparently make about a hundred million cans every year. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.160 What I find heartening is those are current statistics that 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.640 are not rated for inflation, you know. But um, this 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.640 article that Tracy wrote was apparently written in two thousand 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.720 and six. She said that they make nine million cans, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.200 so they've up their production by five million cans a year, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.600 which means Plato is not going anywhere. That's right. I'm 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.800 pretty psyched about that. Yeah, and all the stuff they 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.600 have now, like, um, they've got all sorts of licensing 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.320 deals like they have like the Plato Disney Princess set 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.120 and you can make dresses for your Disney princess out 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.200 of Plato. And um they have a longstanding tradition too 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.240 of making fake food. Like I was, I was watching 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.080 some UM. I wouldn't really call it documentary. It is 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.640 almost just a compilation of Plato ads over the years. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.800 And um there's one from the eighties where you could 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.159 make pizza hut pizzas out of Plato. I think I 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.760 remember that. Nowadays they have UM like a kind of 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.800 a sweet shop I think is the name of the line. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.280 And like I said, they have different types of Plato 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.600 summer squishy here and thinner and more pliable, so you 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.919 can use those to make the frosting, use regular Plato 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.480 to make the actual cupcake. That's because the cupcake graze 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.200 I bet yeah, probably has filtered down to kids. And 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.920 with the gluten free craze UM on your website it 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.000 says contains gluten yeah, has wheat yeah. But they have 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.800 to advertise that now because your child will want to 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.680 eat the Plato and if you have your kid off gluten, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.359 they can't eat the Plato. No mommy has to explain 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.359 that or daddy. But if your kid has a peanut 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:55.639 allergy or um milk allergy, yeah you're fine. That's right. Water, 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:00.440 salt and flour is the general I mean to. It's 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.920 a very proprietary recipe obviously, right, it's a U S. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:08.560 Patent number six seven one three six two four. But 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.040 if you look that up, you're not going to find 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.000 the ingredients. No, Like you said, it's proprietary. Um. They 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:19.440 they do give kind of like a general um ingredient 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:24.000 list somewhere I guess in the patent itself. Um. But yeah, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.880 they're not gonna tell you like how to make it, 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.280 but we'll list those really quickly, and then we're gonna 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.920 talk about chemistry. Yeah, we're gonna get to the chemical 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.239 molecular basis of Plato itself. But in broad terms, at 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.960 his water, you got a starch based finder. You have 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.919 a retrograde aation inhibitor because you have to inhibit that 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.880 retrograde aation salt an they're salt in there. In fact, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.320 at one point it was too salty and they had 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.840 to get a new uh chemist to remove some of 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.119 the salt. Is there, right? Yeah, but you remember how 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.959 salty it tasted. No, I didn't. I never tasted it. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:18:59.879 Oh you didn't know, I said, you said you tasted it. 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.399 I said, I never did. I ate the paste. Okay, 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.040 I've never tasted it. But the smell was the paste. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:10.959 The salty no, no, no, it had a weird sweet 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.600 taste to it. It wasn't overly sweet, but of all 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.000 of the tastes, that's sweet enough to get a kid 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.200 to eat it. Right. Uh, salt, you got your lubricate, um, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:24.240 and all this will make sense in a bit. A surfactant, preservative, hardener, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:29.560 a humicant, a fragrance of course in color. Uh. I 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.960 know we used almond for the first fragrance, but I 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.800 wonder if it's still an offshoot of that smell like almond. 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:40.159 From what I saw, they've admitted to vanilla. That's all 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.159 I've seen. And they're saying like that, that doesn't tell 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.240 us anything. That's all they admitted to. Yeah, under question. Um. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.120 But the colors, we should also say chuckers. Um. They 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:54.840 originally had red, yellow, and blue primary colors. Then they 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.159 added white, and this is all in the fifties and 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.200 those are the only colors until the eighties, and they 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.879 added a couple more than they had eight colors total, 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.720 and then now today it's like a whole rainbow, a 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.399 whole galaxy of different colors. I never got the white 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.120 because it just it looked dirty so quickly. I never 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.439 really understood the purpose of the white. I liked it. 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.320 I thought it was a nice juxtaposition with the primary colors. 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.600 You're a artist, No, I was just a kind of sure, 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.520 all right, So now, um, the rest of the show, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.359 we're gonna talk about chemistry. You're not happy about this? Sorry, Well, 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.639 what do you think about this article? I thought it 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.719 was It was good, you know, because that's what how 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.560 stuff works does, is they tell the story behind things, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.320 Like we can't just talk about surfing. We have to 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:43.560 talk about the physics of a wave. I get that. Um, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.479 but yeah, chemistry, it was not my bag, baby, this one. Um, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.520 this one. Kissing and roller coasters. You're kind of like 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.080 you had a little bit of protests going on, like, 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.560 come on, this is fun stuff. Yeah, when you're talking 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.520 about kissing, you want to talk about Remember the title 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.880 of it was a rigid, sterile lucket. Well, I don't 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.000 know if the title for this will end up being 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:05.680 what I wanted but it was going to be taking 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.960 the fun out of Plato. No, let's call how Plato works. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:11.960 All right, but you heard it here. That was my 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:17.760 working title. Yeah, alright, Well I will kick the chemistry 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.679 off and maybe I will spark your interest. Are you ready? 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:24.879 Do you have your beret and your smock on. This 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.919 isn't even the fun chemistry you get to burn things. No, 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.560 this is the chemistry of compounds. You're just adding them together. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.280 You know. There's a little heat involved, as we'll see, 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:39.080 so you could start that flame. Okay, okay. So um, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.520 the whole basis of Plato, it turns out, is an 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:48.080 interaction between starch and water. That's right, and starches are um, 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:52.200 they're polysach rides, which are sugar molecules. And there's basically 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:57.639 two varieties or two types that combine. There's amlos and 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.679 there's a melo pecton that's right, and analyst is like 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:04.280 a string. A melo pecton is branched, and when they 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.639 get together they form a starburst shape. They form a 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.280 molecule in a starburst shape, and it's arranged around a 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:16.720