1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: who is with me as always but hasn't been with 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: me as always. Mean, there was a dark, dark time 7 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: in my life, Chuck. I call it the pre Chuck era. 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: You're two kind. And there were, um several many podcasts 9 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: that I released with other people. Um, I don't feel 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: good about it, okay, but there it's out there. There's 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,639 Speaker 1: one that always stuck out to me that I was like, 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: there's so much more information. You remember, like back in 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: the day, we used to try to hit these things 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: at like five minutes. Yeah, to say this is evolved 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: is an understatement, right. Um. So there was one that 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: I was like, five minutes is not an enough for this, 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: Let's do something like thirty seven minutes instead. And um 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: it was Murphy's Law. So I really this article a 19 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: long time ago. It was like how Murphy's Law works. 20 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: Like I was raised on these unnatural laws, like the 21 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: Peter principle, which we've podcasted on Parkinson's Law, which is 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: um work expands to fill the time allotted, and then 23 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: Murphy's Law, which is, of course anything that can go 24 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: wrong will go wrong. Right. So I was kind of 25 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: always aware of this, and I pitched this idea like 26 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: how Murphy's Law works, like right after I got here 27 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: at how stuff works, and um, I got the assignment 28 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: and started doing this research. I found out that there's 29 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: this awesome backstory to this, which I know you know 30 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: now and have for a while because we made a 31 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: Toyota commercial based on part of it. You're telling me 32 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: this now exactly exactly, So I guess what I'm saying 33 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: is I wanted to redo how Murphy's Law works, a reboot, 34 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: and let's do it. And no disrespect to previous podcasters, 35 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: but this was just too short, you know, too short. 36 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: You can't cover Murphy's on in five minutes. No you can't. 37 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: So here's the expanded version, and we're not gonna like 38 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: start rerunning things. Don't worry, there's plenty of topics out there. 39 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: This one just really kind of I always wanted to 40 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: redo this one was stuck in your crawl and no 41 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: it's no, it's out it's not your crawl. Uh idiom, Josh, 42 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about. Whatever can go wrong, we'll 43 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: go wrong. And uh, you make a good point at 44 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: the beginning of this is it's it's an idiom because 45 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: we've made it an idiom, and uh, you don't notice 46 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: and make remarks about when things go perfectly right, you 47 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: might feel good and be like, hey, everything's coming up 48 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: rosen today, or maybe that's an idiom. It's not an idiom. 49 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: Actually it's a saying. But you never you don't say, 50 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: you know, boy, I got in this lane of traffic 51 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: and it's just speeding along, and I should make a 52 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: saying about that. You can, but very rarely do you Like, 53 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 1: we humans tend to focus more on the negative, you know, 54 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: And that's what Murphy's law is. It's a focus on 55 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: the negative. That's right. We look out for the bad 56 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: in a way. And Murphy's law itself, Chuck, is not 57 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: that old, to tell you the truth, And it wasn't Um. 58 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: It wasn't Murphy who originally coined this idea. There was 59 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,119 Speaker 1: a um. There was a something called Sod's law that's 60 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: still around in Great Britain, which says, uh, basically the 61 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: same thing, any bad thing that can happen to some 62 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: poor sod which is short for sodomite, is it? Yeah? Yeah, 63 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: no comment. And then there was a magician named Adam 64 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: hole Shirk apparently in wrote something called on Getting out 65 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: of Things, an essay on magic, which is not on 66 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: the internet. Yeah I did too. Actually, um it said 67 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: in a magic act, nine out of ten things that 68 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: can go wrong usually will And I thought maybe Adam 69 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: was just a bad magician when I read that. Really, 70 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: so he he gets credit, like just about any origin 71 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: story of Murphy's Law includes Adam hole Shirk, and it should. 72 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: But it wasn't called Murphy's Law, no, um until a 73 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: guy there actually was a guy named Murphy, and he 74 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: actually did live not too long ago. He died in 75 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 1: nineteen nine, I believe this article says, but it's eighty nine. Um, 76 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna go back and change that. And um, he 77 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: was a captain in the Air Force, and he is 78 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: attributed with not coining Murphy's Law depending on who you 79 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: talk to, but spurring the idea of Murphy's law who 80 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: were which was coined by somebody else? Right, So let's 81 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: let's set the stage Chuck, it's ninety we're in California 82 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: in my hand exactly. We're at um Edwards Air Force Space. 83 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: We need to get into the way back machine here. Man, 84 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: it's been a while. Okay, So as I said, Edwards 85 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: Air Force Pace. It's very nice. Um, there's Chuck Yeager right, 86 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: see look at him go and then over there on 87 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: that that that railroad track is kind of in the 88 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. Uh is the rocket sled the g 89 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: whiz rocket sled. That's a Nego name. So let's talk 90 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: about that. Okay, what is it? Well, this was part 91 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: of the Project m X, and they were tests to 92 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: determine how the body, the human body, reacted to G force. Yeah, 93 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: there's a long standing idea that the human body could 94 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: withstand eighteen g s and all airplanes were designed to 95 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: uh withstand eighteen g's of force and nothing more, right, 96 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: which means that, um, they were kind of hamstrung by 97 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: this magical number. But no one knew exactly where that 98 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: number came from. Her if it was true. What's screwy 99 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: is that they had no way to find out except 100 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: for these rockets led tests. That's right, using a real 101 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,799 Speaker 1: live human being, Because if you're going to test something, 102 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: you can't throw a crash test dummy in there. You 103 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: could in the ninety nine. Now, well, yeah, these days 104 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: they have sensors and actually not to be pluggy, but 105 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: Toyota came up with the thing that that measures the 106 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: total human uh model for safety and it measures internal damage. 107 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: So like it's very sophisticated now, but back then, if 108 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: you want to find some of the stuff out, you 109 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: had to put a human in there. Well, at first 110 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: they used cadavers, then they used dummies like Sierra Sam 111 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: and then on the g Wiz rocket tests they used 112 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: um oscar eight ball, but there they didn't have sensors 113 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: for it, so they had to use John Paul Stapp 114 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: who volunteered, who was a really incredible renaissance man. He's 115 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: a colonel. Yeah in the Air Force. He was a 116 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: physician UM and he uh he flew around in a 117 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: in an airplane without a canopy. Remember that I've heard that. Um. 118 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: He also uh basically made it his life's work to 119 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: get seatbelts made mandatory in automobiles. So he staged the 120 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: first ever UM automobile crash tests, and he did it 121 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: at the expense of the Air Force, and the Air 122 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: Force was like, hey, whoa, what are you doing? What 123 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: are you expensing these dust for? These are cars, we 124 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: we fly planes. And he came up with statistics that 125 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: showed that more Air Force pilots died from car rex 126 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: and from plane rex and they said okay. And that 127 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: was just the kind of guy. He was, real stand 128 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: up dude, he was. So what he did was he 129 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: jumped in the g with said, hey, I'll do it. 130 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: I'm Colonel John Paul Staff. I do this kind of thing. 131 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: And it would go about two hundred miles an hour 132 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: down a half mile track and then stop in less 133 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: than a second. And what they're trying to test is 134 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: say that one more time to go two hundred miles 135 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: an hour and stop and lessen a second. Yeah, that's crazy. 136 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: That's basically they're trying to test what might happen in 137 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: a plane crash. So they were they were finding the 138 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: force of gravity, how much a human coupe withstand? And 139 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: remember eighteen was that magic number, And in very short 140 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: order John Paul stap withstood eighteen ges and then twenty 141 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: and then and I think he made it up to 142 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: forty six point to six was the most he experienced. 143 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: I think you're ever like the highest roller coaster would 144 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: always go to that, but the roller coaster with the 145 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: highest acceleration is like two point seven g's. This guy 146 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: did forty six point to six and he suffered for 147 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: it too. Yeah, big time, broken bones, concussions, broken blood 148 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: vessels in its eyes. Yeah, he'd have white outs, which 149 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: is when when he was going backwards, they'd turn him 150 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: around sometimes so he wouldn't get the bugs in his 151 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: face and he would have white outs, which is all 152 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: the blood is pulling in the back of the head, 153 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: so he has no blood in his eyes, which means 154 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: you can't see or you get read out to where 155 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: all the blood was pulling in the front of his 156 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: face and he couldn't see because there was too much 157 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: blood in his eyes. I wonder if they were like, hey, 158 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: let's put him sideways, it happens, it would be like 159 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: a pink out. Yeah, a one eye is read one 160 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: is white. Yeah. So this is all going pretty well 161 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: for step if you consider that a success. And then 162 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: Murphy Captain Murphy shows up on the scene and says, hey, 163 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: you know, I've got these sensors that will give you 164 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: a much more accurate read of the g force. So 165 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: let's get my assistant. I don't know why he didn't 166 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: do it himself. No, it was one of the This 167 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: is Project MXE. It was one of the project's assistants. Murphy. 168 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: Why didn't he do it is what I want to know. 169 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: I don't know, because there's another saying if you want 170 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: something done right, do it yourself. And I would have 171 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: rubbed that in his face. They didn't, though, and and 172 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: supposedly tell him about the sensors, well, that the sensors 173 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: would give you a more accurate reading. And then the 174 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: assistant evidently, uh, hook them up wrong. And there are 175 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: there was one way to hook up each one of these, 176 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: and he did the opposite way for two ways. Well, 177 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: there's one correct way right to hook up the censor, 178 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: and then he did it the wrong way on every 179 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: single one of them. And then Murphy said out loud 180 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: to somebody that if there are two ways of doing something, 181 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: one of these will result in disaster. He's gonna do 182 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: it that way, or he said something along the lines 183 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: of if there's any way they can do it wrong, 184 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: they will. Um. It depends on who you talk to. 185 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: There were living witnesses in two thousand when this guy 186 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: for Improbable Research, who who hosts the ig Nobel Awards 187 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: UM wrote a pretty comprehensive article on it um and 188 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: he interviewed these people and they said he roughly said that, 189 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: or he said something like you said, but ultimately he 190 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: was grumbling and it was loud enough, and he was 191 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: saying it about these people that he just met, who 192 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: had you know, incorrectly hooked up the sensors. Okay, well 193 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: let's hook him right and do it again. It's not 194 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: a big deal. So Murphy apparently, if you talk to 195 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: the witnesses, was kind of thought of as a bit 196 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: of a jerk. That's what I think, which is something 197 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: his son still to this day disputes. He says that 198 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: that is not in his father's character. His father was 199 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: not a jerk, and he wouldn't have he wouldn't have 200 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: been so rude or boorish. But most of the witnesses 201 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: say he said something like that. That was the seed. 202 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 1: How did the tree come about? The tree came about? 203 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: Because uh, stab was apparently a pretty gregarious guy. Obviously, 204 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: if he's taking part in these tests with a plum, 205 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: then he's gonna probably be a pretty fun guy to 206 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: be around. Well, he had he had two books Chuck 207 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: of um idioms. One was it was called STAPs Almanac, 208 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: the other was four Year Moments of Inertia. And he 209 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 1: had already come up with his own little saying Stepp's 210 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: ironical paradox, which is the universal aptitude for an aptitude 211 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle. So he was 212 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: already generally on the lookout for new bits of wisdom. 213 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: He's stealing these things from people, basically, and he stole 214 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: it from Murphy Fee and at a press conference the 215 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: next day said and this is where you know it 216 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: took off obviously, because the press conference he said that, hey, uh, 217 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: we we have a good safety record because we are 218 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: aware of Murphy's law, which is whatever can go wrong 219 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: will go wrong. And they all got a big laugh. 220 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: That's brilliant, and they all ranted the pay phones and 221 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: called it in. Yeah, it makes it into like some 222 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: aerospace publications, and then it disseminates out. It's just like 223 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: just a perfect gem, perfectly encapsulated. Whatever can go wrong 224 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: will go wrong. It's just say universal truth in unnatural law, right, 225 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: and um it kind of gave a kickstart to this 226 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: whole There's a trend in the fifties of people being 227 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: pithy like like, um because Peter and Principle. Yeah, and 228 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: actually I found out, Um, Lawrence Peter, who who came 229 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: up with the Peter principal and um Captain Murphy became 230 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: lifelong friends. Wasn't that special in it? Um. But it 231 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: gave rise to all these other ideas, these unnatural laws. 232 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: It was kind of a trend. Like I said, in 233 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: the fifties and sixties, I think people wanted to put 234 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: their name on something. Right, So I selected a few 235 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: out of there's lists on the internet that are just 236 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: you can scroll for hours now at the bottom of 237 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: these things, right, but um, you want to read some 238 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: of these Uh. It tours observation. The other line moves faster, 239 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: which makes sense. Boobs law. You will always find something 240 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: in the last place you look. What's another good one here? 241 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: Franklin's rule, blessed is he who expects nothing, for he 242 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: will not be disappointed. Lincoln's law, those who can do 243 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: do those who cannot teach, which just mean. It is mean, 244 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: especially to teachers. It's so disrespectful. Uh. And then Patton 245 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: General Georgia's Patton had a law that a good plan 246 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: to day is better than a perfect plan tomorrow, because 247 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: by then Charlie's killed you Right, he wasn't Vietnam, No, 248 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: but oh you just meant a guy named Charlie. Okay, yeah, 249 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: uh so yeah. People obviously like naming things after themselves 250 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: and coming up with pithy little sayings that people like 251 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: to say. Right, But there's there and there's two ways 252 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: that Murphy's law can be um categorized. It can be 253 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 1: categorized in the realm of pithy sayings from the fifties 254 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: and sixties, like the Peter principle, which, as you remember, 255 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: it did make sense it had it had some gravity 256 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: to it Peter. Or you can look at Murphy's law 257 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: and the coining of it in by John Paul stat 258 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: as the formulation of the basis for all engineering thought 259 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: that came after that point, which was the creation of 260 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: fail safe, the creation of redundant systems, and the idea 261 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: that you should plan for everything going wrong so that 262 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: if it does go wrong, it's covered and the system 263 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: doesn't want it won't break down. Sure, it gave a 264 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: saying to that practice. It was already in practice, but 265 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: people didn't start building fail says because of Murphy's Law. 266 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I don't know, man, well, seatbelts, 267 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: that's a fail safe. Uh. And that is not just 268 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: from Murphy's Law. That was from staff himself when you're 269 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: pushing this legislation. So let's talk about like the principles 270 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: going on behind Murphy's law. Fatalism, it's pretty much it. 271 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: Fatalism is the idea that we are just walking around 272 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: subject to whatever fate, you know, whatever happens to us, 273 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: whatever fate dictates. Like, if you're in a line of traffic, right, yeah, 274 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: and you it seems like all other lines are going 275 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: except for yours, right. This is explainable. It's explicable, Like 276 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: you're not paying attention to the other lines of traffic 277 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: when your line is going because you're paying attention to 278 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: not hit the person in front of you. When you're 279 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: just sitting there, all you notice is that the other 280 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: lanes are going. But if you could really statistically explain, 281 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: you know, how often the lanes of traffic are moving, 282 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: it's probably fairly even. Probably, so I always kind of well, 283 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: actually have I go in the lane that I think 284 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: is going to be moving. But because we're fatalistic, we 285 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: we It's like, why why does the universe hate me? 286 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: I'm totally powerless to make traffic move right? And then 287 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: free will was not well, not the opposite. But that's 288 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: the other idea, is that, uh, we have free will 289 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: for all of our choices and all of our consequences 290 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: are due to things that we have made happen, right, 291 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: and the the attendant with free will is the risk 292 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: of failure. So when we have a fifty chance of 293 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: getting something right, well, we're gonna get it wrong or 294 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: we're gonna notice mostly when we get it wrong, because 295 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: then we have to do it again, and it's just 296 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: so much trouble to try to put the plug in 297 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: the right way. Yeah right, the three pong failsafe plug 298 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: you yeah, okay, but other prongs electrical sockets. If you 299 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: look at them, one's bigger than the other, that's fail safe. 300 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: After Murphy's Law changed everything another for that, it was 301 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: just death ville for everything there was well yeah, well there, 302 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: let me put it to you this way. There was 303 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 1: something like um, twenty five million licensed motorists in the 304 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,199 Speaker 1: US and like forty three thousand deaths on the highways 305 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: in like nineteen sixty, I think something like that. In 306 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: two thousand there was seventy five million licensed motorists and 307 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: about as many deaths. So yeah, when before Murphy came 308 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: along and there were no fail safe and one had 309 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: any idea what they were doing, I'll dispute that. But 310 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: did ever show you the video of the the car 311 00:17:54,880 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: crashes like the old what blood on the asshole? The uh? 312 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: They did this? High speed car crashes with an old 313 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: like you know when you see those old tanks like 314 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: oh man, back then were in Paula or something. Yeah, 315 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: like those big old tanks. Those were like they were 316 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 1: tanks because their tanks and they I bet you were 317 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: safe in those seat belts. But they compared the crash 318 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: to a modern car and the old car, man just 319 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: I mean squashed and crumbled like a tin can. Really, 320 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: oh dude, yeah, because cows cows. Cars are just engineered 321 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: these days, as our cows couple zones and things like yeah, man, 322 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: and it's it might be made of plastic, but it's 323 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: amazing when you watch this thing. Back then, they were 324 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: huge and made of metal, but at enough impact that 325 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: metal just becomes nothing it's pretty interesting. Speaking of cows 326 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: being engineered. You remember that cow um on Millage in 327 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: Athens that had the porthole in it so they could 328 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 1: like open it up and reach inside and I think 329 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: fertilize it or they were doing something. I never saw that, 330 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: but that cow. It was crazy. Murphy's law happened to 331 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: that cow. I wrote about that. They they have those 332 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: little portals into their stomachs so they can study things 333 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: like that's like right there on the side. And then also, Chuck, 334 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: I want to point out Rodyard Kipling, right, he provides 335 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: us a good example of the whole y me attitude 336 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: of humanity, and then the mathematical explanation of why you 337 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: pal you're Kipling once lamented that no matter how you 338 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 1: drop it, the the bread that you dropped out of 339 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: your hand onto the floor always falls butter side down, 340 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: which means you can't treat it any longer, and it 341 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:44,199 Speaker 1: gives you the vapors so um. If you think about it, 342 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 1: a buttered piece of bread is heavier on one side 343 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: than the other, so thanks to the force of gravity 344 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: on the way down, the bread is going to flip 345 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: over that. But it's yes, but it's heavier as we 346 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: proved this, give me some bread. Well, I just don't. 347 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: I just wanted has proven and not. I think it's interesting. 348 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: But we'll think about this. I just wonder how much 349 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: butter would it literally take to cause it to flip over. 350 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: There's a certain amount, And I think also this is 351 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: going to happen more frequently with um plain untoasted bread 352 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: and butter rather than like toast with butter melted in it, 353 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: which may be distributed evenly throughout the bread. But the 354 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: point is is, yes, it's going to flip over, but 355 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: it's not going to flip back over because the heavier 356 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: side is now being dragged towards the earth. But if 357 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: it does fall butter side up, then that's just good luck. 358 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: That's fate. Okay. So again there's there's a certain amount 359 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: of I guess math or science to Murphy's law. There 360 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 1: can be if you really want to look for it. 361 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: And your name's Joel Pell right, Yeah, he's he's another 362 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: fun killer, like the laughter guys. I know math people 363 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: will take issue with that, but I take issue with 364 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 1: everything having to be stated as a math formula. Well, 365 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 1: this guy, he begs to differ. He does he's a 366 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: biological engineer at the University of British Columbia, and I 367 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: think in two thousand five he came up with Murphy's equation, 368 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: which basically he figured out how to quantify the probability 369 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: that things will go wrong when they can go wrong. 370 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: Right A, you're gonna read it. It's pretty impossible to 371 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: read out loud. Yeah, I don't. I don't think I can, 372 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: because what's the opposite of to the something power when 373 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: it's like down below into the right rather than up 374 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: into the idea. Well, basically he figured out that the 375 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: importance of the event I times the complexity of the 376 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: system involved CE times the urgency of the need for 377 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: the system of work you plus the frequency the system 378 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: is used equals p the probability that the Murphy's law 379 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: will kick in. And one is definite. I think ten 380 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: is it's not going to happen, and somewhere in between 381 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 1: is it might happen, it might not. So what he 382 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: did was he basically plugged in the um the possibility 383 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 1: of his clutch going out in a rainstorm sixty miles 384 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: a hundred kilometers from his house UM, and he came 385 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,479 Speaker 1: up with an answer of one, which means that his 386 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: clutch was definitely going to go out. And he further 387 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: demonstrated that what now that he's stranded out in the 388 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: rainstorm and he needs to get somewhere by foot, he 389 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 1: needs his flashlight to work. Um, what's the what's the 390 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 1: probability that Murphy's law will happen and the flashlight will 391 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: be out? He plugged it in and came up with 392 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: the one again. So he very facetiously proved that Murphy's 393 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 1: Law is real and his equation worked. I hope this 394 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: guy got stuck in a rainstorm a flashlight, That's what 395 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: I hope. Poor Joel pell I had to um correspond 396 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: with him for this. Yeah, I did get permission to 397 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:59,159 Speaker 1: use his equation and he said, sure, here's a cool dude. 398 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: Yeah really Yeah? All right, So, Chuck, we talked about 399 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: like prongs being designed with fail safe seat belts are 400 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: a fail safe diesel pump nozzles there. They are designed 401 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: at a wider diameter than regular gas pumps, so you 402 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: can't fit it in your gas tank. Did you know that? Yeah? 403 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: That wasn't always a case, because I put diesel in 404 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: a in a truck one time when I shouldn't have. 405 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: And when did it start? After Murphy's law became widespread 406 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: started in the mid nineties, I think, or that's the 407 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: last time I screwed up like that? What you got? Uh? 408 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 1: I got nothing else? Thank God for fail Safe. So 409 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: thank god for John Paul Staff and Captain Edward A. Murphy, Jr. 410 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 1: I have a Chuck's key law. I got my two 411 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: house keys. I have a outer security like a clear 412 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: door and then my regular door. Two different keys that 413 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: look the same. On my dog Leach will almost a 414 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: hundred percent of the time I used the wrong key. 415 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: I'll bet if you paying attention to it, you use 416 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: the wrong you about fifty percent at the time. That's 417 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: Murphy's law. Well, then something's up. I also have my 418 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: directional thing. I have a port into direction almost dude, 419 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: it's awful. I didn't know that almost a hundred percent 420 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: of the time I will go the wrong way if 421 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: faced with a choice, should I go this way or 422 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: that way? And if I try to trick myself and 423 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: go I want to go right, then I'm gonna go left. 424 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: It was right nice. That's Murphy's law too. I know 425 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: then it ruins my life. But you can't just hijack 426 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: Murphy's law and slape your name on it. Those are 427 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: Chuck's that's chuck ski law and Chuck's law of direction. Right, 428 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: that's Murphy's law. All right. If you want to learn 429 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: more about Murphy's law and read my article on it. 430 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: It was one of the first articles I wrote it. 431 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: I like it. Um, you can type in Murphy's Law 432 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: in the search bar at how stuff works dot com. 433 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this one twice. Yeah, thanks 434 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: for doing it with me. Now, well it was it 435 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: was Do we were due for this one? Yeah? Um, 436 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 1: I think I said hand these first part, didn't I? 437 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: I think so? All right, Well that since it's time 438 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: for what we're gonna wind up the old Facebook asked 439 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: Jock and Chush questions and people did so you always 440 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: get like a hundred of him in a couple of minutes. 441 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: I have to shut it down. Yeah, people want to know, 442 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: all right, So let's just run through some of these. Josh, 443 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: you got one, go ahead, all right? Who's your favorite 444 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: Simpsons character who was not a Simpson? Well? Cheers? And 445 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: I even saw this one yesterday and I didn't it's 446 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: so hard. I like Lionel huts a lot. He was good. Um, 447 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: I like uh, I like the whole Flanders family. I 448 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: think Ned's a great complex character, like the one where 449 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: he has the nervous breakdown. Yeah, and it turns out 450 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: he was part of a spanking protocol research study. I 451 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 1: like it when he's occasionally ripped. Yes, well he is 452 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: all the time because sometimes he's wearing a shirt. Well, 453 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: clearly different when like when when he's in the ski 454 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: suit than when he's in his sweater. Yeah, that's most hilarious. 455 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: Stupid sexy Flanders. What about yours? I'm gonna go with 456 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: a cop out. I'm gonna go with a pair with 457 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 1: Ralphin and Chief Wigham. Yeah, they're good, pretty good. Or 458 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 1: Smithers and Flanders. I mean that's those two that are 459 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: hard to beat as a as a duo. I mean 460 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: you can't leave out Seymour Skinner yeah boo yeah, or Barney. 461 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: We can keep doing this for hours. Actually, I like 462 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: mo are you a mo fame? Yeah? Huge mo fame? Okay, 463 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: all right, we could do this for hours. Go ahead, Uh, Chuck, 464 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,120 Speaker 1: do you have a job outside of the podcast? Um? 465 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 1: I do. I'm the chef and housekeeper. At my home. 466 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: I think I mean here. Oh no, do you not 467 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 1: since when? Oh? Well yeah, sure we write stuff? Yeah 468 00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: right now, blog right quizzes? Do? Uh? We we manage Facebook? 469 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: Can Twitter? We managed the stuff? You should know? Brandon? Uh, 470 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: what do you want written on your tombstone? I don't 471 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: you go ahead? How about died tragically rescuing his family 472 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship. That is suspicion. 473 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: You're gonna say that. Yeah, that's a good one. Um. 474 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: Oh that was Kelly Cronly. I'm sorry, and Drew Clinkole 475 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: asked about The Simpsons. Thanks Drew and Kelly on my tombstone. 476 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: I want to say what? Uh this is from trash 477 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: Goblin Toby? Is this from Twitter? I guess it is. 478 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 1: Have you seen Hodgeman's mustache in real life? And is 479 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: it as scary as I have heard it is? We've 480 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,959 Speaker 1: both seen Hodgman's mustache in real life. It accidentally brushed 481 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: my shoulder. I was like, like, how did that happen? Uh? 482 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: It is not scary. I think John wears it well. Yeah, 483 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: and it's not an ironic mustache. He's grown his hair 484 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: out a little bit. He turned off hippie, hasn't it? Yeah, 485 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: it's kind of fun. He's like, I like it. Uh, 486 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 1: let's see it. Could it be? This is from How 487 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: Awesome is Joe? A k A Joe on Twitter? Okay, 488 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: could it actually be possible for human to be raised 489 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,439 Speaker 1: by apes? Like Tarzan? I would say the answer is 490 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: undeniably yes. Yeah, And I'm gonna wind it up for 491 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: my last one with um something. People ask a lot 492 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: what does c O A mean? And that it's from 493 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: Joseph Gubbles, do not explain it. That's a trick. He's 494 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: been trying to figure it out forever and if he 495 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: can't do it on his own, he has to figure 496 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: it out on his own, Chuck, or else he's never 497 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: gonna learn. All right. Uh sorry Joseph, but that was 498 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: a SmackDown. Um, what's our favorite episode? Chuck? Of what 499 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: of stuff? You should know? I thought were on the 500 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: Simpson Oh man, I get asked this a lot I have. 501 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: It's always different today. I'm gonna go with um Lobotomyes, 502 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: it's a good one. Nothing, none of them. It's there's 503 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: just so many. I know, it's hard to choose. Like 504 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,959 Speaker 1: I'll look through occasionally in spot ones they're like, oh, 505 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: how's it going. I don't think that because we're always 506 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: assets and always say the same like five things like 507 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: who lobotomy's body, farms, cannibalism, you know what. Um, I've 508 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: recently listened to what is the FDA regular herbs. I 509 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: think I was telling you good and that is worth 510 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: listening to again. All Right, some people you know are 511 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: making their way through again. They've already made it through, 512 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: and they've made it through. They're making it through again 513 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: the whole catalog. I'm looking at you. OMG, Chris, there's 514 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: a name for people like that, Josh Massacus. Super fans, 515 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: same thing. Yes, if you are a super family want 516 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 1: to hear from you always. We're pretty friendly guys, so 517 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: we'll say hi back usually. UM. If we don't, don't 518 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: take it personally, keep saying high a lot of them. Twitter. Uh, 519 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: that's s y s K Podcast is our Twitter handle. 520 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: We're on Facebook at facebook dot com slash stuff You 521 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: should know um and you can send us email like 522 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: you just mentioned to Stuff Podcast at how stuff works 523 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: dot com. 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