1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: and there's Chuck and this is Stuff you Should Know, 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: featuring Jerry and Livia on watermelons. I don't know. I 5 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: think I just literally came out with this idea because 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: I was eating watermelon and I was like, you know what, 7 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: watermelons delicious? But I know there's a history there, and 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: I know there are square watermelons, and and like, uh, 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're like me, but like like 10 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: nine eleven and like when Reagan was shot. I remember 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:47,959 Speaker 1: where I was the day that I saw my first 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: square watermelon. Huh yeah. It was during house to work. 13 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: I think it might have even been you. I showed 14 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: you a square watermelon. I mean not in person, but 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: they're expensive. You're like, hey, come here and look at 16 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: this over my shoulder and I was like, la, la, 17 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: what's going I opened up my trench coat and there 18 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: was a square watermelon. But yeah, I think I just 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: the square watermelon has uh enchanted me for years now, 20 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: and I didn't even know that they were heart shaped 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: watermelons until two days ago. That's so cute? Are you bombed. 22 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: Now that you understand the how the watermelons get so square, well, no, 23 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: because I knew how they got square. But whoever told 24 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: me about this and how stuff works at our old 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: job told me it was because in Japan they have 26 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: small refrigerators and they make them to fit more easily 27 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: in a Japanese refrigerator. But I don't think that that 28 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: part is true, right, That I believe, based on what 29 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: I've read, is a myth that we're gonna crumble. Yeah, 30 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: should be going from square watermelons? Yeah? Sure? Why not? So? 31 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: Um they were invented in Japan and as pretty much 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,279 Speaker 1: all perfect things were, And there was a guy named 33 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: um Tomoyuki on No and he was an artist. He 34 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: also happened to be a horticulturist and back in the 35 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: seventies he figured out how to make square watermelons and 36 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: created a patent on it. And they're so charming that 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: within a year they were all they were ready for sale. 38 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: They went from an art gallery like basically an art 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: project too for sale in Tokyo within you know, less 40 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: than one years. Uh. And they are grown in Japan 41 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: and they are grown in containers. Uh. And it's sort 42 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: of like a goldfish. They grow to fit their container, 43 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: including the round ones and the pyramid shaped ones, which 44 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: are really interesting looking, but they are not very good 45 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: to eat, and they cost about a hundred bucks in Japan. 46 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: And so I think that it is definitely a crumbled 47 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: myth that they are grown justifitted into Japanese refrigerators. Yeah, 48 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: because nobody eats them. You don't eat them, so myth crumbled. 49 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: And as a Japanese refrigerator small, that is probably true. Yes, 50 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: I mean most most appliances in Japan are smaller than 51 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,399 Speaker 1: the ones you find in America. I think America leads 52 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: away in humongous appliances, right yeah, and humongous portions and 53 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: stuff like that. Us everything we need humongous appliant. So yeah, 54 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: I mean, if you haven't ever seen a square watermelon 55 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: or a heart shaped watermelon, especially at heart shaped watermelon 56 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: is cut open, because that's the real money shot. Oh, 57 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. It's it's really amazing looking 58 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: in a little bit of a brain twister, do you know, 59 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: I'm such a loser. I didn't bother to look up 60 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: what a heart shaped watermelon looks like, like what a 61 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: heart looks like, you know what waterlon looks like? Yeah, 62 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: let's put together. And then you said cut open. I'm like, 63 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: cut open, yes, you gotta see that. And the little 64 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: the pyramid when it looks more like a hurchies kiss, 65 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: like a giant arches kiss. Okay, I imagine like pretty 66 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: much a perfect rounded edged pyramid. But she's kiss. I could, 67 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: which is would be great for a fridge because part 68 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: of the problem with a watermelon in the fridge is 69 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: the shape. Those things roll around in there and they're 70 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: huge that it is a big problem. But as we'll see, 71 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: you shouldn't really be keeping in the fridge very much anyway. Um, 72 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: but let's talk watermelons where they came from, because they 73 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: It turns out watermelons are beloved around the world. I mean, 74 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: people love watermelons around the world. From what I read, Chuck, 75 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: there's only livestock have more agricultural land dedicated to raising 76 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: them than watermelons. They take up so much space, but 77 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: people love them so much that they just go ahead 78 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: and give the watermelons the space. And apparently by weight, 79 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: it's the third most eaten fruit in the world, really 80 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: the second because the tomato. Come on, I mean it's like, 81 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: but like, if you think fruit, I'm just gonna go 82 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: ahead and say the order is banana than watermelon. As 83 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: far as most eaten, I agree. I think calling a 84 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: tomato fruit is like saying cooded grass at a party. 85 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: You're saying a brownie's a cookie? Right? Yeah? What kind 86 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: of a jerk would say something stupid like that, especially 87 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: insist on it in in a pedantic army That wasn't 88 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: even you. You were just you were seeing stuff online, right, 89 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: you didn't invent that? Yeah, I was misled by internet rumors. Uh. 90 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: The watermelon, though, is a berry technically, which means it 91 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: has the outer part is hard, it's got a fleshy 92 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: metal and then the inner part is softer and has 93 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: the seeds. Uh. We'll get to the ced part later, 94 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: of course, because we don't really have seeds in our 95 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: watermelons anymore. And then, if you want to talk more specific, 96 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: it's called a peppo p e p o, which means 97 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: as a thick rind, like a squash or a pumpkin. 98 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: You're going with peppo. I'm I don't care what it's 99 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: called peepo for me, peepo peepo watermelons peepo, dude, I 100 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, peepo. Okay, and it's a berry too. 101 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: I mean, watermelons just got twice as good to me. Yeah. 102 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: I dare you to go to the uh grocery store 103 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: next time and say, hey, where do you keep the 104 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: people berries? The square ones? You've got these square people berries. Security. So, 105 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: watermelons are also related to squash and pumpkin, but they're 106 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: most closely related to cucumbers because they're part of the q. 107 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: Curbitacea family. Um, and other melons are too, but I 108 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: believe cucumbers and watermelons are pretty close together, um, even 109 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,359 Speaker 1: though you wouldn't necessarily know it to look at them. 110 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: But specifically, watermelon species are Citrellis leonatus, and all of 111 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: the different kinds of watermelons that we have from what 112 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: I understand, our varieties of that species. That's right. Uh. 113 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 1: And we've known for a long time that watermelons came 114 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: from Africa. Thank you Africa for this gift to the world. 115 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: But it was more recently where they kind of zeero 116 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: it in on exactly where Uh. There are a lot 117 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: of melons in Africa that you could call a watermelon. Um, 118 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: they are different kinds of citrilis uh citrilus citrilush either 119 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: one okay species uh, but these are a little more pale. 120 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: They're not like that deep sweet red and which means 121 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: they're not going to be a sweet either let in taste. 122 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: So they're they're more bitter or more bland. Uh. And 123 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: they can be used over there. They still use these things. 124 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: They'll mash up the seeds and using them to thicken 125 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: a soup, or maybe they'll just eat the seeds, roast 126 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: them up and eat them, or maybe they'll use them 127 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: for water, just like clean water, because a watermelon is 128 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: mostly water. Yeah, I think um oh, I can't remember 129 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: the main character and the gods must be Crazy's name, 130 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: but he cuts open like uh something that I assume 131 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,119 Speaker 1: is of a species of watermelon and drinks the water 132 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: out of it. Um. So yeah, there's a bunch of 133 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: different kinds of species of watermelons, but none of them 134 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,239 Speaker 1: are like the ones that we um commercially grow and produce, 135 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: which are typically referred to as dessert watermelons to differentiate 136 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: that they're sweet and tasty and not like it. Yeah, 137 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: I ran across it, and that's I think. It's a 138 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: great little almost like cellar door dessert watermelon. Yeah, because 139 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: you usually do hand it out after a meal. Uh, 140 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: it's a It's a great American tradition. It's delicious. I 141 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: have wonderful memories being a kid eating watermelon with my 142 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: granddad and spitting those seeds out back when they used 143 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: to have seeds where I would put them in between 144 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: my fingers because they're slippery, and I would shoot them. Uh. 145 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: Just great memories of watermelon. And I still love it. 146 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: And my daughter just can eat ungodly amounts of watermelon. 147 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: Is that right? Oh? Yeah, she loves it. That's cute. 148 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: It's delicious, it's sweet, it's watery. Who didn't like it? 149 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: Apparently there's somebody who ranked watermelon and said it's gross 150 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: it it says that. Okay, The name of the fruit 151 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: literally tells you that eating it is going to be 152 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: the most boring experience of your life. It has the 153 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: same bland, mediocre taste of all the melons, except the 154 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: pleasantly chewy melon flashes are replaced by barely fruity flavored 155 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: wet sand What a fun, fun person to be around. 156 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: Please corner me at the next party I'm at. Yeah, 157 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: they probably say cooded grass. Give me all your opinions. 158 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: So you said that eating watermelon is a is a 159 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: great American tradition. Indeed, but Americans are relative newcomers compared 160 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: to other countries that have long standing traditions of enjoying 161 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: watermelon too, because like you said, they've kind of figured 162 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: out that somewhere in Northeast Africa, perhaps Egypt, perhaps the 163 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: area that's now sudan Um where the Nubians used to 164 00:09:55,320 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: run the show. They probably speaking on from recent genetic tests, um, 165 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: are the ones who domesticated the watermelon over many, many hundreds, 166 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: if not thousands of years of just selecting for sweeter 167 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: and sweeter seeds. And then it spread, starting probably with Egypt, 168 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: because Egypt treated with everybody in the Mediterranean, uh, pretty 169 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: much everywhere. Um. It reached across the Mediterranean by uh 170 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: maybe twenty four to twenty years ago. It hit India strangely, 171 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: um the ninth century CE, so not that long ago. 172 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: China by the tenth century. So it's it's weird that 173 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: it took that long, but it definitely spread. One of 174 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: the reasons why it did spread is because it's fairly 175 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: easy to grow, and it grows just about anywhere. It's 176 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: adapted from plants that can survive in semi arid conditions, 177 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and this you know, we have the 178 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: Spanish to think for bringing it to the America's and 179 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: you know, they introduced them to the Native Americans and 180 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: they were like, hey, a this is this grows like 181 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 1: one of the three sisters are beloved squash. Uh and 182 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 1: so we think we could grow this stuff. And the 183 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: Native Americans grew it in abundance, traded it in abundance, 184 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: such that by the end of the seventeenth century there 185 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: was watermelon all over what we now call the United States. 186 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: And when the Europeans arrived, they were like they thought 187 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: it was native to hear because they were growing so 188 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: much of it. Yeah, I guess as late as the 189 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties they were like still debating whether it was 190 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 1: of European origin or if if the North Americans had 191 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: it first, but they've definitively traced it back to Africa. 192 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: What still um under debate, Chuck, is whether it was 193 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: the Spanish that introduced it or oh yeah, or whether 194 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: it was some of the first um enslaved people from 195 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: West Africa that brought it over with them, UM that 196 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 1: I think is still up for debate. Oh interesting, Okay, yeah, yeah, 197 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: they'll get to the bottom of it someday. Uh. Livia 198 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: does point out though, that there are different words for 199 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: watermelon that are completely unrelated in Arabic and Hebrew and 200 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: Sanskrit and Greek and Spanish, and that's a good indication 201 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: that it is if the words aren't like one another, 202 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: that they have all had watermelon for a long long time, right, 203 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: So watermelons all over the world. It's been a long 204 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: standing part of UM, the United States history pretty since 205 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: before the United States was even a thing. UM. And 206 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson apparently famously grew watermelons at Monticello and so 207 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: that there was nothing better than a Virginia watermelon, and 208 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: he was kind of onto something because apparently I don't 209 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: know if it was after Jefferson or not, but yeah, 210 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,439 Speaker 1: it would have been after Jefferson. Because as the railroads 211 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: came along, UM, and it was getting easier and easier 212 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: to ship things like watermelons long distance. UM, they they 213 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: developed a kind of watermelon that wasn't quite as good 214 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: but traveled a lot better, and they would keep the 215 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: good stuff of themselves in the South, where the watermelon 216 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: naturally grows and flourishes best, and they would send these 217 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: other ones that didn't taste quite as good up north 218 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: because they figured they didn't know any different. That's right, 219 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: And um, you know, for there was a time in 220 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: America after the Civil War when former enslaved people actually 221 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: could support themselves and sustain themselves outside the plantations by 222 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: growing and selling watermelons and being farmers. But of course 223 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 1: that got ruined because uh, starting at about the Civil War, 224 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: white people turned it into a racist trope of black 225 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: people eating watermelons, and it has been in everything from 226 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 1: Birth of a Nation to uh to yard art kind 227 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: of supporting this racist trope over the years. Yeah, and 228 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: what really sucks about is that like it had its 229 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: intended effect and that there are Black Americans who report 230 00:13:52,800 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: still being uncomfortable eating watermelon around other white Americans, which 231 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: is it's just so maddening that that's still a thing, 232 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: and I mean it is and it's going to be 233 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: a thing until people just say like this is this 234 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: ridiculous And hopefully learning about the watermelon from us will 235 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: help some people say this is ridiculous and stupid, and 236 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: it's always been because one other thing about it, to 237 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: Chuck is that at the time, those same racist Southerners 238 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: and white people across the country who are associating watermelon, 239 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: enjoying watermelon with with black people, we're enjoying it themselves. 240 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: They liked it just as much. It was just because 241 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: they could grow and sell watermelons and it represented freedom, 242 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: black independence, and that threatened them that they used watermelons 243 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: as a trope and just very juvenile e started equating 244 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: it with all sorts of just dumb stuff. It's just 245 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: so suck the stuff, Chuck. All right, well, let's take 246 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: a break and uh, I'm gonna give you a little 247 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: shoulder rub through the computer. Thank you. Thanks to be fantastic. 248 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: It'll settle you down. And we're going to talk about 249 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: the great Charleston Gray right after this. Okay, I mentioned 250 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: Charleston Gray. If you're like, who's Charleston Gray? And why 251 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: do I care? It's a great hotel check in name. Yeah, 252 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: that is pretty good. That's the kind that they comp 253 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: up free breakfast to. You know what I'm saying that 254 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: that's that kind of name. Well, Mr Gray, doctor Gray, 255 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: do you ever put any weird prefix when you're checking 256 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: into stuff and signing up for stuff. Sometimes esquire, all right, 257 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: I'll do esquire doctor. Usually it's always fun. I don't know, reverend. Occasionally, 258 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: even though technically I am or reverend now, ID not 259 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: want to be cornered on that one, so never shied away. 260 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, you can be like I've got the bona fides. Uh. 261 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: So Charleston Gray was uh is the name of not 262 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: a human being, but it's the name of a watermelon. 263 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: The humans name was Charleston and Charles Andres of the U. 264 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: S d A's Agricultural Research Service, the A R s 265 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: UH and the vegetable Breeding Laboratory there, and he created 266 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: the Charleston Gray watermelon in ninety four. And why do 267 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: you care? It's because of the watermelons grown all over 268 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: the world now have a lineage tied to the Charleston Gray. Yeah. 269 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: And so remember we said that like all of the 270 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: watermelons that you would ever come across or eat that 271 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: you buy at a store, that's all just one species 272 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: of watermelon. They're just different varieties of those are related 273 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: to the same variety. And that means that they came 274 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: upon one that tastes really good, ships really well. That 275 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: was a big one. It's also resistant to some diseases 276 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: and pests, but it also makes it extremely vulnerable. If 277 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: there's ever a pest or a disease that can attack 278 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: the Charleston Gray, it's going to wipe out all the 279 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: watermelons because they're all very genetically similar. That's right, and 280 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: that's why the a RS not the Atlanta Rhythm section. 281 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: We're gonna have us a Champagne ing, all right, here 282 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: we go. A RS is still looking into how to 283 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: make watermelons more hardy, and they're looking at why wild 284 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: watermelon species in Africa. They're looking at all kinds of 285 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: varieties around the world and looking how to breathe them 286 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: with less pesticides and that though, so the big watermelon 287 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: apocalypse never happens. So yeah, one thing they're doing with 288 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: the reason that they're really looking at is there's something called, 289 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: I think methyl bromide, which was like a fog pesticide 290 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: and maybe fungicide, killed a bunch of stuff that that 291 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: um Charleston Grays are vulnerable too. But it also burns 292 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: a hole in the ozone layer. So it got banned 293 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: in Europe ten years ago, and it was recently banned 294 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: here in the United States, and so they're really trying 295 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: to figure this out. So they look to Europe and said, hey, Europe, 296 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: what do you do when you couldn't use methyl bromide? 297 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 1: In Europe said, we started using different roots stock. So 298 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: they'll take the rudy part of the plant from squash plants. 299 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: Apparently you are really useful for this, and they graft 300 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: a um watermelon plant onto the top of it. The 301 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,159 Speaker 1: top part of the watermelon plant stems and seeds and 302 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: all that, and it grows together to create the superplant 303 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 1: that has It produces great watermelons, but it's also resistant 304 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: to these diseases and pests, which goes back to the 305 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: Native Americans being great at growing watermelons because squash is 306 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: one of the three sisters exactly. It's really cool. I 307 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: love that stuff. Maybe we should do a short stuff 308 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 1: on the three sisters would be cool. You know they 309 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: factored heavily into pops Up a bunch in that of course. Yeah. Um, 310 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: so we mentioned seedlessness because if you have eaten a 311 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: watermelon in the past oh thirty something years, it's probably 312 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: doesn't have seeds like they did when you were a kid. 313 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: If you're an old timer like us, at least not 314 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: those big mature black seeds that were great for spitting 315 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: and uh and flicking. They have those little undeveloped white 316 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: seeds a little bit. But the seedless watermelon was another 317 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: invention by another Japanese geneticist. I think the other one 318 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: was an artist in horticulturalist, but this is geneticist Hitoshi Kihara, 319 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: and in ninety nine invented this seedless watermelon that started 320 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: being available in the nineteen fifties. And what's remarkable about 321 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: this is is that it's basically a manual operation that's 322 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: required to make seedless watermelons. Yeah, you use some something 323 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 1: called culture is seen, which takes a regular diploid watermelon 324 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: with two pairs of chromosomes two copies of the chromosome 325 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: um and turns it into a tetraploid, so that there's 326 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: four copies of each chromosome. And you take the diploid 327 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: and the tetraploid and you pollinate them, you cross fertilize them, 328 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: and what you produce is called a I think a 329 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: triploid and a triploid plant because it doesn't have an 330 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 1: even number of copies of chromosomes. It's sterile, so it 331 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: doesn't produce seeds. So that's how you get your seedless watermelon. 332 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: And it's a real b word to raise seedless watermelons 333 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: because part of your crop has to be diploid, regular 334 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: seeded watermelons to use to fertilize them. But um, and 335 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: at first, I guess farmers are kind of like, I'm 336 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: not doing all that. Who wants a seedless watermelon anyway? 337 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: And there was a guy named Oreste great name is like, 338 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: people are gonna love this, and this guy just worked 339 00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: away at it, worked away at it, and kept for 340 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: affecting the seedless watermelon. Um. But it wasn't until the 341 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: late eighties that um, he finally managed to get it 342 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: to take off. He partnered with a company called sun 343 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: World International. Right, yeah, his first company was American Seedless 344 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: Watermelon Corp. And uh, it took partnering with the giant, 345 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: like a giant in the industry, a big agribusiness company 346 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 1: to to really have it take off. And it did. Um. 347 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: But you know, like I said, it's amazing. I think 348 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people, uh, I think it's a commodification 349 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: and that is not true. It's actually a manual process that, 350 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: like you said, is a real pain in the butt 351 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: to farmers, and they had to get on board with 352 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: this because the way they have to grow them and 353 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: keep them separated, and uh, it's really a lot of work. 354 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: But they were Uh, I guess or he was right 355 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: on the money because people do love the seedless water. 356 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: I kind of missed the seeds, but I have to 357 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 1: admit the seedless or are easier to work with. Yeah, 358 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 1: I think nine center are seedless. And if you walk 359 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: into a grocery store today, Chuck, and you asked for 360 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: a watermelon with seeds, you're gonna be hard pressed to 361 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: find one because they're just seedless, are so prevalent, And 362 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: it's so crazy to me, Like, I I realized that 363 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: my niece Mila, who stars as j in the twentieth 364 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: century Fox movie No Exit, has was born into a 365 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: world where there's never really been a seeded watermelon. She's 366 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: never seen a seeded watermelon in her life. Yeah, Like 367 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: she wouldn't walk into a grocery store and say can 368 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: I have a square seated pepa berry? You know, and 369 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: they would say, hey, wait a minute, aren't you The 370 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: star of the Hulu hit motion picture Its stars such 371 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: a relative term, isn't it. Where did they shoot? That 372 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: was Atlanta, New Zealand. Oh geez, m man, So she's 373 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 1: really get to live the life, huh. They shot it 374 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: in New Zealand at the height of the pandemic, when 375 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: New Zealand had like zero cases. That's where you want 376 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: to be. Yeah, it was pretty neat, but they had 377 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: to like quarantine and everything for fourteen days on either side, 378 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: and it was really something. But yeah, they she know 379 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: she went. It was a real real shoot, all right. 380 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: So eating watermelons, you think, like it's such an American thing. 381 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: We surely lead the world in watermelon consumption, and we 382 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: eat a lot. We eat about fifteen pounds per person 383 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: per year here in America, to the tune of about 384 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: five billion pounds of watermelon a year. But Jack, that 385 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 1: ain't nothing compared to China. In Chinese residents ate more 386 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: than a hundred and fifty billion pounds of watermelon. Yeah, 387 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: that's fifty ms per capita. So we in the US 388 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: fifteen pounds per person a year. They eat a hundred 389 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: and ten pounds of watermelon per person per year. I 390 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 1: had no idea it was so big in China. Well, yeah, 391 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: I mean it's and again it's been there for over 392 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: a thousand years, so they've they've had a long time 393 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: to really come to appreciate the watermelon and Buddy do 394 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: day ever, Well, we grow about two thirds of our 395 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: own watermelon here in the US. The rest generally comes 396 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: from Mexico. You probably are eating Florida watermelon. Maybe Georgia 397 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: is number two, followed by Texas and California. But Florida 398 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: is great for growing those watermelons because of the weather, 399 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: because watermelons don't do well in the cold, so you 400 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: can kind of grow them year round in Florida. Yeah, 401 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: there's really nothing better than Florida weather this time of 402 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: year in particular. So um, one of the things about 403 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: the watermelons is that they're growing season takes a little while, 404 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: I think a hundred days, right, Yeah, so you're not 405 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: going to grow them up north, probably unless you start 406 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: them indoors. Yeah, I mean, you can't grow them anywhere. 407 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: Like one of the things they spread so far and 408 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: wide among Native Americans that the Hurons of the Great 409 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: Lakes and Canada were growing them. So you can't grow 410 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: them anywhere. It's just you can grow them all year 411 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: round in Florida, you can grow them for a very 412 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: limited window around the Great Lakes. But again, they'll grow 413 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: just about anywhere. But one of the things about them, too, Chuck, 414 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: is that they need a lot of space. Um. I 415 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: saw in a University of Florida UM website which I 416 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,919 Speaker 1: apologize for using that, but I did. It's become so 417 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: much more normalized to me since moving to Florida, Like 418 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: dealing and seeing like University of Florida stuff doesn't trigger 419 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: me at all anymore. Yeah, not at all. Well, Georgia's 420 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: national champions in Florida, so who cares? So um. They 421 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: watermelon needs eighteen to twenty four square feet per plant 422 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: to grow. That's like a lot of space. Yeah, we 423 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: thought about growing watermelons here. It's um Again, like squash, 424 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: they tend to really take over. So just I mean, 425 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: grow your watermelon, but make sure you got the room 426 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: and you don't mind being annoyed by how much they spread. Yeah, um, 427 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 1: which really, I mean, are you gonna be annoyed by 428 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: some great watermelons growing in? Of course not. Um. They 429 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: also can rot, so you want to grow them on 430 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: something that's going to keep them from rotting because they 431 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: gotta they're gonna connect with the ground there. You can 432 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 1: grow them on a treillis. If your treillis is basically 433 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: a steel crane. That's kind of what it takes um 434 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: and I saw that that it's it's tough to figure 435 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: out when they're ripe. Some varieties will have the stripe darken, 436 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: you know, the contrasting greens. But I also saw in 437 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: a few different places, if you pick up a watermelon 438 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: there's a bald spot on the bottom where it rested 439 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: on the ground. If that bald spot is white or 440 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: pale green, it's not ripe. If it's cream or yellow e, 441 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: it's ripe. That's the best way to tell a watermelon 442 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: is ripe. My mom would always thump them in the store. 443 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: I've read that doesn't actually tell you anything, and that 444 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: it might actually tell you that they're overripe, because that 445 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: just sort of a thing that you do that you 446 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: see other people do. Have you ever smelled a cantaloupe. No, 447 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: that's an amazing smell, and that's a good way to 448 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: tell whether candle upe is right. It should be rather pungent, 449 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 1: but from the from the outside that rhyme yes. That's 450 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: how you tell that's that's a really good way to tell. 451 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: It's right. Give a give a candle up a good smell, 452 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: and you'll smell it right through that. My deal is, 453 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: I don't like other melons that much. I love watermelon, 454 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: but candle up has always been a little too bitter 455 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: for me. And uh, what's the green one? Une melon? 456 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: It's okay, I'm a watermelon guy, though I am not 457 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: a melon guy of any kind really, oh not even watermelon. Huh. No, 458 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: I've got no problems with any of it. I'm not 459 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 1: like you gross, but I also like don't really crave it, 460 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: and like you know that fruit salad that you'll get 461 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: with different kinds of melon and breakfast, and not like 462 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: I don't live for that or anything. What's your ideal fruit? Melange? 463 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: Describe it? Fruit milan? Just probably pretty pedestrian. It's fruit. 464 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: Would I maybe strawberries and blueberries together, just eating them 465 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: by the handful? Okay, so you don't do it like 466 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: a fruit mix? No, all right, what's yours? Well? I 467 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: mean that we will have big weekends at the lake 468 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 1: with lots of families and stuff, and that's always a 469 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: really good thing to put out for breakfast. If you 470 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: don't want to cook a big breakfast, put out at 471 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: a bunch of pastries and things like that and like, uh, 472 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: and then mixed together a big fruit melange. So I mean, 473 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: I'll throw everything in their strawberries, blueberries, cut up pineapple, grapes. Um. 474 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: You know, any kind of melon is always good to add. 475 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: Raspberries don't hold up that well. You know, they're pretty soft. 476 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: So I try to put in things. A chop up 477 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: a banana, put that in there. I think all that, 478 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: all that stuff is really good mixed together. I don't know, 479 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: mixing a banana in there could get mushy real quick. Yeah, 480 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: they can get a little mushy. And when a banana 481 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: becomes discolored by other fruit juices, it's not as appealing looking. 482 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: It's not as appealing. I generally thought that was funny. 483 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: I've got one for you, Chuck. Have you ever had 484 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: a wal door salad? Uh? Sure, mayo and grapes and 485 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: apples and walnuts maybe. Yeah, apple is good to put 486 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: in there, too, Okay. Yeah, I mean I'm fine with 487 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: all those and I would basically eat them all individually. 488 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: Be like cheap bastard can get us some real breakfast 489 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: and just be be mad for the rest of the morning. 490 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: Could you find me up some bacon or make some 491 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: biscuitoon scratch? Would you kill you to make some cinnamon? Rules? 492 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,239 Speaker 1: I do that too, Um, all right, should we take 493 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: another break? All right, we'll take another break, and we'll 494 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: finish up with whether or not watermelons are even good 495 00:29:47,560 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: for you? After all? Right after this m okay, chuck, 496 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:20,479 Speaker 1: chemistry and nutrition time? Are they good for you? Uh? Sure, 497 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: I don't think they're particularly bad for you. Um. Olivia 498 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: says that a cup of watermelons has forty six calories, 499 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: most of them coming from sugar. UM. A lot of water. 500 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: But unfortunately they also seem to have diuretic properties, which 501 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: means that it would cause you to expel more water 502 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: than you took in from it. Um. That does have 503 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: a little vitamin A, vitamin B, six, vitamin C, some 504 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: amino acids. I don't I don't think it's bad for you. 505 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a health food necessarily, although 506 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: unless you cook it and you unleash the power of lycopene. Right. Yes. 507 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: Lycopene is that pigment that makes tomatoes red. Uh. Sort 508 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: of related to beata carotene with the orange of the carrots. 509 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: But watermelon it actually has more like a peine than 510 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: tomatoes do. And some people say, hey, a lot of 511 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: antioxidants in there, so that's got to be good for you. 512 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: But like you said, you have to cook the watermelon, 513 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: which you can do. You can grill watermelon. Uh, it does, 514 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: It does very well on the grill. Actually you've done 515 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: that before. I've never done that. I mean, I like 516 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: at raw, but you can grill it up. So it 517 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: says that it causes the meat of the watermelon, um 518 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: to be chewy? Does that you haven't experienced super chewy? 519 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: But I may not have left it on as long 520 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: as you need to to reach that point because I don't. 521 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: I don't like chewy things generally. So um, what about watermelon? 522 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: Rhyme pickles? I've always been interested in eating this, and 523 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: I don't think I've been in too many places where 524 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: they were there. And I guess when I was I 525 00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: was in in the mood for him. So have you 526 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: ever had pickled watermelon right now? Because you know I'm 527 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: not into pickled things generally. Oh that's right, that's right. Well, 528 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to try umph for the both of us. Okay, 529 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: I did used to salt my watermelon a little bit 530 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: when I was a kid. Uh, don't do that anymore, 531 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: not for any real reason other than I just like 532 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: the taste is is. But some people put a little 533 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: little chipotli pepper, a little hot spice on there. Sometimes 534 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: you can juice them. Uh, you can make them in 535 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: alcoholic beverages, drop a little watermelon ball in there. Yeah, 536 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: you can also, um, so if you like. It's kind 537 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: of a kin to salting them, but it goes really 538 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: well with um, salty and non sweet tastes like um, 539 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 1: you mean, I had a watermelon salad years back at 540 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: a place called Harry's Pizza in Miami. They had chunks. 541 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 1: It's very simple, but it was just an explosion of flavor. 542 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: You had chunks of watermelon. Okay, Um, snipped up mint, 543 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: a little snipped up fresh tyme mint is good with watermelon. Yes, 544 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: it's amazing. Stretchy tella, which is like a very much 545 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: waterior mozzarella, like a looser mozzarella. Um, and then some 546 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: chopped up kind of just pecans, and all of this 547 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 1: in like minor amounts. You're not like making the Campbell's 548 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: chunky super version of this. It's all like just kind 549 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 1: of sparse because it doesn't take much a little bit 550 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: of olive oil. Maybe you throw a couple of grains 551 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: of salt on there, but you probably are getting enough 552 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: from the stretch tella to do um and it is. 553 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: Everything just works really really well together and it's really 554 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: easy to make. Like you can get all of those 555 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: ingredients at any grocery store anywhere and it's there. It's 556 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: an amazing little treat. I strongly recommend that. That sounds delicious. Yeah, 557 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: maybe you'd have trouble finding the stretch of tella. It 558 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: just used like a buffalo mozzarella, just some mozzarella that 559 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: comes in like a water of some sort to use that. Yeah, 560 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: and don't say mozzael no cooded gross the whole thing 561 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: with watermelon. And like you'll see it at you know, 562 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 1: a party sometimes someone will bore a hole in a 563 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: watermelon and turn up a full bottle of vodka and 564 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: stick it in there. Yeah, good idea. That's a thing. 565 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: I've never tried it, but there. Olivia points out, there's 566 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: a food writer for the Washington Post that said that's 567 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: a myth. There's so much liquid in there. Their vodka 568 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: has nowhere to go. Just pulls it like it does. 569 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: So where does the vodka go though, It goes somewhere, right, 570 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,839 Speaker 1: it's not like a the ideas. It doesn't infuse all 571 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 1: of the watermelon. I think it will come dribbling out 572 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: after a while because the watermelon is it's ninety two 573 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: or ninety six percent water, right, Yeah, so yeah, some 574 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,719 Speaker 1: of it will get sucked in before. It's not going 575 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: to do what you're what you wanted to do. I've 576 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: never tried it either, but but haven't either. So apparently 577 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: the same food writer says you should scoop the watermelon 578 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 1: out and then marinate it and and I guess being 579 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 1: exposed to air, it will dry out some and suck 580 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: in whatever alcoholic marinager you're marinating it in. Okay, well 581 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: that makes sense, but that also brings up the idea 582 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: of watermelon flavored things like watermelon jolly ranchers or chewing gum. Uh. 583 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: It's I think it's got a better track record than banana. 584 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: I've come to appreciate banana my older age. Yeah, but 585 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:35,760 Speaker 1: it never tastes like banana. It tastes like whatever they do. Yes, yes, totally. 586 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: But watermelon kind of has that same wrap, which is like, 587 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: there's nothing that truly tastes like watermelon, no kind of candy. Uh. 588 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: And apparently there's a reason for that. Uh. It is 589 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: because that flavor is probably a product of an organic 590 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,879 Speaker 1: compound uh called an aldehyde. Uh specifically, I don't even 591 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: know how you would read this z mma Z DASH 592 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 1: three six known a dienal aldehyde. Sure, okay, you enjoyed that, 593 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: didn't you. Yeah, but the flavor of that specific organic 594 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: compound is green cucumber melanie, fatty and rindy with a 595 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:22,359 Speaker 1: hint of meat fat. But apparently that breaks down so 596 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,720 Speaker 1: fast that they can't in the lab. They can't convert 597 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 1: that flavor into uh something they can replicate very easily 598 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 1: because they break down so quickly. Right, So I mean, yeah, 599 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: I just give him a break. Basically is the upshot 600 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: of all that they're trying. Now that I now that 601 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,439 Speaker 1: you say that about banana flavor, I wonder how much 602 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 1: of banana flavor seeming like, oh it's banana flavor. The 603 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,840 Speaker 1: candy is from the yellow that's always associated with it. 604 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 1: So like if you handed somebody just like a noncolored, 605 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,879 Speaker 1: like just gray piece of candy. They had that same 606 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: banana flavor and didn't tell him what it was supposed 607 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,720 Speaker 1: to be, Like, what chance would they have of actually 608 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,279 Speaker 1: identifying it as banana? You should start a line of 609 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: great candy, right, it's called who cares? Josh is famous? 610 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:16,040 Speaker 1: Great candy? Earth diesse? Who cares? No? I think I 611 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,799 Speaker 1: think with you? Uh, In fact, I think there's enough 612 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,359 Speaker 1: for a short stuff there. There's actually a lot of 613 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: information about banana flavoring. Okay, cool, let's do it. Maybe 614 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: we should, But apparently not one on a watermelon flavored 615 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,719 Speaker 1: short stuff, No, I don't think so. So what else, Chuck? 616 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 1: You got anything else about watermelons? Not really? I mean 617 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 1: there are you know, watermelon festivals and stuff like that 618 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:41,839 Speaker 1: all over the country. If here into that kind of thing, 619 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 1: it's it's sort of like any time a town has 620 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,320 Speaker 1: a prized fruit or vegetable and it's in the sticks 621 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: in the United States, they're probably gonna have a parade 622 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 1: about it, that's right, Which is can be a lot 623 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,680 Speaker 1: of fun. I'm sure why not. There's probably lots of watermelon, 624 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,919 Speaker 1: and everybody loves watermelon, so it can't be all that bad, 625 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 1: right right? Um? Okay, Well, that's it for watermelon everybody. 626 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,320 Speaker 1: If you want to more about watermelon, go check out 627 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 1: your local store and get started eating a watermelon. And 628 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,319 Speaker 1: also shout out to a really um great episode of 629 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,720 Speaker 1: gastro Pod. They covered the watermelons, social and natural history 630 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: and that's worth checking out too. Um. And since I 631 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: said that's worth checking out too, it means it's time 632 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: for listening mail. I've been waiting to read this for 633 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 1: an episode that was a little shorter because this is 634 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 1: a little baggy, but it's worth reading. And here we are, 635 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: uh with this email from Ian Bowers. Hey, guys, been 636 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 1: listening for the better part of a decade. Well it 637 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: might be the bane of some listeners existence. I love 638 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: the off the wall tangents you guys fall into. You 639 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,000 Speaker 1: never know what's going to trigger a memory, remind you 640 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: of something that happened the other day, And at the 641 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 1: beginning of decided to keep a running tally at the 642 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: best tangents then on throughout the year. Did you this No? 643 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,279 Speaker 1: I didn't. It's fantastic. Notice many of them tend to 644 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 1: be movie or music related, but here a few of 645 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,920 Speaker 1: my favorites and what episode they were from. Are you 646 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 1: ready for this, I'm ready. This is great. So in 647 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,800 Speaker 1: the episode Space Weather, What's that? We had a tangent 648 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 1: on John Mayer and the Grateful Dead apparently. Uh. In 649 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: the Hydro Power episode, we had a tangent on buttless chaps, 650 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 1: John Belushi and Steven Stills. Okay, is the free radical 651 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,960 Speaker 1: theory of aging wrong? We had a tangent on justin 652 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: timber Lake's attempt to revive my Space remember that it 653 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 1: sounds like you. Uh. In Space junk Ahoy, we had 654 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,200 Speaker 1: a tangent on lighting farts. Yeah, I remember that one too. 655 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: That that took me by surprise. Yeah. Uh. In the 656 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,440 Speaker 1: Havana Syndrome, we had one on Will Ferrell as Glenn 657 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:58,560 Speaker 1: Frey on s n L Glenn Fry plus two more 658 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: Eagle Stories, hair Loss, The Pits colon the Pits. We 659 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: had one on the smell of pizza hut, reminding Josh 660 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: of solid gold. Yeah, how corporate taxes work? Hubba Bubba 661 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,600 Speaker 1: versus bubble yum versus bubbalicious. This is like a trip 662 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 1: down memory lane. It really about memory lanes on our 663 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,319 Speaker 1: live show on Cocoa the Gorilla, I didn't know. Of course, 664 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,360 Speaker 1: we have tangents there too, Huey Lewis is showing his 665 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:30,520 Speaker 1: wiener in a movie. It sounds like me. I'm always 666 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: talking about Huey lunas Huey Lewis is weener. I don't 667 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,040 Speaker 1: remember that one. Uh yeah he showed his his uh 668 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,919 Speaker 1: his penis and shortcuts the Robert Altman movie. Oh that's right, 669 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:45,040 Speaker 1: just taking a leak into a river. How reverse osmosis 670 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: will save the world. Uh. Cypress Hill still stands up 671 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,640 Speaker 1: is the quote, and then another short Cypres Hill tangent 672 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:57,600 Speaker 1: shows up during heat Waves. Talked about them twice on 673 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:03,479 Speaker 1: short Stuff. Colon Chameleons, both of your favorite scenes, and beetlejuice. Yes, 674 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,160 Speaker 1: there's a couple of more here. The creepy legacy to 675 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,880 Speaker 1: Cecil Hotel, mysterious bag of crystal beans, the chuck in 676 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,920 Speaker 1: the middle of the night, and then a crystal food discussion, 677 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,200 Speaker 1: and then finally the wars somebody buying the silence of 678 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,360 Speaker 1: the Lamb's house and turning it to an airbnb. Yeah 679 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,680 Speaker 1: that's right, so Ian says, keep up the great work. 680 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,040 Speaker 1: I think these things really let both of your personality shine, 681 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,360 Speaker 1: and I think that's why most dedicated dedicated listeners continue 682 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,359 Speaker 1: to tune in after all the episodes you've released. I'm 683 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,759 Speaker 1: not going to keep track of tangents in two, but 684 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: I happily welcome them. Ian, Come on, buddy, keep it up. 685 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,799 Speaker 1: We'll do this once a year. If you keep keep 686 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,360 Speaker 1: up with them, we should release Sean from his obligations. 687 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: This is Ian's across to Bear. Ian could do it 688 00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:56,560 Speaker 1: or not stand Ian, no one else. Yeah, there you go. 689 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 1: I think that's fair. You know, if he wants too cool, 690 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: if he doesn't, we won't think any less of him. 691 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: That's right. What's his last name? Tangent Guy, Ian Tangent. 692 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 1: I are you sure it's okay? Ian Tangent Guy Bowers 693 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: Tangent Guys. Definitely his new nickname for sure. Um, well, 694 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 1: thanks a lot, Ian, that was very nice of you 695 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,719 Speaker 1: to do that. And yeah, if you want to do 696 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,759 Speaker 1: it again, we'll definitely read it next year. Uh. And 697 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,200 Speaker 1: if you want to get in touch with us and 698 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,760 Speaker 1: try to start an annual thing, take your best shot. 699 00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 1: You can try it via email at stuff podcast at 700 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:34,880 Speaker 1: iHeart radio dot com. Stuff you Should Know is a 701 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,280 Speaker 1: production of I heart Radio. 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