Speaker 1: You're listening to Part Time Genius, the production of Kaleidoscope
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Speaker 2: What's that mango?
Speaker 1: So let me ask you something. How often you clean
Speaker 1: the inside of your trash can?
Speaker 2: Clean the inside of the tres I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: every few somewhere in between, every few months and never
Speaker 2: I would guess.
Speaker 1: Well, you and I can both thank Canada for saving
Speaker 1: us from having to do that particular chore.
Speaker 2: I do want to say thank you to Canada, But also,
Speaker 2: what do you mean by this?
Speaker 1: So we take it for granted today, But the plastic
Speaker 1: trash bag wasn't invented until the nineteen fifties. And before that,
Speaker 1: people through trash die directly into their metal trash cans,
Speaker 1: kind of Oscar the Grouch style, But that meant they
Speaker 1: had to clean the cans regularly to keep them from smelling.
Speaker 1: But three Canadian inventors came up with a solution, which
Speaker 1: is the plastic trash bag. And what's really interesting is
Speaker 1: that these inventors weren't working together. They actually didn't even
Speaker 1: know about each other's work.
Speaker 2: So what's the deal here? They were just all sick
Speaker 2: of cleaning their trash cans. Or what I think that's
Speaker 2: part of it. But also polyethylene, which was a new
Speaker 2: type of plastic around that time. It had just recently
Speaker 2: become available. And polyethylene is soft and stretchy. It's also
Speaker 2: waterproof and air proof, and that.
Speaker 1: Obviously makes it the ideal material for trash bags. So
Speaker 1: the three inventors their names were Frank Plump, Harry Wis Silik,
Speaker 1: and Larry Hanson. They all found out about polyethylene around
Speaker 1: the same time, and they more or less had this
Speaker 1: same genius idea, which was, let's melt it down and
Speaker 1: shape it into bags. Now. Plump began selling his bags,
Speaker 1: which he called garbags, to hospitals and offices. Hanson worked
Speaker 1: for a company called Union Carbide and made bags for
Speaker 1: the company's Ontario plant, and with Silk, meanwhile built up
Speaker 1: a successful trash bag manufacturing business which he sold to
Speaker 1: Union Carbide. And that was in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2: So did he and Hanson just end up joining forces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you might actually be familiar with the product
Speaker 1: that emerged from their team up, because Union Carbide decided
Speaker 1: to rename their new product the Glad bag.
Speaker 2: Oh Glad. I actually didn't know. Glad was a Canadian brand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it still is, and they still manufactured their bags
Speaker 1: in Canada. But garbage bags are just one of the many,
Speaker 1: many amazing inventions to come out of the Great White North.
Speaker 1: So we've got eight more equally innovative Canadian inventions to
Speaker 1: talk about. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2: Hey their podcast listeners, welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm
Speaker 2: Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good
Speaker 2: friend Mangesh hot Ticketter and over there in the booths
Speaker 2: enjoying a double double and a box of tim Bits,
Speaker 2: that's our pal and producer Dylan Fagan.
Speaker 1: I feel like, not even like five minutes in and
Speaker 1: we're already have this Tim Horden's reference.
Speaker 2: I was hoping to get to it sooner. Actually, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure it is the law, and if you talk
Speaker 2: about Canada for more than a couple of minutes, you
Speaker 2: do have to bring it up. But speaking of things
Speaker 2: that are inherently Canadian, mango, are you familiar with Canada's
Speaker 2: national sport?
Speaker 1: Well, I've got a guess for it. But before we
Speaker 1: get to that, I do want to say we absolutely
Speaker 1: do love Canada on this show. But we had two
Speaker 1: different weird brainstorms where I was wondering, like what's going
Speaker 1: on with New Finland? And another one where Mary and
Speaker 1: Gabe we're talking about incredible comedians that come out of
Speaker 1: Canada and they were wondering, like what else is Canada
Speaker 1: given the world. And so we ended up with two
Speaker 1: shows in fairly close succession about America's hat but and
Speaker 1: so like for listeners, please know we were aware of
Speaker 1: it when we signed it. And in terms of your question,
Speaker 1: what is Canada's national sport? I feel like the obvious
Speaker 1: answer is hockey, but I actually think it's lacrosse.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, Canada has two national sports, so you're you
Speaker 2: are you are right on the money with this, Mango.
Speaker 2: Lacrosse is it's summer national sport. But my next fact
Speaker 2: is actually about hockey, which is the winter national sport.
Speaker 2: In the sport I think most people outside of Canada
Speaker 2: associate with them.
Speaker 1: Sure, obviously hockey is a big deal in Canada. Were
Speaker 1: you much of a hockey fan growing up? You know,
Speaker 1: hockey was just not a thing in the in the
Speaker 1: South when I was growing up, certainly very few people
Speaker 1: played it.
Speaker 2: I knew maybe a couple of kids that played it
Speaker 2: there really weren't professional teams in the southeast. You think
Speaker 2: of teams in Nashville and Atlanta and others. It was,
Speaker 2: you know, they came along after my childhood, so I
Speaker 2: really didn't know much about the sport. But how about you.
Speaker 1: We played a little like floor hockey and gym and
Speaker 1: street hockey. But as soon as roller skates got involved,
Speaker 1: I just became a goalie and I said, to the
Speaker 1: goal But yeah, hockey wasn't that much of a big
Speaker 1: part of my growing up.
Speaker 2: Well, obviously, Canadians take hockey pretty seriously, so it should
Speaker 2: come as no surprise that one of the biggest innovations
Speaker 2: in hockey history, of course, originated in Canada. Now I'm
Speaker 2: talking about the goalie mask.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine playing goalie without a mask?
Speaker 2: That feels insane. I just simply would not do it. So,
Speaker 2: you know, if you enjoy not being concussed, I would
Speaker 2: say it's a pretty crucial invention. So hockey's been around
Speaker 2: since the nineteenth century, but the hockey mask of today
Speaker 2: wasn't actually invented until the nineteen fifties. Of course, a
Speaker 2: handful of safety conscious hockey players before then took measures
Speaker 2: to protect themselves. So in nineteen twenty seven, Elizabeth Graham
Speaker 2: of Queen's University became the first goalie and organized hockey
Speaker 2: history to wear a mask when she started wearing a
Speaker 2: fencing mask during games. And before the invention of the
Speaker 2: goalie mask, some players would protect their faces with baseball
Speaker 2: catchers mask. That was actually the first thing that came
Speaker 2: to my mind. But in general, safety just wasn't that
Speaker 2: much of a priority back then as it is today.
Speaker 2: But that all changed in nineteen fifty nine thanks to
Speaker 2: amateur hockey coach Bill Birchmore. Now Birchmore worked for the
Speaker 2: company called Fiberglass Canada. This was in Montreal, and was
Speaker 2: a huge fan of the hockey team there those are
Speaker 2: the Canadians Now. When one of his favorite players, Jacques Plant,
Speaker 2: got injured during a game, Birchmore took action. He created
Speaker 2: a custom fiberglass mask that Plant began wearing to team practices.
Speaker 2: So there was just one problem. Canadians coach Toe Blake
Speaker 2: didn't want him to wear it during their actual games.
Speaker 1: Now I'm wondering, is this kind of like the underhanded
Speaker 1: free throw where it just didn't seem manly to wear
Speaker 1: a mask?
Speaker 2: Well, actually it was because the eyeholes made it harder
Speaker 2: to see the puck, and so Blake told Plant in
Speaker 2: no uncertain terms that he had to go maskless during
Speaker 2: the games, and it first Plant complied, but then he
Speaker 2: got hit in the face with a puck during a
Speaker 2: game against the Rangers in nineteen fifty nine, and after that,
Speaker 2: Plant refused to play without the mask, and Blake eventually
Speaker 2: gave in. By the way, can you imagine getting hit
Speaker 2: by my hockey puck at the speed that an NHL
Speaker 2: player would hit it? So, you know, over in insane
Speaker 2: it's yeah, I just I simply wouldn't do it. But
Speaker 2: over time, more and more players started wearing masks, and eventually,
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy nine, goalie mask became mandatory in the NHL.
Speaker 1: I wish there's a counter to show how many teeth
Speaker 1: and broken noses that has saved, you know, like, it
Speaker 1: feels like it would be amazing to see that. But
Speaker 1: shifting gears to something slightly safer than hockey. What are
Speaker 1: your feelings on instant mashed potatoes?
Speaker 2: All right, I hesitate to confess this, but there was
Speaker 2: a time in my childhood when I actually preferred instant
Speaker 2: potatoes to real potatoes.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: Going up two parents working a lot, obviously, we had
Speaker 2: to figure out how to get meals together pretty quickly,
Speaker 2: and so instant potatoes appeared on the table quite a
Speaker 2: few times, and they were probably a top five food
Speaker 2: for me at some point in life until later in
Speaker 2: life when the in laws introduced me to like really
Speaker 2: good homemade mashed potatoes, and there was no turning back.
Speaker 2: But I admit it. I would still eat them if
Speaker 2: they were in front of me, how about you, one
Speaker 2: hundred percent?
Speaker 1: I loved them as a kid. I agree. I grew
Speaker 1: to love real potatoes later, but there was something about
Speaker 1: instant mashed potatoes that just was joyous. And I had
Speaker 1: no idea about this, But instant mashed potatoes are partially
Speaker 1: a Canadian invention.
Speaker 2: I like the idea that something is partially an invention,
Speaker 2: especially with something like instant mashed potatoes. So what do
Speaker 2: you mean by that?
Speaker 1: So people have actually been drying and preserving potatoes for centuries,
Speaker 1: and a handful of companies started making instant mashed potatoes
Speaker 1: during World War Two. But by all accounts, those early
Speaker 1: iterations were really really gross, and they sound so unappetizing.
Speaker 1: They were soggy, they only vaguely resembled actual potatoes. But
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty one, a Canadian inventor his name was
Speaker 1: Edward Asselberg's he created a new type of flaked mashed
Speaker 1: potato that changed everything. And by changed everything, I mean
Speaker 1: you know they tasted good, all right.
Speaker 2: So to clarify your earlier statement, Canada invented the first
Speaker 2: not gross instant mashed potato.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, exactly. And Asselbergs was a food scientist
Speaker 1: for Agriculture Canada when he developed this technique for flaking
Speaker 1: dried potatoes. Previous instant potatoes were made of potato granules,
Speaker 1: which is why they became all goofy and soggy. But
Speaker 1: by comparison, the flakes created this richer, creamier texture, you know,
Speaker 1: the one you and I love now. Asselbergs didn't really
Speaker 1: anticipate how popular his invention would become. According to his wife,
Speaker 1: his real interest was helping people in developing countries preserve food.
Speaker 1: But obviously instant mashed potatoes were also a huge commercial success.
Speaker 2: All right, that's pretty awesome, all right. Well, my next
Speaker 2: Canadian invention is another popular shelf stable food. This one
Speaker 2: is another one that a lot of people love as well,
Speaker 2: unless they have life threatening allergies to it. It's one
Speaker 2: of my favorite foods, and that is, of course, peanut butter. Now,
Speaker 2: this one's similar to instan potatoes in the sense that
Speaker 2: people have been eating ground up peanuts for a very
Speaker 2: long time. The Astac's eight mashed roasted peanuts, for example.
Speaker 2: So it's hard to pinpoint exactly when peanut butter was invented,
Speaker 2: but the peanut butter patent actually belongs to Canadian inventor
Speaker 2: Marcellus Gilmour Edson. Now Edson was a pharmacist who in
Speaker 2: eighteen eighty four he developed a novel way of turning
Speaker 2: peanuts into paste by roasting them and then grinding them
Speaker 2: between two heated surfaces. Edson called his peanut paste quote
Speaker 2: peanut candy, because candy sounds more appetizing than paste. Of course,
Speaker 2: we tested that a lot of people. We did a
Speaker 2: big focus study, and they agreed that candy sounds better
Speaker 2: than paste. So now, he touted a few different uses
Speaker 2: for his product, and this included as a flavoring for
Speaker 2: candy and as a nutritious, easy to chew food for
Speaker 2: the elderly. Although Edson described his product as having a
Speaker 2: quote consistency like that of butter. He didn't envision it
Speaker 2: being used as a spread. The honor of that innovation
Speaker 2: actually goes to the American John Harvey Kellogg, who patented
Speaker 2: his own peanut butter making technique in eighteen ninety five,
Speaker 2: and he began selling peanut butter in eighteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: I love that we can look at our sandwiches and
Speaker 1: you know, peeb and J's and think as this great
Speaker 1: Canadian American invention.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and it's so so good. You're a fan of
Speaker 2: peanut butter too, right, It's oh my god, I love.
Speaker 1: Peanut butter so much. You know what's also funny, though,
Speaker 1: is that, like I just assumed, everything to do with
Speaker 1: peanuts was invented by George Washington Carver. You know which
Speaker 1: feels say. I think that you hear so much about
Speaker 1: peanuts and inventions with him, like I just assumed.
Speaker 2: It's also hard not to go back to the old
Speaker 2: Eddie Murphy's ketch talking about George Washington Carver and Jiffy
Speaker 2: and Skip and all the other characters in peanut butter history.
Speaker 2: If you don't know what I'm talking about, you should
Speaker 2: go look it up definitely.
Speaker 1: So I know we've talked about two food dimensions in
Speaker 1: a row now, but I am going to add one
Speaker 1: more food dimension because it turns out that egg cartons
Speaker 1: are also Canadian genius. So, according to legend, in nineteen eleven,
Speaker 1: a British Columbia man named Joseph Coyle overheard a hotel
Speaker 1: owner complaining to a farmer that the eggs he delivered
Speaker 1: were broken. Now, it is unclear whether this story is
Speaker 1: apocryphal or that part of the story is, but what
Speaker 1: comes next definitely happens. So Coyle, who was a newspaper
Speaker 1: publisher not a professional engineer, decided to find a better
Speaker 1: way to transport eggs. The farmer was carrying them in
Speaker 1: a basket, which doesn't sound super safe, and Coyle designed
Speaker 1: a carton with separate slots for each individual egg to
Speaker 1: keep them from smashing into each other. He made prototypes
Speaker 1: by hand out of newspaper and then create a machine
Speaker 1: that could mass produce them. He actually patented the idea
Speaker 1: in eighteen eighteen, and the rest is more or less history.
Speaker 1: Now Coil set up factories to produce the cartons in
Speaker 1: Vancouver and Toronto and a few US cities as well,
Speaker 1: and in later years other inventors would build on Coil's work,
Speaker 1: but the Coil safety egg carton was the first great
Speaker 1: leap forward in egg transportation technology.
Speaker 2: That's pretty great, all right, Well we have to take
Speaker 2: a quick break, but when we come back, we'll have
Speaker 2: more Canadian inventions to talk about it, including a broadcasting breakthrough,
Speaker 2: an iconic underwear. Of course, what a tease, Mango, So
Speaker 2: stay tuned, Welcome back to part time genius. This is
Speaker 2: Will to Mango. Mango. Can you hear me over?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I can hear you.
Speaker 2: What's going Thanks for getting in on the sketch there, Mango.
Speaker 2: I'm just setting the scene for our next fact, which
Speaker 2: is the walkie talkie. The walkie talkie was actually invented
Speaker 2: in Canada by engineer and inventor Donald Hings. So like
Speaker 2: nine year old ten year old Will and Mango would
Speaker 2: certainly think this is one of the coolest inventions efforts.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so.
Speaker 2: In the nineteen thirties, Hings was working for a Canadian
Speaker 2: mining company called Comenko when he started tinkering with radios.
Speaker 2: Two way radio communication did exist, but it wasn't portable
Speaker 2: and it generally relied on Morse code, so Hings created
Speaker 2: the first truly portable, wireless two way radio device that
Speaker 2: let people actually speak to each other. Now, he originally
Speaker 2: developed the device, which he called the pack Set, for
Speaker 2: Kamenko to use in its minds, but with World War
Speaker 2: II looming, Hings started to think about other applications, and
Speaker 2: in nineteen thirty seven he patented the pack set, which
Speaker 2: became known as the walkie Talkie, and he offered it
Speaker 2: to the Canadian government for the war effort.
Speaker 1: I mean, I do not know a lot about World
Speaker 1: War two communication technology, but it seemed like this would
Speaker 1: have been, you know, like a really big deal at
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: It totally was. Yeah, it was a game changer for them.
Speaker 2: So one newspaper article in the nineteen forties compared giving
Speaker 2: the walkie talkie to the military to giving a football
Speaker 2: team a quarterback. In fact, a nonprofit called the Telecommunications
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame estimated that Hing's inventions saved thousands of
Speaker 2: lives during World War Two. Now, after the war, walkie
Speaker 2: talkies became commercially available and were more often sold as toys.
Speaker 2: In the pre cell phone era, they were an essential
Speaker 2: communication device, especially for kids who wanted to keep chatting
Speaker 2: past their bedtime.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if kids had to learn Morse code
Speaker 1: to like chatting with their neighbors.
Speaker 2: I remember trying. I would try for like five minutes
Speaker 2: a time and just give up.
Speaker 1: It's so difficult. Well, you know who else uses walkie
Speaker 1: talkies is referees, And as it turns out, that's not
Speaker 1: the only thing Canadian inventors have done for refs. Instant
Speaker 1: replay is also a Canadian invention. It was first conceived
Speaker 1: by a Toronto based tea producer for the Canadian Broadcasting
Speaker 1: Corporations program Hockey Nights in Canada. His name was George
Speaker 1: Rhetz Laugh. This was in the nineteen fifties and he
Speaker 1: thought it'd be really cool to quickly replay moments from
Speaker 1: the games. So he started experimenting with this rapid film
Speaker 1: processor that could actually develop film in as little as
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, and he comes up with this amazing technique
Speaker 1: that would allow him to replay moments from games just
Speaker 1: seconds after they occurred. Retslaugh first used instant replay on
Speaker 1: air in nineteen fifty five when he replayed a goal
Speaker 1: during a game, and unfortunately he forgot to tell anyone
Speaker 1: that he was playing on doing this, So instead of
Speaker 1: celebrating this incredible, marvelous invention, Hockey Night sponsors were really upset.
Speaker 1: The show's lead advertiser, which was the McLaren advertising agency.
Speaker 1: They were angry that Rhet's laugh didn't give them advance
Speaker 1: warning so that they could promote the new feature to audiences.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, apparently there was a rule
Speaker 1: that hockey games had to be shown in the exact
Speaker 1: same way across networks, which meant that Retslas's innovation actually
Speaker 1: broke the rules by using this replay feature because all
Speaker 1: the other networks didn't have it. He never tried the
Speaker 1: technique again, but it did set the stage for future
Speaker 1: iterations of the technology.
Speaker 2: You know, it's hard to imagine watching sports now without
Speaker 2: instant replay.
Speaker 1: Do you remember. I mean, I remember when I was
Speaker 1: in like eighth grade or ninth grade, and we went
Speaker 1: to someone's house and they said they had a TV
Speaker 1: where they could rewind for sports, And it was just
Speaker 1: unbelievable that you could do that, because it was before
Speaker 1: you'd have to like tape a game and then rewind
Speaker 1: the game to be able to do that. But like
Speaker 1: for the first time and now like this technology is
Speaker 1: just everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's non stop. Yeah, it's pretty amazing, all right, another
Speaker 2: Canadian invention. In fact, I think this is my last
Speaker 2: one of the day, and it is the iconic Wonderbra mango.
Speaker 1: You know, I remember seeing the ads for that. There
Speaker 1: was like such a big deal in the nineties, right.
Speaker 2: They were. That's all the nineties was about, I think,
Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, they were everywhere. So in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety four, Wonderbra launched an ad campaign that made a
Speaker 2: huge splash. It featured model Eva Herzegova and she was
Speaker 2: wearing this wonderbra and very little else if you remember
Speaker 2: the ad there, and they plastered her picture on billboards
Speaker 2: across the US and across the UK, and the campaign
Speaker 2: stirred up a ton of publicity and no small amount
Speaker 2: of controversy. Of course, there were even rumors that the
Speaker 2: billboards were so distracting that they cause car crashes, although
Speaker 2: there doesn't seem to be any real evidence of this happening.
Speaker 2: Either way, the ads worked and the Wonderbra became a
Speaker 2: household name. But the story of the brand starts decades earlier, actually,
Speaker 2: way back to nineteen thirty nine. That's when the Canadian
Speaker 2: Lady corset company first started selling a new product called
Speaker 2: the Wonderbra.
Speaker 1: That is so weird that it's like it's actually from
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 2: That's insane, that's pretty old. Well, it was a pretty
Speaker 2: different look back then, So the original Wonderbra wasn't designed
Speaker 2: for looks. It was more about comfort. Now that changed
Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty three when Canadian Lady released its first
Speaker 2: push up bra. It was called the Wonderbra Dream Lift
Speaker 2: Model thirteen hundred sounds very scientific and it was a
Speaker 2: huge hit, and that design was the basis for the
Speaker 2: plunging style that became iconic in the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1: Now, as someone who's never worn one of these things,
Speaker 1: what made this particular bra so popular? Like, how was
Speaker 1: it different from everything else?
Speaker 2: But that was on the market, you know, it was
Speaker 2: a bunch of factors. So the folks that the Canadian
Speaker 2: Lady actually did a lot of market research in the
Speaker 2: nineteen sixties and it was clear to them that the
Speaker 2: attitudes toward clothing were changing. They wanted to understand what
Speaker 2: that meant for bras it turned out that while women
Speaker 2: wanted freedom from the heavy, overly structured bras and girdles
Speaker 2: of the past. They also wanted shaping and support, and
Speaker 2: they wanted bras that were fashionable, not just functional. So
Speaker 2: Wonderbra was designed to check all those boxes. But there's
Speaker 2: a little coda to this story. The success of the
Speaker 2: dream Lift made Canadian Lady an attractive acquisition target. In particular,
Speaker 2: it caught the eye of the major American brand that
Speaker 2: was looking to diversify its products. This was Sarah Lee.
Speaker 1: As a like the frozen cake companies.
Speaker 2: Very same one cakes and bras, you know, the very
Speaker 2: same company. So Sarah Le bought Canadian Lady in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty eight and changed its name to Canadell. Now today
Speaker 2: the Wonderbra is owned by Haynes and they've introduced new
Speaker 2: styles since then to keep up with the times, like
Speaker 2: a bra made from recycled materials. Actually, that's fascinating.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, so are you ready for our final facts
Speaker 1: because it is a big one.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen sixties, Canadian filmmakers Graham Ferguson and Roman
Speaker 1: Creuter decided film screens were simply too small for their
Speaker 1: ambitions for the cinema, so they invented imax now, Ferguson
Speaker 1: and Creuder were documentarians and interested in immersive cinema. They
Speaker 1: wanted to make audiences feel like they were.
Speaker 2: In the film.
Speaker 1: So in nineteen sixty seven, Frigson screened his documentary Polar
Speaker 1: Life at EXPOS sixty seven in Montreal, and he used
Speaker 1: multiple screens to create this panoramic experience, and the way
Speaker 1: it was executed is kind of amazing. So audiences sat
Speaker 1: on a platform that rotated as the film played, and
Speaker 1: it created this illusion that they were being transported to
Speaker 1: the Arctic. Kreuter also screened one of his films at
Speaker 1: XPO sixty seven, and even though he didn't use Fergson's
Speaker 1: turntable approach, he did use multiple screens to make his
Speaker 1: film more immersive. So Ferguson and Kreuter at this point
Speaker 1: they were both very interested in big screens, but they
Speaker 1: couldn't just build a giant screen and be done with it.
Speaker 1: They needed a film format that could be projected onto
Speaker 1: a large screen without quality loss, which at the time
Speaker 1: didn't exist. So Kreuter and Ferguson, who I should mention
Speaker 1: were also brothers in law. They enlisted the help of
Speaker 1: a couple of Ferguson's high school buddies Robert Kerr and Williamshaw.
Speaker 1: Robert was the successful businessman, Williamshaw was an engineer, and
Speaker 1: together they developed Imax technology, which included large format film
Speaker 1: as well as an Imax film camera and projector. It
Speaker 1: took a while to sell people on the idea, but
Speaker 1: once they did it really took off. Their are now
Speaker 1: hundreds of Imax theaters around the world, and while Imax
Speaker 1: was originally used almost exclusively for documentaries, nowadays narrative filmmakers
Speaker 1: are also getting in on the Imax game. So one
Speaker 1: of the most high profile recent movies shot on Imax
Speaker 1: film was Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and also Ryan Coogler Centers, which.
Speaker 2: Is yeah, I would imagine there'd be two intense movies
Speaker 2: to watch on the Imax. I actually love going to
Speaker 2: the Imax. The problem for me is by the time
Speaker 2: it gets to the actual movie, I've seen the most
Speaker 2: exciting part, because I get all pumped up when they're
Speaker 2: doing the like warm up part where they're like showing
Speaker 2: you where the speakers are and they're doing the exciting music,
Speaker 2: like the intro stuff. I'm so revved up that everything
Speaker 2: after that app Yeah, exactly, it's it's a little much.
Speaker 2: But my kids make fun of me for getting so
Speaker 2: excited during the basically warm up act for the actual movie.
Speaker 2: But you know, one thing I actually don't know is
Speaker 2: what is it? What does IMAX stand for?
Speaker 1: It is an abbreviation for image maximum.
Speaker 2: I would not have guessed that. It's also a little
Speaker 2: less interesting than I was hoping. But Mango, just because
Speaker 2: you reminded me of the pop culture phenomenon that was Barbenheimer,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you this week's trophy.
Speaker 1: You know, I humbly accept and I'd like to thank
Speaker 1: Canada for existing and for generally being wonderful and giving
Speaker 1: us all this stuff. So that does it for today.
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with another brand new episode.
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Speaker 1: Today's episode was written by the wonderful Anna Green. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Anna, and from Dylan Gabe, Mary, Will
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