1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chuck here on a Saturday. I hope you're 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: enjoying some breakfast cereal and maybe watching cartoons on the Telly, 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: but maybe take a pause and listen to this curated 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: episode from February twenty eighteen. What is mold Rama. I'm 5 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: not even gonna tell you what moldarrama is if you 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: don't know. It's not gross. It's not something that lives 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: on your walls when it's too humid. It's actually a 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: pretty cool, fun machine from. 9 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: Days gone by. So I hope you enjoyed this episode 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 2: all over again. 11 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 3: Right now, welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 3: of iHeartRadio. 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 4: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 4: there's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry over there, 15 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 4: and this is Stuff you Should Know a rama. 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of funny that you did that 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: little Do Do to Do, because I'm gonna go ahead 18 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: and plug this right off the top. Okay, we're doing 19 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: this show on Moldorama, which spoiler is a machine that 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: makes that made and still makes these little plastic things, but. 21 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 4: Has maybe one of the worst trade names. 22 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 2: Ever, Moldorama. 23 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 4: Yeah. 24 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead and plug this. There's a 25 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: YouTube video from this young lady where she shows off 26 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: her Moldorama little plastic toys that she's collected. Carpetbagger dot Org. 27 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Moldorama. Just look up that YouTube. She is 28 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: adorable and she's the best. And when she shows her 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: suitcase full of Moldorama plastic toys, she does a little 30 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: song and it's just adorable and great. 31 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 4: I gotta check that out. I saw her use one 32 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 4: of the Disney Disneyland toy factory Moldoramas. Yeah, I saw that, 33 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 4: so I know who you're talking about. 34 00:01:58,600 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 2: She's great. 35 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 4: So that was nice of you, Chuck. Well, let's wait 36 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 4: for everybody to come back from watching her YouTube video show. 37 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: Okay, let's wait for I think five or six minutes 38 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: and done. 39 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 4: Yes, time passes faster here at stuff you should know, 40 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 4: doesn't it. 41 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: It does. I'm eighty years old. 42 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 4: So so with you. Like you said, mold Rama, it 43 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 4: is a I've seen it described as a factory in 44 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 4: a case. Okay, I thought that was a pretty apt description. 45 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 4: But for those of you who don't know, it is 46 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 4: basically an odd demand injection blow molded plastic toy dispenser. 47 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 4: That is the that's a technical definition for it. And 48 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 4: while that might not make sense yet, it all will 49 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 4: make sense in about thirty or so minutes. 50 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: All right, how about this picture? 51 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: This? 52 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 4: All right, let's start over. Should we wait? Should we 53 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 4: edit my part out? 54 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: Oh no, let's leave this all in. All right, good 55 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: picture this. You walk into a room. 56 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 2: Let's say it's the tower now Willis Tower? Is it Willis? Oh? 57 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was Willis Tower, Sears Tower? Who keeps calling 58 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 4: it Willis Tower? Stop that Sears Tower? Or a world's 59 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 4: fair or something. And there is a machine that looks 60 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 4: sort of like a jukebox from fifty feet away. Oh yeah, 61 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 4: that's a good, good way. 62 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: And then you walk up closer to it and you're like, 63 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: oh wait, what is this weird mechanical thing? Let me 64 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 1: put in fifty cents, and right before your very eyes, 65 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: it will mechanically create a little plastic toy of an 66 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: alien or a building or a lion at a zoo, 67 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: and it will spit it out. And you'll say, that 68 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: was just melted from plastic and molded and shaped and 69 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: given to me right in front of my eyes. 70 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: What a fun neat thing. 71 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 4: Right, and you'll say all this after you recover from 72 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 4: fainting from the fumes of melted plastic, and then get 73 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 4: up and get your toy out, which is good because 74 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 4: they say that you should wait half a minute for 75 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 4: your toy to cool before you grab it from the Molderama, right. 76 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 4: I think that was a pretty good job. You just 77 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 4: did it describing it. 78 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: And I think this is super neat because this reminds 79 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: me of a bygone era, like where I went to 80 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: Nashville recently and went to Jack White's Third Man Records, 81 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: and he has one of those booths where you can 82 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: go in and. 83 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: Record a record. 84 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 4: Would you record? 85 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 2: Well, I didn't do it. I chickened out. 86 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 4: Okay. 87 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: What I wanted to do was go in and sing 88 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: a little song for my daughter and give it to 89 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: her as a record. And I was thinking, like, what 90 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,679 Speaker 1: could I do? What do I know in my brain 91 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: by heart? Because they have a little guitar you can 92 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: take in there, and it was such a small room 93 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: and it was in the room with everything else, and 94 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: I just got weirdly shy, like I don't want to 95 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: you to hear me. 96 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 4: You got shy? Jack White made you shy? Huh? Yeah? 97 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: I didn't want to do it in front of people. Like, 98 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: if there was literally no one in there, I would 99 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: have cut ten records. 100 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 4: Oh I got it. You should have stuck your head 101 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 4: on and been like, can you als leave for a 102 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 4: little while? 103 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 2: Just trust me? 104 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 4: Wow. 105 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: But anyway, this reminds me of those days gone by 106 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: where you could cut your own record or you know, 107 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: they had these really cool machines at fairs and things 108 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: that they just I mean, now, I guess you can 109 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: still get your picture taken and printed digitally. 110 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 4: Or the Penny smasher that's still around two. I see 111 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 4: that compared to this, A get a lot. Yeah those 112 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 4: are cool, not really, but still it's an app comparison. 113 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: I will just say, I'm surprised that my brother doesn't 114 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: have a Molderama in his basement. 115 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 4: So I am too, because there's a guy who collects 116 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 4: these things called Moldville, and I saw videos of his collection. 117 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 4: Did you see this, Yeah, it's like a warehouse full 118 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,559 Speaker 4: of mint conditioned Molderama machines. This guy must be richer 119 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 4: than an astronaut. He's got so many of these machines. 120 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 4: And you're right about this. It evoking the memories of 121 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 4: a bygone era. But what's crazy, Chuck, is that these 122 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 4: things are still in use today. You can find them 123 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 4: all over the country. Yeah, and they're still working. And 124 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 4: this is what's amazing to me. There are the original 125 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 4: machines that were made for about a seven year period 126 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 4: during the nineteen sixties. Every Moldorama machine that you might encounter, 127 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 4: including ten at the Toledo Zoo. By the way, we're 128 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 4: built in the sixties and have been operational ever since. 129 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 2: Should we talk about the history, Well, first. 130 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 4: Let me ask you this do you have Did you 131 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 4: ever use a Moldorama when you were a kid? No? 132 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 4: Oh you didn't. 133 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 2: No, And I'm dying now to go do one as 134 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 2: an adult. 135 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 4: So they're still around. Yeah, they're still around. Okay, I 136 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 4: actually I got one that there's this thing in Toledo 137 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 4: called well actually it's in mallme which is a suburb 138 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 4: of Toledo, but it's called Children's Wonderland and it's like 139 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 4: this amazing three D Christmas walk through diorama. Basically that 140 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 4: just nothing can put you in the Christmas spirit as 141 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 4: a kid better than Children's Wonderland. And at the end 142 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,559 Speaker 4: of this there was a Moldorama machine and it made 143 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 4: a gold, smelly, plasticy angel. It was kind of boring, 144 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 4: boring Christmas angel, but it was mine and I was 145 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 4: so glad to have it. And I have no idea 146 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 4: what happened to it. I'm sure it broke pretty quickly, 147 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 4: but I was like, holy cow, I've had one of 148 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 4: these before. I had no idea what it was called. 149 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 4: That it was moldorama, but I looked it up and 150 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 4: actually found the angel. 151 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 2: Well. 152 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: I think that's the cool thing about these as a 153 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: kid is it's not putting your quarter in a gumball 154 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: machine and seeing all those things and one of them 155 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: falls out right. This is made just for you, right 156 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: in front of your face. 157 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,239 Speaker 4: Yep. Pretty cool. 158 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 2: All right? So now can we go back in time? 159 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I'm I'm done nostalgizing? All right? Wait, what 160 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 4: is it reminiscing? 161 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: Sure, Okay, nostalgizing. I think it's a word, right it is? 162 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: Now all right, we're going back to nineteen thirty seven 163 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: in the winter when one J. H. Miller Tyke is 164 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: his nickname. I don't know what that comes from. 165 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: Was he little? 166 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 4: I don't know, not that I saw. 167 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: Well, because it's spelled differently. T ik. Yeah, I don't 168 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 2: know what it means anyway, of. 169 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: Quincy, Illinois, he was he made figurines. He and his 170 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: wife made figurines, and they needed a replacement for his 171 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: Nativity scene. I guess his little baby Jesus was decapitated 172 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: by his dog. He needed a new one, and he 173 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: couldn't find a place to sell him just one little piece. Yeah, 174 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: you gotta buy the whole Nativity scene. And he was like, well, 175 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: what am I going to do with that? 176 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, he said, I just needed one. And you could 177 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 4: understand the department stores position, like if they sell you 178 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 4: just one piece, there's a whole set that they can't 179 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,239 Speaker 4: sell because who wants that set without the one piece. 180 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: Right, unless it's like maybe a. 181 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 4: Donkey maybe I remember the donkey. That was a good 182 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 4: one though. That was one of my favorites as a kid. 183 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 1: But anyway, he and his wife said, here's what we're 184 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna take these lemons and make them 185 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: into lemonade in the form of making our own little 186 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: plaster replacement figure. And apparently they were pretty good at it, 187 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: because they ended up doing this for a living and 188 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: founding a company doing this. Because the Germans evidently had 189 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: the market cornered on nativity pieces, and when World War 190 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: two came around, they said nine for you, right, and 191 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: we had a shortage. 192 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. All we wanted was liberty figures is what they 193 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 4: called them during World War two, not nativity because the 194 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 4: Germans had supplied us with nativity figures, so American main 195 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 4: ones you could call liberty figures. 196 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 2: That like freedom fries, right. 197 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 4: I think they actually called sauerkraut liberty cabbage. I'm not kidding. 198 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 4: So the tyke and his wife established this company and 199 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 4: in World War Two that really kind of grew because 200 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 4: they cornered the market and they just kept going from there. 201 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 4: And then about ten years after World War Two they 202 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 4: decided to move from plaster and by the way, he 203 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 4: started selling nativity figures into visual ones to those same 204 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 4: department stores who would only sell them sets before, which 205 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 4: I think is kind of sweet revenge. But they moved 206 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 4: from plaster figures to plastic and got into a type 207 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 4: of injection molding where air is blown into it, which 208 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 4: saves on plastic and creates a lightweight plastic figurine. And really, honestly, 209 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 4: nothing says nineteen fifties Midwest more than plastic nativity figures 210 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 4: you know, probably so yeah, made by a man named Tyke. 211 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean they did pretty well for a 212 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 2: little while. I guess. 213 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly when the company was founded, but 214 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: if in nineteen thirty seven he came up with this 215 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: idea and they went bankrupt in nineteen fifty nine, they 216 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: sounds like they added some good years in there. 217 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 4: Yeah they did. But I and I did not see 218 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 4: why they went bankrupt. I saw they were nothing but successful. 219 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know if maybe they sunk 220 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 4: a bunch of money into these machines and it just 221 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 4: didn't quite make it or what. But he was very successful. 222 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 4: And he had a line of plastic toys that kids 223 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 4: would buy by the fistfol at like the local five 224 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 4: and dime or novelty store or something like that. And 225 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 4: he had lines of like dinosaurs, I think, toy soldiers. 226 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 4: But the one that really put his company on the 227 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 4: map as far as kids were concerned, were called Earth Invaders, yeah, 228 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 4: also known as Miller Aliens, and there was a line 229 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 4: of tons of them, but the one that is still 230 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 4: today the most prized of all was the Purple people Eater, 231 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 4: and it actually inspired that that song from the fifties, 232 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 4: which I didn't realize that song was quite that old. 233 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 4: But the song about the one eyed, one eared flying 234 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 4: purple Peepleater that was based on Tyke Miller's creation from 235 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 4: the fifties. 236 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 2: I think it was the other way around. 237 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think the song was based 238 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 4: on the figure. 239 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: It says here the Purple people Eater was inspired by 240 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: the hit. 241 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 4: Song Oh I saw. I read that as the opposite. 242 00:11:59,200 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 4: Thanks good cat. 243 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: I think that's the case because that song was a 244 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: big hit and they were all manner of Purple people 245 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: Eater souvenirs and things. 246 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 4: Gotcha. 247 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 2: It was a big business back then. 248 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 4: Thank you for that one. 249 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 2: No problem. 250 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 4: We would have gotten some email from like three people 251 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 4: on that. 252 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 2: Tyke's great grandson, little Tyke. 253 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: So in fifty nine or sixty they went bankrupt, and 254 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: it was right around this time where he said, all right, 255 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: I've got this idea for an actual vending machine that 256 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: could make these things on demand. 257 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: And he was successful. 258 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 1: He licensed this thing actually to what would eventually become 259 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: a Merra Mark, which everyone knows that that company is still. 260 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: Around the time, they were called the Automatic Retailers of America, 261 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: and he developed these machines with them, and in nineteen 262 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: sixty two at the Seattle World's Fair, they premiered there 263 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,959 Speaker 1: doing little space needles and monorails and buddhas and buddhas 264 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: for like fifty cents, which is about four bucks today. 265 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: So it was not a little cheap thing. It's not 266 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: like sticking a dime in a machine today. 267 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 4: Right, No, they were definitely expensive, but they were a 268 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 4: huge hit at that Seattle World's Fair. That was what 269 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 4: nineteen sixty two. 270 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 2: Yep. 271 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 4: So in nineteen sixty four at the New York World's Fair, 272 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 4: they blew up. They went from a couple of machines 273 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 4: in Seattle, I guess three machines in Seattle to as 274 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 4: many as one hundred and fifty at the New York 275 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 4: World's Fair from nineteen sixty four in nineteen sixty five. 276 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 4: And even more than just having that many more machines, 277 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 4: they also had branded machines. Right, So, like if you 278 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 4: were a company like Sinclair Oil or Disney and you 279 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 4: wanted to just kind of give people an extra little 280 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 4: amazing experience, you could license and brand your own Molderama, 281 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 4: And they had plenty of those at the World's Fair 282 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 4: some pretty cool ones too. 283 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, So, like you said, anywhere from Disneyland to Montreal's 284 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: World Expo. And that's the cool thing, is that disney 285 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: World or a Disneyland there could be. I think they 286 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: were some of the characters that were actually acting like 287 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: they were working the machine, right, it's kind of clever. 288 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: Or if you know in you're in Montreal, it's going 289 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: to be Canadian mounties or maybe an Eiffel Tower, right. 290 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 4: If you could contact the company, get them to make 291 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 4: you your own like signage I guess, to put on 292 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 4: the machine, and then most importantly, they would sculpt and 293 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 4: then manufacture a mold from that sculpture whatever you wanted, 294 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 4: say your logo or your brand or something like that, 295 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 4: some sort of statuette that had that you could set 296 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 4: it up and people would take home your little branded chotchkey. 297 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 4: It was pretty cool. It was a big hit in 298 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 4: the sixties and to air Marker AAR at the time, 299 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 4: they were like, well, this is great, but apparently they 300 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 4: were just looking at the whole thing as a proof 301 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 4: of concept because they had their sights on not just 302 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 4: like on demand novelties, but on demand everything, like on 303 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 4: demand dishware on demand, jewelry on demand, combs on demand, 304 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 4: ash trays that they felt like this was the future 305 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 4: because at the time, you know, the early sixties, plastics 306 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 4: was the future. It was pretty soon everything was going 307 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 4: to be made in plastic and no one was ever 308 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 4: going to have cancer from it a day in their life, right, 309 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 4: you know. It was a plastically optimistic time. 310 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 2: That's right. 311 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: And in the end they manufactured about two hundred of 312 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: these machines over a seven year period. But by nineteen 313 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: seventy one they said, you know what Aar said, we're 314 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: getting out. 315 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 2: Of this moldoramabizeh. Should we take a breaking. 316 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to go press together our own little 317 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: mouldi dinosaur and be right back. 318 00:15:53,960 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 5: Shop, all right, chuck. 319 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 4: So Aar gets out of the biz, and it's kind 320 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 4: of understandable. So why there's a couple of big problems 321 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 4: with Molderama machines. One, they're expensive to manufacture. They were 322 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 4: like apparently thirty six hundred bucks per at the time. 323 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 4: That was back in nineteen sixty two, so just under 324 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 4: thirty thousand dollars today your machine h machine. And then 325 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 4: also once you set these things up, they required almost 326 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 4: constant attention. You had to go refill them with plastic, 327 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 4: You had to top off their fluids, you had to 328 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 4: fix any parts, you had to keep them clean, you 329 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 4: had to get gum off of them, because again these 330 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 4: are interfacing with little kids, so there was a lot 331 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 4: of maintenance in upkeep to them as well. So aer 332 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 4: remarks said we're done. In the seventies, they sold off 333 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 4: their machines to a couple of different groups. 334 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 335 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a mechanical like hydraulic machine that 336 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: required like oil and anti freeze. 337 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 2: There was it was no uh. 338 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: I mean if it sounds like and I mean, I 339 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: guess we can go into the process a little bit. 340 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,719 Speaker 1: It gets a little wonky for my taste, Okay, but 341 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: I guess we should talk a little bit about how 342 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: these actually work, right. 343 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, we kind of have to and it'll be fun, 344 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 4: I promise you. 345 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 2: Ready, Well, I will say this. First of all, there 346 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 2: are hydraulics. 347 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, and there are these these two molds, and you 348 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: can go to on YouTube and look at how these 349 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: things work. 350 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: It's pretty neat. They these two molds. 351 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: It's basically one half of the little toy on each side. 352 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there like a three dimensional sculptured statuette. 353 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, So they move toward each other with these hydraulics 354 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: and they're pressed together forms a big seal and it 355 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: ends up it ends up being hollow on the inside. 356 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: That's kind of a big point to make. 357 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 4: It's a negative of the sculpture. 358 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 359 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 4: So then there's a couple of holes in the bottom 360 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 4: that lead into that sculpture cavity, and into that you 361 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 4: inject hot plastic. Because one thing that a lot of 362 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 4: people don't realize about the mold thematic is just beneath 363 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 4: this the work surface that is the floor of what 364 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 4: you can see below that is a vat of two 365 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five to two hundred and fifty degree 366 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 4: Farrent height molten plastic just sitting there, bubbling hot. 367 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, little pellets. 368 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: They feed it in little colored pellets, right, although for 369 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: a little while they actually had just kind of neutral 370 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: pellets that they use colored powder. Right, But they at 371 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: least wised up there and said, why don't we just 372 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: color the pellets and just stick with the one color yep. 373 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 4: And then so the system has a closed steam system 374 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 4: that runs hot steam through crazy that runs through these 375 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 4: plastic pellet vat, this plastic pellet vat and it melts 376 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 4: the pellets and then keeps a molten So then when 377 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 4: that when the the the mold seals up above come 378 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 4: together and form that seal, hot plastic is injected into 379 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 4: the mold and fills it up. 380 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 2: That's right, hot plastic injection. Great band name. 381 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. 382 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: And then these things obviously have to be cooled pretty 383 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: quick like in order for them to I mean, what 384 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: solidify is that the right word? But when they do 385 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: come out, like you said, they are warm, and I'm surprised. 386 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: I mean, this seems like something that you could not 387 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: create today without there being so much liability on your hands. 388 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 4: Well, again, they still are in use. You can still 389 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 4: go to the Toledo Zoo, to zoos all over the 390 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 4: Midwest and Florida and tourist attractions and rest stops and 391 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 4: you will find these things still in use. 392 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: It's just so funny to me that, like it literally 393 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: says on the little door that you open, hold upside 394 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: down while it cools, don't let the molten plastic drip 395 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: on little Timmy's hand. 396 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 4: That's exactly right. So we got the injection molding part done, 397 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 4: but there's one step that we missed, and that's the 398 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 4: blow part that makes it injection blow molding. And this 399 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 4: is how these companies manage to actually make money. And 400 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,919 Speaker 4: one of the reasons why the molderama chatchkeys are so 401 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 4: fragile is that they're hollow inside. So the mold is 402 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 4: filled with the hot plastic and then compressed air is 403 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 4: blown into it. And the compressed air does two things. One, 404 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 4: it pushes the plastic against the mold so it completely 405 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 4: covers it, and it takes on the shape of the mold, right, 406 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 4: And then it also blows the excess plastic out the 407 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 4: bottom so it's hollow, and then the excess plastic goes 408 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 4: back into the vat when it's reused, reused exactly, so 409 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 4: it might use enough plastic at first to make ten 410 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 4: of these things or five or something. I'm just totally 411 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 4: guessing here, But then it reuses it by blowing it 412 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 4: out the bottom and making it a hollow object rather 413 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 4: than a solid one, right, okay, and then it comes 414 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 4: out hot. They say, wait thirty seconds or half a minute, 415 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 4: I think is how they put it. And the reason 416 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 4: why they say hold it upside down is because there's 417 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 4: still that hole at the bottom that that little hot 418 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 4: plastic can. Like you said, burn Timmy's hands. 419 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 2: That's right. 420 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,239 Speaker 4: The smell, chuck. You've never smelled anything like it. 421 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 2: Do you remember the smell? 422 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 4: Yes, I can remember the smell it was. It's it's 423 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 4: at the same time pleasing and totally noxious. Interesting, Like 424 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 4: as a kid, you're like, this smells weird and cool, 425 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 4: But as an adult, I'm sure you'd be like, this 426 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 4: is going to kill my whole family and it's going 427 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 4: to kill my great grandchildren somehow. 428 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: Well, back then, no one cared. No, they didn't, you know, 429 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: and like we said, tons of upkeep. You know, you've 430 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: got steam, you've got hydraulic fluid, you have anti freeze, 431 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: sometimes cold water, but I would suspect anti freeze in 432 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 1: most cases. Yeah, And until the nineteen seventies, like I said, 433 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: you had powdered coloring. I mean, this whole thing is 434 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 1: I'm surprised they didn't explode at any point. 435 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. One of the other things that I really admire 436 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 4: about this is that, again, the machines that are still 437 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 4: in use today, that still work just as well as 438 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 4: ever today, were built exclusively from nineteen sixty two to 439 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,719 Speaker 4: nineteen sixty nine when Ara Mark was making them, and 440 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 4: then these things also because they put off these terrible fumes, 441 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 4: they're kept outside, so they've been sitting in the elements 442 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 4: for fifty plus years and they still work. They're pretty 443 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 4: pretty well built machines, for sure. 444 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: I think they've they've got some now that they have 445 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: been able to move indoors. 446 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, from using a different type of plastic. I think. 447 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy that these things had to be outside. 448 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 4: Yeah, and they still are. Most of them are a 449 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 4: lot of them have like kind of built in little 450 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 4: canopies over them or something like that. But if you 451 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 4: look at the canopy you can tell they're kind of new. 452 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 4: They've been outside basically for fifty years. 453 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 2: I'm so going to be on the lookout for these now. 454 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 4: So there is a website Chuck called Waymarking way m 455 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 4: A r KI NNG dot com. They have a comprehensive 456 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 4: list of every single MOLDERAMA in use today in the 457 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 4: United States, and they they have like actual like longitude 458 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 4: and latitude coordinates. If you want to, I guess geocash 459 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 4: your way to them. 460 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: Well, what I want is an app that will text 461 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: me when I'm within five hundred feet of one. 462 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 4: Oh that's a that's a good idea. 463 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: There's a ten dollars app and by ten dollar app, 464 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: I mean you would make ten dollars. 465 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 4: Yeah, although people are crazy for these things still is We'll. 466 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: See they're none in Atlanta, right, not that. 467 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 4: I saw no, But again, there's a bunch of Toledo. 468 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 4: I found the machine that I almost certainly got my 469 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 4: angel from. 470 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: Oh wow. 471 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 4: They keep it in storage at Tama Shanner, which is 472 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 4: an ice skating rink in I guess a Scottish ice 473 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 4: skating rink. I don't know, in Mome, which is where 474 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 4: they have Children's Wonderland. But I saw a picture of it, 475 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 4: and now it looks like the most recent thing it 476 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 4: makes is polar bears. 477 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 2: And your DNA is on that machine. 478 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 4: Still somewhere in the form of a lot of gum. 479 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's take another break. 480 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 1: We'll come back and talk a little bit about some 481 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: of these fun figures and the people that are still 482 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: trying to keep this traditional alive. 483 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 2: All right, So. 484 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I wanted to know, and that 485 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: our article didn't get to till three quarter the way through. 486 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: I was like, can do they have different things for 487 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: each machine. The answer, sadly is no. If it spits 488 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: out a dinosaur, it can only spit out a dinosaur 489 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: unless you change up that mold. 490 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 4: Yes, but you can change the color and you'll have 491 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 4: a different colored dinosaur. 492 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 2: Well until they started using the single color pellets. 493 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 4: Right, Well, no, then they just put in a different 494 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 4: color when they refill the thing, and all of a 495 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 4: sudden it went from a purple dinosaur or a green dinosaur. 496 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 1: Right, But could you say purple and hit a purple button? No, 497 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 1: or it's whatever the kid who worked there decided to 498 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: put in that morning. 499 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 4: That's exactly right. The thing is though, and again it's 500 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 4: not even just the toy that comes out. The toy is, 501 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 4: especially as a kid, invariably disappointing, sure, but it's the process. 502 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 4: It's watching this thing happen, and the MOLDERAMA machines will 503 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 4: have like little different lights that light up like now 504 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 4: we're cooling, now we're about to launch the toy to you. 505 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 4: You know, it tells you what's going on, so you're 506 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 4: following the process, which is at least is probably eighty 507 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 4: percent of the appeal of the whole thing. 508 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: Stand back right now, because if I were to explode, 509 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: it would be during this next eight seconds. 510 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 4: Right, all right, your mom who's standing there missing her 511 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 4: one arm from saving you in a car wreck. It's 512 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 4: like you probably should stand back exactly. 513 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 1: No one knows exactly how many of these molds were made, 514 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: but they're, like we said, our enthusiasts who collect these. 515 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: And this one dude, Bill Bolman, who owns one and 516 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: runs moldville dot com. Bad bad You are all there, right. 517 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, it is bad. And I got to say, I 518 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 4: looked it up and it's a dead domain. But he's 519 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 4: got a Facebook thing that he does. Now that's where 520 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 4: he's moved to. 521 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where he went. My Space and then he 522 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: went Facebook. But there will never be another site better 523 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: than Facebook. So I'm sure it's all over right, probably 524 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: so he his estimate is about three hundred designs us 525 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: more than that. 526 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 4: I don't know. This guy knows what he's talking about. 527 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:09,479 Speaker 4: He counted one hundred and ninety six original ones. And 528 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 4: then he said after the sixties more people started to 529 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 4: make them. They weren't just commissioned by Aerra Mark who 530 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 4: was keeping track of these things. And I would I 531 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 4: would say this guy's probably the person on earth who 532 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 4: could estimate how many there are the closest. 533 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 2: And not just me guessing randomly. But it's more. 534 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 4: And what's cool though also is again like if you 535 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 4: were you could be anybody, if you wanted a Moldorama 536 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 4: thing at your event, you could, it could happen. Sure 537 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 4: I found there was a Circleville, Ohio Pumpkin Festival Moldurama figure. 538 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: Wonderful. 539 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 4: So one of the three hundred molds is a pumpkin 540 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 4: from Circleville, Ohio's pumpkin Fest in the seventies. Another one, 541 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 4: so apparently Toledo was crazy about these things, because again 542 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 4: there's ten at the Toledo Zoo. There's the one at 543 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 4: Tamlashan that I got a mine from. There was one 544 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 4: in the eighties at the Toledo mud Headens Stadium, and 545 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 4: there's a mud Hen's figure, which is pretty cool actually. 546 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 4: And I looked and there's like zero for sale anywhere, 547 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 4: but now I'm kind of on the lookout for that thing. 548 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 4: But all you had to do was just make a 549 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 4: bold get your hands on one of these, and bam, Circleville, 550 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 4: Ohio's Pumpkin Fest went from zero to hero. 551 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: Right, and you two could have a snowman or a 552 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: Gramman's Chinese theater, or a space lab or a Lawrence Welk. 553 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, or a Titan missile. 554 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, and NASA had a lot of these things. Actually, 555 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 4: I'm sure what else was there? 556 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 2: Well, the Lawrence Welk. None of those were jokes. Those 557 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 2: are real. 558 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for sure, there was. 559 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: A Titan three C missile in a Lawrence Welk says. 560 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: Other famous people. I'm kind of curious. 561 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 4: I didn't see anybody besides President and Lawrence Welk. There's 562 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 4: one of the Georgia State Capitol building. Oh really, Yeah, 563 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 4: there were some cool ones. Actually, the Saint Louis arch 564 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 4: is surprisingly cool. You wouldn't think it'd be that cool. 565 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 4: The Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile, this one was kind of random. 566 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 4: It was it's a high Ali player and then at 567 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 4: the base it says, hi, a lie in Miami. 568 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 2: Okay. 569 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 4: The water Skier from Cypress I think Cypress Gardens, Florida. 570 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 4: And the Mermaids from Wikiwachie Springs, Florida. 571 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: Oh, we talked about them. Oh, here's one. Universal Studios 572 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: had one that made a Frankenstein coinbank. 573 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 2: That's kind of cool. 574 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 4: It is very cool, Like, a lot of these are 575 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 4: actually super cool, especially the original retro ones. You can 576 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 4: actually see like I can't remember the woman's name, but 577 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 4: there is a woman who was hired by one of 578 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 4: the companies that still operate these things to start making molds, 579 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 4: and she's been making them for the last twenty five 580 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 4: years and compare to some of the ones from the sixties, 581 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 4: like she's just head and shoulders above the people who 582 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 4: are sculpting them. Then, like, these are really really well 583 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 4: made sculptures, not only in like the actual sculpture that 584 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 4: she's making, but the decisions she's making produces just a 585 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 4: better mold. Arama toy. Yeah, because again, you're you're dealing 586 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 4: with melted plastic in a mold that is two halves 587 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 4: pressed together. There's a lot of like details that can 588 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,479 Speaker 4: go wrong, and this, this great sculptor is taking all 589 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 4: of them into account making some really boss ones like 590 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 4: the Wienermobile. It's art to behold this, The detail in 591 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 4: it is really really nice. 592 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: Should we talk about a couple of these companies that 593 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: are still still going strong. 594 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, at least going No, they're going strong man, Okay, good. 595 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: There are a couple of them one called Replication Devices, 596 00:30:53,840 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: one called mold A Rama Incorporated Replication Devices, founded by 597 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: Elden Irwin, who bought a bunch of these. It has 598 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: dozens in the early sixties, eventually passed down through his family, 599 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: and right now his grandson and his wife, the Strigowls 600 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: in Florida are operating sixty or seventy of these. 601 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, and let's think about this for a second. So 602 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 4: Elden Irwin bought dozens, now they're up to sixty, maybe seventy, 603 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 4: And those Molderama machines have supported three generations of this 604 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 4: family fully from what I understand, Yes, okay, I saw 605 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 4: an interview with Tim Strigou and he said he was 606 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 4: surprised that the business was still going when his parents 607 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 4: took it over. And now he the grandson and his 608 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 4: wife operate it. And yes, from what I understand it 609 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 4: fully supports it. The San Antonio Zoo estimated that they 610 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 4: make one hundred and thirty thousand figurines a year from 611 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 4: their one Molderama. 612 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: Two bucks a pop. That's two high undred and sixty 613 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: thousand gross. 614 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 4: Times sixty or seventy, So yeah, they're doing just fine. 615 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: This other one Molderrama Ink like, we're not asking one 616 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: to open their books for us. 617 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 4: No, for sure, and I certainly don't want to shine 618 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 4: a light on these people's finances. But I'm just saying, 619 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 4: like it's it's astounding to me that these machines built 620 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 4: in the sixties, left out in the elements for fifty years, 621 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 4: are managing to support three generations of the families who 622 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 4: have been operating them. I just think that's super cool. 623 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it sounds like it's kind of like 624 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: people are own car washes. Sure, isn't it like a 625 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: front always to launder money from drug sales? 626 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 4: I would guess. I think it's low hanging, easy to buy. 627 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: I'm just kidding everyone out there that owns car washes. 628 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 1: I've watched too much Breaking Bad. 629 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 4: Oh that's right, that's right. But I think that is 630 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 4: like a legitimate thing. 631 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: Like, yeah, cash businesses are ripe for the picking. 632 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 4: I forgot they bought that car wash. 633 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, so Moldorama Inc. Like I said, William A. 634 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 1: Jones Company's changed their name in twenty eleven, but they 635 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 1: got into this in nineteen seventy one when William A. 636 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: Jones bought some of these from one of the guys 637 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: who worked for the original Moldorama. Then they expanded, bought 638 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: more machines and it is still a family business again. 639 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 2: They got about sixty of them. 640 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 4: Yep, and they were William A. Jones Company. And then 641 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 4: I guess they got their hands on the Moldorama trademark 642 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 4: in twenty eleven and they changed the name of the 643 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 4: company to Moldorama, Inc. Again because that's originally what it 644 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 4: was called back when Era Mark was running it. 645 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're mainly in the Midwest, Minnesota, Michigan, a bunch 646 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: of them in Illinois and one in Texas. 647 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 2: It looks like right, not bad. 648 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 4: And then every once in a while you have just 649 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 4: some independent operators like Knoxville Zoo owns their own. They 650 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 4: apparently got there from Dollywood, which man, Moldorama is at Dollywood. 651 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 4: That make your wig spin. 652 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: There's this one cool thing I wanted to shout out. 653 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: This toy store in Chicago, Roto Fugi or Rotafuji, I'm 654 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: not sure how you pronounce it. They repurposed their own Moldorama. 655 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: They bought one and repurposed it that was originally the 656 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: La Zoo and they call it the Roto a Mattic. 657 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: And they have something called the Helper Dragon you can 658 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 1: get for six bucks. And if you look up the 659 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: Helper Dragon and these dudes, it is clear that they 660 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 1: are Simpsons fans. 661 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 2: Did you see this thing? 662 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,440 Speaker 4: Yeah? I did. I saw a video of it, but 663 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 4: it was kind of out of focus. 664 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, like just google image of the Helper Dragon rodo 665 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: omatic and it is to me at least clearly the 666 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,720 Speaker 1: cyclops alien from The Simpsons. 667 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 4: With its oh yeah. 668 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 2: With its head stuck on the body of a winged lion. 669 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 4: Nice. 670 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 2: That's my take on it. 671 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 4: Very nice. 672 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,799 Speaker 1: And then there is this one other guy. He is 673 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: a Disney World imagineer named James Durand, and he has 674 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: built his own moldorama called the Mini Molder. And you 675 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: just look at this guy. You know, he's an imagineer. 676 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: You look at this machine and you're like, I would 677 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 1: hire that guy to build and do anything, because he's 678 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: clearly a brilliant genius. 679 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,840 Speaker 2: Yep, really cool looking thing. 680 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 4: And a bit of a show off. Frankly, you think, So, 681 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 4: I've got two more things, all right. The Moldorama used 682 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 4: to be fifty cents in its original incarnation in nineteen 683 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 4: sixty two, which, again thanks to our friends at West 684 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 4: Egg inflation calculator tells us is about four dollars and 685 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,359 Speaker 4: twelve cents in twenty seventeen money. Today you can get 686 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 4: a Moldorama for two bucks, which means that the price 687 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 4: has gone down by half over the last fifty years. 688 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 4: Oh interesting, pretty cool. And then lastly, so after Tyke 689 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 4: Miller got out of the plastics injection molding business, he 690 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 4: had another invention that he called the Golden Goat, and 691 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 4: it was this big machine that apparently he invented to 692 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 4: put out in parking lots at like grocery stores, and 693 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,880 Speaker 4: it would take up about two parking spaces, and customers 694 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 4: would come in and put in their used aluminum cans 695 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,880 Speaker 4: and then the Golden Goat would weigh it and then 696 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,399 Speaker 4: give them some money in return, and then it would 697 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 4: compact those cans, and then later on is that aluminum 698 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 4: would be sold as scrap for recycling. The thing is 699 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,040 Speaker 4: that this was years before the green movement was ever 700 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 4: even thought of. That's how ahead of his time this 701 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,719 Speaker 4: guy was. And I don't think the Golden Goat ever 702 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,240 Speaker 4: made him a lot of money, but it's a pretty 703 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 4: cool invention that this guy had. He was like one 704 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 4: of those great Midwestern tinker inventor guys. Yeah, hats off 705 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:53,439 Speaker 4: to him. 706 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 2: God blessed all those people. 707 00:36:55,080 --> 00:37:00,840 Speaker 4: Yep. So there you go, Nativity figures plastic. If you 708 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 4: want to know more about Mulderama Man, you can fall 709 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 4: down a rabbit hole just looking at pictures of him 710 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 4: on the internet. So why don't you go do that? 711 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 4: Take some time for yourself, you know, why do you 712 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,399 Speaker 4: always have to work? Work? 713 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:10,720 Speaker 2: Work? 714 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 4: Since I said that it's time for a listener mail, I'm. 715 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 2: Going to call this just kind of a quick shout out. 716 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: We don't do these a lot because we get a 717 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,239 Speaker 1: lot of shout out requests, but this one was adorable 718 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,919 Speaker 1: because this little kid. So this is from Ginny, she's 719 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 1: the mom. She says, how about a shout out or 720 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,359 Speaker 1: my son Jake. He listens to every episode more than once. 721 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,920 Speaker 1: Nic He's got me and many others into the show 722 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: and we love it. So young Jake is out there 723 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: spreading the word and we appreciate that, Jake, and you 724 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 1: love the show so much you named well, not quite yet, 725 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: but Jake says he wants to get a puppy and 726 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,759 Speaker 1: call it Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and he says this 727 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: most of the time he will be called Chuck, but 728 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,879 Speaker 1: when he does something wrong, I'll be like, Charles W. 729 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 2: Chuck Bryant, why did you do that? 730 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 4: Yep? Well, Jake, we have a really big surprise for 731 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 4: you if you will go to your back door. I 732 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 4: think you're gonna find something pretty special out there. No, 733 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 4: I'm just kidding. 734 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:10,799 Speaker 2: No, We're just kidding, Jake. 735 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: There's not a puppy at your back door unless your 736 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,320 Speaker 1: mom Jenny heard this beforehand and is the best. 737 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 2: Mom in the world. Yeah, and your mom. 738 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,759 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was pretty cool of her to write in 739 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 4: and let us know. So way to go, Jake for 740 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 4: listening to us. Thank you, Thank you very much. 741 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Jake, Thank you Jenny. We count literally 742 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: count on people like you to spread the words, so 743 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 1: we appreciate it. 744 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 4: Good luck with your eventual puppy too named Charles W. 745 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,719 Speaker 2: Chuck Bryant when he's bad. 746 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 4: If you want to tell us about well, your cute kid, 747 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 4: we want to hear about him or her, you can 748 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:47,400 Speaker 4: send us an email. 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