1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, 3 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 1: and there's Chuck and Jerry's here and we're silly and 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: this is Stuff you should Know Silly podcast. Boy, did 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: this one just not reek of the Old House Stuff 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: Works days? Yeah? But what's awesome is that you knew 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: that you could just you know, like you didn't have 8 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: to double check any facts or anything like that, because 9 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: Tracy Wilson was on the case here and she does 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: not get her facts mixed up. No, this was an 11 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: Old House Stuff Works article from Tracy and also got 12 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: some stuff from CNN, Gismoto, a mental floss, the Wired, 13 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: and Mother Jones, which feels like a veritable greatest hits 14 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: of Stuff you should Know reference sites that look at it. 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: But we're talking about Silly String. We haven't done one 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: on a classic toy in a long time. It's been 17 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: too long. And although this isn't quite as interesting as 18 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: like say a Sea monkey, I think it still has 19 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: some pretty interesting points. Well, there's a d percent less 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: Nazis in this one, which I like, not one Nazi. 21 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: So um, Silly String is a toy and it's one 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: of those things that is so ubiquitous and everybody knows 23 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: about it and may may even be annoyed by it 24 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: or whatever. That, Um, you don't realize that there's people 25 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: out there who talk about this stuff and think about 26 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: this stuff, and that if you start to dive into 27 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: the Internet and look for those people, uh, and you 28 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: read what they write, you start to figure out that 29 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: they're all very, very wrong in whatever they're saying about 30 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: silly string. Yeah, and I think that was I think, 31 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: especially at the time Tracy wrote this article, it was 32 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,639 Speaker 1: one of those deals where everything on the web basically said, 33 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: and we don't even know what's in silly string, And 34 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: it's one of those sort of like uh, easy chase. 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: It's like this sort of mystery what's inside the can 36 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: and science can't even figure it out and all we 37 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: know is invented by Julius Simon in nineteen sixty nine. 38 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: And it turns out that none of that stuff stuff 39 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: is actually true. We do know what's in silly string, 40 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: and Julius Simon did not invent it. No, And I 41 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: think here, um, about a minute and a half into 42 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: the podcast, we should probably tell everybody what silly string 43 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: is in case they have been in case they haven't heard, 44 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: living where living outside of a silly string laden country. 45 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: That's right. Silly string comes in an aerosol can. So 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: if you look at it, it's it might look like 47 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: easy cheese or a small can of AquaNet. First spray paint. There, 48 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: spray paint. I was trying to think of like antiquated things, 49 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: but sure spray paint works as well. Uh. And you 50 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: press the nozzle and out comes shooting a pressurized stream 51 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: of this foamy string, and you can It depends on 52 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 1: you know, how hard you shake it and your angle 53 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: of incidents, I guess, or is that right. I've probably 54 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: got that wrong. The angle in which you shoot it. Sure, 55 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: angle of attack, angle of attack. But it can travel 56 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: you know, five six seven up to ten twelve feet, 57 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: and it's like kind of wet and cold cool feeling 58 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: when it comes out, comes out very fast and then 59 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: very quickly kind of um. It doesn't completely dry. It 60 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: still has sort of that tacky feeling because it will 61 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: stick to things. But the idea is that it stays 62 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: in a string form unless you kind of pull it apart. 63 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: That's what makes silly string fun and great. Yeah, it's 64 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: not like your grandfather shaving cream that was just foams 65 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: up in like into this pile, this bubble that kind 66 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: of grows. It holds its shape, and that's a really 67 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: important part of it because it wouldn't be a toy 68 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: if it just came out like shaving cream. No one 69 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: would want to play with it. It certainly would not 70 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: have had a very famous uh part of the movie, 71 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: the great Tom Hanks movie Big, So you've ever seen Big, 72 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: that's silly string in the scene where he and uh 73 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: Billy I guess are playing around. All of a sudden, 74 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: they have all this money and they buy all this garbage, 75 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: candy and stuff, and they buy silly string, and Tom 76 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: Hanks acts like he's squirting. It's like snot out of 77 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: his nose, and they spray silly string. And that's the 78 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: ideas that kids have a good time with it and 79 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: parents hate it. Yeah, parents and city council people, as 80 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: we'll see. And you said another part of it too 81 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: is not only just its shape, but the fact that 82 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: it can really travel. You said it can travel up 83 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: to ten to twelve feet, which for our friends and 84 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: non imperial countries is a handful of meters um, and 85 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: that's a lot. You know, like you can be standing 86 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: pretty far away from somebody, spray them, drop the can, 87 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: and turn and run, and you still have a pretty 88 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: good head start on them chasing you. That's right. So 89 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: the story of Silly String Chuck is actually pretty interesting one. 90 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: I love ones that like toy that started out as 91 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: something else, which seems like every toy we've ever talked about. 92 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: It started, it started life as it's like a different thing, 93 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: and then somebody was like, actually this is a pretty 94 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: good toy, and everyone said agreed, and it became a 95 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: classic toy, and then we podcasted on it sixty years later, 96 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: that's right, Uh, not quite sixty, but in this case 97 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: it was. If you look at the actual patent from 98 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: n seventy two for foamable resinous uh for a foamable 99 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: resinous composition, you will find Robert Peacox and Leonard A Fish. 100 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: Fish was an inventor. Cox was a chemist, and what 101 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: they were trying to originally invent was a medical device 102 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: kind of an emergency largely battlefield, but an emergency cast 103 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: that you could spray on like a spray on cast 104 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: if you break a bone, that would sort of and 105 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: if you think about silly string in a different application, 106 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: and if you think about it, what if it instead 107 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: came out and coated your arm and solidified. That's the idea, 108 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: and from what I could tell, they were successful in 109 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: that um. But part of what they were trying to 110 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: do was find the right nozzle. They they have apparently 111 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: tested like five hundred nozzles, uh, and one of those 112 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: nozzles shot this stuff out, this concoction that they came 113 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: up with in a string uh really far and that 114 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: string held its shape. So they were like, let's put 115 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: a button on this particular nozzle. I'm sure Leonard A 116 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: Fish walked around with it in his little change pocket 117 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: of his levies for many years. And then when the 118 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: time was right, they said, we should get back to 119 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: that because we've got the we've got the spray on 120 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: cast down. Pat, I think that other thing would make 121 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: a really good toy, And Robert Peacock said, agreed Leonard Fish, 122 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: and Leonard Fish nodded silently. That's right. As the legend goes, 123 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: they did not know anything about toy marketing, obviously, so 124 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: they made an appointment with who at the time was 125 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: probably the biggest name in toys in the early seventies, 126 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: Wammo still a big name in toys, and uh, we 127 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: covered Frisbees and Yo Yo's, Like the Wammos has made 128 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: an appearance in a lot of these episodes. Yo Yo's 129 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: was one of our better episodes if I remember correctly. Yeah, 130 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: it was a good one. Um. So they went to Wammo, 131 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: as legend has it, they sprayed the stuff all over 132 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: the office and the person they were meeting with as well, 133 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: and they said, get out of here. This stuff is 134 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: like how dare you? Kind of reaction. And the next day, 135 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: though apparently, fish got a telegram saying from WAMO saying 136 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: we need twenty four cans of the stuff as a 137 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: marketing test stop to stop right there. Uh and the 138 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: the idea and this sounds very much like a legend, 139 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: but who knows, it may be true. The idea is 140 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: that the next day they cleaned it up. But there 141 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: was one hangy string on a lamp that one of 142 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: the owners of WAMO saw and picked up and said, 143 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: what is this stuff? It's it's fantastic. It's like Paul 144 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: Newman from Hudsucker Proxy. Okay, I haven't seen that one. 145 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. I know I at least 146 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: started it. Okay. It had to do with the invention 147 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: of the hula hoop. Okay, yeah, I saw a lot 148 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: of that, but it was some some Coen Brothers movies 149 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: are just not for me. Yeah, yeah, I hear you. 150 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: I like them all, but I get Emily doesn't like 151 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: a lot of them because they they do mean things 152 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: to animals and almost every movie. I never noticed that. Yeah, 153 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: it's a Cohen Brothers thing. Okay, So they basically say, 154 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: get these guys in here. This stuff is brilliant, and 155 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: they did, and apparently within a couple of weeks they 156 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: had a contract with WAMO to license and sell silly string. 157 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: But that still doesn't explain Julian Simon, right, No, Julian Simon, 158 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: the guy who is legendarily the person who invented silly 159 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: string back in nineteen sixty nine, actually does have something 160 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: to do with silly string. But he came into the 161 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 1: picture thirty years after he was reputed too, because in 162 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 1: WAMO said we've spent our silly string, We're done with this. 163 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: Who wants it? And Julius Simon had a company called 164 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 1: Julius Simon Limited, which was the parent company of the 165 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: car Freshener Corporation. How great is that? And car Freshener 166 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: had a subsidiary, a toy division called Just for Kicks, 167 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: and Just for Kicks bought the rights to make silly 168 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: string in and if car Freshener Corporation just rings the slightest, 169 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: tiniest bell, you might have seen it in really little 170 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,719 Speaker 1: script on your tree air freshener that is dangling from 171 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: your rear view mirror. So Julius Simon is the gentleman 172 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: who holds the patent to the fur tree air freshener. 173 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: It's amazing, another ubiquitous product I've never owned. Yeah, the 174 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: same here. I never got into those either. He had 175 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: he had two patents and one was for the tree 176 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: shaped air freshener. Another one was, uh the Undressed Nake 177 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: Lady silhouette air freshener. Those were two pads. Well, I 178 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: guess he saw it on a mud flap and was like, 179 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: I think that was the great at an air freshener. Yeah, 180 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: I've never seen that one, but I can. I would 181 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,559 Speaker 1: guess it's kind of that mud flappy thing too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 182 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: I feel like mud flaps it's either Yosemite Sam saying 183 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: back off, or it's like silhouette of a naked lady. Yeah, 184 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: that's your mud flap selection. Um, all right, I think 185 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: that's good enough for the first segment, which we'll just 186 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: call history, and in our second segment after the break, 187 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 1: we will bore you to tears by talking about the 188 00:10:37,800 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 1: chemical contents of silly stringth That is not true, everybody, So, Chuck, 189 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: I just want to say before we get started, I 190 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: want to explain myself when I was saying stop while 191 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: you were talking about the telegram, I wasn't telling you 192 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: to stop a telegram. Stop. Yeah, yeah, I have. Have 193 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: you ever heard the legend behind why people said stop 194 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: instead of just adding a period? No, but I think 195 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: this is definitely the episode to put that. Okay, So apparently, 196 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: if you were sending a telegram, letters were very cheap, 197 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 1: but punctuation was expensive, so you actually paid less to 198 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: spell out the four letters then paying for a period. 199 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: That's why people had stopped in the middle of their sentences. 200 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: But the big dumb dumb would say stop exclamation point right, 201 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: I really mean it period here. That's amazing. What a 202 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: great little factory to be able to throw out at 203 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: the next dinner party. It is a factory. It's a 204 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: tenth of a fact. Oh wait, I might have my 205 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: wires crossed. I know what you mean. There's probably a 206 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: couple of listeners who get it. All right, let's dive 207 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: into a can of silly string, because, uh, what it 208 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: inside a can of silly string is known generally to 209 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: the public now, although some of the stuff on the 210 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: original patent is has had been changed since then, so 211 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: I think there are some trade secrets. But let's just 212 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: say it's definitely a liquid inside the can and it 213 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: becomes the string outside the can because of the stuff 214 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: that's inside the can. It is very lightweight, and like 215 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: we said, it does have an adhesive quality. But it's 216 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: got to be just the right mix that you want 217 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: it to stick to a lampshade or stick to a wall, 218 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: or stick to a person's like ears and hair if 219 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,959 Speaker 1: you're draping it over the room, over them, over the room. 220 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: But you don't want it to be so sticky that 221 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: you can't get it off of something. You want to 222 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: be able to you know, it's got to be cohesive. 223 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: You want to be able to pull it out and 224 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: have it kind of generally come in one big ball 225 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: as you're trying to clean up afterwards. Right, So that's 226 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: the tension between the adhesiveness of it and the cohesiveness 227 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: of it. And as long as it's more cohesive, meaning 228 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: it'll it'll hold its shape when you pull on it 229 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: um than it is adhesive, So it's it takes less 230 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: forced to pull it off somebody than it does to 231 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: take to pull it apart. That's why it's so easily 232 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: cleaned up because it is a little bit sticky, but 233 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: not fully sticky, and that that has to do with 234 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: the genius of some of the stuff that's in it. Yeah, 235 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: and imagine getting this right is I mean it sounds well, 236 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: it's about to say it sounds silly, um to to 237 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: put this much research and thought into a product like this, 238 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: But if you get it wrong, no one's gonna buy it. 239 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: If it sticks so bad everything that parents can't clean 240 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: it up, they're not gonna buy it for their kids. Uh. 241 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: It's it's kind of genius in a way that they 242 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 1: figured like the exact recipe to make it fun for kids, 243 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 1: but something that you could generally just sort of pull 244 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: off and ball up and throw in the trash. Yeah, 245 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: and Robert Pea Cox and Leonard A. Fish are the 246 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: people who did spend that time figuring that out. Because 247 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: you couldn't make an instant cast with the stuff that 248 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: comes out of a can of silly string. So they 249 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: had to go back and figure out how to make it, 250 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: you know, very colorful, how to make it so it 251 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: didn't stick too much, how it was cohesive, all that stuff, 252 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: and they did. They managed to come up with the 253 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: perfect mixture of basically three ingredients, although there's more than three. Um, 254 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: there's I don't know why everybody says three, but everyone 255 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: does say three. Three is the magic three. And then 256 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: some other stuff. So there's a resin, a surfactant, and 257 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: a propellant, and apparently there's also a solvent which is 258 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: very important. There's also talc, which is very important, as 259 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: we'll see. But each one of these things plays a 260 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: really uh important role in the creation of the silly string. 261 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: And you know, like you said, it has to be 262 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: just right or else the whole thing is going the 263 00:14:53,040 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: whole enterprise is going to collapse. I've picture doctor Strange 264 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: Love wheeling into the room all of a sudden mind podcast. 265 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: Uh So you've got your resin that's gonna form that 266 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: plastic structure, that exoskeleton of the strand, and an original 267 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: form on that patent it was an acrylic resin using 268 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: poly isobutal methacry late. And the resin is like everything 269 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: else with the silly string, you gotta get it just right. Um, 270 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: that is the framework of those strands. If you have 271 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: too much resin, it's not gonna foam like you wanted 272 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: to foam, and it'd be more like shooting cock at somebody. 273 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: And I think we can all agree that's no fun. 274 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: There's no such thing as silly cock. Uh. If you 275 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: have too little of the stuff, then they're not gonna 276 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: hold together. And if silly string, I think we agree 277 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: that if it came out as tiny little foam bullets, 278 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: it wouldn't be as fun as if it comes out 279 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: as a big string. But the whole point is is 280 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: once this thing is propelled into the air, then it 281 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: forms that shell that if you don't mess with it like, 282 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: it'll stay there for a while. It's not like it 283 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: just disappears. Yeah, because of the resin, that plastic structure 284 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: that it lends to the whole thing. Um, Yeah, if 285 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: you leave it alone, it can it can survive for 286 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: weeks basically, I would guess indefinitely. I'm sure it's like 287 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: how many licks it takes to get to the center 288 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: of it pop. No one really knows because no one's 289 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: just left silly string indefinitely, you know, talk about a monster. 290 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: So the propellant is also really important too for a 291 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: couple of reasons. Um, whatever propellant they're using is at 292 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: room temperature and normal sea level pressure UM, which is 293 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: what it's like outside of the can. It would be 294 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: a gas, but the contents of an aerosolt can is 295 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: under so much pressure that it's actually in its liquid 296 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,119 Speaker 1: state UM. And the propellant when it when it emerges 297 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: from that can, it essentially boils. It changes from liquid 298 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: to a gas. And as it does that, because is 299 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: everything else is mixed up with that propellant. As we'll see, 300 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: it takes all of those other components there, resid surfactant, 301 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: the solvent on a wild ride, and they all combined 302 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: with one another and turned foamy. So again, the structure 303 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: of the exoskeleton the thing that lends the whole thing, 304 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: it's initial support, that's the resin. Yeah, and The other 305 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: thing the propellant does is that it also helps that 306 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: resin form basically and uh helps sort of create that 307 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: that foamy exterior because once that propellant is shot out, 308 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: it evaporates very quickly. Uh if you if you shoot 309 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: it at a normal distance, if you've ever taken silly 310 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: string and like shot it into your like a closed 311 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: palm or a fist or something, it's gonna be different. 312 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: It's gonna be like a lot more wet because it 313 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 1: doesn't have that chance to spread out and quickly evaporate, 314 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a lot more brittle. That's why 315 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: you're supposed to shoot you know, the propellant across the room. 316 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: Is it sort of lends itself to doing what it 317 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: does best. By doing what it does best, you're right, 318 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: which is propelling things. So um, they used to originally 319 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: use die chlora flora methane also known as free on 320 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,239 Speaker 1: twelve and free on twelve is so bad for the 321 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: ozone layer that there is a global law against manufacturing 322 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: free on. Like think about how many global laws there 323 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: are that might be the only one. Um, I guess so, 324 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 1: but yeah, this is this is like an actual yeah 325 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: murder but still, how about like a global regulation maybe okay, sure, 326 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: or something that has to do with industry you're manufacturing 327 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: rather than you know, killing people. So so they used 328 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,120 Speaker 1: to use free on, but you can't use free on anymore. Um. 329 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: You actually can use it in some applications. There's this 330 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: a finite stock of free on left on earth, um, 331 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: and you're allowed to use those. You just can't manufacture anymore. 332 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: So eventually we'll run out of free on. Um. They 333 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: had to figure out something else to use, and they did. So. 334 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: You don't find free on twelve inside of silly string 335 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: anymore because it's really bad for the ozone layer. That's right. 336 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: Although as we learned in our research over the years, 337 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: there have been various UH rogue off brands UH that 338 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: have used free on that have popped up, like in 339 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: the two thousands, and I think even in the two 340 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: thousand tens, they would find some random silly string shipment 341 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: that came from you know, Taiwan or China that still 342 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: had that free on twelve in it, and you know, 343 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: confiscate that stuff quick and get rid of it, right. 344 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: So UM. One of the other things moving on from 345 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: the propellant, which again it's really really important stuff. But 346 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: all of these things are important. Each one plays its 347 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: own role, and and the surfactant plays a really interesting 348 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: role too, because it helps the resin foam, it helps 349 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: the resin expand. And the surfactant does this by um, 350 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: by the fact that it's ampiphilic and amphiphil. Sorry, it's 351 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: hydrophobic and it's hydrophilic, so it repels water and it 352 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: attracts water. It doesn't know what it's doing, but it 353 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: does both of those things. And in that sense, it 354 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: actually manages to keep molecules cohesive, so it lends it 355 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: it's cohesive um property um. It also lends it a 356 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: little bit of stickiness, but I saw that it keeps 357 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: it from being too sticky. So this is like the 358 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,479 Speaker 1: surfactan is just a wonder chemical because it's doing the 359 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:34,479 Speaker 1: opposite at the same time. Yeah, and the surfactant is uh, 360 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: like Tracy says, you know, so many years ago in 361 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: this article that it's just sort of a fancy name 362 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:43,360 Speaker 1: for a detergent. And the idea is if you think 363 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: about like, um, like if you have a sink full 364 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: of water and you just squirt some soap, like dish soap, 365 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: in there. It's just gonna sort of sit there, and 366 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: you might not even know there's any soap in there 367 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 1: until you turn on that uh that high pressure from 368 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 1: the sink and maybe even put your finger over it. 369 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,719 Speaker 1: Then that stuff's gonna foam up all of a sudden. 370 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: And that's sort of what's going on with this can 371 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: of silly string, right, And originally on the patent they 372 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: listed the surfactan as sorbitan trioliate, which has a trade 373 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: name of get this tween five tween. Yeah, that's weird. 374 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: It sounds like a super weird. Yeah, that sounds like 375 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: a an Internet name for a predator. It does, for sure. 376 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: But it's also one of those things that's like so 377 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: innocuous that it almost makes you wonder if they went 378 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 1: to great links to come up with something. You just 379 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: look right past, you know, uh as far um as 380 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: far as how much of this stuff is in there? 381 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: Of what stuff is in there, um, the resin is 382 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: about ten to fiftent. Surfactin is actually less than five percent. 383 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: Most of what's in that can as that propellant. So 384 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: if you had a see through can of silly string, 385 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: it would be mostly that liquid propellant. Well, I guess 386 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: it's all liquid at the time until it comes out 387 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: like we said, um, but mostly propellant. But you did 388 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: mention talc in there. I think without the talc it 389 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: would it wouldn't have much body to it. Is that 390 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: the idea? Yeah, it would, it would. I can't even 391 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 1: imagine it will be like, yeah, just be like kind 392 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 1: of flucky plastic e exoskeleton without it the foam, I 393 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: guess is what what I saw. And I also saw 394 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: get this, so I've been doing a little bit of sleuthing. 395 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: Tween eighty five is actually used as an emulsifier for 396 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: mixing mineral oil with other stuff in other applications, So 397 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: I believe that tween eighty five serves a double duty 398 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: as a surfactant but also an emulsifier for the talc 399 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: as well. Oh okay, okay, did you just do that 400 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: on the fly? I mean when I was researching it. Okay, 401 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: it sounded in the moment. No, I mean I don't 402 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: walk around knowing other industrial uses for tween eighty five 403 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: that he just happened to look it up or something. No, no, no, no, 404 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: I looked it up and wrote it down. I was like, 405 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: this is juicy I can't leave this one out. It's 406 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: pretty juicy. You also have h anytime you have something 407 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: like this, you're gonna need a stabilizer. And in this 408 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: case they use ammonia and is a prop alcohol And uh, 409 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: I think the ammonia keeps it from corroding inside the can, 410 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: and the alcohol stops bugs basically like stars life from forming. Right. 411 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,479 Speaker 1: I didn't find that anywhere else on the entire Internet. 412 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 1: I looked in every single corner. I didn't find it, 413 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: not only in relation to to silly string, but in 414 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: relation to aerosol cans in general. Like, I have no 415 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: idea where that came from, but I did some more sleuthing. 416 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: Oh boy, that was from the Wired article. Right, maybe 417 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: I think so? Actually, yeah, but I just don't understand 418 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: what they're talking about. Um, I mean it makes sense, 419 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: but I just haven't seen it anywhere else. But a 420 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: propol alcohol is also commonly used as a solvent, So 421 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: the unnamed solvent might actually be named. They might have 422 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: all the ingredients listed here, but they're just not saying 423 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 1: this thing is also as well. Yeah, a little bit 424 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: of sleight of hand and what's it called misguidance? Uh, 425 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: misdirection yeah, yeah, misdirection, that's right, misguid Yeah, you'd be 426 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: a heck of a magician. I'm misguiding you. Everyone's like what, 427 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: I don't think you're supposed an outst either, right, that's right, man, 428 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: I would be terrible at this. If you think the 429 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: coin would fall out of my knuckles. If you look 430 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: at my right hand and not my left, you will 431 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: notice miss guidance. All right? Is that Does that cover 432 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: the ingredients? Oh? Just one more thing, No, I guess 433 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: we already talked about it about how like the um, 434 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: the aerosol um, the propellant boils and carries everything else 435 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: out on it. And if you're just like, man, I 436 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: need more, tell me more about the manufacturing of aerosol cans. 437 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: But you're in luck because we actually did an entire 438 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: episode on aerosol cans before, did we Really? That sounded familiar. 439 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: That's an old one. Huh. Yeah. I was back and 440 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,159 Speaker 1: we were just casting about at the time, obviously, but 441 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: if I remor correctly, we we did it. It was done. 442 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: You know. When when we were finished, we were casting 443 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: about trying to sell Toyota cameras. That's right, the two 444 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: thou twelve camera are you ready alight, let's take that break. 445 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go fire up the camera and get the 446 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: A C going because it's hot here. I'm ready to leave, 447 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: and we'll talk about some interesting other uses in the 448 00:25:53,520 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: environmental impact right after this. I can just see that 449 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: two thousand twelve camera in your driveway with like the 450 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: the ceiling liner kind of hanging down a little bit 451 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: like it it came undone in one spot and it 452 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: just kept going from those ceiling liners last forever. They 453 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: sure do way beyond. I like the idea that people 454 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: actually might think that they gave us like cameras right around. No, 455 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: it's true. I mean seriously, there's still old episodes that 456 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: had that that that ad embedded in. It's hilariousing that 457 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: then won't go away. They really got their money's worth 458 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 1: out of that one, Yes, and still do. One of 459 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: the interesting uses of uh silly string popped up during 460 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: in the War and a Rock when the US military, 461 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: although they didn't officially endorse it and like buy this 462 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: stuff for the troops, which I'm not sure why they wouldn't. 463 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: Um they would use them to find I E. D 464 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: s and trip wires, so they would like go up 465 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: to like the doorway of a room and they would 466 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,959 Speaker 1: spray silly string around and see if they were if 467 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: it hung on invisible trip wires, not invisible but you know, 468 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: hard to see trip wires, Yeah, which is really awesome. 469 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: It's kind of like Katherine Zeta Jones spraying that powder 470 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:37,199 Speaker 1: or whatever in that one movie. Um, I can't remember that. 471 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: I don't remember Tom's kind of Affair. Maybe it was 472 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: the one with Sean Connery. I can't remember the name 473 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: of it, but um, it was just yeah, nineties dumb movie. 474 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: But yeah, same thing, but using silly string in in 475 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,360 Speaker 1: in a rock taking out i e. D s rather 476 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: than trying to steal a diamond or something. That's for 477 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,239 Speaker 1: some differences, but it's the same principle. Yeah. And there 478 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: was a kind of a cool story from two thousand 479 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: seven when a I think a soldier's mother in New Jersey. Uh, 480 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: they were they wanted to get their hands on some 481 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: of this stuff, and so she mounted a drive and 482 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: collected about eighty thousand kinds of silly string to send 483 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: to the troops. I think the sort of bummer ending 484 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: in that story as she had trouble getting it shipped 485 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: or something and I think a lot of it went bad. 486 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,400 Speaker 1: I never saw anytime there's like not a great follow up. 487 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: It's probably not a great ending, right, or the media 488 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: just got bored with it. Yeah, they're like, we're really, 489 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: can we just write a listical again? I've got it now, 490 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: chuck the two thousand and twelve camera, it's ready. Are 491 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: you ready now? I still don't have it. Uh So 492 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: if you heard us listing all these ingredients, even though 493 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: free untwelve isn't in there anymore, you might think that 494 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: it's probably um not something that's great for the environment. 495 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: Uh And like you said, in the seventies and eighties, 496 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: kind of right as this was being born, they immediately 497 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: were uh started a um get rid of CFCs and 498 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: hc fcs. Hydro chloro flora carbon's the greatest named carbons 499 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: of all. Yeah, there's a lot of letters in that word. 500 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: One of the problems was that they replaced um hydro 501 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: chlora flora carbons with just plain old hydrofloora carbons, so 502 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: you can tell fewer letters. Obviously, it's not nearly as dangerous. Right. 503 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: The thing is, they're they're fine for the ozone layer. 504 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: They basically do nothing for the ozone layer but keep 505 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: it in place. So that's good. But they're finding that 506 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: they also have a high global warming potential. So like 507 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,479 Speaker 1: any chemical that can enter the atmosphere, it can be 508 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: given a global warming potential, and the lower the number, 509 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: the less effective will have on changing the climate. The 510 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: higher the number, the more greenhouse gas it is. And 511 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: some of these h f c s are kind of 512 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: high greenhouse gases. They have a high global warming potential, 513 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 1: so we still need to keep figuring out how to 514 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: get aerosols out. Yeah, I kind of had that feeling. 515 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: I'm glad you look that up, because my feeling was like, 516 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: surely they didn't solve that to where this is just 517 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: like great and not a problem. And I imagine if 518 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: even though we didn't see the ammonia in anywhere else 519 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: on the internet, it can't be great to be squirting 520 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: out something with ammonia everywhere, right, I don't know, I 521 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: really don't know, and I know that, so, No, it 522 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: wasn't the ammonia that I didn't see. I didn't see 523 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: people putting ice aprople alcohol in an aerosol can to 524 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: keep things from growing inside of it. That's what I 525 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: didn't see. Okay, people do use ammonia. Yeah. Here's what 526 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: I will say though, is that, UM, I haven't looked 527 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: at a can in a while, and I don't know 528 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: what warnings come on it, but I bet one of 529 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: them should be like don't let your pets eat it 530 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: and that kind of thing, or don't let humans or 531 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: your little sister eat it. Yeah. Well also, yeah, that's 532 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: just good advice. UM. There's also you can find some 533 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: um warnings depending on what UM what kind of propellant 534 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: is used in the can, UM to say, hey, uh, 535 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: this is flammable, don't spray it to it camp fire, 536 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: although it will look really awesome, because that's really dangerous. 537 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: Another one is um it can freeze. It can like 538 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: basically freeze your skin. And the reason why is because 539 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: when that um compressed liquid is converting into a gas 540 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: undergoing a phase change, part of that phase changes that 541 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: it's it's drawing heat from any available immediate source that 542 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: includes the can. So it turns the cant ice cold 543 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: because it takes all the heat out of it to 544 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: to help turn that um, that gas or that liquid 545 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: into a gas. I did something kind of dumb a 546 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: number of years ago, I you know, I have these 547 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: little skin tags and I would go to the dermatologist 548 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: to get them clipped. And then I thought, you know what, 549 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna buy some of that freeze spray and 550 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna freeze and clip on myself because that's gotta 551 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: be easy. And I got some of that spray, and 552 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: I guess the idea is that it's not for that purpose, 553 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: and you spray kind of from a distance to to 554 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: maybe numb something. And I got it right up on 555 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: that thing and sprayed it and it burned like the 556 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: fires of hell. It hurts so bad. It felt like 557 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: someone pressed a hot, like glowing piece of metal into 558 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 1: my skin. I can imagine. I know where you're coming from, actually, 559 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: because I went through a phase when I was a 560 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: tween eighty five weirdly enough about in eighty five um 561 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: and uh, where I had warts, especially on my elbows 562 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: for some reason, and I had to go to the 563 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: doctor like every couple of months and they would burn 564 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: them off with liquid liquid nitrogen frozen nitrogen um. And yeah, 565 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: if they missed even a little bit, it would really hurt. 566 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: It was really damaging. But if they just got it 567 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: on the work, which they normally did. It was weird. 568 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: There was like no sensation whatsoever. I we should do 569 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: a shorty on words. Sure, I don't know. That might 570 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: be our At least listened to episode you'd think, yeah, 571 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: I think so, even even less than ariosol Canes, that's right, 572 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: or our poop centric episodes. People love those. Can we 573 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: finish this one? The two thousand twelve camera? Who's up 574 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: for one? I don't think that was it either. So 575 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: the last thing will say is that we mentioned earlier 576 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: about city council people. Uh, it has been banned here 577 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: and there because it's such a pain. And uh, in 578 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: the mid two thousand's, I think two thousand four, there 579 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 1: was a city council person named Tom la Bonga in 580 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You know, Hollywood just goes crazy on Halloween. 581 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: There's like a lot of party in and right there 582 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 1: in central Hollywood. And apparently the silly string was out 583 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: of hand with people spraying it, with people getting on 584 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: fights from getting sprayed with it, and that they actually 585 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: put a price tag on that that said silly string 586 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: remediation was costing the city of Los Angeles two hundred 587 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: more than two hundred thousand dollars each year from that 588 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: one night just from Halloween. So they said no more. Uh, 589 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: not on Halloween, not in l A. Yeah, some fat 590 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: cat silly string cleaner upper was making two d k 591 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: on November one every year, so so they they actually 592 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 1: passed an ordinance where silly string is outlawed one day 593 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: a year Halloween in Los Angeles. Um, at the very 594 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,439 Speaker 1: least in Hollywood. And I did not go back and 595 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: find out if there had been any change to this law. 596 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: So let's talk about it as a potential if that 597 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: existed at least in the past, if not currently, right, 598 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: because there's because Tracy says that, um, these sanctions are 599 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,319 Speaker 1: even worse than a pot charge, and I don't think 600 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: you can get charged for pot anymore in California, right, No, 601 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: it's legal, right, Okay, So this fine of just carrying 602 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 1: a can of silly string could get you a misdemeanor, 603 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: a thousand dollar fine and up to six months in 604 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: jail in in l A. Which is like a pretty 605 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: glamorous jail, but it's still jail for six months. Yeah. 606 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: They put it on par at the time, at least 607 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 1: uh with um like a drunken disorderly charge bicycling or 608 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: hunting while drunk was two fifty and respectively. Uh find 609 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: hunting will drunk did not know that? Well, No, And 610 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: I mean like each of those separately, it makes a 611 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: lot of sense, but if you put them together, that's 612 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: when it starts to get hilarious. You could have broken 613 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: into the l A zoo and gotten a mirror two 614 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollar fine. If you had a can 615 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,439 Speaker 1: of silly string, it was a thousand. Did you see 616 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: the video recently of that poor dog who got into 617 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: a guerrilla enclosure. He was so scared and the gorillas 618 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,359 Speaker 1: weren't happy that he was there either, but he did 619 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: not want to be in there, and um, when they 620 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 1: finally got him out animal control got him out, he 621 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: had like the guiltiest look on his face, like I'm sorry, 622 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,720 Speaker 1: I didn't want to go in there, but it just happened. 623 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: He got out. Yeah, everybody was safe. It worked out 624 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: very well. But yeah, he was really nervous and not happy. 625 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: No one was. I guess you wouldn't be telling that 626 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,479 Speaker 1: story like, oh man, I got mauled into a million pieces. Yeah, 627 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,239 Speaker 1: he looks like a two thousand twelve camera now very 628 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: nice full circle. Do you got anything else? No, just 629 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,840 Speaker 1: the rule of threes accomplished that. I think that was 630 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: four or five tween eighty five words more than three 631 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,839 Speaker 1: as well, we're failing. Yeah, we're screwing it up left 632 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 1: and right. Since I said we're screwing it up left 633 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:53,120 Speaker 1: and right, everybody, obviously it's time for listener mail. I'm 634 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,919 Speaker 1: gonna read this just because it's just a nice person 635 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,440 Speaker 1: saying thank you. We don't do these much, and we 636 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: get to also answer a question. Hey, guys, want to 637 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: write not about a specific episode, but rather to comment 638 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,160 Speaker 1: on your overall series. I've been listening for years now 639 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: and continue to find episodes delightfully upbeat, informative, and extremely 640 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,799 Speaker 1: respectful of different viewpoints. Uh. The chemistry that you two 641 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 1: have with each other as apparent to the listener through 642 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,400 Speaker 1: the silly banter and fun tangents. I love how one 643 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,279 Speaker 1: of you can say something like you know that thing, 644 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,959 Speaker 1: and the other one can name exactly what he means. 645 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: I also have to say that I crack up just 646 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 1: about every time Josh says well, since Chuck said blank, 647 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: it's time for a listener mail. There's no rhyme or 648 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: reason to the transitional phrase, and it up makes it 649 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: all the better when you say it, I like that too, 650 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: if that's one of the nice traditions here. Definitely, as 651 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,320 Speaker 1: a lifelong learner, your work on this podcast seems to 652 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,760 Speaker 1: be a dream job. It is. Uh, then I didn't 653 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,759 Speaker 1: mean that as a question. It is. Uh. You get 654 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: to research an immense range of topics and you make 655 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: them so accessible to the audience. Uh, something I appreciate 656 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,800 Speaker 1: as a teacher. Also applaud you for doing such a 657 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,520 Speaker 1: thorough job at being diligent with and mindful of your sources. 658 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,920 Speaker 1: That such a teach your word. Yeah, Uh what diligent 659 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: h Yeah, Uh, one thing I always look forward to, 660 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: as well as the fun musical interludes going in and 661 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 1: out at the commercial breaks. Always wondered how you get 662 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,319 Speaker 1: them to fan submit them? Where do they come from? 663 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: Keeps episodes fresh even after the many years that you 664 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,480 Speaker 1: have decided dedicated to your show. Uh. And so Amy 665 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:25,759 Speaker 1: from Agora Hills, California. Yes, those are absolutely listeners. Uh. 666 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,799 Speaker 1: They have been sending them in for years and they 667 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: continue to and they're always fun and amazing and uh, 668 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,480 Speaker 1: it's just kind of one of the fun ways that 669 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 1: we can make listeners a part of the show. Yeah. 670 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: Like super big time. Thanks to every single person who 671 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 1: submitted an ad jingle for us. They just agreed they 672 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,719 Speaker 1: keep the show fresh and happening. Indeed, who is that from? 673 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,520 Speaker 1: Chuck Amy from Agora Hills, California. Okay, Amy, thank you 674 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,840 Speaker 1: very much for that email. That was really kind of you. 675 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with us like 676 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: Amy did and say some kind words or call us 677 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: out for something, whatever, you can send us an email 678 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:07,240 Speaker 1: to Stuff podcast at i heeart radio dot com. Stuff 679 00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 1: you Should Know is a production of I Heart Radio. 680 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,879 Speaker 1: For more podcasts my heart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, 681 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,960 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. 682 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 1: H