WEBVTT - 9 Wonderful Wintertime Inventions

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<v Speaker 1>Guess what mango's that will. So I was flipping through

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<v Speaker 1>the channels the other day and there was the sitcom

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<v Speaker 1>on TV and I started thinking about this because there

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<v Speaker 1>was snow on the ground, and I was wondering how

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<v Speaker 1>they make that fake snow for TV and movies because

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<v Speaker 1>you think about all the things that could melt the

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<v Speaker 1>snow there, Like there's these hot lights, they have these

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<v Speaker 1>long shoots, and they can't use real snow obviously. So

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<v Speaker 1>I looked it up and where do you find out? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>the good news a lot of it. It's edible mango.

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<v Speaker 1>You can eat all that snow. So in early movies

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<v Speaker 1>they use corn flakes that were painted white to make snow.

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<v Speaker 1>But then when sound came into film, you know, obviously

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<v Speaker 1>all the crunchy sounds would be too loud if they

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<v Speaker 1>were stepping on it, so they had to find a replacement.

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<v Speaker 1>And over the years, sets have used everything from firefighting

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<v Speaker 1>foam to instant potato flakes to flower, even marble dust.

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<v Speaker 1>But the stuff they used today is actually mostly paper.

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<v Speaker 2>Believe it or not. That's pretty weird.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like paper is the last thing I would

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<v Speaker 3>have expected for like fake snow and movies.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I wouldn't have thought about that either, But you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's available in all different grains and sizes depending on

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<v Speaker 1>what kind of snow you're looking for. But actually the

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<v Speaker 1>process of making it is pretty cool. So the paper

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<v Speaker 1>snow is packaged in these huge bales and then it

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<v Speaker 1>shot through a special hose that lightly dampens the paper

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<v Speaker 1>so that it will stick to whatever it lands on,

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<v Speaker 1>just like snow. And according to Roland Hathaway of the

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<v Speaker 1>Snow Business Hollywood, are you familiar with snow Business Hollywood?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, the technique can cover up to thirty seven

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<v Speaker 1>square meters per minute, plus it never melts. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>just the burst of nine facts we've got for you

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<v Speaker 1>today about winter time inventions.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's dive in.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, their podcast listeners, welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good

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<v Speaker 1>friend Mangesh hot ticketter and sitting behind the soundproof booth

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<v Speaker 1>wrapped up in his slanket Mango.

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<v Speaker 3>I know, which I really thought was like an off

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<v Speaker 3>brand Snuggie, but Tristan insists it's the original blanket with sleeve.

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<v Speaker 1>He is very passionate about this. Yes, that's our friend

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<v Speaker 1>and producer Tristan McNeil, so mango. I know it's boring

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about the weather, but the weather definitely inspired

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<v Speaker 1>this week's episode.

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<v Speaker 3>I know, this weekend was so miserable in New York City.

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<v Speaker 3>It was just like rainy and wet, and when you've

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<v Speaker 3>got two feral kids like I do, who are just

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<v Speaker 3>like hard to tame and even harder to keep indoors,

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<v Speaker 3>it is truly miserable. But uh, you know, anyway, all

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<v Speaker 3>this winter weather made us wonder, like, what are some

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<v Speaker 3>great wintertime inventions worth celebrating?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, actually I love that old quote that everyone

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<v Speaker 1>always talks about the weather, but no one does anything

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<v Speaker 1>about it.

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<v Speaker 3>And we definitely have a few people on this list

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<v Speaker 3>who did something about it, including my first fact, which

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<v Speaker 3>is about ear muffs. So I don't know if I

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<v Speaker 3>knew this before and forgot it or I just never

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<v Speaker 3>heard this, but the inventor of the ear muffs was

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<v Speaker 3>a fifteen year old boy from May named Chester Greenwood,

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<v Speaker 3>and Chester had this horrible allergy to wool.

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<v Speaker 1>So before you could keep the story going, well when

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<v Speaker 1>are we talking about here?

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<v Speaker 3>I think it was like the late eighteen hundreds, so yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>might not say eighteen seventy three, And of course it's

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<v Speaker 3>surprising that a kid invented them, but you know, basically,

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<v Speaker 3>Chester wanted to go skating with his friends at the pond,

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<v Speaker 3>which of course sounds so wholesome and so American, but

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<v Speaker 3>you know, he couldn't wear a hat because of this

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<v Speaker 3>wool allergy he had, and his ears got so cold

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<v Speaker 3>that he had to turn around and go home immediately.

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<v Speaker 2>And apparently this was a pretty common occurrence.

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<v Speaker 3>For little Chester, but this time he was totally fed up,

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<v Speaker 3>and when he got home he asked his grandmam to

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<v Speaker 3>help him assemble this thing he'd been thinking about. It

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<v Speaker 3>was like little shields for his ears, and once he

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<v Speaker 3>described what he wanted, his Grandmam got out her sewing

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<v Speaker 3>materials and she whipped up the world's first pair of

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<v Speaker 3>ear muffs and the device Chester later called it the

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<v Speaker 3>Greenwood Champion Ear Protectors.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I like that name. We should call him that down.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like it's a much better name than ear muffs.

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<v Speaker 3>But the original muffs were made from beaver fur on

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<v Speaker 3>the outside and velvet on the ear side, and it

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<v Speaker 3>had a band of wire connecting it too. And over

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<v Speaker 3>the years, Chester improved on the design and he patented

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<v Speaker 3>it and by the time he was twenty five, he'd

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<v Speaker 3>actually become the owner of an ear muff factory that

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<v Speaker 3>cranked out fifty thousand pairs every year.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's pretty remarkable.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, you know, it gave come me the

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<v Speaker 3>weirdest thing about this. Apparently, like Chester's legend, or the

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<v Speaker 3>legend of his ears and their sensitivity grew over the

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<v Speaker 3>years into like something of a myth, and even like

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<v Speaker 3>the Wall Street Journal report on it, and this is

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<v Speaker 3>what they said, quote Chester Greenwood's ears were so sensitive

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<v Speaker 3>that they turned chalky white, then beat red, and deep

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<v Speaker 3>blue in that order when the mercury dead.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow blue.

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<v Speaker 3>I know it feels like a gobstopper or something, but

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<v Speaker 3>you know it's total nonsense. According to his grandkids' ears

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<v Speaker 3>were just cold, just big and cold.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's much less dramatic. Oh well, here's a quick

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<v Speaker 1>fact that I liked. Did you know that the first

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<v Speaker 1>makeshift snow vehicles that were used in the northern US

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<v Speaker 1>and Canada were actually just pimped out model ts. Apparently

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<v Speaker 1>this started as far back as the nineteen tens, when

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<v Speaker 1>people would remove the cars undercarriage and then what they

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<v Speaker 1>would do is they would mount a pair of skis

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<v Speaker 1>to the front and a set of tracks to the rear.

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<v Speaker 1>So these converted cars were referred to as snowflyers, and

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<v Speaker 1>they were a god send to these rural residents, especially

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<v Speaker 1>when it came to mail delivery.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh that's really interesting. I like that people were almost

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<v Speaker 3>like hacking forwards, like it's ikea furniture or something. Pretty

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<v Speaker 3>soon after they were.

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<v Speaker 1>Made, right, Yeah, I mean I think it was just

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<v Speaker 1>a year or two after the first model te came

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<v Speaker 1>out that people thought to put them on skis. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>while I'm talking about snow vehicles, I'm actually gonna throw

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<v Speaker 1>out another fact. The first snowmobile was invented by a

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen year old, So I'm gonna match your fifteen year

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<v Speaker 1>old fact with one of my own.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like inventing a snowmobile is like a little

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<v Speaker 3>bit more impressive than getting your grandmam to sew some

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<v Speaker 3>ear musk.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, the story's pretty fascinating. So apparently in nineteen twenty

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<v Speaker 1>two there was this kid from Quebec named Joseph Armand Bombardier,

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<v Speaker 1>and he built and tested the first full scale snowmobile.

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<v Speaker 1>So Joe Armand had been interested in playing with mechanical

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<v Speaker 1>things since he was a kid, and had been making

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<v Speaker 1>his own since he was thirteen. He built these toy

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<v Speaker 1>tractors and boats for his younger siblings. He had made

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<v Speaker 1>a steam powered spinning wheel for his aunt, and even

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<v Speaker 1>a miniature train that he built with his old clock part.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, the guy was pretty resourceful. But none of

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<v Speaker 1>those prior works could prepare Bombardier's family for what he

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<v Speaker 1>sprang on them.

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<v Speaker 2>On New Year's Eve.

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<v Speaker 1>So, taking a queue from the locals, he had started

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<v Speaker 1>with the model T engine, but rather than use the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of the car, this young inventor instead mounted the

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<v Speaker 1>engine to two wooden sleds that he hitched together. And

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<v Speaker 1>if that doesn't sound dangerous enough, he also added a

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<v Speaker 1>handmade wouldn't propel her to the back of the engine

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<v Speaker 1>to help propel the rig through the snow. I mean

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<v Speaker 1>this guy, this is I love this story anyway. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>it was that last part that ultimately led his dad

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<v Speaker 1>to order the contraption be dismantled. Although Bombardier's younger brother

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<v Speaker 1>was able to pilot the prototype snowmobile for more than

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<v Speaker 1>half a mile, watching his son's speed across the snow.

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<v Speaker 1>That close to an open propeller, he said, made his

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<v Speaker 1>stomach turn.

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<v Speaker 3>That is incredible. And of course, like as a dad

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<v Speaker 3>watching your kid like wander on this like rickety contraption.

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<v Speaker 3>What's also amazing to me is like the fact that

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<v Speaker 3>uh Bombardier got his hands on an engine, like a

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<v Speaker 3>fifteen year old kid, just like ending up with an

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<v Speaker 3>engine and two sleds and taking this stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Especially at that time, you wouldn't think that it would

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<v Speaker 1>be that easy. But anyway, later on, when his dad

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't hovering over him, he perfected the invention, adding caterpillar

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<v Speaker 1>treads to the design.

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<v Speaker 2>That's pretty amazing.

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<v Speaker 3>So here's what I didn't know. It's that Eddie Bauer

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<v Speaker 3>invented the first puffy down jacket in nineteen thirty six,

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<v Speaker 3>and he actually he has a pattern on it. The

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<v Speaker 3>jacket was originally called the blizzard Proof Jacket and later

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<v Speaker 3>was rebranded as the Skyliner. I guess. But Bower's coat

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<v Speaker 3>was unusual because it used goose down to maximize warmth

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<v Speaker 3>and breathed the ability. But the thing that's most interesting

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<v Speaker 3>about this whole story is that the coat was actually

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<v Speaker 3>created out of necessity. It was after Bauer had nearly

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<v Speaker 3>died of hypothermia while on a winter fishing trip, so

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<v Speaker 3>you can imagine not only was Bauer the owner of

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<v Speaker 3>this sporting good store that was kind of famous, but

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<v Speaker 3>he also loved the outdoors. So this was January of

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<v Speaker 3>nineteen thirty six. His friend asked him to go fishing,

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<v Speaker 3>and he decided to jump at the chance, and the

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<v Speaker 3>day went super well. They caught about one hundred pounds

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<v Speaker 3>of steel head in a matter of hours, which is

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<v Speaker 3>I guess impressive. But as Bauer was hiking back to

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<v Speaker 3>his car, he was soaked from the sweat and also

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<v Speaker 3>just tired from this bag of fish he was hauling,

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<v Speaker 3>and he started to fall asleep on his feet. Apparently

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<v Speaker 3>the moisture in the wool clothes had actually frozen in

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<v Speaker 3>the cold, and hypothermia was setting in. But Bauer was

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<v Speaker 3>an outdoorsman and he was quick thinking. He actually had

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<v Speaker 3>a gun on him, so he shot it twice in

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<v Speaker 3>the air to signal to his friend, and his friend

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<v Speaker 3>came running and saved him. But apparently after he almost

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<v Speaker 3>died from hypothermia, he realized that people really needed a

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<v Speaker 3>lightweight jacket that could be worn comfortably. Especially in cold weather,

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<v Speaker 3>while they were doing things that were like strenuous or

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<v Speaker 3>working or whatever. And the very next year he invented

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<v Speaker 3>the down jacket.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>I actually didn't realize that Eddie Bauer himself had invented

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<v Speaker 1>so many of these things. But yeah, well here's a

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<v Speaker 1>quick one, since we're talking about staying warm. I was

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<v Speaker 1>actually looking up facts about mittens, so I actually.

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<v Speaker 3>Looked up facts about mittens too, But the only thing

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<v Speaker 3>I found that was even remotely interesting was there's something

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<v Speaker 3>called a beer mitten.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, even though I was about to share my fact,

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<v Speaker 1>I have to ask what is a beer mitten.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess it's like a mitten and a beer koozy

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<v Speaker 3>in one, so like you can keep her hands warm

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<v Speaker 3>and your beer cold.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>It's this Icelandic convention and there are all these knitting

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<v Speaker 3>patterns from them online. But the weird thing is that

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<v Speaker 3>it's super single purpose, so you can't really do anything

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<v Speaker 3>other than drink and hold a beverage in your hand

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<v Speaker 3>if you're wearing a beer midden.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>But I did cut you off. So you said you

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<v Speaker 3>were looking up middens.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm glad you found something, because I didn't find

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<v Speaker 1>anything great. But you know, one thing I did find

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<v Speaker 1>was that mittens are surprisingly old, like they've been around

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<v Speaker 1>since prehistoric times. What's interesting is, according to a publication

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<v Speaker 1>called Fashion Time, is that the earliest gloves were found

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<v Speaker 1>in King tuts Too, and since he died around thirteen

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<v Speaker 1>twenty three BCE, that actually makes the oldest known pair

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<v Speaker 1>of gloves well over thirty three hundred years old.

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<v Speaker 3>It's weird to think that gloves are like three thousand

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<v Speaker 3>years old and ear muffs are only like one hundred

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<v Speaker 3>and fifty years old. But speaking of muffs, which is

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<v Speaker 3>not a transition, I normally about to say, do you

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<v Speaker 3>know what hand muffs are?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't what are hand muffs?

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<v Speaker 3>They are like those furry cylindrical things that rich people wear.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometimes you see him in like old Hollywood movies or

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<v Speaker 3>in ski towns, and you know, people just stuff their

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<v Speaker 3>hands into them. But apparently hand muffs have been a

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<v Speaker 3>staff to symbols since the fourteen hundreds, and they've actually

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<v Speaker 3>been called different things in different places. In France they're

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<v Speaker 3>called man sean. In England they were called snuffkins, which

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<v Speaker 3>I like. But the name we know it by came

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<v Speaker 3>from the Flemish word mouf or muff, and according to

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<v Speaker 3>the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, this trend grew in

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<v Speaker 3>popularity after the colonies started sending furs to Europe. So

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<v Speaker 3>women in England and France would actually warm their hands

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<v Speaker 3>with the furs of sables or martins, and sometimes they

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<v Speaker 3>jazz up their muffs with stylish accessories, so listen to this.

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<v Speaker 3>They'd actually add bejeweled animal skulls to hang.

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<v Speaker 2>From the chain, which is so weird it is to me.

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<v Speaker 3>Also, fashionable women in the sixteenth century would tote their

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<v Speaker 3>tiny dogs in them, so they're kind of like the

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<v Speaker 3>tiny dog purses you see today. And weirdly, men also

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<v Speaker 3>got in on this muff craze, although of course they

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<v Speaker 3>wanted to wear more manly furs like otter and tiger,

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<v Speaker 3>and people who were cash strapped and just kind of

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<v Speaker 3>aspiring fashionistas they'd settle for lesser animals like squirrel.

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<v Speaker 2>Fur muffs knew they were so to history there.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like we've learned enough about hand muffs for

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<v Speaker 1>a while, so why don't we take a quick break

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<v Speaker 1>and come back with two more facts. Welcome back to

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<v Speaker 1>Part time Genius. We're talking about winter inventions. All right, mego,

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<v Speaker 1>so what do you want to end with here?

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<v Speaker 3>So, in honor of my cold, which doesn't seem to

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<v Speaker 3>go away, ever, how about we talk about Kleenex.

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<v Speaker 2>So how long have you been sick? Now? Is it

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<v Speaker 2>thirty eight years?

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<v Speaker 3>I think so. I feel like every time I start

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<v Speaker 3>to get better, my kids bring back like different germs

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<v Speaker 3>to invade my system. But back to Kleenexes. And so,

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<v Speaker 3>it is fairly obvious that handkerchiefs pre date disposable tissues

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<v Speaker 3>by several centuries, you know, but the disposable option is

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<v Speaker 3>actually older than you might guess. It turns out the

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<v Speaker 3>Japanese have been using disposable facial tissues since about the

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<v Speaker 3>seventeenth century, and they use a super far paper called Washy.

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<v Speaker 3>The Western world, though they were a little later of

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<v Speaker 3>the game, they didn't get into until the nineteen twenties.

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<v Speaker 3>And that's when Kimberly Clark Corporation, which I'm sure you've

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<v Speaker 3>heard of, they released Kleenex to the market in nineteen

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<v Speaker 3>twenty four. But this is the weird part. Kleenex actually

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<v Speaker 3>wasn't intended for blowing your nose at all. Instead, Kleenex

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<v Speaker 3>tissues were originally men as a way for women to

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<v Speaker 3>remove cold cream and clean their faces, which is where

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<v Speaker 3>the clean in the name comes from. So even the

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<v Speaker 3>early ads from the period have like Hollywood makeup departments

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<v Speaker 3>endorsing them, and they show movie stars like Helen Hayes

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<v Speaker 3>or Gene Harlow and how they supposedly used Kleenex to

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<v Speaker 3>wipe off the theater makeup. But the public sort of immediately

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<v Speaker 3>knew what to do with them, and within two years

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<v Speaker 3>Kimberly Clark was getting all these letters from customers praising

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<v Speaker 3>Kleenex as the perfect disposable handkerchief. Apparently sixty percent of

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<v Speaker 3>customers used Kleenex for blowing their noses, which totally outnumbered

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<v Speaker 3>the number who were using them to wipe off the

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<v Speaker 3>cold cream, and Kimberly Clark took the hint. By nineteen thirty,

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<v Speaker 3>the company he had completely changed course and changed their

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<v Speaker 3>marketing entirely, and Kleenex sales.

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<v Speaker 2>Had doubled as a result.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow, So, well, what fact do you want to end on? All? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, since I started with the fact about artificial snow,

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<v Speaker 1>I kind of want to end with one on how

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<v Speaker 1>man made snow got invented in.

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<v Speaker 2>The first place.

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<v Speaker 1>But before we talk about the snow, actually, let's talk

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<v Speaker 1>about a special kind of ice that's called rime. So

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<v Speaker 1>when the water vapor in a cloud or fog collects

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<v Speaker 1>on the surface of an object, it can sometimes freeze

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<v Speaker 1>and form this white ice frost, which is rime. So

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<v Speaker 1>in the nineteen forties there was this low temperature lab

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<v Speaker 1>in Canada that was experimenting to see what kind of

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<v Speaker 1>effect rime had on the intakes of a jet engine.

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<v Speaker 1>So to recreate the icing effect in their lab, these

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<v Speaker 1>researchers sprayed water in front of the engine that they

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<v Speaker 1>had suspended in their wind tunnel. But instead of creating rime,

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<v Speaker 1>they accidentally started making snow, and I mean a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of snow. And according to the team's report, they had

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<v Speaker 1>to shut down the engine multiple times just to shovel

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<v Speaker 1>snow out of the wind tunnel. It's been so much.

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<v Speaker 3>Fun funny, and I mean it does feel like a

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<v Speaker 3>loud way to make snowed right, Like they must have

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<v Speaker 3>refined snowmakers over the years.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess so I those Canadian scientists were just the

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<v Speaker 1>first to accidentally make snow. I mean, now the process

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<v Speaker 1>is way quieter. So anyway, after all these facts, who

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<v Speaker 1>do you think deserves today's trophy?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I like the one about the ear muff

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<v Speaker 3>dude Chester, but I actually really love I feel like

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<v Speaker 3>the one that's gonna be most memorable to me is

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<v Speaker 3>the cornflake fact and the fact that people used to

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<v Speaker 3>paint all these cornflakes white to make snow in movies.

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<v Speaker 3>It's crazy. I think that's probably my favorite fact. So

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<v Speaker 3>I think you deserve the trophy today.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, well, I will take it, and that's it

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<v Speaker 1>for today's part time genius. If you've got some fun

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<v Speaker 1>snow or ice or winter facts to share, we'd love

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<v Speaker 1>to hear those from you. We also love to just

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<v Speaker 1>hear topics from you, guys, if you ever have ideas

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<v Speaker 1>for episodes, but from Gab Tristan Mango. Actually I think

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<v Speaker 1>Tristan fell asleep in a slank at Mago. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks so much for listening to

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<v Speaker 3>The gl