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How LEGOs Work · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Fest two thousand ten, right, okay, Chuck, Josh, Mr Jake
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  Speaker 1: Jillen Hall. He uh, he's finally arrived. Donnie Darko himself. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: h much to his chagrin. He was not a member
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  Speaker 1: of the cast of the Fine Fine Picture Hot Tub
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  Speaker 1: Time Machine, but he was cast in the starring role
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  Speaker 1: for Prince of Persia the Sands of Time or something. Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I saw the trailer for that the other day. As
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  Speaker 1: a result, Mr Gillen Hall will now have his own
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  Speaker 1: Lego Mini figure. Well, and as a result, he's very
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  Speaker 1: buff now you see it. He got all the jacked
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  Speaker 1: up for the for the role as the Prince of Persia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but again, what we're focusing on here is the Lego
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  Speaker 1: Mini figure. Well, but is the Mini figure buff? It
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  Speaker 1: has stubble and there's something of a resemblance to Hi,
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  Speaker 1: which is that really kind of a new trend among
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  Speaker 1: Legos really to look like the thing or to just
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  Speaker 1: be branded like that. Well both they started branding or
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  Speaker 1: working with licensed brands with Star Wars and they were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know, this kind of goes against our corporate
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  Speaker 1: philosophy letting kids use their imagination. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: sales weren't through the roof. And they're like, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so this is what this is the way we put
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  Speaker 1: it now. Uh, we let kids imaginations run wild with
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  Speaker 1: the added element of storytelling. So which is cool? Lego Lego,
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  Speaker 1: the Lego Group is what they're called. From what I understand,
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  Speaker 1: it is a pretty great company, to tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And we should say, well, this is a no way,
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  Speaker 1: in no way our Chuck and I Wilfer Brimley esque
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  Speaker 1: compensated endorsers. Yeah, when we do a brand name like this,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't think that we're we're shilling because we just
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  Speaker 1: have chosen some of these iconic brands to cover because
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  Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. It's part of pop culture, it's
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  Speaker 1: part of who we are, and people seem to dig it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, now we're not getting rich off the Legos unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer your question, Um, they started doing the branded,
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  Speaker 1: the licensing, branding sets like Star Wars. I think that
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  Speaker 1: there was their first big hit. Indiana Jones was another
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  Speaker 1: big hit. Harry Potter obviously, but um, it wasn't until
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  Speaker 1: they started, um and until they released the Lego basketball set.
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  Speaker 1: They started messing with skin tone. Up until that point,
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  Speaker 1: if you had a Lego character, even if it was
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  Speaker 1: based on somebody, um, it was yellow. And they for
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  Speaker 1: a while there, they were a sexual right, they were
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  Speaker 1: neither male nor female. Right. In four when they released
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  Speaker 1: the first figures, they had a neutral facial expression. They
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  Speaker 1: were genderless and race less, but in a in a
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  Speaker 1: kind of a backhanded nod to women. The female character
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  Speaker 1: was the first gender specific character introduced, wait for it,
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  Speaker 1: as a nurse, yeah, for their hospital play set. Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because there's no such thing as male nurses. Right. Yeah? Interesting? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well that was better than at least they made her
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  Speaker 1: a working woman, and they didn't say the first one
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  Speaker 1: is you know, Betty homemaker, right, or a homeless person. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's start at the at the begin we got plenty
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  Speaker 1: of This is a stat heavy extravaganza. Yeah. Yeah, Chuck's
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  Speaker 1: all excited. That's why your hair looks so good. It's
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  Speaker 1: standing up in excitement. Uh. Legos, Josh, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: the Lego group, they employed about five thousand people. They
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  Speaker 1: got about a hundred and fifty designers of eighteen nationalities
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  Speaker 1: on their team, and they began way back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. And I love this guy's name, Old Kirk Christensen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and his first name is O. L. E. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: we are we've decided to refer to him as Old
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Christensen, Old Kirk Christensen, do you remember when we
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  Speaker 1: went to Tamburg and we found out one of their
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  Speaker 1: vice president's name was Odd John. We're like, this is
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  Speaker 1: the most punk rock telecommunications firm. We never well, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's that Odd is actually a very common name in
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  Speaker 1: in uh Norwegian countries. Wait wait, let me just double
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  Speaker 1: check my facts. Is Denmark Norwegian country? Yeah, we got
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  Speaker 1: that wrong with another ones and we heard about it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we did. That's a in podcast correction. We don't usually
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  Speaker 1: do that, so Old Kirk Christensen. Yes, he comes up
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  Speaker 1: from Denmark, from bill and Denmark, which is where the
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  Speaker 1: corporate headquarters still are. Yeah, the first Lego land is
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  Speaker 1: still there, that's right. Um. He at first joshed me
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  Speaker 1: things out of wood, wooden toys and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: little ladders, and he did so until nineteen sixty when
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  Speaker 1: the warehouse burned was destroyed in the fire. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was then that he said. It would have
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  Speaker 1: been a much better story if he would have said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I need to work with plastic now, but that's plastic inflammable. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because he uh, he started working with plastic long before that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I think nineteen seven plastic not coincidentally, that's the
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  Speaker 1: year that his son took over. Yeah, and his son
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  Speaker 1: started saying, we need to plastics, it's the way of
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  Speaker 1: the future, and they started tinkering around with legos, right well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the first one, the first thing they made in was
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  Speaker 1: the automated binding brick and that was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the first modern Lego brick, but it didn't have the tubes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the construction in a minute, but it
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the tubes, a little interior tube, so it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't things weren't a stable, so it was sort of
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  Speaker 1: like just the beta version, right, um, but what was
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  Speaker 1: it Night? That's when they came up with the current design.
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  Speaker 1: It's called studding tube coupling system, which, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: we'll describe in a second. But the cool thing about
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  Speaker 1: it is it hasn't changed since then. And so if
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  Speaker 1: you have a brick that was made night and you
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  Speaker 1: go buy a set today, they'll work together. That is
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the cooler facts of this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I got one for what's the term lego is actually
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  Speaker 1: uh an abbreviation of two Danish words, right, leg and goot,
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  Speaker 1: which put together means play well, So he combined the
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  Speaker 1: two into Lego. What old Kirk Christensen didn't know was
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  Speaker 1: that lego in Latin actually means I put together. Really,
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  Speaker 1: he had no idea, and I bet people think that's
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  Speaker 1: why he named it. That look at you, josh at
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  Speaker 1: you so h like I said, or like you said,
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  Speaker 1: was when they kind of finished the design of the
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  Speaker 1: modern brick and the rest is history. In the in
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  Speaker 1: the sixties and seventies, they started introducing other other facets
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  Speaker 1: to the to the Legos besides just the brick. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: the Lego technique technique but not technique. It's really technic,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I'm reading between the lines.
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  Speaker 1: It hit the market in seventy seven, and uh Mine
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  Speaker 1: Storms Robots made their debut in ninety eight, and that
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  Speaker 1: was actually a collaboration with m I T the Technology
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  Speaker 1: Media Lab there. Yeah, in the eighties, right eighty four
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  Speaker 1: or something. Uh no, late nineties. I think they got
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  Speaker 1: together with a starting in like eighty four. Then maybe
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  Speaker 1: it took that long. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And also their designers. You would think that all of
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  Speaker 1: their designers have art school backgrounds or some sort of
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  Speaker 1: engineering design backgrounds, not necessarily true, my friend. While most
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  Speaker 1: of their designers do have that, the company says that
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  Speaker 1: all designers are hired based on their hands on work
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  Speaker 1: and a face to face interview, And you don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: have to have an art background. If you are a
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  Speaker 1: natural Lego place at designer, that's what you are. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that means you and I could go and try and
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  Speaker 1: do that. Let's let's give it a shot. We may
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  Speaker 1: have to, so, Chuck. Over the years, you just spanned
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  Speaker 1: a few decades. You know, Legos were named Toy of
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  Speaker 1: the twentieth Century by Fortune magazine in two thousand. Yah,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. Yeah, good for them too. Did you
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  Speaker 1: have Legos? Oh? Yeah, of course I didn't. What I know.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's funny is I noticed that they're only
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  Speaker 1: sold in the hundred and thirty countries. I did a
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  Speaker 1: little background check, Chuck, right, Um, it's not unequal access
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  Speaker 1: to sanitary drinking water that keeps underdeveloped countries underdeveloped. Turns
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  Speaker 1: out it's lack of an access to legos. Is that
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  Speaker 1: what it is? Yeah? Well, they teach you how to
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  Speaker 1: build and construct things and play together. That's all you're
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  Speaker 1: all thumbs today, isn't it. Yeah? I mean I was
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  Speaker 1: into Lincoln logs and because you know, I was born
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen thirties and log cabins were how we
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  Speaker 1: had to do things back in my day. And then
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  Speaker 1: I had an erector set, which was pretty awesome. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I never get into a directors set. Yeah, that was fun.
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of been. I was like, look at
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  Speaker 1: all those Gears employees, what is this? And hot wheels.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to snap box together hot wheel model cars.
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  Speaker 1: I was into model cars. Yeah. I would get them
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  Speaker 1: and I would then destroy them at some point later
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  Speaker 1: on with firecrackers and stuff. We're not recommending that you
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  Speaker 1: do that, No, we're not. It's very dangerous. So I
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  Speaker 1: was saying you you spanned several decades when you gave
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  Speaker 1: those stats, and in the meantime people have come up with, um,
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  Speaker 1: some pretty cool uses of Legos have done some pretty
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  Speaker 1: cool things with them. There is if you go onto YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: there is a thriller done in Legos, all fourteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: shot for shot, and it was clearly done in like
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  Speaker 1: an old like sixteen millimeter camera and it hasn't made
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  Speaker 1: the jump to digital all that well, but still it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty impressive. There's some Star Wars stuff on there I've
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  Speaker 1: seen recreated definitely. Did you know there's a Boba fette
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  Speaker 1: Lego character. I didn't know that, but it didn't dude
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  Speaker 1: and Chewbacca, Well there should be icons um in I
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  Speaker 1: think two thousand eight, Lego and Kellogg's combined shared the
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  Speaker 1: Blindingly Obvious Danger Award from Consumers International for producing the
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  Speaker 1: Lego fund snacks, which are gummy fruit choose that look
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  Speaker 1: exactly like Lego black. Yeah, that's that's like the bag
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  Speaker 1: of glass from the old right, Yeah, or the super
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  Speaker 1: Happy fun Ball Yeah yeah, um, and so of course
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  Speaker 1: those were discontinued in two thousand and eight. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: not a very good idea. And there was a guy
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  Speaker 1: out there who's actually in the article and there's a
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  Speaker 1: cool picture of it in the article. Who created the
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  Speaker 1: um a life size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got info on that guy, do you really? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's a real artist. Yeah he is, you can tell. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to him later too. That okay. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: then lastly, Chuck mc escher relativity. Yeah, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: steps going different, the startas that he did it in
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  Speaker 1: Legos It is amazing see. That's impressive to me. What
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  Speaker 1: come on, hand, strong hands? Please? Can you disappoint me today?
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  Speaker 1: That's all right, I'm just over it. How many times
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  Speaker 1: can I see that stair thing? You know what? Each
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  Speaker 1: time you gaze upon it, you're still like riveted, aren't you? Do?
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  Speaker 1: You know the incredibly disordered or highly ordered brain structure
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  Speaker 1: requires to see things in that kind of perspective. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's not I'm not saying he's a dummy. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: tired of looking at it. I think we should talk
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  Speaker 1: about how lego bricks are made. It's a good idea,
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  Speaker 1: Uh josh. They start out with plastic granules as a
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  Speaker 1: little plastic, yeah, plastic. It is Acra Loni trial Beautadine
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  Speaker 1: styrene or ABS. We'll call it a BS, and a
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  Speaker 1: b S comes to the factory, well, we'll call it factory.
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  Speaker 1: It's a manufacturing facility um in in drows. I have
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  Speaker 1: fourteen silos that it are. These things are vacuumed into
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  Speaker 1: these silos and all in all a factory has a
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  Speaker 1: close to a million pounds of this granulated plastic, right,
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  Speaker 1: and all the plastic has already died, so they've got
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  Speaker 1: fifty two different colors. Yeah, they don't need to worry
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  Speaker 1: about all that. You wouldn't want to have to color
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  Speaker 1: it there too. I wonder where that's made initially interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I did a little background check
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  Speaker 1: and a B S is actually a very safe plastic.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't contain thouts or bispin als. Well. Yeah, because kids,
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  Speaker 1: despite everything you tell them, are probably gonna put a
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  Speaker 1: lego in their mouth at one point or not, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a lego or a lego fruit too. Right, I
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  Speaker 1: could see that meeting though. I sort of see it like, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's really unsafe to eat these, but they want to
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  Speaker 1: eat them, so let's just give them when they can eat.
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  Speaker 1: And then after they're like, oh, Jerry put in like
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  Speaker 1: a sound effect of somebody slapping their own forehead. So
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  Speaker 1: what happens from here, buddy, is they take these granules
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  Speaker 1: and they use a process called injection molding and some
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  Speaker 1: it's all this is machinery pretty much, of course, and
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  Speaker 1: they melt the stuff down fifty degrees. Yeah, they're not
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  Speaker 1: made by hand. Is that a surprise? Right? The four
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  Speaker 1: degrees it melts the plastic, it injects it into the
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  Speaker 1: molds and applies between twenty and a d fifty tons
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  Speaker 1: of pressure. Right. The cool thing is it's these the
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  Speaker 1: dyes that they use to the injection molds that they use.
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  Speaker 1: The machining process is so precise. The most it's off
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  Speaker 1: is zero point zero zero two millimeters, which is relatively
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  Speaker 1: insignificant for the kind of um the kind of coupling
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  Speaker 1: system that Lego has used. But first, let's talk about robots.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were good about to drop the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: there on that oats do it. You're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: interference fit. Yeah, that's what it's called, Josh. It is
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  Speaker 1: a tube that sticks. I'm sorry that the stud sticks
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  Speaker 1: into the tube, but it's slightly bigger, which is key
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  Speaker 1: because that means that presses it apart and allows it
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  Speaker 1: to stay together using friction. Right. And the the key
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  Speaker 1: to this chuck is you don't need any kind of fastener.
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  Speaker 1: It's all friction. It's all resistance. Uh. And that was
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  Speaker 1: that change in design that they achieved in nine eight.
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  Speaker 1: Before it was it lacked the tubes, I think, so
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  Speaker 1: that things would fall apart pretty easy. Now it's like
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  Speaker 1: once a Lego stuck, brother, it's stuck, well until you
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  Speaker 1: take it apart exactly. But I mean, think of how
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  Speaker 1: many pounds of pressure you have to use to overcome
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  Speaker 1: that friction fit. Yeah, that's true. It's a lot, like
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  Speaker 1: at least two that's true. So where were we pressure?
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  Speaker 1: They apply all that pressure, makes it into the little mold,
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  Speaker 1: takes only seven seconds and they spit it out. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: It goes into a conveyor, into a ben, goes from
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  Speaker 1: a bin into the packaging. We could get specific there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not the most interesting thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I think the cool thing is is um they have
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  Speaker 1: robots that way the packages. The reason when you get
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  Speaker 1: a Lego set, you get different bags, right, because these
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  Speaker 1: designers have said, we need X number of these blocks
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  Speaker 1: and next number of these blocks, and they put them
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  Speaker 1: in different bags so that you can just throw these
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  Speaker 1: um this prescribed assortment of of bags in a box
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  Speaker 1: and there's your place set. Right. And then they have
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  Speaker 1: robots that way the bags before packaging to make sure
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  Speaker 1: they weigh the precise amount. Pretty cool. And if they don't,
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  Speaker 1: that's when humans come in. Yeah, humans come in and
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  Speaker 1: do a little q A along with machines. Machines perform
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  Speaker 1: the drop torque, tension compression bite and impact tests and humans.
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  Speaker 1: The Bye test is my favorite. Humans. He's a little beaker.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the size of a child's epiglottis maybe to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that it can't um a piece, can't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: choke a kid to death, because that's a really important
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  Speaker 1: step in this whole process. Definitely, And the tests, and
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite stats, Josh is, out of every
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  Speaker 1: million Lego pieces made, only about eighteen failed these tests.
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  Speaker 1: That is point zero zero zero two. No, yes, point
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  Speaker 1: zero zero zero two. I see four zeros. Yeah, you
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: said three and I said four. No, you said three
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero two. And the castle walls are counterclockwise. Uh.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And this, like you said, Josh, takes place in bill
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and Denmark. But they have they moved a lot of
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: their manufacturing to the Czech Republic because they were kind
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of losing money there and laying people off and after
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the mid nineties, and so they had to make a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: little cheaper and I guess labor whatever is cheaper over
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: there in in the Czech Republic must be I guess.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: So that's why it's there now. So check they're making
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a thirty seven thousand Lego sets every hour. Sets sets,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: not bricks and UM, I believe I saw a statistic that, um,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: every seven seconds, another Lego set is sold. Yeah, we
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have some of those fun stats will save the end
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: all that time. Sorry for jumping ahead though, That's okay. So, Josh,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Let's say you wanted to build a Lego project, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: not a you know, not a little tiny thing to
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: put in your pocket, a pocket model. Let. So you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: want to build something kind of big and cool. The
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: first thing you need to do is, well, it depends
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: what kind of guy you are. I'm a kind of
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: guy just dives in and starts building. But that's why
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not an architect or a builder. What you should
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: do is plan it out a little bit and decide
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: how large you want it, because then you're gonna you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that'll tell you how many bricks you need, how long
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it's gonna take, and that determines your scale, and from
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: there you can just kind of move on and be creative.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: You can sketch it out if you want, if you're
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: into that, or you could use computer software. You can
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: it's pretty awesome. Actually, UM, there's three different types of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: software as far as I know. There's Lego Digital Designer
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: UM and that's actually available for for use for free
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: on the website. Pretty cool. You can either download it
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: or I believe you can go to Lego dot com
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and use it. UM. There's also l draw, which is
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: based really a type of CAD computer aided design software UM.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And then there is brick Smith that's it on brickman
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: man UM and people use these to do things like, oh,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know, create the statue of Liberty with UM
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: a lightsaber, Yeah, that's a fun one, or a scale
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: replica of the Brooklyn Bridge or right, you know, yes,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Lego Land had pictures of that. Actually, I'll show you. UM.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: The thing I thought was cool is when they some
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: tracy for this article interviewed this the one guy that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you're talking about, Nathan Sawaya Sawaya, and he he's you know,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: it's sort of like real architecture and real building techniques,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: like you should stagger your your bricks for a wall
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: because it's sturdier, and you can put for hollow things,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you can put interior columns, and it sort of follows
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the same rules of standard architecture, which I thought was
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: kind of neat. Right, and this isn't lost on Lego
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: was UM they've recently released the Lego Architecture series. Did
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you check these out? No, dude, they have, Um, they
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: have a couple so far. They have the Googgenheim Okay, UM,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: my favorite. They have falling Water. Very nice. Yeah, it's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: pretty sweet. Um. And they have some uh iconic landmarks.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I think the space needles one of them. But it
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: looks pretty slick. What if I was like Frank Woyd, right,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I'd come across this table square houses please. Yeah. And
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: we've been trying to figure out how to do a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Frank Lloyd Wright podcast and we got i'd say, pretty
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: far into the research process to do it, and I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: figured out, like, we we can't do this. It's just
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: too visual us sitting around describing falling water like somebody
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: should slap us in the face. Yeah. It'd basically just
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: be like, it's so awesome. No, really, it's awesome, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: there's a river that runs underneath. Its awesome. I'm done that, okay. Um.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: If you're If you're interested, there is a book called
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the Unofficial Lego Builder's Guide from Alan Bedford and um
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and a publication online called Brick Journal, and you can
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: get like tips on building big things. There because if
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you never tried, either you're you know, a genius and
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: your innately able to do so, or you're gonna fail miserably. Well.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: One guy who was interviewed for the article who did
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Yeah, yeah, as
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: part of like his whole town he was building. No,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: it wasn't it was. I think it's like Chris Doyle. Yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Chris Doyle. He said, he just starts like he he
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: has a rough idea of what he wants to do,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: but you know, he just goes to town. Basically, That's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: what I would do. Yeah, it can be done, yeah,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but mine probably wouldn't succeed. And then if you are
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: into robotics, electronics that kind of stuff, you can use
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Legos too. Yeah, they've got new robot versions have like
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: microprocessors and motors and gears. There's a guy who used
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: who used Legos to create an automatic book scanner. Wow.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I know, especially if you love books and you love Legos,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: then uh. There's also a seed launcher that somebody made
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: using Legos that that was pretty awesome to us. Um.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: And then one of the other cool things I saw
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it combines Legos with dominoes it's in a mechanical and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: automated domino stacker legs. Yeah, it looks at the important part. Yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I was trying to picture that. I gotta no. I'm like, no, no,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: it's a playmobile, but it has water running underneath. It's
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so awesome. So I mentioned Nathan Sawaya. He is one
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: of the pre eminent lego artists out of New York,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: of course, and he has a traveling exhibit called The
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Art of the Brick and a website too, and he
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: tours the real museums. And the dude is got some
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: serious talent. I mean, look at that. He did Starry
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Starry Night mosaic, he Didima statue. Ye oh, he did
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: this one. That one is the favorite one I ran across,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and we should probably describe it. Yeah. It is a
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: yellow man looking upward and he's tearing apart his chest
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and inside his chest he's full of legos that are
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: spilling out, and he's made of legos. You keep leaving
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that all of this is made of legos. Okay, all right?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And then there's this other dude, Sean Kenny, and he
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: is New York based two and I get the feeling
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that they kind of battle a little bit force well,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: New York Lego supremacy at least because both of their
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: websites say our studio has more than one point five
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: million Legos. Both of them have one point five million Legos.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: But I mean how many I could have one point
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: five million Legos and do nothing with them and slap
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a website together. It's what you do with the legos,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: not how many you own. Well, let me show you
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: what Shaun's done. He's done um work for companies like
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Google and Nintendo and JP Morgan and Samsung. And he's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: been featured on I mean everything, you name it, he's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: been featured. Has it been featured on Timmy Kim Well?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Ah no, But look at this. He did a Yankee stadium.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Check that out. And I hate the Yankees. I was
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: gonna say, if I like the Yankees, I'd be really impressed.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And he's pretty talented guy too. And he is a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: member of the what are called the Certified Professionals, and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I think there's eleven of them. Now, Yeah, that Lego
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: was actually certified these people as professional artists or whatever. Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I got the impression that um, as he became better
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and better, he stopped paying for Legos along the way,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and this is like ring ring, I need more Legos now,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I would think, so I need grain And Old Kirk
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Christensen is like, okay, all right, Old Kirk, should we
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: go off some of these fun facts? Yeah, Lego fun
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: facts aren't all facts associated with Legos fun? Yeah? I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: think so. Okay. I like this whole around the world
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: stuff though, because every company has one of these. Wait, first,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: have you been on Lego dot com recently? Did you
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: go on for this? Yeah? Yeah, it was pretty awesome,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: wasn't it, like all the little movies associated with each one.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I haven't been to Lego Land though, You've ever been there?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: One of their theme parks that they actually sold. You
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: had a Merlin Entertainment or something like that to Merlin
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Olsen his ghost made a deal with Old Kirk Christiansen's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: passed away recently, didn't he very sad? Uh? Yeah? They
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: sold those because they became unprofitable, so they kind of
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: restructured and move some things around. Now they're in the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: in the red, in the black, in the Black fun facts. Josh,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: here we go. More than four hundred million children and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: adults will play with Legos this year. Yes, and I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: don't know what year they said that was, but it's
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: probably every year. I saw the two thousand nine Investor
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Catalog or Um Perspectus, I guess, and it said that
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: same stats. So you can put all your money in Legos.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a substantial amount of it actually privately owns.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's possible. M hm uh. If you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: built a column, Josh of forty billion Lego bricks, it
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: would reach the moon. Had to count those zeros. I've
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: got one, go ahead. Lego is the largest tire manufacturer
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in the world. Yeah, little teeny tires, pretty pretty cool. Sat.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: How many do they make a year? Oh? I don't know.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Do you have that stat Yeah? I do, three six million.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: That's what I get to. Somebody else is in the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: two thousand nine Investor perspective on average, Josh, they are
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: this is the one. This is my favorite one. There
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: are sixty two Lego bricks for every single person on Earth. Yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I like that one too. Uh. Four billion hours. That's
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the amount of five billion, five billion hours. That's how
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: much people will spend playing with Legos in a year
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: on average, not one person, not per person, by everybody
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: playing with Lego you had a fun fact. I'm not
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a fun fact. I mean there were more, but I've
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: got one for you. Remember we talked about I'm fascinated
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: with the mini figures, the mini figs as they call them.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: If you're in the know, if you're one of the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: eleven certified artists. Um we uh. We talked about how
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: they're they were originally gender neutral, um, race neutral. They
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: were also emotion neutral too, And it wasn't until nine
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: when Lego released their oil started releasing their Pirates set
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: that they realized, hey man, we might need some facial
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: expressions on these people. And they came up with a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: good figure and a bad figure and an I patched
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: figure and I think scowl and smile to differentiate between
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the good guys and the bad guys. I'm sure from
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: that point on they started having facial expressions for them. Uh.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: And I think I have one an other Yeah, I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: was Fisher Price. We should do a podcast on Fisher Price.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: That was my bag. I was way into that. I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: liked Playmobile, but I did love Legos as well. Um
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and then Chuck the Mini figs four billion of them
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: on the planet. There's only six point five billion people um,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: four billion on the planet technically makes them the largest
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: population group in the world because they're so tiny. That's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: so cute. And I think that's it, buddy, I think so.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot more. We didn't cover all
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: of it. No, there is something else. All the press
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: you were talking about them selling Lego Land. They did
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: this huge restructuring in I think two thousand four because
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: they peaked in with their Star Wars sets and after
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: that they actually started losing money, and you said they
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: were back in the black. Part of it is because
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: of their selling Lego Land restructuring the company. But um,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: one of the reasons, actually, probably the main reason why
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Legos took such a hit was because of Mega blocks
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: no electronics. Oh, I thought their patent ran out too.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: That's something to do that. That was definitely part of it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: But they think that the you know, Legos are having
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: trouble competing with MP three players or video games are
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: all that. So Lego remains optimistic, Buddy. I have a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: little tidbit of nice Danish optimism in broken English for you,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: courtesy of the Lego Group. You ready, yes, I quote,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: but the Lego group is in no doubt that the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Lego brick will continue in future to be relevant to
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: children of all ages period. A world of imagination and
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: total absorption. Period. That sounds like they literally said that
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and their native language and then just typed it into baby. Well.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: You know they have the my nephew, uh know what
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: plays with the the PlayStation game they have but Indiana
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Jones Lego game. Yeah, so they're trying to get a
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: piece of that market too. I think they got a
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: good piece of it. They have a Star Wars game too.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I think they have more than the trilogy in Lego. Yeah,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: they'll be around. They're fine, I think so. Yeah. So
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: that's it, man. If you want to see really honestly,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I know we say this every time, like go read
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the article on the site. Sometimes we've covered the article
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: gone beyond the article. This is not one of those cases.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: If you want to see just a series of super
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: cool Lego pictures, um, a Lego brick field guide, complete
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: with precise measurements, uh and just a bunch of other
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: information that we didn't even touch on, type how Lego
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: bricks work, because technically there isn't a word called legos,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: it's Lego bricks. But you know, hey, we named ours
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: how legos work? Right, type how lego bricks work in
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the handy search bar at how stuff works dot com
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and it will yield that article right indeed, listener Milk,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I wanted to give a little shout out. I had
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: met a couple of fans this weekend. Finally it never happens.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: What about the Henry Clay people. Well, yeah, but I mean, yeah, sure,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you're right, Okay, I'm gonna plug your album. Actually it's
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: coming out in June. They got a new album coming out.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: But I'll wait on that plug when it's when. Interest Uh.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Jerry and I over the weekend went to a play sorts.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I think it's so cute you to your dating wildlife
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: theater We're not dating, uh, called looking Glass Alice based
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Doug and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Lindsay or in the show Lindsay's Alice. And actually there's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: only five people in the show, so literally one whatever
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: whatever percentage of the cast that is, are fans of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the show. And so Jerry and I went with Emily
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: with my wife and I met up with them afterwards
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: in the green room, which was really green, and they
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: were super cool and we're gonna take him out for
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: barbecue while they're here, and uh, I just wanted to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: thank them. Are they still here? Yeah, they're there. It's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: like a six week run where you going for barbecue. Well,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like Daddy D's, but that's my
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: friend little Dingy let me yeah, but it's really great barbecue.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Daddy d Is is listening your barbecue rocks. I would
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: recommend that. Or Fox Brothers. Well, Fox Brothers is a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: little more the kind of place you would want to
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: take someone from out of town. But they're kind of
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: into fat mats. They want to get fat mats. Okay,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you know that made an appearance in Up in the Air.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah indeed. Yeah. Okay, Well that's it for the Atlanta
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: barbecue scene, right, And I also wanted to shout out
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to uh. Emily had a craft show last weekend and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: one of her fellow crafters her name was Julie. Oh
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: is it Julia? Now I feel like a jerk. It's
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: just to say both. It's either Julie or Julia. She
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: was really nice and what she does she has bought
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: some of these and I've seen other people that do
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: this now. And I'm mentioning it because it's just so
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: cool those old print printing presses from like the eighteen hundreds. Yeah, no,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you don't. She's resurrected these things and they're huge and
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: she does like real printing on cards. Just no computers involved.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: It's just because those DAGNEVITC computers, I know. But that
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: showed pictures are in front this huge machine and you
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: crank it with your foot and it turns all these
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: gears and just like the punk and she was, yeah,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: it is very steampunk. But her she has a website
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: called red Bird Inc. Dot com. And I don't know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I think you should support people that like resurrect She said.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Machines have been used in like seventy years. Why don't
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: she got ahold of them? People used to have to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: walk uphill both ways in the snow to use those
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: machines to print. All right, Josh, this is a listener
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: mail in honor of Mother's Day that should come out
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: sometime near Mother's Day. Hold on, we haven't even laid
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: a part where we can do the music, Chuck, is
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: it time now for listener mail? Yes, Josh said in
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: JERRYO so, like I said, hopefully this will come out
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: sometime around Mother's Day because is from Nora, signed Nora
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: a mama from Missouri. Hello fellas. While driving my oldest
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: son to start a freshman year of college this fall,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I was trying to be cool. She put cool in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: quotes and ignore all the mommy emotions bubbling up so
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: she was getting sad. Thank you for translating. For the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: hour and a half drive, my son out his radio
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: iPod gizmo and entertained his brother and me with your podcast,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: starting with the one on a pumpty schemes. Uh, you
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: know how to say it, clearly. We were totally involved,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: thought provoked, and sparked a great conversation for two. After
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: handling the separation without too much embarrassment, and upon arriving home,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I decided to go for a run to help shake
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: off my mommy blues. The inspiration came to look up
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the podcast and load some on the iPod gizmo, thinking
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: while running and listening, I headed that part. While running
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and listening, I was struck by the whole circle of
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: my baby teaching me a trick or two as he
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: heads off into the world. Now I get warm fuzzies
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: each time I had out for a run and choose
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: my topic. Didn't it And I look forward to running
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: more than a half for a while, So extra bonus.
• 35:45
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• 35:49
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