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Stuff You Should Know July 4th Extravaganza, Part 2: Baseball and Apple Pie · Stuff You Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, we're back. I
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Speaker 1: guess you could say it's a part two of two.
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Speaker 1: This is the second concluding part of our two part
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Speaker 1: series on America, the part of the July. You gotta
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Speaker 1: say hey and welcome to the podcast because this is
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Speaker 1: uh the beginning of part two. Yeah, but we're technically
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Speaker 1: in the middle. All right, Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thank you? You feel better? All right? So this is
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Speaker 1: uh picking up where we left off. We still don't
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Speaker 1: you should know about America from the serious X Time
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Speaker 1: studios in New York City. Now more it's from Josh
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Speaker 1: and Shucks actually doing Thank you Jay, Thank you Jill.
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Speaker 1: That was as great as I hoped it would be.
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Speaker 1: Joe Angel something when he told me he's like, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna need another mic in a v I P seat
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Speaker 1: because I got someone doing footnotes, like what what does
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Speaker 1: that mean? And now I know? And knowing is half
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Speaker 1: the battle. That's what I do. So chuck. Um, I
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Speaker 1: don't think we could do a July four show reasonably
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Speaker 1: and not talk about fireworks, right, It'd be a big
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Speaker 1: rip off. I mean, I don't think there's any better
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Speaker 1: way to enjoy a fireworks display than to know the
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Speaker 1: chemistry that's going behind it, right. I feel like you
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Speaker 1: take that that kind of understand well, whether you like
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Speaker 1: it or not, we're going to teach you this right now, right. Yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: you're the expert on this, but I do like, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll chime in. Go ahead, it's gonna be like I
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Speaker 1: like the name of the Chinese manual. Well, you take
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Speaker 1: the name of the Chinese manual first. Let me set
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Speaker 1: you up, okay, um? So, uh, fireworks are based on
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Speaker 1: black powder, which has been around since at least ten
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Speaker 1: forty four. Uh, and it was discovered in China, right, Um.
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Speaker 1: It was either the result of some alchemists who are
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Speaker 1: looking for a way to preserve youth or a hapless
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Speaker 1: chef who accidentally discovered it. Can I stop you there,
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Speaker 1: because I've the first one doesn't make any sense to me.
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Speaker 1: The second one does, I get it. Chinese chef making
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Speaker 1: bananas foster or something. Boom and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: there's there's gunpowder. But how does gunpowder figure into trying
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Speaker 1: to make yourself look younger? Is what I wanted. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I have no answer for that. I charcoal,
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Speaker 1: I guess, potassium nitrate, which is saltpeter, and then the sulfur.
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Speaker 1: I think if you applied those things separately to your
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Speaker 1: face and then wash them off well enough and just
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Speaker 1: don't light it right, well, if you know, if you
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Speaker 1: got too close to a fire, then ka boom okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: all right, well that makes sense now, but those are
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Speaker 1: the three ingredients in black powder, right, that's right? And uh,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to point out the Chinese. Uh, we know
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Speaker 1: it has been around since ten forty four because it
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Speaker 1: was in the Collection of the most Important Military Techniques.
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Speaker 1: That's what they called their book. It is a good
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Speaker 1: book name, pretty straightforward. So um, however they discovered it
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Speaker 1: um Now, I don't know if they understood what was
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Speaker 1: going on back then. Now we have a pretty good
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Speaker 1: understanding of what's going on with black powder. Right. So
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Speaker 1: you've got um, potassium nitrate, which is saltpeter, which is
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Speaker 1: um an oxidizer. Right, Yeah, that's like the mix is charcoal,
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Speaker 1: which is fuel, and then you've got sulfur, which is
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Speaker 1: a reducing agent, and that's the last ten percent, that's right.
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Speaker 1: So you mix them all together, you introduce flame, which
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Speaker 1: ignites it, and all of a sudden, the potassium nitrate
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Speaker 1: starts releasing all this oxygen which feeds the charcoal a right,
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Speaker 1: binds to it and creates the light and the heat
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Speaker 1: that you see in fireworks. Right boom, Right, we're almost there, um.
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Speaker 1: And then you have the oxygen from the potassium nitrate
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Speaker 1: also re acting with the sulfur to create this explosive force.
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Speaker 1: As c O two and nitrate, nitrogen are produced and
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Speaker 1: they expand and that's the boom right yeah, okay, and okay,
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Speaker 1: you just hit it earlier to get a point. So
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Speaker 1: you've got the sulfur and the oxygen binding together, creating
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Speaker 1: C O two and nitrogen and that's where you get
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Speaker 1: the explosive force. Boom, Thank you, it was good. You
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Speaker 1: wouldn't think it'd be that hard. Um. And that's that's
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Speaker 1: the basis of um fireworks, right, Yeah, that's the basis
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Speaker 1: of the firecracker. And so now we move on to sparklers,
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Speaker 1: which is pretty much the same thing it pretty much is.
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Speaker 1: But what you do with the sparkler is you have
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Speaker 1: that black powder, add a little sugar, add a little water,
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Speaker 1: and you get something called you know, sort of like
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Speaker 1: a slurry. You dip your stick into it, as it were,
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Speaker 1: and uh metal stick. And because everything's spread out, it's
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Speaker 1: not gonna be like as volatile and create a big
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Speaker 1: flash bang boom, it's over. It's spread out because it's
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Speaker 1: mixed with a slurry. And you add a little uh
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Speaker 1: whatton metal to that, like some sort of metal dust
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Speaker 1: or shavings, and then that heats up and jumps off
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Speaker 1: and becomes incandescent. And there's a sparkler. What's the noise
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Speaker 1: for that sparkler? Okay, there we go. There's just sparkling.
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Speaker 1: And the reason this is important is because when you
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Speaker 1: go out on the fourth of July wherever you do
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Speaker 1: that here in New York, imagine there everywhere and you
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Speaker 1: see the big pyrotechnic display, it is really just versions
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Speaker 1: of sparklers and firecrackers, right. The sparkler and the firecracker
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Speaker 1: the basis of all other fireworks. Right, that's right. So
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Speaker 1: these aerial displays, it's just a shell which is like
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Speaker 1: a ball filled with black powder and then little pellets
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Speaker 1: of um sparkler composition that they call stars, right, And
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Speaker 1: in the middle of that is a firecracker, and you
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Speaker 1: use a lifting charge to send it into the air,
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Speaker 1: and the lifting charge ignites the fuse nice and then
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Speaker 1: when it when it hits a certain altitude and that
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Speaker 1: that fuse goes off and the firecracker in the middle
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Speaker 1: blows up. It ignites the black powder. Right. So there's
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Speaker 1: your explosion, and that in turn sends the pellets the
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Speaker 1: stars scattered lights them and there's your firework. That's it,
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Speaker 1: as you say about it being bot a boom bon
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Speaker 1: Jovi fireworks. Let's say that. And you can get fancy
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Speaker 1: with it if you want to cobble these together. You
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Speaker 1: cobble the shells together, add something called a breaking charge,
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Speaker 1: and that is when you see like the one shell
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Speaker 1: explode and then that breaking charge sets off the other ones.
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Speaker 1: And that's where you get the cool little things that
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Speaker 1: everyone ooze and oz at. Right. And then you add
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Speaker 1: some chemical salts for color. That's right, like, uh, what
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Speaker 1: do we have blue for copper? Blue is copper, Stronium
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Speaker 1: is red, and then stronium and copper make purple. Wow,
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Speaker 1: look at you. I got sodium for yellow, calcium for orange,
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Speaker 1: aluminium for my British friends, uh is silver and bare
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Speaker 1: m is green. Pretty neat, right. So now when you're
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Speaker 1: watching the fireworks display, you can curse us because you're
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Speaker 1: sitting there thinking about the sulfur is a reducing agent?
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Speaker 1: What's that smell? Oh, that's the reducing agent. Just give
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Speaker 1: me a beard and shut up exactly. So that's a
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Speaker 1: that's a fireworks, right. But but that's just like fireworks
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Speaker 1: when they go right, that's that's the optimum of what
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Speaker 1: can happen with firework what we just said, right, But
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Speaker 1: we live in La la land in a lot of ways,
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Speaker 1: and fireworks don't always go well right. So um, we
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Speaker 1: have our friend Hallie heglind here to talk to us about,
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Speaker 1: um when fireworks don't go so well. Right, that's right.
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Speaker 1: Hally apparently has a pretty true story for us. So
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Speaker 1: everybody welcome Holly. All right, let's see that's right. I
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Speaker 1: was good? Is this good? Should I lower this? Or
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Speaker 1: I don't even know who I'm talking You can probably
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Speaker 1: you can write angle it down. Okay, this is the
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Speaker 1: highlight of the show. Yeah, never let it be said that, Um,
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Speaker 1: Josh and Chuck, don't teach the controversy, because that's why
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Speaker 1: I'm here. Um, alright, Well, I have some facts and
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Speaker 1: figures in my presentation, so I may need to refer
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Speaker 1: to my notes. Um. But I'm sure that you've all
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Speaker 1: seen the public service videos that local news stations roll
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Speaker 1: out around this time of year. You know, there's like
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Speaker 1: a fake adorable child posed in a field of grass
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, obviously celebrating something because they're wearing
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Speaker 1: something really nice from the local J C. Pennies. Um.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know it's a mannequin that's completely faceless, um,
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Speaker 1: and yet human like because they put a straw sun
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Speaker 1: sun hat on the head to remind you, like, be careful,
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Speaker 1: this fake child is sensitive to the sun. So you know,
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Speaker 1: so that so that, so the mannequin is posed in
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Speaker 1: like some position of youthful curiosity, and all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden boom, you know, a Roman candle blows its head off,
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Speaker 1: and in the blink of an eye there's nothing but
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Speaker 1: like a cloud of smoke and lime dust and a
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Speaker 1: sin straw hat two feet away in the grass. So um,
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Speaker 1: this is uh what we all see every day. You
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Speaker 1: know the hazards of fireworks, and if it's if it's
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Speaker 1: a low budget sort of news station, they actually just
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Speaker 1: blow up a watermelon. But either way they teach you
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Speaker 1: the havoc that fireworks can wreak upon our nation's children
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Speaker 1: or our nation's fruit. Yeah. So if you don't think
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Speaker 1: fireworks are dangerous, can I ask you a question? Okay,
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Speaker 1: since how many fireworks fact stories do you think have
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Speaker 1: burned down? According to my not very thorough research, it's
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Speaker 1: up five okay, so Denmark, Holland, the UK, England, and
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Speaker 1: the Philippines. So here let me get my numbers. If
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Speaker 1: you don't think they're dangerous, just ask the one one thousand,
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty people in n Shade, Holland left
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Speaker 1: homeless after nine ms, which I did the math. It's
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Speaker 1: one thousand, nine hundred and eighty pounds of fireworks were
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Speaker 1: accidentally detonated at their local factory. Or talked to the
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Speaker 1: people of Cavite in the Philippines who felt the ground
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Speaker 1: shake nearly two miles away from the explosion when a
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Speaker 1: demonstration at their local firecracker factory went wrong. Or the
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Speaker 1: two thousand people evacuated from ceased to Denmark, when factory
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Speaker 1: workers accidentally dropped a container of fireworks somehow called using
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Speaker 1: it to ignite. I watched a lot of internet videos
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Speaker 1: in my research, and I will say, if you have
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Speaker 1: to witness a human tragedy firsthand, um, a fireworks factory
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Speaker 1: exploding is definitely the coolest you are going to come by.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like cooler than the Disney World fireworks display.
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Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, Um, did you know that while celebrating
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Speaker 1: Chinese New Year in two thousand nine, it only took
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Speaker 1: one stray firecracker to burn down Beijing's thirties story luxury
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Speaker 1: Mandarin Hotel. Now, to be fair, the Chinese are unincredibly
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Speaker 1: efficient people, so what took them one firework would probably
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Speaker 1: take us like reliefs of box okay um. In the
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Speaker 1: United States, in two thousand ten, the Consumer Products Safety
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Speaker 1: Commission reported three firework related desk deaths, which is up
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Speaker 1: fifty percent from two. That was in nine, when only
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Speaker 1: two firework related deaths were reported. And I don't expect
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Speaker 1: the trend to turn around, because, let's face it, the
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Speaker 1: economy is going to hell this Fourth of July. Americans
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Speaker 1: are gonna want nothing more than to just throw back
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Speaker 1: a six pack and just sparkler the world away. Okay, Okay,
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Speaker 1: So maybe the cold hard statistics don't touch you. Maybe
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Speaker 1: something more anecdote will get through to you. So I
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Speaker 1: have witnessed the brutality of the firework firsthand. Let me
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Speaker 1: take you back to Denver, Colorado, five of July. I
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Speaker 1: am about to turn ten and my older brother Eric
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Speaker 1: is fourteen. And you should know in Denver there is
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Speaker 1: about a week right around the fourth of July where
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Speaker 1: summer drought and a child stockpile of fireworks both simultaneously
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Speaker 1: reach their peak. Um, so we have really hoarded this
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Speaker 1: incredible stash. I mean we had every kind of fire work.
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Speaker 1: We had snaps, we had sparklers, we had bottle rockets,
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Speaker 1: we had Roman candles, we had tanks, we had snakes,
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Speaker 1: we had bird cages, and of course we had smoke bombs.
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Speaker 1: So um, we had sort of burned through most of
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Speaker 1: our reserves. On the driveway the night before. My father
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Speaker 1: has all these pictures that he took of us at night,
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Speaker 1: and we're like crouch next to the garage door, and
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Speaker 1: I'm wearing this Mexican pueble address that my mom bought
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Speaker 1: for me. In Portavayarta, and my brother's wearing his hot
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Speaker 1: pink jams, and you can see we're just sort of
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Speaker 1: mesmerized by this black cat screech and scream fountain that
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Speaker 1: we've just ignited. And uh, you know, there's like a
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Speaker 1: deadness in my eyes and something about how I never
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Speaker 1: brushed my hair that I'm really like spot on for
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Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore and the fire starter posters, and um, my
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Speaker 1: brother just keeps begging, like just one more, just one more,
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Speaker 1: like like he's going to go into withdrawal if we
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Speaker 1: stopped lighting fireworks. So what I'm saying is I feel like,
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Speaker 1: looking at this picture, you could tell we were already
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Speaker 1: struggling with some pretty serious demons. The next day, I
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Speaker 1: was in a fog all day, you know, despite a
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Speaker 1: full night of sleep. I was exhausted after our explosives bender,
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Speaker 1: and so, uh, sometime in the afternoon, I went to
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Speaker 1: the basement to find a cool place, and I was
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Speaker 1: watching a current affair if you guys remember that, and
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Speaker 1: I I must have drifted off because I remember I
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Speaker 1: was awakened by a sound of sirens. Now my brother,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know this at the time, was upstairs with
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Speaker 1: three other boys from our block on the street, and
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Speaker 1: they were playing this game that we played in our
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Speaker 1: neighborhood all the time. I really hope no children are
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Speaker 1: listening to this, and if you are, this is really
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Speaker 1: bad game, so don't play this game. I was sort
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Speaker 1: of um, you know. It was a spinoff of ding
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Speaker 1: on Ditchum. So one person would go stand on the
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Speaker 1: porch um poised to ring the doorbell, while another person
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Speaker 1: would stand in the street with a smoke bomb. So
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Speaker 1: as soon as the smoke bomb was lit in the street,
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Speaker 1: the person on the porch would ring the doorbell and
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Speaker 1: then run away and the person in the street would
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Speaker 1: throw the smoke bomb. So ideally, your neighbor opens their
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Speaker 1: door to a cloud of smoke and they think like
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Speaker 1: a wizard just rung the door, and then they got
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Speaker 1: really shy or something. But let me remind you again
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Speaker 1: that Denver was a tinder box at that time of year,
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Speaker 1: so my brother and his friends probably should have skipped
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Speaker 1: the house across the street, the four Stads House, which
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Speaker 1: was flanked by these two huge juniper trees. Uh actually
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Speaker 1: historic trees. We later found out they were planted by
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Speaker 1: the then governor Roy Romer's father in law, and about
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Speaker 1: fifty years fire, and every so often the roamers would
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Speaker 1: pile in their car and just drive through the neighborhood
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Speaker 1: to check out how their trees were doing, because that's
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Speaker 1: really what people in Colorado do for fun, They go
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Speaker 1: and check out trees that they planted a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: So it was actually my brother who threw the offending
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Speaker 1: smoke bomb, and the smoke bomb was blue, so he
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Speaker 1: he lit it and he aimed at the porch, but
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Speaker 1: his aim was off and so instead of landing on
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Speaker 1: the porch, it landed in the juniper tree on the right,
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Speaker 1: and everyone just sort of sat there, stunned as the
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Speaker 1: smoke billowing from the tree turned from blue to light
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Speaker 1: blue to gray, and then you just heard this crackling sound.
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Speaker 1: And it didn't take long for the fire for the
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Speaker 1: fire in one tree to spread to the adjacent tree,
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Speaker 1: and then to the roof of the four Stats house,
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Speaker 1: and then to the roof of the neighbors of the
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Speaker 1: four Stats House, and they just sort of stood there
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Speaker 1: stunt like, how could this game have possibly gone back?
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Speaker 1: And my mom, actually I was talking to this morning,
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Speaker 1: and she reminded me of the fact that she at
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Speaker 1: some point had come out onto the porch and when
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Speaker 1: she saw fire, and she just saw the kids frozen
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Speaker 1: in the street, and and they just looked her and
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Speaker 1: they we don't know what to do. We don't know
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Speaker 1: what to do. But then instead of running to my house,
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Speaker 1: they ran to one of the other boys houses because
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Speaker 1: the mom was way nicer, and they hid in the
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Speaker 1: bathroom while the mom called the fire department. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: after all there were there were the two trees were
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Speaker 1: totally destroyed, and there was serious damage to two roofs,
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Speaker 1: and also the four stops car which had been marked
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Speaker 1: in the driveway. So that night, um everyone assembled for
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Speaker 1: sort of a disciplinary meeting on our side porch would have,
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Speaker 1: which happened to offer a prime view of the charred,
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Speaker 1: scorched earth across the street. And uh, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was all the boys and all the parents, and I
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Speaker 1: sort of tiptoed out and was just standing on the
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Speaker 1: edge watching everything, and all the parents thought that the
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Speaker 1: boys were just staring down because they were so shamed
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Speaker 1: and sort of in shame and deference, when really I
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Speaker 1: was just nobody wanted to look up because if they
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Speaker 1: look sideways, they would just burst out laughing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was so pathetic how this forest house looked. It
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Speaker 1: was it looked like one unlucky house on like a
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Speaker 1: beautiful block had just been struck by lightning. And as
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Speaker 1: they discussed what kind of work the boys could do
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Speaker 1: to pay off the four thoughts insurance deductible, I listened
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Speaker 1: and I really, I really had no impulse to laugh
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Speaker 1: because I thought about how easily that sorry smoke bomb
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Speaker 1: toss could have been mine. And so as they laid
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Speaker 1: out chores that they could possibly do, I just thought, there,
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Speaker 1: but for the grace of God, go I I feel sure.
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Speaker 1: Now that's a true story, right, yeah, she said, She
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Speaker 1: talked to her mom. Oh well that makes it true, right, So, Um, Chuck,
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Speaker 1: I used to blow stuff up like crazy? Yeah, like, uh,
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Speaker 1: model cars. Any guy's ever strapped like bottle rockets to
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Speaker 1: their model cars and try and make them? Guys a
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Speaker 1: rather like, oh yeah, dude, still do did you ever,
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Speaker 1: um break the sticks off of bottle rockets and line
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Speaker 1: them and just throw them and see where they go,
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Speaker 1: Just see what happened? That's what actually I would. Me
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Speaker 1: and my buddy Chuck built this. Uh. I had a
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Speaker 1: friend named chuck growing up, either that or a very
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Speaker 1: sad child. I built. We built bottle rocket guns in
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Speaker 1: his little wood shop he had, like his dad made
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Speaker 1: the little rubber band guns and sold them at fairs
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Speaker 1: and stuff. So we modified those two hold bottle rockets
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Speaker 1: and you drop it in and throw the little flap
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Speaker 1: down and shoot them at each other. So what what
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Speaker 1: kind of modifications are required specifically? Well, we we used
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Speaker 1: the stock of the gun, it was like a rifle,
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Speaker 1: and then we basically just got rid of the rubber
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Speaker 1: band part and made a box with a flap on
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Speaker 1: top like a door because you didn't want it to,
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Speaker 1: you know, shoot back at you, so you would light it,
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Speaker 1: put it in there, and we kind of dug out
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Speaker 1: a groove so it goes straight. We put a lot
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Speaker 1: of thought into this, and you know you would light
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Speaker 1: it and then shoot at your friend bon Jovi. Yea,
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Speaker 1: So did you patent that? No? We should have. Actually, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll have to go home and hold him in Denver evidently. So, um,
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Speaker 1: let's talk American dreams, shall we? Yeah? Man, the American
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Speaker 1: dream as a thing. And you did most of this
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Speaker 1: research and you put this one on me too. No,
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Speaker 1: no, no no, I'm not putting this one on you, but
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Speaker 1: I'm just, uh, I notice from your research when I
20:47
Speaker 1: looked at this, the American dreams sort of his ebbed
20:50
Speaker 1: and flowed from the it's early origins, and it's sort
20:54
Speaker 1: of coincides with like how the economy is doing. Right,
20:57
Speaker 1: then pretty much it's either like, yes, the can dream
21:00
Speaker 1: or oh it's dead, yeah, and then it's alive again,
21:04
Speaker 1: and then it's dead. And I also noticed the American
21:06
Speaker 1: dream is either like every man for himself and like
21:10
Speaker 1: you just do the best you can and make as
21:12
Speaker 1: much money as you can, or it's all about community
21:15
Speaker 1: and looking out from one another, and all that depends
21:17
Speaker 1: on how the economy is doing. That's right, because if
21:21
Speaker 1: everybody's broke, everybody's like, yeah, of course, government spending, that's
21:24
Speaker 1: what the American dreams about. And uh, if if everyone's
21:27
Speaker 1: making money, then you know, everyone turns into Patrick Bateman
21:30
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. So let's talk about it, Chuck.
21:33
Speaker 1: Where did where did this come from? Obviously it was
21:35
Speaker 1: the famed historian James Truslow Adams, who wrote the ninety
21:40
Speaker 1: one book The Epic of America, Right, yeah, and that's
21:43
Speaker 1: where he mentioned the American Dream, but earlier than that,
21:46
Speaker 1: in sixteen thirty, John Winthrop gave his famous City upon
21:51
Speaker 1: a Hill sermon to his fellow Puritan colonists, and um,
21:56
Speaker 1: he didn't use the word dream, but he did detail
21:58
Speaker 1: a vision of society where everyone could prosper, everyone could
22:02
Speaker 1: get ahead as long as you just team together and
22:05
Speaker 1: work together and followed the Bible, right exactly. But but
22:08
Speaker 1: that kind of laid out the groundwork for the American
22:10
Speaker 1: dream that in America, specifically, if you worked really hard,
22:15
Speaker 1: the sky was the limit. Right, that's right. Okay, So, um,
22:18
Speaker 1: that was sixteen thirty when Winthrop gave that City upon
22:21
Speaker 1: a Hill sermon. Uh, and then by seventeen seventy six
22:25
Speaker 1: when t. J. Sat down from June eleven to um,
22:29
Speaker 1: it was a god given, inalienable right to succeed because
22:34
Speaker 1: it's in the it's in the Constitution. We're guaranteed the
22:37
Speaker 1: the life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Right, that's right,
22:41
Speaker 1: which is kind of the the American dream in a nutshell,
22:43
Speaker 1: it's the pursuit of happiness. Yeah, does that? What does
22:46
Speaker 1: the Statue of liberty saying? Now, that's awful. I don't
22:48
Speaker 1: know that is that what it says there? Now, what
22:50
Speaker 1: does it say something? It says like yeah, all that
22:54
Speaker 1: other stuff. People are just shouting out words. He says,
22:57
Speaker 1: welcome to Shawnees. Did you see this? And it's not
23:03
Speaker 1: a torch, but it's a burger. So um, the the
23:06
Speaker 1: the the Declaration of Independence really kind of gives the
23:11
Speaker 1: lift to the American dream. But it's really it becomes
23:13
Speaker 1: embodied in the nineteenth century. Um, there was a guy
23:17
Speaker 1: named Alexis to Tokoville, right, that took this is a
23:22
Speaker 1: sort of a snotty thing to say, laughing. Yeah, uh,
23:26
Speaker 1: it might not have been a snotty thing to say,
23:27
Speaker 1: but because he was French, I took it that way. Um.
23:30
Speaker 1: He visited the United States in the eighteen thirties and
23:34
Speaker 1: he called this belief the charm of anticipated success. And
23:38
Speaker 1: that just sounds sort of like like it's not real,
23:41
Speaker 1: it's just the charm. He's British all of a sudden.
23:45
Speaker 1: He could also be a Nazi. Yeah you can do
23:47
Speaker 1: that accent. Um. I took it as kind of like
23:51
Speaker 1: a pat on the head or he was charmed himself.
23:54
Speaker 1: Either way, he was he was an outsider making an
23:56
Speaker 1: observation that the Americans over there think like they have
23:59
Speaker 1: this thing called American exceptionalism, which means there's no other
24:03
Speaker 1: country on Earth like America. Right, that's right, And that's
24:05
Speaker 1: what he was mentioning. And then um, I think it
24:08
Speaker 1: got another boost by Henry David Thoreau. Yeah, Walden, he
24:11
Speaker 1: really laid out the American dream as well. Yeah, and
24:14
Speaker 1: that was eighteen fifty four. And his quote, uh, actually
24:16
Speaker 1: like this one, if one advances confidently in the direction
24:20
Speaker 1: of his dreams and I'm gonna say her dreams, let's
24:22
Speaker 1: modernize this, uh, and endeavors to live that the life
24:26
Speaker 1: he has imagined, he will meet with his success unexpected
24:30
Speaker 1: in common hours. Can you see that in like one
24:32
Speaker 1: of those posters, it says like effort and it has
24:35
Speaker 1: that underneath there's like a whales tale. Back then, the
24:40
Speaker 1: Walden that was like it was a guy chopping wood.
24:43
Speaker 1: It was Thorow himself actually, right, he was the first
24:46
Speaker 1: guy to do an inspirational poster. It was a wood carmen.
24:52
Speaker 1: So that that's the mid eighteenth century. Um, towards the
24:56
Speaker 1: end of the the you know, the mid nineteenth century,
24:58
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yes, toward the end of that you had
25:01
Speaker 1: a lot of immigrants coming and also a westward push,
25:05
Speaker 1: and so the American Dream kind of gets laid onto
25:07
Speaker 1: these two things too. It's actually written about. They use
25:10
Speaker 1: the words American Dream more and more in newspapers and
25:12
Speaker 1: you know, chok. Yeah, and magazine's the whole kind of
25:17
Speaker 1: thing where, Um, people love their ragaster richest stories in
25:20
Speaker 1: the late nineteenth century, right, but I mean they really
25:24
Speaker 1: loved them then, really like compared to today, it's like
25:29
Speaker 1: but so so everything's going and going. By the time
25:32
Speaker 1: the twentieth century comes around, Um, the American Dream is
25:36
Speaker 1: pretty much like code for upwardly mobile. That's right. That
25:40
Speaker 1: the persons living the American dream, rather than a promise
25:43
Speaker 1: to be able to try the American dream, is starting
25:46
Speaker 1: to become wealthy, Like you're wealthy. It's about the time
25:50
Speaker 1: of the turn of the century. And then by the
25:53
Speaker 1: time James Chooselaw Adams writes his Epic of America, Um,
25:57
Speaker 1: there's a lot of doubt, right because this want. Something
26:00
Speaker 1: really big happened that kind of put a ding in
26:02
Speaker 1: the American dream. Yeah, the Depression came along and destroyed
26:05
Speaker 1: a lot of these big fortunes and these people that
26:07
Speaker 1: had you know, live the American dream ras the riches,
26:11
Speaker 1: uh self made millionaires and the like, and h Herbert
26:15
Speaker 1: Hoover said, you know what, prosperities just around the corner,
26:17
Speaker 1: and everyone said, screw you, three rocks. That's right, But
26:22
Speaker 1: uh FDR came along and did usher in a little
26:26
Speaker 1: bit of real hope after that. He did even even
26:28
Speaker 1: before going to war, which I think most most historians
26:32
Speaker 1: kind of point to is the turning point for the
26:34
Speaker 1: American economy was all the military spending in World War Two?
26:38
Speaker 1: Um so I guess um. Roosevelt introduces the New Deal, right,
26:44
Speaker 1: which is again all the government spending social programs to
26:48
Speaker 1: the American dream kind of becomes more of a sense
26:50
Speaker 1: of community where America is a place where you know,
26:52
Speaker 1: you can not only make your own way, but if
26:56
Speaker 1: you can't make your own way, like you're elderly or
26:58
Speaker 1: you're disabled or whatever, the community is going to take
27:01
Speaker 1: care of you. That's right. And then we go over
27:04
Speaker 1: to Europe and to Africa and Italy and the Pacific
27:07
Speaker 1: and kicktail and come back and the suburbs are born,
27:11
Speaker 1: and then the americansumes just right on this up tick again. Right,
27:14
Speaker 1: so we're on the uptick of the roller coaster in
27:17
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties. Americans at the time made up six
27:20
Speaker 1: percent of the population and consumed one third of the
27:23
Speaker 1: goods and services, which means we're doing great because you know,
27:28
Speaker 1: we're Americans and we're using up all this stuff, which
27:31
Speaker 1: is awesome. Wages rose, Yeah, that was pretty good. Uh,
27:35
Speaker 1: affluent workers moved, like you said, into the suburbs spread out,
27:39
Speaker 1: and I guess at the time that meant, uh, things
27:42
Speaker 1: were good if you moved to the suburbs. Well, I
27:44
Speaker 1: wonder if the suburbs were kind of a turning point
27:46
Speaker 1: as well, because when the suburbs started to hit their
27:48
Speaker 1: their stride, that's when the social strife in the sixties
27:52
Speaker 1: came along, where basically, um African Americans said like, hey,
27:56
Speaker 1: I'm really happy that you guys are having a great
27:58
Speaker 1: time over there, but there's this whole other part of
28:00
Speaker 1: America that's been left out so far. And MLK famously
28:05
Speaker 1: redefined the American dream. Yeah, he called America a dream
28:09
Speaker 1: yet unfulfilled. And he was kind of right on the money,
28:11
Speaker 1: and he said that it shouldn't be about wealth, it
28:14
Speaker 1: should be about Thomas Jefferson t J again saying all
28:18
Speaker 1: men are created equal and give equal rights to minorities,
28:21
Speaker 1: rebuild these inner cities that are decaying, and let's eradicate hunger.
28:26
Speaker 1: And people are like, wait a minute, I just thought
28:29
Speaker 1: I was supposed to get rich and moved to the suburbs.
28:31
Speaker 1: What are you talking. At the same time, their kids
28:34
Speaker 1: are doing the same thing. They're attacking them from from
28:37
Speaker 1: the from another side, right, waiting for them to come
28:40
Speaker 1: home from working, then jumping out of the closet. Maybe
28:42
Speaker 1: um and uh they they the the sixties are at
28:47
Speaker 1: their peak and the seventies hit and the economy just
28:50
Speaker 1: slides down the toilet. Whoever, So there's social strife and
28:55
Speaker 1: others economic strife and every at every turn, the American
28:58
Speaker 1: dream is analyzed in this context. Right, So, which is
29:02
Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're just following in tradition. That's right.
29:04
Speaker 1: And thankfully another French person came along to point this out.
29:07
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy four, French historian Ingrid Carlander published a
29:12
Speaker 1: book called how do you pronounce it? Lazy American? It
29:16
Speaker 1: sounds very much like lazy American? Uh, you really don't
29:21
Speaker 1: like the press, No, I love the French. Um. She
29:23
Speaker 1: proclaimed that America the American dream was in fact dead,
29:26
Speaker 1: and uh that was pretty much it. And with the
29:30
Speaker 1: you know, the gasoline lines and the empty swimming pools
29:33
Speaker 1: and uh, because you know you shouldn't put uh. I
29:35
Speaker 1: think it was l a that suffered the drought and
29:37
Speaker 1: they were like, you know, we can't afford all this
29:39
Speaker 1: water for swimming pools even but luckily that was good
29:42
Speaker 1: for skateboarding. It was that gave rise to skateboarding, didn't it.
29:46
Speaker 1: It did, um And then out of California, out of
29:50
Speaker 1: the Promised Land, came the Golden Child, right, the former governor,
29:55
Speaker 1: a guy who came from a farm family, who had
29:57
Speaker 1: worked his way up to a star in hell Cats
29:59
Speaker 1: of a Navy, and uh he took over and basically Reagan,
30:04
Speaker 1: by the way, he said, the American dream is back, baby,
30:08
Speaker 1: I think is what his words were. Learning so and
30:12
Speaker 1: his uh deal very uh, the very simplified version was, hey,
30:17
Speaker 1: let's cut taxes and uh stimulate growth. Let's reduce some
30:21
Speaker 1: of these government programs because uh, we want self reliance
30:25
Speaker 1: and that's what it makes America strong. That's what it
30:27
Speaker 1: makes America strong Italian as well, and uh, you know
30:34
Speaker 1: it worked to a certain degree in America started to
30:36
Speaker 1: prosper again. But then critics came along and said, yeah,
30:38
Speaker 1: but you know what, we don't know about all this
30:40
Speaker 1: Uh how would really helped the common man. It may
30:43
Speaker 1: have just been the rich you were helping out and
30:45
Speaker 1: we don't really know if you cut spending that went
30:47
Speaker 1: who is that easy Chinese? Now? So uh, we we
30:54
Speaker 1: find ourselves now, um, after the the affluent eighties, UM
30:59
Speaker 1: and the nineties, which is just a party man. Um,
31:02
Speaker 1: we we kind of we we have kind of this
31:04
Speaker 1: hangover now where we have all this stuff, but we
31:07
Speaker 1: also have all this debt and like reality of like
31:09
Speaker 1: what you know, just buying stuff and just consuming without
31:12
Speaker 1: producing anything. Because remember back in um the forties or fifties,
31:17
Speaker 1: we were producing one third of the world's goods, but
31:20
Speaker 1: we were consuming that too, but we were producing as well.
31:23
Speaker 1: And then through the eighties and the nineties, we stopped
31:25
Speaker 1: producing and just started consuming. And we got to this
31:28
Speaker 1: point where this UM Harvard professor named John quelch Um
31:32
Speaker 1: pointed out that basically, too many Americans have been expressing
31:35
Speaker 1: the American dream through the acquisition of stuff, right, so
31:40
Speaker 1: now everybody's getting browbeaten with the American dream that's the
31:43
Speaker 1: point that we're at right, right, It's like it's greedy.
31:47
Speaker 1: Is that the point? I think what he's saying is
31:51
Speaker 1: it's kind of become greedy, like it was originally an
31:53
Speaker 1: opportunity and now it's how much stuff do you have?
31:57
Speaker 1: So what he suggests we do is go back to
32:00
Speaker 1: the original James truth Loow adams ideal of the American
32:04
Speaker 1: dream and through that allow it to survive, right, right,
32:07
Speaker 1: And we'll finish up with a quote from Adams, uh,
32:10
Speaker 1: a social order in which each man and each woman
32:13
Speaker 1: shall be able to attain the fullest stature to which
32:15
Speaker 1: they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for
32:18
Speaker 1: what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth
32:22
Speaker 1: or position. And how about that? That's right on the money.
32:26
Speaker 1: Truth was this is stuff you should know about America
32:31
Speaker 1: from the Sirius XM studios in New York City. Now
32:34
Speaker 1: more from Josh and Chock. So um, this is I
32:40
Speaker 1: would argue, I might cry at this part. When I
32:45
Speaker 1: was researching, I was crying, um laughing. We have one
32:50
Speaker 1: of our good friends here, Joe Randazzo. He edits the
32:52
Speaker 1: onion like we said, um, and here that it's a
32:56
Speaker 1: big deal The Onion. I've turned into a frenchman. Um
33:02
Speaker 1: and he uh, he was so kind as to go
33:05
Speaker 1: through their sevent three edition, right uh and come up
33:08
Speaker 1: with some great headlines for us to share from the
33:11
Speaker 1: era from the age. So everyone please welcome Joe Randazzo. Hi, Joe, Hi.
33:20
Speaker 1: How are you gonna wear of those? Yeah? Yeah, I
33:21
Speaker 1: like it. Joe put on headphones and now I feel naked.
33:25
Speaker 1: Why do you hear your hat on? I've got nothing
33:27
Speaker 1: that's true. I have to say that last segment I
33:31
Speaker 1: was staving off a panic attack. Were roller coaster ride
33:36
Speaker 1: ups and downs? What does the American dream isn't even achievable? Oh?
33:40
Speaker 1: I thought you because you were nervous. It was no, no, no, no,
33:42
Speaker 1: no no. It was terrible, nice, awful, terrible segment. So, um,
33:49
Speaker 1: how how did you end up panicked? Or? I don't know.
33:53
Speaker 1: I'm in the midst of it right now. We're gonna
33:54
Speaker 1: see what happens. Well, we'll take us through some of this.
33:57
Speaker 1: You you guys have been America's findest news source for
34:00
Speaker 1: how many well. The Onion was founded in seventeen sixty
34:03
Speaker 1: five by Friedrich Zwiebel, who was a Prussian tuber farmer um.
34:09
Speaker 1: And the only words that he knew, I think this
34:11
Speaker 1: is right, Joe were the an Onion, right, oh, mercantile
34:15
Speaker 1: and Onion. So it was founded as the Mercantile Onion
34:18
Speaker 1: Um with the express purpose UM of accumulating capital and
34:22
Speaker 1: fleecing its readers and y R N y oh and
34:26
Speaker 1: I own okay now I thought at the time though
34:28
Speaker 1: it was no, you're way off base. UM. So then
34:34
Speaker 1: so I was found in seventeen sixty five, and then
34:36
Speaker 1: the Mercantile and the Onion split in seventeen eighty three. Uh,
34:40
Speaker 1: and the Onion has continued on since then independently since
34:43
Speaker 1: seventeen three. So these are these are UM articles from
34:46
Speaker 1: our seventeen eighty three edition, which is technically the first
34:51
Speaker 1: issue of the Onion as it as it's now now. Okay,
34:53
Speaker 1: So they split in seventeen yeah, okay, Well we'll share
34:56
Speaker 1: with this some of the highlights of what was going
34:58
Speaker 1: on that year, because it seemed to be a busy
35:00
Speaker 1: a year from what I what I was reading. Yeah,
35:02
Speaker 1: it was a busy year. You know. We we reissued
35:05
Speaker 1: this in two thousand eight, UM, so that's a fact.
35:12
Speaker 1: So let's see where do you want to start. I mean,
35:13
Speaker 1: one thing that we like to do in Americans day
35:15
Speaker 1: is read books, right am? I? Right? Oh? I forgot
35:19
Speaker 1: the line I wanted to say. It was this amazing
35:21
Speaker 1: line American Dream more like American Night terror. Um. So
35:31
Speaker 1: this is just in this October three. These the top
35:35
Speaker 1: twenty best selling books in print at present UM a
35:39
Speaker 1: little section of the paper called Publisher's Corner. The twenty
35:42
Speaker 1: top most books in print at present. Number one's The
35:45
Speaker 1: Bible UM with two D three hundred thirty nine copies.
35:50
Speaker 1: Number two is Common Sense UH. The third most popular
35:55
Speaker 1: book is The Thousands upon Thousands of the Mohicans. Number
36:05
Speaker 1: four The Return of Common Sense Back to Basics, UH five,
36:11
Speaker 1: The Diary of a Woman Who Knew How to Write UH.
36:17
Speaker 1: Number six The Bible with a red cover. Number seven
36:24
Speaker 1: The Plowman's Diet. Eight top selling book is The Book
36:29
Speaker 1: of Blank Pages. Number nine is Leeches, a comprehensive tone
36:34
Speaker 1: of the known medical facts. Tend the Bible with the
36:38
Speaker 1: blue cover, The Gentleman of New Amsterdam. Twelve, God's Revenge
36:44
Speaker 1: Against Idleness a children's book, and We're thirteen Guide to
36:50
Speaker 1: North American Jews fourteen, the Bible German edition number fifteen,
36:58
Speaker 1: common sense three. It just makes sense spelled with the sea.
37:02
Speaker 1: It's a pun uh sixteen. The lever and Fulcrum for
37:07
Speaker 1: village idiots, Number seventeen, natural still birth and eight do
37:16
Speaker 1: not exist. There were only eighteen seventeen books. So that's
37:22
Speaker 1: a strong way to start write a list, rattling them off.
37:26
Speaker 1: You guys, what else is going on at the time,
37:30
Speaker 1: Joe ran dawzer Um, Were there any of these of
37:33
Speaker 1: interest that kind of stood out to you? I have one, yes,
37:37
Speaker 1: that I thought was pretty neat. The Surgeon General has
37:40
Speaker 1: added snuff to the tobacco period. That was a controversial move.
37:47
Speaker 1: Everybody's familiar, of course with the food pyramid, as I
37:49
Speaker 1: stall um. But I'll just read a little excerpt from here.
37:54
Speaker 1: So this is obviously this was written in seventeen three.
37:56
Speaker 1: The language is a little more kind of flowery and
37:59
Speaker 1: baroque almost, uh than what we're used to now. So
38:04
Speaker 1: this reads from our Baltimore cousins. Comes news of the
38:07
Speaker 1: felicitous health benefits of the powder tobacco snuff and the
38:10
Speaker 1: recommendation that multiple pinches be taken until blood flows freely
38:14
Speaker 1: from the nose and service of balancing the humors. Pre
38:17
Speaker 1: eminent barber, surgeon and former General of Loyalist Ilk, Thomas
38:20
Speaker 1: Haysworth has added the cure all physic to his famed
38:23
Speaker 1: and most singular tobacco pyramid. The robustness chart learned in
38:27
Speaker 1: grammar schools crossed the whole of our nation and has
38:29
Speaker 1: given snuff greater importance even than pipe smoke. Um, let's see.
38:37
Speaker 1: The measure of snuff, suggested by General Haysworth to be
38:39
Speaker 1: most advantageous for children under six years of age, is
38:42
Speaker 1: not to be an excess of four sizeable nose packings
38:45
Speaker 1: per four and twenty hours, and taken always with two
38:48
Speaker 1: drafts of strong brandy. Those unable to procure the finally
38:53
Speaker 1: ground tobacco should quaff freely from cuspadours at every opportunity
38:56
Speaker 1: to derive at least a little benefit from the meritorious
38:58
Speaker 1: effects of stuff. Obviously, snuff is no longer on the
39:01
Speaker 1: tobacco pyramids. In the seventies, in so Joe, one of
39:07
Speaker 1: the ones I ran across um was the there was
39:12
Speaker 1: a woman who wandered out of her house and they
39:14
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out what was going on. Yeah, she caused
39:17
Speaker 1: quite a stir A mischievous woman wandered outside of home.
39:20
Speaker 1: The headline, A mischievous woman wandered outside of home. I'll
39:24
Speaker 1: just read a little bit of this as well. The
39:26
Speaker 1: gentle town of Harrisburg was confronted with a most worrisome
39:28
Speaker 1: and shocking sight the day before last one, owing to
39:31
Speaker 1: the sudden appearance of wife and child bearer Margaret Cook
39:34
Speaker 1: from the interior of her home. Defying all reason, Cook
39:38
Speaker 1: was observed to exit into the open air, though no
39:42
Speaker 1: man had instructed her to do so. No domestic task
39:46
Speaker 1: required her to be out of doors, and no sign
39:49
Speaker 1: of suffocating fire had surfaced from her modest dwelling. Um,
39:54
Speaker 1: so she wandered around town, brought up quite a consternation,
39:57
Speaker 1: and then the last line of the story, Margaret Cook
40:00
Speaker 1: was reprimanded, disowned, and hanged until dead after returning to
40:03
Speaker 1: replace of residence. Tougher times one that you alluded to earlier.
40:10
Speaker 1: It was foreshadowed. Um. Today we're all interested in sort
40:15
Speaker 1: of news of the weird and these peculiar news items
40:17
Speaker 1: from around the world. World. I think that in the
40:19
Speaker 1: world's oldest person just recently die. Now there's a new
40:22
Speaker 1: oldest person. Yeah, um. So this um, the world's tallest man,
40:30
Speaker 1: towers at five ft and eleven inches. Should I read
40:35
Speaker 1: a little passive um from the honest and sworn captain
40:40
Speaker 1: of the bark Stilla, freshly returned from the Baltic news
40:42
Speaker 1: of the existence of a modern blong shanks, a veritable
40:46
Speaker 1: giant before whom many tremble said. Pantroguel, who makes his
40:50
Speaker 1: residence in the city of Danzig, reaches nearly six ft
40:53
Speaker 1: into the heavens. At an astonishing eighteen hands high. He
40:58
Speaker 1: is head and shoulders above even the loftiest of his brethren,
41:00
Speaker 1: and when striding the thoroughfares of Danzig, can be seen
41:03
Speaker 1: from thirty paces away. So colossal is he that master
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Speaker 1: carpenters cut a hole above his door and raised the
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Speaker 1: portal to accommodate his great head. This Ajax sleeps in
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Speaker 1: especially fashioned bed, so that his lower limbs do not
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Speaker 1: dangle off the edge. His tailor keeps a stock one
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Speaker 1: surplus bolt each of wool and muslin. Should the Leviathan
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Speaker 1: bread is but mere crumbs. The proprietress of an inn
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Speaker 1: where the mammoth takes meals testified that he could devour
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Speaker 1: one half of one one hundreds of his weight in
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Speaker 1: beefsteak in one sitting. It is a further wonder that
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Speaker 1: the floorboards of his house have not given way under
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Speaker 1: his great heft, and that being estimated at nearly twelve
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Speaker 1: stone or one hundred sixty five pounds. Um, that's it.
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Speaker 1: He's a giant, five ft eleven inches. I've got one
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Speaker 1: for you, Joe. We all have Ben Franklin, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: invented lightning, that's right. And he invented a lot of things.
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Speaker 1: And uh, from the historical archives, he invented so many
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Speaker 1: things that they would actually print them week to week
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Speaker 1: every week there was a future Ben Franklin inventions this
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Speaker 1: week and I will go ahead and read a couple
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Speaker 1: of of this week. I don't even know what week
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Speaker 1: it was. This is I think the week of October.
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Speaker 1: He invented the death kite. It's kind of needo. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He invented the carton device for conveyance of eggs to
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Speaker 1: minimize breakage on even the most uneven of footpaths. Yep,
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Speaker 1: he invented the US patent. Are these all appropriate to read? Radio?
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Speaker 1: I think the next one we shall not read. He
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Speaker 1: also apparently that we invented power windows, the inflatable oblong balloon,
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Speaker 1: the sort that hedmits a thunders one resembling sorry thunder's clap,
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Speaker 1: one resembling the loud exhale from one's nether regions, the
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Speaker 1: a great and pretentious old wind bag. Joe, do you
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Speaker 1: have the one about the amazing public spectacle? It seemed
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Speaker 1: like almost an advertisement or like an upcoming event that
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Speaker 1: captured my attention, I do, Josh, and public is spelled
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Speaker 1: with the K in this case, and that is right.
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Speaker 1: That's that's right, Chuck, I have it right here. No,
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Speaker 1: I need to do this. Yeah, so yeah, you know
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Speaker 1: people still needed their entertainment in in the eighteenth century.
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Speaker 1: Um so this was an amazing public spectacle. Indian taught
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Speaker 1: to wear hat see the Savage Mohican, who, by grace
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Speaker 1: of God and much patient training, has been taught to
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Speaker 1: wear a hat in the manner of an actual human
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Speaker 1: and amusing novelty for the public. Different times, but those
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Speaker 1: are different times. Can we scoff at Alexis to Tulkoville.
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Speaker 1: Again those one of the best moments. I like this
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Speaker 1: one a lot. This was very important when a kidney
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Speaker 1: being shaped organ recently discovered. Uh this was by uh
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Speaker 1: cheer of surgeons and blood letters in Boston discovered in
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Speaker 1: organelle of the body and that human excise from the
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Speaker 1: back and modeled purple in color and very likely a
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Speaker 1: kidney being in shape which removed when removed causes expiration
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Speaker 1: as with all organs. I found it. Here's the kidney
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Speaker 1: being one. Um. And then you know, even then there
44:55
Speaker 1: was some you did the the podcast recently on on
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Speaker 1: Mouth's right overpopulations. They were even worried about this in
45:02
Speaker 1: seventeen three, this um sort of opinion piece will New
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Speaker 1: York someday be too crowded for farming? An issue even
45:11
Speaker 1: more worrisome to experts is the reduced acreage of cleared
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Speaker 1: forest available for farming within the city limits. Is a
45:17
Speaker 1: well known fact that no urban community can survive without
45:19
Speaker 1: an agricultural base on which to found the city's infrastructure. Um,
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Speaker 1: go go on line and read it, really hilarious, read
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Speaker 1: silently to yourself. And then there was another one about
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Speaker 1: New York where um, the population was expected to to
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Speaker 1: go over ten thousand, so it had already reached twelve thousand.
45:42
Speaker 1: It was causing a lot of concerns. New York is
45:44
Speaker 1: threatened by over crowding as population climbs to twelve thousands.
45:48
Speaker 1: And that that had a companion piece another worried one.
45:51
Speaker 1: Um where uh it was urban sprawl and then there's
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Speaker 1: only thirteen thousand acres of forest remaining on Manhattan. Urban
46:00
Speaker 1: sprawling so severe settlements, cooking fires can be seen from
46:03
Speaker 1: as far as Greenwich Village was as true today as
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Speaker 1: it was back then. Right, that's right, yeah, you got
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Speaker 1: you you have anything else too. I was gonna say
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Speaker 1: a fact, uh from real from the real history of
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Speaker 1: the world, which was um Stuyvesant was the original governor
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Speaker 1: of New York, I believe, and when he was banished
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Speaker 1: from New York, he went to retire, uh in his
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Speaker 1: farm in the West Village. That's where he went to
46:32
Speaker 1: get away from everybody was the West Village, New York.
46:37
Speaker 1: Only in New York. So thanks for coming by, Joe,
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Speaker 1: I saw that guy, but he didn't come up weird.
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