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EP32 - History of Weird Inventions · Oh And One More Thing

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Hey everybody, it's Rob. How you doing?
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Welcome to one. Oh, and one more thing.
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Hey, I'm Brian, you're podcasting duo for the next 30
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ish minutes or so. So what's new my friend?
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What's new? Well, you know, it is winter so
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I don't get to get outside a lot right now.
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So I I'm doing. Aren't you shoveling?
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OK. Outside of that.
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Yes. A lot do my VR boxing again.
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You are. I love it.
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Oh yeah, I did. You do it today.
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I did it today, yes. Can't you tell?
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Yeah, you're, you're. Bulky.
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I am bulky. Your arms hurt.
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Of course they do. It's from that and also from,
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you know, carrying this podcast. I think, I think we're both in
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this podcast. We are.
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We are, yes. Jerk.
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I know right now you guys, you guys had a trip recently,
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didn't. You.
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Yeah. We just had a quick little trip
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down to Naples. Nice.
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Florida not. Italy not.
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Local Naples. Local, right?
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It was nice, yeah, to get away from the.
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Cold. Yeah.
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Warmer than here. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, we last time we got to travel lots, we were for
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Thanksgiving a couple of months ago.
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We went and saw my mom in Arizona.
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Yeah, we're gonna try and see her again, I think in March.
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And you saw the Grand Canyon? Yeah.
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Saw the Grand Canyon, saw a Sedona that was beautiful Yep,
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that was fun. I guy I was out in Chicago last
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week little work meeting and have another meeting in Texas in
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a couple of. Weeks.
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Oh, that'll be nice. Yeah, it should be warm do.
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Lots of travel this time of year, so that's kind of fun.
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That's good, Yeah. Looking forward to it.
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OK, so today's show is going to be about weird inventions.
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Some we may have never heard of, some we have heard of, and some
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are just plain odd. You know, of all the inventions
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of the last 100 years, Yeah, the dry erase board has to be the
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most remarkable. Yeah, definitely remarkable,
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that's for sure. Yeah.
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So there's lots of weird inventions out there, some
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brilliant elders that tell bizarre stories about human
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creativity. So let's start with This is
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Real, the baby cage. Yeah, the baby cage.
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Baby Cage. So it's back in the 1920s and
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30s, so an inventor was Emma Reed and she actually has AUS
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patent on this in 1922. Really.
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Here's the idea. This is not a a playpen or
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anything that the kid. This is not this is not a
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playpen. OK, so it's a wire cage.
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You attach it to the outside of an apartment window so babies
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could get fresh air and sunshine in crowded.
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Cities. No way, right.
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So what's kind of weird about that is, you know, because I'm a
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little bit of a history buff, OK, I've actually heard of this
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before inside pictures of it. You have not.
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That's how it got this into this podcast because I was, I was
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thinking of that weird weirdness out there.
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So you've seen pictures of babies hanging in a cage?
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Yeah. Off the side of a.
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Buffer building. It's freaky.
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Wow. OK so from my understanding the
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baby cage was a portable window mounted cage for babies.
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It gained popularity in London and New York.
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Oh, that makes sense. During the 1930s.
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Sure it was. It was a solution for a city
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developing families without gardens, allowing babies to get
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fresh air. No.
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Is there fresh air in New York and London?
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Let's let's start there. Is it really that fresh?
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Is it a fresher in the apartment that outside in New York
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especially? Let's just go with, you know,
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the A light breeze has blown all the smog away and it's.
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Fresh. I suppose this is the 1920s.
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So anyway, so so a lot of babies get fresh air with neighborhood
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clubs like the Chelsea Baby Club distributing them to members.
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The initiative was so successful that 1935 the Royal Institute of
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British Architects deemed balconies for babies an
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essential feature for middle class housing.
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Is that crazy? Yeah.
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So here you're you're your young family.
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You're in your 20s. You know, you're living in the
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city. My children have to get outside.
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What am I going to do? I have to make dinner.
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Let's stick them out the window. You in.
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A cage four stories above their death.
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Right. And they just sit there.
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They sit there. Yeah, I'm sure there's no crying
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at all whatsoever. None 'cause they're outside.
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Yeah, playing. You know, and, but it probably
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is a good way to, you know, alleviate the fear of heights in
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a young child. It's gotta be right Or or
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created the. Created the fear, Yeah.
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Needless to say, it was not OSHA approved.
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Shocker. Shocker, right?
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K How about this one? Have you heard of this?
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K What? The ostrich pillow, No.
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OK, so the inventor is a European design team and I can't
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say their name. Kamara Kanjravian.
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OK, you did that really well, way better than I was going to
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do so I skipped over it. But the idea is a helmet like
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pillow contraption that allowed office workers to nap sitting up
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at their desk. Back up.
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So it's it's not a pillow for ostriches, no.
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Not a pillow for ostriches. And it was.
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It's invented in in 2012, so it's pretty recent.
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OK, alright, you keep going. I'm looking this up.
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OK, it looks like a cross between a gas mask and a soft
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bucket. The Ostrich Pillow was created
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to enable power naps anywhere. They launched the original
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design on a Kickstarter, raising over 130,000 in funds of
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production. Shut the front door.
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I know right? Who, who invested in that thing?
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Its initial success led to the brand expansion, and the
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company, Ostrich Pillow, has since developed a range of
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products focusing on rest and self-care, according to its
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website. OK, so I'm on their website.
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This is a real website, ostrich-pillow.com, and most of
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their stuff is normal. It's normal stuff.
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You see eye masks and travel pillows.
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They have compression socks. Legit stuff until you Scroll
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down to the original napping pillow.
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And it's like the whole thing just lays over the top of your
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head, right? It lays over your head.
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It's like, it's like a like what's it's, it's like a light
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bulb looking thing, like a punching bag thing.
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Like a punching. Bag with two holes in the head
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for your arms. With your hands in kidding.
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So you have your you have your head down on your desk with your
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hands over your head, laying on a desk in this pillow.
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You look like a complete tool. Who is wearing this?
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And obviously people US buy. It.
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I mean, are they buying it for a joke?
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They're $100. Are you kidding?
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That's what it says on the website.
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Who is but I don't have one and what boss?
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Is gonna let you nap at your desk, right?
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I mean if I I. Wanna work there?
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I love my employees but I saw any y'all doing this we're done
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no? I wanna see it on an airplane.
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Someone taking a nap at this thing?
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I put the little trade table coming over.
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There I call the authority Someone's dying.
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Oh my God, I would. I would take so many pictures of
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that and put it all over if I saw that.
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Oh that is so funny. So yeah, it's a real thing.
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I can't believe that's real. I mean give it up to the
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inventor, right Proper. That mean they got a website and
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looks like they're selling crap so good for them man.
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Awesome. That's awesome.
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All right, next one, the amphibious bicycle.
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What amphibious? That means like water.
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Right, you're right. OK, That's what I said.
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I'm like, OK, I don't know what that is.
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All right, so they mentor Charles Steinlauf and others
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experimented with it. So what it is, is a bike
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equipped with rotation barrels and paddle wheels so you could
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ride across lakes and rivers. OK.
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But is that our? I've seen this before.
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Yeah, it's a, it's a, a water toy.
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A water. Toy it's a big has a big like
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like. Yeah, big yellow wheels.
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Yeah, exactly. It's on a bike.
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OK, OK, it's not as odd as I thought.
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So, OK, so that's today's version.
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This was 1930. That's true.
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That's true. OK.
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They didn't have, like, plastics back then like we have now.
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So. All right.
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So the history of the amphibious bicycle began in the late 1860s
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with early water velocipede designs that use buoyant wheels
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and propellers. Key developments include the 19
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the 1883 Woman tricycle, an 1891 Pinkert tricycle, which featured
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large buoyant wheels. In 1932, the Cyclomer, the
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world's first true amphibious bicycle that could transition
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between land and water, was introduced in Paris.
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It did technically float, but steering and speed were
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terrible. I could imagine.
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Think still the concept has reemerged in modern hydro bikes.
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OK, that's what we've seen hydro bikes in the 90s and 1990s and
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into modern versions, including electric assisted and advanced
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hydrofoil designs that lift the craft out of the water.
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OK. OK, so it doesn't make sense.
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Can you imagine the first ones that they made and they're out.
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Someone's out there pedaling and pedaling and pedaling in the
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water and they're not going anywhere.
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They're just floating away. I can't get back.
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Come and save me. I.
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Can't. I can't imagine, yeah, just the
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technology back then. Just I can't imagine that it had
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you spinning in circles. Right.
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That's all you did. Oh my God, so funny.
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That's funny. Hey Brian, I was just outside
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trying to enjoy the yard and the mosquitoes are driving me nuts.
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Oh, you got to call Spring Green for that, Rob.
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Spring green? I thought they just did my
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fertilizer and weed control. Oh, they do that and our lawn
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looks amazing because of it, but their mosquito control is a game
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changer. We can actually use our patio.
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You know how bad the state bird gets in Minnesota?
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I'm. Pretty sure that's the loon, but
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point taken. So they do lawns and mosquitoes.
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And total home pest control. My house is completely mouse
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free. They even do liquid aerations
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and lawn insect control. Wow, I'm only using them for
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half of what I could be. You should fix that.
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Go to springdashgreen.com and get a personalized quote today.
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That's spring dashgreen.com. And tell them.
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Oh, and one more thing, Sancha. OK, Say, do you remember the
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soap on the rope? Oh.
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My God, I'm a child of the 70s. Of course I do.
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My dad had a soap on the rope. Yeah.
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Every I think everybody did. Yes.
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You know, it was invented in the 40s and the 50s.
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OK, it seems silly. At the time, people mocked it as
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a novelty. Why would anybody want a soap on
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a rope? Why wouldn't you?
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I mean, right. Yeah.
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So the soap on the rope was invented in the late 40s and the
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early 50s in the United States to keep soap from slipping in
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the shower. Hmm.
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And it gained popularity as a novelty item and gift,
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especially for men in their in the 60s and 70s.
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That makes sense. My dad had it in the 70s.
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Right, there you go. The simple, practical design
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allows the bar to be hung to dry, preventing it from getting
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mushy and keeping it within easy.
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Reach and nobody wants a mushy soap.
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Mushy soap, so worse. It's gross, right?
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Yeah, well, it's popularity decreased with the rise of the
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liquid soap. It has recently reemerged as a
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durable and sustainable grooming product.
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Really. I guess this is what I found
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out. OK, so I I was trying to think
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back to a month and a half ago during Christmas shopping time
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and I don't remember seeing rope on a soap on a rope in any of
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those little gifty set things. OK but wait, so it became a best
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selling item for decades, especially as a gay gift in
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later nostalgia product. It has even been revived by eco
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friendly brands as a substantial option to no plastic bottle.
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OK. So I looked it up and I found
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some some popular brands of soap on a rope is old spike.
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Well that makes sense. Do Cannon has it and there's a
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there's actually a brand called well Hung Shut up.
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There is a yeah. You can get it at Etsy.
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I'm so looking. At 100% gonna be buying you well
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hung I'm. OK, I just, I'm looking it up.
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I am not looking it up because that's going to go down such a
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dark path that I don't want a history of my computer.
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Look look up soap on a rope and it comes up as one of the.
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OK, yeah, you're not. Don't just search for, well,
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just. Please well.
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It's going to cause problems people don't do.
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It I don't, so I only want to go buy that because it's hilarious.
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That is so funny. Yeah, I've only used liquid soap
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forever. Body wash.
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I mean, I can't tell you last time you used actual.
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Soap soap. I never used liquid soap really.
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Yeah, I'll tell you like I got my little squishy thing and I
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put the soap out and scrub. You have a loofah.
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I have a loofah. What's that?
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It's that. It's it's a man Loofah, no.
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No, I use Irish Spring. I that is my favorite bar soap.
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You're gonna pick one of those. The only bar soap I'll use,
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yeah. Yeah, all the other ones are
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girls, right? Yeah, they slip out of my hands,
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get mushy. I have there is there is that?
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Yeah, the I've even used liquid Irish Spring body wash.
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There you go. I I love the smell.
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Right. It's a great scent.
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Yeah. Funny, all right.
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Way too much personal information we don't need to
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share. All right, this podcast is for
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personal information, right? Learn about Brian and Rob.
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Exactly. Too much.
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All right. Next one.
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All right. The alarm clock that throws you
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out of bed. What?
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All right. OK, So this from the 1890s.
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OK, OK. Makes sense.
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OK. George Q Seaman is the inventor.
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Semen SE AM AN don't read into that.
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The idea was the contraption involving weights and wooden
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frames meant to physically drop a person out of bed at a set
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time. Now that's just rude.
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I think it would be helpful for some people.
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Well, for some people, but I I can't imagine why this didn't
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take off in the 1890's. The concept of an alarm clock
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that physically ejected you from bed was invented and patented
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the Time Alarm Bed in 1892. I want to see one.
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He has a patent. The invention used a clock
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triggered mechanism to tip the bed, forcing the sleeper to get
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up, capturing the air's focus on mechanical ingenuity and morning
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discipline. OK, now that makes a little more
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sense. That late 1890s is all about his
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new contraptions and his industrial age and right stuff.
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So it's all about machines and things like that.
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Makes total sense. But could you imagine the bed
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starts to move up and you just slide out and lay on the floor?
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Who? Ride that.
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But who the hell is using this? There's no way, Not a chance.
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I know, it's crazy. Oh my gosh.
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Yeah, no. It seems like one of the
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inventions Peter Herman would have made on his his movie.
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Yes, I, I, I totally envision a whole bunch of black and white
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soundless pictures from like the 20s that they were in everyone
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he was in his adventure was it was in every one of those
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movies. Oh yeah, yeah, you're right.
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There has to be the comedy shows with Buster Keaton and those
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guys. Just kind of.
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Guarantee the lipstick everyone of their movies.
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That's funny, yeah. That is hilarious.
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Have you ever heard of the Pet Rock?
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I had a pet rock again 70s trial.
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You had a pet rock? Yes.
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That's amazing. I mean, I probably didn't buy it
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because I was, you know, pretty young.
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It probably just was a rock I found.
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Oh, this is a real thing 1975. The inventor was Gary Dahl and
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the idea was literally a smooth rock in a box sold as a low
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maintenance pet. It's amazing.
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Right. The guy's genius, right?
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Yeah, the pet rock was a fad in 1975, invented by an advertising
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director, Gary Dahl, after he joked his with his friends about
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creating a perfect pet that required no care.
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Dahl bought ordinary stones for about a cent each and marketed
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them with a custom cardboard box with air holes, straw bedding
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and a humorous instruction manual, selling over a 1.5
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million shed rocks for 395 each. OK, wait, do the mathemat by
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the. By Christmas of that year.
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That's $6 million. Yeah, the the craze faded
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quickly after the holidays, but Dahl became a millionaire
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overnight. Well, yeah.
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Isn't that crazy? That is.
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Crazy. I wonder what he did with all
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that money. I don't know, but that's kind of
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genius is what I think. That's totally gene.
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Get people to buy a lame rock, right?
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I think my sister had one. Yeah.
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Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, I I get right.
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I didn't have an official pet rock, but I Yeah.
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But you saw the Fed and you like, I'm gonna pick up this
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rock. Totally my pet.
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I was like 4 of the times. Of course, why wouldn't you?
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So later he had said the success ruined his life because everyone
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expected him to be funny forever.
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Oh, that makes sense. So.
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Reference back to Money can't buy happiness.
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Yeah, yeah. Right.
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Right. That's true.
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But I for a year, I'd take $6 million.
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I'd be happy for a year. I'd be happy for a lot longer
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than that, Rob. But I I can imagine the pressure
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of like, oh, you do the pet rocket better.
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What's What's next? Yeah, be funny right now on the
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spot. Dude like that's all I got.
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It was a 11 and done and done, one and done and I'm a
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millionaire so leave me alone. Good.
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For him, good for him. All right, how about this one?
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The selfie toaster. I don't know that I've heard of
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this. I I haven't heard of it either,
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but that. It's relatively new IT.
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Sounds like a a millennial invention, right?
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Developed in 2014 by the Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation.
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A toaster that burns your own face into a slice of bread.
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How does it do that? Dude, nobody wants that.
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Okay, I can totally get it as a gag gift for something funny
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right at a dinner party or whatever.
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Yeah, but how does it do it? That's weird.
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So the history of the selfie toaster begins with Gavin
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Dively, who invented the Vermont Novelty Toaster Company.
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Originally burnt, which originally burnt depressions.
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Okay, I get it. In 2010, the company initially
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created novelty toasters that imprinted images like logos in
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the face of Jesus Christ on a toast.
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Oh, this reminds I I just watched this episode.
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A Big Bang Theory. He was making Xylon toast.
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Oh, is that what this is? Maybe.
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I think he's using this product. I think he was.
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Yeah, that's cool. The specific idea for a selfie
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toaster came to die of the a few months before July 2014 after he
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successfully imprinted his son selfie on toast and the product
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was launched shortly thereafter. Originally a prank gift idea
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became a real business after Viral Media Bridge.
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The company has had so many orders that they had to create
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software to convert selfies into toast art.
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That's crazy. This is a legit company that's
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actually doing this that that. Really kind of formed because
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the IT was crazy. On the Internet or on?
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Yeah. I just that I mean, I again, I
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think it's my age that the whole selfie thing like, you know,
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yeah, we go on trips and we take selfies and wow, that's cute.
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But there is a limit. I don't need to see my face in
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toast even as AK gift but. It's funny, isn't it?
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I mean, I would totally. I want to see one right now and
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I want a piece of toast with my mug.
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Yeah, I would. Laugh at your face on toast.
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Absolutely, I'd eat it. Eat your face.
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Eat your. Face.
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But I don't need to see my face on toast.
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No, no, no, no, no. I'm OK with that, No.
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That's your wife, says totally. Bitch your face off ohh.
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I see you enough. I don't need to see it in toast.
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Yeah. Ohh.
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My gosh, that's funny. OK, how about this one?
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Like I have a hard time. I can't stop laughing.
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I bought it but the flatulence deodorizer.
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Again, this is not a thing, but it's a thing.
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It's a thing. 1990s Oh my God. Inventor Buck Weimer.
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Not Weiner. Buck Weimer, Colorado engineer.
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OK, all these things are made-up because they're they're, they're
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just too close. No, not he's real, OK?
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The idea was a carbon filtered underwear designed to trap and
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neutralize odors. OK, that honestly, that sounds
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kind of legit. But you know, there's a good the
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reason why he created it. But I can't stop laughing.
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So Buck Lemur's wife suffered from Crohn's disease.
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Oh. Yeah, don't laugh at.
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That not good. Not good, which led her to have,
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I'm sorry, have high flatulence. Still laughing?
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OK. The The situation's
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uncomfortable for both, namely at night when they slept
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together. This is what should not be
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funny, but it's pretty damn funny.
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I'm sorry. That's funny.
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OK. OK, so one day after
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Thanksgiving dinner Buck started thinking that he needed to do
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something and after years of research he perfected and
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patented the design for the under ease.
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OK, that's the name they came up.
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With I guess. So OK.
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All right, to curb the bad odor, Weaver created a special sort of
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underwear that that contains a filter, which curbs a smell and
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makes the their life easier. OK, the couple started the
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business out of this invention and went on the TV show Shark
19:17
Tank. Shut up.
19:19
Yeah, I watch that show all the time.
19:20
I don't remember this. And they they went on there to
19:23
find investors. They did not receive any money,
19:26
but their idea gained significant attention.
19:30
Buck Weemer also won in 2001 the Nobel Prize for Biology for his
19:35
invention. OK, I had to look this up
19:37
because you said Shark Tank. Yeah, they were on in July 2021.
19:41
So really recent like. Really recent Yeah.
19:44
So the product was soft, airtight, airtight underwear
19:47
with elastic leg bands and replaceable charcoal filter pads
19:50
in the back to absorb flatulent holders.
19:53
Again, this is not funny to laugh it, but this is hilarious
19:56
at the same time they asked for. $55,000 for a stake in the
19:58
Company No. Deal was made.
20:02
Oh my God. So they need a deal.
20:04
But according to the interwebs, they built a loyal customer base
20:07
partly from the Shark Tank exposure and because people
20:10
found humor and it's a keg gift. Do you think it's funny, Brian?
20:15
But that's, I mean, honestly, it's it quite honestly is a
20:18
genius idea. I mean, such as somebody has
20:20
Crohn's disease. It is.
20:20
And you're suffering with that problem and you want to still
20:22
want to stay in bed with your partner.
20:24
It's a great idea. You know, and I gotta say it, I
20:28
probably need a pair. Well.
20:34
I don't have Crohn's disease. I'm glad you're on that side of
20:37
the table and sitting on a couch, that's just cool.
20:39
It absorbs. It absorbs.
20:41
So never sitting there again. All that is.
20:45
I'm crying good for. Buck Weaver, happy for him.
20:49
Alright, here's a good one from the 1950s and 60's, the anti
20:53
Bandit bag. An anti bandit bag?
20:55
Yeah, sounds deviant, right? You know, I think of immediately
20:58
without even reading this. I just watched the Goonies.
21:01
Remember the kid? They had all the little
21:02
inventions. Yeah, I.
21:04
Told him he would he would have an anti bandit bag not even
21:06
knowing what this is yet. Yeah, he totally.
21:08
Would totally have that. So in the 50s and 60s inventors
21:11
thought clever ways to foil thieves and and few were as
21:14
dramatic as an anti bandit bag. One of the most famous versions
21:18
was debuted by French Canadian inventor John HT Rinfret in
21:21
1963. Rinfret, inspired by his
21:24
experience of being robbed, designed a bag with a spring
21:27
loaded handle which enabled the carrier to launch the bag's
21:30
contents all over the place in the event of a robbery.
21:33
I get you abutting the robbery but right, Doing Everything
21:37
Everywhere. Everywhere.
21:38
So they can't take it. They can't.
21:39
Yeah, I know, but. Sounds like inventor Inspector
21:42
Gadget. Totally.
21:43
Yeah, Yeah. When the handle goes spring.
21:45
Shoots all over the place. Yeah right, yeah, all right.
21:49
Other anti abandoned bags spewed smoke and OK now these I've seen
21:52
on TikTok all the time. With the dye the.
21:55
Porch pirates. Oh yeah, I've seen.
21:56
Those too, yeah. And those are pretty fun.
21:58
Oh, those are. Hilarious if you're.
21:59
Gonna be a porch pirate. You deserve to be.
22:01
Caught she saw one recently where this woman had blue all
22:05
over her face and she was actually yelling at the porch
22:07
camera when the cop was right next to her I've.
22:08
Seen that too. Yeah, she's like, yo, And at the
22:11
camera, like, how dare you do this to me?
22:12
Bah, Bah, Bah. The cops would only crack it up.
22:13
Like lady, you're nuts. Yeah, yeah, you were stealing
22:17
the package, right? You deserve it.
22:19
Oh my gosh. All right, so the smoking dye or
22:21
triggered screeching alarms when Snatch 1 model, aptly named the
22:25
Arrestor, clamped on the thief's hand and blasted out three 12
22:29
foot telescope telescoping mellow rods, preventing the
22:33
robbers escape. However, none of these designs
22:35
reached mass production. Could you imagine a 12 foot rod
22:38
being shot out at you? That would hurt.
22:40
My gosh, it'd be. Crazy.
22:41
Go through your body, Yeah. Right.
22:43
But yeah, the the dispute smoke and diet like those, I see those
22:46
all the time, yeah. It's amazing there.
22:48
Really is. I love those videos.
22:52
Okay, so here's one that we use every single day.
22:54
What's that post it note? Oh my God.
22:56
Yeah. So the post it notes were
22:57
invented in 1968 and then all the way through 1980.
23:01
The inventors are the three M scientists.
23:04
Spencer Silver is his name. The idea was to create a super
23:07
strong adhesive. Really.
23:09
That's what they were out to create.
23:11
And by before you go on three M local company local boy does
23:14
good. Local boy does good.
23:16
Minnesota Mining, Manufacturing, 3M.
23:18
Thanks, Rob. Yeah, wow.
23:20
I'm full of useless information. Yeah, you are, but by accident.
23:26
While trying to create the Super strong adhesive, he instead
23:29
created a weak glue that barely stuck.
23:32
The idea for the removable sticky note was considered
23:35
pointless. Who'd want to use?
23:37
That well, let me tell you right, right.
23:40
The idea was initially shelved as a solution without a problem
23:43
until 1974, when Three M colleague Art Fry used adhesive
23:48
to create a bookmark for his HIM book.
23:51
Him HIMN correct. His.
23:55
Him. Him and.
23:57
If the how you say him and him and no him him leading to the
24:01
development of the first post a note A successful 1978 Test
24:05
market marketing campaign in Boise, ID paved the way for the
24:09
worldwide launch in 1980. That's why we have such a span
24:12
in the inventors time frame. The post it note became one of
24:16
the most successful office products of all time.
24:19
Literally use it every day. Every day, every day.
24:21
I use the the the little 3, the two by two of the three by
24:24
threes, and the little little tabby ones to mark pages.
24:26
I use those all the time. All the time.
24:28
And the worst is when you use it so often and the sticky runs out
24:32
and like, damn it, no, I gotta get another.
24:33
One I gotta do a new one, I know right?
24:35
So I need to save. Them I gotta save them because I
24:36
don't have that many left, right.
24:38
I mean, I have my Home Office. I work at home.
24:40
I don't get the luxury of of a a business to pull my post it
24:44
notes from my office supplies from somebody else.
24:48
I gotta buy my I. Gotta buy your what's what's
24:50
your color of choice? Always yellow.
24:52
Yeah, that's the big yeah. I I like to buy the the variety
24:55
pack at Costco. Of course, why wouldn't you get
24:57
that at Costco, Rob? OK, well I haven't got a Costco
25:00
story in yet on our podcast today so I had to own it.
25:02
But I like the variety pack, but the problem is it's half yellow
25:05
and it's half like red, blue-green, whatever.
25:08
So you're branching out and using other.
25:10
Colors I I'm using because nobody else is using.
25:12
Everybody else goes right to the yellow.
25:13
Nobody uses the other colors, so.
25:15
Don't you use them for color coordinating then?
25:17
No. God no.
25:18
Come on. We're.
25:19
Not that organized. We're a lawn care company.
25:24
All right, next one. Oh God I hate these with a
25:27
passion. Rocks.
25:30
Do you own a pair of No, I don't.
25:32
I don't have Crocs. I I don't think I've ever had
25:34
one on my foot. And people who have them swear
25:36
by them, they love them, they wear them everywhere.
25:39
That's probably why I hate them 'cause they wear them
25:40
everywhere. Inappropriate.
25:42
Are you opinionated, Rob? Just saying.
25:46
It's a freaking plastic shoe, people.
25:47
It's more than plastic. I know, but I know and I
25:49
shouldn't. I'm sure people are sitting
25:50
down, they're yelling at me because I just, I just.
25:52
I don't get it. I don't get it.
25:54
But again, I've never had one on my foot, so I should.
25:56
Not be judgy. You're going to get it when you
25:57
read this. I'm going to get, OK, so the
25:59
inventor of Scott Siemens and again, another Siemens and these
26:03
things are fake. No, they're not.
26:04
Linden Hansen and George Brodecker Junior.
26:07
So the idea we obviously all know an easy slip and resistant
26:10
boating shoe. See, it was done for boating,
26:12
not for your every that. Makes sense, but have you ever
26:15
seen buddy? You actually wear Crocs on a
26:16
boat? No, no, no, nobody wears them on
26:19
a boat. The ugly thank you.
26:22
The ugly, rubbery, brightly colored clogs were mocked
26:24
relentlessly as the ultimate fashion disaster.
26:27
Crocs were created by three friends who discovered a foam
26:29
clog designed from a Canadian company called Foam Creations.
26:33
Original Name. Originally marketed as
26:34
comfortable slip resistant boating shoes, the first model,
26:37
The Beach, debuted at the 2002 Fort Lauderdale Bolt Show and
26:42
quickly sold out. So everybody wanted them,
26:44
everybody wanted them. The company later expanded its
26:46
offerings, and while its ugly design was polarizing, it became
26:50
a mainstream hit. Yes, it did.
26:52
Following a period of struggle, Crocs experienced a resurgence
26:55
around 2017, driven by changing fashion trends and
26:58
collaborations, as well as a popularity of customizable
27:01
gibbet's charms. The name Crocs was choosing to
27:04
reflect the shoes ability to function on both land and water
27:06
like a crocodile. Yeah, I mean, do you remember
27:09
the gibbets? Oh, my kids had them all the
27:11
time. God.
27:11
They had them everywhere, yes. Yeah, so they had them stuff
27:14
them in their shoes constantly. I was to buy new ones and yeah,
27:17
I they liked it. I find them all over the house
27:19
because they fall off and. But you didn't have a pair?
27:22
I didn't have a pair. No, I'm going.
27:24
To have the right ones to ask about these.
27:25
I have keens that I slip into every day.
27:28
I have the Skechers I slip into every day.
27:30
Yes, you have the Skechers, the slip insurance, the new ones,
27:32
the new brand new, the new slippery.
27:34
I have a very old pair of Keens that are worn out and they have
27:37
the strap on the back which I step down.
27:38
Yes and I just slip them on as my slip on shoes.
27:41
OK. That works.
27:42
They're not Crocs, so. They're not Crocs.
27:44
I like it. OK, so here's another one.
27:46
Yep, the radio hat from 1940. Right.
27:49
So the inventor was Victor Holfleck.
27:52
I think that's how you say it. Founder of the novelty company
27:54
American Mary Leigh and invented the Man from Mars radio hat No.
28:00
OK, well I suppose the 40s space was big back then.
28:02
Yep, Yep. Everything is space race, and in
28:04
fact a variety of attempts at wearable radios, starting with
28:07
experimental versions in the 20s and 30s.
28:10
But the Man from Mars radio hat in 1949 was the first successful
28:14
radio hat. It was a portable radio built
28:17
into the pitch of the helmet. It was sold across the country
28:21
for a time, but by early 1950 advertising for the hat stopped.
28:25
It lost traction fairly quickly over its technical limitations,
28:30
like losing its signal and making annoying squealing
28:33
noises. OK.
28:34
So that that's as you read, I was thinking like, OK, so back
28:37
the technology in the 40s and 50s was the batteries.
28:40
I mean it had been huge. The reception wasn't great.
28:42
Can you? Imagine how much that must have
28:43
weighed. Yeah.
28:44
You had to have a huge antenna, I would imagine because they
28:46
can. The receptionist wasn't, the
28:48
technology wasn't there and. You're huge.
28:50
Your neck wasn't strong enough. You.
28:51
Yeah, topple upper. Clunk Yeah, I can't even.
28:57
So I mean, that's that's it's a very good attempt at the first
28:59
Walkman. Right.
29:00
I was just going to say it's kind of like, you know,
29:02
Walkman's in the 80s. Yeah.
29:04
You know, it's like you got music and radio on your.
29:06
Head right, you're just ahead of his time.
29:08
The technology wasn't there yet, but right, I think the idea was
29:10
fantastic. Good for them for trying.
29:11
Absolutely. All right, we got one more.
29:13
We're going to talk about chicken glasses.
29:15
No. Yep, you heard that.
29:16
Chicken glasses. It's all ridiculous, but it is
29:19
true. That's weird.
29:20
All right, so chicken glasses from the 1900s and then through
29:23
the 1970s. This is a long time.
29:25
Wow. Andrew Jackson Junior, he was a
29:27
Kansas farmer. The idea was a tiny rolls
29:30
colored glasses for chickens to reduce pecking and cannibalism
29:33
in flocks. Was that really a problem?
29:35
I mean, I don't, I'm not, I'm not a farmer.
29:37
Not a chicken farmer, so. I'm and do they cannibalize?
29:39
I'm I'm thinking they do because they.
29:40
Must. Right.
29:41
Nasty little guy. They're evil.
29:43
I was in a a chicken barn once, you know, picking eggs with my
29:48
with friends of ours, but that was years and years ago.
29:51
Chickens are mean, so the history began with in 19 O3 with
29:55
the Eye Protector for chickens patent, but they gained
29:57
popularity in the late 1930s with the invention of rose
30:01
tinted lenses by Joseph Haas for the National Band and Tag
30:04
Company. These glasses were designed to
30:06
reduce cannibalism in flocks by making it difficult for chickens
30:09
to see the blood from pecking and the red tint blocked the
30:13
sight of blood. Oh my goodness.
30:15
This this is morbid. This practice, though sometimes
30:18
controversial for its method of attachment involving a pin
30:20
through the nostril. Oh, no, really.
30:25
Should have read this first. Was widely used for decades and
30:28
is now sought after a collector's item.
30:31
The red tint supposedly calmed aggressive birds.
30:34
Believe it or not, they were mass produced and widely sold in
30:37
the US and China. That's.
30:39
Crazy, crazy. Kind of pinned to their nose.
30:43
Yeah, weird. I mean, I guess how is he gonna
30:44
get this? I don't know how old they say.
30:46
I mean, their heads are tiny. But is that where the the phrase
30:50
rose colored colored glasses came?
30:52
From well, you think right? But no, actually, the phrase
30:54
rose colored glasses comes from the 19th century, likely
30:57
evolving from the use of Rosie to mean optimistic since the
31:00
1700s. While its exact origin is
31:03
debated, popular theory suggests it comes from an early 1800s
31:06
literary use or from actual tinted spectacles that were
31:09
believed to give a cheerful outlook on life.
31:12
OK, that works. Yeah, funny.
31:13
I had all that information right at my hand, right?
31:15
Right. I know.
31:15
Yeah. It's surprising how that is
31:17
right in front of us. That's crazy.
31:21
Alright, anyway, that's probably enough, right?
31:23
I think. That's good.
31:23
I think that's good. So that that was good.
31:24
I think those are good inventions.
31:26
I think that was a very good list.
31:27
I think some of them are fun to talk about.
31:28
Absolutely. I'm I'm still not over the
31:31
ostrich pillow. I'm I'm dying to see that on a
31:33
plane now. You and the ostrich pillow and
31:35
me in the flat shield, right? We should buy them together.
31:40
And then our next. Flight and see how many looks we
31:44
get. I could pass gas on the airplane
31:46
that. Totally could, but you only.
31:48
You need to get a noise machine if you're going to do it though.
31:52
People look, he's farting. Hold up.
31:53
But I don't smell anything that's.
31:55
Crazy. That's crazy.
31:56
It's the. Underwear you.
31:58
Know I have an extra pair to bring, right?
32:00
Show everybody. I think he does that when he's
32:01
like on flights and he's like trying to sell his stuff.
32:03
He's like, sure, I don't, I don't smell anything.
32:05
Well, here's why. Here's my car.
32:08
Infomercial every time he flies. Exactly.
32:11
Genius. Genius.
32:13
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Oh, and one more thing. Throughout history, many
32:36
inventions that once seemed strange, impractical, or
32:39
downright bizarre have eventually become everyday
32:42
essentials. From early protocol prototypes
32:44
of bicycles and light bulbs to quirky communication devices
32:48
that pave the way for modern smartphones, these weird ideas
32:52
often sparked innovation by challenging what people thought
32:55
was possible. Over time, as technology
32:57
improved in society adapted, some of these unconventional
33:01
creations evolved into familiar tools we now rely on everyday.
33:06
Just food for thought, right? Mm hmm.
33:07
Somebody had to invent to my phone.
33:09
That's right, Somebody did. Absolutely.
33:10
We know who did. Right.
33:11
I know, Motorola guy. That's all right.
33:16
All right. Hey, thanks everyone.
33:18
Thanks. Bye.
33:20
Can we invent a celebrity to promote our podcast?
33:22
Absolutely.