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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Bryant. Chuck Bryant.
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Speaker 1: You pointed at me as if I was supposed to
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Speaker 1: say hey, and welcome to the podcast. Almost did. I
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Speaker 1: was like, the trick is to point and start talking
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Speaker 1: almost the same time. There needs to be like a
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Speaker 1: maybe eight or ten millisecond delay. All right, all you
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Speaker 1: journalism school students broadcasting tips from Johns. Was everybody off
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Speaker 1: of their game? It's good point, Like, you know what
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Speaker 1: I just did. I just assumed domination of this podcast,
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Speaker 1: the whole thing when you did that every time. That's
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Speaker 1: not true. So, Chuck, have you ever seen Gilligan's Island? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: A bunch of bunch of times. Did you know that?
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Speaker 1: By my estimate, Gilligan's Island holds the record four most
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Speaker 1: number of episodes used by a television show featuring quicksand
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Speaker 1: as a device. I've got five five, Yeah, me too.
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Speaker 1: Gilligan Got caught, Skipper got caught. Mr Howell faked his death.
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Speaker 1: Remember that one? No, what did you just put the
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Speaker 1: hat on top of some Quicksand that's exactly what he did.
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Speaker 1: I do remember that he changed his will to include
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Speaker 1: the castaways, and he thought they were trying to kill him,
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Speaker 1: so he ran away and faked his death. But they
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Speaker 1: were really just planning a party for him, I'll bet.
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Speaker 1: And then uh, botanist Lord Beasley, who was one of
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Speaker 1: their random guests that they had. I don't remember him,
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Speaker 1: and Ginger Marian apparently got caught one night. Huh some
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Speaker 1: sexy quicksand yeah, so um, I don't think there's anybody
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Speaker 1: out there who's unfamiliar with Quicksand it's just such a
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Speaker 1: great little throat to anytime there's a jungle scene or
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Speaker 1: something and things are getting boring and you're a writer
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Speaker 1: and it's nineteen fifty seven or ninety eight or nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty five, you say quicksand yeah. You don't see a
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Speaker 1: lot lately in films and TV. Though we've gotten slightly
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Speaker 1: more sophisticated. I think people realize some point not really
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Speaker 1: a big thing. I don't think it's just with quicksand
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Speaker 1: I think we have gotten generally more sophisticated. Um, in
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Speaker 1: the eighties, who were pretty much throughout the whole decade
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Speaker 1: the biggest box office straws oh Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe, um
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Speaker 1: so yeah um John Claude Van Damn. Not a very
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Speaker 1: thinking decade, right, yeah, good point. Then you move into
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Speaker 1: the nineties and you have more guys like Edward Norton
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Speaker 1: r DJ whoever that is, right, yeah, who I am
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Speaker 1: very hardened to see is making quite a comeback. He's
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Speaker 1: gotten off of the black tar and into uh life
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Speaker 1: and into box office cold. Yeah. Have you seen Sherlock Holmes?
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Speaker 1: I have seen that movie like eight times. We ever
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Speaker 1: got to talk about quicksand so quicksand Chuck can it
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Speaker 1: kill you? Uh? I saw a thing that said theoretically,
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Speaker 1: if you were stuck over your head and you couldn't
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Speaker 1: get out, obviously you could drown in it. But I
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Speaker 1: believe you have a scientific study to refute that. There
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Speaker 1: was a study. And we found from researching, reading an
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Speaker 1: article on the site and just kind of looking around
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Speaker 1: there's a very finite amount of information out there on
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Speaker 1: quicksand because there's just a finite amount to know about
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Speaker 1: quicksand it's not as exciting as it is in the movie,
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Speaker 1: So I'll say that, which explains my Robert Downey Junior tirade. Right. Um,
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Speaker 1: there was a two thousand five study that pretty much
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Speaker 1: put the period on the sentence about quicksand. It said,
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Speaker 1: it's physically impossible for human being too to sink into
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Speaker 1: a pit of quicksand and die. Okay, I think this.
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Speaker 1: What I suppose was if you were like dropped on
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Speaker 1: your head into the quicksand. But it's usually not even
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Speaker 1: so deep as to be taller than a human So no,
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Speaker 1: there there. If if you're just just a guy, if
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Speaker 1: it's just you or I and we you go into
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Speaker 1: a you fall into a pit of quicksand that is
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Speaker 1: say seven ft deep, which is exceedingly rare. Right, most
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Speaker 1: of the time it's much shallower than that, so you
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Speaker 1: just stand up, all right, Um, we are less dense
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Speaker 1: than quicksand are. The density of the human body is
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Speaker 1: about one gram per cubic centimeter or about one gram
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Speaker 1: permilli leader of water. All right, Quicksand is about twice that.
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Speaker 1: So if you just sit there, you become buoyant. You
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Speaker 1: float on water, and quicksand is denser than water, so
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Speaker 1: you'll definitely float on quicksand exactly, so you can't. We
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Speaker 1: we could be um. But let's talk about sand and
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Speaker 1: the properties of quicksand, which, by the way, is falls
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Speaker 1: under the purview of a field of science called reology.
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Speaker 1: It's the study of um. Basically, it's the study of
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Speaker 1: the flow and deformation of unusual things like mayonnaise or
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Speaker 1: silly putty or quicksand seriously um. So reology studies quicksand
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Speaker 1: foam things like that. Um things that like mayonnaise. When
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Speaker 1: you carve some mayonnaise out with a knife, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: go back to a flat surface. It should, but it's
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Speaker 1: still liquid. Technically it should have flow. It doesn't. Yeah, reology,
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Speaker 1: I love Mayo, Mayo Man, Josh quicksand is if we
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Speaker 1: want to define it, it's solid ground. Actually, it's not
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Speaker 1: like the oatmeal. I tried to find out what they
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Speaker 1: used in movies, and the closest I could find was
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Speaker 1: Fuller's earth, like mixed with water. You ever heard of
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Speaker 1: Fuller's Earth. It's just really really powdery dirt, light brown,
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Speaker 1: and use it a lot on film sets for all
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Speaker 1: sorts of stuff. But that's what I think it is. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: it looks like oatmeal to me. But in reality, it's
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Speaker 1: solid ground and it's just liquefied solid earth because it's
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Speaker 1: been super saturated. Yeah uh. And there's generally two ways
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Speaker 1: that it can occur, right, Um. There is the upward
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Speaker 1: movement of water, say from a spring or um an
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Speaker 1: earthquake can kind of loosen it. And then you couple
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Speaker 1: that with the introduction of water bam, quicksand not too
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Speaker 1: far from a sinkhole in some ways, No, not too
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Speaker 1: far at all. Frankly, we've been on a geology kick lately. Now.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking that we're kind of completing in Earth
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Speaker 1: Sciences module here where this is our elementary school science
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Speaker 1: project exactly. Yeah. Um, so that's pretty much the two
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Speaker 1: ways that quicksand can form. Um and especially with one
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Speaker 1: say where you have um a an upward movement. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about sand in general. Dry sand. Yes, you're
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Speaker 1: walking along the beach, you're getting a friction from the ground,
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Speaker 1: which is why you're not falling down right. Um. The
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Speaker 1: sand has a something that's called the friction chain, I believe,
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Speaker 1: and that means that the the force that you're putting
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Speaker 1: on it is distributed across the particles, so it forms
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Speaker 1: the solid layer. Solid resistance right, Um, with quicksand the
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Speaker 1: water molecules have been introduced and enough, um they're agitated. Right. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: you don't even need to agitate it. You can get
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Speaker 1: water in there, say through a spring floating upward. Um,
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Speaker 1: the water molecules are forming basically little pockets around the sand.
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Speaker 1: Particles are not they're not connected by friction any longer. Right,
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Speaker 1: so they're they're not solid, they're not stable. And then
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Speaker 1: if you add, um, some sort of movement, say an
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Speaker 1: earthquake or somebody's foot for the force of somebody's foot
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Speaker 1: going on it, then it just that that whole um,
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Speaker 1: whatever friction there is that keeps it stable is lost.
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Speaker 1: So like you've been to the beach, right, remember when
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Speaker 1: you were a kid and you've never been to the beach. Yeah, uh,
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Speaker 1: I've been in the beach with you, my friend San Diego.
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Speaker 1: That's not although we didn't you know, frolic or anything. No,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of cold. There's no time December, no time
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Speaker 1: for frolicking unfortunately. Um. But you remember, like when you
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Speaker 1: were a kid, Let's say you would walk into where
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Speaker 1: the water is coming up and then receding and you
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Speaker 1: would start to sink a little bit, and then your
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Speaker 1: feet would kind of you know, if you let yourself go,
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Speaker 1: your feet would become stuck. And I remember being a
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Speaker 1: kid and thinking, wow, that's kind of frightening because they
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Speaker 1: would really become locked in if you get up to
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Speaker 1: let's say your ankle. And that's kind of just the
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Speaker 1: same principle, right, right, that's the exact same principle. It's
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Speaker 1: the same thing with like a wet concrete too. When
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Speaker 1: you when your foot, say your foot or your leg
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Speaker 1: goes in there and it is occupying space, you're creating
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Speaker 1: this density, right, which I guess creates some sort of
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Speaker 1: suction force like a vacuum vacuum, which makes it very
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Speaker 1: difficult to pull out. Um. That two thousand five study
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Speaker 1: in Nature concluded that to pull your foot out of
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Speaker 1: quicksand at a rate of one centimeter a second, which
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Speaker 1: is fairly moderate, I think I can do that. That
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Speaker 1: looks like one centimeter a second, isn't that um To
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Speaker 1: do that when it's stuck in quicksand requires the equivalent
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Speaker 1: amount of force that it would take to lift a
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Speaker 1: medium sized car. So like only Chuck Norris could probably
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Speaker 1: do that. Chuck Norris and only Chuck Norris definitely not
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Speaker 1: John claud Band. That's crazy, right. So you don't want
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Speaker 1: to try to move your feet at um, you know,
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Speaker 1: a centimeter a second. You want to slowly move them,
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Speaker 1: and you want to wriggle them. From what I understand, wriggle.
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Speaker 1: You want to wriggle actually, because what you're doing is
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Speaker 1: you're very slowly creating um space pockets around your legs
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Speaker 1: which are stuck. That allows the water to come in,
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Speaker 1: which allows it to break up the sand sediment. Right,
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Speaker 1: So are you talking about how to actually get out
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Speaker 1: of quicksand it feels like that's what we just moved into. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it. That's the one part that I've found
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Speaker 1: is similar to the movies. Everything else is kind of
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Speaker 1: really just a movie type of type of thing, but
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Speaker 1: it is true. They say if you the more you
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Speaker 1: move and struggle, the more you'll sink, right, just like
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Speaker 1: a regular water. Though if you were drowning. They say
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Speaker 1: the same thing. If you were drowning and you actually
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Speaker 1: calm down, you could you would float, But you're constant
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Speaker 1: thrashing about will pull you under, right, and it it
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Speaker 1: creates a stronger vacuum. Basically the more you move right. Um.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen that Man versus Wild segment where he's
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Speaker 1: in quicksand See the guy gets into um a thing
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Speaker 1: of quicksand real life quicksand and shows you how to
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Speaker 1: get out and it's have your cameraman and your rope.
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Speaker 1: That was another thing too from that study in nature. Again,
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Speaker 1: this thing is like the you know you don't need
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Speaker 1: to do it's been done. No, no other study needs
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Speaker 1: to be done in quicksand. Um, but they they said,
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Speaker 1: one of the authors said, don't um ask your friends
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Speaker 1: to pull you out, say with the vine or that's
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Speaker 1: what they always do in the movies. I know it
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Speaker 1: could consumably pull you in half. Yeah. Yeah, one of
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Speaker 1: the authors of that that study, that rheology study said,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to do that. What bears? He slowly
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Speaker 1: wriggled his way out right. And the weird thing is
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Speaker 1: he's It's just the oddest thing. I would recommend everybody like, uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Discovery has it. We probably have it not
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you can find it on YouTube. But you know,
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Speaker 1: bear and quicksand or something like that. Um, he's in
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Speaker 1: this it looks like a beach. You know, the how
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Speaker 1: how the beach looks at like, um, kind of medium
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Speaker 1: tied or something. So it's like there's the sand, but
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Speaker 1: then there's a thin layer of water over it, just
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Speaker 1: kind of floating on the top. Um. He's in that,
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Speaker 1: and he's up to about his waist in in quicksand,
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Speaker 1: and he's pulling himself out. So he's got his elbow
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Speaker 1: up on the very quicksand that the rest of his
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Speaker 1: body is in, but it's resting on top of it.
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Speaker 1: It looks really odd. I might have seen that. Actually
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Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. Um. But he slowly pulls out. And
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Speaker 1: what you want to do is get into a soup
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Speaker 1: pine position on your back because you're just gonna float
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Speaker 1: because again, you're less dense than quicksand. Good point. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna find quicksand, and you can find it anywhere
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Speaker 1: if the conditions are right, but generally you're gonna find
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Speaker 1: it more around like marshes and rivers, oceans, uh, where
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Speaker 1: there's ground water. Yeah, that kind of thing. And uh,
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Speaker 1: if you are hapless enough to get caught in quicksand,
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Speaker 1: um in like a along a beach on the shore,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna want to get out of there very slowly.
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Speaker 1: But surely, because eventually the tide's going to come in.
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Speaker 1: You're in big trouble, especially if you've seen Creep Show. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know what happens to Ted Danson. Yeah, buried up
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Speaker 1: to his head, wasn't he? By Leslie Nielsen's right? And
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Speaker 1: that was no naked gun joke. That was the real deal.
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Speaker 1: It really was. What else we got? Uh? Well, dry
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Speaker 1: quicksand you send that article to me? Yeah, that article
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Speaker 1: was written by our buddy Alan Bellows. We've actually never
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Speaker 1: met and don't know, but I have a tremendous amount
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Speaker 1: of respect for he's over it. Damn interesting. I think
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Speaker 1: he's the founder. Yeah, um, and he wrote an article
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Speaker 1: on quicksand and was talking about, like you said, dry quicksand, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and this is not, um anything that they've observed in nature,
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Speaker 1: but they have created this in a lab right where, Um,
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Speaker 1: I think the sand is sort of like a house
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Speaker 1: of cards. It's so loose that, um it's it barely
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Speaker 1: can hold its own weight. Right, It's like kind of
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Speaker 1: I think it is. So you had sand kicked up
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Speaker 1: by a dust storm and then when it's deposited again,
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Speaker 1: if it's deposited theoretically, because like you said, it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: It's it's never been proven to exist outside the lab.
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Speaker 1: But theoretically, if it was deep enough, it could look
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Speaker 1: like it was solid and for all intensive purpose says
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Speaker 1: it was stable until you walk on it. The problem
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Speaker 1: is is if it's deeper than you are tall, there's nothing,
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Speaker 1: there's no water to make you buoyant. You're you're gone.
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Speaker 1: It will kill you. It will swallow you whole. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And and yeah, it's like so when you go down
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Speaker 1: it puffs up some sand. Yeah, I think so, like
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Speaker 1: the movie Dune or something like, you would be swallowed
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Speaker 1: into the very sand. Frank Herbert quite a visionary. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but that's a folklore as far as you know, although
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Speaker 1: it has been, like you said, done in the lap
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Speaker 1: and there's a cool Um, there's a cool like series
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Speaker 1: of photos. Um. It looks like an apple on top
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Speaker 1: of some dry quicksand thunder. And if you look at
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Speaker 1: the time, it's like seven hundreds of a second or
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Speaker 1: maybe seven tenths of a second, almost like a sinkhole.
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Speaker 1: Yes again, geology special, Yes, what should we do next?
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Speaker 1: Like crystals? Okay, well crystal skull caves and crystal skulls. Uh,
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Speaker 1: should we talk a little bit more about the movies
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Speaker 1: and TV. I think we should, Um, again, you got
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Speaker 1: anything else not a lot about quicksand it. Ah, it
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Speaker 1: sounds conciliatory, like I'm sorry we did this one, Josh
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Speaker 1: Blazing Saddles. Of course, I always mentioned one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite films had a quick scene quicksand scene early on,
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Speaker 1: very funny. Um, there was a movie in nineteen sixty seven.
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Speaker 1: Actually we should point out we got all these from
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Speaker 1: quicksand Movies dot net, and they, I think literally have
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Speaker 1: every reference of quicksand ever in film and TV history.
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Speaker 1: It's your one stop shop for quicksand movie reference. So
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Speaker 1: I just plucked a few interesting ones that were relevant
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Speaker 1: to us. Um. Well, actually this one isn't relevant to us,
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Speaker 1: but the rest are. There was one movie called The
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Speaker 1: Acid Eaters a k a. The Acid People from nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty seven. Four average middle class couples become weekend hippies,
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Speaker 1: riding motorcycles, frolicking nude and having a climactic I can't
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Speaker 1: say that word. Um adult party on a large white
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Speaker 1: pyramid of LSD. During a topless cat a woman is
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Speaker 1: thrown into the quicksand up to her bare chest as
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Speaker 1: several bad actors stand around and watch. The next shot
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Speaker 1: is just her arm above the surface, giving everyone in
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Speaker 1: the finger. That sounds like a classic. Uh. We talked
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Speaker 1: a little bit about TV. It's been in one episode
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Speaker 1: of mcgiver, yeah, three episodes of Benny Hill, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: saw that too, three g I Joe cartoons, three episodes
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Speaker 1: of Dynasty, four episodes of Fantasy Island. Of course, I
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Speaker 1: knew that would have been a little higher. I love
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Speaker 1: this one. Four episodes of General Hospital. Yeah, let's just hope.
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Speaker 1: She just said in a hospital had four quicksand incidents. No,
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Speaker 1: I think I saw one um back in like eighty
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Speaker 1: one or eighty two, and Luke and Laura were trapped
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Speaker 1: on some island or something. Yeah. There there's always like
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Speaker 1: an island scenario in a soap opera, and there's always
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Speaker 1: quicksand when there's an island. Of course, magna p I
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about this one? I want you to. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The show was called Operations Silent Night from nineteen eighty.
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Speaker 1: The guys were stranded on a bar an island at
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Speaker 1: Christmas because the helicopter broke. Not just a barren island,
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Speaker 1: a barren island. That's being used for naval bombing exercises.
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Speaker 1: It's very tense. And while gathering palm fronds, Rick walks
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Speaker 1: into a mud bog thinks it's quicksand and he sinks
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Speaker 1: up to his chin before the guys tell him to
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Speaker 1: stand up and get out. Yeah, and if you ever
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Speaker 1: do fall into quick sand, keep your keep calm. If
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Speaker 1: you're with your friends, make sure that you've hit the bottom.
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Speaker 1: I've actually done this before. And what you're just describing
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Speaker 1: happen to Rick, happen to me. And it's terrifying. I'm
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Speaker 1: not kidding. It's terrifying. I was screeching like help give
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Speaker 1: me out right, and I realized that my feet were
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Speaker 1: on solid ground. Right, I'm not kidding. This really happened.
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Speaker 1: I believe it. Okay, thank you, um and uh. It's
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Speaker 1: very scary, but once you realize you have your footing,
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Speaker 1: it's very relieving. But if you can kind of keep
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Speaker 1: the fainting afterwards, you just stop, hold out your hands
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Speaker 1: and go to and hippie Rob will say, oh man,
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Speaker 1: that was a close one. Actually wasn't Hippie Rob. It
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Speaker 1: was another hippie friend, Justin, who was Yeah, he can
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Speaker 1: attest to it. I guess we'll close out with three
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Speaker 1: episodes of The Simpsons. Let's moleman was in quicksand at
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Speaker 1: one point the cat of the Simpsons. I think there
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Speaker 1: was a water leak or something, and then the litter
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Speaker 1: acted as quicksand and suck the cat into it. I
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Speaker 1: don't remember that. And then of course the scene where
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Speaker 1: the episode or margin Homer went to a spa. Homer
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Speaker 1: is getting the massage by the woman and she's walking
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Speaker 1: on his back and she starts sinking into his back
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Speaker 1: fath He tells her not to struggle. Yeah, he'll only
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Speaker 1: sink faster. So there you go. It's it. That is quicksand,
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Speaker 1: done and done. If you want to see a pretty
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Speaker 1: cool flash animation of some guy in of sleeveless T
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Speaker 1: shirt sinking in quicksand. And if you want to read
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Speaker 1: the only article on how stuff works that explicitly cites
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Speaker 1: the worst case Scenario handbook, just type quicksand one word
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Speaker 1: into the handy search bar how stuff works dot com Again,
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Speaker 1: check out damn interesting article. It's very cool. And if
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Speaker 1: you can find anything about reology, check it out. It's
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting stuff. Right. You know, I knew a guy
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Speaker 1: in l A that knew the dude that wrote those books,
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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario books. We have a fan who
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Speaker 1: wrote a I'm sure who wrote a zombie survival handbook?
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Speaker 1: Did you ever read that? It is excellent? It is
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Speaker 1: way excellent. I love that book. I read it from
19:25
Speaker 1: cover to cover, Chuck, really, first time ever? So um,
19:30
Speaker 1: go ahead? Oh yeah, which means it's time for listener mail.
19:36
Speaker 1: I acted like I couldn't go forward. Actually, Josh and
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Speaker 1: Lou listen to mail this week. This is gonna be
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Speaker 1: fun today on Facebook with your permission, I said, you
19:43
Speaker 1: know what, listener mails getting a little dry, So why
19:44
Speaker 1: don't we just take some questions from the Facebook fans
19:48
Speaker 1: and we'll answer like ten quick ones on the air
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Speaker 1: and uh highlight some for you. And we got like
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Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty questions inside an hour. Are we
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Speaker 1: just doing like what's it that many? And climbing? I
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Speaker 1: had to cut it off. Did we are we just
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Speaker 1: reading their first names or first and Lance? I would
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Speaker 1: say just first? But what about the privacy settings on Facebook?
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Speaker 1: Renee says, do you discuss what points you'll cover ahead
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Speaker 1: of time? Or does it happen more organically? And as
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Speaker 1: most people know, we we kind of don't prep that
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Speaker 1: much with each other at all. We just do our
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Speaker 1: research and then we come in and we have our
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Speaker 1: first conversation right here. That's right. Um, today we broke
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Speaker 1: protocol with me sending Chuck that damn interesting article. That's
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Speaker 1: about as close as we come to really sharing information.
20:37
Speaker 1: We're very Um. We jealously guard our own research, don't we.
20:40
Speaker 1: If it feels spontaneous and conversational, it's because it is.
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Speaker 1: Okay you ready? Yeah, I got one. This is from Nick.
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Speaker 1: If one of you couldn't make a recording and the
20:49
Speaker 1: oat Hare had to choose a replacement, Dash, who would
20:54
Speaker 1: be your fantasy recording partner? Yeah, I can never record
20:58
Speaker 1: with anyone else. But yeah, that was very sweet. I'll
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Speaker 1: say the same thing though there. Uh Nicholas says, how
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Speaker 1: does Josh get prepared when he writes an article? And
21:07
Speaker 1: how do you managed to remember all the names when
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Speaker 1: you're recording? That's for you, all the all the names
21:13
Speaker 1: when we're recording. What do you mean? Well, how do
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Speaker 1: how do you get prepared when you write an article?
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Speaker 1: And how do you remember all this junk that we say? Oh? Um,
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Speaker 1: I have found that my brain is a lot more
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Speaker 1: sponge like than I ever realized before. Sometimes you've seen it. Um,
21:28
Speaker 1: I'll just be sitting there spouting stuff off, and I'll
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Speaker 1: like give you this look, like, can you believe that
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Speaker 1: I'm not looking at a piece of paper right now?
21:35
Speaker 1: It's awesome to get prepared. I um drink two raw
21:40
Speaker 1: eggs out of a glass rocky style, Uh huh, And then, um,
21:43
Speaker 1: I find that I podcast best. I'm at my most
21:47
Speaker 1: relaxed when i'm pantsless, as I am right now. Tony
21:51
Speaker 1: to Jerry. If Josh and Chuck were trapped in a
21:53
Speaker 1: burning building and you only had time to save one
21:55
Speaker 1: of them before it collapsed and kill the other, who
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Speaker 1: would you save? And here's Jerry's response to that. Oh Jerry,
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Speaker 1: that was so nice. Thank you for saying that I
22:06
Speaker 1: have one. This one's from Anna. Where did you each
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Speaker 1: go to college? And what were your majors? Chuck? I
22:14
Speaker 1: know where you went to college. We went to the
22:15
Speaker 1: same college we did. You a University of Georgia. Yes,
22:19
Speaker 1: go dogs. How are we looking this year? We're gonna
22:21
Speaker 1: have a decent football team. You can never tell fingers crossed?
22:24
Speaker 1: Uh English major? Here? I think you were to write
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Speaker 1: no history and I'm minored an anthropology. I knew that
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Speaker 1: when you saying it. So there you have it. Jessica Crouch,
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Speaker 1: h Facebook fan and a looker. She says, what's what's
22:37
Speaker 1: our biggest pet peeve? I think mine is the cell
22:40
Speaker 1: phone loud cell phone talkers in public. I'm not into
22:43
Speaker 1: that biggest pet peeve. Um. I would say, jeez, I
22:49
Speaker 1: don't have so many of them. I'll just grab one
22:51
Speaker 1: out of thin air people who um misspelled there depending
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Speaker 1: on the context. Good one. But that's just so dumb.
22:58
Speaker 1: But I guess I'll pet he's aer dumb, aren't they? Yeah? Yeah,
23:01
Speaker 1: a couple of more. Sure. Nikki says, any podcasts that
23:05
Speaker 1: you're both itching to do but haven't plucked up the
23:07
Speaker 1: courage to do yet? Yes, Furries and Paraphelia's chuck. Uh
23:12
Speaker 1: scientology nice. I don't want to get rubbed out. Where
23:15
Speaker 1: did Joshua to high school from Bob the Toledo dude? Uh?
23:19
Speaker 1: I actually went to Sprayberry High School and Beautiful Marriotta, Georgia.
23:23
Speaker 1: But I went to Junior High School and Toledo at
23:26
Speaker 1: Burndale Junior High Again. The Bulldogs. I have a bulldogs
23:30
Speaker 1: theme going through my educational history. Becca says, think of
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Speaker 1: someone close to you who has passed away if you
23:36
Speaker 1: had a chance to spend one more hour with them,
23:39
Speaker 1: But it would cost you a year of your life,
23:40
Speaker 1: would you? And who? And I would absolutely shave a
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Speaker 1: year off of my old life to hang out with
23:47
Speaker 1: my granddad, like as an adult, because he's a cool dude.
23:50
Speaker 1: And he died when I was like fourteen, so I
23:51
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to like talk to him about
23:53
Speaker 1: good adult stuff. Very neat, Chuck, Um, I have them
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Speaker 1: for you. Matt Ramsey has a question for you, Chuck.
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Speaker 1: I imagine it's not for me because I don't I
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Speaker 1: have a well, you don't want to be in my basement.
24:05
Speaker 1: Too many too many horrible accident committed down there. Can
24:08
Speaker 1: my band come open up for your band in your basement? Chuff? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it'd be awesome. Matt. You send an email the Stuff
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Speaker 1: podcast at how Stuff works dot com. I'll give you
24:18
Speaker 1: directions the Chuck House. My dog will be very excited
24:21
Speaker 1: to have someone else down there playing. I've got another one, alright,
24:24
Speaker 1: Noel says, what is the difference between a cream soup
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Speaker 1: and a chowder? Can I answer this one? So, Chuck
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Speaker 1: it's really actually all geography, that's what I hear. The
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Speaker 1: French word for pot evolved into chao dare should drowne
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Speaker 1: show drawn or cauldron maybe maybe later? Yeah, and uh,
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Speaker 1: that's the only difference. There's no um cooking difference. There's
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Speaker 1: no ingredient difference, That's what I've heard. It's all just
24:52
Speaker 1: if you're dye, if you're elsewhere, it's cream soup. Yep.
24:57
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for those. But we got another
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Speaker 1: batch coming on the next podcas us the next one, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the one we record right after this one. Oh really
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