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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. Chuck Bryant
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Speaker 1: that makes this Stuff you Should Know, right, Chuck, Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Jerry just I love it when like we get last
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Speaker 1: picture on the podcast the audio podcast. Oh goodness, how
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Speaker 1: are you sir? I'm fine by all rights Friday, but
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Speaker 1: it's actually Thursday, but it's almost Memorial Day. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: we're not Are you coming in tomorrow at all? No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable saying either way. Well, it's all to
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Speaker 1: be surprised. I don't want to get in trouble. Well
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm still scared of the man. I know
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Speaker 1: you're not. But you're all like, hey, look at me.
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Speaker 1: I'm forty. I make my own decisions, not forty, So Chuck.
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Speaker 1: You're George Carlin fan right, Yeah, the late George Carlin.
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Speaker 1: Just the late alright. We always had the bummer, don't you.
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Speaker 1: The late George Carlin could be like George Carlin. He's
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Speaker 1: the greatest stand up comedian ever, the very the worm
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Speaker 1: food George Carlin, Yeah, the dearly departed. Yes, I like him.
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Speaker 1: I have an obscure stand up bit that I'll bet
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Speaker 1: you haven't heard of that is the appropub of our
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Speaker 1: topic today. So George Carlin um had a bit about flamethrowers.
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Speaker 1: I never heard that one. He said that the very
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Speaker 1: presence of flamethrowers, and I'm paraphrasing, the very presence of
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Speaker 1: flamethrowers means that at some point sometime someone said to himself,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's a bunch of people over there that
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Speaker 1: I'd like to set on fire, but they're too far
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Speaker 1: away from me to get the job done. I wish
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Speaker 1: there was something that I could use to throw flames
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Speaker 1: on them, And as a result, we now have the flamethrower,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of crazy when you think about it
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Speaker 1: that way. It is pretty interesting, it is, And when
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Speaker 1: you start to really look into flamethrowers, you realize just
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Speaker 1: how horrific the acts that humans inflict on other humans
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Speaker 1: can be. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty awful stuff. Actually, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when you, I mean, actually all kinds of modern weapon. Rhenno.
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Speaker 1: My brother in lawson the Marines, he told me about this.
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Speaker 1: I think it's called a flachette, some sort of bomb
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Speaker 1: that like explodes above people and sends thousands of like
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Speaker 1: razor blades shooting out what. I think it's mainly used
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Speaker 1: for clearing like jungle, but ya, jungle of enemy combatant exactly.
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Speaker 1: To some sick I thought that up, we're like, what
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Speaker 1: one step away from the alien weapons in District nine
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Speaker 1: where people just blow up in an almost cartoonish fashion. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's coming the atomizer or something they'll call it. Um.
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Speaker 1: What's what's odd is that that person, that first person
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Speaker 1: that George carlin Um envisions, actually lived a lot longer
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Speaker 1: ago than you would think. I was shocked. I was
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Speaker 1: well century BC, fifth century b C. Man right, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't well, it was a flamethrower. It was very crude, vulgar,
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Speaker 1: if you will, flamethrower. It was a long tube sort
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Speaker 1: of like a blowgun, and they filled it with solid
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Speaker 1: stuff like hot coal and sulfur and went, yeah, ideally
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Speaker 1: you don't suck in. That would be bad. No. I
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Speaker 1: was thinking that too, like you have to suck in
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Speaker 1: the breath before you put the tube. Deer mouth or us,
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Speaker 1: you're in big trouble. Oh that's the case with any
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Speaker 1: blow blowgun, right, Sure, did you ever make those in
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Speaker 1: your kid? No? I never did. That was too busy
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Speaker 1: burning stuff. You could have done both apparently. So Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they would shoot I guess um hot coal or sulfur
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Speaker 1: out at their enemy combatant instead of a flame per se,
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Speaker 1: which I guess ultimately it would bounce off of their
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Speaker 1: arm and they'd be like, ah, that burns, and then
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Speaker 1: they just tussle and leg wrestling, right, and shake hands
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Speaker 1: afterwards and go eat a bore. That's that's how that
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Speaker 1: went to Life CENTRYBC with Josh. But leave it to
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Speaker 1: the Greeks, who were one of the brainiest, most um
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Speaker 1: thieving cultures of all time. They probably got this idea
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Speaker 1: from the Chemites. Frankly, but there's this stuff called um
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Speaker 1: Greek fire, right, And actually I can't say that the
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Speaker 1: Greeks came up with it. It's called Greek fire, but
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Speaker 1: the Byzantines that what we know is turks um. We're uh,
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Speaker 1: we're most notorious for using this stuff. Yeah, and that
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Speaker 1: they think they're not sure because it was a long
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Speaker 1: time ago. It was a mixture of liquid petrol and
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Speaker 1: sulfur and like stuff like quicklime petrol British for gas. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and UM. They would pump it out actually from a
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Speaker 1: reservoir through little narrow tubes and like anything that goes
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Speaker 1: from a big reservoir type system to a small, thin one,
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Speaker 1: it would create pressure to shoot it out and then
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Speaker 1: some unlucky guy would be the lighter at the end
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Speaker 1: of it, and that would be like a real flamethrower,
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Speaker 1: like dozens of feet. Yeah, as we're gonna learn, anybody
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Speaker 1: whose job it was to deal with any aspect of
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Speaker 1: flame throwing UM was the unlucky guy. It's one of
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Speaker 1: the more dangerous weapons you can use, UM, but it
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Speaker 1: was very effective. Number one, since it's oil based, Uh,
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Speaker 1: it could this this Greek fire could be used in
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Speaker 1: naval battles because it would still burn even when it
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Speaker 1: contacted the water. UM. And so the Byzantines mounted it
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Speaker 1: on their ships. These flamethrowers UM on their ships and
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Speaker 1: on the city walls around Constantinople and basically just repelled
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Speaker 1: people out of fear as much as you know, burning
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Speaker 1: them alive. Yeah, they were. Their enemies were really freaked out.
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Speaker 1: I imagine when they first saw like fire shooting at them. Yes,
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Speaker 1: freaked out and intrigue, especially in the case of the Chinese.
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Speaker 1: See what the Byzantines had was a single action pump.
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Speaker 1: You just did the foot pump with literally do you
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Speaker 1: see that? Jerry them following your command, um. The the
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Speaker 1: Byzantines had a single action bellows pump to where when
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Speaker 1: you press down on the down stroke, it would push
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Speaker 1: the liquid out. Right. Yes, you get like a burst
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Speaker 1: of fire. And that's it right because on the upstroke
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Speaker 1: nothing was happening except with the bellows were filling back
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Speaker 1: up with air to press down compressed right. Um. The
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Speaker 1: Chinese said, hey, that's that's really funny because we have
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Speaker 1: a double action bellows to where you are compressing air
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Speaker 1: um on the up stroke and the downstroke. So instead
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Speaker 1: of your stupid little short bursts of Greek fire, we
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Speaker 1: have one long burst that just cuts you in half.
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Speaker 1: Lead to the Chinese get better the wheelbarrow, the kite,
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Speaker 1: the hang glider, the flamethrower, gun pouter, and actually gunpowder
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Speaker 1: um equaled the demise of flamethrowers for about a thousand years, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: as soon as gunpowder came along, they were like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're just chumps with fire. When we can actually shoot
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Speaker 1: a gun, that's that's the way of the future. And
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Speaker 1: it was. But so is the flamethrower as it turns out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because it lay dormant for about a thousand years. And
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Speaker 1: then in World War One, actually right before World War One,
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Speaker 1: the Germans, a very warlike state at the time, were, um,
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Speaker 1: they said, you know what, exactly can we and our
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Speaker 1: arsenal that is just totally scary and wildly destructive. Yes,
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Speaker 1: let's look back through the annals of of you know,
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Speaker 1: historic weaponry and find something. And they look through and
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Speaker 1: they said the flamethrower. Yeah. Richard Fielder is an engineer
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Speaker 1: in nineteen o one. They credit him with inventing it,
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Speaker 1: but he clearly was using old technology as the initial idea.
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Speaker 1: At least. It's a clever design, though, isn't it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because this from this original design. Um, there have been
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Speaker 1: you know, some polishing moments for the flamethrower over the years,
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Speaker 1: but from that, from that modern era that the design
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Speaker 1: has remained relatively the same. Right, It's like a three
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Speaker 1: tank design. Yeah, the flamin furfur because what it's called
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Speaker 1: nice the Germans. That's what the German uh, and it was, um,
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Speaker 1: well let's yeah, let's go ahead and explain how it
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Speaker 1: works with thanks, all right. And this is the handheld flamethrower,
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Speaker 1: which is the one that's I guess was most readily
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Speaker 1: used in combat. Yeah, and it's the one you see
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Speaker 1: like a guy's wearing these tanks on his back and
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Speaker 1: he's got the rifle. It's just right. So you got
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Speaker 1: two outer tanks and those are filled with the flammable
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Speaker 1: fuel oil based petrol if you will, like Greek fire
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Speaker 1: and um. Then there's a center, smaller tank which holds
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Speaker 1: a compressed gas like butane and uh it was. It
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Speaker 1: would feed the gas through a pressure right you later
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Speaker 1: connected to the tubes and you can take it from here. Well,
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Speaker 1: the this is why I think it's very clever. The
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Speaker 1: bututane served a dual purpose. One that was compressed, so
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Speaker 1: when you open the valve, it would push the liquid
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Speaker 1: fuel out of the tanks into the tube and ultimately
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Speaker 1: in the reservoir and the gun. The pressure regulator, right,
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Speaker 1: that's what they would but switch on. There is another
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Speaker 1: tube that came directly out of the third tank that
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Speaker 1: held the compressed the gas like butuane, and this tube
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Speaker 1: went directly to the ignition valve right right, so it
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Speaker 1: served as the igniter later on. Right that it was
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Speaker 1: because it was the bututane that was actually burning when
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Speaker 1: you um. When you open the ignition valve, the bu
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Speaker 1: tane flows to the end. This is with air the
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Speaker 1: end of the rifle. UM and then there's like there's
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Speaker 1: two triggers. There's the fuel released trigger, right, and then
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Speaker 1: there's the ignition trigger. And the ignition trigger is basically
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Speaker 1: you're operating a battery that operates a spark plug, sends
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Speaker 1: a current, generates heat right nights the tane. Now you
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Speaker 1: have that little blue flame on the end. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: what you've seen in movies, like if you see them around. Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: you see the little like three inch flame coming out
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Speaker 1: in the end, right, that's actually beautane burning. The fuel
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Speaker 1: hasn't been released, the hell fire has not been opened
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Speaker 1: yet or released yet. That's when you squeeze what's the
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Speaker 1: fuel released trigger and then well, yeah, then that pulls
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Speaker 1: back a little valve plug because you obviously want it
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Speaker 1: plugged or else you're gonna have a big mess on
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Speaker 1: your hands. You'll be on fire very quickly. So when
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Speaker 1: you pull the fuel release trigger, it pulls the little
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Speaker 1: valve plug back and then all the fuel supply suddenly
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Speaker 1: rushes through to the tip of the gun where the
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Speaker 1: flame is and boom, there you go. Yeah and um.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen forty two, the Army Chemical Warfare Service, I
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Speaker 1: think is what it was called. Um, they came up
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Speaker 1: with a little something called napalm, which is ultimately a
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Speaker 1: g asoline or petrol in the case of Chuck and
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Speaker 1: our British friends, UM, a gasoline thickening agent. So with
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Speaker 1: a slightly thickened gas you have a longer range, It
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Speaker 1: carries further because it has more mass or girth or whatever.
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Speaker 1: There's less there's less friction from the ground coming up right.
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Speaker 1: Um and uh. It also can be concentrated more easily.
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Speaker 1: Right right. So basically that was one of those real
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Speaker 1: big polishing moments. It went from just gas which sprays,
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Speaker 1: to thick gas which sticks and burns. It evaporates much
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Speaker 1: less quickly, so it will burn forever and it's really
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Speaker 1: difficult to put out, and if you get covered in it,
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Speaker 1: you're entirely in trouble. Yes, you're out of luck. And
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Speaker 1: they would mount these on well p t boats. For one,
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Speaker 1: have you ever seen the videos of those things, like
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Speaker 1: cruising down the river, shooting in napalm into the forest. Well,
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Speaker 1: I see there's a picture of it in the article.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen video of It's pretty wicked. Yeah, And
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Speaker 1: they called them, they called them zippo flamethrowers, right, because
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Speaker 1: the ignition um system failed so frequently. It's just like
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Speaker 1: on a gas grill, they have to with a zippo
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Speaker 1: d And that's the other unlucky dude. I guess he'd
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Speaker 1: be like, don't get too close to it in his hand, right,
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Speaker 1: And so flamethrowers, it wasn't just some guy you know where.
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Speaker 1: It would be like a bunch of infantry guys and
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Speaker 1: then some guy on the end happened to grab the
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Speaker 1: flamethrower that morning when they went out, and it's just
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Speaker 1: you know, they were part of a tactical strategy. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What would happened was rifleman would lay down cover fire.
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Speaker 1: Let's say you come to the mouth of a cave
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Speaker 1: and there's a bunch of enemy combatants in there, and
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Speaker 1: they're shooting you and they have snipers and you're in
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Speaker 1: big trouble. All your your rifleman lay down fire on
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Speaker 1: this case, so those guys can't move. Cover fire right
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Speaker 1: to allow your flamethrower man to get close. He was
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Speaker 1: highly susceptible at this point because of what he's wearing
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Speaker 1: on his back. Yes, all it takes is one good
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Speaker 1: shot to one of those tanks and that guy's gone,
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Speaker 1: or a bad shot, just a shot, yeah, if you
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Speaker 1: come in contact with it with the bullet. Yes, um.
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Speaker 1: But so the flamethrower guy gets close basically cooks everybody,
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Speaker 1: burns everyone to death in that cave, right, that's his job.
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Speaker 1: And then after that the munitions guys come in and
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Speaker 1: explode the cave so it can never be used again.
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Speaker 1: And that's sinora for cave dwellers. Yes. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: speaking of a quick death, I've always heard when I
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Speaker 1: was a kid, you know that. You know, if you
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Speaker 1: were a flamethrower in war, your average lifespan is like
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds in combat. Well, I always heard that, and
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Speaker 1: I'd scoured the internets and I could not find anything
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Speaker 1: to verify that, but um, that's what I always heard.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was an interesting tidbit. I did read
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Speaker 1: that most people who were flamethrower operators didn't survive. I
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Speaker 1: would imagine it's pretty dangerous thing to be toting around. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and they also had assistant because the assistance would open
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Speaker 1: and close the valves on the pack form. That was
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Speaker 1: the whole job. It was always a two man team,
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Speaker 1: so both of them would usually not make it. I
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Speaker 1: would if I was the assistant, I would turn on
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Speaker 1: his little valve and then run for cover and then
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Speaker 1: run up and turn it off again. Right, And I'd
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Speaker 1: probably pretty unpopular with the flamethrower guy probably, And then
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Speaker 1: the flamethrower guy was well liked because if you can
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Speaker 1: take out an entire gun nest of people, then you
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Speaker 1: know everybody's going to applaud you and clap, and you know,
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Speaker 1: probably not get too close though, because you're going to
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Speaker 1: die eventually. Yeah, I'd rather be a sniper. I think
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Speaker 1: that'd be like I played Call of Duty. I got
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Speaker 1: a p S three now that I tell you that. No,
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Speaker 1: it was given to me by my step step step dad,
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Speaker 1: now father in law. You did tell me my stepfather
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Speaker 1: in law, And so I got just a couple of games.
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Speaker 1: I'm not like a huge gamer at all, Like I
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Speaker 1: think a nintendol, like the first Nintendo was the last
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Speaker 1: thing I actually owned. But um, I play Call of
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Speaker 1: Duty now. I like a shooter games too. It's pretty fun.
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Speaker 1: But you choose to be a sniper on that. Well,
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Speaker 1: now there are just certain levels where you can be
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Speaker 1: a sniper. Like you'll pick up a sniper gun if
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Speaker 1: you want. And I always usually kind of just hang
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Speaker 1: back and pick guys off, especially guys with flamethrowers. So
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Speaker 1: here we go again to liberal peace nicks like us
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Speaker 1: when it comes to like this war stuff, we just
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Speaker 1: get all giddy. Well it is this one. For some reason,
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Speaker 1: I was reading a passage about a flamethrower operator in
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Speaker 1: World War Two who you know, um received the Medal
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Speaker 1: of Honor for um invading a Japanese they think they're
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Speaker 1: called pillbox. It was a little gun nest and burning
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Speaker 1: them all and burning them all alive, and like the
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Speaker 1: the guy wrote um that there were some muffled screams
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Speaker 1: and then silence. It's like, you know, being burned alive.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty much everybody's worst death, I would think. So
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Speaker 1: it's up there. Well, we had worst way to die.
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Speaker 1: That's right up there, and I think if I remember correctly,
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Speaker 1: burning to death is consistently the number one, unlike informal polls. Right,
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Speaker 1: imagine is pretty painful and it happened a lot in
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Speaker 1: World War One to vietn M. Yeah, I imagined area.
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Speaker 1: This is a horrible weapon. But you can find uh,
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Speaker 1: civilian applications for can't you. Yeah. Well, before we move
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Speaker 1: on to that, we also need to say that they
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Speaker 1: were on tanks as well, so it wasn't just boats.
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Speaker 1: They used them on tanks, and uh, the design was
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Speaker 1: basically the same. You just had a lot more fuel
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Speaker 1: and you had like piston rotary pumps to get a
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Speaker 1: lot more length on your shot girth. And yeah, the
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Speaker 1: backpack mounted ones had a range of about fifty yards, right,
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Speaker 1: That's that's a long way though. Yeah, let's have a
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Speaker 1: football field. You don't have to get that close. Sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wonder if the first enemy that was like, he's
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Speaker 1: got a flamethrower, but we're way too far away. They
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Speaker 1: were within exactly. Uh yeah, civilian applications um, forced forced
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Speaker 1: fire fighters forest firefighters? Is that how you say it?
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Speaker 1: I don't know they actually use these when they do
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Speaker 1: like the prescribed burning, like sometimes they'll burn well not
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Speaker 1: just the firefighters, they do prescribe burns anyway. And then
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Speaker 1: sometimes the firefighters do that, they'll like burn a section
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Speaker 1: to cut it off right there. And that's what they
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Speaker 1: do it with flamethrowers, which actually kind of made me
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Speaker 1: want to go get a job with the forestry Service.
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Speaker 1: She could burn things on purpose. Well, yeah, did you
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Speaker 1: hear about this car thing in South Africa? Theft deterrent
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Speaker 1: system that burned you know? Yeah, I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: still around. This is like twelve years ago, and um,
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Speaker 1: a South African man invented it was called the blaster
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Speaker 1: and basically it would shoot a man high fireball that's
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Speaker 1: what they called it. What at you if you tried
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Speaker 1: to break into the car for a mere ran which
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Speaker 1: is uh and this that was like six or fifty bucks,
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Speaker 1: and um, it would squirt liquefied gas from a bottle
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Speaker 1: in the trunk through two nozzles located on the front door.
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Speaker 1: And the rub is you couldn't turn one on and
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Speaker 1: turn one off, so if a guy was breaking into
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Speaker 1: like the driver's side door, it would still shoot fire
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Speaker 1: out as a passenger side to whomever might be walking
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Speaker 1: by unluckily on that. So let's say, yeah, that's that's
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Speaker 1: an invention that wasn't fully thought through. I would think so.
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Speaker 1: But apparently he sold a bunch of him at the
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Speaker 1: time and he said it's non lethal, but it would
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Speaker 1: definitely blind a person, is what he said, and keep
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Speaker 1: them from stealing your car. Yeah, because they can't see
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Speaker 1: cars any longer. That's terrible. Yeah, way to go South Africa. Um. Lastly, Chuck.
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Speaker 1: Fire breathers their form of They follow the basic principles
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Speaker 1: of flamethrowing by drinking kerostene. There you go. If you
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Speaker 1: want to learn about fire breathers, we have an article
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Speaker 1: on them. If you want to learn more about flame throwers.
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