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Whoops! All Quizster, Part Two: A Ridiculous History of HowStuffWorks · Ridiculous History

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  Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the show, fellow Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always so
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  Speaker 1: much for tuning in. Let's hear it at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year for the Man the Myth Legend super
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  Speaker 1: producer mister Max Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Who a kind aggressive reminder.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to make a negative comment, but then
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  Speaker 3: I realized you weren't introducing our guests yet.
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  Speaker 1: Not yet, not yet, and spoilers, that's Noel Brown, I
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  Speaker 1: am often called ben Bullen Max before we roll into
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  Speaker 1: this sure surely well thought out escapade that well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm convinced will go very well and stay on the rails.
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  Speaker 1: Could you tell us a little bit about what Noel
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  Speaker 1: just alluded to your subtitle on this recording A kind
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  Speaker 1: aggressive reminder.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I just throw it, okay, because all right, you know
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  Speaker 1: that's a weird energy though you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, that is sort of Max's energy
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  Speaker 3: is he is both kind and gently aggressive. Because the
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  Speaker 3: man gets things done, y'all, and we couldn't do it
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  Speaker 3: without him. So I'd love to take this opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: thank the Man the Myth the Legend in his own
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  Speaker 3: mind and ours and the hearts of the public.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Max Williams, I've always said Max, Max's mister Rogers.
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  Speaker 4: If he'd mess you up, there we.
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  Speaker 1: Go, And fellow ridiculous historians, we also want to thank
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  Speaker 1: you personally for hanging out with us, not just through
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, but through all the previous years. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: we started the show back in twenty seventeen, and Noel,
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  Speaker 1: you and I tell this story pretty often internally, but
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  Speaker 1: we thought it was going to be just like six weeks.
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  Speaker 3: In and out, in and out internally as in within ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: Yes it's true. No, yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a whole thing that was based on a
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  Speaker 3: particular advertisements deal, and we just you know, said yes,
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  Speaker 3: because that's what we did in those days.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and here we are all the loath these many
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  Speaker 5: years later.
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  Speaker 3: I'm as surprised as you are, Ben, and I'm happily surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And speaking of the opposite of happily surprised, we
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  Speaker 1: have a we have a chip on our collective shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: We have a proverbial podcastery bone to pick. We are
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  Speaker 1: reluctantly welcoming back one of the long running characters in
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  Speaker 1: this show that we never thought would go till twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four and beyond. We started building this mythos out
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  Speaker 1: early in the game, right, and one of the one
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  Speaker 1: of the crazy things that happened on the way to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast Studio no is we got ourselves a genuine nemesis,
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  Speaker 1: a real pill, a real heel, the kind of guy
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  Speaker 1: who gets unhappy when he sees puppies play.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, that is harsh but fair.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, hello, hello, quizter here, happy to see you.
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  Speaker 4: It's a it's a mythology so deep that we sold
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  Speaker 4: a T shirt. We sold one did so one T
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  Speaker 4: shirt and technically we sold five because I bought that many.
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  Speaker 3: It's just sort of an on again, off again kind
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  Speaker 3: of frenemy situation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we've been off for so so long. I
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  Speaker 4: alluded to this in our previous episode. If you've not
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  Speaker 4: heard it, you should, because the boys came up against
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  Speaker 4: one of my incredibly nefarious quizzes. I won't ruin how
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  Speaker 4: it turned out, but I think you'll be able to
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  Speaker 4: tell from their demeanor, so I would suggest listening to
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  Speaker 4: that one first. But I did allude to the fact
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  Speaker 4: that while I was on my journey of self discovery
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  Speaker 4: where I was becoming a kind of gentless soul, someone
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  Speaker 4: who could allow such a podcast as this to continue unmolested.
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  Speaker 4: I happened to listen.
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  Speaker 5: That was good of you.
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  Speaker 1: I also don't molest us.
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  Speaker 4: I happened to listen to an episode that molested my
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  Speaker 4: sense of humor, and having been touched in the bad
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  Speaker 4: place of my sense of humor, I then returned so
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  Speaker 4: that I might wreak my revenge. And that episode was
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  Speaker 4: about patents are bonkers?
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  Speaker 1: Ah part of a continuing series, so prepared to get
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  Speaker 1: angrier and angrier.
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  Speaker 3: They are, though right they are, to take issue with
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  Speaker 3: this assessment. This is what I take issue with. It
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  Speaker 3: is that it is the deepest of wounds, the deepest
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  Speaker 3: of cuts you could have dealt to me. You had
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  Speaker 3: an episode about the history of patents and how insane
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  Speaker 3: it is, and you did not title it patently absurd.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh swinging a miss Yeah no, that's on me.
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  Speaker 1: Max is a research associate for that for that one.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to defend Max here because patently absurd
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  Speaker 1: was right there, and you're absolutely correct, quister, I missed it.
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  Speaker 5: I was looking at a spot.
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  Speaker 2: Ben, Ben, you have no need to defend me.
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  Speaker 6: You want to why, because I found the most ridiculous
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  Speaker 6: thing when it comes to titling things is to give
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  Speaker 6: it the most literal title possible, Jonathan. The number of
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  Speaker 6: I mean quist apologies, the number of briefs that I
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  Speaker 6: start as like this patterns they are a thing.
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  Speaker 2: That is about ninety five percent of them start that way.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Monaco.
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  Speaker 3: It's a country, It's a process, is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: That is ridiculous at its core.
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  Speaker 5: It just it just I respect them.
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  Speaker 4: It struck me at the very heart of me, and
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  Speaker 4: all that work I had done toward enlightenment was was
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  Speaker 4: cast aside and I had to attashed away. Baby, to
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  Speaker 4: challenge you to another series of quizzes, Boy, if series
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  Speaker 4: we mean to listen. If the Atlanta Braves can call
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  Speaker 4: two wins a streak, I can call two quizzes a series.
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  Speaker 5: I think two makes a series. I mean one that
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  Speaker 5: comes after the other. They are in series, not in parallel.
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  Speaker 4: No, right, I guess you could listen to to one
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  Speaker 4: with one ear bud playing episode previous and then the
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  Speaker 4: other earbud playing this episode.
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  Speaker 5: That'd be trippy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I've been there. You get in situations. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the smallest number of distinct items that can qualify as
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  Speaker 1: a list is three.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So uh and we know that from our brain stuff
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  Speaker 1: and what the stuff days.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we're gonna be talking about stuff later. I
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  Speaker 4: think I think we I think we are correct.
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  Speaker 1: But first, sir, yes, your your ignominy, your attitude, your
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  Speaker 1: disrespect shall not stand. Picture us with a lidden glove,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps a leather glove, just gently slapping you on the face.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for a duel of the wits.
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  Speaker 5: Eh, once on each cheek.
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  Speaker 4: Huh usually have to pay for this, all right?
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  Speaker 5: So wait which cheek? Both of the ones on your face?
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  Speaker 4: Essentially he was going for the Australia. Yeah, I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 4: good old slap down under. All right, let's let's get
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  Speaker 4: into the cringiest segment in all of podcasts, saying, some
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  Speaker 4: of our friends out there know how this works. If
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  Speaker 4: you do not, and this is the first episode you've
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  Speaker 4: ever listened to of this podcast, holy.
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  Speaker 5: Cats, you apologize, We apologize.
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  Speaker 4: I still don't know how most of you this is true.
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  Speaker 4: Noel forgotten the last one. All right, So so this
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  Speaker 4: is how how it works. I'm going to present three
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  Speaker 4: scenarios to the boys. Max you are you are not
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  Speaker 4: allowed by anticipate three scenarios scenarios. It is your job
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  Speaker 4: to tell me which of the three I made up.
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  Speaker 4: So even just with the law of chance, you have
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  Speaker 4: a one other three to get the right one. But
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  Speaker 4: I think I have faith in you. I think you
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  Speaker 4: will know, not guess, you will know which of these
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  Speaker 4: three I made up?
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  Speaker 3: Can I just interject really quickly that on the first
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  Speaker 3: episode when you said made up, I interjected really quickly
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  Speaker 3: and quietly, skiz because you used to always say made
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  Speaker 3: up skis And then it turns out that the scenario
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  Speaker 3: that we guessed incorrectly related to skis.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, do do with that connection what you will. It
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  Speaker 5: is true the devil.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes I call them make them ups. Sometimes I just
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  Speaker 4: call them fun times.
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  Speaker 5: But yes, we go up.
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  Speaker 1: Also, yes, quick, just so everybody knows how the game works,
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  Speaker 1: you can give us these scenarios. We will have three minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Because we paid way too much for this Grandfather.
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  Speaker 5: Clock, we got to get the most out of it.
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  Speaker 1: During those three minutes, we can ask you questions. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we determine the answer, but you have a pretty arbitrary phrase.
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  Speaker 4: Qualification yes, I've just to say, because of the deep
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  Speaker 4: wound I have suffered, you will have to say that
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  Speaker 4: is passently absurd. Ah, yeah, and then follow it with
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  Speaker 4: whatever question. All right, here we go Scenario number one.
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  Speaker 4: The year was eighteen thirty six. All right, chuckleheads, listen up.
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  Speaker 4: As we sit here, we are currently coming up on
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  Speaker 4: the one hundred eighty eighth anniversary of Hold on a minute,
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  Speaker 4: when does this episode come out?
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  Speaker 1: This will be publishing on the nineteen all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, So the one hundred and eighty eighth episode or
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  Speaker 4: anniversary rather just passed. So we just missed it. As
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  Speaker 4: we talk here in the past, it hasn't happened yet.
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  Speaker 4: That's how time works, anyway. On December fifteenth, eighteen thirty six,
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  Speaker 4: the United States Patent Office done caught fire and burnt down.
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  Speaker 4: At the time, the office inhabited the Blodget Hotel in
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  Speaker 4: Washington District of Columbia, and down in the bowels of
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  Speaker 4: the hotel there was a not inconsiderable amount of firewood
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  Speaker 4: used to help keep the place warm in winter. But
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  Speaker 4: that firewood was also next to the convenient spot where
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  Speaker 4: US government Patent Office employees would dump hot ashes taken
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  Speaker 4: from the furnaces, and who would have guessed that some
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  Speaker 4: of the hot ashes ended up making the stuff what
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  Speaker 4: was meant to go on fire go on fire, but
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  Speaker 4: then earlier than it was supposed to, and the whole
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  Speaker 4: place went up. The fire destroyed around ten thousand patents
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  Speaker 4: and around seven thousand models, because back in those days
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  Speaker 4: to file a patent, you often had to submit a
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  Speaker 4: physical model of your invention to show how it worked
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  Speaker 4: in miniature, as one of the prerequisites for a patent
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  Speaker 4: is that an invention should, you know, do whatever it
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  Speaker 4: is that it's meant to do. But those models took
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  Speaker 4: up a lot of space, and some of them were very,
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  Speaker 4: very flammable. In fact, some were so flammable they were inflammable.
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  Speaker 4: Of the ten thousand patents burned, around twenty eight hundred
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  Speaker 4: were partially saved. Scenario number two. The year was eighteen
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  Speaker 4: sixty four. Confederate forces led by Lieutenant General Jubile Air
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  Speaker 4: advanced on Washington District of Columbia. The idea was that
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  Speaker 4: this would force Ulysses S. Grant to pull troops away
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  Speaker 4: from his task of advancing upon Richmond, Virginia, which is
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  Speaker 4: where the Confederate capital was, and this would be in
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  Speaker 4: order to defend the US capital. The Confederate troops won
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  Speaker 4: an early skirmish around July ninth, eighteen sixty four, and
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  Speaker 4: then they continued to advance on Washington, d C. This
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  Speaker 4: culminated in a battle in a very very very hot,
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  Speaker 4: very dry summer of eighteen sixty four, very dry and early.
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  Speaker 4: Could have continued to advance and possibly would have won
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  Speaker 4: the city of Washington, d C. For the Confederacy, but
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  Speaker 4: ultimately he determined that it would include very heavy losses
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  Speaker 4: on his side, and ultimately he chose to withdraw, but
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  Speaker 4: not before a artillery round went wild and struck the
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  Speaker 4: rooftop of you guessed it, the US Patent Office. The
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  Speaker 4: damage from the initial impact was pretty bad, but what
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  Speaker 4: was worse was that some sparks caused the room holding
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  Speaker 4: the patent models to catch on fire. Fortunately, it was
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  Speaker 4: a relatively small fire, with an estimate loss of only
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  Speaker 4: and I put that in air quotes one thousand patent
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  Speaker 4: models before office workers were able to get the flames
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  Speaker 4: under control. Scenario number three. The year was eighteen seventy seven.
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  Speaker 4: By this time, the United States Patent Office was housed
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  Speaker 4: in a building in Washington District of Columbia, which was
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  Speaker 4: intended to be fire proof, So imagine everyone's surprise when
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  Speaker 4: it burnt down on September twenty fourth, eighteen seventy seven. Well,
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  Speaker 4: it didn't actually burned down, but tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 4: patent models and hundreds of thousands of copy drawings were destroyed.
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  Speaker 4: The patents themselves, which were stored in another part of
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  Speaker 4: the building, survived. The fire seemed to start in a
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  Speaker 4: room that housed guess what, patent models, and the exact
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  Speaker 4: cause of the start of the fire is a matter
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  Speaker 4: of speculation. Some believe that chemicals used in the construction
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  Speaker 4: of one or more models spontaneously combusted in the room,
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  Speaker 4: perhaps as a consequence of decay. Others think that a
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  Speaker 4: lens from a patent model focused incoming sunlight from a
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  Speaker 4: window on some flammable part of another model, thus causing
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  Speaker 4: it to burst into flames. Still others think some patent
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  Speaker 4: office workers were chilly as it was unseasonably cold in
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  Speaker 4: late September that year, and they lit a fire and
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  Speaker 4: some sparks ended up catching the roof on fire, which
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  Speaker 4: then spread to the patent model room. And while the
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  Speaker 4: roof was in flammable. The rest of the building proved
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  Speaker 4: to be uninflammable and survived. In fact, the patent office
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  Speaker 4: was open the very next day. Here's a fun bonus fact.
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  Speaker 4: This is not part of any of the scenarios, but
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  Speaker 4: the patent Office technically stopped requiring inventors to submit models
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  Speaker 4: around eighteen seventy, but they kept asking for them anyway
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  Speaker 4: until eighteen eighty. The reason they stopped largely was one,
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  Speaker 4: as we've learned, fire hazard, and two, it was just
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  Speaker 4: hard to store them because you had these physical things
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  Speaker 4: that were twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches,
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  Speaker 4: and you get enough of those, and where the heck
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  Speaker 4: do you put them? So it would it was decided
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  Speaker 4: that let's stop requiring people to send us models, which
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  Speaker 4: also will open up the opportunity for people to submit
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  Speaker 4: patents for inventions that wouldn't actually work. All right, I'm
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  Speaker 4: done again.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well that was a that was an abrupt ending.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Noel, we know the game. I'm gonna run
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  Speaker 1: for the clock.
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  Speaker 5: Get it boy, all right, on it?
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  Speaker 1: Three?
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  Speaker 5: Two? What wait?
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  Speaker 1: Go go go? So okay, all right, all right, first off,
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  Speaker 1: first off.
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  Speaker 4: That is patently absurd, yes, Bolin.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got one. Just correct us here, We've got
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  Speaker 1: one event. Scenario one occurs in winter December fifteenth.
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  Speaker 4: Eighteen thirty six, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen thirty six. Scenario two occurs in summer eighteen sixty four. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and scenario three also occurs in winter ish time right sevenees?
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  Speaker 4: Well, September it was. It was fall, but unseasonably cold
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  Speaker 4: fall of eighteen seventy seven.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I know, I do, Noel, I do know
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  Speaker 1: that Jubile Early, despite sounding like a made up name,
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  Speaker 1: is a real historical figure.
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  Speaker 3: I know that I recognize the name, but I'm not
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  Speaker 3: quite putting the pieces together as to what that person.
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  Speaker 1: He was definitely a Confederate general, Okay, at some point,
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  Speaker 1: not currently he is dead.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, eighteen sixty four, absolutely, twenty twenty four, not so much, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I do take issue with the notion of spontaneous combustion.
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  Speaker 4: It does happen, though, have you ever heard about fertilizer?
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  Speaker 4: Spontaneously combusting? Should happen on this show all the time,
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  Speaker 4: considering all the crap YouTube?
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  Speaker 5: Wow, wow, you that one? You'll pay?
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  Speaker 3: You'll pay for that one? He freezes, No, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: I guess unstable, you know, like for like nitroglycerin or.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really proud of that that was off. That was
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  Speaker 4: off the cuff.
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  Speaker 5: That was very good.
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  Speaker 3: I guess as I think of that part in Loss
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  Speaker 3: where they're trying to transport the dynamite from the black.
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  Speaker 4: Rock, nat is particularly unstable.
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  Speaker 5: But no, this is it's touchy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, no, I'm with you there, because that would
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  Speaker 1: be that.
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  Speaker 5: Was just a possibility that the right is the second one,
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  Speaker 5: the second.
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  Speaker 4: One, it was, the third one was the third one.
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  Speaker 1: The second one is.
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  Speaker 4: The second one is Confederates, the first the first one
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  Speaker 4: is some some uh people decided that dumping hot ash
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  Speaker 4: next to a pilot fireland was a good idea.
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  Speaker 5: Just straight up fire.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I feel like number two is definitely true.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, So now it's between that's.
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  Speaker 3: That well, well, that that's not to though, put it
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  Speaker 3: past the diabolical quist Or to include real historical figures
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  Speaker 3: in his charades.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point. Okay, that is patently absurd, mister, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're running short on time. Quist Is it possible that
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  Speaker 1: these things and I've accused you of this before, is
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  Speaker 1: it possible that the untrue scenario is mostly true with
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  Speaker 1: one fact changed.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, Well, let me put it to
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  Speaker 4: you this way. Is it possible that the untrue scenario
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  Speaker 4: has elements of truth in it, in the fact that
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  Speaker 4: maybe there's some things like the Bludget Hotel. Could the
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  Speaker 4: Bludget hotel is Hey? Did you did you mean to
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  Speaker 4: say the Ritz Carlton instead of the Bludget Hotel in
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  Speaker 4: Washington District of Columbia. No, I wouldn't do that to you,
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  Speaker 4: but but I might incorporate some things that are factual.
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  Speaker 4: For example, did you know there really is a Washington
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  Speaker 4: District of Columbia.
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  Speaker 5: H He's tangentially aware.
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  Speaker 1: Also, our tier is up.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I could have said, like in the world
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  Speaker 4: of elves and dwarves the patents, but I think that
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  Speaker 4: would make it pretty easy.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I love the world of dwarf patents. Yes, yeah, fascinating, Yes, stop.
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  Speaker 1: It okay, okay, No, where where are we at? I am?
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  Speaker 1: I am unfortunately disappointing all of us because uh, I
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  Speaker 1: do not know for certain and.
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  Speaker 3: The quiz here, in his infinite loathsomeness, did tease that
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  Speaker 3: we would be able to know it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a trap. He crap up.
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  Speaker 1: Max you got anything he caught?
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: He cannot he cannot, Yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: John, uh not Jonathan. The quister and I were talking beforehand.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: I don't know for certain, but I have a really
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: good idea. Hence why I turned my camera off. Yeah,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: when he was reading the scenarios, because I have been
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: known to tell people what I'm thinking with my face.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: We can't we can't phone a friend, Jonathan, okay, if.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Oh buddy, all right?
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So uh, all right, it's between one and three? Uh no,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: you what a rock paper scissors for water?
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Three? I'll be through the one. No, but I'll row shambeau.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's the same thing, alright, three two one?
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Oh? It was that? Shoot? I thought it was three
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: two one? Shoot? A meeting of the minds.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right ready h one two
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: three shoot? Okay, so we're going with one. Lock it in?
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: The one being false? Yes, of course. Sorry, sorry reminding
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: me the eighteen thirty.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Six fire that destroyed ten thousand patents and seven thousand
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: patent models is false. Well, my friends, remember how I
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: said I knew one.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: That's the one I knew was real.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I was thinking it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: All right, Well done, Do you want to know what's
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: what the spontaneous combustion?
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: It was three, it was two. It was the one.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: It was the one you was sure was right. Ju
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Belle Early is a real guy.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: That he really did.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: He really did lay siege to Washington, d C. But
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: no shell hit the US Patent Office.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But fre point of order. This is what I asked
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you about. Dude, you did get all right? You got
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: us again. You're you're wiley, and.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to make something up that sounds realistic.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: The point is that the whole Jewbil Early thing, like
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: you didn't even remember that he had the whole Battle
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: of Fort Stevens over in DC. You didn't know any
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: of that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: We never claim to be experts. It's that's part of
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: the show when we hang out. Bro.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Well, next time we're gonna give you your title a
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: pun and then I won't be so mad about it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: All right, fair enough and well played?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Hey it can can quistor maybe go away for a
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: bit and Jonathan come on the chauffe a little.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, let's do that. So let's do it this way.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: First off, I propose that we, if all parties are agreed,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we say that the Quist won twenty twenty four and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: has to return twenty twenty five. We got to even
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the score. For now, we're going to bid a very
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: resentful adieu to the Quist. Just absolutely villain that guy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna welcome our dear friend and brother in podcasting,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland onto the show to tell us a little
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: bit about his adventures in the in the over the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: past year.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Jonathan, welcome and thank thank god for you,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: thank you.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I hated that other guy.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah no, he sounds like a real piece of crap.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: So what's been up, man? What's going on?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Inquiry minds want to know? We have a lot of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: fans of Ridiculous History who also only learned about our
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: show because of your original creation Tech Stuff.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so for those who have been listening to tech Stuff,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: they already know this. But I for a couple of
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: years I had been thinking about stepping back from hosting
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Tech Stuff. The show will continue just under new hosts,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: which I haven't actually announced yet, but the like, I
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: haven't announced who the new hosts are, but I'll be
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I'll be stepping back. My final show will I think
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: be January eighth, and then that Friday the tenth will
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: be the new show under new management, kind of like
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: the Tihi Room was for a while over at Magic
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Kingdom and Disney World. Yeah, they went back to the
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: original management. I don't expect that to happen for this.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I don't think I'm coming back to it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: So I've been you know, hosted for what like twenty years.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Is two thousand and eight, since two thousand and eight,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: so sixteen and a half years by the time I
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: stepped back. So my first episode ever was June eighth,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: two thousand and eight, which, by the way, if you
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: want some interesting history, June eighth, two thousand and eight,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: that was a month before Apple announced the App Store.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: There was no app store.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Body. Wow.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So listening to podcasts back then typically meant that
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: you were probably using iTunes, you were physically connecting your
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: iPod to your computer to synchronize. Yeah, like that's that's back.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Like another fun fact, when we launched tech Stuff, my
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Space was still more popular than Facebook at that point.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: That only changed the following year.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I do like this kind of looking backwards the moment
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: we're having right here, because it's like, all of these
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: things I participated in, but I hadn't.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Really thought about my days, and yeah, I made a
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: list because like my plan is, my plan is for
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: my final episode. Actually I should try and pull that up,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: because I didn't even think to do that, but I
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I made a list for my final episode about things
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: that have changed since you know, tech stuff started and
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: in the tech world. Really, I mean I did not
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: just things in general, but like there's so much that
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: happened over the course of the last sixteen and a
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: half years, like the fact that social like social network apps,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: grew to such incredible heights, to the point where like
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: that affected how we did our work right, like you did.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this, Ben, but there
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: was a time, probably around two thousand and eight, two
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: thousand and nine, when I got a shout out at
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: our house Stuff Works office because I had started a
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Twitter account and I was promoting tech stuff on my
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Twitter account and people are like, this is brilliant, and
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: then everyone shot daggers with me with their eyes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'll admit it. I threw a couple sidelong
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: glance is because I knew that you were establishing a precedent,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: which did often in our early days. Folks. It was
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: kind of wild as podcasts became a thing, and as
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we were collectively under a very different series of corporate iterations,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: as we were boldly going into this realm, we didn't
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: know what would work and what would not work. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the way I describe it, and all you've heard this too,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: is for a little while working at our office at
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: How Stuff Works was a lot more like being on
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a TV show about an office job than it was
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: like having an actual office job.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's such a cast of punchy character.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: You could you could end up going into the break room,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: which was the converted office space of our our former
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: head hon show, Jeff Arnold, and they had made it
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: out into this this almost like like dormitory. Yeah, there
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: was a common there and there was a foosball table. Now,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: whenever I went in there, no editor or writer or
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: anyone from the video department ever was playing that thing.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: It was always a trap.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: It was always the folks from sales and marketing. Yeah,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: we all we all treated that space like if you're
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: found there, someone's going to call you out for not
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: doing your work. Whereas most of us were just like
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: we were all blissfully unaware of the future and what
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: the future would hold for us because we lived in
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: a world where we actually had cubicles and then and
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: then we weren't. We weren't part of the open floor
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: plan design.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: There was an area called the fish bowl. I seem
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: to that wasn't that it was that a discovery reference
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: or was it not the fact that it looked like reference?
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: It was because it had It was the old cfo's office.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I think we can say it now. It was the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: old cfo's office. So the video department, which was you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a little less than a dozen people who were all
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: crammed into that office. That were we were all crammed
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in that office, windows on three sides essentially, which is
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: why we called it the It wasn't our most creative work,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: but it had a lot of heart to it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: This also, this office of fun Atlanta History fact, was
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: formerly the location of La Face Records. And uh, I'll
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: always remember right off of the dormitory that Noel and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Jonathan are describing here, Ralph, that common area there was
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: a very strange bathroom with a lot with a old
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: school telephode set right next to the commode.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: And a full length mirror opposite the commode, so you
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: could watch yourself make the call as a.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Poop as you.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny that that actually came up on an
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: episode we did about who is it who called his
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: little Australia big Johnson?
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Oh it was a jumbo.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: It was big Jumbo who Lindon Just sorry, Little Lyndon
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Johnson was also fond of taking phone calls while on
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: the commode. Oh yeah, so I think this this story
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: came up.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: In that episode. So you can check that one out.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: If you want. So much crazy stuff has happened over
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: over the years. I mean, what I think is interesting, Ben,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: is you think of the inhabitants of that fishbowl. Quite
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: a few of the are still with our our group,
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: like under iHeart like there's.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Tyler Tyler playing.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, our pal Casey Pegrim by the way, who sends
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: his regards folks. The original super producer of our show
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: which I forgot the name of for a second, ridiculous sister,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I totally like, what show am I hosting right now?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Jeez?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: But we had we have had so many adventures and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the only way that we've been able to do this
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: is another fun fact, folks, are pal Noel Brown used
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to produce every single podcast in the beginning. Uh yeah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: he joined his Tech Stuff for a while and well
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: again every show, and thank you for that. I want
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to argue the only reason we've been able to continue
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: this stuff is uh, not just because of our amazing
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: supporters and our friends, our audience members who tune in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: every week, but also because of the people we work with.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And it can be very you know, we're in such
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a house yon bubble sometimes and we don't recognize I
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: think as often as we should that you get by
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: with a little help from your friends. And oh yeah, yeah,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that's how we were able to do this very weird
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: career for so long.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: So from from like two thousand and eight till twenty thirteen,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: I had a co host who was also my editor
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: when I was writing articles for How Stuff Works, Chris Pollette,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: fantastic guy. Can't say enough good things about him. Still
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: a fantastic guy. It's just not in the podcast world anymore.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Then after that Lauren Vogelbaum, who does brain Stuff and
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Savor and other things. She was my co host for
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: about a year a little more than almost two years,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: like through twenty thirteen and through most of twenty fourteen,
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: and then After that, there was a brief period where
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: I would scramble to find someone to be a guest
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: co host. Ben and Noel both have been guest co
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: hosts on Tech Stuff, and so those were really important.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Like I was not ready to go just entirely solo
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: at that point, and so without these amazing coworkers, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: don't know what would have happened to the show. It
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: probably would have just stopped right like it had just
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: gone into perpetual reruns. So I think one thing that
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: we're all really fortunate is that, you know, we have
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: coworkers who are willing and able to leap in and
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: help at a moment's notice, and everyone shares a sense
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: of curiosity and a desire to share what they've learned.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: That that made it pretty easy to do, right, Even
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Like if I came up to Ben and I was like, hey, buddy,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I'm doing like a three part series on the Manhattan Project.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Do you think you could sit in? And Ben would
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: be like, okay, how everything else he does and.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: We did know.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful too, because I mean, like I mentioned,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: there was a time where I was just editing all
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: of these shows as a producer, and during that time.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I kind of took so much information in just from
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: producing shows like tech stuff and car stuff when Ben
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: was on car stuff, and then of course in the
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: early days of stuff they don't want you to know,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: and then I was kind of able to take what
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I had sort of you know, retained through osmosis and
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: step into the same role that you guys have been
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: doing for so long.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: So I'm really, really, really grateful for that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: And you were no small part of that, Jonathan, just
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: from you know, you being so generous in having me
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: on the show in the early days, and also just
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: from you know, being so knowledgeable and just paying attention
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: to what you were talking about.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: So yeah, Also people should know that Noel on more
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: than one occasion, would take errant mouth sounds from the
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: various episodes he edited and would make song tracks out
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Wow, is s the song tracks, but you know I'd
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: made some beats.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: And then of course Alex Williams is our dear friend
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: and brother of Max car On that tradition took it
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: to the kind of nth degree. So I appreciate you
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: calling that out, but Alex definitely took that and ran
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: with it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Even I just remember the fund. I remember the origins
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: is all. So of course I also shouldn't bury the
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: lead here in that I'm not leaving iHeart right.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we got to that because folks need to know.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: This is not some kind of swan song. If anything,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: we're going to hopefully, I'm knocking on wood, We're gonna
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: hopefully see more of the quiztre in twenty twenty five
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: because our big bro might have a little more time
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: on air.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: One.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my hope, is that I'm going to be
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: focusing more on the producer side of things. But that means,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: you know, without having to identify research, right, and then
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: record three episodes a week.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: So low solow.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I never had a writer, I'll tell this
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: story that might end up getting cut. So if you're
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: hearing this, it's because no one cared enough to cut it.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: But oh, come on, all right, do the bit once
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: a a time a few years back. This actually might
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: have even been before the pandemic. It had to be
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: after I was I think it was when they they
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: had decided that I was going to do five episodes
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: a week, and I was just by myself, and I
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: kept pushing back. I was like, even if I do
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: a rerun four episodes a week, it's still a lot,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: because that's for every I'd say, for every hour of
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: audio you hear on some a show like tech Stuff,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: they are about eight hours of research and writing that
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: go into it on average. Now, some are easier than others,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: some are harder, and so I was pushing back and
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: one of the things that was mentioned to me was
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: the possibility of getting a researcher and writer to do
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: one episode a week for me and I would just
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: voice it. I wouldn't have to write it. And I said, well,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: as long as it was written in my style so
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: that it didn't sound totally different from everything else I do,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not opposed to it. So the Power that Be
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: went and talked to someone who was potentially going to
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: become the researcher and writer for one episode a week.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: This person was put into touch with me. I talked
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: to the person about my process and how long it
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: took and everything. They got back to the Powers that
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Be with a quote, and the Powers that Be came
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: to me and said, yeah, it turns out to be
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: way too expensive for us to be able to hire
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: someone to imagine that, and so my response was, you
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: realize what you're telling me is that you're not paying
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: me enough. That's what you're telling me, because I do
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: that four times a week.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: And this is these are you know, I've been thinking back.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's the end of the year that draws nostalgia
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and a little bit of bittersweet and melancholy to all
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: of us. But I've been thinking more and more often
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: as the years went on about doing a limited series
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of just these kind of war these kinds of war
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: stories I remember to the point about to the point
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: about people jumping in to help each other at a
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: moment's notice. I've said it internally, but I guess I
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: should say.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: It on air.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: One of the things that I've personally always been grateful
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: for you doing and tremendous help for us in the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: video department, where as head writer of the video department,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and we had to put out a high cadence of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: different videos explaining stuff, particularly for brain stuff. One of
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the things that I always knew, and I was careful
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: not to pull the card too often, but I always
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: knew your work schedule in the office. So if I
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: had beat me here, Max, if I had fucked something up,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I could go grab you right at your dead time
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and I knew when it was and just steal you
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to do a video. And I want to thank you
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: again for that, because I know I probably did it
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: too often. But I would literally walk up to this
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: guy and only when I knew that he was probably
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: quietly researching for maybe thirty minutes or an hour, and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I would be like, hey, man, do you ever think
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: about zippers? It's funny that we're having this conversation.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Have you ever wondered why people talk so funny in
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: old timey movies and radio? Or Translantic episode that was
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: the one that went viral. Uh, yeah, yeah, I will see.
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  Speaker 4: I always loved doing that because ultimately I love I
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  Speaker 4: love to communicate and potentially entertain and educate people. It's
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  Speaker 4: something that I've always loved doing. And the bright side
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  Speaker 4: of being pulled for like a moment's notice to do
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  Speaker 4: a video was that as long as I was dressed
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  Speaker 4: in a way that wasn't embarrassing, and we had some
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  Speaker 4: stuff at the office so I could always change out
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  Speaker 4: if I had to, I didn't mind doing it because
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  Speaker 4: nine times out of ten we had a script on teleprompter,
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  Speaker 4: and that was so much easier than all the other
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  Speaker 4: stuff I do. You know, reading off a teleprompter is
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  Speaker 4: way easier than all the other stuff I had to do. Also,
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  Speaker 4: we had some really fun truly, if you want to
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  Speaker 4: dive into ancient history of how stuff works and the uh,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: the animosity, the fake animosity between me and Ben, you
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  Speaker 4: need to find our Evil Twin video.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: Where we we We wore eye patches as the evil
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  Speaker 4: Twins and did tear and we did I did a
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  Speaker 4: Quister voice for that, like that was the bad guy.
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  Speaker 5: That was the bad guy voice was Quister.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know if people need
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  Speaker 1: to see that.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not good, but it was fun to do.
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  Speaker 4: We went to I remember we walked to Toys r
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  Speaker 4: Us to try and find cheap plastic pirate eye patches
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  Speaker 4: so that we could wear them on camera. And they
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  Speaker 4: even had I think the little white like skull and
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  Speaker 4: crossbones on them and everything.
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  Speaker 1: They did, which is technically hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't need those eyeballs. They're poisoned.
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  Speaker 5: Oh gosh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We had a lot of weird stuff there and we
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  Speaker 1: are again we're so grateful for everybody who's joined us
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  Speaker 1: on the way. Let us know if you ever want
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  Speaker 1: to hear a ridiculous history of how stuff works and
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: stuff podcasts or whether that's a limited series. We are
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: going to continue our odd collective endeavor together. We're just
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: going to keep getting weirder with it. I am so
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: grateful to you, Jonathan, to you know, to you Max,
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  Speaker 1: to everybody's tuning in. When we say thank you to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: folks on air, we genuinely mean it unless you hear,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: like when Nola and I are being sarcastic, you can
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: hear the italics.
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty proud of that. I think it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so with that, with that, Jonathan, we can't wait
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  Speaker 1: for you to return and the Devilous some more.
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  Speaker 5: Noel, We're we're.
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  Speaker 1: Too dowt and it's not even twenty twenty five yet,
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  Speaker 1: but we got a game, clean, slate clean, okay, So
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: That's nice. Man.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get you anything, but we appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: There's still time time. I'm not doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: So big big thanks of course too, are one and
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  Speaker 1: only the super producer, mister Max Williams. Big thanks to
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Alex Williams, who composed this slap and bop that you
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: hear in the back.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, christopherraciotis and heeds, Jeff Coates here and Christmas Spirits Hey,
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  Speaker 3: j Mohamas, Jacobs, the Puzzler.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Big, Spinach Lands, the rude dudes over at ridiculous crime,
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  Speaker 1: every single colleague that we have mentioned previously. Just some
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: quick thank yous as well to our pals Holly Fry,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Tracy Wilson, stuff you missed in history class, Josh Clark,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant.
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  Speaker 5: You can call him Chuck if you're cool with him.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: That's the stuff you should know.
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  Speaker 1: And and of course Matt Frederick and Lauren Vay Lauren
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  Speaker 1: vote well yet I don't think you did earlier, but
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: not not savor from brain stuff from a million shows.
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  Speaker 5: You can text stuff as well tech stuff.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: While we're thinking, uh, look, nol, it would end up
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  Speaker 1: being a whole episode of thank yous, but I'll say
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  Speaker 1: one of the most important ones for the purposes of
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: this show.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, and you as well, Ben, and we'll see
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