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My name's Jake Goldman. I'll be your host for today. As always,
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bounce. I'll try to get it. It's an exclusive club club. Speaking
of exclusive clubs, Dan, you're looking awfully merched out today, was I
Yeah, I went to the pro shop and left. Yeah, that's I
stocked up so I could resell on eBay. That's a move. That is
the move right bought like twelve nomes, you get some, you get some
stuff shipped. No, No, I fit everything in my suitcase. So
it's just got a bunch of stuff and my dad and my mom and my
friend Matt back home and myself of course. So you're wearing it. I
know we're doing an episode on August before the Patreon this week. That's why
I'm wearing it. It's not just because I wanted to flex. Yeah,
it is pretty douchey to do. I wear it to the airport toole bucket.
Yeah, fuck, it's the time? Is it? Is it worse
than it's actually And I'm not gonna answer my own rhetorical question here. It's
not worse than say someone flying back or to the super Bowl in their trash
NFL gear, you know what I mean? Like, just you don't need
to wear your Travis Kelcey jersey to the fucking airport. Just get on the
planet that hits hard. Are you anti Jersey? No? I own jerseys,
but I am anti Like I don't know, wave your flag on the
plan like you gotta wear it all weekend type of thing. Yeah, or
like starting a chant on the plane ge oh us, yeah, that's garbage.
It's better for your school. I would, I would. I have
more sympathy for a university doing it than I do for like freaking Eagles fans
or something. You're not an NFL fan because the Rams moved, we get
it. I was barely an NFL fan when they were there. The way
to planet plane is to wear pants and are you closed shoes and you are
quiet, and you don't jump up on the plane when it lands, and
you are quiet and you've listened to your ship. You see. Excuse me
if you need to get around someone, and that's it. I like to
wear open toe an open souled shoes on a plane when sold. So just
like you paint on a flip flop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I
typically wear my Lululemon short shorts. Lul Lemon shorts really show off the groundle
something about like the back of my leg just touching the airport seat. I'm
like, that's kind of gross. I had the emergency row on the way
back. That lovely. That is lovely. Well, I was not prepared
to help in case of an emergency, but you just you're just gonna open
the door and get the fuck out. I'm here for the leg space.
Yeah. Well, some would say that the person we're talking about today caused
a few emergencies in our lifetime. Uh, typically when discussing history, Jesus
Christ. Yeah, it was a it was an emergency of faith. Oh,
I wasn't actually talking about Muhammad caused not Mohammed. Moses caused ten emergencies
he did, each one worse than the last, each one worse than the
last. And then we don't speak his name. He's like Baltimore here,
Moses, Moses, don't say it more than three times. Well, you
know, you have to be in a mirror, though, Yeah, and
the light has to be off. Yeah, let's you have to be holding
my mind. And we certainly don't say, well, another name. That's
what I said it like six seconds ago. But we also made a horrible,
horrible joke that's gonna get us murdered. Actually a bad joke, but
it will get us murdered because they're not very not very humorous people. No,
I'm ready to go to war. I guess I've accepted I'm probably right
to tell that joke. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no,
no, for your people, Jake. Yeah, dude, thinks I guess
your people too, point zero zero one. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
this is just like the crones. It's convenient when he wants it.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like I conquered crones with my mind.
Yeah, it's like, dude, you were on the toilet for what crowd
Tubby. I don't want to do ship like twelve times more than than me
every day. I know, because I love shitting. I love shitting Poopin's
good. I can control my poop. Most people can get this what I
can do. And I'm like, you know what I'd like to do poop,
And so I go and I poop. If I have a giant meal
that, I'm like, I want to cleanse myself out. Yeah, absolutely,
I want to keep on the LB's. I get like, literally furious
when I'm constipated. You get mad, I get angry, get grumpies.
I'm like, get out of me. I can't remember the last time I
was constipated. Yeah. Have you guys ever read those stories about people who
fucked themselves in the butt with their turns high class comedy today? Yeah,
we were demonetized now and I've been down some reddit holes. We've been getting
demonetized here on the YouTube YouTube dot com slash softcore history. Go ahead and
check that out. Leave it on for the dogs. Leave it on for
the dogs. But yeah, while discussing history, we talk about some of
the greatest minds of all time. Whether their inventions brought about positive change or
negative, their genius is obvious, I'm worthy of discussion. For instance,
many people believe the atomic bomb might be the single worst invention of all time,
and there's plenty of merit for that. Who nerds pass of this,
Yeah, and the verdict, but the verdicts Oppenheiber was a mixed bag,
you know, as far as morality and redeemability, But there's no arguing he
was really fucking smart. This is a smart guy. Also, this wasn't
the this wasn't the purpose of the atomic bomb, and it's really just sort
of an unattended, unintended consequence potentially. But I actually, I think I've
said this on the show before. I love the argument that it saved lives
because great powers couldn't go to war anymore. Yeah, I mean there's an
argument there, there's a potential that more lives as as as soon as the
world globalized. I know, I've said this for as soon as the world
globalized, it had four world wars immediately immediately, four world wars, the
Seven Years War, that a Napoleonic Wars. Then you take one hundred years
off basically, and you get World War One and World War Two. Yeah.
Like, yeah, there's stuff going off though on the East that we
just don't even talk about. It was covered in last week's Winter Country.
Yeah, that's just a child. You know, every twenty years there's going
to be a Chinese civil war where one hundred million people die. It's the
equivalent of a World war on the human level. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but it kept great powers. What about Charina rob what about chat Well,
and hey, they have nukes, so they can't fight either anymore. Well,
there are plenty of brilliant inventors of terrible things. However, the focus
of our episode today is not just an inventor of terrible things, but one
that is outright terrible himself. He's a terrible inventor of terrible things. Wait,
he's bad at inventing terrible things. We're finally doing the da Vinci episode.
We're not doing DaVinci. No, his name is one you probably wouldn't
recognize, and that's unfortunate because it should be synonymous with giant piece of shit
that did nothing but make the world worst. But if you make a device
to say, torture toddlers, but it ends up just tickling them, are
you evil? Here's bad at your job. No, this is just a
different level of incompetency that's worse for everybody. Okay, it's incredible, really
Okay, because I think if you accidentally invent something a toddler tickle machine that
was meant to kill him, but they're just like love it. No,
he's not bad at inventing terrible things. He's terrible at inventing good things,
and therefore his inventions are terrible. Yeah, but then Robie a pedophile,
you'd rather be a murderer of children? Yeah, that's so crazy, literally,
Yeah yeah, anyway, Yeah, I'd rather I'd rather murder a child.
Okay, we can get off this moral relativism topic for a second.
No, I'm not gonna let you continue your riding. You last week you
had six pages and you got so antsy. Whenever we started talking to get
through, we go like we would be midpoint. You just continue the story.
All right. Anyway, I'm talking about Tyler. Hundred Chinese guys died.
I have final in it. That's why that's true. I mean good,
I do all the work, oh load, Okay, see how it
is. Anyway, I'm talking about dan Chester. That piece of this motherfucking
show does not exist without me. They can't turn on cameras, they don't
know how to record on a microphone. We could do it with smoke signals
and like, uh, we could do it with a tape recorder. We
tried it. Granted far more technologically incompetent people than it was a produced podcast
Micah for one, Yeah, wow, just on the main dude. I
mean he didn't know how to do anything. So most people don't know how
to do things when they don't know how to do them. He showed up
to a startup just dressed to the nines. At first, Homie had slick
hair wear or slacks were down. Everyone else is wearing shorts and like a
T shirt. You're over dressed. On man, you were in a tie
right now. And then his uh devolution one for the books. Oh yeah,
but today became the battle toad. It was very much like a Frank
Reynolds de evolution you know what it really was. Yeah, it's the perfect
comparison. Yeah. It went from like just normal business guy, kind of
weird to like eating cat food to fall asleep past. Today we're talking about
Thomas Midgeley Junior, the worst inventor of all time. Well, well let
me talk about y'a named Thomas so uh Midgley was born great birthday here.
Midgley was born May eighteenth, eighteen eighty nine and beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
So he's a toorous from Pennsylvania. The worst kind? Was he Amish?
No he was not. Was he Quaker? No? He was actually the
son and grandson of two very successful inventors. So invention runs in the family
for him. His father take up the family business of dreaming things up and
then making them. Yeah he did. Uh. His father Thomas pickles,
Yeah we need two pickles had to have been a terrible inventor. What are
you talking. I don't know how he paid his mortgage. Yeah, I
don't have a home house. Yeah. She didn't have a job. He
barely had a job. He worked on things in the base. Everything was
a failure for the most part. That was like a common like trope in
the episodes, didn't the grandpa and the grandpa's brother own a store and the
son's like, there's there's a history of this was just way easier to own
a house back then. It was the nineties. There has actually been talk
about there's an article I saw recently that like the Simpsons, they were supposed
to be poor, and they were like eighties nineties poor, but the fact
that they own a house now makes them like Homer worked at Aeer, but
they were still poor. He didn't go to college though, Yeah, I
mean just hit buttons. He was blue. He was a blue collar worker.
Yeah, he wasn't an exac. He was just a guy working in
the fan. He played softball with Ken Griffy, Darryl Strawberry, Jasie Smith,
Darryl Strawberry throw it back, but yes. His father, Thomas Senior,
was an inventor and engineer in the field of automobile tires who did like
new inventions on treads and things like that, and even wilder, his maternal
grandfather, James Emerson, invented the inserted tooth saw, which that's pretty awesome.
That's the type of buzzsaw that has replaceable individual teeth, so you don't
have to replace a whole blade every time. It's an excellent invention of the
time. People were way less wasteful with the steel, wanting to follow in
the family trade. Attended and graduated from Cornell with a degree in mechanical engineering.
All in all, not a bad pedigree or track to start on.
It's pretty low tier IVY League school. Yeah, Cornell's a little overrated.
Well, he's IVY educated and comes from a line of inventors. He's got
the nepotism background too, it's barely ivy edged his dad. So why are
you going to college to invent? Yeah? Just do it. Yeah,
that's a good call. Just invent something, Yeah, just invent it.
You know Jack Parsons who worked on the NASA rockets sending them up, the
guy that pretty much invented rocket science. He just made explosives all the time.
He went to his college and stuff, but he was really just blowing
shit up already. Yeah, yeah, but yeah. He began working in
the automobile industry for General Motors in nineteen sixteen, following in his dad's footsteps,
and I guess somewhere along the way figured he wanted to merge his dad
and Grandpa's successes by combining the rapidly growing industry of auto works and the absolute
danger of a buzzsaw. Now, hold on, did he go to World
War One? Did he go to World War One? Yeah? No,
he's a draft dodger. I don't think this guy went Yeah, draft dodger.
Okay, cool. How old was he at the time he started?
Eighteen eighty nine, he's old enough, he's right there. True. Yeah,
if he's if he started working for GM, he started working for GM
in nineteen sixteen, that means he's in his twenties. Hit his way out.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think he was fighting anything. Draft dodger.
Uh So he gets assigned to a division. Are you gonna say that
about me when I just like leave the country. Yeah, yeah, skied
out to can't you dodge the draft? Hell yeah. By the way,
I like, we had a group text throughout about the Iran launching like weak
astrons at Israel the other day, and Dan was Dan was like, I
don't want to go to war, and I was like, this is actually
a sweet time to go to war because my kids are too way too young
to be sent to die and I'm almost forty, which means I'll just get
some cushy officer. Yeah big. But you're like, oh, my two
co hosts will die. That's fine, Yeah, pretty much. And then
then he calls us selfish. Yeah I think you're being selfish. Ah just
go, just go. It's not fun, but I like it. But
you were like, I'm not gonna die for your kids. You're dying for
my kids. They're dying for my children. You're dying in place of my
children. No, that's what I was saying. I didn't say I was
going to die for your children. I would never do that. Yeah,
his last lot. I'm not even get smoked by some guy and like an
Irany military outfit, it is not gonna be all fin and Rory, it's
gonna be like that. First off, if I push came to shove,
you would lay down your life for my children, as much as you like
to nag me. Uh. Secondly, not Rory Finn for sure. Yeah,
but Rory's old enough to take his own bullet. Yeah, Rory needs
to pick up a gun. Yeah, well yeah, why isn't he shooting?
Uh, you know, we're getting used to it. Some bullets landed
in our neighborhood today, So what when? Uh, there's like a property
near our neighborhood and some dude was shooting and uh someone posted our Facebook group
that bullets landed like while he was in the street around him, and they
called the cops and uh, he like, you heard the gunfire too,
And they went to the property next to our neighborhood and they got it's just
like this living in the country is so stupid. This guy was just like,
oh, yeah, I was shooting, not trying to be more careful.
I guess I shouldn't shoot stright shell. Yeah, no, it was
it had to in the bullets like the shell. It was the bullet,
Yeah, was in the shell. It was shell. Would bullet near the
guy. I don't know if they like just flung crazily. He's got a
gun that's just shooting the shells out just as fast as the bullets. It's
a double gun. That's actually pretty sick. Wait, why didn't want invent
it that? You shoot it like a v right, It's like it's it's
so you can shoot to your left, yeah, and or you're right whatever
way you hold it. Uh, but you're already shooting out the helicopter right,
just mowing down hogs and then the shells are just running down. Now
that makes sense. Yeah, a little brass, right, Yet it doesn't
sound like this guy was in a chopper. He just had a chopper.
He was shooting straight in the air. He actually he was a chopper in
he was in a chopper hunting pigs. He just thinks anyone lives in a
cookie cutter suburb like minor pigs, and he was meant to be slaughtered.
Yeah, which fair enough enough. I mean, yes, you just described
that you would get a cushy office job at forty yeah. Yeah, and
then you would just send me and Jake to die. You'd probably send us.
We'd be in your regiment, and you're like this guy front front lines.
This guy, Thomas Smidchley wanted us all to die. He was part
of a team that was led by a Charles Kettering that was researching ways of
dealing with engine knock at the turn of the century. That it was the
Sloan Kettering, Slowan Kettering. What is that? I don't know. That's
a hospital. Okay, yeah, I think it's a university hospital. I'll
check it out. Yeah, but engine knock, for those that don't know,
was a big deal with cast gasoline powered engines back in the day.
So what would happen is basically like they hadn't figured out how to make fuel
burn evenly yet, so like you'd have some of it burning faster than others
and getting weird like knocks and explosions that would create like a knocking combustion inside
the cylinders, and that would cause engine damage. It was really bad for
the cars. And here's the thing with engineknock. They actually had a way
to prevent it, but none of it was profitable to oil companies yet.
Yeah. Yeah, So for example, ethanol produced from corn seemed to cure
the problem pretty easily, but big oil was like, hey, you can
run the whole damn car off this, don't put that in the gash.
We don't need people figuring that out. But you know, eventually we did.
So they actually stymied any research into ethanol for engine knock. They're like,
no, no, no, don't do that. But during research not
using ethanol, Midgeley developed the idea that tetra ethyl lead could be a solution
for engine knock. Here's the thing about tetra ethyl lead Midgley didn't discover it.
It had been discovered in eighteen fifty four by a German scientist. Here's
another thing about tetra ethyl let. No one with the brain had ever tried
to use it commercially because it was known to be incredibly poisonous. Is highly
absorbable ocularly, dermally and via inhalation, so it gets on your skin.
You die, It gets in your skin, it gets into your system.
I want to make it commercial for tetra ethyl Yeah, tetra ethyl lead.
Yeah, it would be fun. Just hold your breath, close your eyes,
and cover yourself up for fun. Here's a lit the symptoms that are
associated with exposure to this compound. So any exposure to the eyes produces pain,
itching, conjunctivitis, blurred vision, and burns. Skin exposure is pretty
bad because tetral ethyl lead is readily absorbed through through uh skin, so it
produces itching, burning, transient redness, and on occasion skin may begin to
look pale. That's what Who cares? It couldn't be a problem. It
sounds like you'll be handsome. Yeah, red and pale inhalation exposure. Inhalation
is the major route of exposure Early inhalation effects include sneezing, irritation of the
upper respiratory tract, and mild system Mild systemic effects so you know, like
a cough and shit like that, making the soundty not that big, It
sounds mild. That's for early exposure. Mild systemic effects include anxiety, lethargy,
irritability, nausea, vomiting, headache, tremor's, slurred speech, but
also euphoria. Still not moving so a Tuesday for you, it sounds like,
Oh so it sounds like you're getting drunk. Uh, kind kind of
if you're exposed to it over a long enough period. Okay, great,
sound fine. Moderate effects include disorientation, hyperreflexia, spasmodic muscular contractions, spasticity,
extreme fatigue, break cardia, hypotension, and a couple other heart effects.
So moderate. After a while, it's starting really fuck with your system.
You can't control your movements, You get tremors, things like that.
Whatever, dude, how does it move the cars? How is that different
from like ayahuasca? Uh, it's not. It's ayahuasca goes away. This
doesn't. Is it better efficient fuel? It's it has nothing to do with
fuel efficiency whatsoever. It's just making the engine knuckle. So you know,
what does it do with job? It does its job, for sure.
No one wants to sacrifice anything now people are just like, oh, I'd
rather hear the engine go. But well, severe long term exposure includes complete
disorientation with hallucinations, facial contortions, mania, psychotic behavior, violent seizures which
terminate in coma and death. And it's very well known that exposure to this
ship does this. It sounds like it just kind of waked you up.
It's like a cheap offfe yeah, yeah, yeah, it might actually settle
down some of the mechanics. We'll get into that. So despite all of
this, however, General Motors, Standard Oil, and DuPont love the stuff
and they called it a ethyl gasoline. They removed tetra and lead marketing.
All mention of lead it contained was cut from advertising and documentation. The dangers
of working with lead were well known at the time, but the corporate sponsors
of ethyl gasoline downplayed them because they didn't have lead in the name of the
products. Yeah it's fine, yeah, wait, haven't They also made it
legal again to sell products with lead. It's not or like paint with lead
are they those Stanley cups that had lead in it or whatever they reduced the
regulation on. Yeah, the regulation's gone. It's not gone. It's just
they're allowing more sick. Yeah, which is if they figured out that,
you know, a certain amount of lead doesn't hurt you, it's no amount
of lead is good for you. Well, everyone needs a little bit of
lead. No, no, how do you how if you don't have a
little bit of lead? How do you build up a lead tolerance? How
do you let them got out if you don't have lead. Yeah, that's
a better question. Let the lead out. Yeah, you gotta let the
lead out. But this isn't just a matter of corporate greed. Midgeley really
wanted to down play it too for personal game, and a nineteen twenty three
phone call, Midgeley said to Kettering, how much can you imagine how much
money we're gonna make with this stuff? We're gonna make like at least two
hundred million dollars maybe more. That's a billion. That's a billion dollars in
nineteen twenty three. Yeah. So uh. While Midgeley was totally hell bent
on success for his credit, he was also a showman. On October twenty
sixth a worker at Standard Oil Tel Bayway in New Jersey. He died of
lead poisoning after suffering wrenching fits of violent insanity so bad that the man's last
moments of life consisted of him screaming in a straight jacket. Then he died
from the lead exposure at the plantunds. It sounds like he didn't have enough
lead exposure prior to the lead exposure. You're proving my point, right,
So if we would have so we should have like slow dripped. Yes,
he would have been fine, like the Romans with like wine and the wine.
He was exposed too fast. Well, or maybe he was just a
bitch. We can't can't roll that out. Fair, fair, it's just
one guy screaming in a straight jacket. One guy. Yeah, that's your
data, pretty anecdotal. I bet you don't have any other examples. Certainly,
Uh well, obviously this guy's screaming rampage death cart a huge push to
shut down work at the plant due to the risk of working with lead.
Like god damn dude, Tim was I don't know if you were like everyone's
like shutting it down for one guy, and they're like, did you see
him. If you see Tim, I really you understand what Tim was doing.
His last breath was screaming like in a fucking street. But before this
he was he didn't actually he was mute. Okay, Yeah, the lead
brought the screen out of the switch, just flipped the first time we ever
heard him talk, it was a blood curdling scream. Well, four days
later, Middley heard about the plant shut down push and he decided to personally
show that there was nothing wrong with leaded gasoline. He invented Midgley gave a
demonstration of safety off t EL at a press conference where he held it at
the plant in New Jersey in front of all the people that just watched their
buddy die. Right, he just started vaping it and blowing clouds. You
were so close to what he did. Huff did he huff it? Miss
Midgely got a container of TEL and continuously inhaled the vapors for sixty seconds.
Hell yeah. While he was doing that and breathing it in, he like
did like a hand washing in it. So he put his hands in the
gasoline and just like splashed around a little bit. But it's like it's fun,
It's fine. You shouldn't do that with normal gasoline. What are you
doing? It's like, no, this is leaded gasoline and it was a
skeleton. Shortly after the demo. Uh yeah, honestly, wait, hold
on, you just gotta respect the hustler. You're washing your hands by gasoline.
Hell yeah, to prove a point. It's like, I'm gonna make
so much money, I don't care what happens here. Yeah, I can
buy my way out of insanity. Yeah, I'm pro gasoline. It was
weird though, because he's soon like. He had a trip the next day,
an emergency trip to Florida because the doctor said he needed a fresh air
and relaxation due to some breathing difficulties he was having from an unrelated illness.
Yeah. Did you guys like the smell gasoline growing up? Always? I
love Now it's gone, though, I feel like it's not the same.
It's not As a child, I wanted to huff gasoline. You don't,
Like an old car would drive down the street from like the seventies and you'd
be like, that was the lead dude. Ah, that was fantastic.
There's no drug like it. Yeah, people don't understand. I saw a
diesel too, what diesel fuel. I don't ever smelled diesel. Something happened
though over the last couple of years, because yeah, you were right,
it doesn't smell like you don't that anymore. I'm just telling you, I
don't know. But my theory is as quality of air goes up, quality
of life goes down. Yeah, you're just living in the moment when the
when the air is shit. You know, it's like you're not gonna sit.
No one's stopping and being like because like you don't want to, and
you just keep on going. So you're saying the best places to live on
Earth right now are like China or Mexico City, anywhere where you can smell
gasoline, anywhere close to like a small regional airport. Yeah that's great too,
because that's actually where the most lead exposure is now in the US.
Hell yeah, because planes, small planes still have leaded gas. I've heard
ports not great to live by either for air quality. Nothing like not any
industrial center where vehicles are coming and going at large scale. You really don't
want to live by it. Even a highway, Yeah, you shouldn't really
live by it. Shouldn't live near a highway. Yeah, Yeah, just
kidding though. He got mild lead poisoning and went to Florida to clear up
his lungs after the demonstration. But shortly after the demo for more workers died
and then another thirty five retreated for serious neural logical symptoms. The other workers
died and didn't even touch the gasoline. Yeah. Also, the key word
mild. Is this the strongest man who ever lived? He might be really
strong, because you're not gonna believe what he does later. He built up
his tolerance, so you're not going he built up his lad dollars, he
might go. Yeah, he might have, but his other shit he does
is pretty cool too. In total, more than eighty percent of the Bayway
staff, the staff he did this at, would die of would die,
or suffer severe lead poisoning in their lifetime while working there. Okay, eighty
percent either had severe enough to like take them out of work for multiple days,
or they died. News of these deaths was the first that many Americans
heard of leaded gasoline, although it would take a few days because while in
New York City, papers and wire services rushed to cover a mysterious industrial disaster,
standard oil was like, we don't know what the fuck you're talking about
out here? Nothing bad here? And GM just didn't even like respond.
It's just like a yeah, at best, they're just like, we're looking
into it. We don't want to draw any llusions. I almost guarantee they
were like, did you not see Midgeley just bathing that shit? Like he's
fine, he's in Florida, kicking it. Let the full investigation happen.
Yeah, let's just let all the facts come out exactly. That's what you
need to do. Uh. But while the product was obviously terrible to work
with, no one was thinking of the ramifications of using it as a fuel.
What happens when you burn fuel? It makes vapors. What way,
as we just learn, is the easiest way for the shit to get into
your bloodstream breathing it. So if you burn something, it goes away.
You're gonna sience me right now, science guy. Yeah, it's gone.
It's it's just what's the smell? Then that's just God, God's God's whisper
that something else is get lighter, right, becomes it goes from a liquid
to a gas. So it's out of sight, out of mind. Yeah,
if you can't see it doesn't exist. Not there. But yeah,
while the product was like bad, for the next sixty years, lead was
spread around the world like it just led a gasoline stuck around for a while.
It stuck around for sixty years. Yeah, so two three generations.
In fact, like growing up ninety six is when it was banned in the
US. Yeah, I mean growing up, they would advertise unleaded gasoline.
Yeah, they still have on a lot of side old gas stations still have
unladded. So yeah, we realized that this probably led to worldwide population IQ
decline. It led to nervous system issues and other health problems associated with lead
poisoning across the planet. Rick Nevin, the author of the book The Lucifer
Curves The Legacy of Lead Poisoning, actually found a pretty one to one relation
between lead pollution and violent crime in America. So like a freakonomics thing,
kind yeah, all of history take Did it make the women more curvy?
No? Less? Made it less curvy? Oh go on, I would
have thought the opposite. Well, think what happens lead gets taken out of
gasoline in ninety six, What happens in ninety six? The nineties start ending.
I was gonna say the Atlanta bombing. Also, yeah, that and
Richard Jewel Gators won the national championship in football. I mean spice girls kind
of blown up ninety six. Yeah, I don't know. Women start to
get an ass when Jal starts popping her head out, and that's think about
it. It needs a couple of years for the lead to get out,
and so like she shows up what like two thousand and two thousand and one
ninety nine. Yeah, someone of that put two and two together. Who
could say, yeah, But all of his data points lead to one thing.
Violent crime rose as a result of lead poisoning because of leaded gasoline,
and it declined because of lead abayment policies. So led emissions from automobiles explain
ninety percent of variation in violent crime in America. Toddlers who jested high levels
of lead in the forties and fifties were absolutely more likely to become violent criminals
in the sixties, seventies, and eighties. And this correlation with the data
holds true with like no exception. So every country studied has shown the same
strong correlation between leaded gasoline and violent crime rates. It's why there were so
many serial killers in the seventies, it might be so within the United States
also, the just the murder rate. Yeah, the murder rate was insane,
so easy to get away with. We just man, we just poisoned
a lot of people. Yeah. So within the United States, you can
actually see the data at the state level where led concentrations declined quickly, like
when states like we're being like, fuck, we got to get rid of
this stuff. Yeah, crime rates declined with their abatement policies. So like
national standard was going like still going up because not everyone's banning it, but
like state at a state level, if they had banned it, they would
see their strop So it's pretty one to one. Uh where it declined slowly.
Crime declined slowly. So the data even holds true at the neighborhood level,
which is crazy. They have that data. High led concentrations correlate so
well that you can overlay map of crime rates over maps of lead concentrations and
gett an almost perfect fit. That's fucking nuts. Yeah. Uh so you
guys just talked about it. But the wave of terror in the sixties,
seventies, and eighties is likely due to leaded gasoline and the drop in violent
crime in the past decade. It's as likely due to its abatement in ninety
six. So we actually know, like people always talking about the world's getting
worse, but like if you look at like America crime statistics, especially with
violent crime, we're actually comically dropping off. We're very safe, like comparatively
to like the middle or you know, the sixties through the eighties and into
the early nineties. It's insane. Yeah, but it seems like they probably
have better block parties in the neighborhood. Oh definitely. Yeah. You never
know when fucking your neighbor's just gonna go off. Yeah, you like going
postal. Probably that id that like trope probably started in the sixties. Yeah,
yeah, like you have you know, war vats and shit coming back,
breathing lighted gasoline. I mean, I don't want to be this guy,
but like you know how everyone talks about like boomer shit, Like yeah,
baby boomers, man, they're just like there's something wrong with their brains.
They might have just been might just be lead poisoned. Yeah, it
leads to irrationality, It leads to irritability. Also, there's a certain amount
of probably like fetal alcohol situations with that too. I mean they got poisoned
like eight different ways. Oh, for parents are just drinking smoke, secondhand
smoke, secondhand smoke in uterose smoke, hold on some combination of fetal alcohol
syndrome. Uh, less oxygen going to the brain because of constant exposure to
secondhand smoke, and then lead guys created the most selfish generation of all time.
They were poisoned. But uh yeah, it's pretty fucking bad, dude.
But honestly, no no boomer or no uh millennial or zoomer would care.
Like it'd be like, oh, see what happened, And they're like,
well still still I know, I actually do kind of like it's like,
no, you have a reason. It's like, hey, man,
that's why they had to let the lead out on the nine to five,
no repeat workday. You gotta let that lead out, dude. We just
hate older people. We're just every other culture loves their elders for some reason.
We just hate people. Fucking hate old people. So we're starting to
fill that gap, right Like, obviously the boomers are on their way out.
Millennials even what was before Gen X JA, Yeah, the next Gen
X kind of skates by millennials gets away with a lot. Yeah, I
don't know why we are starting to fill that void though, where people are
like, oh boomers or like the fucking gen Z everybody after that hates us
also is as bad as like, well, I don't even think boomers were
bad parents. My parents are great, my parents. But as much as
people want to blame rightfully boomers for kind of inventing like the participation drop because
they did, I don't know why millennials get shipped on for that, like
because we were given them by someone, Like you're gonna blame the screaming toddler
forgetting what he screamed for, blame all children, Yes, that's the that's
the parents fault. But however, bad boomers were about playcating their braddy children
gen X ten times worse. Oh totally gen X horrible about it. Okay,
well, now you can put the millennials. You can kind of credit
them, though for all these kids coming up with screens, nothing but screens,
shut them up. They're gonna be fucking insufferable. You've heard the I
had to mentioned this, right, the conspiracy theory about like why gen Z
and like Jen Alpha look older. It's gonna be the blue, blue,
blue, white, yeah, it's like aging them rapidly. And it's like
it's because of you. Rub My kid doesn't get screen time, not yet.
But like everyone's like, well, I have a screen in my face
all the time too. It's like, yeah, but you weren't born with
it. You go to a restaurant, you don't bring an iPad. No,
we don't have an iPad. I will only whip out the phone in
emergencies. It's actually funny too, because like I so, I'll go to
a restaurant and sometimes I will give Rory, I will play Rory video,
just show them up just for the sake of other people around. But what
really drives me crazy? And look, I'm not there yet, so I
don't know. I don't know yet. But like a toddler, there's only
so much control you have. Only a two over a two three four year
old, right, Like that's barely a person. Sure, When I go
to a restaurant and I see like an eight or a nine year old with
headphones in iPad going be like iPad going at a table with their family,
Like that's a fucking person, Like, make them fucking talk to you.
That's crazy, that's fucking insane to me, like Rory and Finn, like
they are not controllable. You can do certain things to mediate their behavior.
Sure, but they're two and one, Like they literally can't understand anything.
They barely speak English. And one of them eight year old right now,
nine year old that just went through COVID through like kindergarten, first grade.
Yeah, oh oh boy, Like, but they're gonna have some real problem
eight year old, nine year old. Like they might, they might be
a dick, but they understand what you're saying. You can tell them what
to do. I can't tell them. I can't really tell my children what
to do. I can tell Rory what do to an extent, but he's
still he's gonna a wild animal. Yeah yeah yeah, But like at eight
fucking ninety, I remember being eight nine. I know that I will eventually
acquiesce to my parents or I will get in fucking trouble. Yeah, that's
basically it. Like you're gonna there's gonna be something your parents say to yearly
go shit right following r R. Obviously, the one year ol doesn't understand
shit, and the two year old doesn't really understand punishment yet, So it's
hard, you know, much as I try. I'm like you, I
just like beat him mercless. Rob brings out the switch. Yeah yeah,
but like, dude, a fuck, like when I see like a nine,
Like again, when I see like a nine year old at a restaurant
headphones on iPad, going like, that's pathetic. It's the that's pathetic.
It's really like it's even crazier because like I think it's even with the eight
and nine. I think you see it like eleven and twelve now to like
these kids that are like middle school. So I'm just saying it even five
is wrong for sure, But like I think it's even crazier that, like
I'm seeing like middle school age people. Like it's wild though, because Rob's
been passed down from generation after generation. This old leather strap that he got
beat with his dad, got beat with his father, the forum got beat
with. He's the work. But there's a lot of blood on that fucking
strap. It's yeah, like I can't tell you. Like when I was
just eating out in like Florida and Ship and I was looking around, like
so many like families all on their phones. Why are you eating out your
wife in front of a bunch of families? Uh huh got it. Clip
that clip that one. He pleases his wife. He's a good husband.
Yeah, sure, sorry when she wants it. Yeah, you'll say no,
I'm sorry, that was hack. I'll kill myself. Yeah you should,
Supuka. Yeah not just join the war with us, I mean I
will. Yeah, but you're I don't think he's gonna pass basic. You
gotta do like one pull up. I think I'll do a pull up right
now. I bet what do you think the population in America right now can
do one pull up? One? That's a good question for men. Well,
I know for the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, women doing one pull up
was a passing grade. Yeah, presidential we did do twelve. Yeah,
I thought that was horse shit. Little men like flexed armhanng you could do
that if you wanted, I would say women, though, I think only
like five percent could do one pull up. Only five percent maybe higher.
It's gotta be one person, But then why would they make the Presidential Physical
Fitness test only one their children? That's for like people. Stop should be
easier to pull yourself up, your lighter put your arm strength muscle's not there.
Yeah, carrying something with my wife is the worst. Do you think
your wife can do one pull up? No, I was talking chin up
or pull up to pull up like, oh, overhand, overhand, I
don't think definitely not. Actually ups are easier, Yeah, chin I think
a lot of people can do it. Chip up. I don't know how
many people can actually do a pull up population, I would say, and
I think this is still high twelve percent. I think you're probably right to
pull up is hard. I'm confident I can do a pull up, and
I'm certainly in the worst upper body strength shape of how many pull ups can
you do? Oh, I'm doing more than one right now? You can't
do more than one. I'm probably do two, Dude, I'm I'm what,
Yeah, it's it's not cool right now. I don't know pull up,
chin up? I can do more. I can probably do easily twenty
pull up. You work out a loft every day, and if I,
like was really pushed to it, like there's lava underneath or something, you
cannot do more than twenty I could. I could push myself to do like
twenty five full good form pull ups. Yeah, pull up, I think
I could. Maybe. I don't want you to push like just because I
lift my children constantly. Maybe two. I have a really strong back though,
that's true. I do the full rack like on lap, pool downs
and everything. You do them right. Well, I definitely know my wife
can't do eddy. Hey, but twelve percent sound right for a for a
proper form pull up, you might actually be right. So it's a pull
up is no jump. You're just on the bar, feet off the ground
and you pull up to your chin and then release them all the way back
down. Yeah, but I go all the way to my bar hits chest.
I'm gonna go twenty percent chin over the bar, Okay, I think
it's shin up like half fifty. Yeah, yeah, I think it's fifty
percent maybe like actually, you know what, No, anyway, that's for
another show. This is why JFK was trying to get us into physical fitness.
That's why they killed him. That's why it's like, we need to
shut that lobby. The corn syrup Why did we never talk about that.
There's gotta be a correlation. It ICs to be the intro for a sub
stock. That's why. That's that's who also started the Michelle Obama as a
man stuff because they didn't watch they were corn syrupy. Yeah, because she
was trying to get the kids healthy at school. They were like, oh,
she's two jack, I bet she's a dude. It's like, now,
she's just healthy. It's just a healthy woman who I would definitely bang.
That's such a weird, like conspiracy. I'll tell you there's only one
reason people like I know Ryan, I I don't. I really don't drop
this genuinely often. But it's just racist. It's like people, it's racist.
People just it's essentially like the same reason you call someone I'll probably get
in trouble with this. I don't care who actually doesn't get me in trouble.
I feel bad sayings but cook replaced fag right, Oh that's that was
a one for one room. Yeah, like we can't say it, which
is funny to me because that's the anti PC crowd. So it's like,
why are you not being a just say the word, say what you mean
to say. No, it's because they mean that. They they you said
you call Michelle Obama man because you you afraid you get in trouble if you
call her like a gorilla or a monkey. Yeah. No, it's a
thousand No, they're kind of things. They're cowards. It's cowardice from the
crowd that's like able to say whatever they do it, they do it.
Yeah, you're too cowards. Be the change you want to say in the
war be in the world you fucking put But also the change you want to
say in the world is pretty say whatever you want. But also just because
there's consequences for what you say doesn't mean you can't say it. You can't
absolutely say it. I don't know if I'm not even gonna just dunk on,
Like right wing anti peaty people were for that. The amount of fucking
annoying little twee leftis I have seen who want to be told they're doing something
brave for their little protests or whatever, but then get consequences, the consequences
that would make it brave for them to be doing it, right, They
want to do something brave without any consequences which would make it not brave,
like getting shot in the arm, because because if you're doing something brave,
you're doing it despite dire consequences and ship like that. But they're like what
like they're they're they're they're mind blown that there could be consequences for their rash,
quote brave actions. What it drives me. I think what we learned
today is everyone's a pussy, everyone's a bitch. I don't know, man,
I think everyone's kind of cool. I like most people. Everyone's a
pussy and only twelve percent of the population can do a pull up. Yeah,
we map that out here, but you know, but all three of
us, Yeah, all of us can do pull ups. Oh, we're
cool. I can do the pullups for you, guys. We're brave.
Yeah, we got we got we got dan to Why we're sending you to
war? Idiot? What do you fucking think is going on here? Why
do you think you got strong all these years? True? Me and him
are gonna, like do spreadsheets. I need to get thinner those I don't
get shot, speaking of I don't want a purple cardio thinking of someone who
doesn't want the consequences, mister, I just kind of wish I was a
Viking or whatever, and that's some would ask you to do Viking ship,
and all of a sudden, it's it's not Viking ship. Though. Getting
blown up by a drone is not Viking ship. No, it's really not.
Also, you can't do Viking ship with the Geneva Convention. A lot
of Viking shots out that kind of a lot of Viking. I do the
Viking shit Flora. Yeah. I don't know if people areware, but when
people are like, I'm joining the army, does see the world? I
didn't mean like go on adventure, meant like sleep with the world. Anyway,
lighted gasoline was not the only truly terrible thing Midgelely invented. That was
just his start. Hell yeah. In nineteen thirty, Thomas Midgley found that
dichlora god damn it, dichlora diflora methane could be used as a refrigerant gas.
Is that the stuff that was in the original jack? This is chlorofloral
carbons. He blast a hole in the ozone. This was quickly commercially manufactured
as free on twelve by Kinetic Chemicals, where he was the director. This
compound being put into commercial use is one of the first examples of a chloroflora
carbon used in mass for commercial applications. If you want to where CFC's or
chloroflora carbons are directly responsible for destroying Actually this is not bullshit like hippie science.
This ripped a hole in the ozone lane. Oh you want to know
who regulated it, Republicans Reagan. Yeah, Reagan stopped the ozone bleed.
I generally think the global warming is natural for the most part. Maybe we're
speing it a little bit, but yeah, that's definitely a thing that happened.
I think the rippin holes in the ozone ozone, we definitely did that.
But I think it's like to call anything like global warming is kind of
reductive, like we have definite effects on the natural environment. Yeah, but
I also, like we've discussed before, I think it's better than global cooling.
Maybe maybe we're gonna backdoor our way into saving the world. I don't
think it's gonna have anything to do with temperature as much as it's gonna do
with like the chemicals we can't get out of the water and the fucking like.
I mean, everyone in this country has the shit that's in nonstick pans
in their blood that they keep. Everything's terrible right now. Food's awful.
I mean, oh, food's over fished. The ocean. The food is
the worst thing. Man, Like, have you ever seen the shit where
like they put ice cream out now on like they'll leave it out for twenty
four hours and it's not fully melted like that. Shit's just like you can
put out like a Walmart like ice cream sandwich, you know, like the
classic uh what do you call them? Like Carvell just you know, a
little chocolate wayfirst with vanilla ice cream. You can low up a big Mac
with C four and not a dent. Dude, it just takes it.
What do you guys whining about that we're constructing our food better. We're hot,
like genetically modified food. It's better for you, like the ship.
There's just like a million things and everything. So why can't we just have
dairy ice cream? Why can't we just have milk ice cream? We're getting
too preachy? Yeah we are, we are anyway. I like, by
the way, having nonstick pan chemicals in my blood makes it actually is better
for lubricates the veins. Yeah, that's you don't get as much it does.
Yeah. Yeah, you don't have a coronary because you have the and
you know what's people need to fucking think before they speak. God damn.
But anyway, I just I want to just say this guy again, as
a showman goes back to the well to demonstrate the that CFC gas what's safe,
he inhaled a large amount of free on and blew out a candle flame.
The show was non toxic and non flammable. I love this Gafore what
the fucking fact this guy? What do you what are we even mad at?
Like this is like your drug dealer proving something prun your coke doesn't have
ventanyl in it, even though it does have fentanyl in it, and he
just does a massive gator tail like a fucking sorry, he's a hoss,
right, Like, what do you mean? Can you be mad at the
drug dealer at that point? Yeah? I mean this guy definitely made all
the chemicals that were terrible for everyone. I mean, no, like it.
It's funny to me that his goats. He was like, you think
this isn't safe, I'm gonna huff it. Yeah, Like he was just
like I'm gonna huff it. I'll do it. But he may you got
you got rich from this? Like he became very successful person. Do you
have a long life? I don't think he's a bad inventor if he lives
a long life. Ah, we get to his last invention soon. I
don't think like he earned his money. He earned his money, uh real
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In his later years, Thomas Midgeley received a series of awards and was elected
President and Chairman of the American Chemical Society. However, his end is so
perfect it almost sounds fake. In nineteen forty, at the age of fifty
one, Midgley contracts polio. So what Yeah, he contracts polio so he
doesn't get got by anything that he created. Well, he just went to
a public swimming pool. Yeah you got you got some polio. So the
disease left Midgley disabled and in need of constant help. What was the vaccine?
I don't know. Right around that time, Yeah, I mean what
I say, you can't get the shot. This guy he's free on but
like, I'm not putting that needle in me, give me the It's like,
uh, what'd you say, fifty one fifty one? He gets polio
fifty five? Oh no, I'm sorry. In nineteen forty he gets polio
at the age of fifty one, so yeah, okay, okay, yeah,
he was well before that then. So he becomes disabled and in need
of constant help because of his polio. So what does he do? Being
the inventor he is, he invents a pulley system to help himself get out
of bed without any help. This would turn out to be his final invention
because on November two, nineteen forty four, I mentually died of asphyxiation at
the age of fifty five, hung himself after his own invention strangled him to
death when it entangled itself around his neck. So the pulley he used to
pull himself in and out of bed, he uh, are you sure he
didn't just hang himself? Might have just hung himself, but I think it
just I think he I think it was a woods daisy. Yeah. I'm
just saying, like, props to this guy for drinking his own poison.
Hey man, he's the hits. He took the hits. Also, a
pulley system for a man with polio sounds like a good idea. Okay,
it probably wasn't bad idea, Like, look at it this way. Yes,
let's go back to the World War example. I'll redeem myself here,
right, Yes, I am your guys commanding officer. And despite the fact
it's not even stolen valory, it's like hypothetical valor he's giving himself. Despite
the fact that there are twenty Chinese laser machine gun nests across from our trench.
Right, why a trench. Pull out my saber and order a charge.
Okay, time to do Viking shit. But I and we all charge.
But I'm at the front of that charge. I'm still at the front
of that charge. Okay, but it's a hologram of you and you guys.
Yeah, you guys get riddled with lasers and die horribly. I get
shot in the leg though, and I have to go back and get a
purple heart, and I'm a hero dude. But like I was at the
front of that charge, I am like giga fragging you before that ever happens.
Like whatever the laser beam equivalent of a frag. I was at the
front of that charge and it hurt. It really didn't know. As I'm
laying dying, I'm taking my gun and taking you out there. As you're
laying dying, laser there's laser nests. Dude, it's your think. So
I feel like I'm burning alive like dark or Anakin. At the end of
episode three, do you think what the world literally screaming World War three?
Like they finally like you know, with the UAP stuff, They're like,
actually, this is all just like our new tech, Like I wouldn't be
surprised. Probably I saw something when they were shooting stuff over Israel that was
like taking out rockets and it was just like three beams of light doing summers.
Yeah, but like this was like, I've been getting some weird headaches
out of nowhere at airports. Do you go to airports after you drink No,
hmmm, probably all the microwaves. That's what I'm thinking, is the
microwaves. Yeah, it's probably it. You can do. You can actually
say you don't want to walk through the X ray the like full like full
body scan, yeah, full body skin. You can just go through a
metal detector and get a pass do you think they just compare penises. That's
all they do. Mm, they see your penis. They're just getting a
national database on penises. Yeah, they want to know who's the biggest threat.
I kind of want to, man, I don't know what I'm gonna
do this for nom Like, obviously I'm probably not gonna have an erection,
but I'm still just gonna belt tuck my wiener before going through, just so
it's standing up or tuck it back or that. Yeah, or put like
put your balls in front of your dick. Oh, just like you give
them a little picasso. Yeah, there was a while there where I every
time I went through that, I was padded down in the crotch for a
good year. Well, they got rid of the thing that could make you
see your dick, so they say, they say they got rid of that,
but it was a hot spot for a while. I didn't understand it.
Yeah, I do. They get it good dick. They get a
hand on vihlated, they get a hand on the hams. I was violated
many times at an airport by TSA. Would you guys learn to Mmm?
I miss letting gas? You miss it? It smelled good? Did smell
good? M yep. I learned that you can you could sell anything if
you drink it first rough at first. I think that's that is the that's
the mark of a good salesman. Like I'm a huff this shit. It's
fine under like intense media pressure. He's like, no, no, it's
all good. Like he just goes out like starts putting it on like cologne
and breathing. It isn't funny that people are like, well, I mean,
I don't know, it's he seems like it's bad. But that guy
just fucking inhaled it. Yeah, I bet like all the people at GM
are like, dude, you don't have Oh okay, you gonna do it
all right? Cool? Thank you? Yeah, I love them. I
love them for it. I did learn that the guy that invented lett if
casoline also invented chloroflora carbons. Like that was the craziest thing to me.
With poisoning earth, yeah, he's the biggest, Like he might be the
biggest poisoner of anyone, like as far as like toxic release, he might
low key be responsible for more deaths than your boy probably not probably not probably
not actually no, a lot of murders, but he he is, Like
you know, you'll find like a random person on like a all time stat
leader list, like at like eighth or something. Yeah, and you're like,
oh, damn, I didn't realize he did all that, or the
RBI leader. Yeah, hey, Wilson, you clearly didn't know. No,
I'll never die. How do you not know the all time RBI leader.
It's just not something baseball cares about, which is weird. Why would
they track of him? RBI is an important seat run batted in. You
just said it's not important to baseball. No, no, no, it's
like time all time single season leader. For whatever reason, no one cares
about the RBI record, probably because it's like unbreakable. That is weird.
It's weird that no one really cares about that stuff. No one even cares
about all time RBI leader over but it also seems like one of the most
important stats. It is, Yeah, I bat it in this many rounds,
probably the most important stat, like literally, yeah, and no one
cares. You know, who you know is the most who hang Karen,
And it's never going to be broken. There's only five people who have more
than two thousand, so many Hammer and Hanks. Yeah, who's Hitler this
fucking guy. I guess Dan doesn't want to say it. Honestly, it
was the guys that didn't have the tolerance, couldn't handle the lead fucking died.
Yeah. Yeah, and I would say, like DuPont, it's just
like an evil company. DuPont's an easy one to go to, especially with
the like whole Fox Sketcher thing. Aside on Santo, any one of those
companies, the whole DuPont family, we could probably do an entire standard oil,
maybe standard oil which is now exon. Yes, actually Shell, I'm
pro gas though ex No, it's it's excell. I'll never get an EV
vehicle. You can take my fucking gas powered vehicles out of my cold dead
hands. I won't get an EV vehicle. And I won't get an anything
that I can't like if it has a self driving feature, I guess sweet,
but I will never get anything I can't pilot myself exactly. Oh yeah,
oh what idiot that that's gonna be a real issue in our lifetime.
It literally is going to be an issue. I want to be I want
the right to drive myself. Yeah, oh well, you studied roads to
get places, idiot, it's not you can just drive just people like me
awful. Yeah, I know, I already know people in my life who
are gonna make the arguments I'm waiting to hear that you should. It's selfish
if you don't want to drive your own car. Yes, yeah, no,
those are just that arguments just before it's selfish if you not upload your
consciousness for your children. We had an option at the rental place because we
do everything. Last second, when we were going from Nashville to Augusta and
they had two vehicles. One was a truck, one was any V vehicle,
Like, oh, you're sure you don't want the electric vehicle, Like
we gotta charge it to make it all the way to Augusta from Nashville,
like probably like past. Hell no, I don't want to be in any
vehicle where if it runs out of like battery or it's low on battery and
like I have to sit there at a sketchy gas station, I can't just
fill up and like leave. That's we don't have the infrastructure for it.
No, yeah, yeah, at least I don't. I'll say, like
evs probably fine for like city driving where it's like they're yeah, just up
like cross country. No, no, like if you're if you're driving a
lot, you don't want that. But yeah, that's our show for today.
Guys. Sweet sweet smell gasoline. Yeah, you get that sweet smell
and gasoline. But that's our show for today. I think so much for
listening. Please leave a review. I know we're very close to a thousand.
We need a thousand. Drink again, how far are we? Double
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