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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello and welcome to savor prediction of I heart radio.
I'm annies and I'm more in Vogel Bomb, and today
we have sort of a different thing for you. We
we've been wanting to try out a new like series
of short format stuff. Yes, yes, so your ears do
not deceive you. Um, whenever this came out it wasn't
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a regular published day. I can't say for sure when
it came out and sometimes our regular published days are
not regular published days anyway. But Um, but at any rate.
M Yes, this is a new segment. I think we've
had this on our mind since we first started, of
just sort of a shorter, less research saying. Maybe it's
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a topic that doesn't have enough behind it to warrant
a whole episode. Maybe it's just as wanting to be nerd.
I think it could be a lot of things. Yeah,
definitely room for experimentation. Uh. Yeah, and we're working on
the title right now. We're running with saver sides or
saver side dish. But yes, we're work shopping it. So yeah, listeners, yeah,
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it's more like side dishes, more topical than like side
quest I don't know. We're we're we're working it out. Um, yeah, yeah,
and and we do have ideas to maybe talk about
like D and d updates. Oh yeah, maybe some fiction readings. Um,
I think we've got room too, to really grown experiment
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of this segment. Yeah, yeah, if, if you guys have anything,
if you're like, oh, man, I've always wanted to hear
you talk for twelve minutes about x fill in the blank.
Uh Yeah, let us know. Please, let us know. Um,
we've already got a running ideas list, because there's no
shortage of eye catching headline ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, and okay,
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and so that's what we wanted to start off this
kind of side series with. Is this news item that
we have been bursting, bursting to talk about and didn't
really have a place to yes, yes, Oh, I can't
wait to get into it. All right, so we're gonna
step back a bit. Okay, okay, alright. So in March two,
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the Hidden Valley ranch company Made News after announcing that
they'd grown a diamond in a lab for five months
and that it was now for sale. At that time,
the two carrot diamond was made of Hidden Valley ranch seasoning. So, Ye,
let that's it for a minute. Uh Huh, yeah, yeah,
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so they made a diamond out of ranch. Um. They
said it in just like a like a simple, like
engagement style. And Uh, the promotional image that they released
is like a like a classic shot, like a classic,
like De Beers kind of style, shot of of this
of this moodily lit ring on a black background with
a really classy Sera font proclaiming carrots and ranch, a
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timeless combination carrots like like like like jewel carrots, like
c a r a t s. yeah, got it. Got
It well. It went up for auction on National Ranch
Day and sold on Ebay for twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
It got seventy nine bids and all proceeds went to
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the charity feeding America. The band was inscribed with H
v R lvr, as an Hidden Valley ranch lover. And Yeah,
I sent a very important message to our friend and
CO worker Bin Bowling about this and what followed was hilarious.
But essentially he was like if you were to lock
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me in a room and trying to get to the
bottom of my deepest fears, this is what would come out.
And so now I'm determined to get him a ring
that says this on it outside of his apartment door. Alright, alright,
no one tell Ben Boland about this. It's gonna be Great.
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Ben Ben did come on our show previously and talk
about ranch. Um, Annie, both you and here like in
the firmly anti ranch positions, very very firmly. I'm I'm
ranch neutral. Um. Yeah, that's good. I'm glad we could
have this balance. Yeah, absolutely, that's very important to represent
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two sides of the issue. Um, those sides being hatred
and neutral, not like. But yeah, okay, uh, but, okay, Um,
let's let's go a little bit deeper here. How did
Hidden Valley ranch use their seasoning to create a diamond?
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This I am unclear on. Okay, I can, I can
help you out a little bit. Okay. Well, I'm very
glad to hear that. I did do some preliminary research. Okay,
and according to the company, they heated in value ranch
seasoning to two thousand five hundred degrees, then crushed it
beneath four hundred tons of pressure and then waited for
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five months and then the resulting diamond was cut, polished
and set in a fourteen gay white gold band. Yeah, uh, but,
by the way, that engraved lettering the hvr lover is
set off in like green, like like enamel or something
like that. So just just in case you needed to
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really get a full visual on that. Um, okay, but
I can, I can talk a little bit. I don't
actually know what specific process was used to create this diamond,
but this is, generally speaking, the process for for creating
any lab diamond. I mean it doesn't usually involve like
salad dressing. Um. What. Well, I know. Wow. Alright, alright,
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so so a diamond. A diamond is really just a
crystalline form of Carbon Um, that is, that is, a
carbon atoms arranged in a in a particular and rigid order. Um,
like did you ever do one of those home crystal
growing things where you make like rock candy or maybe
gross salt crystals or something like that? Yeah, yeah, okay, alright.
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So lab created diamonds are just a really intense version
of that. All right, so what you do in any
of these cases is you start with a seed crystal
that other atoms can form up around, plus Um, a
bunch of the kind of atoms that you're looking to
add to the crystal, Um and uh, and all of
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this should be in some kind of like carrier or
catalyst substance that those atoms can float around in and
that will sort of support the formation process. Now, if
you're growing rock candy, that that carrier catalyst substance can
be water Um and the atoms that you've got in
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there are molecules of sugar Um. But if you're making
a diamond, you're looking at atoms of carbon and you're
gonna want a substance like a nickel or iron, heated
and pressurized until it melts like two thousand degrees, around
fifty times normal earth pressure, and then held in that
molten state, not for like what the like week or
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so that it takes to create rock candy, but up
to a few months in order to create a diamonds
of different carrot weight. So so that's that. That's one method.
That's called a high pressure, high temperature. Another method, Um,
is similar, but but it uses hot, pressurized gas instead
of a liquid metal, and that's called chemical vapor deposition. Anyway, yeah,
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I'm not sure which of these two was used to
create our ranch diamond. I I'd say that they didn't
return my phone calls, but you know that I didn't
call them, that I did not dig that deep into this.
I'm sorry, uh, but yeah, so, okay, all right. So
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they used ranch seasoning for this Um. And the thing
is that basically everything that is alive, every everything that
is a product of a thing that is alive, of
a planter, of an animal. So therefore everything that we
eat um, including like like like we ourselves are, everything,
is carbon based. Life on earth is carbon based. So
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like if you take the water out of us, Um
dry just about half of our bodies our carbon, um.
Carbon makes up our DNA, are fats and our proteins
and the sugars that we use for energy. So if
you can isolate that carbon, you can make pretty much
anything into a diamond. Um researchers have also used peanut butter.
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Apparently this one like diamond researcher got contacted by a
German television company and they were like, Hey, can you
do a stunt where you use peanut butter to make
a diamond, and he was like totally. It did sort
of explode, but not before he made a diamond, but
then it exploded. Well, it's it's everyone was fine. No
one was harmed. No one was harmed in the creation
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of this diamond. It just there was a lot of
hy hydrogen gas. I think that kind of went a
little bit Bluey um, but a little bit my goodness. Uh. Note,
by the way, that this will turning peanut butter into
a diamond thing will not work in your home unless
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your home is like deep within the Earth's mantle at
temperatures of thousands of degrees. If it is, send us
an email. I hellos. Absolutely. There's some there's some like urban,
urban legends out there about that kind of thing. You cannot.
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You cannot turn a coal into a diamond using peanut
butter in your microwave. You cannot. This is a wow.
I didn't think we were. I was never going to
hear that sentence. Now I've heard it, realized this was
the thought someone had. Yeah, and then dismissed it because
it sounds like it's not possible. Right, Um, and just
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I guess. By by the way, like while we're talking
about it, humans figured out that you can make diamonds
in a lab not necessarily related to peanut butter ranch dressing, Um,
in the nineteen fifties and have been improving that technology
ever since. Um, which has been especially useful in like
manufacturing and laboratory settings, because diamonds are really useful other
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than just pretty UM related. It wasn't until the aforementioned,
a beer's company, um, like diamond cartel, did that marketing campaign.
Diamonds are forever. Starting in the nineteen forties, the diamond
gemstones became a symbol of love and therefore like as
valuable as they are today, which is only valuable because
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people say that they are and are willing to pay
for them. Um, there's there's have man. Have you diamonds
are one of the things that making that make me
really angry actually. Um, have have you all done a
smenty stuff? Mom, never told you episode. Annie. Yeah, yeah, uh,
I actually went on on Ben Bowl and show uh
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stuff they don't want you to know, and we did
an episode about diamonds. I mean, as he said, this
is the collision of a lot of his fears and
in the story, for sure. But speaking of but why?
Why all of this? Sure? Why a ranch diamond? Why?
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Same reason? Marketing, marketing, which, by the way, I mean
I think it should probably be clear. We are not sponsored. No,
this is just something we wanted to talk about. So
the company said that this was, quote, a beautiful and
timeless way for ranch lovers to show their love for
each other and ranch. The brand's marketing directors said they
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were inspired after a custom made Valentine's Day bottle of
ranch that they made the previous year was used in
a marriage proposal. Yeah, yeah, that's a that's dead craned. Um.
Uh and and right in the in the like press
release that they put out. Um, she said, and I quote,
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we saw a love of ranch become part of one
of life's most beautiful moments. It made us wonder, how
can we make this act of love even more memorable? Wow,
very memorable. Yeah, I mean we're talking about it. It's
it's so far away from being March right now and
we're still talking about it. Um. I will say this
kind of like marketing stuff. Happens sort of all the
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time in the food world. We we've glanced through a
few examples on the show before. Um catchup. Popsicles. I
think we're one that we recently mentioned. Um, just just yesterday,
or perhaps the day before. What Day is it? I
don't know. Um, applebee's released. APPLEBEE's released a line of
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chicken wing flavored lip glosses in collaboration with winky looks
called saucy gloss. M Hmm, indeed, they did. They did again.
I feel like I just need to let that sit
for a second, because that's a that's an that's a
data packed sentence. Yeah, I don't know, man like. Apparently,
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July is both the National Wing Day and a national
lipstick day, and so they just went why not? You
know what? Why not? Yes, I had added that to
our ideal list for this segment. Oh, you know, I
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just I can't help but think of the the marketing
person who's like, what can we do? What new thing
can we do? Oh, it's national lipstick day and Chicken
Wing Day, applebee's. I know, just fascinating. Yeah, yeah, I
I respect it and I'm afraid of it. Um. Yeah,
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I I really try to not like, like express disgust
when it comes to food related things, because I don't
think that that's like a like a really uh wise
or kind response to food, because people are making food
because it's it's it's, you know, necessary and it's fun. Um,
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but I am I'm kind of disgusted by the idea
of putting wing flavored lip gloss. I don't like lip
gloss to begin with. Because it's sticky and I don't
like that. Huh, I certainly don't want anyway. I don't know, man,
if it tasted good, then I think like the best
case scenarios, you'd want wings all the time, which I
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guess is what they want. I can only assume, though,
it doesn't taste so good. It's probably miserable, but you know,
if anyone's strung. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think. Yeah, it
comes in four flavors, and our colors. Um, they do
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not have a lemon pepper wet one. Uh. Yeah, yeah,
they do have like a lemon lemon honey. I think
something like that. Anyway, pepper, I'm out. This is an
very this is a very Atlantic thing, y'all. It is
also I just like making claims and yeah, yeah, strong opinions,
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strong opinions. Yeah, well, uh, we thought we might try
ending some of these on some puns that didn't make it. Oh, yeah, yeah.
And so since we're talking, we have been talking about ranch.
I went ahead and pulled, and it took some doing.
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I went ahead and pulled Um Annie's list of potential
titles for the ranch episode. This was before one of
our recent email changeovers. Yes, because they get so long.
We just go back and forth. Oh, no, no, like
like even before even but absolutely, Yes, but even before
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that we we like change. Our company changed email systems
a number of times, and so this is from a
this is from a Gmail. Wow, whoa. Yeah, all right,
that's the work we put in. Uh. Yeah, so I
feel like Lauren, you and I go back and forth. Um,
I just want to put out there this is very much.
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I threw a lot of stuff at the wall. Yeah,
some of it don't work. Yeah, this is yeah, this
is how this is how Annie's thought process goes, or
or how our process goes. Annie just like just like
brainstorms a big long list and then I read through
it and I laughed so hard that I started my
cat and then only one or two of these actually yeah, alright, so, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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you want to start? Okay, yes, cool ranch, ranch dressing.
Cool ranch dressing, cool, original ranch. How the dressing was
one fully dressed ranch episode. Ranch, dude, dude, ranch dipping
our toes and ranch, ranch hashtag blessing. Not so cool ranch.
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Our stance on ranch, ranch, the next catch up. Ranch
state of mind, ranch, more of a United States of mind. Ranch,
the great American dressing yes, still slaps, or maybe it doesn't.
I don't know, but I enjoyed it. Oh well, yeah, Um, yeah,
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so I guess. I guess that's what we have to
say again about ranch today. It is Um and we
hope that you enjoyed this segment. Again, we're very open
to ideas. Whatever you think would be fun for us
to kind of just discuss us. It could be anything.
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