Things That Used To Be Normal That Are Now Extremely Dangerous

Do you remember when restaurants and airplanes had smoking and non-smoking areas? We're looking back on all the dangerous things that used to be normal.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
morning show? It's a fifteen minute morning show podcast. No,
really it is. Who's here? Let's see Scotty be's in
the other room. What was that? Well, I still can't

(00:25):
see because I got sprayed in the eye. We'll get
in ah in a minute. And here's the person who
sprayed you in the eye. Gandhi, Hello, scary, how's it going?
And there's Froggy in Jacksonville? Is it still monsooning? There?
It's he's not a little bit bit more rain on
the way. All right? Hi? Garret? Hello? Who was told
today he is a face for radio? Oh my god,

(00:47):
I think we're all reading it rude. Whatever, I think
you have a beautiful face. Adorable ones on the show.
I don't understand the only adorable one. And here's Danielle
And there's Nate thinks he's adorable. Um, okay, yes, we
talked about it on the show. But now people can
see if you're watching this podcast, the obnoxious water bottle

(01:09):
that Gandhi brought to work to spray us. Is it?
It's very easy, Scary say something. What do you want
me to say? It? Power right there that it's degrading
to be sprayed. That's the point with a bottle. What
is it supposed to be refreshing? But Scottie says and swears,
there's some sort of sticky. Absolutely, is there anything on you?

(01:31):
There's film? Like? Did you clean that bottle out? When's
the last time? I just got the bottle? Okay, maybe
somebody returned it and they had stuff in it. Is
it stinky a little bit? I went to a store
over the weekend. Okay, that sells just like random crap,
and on the shelf with some kid's water bottle with
a name on it and water in it, like they
were selling someone else's crap in a store with new stuff.

(01:53):
So I think that somebody used that, maybe pisted in it,
and then put on the shelf. Did you buy that
and a tag sail? I did not. It is a
new bottle. It's not sticky. It is sprayed in your face.
I just spray it on my hands. You'll put it
in your face. Not sticky, Danielle, try it, yes, spray
your face, Danielle. It could be the plastics breaking down.
Oh my god, bottle. I think if you get sprayed again, Scotty,

(02:15):
you'll see it's not that sticky. Okay, water, But now
there's a film on your face. Put it on your
face exactly? Why would I put it on my face? Film?
Film is film. I don't like sticky stuff on my face.
Maybe you do, but I don't want it. Scotty is
the biggest drama queane of everybody here. And you all
know this, Okay, said the lady who brought a spray
bottle to her. Yes, but I don't carry it around

(02:36):
with me because I don't trust it to sit somewhere
and not get taken and used against me. See, this
is what I would be worried about when she leaves it,
somebody going and putting something stupid. Yes, as long as
I have it, it's just pure water. This is just stupid.
Scotty would piss in it when she leave, he would.
I'm pretty sure it's technically a salt. When you spray
people in the face battery, I think battery the battery,

(03:01):
but it's water if you can prove injury. Battery is
the injury like a film on the face, and batteries
were actually hit. So if I get rained on, I
sue the sky. Oh my god, I was battered by
the rain. Gundhi queen, none of you, none of your
arguments hold an ounce of water. This does, that does.

(03:22):
A matter of fact, I remember when I was a kid,
I would hop in the back of the back seat
of the car. Mom and dad and I would go
to the We had a lake house. Whatever. We're on
the way to lake about an hour drive. My dad
usually had a nice vodka and grapefruit, you know my
mom would like on Saturday mornings. My mom and dad
always enjoyed vodka and grapefruits. And you're smoking, driving eighty

(03:45):
miles an hour, none of his head seat belts on.
Somehow we survived. But you know you tried to do
that today. Drinking and driving, No speeding, no smoking cigarette
while your kids in the back seat, unbuggled, No no
riding riding a bike, got to wear a helmet. Yeah, okay,
so this makes sense. There's a list here of everyday

(04:09):
things that used to be normal but are now known
to be dangerous. Riding with my father number one, My drunk, cigarette, smoking,
unseat felt buckled, speeding dad. Uh, lead based paint and
leaded gas. Yeah yeah, they used to be just a
normal way of life. Huh. It's best. It's best. It

(04:31):
used to be a great thing. I remember in my
my grade school. I remember we got the announcement one day,
do not use the stairwell near the gymnasium. They're removing asbestos. Yeah,
I remember closed. I remember classrooms being closed down. We're
not going to use classroom be today. Why the asbestos removal? Yeah,

(04:55):
I would just leave it alone. When you start to
remove asbestos, that's when all that ship starts flying. Yeah,
apparently that's happening in Philadelphia. They've had to relocate to
whole high schools because they found asbesis in the gyms.
So now they're all trying to get in on one
other school's Yeah, just leave it. Well. Do you remember
the Wizard of Oz the snow scene, the poppy set

(05:16):
or whatever. That's all asbestics. It was like the number
one fake snow effects for the movies for like any
sixty years now all those people are dead. What is asbestis?
So they didn't know it's an insulator. It's fiber they're
little fibers, right, yeah, actually a fantastic insulator and like fire,
it's one of the best. I'm guessing it's you. It

(05:36):
was used up until like the nineteen fifties or some
people started falling over dead. They do still use it
for some things. I guess it's safe and something it
has to be and to be processed in a special way. Okay,
but anyway, Yeah, asbestos used to be great. Now it's dangerous.
Batteries and fertilizer containing containing cadmium. Oh I remember cadmi

(05:56):
What is cadmium? Cadmium batteries I used to last like
a really long time. Well is the reason why? Yeah?
Because they would kill you. Wait, so I use cadmium
yellow as one of the paints for all of my artwork.
Is that a problem? Wasn't the name of it? No?
They said it's a problem to get it because they
have to get the cabium for the yellow. Oh really yeah,
I wouldn't inhale around that thing. Now. Those are the

(06:19):
same as ni CAAD batteries with night cadmium. I think
you're right. I think yeah. Those are for like little
like remote control cars and things. Those are those were
all nightcad batteries. They make fertilize out of it too.
Um Oh talk in cosmetic powders is well it's been
linked to cancer. When did they stop using that? Like?
Did you not that long ago? Yeah? Yeah, but not

(06:40):
that long recently. I didn't use it, but I know
I used that bombax stuff. My dad used to say
that bacon never hurt anyone until they told you it
would hurt you. Things that used to be normal now
they're dangerous. Teflon if you have teflon pans, get rid
of them. That the non stick pans. Yea, yeah, because
that shit it comes off those canals will eat your brain.

(07:01):
I'm sure. Yeah, probably me too. It's a chemical called
period no ac acid. Here's we used to love to
play with. Mercury and science class. Run from your hands.
Don't do it, you're gonna die. Really. He used to

(07:21):
be mercury in thermometers, used to break the thermometer and
the mercury. Used to know where the expression mad as
a hatter comes from, because they would use mercury to
make the hats and then the hat makers would go insane. Okay, really,
I think that's where it came from. Mercury hats. Yeah, well,
they would use it in like the bands or something. Okay, yeah,
my dad called the fire department on me. When I

(07:43):
was little, because my sister is sick, so he was
paying attention to her, and I broke a thermometer open,
and he said he came into the bathroom and just
saw me trying to catch it. He didn't know if
I had eaten it. He had no idea what was
going on. So I called the fire department. Yeah, he
almost died. Also, you speaking of seatbelts, earlier cars were
not required to use seat belts into like the late sixties.
You know what, my dad, My dad has old cars

(08:04):
from like the twenties and the sixties, and driving around
in them with no seat belts is weird because the
grandfather didn't. You don't have to have seat belts in
those cars, so it's really odd driving around with no
restraints whatsoever in the front seat. Yeah, that's weird. Yeah.
Things that did not appear to be dangerous for you,
but now we know. They are cigarettes. Oh my god,
remember how glamorous they were in some movies, especially if

(08:25):
you had them in that long little Yeah, the doctors
would be smoking them during open heart surgery. They'd use
your open heart cavities an ash track. No, my dad
used to talking about how the doctor would come in
and smoking a cigarette. He put it ashtrays in every
examining room. Absolutely. I do think it's really weird now
that you drive by a hospital and the nurses are
outside smoking sometimes. I never got it on planes, though,

(08:47):
Like how did they allow smoking on plane? How do
you have a non smoking section on a plane? I
can't that curtain. That curtain stops everything, Like that booth
is smoking, this booth isn't. So really, they were all smoke.
I don't know how old you were when it started
to come into play non smoking restaurants, this in that,
but I do. And I remember going to the clubs

(09:09):
and coming home and you and I loved it when
they got rid of smoking. And it was only like
twenty years ago. You think it was longer, but it wasn't.
It was in the early two thousands, like two thousand
and one two somewhere and there. I was in France
the day before it was becoming illegal there and they
were freaking out. All the restaurants were like, we're going down.
No one's ever going to come and eat here again.

(09:29):
They survived, and they survived. They were absolutely fine. You're fine.
I remember when you would go to a restaurant and
they would ask you smoking or not smoking or first
available yep, oh yeah first. But still I feel like
now most rooms in a hotel are non smoking, but
there are so many times I walk in that room
and I'm like, yeah, no, no, no, we need to
change rooms. Yeah. Yeah, the carpet. Yeah. And they say

(09:52):
they're gonna if we have to clean your smoked room,
we're gonna charge you a two hundred and fifty dollars
smoking clean fee. They don't clean it, they just charge you. Yeah.
And finally, this is from BuzzFeed. By the way, I
stole this list. Ten everyday things that used to be
normal now known to be dangerous. Hitchhiking did you know
a long time ago, even before my time, basically hitchhiking

(10:15):
was not that unusual of a thing. If you needed
to get into town for supplies, just dumb it, they'd
let you come in with them, and it was it
was a safe world. And leaving your doors unlocked, that
is something you would never do now. We never ever
locked our house ever. I was a kid. Never in
the day. Plus I don't think we had anything worth
crapping our house anyway. So the idea of hitchhikers. Now,

(10:37):
I mean for me, like you said, it was normal
for you, it just seems weird, just like a stranger
because you don't know who they are, Like so something
like your your dad would pick up a random stranger sometimes.
Oh no, no, no, we do every day. It's called
uber for it. But there's a vetting system. When you
pull up to someone on the side of the road

(10:58):
in the desert and they're like, oh, you're going this way,
and I'm like yeah, there's no vetting system. Then you're
like get in, Like, who knows what they're gonna do.
I've had some real questionable Uber driver. I don't think
they've got them all that well. Sorry Uber, Sorry Uber?
That was that was Gandhi was credit rating going down?
I mean Uber rating going down. I don't know hitch hiking.
I remember one weekend. I've told this story years ago.

(11:19):
My friend Melissa and I'm best friends in high school.
We're driving there's this guy hitch hiking and he was hot.
It was a Friday, so we picked him up and
he spent the weekend with us and Melissa's mom's house.
Did you write about that in your bulk? Did? I?
I don't know told me, oh, yeah, no, we have
both of you, yeah for the ride, Like was it

(11:42):
like some sort of payment for the ride or accommodation. No,
we're all just horny kid. He stayed the weekend and
then we took him back out to the highway and
let him lose. He said, Oh, I'm fine, I'll just
take me to the highway where you pick me up.
Next person will pick him up. Hi, Elvis, No, no

(12:03):
have you No, No, just a radio bit one time,
but not actually hitch hiking. Be kind of concerned. What
do you think would happen in New York City if
somebody who was standing outside hitch hiking? No way see it.
You do see it every once in a while, you do.
I've seen it out in Jersey. You do too. Oh
hitch hiking? Is it illegal or you can still it's illegal?

(12:23):
Oh it is? Oh yeah. There are signs on the
highway no hitch hiking or horses. Is there really is signs?
There is no horses? Yeah, there's one right the entrance
wrapped out my house. There's no horses or podession are
people riding horses out there? I guess all right? That
was my contribution. Anyone else for the fifteen Minute Morning

(12:44):
Show podcast. I think we're on time. Yeah, all right,
let's light a cigarette and go for a fast drive
without seat belt on a horse. Have a good day, yall.
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