Ketchup Used To Be Used As Medicine (3 Pretty Cool Things)

Plus, dirt is good for your health, and a newly popular pet.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ruh, pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's three pretty cool things you need to.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Know right here on LINEFM with three pretty cool people, Covey,
Christine and producer Kristin. And I'm doing this story really
for Kristin, okay, because she hates ketchup. We know this
by now. If you don't know, it's just something about
ketchup that bothers you. Yes, all right, but did you
know if you were living in the eighteen thirties you
needed a prescription to get ketchup? Oh, it was used

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as medicine and doctors back in the eighteen thirties, ketchup
was promoted as a cure for various ailments, including diarrhea
and indigestion.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, I'll be in the bathroom for a very long time, because.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Are you happy it's not eighteen thirty anymore? Sam, ketchup
was like a medicine.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I don't want them to give you that.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
What's your cool thing, Christine?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, I guess if you can get down into the dirt,
you can live longer. So it's sense to bacteria in
soil increases the good bacteria in your gut, which improves longevity,
which is why time in your garden or hugging a
tree and getting down on the ground playing with your pets.
Whatever it is, is going to reduce the risk of

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premature death by up to thirty percent. That dirt and
soil is good for us.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
So to avoid being six feet under in that dirt,
get in the garden digging the dirty Stay good, all right, Kristia,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
There is a new kind of pet that has become
more popular over the years, outside of you know, having
a dog or having a cat. A new study finds
that about four million US households own reptiles as pets,
and between food and supplies, the cost to owners is
eight hundred million dollars a year. So the most popular reptiles,

(01:43):
that's pets. Can you take a guess that?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
You're a dragon?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh? I used to have one of those when I
was a kid. I did have a beard dragon. No,
a python, python, a get go and turtles.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I like turtles. Wow, okay, so a python though, I
couldn't do that. I know some people just handle snakes
very well and they're cool with it. Man, that would
scare me to have a python in the house.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
You show affection?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Do they show affection?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
We know that.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
They just eat mice once a week and like hug
things and squeeze them to down.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, they do all right.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
But it's a popular pet. We're coming right back with
more popular music. Here a lad of him.