October 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Episode 206 of The Soap Box Champion Podcast hosted by Kraig Delaney, recorded live from FEMA region 5 on Tuesday, October 7, 2025. I begins with a personal update about my weekend of yard work, where I contrast my dissatisfaction with a dedicated Black & Decker Edgehog edger against my preferred, easier cordless string trimmer method, using this as an example of why "Bigger is NOT necessarily BETTER." NOTE: This is a "hybrid, 'gone-fishin’ type episode" because of my busy schedule, which includes the pending task of putting out Halloween decorations, leading me to include past SUGAR segments to fill the airtime. I also discusses the current government shutdown, summarizing the political deadlock between Republicans who allegedly sought a temporary "Clean" bill and Democrats who wanted an "all or nothing" spending bill, noting my support for Republicans withholding taxpayer funds for illegal immigrant healthcare. Finally, I remark on the recent, unnerving push by governments and the Ad Council for citizens to "be prepared" for an unspecified emergency, given the Ad Council's history of promoting major public service announcements.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Decent people are being corrupted. This is the Soapbox Champion podcast.
It is the Soapbox Champion Podcast. Tuesday, October seventh, twenty
(00:37):
twenty five. This is episode two hundred and six of
that podcast, recorded live from FEMA Region five, where I'm
just like you, you know, just a little bit uglier. I
guess my name is Craig Delaney. This this is going
to be a goofy episode. You guys, I'm super busy.
(01:01):
I know we all are, but I'm super busy. This weekend,
I had a lot of catching up to do around
the place here, and uh, I wanted it basically, I
wanted it to be the last time I mode, you know,
the last time that I'm moded. I wanted it to
be the last time this year. I kept pushing it
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off literally weeks. Literally, Uh I put it off. You know,
it's October. It's gonna be cold soon, or it should
be cold right now, and I wanted it to be
the last time I'm moed. But here we are, first
week of October, and it was eighty five the other day.
So whatever i' mowed, okay, I mode trimmed, landscaped, edged
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the place, edged the driveway, front sidewalk, back sidewalk. Do
you guys do that use an edger like the edge
of your your walkways up. I think it turned everything
from looking good to looking manicured. And it's easy. It's
like if you ask me edging your walkways or your
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driveway or whatever, it's the best bang for your buck.
It makes a world of difference. But I will say this,
don't get carried away with it. I have a blackened
decker edge hog. It's called it's a dedicated edger, have
a heavy duty blade on it that spins ah and
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cuts the edges. I don't like it, and I quit
using it. It's difficult to see where the edge is
and it makes me think I'm gonna chip the concrete.
You could, and you have to plug it in. That
means I have to get a bunch of extension cords
out and throw them all over the place. It just
turns into a thing of its own and I dread it. Therefore,
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I don't want to do it. But my around the
house outside tools are all cordless electric and my weed
eater head, you know, spins over what is that quarter
turn and it has two little wheel and it'll run
along the walkway, allowing you to use the trimmer as
an edger. It's a string trimmer, so I'm not worried
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about chipping everything. And that's the way to go. You guys.
It looks great, it's faster, it's easier, and I just
think it's an example of how bigger is not necessarily better,
you know what I'm saying. And edging your walkways, edging
your driveway that is absolutely like I said, it's the
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bang for the buck. You know, you can mow and
you can weed, eat and people drive by and they
don't even notice anything. It's like, yeah, he keeps his
lawn mode. Who doesn't. But then when you edge everything,
it looks like, well it looks like you give a shit.
I don't. I don't know how else to say it.
You know, here, I am giving a shit about what
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my lawn looks like. I'm old. Guys. What's something else?
What do you have an example of something where bigger
is not necessarily better? I want to hear about it.
Leave a voicemail for the podcast eight one two six
one zero nine zero zero five, or send an email
if people do that. Info dot soap Box Champion at
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gmail dot com. I had a bunch of other miscellaneous
stuff that's been added up, and I needed to get
that done as well. So I'm gonna give you kind
of a hybrid gone fishing type of episode. Oh Also,
my daughter has been anxious about putting out all kinds
of Halloween decorations outside, you know, and I haven't even
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started that, and I need to do that with her.
So that's gonna be an afternoon. Uh So I'm gonna
put together some Past Sugar segments and I'll put them all.
I'll do five or six of them after I shut
up here, and uh and we'll we'll just act like
that's a new episode. How about that. This part's new
what I'm doing right now at the end of it.
I hope you don't mind, and I hope you understand. Hey,
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the government shutdown, so why can't I shut down for
a little bit too, you know, it's only fair. It's
driving me nuts, by the way, how both sides are
spending hours and days on social media and on mainstream
media blaming the other side, but neither one of them
will just shut up and put it right on the
table exactly why it's the other side's fault. They won't.
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They just say it's their fault and act like babies.
I hate it. From what I understand, the Republicans wanted
to pass what's called a clean bill, which is a
way to say, we're just gonna keep doing what we're doing.
The bill that we just ran out for the year.
We're just gonna do that one. It's a cleaning bill.
Nothing's changed, and they just wanted to extend it temporarily
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so they could take time to work out a new
spending bill. But the Democrats said, nay, we want these
revisions or nothing at all. So it ended up being
nothing at all. So the government shuts down. So if
you're truly neutral about it, I blame the Democrats, but
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who cares. Congress failed to pass the spending bill. That's it.
Democrats demanding health care protections like the Affordable Care Acts,
subsidy extensions, Medicaid full restoration. It all got blocked in
the Senate. GOP resistance to those additions and internal party
splits in the Democrat Party, especially this time, stalled all
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the negotiations. The shutdown furloughs federal workers and any non
essentials on non essential service workers, they'll be laid off
and disrupts programs like Veterans Care and WICK. From what
I understand, I don't know. I believe the new bill
was with short just four or five Democrat votes. Don't
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quote me on that. It was a real low single
digit I think. And on the surface it kind of
sounds like Republicans are just being stubborn jerks. But when
you go looking into it, you know, devil in the details.
The Republicans just no longer wanted to provide taxpayer funds
to pay for illegal immigrants, health care, et cetera. Well
guess what me either, So take the time and work
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that out. So I don't know, but they'll they'll pass
it soon. They will, I promise you. I'm putting this
together a day early. They may have already passed it
by the time you hear this. I don't know. But
before I start throwing into some sugar segments like I
said I was gonna do, I just wanted to tell
you something I've noticed you tell me is a reason
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to be alarmed or concerned. I keep hearing that governments
around the world are ramping up the idea to their people,
to their taxpayers, of the idea of being prepared. I
know that's just it. Be prepared for what. I think
it was Denmark again, don't quote me on that. They
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just for no reason gave emergency radios and stuff to everyone,
little care package to everyone, all of a sudden, and
just over this past weekend Saturday night, as a matter
of fact, I saw a commercial right here in the
United States from FEMA and the AD Council talking about
we need to be prepared, be prepared in quotes, because
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for what, be prepared for what wolverine's attacking, hummingbirds, lightning,
ball lightning, Well for what. I just know that they
said we should have a can opener and water reserves. Okay, again,
ominously they never have said what we should be prepared for. Now,
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you may think that's nothing, but I'm telling you it's something,
especially when you remember what the AD Council is. Officially,
it's called the Advertising Council Incorporated. It's a US nonprofit
organization founded in nineteen forty two to produce and remote
public service announcement PSAs addressing social issues. Initially created to
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support World War two efforts. Remember Rosie the Riveter that
was an AD Council AD. So you can't tell me
it's nothing anyway, Before we all dark and dingy, here's
some Sugar segments. It'll make a new episode, hopefully to
hold us over until next week. So be prepared for something.
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I guess. But you might be more familiar with AI
than you think. You've probably held it in your hands.
It's just like the handheld game that was popular in
the early two thousand and This week's Sugar and that's
the twenty Questions handheld game or the twenty Q. Remember
that from Wikipedia. Quote twenty Q is a computerized game
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of twenty questions that began as a test in an
artificial intelligence. It was invented by Robin Burginer in nineteen
eighty eight. The game was made handheld by Radica in
twenty in two thousand and three, but was discontinued in
twenty eleven because Techno Source took the license from twenty
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Q or took the license for the twenty Q handheld devices.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Hey, here's a commercial for the twenty Q that might
stir up some memories. And it's from two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Is it colorful?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's a sports car.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Shut down.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I don't believe that twenty Q, allowing people across the
country can it read your mind out? These things were
everywhere for a few years, and they were a load
of fun. It's a perfect example of AI. These things
just contain a huge database of things and all of
their descriptors. The idea was that you would have a person, place,
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or thing in your mind, and then the twenty Q
would ask up to twenty questions, eliminating possibilities as to
what your item was. It was so creepily accurate and
could usually guess your word in less than twenty questions. Actually,
my go to person to think of was Kurt Cobain,
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just FYI a little trivia. It always guessed correctly. The
first question was always the first question by twenty Q
when you played the game, is is it classified as animal,
vegetable or mineral? And your available answer was animal, vegetable, mineral,
concept or unknown. After that, it would ask a series
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of questions, narrowing the list of possible answers with every answer,
until it would guess. I remember everyone thinking they were
a little creepy as to as they were so accurate,
but they were fine, and by the time the fad ended,
there were several versions of the game available. There was
a Disney version, a people only version, music edition that
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I had, et cetera. I believe the last specialty version
was the Harry Potter version. I'm not sure what year
that was, and it was made to look like a
Golden Snitch from the movie, complete with wings. I absolutely
do have the music version here, you guys. I looked everywhere,
tore it up, couldn't find it before the show. I
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wanted to hold it up, you know, go here's a
twenty game just like this one. I wanted to play
a game on it for you. I just simply can't
find it. I know I didn't throw it away. It'll
turn up, and when it does, we'll play a game
on here, I promise. I bet you didn't know you
were using AI in the early two thousands. Digit You
can still find the original in places like eBay for
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under twenty bucks, with the latest radically redesigned twenty eleven,
the next generation model sometimes going for less than that.
You can even play with AI for free on twenty
q dot net. That's the official twenty questions website. It's
still up and running. Seems kind of shady when you
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get there. I believe it's still the official website and
it's still functioning. You can play twenty questions on there
for free. They also give some history and that pictures
of the various versions on there. Toots It's two zero
q dot net I ate a sugary substance. Today, Reese's
has introduced PBNJ Big Cups, a new limited time product
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launched on April second, featuring their classic peanut, butter and
chocolate combination with the layer of either strawberry or grape jelly,
like their term not mine. More on that in a
minute filling okay. The strawberry flavor has been noted for
a subtle but genuine jam like taste, though some reviews
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suggest it could use more jelly, with the grape flavor
being criticized for being barely noticeable, making it taste similar
to regular Big Cup resis. Reviews are mixed. Some fans
love the grape version, rating it highly as in an
eight out of ten average, while others find the jelly
flavors underwhelming, with the strawberry version sometimes described as artificial
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or lacking enough jelly. So my review, I have the
jelly one the grape jelly one okay, and I was
very much looking forward to it. I would give that
thing a very generous three out of ten. I don't
even like three out of ten. Yeah, I think it's
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too much. Two seems like too little. I'm just telling
you it's not what you're looking for. If you see
the commercials and see their animations of it and their description,
you think you know what you're gonna get. It is
not what you're looking for. It does not resemble a
B and J sandwich taste form flavor in any way.
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You cannot taste the grape and the grape. It's not
jelly at all. It's super thick and creamy, like that
crap and a Cadbury egg gross and razor blade thin
layer of grape. And if you watch the commercial, it's
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like a dollup on top of that thing. No, it's
a very razor thin layer at the at the bottom
of the cup. You can't you can see it, but
you can barely see it. You absolutely can't taste it.
It's borderline grossy, guys. I'm not kidding. I don't even
know what the grape jelly tastes like because there's not
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nearly enough to be tasted. I'm not even gonna try
the strawberry version. Reese's has burnt me too many times.
I know this doesn't sound like sugar, but I'm getting there,
I promise Ah. They've burnt a just like in two
thousand and six when Reese's introduced their own Riese's Creamy
peanut butter. You remember that sold in jars to take home,
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allowing fans to enjoy their signature peanut butter outside of
their candy products. You know, it was marketed as a
spread with the same taste as the peanut butter used
in Rieese's peanut butter cups. But it was absolutely not
the same peanut butter as in their peanut butter cups,
and it was the biggest disappointment. Race's. You know what,
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we want, the exact damn peanut butter that's in your
peanut butter cups. Why why is that so hard? But
this time they failed again, and it's because they're chasing
the holy grail of tastes and flavor combos. We all
love it. It's easy to make, usually always available, and
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that's why this week's sugar is the peanut butter and
jelly Sandwich. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The PB and
J has a rich history rooted in American culinary culture,
evolving from a novelty to a beloved staple. Peanuts were
ground into paste as early as the eighteen eighties. Doctor
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John Harvey Kellogga health food advocate patented a process for
making peanut butter in eighteen ninety five, initially as a
protein rich food for patients at his Battle Creek Sanitarium,
but early in the nineteen hundreds, peanut butter became commercially
available with brands like Crema and peter Pan. Emerging fruit preserves,
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including grape and strawberry jelly, were already common in American
households by the nineteenth century, often home aide or commercial
commercially canned, and The first known reference to a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich appeared in nineteen oh one in
an article called by Julia Davis Chandler in the Boston
Cooking School magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, Wow
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I Want That Magazine. She described it as a delicate
sandwich spread with peanut butter and fruit jelly, suggested it
as a novel treat. Initially, peeb and j was considered
a high class food. Because peanut butter was expensive and
labor intensive to produce, it was served at upscale tea
rooms and social gatherings, often with sophisticated pairings like watercress
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or pimento. Commercialization of peanut butter with the invention of
hydro generation hydrogenation in the nineteen twenties made peanut butter smoother,
shelf stable, and more affordable. More importantly, brands like Skippy
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introduced in nineteen thirty two and Peter Pan lowered cost
peanut butter a pantry staple. The nineteen twenty eight invention
of pre sliced bread by Otto Frederick row Wetter revolutionized sandwiches,
including peeb and jay, making them easier to prepare at home.
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There's always been that grape jelly connection. Also, you notice
and sometimes strawberry, and I always wonder why it's limited.
Why is it always strawberry and grape where there's so
many jellies. But Welch's grape jelly, popularized in early twentieth century,
became a natural partner for peanut butter due to to
sweet and tart flavor. The combination of peanut butter and
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grape jelly solidified as the classic PB and J pairing.
PEEB and J gained traction during the war World War
Two as a cheap, nutritious meal. Peanut butter and jelly
were included in soldiers rations, and the combination became familiar
to many. Post war returning soldiers brought the habit home,
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popularizing it further. By the nineteen fifties, PB and J
became a go to for kids launch boxes due to
its affordability, long shelf life, again and appeal to kids.
It was easy for parents to prepare, requiring no refrigeration,
and schools embraced it as a filling meal. PB and
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J became synonymous with American childhood, celebrated for its simplicity
and nostalgia. Surveys suggested over ninety percent of Americans of
eating a PB and J, with the average person consuming
about fifteen hundred by age eighteen. There's a stat for you.
While grape jelly remains the traditional choice, strawberry, raspberry and
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other fruit spreads are popular with it. Some prefer crunchy,
I do not over creamy, and bread choices range from
white to whole wheat or even tortillas. I don't know
about that companies like Smuckers introduced uncrustables in nineteen ninety nine.
Those are pre made crustless PBNJ sandwiches have become a
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lunch box favorite. Reces has noted earlier launched PB and
J inspired products like the Big Cups and Sandwiches sandwich
kits available online there and this year capitalizing on the
combos and during appeal. It's just weird that Reces is
known for the peanut butter, but to keep failing in
these peanut butter things, it's just so strange to me.
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In recent decades, PBNJ is faced scrutiny for its sugar
and fat content, which is absolutely true. If you go
to the store and grab ninety eight percent of the
peanut butters, flip it over and you'll see the sugar
like sometimes it'll be two ingredients, peanuts and then sugar.
It's crazy. But also at the same time, peanut butters
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is praise for its protein five and affordability. It remains
versatile option for vegetarians and those limited access to fresh foods.
PB and J is distinctly American, but it's spread globally,
though it's less common outside of North America. Due to
a cultural preferences for savory spreads. In the US, it's
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a symbol of comfort food, often associated with charity drives.
I like peanut butter and jelly Day campaigns to feed
the hungry. Another reason it's so popular in the US
just it's simplicity, bread, peanut butter, jelly. It belies its
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cultural weight, representing resourcefulness, nostalgia, and accessibility. That's why it
may be my favorite sandwich. And it's for sure this
week's sugar. Since this is a brand new year, guys,
brand new, brand spanking new baby, fresh baby with the diaper.
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Remember that I made sugar an entire year, but it's
not this one. The year is nineteen ninety one. The
average cost of a new house was one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. A gallon of gas was a dollar twelve.
A pound of bacon was a dollar ninety five. That's
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the stat that kills me, a dollar ninety five for
a pound of bacon.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Good Lord.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
A hot Christmas gift for kids that year was the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested. It was
the year of Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, but I
didn't care about I didn't care about any of that
stuff because I was sixteen. I thought I was cool
and music was everything, And nineteen ninety one produced the
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musical perfect Storm. Within forty four days. In nineteen ninety one,
Metallica's Black album Pearl Jams, Ten Guns N' Roses, Use
Your Illusions One to Two, Redout, Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic,
Soundgarden's Bad motor Finger, and Nirvana's never Mind We're all
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released within forty four days of each other. Can you imagine?
I don't have to I remember? Do you? There were
other amazing albums and songs in nineteen ninety one as
well as those songs, like Shiny Happy People, Scenario Set
a Drift on Memory, Bliss, Silent Lucidity, Walking in Memphis,
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and DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Princess Summertime, which is
still my favorite summertime anthem song. That thing. If you
hear Summertime and you don't throw your shoes out the
window and go lay down under a tree somewhere until
it's over, You're not something right. Summertime is one of
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the most the best summer theme songs known to man.
I stand by that. But those first albums that I
mentioned that was remind and I had them at the
same time, all on cassette. Imagine having those first few
albums and then hearing Nirvana for the first time. I've
told this story a thousand times, and if you know me,
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I bet you've heard it. But I remember when I
heard Nirvana for the very first time. I remember it
like it was yesterday because it was such a big thing.
I was in my dad's garage. He probably was making
me change the oil in the family's car or something
like that, but I was doing something Dad was making
me in the garage, in the phone ring. Dad had
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a phone in the garage. It was an old, filthy,
cordless one that wouldn't make it out of the garage,
but I answered it. It was my friend Brandon on
the phone, and he just yelled, listen to this. Then
he held his phone up to his TV at his
house because MTV was on, and I heard Nirvana's smells
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like teen Spirit for the first time. I listened and
ask who is that? He yelled some band called Nirvana,
and I was never the same. Oh, we all did
other things that year. You can imagine all the things
sixteen year olds do, some things for the first time,
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some things for the last. But music was always in
the background and all we of all we did that year.
When I remember nineteen ninety one, I can remember what
I was doing, and I can tell you what album
was playing when we were doing it. Every story I
have from ninety one, I can tell you what I
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was listening to. Every single story. Some I tell a
thousand times, some I'll never tell. But the music of
that year is attached so strongly to all those men.
The more I think about it, the more I started
thinking maybe music peaked in nineteen ninety one, or maybe
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I was just sixteen and music was everything. Have you
ever heard of the Wilhelm scream? That was it? I
guarantee you've heard it before. Uh. I'd never heard of
it until many years ago when someone asked me the
same question. I said no, and they proceeded to explain
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it to me. Now I can't watch movies or TV
without randomly saying, there it is. If you've never heard
of the Wilhelm scream, that's okay, But I bet you've
heard it hundreds of times. You may have even caught
it several times and wondered why it sounded familiar or
why is that weird scream there? It sounds off. That's
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because it's been used, reused, recycled in you again since
nineteen fifty one in film, TV and radio. So okay,
it's this one again. Doesn't sound like much, does it? Well,
it's not much in the way of sound, but it
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is so much in the way of sound effects in
audio history. See this was the first sound effect to
be recorded and used over and over again as a
stock sound from Wikipedia quote. The Wilhelm scream originates from
a series of sound effects recorded for the nineteen fifty
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one movie Distant Drums and a scene from the film Soldier.
See soldiers fleeing seminal Indians are wading through a swamp
in the Everglades, and one of them is bitten and
dragged underwater by an alligator. Now I want to see
this movie. The scream for that scene and other scenes
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in the movie were recorded later in a single take,
and the recording was entitled quote man gets bit by
an alligator and he screams end quote. The fifth take
of the scream was used for the soldier in the
alligator scene. That take, which letter later became known as
the iconic Wilhelm scream is thought to have been voiced
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by actor Sheb Woolley, who also played the uncredited role
of Private Jessup in Distant Drums. As of late twenty
twenty two, the scream has not been made available in
any commercial sound effects library end quote. In other words,
you won't find the Wilhelm scream in any official sound library,
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but you will hear it in many of the over
four hundred films it's been used in. That's because sound
effect personnel and sound effects departments sneak it in whenever
they can to. Like a tribute to the creation of
the very first reusable sound effect known in the business.
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Here's a short compilation of the screaming movies, starting with
the very first reuse of it, in a film entitled
The Charge of Feather River, just so you can get
a feel for how they fit it in in movies.
Sometimes it's hidden amongst chaos, chaos and noises and crashes.
Sometimes it stands out like a sore thrum. Uh. Sometimes
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you'll see here's a compilation.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah help, yeah, I'll just fill my pipe. Damn it, Wilhelm,
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are you doing it's not where.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, it's ridiculous designe Yeah. Over four hundred films and movies,
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Disney movies, Pixar movies, all the Star Wars movies, and
hundreds more. And now you know, now that you know
this and know what the scream sounds like, you'll know
and you will catch it and you will call out, hey,
there it was every time you hear it from now on,
just like I do.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You can't forget it. I know the scream is kind
of corny sounding, and now you know why. And now
you know every time you hear it, a sound guy
is paying tribute to the first guy to reuse a
sound effect. And I think that's just cool. And then
the fact that after all these years and the audio engineers,
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sound effects people, they still recognize it for what it is.
It's cool. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Schwanza, happy Hankah.
What er it does you celebrate? Be safe? Oh, happy
Schwanza to you, madam speaker or whatever that is. And
it may say for yourself, the word speaker is in
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her job title. Everyone the word speaker someone who speaks
for a living swansa get the hell out of here
and there you go there you have it. Thanks for
putting up with me in my inconsistencies. Guys, it probably
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bothers me more than it does you. But uh, I
know this isn't a normal episode. I understand it. Uh
just didn't have time. Hey, I explained it already, So
that's gonna do it. For episode two hundred and six
of the Soapbox Champion Podcast. Thanks for listening, every single
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one of you. Hope you enjoyed it. Hope you learned something.
Hope you revisited a sugar segment that you forgot all about.
I do this every Tuesday, six thirty pm Central Standard
Time in audio form, and I try to put the
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He's coaching you serious
Decent people are being corrupted. This is the Soapbox Champion podcast.
It is the Soapbox Champion Podcast. Tuesday, October seventh, twenty
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twenty five. This is episode two hundred and six of
that podcast, recorded live from FEMA Region five, where I'm
just like you, you know, just a little bit uglier. I
guess my name is Craig Delaney. This this is going
to be a goofy episode. You guys, I'm super busy.
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I know we all are, but I'm super busy. This weekend,
I had a lot of catching up to do around
the place here, and uh, I wanted it basically, I
wanted it to be the last time I mode, you know,
the last time that I'm moded. I wanted it to
be the last time this year. I kept pushing it
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off literally weeks. Literally, Uh I put it off. You know,
it's October. It's gonna be cold soon, or it should
be cold right now, and I wanted it to be
the last time I'm moed. But here we are, first
week of October, and it was eighty five the other day.
So whatever i' mowed, okay, I mode trimmed, landscaped, edged
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the place, edged the driveway, front sidewalk, back sidewalk. Do
you guys do that use an edger like the edge
of your your walkways up. I think it turned everything
from looking good to looking manicured. And it's easy. It's
like if you ask me edging your walkways or your
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driveway or whatever, it's the best bang for your buck.
It makes a world of difference. But I will say this,
don't get carried away with it. I have a blackened
decker edge hog. It's called it's a dedicated edger, have
a heavy duty blade on it that spins ah and
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cuts the edges. I don't like it, and I quit
using it. It's difficult to see where the edge is
and it makes me think I'm gonna chip the concrete.
You could, and you have to plug it in. That
means I have to get a bunch of extension cords
out and throw them all over the place. It just
turns into a thing of its own and I dread it. Therefore,
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I don't want to do it. But my around the
house outside tools are all cordless electric and my weed
eater head, you know, spins over what is that quarter
turn and it has two little wheel and it'll run
along the walkway, allowing you to use the trimmer as
an edger. It's a string trimmer, so I'm not worried
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about chipping everything. And that's the way to go. You guys.
It looks great, it's faster, it's easier, and I just
think it's an example of how bigger is not necessarily better,
you know what I'm saying. And edging your walkways, edging
your driveway that is absolutely like I said, it's the
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bang for the buck. You know, you can mow and
you can weed, eat and people drive by and they
don't even notice anything. It's like, yeah, he keeps his
lawn mode. Who doesn't. But then when you edge everything,
it looks like, well it looks like you give a shit.
I don't. I don't know how else to say it.
You know, here, I am giving a shit about what
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my lawn looks like. I'm old. Guys. What's something else?
What do you have an example of something where bigger
is not necessarily better? I want to hear about it.
Leave a voicemail for the podcast eight one two six
one zero nine zero zero five, or send an email
if people do that. Info dot soap Box Champion at
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gmail dot com. I had a bunch of other miscellaneous
stuff that's been added up, and I needed to get
that done as well. So I'm gonna give you kind
of a hybrid gone fishing type of episode. Oh Also,
my daughter has been anxious about putting out all kinds
of Halloween decorations outside, you know, and I haven't even
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started that, and I need to do that with her.
So that's gonna be an afternoon. Uh So I'm gonna
put together some Past Sugar segments and I'll put them all.
I'll do five or six of them after I shut
up here, and uh and we'll we'll just act like
that's a new episode. How about that. This part's new
what I'm doing right now at the end of it.
I hope you don't mind, and I hope you understand. Hey,
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the government shutdown, so why can't I shut down for
a little bit too, you know, it's only fair. It's
driving me nuts, by the way, how both sides are
spending hours and days on social media and on mainstream
media blaming the other side, but neither one of them
will just shut up and put it right on the
table exactly why it's the other side's fault. They won't.
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They just say it's their fault and act like babies.
I hate it. From what I understand, the Republicans wanted
to pass what's called a clean bill, which is a
way to say, we're just gonna keep doing what we're doing.
The bill that we just ran out for the year.
We're just gonna do that one. It's a cleaning bill.
Nothing's changed, and they just wanted to extend it temporarily
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so they could take time to work out a new
spending bill. But the Democrats said, nay, we want these
revisions or nothing at all. So it ended up being
nothing at all. So the government shuts down. So if
you're truly neutral about it, I blame the Democrats, but
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who cares. Congress failed to pass the spending bill. That's it.
Democrats demanding health care protections like the Affordable Care Acts,
subsidy extensions, Medicaid full restoration. It all got blocked in
the Senate. GOP resistance to those additions and internal party
splits in the Democrat Party, especially this time, stalled all
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the negotiations. The shutdown furloughs federal workers and any non
essentials on non essential service workers, they'll be laid off
and disrupts programs like Veterans Care and WICK. From what
I understand, I don't know. I believe the new bill
was with short just four or five Democrat votes. Don't
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quote me on that. It was a real low single
digit I think. And on the surface it kind of
sounds like Republicans are just being stubborn jerks. But when
you go looking into it, you know, devil in the details.
The Republicans just no longer wanted to provide taxpayer funds
to pay for illegal immigrants, health care, et cetera. Well
guess what me either, So take the time and work
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that out. So I don't know, but they'll they'll pass
it soon. They will, I promise you. I'm putting this
together a day early. They may have already passed it
by the time you hear this. I don't know. But
before I start throwing into some sugar segments like I
said I was gonna do, I just wanted to tell
you something I've noticed you tell me is a reason
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to be alarmed or concerned. I keep hearing that governments
around the world are ramping up the idea to their people,
to their taxpayers, of the idea of being prepared. I
know that's just it. Be prepared for what. I think
it was Denmark again, don't quote me on that. They
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just for no reason gave emergency radios and stuff to everyone,
little care package to everyone, all of a sudden, and
just over this past weekend Saturday night, as a matter
of fact, I saw a commercial right here in the
United States from FEMA and the AD Council talking about
we need to be prepared, be prepared in quotes, because
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for what, be prepared for what wolverine's attacking, hummingbirds, lightning,
ball lightning, Well for what. I just know that they
said we should have a can opener and water reserves. Okay, again,
ominously they never have said what we should be prepared for. Now,
(08:42):
you may think that's nothing, but I'm telling you it's something,
especially when you remember what the AD Council is. Officially,
it's called the Advertising Council Incorporated. It's a US nonprofit
organization founded in nineteen forty two to produce and remote
public service announcement PSAs addressing social issues. Initially created to
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support World War two efforts. Remember Rosie the Riveter that
was an AD Council AD. So you can't tell me
it's nothing anyway, Before we all dark and dingy, here's
some Sugar segments. It'll make a new episode, hopefully to
hold us over until next week. So be prepared for something.
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I guess. But you might be more familiar with AI
than you think. You've probably held it in your hands.
It's just like the handheld game that was popular in
the early two thousand and This week's Sugar and that's
the twenty Questions handheld game or the twenty Q. Remember
that from Wikipedia. Quote twenty Q is a computerized game
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of twenty questions that began as a test in an
artificial intelligence. It was invented by Robin Burginer in nineteen
eighty eight. The game was made handheld by Radica in
twenty in two thousand and three, but was discontinued in
twenty eleven because Techno Source took the license from twenty
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Q or took the license for the twenty Q handheld devices.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Hey, here's a commercial for the twenty Q that might
stir up some memories. And it's from two thousand and seven.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Is it colorful?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's a sports car.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Shut down.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I don't believe that twenty Q, allowing people across the
country can it read your mind out? These things were
everywhere for a few years, and they were a load
of fun. It's a perfect example of AI. These things
just contain a huge database of things and all of
their descriptors. The idea was that you would have a person, place,
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or thing in your mind, and then the twenty Q
would ask up to twenty questions, eliminating possibilities as to
what your item was. It was so creepily accurate and
could usually guess your word in less than twenty questions. Actually,
my go to person to think of was Kurt Cobain,
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just FYI a little trivia. It always guessed correctly. The
first question was always the first question by twenty Q
when you played the game, is is it classified as animal,
vegetable or mineral? And your available answer was animal, vegetable, mineral,
concept or unknown. After that, it would ask a series
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of questions, narrowing the list of possible answers with every answer,
until it would guess. I remember everyone thinking they were
a little creepy as to as they were so accurate,
but they were fine, and by the time the fad ended,
there were several versions of the game available. There was
a Disney version, a people only version, music edition that
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I had, et cetera. I believe the last specialty version
was the Harry Potter version. I'm not sure what year
that was, and it was made to look like a
Golden Snitch from the movie, complete with wings. I absolutely
do have the music version here, you guys. I looked everywhere,
tore it up, couldn't find it before the show. I
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wanted to hold it up, you know, go here's a
twenty game just like this one. I wanted to play
a game on it for you. I just simply can't
find it. I know I didn't throw it away. It'll
turn up, and when it does, we'll play a game
on here, I promise. I bet you didn't know you
were using AI in the early two thousands. Digit You
can still find the original in places like eBay for
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under twenty bucks, with the latest radically redesigned twenty eleven,
the next generation model sometimes going for less than that.
You can even play with AI for free on twenty
q dot net. That's the official twenty questions website. It's
still up and running. Seems kind of shady when you
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get there. I believe it's still the official website and
it's still functioning. You can play twenty questions on there
for free. They also give some history and that pictures
of the various versions on there. Toots It's two zero
q dot net I ate a sugary substance. Today, Reese's
has introduced PBNJ Big Cups, a new limited time product
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launched on April second, featuring their classic peanut, butter and
chocolate combination with the layer of either strawberry or grape jelly,
like their term not mine. More on that in a
minute filling okay. The strawberry flavor has been noted for
a subtle but genuine jam like taste, though some reviews
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suggest it could use more jelly, with the grape flavor
being criticized for being barely noticeable, making it taste similar
to regular Big Cup resis. Reviews are mixed. Some fans
love the grape version, rating it highly as in an
eight out of ten average, while others find the jelly
flavors underwhelming, with the strawberry version sometimes described as artificial
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or lacking enough jelly. So my review, I have the
jelly one the grape jelly one okay, and I was
very much looking forward to it. I would give that
thing a very generous three out of ten. I don't
even like three out of ten. Yeah, I think it's
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too much. Two seems like too little. I'm just telling
you it's not what you're looking for. If you see
the commercials and see their animations of it and their description,
you think you know what you're gonna get. It is
not what you're looking for. It does not resemble a
B and J sandwich taste form flavor in any way.
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You cannot taste the grape and the grape. It's not
jelly at all. It's super thick and creamy, like that
crap and a Cadbury egg gross and razor blade thin
layer of grape. And if you watch the commercial, it's
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like a dollup on top of that thing. No, it's
a very razor thin layer at the at the bottom
of the cup. You can't you can see it, but
you can barely see it. You absolutely can't taste it.
It's borderline grossy, guys. I'm not kidding. I don't even
know what the grape jelly tastes like because there's not
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nearly enough to be tasted. I'm not even gonna try
the strawberry version. Reese's has burnt me too many times.
I know this doesn't sound like sugar, but I'm getting there,
I promise Ah. They've burnt a just like in two
thousand and six when Reese's introduced their own Riese's Creamy
peanut butter. You remember that sold in jars to take home,
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allowing fans to enjoy their signature peanut butter outside of
their candy products. You know, it was marketed as a
spread with the same taste as the peanut butter used
in Rieese's peanut butter cups. But it was absolutely not
the same peanut butter as in their peanut butter cups,
and it was the biggest disappointment. Race's. You know what,
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we want, the exact damn peanut butter that's in your
peanut butter cups. Why why is that so hard? But
this time they failed again, and it's because they're chasing
the holy grail of tastes and flavor combos. We all
love it. It's easy to make, usually always available, and
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that's why this week's sugar is the peanut butter and
jelly Sandwich. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The PB and
J has a rich history rooted in American culinary culture,
evolving from a novelty to a beloved staple. Peanuts were
ground into paste as early as the eighteen eighties. Doctor
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John Harvey Kellogga health food advocate patented a process for
making peanut butter in eighteen ninety five, initially as a
protein rich food for patients at his Battle Creek Sanitarium,
but early in the nineteen hundreds, peanut butter became commercially
available with brands like Crema and peter Pan. Emerging fruit preserves,
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including grape and strawberry jelly, were already common in American
households by the nineteenth century, often home aide or commercial
commercially canned, and The first known reference to a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich appeared in nineteen oh one in
an article called by Julia Davis Chandler in the Boston
Cooking School magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, Wow
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I Want That Magazine. She described it as a delicate
sandwich spread with peanut butter and fruit jelly, suggested it
as a novel treat. Initially, peeb and j was considered
a high class food. Because peanut butter was expensive and
labor intensive to produce, it was served at upscale tea
rooms and social gatherings, often with sophisticated pairings like watercress
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or pimento. Commercialization of peanut butter with the invention of
hydro generation hydrogenation in the nineteen twenties made peanut butter smoother,
shelf stable, and more affordable. More importantly, brands like Skippy
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introduced in nineteen thirty two and Peter Pan lowered cost
peanut butter a pantry staple. The nineteen twenty eight invention
of pre sliced bread by Otto Frederick row Wetter revolutionized sandwiches,
including peeb and jay, making them easier to prepare at home.
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There's always been that grape jelly connection. Also, you notice
and sometimes strawberry, and I always wonder why it's limited.
Why is it always strawberry and grape where there's so
many jellies. But Welch's grape jelly, popularized in early twentieth century,
became a natural partner for peanut butter due to to
sweet and tart flavor. The combination of peanut butter and
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grape jelly solidified as the classic PB and J pairing.
PEEB and J gained traction during the war World War
Two as a cheap, nutritious meal. Peanut butter and jelly
were included in soldiers rations, and the combination became familiar
to many. Post war returning soldiers brought the habit home,
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popularizing it further. By the nineteen fifties, PB and J
became a go to for kids launch boxes due to
its affordability, long shelf life, again and appeal to kids.
It was easy for parents to prepare, requiring no refrigeration,
and schools embraced it as a filling meal. PB and
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J became synonymous with American childhood, celebrated for its simplicity
and nostalgia. Surveys suggested over ninety percent of Americans of
eating a PB and J, with the average person consuming
about fifteen hundred by age eighteen. There's a stat for you.
While grape jelly remains the traditional choice, strawberry, raspberry and
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other fruit spreads are popular with it. Some prefer crunchy,
I do not over creamy, and bread choices range from
white to whole wheat or even tortillas. I don't know
about that companies like Smuckers introduced uncrustables in nineteen ninety nine.
Those are pre made crustless PBNJ sandwiches have become a
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lunch box favorite. Reces has noted earlier launched PB and
J inspired products like the Big Cups and Sandwiches sandwich
kits available online there and this year capitalizing on the
combos and during appeal. It's just weird that Reces is
known for the peanut butter, but to keep failing in
these peanut butter things, it's just so strange to me.
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In recent decades, PBNJ is faced scrutiny for its sugar
and fat content, which is absolutely true. If you go
to the store and grab ninety eight percent of the
peanut butters, flip it over and you'll see the sugar
like sometimes it'll be two ingredients, peanuts and then sugar.
It's crazy. But also at the same time, peanut butters
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is praise for its protein five and affordability. It remains
versatile option for vegetarians and those limited access to fresh foods.
PB and J is distinctly American, but it's spread globally,
though it's less common outside of North America. Due to
a cultural preferences for savory spreads. In the US, it's
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a symbol of comfort food, often associated with charity drives.
I like peanut butter and jelly Day campaigns to feed
the hungry. Another reason it's so popular in the US
just it's simplicity, bread, peanut butter, jelly. It belies its
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cultural weight, representing resourcefulness, nostalgia, and accessibility. That's why it
may be my favorite sandwich. And it's for sure this
week's sugar. Since this is a brand new year, guys,
brand new, brand spanking new baby, fresh baby with the diaper.
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Remember that I made sugar an entire year, but it's
not this one. The year is nineteen ninety one. The
average cost of a new house was one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. A gallon of gas was a dollar twelve.
A pound of bacon was a dollar ninety five. That's
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the stat that kills me, a dollar ninety five for
a pound of bacon.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Good Lord.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
A hot Christmas gift for kids that year was the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested. It was
the year of Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, but I
didn't care about I didn't care about any of that
stuff because I was sixteen. I thought I was cool
and music was everything, And nineteen ninety one produced the
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musical perfect Storm. Within forty four days. In nineteen ninety one,
Metallica's Black album Pearl Jams, Ten Guns N' Roses, Use
Your Illusions One to Two, Redout, Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic,
Soundgarden's Bad motor Finger, and Nirvana's never Mind We're all
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released within forty four days of each other. Can you imagine?
I don't have to I remember? Do you? There were
other amazing albums and songs in nineteen ninety one as
well as those songs, like Shiny Happy People, Scenario Set
a Drift on Memory, Bliss, Silent Lucidity, Walking in Memphis,
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and DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Princess Summertime, which is
still my favorite summertime anthem song. That thing. If you
hear Summertime and you don't throw your shoes out the
window and go lay down under a tree somewhere until
it's over, You're not something right. Summertime is one of
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the most the best summer theme songs known to man.
I stand by that. But those first albums that I
mentioned that was remind and I had them at the
same time, all on cassette. Imagine having those first few
albums and then hearing Nirvana for the first time. I've
told this story a thousand times, and if you know me,
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I bet you've heard it. But I remember when I
heard Nirvana for the very first time. I remember it
like it was yesterday because it was such a big thing.
I was in my dad's garage. He probably was making
me change the oil in the family's car or something
like that, but I was doing something Dad was making
me in the garage, in the phone ring. Dad had
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a phone in the garage. It was an old, filthy,
cordless one that wouldn't make it out of the garage,
but I answered it. It was my friend Brandon on
the phone, and he just yelled, listen to this. Then
he held his phone up to his TV at his
house because MTV was on, and I heard Nirvana's smells
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like teen Spirit for the first time. I listened and
ask who is that? He yelled some band called Nirvana,
and I was never the same. Oh, we all did
other things that year. You can imagine all the things
sixteen year olds do, some things for the first time,
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some things for the last. But music was always in
the background and all we of all we did that year.
When I remember nineteen ninety one, I can remember what
I was doing, and I can tell you what album
was playing when we were doing it. Every story I
have from ninety one, I can tell you what I
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was listening to. Every single story. Some I tell a
thousand times, some I'll never tell. But the music of
that year is attached so strongly to all those men.
The more I think about it, the more I started
thinking maybe music peaked in nineteen ninety one, or maybe
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I was just sixteen and music was everything. Have you
ever heard of the Wilhelm scream? That was it? I
guarantee you've heard it before. Uh. I'd never heard of
it until many years ago when someone asked me the
same question. I said no, and they proceeded to explain
(27:34):
it to me. Now I can't watch movies or TV
without randomly saying, there it is. If you've never heard
of the Wilhelm scream, that's okay, But I bet you've
heard it hundreds of times. You may have even caught
it several times and wondered why it sounded familiar or
why is that weird scream there? It sounds off. That's
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because it's been used, reused, recycled in you again since
nineteen fifty one in film, TV and radio. So okay,
it's this one again. Doesn't sound like much, does it? Well,
it's not much in the way of sound, but it
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is so much in the way of sound effects in
audio history. See this was the first sound effect to
be recorded and used over and over again as a
stock sound from Wikipedia quote. The Wilhelm scream originates from
a series of sound effects recorded for the nineteen fifty
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one movie Distant Drums and a scene from the film Soldier.
See soldiers fleeing seminal Indians are wading through a swamp
in the Everglades, and one of them is bitten and
dragged underwater by an alligator. Now I want to see
this movie. The scream for that scene and other scenes
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in the movie were recorded later in a single take,
and the recording was entitled quote man gets bit by
an alligator and he screams end quote. The fifth take
of the scream was used for the soldier in the
alligator scene. That take, which letter later became known as
the iconic Wilhelm scream is thought to have been voiced
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by actor Sheb Woolley, who also played the uncredited role
of Private Jessup in Distant Drums. As of late twenty
twenty two, the scream has not been made available in
any commercial sound effects library end quote. In other words,
you won't find the Wilhelm scream in any official sound library,
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but you will hear it in many of the over
four hundred films it's been used in. That's because sound
effect personnel and sound effects departments sneak it in whenever
they can to. Like a tribute to the creation of
the very first reusable sound effect known in the business.
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Here's a short compilation of the screaming movies, starting with
the very first reuse of it, in a film entitled
The Charge of Feather River, just so you can get
a feel for how they fit it in in movies.
Sometimes it's hidden amongst chaos, chaos and noises and crashes.
Sometimes it stands out like a sore thrum. Uh. Sometimes
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you'll see here's a compilation.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah help, yeah, I'll just fill my pipe. Damn it, Wilhelm,
(31:19):
are you doing it's not where.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, it's ridiculous designe Yeah. Over four hundred films and movies,
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Disney movies, Pixar movies, all the Star Wars movies, and
hundreds more. And now you know, now that you know
this and know what the scream sounds like, you'll know
and you will catch it and you will call out, hey,
there it was every time you hear it from now on,
just like I do.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
You can't forget it. I know the scream is kind
of corny sounding, and now you know why. And now
you know every time you hear it, a sound guy
is paying tribute to the first guy to reuse a
sound effect. And I think that's just cool. And then
the fact that after all these years and the audio engineers,
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sound effects people, they still recognize it for what it is.
It's cool. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Schwanza, happy Hankah.
What er it does you celebrate? Be safe? Oh, happy
Schwanza to you, madam speaker or whatever that is. And
it may say for yourself, the word speaker is in
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her job title. Everyone the word speaker someone who speaks
for a living swansa get the hell out of here
and there you go there you have it. Thanks for
putting up with me in my inconsistencies. Guys, it probably
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bothers me more than it does you. But uh, I
know this isn't a normal episode. I understand it. Uh
just didn't have time. Hey, I explained it already, So
that's gonna do it. For episode two hundred and six
of the Soapbox Champion Podcast. Thanks for listening, every single
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one of you. Hope you enjoyed it. Hope you learned something.
Hope you revisited a sugar segment that you forgot all about.
I do this every Tuesday, six thirty pm Central Standard
Time in audio form, and I try to put the
video form out a little bit earlier, try to do
it in an hour earlier if I can. Depends on
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when I get it done, when I get it wrapped up.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
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