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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chad Bower's in because when Ross moved in mornings, we
got a very special deal. So I got to keep
the radio bit. So now you know which originated which
originated on the Ross Kaminski Show, because Chad Bauer has
lots of useless information and ladies and gentlemen. Now this
is so now you know.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I know?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Okay, So are you a fan of bubble wrap?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I actually have a piece of bubble wrap at my
desk right now and I've been popping it just a
few a time a day, Yes, just a few, like
five six pop up stress release.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yes, yes, But do you know what the original design
or the original purpose of bubble wrap was when they
invented it.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
The kids was not packing material.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
The individually wrapping gumballs.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
It could be, yeah, but it's not it. No.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
It was invented back in nineteen fifty seven by a
couple of dudes named Alfred Fielding and Mark Shavanas.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh yeah, Fielding and Shavanas the Dodsulty in.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
New Jersey, very famous inventors. So what they were trying
to do was home decor. It was their creation. Trapped
air between two shower curtains run through a.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Heat ceiling machine.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
They wanted this to be textured wallpaper for the for
the young crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, could you imagine just walking into somebody's house and
kind of leaning.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Over, but you got shot when you say bouncing off
the walls? Could actually you could do it.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's that's fascinating. But what a dumb idea. And it
failed miserable for that purpose. I think that's just a
dumb idea.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
No, So then they pivoted and said, well, what else
could this this could be used for? So then they decided, well,
let's try insulation in greenhouses.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Maybe Yeah, that was a big bust.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Too, that's fun intended.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
So finally they figured out, you know, this may be
okay for packing materials. So they formed the company because
back when they invented.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It was called air cap.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And then they formed the company Sealed Air Corporation in
nineteen sixty and began doing this. And about a year
later they just happened to get a big contract with IBM.
They had just invented an early computer, the fourteen oh one,
and they said, this is going to be way better

(02:29):
than what you're using. Newspaper strong horse hair, of course,
I mean as one does I remember packing things with
horsehair all the time.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
It does, just yesterday, and so.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
They got that, and so then it took off and
became a shipping industry standard. They've got six patents related
to it, and sealed Air continues to make new versions.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
But I'm not a fan of the version that doesn't pop.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, do you know who invented that? Cleus, say then
John Rozenberger.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
John Roezenberger holds the patent the news style that doesn't pop.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It sucks, yes, but it's.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
More environmentally friendly, kid, yes, stupid.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well do you know why bubble wrap is so effective
as a packing material?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
I thought you were going to say as a stress reliever.
I'm like, I want to Okay, why is it so effective?
Because it ends up sort of being cushion on cushion
on cushion.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yep, the shock absorbed shouldn't prevents the damage. That's a
big one. But even more important, it's so lightweight. That
much extra for the shipping because when you're shipping you
know millions of things.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
That really adds up. And then it's customizable.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
You can make any size of bubble wrap for any
type of product that you want to wrap.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
And there you go. I actually have some. It's big,
big bubbles like that. They're like that.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Oh yeah, I don't like the.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Little tiny bubbles as much, even though that should be
more satisfying, like when you twist it and it can
do like that like you're sitting on fireworks. Yes, so oddly,
I don't find that as satisfying as the single pop
pop pop of the large bubbles.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yes, And you know why, What is the psychology of
why we love popping bubble wraps so much?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm going to noodles this around for a second. Let's
see here what is satisfying. First of all, you get
to blow something up, so that's cool, and it makes
a noise that's fun, kind of festive noise, like a
little pop. But and you also defeated the plastics, so
there's a little bit of a build up to your
ego in all of that.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
It is, well, the one thing is that you talked
about the sensory feedback the sound and the field, and
what that does is it triggers dopamine response in your brain,
and so that's why it helps relief stress. And just
anything repetitive, anything helps relieve stress, or just the pop pop,
just the repetitive and somebody.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Helps do that. And then there's the nostalgia factor.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
What's the nostalgia factor?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
You know, remembering as a kid how much fun you
had with.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Bubble wrap and walking on yeah, yeah, and so you
kind of have that nostalgia hearkening back to your to
the tube.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
It is amazing the joy that packing materials of various
kinds have given me over the years. Give me a
good refrigerator box. When I was a kid and I
was good for a while, we'd make all kinds of
stuff out of a refrigerator box, and then of course
break dancing happened, and then people would immediately break up
the refrigerator box to lay it on the floor so
people could spin on their heads and bring it back

(05:16):
to the pop and lock as a metal guy, where
are you on the pop and lock scene, Chad.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm not. I mean I liked Breaking two Electric Boogloo.
I mean, who doesn't. It wasn't a big fan of
the original with us Allie and Jerry with.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
A little thin in Electric Boogloo one. Yes, they were
relying on the dancing a little too much. People are
concerned on the text line finding out that you have
the Subaru that you are indeed a lesbian?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Is that true?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
He is married to a woman, That's all I'm saying.
I'm just you know, I mean he's You could make
an argument that you know.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I like it. Yeah, it's a very nice vehicle for me.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I think you have some good looking supers. But maybe
I want an egg dropping contest in junior high simply
by wrapping it in bubble wrap.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Brilliant.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
See these kids in their smartness. Did you ever have
that thing? And did you have physics where you had
to build the egg drop thing and then you had
to drop it and whoever didn't break won the honor
of being the egg dropped chair or whatever. It was
an f I wanted to win it, but I wasn't
good at physics, so I did not win it. I

(06:25):
actually think, trying to remember if mine broke, like in
the process of even dropping it, it just was unmitigated disasion.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
You should have done it.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
You should have snuck a hard boiled egg in there
and swapped him out.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Of my classmates did and he actually got an F
like the rest of it just got you know, bad
grade or whatever. But yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead and finish.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
I was gonna say, the world record for simultaneous bubble
wrap popping twenty six and eighty one people.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Doesn't that feel like an achievable thing to beat?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I feel like it was said back in twenty fifteen,
so it's been on the books for a while.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I wonder if there would be an event now, how
many people does Fiddler's greenholds? Zach Real, quick google how
many people Fiddler's greenholds? Because if we could do this
at a concert of some sort, you know what I mean? Sure,
how many we got in there?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Eighteen thousand?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Wow, Fiddler's Green does not hold eighteen thousand.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Pack really cover Colera actually their own website, even with
the seating capacity of seventeen thousand.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
It never feels like that many people think about that.
You can do that in between acts. You can have
so many handout sheets and bubble wrap really really fast
and then simultaneously everyone in the crowd. Just that feels
very I've been looking for a Guinness Book, a World
records thing that I could beat. I feel like we
should be able to beat that one and whatever.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's the style of music though, has to be pop music.
I can't tell you the artist, but has to be
pop music.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Or you could do like you know, Pop Goes the fourth.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah at the Boston Pops.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Right if you really wanted to take the theme all
the way through.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well, do you remember pop Goes to the World by
Men Without Hats?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
That is a great song, its song, Yet I had
that cassette I Love Men.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Without the single.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I forgot about these singles. Well, that was lame man.
So although I have a great story about meeting Edwin
McCain right before his big song broke.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
He opened for Jewel in a.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Bar in Orlando, and we're standing outside in line to
get in, and this kid comes down and hands out
ka singles of his new song. That after like two
days after we saw him in this bar.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
He just exploded. He's had the nicest guy. That was
very pleasant times, which.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
We chatted with him for a good I don't know,
fifteen minutes in line. Line wasn't going anywhere, so he
just stood there and chatted with us. Very interesting. Mandy
went backpacking as a team with a friend that used
a sleeping pad with big bubbles. He had a hard
time keeping the other teens from popping nibble. All right,
what's our last few facts about bubble wrap?

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well, let's see if I've got anything. Are we done?

Speaker 3 (09:06):
M oh yes, net sales sealed Air Corporation five billion
with a be So when they invented it as a wallpaper,
who would have thought later it's.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Such a bad idea. It's amazing how many companies we
have that the product was designed to do something completely different,
and then when they got they were like, well that
sucks for that. Yes, capitalism is amazing. It is now
A text just asked Mandy. Do we do the fingers
in the air when Chad is done? Or is that
a rotten thing ross on the news? Of course, yes,

(09:45):
of course we do the fingers in the air. I
traded for the full package, not some pale imitation hit
the music sac you know, boom, fingers in the air,
Like exactly, Chad, Are you ready to avenge your loss?

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yes, old boy, I can't do any worse. So let's
just say this.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
I we're watching a recorded we record Jeopardy. That's just
the nerd level in our family. And I watched the
show last night where every single contestant was terrible, terrible.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I've seen some of the.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Winner was like five thousand, nine nine dollars. That's that's
how much it was. And I got most of the
answers right, and they got them all wrong, and I
was like, well, aren't I smart?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Anyway, because now it's time for the most exciting segment
all the radio of the sky in low.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
That would be called.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
The Dying Duck. And what we're gonna call that one
out of the day. What is our dad joke of
the day, please, Zachary. The dad joke of the day
today is.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
How can gambling help you get back on your seat?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I enjoyed this one.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
You show M.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know if you lose your car in poker?
Oh god, i'd you walk in a while? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I got it? Yep, back on your feet, I got
it all right. Moving on from that horrible, no good,
rotten dad joke, what is our word of the day please.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
The word of the day today is deleterious.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Deleterious means something that's not good for you. It's bad
for you, Yes.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Something damaging her, harmful in a subtle or unexpected way.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh good.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
H Today's trivia question, what film does the following oft
quoted line come from? I'm just a girl standing in
front of a boy asking him to love her. Wow,
I just watched this.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I know I'm going to get it wrong.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's not Sleepless in Seattaway, but it's it's a good one,
an I guess anyone anyone that would be nodding?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't think Julia Roberts.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go. What is our jeopany category? Please?

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Jeffrey?

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Category today is prehistoric animals?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
H prehistoric? Yeah, I preview this way. We'll see.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
I've had a bad run of ticking categories.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
We'll see.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Though it had a ten foot byte diameter. Megalodon, the
biggest ever of these, died out in the Pliocene.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh no, I did again, Yeah you did. Okay, we
don't know what shorts are shark Okay, sorry, been.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Movies like bad movies about Megadon's around ten feet tall.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
A tusk mammal had hair that could get to be
more than what's.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
A wooly mammoth? But that is correct. I think I
know what I'm jumping on it.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
California's official state fossil is this feline known for its
canine Go ahead, Chad.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
What is a saber tooth? Tiger.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
That is correct.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
An early type of this semi aquatic weasel wasn't.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Cute and cuddly. It was the size of a wolf
with a what's an honor?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
That is correct?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
I just saw a story on that giant Honor family,
the family.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, I did not know the size of a wolf.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Sea squorpions called your ripped it is could reach eight
feet with sorry, could reach eight feet, making them the
biggest ever members of this phylum that includes prestations and bugs.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't remember my phylums unless it's phylum
dough that you make grape dishes with. JK. It's Philo.
Go ahead, that is arthropods. Arthur Potts yep is that
it's the fifth Okay, thank god, that's over. Sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, at least I got one today and.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
We didn't embarrass ourselves at all. I mean a little bit,
but not that much. Okay, it's not terrible. Tomorrow's show.
We've got weather Wednesday coming up. We have to march
not Oh gosh, I forgot to talk about this. A
Rod has two tickets too, Ringo Star tonight. He's trying
to sell. They are in the balcony. It's at Belco
if you want them, a Rod at iHeartMedia dot com

(14:14):
or look at his social media. There you go, and
now we'll be back tomorrow about whatever. I don't know,
but KOI Sports coming up next

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