Brain Soda Podcast - Episode 6 - The Great Peanut Butter Flood of the DC Universe

Episode Date: March 11, 2023

On this week's episode of The Brain Soda Podcast we'll be discussing  DC comics upcoming movies/TV shows, the Great Molasses Flood of Boston, and America's favorite food inventor, George Washington C...arver. Come listen and learn!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 It's time once again for the amazing Brain Soda Podcast. I am your host, Kyle Moore, and I am joined here today with Brad, and with Frog, and as always, we'd like to thank you for joining us here. Today, we're going to be talking about DC's brand new slate of films and television shows. And Brad, what are you going to be talking about? I'm going to be talking about the great molasses flood. That sounds pretty sweet. It is.
Starting point is 00:00:58 It was a little disastrous, but yes. Let's not talk about that part just yet, and Frog, what are you going to be talking about today? I think I might bring up a guy by the name of George Washington Carver. Talk a little bit about him, see what he was into. I dig it. This one's cool. I'm excited to hear about it.
Starting point is 00:01:18 But first, over this week, gentlemen, we had James Gunn show up on the internet and tell us exactly what he plans on doing moving forward within the DC universe. So who is James Gunn? I keep hearing your reference him, and I'm not familiar with the DC universe. So if you've watched any of the Marvel movies, the guy who did the Guardians of the Galaxy films. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:48 He also did. Yeah. Well, I think he wrote and directed all of them, but at the very least, he directed them, had the creative vision for it and things like that. And like the third one's coming out, he did the Suicide Squad in this DC universe that we are in currently. So like he's kind of been all over comic movies in the last number of years anyway, but he's now like a co-CEO of DC Studios.
Starting point is 00:02:19 No doubt. These guys have only been on the job for like three months. So in 2025, he's going to write, well, I guess it doesn't say if he's going to direct it, but he's going to write or is currently writing Superman Legacy. And that's going to be the first film project, July 11th, 2025, tentatively, obviously, right? And from there, dude, you have a lot of a mixed bag of stuff. You're going to have Bruce Wayne with a kid while we're keeping the Pattinson movies, but we're calling them Elseworlds projects.
Starting point is 00:02:52 You got a Wonder Woman show coming to HBO Max. So are they creating like kind of the set, like, you know, how Marvel Comics kind of has a continuous universe? Are they doing that with DC as well? Yeah. I mean, you could, they had that. They had a shared universe of cross films for the entirety of Zack Snyder's kind of Manning the Helm.
Starting point is 00:03:14 Since you had like the Batman V Superman, Man of Steel and stuff like that, this is a shared universe we've been in. And that'll be rebooted with the Flash film, which I think is the only reason they're keeping Ezra Miller, to be honest. I feel like they went, well, you know, we have Ezra and a pretty much done film to reboot this universe. One that we knew we were going to do. We had people talking about for years.
Starting point is 00:03:40 This movie's been supposed to be made for a number of years as well. I think the first time it was announced like 2017 or something like that. The Flash movie? Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it's, this has been a long time coming to be perfectly honest. I think once you got out of Batman V Superman and all the critical failings that that film
Starting point is 00:03:58 had, definitely with Justice League, you know, you probably look to this film to do that. It's probably a big part of the reason why it was never actually made in the last X number of times in scheduling and everything else that goes into films. There's a lot of this stuff that even just conceptually, I really like, even, even if we don't know what it's based on, like Paradise Lost is pitched by James Gunn in that video as a Westeros-like Themyscara, which is an Amazon island. Paradise Island is a, you know, a bastion of magic and mysticism, and it definitely has a lot of cool conceptual things you can have there.
Starting point is 00:04:42 What is that? What is that again? It's called Paradise Lost, and it's a Wonder Woman origin show. So it's pre-Wonder Woman, but it's the politics and events that happen on Themyscara on Paradise Island. Like, the origin story of Wonder Woman? Or is that just where she's from? I don't, see, that's the, okay, so here's the thing, like, one of my favorite iterations
Starting point is 00:05:05 of Wonder Woman doesn't even necessarily have that origin. Like she's not molded from clay. She's born of Zeus, and they tie her in as close as they can with Greek mythology. That was just the New 52 stuff that is on its own, even within the time that they were still labeling books, the New 52, that stands on its own. Brian Azarello and Cliff Chang did an amazing job, and I love that book, but like, I don't, I don't know what they're gonna do as far as leading it up into Wonder Woman being molded from clay, but like, I don't think that's what you do with this show.
Starting point is 00:05:36 I think you set this show like a hundred years before Wonder Woman. Okay. And you just let it play out. But I don't know. But that's what it's pitched as, is a Game of Thrones-esque. Kind of like, I don't know, it kind of reminds me of like, The New Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power show. You said you really liked that, though, right?
Starting point is 00:05:53 Yeah, I was, I mean, we didn't end up finishing it, but like, I mean, just other things. I mean, it was a good show. From what you watched of it, though, you enjoyed it. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, I do want to finish it. Yeah, man, that sounds really like, that's like, I don't know much about DC, but Wonder Woman and all that, like, I thought she was an Amazonian.
Starting point is 00:06:13 Wasn't that? She's an Amazon, and Amazons in this universe, they reside on Themyscira, that whole island is separated from man's world, and it is a Greek-inspired thing. Yeah, I think there was like, a Greek myth about Amazonian people. Yeah, and I'll tell you right now, the next time we do a breakdown, maybe I'll look at Wonder Woman from Brian Azarello and Cliff Chang, because I really do think that's a fun little myth and mysticism romp. But even the other stuff, like, Waller, like, after reading Dark Crisis, which I won't
Starting point is 00:06:51 spoiler, but there's like this little stinger with Waller at the end, and like, I'm excited to see the DC universe with Waller kind of like, taking prominence and maybe being a little bit more of an antagonist than like, Waller a villain. So she's often typically, yes, a villain, but she is, who directs the part of the government that runs Task Force X, the Suicide Squad. Okay. So yeah, she's not necessarily ever a good character, but like, she's the necessary evil, right?
Starting point is 00:07:21 Okay. She's government branded. Evil. So like, I love the lanterns pitch is how Jordan, Jon Stewart, but it's like true detective. Like those two space cops are on earth. I feel like that means you're not going to have them using a bunch of like outer space, you know, big light construct powers in the very beginning. But if it catches a following, like, it may blow up into this big spectacle television
Starting point is 00:07:48 show more consistently than I don't know. But like, there's some weird stuff, like we're going to get a swamp thing film and we're going to get creature commandos as an animated television series. I don't even know creature commandos is besides like, that's apparently where the weasel from the Suicide Squad comes in at. He really did kind of take and they called this gods and monsters and I feel like for that namesake, like we're going to have a show like Waller that follows this anti hero villain s character.
Starting point is 00:08:21 We're going to have the creature commando these offbeat off brand kind of heroes. We're going to have swamp thing have a film and then like the thing that I love the most about it though is during this he named comic books. He said are brave in the bowl Batman film is it's going to have Damien Wayne Robin Batman with a son. We're going to take Grand Morrison's comic book and we're going to adapt it. The Superman Legacy film, if that's, if that's where you start with All Star Superman. I don't I don't know where your universe goes for there because it's it's kind of supposed
Starting point is 00:08:56 to be the last Superman story, but like to take inspiration from that and lay out portions of your film based on those stories makes a lot of sense. So I feel like no matter what if you're taking inspiration for that's great, but he wants to pretty much make Supergirl a Tom King book that came out I think just this last year and adapt it wholesale. And like I love the fact that he's naming creators works actively and and letting them get the credit they deserve for creating a lot of this stuff. Who's your favorite Batman?
Starting point is 00:09:33 Honestly, I think I want to say it's George Clooney, but then I watch those movies and I don't like them. I'm thinking, but what about his Batman? Like take the take the things as it is as far as somebody who plays Bruce Wayne. Yeah, I think George Clooney plays it because I like those. Like that's what we grew up on those though. Like that was around our when we were kids. So that's what I like.
Starting point is 00:10:04 I got to go Michael Keaton following Michael Keaton, too. Yes, Christian Bale right under. Yeah, but Christian Bale is probably I'd say is the best. I haven't watched the newest one. So I don't know, like Ben Affleck and the other guy, the shiny man player guy, Edward. Right, Edward. No. Yeah, no, I'm going to I'm going to be perfectly honest. I really liked Robert Pattinson's.
Starting point is 00:10:25 Yeah, I really liked his Batman. I think you should check it out because like a lot of it makes sense to what young Batman almost psychologically what that takes to have somebody be crazy. You have to be like, well, my parents died. So I'm just going to put out a back costume and fight back. Like, so obviously it's more like an origin. I'm not. Or it's no, because yeah, he's an active crime fighter.
Starting point is 00:10:51 But I will say this like you can tell that this is this is like what Batman. OK, well, I don't really watch a lot of DC stuff for anything really. Besides the Batman films usually and even Batman books, dude. Yeah, but like people know some DC heroes, but they don't get deep into them like a lot of other people do. And I feel like part of that is is the early, early 2000s film boom that happened for Marvel also came off the back edge of years and years of DC having second, not even the second in market share overall.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Comic books degrading when the bubble burst and kind of falling out of favor. And then they had kind of made up for a lot of that. But then with not being able to capitalize on the films, they kind of have always culturally been the blue brand that's that's the number two brand. Yeah. But for me, they still I stayed deep. And there's always Superman associations. Superman and there's always Superman and Batman. Like that's the thing, those two are like the super.
Starting point is 00:12:01 But Superman doesn't sell or stay. And I feel like Superman stays in public consciousness because every time a character or a writer wants to do something different with him than goody two shoes, American male, he becomes a news story. And yes, Superman will always sell a high level number of books. But like after a couple films that are highly popular, Iron Man's always going to sell some numbers for the next number of years. Like there's multiple things that I think contribute to that overall and in general.
Starting point is 00:12:33 But that's a smorgasbord of what DC is going to be offering you within the next number of years. Yeah, it sounds like, you know, they're they're they're flooding us with a bunch of different movies and stuff. This happened in Boston back in 1919. Back then, you know, there was a lot less regulations and stuff, obviously, you know, there are molasses. You guys know what molasses is. I use it a lot in cooking.
Starting point is 00:13:02 Are you familiar with it? It's slow, right? It is slow. Yes. Well, it's thick and dense, and that's why it runs slow. Yeah, it's it's like it's. But what I mean, it's sap, isn't it? It's it's like a byproduct of making sugar. I mean, it's part of sugar, you know, it's like if you. OK. I always thought it was from a tree. I always thought you had to sap something.
Starting point is 00:13:23 No, to get molasses. No, molasses is is made from sugar cane or sugar beets. You know, it's yeah, it's it's in the sugar cooking it down into a paste syrup type. Yeah, it's like you refine refine it more to make like sugar or you'll use it for brown sugar. I think, you know, it's just as part of the sugar making process. But they also use it, though, to make alcohol and like rum and things like that are just straight alcohol ethanol, you know.
Starting point is 00:13:49 And OK, that is what was going on here is there was this company, the the purity distilling company. And yeah, they had they needed to make all this ethanol, right? So they're like, well, why don't we just make a big old tank to hold the molasses so that we can we just pipe it right over to the ethanol making plant? And of course, like I said, back then, you know, back in 1919, there wasn't really much regulation at all. So they just they didn't hire like anybody that was like
Starting point is 00:14:26 contrary to greed or anything. They just like hired some guy just. Hey, can you build this giant tank for us? This 50 foot tall tank and this, you know, like 90 foot wide. So like this is just like this giant like start like a water tank. You know, imagine a water tank right around, right? It held it held like hold like of like a couple or I think like 40,000, 50,000 gallons or something like that.
Starting point is 00:14:55 It was it was insane how big of a tank this was. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So molasses, though, you got to remember is like like like Frog said, it's it's thick, right? It's like actually 40 percent thicker than water. So like at room temperature, it probably flows a little bit thicker than honey, I'd say. So you have to like heat it up to get it to move, especially in the winter, which it was.
Starting point is 00:15:23 It was in it was in January. This occurred to Javer in 1919. There was that pre prohibition. Ah, I think prohibition was. Yeah, yeah, I think prohibition was just around that time. Yeah. OK. Yeah. I thought it was just after I thought it was just after. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:40 It was like right after that time, if I'm not going to say. Yeah. I think it happened maybe later that year or 20. Yeah, it was close to then. But yeah, so to bring this molasses in to start the tank, they just got it. They just built it. They didn't even check it to like to see if it leaked. All they did was like fill it up the bottom up with like an inch of six inches of water. It was like, yep. Oh, yeah, the bottom doesn't leak.
Starting point is 00:16:07 We're good. Good to go. So they bring in this molasses and like it for like for a while was like it did work for a minute, you know, when they first started filling it up, it was like leaking everywhere and like it was like dripping all and they patched it. Yeah, they patched it a bunch and all that and they painted it the color of molasses so that people didn't realize that it was leaking because people were like stealing it and stuff. Oh, my God. Right. Just sitting there siphoning it off.
Starting point is 00:16:40 So but yeah, so that, you know, they fixed it enough. It was just like a crap we built take. Well, I mean, I was I was thinking once you said the amount of like a silo, like a little mini silo laid on the ground, but that's probably in our ticket. Like that's probably. Yeah, no, like, yeah, no, 50 feet tall and 90 feet wide, you know, so like. Yeah, it is. It's like a silo. Yeah, it's a big old thing, you know. Wow.
Starting point is 00:17:06 That's insane. Yeah. So yeah, 2.3 million gallons, I'm sorry. I had to make sure I had that 2.3 million gallons. It held. Whoa. Yes, saying so. So wait a minute, though. Like, OK, wait, wait, wait.
Starting point is 00:17:26 That means that like this had to be like top tier like material, right? Like if it's 40 percent thicker than water and it's supposed to hold that much volume. And they obviously knew molasses was thicker. Yeah, no, they should have known. Like, yeah. So it still had rivets and all that. Like it still had. Yeah, that's the thing they had.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Like, OK, well, the tank, I don't know itself, probably was only heated at certain points, you know, but what was heated was this railroad tanker coming in that had more molasses to fill it up. So so this comes in heated and there's this cooler. Molasses sitting in the tank. And when they started filling it up, it it kind of burst. And all of a sudden, all of this molasses started spilling out and like a wave like 25 feet tall of molasses went down the road.
Starting point is 00:18:31 It was like it's hot, like burning. Yeah, like, well, you know, pretty hot. I was going to say the steam engine back in the day. Yeah, you may have had to like boil it and then oh, my. It wasn't hot like this stuff again. Remember, this stuff is like extremely sticky and it's 40, you know, it's like 40 degrees out, you know, so even like the heat wasn't even the thing. It was the sticking like it was actually it would have been better if it was hot,
Starting point is 00:19:02 honestly, because it could have been easier. Yeah, well, people are getting stuck. And like, you know, there was a count saying like, you know, like the horses and stuff. It looked like they were like mice and in like sticky like tar trap or sticky traps and stuff, you know, like people, they're trying to pull people out. Like I think like 30 people died, 30 something people died for only 30 people died. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, like, it just sounds like it sounds. Yeah, but wait a minute, I mean, actually, honestly, I mean, I think hundreds of
Starting point is 00:19:33 people are injured, but that is amazing, right? Because yeah, like it brought down buildings and stuff and like moved a train car and a bunch of crazy stuff. Think about a giant wave of glue. Yeah, sweeping down a city street. Like that doesn't sound like only that many people die in my head. That sounds like a thousand people die. Exactly. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Maybe that's modern day numbers. I don't know, but like, yeah, that that is insane. Yeah, maybe because it was so maybe because it was warm at first, you know, and they were able to get a lot of people out. But like once, you know, or people probably close to the epicenter, probably. Yeah. And like, oh, man, I just I couldn't imagine, you know, just seeing that. Like, you know, this like molasses, if you look at it, it's like it's thick.
Starting point is 00:20:23 Like it's not even like drowning. You know, it's not even drowning. You would see it coming. Yeah, that that might be able to run for that. That might be why is that it probably wasn't that quick, except for like right at the where it happened, you know, well, that's yeah, I'm thinking of the content. Like if in my head, the wall of it gives, right? And that means everything in this what, 50 by 90.
Starting point is 00:20:48 Yeah. So a 50 foot wall burst while it's filling with molasses and it comes down and it knocks over a building, you know what I mean? I'm going to handle molasses. What's that? Probably the rapid, the rapid heating of cold molasses by that stuff being added. Yeah, the difference.
Starting point is 00:21:12 I feel like it wouldn't be some say they think the difference in temperature caused it or, you know, well, helped cause it. But I mean, right, it was just really crappy build not structurally sound. Right. Exactly. And then the rapid expansion probably gave it a nice, a nice force. Yeah. That's almost. Yeah. So you have a shoddily built tank
Starting point is 00:21:35 holding cold product at an immense volume and it's dense as and then the hot product comes into it, they merge. There's a like a snap from that street on a giant hill. How's it getting down there? So yeah, because a 50 foot wall worth of it burst open. Exactly. It was a giant like tank. You know, it's a silo on its side. It was millions of gallons of molasses.
Starting point is 00:22:02 Yeah. Yeah. It's a giant silo. It's a big silo. I think of like, I said, like a water tower on the ground, essentially, you know. I'm not thinking of that moving down. I'm thinking just like I'm thinking like a lava flow. You know what I mean? Just that's what you see.
Starting point is 00:22:18 Oh, no. Yeah. No, it's like that's what I'm thinking. Like I said, a 25 foot wave went down. OK. Yeah. So like it was pretty bad. A little bigger than what I'm thinking. Like it tore, like it messed up this bridge that a train just had went by. And like it, like I said, it brought down buildings and it was just it threw cars. By sure weight. Yeah. By sure weight. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:41 Yeah. I'm thinking just like they're OK. I see I see a flow of something hot come on. I'm going to run from it. I'm not thinking of that silo taken off. Yeah. Like where it first happened. And like, I mean, I think about how long it would take to clean. It took months and months to clean all that up, especially because it was. Yeah, I don't even that's what I was going to say.
Starting point is 00:23:03 I don't even know how you would have the heat and the water resources available at that time. I guess they use sand and water to like spray it into the the harbor. Yeah, I get. Yeah. The sand would absorb it and where the tea is. So they had some molasses and tea mixed up. It's wild to that. That's probably some good taste in the ocean. Tasting room. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:24 I'm the best taste in bodies of water in America. It's like nasty. Just chilling out. But I guess I mean, some say, yeah, you can still smell the molasses. If you go to that area sometimes, like during the summer and stuff, it's crazy. Yeah, it's only been like 100 years. Oh, Boston, Boston, you said. Boston. Yep. Out in Boston.
Starting point is 00:23:46 Molasses flood, also known as a Molasses disaster. Oh, man, look at these molasses disaster, though. Just sounds like now a weird indie band we never got into. Like the Arctic Monkeys, you know, like, have you guys heard the new album from molasses disaster? It is. That would be a good band name. Yes, it would. That's I'm telling you, man. That's exactly like the Arctic Monkeys.
Starting point is 00:24:11 Like, I feel like I would hear the name Molasses disaster and be like. So is it like cross punk or is it like, what is it? But yeah, frog. Am I am I thinking of the right guy? I think the only thing I know about George Washington Carver is that he's a man of peanuts. Oh, yeah. I mean, if. OK, he came up with over 300 uses for the peanut. 300 uses, dude, I'm dead serious.
Starting point is 00:24:38 I don't want to sit here and list them all, but I'm. Can you at least list half of them? I'll just don't do that. He came up with the top five, though. I do want to top five of your favorites. OK, peanut brittle, cooking oil, shampoo, and even glue, just to name a few. Wow, I would like some peanut glue.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Right. It's probably the best. It's probably where Gorilla Glue came from. They dug over an old restaurant. Yeah. Maybe it does look like glue a little bit or wood glue. Right. Or if there's peanuts in those. Well, peanut brittle.
Starting point is 00:25:18 Dude, that I was reading through the whole list and there's a lot of crazy stuff that he put together. So, like, we're we're OK. So, yeah, tell me about this guy. All right, give me a little bit about this guy. He's he was an agricultural scientist and inventor. And he was born into slavery around 1864. Nobody actually knows his real birthday.
Starting point is 00:25:43 He was just kind of right right down there. Well, 1864, that's like right at the Civil War then. Yeah, exactly. That's crazy. So. Down there in Missouri, that's where I was born. And he actually died at the Institute that he ended up teaching at and stayed at for the rest of his life. Wow. But, um, you, you, Bradley, understand the concept of nitrogen in soil.
Starting point is 00:26:10 And this guy is Mr. Carver is actually the guy that brought about crop rotation. As far as you grow cotton in the same field for too many years, you're just going to have to plead a product by, you know, the next five or six years. You figured out nitrogen that it was nitrogen that was depleting it. Yeah. Well, lack of nitrogen. You plant, you plant soybeans, you plant, you plant all kinds of nitrogen fixing crops. Yeah, exactly. Rebuild it and you rotate.
Starting point is 00:26:48 He pretty much, he's the one that essentially started that. OK, yeah, that's pretty cool. Right. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, he definitely cover crops and all that are very important. Oh, yeah, that's I mean, that's just that's so that's kind of what he started learning at Tuskegee down there in Alabama. OK, so he was born in a slavery and he at 11, he took off and started to do schooling and whatnot.
Starting point is 00:27:17 And I'd love to just go through his entire educational history because it's rather fascinating if you have time to look it up. But, um, he bounced from place to place to place to place because he was in these were all black schools, mind you, at this time, because I mean, segregation, right? Oh, yeah. Segregation is very extreme at this time. So this cat was absolutely unimpressed with the education he was receiving.
Starting point is 00:27:45 Like you guys, oh, he knew about it. Right. Yeah, I don't like what's going on here. I need to. And so he bounced around and he's actually the first American African American to earn a bachelor's. And he did that outside of Iowa State. It's crazy. Right. He's a dude. He's actually got a list of firsts for African Americans.
Starting point is 00:28:11 He's a pioneer for that. He's a pioneer for. So wait a minute. Is he doing this after the Civil War, then? He must have been born in 65. 65 was the beginning, right? Yeah, was it? OK. Yeah, yeah, I guess it would be the end of it.
Starting point is 00:28:26 Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking in the 70s, 80s, but he was born. So literally the Civil War ends. Yeah. And he's and he's the first man like within that generation of trying to go to Iowa. Yes, that's yeah. But he's migrating because he's got an education and he's building himself through that development over and over and over again from place to place to place.
Starting point is 00:28:49 So what made him like peanuts so much? Did you find that out? So with you know how I told you about cotton crops, you know, you grow them too much at the crop rotation while he was growing peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. Those were his nitrogen fillers that he was in. So with that being said, there was a surplus of those crops that were laying around not being used or
Starting point is 00:29:18 anything done with. So he decided to just start inventing things for him. OK. And that's kind of how it started, was just that surplus of extra crops that because nobody's used to those crops. Nobody knows what those are, so they don't know how to use them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He he pioneered. He thought about your uses for for peanuts. Right. They're like, well, there's no one's gonna buy these things.
Starting point is 00:29:43 I don't know. Yeah. He's like Sam on holes with onions. Great. Well, I'm like just really quick kind of as an offshoot. So do you guys know how like the nitrogen fixing works and all that? I don't. I don't. I mean, I get the concept, but no, I don't understand the science. OK. So it's actually symbiotic bacteria that does it with the plants itself.
Starting point is 00:30:12 And it like parasitizes essentially the plant roots. And it's a special bacteria that like takes nitrogen from the air. It's one of the few things that can do that. Take nice takes nitrogen from the air and then converts it into like available nitrogen to the plant. And that actually like is one of the things that allows like the life cycle of the earth to work as things like that. That's part of the nitrogen cycle. It's really cool.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Like you can see with like I'm like a lot of bean plants like soybeans, like you said, or legumes, which is what peanuts are and beans. You can see it. If you look at the roots after they grown, you'll see these like big old nodules. And that's actually like where the bacteria is infected the roots and like, yeah. So with GMOs and things like that, would you be able to make other plants susceptible to that use? Yeah, I think actually it's possible.
Starting point is 00:31:09 I'm sure there's stuff going on with that. But I know it's like it's a complex, it's a very complex. It sounds really useful. But you could do a grafting, like grafting you could grab. But a lot of things it's not worth it. But there is like there's beneficial bacteria molds that you still do that still work beneficially like that, you know, but. Oh, so you could just introduce them in the soil.
Starting point is 00:31:30 It's not the same and it's not as strong as, you know, the relationship. The concentrated element that comes from that nodule and stuff. Right. But anyway, it's tangent over. The frog, George Washington Carver. Like, did he sell any of his stuff? It was just like, here's an invention, here's an invention. I don't want to make any money off this. I just want to, you know, show you everything.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Overall, he went, like I said, he went from school to school to school. And he eventually where he got his bachelors at Tuskegee down there in Alabama. That's kind of where he just kind of took that he kind of created a home there and just studied and raised farmers essentially and did his little experiments. And that's how he just kind of studied and built from there. I mean, he's probably one of the most important agri-scientists of his day, right?
Starting point is 00:32:21 Not the most. Yeah, he he's buried. Maybe that honestly sounds like the life. That's what I would love to do, but with peppers. I want to be the George Washington Carver of peppers. Oh, absolutely. Great. OK, the million dollar question. If you've made a George Washington Carver movie, who do you cast as? Oh,
Starting point is 00:32:45 you got to look him up. I I. I know if I remember right, Morgan Freeman, it's no. I mean, you that's who you could. See, see, I'm telling you, yeah, I was going to say Morgan Freeman. Young Morgan Freeman. No, no. In a time machine, that's who you would cast.
Starting point is 00:33:07 Hmm. I can't think of an actor that would play him good, but I mean, nobody knows what this like, do they like realistically? No, that's I mean, like as a person, like it's not like this guy was on television all the time. You know what I mean? Like, there's no real like he acted just like this and like that. Back to me.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Yes, I'm dead serious. No, a little bit actually. Unfortunately, yes, a little bit, not the one with the big mustache, but there's a couple in here. Yeah, I see it too. I like the younger cat, though. Younger one of them. Yeah, I'm looking at a black and white picture of him right now.
Starting point is 00:33:50 And he kind of looks like his old is Bill Cosby. Yeah. Yeah, old him Bill Cosby at the very end. But no, no, I would instantly be like that movie. You know, I can see in a couple of these, I can see like an Andre 3000 almost to play him. Yeah, yeah, that one I'm looking at right now. I see Andre 3000 in it.
Starting point is 00:34:14 And I think I even feel Lamar actually, I feel like can do it. It's good. I'd like to end this George Washington cover a bit on a quote that he once said, when you can do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington, that was beautiful. Yeah, I actually really, really liked that. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Yeah, I thought that was nice. I do too. I definitely think that is. And with that said, ladies and gentlemen, we hope you enjoy joining us here on the one, the only, the amazing Brain Soda podcast for Brad for frog. I am your host, Kyle, and we will see you next time here at Brain Soda. Brain Soda.

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