Stuff You Should Know - SYSK Selects: How Igloos Work
Episode Date: December 15, 2018Igloos were traditionally used by Inuit Indians as temporary shelter while on hunting and fishing trips. In this episode, Josh and Chuck look at the design of igloos, from their impressive heat-catchi...ng properties to their ingenious construction. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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All right, everybody, it's Chuck here. It's Saturday. You know what that means
It's time for a stuff you should know select episode curated by me. This one's about igloos. How much fun, right?
It's from March 29 2011 and now this one should be landing here in the winter as well
So you can go out and build an igloo yourself. That's what I say
But be safe while you're doing it. There's a fun episode. I remember enjoying this one quite quite a lot
So I hope you guys like it
Welcome to stuff you should know from house stuff works comm
Hey and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh Clark with me as always is Charles W. Chuck Bryant
Hello, sir. That makes the stuff you should know right? That's right unless I'm in the wrong place. You're a little under the weather still aren't you?
Just as sick as I was when we recorded fainting goats. Yes
Not ten minutes ago. Yes
So Chuck hasn't been sick all week. No, it'll probably just be a couple days. It'll clear up. You have a robust
immune system for a man of your age
Remember when you were actually sick for weeks and weeks yeah like in year one
Yeah, and I think like 18 podcasts were screwed up because I was just I could not get better
I thought you those are those are the unhealthy days. So you lead a much healthier lifestyle much much healthier
Yes, you're not we don't need to check you into the sanitarium like we had to back in the day
I'm okay now. I'm not I've gotten over my consumption. Hopefully you will very soon
I have the all faith that you will right?
So Chuck
While we're waiting for you to recuperate. I have I want to talk to you about technology. Okay?
Yeah
specifically some of the oldest technology
known to man
Clothes clothing is technology. Yeah, so I don't think so, but it is Chuck
Probably more than anything else the thing that defines humanity is our desire and our ceaseless
Striving to become more than more than human yeah to take ourselves out of the rat race of
Evolution the the crapshoot of genetics. Yeah, and to basically take hold of our biological destiny, right?
Yeah, we sort of did that with clothing many many many years ago
Yeah, so that's that's what we do we use technology to do that and clothing was one of the earliest ones because we are a
Subtropical species humans are yeah, we're not supposed to live in really cold places right, but we do we've managed to migrate from you know
Somewhere near the equator where we can run around without clothes. Yeah to yeah, those are what they call the sexy epoch
That's right to some colder climbs thanks to clothes
along the way we
figured out that we could use hammers and
Use stones for hammers and other tools sure and we figured out that we could build our own shelters
Well make things warm on the inside right so eventually over the years we figure out a enclosed heating systems
And then now thanks to all this we have Swedes right and volvos and volvos thanks to the Swedes
So the technology of volvos are a direct result of the technology of clothes Wow in a weird way
You're exactly right, but somewhere along the line. There was a branch of
Of that linear development of thought and talent of technology all the way to enclosed shelters that house Swedes
Where somebody figured out that you can make an enclosed shelter out of blocks of hard pack snow
Uh-huh, and we know those today as igloos. Yes, and do you know what the Inuit call the igloo?
Igloos igloos. Yeah, it's not a trick question. That's a good
That's a great that was a good question though because the yeah, it's an Inuit word for what?
Believe it means snow house. So the Inuits are just among like the most pragmatic
Speakers on the planet. They're very cut and dry. Yeah, they call their snow houses igloos right that just makes utter sense
Yeah, we're talking about the Canadian tundra Josh and they
You know TPs and castles and other things that were being built were all well and good if you're in
Europe or if you are in a warmer climate, let's say like the Florida Pay and Handle, right?
You don't have to dig through 50 feet of ice to quarry stone exactly, but if you're on the Canadian tundra those aren't really good options
so
snow hard pack snow became the the masonry if you will
For the Inuits, right?
Let's go ahead and get to this Eskimo thing. Yeah. Yeah
Eskimo and Inuit are one in the same. They're two different terms for the same group of people. Yes, these people who
inhabit
areas spanning from Siberia to
Alaska, Canada, Greenland, a
3500 mile range, right? Yeah, which makes them the most widely spread aboriginal group on the planet. Yeah, an aboriginal
For those of you don't know doesn't just refer to the aborigines in Australia. It's any
Any any any any indigenous the first people in that region. Yes, or it would be aboriginal. Yes, okay
That was the one to get pushed around by the Europeans. Exactly aboriginal. Yes
And if you want to insult an Inuit you just go ahead and call them an Eskimo
Yeah, apparently it's a derogatory term because it was a term that the white man gave. I think it was another tribe
Oh, was it? Yeah, but it was an outside group. I always just figured it's the white man, you know. Yeah
So it was another group named them Eskimos which
Was thought to mean eaters of raw meat or raw blubbers what I've heard as well raw blubber
But then they later thought that Eskimo meant to to net snow shoes to build snow shoes and linguists can't prove it
Although that's kind of what they think but
In the glory that is language
Things can go from their original meaning to a popular meaning and its old meaning is meaningless
Yeah, it's only what people think or use right, right, which is how LOL is a word. That's right law
So we're gonna refer them refer to them as Inuit because that's the that's the way to do it
We don't want to alienate anybody. No, especially the Inuit because they are tough
People. Yeah, and they have survived for many many many years in conditions that don't seem to be survivable
Especially way back in the day
But they made it through right and they're thriving actually too. We'll get to that in a second
Yeah, I was surprised to see that but chuck a couple of other facts about these the Inuit
Which means the people right?
So they call their snow houses igloos. They call themselves the people right? It's just it's very spare
I could have been a good Inuit, I think I think so too. Keep things simple fall-down goat
Yeah
So they don't they they have never really
Established a formal system of government. It's the family is generally the the center of the community
Yeah, the no class system males are the figureheads. Yeah, no class system is pretty cool
And basically if you're a boy, you're a hunter. Yeah, if you're a girl you marry a hunter
And hopefully produce more boy hunters
Because the everyone's equally responsible for coming up with food. Yeah, and I imagine every family
Is is that's what that means every family is equally responsible for contributing to the food in the community
Yeah, yeah, so the more boy hunters the better so
Fascinating group. Yeah, and they have never
Lived in igloos as permanent shelters, huh? Well, yeah, and it's important that you mentioned hunting because clearly if you are
Living on the arctic tundra. There's one thing that you're probably not gonna have and that is a vegetable garden
So they are very carnivorous as a people. They do a lot of hunting. They did a lot of hunting of seals
Yes, which is probably they were called blubber eaters. Yeah, blubber eaters and where there are seals is
Gonna be a lot of ice sea ice. Yeah
Yeah, which leads to another peculiar trait of the Inuit peculiar meaning unique or specific. Yes
Kayak angst remember we talked about that on the webcast like a long time ago
I don't remember that and everything was cut off in the middle of it and like it was a guy Kawasaki day
Oh, yeah, and I wrote a blog post on it saying like as I was saying before I was cut off and kayak angst is this
It's a it's a condition specific only to the Inuit where an Inuit males to where
You become afraid of going out to hunt seals in a kayak
Usually following an episode where you've been up for several days. The Sun very rarely
Sets because it's summertime, which is the only time you went when you can hunt seal really, okay?
So you have a loss of sense of time
Mm-hmm. You're completely without any landmark or reference point. It's all just horizon and sea ice, right?
So you're without any and no bearings no sense of time and you doze off and wake up
And you have no idea how long you've been asleep
how far you've drifted and you may be out there drifting for the rest of your life and
You finally do find land again. You make your way back to your community and you become
I'm terrified at the thought of getting back in a kayak again. Hi a gangst. Wow. Yeah, specifically only to the Inuit
I don't remember that at all. That's so weird. Well, you should read my blog post
I usually have an inkling but that one doesn't ring true for me
so
The Inuit did not live in igloos Josh as you said that is not true people might think that
Inuit tribes just had igloos all over the place and that was their house. Mm-hmm. They were really hunting shelters
Yeah, it's like a hunting camp like Robin Williams
fishing camp in insomnia
Yeah, he was also nutty because of no sleep and too much sun. Yeah. Well Al Pacino was. Yeah, that's right. Yeah
That was Christopher Nolan, you know. Yeah, he's just amazing. Yeah
Although you had inception problems, right? It was really just Ellen Page. Yeah, get her out of the movie and you're okay
It wasn't even her necessarily although. I'm not a big fan of hers
I think she's a she's a good actress and everything but you know, I'll never figure for Juno, but it was more
Her character like clearly her character was put in afterward because the producers were like or the studio execs were like, wait
What is going on? So they wrote in Ellen Page's character to explain everything to everybody at each step
So that you can keep up with this really dense movie. Yeah
Yeah, that's good. You love getting me wound up about that. Oh and then just say the word inception around Jai
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All right, where were we the the Inuits they were hunting camps like we said, yeah, and
They're still around today and they are booming it not igloo is actually there. They're not quite as common
Yeah, but they did a study who assists the human rights program in Canada in Canada
Department of Canadian heritage said that there could be as many as 68,400 Inuit in Canada by
2017 and in 1996 there are only 41,000 in change. So
Yeah, they're they're booming as a people pretty cool. So they're thriving
igloos are we're never permanent shelters or structures for them and
And they had kayak angst one other thing to Eskimo kisses. Yeah, what's the deal there?
So, you know, it's like rubbing the tip of your nose. Yeah, it's cute
It is it's not entirely accurate though. I'm sure but they did kiss with their noses
Oh, really? Yeah, but it was you would put your note your nostrils to the face usually around like the cheeks right below the eyes
The you would put your nose to a loved one's face like that and inhale deeply and that was that's the real Eskimo kiss
Or Inuit kiss. Interesting, isn't it? Yeah, they had it wrong though
You knew at it, right?
the French
Yeah
They figured it out and everyone was like, oh, yeah, this is the way to kiss. Yes. Forget that. No stuff
All right, so let's talk about igloos for a second. Okay, they're built out of blocks of ice
They are not to built out of the kind of snow that you probably have in your front yard in Ohio
In the winter time, it depends on how wet it was. Yeah, although
My snow my cousin-in-law Alex Schreiber
Mm-hmm Ohio State University student built an igloo last winter. He and his buddies nice
Check this thing out, dude
Nice, right? Wow, I should post this. I'm gonna go you have to post this
What is it? It's like seven feet tall at least. Oh, it's huge and it's it's like really well constructed
He's sitting on top of it. Yeah, and it's not caving in if I built an igloo
You know, it wouldn't last very long pretty cool though. That is a backyard in Ohio, too. Yeah, it's gray day
Leapless trees everywhere. Yeah, yeah, he and his buddies, you know clearly had enough
Bored him in time to build this. That's very cool. So Alex Schreiber, huh? Yeah, awesome. Is he listening right now?
I hope so. Yeah, he listens. Okay, and I told I gave him a heads up
Yeah, we have to post that he's gonna write back and say don't mention the igloo
Don't they always huh? Yeah, so Chuck even though like say a hunting expedition went out and or even a single hunter went out
and built an igloo
That that it wasn't just the single igloo every single time right sometimes they lived in them for longer periods
Sometimes more people lived in a group and they would actually
Create compounds out of igloos by you know melding them together. Yeah creating walkways breezeways
It's pretty cool. And there were some that basically igloo cities that came about where you I think they would have like halls for
banquets and beasts and and like balls and stuff like like in you at balls held in
Well an igloo a big a large igloo pretty cool though, I didn't know this I had no idea
I always pictured just the single and also thought they lived in them
So this was this one I was because we're like the totem poles
We should probably also while we're just like busting things left and right
Chili Willy
helpful little penguin from the he was so cute
I went and watched when to refresh my memory chili Willy the ding dong. He was very cute
He wasn't I I thought he would be mischievous or I remembered him being mischievous like Woody Woodpecker, right?
Who was a jerk right? No chili Willy was a very helpful cute sweet little baby penguin
Uh-huh, and his little igloo the typical igloo that you think of a dome with like a rounded entryway pretty much dead on
Yeah, but it looks like you're your cousin. They don't
Cousin-in-law it looks like he you know, he knows what he's doing. Yeah, Alex. Yeah, Matthew
No, I said nephew. Oh, sorry
Yeah, there's no penguins in Alaska either so that's the other problem as well that chili Willy was not accurate
Right, but cute nonetheless. No, but the igloo he built was accurate. That's right. Yeah, and Josh since we're talking igloos
Here's here's what a naive person might say why in the world if you're freezing cold out in Alaska
Would you build a room out of ice and snow to sit in yeah?
How warm could that be it would take somebody pretty naive to say something like that though, huh?
You know how warm it could be up to 40 degrees warmer than it is outside of the igloo, buddy
Yes, and why Chuck where these furnaces coming from well your body for one. Yeah, human body is a pretty good furnace. Yep
and
When you cut down the wind chill
You're gonna take a big bite out of the cold when you put a couple of warm in you at bodies in there
Mm-hmm, and imagine these are big tough dudes. Anyway, they're probably just like exuding warmth
That'll feel you know radiate out and insulate the igloo will insulate that heat in right it traps the heat
Yeah, so I mean if you're talking negative 40 degrees
That's really cold, but if you could bring that up to zero. Yeah, that's still cold, but it ain't like negative 40
Which is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit. Oh, yeah. Yeah good point
so
The the snow is an insulator right yeah, it cuts down on the on the wind yeah
Oh the melting that's the other thing too. Yeah when when you build an igloo and
Don't worry. We're about to give you step-by-step instructions on how to build an igloo
We should get Alex on the horn. Yeah, really bro at the very least he can verify it, right? That's right
When you build an igloo you
The Sun when it does come out or if it's out the whole time
Especially during the day it'll heat up enough possibly to melt some
Re-freeze at night, which is what you want melt re-freeze and
You you your body heat also may melt it from the inside out some and then when you go out to hunt
It'll re-freeze every time more likely is probably the more likely scenario. So this
thawing and freezing and thawing and freezing basically turns the igloo into this really
strong and
insulated structure. Yeah, and
by the boom by the bing
You got yourself an insulated place to fish. Yes, or at least to bunk down while you're fishing. Yeah
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So Josh are we at the point where we tell people how to build an igloo? I?
Don't think we can delay it any longer. Oh, we can okay
You mentioned that igloo igloos are kind of out of fashion with the Inuit these days
Yeah, not as common, but they're becoming increasingly common at ski resorts apparently
Yeah, if you are such a ski junkie, uh-huh and that you want to just basically wake up roll out of bed
Put on your skis and start skiing immediately. Yeah, they have igloos usually on the slopes
That you can rent igloo villages that you can run an igloo overnight or for as long as you stay there
Well pretty sweet, huh? Or if you're you know feeling squirrely you can build one yourself
True dad is that a segue it is if you if you've done it before like your
cousin-in-law
It could take as little as an hour if you don't know what you're doing. It could take six or more
Yeah, I want to ask Alex actually how long it took because the first pictures are are at night
So it clearly took them longer than a few hours. Yes, like when I saw that someone could build one an hour
I don't know about that. I don't believe that. I'm pretty sure if you were raised as
As an Inuit and you were I don't know in your 20s
I'll bet you could build an igloo in an hour. Yeah, maybe so yeah
And it looks like Alex and his buddies used a tub like a shallow plastic tub to pack the snow down in there
That's smart and form the blocks. Yeah, so the way we're gonna teach you how to do it requires a snow shovel
Which looks an awful lot like a drywall or not a snow shovel
It does require a snow shovel, but it's no saw. Yes, which looks an awful lot like a drywall saw indeed
And basically you want to go find some ice like you were saying you
Normally wouldn't find ice or snow
That's just fallen. It's gonna work for an igloo. Yeah, you want to find wet-ish
Hard-packed like that's more solid the better. Yeah snow, right and what do you want to do with that snow Chuck?
Well, you want to use your little saw you want to cut large blocks. I guess you can vary the size
But they recommend in the complete wilderness training guy. They recommend three feet long 15 inches high 8 inches deep, right?
So once you get your blocks, you want to start building, you know, put your foundation in a circle and
Start building up that foundation
working your way up as you go
decreasing in size as you go and
you also have to
shape it at a slant obviously or you're just gonna have a
Ice block tower and not a domed roof
Correct. Yeah. Yeah, you um, you want to shape it at a slant like you said, but you also want to make the blocks
Decreasing sizes you get bigger decrease and overlap. See you you did some
Some brickwork and that's sort of the same principle there
I never built anything that was tall enough that I had to really build it back to stagger it and when I did
It was like that pre-made castle rock. Uh-huh wall. Oh, yeah, that's designed and set back, right, right?
So it didn't require any thought
But yes, if you if you kind of have something that's technically at a slight
Incline, uh-huh
It will provide structure if you can get it to connect right as a dome like Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome
Exactly very super strong structure
So as you're building this and then you start to make the dome part it should support itself if you've done it, right?
But you can always use sticks on the inside to support it temporarily
Until you get the dome complete and then it's all pressing against each other. Yeah
And then how do you finish it off with it with the top? Well, you want to take a chunk of ice
You're what you're gonna have is this perfect dome
With some variation of a perfect dome, right? Um, and there's gonna be a central hole in the top, right? Yeah
Like a little chimney. Yes, but you actually want to plug this one. That's right
This is one chimney you want to plug and you take uh, you cut another block
That's going to be bigger than the hole and you want to shape it so that it basically fits
This this hole that's left over, um, which should be
Something like an octagon maybe roughly. Yeah that shape
And uh, you want to fit it in there perfectly
You want to cut it shape it put it in there so it's in there perfectly packed in there
Yeah, because this is your load bearing keystone basically. Yes as long as that thing's intact everything else should be fine
Right, you lose that you're in a lot of trouble, right?
Um, and then after that you're ready to start insulating it filling in the cracks
You want to shovel snow on top of everything and the loose snow that is what you want now you want to work with it
Yeah, and you're going to use some insulated gloves on your hands
Or else you're going to lose your hands to gangrene in a few days frostbite sure
Um, and you fill in the cracks with the snow. You just kind of smooth it over with your hands
Yeah, so that the snow packs into the cracks and all of a sudden this um separate block
Uh pattern is lost and you have a basically a smooth dome. Yes is what you're going for right?
Yeah, and at the end it's it's a lot harder to try and build a door into your thing
It's easier just to build the dome and then cut your door out
Yes after it's finished. That's a good point as well. And um a lot of people um a true
Aficionado of the igloo would build a little l-shaped entryway tunnel
Yes, that'll cut down on the wind coming in even more. Yeah, because the wind has to turn a corner. That's right
Um, so you cut that hole in whatever shape you want whether a key shape
Um, or a lot of people use like a tent shape
An a-frame. Yeah. Yeah, and you then you cover it with blocks
You make like an entryway shelter basically and then like you said you you might want to put it as an l
And then you dig a hole into the snow so that you can get into it
But basically you're kind of crawling into
The the entryway it looked like. Yeah, right?
Um, and then after that you get inside and there's a very
Vital step that you might not think of. Yes, and that is drilling air holes. Yes, because
As once you've packed it full of loose snow and it's um, it's basically mortared
um, and you uh
The thing melts and thaws and freezes and thaws and freezes and becomes even more of a solid structure
If you don't have air holes, you'll suffocate and die
Yes, especially if you do something like bring a camp stove or a Coleman lantern or that kind of thing. Yeah in there, uh
We don't want to see that happen
No, and I don't even know that we should recommend bringing a stove at all. Yeah, which this article says
You can as long as you have enough air holes for ventilation
I just say build it for fun and just keep the noxious fumes out of it. Yeah all together
Yeah, I I should say that this article also specifically says that it is in no way shape or forma
Meant to be a comprehensive guide to billing in a glue. It's just the basic
Yeah, there are some good how-to photos though if you want to check it out for sure. Yeah some really good illustrations, right? Uh-huh
As how stuff works is lousy with that's right
So I guess that's it for igloos. They are everything we thought they were and more
Yeah, you know a lot of times you think oh, I bet you it's just our interpretation that you see in the movies and all these things
But they really do look just like that and they're built just like that and not a lot of surprises here
No, which is kind of reassuring in a lot of ways. It makes me feel good. Yeah
Yeah, so I guess if you want to catch up on your chili Willy, we won't blame you. I found plenty on youtube
He's adorable more butter more butter more syrup more syrup. I don't remember that one. That's a good one. Um
No, that's a parquet commercial now
Are you sure? Yeah, okay. Well, um check out for chili willy and be sure to um go on to howstuffworks.com and type in igloo
iglo and is going to bring up a pretty cool um step by step illustrated guide to building your own igloo
sans camp stove with air holes. That's right. Um
I think did I say handy search bar? You just did. Okay. Well, then it's time for a listener mail
Yeah, this isn't so much a mail. This is something I wanted to mention a long time ago and kind of forgot
Uh, remember the life straw podcast? Yes, you want to do a quick recap of what a life straw is?
Yeah, so life straw is a portable device for purifying water. Um, and it's cheap
It's easy to uh, hang on to it lasts for up to a year
And if you are in a place that's infested with guinea worm, you still need to drink water
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Nice
6000 not bad, huh? Yeah, and I asked him if he minded us uh mentioning this he said not at all
Uh, his company is 11th hour search in alexandria virginia. It's a very small staffing firm
So it's not like even some huge company that's doing this right and uh, he said his wife works in hati for the us
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I mean, that's very cool. That's gotta be worth a t-shirt
I would say so steven
You got his email. I don't have his email, but it feels right in yeah right in send us your email steven
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Hey, dude bring you back to the days of slip dresses and choker necklaces
We're gonna use hey, dude as our jumping off point
But we are going to unpack and dive back into the decade of the 90s
We lived it and now we're calling on all of our friends to come back and relive it
Listen to hey, dude the 90s called on the iHeart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts
Hey, i'm lance bass host of the new iHeart podcast frosted tips with lance bass
Do you ever think to yourself?
What advice would lance bass and my favorite boy bands give me in this situation?
If you do you've come to the right place because i'm here to help and a different hot sexy teen crush boy bander
Each week to guide you through life tell everybody you everybody about my new podcast and make sure to listen
So we'll never ever have to say bye. Bye. Bye. Bye
Listen to frosted tips with the lance bass on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts