Stuff You Should Know - SYSK Selects: How Igloos Work

Episode Date: December 15, 2018

Igloos 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey friends when you're staying at an Airbnb you might be like me wondering could my place be an Airbnb and if it could what could it earn? So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lisa in Manitoba who got the idea to Airbnb the backyard guest house over childhood home now The extra income helps pay her mortgage. So yeah, you might not realize it But you might have an Airbnb to find out what your place could be earning at air bnb.ca Slash host on the podcast. Hey, dude, the 90s called David Lacher and Christine Taylor stars of the cult classic show 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
Starting point is 00:00:43 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 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
Starting point is 00:01:27 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
Starting point is 00:02:09 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
Starting point is 00:02:39 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
Starting point is 00:03:19 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
Starting point is 00:04:04 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
Starting point is 00:04:50 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?
Starting point is 00:05:26 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
Starting point is 00:06:06 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
Starting point is 00:06:45 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
Starting point is 00:07:27 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
Starting point is 00:08:04 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
Starting point is 00:08:44 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
Starting point is 00:09:33 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
Starting point is 00:10:12 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
Starting point is 00:10:48 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
Starting point is 00:11:34 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 Hey friends when you're staying at an Airbnb You might be like me wondering could my place be an Airbnb and if it could what could it earn? So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lisa in Manitoba who got the idea to Airbnb the backyard guest house over childhood home now The extra income helps pay her mortgage. So yeah, you might not realize it But you might have an Airbnb to find out what your place could be earning at air bnb dot c a slash host On the podcast pay dude the 90s called David Lacher and Christine Taylor stars of the cult classic show
Starting point is 00:12:28 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 we live it It's a podcast packed with interviews co-stars friends and non-stop references to the best decade ever Do you remember going to blockbuster? Do you remember Nintendo 64? Do you remember getting frosted tips? Was that a cereal? No, it was hair. Do you remember AOL instant messenger and the dial-up sound like poltergeist? So leave a code on your best friend's beeper because you'll want to be there when the nostalgia starts flowing
Starting point is 00:13:06 Each episode will rival the feeling of taking out the cartridge from your Game Boy blowing on it and popping it back in as We take you back to the 90s Listen to hey, dude the 90s called on the iHeart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts 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
Starting point is 00:14:02 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
Starting point is 00:14:45 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
Starting point is 00:15:15 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?
Starting point is 00:15:56 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
Starting point is 00:16:40 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
Starting point is 00:17:12 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
Starting point is 00:17:56 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
Starting point is 00:18:31 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
Starting point is 00:19:11 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
Starting point is 00:19:48 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 Hey friends when you're staying at an Airbnb You might be like me wondering could my place be an Airbnb and if it could what could it earn? So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lisa in Manitoba who got the idea to Airbnb the backyard guest house over childhood home now
Starting point is 00:20:29 The extra income helps pay her mortgage. So yeah, you might not realize it But you might have an Airbnb too find out what your place could be earning at air bnb.ca host on the podcast Hey, dude, the 90s called David Lasher and Christine Taylor stars of the cult classic show 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
Starting point is 00:21:00 And now we're calling on all of our friends to come back and relive it It's a podcast packed with interviews co-stars friends and non-stop references to the best decade ever Do you remember going to blockbuster? Do you remember Nintendo 64? Do you remember getting frosted tips? Was that a cereal? No, it was hair Do you remember AOL instant messenger and the dial-up sound like poltergeist? So leave a code on your best friend's beeper because you'll want to be there when the nostalgia starts flowing Each episode will rival the feeling of taking out the cartridge from your Game Boy blowing on it and popping it back in as we Take you back to the 90s
Starting point is 00:21:35 Listen to hey, dude, the 90s called on the iHeart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts 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
Starting point is 00:22:29 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
Starting point is 00:23:05 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
Starting point is 00:23:44 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
Starting point is 00:24:18 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
Starting point is 00:24:54 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
Starting point is 00:25:29 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
Starting point is 00:26:04 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
Starting point is 00:26:44 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
Starting point is 00:27:22 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
Starting point is 00:27:54 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
Starting point is 00:28:30 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
Starting point is 00:29:11 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
Starting point is 00:29:59 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 But you don't want guinea worm life straw helps and I think the rotarians are big into um getting them all over the world They are and so is steven neiman and uh, steven wrote on our facebook wall after the life straw podcast that He was uh pretty blown away by this thing and he thought it's a pretty cool invention
Starting point is 00:30:41 And that he and his company uh the result of this podcast their company is going to donate a minimum of 6000 life straws this year in 2011 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 And that's where he is right now I don't know if he still is is a little while ago and they like the podcast on Haitian voodoo
Starting point is 00:31:16 And so good on you brother donate in 6000 life straws. That is awesome. Yes, so we just want to recognize that's more than awesome 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 In your t-shirt size. Sorry. It took so long to mention this. It got lost in the shuffle Well, good going chuck Um, if you are saving the world We want to know how because we want to send you a t-shirt if you're saving the world in a
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