ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Inventions named after their Inventors!!

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

On this FOTD(OTW); Vaughan investigates Inventions that were (humbly) named after their Inventors! It's Time For...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn fires off a barrage of facts about inventions that were humbly named after their inventors. It's time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. Firstly, I'd like to apologise for my very erect nipples. They are.

They're looking right at me. I walked out of the studio, the bathroom, and the foyer of the building, freezing cold. Oh, really? It's very cold out there, Vaughn. It's very cold out there. Goodness. And I immediately responded to the cold with the erection of the building freezing cold. Oh, really? It's very cold out there, Vaughn. It's very cold out there. Goodness. And I immediately

responded to the cold with the erection of the nipple. He won't stop playing with that. I hadn't noticed and now I can't stop looking. Jesus. Well, don't keep rubbing them. No, I'm going to push them down

with one finger. No, that's only, they'll only respond. No, I'm not moving it around. I'm not doing anything other than warming them. Well, just lean forward like that. It keeps your T-shirt a bit looser.

Yeah, hunch your shoulders. Now I can't see your nipples. My hunched shoulders and my slightly compressed throat hide my nipples. Is this how you like me, Fitz? Yes, it is. Hunched over, no nipples. Oh, stop it.

It's awful. This week's Back to the Day theme is things named after the people that invented them. Today we're stopping by Doc Martens. Oh. Mr. Dr. Martin. Are they named? Was he even a doctor? He was a doctor. What? A foot doctor or a

GP? Klaus Martens. Klaus Martens. Field doctor in the German army. Are you telling me they're German? Oh no! Oh no. Do I have to stop wearing all my dog masks? And your Hugo Goss. And my Hugo Goss.

Let's say the Adidas, the Dazzler brothers, Rudolph Dazzler and Adidasler. Yep. One, they made boots for the Nazis. That's Adidas and Puma. Puma was Rudolph Dazzler. What cars are we getting rid of? All of them.

All of them? BMWs? BMW, that's the one I think. Was that the one that they tested on the roads of the Volkswagen?

The Volkswagen family back. say what you will, lovely uniform, you know? Snappy. Fashion alone, it's a lovely uniform. I don't want to wear one.

No. Also, it's not spelt how he spelt Martins. Okay. Not Martins, M-A-R how he spelt Martins. Doc Martins. M-A-R-T-E-N-S. He was Klaus Martins, so it was M-A-E-R-T-E-N-S. Oh, right.

It was during World War II that Klaus discovered that he injured his ankle and found that the standard issue army boots were too uncomfortable on his injured foot. Right. So he made the world's most uncomfortable shoe. It takes six months to break in. Yeah, I was going to say, he made the world's hardest to break in boots made of stiff, stiff leather. He designed improvements.

He used a softer leather. How hard must the original leather have been? God. Yeah. My first pair of Doc Martens I cried in pack and save. I have canvas Doc Martens I cried in pack and save. I have canvas Doc Martens and they're the best. I've got the softer leather now on a couple of mine.

I don't have any Doc Martens. Don't you? I had some. They're your brown ones. What? You had brown ones. I did have brown Doc Martens. Yes, we did. We got the same pair.

I had the black slide-on ones. No, you had the brown Doc Marten boots. I know this because I have the same. I had the Turbulent boots. No, you had the brown Doc Martens. Tell him he had the brown slide-on ones. No, you had the Brown Dog Martin boots. I know this because I have the same. I had the Turbulent boots. No, you had the Brown Dog Martin. Tell him he had the Brown Dog Martin. I don't remember having the Brown Dog Martin. You did.

You had the Brown Dog Martin. I didn't. No, I didn't. Because I wore them one day. I've never had the Brown Dog Martin and I will never be talking to ladies. Sorry, sir. Backtalk! So he used a soft leather and an air padded sole made of old tyres.

Huh. Cut out truck tyres. Okay. Into the shape of the sole and sewed them on so that they were air cushioned. Now, when that war ended and apparently there was a lot of looting going on, he got himself some leather. He says he got it the legit way, but there's thoughts that he might have stolen his first leather

to get this started. Okay. He's going to make the most out of a bad situation, you know? He caught up with an old university friend, Howard Funk in Munich. Munich? Is that why I don't know his name? Munich.

I was so worried about saying, I was so worried about saying, F-U-N-C-K, Fonk wrong. Oh, yeah. That I took the Ong through to Monic. Monic. Monic. They went into business and just bought a whole lot of disregarded rubber from old tires and stuff, shaped them into molds and cut them out

and put them on the bottom. Massive hit with housewives. Oh yeah. And 80% of the sales in the first decade of Doc Martens were to women over 40. And then of course they've just been around ever since they entered the British punk market when they were sold to a

British manufacturer and a British boot company. So a lot of people do believe they are a British boot, but they're not. Yeah, because I always thought they were British. Nope. Yes, same. Oh, wow.

Okay. And they really have their moments, don't they? Like I feel like there's been a resurgence of late. Yeah, and they were like super gothy. That's how I got into them and then became way more mainstream. What was the 10 high? Yeah, the 10 ups. The 10 ups. 10 ups is what they were called? Yeah, the 10 ups. The 10 ups.

10 ups is what they were called. Eight ups is your kind of standard. But 10 was for... And I had 10 ups because I was punky. You had to tell everybody that you had 10 ups. The normies wear the eight ups. So today's fact of the day, and the first of the things named after their inventor week,

is that Doc Martin boots, albeit now an absolute boot choice of lesbians, and a well-known brand that's like, it's in the middle of Camden Town in London, full blind, like we love everybody. It's got the rainbow flag and it's got the triangle bit in the corner. Everybody's welcome here at Doc Martin.

Actually had its origins in Nazi Germany. This week here at Fact of the Day, we are looking at inventions named after the people that invented them. Okay. And today I want to talk about the Gatling gun. The Gatling gun? The Gatling gun. Gatling.

Oh, that's after Warren Gatling. Close. Richard. Richard Gatling. Richard Gatling. Okay. He invented the Gatling gun. Gatling? Oh, that's after Warren Gatling. Close. Richard. Richard Gatling. Richard Gatling. Okay. He invented the Gatling gun. If you don't know what a Gatling gun is,

the first ever Gatling gun, if you ever watch period pieces of the mid-18th century sort of American Civil War time, that set them up. They usually towed them around on like a wagon because they were so heavy, but they were the first. And you would hand crank this thing

and it would just have the bullets loaded in and it would turn it manually and as part of the turning that would turn the barrels, it would also punch, punch, punch, punch, punch. A bit like a Nerf gun. A bit like a Nerf gun. On a wagon. A giant Nerf, hand cranked Very very deadly

Nerf gun I think nerf Okay Turned blaster Yeah they don't like To say gun He invented this You know there were

Guns at the time Bang reload Bang reload He's like this Oh missed him Bugger Yeah Hang on hang on

Why are you waiting You bastard And then this thing Got wheeled in on a wagon Do do do do do do do Do do do do do do Do you want to know what else he invented? Okay.

Which could have also had his name but didn't. A steam plow. So that was considered the first steam-powered tractor. Oh, yeah. The Gatling gun in 1861 was his big one. A marine steam ram in 1862. So a boat would drive into another boat and then set off this ram that would just blow a hole in the side of the boat.

Like punch a hole in the side of the boat. Jesus, you're not surviving that, are you? He kind of went very different ends. He did a lot of agricultural things. He invented a wheat drill, which would punch a hole in the ground and then drop a wheat seed in. Yep. So that kind of

is the tie in. He must have thought, man, if I turned this sideways, made it massive and strapped it to a ship, I could just punch holes in the sides of other ships. And it was the same one, it was wound so it would go pop, pop, pop, pop to plant it which is kind of how the Gatling gun worked as well. So after he did the steam ram, he made the first ever motor

driven plough, which is considered the first iteration of a tractor. Very angry man. Angry, but also hungry. A very hungry and angry man. Well, hangry, isn't he? Angry. He was doing agriculture, he was doing war,

and he did nothing in between. Yes. That was him. So today's, it's named after the guy that invented it, is the Gatling gun, the preceder to the modern machine gun, of course. And it was invented by Richard Gatling. Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey. Machine gun, of course. And it was invented by Richard Gatling. Today's Fact of the Day.

This week here at Fact of the Day, it's inventions named after their inventor week. Okay. Things that you just say by a name and you're like, you don't really think about it. Today, the Jacuzzi. Oh. Richard Jacuzzi.

Nope. No, it'll be like Lorenzo Jacuzzi. I think one of the Jacuzzi. Oh. Richard Jacuzzi. Nope. No, it would be like Lorenzo Jacuzzi. I think one of the Jacuzzi brothers was called Lorenzo. Yeah, that's one of the Italian names. Because it was a... Mario? Hold on. Kevin. I've got all the...

I had the entire Jacuzzi family name. Giacondo, Frank, Rochelle, Candido, Joseph, Jalindo and Veliano. Veliano. Veliano Jacuzzi.

Are you talking about like a jetted hot tub? Yeah. What's the difference between a Jacuzzi and a spa? Same thing, right? Not much. The spa pool is just the non- between a jacuzzi and a spa? Same thing, right? Not much. Yeah. The spa pool is just the non-branded. Jacuzzi was the brand that became synonymous with the thing.

Because a hot tub, a spa, and a jacuzzi, all the same. A hot tub existed. A hot tub technically, from my research, limited be it, a hot tub doesn't need jets. A hot tub can just be an outside sort of a bath or a larger hot tub. A tub that's hot. And those have been around ever since we've had fire, right? It was in 1948

that the Jacuzzi family with Candido at the charge invented a... Isn't that like thrush or something? Yeah, Candida. The Candida bacteria. You wouldn't want that in your spa, in your hot tub. It's a fungi, candida, yeah. Chlorine will take care of that.

Candido. Candido? Candido. It translates to yeast infection. Summer yeast infection. That's terrible. That is terrible. Embarrassing.

So carry on. They invented a pump that would pump water around or into a hot tub circulating the water that was to treat a family member's rheumatoid arthritis. Candido had a son. His son's name was Kenneth. And he was born with a very bad- Didn't stick with the cool-

Ken Jacuzzi. His name was Ken Jacuzzi. Ken Jacuzzi. His name was Ken Jacuzzi. Yeah. He passed away in 2017. He would not have lived a long and, as he described it, semi-normal life had it not been for this invention. As a child, he had severe rheumatoid arthritis and other disabilities.

When he grew up, he became an advocate for the disabled, but he said it wouldn't have happened if my dad and his family hadn't invented the Jacuzzi, the spa. Okay. Wow. Okay. Wow. Yeah. It was in 1948. They were doing hydrotherapy for his rheumatoid arthritis when Ken was a child.

And the family always noted afterwards he felt better. He could move more. Yeah. We should be able to do this at home. So they invented a hydrotherapy pump called the J300. The Jacuzzi 300. Okay. Oh, my God. And put a patent on that.

Now, people were using it for medical purposes, but then someone apparently, you know, a rich old lady probably, was just like, I'm just going to have one. I'd love to have some wines and that. Why shouldn't I be allowed to have the thing that disabled children are having? Yeah. And it really took off when it was used as a

game show prize. Oh, okay. In the 1960s. And on Wheel of Fortune? An American game show. It was just kind of across all of the game shows that the studio was making. Right. Yeah. And then it was like, this is actually great for relaxation. And then people were like, I just like it. Yeah.

And now you've got like spa pools with like bajillions jets and lights and all sorts. All kinds. You can get 10 people spas. Yeah, but from a guy who knows, every moving part is just another part that can break and isn't cheap to replace. So keep it simple out there.

And you've got almost quite a simple one. Like yours isn't all flashing lights. this and that. The jets with the spinny bits, when they break, and they do, because they're in a chlorinated water. You've got to trim. Sir, my pubes will not be broken. You and this conversation.

Your spa pool is clogged with bed pubes and pubes. It's not bed pubes. It goes through the filter. It goes through the sand filter. No pubes can make it back through the sand filter. Yours are too thick. Yours are thicker than sand. It's like the sand which is made to filter

is getting hit with a Brillo pad. And then Vaughn always sees, oh, it's broken because he doesn't want us coming around. No, exactly. And it's never broken. There's definitely that. It's not broken at the moment. Ken Jacuzzi would invite us over.

Oh, my God. Ken would be a good mate. Because he looked after his pubes. He looked after his pubes and his mates. And his filter. Gosh. I'm going to sort those pubes out, mate. Speaking about the deceased's pubes with such frivolence.

We can only assume they were good. He's Italian. Well known for keeping. Well known for their hairiness And therefore them upkeeping their maintenance Upkeeping the maintenance of the pubes I stand corrected Maybe that was the special feature of the J300 pump Yeah good tube filtering

A pre and a post pubic filter So today's fact of the day Is the Jacuzzi The hot tub with a big pump on it For hydrotherapy Was named after The Jacuzzi family of Italy. This week's Fact of the Day theme is things named after their inventor that took the inventor's name.

I want to tell you about Earl Silas Tupper today. Tupperware. Tupperware. Yep. Bingo. Ipperware. Tupperware. Yep. Bingo. I guessed it. Catchingo. Earl Tupper.

He was an American businessman and inventor. He invented lots of things. Best known for Tupperware. What else has he invented? I'll tell you about his inventions. And this is the annoying thing about it. I found some of these inventions, but I couldn't find any more details on them.

Obviously, they never took off, and they're lost to the annals of history. Careful. Very careful. He invented a better stocking garter. It was a dagger-shaped cone to be clipped onto one's belt so that the pants wouldn't lose their crease. Got a crease down the side of the pants.

A better stocking garter. No word on that. And a fish-powered boat. What? I don't know. Tupper's fish-powered boat, I could find very little on. Would it suck the fish in, muley them up, and use that as energy to propel it forward?

No, it was... Like a vacuum. Where large fish were attached to the boat in sort of a horse and carriage type situation. Oh, right. Okay. I thought you did a lot of fish. Yeah, bizarre. fish were attached to the boat in sort of a horse and carriage type situation. Oh, right. Okay. I thought you did a lot of fish.

Yeah. And also, how would they swim all in the same, in the direction you wanted them to go in? Yeah, they'd be panicking. They'd be all over the place. Yeah. He also customized cigarettes, things like sporty cigarettes and smart cigarettes. A better way to take out a burst appendix. Oh. Who knew?

And heaps of other things, but he's obviously most well-known for Tupperware. He, in the Great Depression, lost his farm that he had inherited in his nursery business. Oh, that sucks. He went to work for the DuPont Chemical Company and he noticed there was large, black, inflexible pieces of polythene slag,

which was a waste product of the oil refining process. So they were making plastics at the time. He worked out how to purify the slag and moulded it into creating lightweight, non-breakable containers, cups, bowls, plates, and they were used in World War II. Oh, yeah. And then looking at how a paint can lid sealed,

he's like, I could do that with plastic and it would be slightly more flexible and thus was born Tupperware. So was he working for the company then or he'd gone out on his own? No, well, he was working for DuPont when he did it, but later designed the airtight lids.

In 1938, Tupperware Plastics Company launched. I mean, DuPont could have totally said that was a myth on our time, on our dime.

Yeah. We own the IP. Maybe it wasn't in the contracts like it is now. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe this was the reason it is in contracts now. Maybe.

So he had Tupperware and it was going pretty well. He was selling it in department stores and such. And then he was approached by Brownie Wise. She called the office and made a big pitch to him that she

believed it was the perfect product for her new sales technique, which was selling via home parties. And thus was born the Tupperware party. Wow. The Tupperware was the first product to be sold at parties.

Yeah, right. And often now other things sold at house parties kind of pay homage to the Tupperware party. Like if you were to sell sex toys, it's sometimes called an F word, a party. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've heard the term. Yes, I have, yes.

You've heard the term. Tupperware. Yes, sure, that. Right. So, yeah, that was, it went on. His marriage fell to bits a little bit later in his life. Okay. He sold the Tupperware company and moved to Costa Rica. Oh, New Zealand.

Oh, nice. He gave up his US citizenship and to avoid taxes on the massive amount that he just made off selling his company, he bought an island and moved to the coast, just off the coast of Costa Rica. Amazing. And lived there until he died at the ripe old age of 76 years old. Huh.

Guys, I found a picture of this fish boat. Now, it requires the fish being the size of the boat. And it's sort of strapped on its back. So like whales. It's like strapping a boat to a whale. Three clamps to harness the fish to the boat. Right. How do you steer?

I guess, yeah, with a rudder like you normally would. With a rudder, yeah. Coming to the group chat. Much like a donkey with the carrot on the stick. Yeah. Over the front of them with another smaller fish. Yeah, bit of burley. Bit of burley.

Little bit burley. Yeah. Little bit burley. Okay. And getting it going. So today's fact of the day is Tupperware is named after its inventor, Earl Tupper. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Ailey. Play ZM.

This week's Fact of the Day theme has been are things named after the people that invented them? Yes. And we're finishing on Friday with the invention of John Venn. The Venn diagram. The Venn diagram. John Venn invented the Venn diagram. I love a meme Venn diagram.

Me too, we're the same. There's three? Yeah. And we've each got something in common with the one next door, but some of the binds are three. I love them. Same. I love those things.

It's beautiful. Beautiful stuff. I love it. These beautiful things that we've got, you know? Yeah. Thank you, Benson. Benson Bone. Yeah.

Thanks, Benson. Cheers, Benson. Benson's brow. John Venn, born in 1834 In England Yep Died at age He must be so old now Well he died

101 years ago So he'd be 189 years old today If he was still with us Old boy He's a big old boy Yep Big old boy

He comes from A long line of Church evangelicals Oh Very strict upbringing Jar Bless But he got into mathematics Yep, those ones

That's the one That was the evangelicals that do that, Jar Bless That's from them I think so Yeah, with the Bob Marley flags Yeah, Jar Bless Yeah, that's evangelicals He was an English mathematician

How do you say it? They do logic. Logician? Sounds like a magician. Magician. A logician. Logician. And a philosopher.

And he invented Venn diagrams. Okay. That doesn't say how was it an accident? Was he just squiggling some lines? And he's like, I've got a group of thing here. And he kind of accidentally went over the... He was trying to explain how one thing can simultaneously belong to two, have two properties.

So it has this property and that property and then to say, like, things that are green and things you can eat. So you can eat a carrot, but it's not green. And there's a leaf, but it's not an edible leaf. And then in the middle, broccoli. Okay. Things that are green, things you's not an edible leaf. And then in the middle, broccoli. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Things that are green, things that are green. Great example. It was used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics. Okay. And he said that's basically how that works. But his family didn't particularly love how into the maths he was because the more into the maths he got, the less into the God he got. Oh, okay.

Yeah, right. But he is commemorated with a stained glass window that is a Venn diagram. What? I mean, he invented the Venn diagram. At least give him a statue. And the stained glass window is a Venn diagram, though. Yeah, but, oh, okay. At Grenville and Caius College in Cambridge,

and there's a little, you know, England has all those plaques. So much stuff's happened there. It's so old. You could just be walking along a street in England, and it's like, Jack the Ripper murdered someone here. And you're like, grim. But great, there's a little plaque for it. He's got a little plaque in Hull

and it's a Venn diagram. A window. Yeah. That's nice. And one side says, really strong beard game. And the other circle says, mathematician philosopher.

And in the middle, John Venn. Because he was both of those things. Oh, yeah. So today's fact of the day is the man that invented the Venn diagram's name was John Venn. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I counted 79 all rights today, Fletcher, but that's a new personal record.

Oh, f*** off. How many of those did you count? Oh, yeah, 79 of those too. All right, well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, give us a rate and review. Oh, f*** off. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.