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about the easy back up. That's why it's called easy by governs, were welcome to stop. You should know the production of iheart radio pay and working to the podcast josh clerk nurse, charles, the reach of bright theirs empty over there, the huge which means it's time for stuff. You should know the stall judicial calling ts hugged me. Yeah, we ve done a few toys. Plato psyches right what else, Why does a boomerang count as toy as saw a life mate and we've done times? We did silly putty syllable,

each year we did. You know a bunch there. The bet, a ball, yeah. The ball balls episode how balls and work the round and they bounce with the balls like a million times and then episode yeah. This is kind of cool, though the easy bake, urban, which I never had one did you ever have one in your home, then I don't think so. No, I don't think my sister had one either, although I was a pretty tubby kid, so it's possible that my mom was like make sure your brother doesn't know you have one of those do not feed your brother, anything from there, but it's interesting that this is one where a sort of a very simple idea- and you never can tell what's going to hit toy wise, nothing super complex about this other than you could literally bake food and sort of pretend to be an adult in the kitchen that that was the basis of it being an adult that was kind of kenner's thing

in kenner, the people who made star wars. Toys were the ones behind this and they were very much into toys that, like let kids pretend they were grown. Ups yeah, that was their bag. Yeah ave neighbor actually shut out to rick carry a guy's where they really. I got a new skinner. What reckon Cathy gotta shout out the podcast and their new neighbors geez yeah, because he worked for. I was talking to him and I was like he seems like a good guy is like what would he do ricky's retired now? What did you do? Nice like? I was a toy and action figure designer for kinner, and I was like wow whoa what years he came on after his first. The first thing he worked on was the TIM Burton batman, movies, nice and he stayed on for a long time like his whole career, like after they were sold and everything, while pretty neat. That is very cool, yeah good for him yeah sure he still does wonderful.

I sculpture so oh I'll bet just go after rick watkins art online and then check it out, I'm in I'm going to check it out, but I mean Canada is such a big deal to like to people our age and have many ages, but I didn't realize: They didn't realize their origin is a company Remember the we talked. We did a whole action figures episode member area and we talked a lot about kanner within a two part of a sudden. just like an hour and a half. What do you like it was just law goes very long, but can I almost didn't do the star wars? Ones, if I remember, but for us at least their peculiar on the map, what I didn't realize that kenner was already on the map as far as toys go here and one of the ways it

it got. There was from the easy bake oven, which debuted in november of nineteen sixty three right around the time that John Kennedy was shot yeah, but a kinner had been around since the nineteen forties and albert philip and Joseph Steiner and formed the company after as legend goes one of them, saw a bubble, you know maker bubble wander. What are we call him dear and was I k if I could do a gun that shoots bubbles we might be on to something that was our very first product? Is the bubble matic gun yeah then, whatever lesson twenty years later, the easy baby, then even though, as we learned today and yesterday, there had been toilet ovens since, like the victorian days, Yes, like really really dangerous y know like real real little evans like wood burning, pellet, solid fuels, stoves made of cast iron,

when there were size down for little kids, you you're, basically like here's, the oven that can kill your parents will just make a smaller one that can kill you right, yeah and yeah, so the the children's play, oven, functioning, play, oven and history very kind of closely tracks the real have in history right, yeah like when there were cast iron. Wood burning ovens, there were kids versions of up as they as real ovens moved into electric ovens. There were kids version Apparently I'm lionel train the model, train makers you're they made some in the thirties. Also. We want to give a shoutout to LISA hicks in the people collectors weekly for a grey article. We also used for new episode to, but the third. There were electric ovens by the forties are fifties. I think there were fiberglass insulated ovens.

Electric of its. It was just like a small oven for kids, but they were ovens. They were extremely dangerous yes and dumb kanner had this really great idea and the reason that this idea came about it to begin with separately. Kepler was really big on having like ideas could come from anywhere you anybody in the company floating idea and people would listen. They had like regular meetings where you know there are bull sessions. Maybe they are I did some like chow mein or something like that. Everyone rolled up their sleeves and relaxed and in spat out ideas and one of the salesmen from can came back in from the field and said you know what I saw something. I saw some pretzel vendors keeping their principles warm on the street using a light bulb. What if we used a light, bulb to heat up in oven for the little kiddies and somebody I think tat.

his house ralph house, while norman shapiro was that gentleman atlanta, ronald house, Ronald house was the big time and venture for kinner who had a couple of MIKE really big products under his belt and like that? That's an aces idea! That's exactly how we talked rubbish that everyone hated him for it. but he was really get it. Inventing toys are there to put up with it here, but killers deal if you were saying was find things that mimic adult things and that's like kind of a bet like kids are going to dig that stuff and they did from like and could still do little toy lawnmowers. Their toy bolder, person in rubies got a little cleaning set with like a duster and thus pan and a mob, and I D she oecd no, but I mean all the time she will say you know come on daddy. Let's clean and she'll hear me a mop. That's a little low CD well known Orleans good! Then

I like her, she said it did. You have one of those awesome plastic safety, razor, seek and shave. Next, your dad now I did, but I was I think, a lot of boys are pretty obsessed with shaving before they sure they have whiskers yeah and I think I heard that they would actually stimulate higher growth, and I was about to say I remember being worried about that, because I didn't have at a pretty I mean looking at me now. You would never know, but I didn't have a lot of facial hair gone on so well at the college. Was it like lacking or did it come in patchy. Just a little bit. Sorta, like my brother, is now: he just stayed in that phase, where your brother's got a perfect chiseled face. While I know this because he doesn't have a beard, okay, but scott can grow a pretty decent goatee now, but I don't know anything if it grow the full beard, but his his was it. We were both spotty like a little above the lip little bit on the chin. The one party can traced to line up to your eye from her

in from under your nose. Yeah but neat I mean it was sort of a family thing, we're not hairy dudes, we don't have very hairy legs or it is odd that you have full beard like I don't have hairy arms or anything like that, your your beast, I dunno Bees is the right word, but he s a more here here here I got my I just heard definitely plucked out from under my shirt, the ever done it like a laser. Anything like that, no good for you! Now, I'm just or you know, I mean you're normal. It's not like you're robin Williams. Now he was airy. Yes, he was, god rest his soul. Yes, indeed, so back to the ovens, so I'm there with the idea, been put out there now by norman shapiro. Yes, there ok so and do has taken up by royal house, and this is this is huge and groundbreaking, because again there were safe. There were some unsafe eyes of its four kids that had been around since the nineteenth century. With these guys, it just happened upon was the way to make another unsafe oven seem safe,

two parents yeah there was there- was it there was. The genius of this idea. Tat is what made easy bake ovens take off. What they figured out was that if they used light bulb as the heating element and believe me, a light bulb can can heat up then of inter three fifty four year up to three fifty, which is a common baking dump. Yes, from a low borg. Actually, the first it will see a pair of light bulbs, but the fact is there light bulbs and parents are familiar with light bulbs. You don't seem, writers are scary s out of wood pellet and the fact that it's not like a heating element like in an actual of in its a light bulb. That is what they used to convince parents it. This is a safe product they can buy for their kids. It was a genius idea. There really was and, like you teased a second ago, the very first model, nineteen sixty three- and if you look at the very first one it doesn't really

look like an oven was certainly the new one dozen either. Now I d go online, I like maybe I should get one of those but their ugly. Now they I'm sorry to the person who designed them. But there s a man like you said it their ugly little of year. They should gonna go back to looking more classic. I think you would be my advice, but they used to one hundred wide incandescent bulbs at first one over the top and another under the bottom. Obviously they were trying to get an even heat, because your baking things right and in a very wisely design this thing so that the actual of impart was basically inaccessible to the kid you're on either side. She just imagine a box Ok, okay, man, it's my favorite thing when you try to describe the heat. Let me I close my imagine a box

coming out from either side of the box or a couple of them little's little arms, arms are half arms in their rectangular and hollow a k in there. Actually openings one opening you slide in the uncooked thing that you want to bake into heating area the oven, let it bake and you push it through the other, the other side. The cooling chamber, and then it comes out the other on everyone. Josh's had his eyes closed, that entire any worked, really pay, a great picture in your minds- I guess yeah. So that's what what on you had the two bulbs and in fact it let's go and take a break there. Oh, oh and I saw clipping but when we come back already described the easy bake, oven again sanskrit

its nineteen sixty seven, the cold war and Joseph Stalin's daughters deadline of the princess of the kremlin has Asked fled mother russia, her new home, a place where the roads are paved with gold and people, big apple, pies out a baseball's and freedom a place. called america that story that story alone would be worthy of a podcast, but this one that lowness that laana is about what comes next and it's crazy, a story. I've ever heard. It has kgb agents, mystics and a frank, lloyd, right, commune destiny, immortality and unbreakable cycles,

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really are the rails made me question everything I knew about motherhood, history and the thing we call the american dream it's the last vestige of american freedom. Everything about it is extreme eerie either going to die or you You have this incredible river and really understand who you are come with me to find out what ways for us in the city, else, listen to city the rails and the I hide media hype, apple pie cas wherever you get your pike, ass or city of the rail start. Com, The we were at, one bulb right. Yeah, I'm sorry, no! We are at two bulbs right so long ago I couldn't remember. I know there was a full ad ago, but

then what they did was they figured if they just engineered this saying to distribute heat and hold heat a little better, almost like a conviction of an yeah, exactly like a conviction of and that they can on the one bolt yeah there's a dude named Charles Helen. I really want to Charles cummings, Charles one bob come here is what is known as charles coming susan. a designer kanner- and I think in the late seventies. He designed the interior of the oven so that the bulb one bulb created, convection current, so it could just as well as to both, for you just need one and he owns the patented. It really was, I don't worry, it should be air. He was the desire. He came

up with his pretty rare to other tenor, of course, I'm sure an exclusive licence to it, but I sure he got like a decent amount of money from their licence agreement. That is the way it should be. He also created the patent or held the pattern for the add on popcorn maker that you could put under the easy bake of into good for him good for you, Charles cummings, Charles one, bob cummings. He pray lives on top of the mountain somewhere in her and I'm on a mountain, the money- so are you down to one bob links to charlie cummings? They initially wanted to call this in nineteen sixty three when it was too bulbs the within imbued yeah right out of the gate they wanted to call in november of sixty three, the safety bake oven because they re want to drive this home was that it was super safe right and the regulatory bodies were like. You can't be having sold one yet like we not we're, not sure. If this is going to kill kid,

if you have burned a dozen monkeys during the product testing trial. Oh, that's awful, but you can't call it that yet because we don't know yet whether it's truly safe, go ahead and sell 'em sure, but just don't call it safe the safety baker into their like all whereby easy and the like. Are we still talking about this for done? Let you go and down these. Are there like a thief. I will call the easy bake government regulation, It is these make up in an it sold out immediately. They saw so november. Nineteen sixty three is right before the christmas season. Actually, in the christmas season getting even back then yes and they They made a little more than half a million units and saw the moloch before christmas, yet for fifteen ninety five, which is expensive, that how about a hundred thirty dollars today, no yeah, that's it that's an expensive toy wow, And if you look at the thing, I saw a picture of what is for sale on Ebay for really cheap things, like thirty bucks or something really, it was

an used in the box still be assembled. But if you look at it, you like best thing, looks like a death trap. It looks like the forbidden I love of children's toys from the sixtieth. You know like the sharp mental ledges yeah you're right out, like that's what it looks like I thank them a baby strolls we were pushed around here. Remember that that denigrate as an else get from years ago, the dangerous christmas toys NOS one called the bag of glass, and that's all it was the bag of swords of glass. Eel so the half a million and then there I we got it. a lot more of these for next year, yet because this is back at a time when toys do that very often you know it's the jerk every christmas. Now people are like well, what's the toy, we should go fight, other parents for a trials yeah tell us yeah, because I'm training in the ring. This is when it right. This is when it happened organically when you put out a toy and if it became like the fight where the toy that was a few and far between thing

please, you bacon was the fire worthy toy right out of the gate. Yes, as in year two, I think they They made about one point: five million so low. Those- and here is it here's the little bit of genius from kanner is any time you can sell a supplementary. to the the big thing. Then you really cooking with gas. That's like neurons. Why did you let razor model? I think it was churning gillette who came up with that. Yes, they did was they sold mixes. You know these little instant mixes that you and it in or make a little credit cake, and they had twenty five of these at first and were Sellen those like crazy because, like hockey if you're kith it. If your kid, you want all those you like law have, tried that the strawberry caveat pus also with now little tastes. Better mobility pudding this in like a book like some baseball cards. You, like my god, this one, o neill euphoria, you either

And you need another thing to replace any poop it out yeah and your neck and ate the poop again now you're going to go by another one, and I was at the rise of the other genius idea of this whole thing. There is a third genius idea to kennard. Did the so right. The islands are not just now the advertising osier, to remember this is kids emulating grown ups. That was their thing. It. They they advertise, not just two kids through like arches comics, but there they advertise directly to their parents too, yet I'm there were ads for the easy bake, oven on isle of lucy and unknowns heroes. According this collectors weekly article and in these adds, if you look at a lot of all that, and even some of the newer adds to for easy bake, oven. It's a in a daughter right and then the pair

it is like. Oh, this is something we can do together, isle of baking. It's basically my whole life, I'm a diamond. I live in nineteen sixty three and I'm a woman right. So I would love to share that with my daughter, maybe she's old enough to have an easy bake, oven herself and that definitely help propel. I sales for sure, because it's not just kids going on uneasy bake, oven its appearance, going to be a great thing to do with my kid yeah and of course, as people evolved and people became more woke overtime, even though that word wasn't used enlightened. Maybe it became a bit of it problem with gender roles and like this is for moms and daughters, their pink and that's what you're supposed to do as being the kitchen big for the men yeah. I mean very famously the easy bake ovens who always ended with the disclaimer like this toys, not for boys, he didn't really, but I say Julie eight would like. That was this. That was what was coming through and the weird thing is is for his as

like legendary and iconic a toy as the easy bake oven was as gender roles and as gender roles evolve. I mean this is particularly. Early seventys, when this really stirred become like a thing. Yet, these Ebay governed did not evolve with it right we will see it wasn't until the like early two, thousands that they started to like respond to that kind of thing, and I saw an ad for two thousand and fourteen, not a boy in sight yeah all girls and it just dancing around like the girly busy bake oven. You could possibly agent actually got more girly as timely girl focusing as gender roles. Why, on? It is really weird to me to be there Just now unresponsive, but almost like

no we're going the opposite way. Yeah and in early two thousands hasbro, who you know they bought out kinner, eventually makers of the classic snoopy sno cone machine. I never had one of those gentleness no neighbor did okay, but you got the Get some of that sweet see her cooking foods sugar ice. There is nothing like the taste of, I think the cherrywood I can't remember, but it was just the the greatest snow cone you could possibly hear and that's until you had a shave, Slater like oh! No. This is a lot better still number one raining. Champ really number two is blue, raspberry slush puppy? Yes, he what I always do as slurp that sweet, liquid and that'll be left with just some faintly colored cannot just ice. Oh yeah, nine. There was the problem with a future, but if you did it right in use kind of, let it settle. You got you know. Through the nasty stuff

Isn't it when you get to the bottom, then you got to the true like hyper hyper, dense, snow cone experience yeah. I can never do that. I'd still have problems regulating my like hot fudge to ice cream ratio, eating a sundae, oh yeah, just won't even do any more. You say you do all the hot fudge first and then you're left to some crunchy ice cream dip is that standard credit, delicious ice cream right whose ice cream and some people around the rover guilford credit he doesn't have any more fudge. Did I been on a a fifteen year campaign to convince Emily that vanilla ice cream is like a legit flavor sure I think she's. She still thinks that vanilla ice cream is just like. If flavored ice milk as like, it's the one without the flavor added right, mike no vanilla yeah. Is it really delicious it is, it is subtle, vanilla, bean ice cream and like a true, the flex, so good,

so in early two thousand, they finally, like you, said, tried very ham. Fisted way to get boys involve with ie the queue you easy bake, queasy big. Is that what it is to me a second too to use a separate word. So ok now even higher needed, so the queen, the bake and the mix orator for you, boys, you can make mud incur cakes than the large delicious, cocoon cookies- and you know not like hey just big something good, because anyone can bake yet any one can vague and they didn't like the girls. Don't don't use that one gavest! It was only boys there showed up in these ads. They like we really need to get boys involve turkey. We do that. I would make one specifically for boys. That's like they're, making cruddy I mean another, just trying to sell stuff, but when, in these meetings in these marketing meetings that you just can't help but think there is like a bunch of like eighty,

five year old man, it's our it's! Our senate fits him there rather legs screaming and pounding and yelling at each other about the idea of like selling this to boys. Oh man, well, after that, I feel like we should probably take yeah we'll go to arts in chambers and regroup right after this Its nineteen sixty seven, the cold war and Joseph Stalin's daughters deadline of the princess of the kremlin has just fled mother russia, her new home, a place where the roads are paved with gold and people, big apple, pies out a baseball's and freedom a place.

Called america. That story alone would be worthy of a podcast, but this one that laws that laana is about. What comes next and it's crazy, a story I've ever heard. It has kgb agents, mistakes and a frank, lloyd, right, commune destiny, immortality and unbreakable cycles, weird sex, stuff, weird money, stuff, weird dances, three august to settle on us and wonder rada, gay playwright who won't shut up about it. All guess which one I am listen to steady lawlessness. wanna on the eye, her radio apple, podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, inside the box. I'm I still am whiten in my podcast city of the rails, I plunged into the dark world of america's railways, searching for my daughter.

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the alright, so nineteen sixty seven easy bake up in a sullen like hotcakes, literally general mills by skinner and they did a couple of genius things a day partnered because your general males and they had no problem because they owned betty crackers. Well, I assume- king, Betty, crocker branded mixes and then later on. They got into licensing deals with mcdonald's and pizza hut. Because here's the thing you can bake anything in an easy bake, oven cause it's just a little urban yeah. I make pizza and I can make you don't have to buy these mixes. You can just bake cookies that you made from scratch. Yeah there's like a lot of recipes online, easy bake, oven recipes, yet it actually dont tastes like garbage right, so yeah. They did have a huge line of mixes though, and they sold more than one hundred million of them over the over the years. That's how they get ya

I mean they they're. There were recipes for or mixes for, candy bars, pecan, brittle, popcorn bubblegum. You could bake your own bubblegum interesting. It is interesting. I would try that for sure. I want to see bubblegum come out and like a brownie, pan, yeah that'd be like. I want some of that bubblegum alex amelia cotton the machine now that our member, what it would just spin sugar and you and I know what they do ere I wanted one. That thing was probably dangerous as public and nuclear centrifuge and what was interesting about those are fascinated me. Was it like the cotton candy? Am this? It's not com. second, not the weapons sugar, something like yeah yeah. I want to see Websites are either you. It's not visible in the middle east near. But when you stick in the little cone its builds up,

on it like is like it's coming out of it and another dimension into this. One like coming out of a spiders but its awesome to see here, a pink and in pink and blue spiders, but manner had to go out yesterday to assume a pickup truck. They cause a sceptic as it was paid orton, and I still move and haul stuff occasionally and move somebody unjustified to make a move. Something yesterday. and I went out- and there was the most beautiful hued spiderweb from a tree down attached to the rear. Tailgate of my truck me, like shocks, as is big spider right in the middle, and I was like a man. I just so bad and know what to do so. You put in reversing pretended nuthin in no actually put it off little by little cause? I want him ensure his safety and the web just is crumbling down into along. You know, skinny string, and here he climbed right up to the tree, and I was just like I'm really sorry, I think I'm sure you who, as you know, he's rather sorry spit

into my eyeball. What do you? What do you need your chuck for in your like category of peanut butter? Is it oh good? Thank you for ruining thirty hours of my work, a giant vat of peanut butter that would only fit in my truck and alright. So, let's, let's fast forward here to the modern times in two thousand and seven, the energy independence and security act. When the government said by two thousand and twelve light bulbs have to increase their efficiency by twenty five percent so by one hundred wide incandescent bulb yeah. So let me just say something on me said that, up to over the years these you wake up in a just, remained steady seller for catherine, then hasbro em in the design had been basically the same from two bulbs to one bulb, but it was this clause. box, where the heating element was where there was a slot on this. I remember I went to the whole thing I put it in, and it came out of the cooling chamber on the other side, but

the desire of the same. The outward look changed like it went from the weird its own thing, too, the late seventies and early eighties answer to resemble micro, asia and then in in response to this change in leipzig requirements easy bake did a redesign in two thousand six and for the first time ever, the easy bake, oven, actually looked like an oven like a stove had but all like fake burners on the targets. It looked like a sob and it was actually a front loader too, where there is like a slot in front of these Ebay governor and that's where you put the thing in and that's what you actually pulled it off. From two and it went right into the heating element and they replaced the the light bulb because, again so long hunt what what light bulb began? The energy act with an actual heating, in a ceramic heating element like enough, it was an oven, so they made

oven, but then when they made the oven, they redesign this thing so that you could put your it goes right into the oven. While it was baking at it's hottest, temperature and, of course, kids immediately started doing that. How did they? How did that one slip past? No idea that mean that just doesn't make any sense. At all so in the end, I think what what what close to two hundred and fifty kids ended up with. Like second third degree, burns yeah, one partial amputation of a finger yeah, because kids would get their fingers stuck in it right and it's just salmon, some kids get their fingers stuck in it. While it was heating or hot yeah, and yes, they were getting huge burns. So Hasbro is like well we'll do you recall on they recalled like nine hundred and eighty five thousand I think, ultimately, a million of these things. They recall. First, they tried to say, here's a little fix. Yet here's a retrofitted peace, it's really easy, just

but on it'll solve everything, and apparently it did solve everything they like. Why did you make it that way to begin with right? But most parents were not like they didn't. their ears out that there is a recall, their easy bake, oven and so their kids, the kid step kept getting burned and finally has is like just bring so. There is a recall: the million easy bake ovens from two thousand six redesign. There's a here too for them like two, if that would have ruined they make, and that would have been a big big deal so what they did, what they temporarily went back to an old design featuring a light bulb too. While they we redesigned it to the new version. So then came out in two thousand and eleven with that that ugly designed was called the easy bake ultimate of it. looking at now two things yeah does it looks terrible, it's horrible. It's super. It looks like it's on the go or something like that.

I don't like it. It looks like a weird toaster, oven, yeah, but it's sort of it. It looks like it's trying to look, futuristic and modern which never ends up looking like that. No it doesn't, but they also made it pink and purple super girly lads, the ads on targeted, yet there's flowers on it again, they were like note this for girls. Boys don't play with us. So in two thousand I think two thousand through Keen there was a girl named Mckenna pope, yes, who is just a hero have hero she's amazing. I saw an interview with her on cnn, pretty great she's, just so like self possessed and intelligent and like well spoken, but also like a kid nowhere, she's a kid she's, just amazing one of those clearly reincarnated and this and she went on a a she started, a petition.

To get hasbro to make a gender neutral version of its easy bake, oven costs, But oh brother like to bake but real, is that these ebay governments for girls she want to be able to bake, so she said hasbro want you, make one this gender neutral and got something like fifty thousand signatures for her petition and hasbro came out with a new version of the easy bake ultimate oven, which was just a black version of it, black and silver. I'm surprised it wasn't like an r brushed stainless model, sure right to emulate. You know kitchens right, yeah, she's, gee, she's, probably almost twenty years old, now yeah, when what she's doing mckenna pope are you out there she's some sort of like consumer protection lawyer I'll bet? Probably so I hope so me too, two thousand and six. They go into the national toy hall of fame the same year that disastrous redesign yeah they got in just under the wire he did yeah. You can't take it

I'm trying to look here and there from their very own website, some of them landmark years. Then kind of funny did emulated styles at the time unless they were just doing pig like sixty nine near the avocado green yeah. The the very next year was gold. Golda it's metallic p. He said a londoner uphill, Oh, they had a potato maker. Do we mention that? No nineteen, seventy three, the easy baked potato chips maker, the thought

and then in seventy eight. They finally started putting a fake digital clock on it that always read twelve thirty k, not for twenty. You see their latin and as a joke sure, unlike the pot had jug yeah but like you'll, see it at an alarm, clock ad and like sky all or something, and also for twenty right cause, the publishers jerk paying attention they get it done no or they don't care sure repeaters ago, when we used to have a lot of illustrations on how stuff works and had to in house illustrators, and that I won't name and remember. One of them drew out like a park scene for me in the treat clearly had a marijuana, leaflike embedded in a tight and ours. I came Annie. You can't do that. You say I was completely like man I wouldn't yesterday here. I've seen em, partly

before. I thought it was funny, but, like you know, you could do that you anything else. I don't think so is bake, oven mac and cheese. You can bake oh and two thousand and three, they they is the real meal oven and you kid that's when you could do like french fries and pizza, makin, cheese and stuff. I think that was the point. Sensor to the ceramic heating element that they eventually release the easy bacon in two thousand and six good stuff good stuff. If you want a nice blast from the past, just type in like easy bake, oven commercials, there's one from nineteen eighty that was just perfect here was it rat know, is pretty red oak. It was like carpenters, era gotcha, which is not red, but still

yes, love the carpenters me to do well. If you want to know more about easy bake, ovens or the carpenters is a snoopy sno cone machines has gone to the internet. The vast repository of stuff like that and since I said that it's time for listener mail, hey guys my freelance writer who works remotely seven. in traveling the world for the past year and a half it's been wild. Since I've been traveling alone, it can get lonely, but from mexico city to bali to Tokyo. You guys have been with me keeping me company. Make me laugh, teach me all kinds of cool facts as a content. Writer also feel a connection to we both have to research, seemingly mundane topics are sometimes and discover the cool, interesting things about them, present them in a palatable way. people sometimes laugh when I'm telling them. I'm writing something like the history of the egg, mcmuffin or the best month to buy a mattress. But I just point to your podcast as a sterling example of how gems and surprises lie within even the most unassuming topics

I think yeah, I agree. Have you guys ever considered doing a show on digital nomad thing? Never, I know it's becoming increasingly popular as more companies, race, remote working, I'm in a cafe and medellin Medellin colombia right now, and there are five digit well, nomads tapping when their laptops as we speak. There would be me if they knew I just referred, and I don't know man, the future is location independent. I say thanks again for being so awesome return dream of mine to digital, nomad over to a country where you doing alive show by gets a drink awesome If you do read this on the air, please give a shadow to mark alexander who insisted that I keep listening you guys either even after I was initially slightly turned off. Why all of your sides and off tracking happen soon out of you and that's funny, because we had a lot of today. You know that reminds me totally unrelated story he's she says now. I very much learn to appreciate those you would burst into tears, and I would do so. Thank you.

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