Your listening to the dollar, but on the all things Kommeni network, this is a bilingual american history podcast for each week I David Anthony, really story from american history to my friend, a Gareth Reynolds who has no idea what the topic is going to be about. How are you man, where we ve talked before this? So let's not do the fake recording ketchup thing, because we are not good. Ten minutes yeah, I'm gonna get you know all the stuff, so so things are good in everything's good and there are some things yet sure crazy question, but the EP pressure so, Let's worker works good work is this just not that we we ve talked, I dont really were in the show, so let's just do

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two point: six million to eleven thousand seven hundred years ago. That's the so! We are in what we're talking about neanderthals ugh, began using toothpicks to clean their teeth out. Dear me, where are we headed? They use twigs these stiff grass stocks and slaved or bone fragments to remove food that was caught between their teeth. Is it it? Isn't it just weird to know that we share the save like general well the little issues that earthy man that, like yeah one hundred percent ain't, never gonna get my teeth like they were also like. The gunk in my diet got gunk that why take popcorn yeah, no more popcorn.

again toothpick was a tool that continue to be used by people after that forever. It's never gone away. We've always used toothpicks, since the neanderthals sure five hundred BC, a king in the message it mesopotamian city of her, was buried with a set of gold toiletries. That's the same as bases that's right, pair of tweezers and ears spoon. Ah, that is enough for me on this one that is yeah. I mean yeah. I used to scoop three years, much like the fact that you need a spoon just says that it was it's like best. in Robin's time caramel ice cream is ruined. Yeah yeah, that's it for that.

and then he also had a gold, toothpick yeah, of course, but you don't know, what's going to happen after you die, you might be entertaining no come on. Let me that's. Lefty clean, rightly bubble ancient Greeks were sometimes called toothpick sure chores. if they were known for using small wooden sticks to get food from between their teeth. So I guess they were just everybody had them like it was just something that they always had. I believe it was filling says who cast down from Mount Olympus. They first pick of tooth. Yes, first pick a tooth. Algeria defeated Flossy. Us forces comes later right. Ok,

eventually became fancy status, symbols for rich people. Of course they did right. So so not that not the wooden ones, but like the really fancy golden those kind of people were like you had. One look over, not wood gold. I mean some of these guys have their slaves pick their teeth for them with the top man, I mean, there's, obviously just an endless amount of bullshit you have to put up with, but that would be very different, Oh God, and that's early dentistry and also like what, if you hit the gums too hard, a vineyard was dead, yeah right, yeah, yeah yeah, it's high stakes, Dentistry yeah, so that they made them from ivory and silver and and they had fancy designs

emerging on the andor, a a bird like it's just ridiculous. They don't share ships absolutely want to have a mermaid at the end of your gold. Toothpick related, at dinner parties. It was very normal to pick your teeth between courses just whip it out at the table start picking away, there's paintings of people just digging in there, but I do want to tell you that it goes. The beef is very tender shredded any. I did deep now, Caroline. I understand that you're back the market and available as you will, I'm sorry I said I am, and I'll keep a little bit of hub. Ladies, please there you ham, don't mind me. Just got a bit of the gravy, come over here. Sorry about that, I don't mean to splash everyone with my brown pools, but juicy at Caroline. I would learn kind of a pitch really the back.

And who says, there's something on the end of your mermaid? Yes, that's right. It's a big piece of shredded beef from the back of my God, I want a ravage you in the natural history, plenty plenty wrote quote: it is An official also to pick the sick tooth with the longest tooth of the left side of a dog or him. I think dog is dead. I can't imagine that you're holding up a d, add to your face. Although surely he's just saying. Take the dogs tooth he's saying: use the dog Lisa and saying, take the dog's tooth right, but he's saying take a dog's tooth to clean your teeth: yeah right, sir. Go or use the frontal bones of a lizard take

from the head of the animal at full moon which have not touch the earth. Well, that's easy. I mean you. I'm talking about a few months, to get the right toothpick just of observation, just a constant observation of two lizards Systems it just out lizard hunting on a full moon, so he can get that peace popcorn out of your teeth. I set up a pitch. He took a step, then he's not the one for ass. His family have pledged at the fifth, then, is no longer good enough to clean our teeth. We don't want a wizards curse. The prophet Muhammad asked that his quote funeral prayer racial and include placing a toothpick in his mouth. Just kick

I mean that is not the way that we have ever pitched. We ever have ever pictured him. I've yeah, it means you've, got to be very careful how you picture him, but yet of course a toothpick. I mean you know that maybe it's a loophole that maybe it's not to be mocked. Maybe it's just something we're not taking advantage of enough. You know what I mean like yeah. Why not have a death rider? Why not like your things that you want in your cut in your casket before you go. You know I heard the They thing I want is. If funeral my mouth is to be open and filled with Reese's pieces. And then anybody can have one open, casket, open mouth, open, Gasket Dave did this right minors. I just demand I'd being fully erect when buried. That's correct! Well, that's going to happen

yeah, maybe we'll talk and middle the Europe. It was normal to always have a toothpick hanging from your mouth. So at this point, it's just common and everyone's got one then you're. Just picking away. How did you I, the creepy guy, you can't You can't always panther off that yeah, that's the same in every right, at the well very well. I've had gold or silver toothpicks hanging from necklaces, so they didn't have to keep it in their mouth right. It's just gross. The renaissance was known as the golden age of toothpicks. Okay, so do you want. Be from that era know this is when we really nailed it. Like According to some historians, people would use toothpicks at dinners quote and the food particles

if they dislodged were spit out with gusto at that time, such behavior is viewed as a compliment to the host. Oh, my god Jerry. How did you fit that yeah? You must give us the red cap that, oh, my God, isn't it I bet this is I'm not kidding yeah I got out of there get the fuck outta there you little shit you're, so kind of Jerry. I'm not getting look at all this stuff, it's all owing to extort from the walls of my mouth delighted, look at it that all governments all over look at the mess I've made around myself. From that I, this large from my mouth. I love that son. Please Jerry eat all of the bounty that come out of my mouth there you are get in there, yes, eat by scraps, and

I more and more to come me again could be. he's, never lost his mind. In the 16th century, in the sixteenth century, Spaniards were known for their love of toothpicks share, one account quote, This decoration is said to be very becoming to the young ladies. They seldom put it away in the daytime. It serves to protect their two, if someone approaches them to steal a kiss in severe the dancers during their public performances have a toothpick in their mouth as an indispensable part of their costume. When we go back, but did you just say before, as you would have a toothpick in, and it was some sort of defence? Yes, it's

urged to protect their virtue if someone approaches them to steal a kiss. So if someone- oh, oh so, if you're a woman, you have a toothpick in your mouth Really difference again was as a lot about the men better that into a new basic. He had a device that were Start stallions mouthed stabbed him from touching your mouth rahul because, right because again you know that's how kissing works. That's right! Yeah! You do you do when you What one take it you need? You need the same sort of defensive tools that they would have when trying to stop someone from invading a castle right, along or we are used on the battlefield you ve seen them and brave heart now put them in your mouth. Well, that's why I would say women should just build moats around their heads. That's correct!.

one of the last things Charles. The first did right before he was executed in sixteen forty nine was to give away his gold toothpick, while on the scaffold. So no not a gross. No. I forgot about one last item to give away it's my penguin shaped toothpick. It's so rudely tomes. It's awful do not throw that address you, son of a bitch. You go, don't touch it! I knew that guy was here. when George Washington's teeth became a problem which we've done a whole episode about his Dennis

told him to use a quill tooth picker. Can you imagine seeing that mouth, full of horse teeth and deceased human teeth and thinking you know what this needs to fix it all toothpick. That's right. When George Washington wrote his rules for civility his his one hundredth was that shouldn't use a knife or fork to remove stuck food quote, let it be done with a with a pick tooth: yeah, okay, George, we're all on board for the first half, don't use a knife and fork: don't cut your teeth open to remove the food use this this larger or what I was. What I was researching this. I discovered that when English people came over at the beginning of America and they saw Americans using forks. They were like horrified yeah right, no idea what what were they?

They were used their hands. They think the belief was that that the fork would have would a p other people use it. It was gross or are you just using it over and over again was gross? I didn't like the idea of sharing a utensil for eating. Is disgusting. Here's the thing I've been putting betwixt my teeth. I think if I could have gone down that wormhole, but I feel like that would have just taken me to a really bad place. Well, Dave. I think you know you decided to avoid the history of forks and that's ok, yeah someone had Two toothpicks have been made out of many things: metals, copper, gold, silver, bronze, different kinds of wood, spines of cacti animal claws and bones bird burbled, Fishbones rat site bones tusks tortoise shells, Fred Flintstone

and hedgehogs were called a walking bunch of toothpicks. Oh that's good. What a great and isn't that great when your species is defined, as it's just utensil use. Oh look perfect there goes a battle. That's a turtle! It's a bowl! Okay! quite a list, so they were really being bones. Big player, animal the animals big player. As far as you want to pick always out of your teeth, right, yeah, and it must be some sort of nice kick to get a little bit of chicken breast in between your teeth with the beak of the bird sort of a nice kick there. You know it's just nice to get animal and be like how can I go for it is something I can you see. You are mine. Now. He saw you for quick

It became the most common type of toothpick in the eighteenth and into the nineteenth century that said yeah, but you know that was bored holocaust time right, so sure right use every part of it. I guess people cut their old quill pens into toothpicks Ok in eighteen, twenty seven, a newspaper reported Congress had bought twenty thousand quills and pens quote two thirds of which must have been used for toothpicks well that as a newspaper attacking them- and so this is that they considered this corruption- that congressmen were taking the people's money and buying toothpicks. Wouldn't it be just bear with me Dave: wouldn't it be nice to go back said that level of corruption you toothpick budget. Now we're like it's a race to see who can get the richest there

the the nah nah nah nah, wherever your home Now, by the middle of the internet and the demand for quills were mass produced, knowing toothpicks are also becoming common because anyone could make them right. I mean that was a thing. You can just grab a twig and sharply. up and use it sure everyone in Brazil use toothpicks, because porch put the Portuguese were huge on toothpicks any and properly had the first manufacturing system, some some religious nuns. I think credit like a little toothpick business so Portugal big on it to that, as so Brazil, where Charles Forster traveled in the middle of the eighteen hundreds

was born in eighteen. Twenty six in Charlestown Massachusetts to an aristocratic New England, family men, imagine being born in your rich family in a town named after you. Yes, I'm a king. His great grandfather had fought in the revolution and gone to harbour, but John Hancock My grandfather own, a big furniture business, so rich family well, our family. but his father gave tons of money to the poor, quote a peddler or tramp who called at his door noon was often invited to dinner. He gave away money in great quantities to the poor. He was so charitable, but that he came near leaving his own family and poverty when he died out. So that's a guy we, like so Anvil and what year did that species go extinct,

Because of human, that does that, I see he was the one. Ok, we had one so child. Grew up living both large and poor right and he had he got both sides of it because of the furniture business he knew. Woodworking Charles Uncle Henry was a Boston merchant who who founded a company, and I should look as a parent, I'm part of oh go per annum: Jericho, Brazil! So such I'm in the MID eighteen hundred Charles, went to Brazil and why they got there. He was like check out these fuckin awesome choppers on these brazilians. He was he had tooth envy. Everybody had awesome teeth right. Which he said was due to the quote: whittled slivers of wood that were sold by boys in the streets. So there's little kids run around seven toothpicks

and then there were the larger handmade toothpick that were made in Brazil. Five inches long and sold twenty two, a box for zero dollars and fifteen cents. We really gotta get in there teeth are bigger, teeth were bigger back then use it as a walking kit. Is that true, an inch long? No, no, not Trudeau! Oh! I was like what like that would make more sense if ever I like bugs Bunny mouth. and the. U s wooden toothpicks were in the. U S: wooden toothpicks were something made yourself from whatever wood was around when you needed one summer, Americans to recycle their need to pick my teeth and here's a twig and I'll just sharpen it now and use it. It was like immediate. You just did it the bombing if you needed it,

sure some people would make a bunch. I think people still do do that by the way. I think people yell at times they'll just be like just take this little piece of wood yeah I mean I've used all kinds of stuff like he picks them up. You're like I got something in there. Let me spend get out with this piece or become very yeah. You become very big ivory and subs Some Americans would make a bunch ahead of time and just keep them on hand, so they just have a pile of toothpicks. you'd have a toothpick day toothpicks brown modem make a budget to their Parada Americans were also known for wittily, so it was like he went hand in hand with Americans. We were a thought of. People are always a widow Paypal whittling away,

ways with a knife handy. So the idea of importing wouldn't toothpicks seems pretty bizarre rank as well. Just went well when allow gardeners. And then, when a load of toothpicks arrived, the nineteen, forty, nine in Boston, a local newspaper, wrote, quote novel importation a vessel lately arrived at this port. for Rio, Janeiro having as part of her cargo, fifty five thousand wooden toothpicks are Yankees done with a link. Our Hank he's ban the columns, yeah stud wittily that we finished with our whittle's. Alright, dad wears leg, finally turn the page who would prefer to fix it? Pick up a thing in short, when it makes no sense just take my first, nail here. Oh that's, nice

that low didn't really so much. We don't know for her self assured to answer the question. We were not done whittling. We were not widdle secret, so we still we are. We still wanted to whittle. that's right. So we don't know for sure who sent that load, but it was probably Charles. Okay. He did we know he bought seventy five cases of toothpicks for fifty bucks a case and brought them back to Boston quote. It was only with extreme difficulty that he could sell them and even then, at a sacrifice, so he he he lost money on his. He is. This guy walked into Brazil. The teeth were so good that he was like. What's your secret, they weren't with that much differently right now. I do they weren't doing it differently, but it was everybody, he's doing my ass. I am, I think, that's news. I think that

I think that in America you would pick up a twig and pick the thing out of your teeth and then and a move on, but in Brazil? Listen to how amazing that answer is what are we even talking about America? You would pick up a twig and get the food out of your mouth and move on. and in Brazil it was like it'd become part of the culture like everybody just and then he noticed on top that he's like. Oh, my god, all these people's teeth look really good right! Okay! and studies have shown that using a toothpick is really good for your teeth yeah. But why? But it's just strange to like I get like if I, if you're him, if I'm him, I'm going! Oh yeah, it's great look great I want to get a bunch of these for myself. I need this to be an every household. This technology is too good that's why you don't have the capitalist mine, it's right actually, so.

He still determined, even though he does that it doesn't work out. People work, Imagine having that will after that to be like diet, must fight further yeah. I would never and never ever yeah. I also don't like to sell. I don't like to walk around and try to convince people to use things like. I just can't manage it's, it's just not how a trend works like I just don't feel like someone coming. like here's. The trend come on gather right. You know like that's, just not how it works all gonna start. Picking me that about teeth with less. Why not it's what I do? I've been using these forever. No that's a twig! You fool! Look at these The brazilian these are these: you must pay, the most. Big right. All these people are like. I can just make one in two seconds with my knife in a in a branch why would I yeah that's the big difference. It's yeah

he's trying he's trying to make something. Worth money, so he can be rich. That's all it is right. Yeah, it's quite a dream, so people are using toothpicks fancy ones or ones they made themselves. That was it like. The rich people had a gold one. You know Frank pick, one off the ground and very similar. To now I mean it's just like yeah and there are also toothpicks scolds. So people who criticize scald people criticize anyone who pick their teeth in public right. So you had those people out there Miss Miss manners, types writing in the paper. Don't the regular people? Hey, that's totally just Do you understand why that grosses me out that's partially digested horrible to say,

It was pretty roundly condemned in the eighteen thirties, once a teenager was on a ship on Lake Erie using a large silver toothpick and another passenger. stop and grab his arm quote to clean your teeth. Public is a sign of vulgarity, but to torment your I was with a metal spike when you can treat them to the surface of a quill is sheer stupidity. This is like a teen thirty's come I mean that's just like there's gotta be a better way. It's like that. Mainly saying do it do it and you're you're your your drive it and then do it with some class. I mean quills were the big thing at this point, so he's like it's a little bit softer it's not as hard as a silver thing. So Now, at this time, in the eighties thirties, the young men would go they're on sidewalks with toothpicks hanging out of their mouths so

it was a common belief that quote the man who carried a toothpick in his mouth did so in order to convey the false impression that he had dined on meat instead of coffee and cakes. So how about this? Take your time and your energy yet and put it towards buying a piece of that meat and then stand on the corner with that yeah. Oh, that's interesting! But what, if you could just for that meat, but you could only afford a little stick, so you save up a little. You take you. Instead of standing on the side being like look at them. Look at me, you'd get! You know you, you go, do a little bit of work and you afford one. I it doesn't even need you just could make a fake piece of meat. I'm just saying

How are we making fake meat now boy? This project has gotten really big. It's got a little complicated. I'm not gonna lie it's like I wanted. I wanted it to go better kind of lost the thread a little bit. I dunno I. This sounds like their version of a bunch of kids smoking cigarettes in like the fifties, I think, that they think it looks really cool, realise the other good graces gonna get society there like that, don't cab to take it! and the girls, much God, damn hand caught it between my teeth. It's crazy! Oh hello, lady, where you go and girls, oh man good thing, I'm able to dislodge all this quail from supper. Oh a group of ladies

Unless I say otherwise, every quote is from Henry Petroski Book the toothpick. While yet some dude went fuckin deep, the toothpicks yeah deep. Okay, so Benjamin a Stroot avant street Avant was born in eighteen, thirty, three: when he was a kid who's poor. So he made wooden shoe pegs that were used to attach shoes. This shoe soles that were more mostly by working class, a wretched people would have them sewed, but we're ingress people It would give me chance a little pegs yeah. It was as to the stitching shoes and a street event went on to become a shoemaker and then another guy Paul Pillsbury built the first peg mill and it was so it was

successful that he became known as peg pills, bury peg pills bury yeah, which now is something sexual you due to the Dell boy again, you can really get peg by pills very if you really he he he hey, I'm close heh heh, heh, heh heh, not too much longer. Hey, hey, hey, hey! yeah the EU. He who sold I'd like to have them is an acute man worth it they are the bills, very doble, an orgasm, how two percent it could do guess. Just do comes out. votes. it's made. You can make little croissants out of this.

By the late eighteen sixties. Pegs were used in about ninety percent of shoes. In the U S, so Strat invented and improved pegging machine, and also a machine apex, so not only just to put them in the shoes, but also to make them. He went to Boston. So he he comes up with the idea of these machines. And then he goes I'm going to mega rich and he heads the Boston. Eighties goes to machines and twenty cents in his pocket and he's twenty three years old, That's like it. It's like a kid. It's like the beginning of guns and roses video welcome to the jungle when it gets off the bus, except instead of Axl, rose sure it's. This guy he's got to it's a deep cut. It's a it's a kid trying to make a rich and the big city.

You got patents for his machines, one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven and set up his businesses in eighteen, fifty nine on the Sudbury Street in Boston. He soon employed eight meant. So it's going good. His machines are quality. What is expensive to transport, though,. Expensive to move around, so he ended up renting a mill in the Livermore falls Maine and brought his machines up there. So he's like we as closer is the to the wood. now I have to write three years: he'd cut down and used all of the here the mill, so you move the entire mill to Wilton may so hot, just like kind of eating up the word for these shoes. Eggs yeah does everybody needs them in America

and obviously not replanting. He is just the Lorax would not be happy. No, of course not no in general! No, that's! I think this is. I think this is good for the forest right to just cut it down and then move on yep yeah not do anything and then move on exactly that's why fires are. Yes, he opened. The second mill in Oxford, Maine Main within two years, have cut down so many trees that he shut that one down. It's still it's just cheaper to move a male than it is to transport trees. Is this, I gotta be a mill millionaire s. Ok,. Charles is looking for someone to make wooden toothpicks in America and by the eighteen. Sixty their beat pretty widely used used mean people are just using toothpicks all over not least scolding of pickers. It wasn't there, they weren't scolding, and where was this kind mare like it? Wasn't it gets it wasn't, for it was just a thing sure we ve made its prey like smoking at one point,

You're saying, although Vanity Fair said asking to borrow someone else's, toothpick was what a fool did. Well, no shit! I mean we need a publication to. Let us know that. That's crazy! Well, also, this vanity fair. I know low of a rarity. What year did vanity start being fair? It's it's never been fair. Let's be honest: okay! Well, okay, so one Englishman who visited America said quote: it is by no means an unusual thing for a yankee to offer you his tongue. a artist, Toothpick Dave. You got it like. Give me like a bucket preparation for some of this shit that the idea of the idea of a tongue scraper ever being used again on someone else is I mean just. you gotta be careful. You might have a little about scrape left on it from before.

watch cleanup your tongue right there go ahead, just give it a nice rub it down a bit. Let me do it like a prime in your walls before painting he, he, oh Americans, but nothing. They they weren't made here right wooden ones were reporter from South America. Charles met a strut strut of it and tried to talk him into turning the peg machine into a toothpick machine. It's not a toothpick machine. It's a peg machine. It always will be won't, be the same as getting the pegging business to be tooth picking. Well, that's kind of exactly what happened. He said you could tell this. Guy has like shoe integrity, yeah. No, this machine is built for one thing and one thing only shoe pigs. I'm a fuck, I'm not a mouth guy always just enjoy the foot

I always want to work around the foot- things that go on the foot never want to be in the mouth game. My father made me promise. I wouldn't do anything with mouths. He was talking about something else, my life, so So Charles doesn't give up during one of his trips to Brazil, his Charles fiance Charlotte, it's a deal seconds, they were working on the whole time and then she, when he's awake ass, he was still gotta Brazil for awhile and come back and so she makes a deal, was the strait of it and she got exe. The rights to use his machine for quote, making strips of wood to be cut up into toothpicks. So he goes to Brazil and she's able the land the deal, but is this? Is it not just again a little bizarre for your dream,

It'd be this much about toothpicks. It is a little odd. I mean I I it's just seems like it's a real really bullied real, I mean, and you know God bless him he's right. He believed when nobody else did, but my God, the idea that even a woman was like I will be around for your weird dream: yeah it is It yeah. It's strange. She was totally on board and they also bought one machine from him and should have got a patent them for his altered, peg machine that made toothpicks to ok it is pretty much like the other machine, though so I mean the other guy is like wait. What did you do cause like? I finally got a patent on this thing on my shoe packing machine, no, no on my tooth picking machine, but it does seem like it uses some of similar technology which might it probably golly for you. So so he gets a patent for is altered, peg, toothpick machine

now Charles was having trouble with the machine that his fiance had bought. When I was wife, it's not cutting them, so they had a nice point on the end. Now this point toothpicks, which I see yeah, I think, they're square. I think Most all here, I think all the topics are square at this point and I just have a rotten like a speech. Isn't that and then they're supposed to have a pointed out, but the end really is important enough. It's a little pointed, but it's a little blunt. So he asked He just he's just like. I can't get this right. He asked us for a bit to take the machine back, make the toothpicks and then just pay Charles of Royalty in and should have been like. Okay, I can do that. but he only made toothpicks for a few months because he was just breaking even and then, as Trudeau, declared the business of making toothpicks quote on remove that more, I can never censored and or remove narrative, unremunerated and bailed. So it's not it's not going to bring your profit. It's just I'm not going to make it

I mean unreal. Editor is Isaac, it's a heart, isn't it hard to say yeah and yeah, whatever Charles was then back to making his own toothpicks so strata, but now destroyed. Do you go I'm just going to be a barter. He's got a dream. Man stick with your really weird dream, so I picked Elaine striven gave him the machine and the toothpick patterns. Like all yours. I don't care, I'm pegging. Sybaritic pegging Charles is now forty. He as two daughters. It soon have a son, in an eighty, sixty nine after a lot of attempts. Charles finally had a toothpick machine,

going to be the exact same machine used for decades, so he can finally make the thing. Nobody wants at a good clip. That's right. Finally, okay, alright, but people are using tooth. They are or aren't ya what, in eighteen, sixty nine about five million toothpicks are being sold a day. They're all imported from Brazil. So that is a lot it's not so we treat just lined with toothpicks. I don't I would assume that they're all of em in member this is trying to be like peanut shells at a barbecue place. Yeah I mean I would imagine they were just all over the place. People remembered this when people threw their shit out their window from a bucket, so it was like I was by the way. I still do that. That's my favorite way to get rid of things and what this staff get a look at other state does

oh god, I have a good day, everyone so much garbage up. Here So by eighteen, seventy, the disposable seventy Toothpick had taken over the taken for use as personal toothpicks. I think they're much cheaper, but also, I think, they're better than the quill. I think they're just for your teeth in your gums and whatever the better mouse trap, so he decides to move to Maine because he concluded the white. Birch was the best wood and he set up a mill in Sumner me if it's just, if you're his daughter or his wife, you're, probably like so you're still sticking with this whole toothpick thing, huh well, honey. You can't expect me to put it down when I just figured out the perfect type of wood to you, my god. This is the breakthrough. We've been waiting for birch darling birch. It was birch the whole time here. I am complaining about pine. Well, that's on me. I should have been

I think the fool birch birch, baby birch are married. Horribly only when we, what what did you say I read horribly. I just picked the wrong man. No, you tooth picked the right someday. This is all going to make sense. I know that our daughters are starving and that we have a son on the way, and I know that. really gone all in on this toothpick business and it doesn't seem to be working, but that was before I found the perfect tree perch I died side here eat a couple of these now we're all going to be eating. The toothpick would for a little while until dad gets flush with cash shouldn't belong. Did I tell everyone the Good NEWS, it's Butch,

they, they would eventually move everything to strong Maine, but in eighteen, seventy, three so he's selling they start to sell and in eighteen seventy three he bought five. One hundred cords of wood- and that was so much- would that it made news up and down the EAST coast let us turn of Lord. What get out of here where we give me that give it your those papers- good, Lord, this guy, but so much fucking word dale real! Let me have a look at my Lord. That's a lot of wood, larger! You see this. Yes, It's all we're talking about. I am flabbergasted it. Insanity. I don't know how to fathom this level of wood purchase. What would a man is a building boats in? I don't even think we should try to figure.

it's so much wood. I don't believe that much what exists. I want to see this pile of wood. That's what I want to see. Also. You ever feel like so boring right now that that thought has crossed Yes, I was reading about a guy buying three. hundred bales of hay the other day and then talking about it with Martha? We talked about it for about an hour, and then I said God our lives are now absolute hell. I couldn't agree with you more, it's just crazy it's entertaining these little brains of ours, but

I just wish someone would invent the zune or whatever that I'd yeah that'll be great when that cause. That, for sure, is that when we go and we get our hands on those materials and that'll be an exciting time. Thank you, for this are able to see the zoomed in for you the Charles had the market cornered. He had the patent, but the pat was going to end in eighteen eighty, so he really wanted to push. He really. Push truth or sales, he's kind of built. This all what is owed to the idea that look at its It's stressful! Well, how they look, we did it, but we didn't do it for the cash. What matters is we got the toothpicks and mouths so

He really wants to push them, so he can make as much money as he can before. Eighteen. Eighty comes now yeah. There are two big markets. There's places like hotels and restaurants, right to businesses that give them out, and then they would buy in bulk, and then there was also just individuals. People go to a store and buy right. He tried to sell him to stores, but the owners thought it was a ridiculous item to sell. He was getting nowhere and made it seem like he had given up can write. He makes it look like well, this is going to happen, stops going to the stores, and then he hired men and women from different areas. Oliver Boston, this isn't easy and it gives them a list of stores quote they were to visit and seek to purchase wooden toothpicks. I can't believe this day after day these men and women, one after the other called at the different stores and sought to

it just wouldn't toothpicks for more than a month. I can't he came up with a troll farm search of her for more than a month. This attempt to purchase toothpicks was kept up each day, one or more of these men and women would call upon the various storekeepers to try to wooden toothpicks. Well, I just got a job calling stores about toothpicks That's amazing! So every day they would just be like boy. It just seems like people with similar voices every day call about these toothpick know they walk in or they go in oh yeah. To call then meant to call right, Course there are like hello, we do have toothpicks now we ve it! No, I don't it's so weird

all the sudden started out there. You know where I live has a store for thirteen years and all your money I buy it. I just I bought dinner. The age there are or are not to know we don't we don't. We ve, never have anybody ever in my thirty years mistake I'll go to Jackson's down the street. I know knave got toothpicks there. I dont think they do well someone's eventually going to carry on because God leave, my teeth are killing me. Ok, tat went really great. What are you because you're talking? each other. I merely am expressing to the fair lady that I too agree that we need to pigs and that's, it seems like you are starting to feel that way which to us is good.

cause for no reason outside of our own necessities. Are we trying to get them here, so we are killing this game right now. So after awhile of sending these people, it seems like a month Charles, went to the stores and then was easily able to sell them boxes of toothpicks. I mean again just like his. if must have just been like wait. What's the next part, I'm hiring actors darling it's the next step, and then he sent the shoppers back and they would actually buy the boxes of toothpicks. What is and then they will give the boxes the Charles, so he would reach so said he's resell them sufferings. I mean it is just that he's created foe commerce for himself the Celts more well, no, not yet baby. This is a part b and the plan that takes a long time.

You get to fix it. Mouth is so he do this over and over any did this until the stores were convinced wouldn't to pigs had value, I mean he's back when it. some claimed? He also pulled this game on restaurants. He hired people to go to nice, restaurants, and he pay them with just a meal. In order that fanciest thing on the menu said, I know you're a real aristocrat and then requests a toothpick when they didn't get one. The guy would say how disappointed he was and tell the manager is. Restaurant was falling behind the times, Well, I don't know about you, but most places have toothpicks. Anyway. I guess I'll just pay the four hundred dollar bill. Now the champagne didn't seem necessary. You said what it does to seem like we were classy. Haven't you to have to get all that shit paid my wife's leaving me Burke,

so then Charles would show up to the restaurant with wooden toothpick samples and then get an order for toothpicks in this. This com might have happened, but to fix already becoming common in restaurants. I mean that was one of the only places that those five million we're going in hotels and restaurants, so they people think that's not a true story, but anyway, I just thought I'd, throw it in just in case so either way. the wooden toothpicks sold and soon had quote almost entirely displaced the sharpened match. Okay, so. People up until this time would also just take a match out of a box and sharp in the end, and they use it as a toothpick sends a little dangerous, but that's not a bad idea, Then you get a double use out of a thing sure.

As you have the one end, it's just a stick and the other ends a match so used to thinking when you put it back in the box and now you have a match, yeah sure, but also how about you separate the things you're lighting fire with from the things you're throwing in the gunk in your mouth? Well, now that doesn't sound like it's a solid get care about the environment. That's what I'm hearing don't do this old Jimmy matches, hey? Who cares right? They don't come from the trees or not. They do come from trees. What does the match head know the the match? Stick that part of the match, not the head, the the you telling me that this is a tree. This little baby thing right here is just yeah. It's made from trees made from trees that all companies got no bark on it, smart, pants! Okay, I don't want to anymore. I mean that's sort of my feeling,

When I talk to you, I never want to talk to you again and it's a bummer as we work together, yeah. Well, I'm just saying is tough knows that you believe things. This tiny is trees. Not I don't think it's a whole tree. I think it's made from a tree is a little part of a drag. You gonna make sub from a tree Was it a ball. not even make no sense. Why figure? I could think we'll Giles go from the guy. He made it

Why did he make it from he made it from war and yeah, but not from tree? Would you've got to lay that the key to come from the tree? It's what your dummy is. I don't even know what nature is such a stupid guy. He takes my houses, a forest he takes. My house is made of trees, okay, buddy yeah, this guy is to open. Aquariums could not work here anymore, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, it's crazy to see a doomed marriage. They go hey I'm a tree. This guy is just so dumb. I am a mass of fire you're going to have a big future in America by the way I'm running for Congress.

So trials moved his factory factory to buck felled where local gave him a five year tax breaks, so he got like a Fuckin Amazon deal. First say it may sound like Amazon Debt Hey what do you say? We start the race to the bottom in eighteen. Seventy four evade so nature to to four tons of orders for toothpicks were coming from hotels and restaurants fyi? one hundred million are now being sold wow. So it's working his push. There's other pushes happening. Obviously there there's people trying to sell them, and yet so he's not gone, but he he's definitely a major part of this. He's also its key selling, so many now is considering exporting them.

Some started, making fun of toothpicks in places like hotels, one person wrote you could learn how to properly use a toothpick. By going to hotel quote, we recommend the steps of any fashionable hotel as a studio between three and seven p m, where lessons are given gratis by distinguished members. I have it. Please join me next week, snark look what toothpicks were seen as lower class by some. Of course, there's always these people, young beggar, children, sold to pigs around hotels when near began cleaning the streets of orphans and sending them west on trains. They

described as quote juvenile match and toothpick vendors yeah. Oh my god, it's just quite a conclusion. Yeah we will sell at a budget, to make people click. The navigator trade would know. Mama bear dad some adults also sought toothpicks on the street. Some soul clearly used toothpicks. Now I don't think these are sticks, They might I'm what they call a used, toothpick dealer. Now I understand I don't like to think of it as used I like to think of it as second hand. Here's a perfect model. This is two years old. This model barely even made it's way around the mouth as far as I'm concerned that basically spent most of it's time between one of the back teeth and one of the Detroit in front of it. So this year, while it is technically a six,

it have is not something I would consider to be a second mouse is that what's the matter, and now the way I like some is job steal one, because now, yet when you use a steel pan you all that flavor in there and it goes in over the years. It gets nice flavorful while some that's I'm looking for and a toothpick, I'm looking for some someone's been using for a long time and it's got a flavor and all the model with a mid size, the previous owner, on it as didn't realize you were a classy gentleman. I was trying to show you some of these wooden models, but obviously you looking for something a little more teeth to it. Potus rate this model right here is unbelievable. I actually put a couple in this model two days ago. They called me they called, but that means they came over. They didn't pick up the phone. They called me. The day said change their life this toothpick year

Fortunately dope it's on hold, so I'm not gonna be able to sell this particular can I can. I can. I just have a little taste put in my mouth for once and give it a test pick, but I'm not gonna. Let you do it too much get in there a little bit a little swoop. They do. There will reveal that and they're really digs Zingales nice. It's all. I save it's, not subtle. Let's right the middle. It's what I think of it. As I recalled this toothpick the Goldilocks, because this porridge is just write. Okay, it tastes, like it tastes like Bobby and pineapples I'll. Tell you what I'm going to do, even though I put this on hold. I cannot possibly step in the way of a report that you have with a device of this nature. Therefore, what I am going to say to you is for four easy payments of four hundred and ninety nine dollars. This Pick right here belongs to you know, tat I hold on hold on this ahead. Chalk up to follow that headshot. Where I got this fuckin thing he's fucking thing I swear to God. If I ever see mother nature, I am going to stab her.

So the reason that apparently these it else would sell used ones and there clearly use their its arguing and see. This has got the previous guy got it because they were hoping that it would just lead to charity instead of a purchase. Oh okay, so, okay, interesting sure it's quite the ticket yeah, Don't want you toothpick, but here's a farthing boy, This guy's a sucker seventy four, a letter to the New York Times wrote about a man who had been a bachelor for fifteen years, and this has been made worse because it was so difficult to live in the city on a small income. so someone else wrote a letter back and responded that times. Reader should invest in an apartment, building to House sixty bachelors

they're like the all these. All these poor guys are having a hard time finding a lady, so let's help them out with cheap housing, so they can get by better and maybe that'll help their lives. But there's a it's a it's a shocking premise to hear that the worse it became a discussion, and then there were some concerns. quote: isn't there some probability of their cunning, monograms and eagles all over the woodwork and carrying mantle paces away by piecemeal in the shape of toothpicks weight? So the idea was, let's give these poor people how letter better and people are like that's actually quite a novel idea. I guess we have these empty places. Why not put human bodies in them and then someone's like yeah, but they're, probably going to make a bunch of Marty, grabs and then they'll steal the mantle to turn them into toothpicks, like that,

obviously very plausible, a magical. Let's not do this because again, like this weird man, said over here is got a bunch of blueberry pie on his face. These people will probably use the mantles to make two picks out of the great no I would rather talk this that we took the out of helping poor people hey, but what matters is we thought about it? That's right! I will look at toothpicks or selling other inventors tried to jump on the teeth, pat toothpick, why and by coming up with new variations of the toothpick, it's called the pic toot. You use it to to clean your two to pick with it. Alphonse crisis was given a patent for a pointed hooked and toothpick with a side spoon that stuck out

the spoon part was for cleaning out hollow or sensitive teeth that the pointed add would hurt so he's made like a swiss Army pic, that's right, yeah! So he's like a differences, the pad did spoon that does a able to Now the gunk out of your march. Okay, there were others. John sturdy is combined the case for pen, pencil, knife, toothpick and yeah. What I've come up with is a case. That'll hold a budget stuff among nematodes toothpick, which I think is vastly different, The toothpick Richard crosses Watch, key toothpick and toggle combined, yes, is this,

it's a toggle and will tell time and is also good at getting rid of the things that ail the betwixt your teeth. But again how many times have you been picking your teeth? I thought gosh. I've just lost track of the hours where. This little device you'll know how much time you ve wasted fantasize about other things, while plucking rapid, twixt Shorty. So oh eight but this up, because a watch key is actually a key that you carried to turn your watch to write why'd you watch here. I had no idea so there I thought they. There was always just a little round thing on the side, but they actually had a key to crank it yeah they are. I do remember that yeah then that someone finally was like not anymore people are wholly shit, mind blown we picked. Hen, Gram and Richard Childs came up with the improvement in combined watch key in toothpick, so they improved. On the combo watch. Key toothpick

Imagine ripping off the toothpick with your watch key part, and then someone ripping you off would be like that never know. I was ripping you just rip me off on the rip off. It's William Blake patented medical toothpicks, which would have a coating of medicine on them to help with health issues. Well, I'm in for the medicine coated toothpicks, like quote voice mouth and throat, as well as to aid indigestion heat this. guy, it's really more of a wizard's staff than what what they do is perfect to cast spells with this. You don't even need to put it in between your teeth. You just need to say, remove his do is set plaque s and then watch it all leave like it's Fantasia

in eighteen. Seventy five, a guy, invented a toothpick case for your pocket, someone else patented flavored toothpicks. That would quote perfume the breath. I was thinking that if the mint flavoured toothpick and yeah be kind of a revelation to know that yeah. Well, I mean I don't know when, but I think they came up with this right around that time, but that that's still a thing. That's around yeah yeah yeah eighteen, seventy six as Promotion Charles, went to the centennial exhibition in Philadelphia, so there's just tons of people for this He quote: he quotes a large high, beautifully decorated wagon, drawn by four snow white horses and Mr Forrester attired in

dress suit and wearing a tall hat mounted the wagon and was drawn through the streets of Philadelphia. As the wagon proceeded on its journey, Mr Forrester himself, through boxes of toothpicks, into the crowd of people standing in the streets watching the procession pass by Dave, it is told

they insane, but it is in this guy's earned this moment. He hung in that he he had gone on multiple trips to see what he liked. He fell in love. When everyone told him his dream was total madness. He stuck with it. He stuck with it. He stuck with it and he finally, after hiring come actors to pretend that they want. He has won it. If there's anybody who ever deserves to sit a topic carriage and toss out little pieces of wood to Paypal, it's this guy, it's boxes is throwing little little packages but Yellowstone magic in imagining the crowds just swarming to get those toothpicks. It was just different time now, because you

I did today and there's a guy throwing toothpicks and then just landing on the ground and everyone's looking at him. Yeah yeah vault. Yes, I yeah that person be a troubled side, hello, you're, not being very good subjects, first, the papers reported on this and- and they had pictures like it's all- I had worked against p I work stairs yeah now by this time, chewing on a wooden toothpick in public was now considered completely acceptable style. Okay for men for men of I was ah well Dave. You done helped me, obviously, when a woman, does it is foul odorous and disgusting and when a man is doing it, he is just particular and keeps very good care of himself, but when a woman does

You leave leave the you're a woman to tell whether you have a stick in your mouth. I'm looking for a wife whose teeth are perfectly connected. Now A lot of women weren't sure what was acceptable for them there. out of letters seeking advice that were answered, It means magazines about two things so crazy. You are expected to sit there with the food and between your teeth. It's just such a position or yet. Well, it's also when you think of the time to its like the gaps in the teeth were probably pretty substantial, so yeah I ain't about, like you, know, lodged food. I may get lucky this before Dennis stemming orthodontic, so teeth are far more crooked and that leads to difficult situations p

I had to stuck in their mouth that they didn't know know one wanted advice on how to properly use too by by eighty five, three billion toothpicks originate in the? U S. Two years later it was five billion childs factory was making to thinking it's factories, cranking out five hundred million packages a year and there's only seventy five million people in the. U S so it's gone from memory than there are importing five million will now. This has just fuckin bananas out of control right so teeth. They said

edition from the thing the wealthy used and displayed, or what people made themselves to now, something the common man bought, okay, which just kept capitalism right like yep yep, that's it in a nutshell. In the late eighteen, eighties, Arthur's Home magazine wrote that Christmas gifts for gentlemen included, quote books for those who are fond of reading and toothpicks. For those who are not that's the new socks, I mean that must have been the socks of that time and you know to fix. That is really the thing that I wonder how many kids bought those for their dad's yeah shake it. Try to guess that that's probably a big thing of toothpicks a victorian man's toothpick was often carried in his vest pocket users argued having a toothpick on one's mouth was calming

Ok right, which I agree with you, will I think there is the moon. I quit smoking like you, do have a bit of an oral fixation say again. It Brett still looked down on american picking Brit S Philips Day, wrote quote this and is an amusement equal to whittling, and a certain yankee, as has been incisively observed, can whittle a toothpick out of a pine log. Nothing can well be more revolting to sensitive cleanly person. Must then the habit of picking teeth either at meals or afterwards? and can you imagine the set of chompers that these words were coming out? I guarantee you in retrospect. People would be like. Let's not shame this. Let's do this, I mean we you're good.

It used to be for today is the day of travel, pause recover between their teeth. Did you get the nerve to their disgusted, look say ghosts. It will Let's look at our lovely set of GS, a legit zero you which ward you should review it properly. You Debra Yankees! Sorry, that's a shrimp tail! That's dangling from my lip in the eighteen eighties wooden toothpick use priest, eight percent a year now, Charles and no longer, has the patent and he's now one of many who are making toothpicks factories popped up all over some restaurants couldn't keep them in stock, because people would not just use them after meal but steal them right. Charles was supposed to be making around three fifths of all toothpicks in the. U S.

Picking on ones, picking one's tooth was now so common in America that a new San hotel opening threw a party with twelve hundred guess quote all to be supplied with toothpicks that's right. Everybody come on come on. We've got to bring about the party favor sure by eight Eighty four women were now commonly picking in public, so it came around now. Women are just picking away and everyone's just loving. It is the equal thing to do it's a fad. It's like the thing New York Times quote the fashion of holding a toothpick in the mouth and chewing it in public has been adopted, Ladys. Only within the last two years. It is said that some ladys have become so addicted to the habit that they cannot feel at ease on rising in the morning. In this they consume two or three toothpicks before breakfast, my God, consumers,

terrible way of it, they're not gone down too well, yeah, okay, so you're I mean that's remarkable So that I should say also that speaking these papers, Forster had actual articles printed, he he paid out it put, and I went looking and there in every fucking newspaper he had so. He really was like in many ways just the head of marketing Yes, he was just pushing it. I mean there is just a bargain about these about toothpicks. You like why many entities they would like its is doing like like fake journalist, I mean that's one of the things I was by yourself funding in the papers. Today's like how I mean it's pretty clear when there's an ad but oh yeah, there are certainly some people who are probably going like well this. A really positive write up about Ford. Good things are the one

Well, it's like thirty things that are super great to buy for your house on Amazon, yeah, yeah or whatever your twitter and you're, like that's, really weird right that you just see the little promoted at the bottom mic. I don't know this person that makes life but Buzzfeed and stuff like that. do you, like twenty great things to your kitchen by that you can get on Amazon for tee like well what it should get a kind of that. twenty horrifying fears that Amazon will find out, that you're not doing their bidding and come after you. Please support their unionization. Yes greatly,.

So that is so this this New York Times and eternal goes on and on it went on for a long. I took some of its more quote. Can it be that women imagined that carrying a toothpick in the mouth is a graceful and fascinating act? This seems hardly credible. Whatever else the object of publicly carrying toothpicks in the mouth may be, it is incredible that any woman does it in order to add to her attractiveness, CS, I mean just the depth of toothpick journalism. It's just over a little me imagine getting up and the more in being like today, I'm going to write that fucking toothpick editorial and and it, but it's not even based, in fact it's just like a my opining upon what I believe is behind the tooth pick.

Philosophy just like well, it's it's one issue right. It's just one guy's opinion on whether or not women should should be able to use toothpicks. That's all hypothetically, yes and then like what is in the head of the woman, yeah and people never think about this. But this remains true. Today you don't know who writes editorials. They never tell you it's just the LOS Angeles times were who was LOS Angeles? I just do generally This rich asshole person now its ideal, take issue that it is the decent person always and it's always really helpful by Europe. Hello. We say that, like others, editorial said this and you like really who the fuck wrote it you don't know. So. Ataturk's are just garbage propaganda written by people who to do it anonymously and honestly, never goes. Oh, it's pretty great. So this goes on. It maybe suggests

that women carry toothpicks in order to protect themselves against unwelcome kisses. Still, that's still a point, I guess you're I mean yeah. Undoubtedly, the presence of a toothpick between lips is presumably Emily the presence of a toothpick between lips, presumably fair, is admirably adapted to drive all thoughts of kissing from the minds of all. But the most reckless bet still. The fact that among women addicted to the toothpick habit are those who are ready to remove their toothpicks at the slightest prospect of a display of art affection for bids us to believe that to pigs are carried in self defence. Art being women, so they used to pigs to keep me from kissing them, but what a man wants to keep them? They take the to pick out of the mouths of it. It's just like it

I like that you got a little bill, Cosby the ad, because it but yeah it's like at no point, are you considering any like it's just like if a toothpick is in a woman's mouth, it's an object with an object. Yeah. Surely the women are ready to be kissed whenever you know, but look, it was a fad for women. It came a couple years and then by eighteen echo bay as before by eighty ninety. It fell out amongst younger women and no longer cool, six became a symbol of people's class and future, and they were judged on it. Like a young newspaper boy with a toothpick in his mouth was looked as forever being relegated to his low status like they they would they would. They would see a kid with a toothache, his mouth and the paper would write like he's, never going to rise above his father. Well, I want to do anything with his. What not

in an effort to make them his mouth where Enjoy your life is being a pauper lad. You chose the wrong Lane Early I'll, come back in twenty years and hire you to move a pile of shit somewhere yeah, that's right, you're, a shit shifter, but for the wealthy, a gold plated toothpick was still part of a gentleman's equipment. They were symbols of affluence and status and quotes snobbishness.

Great as it as an area with women, the public display of picking fell out of favour with most good housekeeping me good housekeeping had an article about two picks and eighty ninety four that said amongst women. It was quote steadily falling into disuse, except in private. The New York STAR, called public toothpick, use an ugly habit and the l a times said only to do it in private share their remit, yet you're right to some extent in I don't I am really I I. I don't feel that way. I feel like it doesn't fuckin matter like if someone I around with a toothpick in their mouth and with it. The only thing that I come back to is the idea of like digging in and flinging food out, like that, no you don't have to flip food out, but having a toothpick who gives a shit, yeah yeah. Naturally, in hd seven, the Toothpick trust was formed, the national toothpick.

Association so now they're getting worried. There's somebody to toothpick makers that someone's going to You know undermine the other ones and and cut down the river a monopoly. Well, just cut a cut down the the profit, so the other ones couldn't make money. You know start selling them to cheap or whatever, but Dave that's a. She that's our whole sh, but I just know it feels very Not just now, oh ok, it quote controlled the trade. There were two small mills. When a message is it's another one in Maine there were not part of the trust, but everyone else was the trust tried to drive those two out of business, but the main factory came up with a faster way to make toothpicks and survived

great job, putting on that that factory had like orders like two years ahead of time. That's how well they were doing okay, so the production of toothpicks continued at pace in America. What we considered the modern day, toothpick round with the pointed ends, was patented by Charles Freeman and eighteen. Ninety one, I put something in the chat for you with a picture of the pattern yeah the page. You're right, I did you, hey, you told your people, I am again not I'm not a patent man, so I have not seen a ton of patents, but I will say it feels like it's in there and inadequate patent there's not a lot written on the page topic, just as the toothpick there's some names like Cecy, Freeman, Toothpick and there's a number and the pat number, then there's middle of the page is blank

there's just a line in the middle. Just like a guy was like I just draw. Our jerseys drew a toothpick at the cry of a toothpick. I realized I get a yes it. You would recognize the. Hopefully, nobody has a patent on splinters, because that guy has a case and that it's just side and the patent drive for Freeman's, improved toothpick was stark, that is, that is Freeman's Toothpick, yes, great good, really good stuff. Just I mean drawing that toothpick on the paper. Charter said already started working with this guy Freeman, so it was not a threat. So I think this guy, I think Charles worked

as a machinist and some in some factory, so he he knew him and when he had the idea, I think that it's a little bit murkiest what happen, but it sounds like. Maybe Charles gave him money to come up with it and then he panted. I think he wanted to have his wife Charlotte for the patent under her name, but for some reason it wouldn't work but where the guy was in business with Charles from day one. So in this new, which is the modern day toothpick the pointed on both ends round, this is this is when it came about and from then on. That's what it's been, so he can't Charles get make an toothpicks and sell em in nineteen hundred. He became ill and he applied to the patent office for ten trademarks.

Some have been using for twenty five years. There is trying to try to get control of his fortune, so he could dull it out to his family. Over years he started to it again: fire yeah. He created this trust in this fortune for his errand to him. It was just like I got his. They can predict where the future technology will take the toothpick, but the skies the limit I built a toothpick castle for my family. He died on March. Ninth, one thousand nine one toothpicks

a peak of popularity by world war, two where the straw warlord tooth strong main was the center of toothpick production. But then, after world war, two came nylon, floss and cheap toothpicks from China and South EAST Asia also came, and by the nineteen eighties sales plummeted. The toothpick mills in Maine slowly began to close down the forced our manufacturing companies mill was the last to close in a closed in two thousand and three, not one toothpick has made its strong men. today, how wow it will get right back to talking about two picks in a sack first, I want to say we are also brought to you by Helix sleep

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it's changed so much and any forget like, even then, even the eighteen fifties, or whatever eighteen eighties, how much a toothpick Yeah changes everything's well and how like yeah, I mean really when you think about I mean we are now at the point where you are really spoiled. Obviously, with all the things you can do to to have self care, but yeah I mean the feeling like I there are times where I'll go. I have something in my teeth and I'll be like. I can't wait to get home. yet it out the idea that there was a time when you were just be like it lives in their just like you or do you people you're dying for that sensation. When you go to the forests and and take a twig down into widow it and then

I get that at that point, you'd be like goddamn right. I don't have my knife on me, so I can't whittle a toothpick and- and even in that time there was a guy saying to another person just like. Can you imagine what we did before we sharp? twigs. What are you are nowhere, the evolution of this yet but teeth. Are I just root canal welcome last night, I'd never had one. I never had one before I got pretty lucky. I think, but he said it back in the dentist, the the guy who did it wasn't a dentist oral surgeon. I guess, but here that that they found the chinese way back when we're doing root canals. Well, tea for such a massive part of your life. Yes, particularly if they go wrong, Yes, like the pain that is involved, because when you have

when you have a toothpick like that, my first thought is always like what did they do? I always think of. I don't even told you this I like when I because I've had over the past couple years. I've really come into my british nests and really had some major teeth proud, but I always think that seen in cast away when Tom Cruise takes an ice, Cape at tooth out of his head. I mean I get to the point where I'll be like. I just I I'm literally like how much is a figure skate I'll do I'll pop it out of my like you get to that point. Also, remember I, like you, know hygienic healthy teeth. They can unhealthy. Teeth can kill you, whereas If the teeth can extend your life and yeah, and it's not just teeth. I think that you know we're talking about the plaque and the eye. There's been a lot of I dunno. If it's been a firm, but for a long time there was a belief that that plaque, you know, This is all kinds of problems like heart problems and that gets in

it's in your mouth and then it goes to other parts of your body and it shouldn't be there and so toothpicks would have literally you know, saving lives and stuff like that is a really crazy, important thing: yeah yeah! It's weird, though it is weird because you know yeah I mean it's just the basic like it's just amazing, to be like I'm going to hone in on the toothpick. You have right. Did your did your dad use? Toothpicks yeah, I mean I I was kind of thinking during that, like you, it definitely felt like toothpicks were way more prevalent. When I was a child, then now but yeah. I I even think we had a I think we even have like a cup with like toothpicks in it like for people that yeah we had. We and I may be still haven't restaurants and stuff, but yeah. I know everybody had to fix in their house when I was growing up and

are all my uncles and my dad always had toothpicks. Now my dad was a crazy alcoholic. So one time I came back from college and I was like I need to go see a dentist. Can I have some money to see a dentist and he was like you don't need to see a dentist. I mean you know, forget well, the crazy how bad of a story is about, but he was like it does allow go to the I've been to those in five years. Know why and he pulled out a toothpick said because I got these as his mouth is bleeding days by the hour, but I think it is. I think there is something to that me as crazy as he was and is horrible person is. He was like there is something to the fact that you can really get your teeth. Pretty fuckin clean if we just always working around with a toothpick yeah. I also like how now we ve wrapped too Dixon Plastic, where you like, perfect. Let's just wait a bit o what then

all your little bachelor restaurants, rights yeah. But you good languages just wherever we can, but maybe we should put, but what? If people touch that we put plastic around the planet but this is that these are the same people who then go in and dig their hand into a peanut ball on a bar. That's been like touched by everybody's, dirty hand you know we haven't even begun to think of it were so beaten obliged by the past year. We have even started to think about what bar snacking is gonna, be like posts. I'm just gonna, be like every there's not going to be any bayonets on the bar anywhere that stuff. They really really more yeah crazy, the very crazy but a crazy. What creates a little dive? I know right. It's just such a a regular relationship outside of this and then once a week you are going to surprise the shit out of me like we're talkin like yet you're, probably thinking of your head

I might tell us like an idiot about toothpicks, no idea it good yeah. There's a couple other things I have. I there's a couple other things that are not people that are coming down. The pike- okay, well, that's interesting, but one of them gets really dark, so I haven't done it oh good. Well, I'm sure that sounds pretty fitting finest, alright, well lesson good work Dave. I think we both did really great stuff. Today, Hmmm yup, a lot of research on both of our parts.

interesting, it's cool to join me Thursday, for my standup show it's like we're doing a lot of toothpick stuff, and then we have announced another live while yeah MA may have fourteenth this time. It's on Friday a live up, a live dollop! It's on a Friday, so people in Australia can watch it live and then the forty eight hours I guess it's a pretty yeah. It's high heart, forty, eight, it's a hard, forty eight, because apparently someone was watching and it ended right in the middle. I didn't know that would happen, but that's apparently the thing so yeah. If you watch it afterwards, there is a yeah got two days, they're, not I going to read it, although it's not kidding around, but it's not like. We've made forty nine loops, like forty eight get it out, she's watching it right now, looped pull the plug.

And that's it we're really. We said it before that they're, not not something they're going to be around so yep yeah, and that last one was actually very correct I see people really enjoy that one. It's about bull Island, the festival yeah. It was crazy. Crazy yeah who knew Woodstock was the tame one right anyway. Yeah alright gobble gobble gobble Hey guys is Kelsey Cook, comedian and professional footballer, and I'm so excited to announce that the world premiere of the wrists of fury showdown. Is this Wednesday March 23rd on Moment house. It's almost to our there's a hilarious areas, cut throat, competition as comedians like dancing, and Broad Williams go head to head in some honestly fantastic. It action. We action,

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