Folks, We're Doing A Clip Show: Leftovers, 2025

Summary

---

Ridiculous History – “Folks, We're Doing A Clip Show: Leftovers, 2025”

Hosts: Ben Bowlin, Noel Brown
Super Producer: Max Williams
Date: December 25, 2025

---

Episode Overview

In this festive special, Ben and Noel treat listeners to a “clip show” packed with “leftovers”—fascinating historical tidbits, bizarre facts, and amusing tangents that didn’t make it into earlier episodes. With a playful, irreverent tone, they cover odd traditions, strange wonders of the world, failed inventions, the history of hair dye (with an Egyptian twist), and curious cases of inventors dying by their own inventions. The episode is divided into loose “acts” and provides a real sense of camaraderie between the hosts and their producer as they riff and ramble through history’s stray crumbs.

---

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Setting the Scene: Odd Traditions, Seahorse Teeth, and Clip Show Origins

• Opening Banter: Christmas vibes; poking fun at each other's “grinchiness”.
• Recall of the show’s inside jokes, like “straight seahorse teeth” (01:18), originally from a discussion on wooden and hippopotamus teeth.
  • “One of my favorite hippopotamus facts… the world’s most dangerous large land animal is a vegetarian… It simply does not like other things.” – Ben (01:58)
• The team admits all tradition is “made up at some point”—and they’re making the year-end clip show a new tradition.
  • “We’re big, big fans of [traditions], made up ones. I guess all tradition is made up at some point.” – Ben (02:27)
• Timestamps: [00:00]-[03:33]

---

2. Wonders of the World: Hidden Gems & Glittering Mistakes

A. Glass Beach, California (07:43–10:03)

• Former city dump turned glittering coastline of sea glass—beautiful but an environmental cautionary tale.
  • Max, who visited Glass Beach:
    “It just looks like it’s like some beautiful, like, volcanic rock... I had no idea though at the time that it was actual glass... let’s not do this again.” (09:12)
• “Some mistakes are to be acknowledged and not replicated.” – Ben (09:56)

B. Pink Lakes & Microbial Wonders (10:19–12:31)

• Lake Hillier in Australia: famously pink due to halobacteria, not clown pants as joked.
  • “What if this was pink? …It’s just sort of gray.” – Ben, part colorblind musings (10:21)
  • “It was to do with microorganisms… specifically in the case of Lake Hillier, we’re talking about halobacteria.” – Noel (11:51)

C. Arabia Mountain & Rainbow Mountain (12:31–16:32)

• Local Georgia wonder, Arabia Mountain, with its fragile red microbial pools.
• Pet Sematary 2 filmed there; “watch out for geese”—a recurring joke.
• Rainbow Mountain, China: A painterly landscape caused by sedimentation over millennia.
  • “Painted by the gods.” – Quoting Carly Hoke’s description (16:20)
• Timestamps: [07:43]-[16:32]

---

3. The Marvel of Tupperware and “Sure Stay” Hairpins

• Tupperware revolutionized food storage. Before: “putting a shower cap over a bowl”.
• Tupperware was exhibited at MoMA in 1956 (21:40).
• The lesser-known “Sure Stay Hairpins,” also by Tupper’s inventor, flopped due to a terrible, almost villainous slogan.
  • “Romance or social prestige often hangs by the hairs on one’s head. A good sure Stay hairpin is needed.” (21:43)
  • “Creepy voice, like Bond villain voice.” – Noel (21:46)
• Reflection on marketing misfires and the enduring power of the simple bobby pin.
• Side-tangent on the aggressiveness and flaws of car sales and insurance industries.
• Timestamps: [20:03]-[23:22]

---

4. Hair Dye: Ramses’ Red Hair, Cartoons & Hollywood Blondes

A. Ramses the Great and Red Hair

• Research reveals ancient Egyptians (notably Ramses) likely had red-dyed hair, signifying power.

  • “He was rocking this as sort of a aspect of his regal Persona, right? Because it was a flex.” – Ben (24:18)
  • “The red hair was associated with royalty and with the deity set.” – Ben (25:48)

• “King Ramses’ Curse” episode in Courage the Cowardly Dog gets loving mention.

  • ‘Return the slab!’ – King Ramses (26:49, cited by Ren)

B. Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow

• Hughes’ role in Hollywood’s first “blonde bombshell,” Jean Harlow, driven by (at the time) extremely toxic chemicals in hair dye.

  • “To get your hair that shade of blonde back then required all sorts of very damaging chemicals.” – Noel (28:55)
  • “She died at the age of 26… Not necessarily hair-related, but it couldn’t have been good. All those fumes and stuff, too.” – Ben (29:20)

• Reflection on Hughes’ reclusive decline, connecting to broader research on money vs. happiness.

  • “All the money in the world doesn’t solve every problem.” – Ben (30:04)

• “More money, more problems. I think P. Diddy once said. No, that wasn’t him…” – Noel (30:38)

• Timestamps: [23:22]-[31:02]

---

5. Inventors Who Died By Their Own Hand (but Not On Purpose)

A. Introduction to Darwin Awards & IG Nobel Prizes

• Bizarre deaths of inventors—accidental, not intentional, akin to Darwin Awards but in history.
  • “They didn’t unalive themselves on purpose, right?” – Noel (34:37)
  • “It’s a well that keeps giving terrible and frightening water.” – Ben, on abundance of cases (36:16)

B. William Bullock and the Deadly Printing Press

• Bullock’s rotary press revolutionized newspaper printing, but he was killed while fixing his own machine—a cautionary tale of industrial progress.
  • “He tries to kick a driving belt onto a pulley… gets mangled hard in the leg… [then] gets infected and goes gangrenous.” – Noel (40:06)
  • “He makes headlines on multiple levels…” – Ben (39:35, wordplay)

C. Sylvester Roper and the Steam Velocipede

• 1896: Roper tries to prove his steam-powered motorcycle (“velocipede”) is practical; suffers a heart attack during demonstration and crashes.

  • “He got so excited. He got over revved. He suffered a heart attack…” – Ben (44:41)
  • “At least he died doing what he loved.” – Noel (44:54)

• Amusing detour: bicycles and "boneshakers," with the Deadwood TV show referenced.

• Timestamps: [34:22]-[45:14]

---

Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “We’re starting a new tradition… We didn’t tentpole it at the end of the year like this. Now we’re making it a holiday thing.” – Ben (03:10–03:24)
• Max, on Glass Beach: “Let’s not do this again.” (09:43)
• “Humanity finds art in error.” – Ben, on sea glass (10:11)
• “Always live your life watching out for the geese, because they’ll sneak up on you when you least expect it.” – Noel (13:39)
• “Painted by the gods.” – Quoting Carly Hoke’s article on Rainbow Mountain (16:32)
• “Romance or social prestige often hangs by the hairs on one’s head…” – Sure Stay Hairpins slogan, cited and mocked (21:43)
• “Return the slab!” – King Ramses, quoted via research associate (26:49)
• “All the money in the world doesn’t solve every problem…” – Ben (30:04)
• On Bullock: “He makes headlines on multiple levels…” – Ben (39:35)
• On Roper: “He got so excited. He got over revved. He suffered a heart attack. He was incapacitated while on the vehicle and he lost control of the velocipede. He crashed and died.” – Ben (44:41)
• “At least he died doing what he loved.” – Noel (44:54)

---

Structure & Flow

• Act One: Introduction, traditions, and seahorse teeth legends ([00:00]-[06:54])
• Act Two: Wonders of the world leftovers—Glass Beach, pink lakes, Rainbow Mountain ([06:54]-[16:32])
• Act Three: Tupperware, failed hair inventions, ancient and modern hair dye, accidental-death inventors ([20:03]-[45:17])

The conversation is playful, full of puns, tangents, and easy camaraderie between Ben, Noel, and Max. Each “leftover” story is handled with a mix of historical fact, speculation, and hearty skepticism.

---

Conclusion

This “clip show” episode embodies the spirit of Ridiculous History: warm, weird, and witty. The hosts bring obscure oddities and forgotten figures to vivid, comedic life, all while inviting listeners to find joy in the quirks of the past. If you enjoy the show’s blend of historical deep-dives and good-natured goofiness, this episode is a festive treat—equal parts celebration and silliness.

---

Recommended For: Fans of history with a side of humor, trivia lovers, and those curious about the delightful detritus of previous Ridiculous History episodes.

---

Transcript

[Ben Bullen]

Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartradio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians. This is publishing on Christmas Day, so happy Christmas to all who celebrate Holly jolly. All right. Well.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Oh, the mistletoe.

[Ben Bullen]

The booer in the peanut gallery over here.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

What a scrinch.

[Ben Bullen]

You said grudge. You said woo in a boo way.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

He did say woo in a boo way, Max.

[Ben Bullen]

Woo. And a boo way. Our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Kitty's got claws.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, that's Noel Copenhagen Brown. They call me Ben Bullen in this part of the world. Hello. Hello. And Bias, the biggest goose in all of London. This is tradition.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Tiny Tim lives. He lives.

[Ben Bullen]

This is. We're big fans of odd traditions. We consider them straight seahorse teeth. So we're recording this.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I love that you're trying to make seahorse teeth come back. I'm here for it, Ben. It's so funny because it's like I don't even think we acknowledged, maybe we did at one point that that is from a very early episode of the show about wooden teeth or about various materials.

[Ben Bullen]

Hippopotamus teeth.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Right? And they called them seahorses because. Not because they were the little tiny guys, but because the horse of the sea, the hippopotamus.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, Straight seahorse.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Can you imagine making teeth out of actual seahorses? They'd be all chitinous and like crunchy and barnacly.

[Ben Bullen]

It'd be a lot of work for little return. One of my favorite hippopotamus facts that we haven't mentioned on air is that the world's most dangerous large land animal is a vegetarian. The hippopotamus is not attacking you to eat you. It simply does not like other things.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Right. And my favorite fake hip hop line involving a hippopotamus is from Fight of the Concords where they say, I'm the hip hop epotamus. My rhymes are bottomless.

[Ben Bullen]

And then they pulse. They choke. Yeah. Like eminem in the first act of 8 Mile. We are recording this for you, folks. It's December 18th as we're coming in with big end of the year energy. If you're hearing this when it publishes, it is Christmas day and Tiny Tim lives. And it's a bad day for the biggest goose in all of London. We are again, we're big, big fans of trad made up ones. I guess all tradition is made up at some point. We think it's Zanzibar. We think it's Falcon. Around this time of year. We'd like to take a moment and explore some of the stuff we did not get to in previous episodes.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Because you're saying we're starting a new tradition.

[Ben Bullen]

We are. We are. It was because we haven't done this before. No, we've done it. We've. We've done some leftover episodes before. Some things we didn't get to, but.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

We didn't tent pole it at the end of the year like this.

[Ben Bullen]

Now we're making it a holiday thing. This is Noel's.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

We'll maybe adhere to. We'll make no promises. We'll do our best.

[Max Williams]

I will try to keep track of it.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Crack the whip, Max.

[Ben Bullen]

Oh, good luck, Max. You got some raucous members.

[Max Williams]

Almost done with the States.

[Ben Bullen]

Almost. Take that soup, John. You slow rolled that.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

And yeah, Max, you got some serious cats to herd.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[LG Gram Advertiser]

Guaranteed Human did you know Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10? Upgrade to Windows 11 with an LG Gram laptop voted PCMag's Reader's Choice. Top laptop brand for 2025. Thin and ultra lightweight, the LG Gram keeps you productive anywhere, and Windows 11 gives you access to free security updates and ongoing feature upgrades. Visit lgusa.com iheart for great seasonal savings on LG Gram laptops with Windows 11. PCMag reader's choice used with permission. All rights reserved.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

If you're a maintenance supervisor at a manufacturing facility, your job is a little like being a historian. You have to keep the past alive.

[Ben Bullen]

Including your older machines. So when you notice a set of drive belts is showing wear and tear, you call on Grainger.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Grainger makes it easy to find and order the products you need, and their next day delivery can help you keep your machines working like the day they were made, no matter how long ago that was.

[Ben Bullen]

So call 1-800-granger click granger.com or just.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done.

[Sophie Cunningham]

This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something. Do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA in adults with obesity? They may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly, or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability and concentration issues, it may be due to osa. OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don'tsleep on OSA.com this information is provided by Lily, a medicine company.

[Ben Bullen]

Hey, audiobook lovers. I'm Kal Penn. I'm Ed Helms, Ed and I are inviting you to join the best sounding book club you've ever heard with our new podcast, Irsay the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Each week we sit down with your favorite iHeart podcast hosts and some very special guests to discuss the latest and greatest audiobooks from audible.

[Ben Bullen]

Listen to Earsay on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow Earsay and start listening on the free iHeartradio app today. So let me get this straight. Your company has data here, there, and everywhere, but your AI can't use the data because it's here, there, and everywhere? Seems like something's missing. Every business has unique data. IBM helps your AI access your data wherever it lives. To change how you do business, let's create smarter business.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

IBM. We're going to do this in sort of three acts, the first of which comes from a series near and dear to Max's heart. The series not of the States, but of the wonders of the ancient world.

[Ben Bullen]

Ah, yes. And then we'll touch on Tupperware. We might have some stuff to say about Hare and inventors who died by their own hand. Okay, so we're very excited about our Wonders of the World series. Please do check out our upcoming episode in 2026 where we finally ask, what doth a wonder make in this?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Answer it many times over with varying.

[Ben Bullen]

Degr of success and Noel. In advance of that episode on what Makes a Wonder Wondrous, we wanted to share some of the things we didn't get to in our previous episodes on the wonders of the Ancient World. How about we go to the Hanging Gardens conversation?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Yeah, for sure. These are some deep cuts, and as they say, the first cut is the deepest. That's because it's made of glass, which can quite literally cut you. We're talking about the Glass beach in Northern California, right?

[Ben Bullen]

The Glass beach in Northern California. It's quite literal when you see the name that says glass, because once upon a time, this was a city dump. I'm not cool with it.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I'm not either. Glass Beach. This makes me think of the horror stories my parents told me about going to certain beaches where there'd be, like, hypodermic needles washed up on the shore. This doesn't sound cool. It's true, though. It was once a city dump dump site. And now it has transformed into quite a glittering coastline. However, it's not glittering with, you know, sand and polished stones. It is glittering with literal, actual facts. Glass from the early 1900s to the mid-1960s, bottles and cans just Clap your hands. And appliances were pushed over cliffs in a sickening display of litter buggery into the ocean. And what emerged over time as this material kind of, I guess, coalesced were polished pieces of sea glass. And now it's a super popular tourist site along the northern coast of California.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, there's even a sea glass museum now. I want to throw to Max here. Max, you have seen the glass beach. Could you describe your experience?

[Max Williams]

Yeah, it was a number about 10 years ago when I was going up the whole west coast. I was on, you know, California one, the very famous highway. And it's like, outside of Fort Bragg bag. And I knew nothing about this, but I went to this thing and I'm like, wow, this place is really cool. I had no idea, though, at the time that it was actual glass that had like. Like the way. Like the way it had been created because it just looks like it's like some beautiful, like, volcanic rock. Because, you know, up there in that part of California, all the sand's like, black and, like volcanic and stuff.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Super cool.

[Max Williams]

It looks so beautiful and, like, natural. And then when I was doing this research, like, literally when I found out how it had happened when. When I was researching Hanging Gardens, and I was like, okay, this is really cool, but let's not do this again.

[Ben Bullen]

Right? Yeah. Some mistakes are to be acknowledged and not replicated.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It's a life finds a way situation, you know, where it's like sort of over time, the environment sort of adapts to the things that people do to it.

[Ben Bullen]

I think it's a. Humanity finds art in error is probably a way to put it.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I do like art based on error and randomness.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. And this brings us to another thing from Hanging Gardens we didn't originally get to. You ever look at a lake and thought, what if this was pink? Full disclosure, I have. I have thought stuff like that often because I am partially colorblind and it's just sort of gray.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It's a genuine question.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. I'm like, what? I don't know. Maybe it is.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Perhaps some clown tights got dunked in there.

[Ben Bullen]

Rise of the Clown Pants. Another classic episode. This brings us to Lake Hillier, easily.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Mistaken for Lake Hitler if you're looking at it on the page. That's not what it is.

[Ben Bullen]

Just be careful. Yeah.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Yeah. And it has a dot com with lots of good information about Lake Hiller.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. So apparently, Noel, this one is actually a actual fact shout out to Lauren Vogelbaum, friend of the show, who we.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Saw last night at a little Holiday, a happy hour.

[Ben Bullen]

Yes. This is a pink colored lake because it lies just next to the Pacific Ocean. And if you regard it from above, the color of the lake really pops with the blue of the ocean. As long as you're able to see all the colors. Before we move on, we do have to explain the mystery. Once upon a time, the place was pink. Why was that for sure?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

And as we said, nothing to do with clown pants. It was to do with microorganisms. If anyone is from or has visited the Atlanta area, there is an incredible wonder of our area anyway, called Arabia Mountain, where there are these incredible little red, bright red pools in certain areas. And it is because they are habitats to these microorganisms. Specifically in the case of Lake Hillier, we're talking about halobacteria.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, yeah. And as we know, fortunately or unfortunately, the pink color has started to dissipate.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

And that's the thing too. If you go to Arabia Mountain, they don't want you to trod in those pools because they do want to preserve these ecosystems. And they are quite striking. If you ever visit that place, it feels kind of like being on the moon or like another planet or something.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, Pet Sematary 2 was filmed there.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

No way.

[Ben Bullen]

I didn't do it. I spent. Or parts of it. I spent a lot of formative years in Arabia Mountain. I know it well. Funny story about that, by which I mean sinister. There were a series of ritualized murders there in the 1970s that got covered up. But don't let that ruin your time. I love Arabia Mountain. I think everybody should go check it out. And while you're in the area, do please, do, please take an extra few hours to visit Our lady of the Holy Spirit, the Trappist monastery right up the road, you can hang out the entire time. They've got a sick bonsai garden, they've got a good cafe, they've got a great museum. The cathedral is stunning. I would just say watch out for the geese. They're the only bad.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Watch out for. That's. That's words to live by, Ben. Always live your life watching out for the geese because they'll sneak up on you when you least expect it.

[Ben Bullen]

I don't. I just don't know how you could live at a place that serene and holy and still be a curmudgeon. But the geese do it.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

They really do. Yeah, they're really cranky. Not to mention the leveled up Pokemon form of the goose, the swan, which literally dragged our friend Scott Benjamin as a small child to his watery grave almost. I think it was going for his ice cream.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, I've had some run ins with those creatures as well. Look, not to be anti swan, but anytime you think you can trust those creatures because they are picturesque, just pull up your Internet browser of choice and look at the inside of the beak.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

For sure. It's like looking into the maw of hell. And just really quickly, I'm glad we talked about Arabian Mountain, because it does have some really cool striking these little pools. They are apparently a very specific type of small, fragile flower. And not exactly the same phenomenon we're talking about with Lake Hillier, but a worthy tangent nonetheless.

[Ben Bullen]

The fourth largest basaltic extrusion. Actually, if you want to be fun at parties, you might be having a holiday shindig and someone brings up a pink lake and you think, well, I see you, pink lake. I raise you Rainbow Mountain. This is. This is from our mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Episode Brother, that's got. Oh, my God. There has to be a psychedelic rock band called Rainbow Mountain. If it's too Mountain too good. Yeah, you've got Rainbow is also a band. Let's put them together and we get Rainbow Mountain. I might steal that. Yeah. What is the deal with Rainbow Mountain? I can already picture it in my mind. It just seems so painterly.

[Ben Bullen]

Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. These are the mountains in China. The Zhongye Danjia National Park. We're going to Carly Hoke in her article 22 Strangest Natural Wonders of the World. These mountains in Danxia have a range of colors. They have this vast spectrum that again, I probably can't see, but I hope everybody else can. They coat the mountains throughout the year. It's all due to layers of sediment that have settled over millions, millions of years, millennia upon millennia. And ancient people probably thought this was painted on purpose. It looks purposeful if you pull up a picture.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Yeah. Very painterly indeed. In fact, as they put it in the piece that we were referencing, or in Carly's piece, rather, painted by the gods.

[LG Gram Advertiser]

Did you know Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10? Upgrade to Windows 11 with an LG Gram laptop. Voted PCMag's Reader's Choice top laptop brand for 2025. Thin and ultra lightweight. The LG Gram keeps you productive anywhere. And Windows 11 gives you access to free security updates and ongoing feature upgrades. Visit lgusa.com iheart for great seasonal savings on LG Gram laptops with Windows 11. PCMag reader's choice used with permission. All rights reserved.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Valpak is here to make it even better. This month, as you sip through holiday mail, don't miss the blue Valpak edition envelope. From dining to holiday shopping, there's a sleigh full of savings in your mailbox, plus a chance to instantly win $100. That's right, you can find $100 Christmas cash inside. Want to save even more money on what you love? Go to valpak.com for local coupons and offers. It pays to open Valpak. No purchase necessary for instant win voip prohibited prices are randomly inserted. See specially marked Valpak envelopes for details.

[Rob Gronkowski]

This is Rob Gronkowski from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and jewels. For the second season in a row, I partnered with T Mobile's Friday night 5G lights, powering up hometown football across America. This year, T mobile invested over $4 million in prizes to help schools take their Friday nights to the next level. The votes are in. And now it's time to crown our $1 million grand prize winner. Congratulations to Derrick's High school and Derrick's Arkansas, home of the Outlaws and your 2025 T mobile Friday night 5G lights champion. The Outlaws and their community rallied to help them score a game changing home field upgrade, a Gronk Fitness weight room makeover, an epic 2026 tailgate party, and a VIP trip to the SEC championship game. To every school that competed, posted and rallied your communities. Thank you and to T Mobile for making it all possible. This season may be over, but the story isn't. Stay tuned for season three in 2026. Congratulations again to Derek's High School Outlaws.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

Hear that? It's the sound of truly immersive audio. Thanks to Vizio's new 4.1 soundbar and it's now available at Walmart. Powered by Dolby Atmos and DTS X. Except. Experience rich cinematic sound with two wireless surround speakers and a compact wireless subwoofer that puts you in the center of your entertainment. All without the clutter of cables. Stream your favorite music radio and podcasts with the iHeartRadio app and trust us, your music has never sounded this good. Head to Walmart.com and upgrade your sound game. Today, 10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit.

[Ben Bullen]

Only one of you will leave here.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

With an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Pressure is coming Down Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com.

[Ben Bullen]

And there are more wonders to get to.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

We have such wonders to show you. Or not show you. We've showed you enough. Let's move on to something.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. Well, this is another wonder we'd love to see. Okay, we are gonna do one more. Yeah. Tupperware.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

What a bait and switch. What a bait and switch. No, it's true. At the time.

[LG Gram Advertiser]

Remarkable.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

An absolute game changer.

[Ben Bullen]

Resealable as well. Remarkable and resealable. Before Tupperware, people often would preserve their leftovers by putting a shower cap over a bowl or a dish. Because.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Pretty industrious. I'm not gonna lie. I respect the life hack of that. Right.

[Ben Bullen]

And Tupperware, as we learned, was displayed at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1956.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Total wonder it became Art Decade. They got it.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. They.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

New York Museum of Modern Art.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. Thank you, moma.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Oh, this is the moma. I love the moma. So I. It's one of your favorites, too, Ben.

[Ben Bullen]

I love it, too. This idea of Tupperware. There's a lot of stuff we didn't get to in that episode, but we did want to have a couple of mentions. Our pal, the inventor Tupper also invented something called sure Stay Hairpins. And they were supposed to be a better way to hold the modern hair. Problem is, the product was unsuccessful. The slogan was so bad. Here's the slogan. Many women wear more or less false hair wigs cost good money, and romance or social prestige often hangs by the hairs on one's head. A good sure Stay hairpin is needed. Creepy voice like Bond villain voice.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Aggressive.

[Ben Bullen]

A little.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

A little insulting.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, especially like you're attacking people by trying to. As a way to try to sell stuff to them.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Well, obviously, you know, I just googled sure Stay Hairpins, and nearly nothing comes up. But you know why? Because it was like the hairpin that time forgot. Because all we ultimately needed in a design that hasn't changed in many, many, many, many, many years is the humble bobby pin, which you can use to do all those things, advertise, and also to pick a lockdown during a heist.

[Ben Bullen]

Sure Stay was such a womp. Womp as far as hair products go. Because, you know, it's kind of like this. And beat me here for this part, Max, because we're at the end of the year. Imagine you have. You're trying to sell a car. Thank you. Wait for it, though. Imagine you tried to sell a car, right? You're Ford. And you're trying to sell cars and you say, hey, buddy, you. You don't have a car. You're bad at hitchhiking. You need a Ford. And then later. And then, thank you, Max. And then later, the. The top brass at Ford is like, why does no one like our cars? Is it because we were rude to them?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

We were mean to them? I'm surprised anybody still likes cars, considering the scheme of it all with the salespeople and no shade on anybody that's a car salesman. But they do quite frequently have a certain aggressive demeanor about.

[Ben Bullen]

It's an unnecessary rent, sinking middleman system.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It's very unsafe.

[Ben Bullen]

Doesn't have to. It doesn't have to happen that way. Just like privatized insurance.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It doesn't have to be that way.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, exactly.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

There's gotta be a better way. And there is, but it's one of those things that's just been that way. And these industries have a stranglehold on the way things are. But, you know, what is pleasant for Ben or what are pleasant?

[Ben Bullen]

What are pleasant?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Cartoons.

[Ben Bullen]

Ah, yes, I agree.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

We really like cartoons.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. We're gonna stick with the hair for a second, because in an earlier episode, courtesy of our research associate, Ren on hair dye, we learned some surprising things about Egypt and cartoons, Right.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

We did learn that the Ramesses the Great's hair likely was red. There was certain prestige that went along with that. I think it was a difficult Hugh to obtain. And he wore it as a bit of a flex. And then everyone else started wearing it too. It's escaping me a little bit. Bim, could you maybe help us fill in the details about what was so special about red? Was that a material that was more precious?

[Ben Bullen]

The idea is, okay, so for a long time, people were going back and forth about this because a mummified corpse of a human, sometimes, when exposed to air, the hair or whatever fibers are left over will react to the atmosphere and turn red. However, Ramses, our boy, was. He was rocking this as sort of a aspect of his regal Persona, right? Because it was a flex.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It was to stand out. I did remember that detail, and I can't remember what the stuff was that they used to make it, but they mashed up all kinds of things. Like what? Like powdered insect shells and various pigments and all kinds of stuff. They were also great at cosmet and other remedies, you know, and poultices and things. The Egyptians were onto something. But we did promise cartoon talk. And if anyone remembers the early aughts, the earliest of aughts. Cartoon Network original series Courage the Cowardly Dog. You'll remember. It's sort of a monster of the week show wherein Courage the cowardly dog and his family, the kindly farmers, are menaced by some sort of creature apparition. It's got Scooby Doo vibes. And despite his cowardliness, Courage usually saves the day. And in an episode from 2000, actually, this may have been when the episode was from. I seem to remember Courage may have started. A lot of those shows started in, like, 99. King Ramses curse. The name of the episode. The monster of that particular week was King Ramses.

[Ben Bullen]

Ah, yeah. And the red hair. I just looked back at our previous research. The red hair was associated with royalty and with the deity set.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Okay.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. So people are still wondering whether this was a genetic. Was this a natural redhead or day walker or was there a dye job? We know that Ramses is redheaded when he plays his villainous role in Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

To be fair, he just wants back what is his. But then Courage and his family sort of gets swept up in the madness, and they really had nothing to do with it. His sacred slab is stolen by robbers, and his apparition appears outside Courage's family's farmhouse to get it back. And our research associate, Ren, delightfully put the quote, return the slab, King Ramses from the episode.

[Ben Bullen]

And there's another thing we wanted to mention about hair dye. Fast forward through time and space to the story of Howard Hughes. We have an episode coming up on Howie later, but he has a little bit of an historical footnote in the story of hair dye. A guy born in Texas. He becomes a millionaire at the young age of 18. He inherits his father's estate. And he's a really chiseled looking guy. He's a Tony Stark character, right?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

100%, yeah. A real smoke show, a real playboy. He got into Hollywood. He was a producer and maybe even director of some very popular Hollywood properties at the time, one of which won him an Oscar.

[Ben Bullen]

Mm. Yeah.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Something about Pew, Pew fighter planes. And apparently some of the shots are, like, for the time, were revolutionary in terms of, like, showing air combat. And people almost thought it was, like, news footage. It was so well done.

[Ben Bullen]

And in our episode on hair dye, we talk about Jean Harlow, one of the original blonde bombshells.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Another smoke show.

[Ben Bullen]

Right, right. Because of the hair dye, which was one of the decisions made. Howard Hughes, he signed her up to act, and then he directed her first major role, Hell's Angels, 1930. So Howard Hughes had to get away.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

With that swear in the title back then, Right?

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. Howard Hughes, we're saying, is partially responsible for the concept of the blonde bombshell. And we cannot wait for you to hear the rest of our exploration.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Did we really leave this story out of that episode? Because he was a real pill about it. Like, he was really very toxically masculine in his wanting to shape Ms. Harlow in this image that he had in mind. And to get your hair that shade of blonde back then required all sorts.

[Ben Bullen]

Of very damaging chemicals.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Damaging not only to the hair, but to, like, the skin. And I think even some of the chemicals that could have caused. I don't want to go so far.

[Ben Bullen]

They get into your system. System is cognitive.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Yeah. Can we go into a little more detail about that? I do. I do want to. Hughes is his own thing. There's a million things we could talk about.

[Ben Bullen]

I would love to talk.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

How did it go? Like what. What ended up happening with. With Gina Harlow? Is she okay?

[Ben Bullen]

She died at the age of 26 due to.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It's not okay. Not necessarily hair related, but it couldn't have been good. All those fumes and stuff, too.

[Ben Bullen]

And I think a lot of Howie's behavior, even at that point, is indicative of his precipitous mental decline.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Oh, 100%. If you've seen the film, which I only just saw it for the first time very recently, of course, it was good Scorsese, but it was pretty good. He died alone of his own choice. He was surrounded by whomever he wanted to have in his company, having that level of power, but he excluded himself. And I believe he was like, peeing into jars and wearing tissue boxes for shoes.

[Ben Bullen]

Not trimming his toenails, his fingernails. Yeah, he was. Look, all the money in the world doesn't solve every problem. In fact, I was very interested in some research from a few years ago that says we'd have to adjust for inflation, but statistics show us that making your country or your community's equivalent of $70,000 a year up to that point. Money does provide happiness. After that, you run the risk of getting in a Howard Hughes situation.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

More money, more problems. I think P. Didgy once said. No, that wasn't him. I don't think he wrote.

[Ben Bullen]

That is him now. Big name.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Have you seen that P. Diddy dog? Have you seen that Diddy Doc?

[Ben Bullen]

Yes, I had to watch it.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It's very good. I mean, you know, good quote, unquote, but it's like that guy was apparently just an utter fraud.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, yeah, not.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

And not a good dude to me.

[Ben Bullen]

Not an ideal person nor musician.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

Did you know Tide has been upgraded to provide an even better clean in cold water? Tide is specifically designed to fight any stain you throw at it, even in cold butter. Yep. Chocolate ice cream?

[Sophie Cunningham]

Sure thing.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

Barbecue sauce. Tide's got you covered. You don't need to use warm water. Additionally, Tide Pods let you confidently fight tough stains with new coldzyme technology. Just remember, if it's gotta be clean, it's gotta be Tide.

[LG Gram Advertiser]

Did you know Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10 upgrade to Windows 11 with an LG Gram laptop, voted PCMag's Reader's Choice top laptop brand for 2025. Thin and ultra lightweight, the LG LG Gram keeps you productive anywhere and Windows 11 gives you access to free security updates and ongoing feature upgrades. Visit lgusa.com iheart for great seasonal savings on LG Gram laptops with Windows 11. PCMag reader's choice used with permission. All rights reserved.

[Ben Bullen]

Your ticket to Big Savings is that.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Big blue envelope in your mailbox. Valpak.

[Ben Bullen]

It's brimming with deals from big name brands and your favorite local spots, dining services, stuff you're already buying, all for less.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

And you could score $100 or other instant prizes just for opening it. Or save even faster with mobile coupons you can use right [e-mail] Valpak there's definitely something in it for you.

[Rob Gronkowski]

This is Rob Gronkowski from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and jewels. For the second season in a row, I partnered with T Mobile's Friday night 5G lights, powering up hometown football across America. This year, T mobile invested over $4 million in prizes to help schools take their Friday nights to the next level. The votes are in. And now it's time to crown our $1 million grand prize winner. Congratulations to Derrick's High School and Derrick's Arkansas, home of the Outlaws and your 2025 T Mobile Friday night 5G lights champions champion. The Outlaws and their community rallied to help them score a game changing home field upgrade, a Gronk Fitness weight room makeover, an epic 2026 tailgate party, and a VIP trip to the SEC Championship game to every school that competed, posted and rallied your communities. Thank you and to T Mobile for making it all possible. This season may be over, but the story story isn't. Stay tuned for season three in 2026. Congratulations again to Derek's High School Outlaws.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

Hear that? It's the sound of truly immersive audio thanks to Vizio's new 4.1 soundbar, and it's now available at Walmart. Powered by Dolby Atmos and DTS X. Experience rich cinematic sound with two wireless surround speakers and a compact wireless subwoofer that puts you in the center of your entertainment, all without the clutter of cables. Stream your favorite music radio and podcasts with the iHeartRadio app and trust us, your music has never sounded this good. Head to Walmart.com and upgrade your sound game today.

[Ben Bullen]

Going back to Howard Hughes, we do have a bit of a through line we've been doing for a while now. A series of a mutual unanimous fascination for us inventors who died by their own hands.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

But not in the way you might typically think of that phrase. They didn't unalive themselves on purpose, right?

[Ben Bullen]

Ooh, great goat. Yeah, this is like.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

What's it called, Ben? The IG Nobel Prize.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Darwin Awards.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

That's right. There's the IG Nobel Prize. And the Darwin Awards is the one for people that have like, the IG Nobel Prize, I think is like the razzies of, of science and innovation. And the Darwin Awards is awarded posthumously to people who unalive themselves in bizarre and accidental ways.

[Ben Bullen]

And the IG Nobel Awards are a raucous good time. They actually, this year, the IG Nobel Awards. NPR aired part of the IG Nobel Awards. And the people who show up up are great. Like, these are. These are scientists. These are actual academics. They love sharing their work. It's an all around good time. It's kind of like a nicer version, a nicer, more nerdy version of a Friars Club roast.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I'll tell you who knows how to party, Ben. Scientists.

[Ben Bullen]

Oh, yeah. No, I can't even. You know, back when I used to party, even I couldn't hang with mathematicians. Those guys are nuts.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Absolutely nuts. Always jotting formulas on the back of their cocktail napkins making you feel dumb.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, yeah. It always try to talk into huffing ether. And I'm like, what century is this?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

What's on that rag? Smells delightful.

[Ben Bullen]

So some inventors we wanted to mention, we, we have more of this coming up in future iterations of our series.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Because weirdly, it's not and it's a particularly exhaustible subject.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, it's a well that keeps giving terrible and frightening water. But here are a few we didn't get to previously. We want to introduce you to a guy named William Bullock. Before we meet Will, though. Noel, Max, we gotta meet a guy named Richard Ho. Hoe.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

That's right. In 1832, printing was revolutionized by Mr. Ho with an E, H O e, who converted the process from one that used flat surfaces to transfer ink to paper into one that used these cylinders. Think of like a classic newspaper printing montage, you know, rolling across the paper. This is apparently a lot more efficient, took up a lot less space, all of that stuff. Earlier presses could only print around 400 sheets an hour, whereas the cylinder press could turn out between 1,000 and 4,000 pages in that same amount of time.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, yeah. So that's Richard Hope, that's 1832. Our buddy Willie is coming onto stage in 1865. He has a breakthrough with something he calls the Bullock press. In a burst of humility, because his last name is Bullock. This is a rotary press that gets fed by a continuous sheet of paper. Right. So again, we're thinking back to the newspaper printing press montage scenes. This continuous roll of paper, like a roll of toilet paper, it's stored on one side of the machine and just goes through. You can cut it later. This saves so much time because also.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

The way L. Ron Hubbard wrote his short story, like I believe he actually typed onto rolls of paper because they were just like throwaway. He wrote so many of these schlocky sci fi stories before he, you know, founded a religion.

[Ben Bullen]

There is a true story about one of the beat poets or beat writers, Jack Kerouac, who took a bunch of stimulants, became somehow intoxicated on uppers, and then just wrote on a typewriter on a continuous sheet of paper. He just kept going.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

So we have Mr. Ho, who invented the cylinder rolling process, and then Mr. Bullock, who introduced the continuous roll of paper that just doubled up on the efficiency of what Ho had previously done.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, absolutely. So the pre hoe printing press, which is not going to sound weird out of context, ever stamped. Yeah, yeah. 400 sheets per hour if it's at its top red line speed. The Hoe printing press, because of the cylinder we mentioned, could go 1,000 to 4,000 pages in an hour. The Bullock Press can go 12,000 sheets per hour and. But wait, there's more. It can print on both sides and the rolls are like five miles long even today.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I'm impressed that a printer can print on both sides. You know, an electric printer. I say, wow, the future we're living in is, is wild.

[Ben Bullen]

That sense of anticipation when the page goes out and you see the first page and it's like, ooh, not yet, not yet. And then it goes back in.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

But then you can imagine that to achieve that level of productivity, these roles had to be going at a hefty clip.

[Ben Bullen]

Ah, that's the thing. Yeah. No. So our buddy Willie does not have a long time to rest on his laurels. He. He does successfully get this out into the world, and he makes a big splash. He makes some headlines on multiple levels, but he is at the Philadelphia public ledger in 1867, supervising a bullock press. And he tries to kick a driving belt onto a pulley.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Yep. And very similar to the plot of the Stephen King Show. The Mangler dude gets mangled hard in the leg, crushed. He doesn't die right then and there, though. As is often the case with some of these inventor deaths, it gets infected and goes gangrenous, and he eventually does succumb to the infection just a couple of days later.

[Ben Bullen]

The Mangler is such a great short story.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

It's pretty good. Do you remember what led to the Mangler being a ghost machine that could. They accidentally put gelatin in it or like a variety of things that got spilled into this laundry press were just the right things to curse it and have it be sentient demonic entities.

[Ben Bullen]

They accidentally summoned a demon. Right. With just a little bit of the wrong herbs.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Because I believe the gelatin, it was literally like horse hooves that they used to put in. Or the material that's. And horseshoes, I guess, was part of whatever this ritual was. But, you know, people give Stephen King a hard time. Cause it's like, what if I made a spooky newspaper machine?

[Ben Bullen]

Come on.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug, man. That's all I'm saying.

[Ben Bullen]

That's true. I love that guy.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Oh, he's the best. And I'm glad that he got right, you know, in terms of his struggles with addiction. And I think he's, you know, continued to do some really impressive output over the years.

[Ben Bullen]

It's like blood of a virgin bat's blood. Horse's hoof. Because there's a container of jello.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

That's right.

[Ben Bullen]

Or something.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Yeah. I don't remember how the bat gets in there, but it happens over the span of time. But yeah. Okay, so our guy, Willy Bullock is no more, unfortunately.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. And he had also, by the way, credit where due. He had created several other pretty impressive mechanical devices. A grain drill, a way. A proto automation for seed planting, a hay press. And why don't we end on this one? Do you guys ever think about riding motorcycles?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I think about it, and then I immediately recoil and think, that's a terrible Idea. It seems fun, but I just. It's so dangerous. I do like to ride bikes, but I'm very cautious.

[Ben Bullen]

Good friend of the show, Andrew Howard has a bike. He's a moto boy. He's a moto man.

[Max Williams]

He would say he has a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket and pedals and things to make it look good.

[Ben Bullen]

It's true.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

He'd give it to us if he could, but somebody borrowed it. Never mind.

[Max Williams]

You're the kind of girl that fits into my world.

[Ben Bullen]

Stop it.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Yeah.

[Ben Bullen]

So this is the story not of our pal Andrew, but of our pal Sylvester h. Roper. In 1896, before the dawn of the modern crotch rockets, our buddy is perfecting his Roper steam velocipede. I love the word. Ooh.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Velocipede. You know what's funny? William Bullock, who we were just talking about, is the name also of the sheriff in the show Deadwood. And there is a. In that show that involves a velocipede. It is what you might call a boneshaker. The one with the big wheel in front that you see, like the muscle men with the curly moss. Like a penny farthing. A penny farthing. But this was called the character who I believe runs the tavern, one of the taverns, one of the lesser taverns. He brings a velocipede and shows it to everybody. So what is the twist in this version of the thing?

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, this is basically a primitive or proto version of the modern motorcy story. Story goes that one day Sly is out. Or sil. I like Sly.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I think Sly get his family stone.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. All right. So our buddy Sylvester is working on the Roper steam powered velocipede. He goes out.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Steam power.

[Ben Bullen]

I know, right?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

That's so steam powered.

[Ben Bullen]

He goes to drive this thing and he wants to prove to the population, prove to the public and the world at large that that his invention is a good idea. Basically. Look how fast it goes. Steam is the future. Yeah. We can go long distances. Yeah. We can go on public roads, off road, even.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Wow. We don't know about that. But it wasn't like, you know, of course, maybe you're picturing some sort of horrific Hindenburg esque explosion, you know, but that's not what happened at all. It was just. It was the guy's time. And it happens to be the time that he was demonstrating the philosophy.

[Ben Bullen]

His heart went too quickly. Yeah.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

He's too stoked.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah. He got so excited. He got over revved he suffered a heart attack. He was incapacitated while on the vehicle and he lost control of the velocipede. He crashed and died.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

At least he died doing what he loved.

[Ben Bullen]

Yes, at least. Yes, that is true, man. I was going to make a joke, but you're absolutely right. It also makes us wonder about the ways history could have gone. You know, if this guy popularized the steam velocipede, would we have steam powered motorbikes today?

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

I don't know, man.

[Ben Bullen]

I would say probably not.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

There was steam powered lots of stuff and then eventually just, you know, gas powered just was like, yeah, we can do better, right?

[Ben Bullen]

And we are powered by neither gas nor steam. We are powered by a fascinating of all things ridiculous caffeine. Oh yes. And shout out to no offense, Max. Big thank you to our other super producer, all of the caffeine producer.

[Max Williams]

It's what powers your. It's what steam powers your super producer.

[Ben Bullen]

Yeah, we by the way folks, we're an audio podcast at present. We all three organically like good improv. We just held up our caffeinated drinks and and cheers.

[Max Williams]

I had cold brew and hot coffee at the same time.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Maniac, you.

[Ben Bullen]

Cold brew for. Cold brew for us, hot brew for the rest. Big thanks to our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. Big thanks to our composer, Alex Williams. Big, big thanks to the rude dudes of ridiculous crime. If you dig us, you'll love them. Noel. Merry Christmas, man.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Merry Christmas to you man. What a good time. What a good, good year. We'll see you next time, folks. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

[LG Gram Advertiser]

Did you know Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10 upgrade to Windows 11 with an LG Gram laptop? Voted PCMag's Reader's Choice Top Laptop Range brand for 2025, thin and ultra lightweight, the LG Gram keeps you productive anywhere and Windows 11 gives you access to free security updates and ongoing feature upgrades. Visit LGUSA.com iheart for great seasonal savings on LG Gram laptops with Windows 11? PCMag reader's choice used with permission. All rights reserved.

[Sophie Cunningham]

This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something. Do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea or OSA in adults with obesity? They may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly, or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability and concentration issues, it may be due to OSA OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don'tsleep on OSA.com this information is provided by Lilly, A medicine company.

[Ben Bullen]

Your ticket to Big Savings is that.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Big blue envelope in your mailbox.

[Ben Bullen]

Valpak. It's brimming with deals from big name brands and your favorite local spots, dining services, stuff you're already buying all for less and you could score 100 or.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Other instant prizes just for opening it.

[Ben Bullen]

Or save even faster with mobile coupons.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

You you can use right [e-mail] Valpak there's definitely something in it for you.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

Hear that? It's the sound of truly immersive audio thanks to Vizio's new 4.1 soundbar and it's now available at Walmart. Powered by Dolby Atmos and DTS X. Experience rich cinematic sound with two wireless surround speakers and a compact wireless subwoofer that puts you in the center of your of your entertainment, all without the clutter of cables. Stream your favorite music radio and podcasts with the iHeartRadio app and trust us, your music has never sounded this good. Head to Walmart.com and upgrade your sound game Today.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

My perfect day has sand, salt water and friends, but my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis can take me out of the moment. Now I'm all in with clearer skin thanks to Skyrizi Risen Kizumab rizzi a prescription only 150mg injection for adults who are candidates for systemic or phototherapy with Skyrizi. Most people saw 90% clearer skin and many were even 100% plaque free at four months. Skyrizi is just four doses a year. After two starter doses.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

Don't use if allergic to Skyrizi. Serious allergic reactions, increased infections or lower ability to fight them may occur before treatment. Get checked for infections and tuberculosis. Tell your doctor about any flu like symptoms or vaccines.

[Noel Copenhagen Brown]

Thanks to Skyrizi there's nothing on my skin and that means everything. Ask your doctor about Skyrizi, the number one dermatologist prescribed biologic in psoriasis. Visit skyrizi.com or call 1-866-Skyrizi to learn more.

[iHeartRadio Announcer]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.