Alaina Urquhart

It was originally invented as wallpaper cleaner.

In the 1930s, Kutal Products in Cincinnati, Ohio, created a pliable non-toxic putty used to lift coal soot off of wallpaper.

When home switched to cleaner heating after World War II, the company repurposed the cleaner as a toy, which became Play-Doh.

Isn't that fun?

So it was like an accidental toy.

I do too.

Remember eating Play-Doh when you were little?

see it's the simplest stuff it really is high tech bullshit oh and i love when you got like the play-doh sets where you can like make it like noodles yeah it's like spaghetti i love smushing it through something let's go play with play-doh right now let's do that all right well um we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird but not so weird that you don't go buy some play-doh right now and smush it yeah just don't eat it anymore because you're like i don't think you're supposed to i'm sure it's not it's probably fine but like i don't know

The goddamn pollen.

It's here to stay.

I don't know when it's, we've had several rains, several intense rains, storms even.

It rains every fucking weekend.

It's raining all the time.

And it's like, and then we wake up and it's just somehow more pollen on my porch and now just puddles of pollen.

Now the pollen has gathered.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's no, don't get your car washed in New England right now.

I recently did and I don't know why I did.

Like that's actually wild that you did that.