Blythe Terrell

And, you know, they were seeing these like clouds of tear gas and developing protesters.

And they decided that they wanted to do something.

Yeah, so Rose, like many conversations among friends, this led to them doing a bunch of research and looking at academic papers.

And, you know, what they wanted to find out was, yeah, what do we know about tear gas?

And one thing that caught their attention pretty early on is just a little bit about the history of this stuff.

Because, you know, tear gas has been around kind of in some form for more than a century.

Yeah.

That's the system that we have.

No notes.

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Right.

And I mean, look, I asked Jennifer about that too, right?

I mean, what did you think when you saw that piece of it?

Yeah.

And Jennifer actually told me that after the U.S.

and all these countries agreed not to use these types of chemicals in war, it wasn't like everyone just like dumped out all of their...

chemicals, you know, these various things that they might use as weapons, as these types of weapons, right?

It's not like everybody just tossed it.

But these chemicals that we had started being marketed as like non-lethal or less lethal options for stuff like crowd control.

And then they started getting sold to places like police departments.