Chuck

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

So we're going to take a break and call Tim Burton, tell him to think about what he's done, and we'll be right back with Safety Coffins.

All right.

So more than 100 security coffin patents were granted in the United States alone in the 19th century.

And they got a little wacky, like each one had its own sort of spin on the best way to either get someone out or to alert people above ground.

It's like you guys aren't going to believe this.

Yeah, yeah.

Because, you know, that starts at the dinner party when anyone's like, I've been really lucky.

I haven't lost a lot of close friends.

Like, has anyone ever lost, like, close friends and had to, like, preside over their funeral?

And the guy just puts his napkin in his lap.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, a life-preserving coffin, I believe, is what the patent file was in 1843 from Christian Eisenbrant of...

Baltimore, Maryland, and this had a spring-loaded lid where if you, the quote was, the slightest motion of either the head or the hand would spring this thing up.

Of course, that's no good if you're buried under six feet of dirt.

So his suggestion is like, hey, this coffin only works if you're in a tomb, like an above-ground vault.

And