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Jenny Benjamin

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271 total appearances

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Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

I was like, oh, oh, yeah.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Right, right, right, right, right.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Yeah, I'm going to need those.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

It is.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

These are invisible.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Yeah, they have no line, my bifocals.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

In fact, I've also noticed that nobody likes to say bifocal anymore.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Oh, yeah.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Right.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

That's taboo.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

I don't have bifocals.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

I just have lenses that let me see both distance and near.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Love it.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Every time I said bifocal, the doctor was like, oh, no, no, no.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

We don't say that anymore.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Ben Franklin would be so upset since he invented them.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

Benjamin Franklin would just be like, what happened to my bifocal?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

They were.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

So Benjamin Franklin wrote away to a friend, inventor slash eyeglass maker, and asked for specifically – he had a very specific design in mind, but he asked to have the lens –

Ologies with Alie Ward
Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

split in half so half moons and they were stacked in one frame and the lenses were a little wobbly that's eyeglass making 101 you gotta make the lenses focus otherwise it doesn't work