Russ Frushtick
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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The fascinating thing about Lego is today the largest manufacturer of tires is Lego. They make the most tires in the world because of those little tiny rubber tires they put on the cars and Lego boxes.
So board games are extremely old. We're talking about like ancient Egypt, 3100 BCE is the general approximation of where we think board games started. The earliest known one is called Senate. We have no idea how this game was played precisely. It seems like it kind of mixed the rules depending on where you were, but they go back a long ways.
Yeah, I think board games just don't have a limitation on technology, right? The technology to play chess hasn't changed in thousands of years. So the idea that someone could play the same game today that you could back then is amazing. And I think people really are enraptured by that.
I think there are some people that find Monopoly a little bit taxing, but I think it is the core of it is people like taking financial risks without any actual stakes beyond, you know, wasting time for three hours. So I think that's why people love it. But Monopoly in particular has a very fascinating origin story where this woman created a game called the Landlord's Game. And then
other sort of profiteers, if you will, took the idea, called it monopoly, and it kind of got usurped. So she, in later years, got credit for it. But delving into that history is really fascinating.
So basically, the head of security who is running the game, he was in charge of making sure that the game was secure for McDonald's. decided, hey, I could just funnel these few winning game pieces to people that I know and kind of launder the winning game pieces that way. And they ended up making a ton of money until they were caught by the FBI and spent some time in jail.
So unfortunately, it didn't work out for them in the long run, but it was pretty fascinating.
The belief is that we're looking at like kind of corn husk dolls, stuff like that. Very simple. Again, we're talking about thousands of years ago. No one really knows for sure the very first quote toy or doll. But because the technology was so simple back then that all you really needed was like a piece of string, twine, whatever that you bundled together.
And then suddenly some kid has this device in their hands that they could have some fun with.
The guy who created it was a naval engineer, and he was working on submarines, actually, and found the Slinky. just like in his development of various engines and other mechanics that had to exist in these submarines, it was just sort of like on his desk and he accidentally knocked it over and suddenly it did its, you know, classic slinky thing. And he's like, I could probably sell this.
And that's a lot of these classic toys kind of come out from that, just like as accidents, like total mistake.
They started pretty simply. The guy who created Legos in the first place was just kind of making wooden toys. And he kept at that until his toy factory actually burned down. And he decided maybe we'll try this plastic thing. In the 1950s and 60s, he sort of evolved...
his work into including more plastic devices and toys and and came up with this idea of having these kind of bricks that snap together. Unfortunately, his factory burned down again. Separate factory also burned down. He rebuilt again. Thankfully, the next factory actually stuck around for a while and he was able to build this sort of conglomerate of Lego.
And now the fascinating thing about Lego is today The largest manufacturer of tires is Lego. They make the most tires in the world because of those little tiny rubber tires that they put on the cars in Lego boxes.
So Rubik, after the classic Rubik's Cube, is Erno Rubik, who is Hungarian. And in 1974, he kind of created the cube that we know of. He was a toy maker, but he just came up with this idea of these blocks that you can kind of twist and rotate independently of one another. And out of that came this kind of puzzle box that just took the world by storm.
Today, actually, there is a concept called speed cubing, where people try to solve the Rubik's Cube as quickly as possible. I think the latest record as of right now is 3.47 seconds, which is much, much shorter than I am capable of doing it.
So people don't precisely know exactly when squirt guns or water guns were invented. The earliest record of them even being mentioned was in 1858 at Amherst College. It seems that students were having a bit of a war. They called it the squirt gun riot, and they were kind of firing water guns at each other throughout the college. So that was kind of like not exactly...
You know the birth of them because obviously they existed before that but no one really knows when or where they started But it wasn't until the late 1800s that it actually got like patented and officially sold The first one was called the USA liquid pistol and then people started making money on them But before that yeah, it was very much like kind of a total mystery
Yeah, it's amazing because the water gun did not change for like 150 years. And then this guy, Lonnie Johnson, came around. This was in 1989. And he invented the super soaker. And he came up with the idea. We could just use water pressure to fill this giant tank and get all sorts of range that you couldn't previously get if you were just like a little plastic junky squirt gun.
And he just revolutionized the entire water gun industry. Pretty amazing.
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