Simone Giertz

And it's just like...

And this is probably my favorite privilege of my job is that I can go down any rabbit hole I find interesting.

Yeah, that's fun.

That's a lot of self-soothing.

And like I got to spend, I think I spent a week trying to figure out the best material to pop bubble wrap with.

Because if you have two, if you kind of put them two through or through, if you put a sheet of bubble wrap through two rigid tubes.

the air kind of just escapes from one side of the bubble into the other.

So what I realized was that if you have a squishy material, like kind of a yoga mat material, in between it, it actually prevents that and pops it a lot more reliably.

But increasing the pop reliability was a huge effort as well.

Because you don't need a lot of force.

Like you just need it to not, the air to not be able to escape anywhere.

But then also we had, there was different qualities of bubble wrap where there was a lot of transference between different bubbles.

So instead of the bubble popping, it would just seep the air into a neighboring bubble and that like membrane would kind of, so, you know, I just like getting to spend weeks on weeks of just studying bubble wrap.

I bet somebody has.

But you know, I always, I thought I was going to go into academia.

Like I was such an ambitious student.

I loved school.

I actually applied to MIT, but then I pulled out because I was like, no, I don't want to do it.

But now I realize it's really good that I didn't because I'm too much of a spaz.

So I'm just going to take a quick restroom break because Lex is on his own train now.