A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview.

Welcome to Curiosityness, the podcast where we talk about stuff that you might be curious about.

I just made up that tagline.

My name is Travis DeRose. I'm the host.

Welcome to episode 53. I got on

Jonathan Wilker this episode. And this may sound boring at first glance, but let me tell you,

this stuff is so interesting what Jonathan is doing. Like, you just think adhesives, he's making

adhesives, you know, using what muscles and oysters

are doing, like, who cares? Sounds boring. It's the opposite of boring. It's so cool. I thought

this episode would last maybe a half hour. We went for like an hour and 20 minutes because it's

awesome.

So I think if you just get in there and give it a chance, you're really going to love this.

It's super interesting, interesting. Jonathan has a great way of explaining things and, you know,

making it fun and graspable and understandable for people who aren't, you know, in chemistry and chemistry majors.

And especially when we get to the uses of how all of his different adhesives can work,

like for biomedical stuff and like adhering a metal plate to bone, all this crazy stuff.

Adhesives are everywhere.

They're in plywood. They're super toxic. So he's also working to, you know, remove the toxicity of those and the carcinogens that, you know, is everywhere because plywood and everything is made out of adhesive. It's everywhere. So this is super important. It's crazy. I'm going to stop

talking now and let's get to Jonathan Wilker. And boom, we're going. What's up, John?

Hey, thanks for having me on. Yeah, of course, man. Stoke to talk to you. This is like,

pretty interesting stuff. I mean, at first I was, you know, I, you know, saw what you're into.

I'm like glue, like really, but, you know, I think it's because all I was thinking about

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