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No Dumb Questions

105 - When Is Old Technology Better?

No Dumb Questions

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Nodumbquestionssciencehistorydestinmattsmartereverydaysmartereeryday, Education, Society & Culture

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0

Alright, so with your permission there's going to be a little background noise as we work.

0:12.2

That's cool or as we talk today.

0:15.2

I'm doing something really interesting that I bet you would never guess and I'm not

0:19.2

going to make it weird and make you try to guess.

0:21.3

But...

0:22.3

It'd be more fun.

0:23.3

Yeah, okay, go ahead, you can guess.

0:25.3

You're whittling.

0:26.3

You've taken up whittling and you are sitting on a porch in a rocking chair and you've got

0:30.6

a little whittling knife with your thumb on the back of the blade and you are making

0:34.0

barnyard animals for kids at a local orphanage.

0:39.3

My dad actually told me the secret to whittling a grasshopper.

0:43.0

It's pretty simple.

0:44.0

All you do is you take a block of wood and you cut off everything that doesn't look like

0:47.2

a grasshopper.

0:48.4

I didn't know where the joke was going.

0:51.9

I like the joke better than the initial awesuckness of your dad actually having had a conversation

0:57.7

with you about whittling at some point.

1:00.8

No, okay, I get it now.

1:02.6

That's all I got to do.

1:04.1

No, absolutely.

1:05.1

But what I'm actually doing is I've been shooting photographs with 35 millimeter film.

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