🚨 DID YOU KNOW? 🚨Accidental Inventions
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff & Andy dive into a mix of useless facts, myths, forgotten stories, and strange truths.
In this episode, Jeff looks at modern inventions that were found by happenstance, and Andy shares some staggering stats on Nick Saban’s dominance of college football.
This series is brought to you by the amazing Cedar Run Decoys.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to be. My! We're going to POMAYOR. Thank you. I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm here we go three two one boom and welcome to the big hunker podcast did you know |
| 0:49.3 | brought to you for our friends at cedar run decoys check them out at cedar run decoys.com |
| 0:53.3 | i'm jeff stanfield with the world famous andy shaver and did you know andy i'm going to give for our friends at Cedar Run Decoys. Check them out at cedarundecoys.com. I'm Jeff |
| 0:54.2 | Stanfield with the world famous Andy Shaver. And did you know, Andy, I'm going to give you some |
| 0:58.6 | of the inventions that were created by accident. Okay. The microwave oven. Do you know that? |
| 1:06.2 | I think so. Do you know the story behind it? No. Percy LeBron Spencer was working on a on magnetrons, |
| 1:15.3 | high-powered vacuum tubes that generate short radio waves called microwaves. We accidentally discovered |
| 1:20.2 | microwave cooking. The engineer was doing his job as usual. We noticed that the candy bar in his |
| 1:24.7 | pocket had melted. Quickly Spencer realized that it was the magnetrons that were causing this phenomenon. |
| 1:31.9 | By 1945, he had filed a patent for his cooking box powered by microwaves, the microwave oven. |
| 1:37.9 | Post-it notes. |
| 1:39.3 | Dr. Spencer Silver was working for 3M. |
| 1:41.7 | He was trying to come up with a strong adhesive when he came across quite the opposite, one that stuck lightly to surfaces but didn't bond tightly to them. They didn't know what to do with it that they set on it for a long time. Years later, another 3M scientist, Art Fry, came to him with the idea to create a bookmark that could stick to paper without damaging it. Eventually, that bookmark became the Post-it Note. |
| 2:03.1 | You young people didn't use Post-it Notes. |
| 2:04.9 | Old people did. |
| 2:07.1 | First artificial sweetener, Sacrin. |
| 2:10.5 | Constantine Fawberg was a scientist in 1878. |
| 2:14.5 | He was a Russian chemist, and he was working with some chemicals and tasted his chemicals. Why you would do that, I have no idea. But he noticed that they were sweet and they weren't bad for you. I don't know if they were good for you. Anyways, that's how Sacrin came across. Probably one of the greatest inventions ever discovered by accident is penicillin. Do you know the story of it? Yeah, it was mold. |
| 2:34.8 | It was mold. |
| 2:35.9 | Dr. Alexander Fleming never meant to Revolutionize all medicine as he later described |
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