This is an IHeart podcast.

This is our American stories.

And our next story, well, it's a little gross.

It's a little silly and involves two young men coming up with a smelly, smelly product that ultimately has been put to use by the U.S. military to actually prepare medics and other types of people involved in operations that would include horrible smells.

How did these two guys come up with their smelly product called liquid?

Well, I'm just going to say assets.

Well, here's Andrew Masters and Alan Whitman with this story.

Alan and I met in an engineering department in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where we were doing electrical for automotive and trucks.

And we're dealing with managers who are not interested in building a good product, but dealing with corporate politics and trying to advance their own careers.

You're never making any decisions that might cost them a career choice.

So, you know, and Whitman and I are, we both have spines,

and we're more interested in, you know, building a good product and using logic

and not really interested in a bunch of bulls.

And for that reason, we kind of gravitated toward each other and became pretty good friends.

And Whitman kept talking about the stuff he had back in high school and had used a great

effect.

It stunk really bad.

And that he still had a little bit left and he should bring it in.

And I guess at this point,

Alan should probably back up to, you know, 15 years previous as to the story of the beginning

of what became liquid. In his experience. All right. Well, this is Alan. And I actually came up with this in high school completely by accident.

And everybody asked me, well, how did you create it?

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