It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping: Unintended Product Uses
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There are many products in the world that have “unintended uses.”
Originally designed for one purpose, the general public has discovered alternate uses for these items.
From Windex to baking soda to Ozempic, the makers of these products had no idea they would be used for so many unimagined tasks.
And in one story today, the alternate use of diapers may surprise you.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't like ads on this, a podcast about advertising? |
| 0:05.7 | Listen, ad-free at the link in the description. |
| 0:11.2 | This is an apostrophe podcast production. |
| 0:23.7 | We're going to show you our big new studerbaker. |
| 0:25.4 | Start the car! |
| 0:33.6 | Come me, that's a spicy meatball. |
| 0:35.2 | What love doesn't conquer. |
| 0:37.2 | Alka-Seltzer will. What a relief't conquer. Al Casalser will. |
| 0:38.3 | What a relief. |
| 0:49.2 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly.K.K.T. was baseball mad. |
| 1:00.8 | Had the fever and had it bad. |
| 1:04.2 | The popularity of baseball grew rapidly in the second half of the 19th century. |
| 1:10.2 | The game attracted players from all walks of life, including deaf players. |
| 1:15.6 | The inability to hear what often put talented players at a disadvantage. |
| 1:20.6 | Baseball was played at schools for the deaf, |
| 1:23.6 | and it was there that players and coaches started to develop a system of hand signals to communicate with each other. |
| 1:30.3 | Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. |
| 1:35.3 | One of the first deaf players to reach the major leagues was Ed Dundon. |
| 1:40.3 | He had learned hand signals while playing baseball at a school for the heart of hearing |
| 1:44.8 | and brought that knowledge to his professional career. Dundon then taught umpires a few hand |
| 1:50.9 | signals to help him follow the proceedings. One of the most famous deaf baseball players of |
| 1:56.7 | all was William Hoy. Probably the most accomplished deaf player in Major League history, |
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