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Useless Information Podcast

The Flubber Fiasco - UI Podcast #016

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2008

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The unbelievable story of how to deal with the disposal of millions of pieces of the toy Flubber. It's the product that they just couldn't put down!  Also, find out about the origin of the name Bluetooth. Plus, learn that one-third of New York City's population is Jewish, a Brooklyn man who stared at women on the subway with binoculars, and how the Florence, Kansas post office sold $800 in stamps to keep its ranking. Retrosponsor: Ting Pimple Cream Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

0:05.0

This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.

0:09.0

Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better like sneaking some chili into the gravy

0:15.3

for some extra oomps or building a playlist that will even get your none up on the table

0:21.1

or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max. the new Samsung Galaxy

0:25.0

on the ice cold Pepsi Max. Christmas, Better with Pepsi Max.

0:30.0

The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.

0:38.0

Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit,

0:42.0

and access recent chrom tabs across both

0:44.7

devices.

0:45.7

The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.

0:49.5

Available on Sky Mobile.

0:51.4

Bluetooth and Internet connection required. You must be signed

0:54.0

into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. useless information.

1:09.6

Hi, I'm Steve Silverman and you're listening to a classic episode of The Useless Information Podcast.

1:12.0

When I released this episode on July 20th of 2008, my then-fiancé and now wife Mary Jane,

1:19.0

we were in the process of moving to our newly purchased house,

1:22.0

so I needed to come up with a story quite quickly.

1:25.3

So I once again turned to my book Limburg's artificial heart and recorded this fun story

1:31.1

title The Flubber fiasco. It really is a cute story. It would be

1:36.0

another 15 years before I grabbed another story from any of my books. So basically every

1:42.2

story recorded after this one was newly researched and told.

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