Was early gum really made from charcoal and chalk?
Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids
Atomic Entertainment Group LLC
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, smarty listeners. Please take a moment and leave us a five-star Apple rating review. |
| 0:05.1 | It not only helps us grow the show, but we might also read your review on Who Smarted. |
| 0:10.6 | So do it now. And don't forget, you can listen to Who Smarted anywhere, including Apple podcasts, |
| 0:16.5 | Spotify, and Amazon Music, including hands-free listening powered by Alexa on all Apple, |
| 0:21.8 | Android, and Echo devices. Good evening. Table for one? Yes, please. |
| 0:27.4 | Write this way. Hey, smarty pants. In case you couldn't tell, I'm an fancy-ish restaurant. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello, my name is Charles. I'll be your waiter. Hi, Charles. Can you bring me something fruity? |
| 0:39.8 | We've got fruit cups, fruit salad, fruit cobbler. I'm out of banana. Banana bread, banana pancakes, |
| 0:45.4 | bananas foster. Not just a banana. Would you like it peeled, sliced, cubed, fried, roasted, |
| 0:51.4 | pickled? No, just a chunk. A chunk? Oh, in an app can put it in when I'm done chewing it. |
| 0:57.6 | Sir? Well, I'm not going to swallow it. You want a chunk of banana that you won't swallow? |
| 1:04.8 | I'm sorry, sir. This is an olive garden. Hey, smarty pants. Have you figured it out? |
| 1:09.8 | Do you know what I'm talking about? That's right. I'm talking about gum. Oh, we don't sell gum, |
| 1:16.7 | but you can have a stick of mine. Absolutely. But let me ask you, have you ever wondered how gum was |
| 1:23.2 | invented or what gum's even made of? Or if it's good for you? And what happens if you do swallow it? |
| 1:29.4 | I don't know. Well, looks like it's time for another whiff of science on. |
| 1:35.6 | Hello, smart egg. Who's smart? |
| 1:39.4 | Who's smart is it you? Is it me? Is it science? Or history? Listen up. Everyone, we make smart |
| 1:52.2 | it. Lots of fun. A host of smart eggs. |
| 1:56.6 | People have been chewing on stuff for a long, long time. The ancient Greeks would chew resin |
| 2:02.8 | from the mastic tree. It's not very good. That's because resin is a natural goo that forms on |
| 2:10.2 | tree bark. Yuck. Arab people chewed on beeswax. Oh, it's not much better. And the Mayans discovered |
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