Bombs For Good

[00:00] All right, I think it's time for another under Google. Coalson, what do you got for us this week?
[00:11] We do under Google rules. That was the plan. Super excited.
[00:16] I told us we had to.
[00:19] We signed up for it.
[00:23] In the end, it's going to be better and more true than Google can give you.
[00:27] So I was going through some of the old podcasts and Harper asked a question in that in that
[00:34] podcast and I wanted to answer it for him. He's probably not asked it since then.
[00:39] He probably doesn't care anymore. But in the podcast, you asked where down to the wire came from.
[00:47] I immediately suggested that it was a bomb cutting, like a cutting wires and bomb in MacGyver
[00:55] is where it came from. And we all agreed that that was okay, that that was probably where
[01:01] it came from. But I think that's probably not where it came from. And I figured I'd ask you guys
[01:07] down to the wire.
[01:09] So do you think like specifically like from the TV show MacGyver?
[01:15] MacGyver style cutting wires is what I was thinking. I don't think the phrase
[01:20] was originated from MacGyver itself, but I think by the way, that show does not hold up.
[01:27] It is. It is so bad.
[01:31] Can I see it on Hulu or something?
[01:33] I don't know. We we bought the some DVDs of it.
[01:39] Oh, so you spent good hard money on this.
[01:41] It was for a thing at work and it was it was unwatchable.
[01:47] It's no 18. I'll tell you that.
[01:49] That's yeah, that holds up for sure.
[01:55] So down to the wire.
[01:57] Down to the wire. Do we know where this comes from?
[01:59] And we don't think it's from the TV show The Wire, right?
[02:03] I mean, it might be. I don't know. I feel like it's been around before that.
[02:06] But I guess I guess MacGyver predated that. So probably not.
[02:11] Yeah, cutting down, cutting, you know, cutting the little plastic sleeve off
[02:19] without actually cutting the wire in my mind was down to the wire.
[02:26] So it's just an electrician thing.
[02:27] Exactly. They actually have tools for that.
[02:31] You got a little scraper.
[02:33] Wire stripper.
[02:34] Yeah, wire stripper. Yeah, that's that's where you get that phrase.
[02:43] I'm going to go out. I don't know the limb.
[02:45] Okay, okay.
[02:47] It's just that's from racing.
[02:50] Okay, like car racing.
[02:53] Well, I don't think it's probably it's definitely not car racing,
[02:56] but I probably don't think it's even human racing.
[02:58] I think it's probably dog or horse racing.
[03:01] Not baby racing.
[03:03] Unfortunately, not.
[03:05] But it can be now.
[03:07] It is now.
[03:09] We can start using wires in baby races. That sounds like a massacre.
[03:16] Not like an actual wire.
[03:18] Just because you think that every wire is attached to a bomb.
[03:25] There are other kinds of wires.
[03:27] What kind of wires are there, Joey?
[03:32] Most ones are non-bomb wires.
[03:35] I got copper wires. I think those are connected to bombs.
[03:40] That's the only kind of wire I know.
[03:42] Did you just grow up in a lot like just surrounded by explosions all the time?
[03:47] Just an action movie.
[03:49] I did watch a lot of 80s action films and did grow up in a bomb manufacturing facility.
[03:57] No.
[04:00] Raised by terrorists.
[04:04] No, these were bombs for good.
[04:07] Oh, those kind of bombs.
[04:13] Okay, so we're racing horses.
[04:16] But why down to the wire?
[04:18] What are we doing?
[04:19] Is there like a wire across the
[04:24] horses like run into the wire and it gets cut?
[04:28] So humans do that, right?
[04:31] Humans definitely do that.
[04:34] Maybe it's just like the ribbon wire thing that people run through at the end of a race.
[04:39] But I feel like that would cut you if it was a wire.
[04:42] But it's not actually a wire. That's like a ribbon that people run through.
[04:46] But you think for horses we're just like wire, it's fine?
[04:49] No. I don't think we think it's an actual wire at all.
[04:52] Why don't they call it down to the ribbon then?
[04:54] It just doesn't have the same ring.
[04:57] I don't know.
[05:01] All right. Okay.
[05:03] So there's a wire that, but okay.
[05:06] But down to the wire suggests that it's very close.
[05:09] It's a close call, right?
[05:12] If two horses hit a wire at the same time, how did I learn anything from that?
[05:18] How do I know who wins?
[05:21] Because of the cuts on one of the horses.
[05:24] From the wire tearing into their body.
[05:27] I don't think it's some like,
[05:30] that's actually not a bad idea.
[05:33] Bobsters used to strangle each other with.
[05:35] I think it's something fairly, you know, easy to cut.
[05:41] No, I love this idea.
[05:42] That's how you figure out who won.
[05:43] That's just whoever's bleeding.
[05:45] Whoever dies the first one.
[05:47] Whoever loses their head, right?
[05:49] Just slops off their head.
[05:51] Oh, they won.
[05:52] Clearly going the fastest.
[05:55] Right.
[05:56] Yeah.
[05:58] Yeah, I don't know.
[06:01] Yeah, I don't know.
[06:02] I was more thinking like Greyhound racing or something
[06:04] because I've watched a lot of horse racing.
[06:06] I've never seen a wire or like anything approaching it,
[06:09] but we've also always had cameras.
[06:12] Right.
[06:13] So this is that you make a really good point.
[06:14] You watch modern horse racing.
[06:17] Does a wire in horse racing make sense
[06:19] if it's previous to cameras?
[06:25] It would help you discern the winner probably.
[06:27] Okay.
[06:28] So if you had, let's say if you had a wire
[06:30] instead of like low enough to like trip them
[06:32] or cut them or cut their heads off.
[06:35] If you had a wire above their heads
[06:38] and if you were looking from the up from the top,
[06:41] maybe you could see if that would help you
[06:44] determine who won maybe.
[06:47] Sure.
[06:48] Like a photo finishy.
[06:50] It probably came with cameras.
[06:51] Right.
[06:52] And so you've laid down some sort of optical marker
[06:58] to help you.
[06:59] Yeah.
[07:00] Down to the wire is essentially a photo finish.
[07:02] Right.
[07:02] But it's before photos.
[07:03] That makes sense.
[07:04] I like that.
[07:04] Well, I don't know that it's before photos.
[07:06] I mean, I think that they may have put this in
[07:08] when they came up with cameras
[07:10] because otherwise it's just a visual game.
[07:11] Right.
[07:12] There's no point in that.
[07:15] But I'm thinking it doesn't help you visually.
[07:19] Well, I'm I'm looking this up.
[07:21] Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[07:22] Before you look it up.
[07:24] Okay.
[07:26] Is wire to wire connected to down to the wire?
[07:33] Yes.
[07:34] A wire to wire victory.
[07:36] Yes.
[07:38] Definitely the same.
[07:39] So so why are there wires at the beginning of the race?
[07:44] I think the wire may be somewhat metaphorical.
[07:47] Okay.
[07:48] Metaphorical wire.
[07:49] So it's like the starting line.
[07:51] Yeah.
[07:52] And the finish.
[07:52] And the finish line.
[07:53] Okay.
[07:54] So the wire.
[07:54] So we're not cutting horses to see who wins with a wire at their head level.
[08:02] Right.
[08:02] We're going bomb to bomb.
[08:04] Yeah.
[08:05] It's it's the it's the chalk line in the ground to the chalk line in the ground.
[08:09] And that's there.
[08:10] We're calling those wires.
[08:15] I like it.
[08:16] And it's been around since the late 1800s.
[08:21] Yeah, that's when horse.
[08:22] Well, horse racing has been around longer than that.
[08:25] I assume so, but I do think that this might have something to do with.
[08:29] Connect with photography.
[08:31] Okay.
[08:31] All right.
[08:31] I'm with you.
[08:32] Late 1800s horse racing and bomb making.
[08:38] Boom, boom.
[08:39] And huh?
[08:40] What do you got, Jeff?
[08:43] Yeah, I'm getting it late 1800s horse racing.
[08:47] And there was a essentially they're calling it a wire, but essentially it's something.
[08:52] I don't think it's anything that hurt the horses.
[08:55] There was no decapitated horses, nothing like that.
[08:57] But it was as far as you know, as far as the corrupt media tells you.
[09:03] Yes, that and yeah, it was just just a visual tool to help the judges see.
[09:11] Like if you could, I think the idea is like if you could see which one hit it first
[09:17] to help you.
[09:18] It's a string.
[09:19] It's a string across the middle of the thing.
[09:22] Okay.
[09:23] Yeah.
[09:24] Um, and that's, yeah, we pretty much nailed it.
[09:27] Was it with photography though?
[09:28] Did that, was that part of it?
[09:29] I'm not seeing that, um, linked to photography, but, um,
[09:35] the timings, the timing.
[09:37] What about wire to wire?
[09:38] Do we know anything about that?
[09:40] And it's the side side side question.
[09:43] I think it's the same.
[09:44] I think it's what we talked about.
[09:45] It's what I'm saying.
[09:48] It's from horse rating that the horse racing denotes a horse that leads from
[09:53] start to finish.
[09:55] Doesn't mention the wires that they tripped over or cut themselves off.
[10:01] And well, I think we can lock this in because even urban,
[10:05] even urban dictionary says the same thing that we are.
[10:08] I know you saw that.
[10:11] There wasn't anything about blow jobs and cars or anything.
[10:14] Nothing.
[10:20] Well, nice work.
[10:21] You know, they don't always have to be hard.
[10:25] That's the hardest one ever.
[10:26] We just nailed it.
[10:28] Okay.
[10:29] We're just super smart.
[10:29] We're just super smart.
[10:31] That's what that is.
[10:36] A small wire was strung across the track above the finish line to help judge,
[10:43] determine which horse crossed the finish line first.
[10:48] Um, and similarly, there was a wire at the start line.
[10:55] To make sure that there were no false start to make sure that nobody.
[10:57] Yeah.
[10:58] Make sure they all left at the gun.
[11:00] Okay.
[11:01] I found a new term that I love.
[11:03] It's called porky pigging.
[11:06] And it's when you only wear your shirt around your house.
[11:16] Why did you find that?
[11:18] That's on urban dictionary.
[11:19] That's why I was going to go to urban dictionary.
[11:21] I've been banned from that site.
[11:23] You have been banned.
[11:26] I think it's time for a break.
[11:28] Get porky pigged up here.
[11:29] And, uh, uh, luckily this is just an audio podcast.
[11:33] So, but you guys are going to get the full effect.