Look Inside My Basket

[00:00] All right, I think it's time Coalson. We got another under Google
[00:05] Oh, we do under Google rules. That was the play of super excited told us we had to
[00:19] We said we signed up for it in the end, it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
[00:27] Oh my goodness. This is so exciting. It is the first under Google of the season. I
[00:33] Spent all summer just storing these things, you know
[00:37] Yeah, something I want to Google something. I don't know about and I just waiting. Can you explain how you store things in my phone? Oh
[00:44] And sometimes in my brain
[00:47] Mostly I assume that you like wrote it on your wall and crayon. I wrote it on my arm
[00:55] He doesn't have a home so you can't use the wall
[00:59] I did shut that down
[01:02] You got to set the time
[01:05] I have to paint
[01:11] But so this week I've got a question for you, okay, that's typically
[01:20] Bed sizes
[01:23] That's a statement. How did they come?
[01:25] Okay, why are they named king queen twin and double where did they come about how did we
[01:34] Relegate these sizes how we decide of how big a bed was and why are they named what they are?
[01:39] Where did this come from? We used to all sleep on rocks and then on dirt rocks and then we never saw rocks and then
[01:49] And then we slipped in bales of hay and then suddenly somehow that became a
[01:55] Mattress with that was, you know sized and labeled and I want to know how that happened
[02:00] I want to know the history of them. I don't know the history of the match. Yes the history of the mattress industry go
[02:11] There's no way we started out sleeping on rocks
[02:21] Dirt rock is a pre rock I guess
[02:24] It hasn't been pressured
[02:31] Was it a post-rock
[02:35] So my my
[02:38] recollection of
[02:41] Whenever I would have learned about this was you know, like
[02:44] straw mattresses
[02:46] Back in the day like like if you go to like Connor Prairie or something like that, right?
[02:52] There will be like some a really crappy mattress that is like stuffed with straw
[02:56] So surrounded by cloth from Indiana Connor Prairie is like old-style village. Oh, right. Yeah, sorry
[03:04] That you can go if it's educational. Yeah educational time travel like walking into the
[03:12] 1780s. Yeah, something like that. And they churn butter and stuff like that. Exactly. Yeah, and they also have a hot air balloon
[03:19] What? Oh, really? Yeah, that's new. Yeah, I went I went up in it like a month ago
[03:29] How was that I've never been in a hot air balloon scared the hell out of me really oh, yeah
[03:35] I'm not a real. I'm not a real big fan of those things
[03:38] You didn't know that until you were in a blue specifically. Oh, no, I knew ahead of time that it was that I was not
[03:45] because of the Heights
[03:47] Yeah, I'm not yeah, I don't love Heights and then also
[03:52] Human right and you're also in a basket
[03:56] Yeah, it was
[04:00] It was cool I could I mean I could see downtown from Noblesville it's a pretty far distance
[04:06] But one thing was it was on a tether
[04:10] But I I did not know
[04:13] That there was a like an operator a pilot I guess is what they were called
[04:16] I did not realize like someone was on there controlling it
[04:21] so I was more nervous because of that ahead of time, but then I
[04:25] Learned that somebody there that knew what they were doing. They didn't share this with you up front
[04:29] That seems like yeah, that was gonna be Mike
[04:31] I knew there would be a guy there like, you know pulling the cord to you know
[04:35] Fire the engine and yeah, my thing was like how awkward was it to be in close quarters?
[04:42] With like just a complete stranger, right? Cuz how big is the basket?
[04:48] We put like we had like
[04:51] It was like a cage. It was like maybe ten people would go up at once
[05:06] Now it was like it was like a enclosed, you know
[05:11] Encloshed yeah like it like a like a child. Did they lock you in?
[05:17] Yeah, it was like it was like being you're not gonna you're gonna you're not gonna break out and jump out
[05:22] You know what I mean? Like yeah, they would need to lock you in
[05:26] For safety maybe that's for safety. Yeah
[05:30] Is it was for safety and you went up? I want to say
[05:35] 125
[05:37] Meters or something. Okay, so it wasn't
[05:41] But it still is go back to Europe with your metric system. Come on
[05:47] Okay, that's
[05:49] That's not crazy. Hi. Yeah, it's times three kind of floating
[05:54] Yeah, it's like an extreme roller coaster. I guess it's yeah, it was kind of windy, too
[06:01] And also you didn't know there was a professional on board like that's sort of in and of itself concerning
[06:06] Yeah, well, I learned it before I went up but
[06:09] Okay, but not you know, like that's like kind of what tipped me over the edge to say yes to go
[06:16] They thought they were just gonna they were gonna release you into the wind
[06:20] Well, it's like you it was how to get this thing back
[06:24] It was it was like on this like steel rope like tether. So I thought they were just like
[06:31] Like controlling it from the ground, you know, just kind of letting it out
[06:35] but
[06:37] But anyway, and then they were gonna reel you back in
[06:40] Yeah, that's what I thought was gonna right? What was the question?
[06:45] Mattresses
[06:48] Anyway, so there's bad old mattresses at counter prayer. Yeah, so they're just stuffed with hay surrounded by some sort of cloth
[06:55] Right and that's that's that's your bed, right?
[06:58] Is that it starts on the ground before somebody builds a bed before that?
[07:04] so I would imagine that most
[07:07] Mattresses started out in the twin size and that early on like somebody came up with some sort of manufacturing process
[07:14] I mean early in the
[07:17] After the Industrial Revolution somebody came up with a manufacturing process and said this is a twin size mattress, right and then
[07:28] Really wealthy people I'm assuming pushed the for the larger mattresses. I
[07:34] Mean there weren't legitimately kings and queens back then
[07:38] True and they yeah, probably still didn't sleep together. I mean, this is my question
[07:45] why are they called kings and queens and why and how did it get standardized from a
[07:50] bale of hay to
[07:52] Certain sizes because the bed frames have to be made the same size as the mattresses and everybody has to work
[07:57] I mean, that's just what the Industrial Revolution does. Okay standardized. Yes
[08:01] The light bulbs are of a certain yeah, right. Okay size and like yeah
[08:06] Industries are just like okay. This is the way we're gonna do it
[08:09] Just we're all gonna do the same so that all our crap works together
[08:12] Well, then why are there ten hot dogs and eight hot dog buns, you know, I
[08:17] Mean that I mean, that's a long-standing
[08:20] Feud between the the bun company and the subsidiaries of the hot dog
[08:28] No, it's definitely just a mess with you. Oh, is it just to make me buy more? Okay
[08:35] To buy that extra thing of buns
[08:37] Just yeah, but I do suspect that behind the names of the king and queen that you know
[08:45] Historically kings and queens did not actually cohabitate
[08:48] Like back then in the religious like this uber religious monarchies
[08:56] Like sex was dirty, right? Like you're not gonna sleep with somebody every night. You do it only to procreate
[09:01] So most of the time you got sleep apart
[09:03] King has the bigger bed cuz he's the king and queen has a smaller bed cuz
[09:09] She's the queen queen. I guess we don't like females. We hate smaller and
[09:15] The double is probably like her room was smaller to you know, like everything's all like everything was crappier as a queen for sure
[09:23] Yeah, okay, and the double is not actually twice the size of a twin, right? Or is it?
[09:30] a
[09:31] full a full is
[09:33] Twice so there's two terms for that the full and a double I think are the same. Okay, it is twice the size of a twin
[09:39] maybe
[09:40] Well, man, we're pursuing no
[09:45] Right, but is it the single called a twin
[09:48] Yeah, see this is this is complicated, right? Why is it why is a single a twin and a double a full?
[09:54] I mean you're making a lot of presumptions about the logic of the mattress industry. Okay
[10:01] All right. So our guess is that the size of the the mattresses were named after
[10:07] Kings having bigger beds and Queens having some I'm gonna go much much simpler
[10:11] I'm gonna go with mattress salesmen are like used car salesmen the best terms that they can think of
[10:16] Okay, and nothing in the industrial revolution. They did standardize standardized sizes for beds and mattresses
[10:24] Not necessarily they just a revolution, but whenever mattresses became mass-produced. Yes
[10:30] And then
[10:32] Yes, sometime like in the 60s. Somebody came up with the California King or something
[10:38] Just to like make life harder. Is that and that's bigger than a
[10:41] Non-California King. Yeah, I think it's bigger. I believe so. Yeah, it's wider, but I don't know if it's same length and
[10:50] Then and then we invented the Roy Hibbert bed. Yes, really just a bouncy bouncy castle. Yeah, that's right
[10:56] Okay, that hasn't caught on yet. We haven't made our millions tonight
[11:02] So when okay before we look this up did did things go from hay to horse hair
[11:10] Yeah down there was somewhere. Oh, yeah down feathers. Yes, and then and then wool
[11:18] And things like that
[11:20] Yeah, I'm guessing that yeah went through many
[11:23] iterations
[11:25] much of this pushed by the
[11:29] landed gentry in
[11:31] Like England
[11:33] Hence things are called kings and queens. Okay, so I'm finding
[11:37] I haven't found much so far, but I have found that in the 40s
[11:43] the idea of
[11:46] Making mattresses bigger came about so the idea of
[11:52] Everybody slept in in twin or double beds
[11:55] up until the 40s and then in the
[11:59] Consumeristic 50s basically people just were like yeah
[12:03] You need a bigger bed. Yeah, let's sleep you in a queen or a king
[12:08] So also these terms do not in any way apply across the world, right?
[12:13] So you've got North America South America Europe. I mean Portugal Switzerland have their own stuff
[12:19] like
[12:21] Kind of weirdo
[12:23] although I can't tell you this
[12:25] With mattress mark dot CA certainty. Hmm. Mm-hmm
[12:31] Beds made of goats goat skins filled with water are used in Persia in
[12:37] 3600 BCE Wow the first water bed
[12:41] According to mattress Mart. Yes, and I do trust Matt mattress part. Don't you?
[12:47] The word mattress derives from the Arabic
[12:54] Matra, which means something thrown down or a place where something is thrown down and hence Matt cushion
[13:02] during the Crusades Europeans adopted the Arabic method of sleeping on cushions on the floor and
[13:08] The word mattress eventually descended in the Middle English through the romance languages
[13:13] The oldest known mattresses date to around
[13:18] 77,000 years ago, so not a lot of dirt rocks in the mix
[13:22] So what would what were they were sleeping on before?
[13:27] What were the Europeans sleeping on before the Crusades
[13:32] Like just a sheep
[13:35] The method of sleeping on cushions on the pile of sheep
[13:40] I mean something they yeah
[13:45] Sure probably carpets carpets blankets skins skins
[13:52] Well, but they had the there was the story that the princess in the pee, right? I must go back to
[14:00] Long time ago where they stacked mattresses on top of it, but she could still
[14:05] be right
[14:06] Were those spring mattresses?
[14:09] No, I don't think spring mattress came about until
[14:13] 1865 the first oil spring construction for bedding is patented
[14:21] Interesting
[14:23] Early mattresses contained a variety of materials including straw feathers a horse hair in the first half of 20th century
[14:30] A typical mattress sold in North America and in the spring core and cotton batting or fiber fill
[14:36] So Joey wins it with the horse hair
[14:41] Where's hair one and nothing does that answer your question sort of I mean
[14:47] I just I thought there'd be some sort of reason behind this it's marketing dude. It's always marketing always. Yeah
[14:55] Yeah, actually I see one here. Did you guys see the article in bed times magazine calm?
[15:03] No, but I want to hear I did see that okay. Yeah, it's it was marketing in between 1941 and 1965
[15:12] Okay
[15:13] Okay, guys. I have a full this is from the
[15:17] Mattress page on Wikipedia. Okay, but I'm gonna give you a full listing of all the standard bed sizes. Okay
[15:24] Smallest one is a crib and I didn't realize that was like a standard there's like a standard for crib
[15:29] I know they were just like whatever they wanted 27 inches by 52
[15:34] Really? You got a crib?
[15:36] Yeah, that's like four by two. That seems huge for a baby
[15:41] Yeah
[15:43] So you can get you got a gorilla. Oh, yeah, they make babies big these days. You got to make room for you know
[15:50] outlets
[15:54] You got your twins their twin size and then there's a twin XL
[15:59] Which is the same width but five inches longer
[16:04] Then you got your full
[16:06] your queen your king and the California King and the California King is actually so it's
[16:14] Less wide but longer. Ah
[16:18] Or is it this so it's it's less wide so yeah, it's four inches narrower and four inches longer
[16:26] We hear yeah, just for super
[16:30] It's for the it's so it's the thin tall people of California. Yeah, jerks jerks
[16:37] Nailed it
[16:43] All right
[16:47] Remember when Miles Turner was growing like
[16:50] He's still growing while he was on our team, right? Yeah, but like his parents claimed they could hear him growing while he slept. Yeah
[16:58] Like that's why you get a crib that's four feet long
[17:03] You gotta buy you gotta buy your junior high kid a California King so they can grow into a seven-foot body
[17:13] Right, yeah, yeah, I spend money to make money. Yeah, I'm saying
[17:21] Look a bond to California King mattress right now so you can grow into it
[17:28] So I can get that 80 so I get that 80 mil payoff Joey's gonna turn it
[17:33] Whatever man. All right. I think that should wrap it up for this show
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[18:36] Turn out the lights the parties over
[18:40] Yeah, I'm unclear as to why that there's a hot air balloon in
[18:49] Connor Prairie. Yeah, I don't think they had those
[18:56] That's cuz it was a big open they have a big open fields out there that's the best place to let them off
[19:02] That's probably what it is
[19:04] To let who off you off the
[19:08] Hot air balloon hot air, but it's 125 meters. You don't want to like run into trees like immediately. Yeah
[19:16] You you agree with that? I?
[19:21] Mean in principle
[19:23] Why are hot air balloon? You know when you go to the optometrists and you have to do that, uh, I
[19:31] Don't know. There's always a hot air balloon. You like looking the machine
[19:35] It's always the hot air. I think they're supposed to be soothing. They're very they're very they're fun
[19:39] Yeah, I don't get soothing for my optometrist very often. Oh
[19:45] Well, I was thinking as you look at a soothing image like because you get like hot air balloon calendars and things like that
[19:50] Like that's a thing
[19:53] Like the sexy ones
[20:00] Are you gonna go as a sexy hot air balloon next Halloween?
[20:03] Remind me cuz I will if you okay
[20:08] I'm not sure what that looks like, but I'll figure it out
[20:11] I'm sure you will
[20:16] You want to see inside my basket? Oh
[20:19] my god
[20:21] Jason this song you