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Episode 70 · December 5, 2020

Who Watches the Watchers?

A host who has wondered about it for years asks where the tooth fairy comes from, and the group works through paganism, Santa and dentists.

“Tooth fairies don't have tooth fairies. Who watches the watchers?” (23:46)

Questions

Where does the tooth fairy come from? (01:02)

Our guess
An old pagan ritual about teeth that became popular after Santa in the 1800s-1900s, perhaps pushed by dentists or to keep kids from swallowing teeth.
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The answer
Tooth traditions go far back: the Norse paid children for their first tooth, medieval Europeans burned or buried teeth to ward off witches, and there are mouse-and-tooth legends from Russia to Mexico. The modern tooth fairy took hold in the 1900s and boomed in the 1960s; paying for every tooth is a distinctly American habit.
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[00:00] All right, we got a undegoogable.
[00:10] Oh, we doing undegoogables?
[00:12] That was the play of it.
[00:13] Super excited.
[00:14] I told us we had to, sir.
[00:17] He said we signed up for it.
[00:22] In the end, it's going to be better and more true than Google can give you.
[00:27] I think this one, this has been nagging me for the last
[00:31] every year of my life.
[00:36] Every year of your life.
[00:38] So you've been worried about that.
[00:40] So you waited 40 years to find out the answer to this.
[00:44] Yeah, but I never bothered to look it up.
[00:46] Okay, well that's what the genius of undegoogable.
[00:49] Well, he couldn't look it up. It was undegoogable.
[00:52] Fair enough.
[00:53] It lived in that place in my life.
[00:56] It's something that I'm interested in knowing, but didn't do any effort.
[01:02] Like your marriage?
[01:03] I'm sorry.
[01:06] You shut your mouth.
[01:09] What's the question?
[01:15] Oh, what's the question?
[01:17] Oh, so what's up with the tooth fairy?
[01:21] Huh?
[01:23] What's up with the tooth fairy?
[01:25] Why do we have a tooth fairy?
[01:26] What's going on?
[01:27] Like, does that make any sense?
[01:29] Tooth fairy.
[01:30] Yeah, it's a magical thing that comes and takes children's teeth
[01:33] and gives them money.
[01:34] But parents have to do it.
[01:37] Wait, what?
[01:39] Actually, should we spoiler alert for this if young children are in the car?
[01:43] It's a little bit late for that now, buddy.
[01:49] I was with an old friend who was explaining to me that
[01:55] they'd had a kid lose a tooth,
[01:59] and she didn't have any cash on her.
[02:03] And they were like, what do we do?
[02:05] And so what they did is they went into the room and stole money out of the kid's piggy bank
[02:10] to put under the pillow.
[02:12] Like their style.
[02:13] Yeah, because what else are they going to do?
[02:16] So the kid basically gets money.
[02:18] That kid doesn't have good accounting.
[02:20] Exactly.
[02:21] Puts back in his piggy bank.
[02:23] He's feeling like he's made money.
[02:25] It's his money.
[02:27] Well done.
[02:28] Yeah.
[02:29] It's genius.
[02:30] It is genius.
[02:31] Where does the idea of the tooth fairy come from?
[02:34] I assume it's connected to...
[02:39] Let's describe the tooth fairy.
[02:41] How do you feel about the tooth fairy?
[02:43] Is it angelic?
[02:44] Do they have big wings?
[02:46] Is it like a little goblin that sneaks into your room?
[02:48] What do you think of the tooth fairy when you think of the tooth fairy?
[02:51] That's a good question.
[02:52] For some reason, my impression is an angelic thing.
[02:56] Big white robes.
[02:58] You're thinking of like a tooth angel.
[03:00] Yeah, a tooth angel.
[03:01] Okay.
[03:02] I think we sort of think of fairies.
[03:04] They have a little wand and whatever, like magic sparkles.
[03:07] Right.
[03:08] Yeah, I don't know where that comes from in my brain, though.
[03:10] But yes, that is my impression of them.
[03:13] And then they come down and they...
[03:17] They collect the teeth for some reason.
[03:19] I feel like there's some part of the legend that is that they use the teeth for something else.
[03:26] And so since they're using it for something else, they're going to give you some cash for it.
[03:32] And the amount of cash that kids get just goes up way faster than the rate of inflation, I feel like.
[03:39] When you were a kid, how much did you get for a tooth?
[03:43] $0.25 to $0.50.
[03:45] Yeah, I was $0.25 to $0.50, I feel like.
[03:47] I never got a dollar bill for it, I don't feel like.
[03:50] It was usually coins.
[03:52] Maybe towards the end I got a dollar?
[03:54] Maybe, but it might have been in quarters, I feel like.
[03:56] Yes.
[03:57] Yeah, I never got an actual...
[03:59] I never got paper dollars.
[04:02] Nowadays you get like $5, $10.
[04:04] My parents would definitely correct me.
[04:05] Now the parents wake up and they're like,
[04:07] I only got a 20, you know?
[04:11] They're like, there you go.
[04:12] Just probably Venmo or something.
[04:14] Give me some Bitcoin, kid.
[04:15] Venmo, you're a kid.
[04:20] Why do we create...
[04:22] This is our new job.
[04:23] How do we create a Venmo character that is tooth fairy that people could send us money
[04:30] that we would send the kids so it's not their parents sending it to them.
[04:35] So we're like at tooth fairy on Venmo.
[04:38] Yeah, on Venmo and we take like a 5% cut.
[04:42] Okay.
[04:43] This is a really good idea.
[04:44] Don't worry about the cash.
[04:45] This might be the best plan you've ever had.
[04:46] Actually, this is the best one I've ever had.
[04:47] I'm not going to put this on the pod.
[04:49] This is actually a really good idea.
[04:51] You don't ought to use Venmo though, that's the problem.
[04:54] No, but I had the idea, Joey, figure it out.
[04:56] Come on.
[04:57] Copy rate that.
[04:58] You're just an idea guy, right?
[05:00] At tooth fairy, no, this is great.
[05:02] And we just take the, you know, and we can create whatever we do,
[05:05] the IVBN where you can't track us or whatever.
[05:08] Yeah, that's definitely a thing.
[05:11] What's the IVBN?
[05:14] Can't track us.
[05:15] What is?
[05:17] Can't track it.
[05:19] Can't track us.
[05:20] I don't know where it is.
[05:21] Nobody knows where it is.
[05:23] That's good.
[05:25] Okay, so get back to the...
[05:27] Okay, so clearly this was the thing that, you know,
[05:31] children go through this quasi-horrific thing
[05:34] and part of their body falls out
[05:38] just as they're becoming conscious of what's going on in the world.
[05:42] And so you gotta calm them down.
[05:44] You gotta justify this in some way.
[05:47] So that's clearly the reason for the legend.
[05:51] It seems European to me
[05:56] in the line of Santa and the Easter Bunny kind of.
[06:02] It's gotta be middle ages, something like that.
[06:08] All right, so I thought we figured,
[06:11] we've never done the Easter Bunny,
[06:13] so that'll be, we'll do that in a few months.
[06:15] But when we did Santa, we figured out that Santa was not middle ages.
[06:21] He was more recent than that, right?
[06:24] He was like 1800s and then he was popularized by Coke and then 1920s or whatever.
[06:32] So he was European in the 1800s
[06:37] and then nationalized here in the 1920s based on money, right?
[06:42] So a corporation that advertised him.
[06:45] So my theory is that Tooth Fairy can't necessarily come before Santa
[06:51] because I feel like Santa's the originator.
[06:53] So here's my theory.
[06:55] Okay, he's like the godfather.
[06:57] Yes, I feel like Santa's the godfather of the things
[06:59] that people come to your house for and give you weird shit for no reason, right?
[07:03] But my theory is that it's connected to something pagan because it always is.
[07:09] So I think there's some weird pagan ritual
[07:12] surrounding teeth where you like bury it
[07:16] and some life creates out of it.
[07:19] So maybe as a child you bury your baby teeth in the ground
[07:24] and then a sprite lives because of your sacrifice or something weird.
[07:29] And that lives on in some sort of background
[07:33] and then that gets connected somehow to
[07:36] when did we start being like
[07:39] I know we've had dentists for a long time that pulled people's teeth.
[07:43] When did we start becoming dentists that worked about dental hygiene?
[07:47] When is that? In the modern era?
[07:50] That's definitely modern era.
[07:52] In the 20th century almost.
[07:56] Maybe the late 19th century or something like that.
[08:00] Okay, so maybe like 1900 to 1920 industrial revolution sort of thing.
[08:06] 1875 plus.
[08:08] Okay, 1875.
[08:10] Let's say in 1875 we start worrying about oral healthcare
[08:15] and that could fall in line similarly to Santa stuff.
[08:20] And so somebody's like I want to make the Santa of teeth.
[08:25] And it's sort of just a whole ploy.
[08:28] That's my theory.
[08:29] Is this like elevator pitch?
[08:31] It's like Santa of teeth.
[08:34] I was sitting in a movie theater and somebody said
[08:37] I saw this advertisement for underwater
[08:40] and I was like elevator pitch aliens underwater.
[08:43] I'm done, right?
[08:44] I haven't seen the movie but that was the advertisement to me.
[08:47] I would have pitched it that way.
[08:49] This is Santa Claus of teeth.
[08:51] This is that pitch meeting.
[08:54] And I assume that that was somehow connected to
[08:58] some ancient burying teeth in the ground.
[09:01] This is my theory.
[09:03] Anybody have other thoughts?
[09:06] I like that.
[09:10] I wonder if there were other potential uses for baby's teeth.
[09:17] That seems like something that would be like involved in witchcraft
[09:21] or something like that.
[09:22] That's why I was trying to bury the teeth and do something with him.
[09:25] Yeah, I don't know.
[09:27] Somehow it's like you mix it in a potion for rejuvenation
[09:31] or something like that.
[09:34] Because it's a part of a young thing.
[09:36] I don't know.
[09:37] I'm just spitballing here.
[09:40] Which makes me wonder if it goes back further.
[09:43] No, I think it definitely is some sort of pagan ritual.
[09:46] It always is the pagan ritual, right?
[09:48] Haven't we learned that?
[09:50] I mean, it's either it's pagans, it's Shakespeare,
[09:54] or it's falconry.
[09:55] And I feel like this is none of the above.
[09:57] So it's pagans.
[10:00] Occasionally Pliny the Elder.
[10:02] Yeah.
[10:03] And follow the money, I think, was one of our other rules.
[10:07] So I'm following the money on this one.
[10:09] I think it's dentists trying to make dentistry popular.
[10:14] Just like Coke was trying to make Santa popular.
[10:18] We've got some weird fairy.
[10:20] Yeah, but I don't know.
[10:22] It's hard for me to see the financial link.
[10:26] How did dentists make out in this world?
[10:28] Right.
[10:29] How's the dental care world binding together
[10:32] to make some money off this?
[10:33] You're right.
[10:34] You're right.
[10:35] I just feel like...
[10:36] Well, maybe they're saying like,
[10:38] yeah, I don't know.
[10:39] Yeah, it just gets people more aware of...
[10:41] Christian teeth care?
[10:42] Dental hygiene.
[10:43] You're right.
[10:44] This doesn't make a ton of sense.
[10:45] I like that.
[10:46] I feel like the tooth fairy comes after Santa.
[10:48] And if Santa doesn't really move into the world,
[10:51] consciousness is still 1800s.
[10:54] What do you got, Joey?
[10:55] What are you thinking?
[10:56] You got ideas.
[10:57] Do you feel like it's pagan, Joey?
[10:59] Or is it more recent?
[11:01] I mean, I guess I'm kind of feeling like this is...
[11:08] Parents sort of explaining away natural body functions.
[11:15] It's more lies that the children are told.
[11:19] Sure.
[11:20] Because today's youth are soft.
[11:24] Okay.
[11:25] So they're giving excuses and a little bit of cash.
[11:30] I guess it does make them a little bit excited for that.
[11:33] So this is like the modern world, then?
[11:34] You're saying modern world.
[11:35] How about this?
[11:36] So, yeah.
[11:37] How about this, though?
[11:39] It also helps the parents account for all the teeth that are...
[11:45] Make sure the kid's not going to swallow it.
[11:47] If they...
[11:48] Oh, okay.
[11:49] It can be like a safety thing.
[11:51] It's a safety thing.
[11:52] Yeah.
[11:53] It's like, all right.
[11:54] I got a tooth here.
[11:55] I know you didn't swallow it.
[11:56] You didn't lose it over at Billy's house.
[11:58] But if you're in the middle ages and you got like 18 kids,
[12:02] you really care.
[12:03] Are you really keeping a teeth count on all your kids?
[12:07] That's just a survival fittest situation.
[12:09] Exactly.
[12:10] If you're choking on the kids.
[12:11] The kid follows a tooth.
[12:12] That's like...
[12:13] Yeah.
[12:14] Yeah.
[12:15] That's your own fault.
[12:16] Exactly.
[12:17] Exactly.
[12:18] The one thing I did...
[12:19] So the idea of giving money for the tooth must be...
[12:21] It supports the argument that it's a newer phenomenon.
[12:25] Because, I mean, disposable income doesn't really exist
[12:29] until the Industrial Revolution or something.
[12:32] Right.
[12:33] Nobody gives their kids anything.
[12:34] They make them work in the fields.
[12:35] That's what kids are for.
[12:36] Yeah.
[12:37] And why would you just waste money to give a kid a dime?
[12:39] Like that's just stupid.
[12:40] Right.
[12:41] Right.
[12:42] Right.
[12:43] Right.
[12:44] Right.
[12:45] But the tooth fairy probably goes back before that.
[12:46] They probably got other things.
[12:47] All right.
[12:48] So we're thinking it's pagan, but it gained popularity
[12:54] after the Industrial Revolution.
[12:56] Yes.
[12:57] This is my theory.
[12:58] But what's the...
[12:59] A scheme by the American Dental Association.
[13:00] This is my theory.
[13:01] But what's the point of a pagan tooth fairy?
[13:03] Is she connected to...
[13:05] Why is teeth important?
[13:06] You're saying it might be witchery or something.
[13:09] It might be nice to have teeth as a part of a spell.
[13:14] I think it just goes to what Joey said.
[13:15] It's just a way to assuage children.
[13:18] From swallowing their own teeth.
[13:20] Exactly.
[13:21] Yeah.
[13:22] Okay.
[13:23] Right.
[13:24] Sure.
[13:25] Okay.
[13:26] Yeah.
[13:27] Because kids have always had their own teeth.
[13:28] They have teeth and they have teeth that fall out.
[13:30] This has been happening since the dawn of time.
[13:32] This is part of how humans...
[13:34] So the tooth fairy's got to be around since the dawn of time.
[13:37] Right?
[13:38] Yeah.
[13:39] Other question.
[13:40] Do other animals...
[13:42] I mean, I know sharks and stuff like that go through...
[13:45] Blue's teeth.
[13:46] Several sets of teeth and elephants go through a couple set of teeth.
[13:50] I think that's a thing.
[13:51] So I guess it's a relatively common thing that people lose a set of teeth.
[13:56] Yeah.
[13:57] I think that's a thing.
[13:58] Okay.
[13:59] Yeah.
[14:00] We've had that all the time in animals.
[14:04] But animals haven't had long enough to come up with the idea of fairies.
[14:09] Hmm.
[14:10] I mean, they'll do it eventually.
[14:13] All right.
[14:16] All right.
[14:17] Evolution, baby.
[14:18] What do we have here?
[14:19] We'll have dog fairies and cat fairies.
[14:23] Elephant fairies.
[14:25] But that's where you draw the line, right?
[14:28] Elephant fairies is where I draw the line.
[14:30] I don't know.
[14:31] I was trying to think of the biggest mammal I could think of.
[14:32] Oh, I guess that would be a whale.
[14:34] Blue whale fairy.
[14:35] Blue whale fairy.
[14:36] Mm-hmm.
[14:37] Teeth are as big as refrigerators.
[14:41] Those are the baby ones, too.
[14:43] Refrigerators, really?
[14:45] I don't know.
[14:46] Probably.
[14:47] I don't know.
[14:48] I don't know.
[14:49] That'll be another...
[14:50] They don't have teeth at all.
[14:52] They don't have teeth at all.
[14:53] Don't they've got the...
[14:54] No, they get the krill through the teeth.
[14:57] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[14:58] No, not their teeth.
[14:59] They strain that.
[15:01] They don't have teeth.
[15:02] Well, what do they have then?
[15:03] They strain krill through something.
[15:06] It's like a...
[15:07] Mesh face?
[15:08] It's like a mesh, yeah.
[15:09] No.
[15:10] It's like a face mesh.
[15:11] They have teeth.
[15:12] No, no, no.
[15:13] I'm gonna look that up right now.
[15:15] Blue whale.
[15:16] All right.
[15:17] I guess I'll look up tooth fairy while you're looking up blue whale teeth.
[15:22] This has gone off the rails as it always does.
[15:24] Yeah, they're like filter features.
[15:25] Yeah, right there.
[15:26] Filter features.
[15:27] Tooth fairy history.
[15:34] So, what I'm seeing is it goes back to the Norse.
[15:39] Okay.
[15:40] Or the Eddas, which is the earliest written record of Norse in your northern European traditions.
[15:52] There was a tradition of tand fae, or tooth fae, which was paid when a child lost their first
[15:59] tooth.
[16:03] During the Middle Ages, other superstitions arose surrounding children's teeth.
[16:08] In England, for example, children were instructed to burn their baby teeth in order to save the
[16:13] child from hardship in the afterlife.
[16:15] Oh, God.
[16:16] That's a lot of...
[16:17] That's intense.
[16:18] Yeah.
[16:20] The Vikings paid children for their teeth.
[16:25] Blah, blah, blah.
[16:27] They were thought to bring good luck in battle.
[16:30] Scandinavian warriors hung children's teeth on a string around their necks.
[16:36] Fear of witches was another reason to bury or burn teeth.
[16:40] Yeah.
[16:41] Blah, blah, blah.
[16:42] So, this has been going on forever is what you're saying.
[16:46] Yeah.
[16:47] It seems like it.
[16:48] Well, in northern Europe.
[16:49] It seems like it's a northern European thing, so we're kind of right on that.
[16:55] Unlike Father Christmas, in the Easter Bunny, there are a few details of the tooth fairy's
[17:00] appearance that are consistent in various versions of the myth.
[17:10] In a 1984 study, 70% believed the tooth fairy to be female, 12% believed it to be neither
[17:18] male nor female, and 8% believed it could be either male or female.
[17:26] Yeah.
[17:28] Wings, wand.
[17:31] So, the origins are believed to be a cross between two myths.
[17:35] First, a legend of a mouse that sneaks into a child's bedroom and performs the cash-for-teeth
[17:40] swap.
[17:41] Okay.
[17:42] A legend that spans everywhere from Russia to Mexico.
[17:46] The second is the typical good fairy, a mainly European figure that crept in its way over
[17:51] the Atlantic.
[17:52] This lore makes the rise of the Disney in the mid-1960s that became the cultural explosion
[17:57] of the tooth fairy.
[18:04] So the 60s is when she like blew up?
[18:07] In the, according to this site, the 60s is when she took a cultural hold in the Americas,
[18:14] but that it has pagan history and yeah, this is, I'm not sure that I trust that site.
[18:22] Oh my goodness.
[18:25] No, I'm seeing this as well.
[18:28] The average per tooth, and this is as of several years ago, it was $3.70 a tooth.
[18:37] $3.70?
[18:38] Yeah, and that's, and that's, yeah, this article is from 2014, so five years.
[18:46] It's got to be five bucks, five bucks a tooth now.
[18:48] It might be worth having a kid just for that.
[18:52] I don't think that's how it works.
[18:58] Okay, so this says that tooth legends have, are prehistory, but the modern tooth fairy
[19:11] is not until the 1900s where you receive coins under a pillow, which makes sense since
[19:22] there probably weren't a lot of people sleeping in pillows with coins laying around.
[19:28] This article in salon.com is saying that the payment for anything after the first tooth
[19:36] is distinctly American.
[19:38] Oh, so your first tooth, you get something, but that, uh, yeah, I think that's the way
[19:44] it traditionally had been.
[19:46] You get the first one, because that's the scariest, they're saying like, that's the
[19:49] scariest one.
[19:50] So you get a little, a little nice, uh, a nice little bonus for that.
[19:54] But after that, you know what's up.
[19:57] You know how this, this goes.
[19:58] I just, um, there, there seems to be rituals all over the world from as long as we can
[20:04] go back of tooth sacrifice between burying teeth, burning teeth, throwing teeth between
[20:15] your legs.
[20:16] I don't know what that means.
[20:19] Let's dig into that.
[20:20] Yeah.
[20:21] I'm seeing a lot of like, uh, the teeth were thought to be like protective or if they got
[20:28] in the wrong hands, they would give some sort of power over you.
[20:32] Like if a witch got your tooth, then they would have power over you, but then you don't
[20:36] want to do that.
[20:37] You got to do something else instead.
[20:39] Place your tooth by your bedside and that would board off evil spirits kind of thing.
[20:44] Um, so, so can we agree that I win then?
[20:49] We, I said it was a pagan idea that blew up at, uh, uh, after Santa, I'd like to agree
[20:58] that no one's talked about the 2010 film, the tooth fairy, uh, just, uh, starring Dwayne
[21:04] and rock Johnson and Ashley Judd.
[21:06] I know nobody, I know nobody wins this game.
[21:08] I don't mean to be, yeah, I mean the, the thing that I'm not seeing is a, uh, capitalist
[21:15] scheme.
[21:17] Oh, there's no dentists in charge of this thing.
[21:19] It's a, it's not something I'm coming across a lot of.
[21:23] Uh, so it's just, it's just a Disney scheme and that's not capitalist.
[21:26] Come on.
[21:27] But I mean, it's not like, uh, you know, bed sizes or something like that.
[21:34] Right.
[21:35] Right.
[21:36] Right.
[21:37] Right.
[21:38] Um, and then tooth fairy two, it stars Larry, the cable guy, you've seen so many tooth
[21:46] fairy movies.
[21:47] They didn't need it as a sequel.
[21:48] I think we nailed it.
[21:51] Also Coalson FYI, uh, the, the, uh, blue whales, their teeth evolved into the baleen, uh, which
[22:03] strain the krill and whatnot.
[22:05] So they have no teeth.
[22:06] Oh, so they're not actually teeth.
[22:08] No, that's, they evolved into the filter feeder system.
[22:14] So it's just like a, it's a grill.
[22:16] They just roll around with a grill.
[22:18] Yep.
[22:19] That's where the term came from.
[22:20] Oh, I don't know.
[22:21] I'm just, all right.
[22:22] Well, I hope you learned something, uh, all you children or parents of children or, uh,
[22:33] adults with no children or whales with teeth with whales with or without teeth.
[22:40] I got the new stats in from our, our podcast.
[22:43] Uh, and we're, we're doing really well with the whale demographic.
[22:47] Yeah.
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[23:40] Yep.
[23:41] Yep.
[23:46] Yep.
[23:47] Yep.
[23:48] Yep.
[23:49] Roden's.
[23:50] Roden's not their teeth down.
[23:51] So they don't have to.
[23:52] Okay.
[23:53] Lose teeth.
[23:54] So, so Roden's don't have a tooth fair is what we're learning.
[24:02] That just got tired of a tooth fair.
[24:05] Oh yeah.
[24:06] That just got, oh man, you just blew my mind.
[24:10] Tooth fairies don't have tooth fairies.
[24:11] Like who watches the watchers out growing, you know, steal all this other baby teeth.
[24:16] Oh yeah.
[24:17] Replace it.
[24:19] I do like the idea of like a little small mouse size grubby gremlin, like coming and
[24:24] grabbing my tooth and like making something special out of it or making a wish on it or
[24:30] turning it to a witch's stew.
[24:32] I like that better.
[24:33] That's more interesting.
[24:34] Mm hmm.
[24:35] Yeah.
[24:36] Yep.
[24:37] Yeah.
[24:38] The older I get the greater.
[24:39] That's what I'm going to tell my kids.
[24:40] Yeah, exactly.
[24:41] Exactly.
[24:42] We should do, if we should do some experiments and see, you know, just scare the shit out
[24:47] of your kids and be like, so these little creepy mouse sized gremlins are going to come
[24:52] take the teeth out from under your pillow.
[24:54] They are going to leave you some money.
[24:55] Don't worry.
[24:56] But then they're going to go like do some experiment on your baby teeth.
[24:59] Yeah.
[25:00] And make certain kids don't.
[25:01] They are going to get magical powers.
[25:03] Right.
[25:04] And then he'd tell some other kid that like, okay, what you got to do is you got to burn
[25:07] that tooth.
[25:08] Right.
[25:09] Like if you don't burn that tooth.
[25:10] That's right.
[25:11] You're going to be here forever.
[25:12] Right.
[25:13] Right.
[25:14] Exactly.
[25:15] Just, you know, chuck this through your legs and see what happens.
[25:18] It's like throwing your shoulder, your shoulder, you know, was that burn burn if you got him?
[25:25] I didn't realize that was about teeth.