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00:063, 2, 1.
00:10We live in amazing times.
00:12That's what I'm talking about!
00:14Uncertain times.
00:15Times that make us scratch our heads and wonder,
00:18what in the hell is that?
00:21Join me on a search for answers.
00:24Answers that require puppets, tuba players,
00:27unexpected discoveries, and a little help
00:30from my old buddy Chuck.
00:33Together, we're going to prove that every single thing
00:37in our crazy and unpredictable world is connected.
00:41Genius.
00:42I'm Mike Rowe.
00:43It's alive!
00:44And this is 6 Degrees.
00:55Welcome to another 15-hour day of organized chaos
00:57here on the set of 6 Degrees.
00:59This promises to be a most interesting endeavor today.
01:05How you doing, Chuck?
01:06Is the tuba necessary?
01:08The tuba is critical to what's about to happen.
01:10Big night for Chuck last night.
01:11He was full-on convention mode, Chuck,
01:14and he's paying the price today.
01:16Are you going to make it?
01:16Uh, eventually, yeah.
01:18You will be assuming the identity
01:19of at least six characters,
01:21so we're going to need your A-game.
01:23Okay.
01:24This might help, though, with the hangover.
01:27What is it?
01:28This is an ancient mousetrap,
01:32and it's guaranteed to cure what ails you.
01:34You trust me?
01:36Not really.
01:37Well, you should,
01:38because this is how a mousetrap
01:40can cure your hangover.
01:43Good luck.
01:45Oh.
01:47As always, we'll be taking the scenic route
01:49through history,
01:50traversing switchbacks over peaks and canyons,
01:54and meeting a few overlooked historical figures
01:56along the way.
01:57Figures that will help us prove unequivocally
02:00how a mousetrap can cure your hangover.
02:04Our story starts here,
02:05somewhere in the middle of Maine, 1854-ish,
02:08with this kid, Hiram Maxim.
02:12He's 14 years old, and he works as an apprentice
02:14in this carriage manufacturing facility.
02:17But at the moment, Hiram is not concerned
02:20with the manufacturing of carriages.
02:22He is vexed by a far more troubling problem,
02:26the presence of mice.
02:28Mice are everywhere.
02:30They scamper, they run, they chew at his boots,
02:34making him absolutely crazy.
02:36Hiram's had enough, so he's spending his lunch hour today
02:39on a mission.
02:40A mission to mass murder all the mice in Maine.
02:43In other words, the kid's trying to build a better mousetrap.
02:48This curious kid often went hunting,
02:51bringing with him his trusty gun,
02:54and the immutable laws, the physics.
02:57When the gun fires, an explosion in the shell
03:00propels the bullet forward with a significant amount of force.
03:03But the force of the bullet moving forward
03:06is equal to the force of the gun moving backwards.
03:10This lesson has been learned by anyone
03:13who has ever fired a weapon.
03:17A painful lesson made possible by the one and only
03:20Sir Isaac Newton.
03:22I refer, of course, to Newton's laws of motion,
03:25specifically the third law that says
03:27every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
03:30That's the lesson that young Hiram learned
03:32when his gun knocked him on his butt.
03:35Now he's applying that lesson to the task at hand,
03:37designing a better mousetrap.
03:40Here's the essential problem.
03:42The state-of-the-art mousetraps of the day
03:44worked pretty much like this one.
03:46It set it and put some bait on a hook
03:48and the mouse would come in and take the bait
03:50and it would close, thereby trapping a single mouse
03:53inside this cage.
03:55Basically, you were one and done.
03:56That's not what Hiram wants.
03:58He wants to murder as many mice as he possibly can.
04:01And he's going to do it with a little help
04:04from Newton's Third Law.
04:07Just like a bullet, Hiram's mousetrap creates a recoil.
04:11The mouse, lured in by the cheese, falls onto the floor,
04:16which triggers a reaction, a recoil that closes the door,
04:20resetting the trap for its next victim.
04:23In other words, a repeating mousetrap.
04:26Does he pull it off?
04:27Yeah.
04:28Does he catch a lot of mice?
04:30Yep.
04:30Does he patent it?
04:32Does he make a fortune by mass producing it?
04:34No.
04:35Hiram Maxim leaves a lot on the table
04:38in the early part of his career.
04:40Literally.
04:41If you look at some of what he invented over the years,
04:45it's kind of mind-blowing.
04:46This is a lamp for a locomotive.
04:50This is an early curling iron.
04:52This is, purportedly, a better cup of coffee.
04:56Mmm.
04:57Horrible miss on that one.
04:59This is a pipe of peace.
05:02It's basically an inhaler to help with the bronchitis
05:05that he suffered from.
05:06This is a gas engine, one of the first of its kind.
05:10He also invented the automatic sprinkling system.
05:13This is pure genius.
05:15This technology is in buildings all around the world today.
05:19It puts the water only where the fire is.
05:23Right?
05:24He patents it.
05:25Does he make any money?
05:26No.
05:26He lets the patent expire and then other people come in
05:28and make a fortune.
05:30Here's another heartbreaker, the light bulb.
05:32According to Maxim, it was he who invented this,
05:35not Edison.
05:36He got ripped off in a patent case that went to court
05:39and, long story short, he was shafted.
05:42The story of the shafting starts with a bottle of milk.
05:45At least William Sawyer said it was milk.
05:48But William Sawyer may have been filling his milk bottles
05:51with something else.
05:52According to his employer, William Sawyer was, quote,
05:55an expert electrician, but also a great drunkard.
05:59I made up my mind that we had better get rid of him.
06:02Well, William Sawyer's employer was Hiram Maxim.
06:06Maxim fired Sawyer, but not before he made off with something valuable,
06:10the design for an electric lamp, which Sawyer patented in 1878.
06:15Enter Thomas Edison.
06:18If Edison was good at inventing, he was great at patent law,
06:21and Edison argued that Sawyer's patent wasn't novel enough to be valid
06:25and also was fraudulently and illegally procured.
06:28After a protracted legal battle, Edison gets the patent revoked.
06:33And Edison knows when that happens, the rights won't revert back to Hiram Maxim
06:38or to Maxim's company.
06:39Instead, they default to another patent application Edison had filed.
06:44So, Edison becomes the accepted inventor of the lightbulb,
06:48leaving Hiram Maxim S-O-L.
06:50So, have a lights.
06:52But he never gives up.
06:54He never stops tinkering.
06:55He never stops drawing.
06:56A few years later, he's back at it again.
06:59This is a helicopter.
07:00The first design, except for maybe Da Vinci,
07:04but he's ready to bring it to market.
07:07He's got it done.
07:08He just doesn't put the ball through the hoop.
07:10He's full of good ideas, but he's not really executing.
07:13And it really is enough to make you wonder if Hiram Maxim
07:16is ever going to do anything to make a killing.
07:20I'll give you a hint.
07:22He does.
07:271881.
07:28It was an incredible time for inventors.
07:31The phonograph, jeans, the cash register, the lightbulb, and more
07:36had all just been released.
07:38All of these would have significant impacts on society,
07:41but none inspired Hiram quite as much as the tidbit he received
07:46while walking around.
07:47If you want to make your fortune, then something to help these Europeans
07:50kill each other more quickly.
07:52In other words, screw your passion project.
07:55The real money is in weapons of death.
08:04September 27th, 1918.
08:07New Sargonne, France.
08:10Behind me, 1.3 million Americans are slowly advancing through the forest.
08:15Doughboys, we called them back then.
08:18The good news is there are only a couple hundred thousand Germans over the hill.
08:22The Americans have the advantage.
08:23But for the fact that the Germans have in their possession
08:27a weapon unlike anything these kids have ever seen.
08:31A weapon they're not going to like.
08:44Introducing the Maxim machine gun.
08:48A weapon unlike any other.
08:54Hiram Maxim didn't create the machine gun.
08:56He created the first fully automatic machine gun.
09:07Like his old mousetrap that could catch multiple mice.
09:10Every time this thing fires off a round,
09:13a new one is automatically chambered.
09:15The result?
09:16A complete and total game changer.
09:19An internal component called the breach block
09:21is pushed back by the gun's recoil.
09:24And the recoil ejects the spent cartridge
09:26making way for the next bullet.
09:28Much like Maxim's mousetrap made way for the next mouse.
09:31But on balance, Maxim's gun was slightly more deadly than his mousetrap.
09:37It could fire 600 rounds per minute.
09:41There's the man himself.
09:42Hiram Maxim.
09:44Crouched behind what the New York Times would call
09:46peace-producing and peace-retaining terrors.
09:50The idea was that such a powerful weapon
09:53would push nations to avoid conflict.
09:56Yeah.
09:57Didn't really work out that way.
10:18See what I mean?
10:20Not good.
10:22Hiram Maxim's little invention just wiped out most of this squad
10:26in less than three seconds.
10:27This poor guy doesn't know what to make of the situation.
10:31One minute, he's walking through the woods.
10:32The next minute, all his buddies are dead.
10:34He doesn't know where the shooting is coming from.
10:35He's in his obvious state of shell shock.
10:38Has no idea what he's going to do with that bayonet on the end of his weapon.
10:42Meanwhile, the carnage is unspeakable.
10:45This is a .30 caliber weapon we're talking about.
10:48Firing 250 rounds every 30 seconds.
10:51This guy's been hit half a dozen times.
10:54Of course, in 1918, there wouldn't have been much left of him.
10:58We don't have that kind of budget in the recreation department.
11:02During the reenactments, we use blanks because, well, you know.
11:06But out here, on the gun range, the Maxim gun is real.
11:09The ammo is live.
11:10And the watermelons and water coolers are doomed.
11:27You just dumped 200 rounds.
11:31The situation is grim.
11:33The carnage is unspeakable.
11:35And the question is obvious.
11:37How are the Americans going to fight back against a weapon like that?
11:47I know what you're thinking.
11:49You're thinking, Mike, what is a tuba player doing in this episode?
11:53Well, several things.
11:54First of all, taps sounds great on a tuba.
11:57You have to admit.
11:58Secondly, there's been a lot of death.
12:02...of the Maxim gun.
12:04A new kind of tuba would come on the scene.
12:07A tuba that would change the course of the war.
12:10booo-ooo
12:13...Boooo-oo-ooo-ooo-oo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-CHIN.
12:29the source of all that gunfire with casualties mounting the solution would need to be a feat of
12:36human engineering and so we got the war tuba in no time these cumbersome amplifiers caught on
12:42british japanese and american forces used war tubas to track the source of enemy gunfire in
12:49aircraft this process is called sound ranging and it wasn't perfect searching for sound through the
12:56air was easily affected by the elements dust rain wind war hails of bullets but when americans
13:03pointed the war tubas down to the ground they realized they might be able to measure the
13:09reflections of sound bouncing off layers of rock underneath the battleground to where the germans
13:15guns were located the american responsible for this was jay clarence karcher when karcher gets
13:23back to the states the war tubas are still on his mind if he can locate artillery by tracing the
13:29sound
13:30to its origin what else might he be able to locate by listening to sound waves that was as they
13:37say
13:37the million dollar question during the war karcher was listening for the sound of gunfire as it
13:43reflected off various objects underground but what if karcher already knew where that sound was coming
13:51from if he knew that could he then determine the location of the objects in the ground that were
13:57reflecting the sound waves back to him if so could he then determine an object's mass based on the speed
14:05that the sound waves traveled karcher thought the answer to those questions were yes and yes thanks to a
14:12revolutionary instrument that he designed an instrument that could read seismic reflection an
14:19instrument that he would famously call the karchograph no the karchometer no the karchinator no i guess
14:29i'll call it the reflection seismograph we have a winner now let's see if it works
14:39karcher's reflection seismograph can locate just about anything underground question is what's he
14:46looking for today jimmy hoffa not yet missing the lost city of atlantis no such place no karcher's looking
14:55for buried treasure specifically black gold texas tea or if you prefer oklahoma oval team because
15:05oklahoma is where he began his famous search for oil karcher's technology proved to be an effective
15:13non-invasive way to discover oil deposits underground if you consider dynamite to be
15:21non-invasive karcher will need to create a massive sound wave a sound wave powerful enough to travel
15:30into the earth's crust to find the oil buried below a sound wave equivalent to a million copies of war
15:40and
15:40peace hitting the ground all at the same time in three two one
15:57so suffice it to say the oil boom in oklahoma started with a bang karcher did it he actually
16:07found oil and he'll go on to commercialize his ingenious method of oil exploration soon seismic
16:16reflection will be used to discover the majority of the world's oil deposits making him a whole lot
16:22of money money he'd use to build a company a company he would call karcher land no karcher world no
16:30karcher's
16:31emporium of awesome sound wave solutions no i guess i'll just call it geophysical services incorporated
16:42or gsi for short ring any bells well over the years geophysical services incorporated evolved
16:48and started producing electronic instruments for the military that led gsi out of the oil fields and into
16:56electronics and after world war ii karcher's little oil company will grow to an enormous electronics
17:03company a company called texas instruments which will among other things be instrumental in curing your next
17:11hangover i'm pretty sure we can fit karcher in between texas and instruments
17:20back in 1954 when computers were the size of a room texas instruments released the transistor radio
17:28which quickly became the best-selling electronics device of its time more importantly this was proof
17:35that electronics could fit in the palm of your hand this simple radio was made possible by the
17:41invention of the transistor by william shockley more on him later the transistor was smaller cooler more
17:49durable and ran on less energy than its vacuum tube predecessor but it still had one major problem
17:55it could only do one thing if you wanted to do 10 things you needed 10 transistors if you wanted
18:03to do a
18:04thousand things well you needed a really big building engineers at the time were able to design much more complex
18:12systems than the transistor radio but without more complex circuitry they were impossible to realize
18:21this problem is known as the tyranny of numbers and in the summer of 1958 electronics companies around the
18:28world are in a mad dash to solve this problem which brings us here to dallas texas where the competition
18:37might not seem so heated at the moment that's because it's summer vacation at the headquarters of texas
18:44instruments unfortunately for new employee jack kilby he doesn't have any vacation time accrued fortunately
18:52for the rest of the world he has the office all to himself and so for the next two weeks
19:00jack kilby gets busy he integrates the circuitry of individual transistors onto a single chip using
19:08components made with an element called germanium which acts as a semiconductor it is a revolutionary
19:16idea an idea that will eventually win him a nobel prize jack's integrated circuit otherwise known
19:24as the microchip is an idea it'll change the world
19:31today we are discovering the surprising way that a mousetrap will cure your hangover
19:36we started with the invention of an automated mousetrap which led to the first fully automatic
19:40machine gun which created the need for something called a war tuba that tuba technology paved the
19:45way for seismic reflection which was used to find oil that oil spawned a tech company that turned into
19:51texas instruments who had the good sense to hire a guy named jack kilby who went on to harness the
19:56power
19:56of germanium and reinvent the world as we know it with a little miracle called the microchip
20:02to sum up a brilliant guy in texas solved the tyranny of numbers by single-handedly creating
20:08the integrated circuit and changing the world forever so why am i here 1700 miles from dallas
20:15strolling through a valley that doesn't exist because sometimes life is just that weird
20:32do we need to come up with a snappy name
20:37well i i mean you know there's eight of us so i was thinking the frisky eight
20:43no okay okay okay all right i get it i get it i get it okay the infinite eight right
20:47imagine a sideways
20:49eight infinity symbol next to a regular eight look at it look good on the stationary ladies and
20:53gentlemen robert noyce like jack kilby noyce is a legend in the tech industry at least he's going to
20:59be today he's just a traitor he and seven of his friends fellow scientists and engineers some of the
21:06most brilliant minds in the world have just decided to leave their dream jobs at shockley labs noyce figures
21:12the moment is worth commemorating okay andy up i need a buck from each of you first eight dollars
21:20for the company sign them put them in the center these guys they're celebrating their freedom by
21:26putting their money where their mouth is it's not just a symbolic gesture though this is an actual
21:32buy-in a buy-in between eight men who are willing to risk everything eight guys who figure they can
21:37build a better mousetrap is gordon the only guy who brought a pen okay this company is off to a
21:42great start these guys are sick and tired of working for william shockley you remember shockley
21:48the engineer who invented the transistor made this thing possible the man all of these engineers
21:55dreamed of one day becoming now they work for him and they've come to the conclusion that he's a tyrant
22:01guys i'm missing one there's only seven here who didn't put in
22:05who didn't put in noise and his friends they decide to do the unthinkable they leave shockley labs
22:12this is their declaration of independence i'm sorry guys it was me i'm sorry can i borrow a dollar
22:26they will forever be known as the traitorous eight
22:33so robert noyce and the rest of the traitorous eight break away from william shockley and start
22:39a company of their own they call it fairchild semiconductor this company will not only change
22:45the world it'll completely revolutionize office culture no assigned parking spaces no oversized offices
22:52to fight over no fancy titles and most of all no ties now not wearing a tie to work in
23:001957 that'd be
23:02like going to work today naked wrapped in bubble pack it simply wasn't done but these guys they didn't
23:09care about appearances what they cared about was ideas like hiram maxim they just wanted to build a better
23:16mousetrap noise was very serious about being casual at the risk of sounding cliche he really was one of
23:24those guys who believed there truly were no stupid questions does it have to be germanium
23:30like that not a stupid question at all as i'm sure you realize germanium is not the only element on
23:38the
23:38periodic table that functions as a semiconductor question is what would they use we did it boys
23:45here it is the silicon microchip where did it go oh it's right there anyway that's why nobody goes
23:55to work today in germanium valley but why did they pick this area around palo alto well for one it's
24:01kind
24:02of pretty and two there was an interesting new idea happening at a school called stanford university
24:08back in 1966 stanford hired some very interesting people to teach some very interesting courses
24:14say hello to doug engelbart doug runs the augmented human intellect research center for the stanford
24:21research institute and right now he's working on a plan to help local business people
24:27reach their potential with a little help from a chemical compound called lysergic acid diethylamide or lsd
24:40doug engelbart is all about elevating man's collective consciousness this in his opinion can be best
24:47achieved with lsd now why should anybody take his word for it well two years from now in 1968 doug
24:55engelbart will deliver the mother of all demos to a gobsmacked audience of 2 000 people in san francisco
25:02who must have thought that they too were on some kind of a trip because in that demo engelbart
25:08introduces the groundwork for windows graphic user interface hypertext links video conferencing
25:16and the mouse which he himself created right now he's squirting lsd into his eyes
25:30want to have a look inside his brain
25:34i know i do
25:38oh yeah that's what i'm talking about doug engelbart's brain is a great place to understand and demonstrate
25:45the effects of lsd because doug engelbart has dropped a lot of acid his brain like yours is
25:54divided up into a series of sections each one functions more or less like its own separate
25:59computer now normally there's a governor over top of all of those sections that's called the ego
26:06what happens with lsd is that the ego becomes compromised allowing the individual parts of your
26:13brain to communicate with each other in ways they otherwise would not this opens up all sorts of
26:20possibilities it also does some very strange things to inanimate objects and light and sound and space
26:27and time and so forth but we here at six degrees do not in any way condone the illegal use
26:35of drugs we're
26:37not suggesting that you should squirt lsd into your eye or your nose or your ear or your mouth or
26:42any other
26:43hole in your body that's not what we're saying we're simply saying that once upon a time this was
26:48perfectly legal and some very smart people thought it was more than a way to escape reality they thought
26:54it was a way to solve problems anyway after one of doug engelhart's magic carpet rides he went home
27:02and assembled the mother of all demos we're going to try our best to show you rather than tell you
27:08about this program a very essential part of what we have developed technologically is what does come
27:15through this display to us copy a word say that word like copy after itself say after there i'd like
27:22to copy from that point to that point and it'll copy it if you own a personal computer you have
27:30most
27:30definitely been influenced by the life and work of doug engelbart and if you've ever tried lsd
27:36well you're in the company of some pretty interesting people people like steve jobs taking lsd was one of
27:43the most profound experiences of my life and this guy oh me i've never done drugs different strokes
27:51for different folks let's have some fun with puppets you know this would be a great place to shoot a
27:57commercial say hi to ken kesey ken's a stanford graduate he was first introduced to lsd by the cia
28:06at the veterans hospital talk about a rough blind date ken used that experience to write a book called one
28:13flew over the cuckoo's nest jack nicholson and danny devito starred in a movie about it a movie which
28:18won every major academy award and look at this kesey brought his friend along tom wolf who's also
28:25writing a book about kesey's antics with this motley crew the merry pranksters in 1966 ken kesey
28:35event in the bay area called the trips festival 10 000 young minds came together to dance to live
28:41music and drink lsd laced punch and the message kept spreading kesey introduced
28:53acid test parties define the music
28:56the hearts club band and who could ever forget jimmy hendrix who took some lsd one day and basically
29:09reinvented what a guitar should sound like more and more people were turning on tuning in and dropping
29:16out changing the collective mind of society which is exactly what doug engelbart envisioned when he
29:22introduced lsd to his team back at stanford now let's take a quick digression to talk about where
29:29such a magical mystery serum actually came from i'll give you a hint it's a land of chocolate watch
29:35making and intricate little knives full of mostly useless gadgetry
29:42it's april 16 1943 and world war ii is raging but here in basel switzerland things are relatively
29:51peaceful the way they always are in basel switzerland this is albert hoffman he's a chemist
30:00today he's trying to create a drug that will stimulate respiratory and circulatory systems
30:05in humans to achieve this he's combining lysergic acid with various other organic molecules during
30:12one of his trials albert accidentally gets someone his skin hoffman experiences a feeling of euphoria
30:23light seems to emit sound the objects in his lab appear to be breathing
30:33hoffman decides he rather enjoys this feeling
30:40a few days later he takes a little more
30:44then he takes a little more after that then he takes a lot rookie mistake
30:53hey albert man down here you gotta get home right now your neighbor she's a witch man she's gonna burn
31:00your house down multiple sources have confirmed that albert hoffman was indeed convinced that his
31:07kindly old neighbor had turned into a witch and was out to get him he needed to get home
31:15stack what's your name
31:27but this is wartime switzerland and everybody has given up their cars so albert has to ride his bike home
31:35which is why april 19th is national bicycle day and what a bike ride it was
31:46okay okay it was a miracle that albert hoffman ever made it home and a few hours later when the
31:52lsd
31:53finally wore off albert hoffman realized he was really onto something all the colors man or
32:00on something at the very least anyway that's how lsd was discovered in switzerland at a lab on a bike
32:08and with some talking mice
32:14once again here's chuck helping us thank the sponsor chuck bow so chuck bow is what you call
32:21an automobile enthusiast i like my cars loud i like the smell of high octane in the morning which
32:27means he's not a big fan of the electric variety i don't want to plug in my car no but
32:31if he did he
32:32might be surprised to know that the electricity that powers his car flows through wires and a grid
32:37and eventually goes to a turbine that spins courtesy of natural gas you're telling me an electric car is
32:46actually fueled and powered by natural gas in many cases yeah well in that case i'll take one and it's
32:54got to come in either ammo or camo ammo's not a color yes it is and on the hood has
32:59got to be
32:59a decal preferably a bird of prey i'll make some calls right on if you're just joining us man you
33:09missed a lot it started with a better mousetrap a better gun a better tuba the trader is eight
33:15and a scientist who invented lsd time now to land the plane all the colors man
33:23it would be convenient to say that lsd was responsible for driving the counterculture
33:28revolution that defined the 1960s some people think it did many in fact drugs were certainly
33:35in many places that defined that decade can you imagine the summer of love without a happy heap
33:41and helping of hallucinogens the fact is drugs brought a lot of like-minded people together
33:46people who began to question societal norms demand civil rights and equal justice for everybody
33:54the same people who suggested that maybe the war in vietnam might be something worth ending by the
34:02mid-60s people were opposing the war on moral grounds on october 21st 1967 a hundred thousand
34:11people showed up in washington to protest the war in vietnam
34:19by 1973 the vietnam war was an unmitigated disaster and there was only one man with the courage and
34:27the guts to get us out richard millhouse nixon true he wasn't perfect there were stories in the press about
34:37his purported affection for multiple martinis his alleged taste for the dog biscuits he kept on his desk
34:46and of course the legendary paranoia that led him to tape every conversation in the oval office
34:53but on january 23rd 1973 richard nixon was the man for the job at 3 a.m eastern standard time
35:02nixon was
35:04waiting for a phone call from henry kissinger sign it with that phone call nixon saved thousands
35:14of american lives yes he's remembered today for that whole watergate situation and for being the
35:20first sitting president to resign from office and for becoming the butt of countless jokes and mean
35:26spirited aspersions but eating dog biscuits come on who among us hasn't been drawn to the tasty treats
35:33typically reserved for man's best friend no dog lover is beyond such redemption even the man
35:41who got us out of vietnam that's right that was me baby when the north vietnamese agreed to a cease
35:48fire we packed up and left and everybody lived happily ever after right not if you were in the south
35:54vietnamese army after the u.s withdrew communist north vietnam took over south vietnam and if you
36:03were a south vietnamese officer in those days things look pretty bleak and if you were of chinese
36:09descent you needed to find a boat fast with south vietnam on the brink of an economic crisis after the
36:17war low consumer prices offered by the chinese posed a real threat to the hanoi government vietnamese
36:24soldiers were sent to raid chinese homes and shops forcing the chinese to flee with nothing to their name
36:34enter david tran david's a refugee and a former south vietnamese of chinese descent
36:40it's 1980 and david is feeling pretty rad right now he just started a small business out of his
36:47apartment making hot sauce and people are eating it up soon he'll have enough saved for a van and
36:53eventually a proper space to mass produce his hot sauce he'll name his company after the freighter
36:59that took him from vietnam to the united states and eventually hoi fong foods will come out with a new
37:06flavor sriracha a name synonymous with hot sauce that made over 80 million dollars last year alone
37:12oh yeah 1980 david tram is feeling pretty rad indeed he's the epitome of the american dream a refugee
37:20escaping communism coming to this country on a boat with nothing in his pockets but a recipe for hot
37:28sauce here's to you david tran a poster child for capitalism and the american dream
37:40of course none of david tran's accomplishments would have been possible if he hadn't made it to america
37:46after the united states departed vietnam a departure made possible by a counterculture revolution
37:54a revolution fueled by free love world peace and all the acid you could drop a drug that changed
38:01computers forever after two geniuses independently invented the microchip thanks to another genius who
38:09used seismic technology to find gunfire machine gunfire made possible by yet another genius who
38:18never got over his burning desire to build a better mousetrap which is really just a long way of saying
38:23that is how a mousetrap can help you cure your hangover assuming of course you have the secret
38:31ingredient i refer to sriracha hot chili sauce thank you david tran just the thing to spice up a bloody
38:39mary
38:40and change your whole world view you know what i'm talking about sock it to me
38:53spicy is good alex play something appropriate
39:01i love it when a plan comes together
39:08not bad you couldn't have given me this this morning
39:18there were stories in the press about his purported affection for multiple martinis
39:24the press loved to write about his sweaty
39:36i see what you did there
39:40i'll tell you what it's not a bad martini very dry
39:43i was halfway to downing the whole thing
39:49when suddenly i felt the fire in the back of my throat
39:53and i said jesus lord have mercy they've put real vodka in this drink
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