Cardboard

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians Caitlin Gill (stand-up album ‘Major.’, shirt store GuaranteeShirts.com) and Blake Wexler (stand-up album ‘A Lifetime Of Laughter’, podcast ‘Blake’s Takes For God’s Sakes’) for a look at why cardboard is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• Caitlin Gill’s website
• Caitlin Gill’s newest stand-up album Major.
• GuaranteeShirts.com
• Blake Wexler’s website
• Blake Wexler’s newest stand-up album A Lifetime Of Laughter
• ‘Blake’s Takes For God’s Sakes’ podcast

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Cardboard Box (The Strong National Museum Of Play)
• The Game of Besieging — Board Game, published 1810-1820 (The Victoria & Albert Museum)
• How the cardboard box was accidentally invented in a NYC factory (6sqft.com)
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry for “card”
• Who Invented the Cardboard Box? (Mental Floss)
• Mental Floss Scatterbrained: “Everything You Didn’t Know About Paper!” (Mental Floss / YouTube)
• The History Of Vellum And Parchment (The New Antiquarian)
• Smithsonian Museum digital upload of Abraham Lincoln’s Top Hat — Alex dug into this page hoping to find out whether Lincoln’s hat used corrugated paper support. No word either way.
• Cardboard Cities: The Eames Design That Turned Packages Into Play Spaces For Kids (article for 99% Invisible’s website by Kurt Kohlstedt)
• Supermarkets using cardboard cutouts to hide gaps left by supply issues (The Guardian)
• What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze? (JStor Daily)
• 10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowl (History.com)
• Paper and Paperboard: Material-Specific Data (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• Aluminum: Material-Specific Data (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• Glass: Material-Specific Data (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• Punched Cards & Paper Tape: Programmer standing beside punched cards (Computer History Museum)
• Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Roche limit in astronomy
• Why Did Poseidon Create Horses? (MythNerd.com)
• Simpsons Wiki entry for Springfield Box Factory
• Simpsons Wiki entry for Southern Cracker

Oct. 2021 photo of Tesco shelf in the U.K., taken by @shitlondon on Twitter:

Punch card photo and caption via the Computer History Museum: