EP326: The Incredible Story Of SPAM and Enhancing Lives One Guide Dog at a Time

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You can select five of a conversation around spam beyond any corner of the globe.

It's if there's an experience with it. I was on production with Tim Gunn a couple years ago and I bonded over spam stories growing up. That was part of his leg heritage and is fascinating and I think that what Hornell may be visiting is in effect for as they showed a sort of revolutionizing me processor the meatpacking process. Spam itself is as a result of 100 years of technology are trying to preserve the meat to get it shelf stable for longer periods of time and strings enough like Napoleon when he was moving his armies was really fascinated with how I feed these these armies through really cold Russian winters in keep them fed and they're getting tired of salted and dried out food so he started playing around some of his scientists cited in column with tapping meeting glass jars and putting fat on top of it and it would spoil it for an hour not boiling was basically an early version of pasteurization and from there it waits you can metal metal cans and it got to the point where cans were larger and heavier than the meters elephants. It wasn't very easy to transport is very difficult to open their stories out of the war when they would use their guns and muskets to shield and there was a lot of problems back then because they would they would make the cans to big and so they could cook the middle so there was botulism there is problems with enough spoiled middle of the outside was gardening so eventually through sort of as his brilliance.

For now he came back during World War II and said basically what we could witness the smaller size cooking for three hours you get a top that you can open.

It's a way of preserving the meat of pasteurization to keep the shelf stable and that was really like revolutionary kind of 1937 was the start of this sort of process meet and in for him to. It was at the time Mike and Wilbur wanted when he was serving in World War I, they were shipping meet with bone and they would ship the cowardly ship the pork and it would have bones in it. That's not very efficient for weight. It's not very efficient because last scrap pieces left over so he said look we take bones out of the grind it up pretty smart can pasteurize it will ship in 1937. That was the start of Spam was born. So it was fascinating.

In 1937 then he helped revolutionize the World War II which is on the verge of starting up. It was kind of Spam sprinkling and it wasn't as ubiquitous as it is today or wasn't quite as popular.

Typically, you know, the military recognized the advantage of and so they started shipping it to all that the military received. I was fascinating as they.

I think that's kind of where the replication spam started and was solidified. You had enough people on these bases and bonding around the world and are getting fed spam constantly because of his transition easy food dissent but also what happened is the government have been overcooked it essentially for safety like they want instead of just cooking up a three article 5, and I can push the meat, so the getting feathers lesser quality process meet around the world and then because the idea because after the war they need as much protein sent over the past four other manufacturers were doing it in sizes that were as reliable. You get 12 pounds sizes and 6 pounds sizes and that flexing up of different quality standards and of different processing different cooking kind of ended up with a perfect storm of these soldiers that that were stationed around the world. Overfed something. They were tired of eating getting mixed quality getting bad quality, and then the perfect marketing started and they were all sent home to spread the word, and so that's how we ended up with an answer popular Guam strands of popular why because I think what started the bad name and reputation for spam because it was such a mixed bag, and so here we are 80 years later and it still has that reputation of being something that's like weird strange animal parts are gross which is which is really interesting and fortunate that a spam is actually a really good cuts of meat like it's really just ham, pork shoulder saltwater and little sodium nitrate answer nitric Fountain any process me just keep you safe. But is it the better cuts of meat that the byproducts that you don't use going to hot dogs and sausages like that's the real I give you your hotdog or sausage should really an Obama spam because it's actually better cuts of meat and for years it got the reputation of like the gel right like that's one of the first things people a little bit less so now. But like people are like a booth at the gross gel on the outside make that funny noise was interesting. That was actually that pure protein is acting up that bad for you. It's a byproduct of the cooking process. Protein goes towards key if you're pressurizing me.

Can he draw the protein out, it stays there. Then people put up. It looks gross and looks like petroleum jelly or whatever. So back in 2001 the ground up a little bit of potato starch, start that in there. The potato starch traps protein and you don't have a Joni Moore cell since 2000 wanted government of the gel which is helped with the reputation of it and you're listening to Dustin black tell the story of Spam and I'm a big hot dog lover. I also love liverwurst and baloney's.

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We returned to our American stories and the story of spin. Yes, the kidney we been listening to Dustin black author of the book of Spam most glorious and definitive compendium of the world's favorite. Meet he's telling the story of the creation of Spam during World War II are no realize that there was a great need for shelfstable meats to be sent to our troops and thus spam was created we left off with Dustin talking about people's hesitation with buying the canned meat product. Let's return to Dustin. Black people have trouble thinking about buying me off the shelf, but you know it's it's a state of mind because there's so many cans of soup.

You know have meaning and plenty of examples of shelfstable and I discussed back that pasteurization back that idea to hundred euro technology of if you cook it and kill everything and don't let any bacteria in their shelfstable for a long time now is actually continued and I think they they don't get the credit they deserve for revolutionizing a lot of the packaging processes they do their lives and lunch meats are now high-pressure pasteurized and that kills basically squishes all the bad stuff in there and so it can be all-natural about having a lot of extra preservatives.

They do it through pressure technology to just shelf technology which is really just the book we go through a lot of different chapters of how it's made Lord Jesus family origins of processed meat and it goes through the Spam Museum. It was through the spam will be all that used to travel around the country giving out samples throughout the evening, a lot of photos from people that get sent in the form out in part on ads get access to their archive and getting the fan mail and you have people that would send in the fanart they would make costumes as spam cans. They would do weddings with the spam seems okay around the world to get people that would send in you notice the rooms are like spam or the car as spam. This is no it's it's had such for such a long time devoted fan base and what you love or hate spam you, have a story to know about it you know it's a brand that I think you sort of have to unabashedly love, you know, I know that there's a bit of a statement out there with it.

So if you're spam family proud to wear shirts for a take that as a badge of honor that you're someone that thinks differently or someone that is not scared to go against the grain and you know you have your tasting and not scared to share your career allows uses a wedding gift was acceptable wedding gift because it was something of such great esteem and honor that universal sort of story device that I think was most interesting advertising we have the tagline crazy tasty's not around and that I really love that we did it because it was all walk that line love that thing is crazy tasty like I really you know I can put it between two slices of bread.

I can cook it with you knowing I spam sushi is amazing, tasty. Like it or didn't get it, related to the crazy part is crazy tasty like crazy was I don't get it, but is codified. It's weird and I see people you know where sure I can strike up a conversation so we can walk the line with that day like it's you know when is prepared and cooked properly like it's it's really good.

I think will start to see a resurgence of that there's a lot of fancy restaurants that are using it as a in addition to your protein option and losing food trucks pop up with it. It's kind has a bit of a resurgence in that sort of way that like PVR has a resurgence you know that nostalgic server brand that people love and has a familiarity plan menus and like French cuisine.

You got a really fancy French restaurant and you get serve.

Let's but essentially it's a fancy French version of spam is the same thing the grind it up now that they put it into can often and dish. Cook it slice and serve it at exactly what spam is no pasteurized for as long the classic brands been around for 80, 90 years has gone through all the same faces that advertising is gone, so it came back was no sort of solution to the dinnertime problems. So for really long time. That was sort of like to show you different ways to cook it on the rest you know I love the classic 60s casserole recipes and things like outlets like spam Jell-O and you just things that I probably shouldn't have ever seen the light of day so it went through that phase soap opera like detergent soaps like sponsorships and 80s. It was all about know how often soft inner know what you have for dinner tonight spam night and they went ventricle phase is that this there spam lot currently in the can. Nature of it where they have little character popped up. He was on the can give you rest. Isn't it spam pre-2001.

A lot of hack scores for wives tales around what to do with the gel. So use it honestly can use it to buffet table. Like most of the things like that you know and then I think there's a whole culture and arts around the hands of these nice little candy can use them for painting or pot put some flowers and was like that. So our collective around what happens with cans and now I what I see therein, classic mode is been through all the phases of of food advertising from you know weird ad publishing seen the light of day sponsorships.

You know, thousands of products combined today with spam keychains or flip-flops.

I got you covered. His enemies got connection to it like you would get on the phone something. Talk about getting it as a wedding gift or get on the phone and they talk about making his care know how much they love eating in college and it's it's one of those brands that just sparks you know it.

It I think it's because of its it's lower in pop culture right back in the 70s Monty Python that the spam spam spam spam spam spam spam like that continue to ratchet up the lore and it it you know.

Now we call, email, junk email spam email and that kinda comes a little bit off the Monty Python and Jim Henson spam he character in some of the movies and saw spam lot came out with the version of the holy Grail Broadway, which was brilliant, he recognized the value of the spam Brandon at the time Mel recognize value branded content. They partnered with Eric idle and that spam lot toward the globe and was very successful.

A lot of fun for years. They have the spam Mobile toward you know they gave out 1.7 million samples in 2007 that there's five of them go around and you give lines 2 blocks long to get a little sample spam things like a good cook properly.

It's it's really good like you don't take hamburger and just like Haley cook hamburgers could be spent for him that would be weird but I guess the people often think about or do his family here before. Try not right like acrylic get the Juilliard affected. It's nice caramelization between two bonds or put between two slices of bread is really good person pineapple and rice is really tasty mashed potatoes like that you know you just have to prepare properly.

I think of traversing a resurgence in food trucks and in boutique service restaurants because the chefs realize it's not easy. They can get a lot of it and store it ready right there you grow it up properly and it makes additionally tasty me next time you're in the store pickup. You know Tomas can or you know they they do singles now 3 ounce, which is a little bit easier to get into. You don't have to have the commitment of a 12 ounce can I get a little slice and try it like you know what it really between two pieces of bread prints and buckles and bonds of American cheese and have yourself a tasty little sandwiches, you know it's it's you that hatted notes good or you are scared of it and it over and try and reach up on that piece is always by faith and a special thanks to Dustin black story spam you are now Americans.

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If you are somebody who's super outgoing and really likes talking with people working to match you with a dog that's super outgoing and is going to elicit that interaction for you.

If you're somebody who's a little more reserved and you know you just want to get from point A to point B really don't want to be talking with a lot of people along the way matching with a dog that's a little more reserved elicit as much. We also make certain that we match our clients preferences.

We have clients that their visual impairment allows them to see dark colors so will match them with a black lab or allows them to see lighter colors to match them with a yellow lab or a golden retriever. The matching process is complicated as you can well imagine you've got a lot of different traits that we have to match for the person you know dogs each have their different traits as well. And that's why say there's always a bit of magic in every single match that's made the first service dog organization ever to employ positive reinforcement training methods. Traditional training methods basically set a dog up to fail and then you punish them for failure with the theory being that the dog remembers that doesn't want to be punished again. Positive reinforcement training is setting the dog up for success and rewarding them for success. It feels a lot better to be set up for success in being rewarded for that versus being set up for failure. It's made a huge difference for our dogs. So the interesting thing is that the skills of the dog trained with essentially punishment based training versus positive reinforcement training their skills are just as good. The difference is the excitement about working so a punishment based is been trained in that methodology isn't excited about going to work because with their thinking is that only God if I get something wrong, I'm to be punished.

Dogs that are trained with positive reinforcement methodology are so excited to work is like only got the harnesses out and honestly, that makes a huge difference in inches it makes you feel better to the other interesting thing is that when we were using punishment based training. It took us 24 weeks to train a guide dog in their skills. Positive reinforcement training.

It now takes is 12 weeks so you can see there's so many benefits to it, not only from the psychological aspects to the dogs, but they were much faster and that allows us to be able to train one guy dogs and train more clients. People have to really commit to the guy dog lifestyle in order for a guy dog to be successful you have to get them onto a routine guy. Dogs are trained not to relieve themselves and harness so we all need bathroom breaks right you need to make certain that you consistently feeding at the same times that you consistently relieving at the same times you have to take your dog to the vet so even the way that we interface with our clients is all unique. We don't charge for any of our services. We fly people out to our campuses. They live with us for two weeks and train with the dogs we fly them home and then we continue to follow up with our clients to make sure that things are working well, and any addition to that, we also pay for all that you are a class over the dog's lifetime to make certain that no one is put in a position of saying do I pay my rent or do I take my dog to the vet our dogs are trained athletes have to be kept in peak condition. We want to always make certain that our guy dogs have the best medical care and all of our work is supported through donation. It's a huge community that supports guide dogs for the blind. We have approximately 300 staff members and over 4000 volunteers so we actually start training our dogs at three days of age. We have a whole group of volunteers called cobblers to start cuddling our babies and that's literally what they do. They cuddle them so that these babies used to people become used to human touch and there's nothing scary about a person starting very early on, very gentle, loving touch, which the puppies react to. Obviously, in a positive way. It says a lot about our breeders a brand-new mama allowing somebody to sit with her babies and hold her babies at three days of age is remarkable.

Our clients range in age from 14 to 94. What the qualifications are for getting a guy dog are that you are legally blind that you have a need to go somewhere every day. That doesn't mean that you have to have a job or something every day. At a minimum I get out and go for a walk in the reason for that is, the team needs to work together every day. Otherwise you as a handler lose your skills or the guy dog loses their skills in order to keep that team working seamlessly together got to get out and work every day. The third requirement is that you already have the orientation and mobility skills guy dogs are not GPS systems. You can't just say, dear guy dog take me to the nearest Starbucks you have to know essentially where that Starbucks is and when you need to give your dog the commands for how to get there and your dog will get you there safely in the fourth requirement is that you are living somewhere that will support a guy dog. Often times, particularly in rural environments. There are a lot of off leash. Aggressive dogs guy dog feels that they're going to be attacked every time that they walk out their door. Typically, then they can stop working so if people meet those four criteria then we bring them into our school and they get a guy dog nearly 16,000 teams have graduated since our founding, very private and you been listening to Christine Bettinger.

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The CEO guide dogs for the blind Christine to talk about the dogs and all that goes into the unique training is very special and when you look at service dogs and all the different things that service dogs do guide work is the most complicated for two reasons. One is that guy dogs have to get everything right hundred percent of the time, they can't just walk their person into traffic once or they can't walk you into a light pole once so guy dogs get no second chances. They gotta do it right. Secondly, they have to evaluate whether the commander given is going to keep the team safe or not. And if the guy dog believes it won't keep the team safe will have to disobey the command and do exactly the opposite. That's even tougher humans. I don't know how often you say no to your boss but that's a hard thing to do and dogs live in hierarchy so basically saying no to their boss. It takes a special dog be able to do that if a dog is given a command across the street and that handler is not hearing the electric car that's coming around the corner. The dog has to pull their handler away from the street rather than walking into the street.

So that's an example of what we call intelligent disobedience guy dogs are trained to do all kinds of things when you walk into a room or you walk onto a bus. They are trained to find you an open seat so they'll take you to the first available open seat. Many of our clients train their dogs for very specific things like we have a client. She said wherever I go. I've always got you know my water bottle with me and so I'm always looking for recycling bins so she strained her guy dog when she needs to find a recycling so that she can get rid of her water bottle. You can train your dog to take you to Starbucks what your dog knows where Starbucks is and that's where you go on a regular basis. You can just say take Starbucks all kinds of things like what I'll call the magic of guy dogs is that the team becomes so close because the team is together 24 seven and relies on each other. Our guy dogs are not trained in being able to sense medical changes in our clients somehow they get to know their person well enough that they do.

This happened about two years ago.

We have a client that does work in Manhattan.

She works in one of those buildings that is like a gazillion floors and so you have to take a very specific elevator to your bank of floors and so her guy. Doug knows exactly which elevator to go to and one particular day her guy dog didn't take her to the bank of elevators, but took her to a group of couches that were certified off the lobby, and when she got to the group of couches, she realized she wasn't feeling very well. She sat down and had a stroke so did her guy dog. I cry sorry to her guy dog know that she was going to have a stroke. Know the guy.

Doug knew something was wrong, but our guy dogs do is take care of their people. So the guy Doug knew getting in the elevator probably wasn't the best thing to do. Getting her to a safer spot was the best thing to do those kinds of stories happen all the time, not your training but through that relationship that grows between a guy dog in their person. What I find really remarkable about our clients is the different types of things that people do, our clients are mothers raising three children. We have people who are business people.

We have people who are chefs who are musicians who are teachers we actually have a couple of clients that have just competed in the Paralympics over in Japan guy dog does is give people confidence to be able to do what they want to do in life. And so as a result, you see these just remarkable things that our clients do we have a client that he's a professional baker piece hiked with his guy dog the Pacific crest trail he's hiked the Appalachian trail any he's hiked all over the world and he does that. As someone who is blind with the guy dog out for days and days and days by himself. All that my mind is truly remarkable guide dogs for the blind has made a concerted effort to target these kids have a tendency to not want to be called out his different right and so much of who we become as adults is based on what we experience as young person so canine buddies. They're not guy dogs that they are companion dogs well trained companion dogs for individuals who are too young yet to get a guy dog. We do have a lower age limit, but we don't have an upper age limit were giving canine buddies to families with children as young as five and why canine buddy does is not only start to orient kids around dogs, but most importantly is building their confidence in her hearing from parents about how their five-year-old was, not making friends in school afraid to dress themselves. Go to the bathroom on their own money had to be there, and once they had a canine buddy all of a sudden wanting to be independent, getting dressed on their own starting to make friends there. The kind of coolest kid on the block with this really neat dog. Some kids have night terrors with a canine buddy does night terrors go away so canine buddies mother not specifically service dogs make a huge difference in the life of very young children, then we have a whole host of programs that are targeted towards high school kids. That's a very vulnerable time right wasn't my best years I think bicycle so we have things like what we call GDP camp for high school kids to get together with other kids with similar disabilities actually have the opportunity to work with the guy dog sleep guy dog overnight plus just have a great time just being campers just being kids.

We fly kids in from all over North America and there's all kinds of fun things to do. You know, tandem bike riding, canoeing, swimming this last year we actually have the kids visit along the farm and have the opportunity to walk a llama. They all agreed that walking a guy dog was all a lot easier than walking alone, often times kids that have a visual disability don't know anybody else who does so lifelong friendships are made.

It's a great place is fun place. We've grown from a very small fledgling organization to really you know, the largest guide school in North America.

That's not easy. So I'm very grateful to my counterparts who were a part of this organization and set the stage for who we are today because of their efforts. We've been able to grow. We've been able to find ourselves and really become the leader in the guy dog industry is a huge community that supports our work.

I've always been inspired by the difference that animals make in our lives. It's really an honor to be a part of this organization because this is an organization that saves lives. It gives people their independence and allows people to live the life that they want to live and I can't think of anything more inspirational than that and a great job as always on the production member storytelling by medicine and special thanks to Christine Bettinger CEO guide dogs for the blind. To learn more and to help support their mission guide dogs.com.

By the way, this is just a perfect example of American generosity at work is working at a nonprofit.

People are donating money people are volunteering there cuddling with dogs. All of these things are doing to help strangers life just move along better. My goodness, what she said about what the dogs mission was order guide dogs do take care of their people and they do it, not through the mere training but through the strong relationship built with their client has a mental knows what that relationship means special thanks to all the people who support this great organization then go to guide dogs.com if you love the mission go ahead and help them with the story of Christine Bettinger.

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