Advertisement

Lowering The Bar: Chewing 32 Year Old Bubble Gum

This episode is sponsored by the fine folks at 3chi, but brought to you by people sending Frank The Tank old trading cards with mummified chewing gum. The original idea for this episode was to have everyone chomp on 32-year-old gum and seeing who could blow the largest bubble. Turns out, gum that hit shelves the year the Berlin Wall fell has the same consistency as a concrete wall. The gum sucked, but at least there is the potential of landing a rare Ken Griffey Jr. worth an extremely small fortune.

This is how the competition should have been. 1975 - dudes with mustaches being dudes. 

The bubble gum competition didn't work out as planned, but the Mother's Day competition went off without a hitch …