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A perfect moulded jelly used to be a way to show you had money. Someone spent a full day boiling bones and clarifying stock so you could set a shivering centrepiece on the table and let the room see what you could afford. Then it came in a box for pennies, and everyone could have the shape. This week one wobbling dessert travels from aristocratic showpiece to grocery aisle novelty, and we ask what gets lost when you take the work out of something.

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Have you ever witnessed Jell-O reach that special temperature and just...melt away. Too long in the sun and a once solid, but wiggly, dessert turns liquid once again.

That special temperature is a just a bit below average body temperature. Right around Ninety-Five degrees F. So, that's our song this week.

Sorry we're running a bit behind. Schedules and production issues collaborated to keep us a bit late.

Enjoy the song and the episode when it comes out. Lyrics below.

[Verse 1]
I hold my shape in the chill
set in the dark, sitting still
firm on the shelf, sealed and sound
cold is the thing keeps me round

[Pre-Chorus]
then the room warms up real slow
and the cold finally lets me go

[Chorus]
Ninety-five (ninety-five)
just ninety-five
That’s when I come alive
keep me cold and I keep my shape
When it’s warm, I just escape

[Verse 2]
they brought me out into the sun
picnic day, the warm had won
left too long in open air
ain’t nothing holding there

[Bridge]
I keep my whole life on ice
steady, careful, cold, precise
then they left the ice box wide
and now ain’t no more me inside

[Final Chorus]
Ninety-five (ninety-five)
just ninety-five
That’s when I come alive
keep me cold and I keep my shape
When it’s warm, I just escape

[Outro - vocal fading]
ninety-five
warm it up, I'm gone
Gone
Just melt away

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Somewhere in your house, a machine takes a full day of work off your hands every week, and you've never once thought about how that happened.
For most of history, laundry was a whole day, every week. Then we handed the day to a machine. Over a couple hundred years, the washing machine evolved and eventually gave people back a day every week.

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