I believe the hot glue brings the design into FDA regulatory regimen, so nobody will be sipping from your straw until after the clinicals start in 2027, and are finally reviewed well into Barron’s second term.
Well, it's a step up from the duct tape I considered using, but my grandkids would have objected to that. They make me test my products first.
The first race Barron is eligible to run in will be in 2044.
If, like his daddy, he is a late bloomer politically, expect to see him running in 2076. Hopefully, there will still be a United States.
I've come up with a design that skips the hot glue. I'm constructing the double-J design with PLA material on my 3D printer. PLA is biodegradable. An improvement on the design is an addition of a whistle that blows if you suck the straw too quickly, thereby preventing a brain freeze.