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Speaker 1: We have some great but weird science stories. That's why

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Speaker 1: we call it strange strange slience shame. It's like weird science,

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Speaker 1: but strange. Well.

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Speaker 2: Earth has had a near miss twice after two small

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Speaker 2: asteroids have seemingly passed alarmingly close to us fewer than

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Speaker 2: two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until

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Speaker 2: hours after it had already flown by. The first incident

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Speaker 2: occurred eight days ago October first, when a small asteroid

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Speaker 2: designated twenty twenty five TF slipped past the Earth an

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Speaker 2: altitude of just two hundred and sixty six miles over Antarctica.

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned at the time, that's lower than the

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Speaker 2: orbit of many satellites, same range as the International Space Station.

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Speaker 2: But NASA had no idea is headed here?

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Speaker 3: Isn't that what they get paid to do? I mean,

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Speaker 3: isn't there an entire office somewhere in the NASA building.

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Speaker 3: This does nothing but look out to find the things

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Speaker 3: that are headed directly towards us.

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Speaker 2: Does the Emperor have no clothes? Is it an empty spacesuit?

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five TF is between three and six feet wide.

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Speaker 2: Characterized as a near Earth asteroid, They usually burn up

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Speaker 2: in the atmosphere or leave behind minor meteorite fragments. Larger asteroids, however,

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Speaker 2: can cause serious damage. Right the twenty thirteen meteor explosion

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Speaker 2: over Siberia injured over one thousand people. But then on

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Speaker 2: October second, less than a day after the fly by

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five TF, astronomers in Arizona detected yet

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Speaker 2: another asteroid, this time before it arrived. It is called

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five TQ two uh oh, and it is

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Speaker 2: a small space rock that passed the Earth a distance

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Speaker 2: of about three thousand miles over Canada, not.

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Speaker 1: As close, but still damn close. Too close for comfort.

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Speaker 3: Well, tactically it's a tiny, little, tiny little margin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well within what scientists classify as a close approach.

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Speaker 2: That asteroid is estimated to be between six and a

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Speaker 2: half and fourteen and a half feet in diameter.

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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of things coming from space, there is.

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Speaker 3: A concern that Elon Musk's Starlink satellites that go up

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Speaker 3: they're not big, they're relatively small in terms of the

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Speaker 3: size of satellites, but that they have been falling to

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Speaker 3: Earth every single day, as many as four of them

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Speaker 3: every day. Jonathan McDowell is an astronomer tried again. Astronomer

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Speaker 3: at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recorded an average

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Speaker 3: of between one to two Starlink satellites de orbiting or

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Speaker 3: falling to Earth and.

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Speaker 1: Burning up in the under year.

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Speaker 3: The figures expected to go up to about five per

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Speaker 3: day because SpaceX continues to pump these satellites into space.

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Speaker 1: Why did we stop having bread boxes?

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Speaker 2: Well, you were just showing me how big that the

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Speaker 2: satellite was, and I thought to myself, bigger than a

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Speaker 2: bread box.

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Speaker 1: And then I wondered where did the bread box? Where

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Speaker 1: did the bread box go?

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Speaker 2: Is it because we decided to put the bread in

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Speaker 2: the fridge to keep it longer?

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Speaker 1: Do you put your bread in your fridge? Yeah? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Do you keep your bread? Do you have a bread box?

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Speaker 1: I don't have a bread You do not have a

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Speaker 1: bread box. I don't know why. Maybe because bread. Do

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Speaker 1: you keep your bread out? You don't have bread? I

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Speaker 1: have bread.

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Speaker 3: You have bread. Where is the bread kept up? I

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Speaker 3: keep it wrapped in its little plastic bag and it's

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Speaker 3: either on the counter or in the pantry.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but no bread box.

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Speaker 3: I don't usually put My wife has some funny stuff

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Speaker 3: that's like pre sprouted. Jehovah not Jehovah Zekiel bread.

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Speaker 1: You're just the naming biblical characters like.

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Speaker 3: Some Ruth bread and Matthew, Mark Luke and John bread.

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Speaker 3: It's super Sequiel bread. But you have to keep that

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Speaker 3: stuff cold or else it will sprout right. But that's

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Speaker 3: really the only stuff we keep in the fridge bread wise.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Bread box.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know if there was like a physical.

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Speaker 2: Is it before bread had preservatives in it, so you

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Speaker 2: have to keep it in something that was secure, but

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Speaker 2: not the frigerator, but not.

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Speaker 3: Too tight it seal box. It's not even sealed as

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Speaker 3: much as a plastic wrapper would be.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: What happened to the bread box too? When did we

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Speaker 2: stop using them?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Stale bread is called dry, but drying and staling are

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Speaker 3: different processes. Uh, Stale bread can weigh the same as

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Speaker 3: fresh bread, on and on and on. Bread boxes are

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Speaker 3: designed to keep their constant their contents at temperature. Okay,

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Speaker 3: have a lid loose enough to allow airflow, which would

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Speaker 3: reduce constant condensation and help prevent mold, but also have

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Speaker 2: When we bought the bread in the olden days, I

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Speaker 2: don't think it was wrapped as securely as it is,

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Speaker 2: has now well.

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Speaker 3: And some yes, I think you're right. And some loaves

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Speaker 3: of bread, like daves, maybe one of them I'm thinking of,

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Speaker 3: comes sealed basically in a plastic wrapper and then comes

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Speaker 3: in its own plastic sleeve.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's extra tight.

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Speaker 2: The bread that I enjoy is the San Luis sourdough bread,

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Speaker 2: and that'll keep in the fridge for six years.

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Speaker 1: Cracked wheat sellad, Oh my gosh, like a like a

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Speaker 1: nice egg sandwich with that stuff. Oh my goodness. How

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Speaker 1: do we get from satellites to breadbusters? Science?

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Speaker 3: Gary, We're in the middle of a strange science. A

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Speaker 3: pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a

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Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty six thousand year old habit of

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Speaker 3: all the small creatures that we know, dragon ass, the

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Speaker 3: dragon of the butt. You don't want a drag ass.

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Speaker 3: The African Center for a Coastal Paleoscience features a track

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Speaker 3: site and a parent butt dragging impressions believed to have

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Speaker 3: been made by a rock high rax, which is a

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Speaker 3: pretty big rodent like mammal that would resemble something like

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Speaker 3: a prairie dog or a gopher with a set of

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Speaker 3: very sharp vampiric teeth.

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Speaker 1: They say, what does that mean? Oh, it's like a

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Speaker 1: vampire got it.

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Speaker 3: To this day, high raxes drag their butts along the ground,

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Speaker 3: similar to a dog that might have a parasitic infection.

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Speaker 2: So when you're dragon ass, should I call you a

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Speaker 2: high rax like you're being a high rax? Oh, don't

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Speaker 2: be a high rax about it when you're being lazy. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: you should see say that. That would be a motivator.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, but not if I have a parasitic infection,

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Speaker 3: I would prefer that you suggest I go to the doctor.

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Speaker 1: Well, you don't go to the doctor.

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Speaker 2: You could have parasites all up in you and I

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Speaker 2: we have no idea because you haven't been the doctor

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Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's trying to yeah, clap back with a date,

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Speaker 3: and I don't have one for you.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: The longer you don't go to the doctor for anything,

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Speaker 2: the shorter my caring span when it comes to you

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Speaker 2: having a body riddled with parasites, you are never going

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Speaker 2: to you've got an I'm not like if you feel

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Speaker 2: like the clock starts at fifty, like every year you

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Speaker 2: just to see how things are going and just to

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Speaker 2: get blood and stuff like that. Like I feel like

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Speaker 2: I care I'm gonna care less when they're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you have a worm living in your body and it

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Speaker 2: made babies and they they're all hanging out in there

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Speaker 2: and we.

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Speaker 1: Could have caught this. It made babies, you know, like

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Speaker 1: a meeba. How many bodies of water have you swum in? Swimmed?

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Speaker 1: Swim swamped past tense? Is swummed? No, it's not sure

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Speaker 1: it is. It's swam swim. Its not swummed. It's swam.

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Speaker 2: It's swam or swim. It's not swummed. Swum does not

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Speaker 2: a worse swimmed. No, fine, it's swum or swim.

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Speaker 1: That's why we do strange science and not strange English grammar.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be a rough Friday for already fighting.

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Speaker 3: I did not swim in very many bodies of water

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Speaker 3: outside of my pool.

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Speaker 1: In my backyard.

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Speaker 2: Oh, but what about that time that you went out

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Speaker 2: to the south on the camping trip with the other boys.

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Speaker 4: There was no swimming, There was not no it was

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Speaker 4: just tinting. I don't know what that You lived in

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Speaker 4: a tent. We were in a cabin. Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: What's sort of weird fairy tale you had in your

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Speaker 3: mind about what that weekend entailed. But it was highly

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Speaker 3: not fun compared to what you had in your mind.

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Speaker 2: Well, all I know is that you and Jason Nathanson

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Speaker 2: were in a hot tub at one point, and other

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Speaker 2: details are sparse and spotty. And if you don't give

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Speaker 1: Up right, got it? Swummed is not a standard English

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Speaker 1: Are you.

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Speaker 2: Talking about swam? And swam are acceptable? Not swummed?

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Speaker 1: Don't ever talk to me about swimming in the past. Tense.

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Speaker 5: Boba T is full of lead? Are you a fan

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Speaker 5: of boba T? I've never had it? I see it

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Speaker 5: even had boba t? Oh yeah, yes, Well because your

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Speaker 1: She also loved it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird, right, So I've seen a lot people

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Speaker 2: just lining up for certain tea spots, specifically in Pasadenas

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Speaker 2: where I've seen people lining up out the door to

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Speaker 2: get this this bubble tea.

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Speaker 3: What makes bubble tea bubble tea is the bolba pearls?

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Speaker 1: Is the ice cream? No? What is It's tapioca?

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Speaker 3: Is that tapioca boba pearls that are made from cassava,

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Speaker 3: which is a root vegetable that absorbs everything from the soil,

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Speaker 3: including lead.

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Speaker 1: So does it taste like the earth or does it

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Speaker 1: taste like sweet?

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Speaker 3: Have completely blocked out of my memory what boba balls

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Speaker 3: taste like? Did they call them boba balls? I don't

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Speaker 3: know what they call them Boba pearls. I think is

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Speaker 3: what they call them.

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Speaker 1: The balls would be weird.

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Speaker 3: Cassava, which is turns into these tapioca boba pearls actually

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Speaker 3: absorb a bunch of lead. And Consumer Reports went through

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Speaker 3: and tested the boba pearls from a couple of major

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Speaker 3: chains and the results were clear. Every single sample, whether

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Speaker 1: It wasn't enough.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't enough for Consumer Reports to come out and say

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Speaker 3: you should not drink any boba tea ever. But it

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Speaker 3: wasn't enough for them to note that it's in present,

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Speaker 3: that it is present in all of them, and that

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Speaker 3: it's good reason to treat boba tea as an occasional treat,

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Speaker 3: not as an everyday must have, like that Starbucks strength

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Speaker 3: that you have because there's too much lead in them. Also,

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Speaker 3: don't eat the paint off of the house that was

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Speaker 3: painted in the nineteen forties. Probably also lead.

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Speaker 2: The John Cobalt show coming up, What You give Up?

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Speaker 2: I didn't give up? Sounded like it, Well, what did

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Speaker 2: you want to say? If I heard you say boba

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Speaker 2: t one more time? I was going to put my

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