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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. It's Saturday and it's Chuck, and that

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Speaker 1: means it's time for a select episode where we hand

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Speaker 1: pick and curate some of our favorite episode of the

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Speaker 1: years to be rereleased on Saturdays. In case you don't

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Speaker 1: have anything going on. This one goes all the way

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Speaker 1: back to September. It's about polar Bears. They are super

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Speaker 1: fascinating and cool and you will walk away with more

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Speaker 1: than one dinner party fact that you can throw with

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Speaker 1: your friends how polar Bears work. Right now, welcome to

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Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Chuck Bryant scratching out a significant amount of this article,

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Speaker 1: like literally as we started recording. That's important stuff. There's

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Speaker 1: like numbers and dates and way eats and temperatures and

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Speaker 1: that that's it's important stuff you just scratched out. I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's all covered in the body of the

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Speaker 1: text of the article, though, well, I mean that's one

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Speaker 1: way to do an intro. Is anybody in journalism can

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Speaker 1: tell you you can write the article and then go

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Speaker 1: back and summarize. If you're an intro. I've never been

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Speaker 1: partial that the intro to me is just like this

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Speaker 1: stream of consciousness. It tells you where the rest of

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Speaker 1: the article is going to go because you don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: because it's all jazz baby. Uh yeah. Polar bears. Polar

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Speaker 1: bears another polar bear club. Although they may have clubs,

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Speaker 1: they're one of the least studied mammal populations on the planet.

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Speaker 1: Because it's cold, no one wants to go hang out

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Speaker 1: extremely dangerous to to study polar bears up close and personal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they look cuddly, um, but they will, especially New

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Speaker 1: well yeah remember New. Yeah, I got a little bit

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Speaker 1: about New very sad. But you're gonna say they look

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Speaker 1: cute and cuddly, but don't leave his hanging. Well, you

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Speaker 1: you get your face eating. Oh yeah, if you're lucky,

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Speaker 1: that's all that happens, you know. I saw pictures of

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Speaker 1: a guy who um survived a polar bear attack. Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness. Yeah, he was messed up like I guess

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Speaker 1: it was still attach, but three quarters of his scalp

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Speaker 1: through his achilles tendon and his ankle, so like as

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Speaker 1: top of his the front of his ankle was intact,

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Speaker 1: but in between the two was gone. That could have

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Speaker 1: been a claw, poke or a fang. Yeah, it could

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Speaker 1: have been like flicking it with its thumb and middle finger.

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Speaker 1: Very strong. It's one of nature's cruelest things to an animal.

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Speaker 1: So huggable, uh and deadly. So yeah, you know if

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Speaker 1: it's like one of those black widows that marry and kill. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's just my interpretation of polar bears. You know, you

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Speaker 1: mean the ursus maritimus. Yeah, and maritimes is Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a legitimate thing to call it because technically a polar

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Speaker 1: bear is a sea animal, a sea mammal. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: they spend most of their time actually on the sea,

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Speaker 1: that's right, and in the sea sometimes, as we'll find out. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: I guess we're knee deep in this thing. Huh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you skip the intro. Uh. So the polar bear

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Speaker 1: despite its huggability, doesn't compete with the jellyfish with octopus. Um,

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Speaker 1: a great hug. Yeah, eight times as good. They won't

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Speaker 1: Uh so, Jerry even like that one. Um. So the

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Speaker 1: polar bear evolved, as best as we know, a couple

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Speaker 1: of hundred thousand years ago from the brown bear. Actually,

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Speaker 1: is created, you know. Yeah. Yeah, uh so there are

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Speaker 1: way more um brown bears, everyone knows. And we're gonna

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Speaker 1: not sure the official designation. I don't think it's officially listed. Well,

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Speaker 1: them tremendously and affecting the rest of the ecosystem. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: the saddest things I've ever heard of. I signed a

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Speaker 1: the it's the saddest. I think it's build as the

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Speaker 1: saddest pole. They're bear on the planet. Man, it's so sad.

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Speaker 1: Look into it, chuck outside the Yeah, I guarantee you will.

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Speaker 1: it matters. The petitions matter. Do they make a difference? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend you read it. Uh So. Polar bears

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Speaker 1: not for polar bears. They love it. They're well adapted

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Speaker 1: So there pause which we mentioned the clause. They have

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Speaker 1: have actually evolved to clean up very like immediately after eating.

421
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: So they'll eating eating, eat like you said, they'll eat

422
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: like a hundred pounds of blubber at a time, and

423
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: when the hunting is good, they'll just eat the seals blubber. Sure, right, um.

424
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: And actually what's interesting is the omega threes in that

425
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: seal blubber actually cut down on the type of cholesterol

426
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: that would allow plaque to build up in their arteries,

427
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: so they can subsist basically on a diet of fat

428
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: seal blubber. You know, it's amazing. Um. And right after

429
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: they finished this meal, they're covered in blood and it's

430
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: really again horrific. They'll take a bath. Depending on the

431
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: time of year, they'll take a bath in the in

432
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: the sea itself, or they'll take a snow bath, and

433
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: then they'll take a little nap well, because they need that,

434
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 1: like you said, they need that furtive remain translucent and

435
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: clean in order to stay warm and dry. So uh, yeah,

436
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: they clean up to keep themselves warm, not just because

437
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: they look like something out of a West Craven movie, right,

438
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: but also because they have to remain camouflaged too. Yeah, exactly. Uh. Well,

439
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: before we take a break, I do want to mention

440
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: the very funny thing if a polar bear does not

441
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: get that seal in the hole, they can throw a

442
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: little hissy fit. Oh yeah, and they've been known to

443
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: like pound the ice and frustration. Uh. And I don't

444
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: think like people are you know, putting or stuff on

445
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: the bear like they literally like when they miss the

446
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 1: seal start throwing things around and beating on the ice

447
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: because they're angry. Like imagine waiting at an air hole

448
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: for two days the seal finally comes up and you miss. H. Yeah,

449
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: I can. I don't think it's anthropomorphizing either. Yeah, it's

450
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: pretty funny. Um. All right, let's take a break and

451
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about their dwindling ice and

452
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: numbers after this. Sorry JH, all right, we're back. One

453
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: thing we did not mention that I think it's obvious,

454
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: but we might as well say it is. The polar

455
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: bear is nothing hunts the polar bear. Right there, the king,

456
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: Daddy's and Mama's of their land. The apex predator. Yeah,

457
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: which is a pretty good place to be. Um. The

458
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: bad place to be if you're a polar bear is

459
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: where you live and hunt, because, like we said, it's

460
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: it's shrinking, and um, it creates a lot of problems.

461
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,479
Speaker 1: You mentioned a little bit about the ecosystem. You know,

462
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: they'll go in there and they'll eat birds and eggs

463
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: and things like that when they have to caribou maybe

464
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: on the shore. Yeah, but they're they're not supposed to

465
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: be eating that stuff. Uh. And they're not supposed to

466
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: be encountering humans as often as they are either, which

467
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: is a problem in some parts of the world. But yeah,

468
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: Well there's actually um a town in Manitoba called Churchill

469
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: that's developed a like basically it's made itself a tourist

470
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: destination for polar bear tourism. Um. But it's like one

471
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 1: of the few places in the world that's like an

472
00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: established settlement where Westerners can come and um view them. Yeah. Uh.

473
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,239
Speaker 1: But even in Churchill, they they occasionally have to like

474
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: shoot the polar bears if they just won't leave. And

475
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: apparently a little p s a here. If you ever

476
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: encounter a polar bear, do not lay down and play dead.

477
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: That's not what you want to do. Yeah, is it

478
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: like regular bears? You try to make yourself look big,

479
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: look big, make a lot of noise, chase them off. Um.

480
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: Apparently they'll break out. There's another town um in uh

481
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: I think Norway. Uh. That what they'll like, rev their snowmobiles.

482
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: They'll get the town helicopter out and try to scare

483
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: them off like that. Yeah, that's the one small bard

484
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: which has people and three thousand polar bears. Yeah, so

485
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: they've probably gotten pretty used to fending for themselves. Yeah,

486
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: they have. Um for the most part, the bears will

487
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: leave because from everything I saw, the polar bear in

488
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: particular isn't interested in in encountering humans. It's not their thing. No,

489
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: it's like almost any wildlife, they're forced into that situation. Yeah.

490
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: If you look at bear attacks though, um, like a

491
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: grizzly bear will attack you while you're just sleeping quietly

492
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: in a sleeping bag near anywhere near and it comes

493
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: into your camp. It'll mall you your dad the polar bear.

494
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: List of polar bear attacks do not include stuff like that.

495
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: It's it's a polar bear that you've startled or you're

496
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: very hungry or it's very hungry and you have been

497
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: have meat in your pockets. Yeah that was Yeah in Churchill, Manitoba.

498
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: There um their stats they have had two people killed

499
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: in three hundred years by polar bears. Yeah, it's that's

500
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: pretty good track record for one of two towns where

501
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: not bad. One of them was because these kids, uh

502
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: saw a bear and started throwing rocks at it. Not

503
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: a good idea. So the bear was like, all right,

504
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: jerk's here I come. Uh. And then the second one,

505
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: a dude had meat in his pockets, you know. Yeah,

506
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: he was eating at a diner. He wanted to go box,

507
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: just put that meat loaf in your pocket. And he's like,

508
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: I guess I will this one time and the one time.

509
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: But actually, if you do look at the polar bear

510
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: stats right for attacks fatal attacks by polar bears in

511
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: the United States and Canada, And remember sixty of all

512
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: polar bears uh live in Canada, so this is a

513
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: substantial amount of the polar bears. Um. There there have

514
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: been eight fatal attacks in the United States and Canada

515
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: by polar bears since nineteen Four of those took place

516
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: in zoos where humans climbed into the enclosure with the

517
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: polar bear. So this one lady that wanted to swim

518
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: with them. Yeah, they was jumped in and got bitten

519
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: on like the arm and back and was like screaming

520
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: and they fixed her out. Oh she survived. She survived.

521
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: A bad idea. Um, apparently that's the thing. There's a

522
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: dude in Toledo before I was born who was down

523
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: in the polar bear enclosure at the Toledo Zoo and

524
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: they think he was probably on drugs. And I'm sure

525
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: he was like, this is gonna be great. I'm gonna

526
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: go hang out with that polar bear. Yeah, but think

527
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: of it. Eight people died in the US and Canada

528
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy two, half of them at the zoo. Yeah,

529
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: only four in the wild. Yeah, so that's the real

530
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: stat It does say a lot, it does. Um. And

531
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: you know we said make yourself look big. If you

532
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: don't know what that means, that means. The big trick

533
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: is to, uh, you probably got on a winter coat

534
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: if you're living in one of these places. So just

535
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: grab the bottom of your winter coat and pull it

536
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: up over your head with your arms and basically, yeah,

537
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: you just appear like large, and that's one of the

538
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: big survival tips for any bear. Really just makes you

539
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: look bigger and scarier, because bears are you know, actually,

540
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: polar bears are pretty smart supposedly, Is that right? Yeah?

541
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: I was about to say they were dumb, but they

542
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: they're one of the smarter mammals. I mean, how so

543
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: where where did you see? That? Was just on a

544
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: polar bear site. You know, they were just literally ticking

545
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: off all the like cognitive abilities. But I think there's

546
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be much smarter than like your average

547
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: brown bear. Yeah, Yogi Bear, Yeah he's pretty smart. You

548
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: can talk where's the tie? I think he's driven a

549
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: car before you can get inside a picnic basket. I

550
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: love that. When I was a kid, did you watch that?

551
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Yogi Bear? I liked Yogi Bear from like

552
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: the original series all the way through the weird stuff

553
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: in like the seventies. I don't remember the weird stuff

554
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: like um, the laugh Olympics. Oh yeah, yeah, sure, all

555
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: that spin offs and whatnot. Yeah, so Chuck. We've talked

556
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: about it indirectly a couple of times, but the polar

557
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: bears habitat is shrinking. Tremendously right. The ice is literally melting,

558
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: and like I was saying in that one Canadian geographic article,

559
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 1: they were saying, the bears, the bears in the south

560
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,720
Speaker 1: are really having trouble, and there are far more human

561
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: bear encounters than they normally are. Because if a bear

562
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: makes his way to shore and um, summer strikes and

563
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: the ice recedes, they're stuck. He's stuck. They have to

564
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: wait around until winter comes again or late fall and

565
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: the ice starts to come back towards shore so they

566
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: can swim toward it or swim right exactly. Um. So

567
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: that's that's creating a problem, especially for the ones that

568
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: are in the southern range. But the ones that are

569
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: in the northern range are enjoying like easier hunting than

570
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: ever because the ice is thinning out for them, so

571
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: they the seals can get through it more easily. So

572
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: there's more seals, so there's more hunting up north. The

573
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: thing is that's not necessarily sustainable, Like they may be

574
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: enjoying like a heyday right now, but eventually that ice

575
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: will melt too, and well they'll be gonners because a

576
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: bear can overheat from from running right. So as the

577
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: temperatures increase, the bear is actual physical health is in danger.

578
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: Let alone there you know, habitat shrinking. Um. So they're

579
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 1: not entirely certain what to do. I looked up hunting

580
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: polar bears, and I think the only the Inuit people

581
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: are allowed to well, you can get there are certain

582
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: places in Canada where he can get an exemption, but

583
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: it's apparently very rare and controlled and very expensive. Well

584
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: and expensive and and supposedly they say, is is well

585
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: within the um the bounds of not harming the overall

586
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: population number. Well again, I'm sorry to keep going back

587
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: to this. Well, but that Canadian geographic article, um, I

588
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: should probably say the name. I think it's called The

589
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: Truth about Polar Bears. Yeah, totally worth reading, but um

590
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: it talks a lot about managed hunting programs being a

591
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: good thing or bad. They were saying it's as long

592
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: as it's done right, basically everybody involved. I think they

593
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: even cited the World Wilde I fund as saying like, yeah,

594
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 1: we should probably like manage these populations through hunting with

595
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: with very strict quotas. But yeah, the Inuits traditionally, or

596
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 1: the Inuit and I think the Cree are two groups

597
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: that have like virtually unrestricted honting like native rights, but

598
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: they're they're apparently trusted to, you know, stay within these

599
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: these limits. Yeah, and the people that can pay to

600
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: do it, I think have to be taken in by

601
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: Inuit guides. And they actually the Innuit families who keeps

602
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: the the bear meat? Right after the rich American? Yeah,

603
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: I saw that too, kills the bear, which is that's great?

604
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: Who cares about the meat? I just want to kill

605
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: the bear. Yeah, I just want the head on my wall.

606
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: I founded Jimmy John's. Isn't that the guy? Yeah, he's

607
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: a big game hunter. Who else was? Who's the other guy?

608
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: The dentist? It killed Leo the lion. I wonder whatever

609
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: happened to him. I bet his dentist practice suffered. Yeah,

610
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: that'd be my guess. Oh, it definitely did. But I

611
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: wonder if it rebounded since since the initial since the

612
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: Internet got bored and moved on to something else. Yeah,

613
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: probably so. I mean, I'm not into any hunting for myself, um,

614
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: but I've certainly hate big game hunting for anyone. You know,

615
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: I would like to put a call out like, um,

616
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: any time I've I've had discussions about hunting or whatever,

617
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: and I've said, I don't, I don't see the point

618
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: in our modern world of hunting. UM. It's always been

619
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: countered with, well, you know, hunting is a lot more

620
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: humane than the factory sure farming that you're you're eating

621
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: the meat from. Um. And I've never that's always struck

622
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: me as a straw straw argument, draw me an argument.

623
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: But I've never been able to exactly identify why. Or

624
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: maybe it's not. And that's why I've never been able

625
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: to idea to five why. But it's it's always confounded me. Yeah,

626
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I know that people talk about

627
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: the populations and controlled hunting and all that being good

628
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 1: for the population, which I'm sure that's very valid. I'm

629
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: just talking about me personally. Like when push came to shove,

630
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Speaker 1: I like hanging out in the the woods, I like camping.

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Speaker 1: I like shooting guns every now and then it targets. Sure,

632
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,959
Speaker 1: shoot up some tin cans. It's fun. But when push

633
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: came to shove, I can never like pull the trigger

634
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Speaker 1: and kill an animal. I shot a squirrel when I

635
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: was a kid and it was just like the worst

636
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: day of my life. I think I've told that story

637
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: was awful. I've got one or two of those under

638
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Speaker 1: my belt. Yeah, and you either get into it or

639
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: you don't, I guess. And all of my friends hunted

640
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: growing up, you know, in Georgia at my church, like

641
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Speaker 1: every single one of them. But my dad didn't hunt,

642
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: So I didn't hunt. Yeah, he didn't take a stand.

643
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: He was just he was into camping and hiking and

644
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: not shooting animals, leaving nothing but footprints, nothing but photographs.

645
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Speaker 1: Let's not take only pictures and polar bear heads, leave

646
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 1: only footprints, leave only blood in the snow, and leave

647
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: the polar bear meat behind for the Inuit. So Newt, Oh, yeah,

648
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Speaker 1: you got anything else? No, let's finish up with Newt.

649
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: Everyone remembers Newt cutest polar bear ever. Uh in Germany

650
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: and new to die very sadly had a seizure and

651
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: fell into a pool. And they think that he probably

652
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: drowned once he fell in, right, I think he had meningitis. Well, no,

653
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: they finally found out what it is. They couldn't find

654
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Speaker 1: any kind of pathogen, and so this doctor Harold Pruss

655
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Speaker 1: for the German Center of Neurodegenerative Disease, got together with

656
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Speaker 1: um Professor Alex Greenwood at the Leibnitz Institute for Zoo

657
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Speaker 1: and Wildlife Research, and they said that he had an

658
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: autoimmune disease. They found out because nothing made sense about

659
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: the seizure, so they really wanted to investigate, not only

660
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: for Newt's sake, but to you know, see if they

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Speaker 1: could help other animals. And uh, it turns out that

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Speaker 1: Newt is the very first animal domesticated while ever diagnosed

663
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: with an anti n M d A receptor encephalitis. Oh

664
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: that's what it was. Encephalitis, not mangitis. Yeah, which is

665
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: a non infectious form of it. Encephalitis, which basically is

666
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: when your bodies on immune system attacks your brain. Is

667
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: the very first animal ever recorded to have this. So well,

668
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: poor Newda. But a big breakthrough to learn this that

669
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: it can happen, because now they can you know, study it,

670
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: and new It was the the reason that they can

671
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: make this progress. So maybe something good can come from that. Yeah.

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00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: Very sad though, Sure have a seizure and falling water

673
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: and drown. Yeah, got anything else? Got nothing else? I

674
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: do have one other thing that Inuit. Speaking of the Inuit,

675
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: they have um obviously a number of legends about polar bears.

676
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: One of them is that they're actually uh shape shifters,

677
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: human shape shifters once again their iglues, they shed their

678
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: polar bis skin and turned back into human like that.

679
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: The other is that um when when an Inuit kills

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00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: the polar bear, they will put out like an offering

681
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: of tools, again with the idea that the polar bears

682
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: um have some sort of uh they share an afterlife

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00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: with humans, possibly as humans um, and that they need

684
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: these tools in the afterlife. And the better the spread

685
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: of tools you give the polar bear, the more likely

686
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,720
Speaker 1: this polar bear is to tell other living polar bears, Hey,

687
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 1: you should let this guy kill you because he's gonna

688
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: hook you up with some amazing tools afterward. So go

689
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: ahead and let him take your life. Very spiritual, it's

690
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: pretty cool. They call him Nanook. Yes in a n

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Speaker 1: U K Yeah not okay uh. If you want to

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Speaker 1: know more about nannook uh, you can type the word

693
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Speaker 1: polar bears into the search part how stuff works dot com.

694
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Speaker 1: And since I said Nanook, it's time for a listener mail.

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Speaker 1: I don't even call this letter from a young fan. Okay, good,

696
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: we like those right, Yeah, of course, Hey, guys. I'm

697
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old fan. Actually, my fifteenth birthday is tomorrow,

698
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: which is now in the past, so he's already fifteen.

699
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: I wanted to get it out before then. I've been

700
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: listening since last July, and I've recently been listening to

701
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: the older podcast from the beginning about three years in.

702
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: At this point, I've never written in before because I

703
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: had no real reason to. I have recently started my

704
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: freshman year at a new school, and it's been hard

705
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: for me because I was homeschooled before this and I

706
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: could listen to you guys whenever I wanted to. But

707
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 1: now I'm at a charter school and I miss having

708
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: you in my ear all the time. Uh. And then

709
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: he sends his name is Elias, and he sends a

710
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: couple of ps s. If Jerry were to speak at

711
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: the normal volume, would your microphones pick her up? Uh? No,

712
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: I don't think so, Jerry, would they now? She sees

713
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: are right? Now? These are directional mix Uh. These are

714
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: omnipresental mikes. Well, that means they should pick up Jerry right,

715
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: but they're not that good. Okay, Uh no, Alias. These

716
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: microphones are generally for when we put our mouths right

717
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: upon them, and they're not meant to hear other things

718
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: in the room, right, That's that's what they're made for. Yeah,

719
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: because Jerry's she yells at us through most of the show,

720
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: no one ever hears it. There's a lot of like

721
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: shaking and twitching that we do. And then the PPS,

722
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: which is correct. Recently came across how squatters work. You

723
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: gave an example of renters who moved out, but it

724
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: invited a house guess who refused to move out, which

725
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: classified as a squatter. I was wondering if you could

726
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: rent for a month, stop paying, and refuse to move

727
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: out and invoked squatters rights, would that work. I'm not

728
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: planning on trying it, but it invoked my curiosity. ALIAS.

729
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: I don't think that would work because it takes many,

730
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: many years too to finally gain you know, I mean,

731
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,479
Speaker 1: you might be able to stay there for a little while,

732
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: but I don't think you would be able to stay

733
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: there for the years it would take to gain I

734
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: guess ownership of the property. Oh is that that's what

735
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: he's asking? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you you'd be able

736
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: to stay there throughout the legal process. But like I

737
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: think it's like thirteen years that you have to stay

738
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: somewhere well before you can. Okay, but it's years, right, Yeah,

739
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: it takes a long time. Sure, And I would imagine

740
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: at some point a landlord would eventually bring in uh

741
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: Vinny and Vinny and Jimmy Vinne and Toots Vineyan Toots

742
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: to make sure you leave. Yeah, that would be my guest.

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00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: The key here, Elias, is to go find yourself an

744
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: abandoned house that clearly no one wants move in there

745
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: spruced to place up and start paying taxes on it.

746
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: Don't do that, But I'm just saying sure. Advice to

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Speaker 1: fifteen year old listeners. Thank you, Alis, Yeah, thanks a

748
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: lot of lies. That was a good one. If you

749
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,839
Speaker 1: have a question, then you want to get in touch

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