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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W Chuck Bryant

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Speaker 1: that makes the stuff you should know. It feels like

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Speaker 1: it's been forever since we've been in the studio. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this chair, my chair no longer stinks. They had time

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Speaker 1: well gold do you think? I think? What are the

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Speaker 1: a Grammy for that, sure, or if it's like videotaped

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Speaker 1: gentleman who said that it makes him want to unlike

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Speaker 1: it because we ask people to like it. Just what's

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Speaker 1: going on, buddy, what's going on in your life? So

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Speaker 1: it's called marketing. You're ready, Yeah, you're ready. Let's market

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Speaker 1: some agri tourism. I have an intro. Let's hear it.

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Speaker 1: So back in two thousand and seven, the little newsine

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Speaker 1: may have slipped past because it was south of the

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Speaker 1: border Florida. Um. A guy named that's usually Mexico. When

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Speaker 1: means Florida, Okay. A guy named Ronald Levins Sr. And

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Speaker 1: his wife Jequita Evans got some pretty hefty time. Ron

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Speaker 1: Evans got thirty years for what amounted to indentured servitude. Right.

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Speaker 1: This guy ran some Florida labor camps where people would

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Speaker 1: all legal and kosher. They they even actually employed the homeless.

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Speaker 1: They would go around to Miami, Baton Rouge, New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they came to Atlanta, but they went

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Speaker 1: that's all cheap. So they had really inflated prices. Cigarettes

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Speaker 1: Agritourism cartel, I think so. I mean, think about it,

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Speaker 1: So chuck, Um, what's the what's the point of agriturism, Well,

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Speaker 1: So this is one of the reasons why they're saying, well,

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Speaker 1: start some agritourism. Yeah, yeah, that's a great reason. What's

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Speaker 1: into agritourism. I'm glad you asked globalization because with the

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Speaker 1: world's fat enough. Don't bling the galaxy into this. You're

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Speaker 1: competition moisture farmers. So we've got globalization, industrialization. Those are

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Speaker 1: call it. I never heard that, but I love that term.

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Speaker 1: I thought i'd picked that up from you. Are you sure? No,

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Speaker 1: I never have heard that before. Well there's farm smart,

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Speaker 1: farm strong. No, No, that's lived strong, farms smarts. So chuck. Um.

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Speaker 1: There's a few different ways that this can pan out. Right,

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Speaker 1: Robert Lamb? Yeah, it's an unusually thin article from Robert

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Speaker 1: Lamb of stuff to blow your mind. Well, he makes

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Speaker 1: seventies and eighties in in Decabb County, Georgia. Yeah, but now,

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Speaker 1: I mean that seems really weird. Or get anything outside

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Speaker 1: of the grocery, It's not weird. It's more like token.

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Speaker 1: It's like a token experience, right. Yeah. And that that's that's,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is direct marketing aggrotourism, where like you

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Speaker 1: but you just touched upon what's driving it from the

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Speaker 1: it's the perfect time for aggri tourism because I think

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Speaker 1: coming into the state. Yea, you know the hotels that

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Speaker 1: they stayed in when they were picking apple. But that's

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Speaker 1: what the Colorado State Extension Service said. Well, they're pretty

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Speaker 1: well known to be rather liberal with their numbers hippies.

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Speaker 1: So let's see what else, Chuck, I don't have much else,

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Speaker 1: do you The greatest winery scene of all time? Not

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Speaker 1: in Sideways, the British comedy series Absolutely fabulous. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know I didn't watch that show. I knew

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Speaker 1: it was supposed to be great, but in that particular

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Speaker 1: episode was hilarious. Well, I think going through a winery

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Speaker 1: is a great way to uh participate in negraatorism. And

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Speaker 1: not just wineries. They have um like homegrown breweries now too.

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Speaker 1: What like brewery people grow the hops on their land

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Speaker 1: and make the beer and you drink it. Yeah. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to go to the sire Nevada plant. I would

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Speaker 1: say it's one of my goals in life. Find where

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Speaker 1: they make that sweeten nectar. Have you been to uh Sweetwater? Uh? No?

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Speaker 1: I never suck right down the street. It's like a

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Speaker 1: good little happy, our place. That's what I hear. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fun, give you tastings and all. That is that aggrotourism. No,

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Speaker 1: not really, not at all. Industrial tourism maybe yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: visiting a brewery. So that's it. That's agritourism plus a

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Speaker 1: touch of industrial tourism, just as an extra little nugget.

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Speaker 1: That was free as it was alright. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to learn more about agritourism, read an article by

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Speaker 1: Robert Lamb. Just to complete the series, you can type

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Speaker 1: in agritourism a g R I tourism in the handy

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Speaker 1: search bart how stuff works dot com? And support your

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Speaker 1: local farm. Get on the internet and there's something near nearby. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of stuff. Oh and actually, what's that website?

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Speaker 1: You got one? I do um. I gave you the

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Speaker 1: go to rural Bounty. Are you are a l bounty

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Speaker 1: dot com? I thought it would be aggrigawker the same thing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's time now for administrative details. You're ready? Should we

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Speaker 1: set this up for people who don't know what this

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Speaker 1: means because it's the worst title ever. It is not.

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Speaker 1: It's very sustinct and to the point. These are gifts

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Speaker 1: thank you as from fans that send us things in

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Speaker 1: and hopes that we will promote their little Etsy site.

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Speaker 1: Well not just gifts like sometimes correspondence correspondence postcards. So um,

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Speaker 1: well it's been a while and we've gotten some pretty

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Speaker 1: good stuff, a lot of stuff. This is gonna take

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Speaker 1: like an hour, it is. I just want to say

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Speaker 1: thanks to Mr Cohen at Waterford Union High School and Waterford,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin for those nice letter and the information on um

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Speaker 1: goats that produced spider silk, including it drawing go badgers.

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Speaker 1: Now you're thinking of Wolverines. It's a lucky guess you go.

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Speaker 1: Uh Center College women's volleyball team sent us one of

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Speaker 1: their T shirts. They are the Spandex Mafia. Yeah we

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Speaker 1: all three got one. Yes. Thanks to Kristen for even

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Speaker 1: more newgat Thank you Stilicious Kristen Ferguson with her neat.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Sarah Michelle for the copy of Dianetics hardcover,

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Speaker 1: No less, you got that. Wow. Jeremy and Heather in Asheville,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina make Eco friend the artwork. Custom would carve

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Speaker 1: wedding cake toppers and they sent Um they made a

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Speaker 1: little Josh, a little Jerry and a little Chuck and

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Speaker 1: they're really awesome looking. I put it on Facebook. You

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Speaker 1: were very proud of this. I just thought they looked

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Speaker 1: really cool and they were you know, they look like us.

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Speaker 1: And you can shop with him if you would like

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Speaker 1: at ah You're a star house dot et s y

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Speaker 1: dot com. That is, you are a star house dot

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Speaker 1: etsy dot com. Nice Chuck. Thanks to Kentucky and night

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Speaker 1: Nikki for the postcard of the London I yeah. Thanks

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Speaker 1: a mill to Kevin at jadabug roasters dot com. That's

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Speaker 1: j A d A b u g Roasters dot com

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Speaker 1: for the not one, but two pounds of coffee that

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Speaker 1: why didn't I see any of this? You always give

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Speaker 1: me the coffee. This didn't even pass this one by you, man.

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Speaker 1: I'll bring it in for you if you want. David

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Speaker 1: Polly uh San Francisco. He runs a small print shop

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Speaker 1: and he sent um some cool custom concert poster city

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Speaker 1: prints and I collect these posters, and he said he

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Speaker 1: would keep me in mind for the future and sending

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Speaker 1: me some of these does very nice. Did he send

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Speaker 1: you two of the two versions of the same as

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Speaker 1: that the one I have that Jerry got one to

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Speaker 1: we all three got Okay, that's very cool, very cool.

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Speaker 1: I would have liked to have been at that festival.

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00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: Thanks to Casey from Huntsville for the very nice letter

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Speaker 1: and the sketch of the octopus. Keep listening, Casey, and

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Speaker 1: we will keep you laughing. Right. Jennifer of Lynchburg, Virginia

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Speaker 1: sent us little Nimn Christmas ornaments. Very cute. They are

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Speaker 1: very cute. Yes, thanks a million to Kate in Sunny

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Speaker 1: Vale for our awesome card. That's the one that has

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Speaker 1: us as the Estonian wedding couple. Uh. And the thank

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Speaker 1: you to Matt and Zach at the our List podcast

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Speaker 1: if you've been on there. Yeah, they sent the shirts. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they did send the shirts. And at first, without reading

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Speaker 1: the card, I thought it was a drawing of Uze.

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Speaker 1: These guys are adoppel gangers. Yeah, I saw it. I

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Speaker 1: was like, it's sort of a good likeness, but not really.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I'm like, okay, it's them. So they have

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Speaker 1: a podcast called our List. You want to check it out. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's our List podcast, I believe. And speaking of shirts,

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Speaker 1: standard clothing in print in Canada, North Carolina sent some

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Speaker 1: shirts and I got a Hoosier's T shirt, a Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Chitwood number fifteen. Who's your T shirt? It's because you

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Speaker 1: are a well loved celebrity. Jim Jerry got one and

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Speaker 1: you got one different ones and that is standard clothing

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Speaker 1: in print dot com. Thank you to Amy who sent

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Speaker 1: us her copy of or a copy of her doctoral

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Speaker 1: thesis A Metrica with an exclamation point about the metric

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Speaker 1: system and how it should be used in America. And

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Speaker 1: it's pretty awesome. I wrote a blog post on it.

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Speaker 1: She mailed it. I got it like two days later,

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Speaker 1: so you can check that out. Just type in A M, E,

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Speaker 1: T R, I C A and it brings up some stuff.

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Speaker 1: I don't think she has an actual site for it though,

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Speaker 1: although she's on Twitter much neglected Twitter account. A Metrica interesting.

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Speaker 1: I got two more. Matt invented his own chewing gum.

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Speaker 1: It's good too. It's called think Gum and it's supposedly

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Speaker 1: brain boosting with herbal extracts and naturally caffeinated and you

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Speaker 1: can find that at think gum dot com. And my

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Speaker 1: last one a little controversial. In my house, we got

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Speaker 1: handmade soaps sent to us from Jan Maurice Silvera Yeah

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Speaker 1: World soaps. W h I R L E ED soap.

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Speaker 1: And I told Emily about this because everyone knows my

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Speaker 1: wife makes her soup. She was like, let me see that.

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Speaker 1: She checked it out and checked out the ink. She

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Speaker 1: immediately looks at the ingredients. This first thing she always said.

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Speaker 1: She was like, Oh, it's actually you know, made of

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Speaker 1: essential oils and and olive oil and palm oils. Good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's really good soap. Um. Thank you to Cameron, your

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Speaker 1: letter got to us just fine. Thanks to the Pinks

551
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Speaker 1: for sending their c D. Thanks thanks to l Michelle

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Speaker 1: down in Panama for the postcard. Very titillating postcard. Um.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Vanessa for the Jackalope postcard. I still got

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Speaker 1: some more chuck hanging there. Thanks to Jan from Niagara

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Speaker 1: Falls for a postcard of the namesake of her hometown.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to amare It and Boone, North Carolina for the

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Speaker 1: nice letter We'll see what we can do. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: Laurel who sent us the Meyer Lemon Vanilla beam rmalade.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know about that either, Okay, I was. I

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00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: didn't know if I gave you some or not. You

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Speaker 1: just funnel some of these straight to Josh's house about it.

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00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: I had to ask you for the gum. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I gave you the whole box. Thank you to Nick

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Speaker 1: from mud River Coffee mud River Coffee dot com. More

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Speaker 1: coffee you. This is where I got the idea to

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Speaker 1: let's split this year. Like, here're the coffee guy, you

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Speaker 1: keep it. Awesome coffee, um, let's see. Thanks to Katerina

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Speaker 1: from Lenifalou, Hungary for the nice postcard of Joseph Stalind.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Robert for the Route sixties six postcard. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to zach Netzer for the awesome um Mix CD. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to Andrew Smith at Andrew Smith art dot com for

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Speaker 1: the DVDs Did you see this? Thank you to Jen

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Speaker 1: from Australia for the postcard of the theme park, and

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Speaker 1: thank you to staff Sergeant Rusting Kozahar cozy R. I

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Speaker 1: that is it? Yes, all of you, not just the

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Speaker 1: staff sergeant. Everyone be safe, um, and thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for sending us some stuff. If you guys want

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Speaker 1: to send us something, you can find our address by

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Speaker 1: emailing us. Uh. It's stuff podcast at how stuff works

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