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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stump Mom never told you?

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Speaker 1: From house Stuff Works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Kristen, I'm Molly, So Molly, I think

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Speaker 1: that we could say that we're officially in the holiday season. Yes,

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Speaker 1: at the time of recording this, we're smack dad between

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yes, and also smack dab on my birthday.

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Speaker 1: I know it's Christmas Birthday today, everyone's birthday to me,

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Speaker 1: but when people listening, it's not actually my birthday today.

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Speaker 1: But you know, belated birthday wishes are always welcome. So

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Speaker 1: since we are now in this in this month of festivity, um,

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Speaker 1: it also means that I don't know about you, Molly,

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Speaker 1: but it means that, uh, I'm planning to eat a

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Speaker 1: lot more and I usually do you know people bringing

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Speaker 1: snacks into work, Kevin holiday parties, pot luck get togethers.

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Speaker 1: There's so much cake and pie and cake and pie, eggnog, cider, cider.

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Speaker 1: Some stories are having the fancy hot chocolates. Yeah. So basically,

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Speaker 1: it's a bad time to want to fit into your jeans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I think we should all be festive,

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Speaker 1: and you know it can and it can kind of

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Speaker 1: recovered from New Year's you might wake up and say, man,

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Speaker 1: I I just feel kind of gross on the inside. Ye,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's time for a cleanse. A cleanse, I mean,

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Speaker 1: celebrities do it, yeah, Beyonce. Beyonce loss supposedly like twenty

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Speaker 1: dream Girls. And you know, if you're if you're already

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Speaker 1: you know, bad TV, you're gonna see all these commercials

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Speaker 1: saying that they can help you lose weight, eat like

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Speaker 1: so fast and basically colon cleansing, which should either take

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Speaker 1: the form of doing some kind of diet or drinking

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Speaker 1: tea you're taking laxatives, or you can go and get

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Speaker 1: a colonic, which we'll talk about more um in a minute,

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Speaker 1: But it's based on this concept called otto intoxication that basically,

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Speaker 1: and this idea has been around since ancient Greece, and

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Speaker 1: it's the idea that toxins accumulating your bodies leading to

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Speaker 1: and it kind of went out of book. But they're

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Speaker 1: coming back in a bit right now. Yeah, colon cleansing

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Speaker 1: I know people who get regular colon cleanses. I know

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Speaker 1: if you go and get a colonic um, you have

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Speaker 1: a tube inserted in your rectum and then they're gradually

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Speaker 1: therapist will massage, massage you're tummy, to work out all

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Speaker 1: all your poop, all your waste. Because there's this thinking

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Speaker 1: there's thinking that once they're up there, they kind of

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Speaker 1: disrupped everything. You know, normally food works its way out

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Speaker 1: Not Me, A happy birthday to you, Christine, thank you

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Speaker 1: a present of poop um. But according to the Harvard

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Speaker 1: question for you all right. Footpads, Yeah, your name name, Molly.

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Speaker 1: Footpads are a hoax. I don't know if you've ever seen,

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