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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technologies? With

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello again, everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Polette

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Speaker 1: and I am the tech editor here at how stuff

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Speaker 1: is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Hi, ho everyone, Hey Jonathan? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what time it is? Is it peanut butter

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Speaker 1: jelly time? It is peanut butter jelly time? Where you wet?

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Speaker 1: Where you where you? Where you wet? Now there you go,

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Speaker 1: there you go. Yes, he's stuck in your head for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the day. I actually wrote down the

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Speaker 1: whole origin of that. Today. We thought we would look

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Speaker 1: at Internet memes. What are they? How do they get started? Uh?

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Speaker 1: And uh kind of give you guys the lowdown on it,

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Speaker 1: because this is one of those things where it's a

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Speaker 1: what what is a meme? And it's actually one of

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Speaker 1: those words it's very kind of challenging to define, so

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Speaker 1: meaning of meme. You have to let's just leave the

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Speaker 1: Internet behind for a minute here, because it's not limited

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Speaker 1: to the Internet. Now, the term itself comes from a

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Speaker 1: book written back in nineteen seventy s all the way

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Speaker 1: written by Richard Dawkins, and the book was called The

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Speaker 1: Selfish Gene. Now, in this book he proposed a concept

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Speaker 1: of a meme, which is a unit of cultural transmission

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Speaker 1: or a unit of imitation, and then the study of

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Speaker 1: such a thing would be called memetics. So meme is

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Speaker 1: the accepted pronunciation, although some people call it mem and

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Speaker 1: I would figure you would assume that from memetics. I

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Speaker 1: haven't heard anybody call it memetics. No, but e, m E,

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Speaker 1: he isn't many different memes. Yes, So, so anyway, if

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Speaker 1: but they can mutate over time and change over time

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Speaker 1: around you and share minute details of your life. Defining

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about mentioning Steve Spangler. Steve Spangler, yes,

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Speaker 1: who in nine in two thousand two appeared on a

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Speaker 1: TV segment. Uh he's a you know, physics teacher, so

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Speaker 1: you know, he appears on KUSA TV and demonstrates that

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Speaker 1: if you drop some breath mints, specifically mentos and a

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Speaker 1: bottle of soda, there's an eruption, right, and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: a cheap and easy experiment to replicate. So all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, around two thousand five, everyone started doing that

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Speaker 1: and there were not only people doing this in their

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Speaker 1: own backyard and posting it to YouTube. There were people

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Speaker 1: orchestrating large events in which there were chain reactions of choreos,

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00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: choreographed reactions of fountains of soda spattering everyone in anyone.

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Speaker 1: It was even featured on the popular television series MythBusters

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Speaker 1: MythBusters Zone by Discovery Communications and uh yeah, parent company

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Speaker 1: of Housefforce dot com. And yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: That's another example of people really running with a specific meme.

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Speaker 1: Here's a good one. Um, there's a there's a a

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Speaker 1: little phrase that as near and dear to my heart

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Speaker 1: because it it is actually found on a T shirt

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Speaker 1: I gave to my wife for Valentine's Day this year.

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Speaker 1: Comes from a little video game called Zero Wing. All

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Speaker 1: your base are belonged to us. This is also kind

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Speaker 1: of the the origin for lull speak in a way,

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Speaker 1: it's the idea of this. Uh. This poorly translated text

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Speaker 1: from UH, in this case a video game from Japan,

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Speaker 1: so often derogatively referred to as English. Uh. This game

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00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: had lots of different passages in it that were torturous

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Speaker 1: to read, including all your base or belong to us

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Speaker 1: and someone set us up the bomb that all your

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Speaker 1: base are belonging to us exploded on the internet and

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Speaker 1: uh and has been around ever since. And and indeed

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Speaker 1: was on a Think Geek T shirt, which is what

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Speaker 1: I purchased for my wife as a Valentine's Day gift,

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Speaker 1: which was roses a red violence are blue. All my

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Speaker 1: baser belonged to you. Um, we wanted to talk about

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Speaker 1: some of the people who weren't necessarily intending on becoming

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Speaker 1: Internet superstars. I have one for you that will let

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Speaker 1: you keep yours. Um. This name may or may not

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Speaker 1: be familiar to you at first glance. Andrew Meyer Andrew Meyer.

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Speaker 1: September seven at the University of Florida, he confronted Senator

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Speaker 1: John Kerry on an event uh to ask him about

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Speaker 1: the Skull and Bones, which is his uh secretive organization

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00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 1: and you and uh. Actually they wanted to escort him out.

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Speaker 1: Security tried to get him to eve and in the

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Speaker 1: process he inadvertently created the meme better known to the

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Speaker 1: world as don't taste me bro right twice as are

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Speaker 1: a calls And then actually I just thought of something.

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Speaker 1: I'll still let you keep yours. Um the hold Kanye, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you finish right. Yeah, that was definitely Now,

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Speaker 1: granted that one was intentional. Come on, Kanye is always

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Speaker 1: about getting grabbing the attention. But it became a mean

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Speaker 1: But I was recent I was thinking specifically of Star

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Speaker 1: Wars Kid. Yes, Andy, Andy Bio of h waxy dot

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Speaker 1: org discovered this video. It was and he's not the

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Speaker 1: name of the kid, by the way, And he's the

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Speaker 1: name of the guy who discovered it, and he discovered

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Speaker 1: it back in um two thousand three. Uh, the name

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Speaker 1: of the kid was who in two thousand two filmed

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Speaker 1: himself with a golf ball retriever and was going through

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Speaker 1: a series of semi uh kind of martial arts sort

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Speaker 1: of moves and making noises at the time. Now was

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Speaker 1: a hefty young lad and was very enthusiastic. He was

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00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: clearly having a great time and just enjoying in a

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00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: way very similar to the new Manuma guy, you know,

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00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 1: clearly enjoying himself. But he had not intended for this

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Speaker 1: video to ever be seen by anyone else necessarily. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: he left it in the studio where other people could

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Speaker 1: find it, and the other people thought it was hysterical

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00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: and uploaded it to the internet, and then it got

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Speaker 1: lots and lots of views, and Gislan as a as

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Speaker 1: a result, was the subject of much um teasing and

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Speaker 1: derision and ultimately left school and reportedly finished school in

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Speaker 1: the psychiatric ward. So I mean that also shows you

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00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: that sometimes four chan will do whatever that whatever four

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Speaker 1: chan wants to do in order to create hilarity for

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Speaker 1: four Chan, and it doesn't matter if someone gets hurt

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00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: in the process doing it for the lulls. In other words, yeah,

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00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: other people took the video and basically superimposed the lightsaber

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Speaker 1: of effect onto the golf ball grabber and and you know,

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00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: the out of the sound effects and did all this.

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Speaker 1: And there are lots of remixes, which is also a

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00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: very common theme and memes. You'll find lots of different remixes. Um.

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Speaker 1: I got one other quick little example, which is okay Go.

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Speaker 1: So okay Go has a couple of different music videos,

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Speaker 1: including a Million Ways to Be Cruel and Here It

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00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: Goes Again, both of which are pretty low budget music

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Speaker 1: videos where the group kind of did simple one take

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Speaker 1: shots of them performing a dance routine, and their fans

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00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: have created their own versions of these dance routines and

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00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: uploaded them to YouTube. So much so that it's become

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00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: a meme itself, and not that the band intended it

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00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: to be a meme. They just would be a fun,

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Speaker 1: low budget way to create music videos. Um, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to wrap this up. Unfortunately, we could do a

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00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: whole series of episodes on memes, but we're running out

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Speaker 1: of time, and so I guess we're gonna do you

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Speaker 1: have one more you want to end with? Well, one

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Speaker 1: that was sort of introduced to me was one that

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00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: sort of had his genesis in the release of a

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Speaker 1: movie by someone completely unrelated to the meme on March

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Speaker 1: fourth to two thousand five. Vin Diesel Um was in

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00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: the pacifier at this release of that movie. Uh and

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00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: uh someone and the someone something awful for him. See

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00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: there's that side against another good place to find memes.

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00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: Um Ian Spector apparently decided to point out how cool

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00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: and tough Vin Diesel was, so they had they made

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00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: up a bunch of facts about how tough he was,

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00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: and you know, the memes started to lose steam. So

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00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: they said, okay, well, who should we create a fact

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Speaker 1: generator for to talk about how tough he is? Well,

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Speaker 1: the favorite was Chuck Norris. Yeah, there was also Mr

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Speaker 1: T for a while, really was Mr T in there

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Speaker 1: because I had more, far more familiar with the Chuck Norris.

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00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: I've run across Mr T and Vin Diesel, But Chuck

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00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: Norris is the one that uh is is definitely the

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Speaker 1: one that took off. And and I could read these

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Speaker 1: uh and and chuckle for hours, like Chuck Norris's tears

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00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: could cure cancer, but he has never cried. Yes, And

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Speaker 1: Chuck Norris doesn't do push ups. He pushes the earth down.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Norris, you know if he shaved his goateee, there

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00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: would be a fist, right. Yeah. There are a lot

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Speaker 1: of jokes that are ripped directly from a Saturday Night

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Speaker 1: Live series of skits called Bill Brewski, but a lot

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00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: of them also are original. That's a good one. But

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00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: but yes, that that's totally and and they're far more

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00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: tons and tons of these, And we could yes, you

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Speaker 1: the man now, bog, We could go on for ages

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00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: about these, but Jerry's giving us the stinky, so we

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Speaker 1: need to wrap this up. Um. So, if you guys

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Speaker 1: have a favorite meme you want to talk about, send

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