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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, Chuck Bryant, Chuck, Chuck. That's going.

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Speaker 1: You can just call me Nikola really okay? How about

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Speaker 1: your Chuck? Yes, all right, Chuck? Good God, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm I'm much better than how you asked

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Speaker 1: me twenty nights ago when I'm recorded, Yes podcast, No,

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Speaker 1: that was that was two days three two days from

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Speaker 1: now right. Yeah, it's magic. It is magic. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to reveal our secret one day like some sort of

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Speaker 1: we could dress up like Siegfried and Roy I get

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Speaker 1: there and tell everybody. Yeah, okay, I owe it to Jerry.

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Speaker 1: Jerry is always just the white Tiger. Yeah, yeah, nice

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Speaker 1: and Jerry. Chuck. I have a trivia question for you, beautiful, Okay,

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Speaker 1: hit me. Why are the Los Angeles Dodgers named the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers? Okay, Chuck, I know the answer. Do

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Speaker 1: you want me to say? What do you want to say?

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Speaker 1: I want you to say. I just asked you a

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Speaker 1: question because when they were in Brooklyn the original spot.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of train trolley cars in Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: these train cars, and so they called them the Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: Trolley Dodgers initially, and then that shortened to the Brooklyn Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: and then they o' mount the O'Malley family broke the

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Speaker 1: hearts of Brooklyn and moved them too. L A, I

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Speaker 1: Did you see a documentary HBO about the Brooklyn Dodgers

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Speaker 1: so good? No, it was it. Yeah, I mean there

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Speaker 1: are people in Brooklyn today that have not watched the

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Speaker 1: baseball game since the Brooklyn Dodgers moved their their hearts

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Speaker 1: were broken so badly. Yeah wow, and uh wow, rip

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Speaker 1: the heart out of Brooklyn. But actually it wasn't. People

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Speaker 1: and there were some politics involved that greedy Sandy kofax Y. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but off topic a little bit, but not really not really,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Alva Edison, who gave the Brooklyn Dodgers their name.

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Speaker 1: Bring it Home, Baby, Okay, I will so. By the

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Speaker 1: time the Dodgers were formed in the eighteen eighties, right, um,

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Speaker 1: Edison had basically lit up parts of New York with

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Speaker 1: electricity is not energy, it's an energy carrier. Direct current

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Speaker 1: The electric charge is constant. It never changes. So if

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Speaker 1: And Edison was pretty happy with his direct current inventions.

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Speaker 1: You get lost out in the in the annals of history,

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Speaker 1: There were many interpersonal stories which I won't bore you

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Speaker 1: This is where it gets interested. She wrote it down

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Speaker 1: a cool dream over the years, and when she returned

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Speaker 1: devoted to rediscovering books that have gone out of publication,

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Speaker 1: and there was an exact synopsis of her dream, So

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Speaker 1: she jumped about a book she'd read before. Now she

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Speaker 1: had never read it. She uh, this was the book

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Speaker 1: had never read. Pretty cool. It was pretty cool. So

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Speaker 1: that is from Ruth. She says. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: read this out, but it's a little late for that, Ruth.

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Speaker 1: We did anyway. And what you're talking about with her

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Speaker 1: the aquariums. So Ruth thinks that Atlanta's Atlantic City, Chuck

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Speaker 1: and I founded America, and that we know the girl

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Speaker 1: scouts that saw her change in the bathroom, right, And

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Speaker 1: I like yeah, And that guess she's possessed by the

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Speaker 1: some eighty year old off demon of an eighty year

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Speaker 1: old listroain rights. Ruth, hats off to you if you're

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Speaker 1: ever in town again. Look us up, we'll go out

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Speaker 1: and get a plank together. You're buying Ruth If you

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