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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of

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Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: Listener Mail. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick.

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Speaker 1: And it's Monday, the day of the week that we

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Speaker 1: read back some of the messages that you've sent in recently, Rob,

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Speaker 1: if you don't mind today, I think I'm going to

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Speaker 1: start off with a response. Wow, this was a quick turnaround.

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Speaker 1: This is a response. We already got to part one

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Speaker 1: of our series on The Seven Day Week, which ran

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Speaker 1: last Thursday. Rob, you cool if I do this one alright?

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Speaker 1: This is from Kennedy. Kennedy says, Hi, I just finished

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Speaker 1: listening to the part one episode of The Seven Day Week.

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Speaker 1: I was intrigued because I have time space synesthesia, so

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Speaker 1: I see time in the space around me, including weeks, months,

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Speaker 1: and years. If it hasn't already been done, this would

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Speaker 1: make an interesting podcast topic. I don't know. I don't

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Speaker 1: know much about this. This sounds fascinating now. Also, while listening,

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Speaker 1: I kept hoping you would bring up menstruation as a

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Speaker 1: biological or natural cause. For weeks or months, I saw

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Speaker 1: a post awhile ago hypothesizing that women may have been

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Speaker 1: the first to track time in a month like pattern.

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Speaker 1: Because of twenty eight day minstrel cycles, a period is

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Speaker 1: also often five to seven days. Just wondering if you

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Speaker 1: looked into the influence of this on our current system

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Speaker 1: of months and weeks. Thank you for the fantastic episode. Sincerely, Kennedy. Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks Kennedy. Yes, I think these are both really interesting ideas.

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Speaker 1: In part, when we talked about one of the main

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Speaker 1: functions of the week being as an organizing principle for

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Speaker 1: what the historian that we cited in that episode, David

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Speaker 1: Hankin calls stocktaking, but we were also referring to as

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Speaker 1: time conceptualization or mental time travel. Basically, the week plays

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Speaker 1: a role in helping us mentally organize events in the

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Speaker 1: recent past in near future. And I think on this front, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's totally worth remembering that as much as we

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Speaker 1: all do some extent visualized time, some people really visualized time,

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Speaker 1: and in a very concrete and vivid way. I remember

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Speaker 1: they would vividly perceive time as a type of ribbon

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like marking them off in terms of

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Speaker 1: with a different perception of time, a different calendar system. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But on the second question you raise about the origins

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Speaker 1: being linked to the human minstrel cycle. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if anybody has any direct evidence of that, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know what that would be. Maybe like I don't know,

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Speaker 1: to point out the endogenous roughly thirty day minstrel rhythm

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Speaker 1: We'd love to read about it. But either way, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: strong idea, great email, Kennedy. Oh Rob, there was one

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Speaker 1: So this is in response to the episode we did,

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