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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. This is Robert Lamb and this is Joe McCormick.

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Speaker 1: End it's Monday, which is the day of the week

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Speaker 1: that we read back some of the messages you've sent

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Speaker 1: in over the past few cycles. So, uh, I think

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Speaker 1: we've got to start off with a very important correction

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Speaker 1: from a long time correspondent, Jim in New Jersey, who says,

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Speaker 1: Robert and Joe I was credited for the hot dog

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Speaker 1: kim chi combo suggestion. While I agree it sounds awesome,

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Speaker 1: I was not the person who suggested it. It may

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Speaker 1: have been another listener named Jim. Jim, what can I say?

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Speaker 1: I mean, huge apology to you over that. I don't

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Speaker 1: recall who attributed this to you. It may have been you, Rob,

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Speaker 1: I don't remember, but if that was me, then I

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Speaker 1: definitely apologized to this Jim and all other gems that

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Speaker 1: may be listening. But let's see to get into the

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Speaker 1: more substantive messages, Rob, do you want to read this

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Speaker 1: one from Frederick in response to various episodes, Sure, here

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Speaker 1: we go. Frederick says, hello, fellows, I am sickly for

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Speaker 1: a few days, which has allowed me ample time to

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Speaker 1: catch up on stuff to blow your mind. Episodes Present

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Speaker 1: and Vault Good Times, Smiley Face. Your episodes on the

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Speaker 1: seven day week were truly fascinating. Several years ago, I

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Speaker 1: was unemployed for some time, and I found myself longing

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Speaker 1: for Mondays so the work week would start and some

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Speaker 1: opportunities might come my way on catchup. You know the

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Speaker 1: scene in Home Alone where Kevin has prepared his mac

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Speaker 1: why doesn't he put ketchup on it? Several years later,

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Speaker 1: I had the revelation that Americans don't put ketchup on

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Speaker 1: their Macaroni's shocking if true. If Home Alone were to

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Speaker 1: play out in Sweden, where I am from, that plate

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Speaker 1: would have a glorious cover of thick ketchup and a

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Speaker 1: side of meatballs. Of course. Well, now that is interesting.

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Speaker 1: I uh yeah, I mean it's not crazy to think

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Speaker 1: do they put mayonnaise on macaroni and cheese? Well? Why not?

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Speaker 1: Why not? Alright, Uh, here we go, Frederick continues, and

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Speaker 1: a special shout out to Robert quote, you put the

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Speaker 1: aliens in the middle of this stuff and you got

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Speaker 1: all the answers is a classic sample in the early

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Speaker 1: nineties track Abnormal Interference by eat Static around the five

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Speaker 1: cool to know. I'm not sure I knew the exact

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Speaker 1: title of this, uh this track, it's one I think

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Speaker 1: I've heard on Soma FM space station, Soma channel. If

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Speaker 1: anyone out there is not familiar with some FM, definitely

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Speaker 1: look it up. It's uh internet radio at its finest.

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Speaker 1: They have so many channels. Uh no advertisements. I absolutely

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Speaker 1: love it anyway, Frederick continues. I'm an electronic music producer

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Speaker 1: and in my daytime job, I developed music production software.

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Speaker 1: I would love to hear a stuff to blow your

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Speaker 1: myn episode on synthesizers and or electronic music. Your take

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Speaker 1: on the subject would complement the many YouTube channels I

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Speaker 1: binge in marvelous ways. All the best from a Swede

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Speaker 1: living in Berlin, Frederick M m oh, thanks Frederick. I

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Speaker 1: I'm sort of a I'm always on the lookout for

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Speaker 1: trying to find our soulless soul match out there. All right.

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Speaker 1: the Seven Day week and it comes from Joe spelled

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Speaker 1: Jo just j o. Jo says Hello, Robert and Joe.

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Speaker 1: I live in Malaysia, a Muslim majority country. While most

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Speaker 1: not entirely sure if that's because people have more time

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Speaker 1: because the shopping platforms provide Friday A coupons and vouchers. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: it was a great series and I enjoyed it a lot.

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Speaker 1: Keep up the good work, Live long and prosper Joe

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Speaker 1: in Malaysia. Oh thanks, Joe. That's interesting. Oh yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it is interesting to hear that you're you're your shopping

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Speaker 1: to think so, especially given the idea about like say,

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Speaker 1: on the internet. Yeah, yeah, you do hear it? That

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Speaker 1: from Cindy. Cindy says, Hi, Robert and Joe, I am

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Speaker 1: one of those lurker listeners, but your Days of the

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Speaker 1: say nobody does anticipation better than Bach. His use of

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Speaker 1: the tidbits I just learned. I save Lauren and Annie's

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Speaker 1: podcast Saver, which is in our network and it is

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