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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. There's Chuck. This is stuff you

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Speaker 1: should know. As you know, I don't think you've ever

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Speaker 1: said that the title of our podcast. I'm trying us

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Speaker 1: something new like that. Let the Mighty Eagle Sword. So, um,

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Speaker 1: have you ever heard of eugenics? Chuck? Uh? No, because

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Speaker 1: you tease me before we went on the air and

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Speaker 1: I asked you what it was so I might add

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Speaker 1: to the conversation, and you refused. I refused to tell

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Speaker 1: you did not genuine you really genuinely don't know that

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Speaker 1: you you already know the answer to Nope. Okay, well

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Speaker 1: let me tell you a little bit about eugenics. It's

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Speaker 1: a little history lesson American history to be exact. Early

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Speaker 1: scientific community to basically purify the human race, to make humans,

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Speaker 1: were deemed deficient. And for those of you listening out there,

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Speaker 1: I just made very very strong air quotes with my fingers. Um.

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Speaker 1: So these deficient humans were anybody from the uh, mentally infirm, epileptics,

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Speaker 1: people born blind or deaf, mutes, um, and just basically

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Speaker 1: anybody who club foot. Oh yeah, you did not want

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Speaker 1: is this is a little known aspect of of American history.

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Speaker 1: The government got behind this, this eugenics movement. And there's

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Speaker 1: actually I believe there's a few people alive today that

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Speaker 1: were um sterilized by the federal government. That's eugenics. It

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Speaker 1: although it almost did. Um elsewhere and a little old

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Speaker 1: Ford who was a huge proponent of eugenics. Yep, little

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Speaker 1: Right now, there are at least two women walking the

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Speaker 1: precisely right. How insightful of you. Uh. The reason that

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Speaker 1: This is their their service to the environment. They were

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Speaker 1: making sure they didn't procreate. Ever, and I'm sure they

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Speaker 1: probably went to the press to tout this most definitely.

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Speaker 1: to define eco anxiety? Uh? Sure, echo anxiety is it's

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Speaker 1: a sort of a new affliction that they've yeah, very new, um,

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Speaker 1: like a general anxiety disorder where you have insomnia nervousness, depression,

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Speaker 1: acronym called fud, fear, uncertainty, and dread and these are

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