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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? Meaw, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. That's Chuck Bryant. I was

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Speaker 1: the same thing. That's yeah, I was cat. That was terrible.

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Speaker 1: It was a pretty bad. That's about as good as

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Speaker 1: your elvis impression. Um, actually, Chuck, it was great. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I just can't so, Chuck, you have cat.

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Speaker 1: I have two cats. I have Laurn and I have

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Speaker 1: name their pets like actual human names, like Jason or

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Speaker 1: you know, Gina. You know my in laws are big

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Speaker 1: my apologies to your in laws. Chick, well Laurn, it

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Speaker 1: gets conceivably your real name, but the Wizard the Wizard. Yet,

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Speaker 1: you're you're probably going to be brought up on charges

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Speaker 1: you know what it's like to live among tumble weeds

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Speaker 1: of of hair just kind of going through your house.

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Speaker 1: You know, the mice put on little um gunslinging shows

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Speaker 1: too for your amusement kind of thing. Right, Between our

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Speaker 1: two cats and two dogs, we could literally collect enough

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Speaker 1: hair each week to make an entirely new animal. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we live in a toxic environment. My wife, Emily is

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's awesome. So what does Emily

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Speaker 1: do for allergies? Well, she's got big allergies as a

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Speaker 1: and that has nothing to do with the allergy. Nothing.

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Speaker 1: She did you dye your hair read recently? No, she

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Speaker 1: it still acts up. You know, those are some bad

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Speaker 1: allergy You got bad allergies? Wow, How how often does

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Speaker 1: it act up? Uh, it's the allergy shots have kind

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Speaker 1: So so she's a third of the population. People who

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