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Speaker 1: part blog, part advice column. But the twist is that

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Speaker 1: ancient books, so obviously most of the advice is really terrible.

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Speaker 1: So for instance, there's a question on how to tell

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Speaker 1: if someone is dead or not and the answer is

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Speaker 1: from the thirteen eighties. Here's what it says. If there's

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Speaker 1: any doubt as to whether a person is or is

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Speaker 1: if he be alive, he will immediately scratch his nobs.

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Speaker 1: A's simple as that. Don't feel for a pull, Just

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Speaker 1: life has to get an onion yeah, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a great hack. Or if you want to improve your memory,

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Speaker 1: you could always follow this advice taken from a sixteenth

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Speaker 1: century medical journal. So pay attention, mengo. This is important

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Speaker 1: advice here, and it says to sleep hosed and showed,

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Speaker 1: especially with foul socks, don't hinder the memory because of

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Speaker 1: the reflection of the vapors, which feeblit the sight and

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Speaker 1: causes the body to burn. Is that not profound? I

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Speaker 1: am not sure what that means. Can you explain it? Well?

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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure either, But basically you might have assumed

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Speaker 1: that your poor memory was due to stress or lack

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Speaker 1: of sleep, but it's actually due to sock vapors from

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Speaker 1: dirty socks plugging up your brain. They're also blinding and

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Speaker 1: burning you, apparently. Anyway, asked the past is this lovingly

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Speaker 1: curated collection by a JOHNS Hopkins history professor named Elizabeth Archibald.

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Speaker 1: And she's actually got some pretty funny answers on everything

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Speaker 1: from how to interpret small hands to how to serve

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Speaker 1: a flaming bird. That is great to know. And I

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Speaker 1: know we've got two more spots on the internet to

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Speaker 1: fill out now, but before we do that, let's take

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Speaker 1: a quick break. Welcome back to Part Time Genius, where

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Speaker 1: we're talking about some delightfully strange corners of the Internet.

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Speaker 1: And there are obviously too many of these to get

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Speaker 1: to it. If you're listening and you've got a great one,

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Speaker 1: please do share them with us because we want to

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Speaker 1: hear your favorites. But anyway, will it's your last fact

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna take it. Well, there's this site I

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Speaker 1: love that everybody should investigate, and it's called Scouting New York.

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Speaker 1: And I like it because you get to see what

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Speaker 1: a movie scout sees when they kind of wander through

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Speaker 1: their eyes. And so the site was created by this

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Speaker 1: guy named Nick Carr, and it's amazing what he finds.

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Speaker 1: Like he'll walk into a hardware store and notice a

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Speaker 1: strange arch, and you know, it's it's just this hardware

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Speaker 1: he'll follow the seams of the arch and find a

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Speaker 1: And so he'll go back and do some research and

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Speaker 1: show you how this little nondescript hardware store actually used

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Speaker 1: to be this gorgeous ornate movie theater, and he spots

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Speaker 1: these things in the details, so you know, the site

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Speaker 1: is full of these delightful little findings, like this fishing

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Speaker 1: or you know why every Hollywood film seems to shoot

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Speaker 1: at the same Chinese restaurant. It's it's really a wonderful site.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. I really did like that, and I love that,

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Speaker 1: you know, so many people can see the same city

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Speaker 1: and not see what he sees, right, It's like pretty

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Speaker 1: pretty impressive. So my last site doesn't follow the rules,

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Speaker 1: to give it a tribute. There's a site that the

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Speaker 1: comedy superstar and your Bloomfeld created when he was a

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Speaker 1: much younger comedian, and it's called Phalondromes and uh. While

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Speaker 1: the original site doesn't exist today, you can still find

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Speaker 1: some reason, Amir decided to make a site full of phalindromes,

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Speaker 1: which he defines as quote fake palindromes, and though they

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Speaker 1: cannot be read the same forwards and backwards like their

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Speaker 1: they can So I don't know why it's so funny

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Speaker 1: to me, but the fact that he wasted all this

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Speaker 1: a few of them to you. Oh gin need a dingo,

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Speaker 1: I a cd rom ribbed a bearded Mordecai. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it sounds like a palindrome, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's not quite. I guess that it makes it a phalondrome.

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Speaker 1: This makes sense. There's one more. It goes able Sidler's

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Speaker 1: feel like that's exactly what pound rooms, so many pound

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Speaker 1: But I love that side. It's just so funny. It

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Speaker 1: I do want to admit I have seen those before,

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Speaker 1: and I think I was in tears. I was laughing

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Speaker 1: so hard at reading these and so for that, I

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Speaker 1: think you deserve today's trophy. Mango. Well, I can't fault

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Speaker 1: you there. I think that's it for today's part time genius.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know you and I had so much

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Speaker 1: fun looking this stuff up. Like I said earlier, I'd

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Speaker 1: really love for any suggestions to come in. So if

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Speaker 1: you've got great corners, great little secrets about the Internet

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