WEBVTT - 9 Delightful Corners of the Internet

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<v Speaker 1>I guess what, well, what's that mango? So one of

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<v Speaker 1>the things I used to love, and there really isn't

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<v Speaker 1>that much of this anymore, But I used to love

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<v Speaker 1>all the weird and ridiculous websites that you could find online.

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<v Speaker 1>Like there's a page I've mentioned before that's dedicated strictly

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<v Speaker 1>to saving the Northwest Pacific tree octopus. And of course,

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<v Speaker 1>you know there aren't any endangerous species of octopus that

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<v Speaker 1>live in trees, but this page really does its best

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<v Speaker 1>to prove that they do. And uh, there's also the

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<v Speaker 1>site I remember thinking it was so funny when I

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<v Speaker 1>found it called Taco Spin. It's just a page with

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<v Speaker 1>a single picture of a taco spinning, and as you're there,

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<v Speaker 1>it just counts how many spins you've witnessed for the

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<v Speaker 1>length of time you've been on a meaningful site. It

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<v Speaker 1>really is. It means a lot to me. And there's

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<v Speaker 1>also a site called is it Christmas? Basically type in

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<v Speaker 1>is it Christmas dot com and most of the year

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<v Speaker 1>it has the word no written on it. One special

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<v Speaker 1>day year it changes to it. Yes, I'm not going

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<v Speaker 1>to tell you which one because I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>spoil it for you. Don't don't spoil that for anything.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I also kind of love fossils that are

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<v Speaker 1>still on the Internet. Like I don't know why the

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<v Speaker 1>original space Jam site is still up there, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>for the longest time, the official Dole Camp six website

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<v Speaker 1>was still left up there. I don't know. Maybe somebody's

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<v Speaker 1>still holding out hope that they'll somehow win. But it's

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<v Speaker 1>just fun to see these, Yeah, I mean, it is bizarre,

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<v Speaker 1>especially since someone's actually paying to keep those sites up.

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<v Speaker 1>For today's nine things that would be really fun to

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<v Speaker 1>just highlight delightful corners of the Internet, let's dig in

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<v Speaker 1>a their podcast. Listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good

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<v Speaker 1>friend Man Gueshow Ticketer and sitting behind the soundproof glass

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<v Speaker 1>wearing a T shirt. It's been a little while since

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<v Speaker 1>he's worn one of his custom T shirts. This one

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<v Speaker 1>is of Avocado Rat, which I guess was a Brooklyn

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<v Speaker 1>hipster version of Pizza Rat. That's that's our friends and

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<v Speaker 1>producer Tristan McNeil so ago. We're talking delightful corners of

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<v Speaker 1>the Internet today. But you know, every once in a while,

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<v Speaker 1>I look up the blair Witch Project and your name,

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<v Speaker 1>just to see if that beautiful story is still there.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe you brought it up. You actually need

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<v Speaker 1>to just remind us all of that story. So you

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<v Speaker 1>were in college and you were I think you were

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<v Speaker 1>interning somewhere and you and your friends went to go

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<v Speaker 1>see the blair Witch Project. Right, yeah, that's right. So

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<v Speaker 1>it was when I was living in d C for

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<v Speaker 1>the summer and we just submitted this big project at

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<v Speaker 1>my office and pulled together like this all night are essentially,

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<v Speaker 1>and so our boss decided would be fun to treat

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<v Speaker 1>us to a movie. So the Blair Witch Project had

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<v Speaker 1>just come out, and we went to go see it,

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<v Speaker 1>and during the movie I got motion sick. This like,

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<v Speaker 1>I've actually fine generally, like when I'm at movies, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not affected by motion in movies or anything, but very

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<v Speaker 1>very occasionally, like shaky camera work can make me a

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<v Speaker 1>little nauseous, and the Blair Witch Project had that. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>the movie ends, we leave the theater and there's this

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<v Speaker 1>cub reporter just waiting outside from the Washington Post, just

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<v Speaker 1>standing by the exit, and she's asking everyone like like,

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<v Speaker 1>did you get sick? Did you get sick? Did anyone

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<v Speaker 1>feel sick? So I guess it was enough of the

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<v Speaker 1>thing that the Washington Post was like writing a trend

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<v Speaker 1>piece on it. Anyway, my friends pointed her to me,

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<v Speaker 1>and she comes up to me and she says, I

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<v Speaker 1>heard you threw up. It's like, uh no, And she

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<v Speaker 1>she says, uh, well, you look really wretched, and and

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<v Speaker 1>I was a little confused, and she says, and your

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<v Speaker 1>skin looks really palid. And I was like, what is

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<v Speaker 1>going on your wretched palette? I need to stop this,

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<v Speaker 1>So I said, excuse me. I mean I did not

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<v Speaker 1>throw off. I I just got a little off from

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<v Speaker 1>the shaky camera work, but nothing else. And you totally

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<v Speaker 1>know this, but I used to have, especially in college,

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<v Speaker 1>this this nervous habit of not knowing where to put

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<v Speaker 1>my hands, and so I just kind of placed them

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<v Speaker 1>on my stomach as I talked and as she kind

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<v Speaker 1>of scribbled these things. She wrote up her notes and

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<v Speaker 1>then ran away. And then the next day my friends

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<v Speaker 1>showed me the Washington Post, which had this ridiculous paragraph

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<v Speaker 1>all about me. It was ridiculous, and actually I decided

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<v Speaker 1>to pull this up because it's just such a delightful

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<v Speaker 1>part of the Internet to me. But here is what

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<v Speaker 1>it says. It says for some like Maesh Ticket or twenty,

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<v Speaker 1>the jittery camera was enough to make him feel wretched

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<v Speaker 1>after a recent screening. Looking palid, he stood outside a

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<v Speaker 1>few minutes after the show quote the handheld camera stuff

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<v Speaker 1>made me sick, he said, clutching his stomach. He did, not, however,

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<v Speaker 1>actually hurl, he reported. I can't ever get through it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's as his friends, but no doubt grateful for that.

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<v Speaker 1>It is so ridiculous and I feel like for years

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<v Speaker 1>after that it was like one of the top articles

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<v Speaker 1>when you google my name, or at least when you

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<v Speaker 1>googled my name with the word wretched. Yep, if you

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<v Speaker 1>google Mangesh his name with wretched, you will find this

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<v Speaker 1>story anyway, So that may be the best part of

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<v Speaker 1>the internet. But anyway, where do you want to go

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<v Speaker 1>from here? So? How about a weird bookroom? And this

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<v Speaker 1>is a section of a site from a Books which

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<v Speaker 1>is an online book dealer. And the weird book Room

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<v Speaker 1>is this sort of ever growing assortment of the most bizarre, awkward, unsettling,

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<v Speaker 1>like amazingly off the titles you'll ever find and it

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<v Speaker 1>isn't just like a photoblog of book covers either. You

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<v Speaker 1>can actually buy these obscure titles directly from the site,

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<v Speaker 1>but you don't have to buy them. Pruising them is

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<v Speaker 1>super fun. And here just a few favorites I found

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<v Speaker 1>whilst giving the list. Extreme ironing one oh one, crafting

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<v Speaker 1>with cat hair, how to live with an idiot, gobble,

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<v Speaker 1>improofing one's chicken coop, the thermodynamics of pizza rats for

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<v Speaker 1>those who care, how to make your own dried apple dolls,

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<v Speaker 1>old tractors and the men who love them, and nuclear war.

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<v Speaker 1>What's in it for you? So good? And this seems

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<v Speaker 1>like a great place to do your holiday shopping, just

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<v Speaker 1>to find some some real gems out there there definitely

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<v Speaker 1>is all right. Well, here is a page I liked.

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<v Speaker 1>It's called That's Not How You pipette, and it's basically

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<v Speaker 1>a bag of people and pop culture misusing lab equipment.

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<v Speaker 1>And so for anyone who doesn't know, a pipette is

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<v Speaker 1>this lab tool that's basically the science equivalent of an

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<v Speaker 1>eye dropper, like a turkey based or you know, kind

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<v Speaker 1>of a kind of a science based or I guess.

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<v Speaker 1>But despite how simple pipettes may seem they actually come

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<v Speaker 1>in a bunch of different forms and sizes depending on

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<v Speaker 1>what you're trying to do, and unfortunately that kind of

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<v Speaker 1>nuance often falls by the wayside and TV shows, especially

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<v Speaker 1>ones that portray lab text and crime scene investigators. And

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<v Speaker 1>so for most to us that's not that big of

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<v Speaker 1>a deal because we really can't tell the difference. We're

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<v Speaker 1>not used to seeing these in use all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>But for someone who works in a chemistry lab or

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<v Speaker 1>in medicine, it could be pretty annoying to see a

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<v Speaker 1>common tool so badly misused on the screen. And so

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<v Speaker 1>that's where this tumbler comes in because it acts as

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<v Speaker 1>a running list of all the pipette fails in popular

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<v Speaker 1>TV shows, And weirdly, there's actually a wide range of

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<v Speaker 1>mistakes to catalog here. So there's some simple stuff like

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<v Speaker 1>you know, using one while I'm not wearing gloves, or

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<v Speaker 1>using a pipette that's way bigger than the situation requires.

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<v Speaker 1>But then there's the really egregious stuff like when a

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<v Speaker 1>character uses a pipette to insert you know, an r

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<v Speaker 1>F I D chip and somebody's hands they used one

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<v Speaker 1>for some reason. So the site has been around since

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand thirteen, and and you know, it's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>an oldie, but I still like looking back at this one.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm sure a favorite of people who like the

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<v Speaker 1>fact check as well. Right like like kind of falls

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<v Speaker 1>into a category of I feel like there was an

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<v Speaker 1>HR director who looked at the office sin and catalog

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<v Speaker 1>how many mistakes the HR department was making with Steve

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<v Speaker 1>Carrell's character. But uh, I love that. So you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the sites that took the Internet by storm

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<v Speaker 1>while back was Stuff on My Cat, which is a

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<v Speaker 1>good site for folks who enjoyed the simple pleasure of

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<v Speaker 1>seeing random objects put on top of sleeping cats. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know, for many that scene has gotten a little

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<v Speaker 1>too pedestrian over the years. It's easy to find house

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<v Speaker 1>cats sleeping and get them to pose with a bunch

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<v Speaker 1>of stuff on top of them, but trying to do

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<v Speaker 1>that with a capybara is way harder. So has the

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<v Speaker 1>world's largest road in the native of South America. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>these can be a little harder to come by to

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<v Speaker 1>begin with, and so spotting a capa bara was something weird.

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<v Speaker 1>Sitting on top of its back tends to be way

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<v Speaker 1>more rewarding and and that's why I love the site.

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<v Speaker 1>It's called Animals Sitting on capabaras dot com and it

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<v Speaker 1>is just photos of wild animals on top of these

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<v Speaker 1>like obliging capa baras. You can find turtles, dogs, monkeys, butterflies.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes like a group of birds will be on top

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<v Speaker 1>of there and just taking advantage of this like oversized roading.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, the blog also features fan art of

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<v Speaker 1>where like people depict their favorite animal stacks on top

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<v Speaker 1>of cappa barras. That just takes it to another level.

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<v Speaker 1>That's alright, Well, since you brought up animals, here's the

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<v Speaker 1>thing I like that Gabe happened to tell me about.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know how Twitter is obviously this mixed bag

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<v Speaker 1>of information and of course trolls, But there's one account

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<v Speaker 1>on there that's so sweet and simple it almost makes

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<v Speaker 1>up for everything. And it's called I've Pet that Dog

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<v Speaker 1>and it follows this ten year old boy named Gideon

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<v Speaker 1>Kid who's on this ongoing quest to meet and hopefully

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<v Speaker 1>pet every dog he possibly can. I love it, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and and that's that's really all there is

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<v Speaker 1>to it. Like every post includes a photo of Gideon

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<v Speaker 1>posing alongside the latest dog that he pets, and below

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<v Speaker 1>it as this right up summer Rising the encounter. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's so good. And actually here's one from a week

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<v Speaker 1>or so ago when Gideon met this dog, Coco. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>what he writes, I pet Coco. Today is his first birthday.

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<v Speaker 1>He's an English chocolate lab. He loves music, so he

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<v Speaker 1>was named after the movie Coco. He's a smart dog

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<v Speaker 1>who will bring you his food if you say, bring

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<v Speaker 1>me a can. He loves bananas and wines for them.

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<v Speaker 1>And Coco is the happiest when you scratch his armpits.

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway, apparently I've pet that dog has amassed nearly

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred thousand followers since it launched last April, and

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<v Speaker 1>in that time, Gideon has personally met more than seven

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty dogs. So I mean, I like dogs

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<v Speaker 1>a lot, and I think that feels like more dogs

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<v Speaker 1>than all pen in my life. Like he's really he's

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<v Speaker 1>only ten. He's on a mission. There's no doubt about them,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, So what do you have next? So I've

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<v Speaker 1>got a super quick and super weird one. It's called

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<v Speaker 1>gold Bloomings, and gold Bloomings is nothing but flowers in

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<v Speaker 1>bloom feed during Jeff Goldblum's head or a picture of

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<v Speaker 1>him popping out of him, both really funny and really disturbing,

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<v Speaker 1>which I think makes it worth mentioning. Yeah, that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of sounds like maybe just like a weird dream you

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<v Speaker 1>would have, like where all the flowers would have Jeff Goldblum,

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<v Speaker 1>but he's like perky and every one of the pictures. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so weird. Al Right, Well, I'm gonna go with a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit longer of a fact. And this is what

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<v Speaker 1>the site I found called Ask the Past, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>part blog, part advice column. But the twist is that

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<v Speaker 1>all the advice is taken from very old or even

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<v Speaker 1>ancient books, so obviously most of the advice is really terrible.

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<v Speaker 1>So for instance, there's a question on how to tell

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<v Speaker 1>if someone is dead or not and the answer is

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<v Speaker 1>from the thirteen eighties. Here's what it says. If there's

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<v Speaker 1>any doubt as to whether a person is or is

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<v Speaker 1>not dead, apply lightly roasted onion to his nostrils, and

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<v Speaker 1>if he be alive, he will immediately scratch his nobs.

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

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<v Speaker 1>life has to get an onion yeah, it's a it's

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<v Speaker 1>a great hack. Or if you want to improve your memory,

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<v Speaker 1>you could always follow this advice taken from a sixteenth

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<v Speaker 1>century medical journal. So pay attention, mengo. This is important

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<v Speaker 1>advice here, and it says to sleep hosed and showed,

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<v Speaker 1>especially with foul socks, don't hinder the memory because of

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<v Speaker 1>the reflection of the vapors, which feeblit the sight and

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<v Speaker 1>causes the body to burn. Is that not profound? I

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<v Speaker 1>am not sure what that means. Can you explain it? Well?

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't sure either, But basically you might have assumed

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<v Speaker 1>that your poor memory was due to stress or lack

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<v Speaker 1>of sleep, but it's actually due to sock vapors from

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<v Speaker 1>dirty socks plugging up your brain. They're also blinding and

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<v Speaker 1>burning you, apparently. Anyway, asked the past is this lovingly

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<v Speaker 1>curated collection by a JOHNS Hopkins history professor named Elizabeth Archibald.

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<v Speaker 1>And she's actually got some pretty funny answers on everything

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<v Speaker 1>from how to interpret small hands to how to serve

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<v Speaker 1>a flaming bird. That is great to know. And I

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<v Speaker 1>know we've got two more spots on the internet to

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<v Speaker 1>fill out now, but before we do that, let's take

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<v Speaker 1>a quick break. Welcome back to Part Time Genius, where

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about some delightfully strange corners of the Internet.

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<v Speaker 1>And there are obviously too many of these to get

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

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<v Speaker 1>please do share them with us because we want to

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<v Speaker 1>hear your favorites. But anyway, will it's your last fact

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>And I like it because you get to see what

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<v Speaker 1>a movie scout sees when they kind of wander through

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<v Speaker 1>a city, and how different a city might look through

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<v Speaker 1>their eyes. And so the site was created by this

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

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<v Speaker 1>Like he'll walk into a hardware store and notice a

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<v Speaker 1>strange arch, and you know, it's it's just this hardware

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<v Speaker 1>store that's packed with these things in midtown Manhattan. But

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<v Speaker 1>he'll follow the seams of the arch and find a

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<v Speaker 1>little statue on both sides and get curious about that.

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<v Speaker 1>And so he'll go back and do some research and

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<v Speaker 1>show you how this little nondescript hardware store actually used

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<v Speaker 1>to be this gorgeous ornate movie theater, and he spots

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<v Speaker 1>these things in the details, so you know, the site

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<v Speaker 1>is full of these delightful little findings, like this fishing

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<v Speaker 1>village and the Bronx, or the story behind this George

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<v Speaker 1>Jets and like house hidden in the New York skyline,

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<v Speaker 1>or you know why every Hollywood film seems to shoot

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

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<v Speaker 1>That's amazing. I really did like that, and I love that,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, so many people can see the same city

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<v Speaker 1>and not see what he sees, right, It's like pretty

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

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<v Speaker 1>but I love it so much I kind of had

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<v Speaker 1>to give it a tribute. There's a site that the

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<v Speaker 1>comedy superstar and your Bloomfeld created when he was a

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<v Speaker 1>much younger comedian, and it's called Phalondromes and uh. While

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<v Speaker 1>the original site doesn't exist today, you can still find

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<v Speaker 1>links on the way Back Machine pretty easily. But for

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<v Speaker 1>some reason, Amir decided to make a site full of phalindromes,

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<v Speaker 1>which he defines as quote fake palindromes, and though they

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<v Speaker 1>cannot be read the same forwards and backwards like their

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<v Speaker 1>sister palindromes. Their peculiar structure makes them appear as if

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<v Speaker 1>they can So I don't know why it's so funny

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<v Speaker 1>to me, but the fact that he wasted all this

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<v Speaker 1>time constructing phrases that seem like they can be read

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<v Speaker 1>back and forth is really funny. So I'm gonna read

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<v Speaker 1>a few of them to you. Oh gin need a dingo,

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<v Speaker 1>I a cd rom ribbed a bearded Mordecai. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's it sounds like a palindrome, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's not quite. I guess that it makes it a phalondrome.

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<v Speaker 1>This makes sense. There's one more. It goes able Sidler's

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<v Speaker 1>race cars. I dress Elba and I feel like, I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like that's exactly what pound rooms, so many pound

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<v Speaker 1>rooms are. They're like, don't quite make sense, but like

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<v Speaker 1>you want them to make sense because they're structured nicely.

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<v Speaker 1>But I love that side. It's just so funny. It

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<v Speaker 1>makes me laugh every time I look at it. I

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<v Speaker 1>think that one it may be one of my favorites.

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<v Speaker 1>I do want to admit I have seen those before,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think I was in tears. I was laughing

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<v Speaker 1>so hard at reading these and so for that, I

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I know you and I had so much

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<v Speaker 1>fun looking this stuff up. Like I said earlier, I'd

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<v Speaker 1>really love for any suggestions to come in. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you've got great corners, great little secrets about the Internet

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<v Speaker 1>that you want to send in, please please hit us

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