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Speaker 1: Stuff Works employee at some point. Um, and I want

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Speaker 1: the future. It's an excellent example of how connected our

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Speaker 1: any rate, it's a good episode about an interesting topic.

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Speaker 1: So I hope you enjoyed. Welcome to Stuff You Should

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Speaker 1: Know from How Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryet.

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Speaker 1: This is Stuff you should Know. Yeah, uh, this Josh

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Speaker 1: is another episode of the Summer of Sam. Are are

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Speaker 1: oh this kid is good? Yeah? Our friend Sam T

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Speaker 1: Samson and How Lion Taming Works, which is also written

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Speaker 1: by Debbie Ronca, my buddy. Yeah from New Jersey roller

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Speaker 1: Derby Debbie as I call her, I don't call her that, No,

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Speaker 1: roller Derber Debby, you did perfectly the first roller Derby Debby.

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Speaker 1: That would just get difficult. Yeah. Um, well, right on,

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Speaker 1: quite unplug um. And then where are we at with Sam? So?

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Speaker 1: Sam has now selected how lion taming works? What was

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Speaker 1: this is a good one. We'll put chuck. Um. Well,

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard the idea that the Simpsons have

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Speaker 1: which would mean predicting. Probably most chilling is Um comes

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