WEBVTT - Parasite Got Your Tongue?

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<v Speaker 1>From how Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, welcome to Stuff

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<v Speaker 1>to Blow your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Julie Douglas. We are recording this just before Thanksgiving

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<v Speaker 1>and you will get to listen to it sometime after Thanksgivings.

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<v Speaker 1>So for those of you who engage in this holiday

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<v Speaker 1>of culinary excess, then you will you'll probably be stuffed

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<v Speaker 1>a bit, You'll be kind of filled with food. So

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<v Speaker 1>this podcast is for you to to to maybe help

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<v Speaker 1>with your digestion, to maybe make you think, well, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have it that bad after all, it could

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<v Speaker 1>have been worse, or or maybe you may end up

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<v Speaker 1>thinking I could have had a little more help eating

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<v Speaker 1>that food than I actually had, because you probably had

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<v Speaker 1>to do most of the chewing and swallowing and manipulating

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<v Speaker 1>of the food in your mouth all by your lonesome.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right. So we're going to bring you a little

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<v Speaker 1>topic today. That's think of it as a palate cleanser,

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<v Speaker 1>or as you say, an aid uh. In your next

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<v Speaker 1>foray into culinary indulgence. We are talking specifically about a

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<v Speaker 1>tongue eating parasite, yes, sigh motha exegua, which we will

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<v Speaker 1>now refer to as the I pod. Yes, the I pod.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a fantastic creature. If you have not seen

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<v Speaker 1>a picture of this, go to the blog post that

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna put out to go along with this episode.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll see some photos or some links to some photos

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<v Speaker 1>some of that video to to reacquaint yourself with this

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<v Speaker 1>parasite that essentially, spoiler takes the place of a fish's tongue.

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<v Speaker 1>It is actually when there's things that's like truth is

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<v Speaker 1>stranger than fiction because it's very hard to I think,

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<v Speaker 1>dream up this creature, but here it is. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>don't to my knowledge, no one had dreamed this one

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<v Speaker 1>up before. Um, you know we everyone loves a good

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<v Speaker 1>parasite in a horror movie. Stuff busting out of chess,

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<v Speaker 1>living in people's blood, I mean, you name it, they've

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<v Speaker 1>done it. Like, but this sounds something like the only

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<v Speaker 1>thing in fiction that I can think of is it

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<v Speaker 1>sounds like something that they would have made up for

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<v Speaker 1>Invader Zim. Like it's that level of just twisted, but

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<v Speaker 1>also like it's it's gross and dark, but also kind

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<v Speaker 1>of silly in a way. Oh yes, it's very silly. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>let's get into the meat of it, as it were

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<v Speaker 1>in topic, Yeah, the tongue meat of it. Let's describe

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<v Speaker 1>what this, this pod crustacean is, all right, Well, outside

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<v Speaker 1>of its eventual home inside of a fish's face, it's

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<v Speaker 1>a one inch long isopod, which is like a crustacean,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, it's kin. It's close at kin that most

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<v Speaker 1>of us I think will be familiar with is a

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<v Speaker 1>little thing called a pillbug, or we always call them

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<v Speaker 1>roly polis, those little little segmented because they're they're segmented,

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like a little armored dudes, right, much like

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<v Speaker 1>the roly poli, the pillbug that when you poke it

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<v Speaker 1>with your finger when you find it outside, it rolls

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<v Speaker 1>up into a ball. So it's kin to that. And

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<v Speaker 1>it looks a lot like that, except it's pale, one

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<v Speaker 1>inch long, lives in the water, shell covered, leggy, segmented,

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<v Speaker 1>and on its underside it has dozens of sharp, cruel

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<v Speaker 1>looking claws. Yeah, and it reminds me kind of like

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<v Speaker 1>a cockroach, even though it's it's much more segmented. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just opaque, white and very legging in appearance. As you say,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's got the claws, particularly that it's got two

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<v Speaker 1>big claws sticking out, and you know, it's got a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty prominent face and eyes, which is very disturbing. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>because it's not only that you peer inside of fish's

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<v Speaker 1>mouth and you see a creature, because you wouldn't necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>register that it's a creature. You see like a white

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<v Speaker 1>lump that looks kind of like a tongue, but it

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<v Speaker 1>has eyes and it's staring at you. And they can

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<v Speaker 1>be found in the Gulf of California south to north

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<v Speaker 1>of the Gulf of guy a Quill in Ecuador, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's also been found off the coast of California and

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<v Speaker 1>New Jersey as well as off the coast in the UK.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's been kind of popping up in different places

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<v Speaker 1>that people did not expect. And we'll talk a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit more about that later on the podcast, but let's

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<v Speaker 1>get down to the nitty gritty of out how it

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<v Speaker 1>does what it does, how it actually takes over the

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<v Speaker 1>tongue of the fish. Yeah, so it starts out, of course,

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<v Speaker 1>on the outside of a fish. It's just swimming around.

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<v Speaker 1>It's yeah, and then it comes up to a snapper

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<v Speaker 1>all right, goes into the gills and into the creature's mouth,

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<v Speaker 1>and then it latches onto the tongue. So it's first

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<v Speaker 1>big feast, of course, is it's gonna start drinking some

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<v Speaker 1>tongue blood. It's nutritious, it's readily available, and there's not

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of room, you know, in amount, like think

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<v Speaker 1>of your own mouth, like just it's kind of a

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<v Speaker 1>horrifying thought, but you know, you just feel your tongue

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<v Speaker 1>setting there in your skull all the time. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't move it just a lot. And it's kind

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<v Speaker 1>of gross, you know, because it's just this lump that

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<v Speaker 1>lives in your mouth. So the ice apot is think

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<v Speaker 1>what's not really thinking. But if I can antromomorphize it

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit, it's like it says, Hey, this place

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<v Speaker 1>is great. I just need to move this guy out

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<v Speaker 1>the tongue. And I can get this guy out of

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<v Speaker 1>here because the tongue is like, the tongue's got a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty good deal. It's just setting here in the mouth,

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<v Speaker 1>foods passing by. If I get rid of the tongue,

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<v Speaker 1>I can totally steal that job. I can do it

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<v Speaker 1>just as well as the slump of tongue can do,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I'll have access to food. And so it

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<v Speaker 1>cozies up to the tongue artery it begins to drain

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<v Speaker 1>it until the tongue starts to wither away in atrophy.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's when the fish decides that excuse me on

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<v Speaker 1>the fish with the iypod decides that it is going

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<v Speaker 1>to hang out and act as the tongue for the fish.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I think it's fascinating about this is that

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<v Speaker 1>it does kind of start out as sort of like

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<v Speaker 1>tiny sea lice, and then as you say, it does

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<v Speaker 1>attach itself to the gills and um, it begins to

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<v Speaker 1>develop and then the female is the one that makes

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<v Speaker 1>it its way to the tongue and it really takes

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<v Speaker 1>up residents and by that time it is full grown.

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<v Speaker 1>It is this creature living in the mouth of the fish.

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<v Speaker 1>And we've talked about symbiotic relationships in nature before, but

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<v Speaker 1>this is one of those situations where you kind of

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<v Speaker 1>have to wonder, you know, is this mutualism or is

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<v Speaker 1>it truly parasitism because the fish can still live and

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<v Speaker 1>we've talked before, I mean even even in situations where

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<v Speaker 1>we think something's a straight up parasite situation or straight

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<v Speaker 1>up mutualism situation, it's often not that cut and dry.

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<v Speaker 1>It's there's a whole lot of gray area. And even

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<v Speaker 1>with something like this, which on the surface sounds pretty parasitic,

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<v Speaker 1>like if something crawled into my mouth, ate my tongue

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<v Speaker 1>and replaced it, I'd be a little upset and and

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<v Speaker 1>a little insulted. But but but you would probably say

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<v Speaker 1>to yourself, an isopod tongue is better than no tongue

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<v Speaker 1>at all. Right, Well, maybe certainly we'll get into this more,

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<v Speaker 1>but I mean, certainly people can get used to a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of weirdness with their body over time. Maybe maybe

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<v Speaker 1>this is one of those things. But I mean, for starters.

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<v Speaker 1>Two three study found that fish with the parasites in

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<v Speaker 1>their mouth they did have lower blood counts than the

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<v Speaker 1>ones that still had tongues in tag. So it's clear

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<v Speaker 1>that they are drinking some blood in there. They are

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<v Speaker 1>actively engaging in some blood drinking. But then the other

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<v Speaker 1>thing is that, yes, they are eating food that comes

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<v Speaker 1>through the mouth as well. Yeah, and they did even

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<v Speaker 1>say that when when the I pod is in there,

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<v Speaker 1>that it will act as the tongue and actually kind

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<v Speaker 1>of trap the prey, as a tongue would against the

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<v Speaker 1>teeth and help out the fish in that instance, if

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<v Speaker 1>the totally making me rethink all the things my tongue does.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't think of your tongue is a creature, but

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<v Speaker 1>it kind of is. It's just it's like the guardian

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<v Speaker 1>that lives in your mouth and chases after bits of Twizzler.

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<v Speaker 1>Twizzler again, huh, you're still on the Twizzler kick. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just it's probably the tongue's greatest enemy. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of war between that, because the twizzler

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<v Speaker 1>latches onto the tooth and then the tongue goes in

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<v Speaker 1>and battles it for like an hour. That and those

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<v Speaker 1>little gummy things, any really hard ones, the dots, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not familiar with them. They're they're pretty rough. Well okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So if an isopod was actually replacing the human tongue,

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<v Speaker 1>what sort of relationship do you think it would have

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<v Speaker 1>with a toothbrush? Um? I guess it depend how much

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<v Speaker 1>tongue brushing you do. You're supposed to do a certain

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<v Speaker 1>amount of tongue brushing, right, I don't think it would

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<v Speaker 1>take kindly to that. I don't think it would either.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it would be an adversary. All right. So

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<v Speaker 1>what I think is really fascinating about this about this

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<v Speaker 1>isopod taking the place of the tongue, is that this

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<v Speaker 1>is the first known case of a parasite that actually

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<v Speaker 1>replaces an organ of its host. So, I mean, it's

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<v Speaker 1>phenomenal to see this. It's it's you know, spectacular looking,

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<v Speaker 1>but the fact of the matter that it is taking

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<v Speaker 1>over an organ in the actual host is is pretty cool. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>because like we said, it gets in there, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>not just a situation where it says, I'm where the

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<v Speaker 1>tongue is now, I'm gonna eat all the food. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna run this show. It actually behaves like a tongue.

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<v Speaker 1>It actually helps pass food back to the to its host.

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<v Speaker 1>Like it's not it's not just gonna want to kill

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<v Speaker 1>a tongue. It's got a pretty good deal going, but

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<v Speaker 1>it needs to make sure some food gets through for

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<v Speaker 1>it to continue this strange existence. And then, like you said,

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<v Speaker 1>the parasite is replacing an organ and and you just

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<v Speaker 1>don't see this anywhere else in the known animal world.

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<v Speaker 1>It would be like if a parasite came up to

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<v Speaker 1>you and said, that's a pretty good eyeball you've got there,

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<v Speaker 1>I can do just as well. Let me eat that

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<v Speaker 1>eyeball and take its place. You know. It's like it's

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<v Speaker 1>that level of just it's crazy like nature. Again. Nature

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<v Speaker 1>is stranger and more twisted than anything we come up

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<v Speaker 1>with in our own horror on the side. That's the

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<v Speaker 1>truth right there, because it really is horrific looking, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>So we had mentioned that this pod has been popping

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<v Speaker 1>up in unusual places like the coast of the UK,

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<v Speaker 1>and scientists think that the reason for this is connected

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<v Speaker 1>to over fishing. Yeah, Like, it's worth noting that we've

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<v Speaker 1>known about this for a while, Like I've blogged about

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<v Speaker 1>it a few years back, and people have known of

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<v Speaker 1>this creature for even even longer. I probably around the

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<v Speaker 1>first time someone was like, what is in that fish is? Now?

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<v Speaker 1>So it's there's nothing new about it, but it is

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<v Speaker 1>rare to find a live example of it, and we've

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<v Speaker 1>certainly found more of them in recent years, which leads

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<v Speaker 1>credence to this idea that we're actually seeing more instances

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<v Speaker 1>of this parasite. There's more of it out there and

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<v Speaker 1>in one possibility here is that it all comes down

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<v Speaker 1>to over fishing. Carl Zimmerman did a piece on this

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<v Speaker 1>for Discover magazine. Of course, he's the author of the

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<v Speaker 1>book Parasite rex so he's all about looking at what

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<v Speaker 1>parasites are doing and how parasites are are changing and

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<v Speaker 1>involving in particularly. Who's looking at a study that looked

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<v Speaker 1>at one population off the coast of France where fish

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<v Speaker 1>were living in a protected marine environment, and then they

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<v Speaker 1>looked at another marine environment off the coast of Italy

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<v Speaker 1>that is heavily fished and in protected waters. The scientists

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<v Speaker 1>found of the fish had parasites in their mouth in

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<v Speaker 1>the fish waters dead. So that's a sevent increase in

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<v Speaker 1>the heavily fished areas well. You know what's crazy about

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<v Speaker 1>that is that nearly half of the fish, half of

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<v Speaker 1>the fish in those particular waters, have this creature in

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<v Speaker 1>their mouth. So you know what happens, of course, is

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<v Speaker 1>that every once in a while, some of these show

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<v Speaker 1>up in the grocery store. You know, you might get

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<v Speaker 1>a mackerel, you might be in Canada and get a

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<v Speaker 1>mackerel and then realize that you know, this creature is

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<v Speaker 1>staring at you and you just expected to jump out

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<v Speaker 1>into the spaceballs dance on the table, you know, because

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<v Speaker 1>it has that weird kind of cute little face like

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<v Speaker 1>it's like it does it does, which totally makes sense

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<v Speaker 1>about why the recent The Bay movie came out, which

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<v Speaker 1>is centered around this isopod. Yeah, I'm meant to try

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<v Speaker 1>and watch it because it's available right now for like

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<v Speaker 1>paid streaming on certain websites. They're doing that now where

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<v Speaker 1>it's something will be in the theater and then it's

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<v Speaker 1>almost instantly or instantly available elsewhere to stream. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>this this movie is like a found footage horror film

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<v Speaker 1>where it's due to an ecological disaster. Suddenly they're like

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<v Speaker 1>is pod rewired zombies running wild and people are freaking

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<v Speaker 1>out over it. Yeah. The idea is that these is

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<v Speaker 1>A pods mutate because they're exposed to a massive, massive

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<v Speaker 1>amount of steroid rich chicken waist, which somehow makes them

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<v Speaker 1>want to uh taste human flesh and then take over

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<v Speaker 1>a human. So of course we take this idea and

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<v Speaker 1>we try to figure out like the worst possible idea

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<v Speaker 1>of what could happen, and that would be if you,

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<v Speaker 1>Robert Lyn open your mouth right now and the little

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<v Speaker 1>iPod was talking to me, so of course this is

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<v Speaker 1>bunk though, right, this could never happen, right, This is

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<v Speaker 1>a creature for fish and off fish, so the chances

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<v Speaker 1>and it's just not gonna happen. It's this is not

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<v Speaker 1>Our bodies are not the habitat for this creature. But

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<v Speaker 1>if it did, I think we should give a listen

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<v Speaker 1>to what it might sound like if we were talking

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<v Speaker 1>to us. Hey there kid, how you doing yeah with

0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.080
<v Speaker 1>Jake last night? Yes, so that's hilarious. That's from a

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<v Speaker 1>little YouTube video which will also include on the blog

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<v Speaker 1>entry that accompanies this episode. But it's the ideas that

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<v Speaker 1>dude wakes up and he has the ice of pot

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<v Speaker 1>living in his mouth and it's bossing him around, which

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<v Speaker 1>I think would happen, right if they're going to do

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<v Speaker 1>adults or to adults, to humans, human adults. But again,

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<v Speaker 1>this is not something that could happen. And even if

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<v Speaker 1>you were to eat a fish, a mackerel that had

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<v Speaker 1>this parasite in it, you yourself would not become sick.

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<v Speaker 1>There's just really no health hazards to it. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>sort of disgusting to think about. But you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>can't help but think about it, because it is a

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<v Speaker 1>stunning and grotesque example of how cruel and twisted I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>that's again, that's human terms. Cruel and twisted nature really is.

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<v Speaker 1>Like it's kind of a wake up call where we're like, whoa,

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<v Speaker 1>this is not kittens and puppies here. This is a

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<v Speaker 1>parasite eating a creature's tongue and then becoming its tongue,

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<v Speaker 1>and the fishes, if not totally fine with it, the

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<v Speaker 1>fish at least is like yeah, like you said, it's

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<v Speaker 1>better than having no tongue at all. There you go. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>But I do think it's interesting how overfishing is certainly

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<v Speaker 1>something that is helping along in this creature that more, um,

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<v Speaker 1>the evolution of small fish is actually occurring. And then

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<v Speaker 1>of course as small fish can't really defend themselves and

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<v Speaker 1>so they were being taken over by this iopod. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's I mean, it's just another example of how you

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<v Speaker 1>have any kind of unbalancing of an ecological system and

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<v Speaker 1>of the natural habitat, things are going to get out

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<v Speaker 1>of whack. And when they get out of whack, that

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<v Speaker 1>might mean monsters living inside the heads of bunches of fishes, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and then eventually humans just being taken over as well. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so there you have it, the parasite that wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>become a tongue. Anyone out there who's seen the movie

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<v Speaker 1>The Bay and wants to share their thoughts in the

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<v Speaker 1>film with us, we'd certainly love to hear about that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm actually more interested in it now because I remember

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<v Speaker 1>seeing some posters for it, or like a trailer for it,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was like, you know, I'm not really looking

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<v Speaker 1>for another found footage horror film right now, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't all that interesting. But then I found out

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<v Speaker 1>that Barry Levinson is the director of the film. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>There was something on tree Hugger about I think it

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<v Speaker 1>was an interview with Barry Levinson, and I think he

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<v Speaker 1>said that he first approached this material because he was

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<v Speaker 1>pitched um for as a documentary and over fishing, and um,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what happens, we need to disturb the ecosystem.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I think that's kind of funny that he

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<v Speaker 1>took Now, he didn't just say, oh, this would make

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<v Speaker 1>a great Hollywood movie. I think that his point was

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<v Speaker 1>that people pay attention more to the more fantastical elements

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<v Speaker 1>of it, perhaps people would take home that message that

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<v Speaker 1>this was really about an environmental concern as opposed to

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<v Speaker 1>doing a documentary that some people wouldn't watch. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>for those of you aren't familiar with Darry Levinson, this

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<v Speaker 1>guy is mostly known for stuff like high Anxiety rain Man.

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<v Speaker 1>He's not really a horror guy. Um no. But but

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<v Speaker 1>the reviews for were actually pretty interesting, it seems like

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<v Speaker 1>most reviews. And it's always hard with horror movies to

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<v Speaker 1>tell to go buy reviews because not all movie reviewers

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<v Speaker 1>are really going to get the genre. And then sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>it's easy to go into a horror movie with the

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<v Speaker 1>wrong expectations. But the consistents seem to be that it

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<v Speaker 1>was maybe not as scary as one might want a

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<v Speaker 1>horror film about tongue parasites to be, but it was

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<v Speaker 1>very uh, it really sucked you in. It was very

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<v Speaker 1>very interesting in thought provoking. So there you go. I

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<v Speaker 1>would be interested to hear I have not seen it,

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<v Speaker 1>but I would love to hear from people who have. Indeed,

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