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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Julie Douglas. You know, Julie,

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Speaker 1: I I found out very recently, after almost three years

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Speaker 1: working here, that there's a shower, like a full bathroom

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Speaker 1: and shower on this floor. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: it's of course a high ranking official. We cannot disclose

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Speaker 1: the person's name, but yeah, they have a shower. And

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Speaker 1: now that person is no longer in that area. And

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Speaker 1: I think all of this riff raff have taken it

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Speaker 1: over well not well, last I checked, maybe you have

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Speaker 1: a shower shower you. I don't think anybody can get

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Speaker 1: into the actual executive bathroom, but unless you have a

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Speaker 1: special key, yeah, the executive and somebody may have it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody's done from it instead of using

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Speaker 1: the public squalor toilet, so the rest of us used.

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Speaker 1: But it makes you think it's like cleanliness, right, is

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Speaker 1: next to godliness? That's the old old thing. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: if you are a high ranking executive, then you're a

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Speaker 1: little closer to godliness and the corporate ladder of things

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Speaker 1: and Therefore, you get to bathe as much as you want.

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Speaker 1: Like you can have like a morning meeting, take a shower,

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Speaker 1: get out, dry off, have another conference call, than another meeting,

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Speaker 1: than another shower. You can get up to like five

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Speaker 1: showers a day. Okay, So sure, you're you're that executive.

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Speaker 1: You're very clean, you have a lot of Lamborghinis and

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Speaker 1: nice income. You have many choices of mustaches that you

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Speaker 1: could wear. I'm assuming this is like a luxe thing, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming this is every executive has this kind of thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but here's a little something to throw down there that

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Speaker 1: you don't have. What's that You probably don't have good bacteria.

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Speaker 1: And that's how it is. Sometimes it doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: you have all the money in the world. If you

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Speaker 1: don't have good bacteria, you ain't got nothing. So this

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Speaker 1: this comes under the idea that that maybe on one

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Speaker 1: hand you have the the the clean cut executives and

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Speaker 1: the other the dirty hippies. Yes, and then maybe the

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Speaker 1: dirty hippies, um, who not only don't have a shower

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Speaker 1: at work, might not even be using their shower at

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Speaker 1: home every day. Um that they may have the right

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Speaker 1: philosophy here. They may have the correct way of life

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Speaker 1: and this culture war of bathing. Well, okay, we talked

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh you know, we talked about this

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Speaker 1: in the in the podcast about as your Gut to Genius,

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Speaker 1: we talked about all the bacteria in your gut and

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Speaker 1: what's going on there. Similarly, scientists researchers are starting to

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Speaker 1: look at the bacteria in our skin and say, who

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Speaker 1: wall hold on a second, there's a lot more going

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Speaker 1: on here at skin deep level than we knew about before.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps it's not a good idea to wash away a

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Speaker 1: lot of good bacteria. And in fact, there's something called

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Speaker 1: the Human Microbiome Project which is essentially mapping the skins

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Speaker 1: ecosystem and the Yeah, they're calling the skins ecosystem, which

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Speaker 1: was really cool. And they're even saying that it's it's

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Speaker 1: a lot like a zoo and that there's much more

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Speaker 1: diversity or maybe even like a rainforest. Um. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: they're saying that the human body is resembling a super organism. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so my body, my my skin rather is a jungle,

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Speaker 1: and I should maybe not get up every morning and

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Speaker 1: slash and burn it in the shower exactly exactly. Um,

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Speaker 1: And I'm like Okay, I'm gonna say this. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what everybody's uh jungles are like with their armpits,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not suggesting that people don't bathe. However, we

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Speaker 1: do have good data that perhaps it's not as necessary

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Speaker 1: as before. This sort of American ideal of cleanliness and

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Speaker 1: godliness isn't exactly the right path, right. Well, the connection

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Speaker 1: between cleanliness and godliness is really fascinating and pretty much

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Speaker 1: spans the entire length of human history. There's a great

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Speaker 1: book out there called Clean A History of Personal Hygiene

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Speaker 1: Impurity by Virginia Smith, and I highly recommend picking this

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Speaker 1: up if anybody's really interests in it, because it basically

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Speaker 1: she exhaustively analyzes the the emergence and UH and an

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Speaker 1: advancement of On one hand, hygiene, which is my body

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Speaker 1: needs to be cleaned sometimes because it gets dirty, and

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Speaker 1: if it gets to dirty, there's a problem. And then

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Speaker 1: the idea of purity, the idea that yes, exactly that

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Speaker 1: my my soul is pure, that that there's a connection

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Speaker 1: but in between physical and spiritual purity or mental purity,

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Speaker 1: and these two issues become intertwined throughout human history. So

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Speaker 1: suddenly we have situations where it's like, oh, I'm going

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Speaker 1: just complicated and intertwined throughout history. So we have this thing,

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Speaker 1: this cleanliness and godliness that if I can, if I

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Speaker 1: So we've got that that sort of um, you know,

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Speaker 1: altross of history, honest, right, that has colored our perception

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Speaker 1: American Civil War in which Frederick law Homestead if it

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Speaker 1: sounds familiar, he was the guy who um created Central

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Speaker 1: Parker was the architecture. Yeah, but he was actually on

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Speaker 1: the Union side. He created a big sanitation campaign and

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Speaker 1: he basically said, look, um, let's, you know, for all

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Speaker 1: if they're even if they're just hanging out let alone,

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Speaker 1: they've got some sort of wound. Let's make sure that

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Speaker 1: they're cleaned regularly. But their linens are clean regularly, and

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Speaker 1: that the walls and you know, the hospitals and whatnot

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Speaker 1: disease and illness. So all of a sudden, people have

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Speaker 1: that aha moment and we're like, oh, yeah, we should

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Speaker 1: probably do this all the time, which has led to

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Speaker 1: our obsession with bathing. Well. I also have to say,

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Speaker 1: not compulsive, but I I love a good shower, you know.

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Speaker 1: I Mean it's like I get up in the morning

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Speaker 1: and on one level, yes, I want to feel clean um.

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Speaker 1: On another level, I want my hair to not stand

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Speaker 1: straight up. Yeah. But then also it's just like you're

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Speaker 1: you're hit with all this hot water. It wakes you up,

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Speaker 1: it refreshes you, it it's just you know, you're you're

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Speaker 1: your face, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's the

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Speaker 1: soap thing. Yes, well it becomes problematic if you do

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Speaker 1: it all the time, right. I mean, I'm like, one

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Speaker 1: level of that is the whole No Pooh movement, which

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Speaker 1: this no Pooh thing, and I'm like, WHOA, I don't

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Speaker 1: What is shampoo? Okay, all right, well you know I

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Speaker 1: mean for me, that's chologically, it's just I'm going to

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Speaker 1: that you're not using all these harsh soaps, right, The

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Speaker 1: idea is to distribute the oils rather than strip them

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Speaker 1: a wet. The same thing with the skin though, So, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but this is

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Speaker 1: so crazy. There are ten bacterial cells for every one

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Speaker 1: and then although some of the bacteria on our skin

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Speaker 1: So there's this a great New York Times UM article

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Speaker 1: that good bacteria are educating your own skin cells to

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Speaker 1: make your own antibiotics. Says Dr Richard Gallo when that's

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Speaker 1: more apt perhaps to actually have that bad bacteria gualm

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Speaker 1: also excessive scrubbing can wear away the stratum corneum, which

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Speaker 1: do I say this delicately. Are our Crecus buddcus? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like flimsy theory, and you might might have more uh

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Speaker 1: so like the worst like instead of like thinking about

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Speaker 1: a good thing. I'm actually doing my part to dirty

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Speaker 1: seriously what okay, not that everybody wanted some sort of

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Speaker 1: like tips on this, but this is what everyone wanted

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Speaker 1: but I just washed my hair after seven days, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Of course you didn't see me before that, so you

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Speaker 1: so your hair is better for having like we were, okay,

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Speaker 1: it or after? Well, I mean it was starting to

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Speaker 1: course days one through five, six and seven looking a

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Speaker 1: little bit funky. But it wasn't like an oil slick

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Speaker 1: then it's suddenly chaos, it's suddenly bad. Right. The key

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Speaker 1: mention that, uh, the author of Dirt Unclean, uh, Katherine Ashenberg,

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Speaker 1: of the history of funk and history of cleanliness, so

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Speaker 1: you guys might want to check that out as well. Well. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I've got just one quick listener mail here. Um, hey,

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Speaker 1: listened by the name of Billy writes, then, with the

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Speaker 1: says greetings, I was listening to Love Hayden robots. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned the love bots, like the one you called Roxy,

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Speaker 1: but with this the adultery, it's it is not a

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Speaker 1: living being. It would only be able to work outside

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Speaker 1: of parameter setting. However, physically it would resemble a human. Also, um,

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Speaker 1: what would happen if you had had a sex spot

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Speaker 1: and it downloaded a virus on the servo net? Okay,

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Speaker 1: some interesting thoughts there, But indeed, what would it be

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Speaker 1: I don't know what if you saw one robot and

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Speaker 1: the idea of robot STDs, just essentially what he's talking about. Yeah, which,

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Speaker 1: there's actually that case where the guy gave himself. It

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. So hey, have you have some interesting

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Speaker 1: tidbits share of this or just some contemplative ideas. You

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Speaker 1: can share them with us on Twitter or Facebook we

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Speaker 1: aware of this. They're often used for bad humor. But

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Speaker 1: interested because I'm like, I wonder what's blowing everybody's mind

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. It turns out very inane stuff. It's blowing

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Speaker 1: people's minds. Couple example, Yes, some of them are so

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Speaker 1: bad I can't actually read them um in the podcast.

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Speaker 1: But like here's one I don't know is it biber

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Speaker 1: for Bieber? One? Is is at justin Bieber Bieber? I

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Speaker 1: several ds, and then something that resembles like a smiley

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Speaker 1: And then they add the hashtag blew my mind. And

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Speaker 1: then there's a heart thing, Uh, please follow me back,

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Speaker 1: it will make my Friday. And then some other strange

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Speaker 1: emoticon that I've that I'm apparently too old to understand,

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Speaker 1: but okay, so that this person was blown up. Their

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Speaker 1: mind is blown by this. Then there's another one. I

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Speaker 1: and then somebody just watched The sixth Sense, So I

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Speaker 1: think we can do better. Listeners. Um, if you encounter

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Speaker 1: some cool bit of science, if we um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it on Twitter, throw on that hashtag, and let's uh,

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Speaker 1: let's reclaim the blew my mind hashtag from the people

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Speaker 1: are are large There's some there's some good boasts out there,

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Speaker 1: but but from the largely the people who are misusing

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Speaker 1: it on doll things, Yeah, I like that. Let's reclaim it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's give some justice to blew my mind. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And hey, if you have any thoughts that you would

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