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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and I am Chuck Bryant. Hey, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: How's that? It was good? Good? Yeah, I'm working on

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Speaker 1: my radio thing. I like it. Your voice is smooth?

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Speaker 1: So is good? Smooth? Is spider smelt? Spider silk spun

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Speaker 1: from goats milk? Nothing? How's that right? So? Um? As

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Speaker 1: you know, I am a huge fan of Dr Werner

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Speaker 1: hobber Mill. I did know that, did you? Yeah? But

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of anyone else did. Wow. I

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Speaker 1: had never told anybody that before. Is it that obvious?

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Speaker 1: I just had a sense it's my T shirt? Isn't right? Well?

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Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know who Dr harber

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Speaker 1: City of Hamburg in Germany. Hello Germany. Uh and um

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Speaker 1: Dr hopper Mill Uh did a study that I read

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Speaker 1: about recently on the Daily Mail. So basically I'm just

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Speaker 1: but there there was a study he he did that

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Speaker 1: And he found just statistically speaking, he he didn't really

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Speaker 1: actually sadly, he did pose uh an idea of why

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Speaker 1: But he he found that redheads um have a noticeably

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Speaker 1: with any other hair color. Interesting, and the thing that

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Speaker 1: get this, uh, the the esteem doctor said that women

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Speaker 1: who are in a committed relationship and dye their hair red,

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Speaker 1: that is a really big red flag to the guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh that they may be stepping out there looking right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So Emily ever done that? Uh yeah she

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Speaker 1: What was this? I think it was before we were married. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: right exactly. You're like, I knew my kid looked like

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Speaker 1: the male man. Yeah, so um, this is what what

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Speaker 1: so the doctor basically says, well, redheads have a fiery

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Speaker 1: so it is, and it's not necessarily true. And the

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Speaker 1: more I looked into it, the more I lies that

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Speaker 1: redheads are among the most maligned and stereotyped people of

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Speaker 1: any hair colored, redheaded, blonde's the phrase red headed stepchild,

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Speaker 1: is not true. No, we just should say that right away. No,

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Speaker 1: there was one in two thousand seven. That's the most

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Speaker 1: recent one that that said that. Um, the Oxford Hair Institute,

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Speaker 1: which sounds so official. Um, it's said that that redheads

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Speaker 1: recessive gene that carries red hair. In theory that could

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Speaker 1: brief overview redheads are. That's a phenotype. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: a recessive gene. It's a mutation in the MC one

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Speaker 1: our gene. Yes, and that is the melanocortin one receptor gene. Okay,

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Speaker 1: to tell him about this this study. Yeah, it turns

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Speaker 1: um a kind of anesthesia that's taylored just for redhead's. Interesting.

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