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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. Chuck Bryant's here. That's right, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? I am well, how are you right? Chuck?

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Speaker 1: Let's go for a little walk, shall we? Okay, So

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Speaker 1: Chuck and I are here at the University of Tennessee

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Speaker 1: campus in beautiful Knoxville, Tennessee, and we're kind of on

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Speaker 1: the outside of campus. Um, we are in the woods basically. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a little creepy out here, it is, Chuck, and

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Speaker 1: you're about to find out what actually, Chuck, watch out

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Speaker 1: what don't? Oh? Chuck? Wow, you just stepped in a corpse. Yes,

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Speaker 1: in a corpse. Yeah. That that thing really opened up

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Speaker 1: a lot more than I thought it would. Kind of

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Speaker 1: like a right cannamelon. Yeah, but it went right through.

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Speaker 1: That's gross. Yeah, I'm not sure what the cannon melon is,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't sound like that. It's a lot nicer

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Speaker 1: than that. So okay, well, I guess we can get

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Speaker 1: out of Knoxville before anybody says anything, right, what is

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Speaker 1: this place? I'll tell you. Let's just get out of here, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, okay, chuckers Wow, and I'm really glad you

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Speaker 1: washed your foot off back to the students through your

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Speaker 1: shoe away, got ready to jeans. It's a good thing

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Speaker 1: you weren't wearing shorts. That was groups I was up

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Speaker 1: to my ankle and body, so Chuck, I know that

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Speaker 1: was patently unnecessary that we went all the way to

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Speaker 1: Knoxville for that, but um, what we were just at

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Speaker 1: is called the body farm, right, that's the best setup

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Speaker 1: we've ever had. I know it's just for that. I'm

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Speaker 1: taking my shirt off for the rest of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Do that. Oh dude, Okay, Chuck, I can't do that.

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Speaker 1: Yes you can. Let's talk about death baby. There's yeah,

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Speaker 1: you kid. I can't Chuck, settle it. No, he's really

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Speaker 1: gonna mess me up. Okay, all right, I'll put my

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Speaker 1: shirt back on. Hold on. Wow, we've reached new new

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Speaker 1: bows here. Okay, are you better now, big baby? I

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Speaker 1: think you can't do a podcast with a shirtless Josh.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. All right, Well, let's let's get back to

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Speaker 1: the to the issue at hand, body farms. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so Chuck, do you know me? I'm all about like death, Like, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna die someday. I can't wait to find out

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Speaker 1: what happens. Right, So this is right up my alley. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought it's a cool article. So you liked it

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Speaker 1: as well? Yeah? Written by your boyfriend Tom? Uh huh

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Speaker 1: long long time boyfriend time. Uh yeah it was good

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Speaker 1: body farms, very gruesome but necessary, cool, interesting topic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just won't kick this one off of you. Well,

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Speaker 1: what do you want me to do? No, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about death first. So what the whole point of a

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Speaker 1: body farm? Is a study decomposition? Right right? That people

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Speaker 1: might not even know what one is. It's where you

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Speaker 1: study a dying or a corpse in a state of decay,

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Speaker 1: so you can learn things from that. Well, put, I

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Speaker 1: think that's right out of there. Was Actually, so there's

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Speaker 1: actually three body farms around the country, right, There's one

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Speaker 1: at Western North Carolina University, go, um some things. Uh.

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Speaker 1: There is a University of Tennessee at their main campus

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Speaker 1: at Knoxville, where we just words you're kind of volunteers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I won't say go valls though, and you know why? Um.

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Speaker 1: And then there's another one at Texas State University, San Marcos.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Three body farms in the entire country. Are

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Speaker 1: they are really churning out the information? Right? And now?

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Speaker 1: One of the researchers pointed out that they think it

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Speaker 1: would be nice one day if there was a body

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Speaker 1: farm in each state because it's so geographically specific that

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Speaker 1: it would help to know these kind of things. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah. I think Tennessee's got much of the

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Speaker 1: Well exactly. You know, maybe it should open one in

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Speaker 1: so Chuck, what we're talking about his body farms. Basically, essentially,

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Speaker 1: an affable man, I should say, Joshua. The Tennessee one

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility UM. And he just started

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Speaker 1: want need to talk about that. We already talked about

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Speaker 1: idle auto licens too, but there's some other stuff too,

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Speaker 1: like the putrification process and the effects that has in

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Speaker 1: very wrong then, so um and they actually grow about

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Speaker 1: And and this this is actually um they're called corpse fauna. No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. TV always sensationalizes, is that

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Speaker 1: just get over it. It wouldn't be very entertaining if

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Speaker 1: think you should talk all about it. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: literally comes off of the hand. And they call it

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Speaker 1: d gloving. Yeah, and they actually figured out that, um,

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Speaker 1: like hey yeah glove, Um you can. You can take

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