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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 this creepy, creepy podcast. It's not even Halloween. Bill,

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Speaker 1: come in. I'm Josh. That's Chuck. This stuff you should know?

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Speaker 1: How you do it? I'm well, sir, good Chuck. Um.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna sound like a bad editor to our producer

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Speaker 1: Jerry for that one, though. It is just weird, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: I think I speak for everybody when I say I

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Speaker 1: want to hear about one of your favorite movies. One

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Speaker 1: called Doctor Strange Love subtitled or How I Learned to

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Speaker 1: Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Great great film. Do

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Speaker 1: you like this one as well? I've only seen parts

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Speaker 1: of it here, I've never seen the whole thing. You

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Speaker 1: continually disappoint me cinematic. I can't help it. It's all

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Speaker 1: I ever do, Chuck, Yeah, that was I think. In

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Speaker 1: nine four, Stanley Kubrick's awesome, awesome, awesome movie, I did

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Speaker 1: like Eyes Wide Shut. I made my entire family go

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Speaker 1: there was a row of uncomfortable people seated on either

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Speaker 1: but I can't imagine taking my mother. Um. Anyway, getting

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Speaker 1: back to Kubrick. Uh. Yeah, Dr Strangelove um starred Peter

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Speaker 1: an army officer in England, and as the President of

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Speaker 1: the United States. That sounds familiar. Yeah, toward a force performance.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome. It was the parts he was born

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Speaker 1: Doctor Strangelove. The character of Doctor Strangelove was a Nazi.

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Speaker 1: Well you know, the US used to like to poach

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Speaker 1: Nazi uh scientists after the war, you know. Well, and

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened in the movie. And um, he

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Speaker 1: in the film, Um, it's pretty clear once you know

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Speaker 1: something about it. It's alien hand syndrome. What's going on there?

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Speaker 1: And he loses control of his arm and he does

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Speaker 1: the zeke kil and beats his arm into submission and

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Speaker 1: it's really really funny. He has some real trouble with it.

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Speaker 1: I remember he does. Yeah, So I think that's very

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Speaker 1: appropriate that we just talked about that movie, Chuck, because

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Speaker 1: this very podcast is about alien hands syndrome. How nuts

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Speaker 1: is that? I know? It's almost as if we planned it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah kind of so chuck. Um, this one's yours. I

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Speaker 1: would like everybody to go ahead and read this by

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Speaker 1: my Um, it's called how Alien hand Syndrome Works. It

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Speaker 1: was written by my colleague, uh and love of my life,

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant go On, who I could never do

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Speaker 1: without go on, um and uh. Basically, alien hands syndrome

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Speaker 1: wasn't until nineteen seventy two that it really became part

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Speaker 1: Am I correct? Yeah? Okay, So since nineteen o nine

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Speaker 1: If you're a sleep you might even know what's happening.

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Speaker 1: I didn't I wasn't aware of this. This can go

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