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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 with me is Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chucker's Bryant. I'm hungry, are you? I just had a

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Speaker 1: six of a slice of pizza pizza. Yeah, you better hurry.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, it's pretty good. I got off pizza.

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Speaker 1: The cheese gets gets to my stomach. In our Digestion podcast.

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Speaker 1: You've got a lot of great support I did for

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Speaker 1: people anything work. I am going to uh make an

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Speaker 1: appointment with a specialist for the gird good and get scoped.

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Speaker 1: I think they call it when they drop a camera

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Speaker 1: down in there and they find out that I have

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Speaker 1: a small dragon living in my stomach and then the

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Speaker 1: scope drops a film canister into your stomach. Asked him

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Speaker 1: to be retrieved later and developed. Yeah, so thank you

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Speaker 1: for that support people. I'm definitely gonna go get that

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Speaker 1: checked out. He's going to the specialists, going to a specialist. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna quit drinking red wine? Is that the problem? Well? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean I get heartburned from anything, which is so

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Speaker 1: that means I've definitely got a real issue. But obviously

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Speaker 1: things like red wine and chocolate and Margarita's and citrus,

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Speaker 1: all the best stuff, all the best stuff. Margarite is

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Speaker 1: you could go either way. I like him. During the

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Speaker 1: right time of year, you need to just drink like

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Speaker 1: white Russians all the time. It has a lot of

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Speaker 1: milk in it. Chocolate though that's a black Russian. Oh right,

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Speaker 1: white Russian. Or just drink of vodka mm hmm, yeah,

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Speaker 1: just drink milk, okay and pretend you're wasted and be healthy. Chuck. Yes,

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Speaker 1: have you ever fasted? Uh no, I've done the little

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Speaker 1: Master cleans thing, but which is sort of a fast.

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Speaker 1: I guess so that the lemon juice one. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. I've done that as well,

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Speaker 1: and this is kind of like gives you shingles. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it again. You're not. So I

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Speaker 1: good understanding of what fasting can do and what it

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Speaker 1: it comes from an old Anglo Saxon word fastin. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the the fact of the podcast for me. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's remarkable, facing fast and fasten fasting. There's an

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Speaker 1: people have been doing it for a while. Then that's

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Speaker 1: that people fast, more modern ones see medical fasting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: talk about specifically religious fasting. Chuck, great place to start. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's been going on for thousands of years in religion.

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Speaker 1: And millions millions of people do this during Ramadan. Which

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Speaker 1: way to get attention if you're a Gandhi, Let's say,

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Speaker 1: And Gandhi did do that, I think in because the

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Speaker 1: Crown was saying, hey, let's get this new Indian constitution

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Speaker 1: underway and let's codify the cast system that keeps people

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Speaker 1: in these this horrible socioeconomic hierarchy. And Gandhi said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, you do that and I'm can eat and

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Speaker 1: the whole world will pay attention. And the Brits were like, oh,

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Speaker 1: shut up, and Gandhi was like, no, I'm gonna do it,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, no, you're not. And he did

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Speaker 1: it and everybody paid attention. And he said, one day,

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Speaker 1: Sir Richard Edinburgh will make a movie about me. Isn't

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Speaker 1: that who made Gandhi? I think so? Huh? And Ben

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Speaker 1: Kingsley will play me because he looks that's good stuff, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: That was a great back and forth, wasn't Bobby Sands

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Speaker 1: Uh the infamous Irish hunger strike in Uh in Ireland

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Speaker 1: and and sorry, in in May's prison in Northern Ireland.

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Speaker 1: He fasted for sixty six days and I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: he had some of his uh ira A cohorts taking

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Speaker 1: part in it with him. Yeah, I think nine other

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Speaker 1: guys died. I wasn't including him, Okay, sixty six days. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So they had demands, various demands like, hey, we want

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Speaker 1: to wear our own clothes. We want to be able

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Speaker 1: to socialize and correspond with the outside world. Sure mails,

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Speaker 1: mailsome letters here and there. We shouldn't have to do

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Speaker 1: penal work as part of our senates here and uh,

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Speaker 1: nine prisoners died, like you said, and sixty others died,

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Speaker 1: and the violence that followed. I think there were some

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Speaker 1: riots that happened afterwards, and it was a really big deal.

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Speaker 1: I think I wrote about that in my how Long

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Speaker 1: can You Go Without Food and Water? Article many months ago.

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Speaker 1: That's where we talked about the Calori restricted diet, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I think? So we'll have to tweet that that episode.

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Speaker 1: It's a good one, agreed, man that that seems like

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Speaker 1: a gazillion years ago. And then I don't even remember

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Speaker 1: what was in it. I don't either, Uh, and then

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Speaker 1: we mentioned the forty hour famine, which is an annual

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Speaker 1: event in Australia, and basically people say, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: drink food or water for forty hours and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to raise awareness. Like that's a really good way to

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Speaker 1: raise awareness, to just say I'm not eating and you

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Speaker 1: can't make me. And then people will try. Authorities will

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Speaker 1: be like, no, we have to keep you alive because

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Speaker 1: we want to keep you in prison. Logic all over

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Speaker 1: the place. You got anything more about fasting? No, you know,

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00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: be careful if you're out there. It's Uh. Anarexy is

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Speaker 1: a real problem in the world and it can get

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Speaker 1: out of hand. And there was a sidebar in this

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Speaker 1: article we didn't cover, but um, we'd be remiss without

468
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: mentioning that anorexia nervosa. That's right, not good, No, neither.

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Speaker 1: I saw a thing recently where UM a plus size model.

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Speaker 1: Did you see this? This female plus size model had

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Speaker 1: her picture taken with UM, a regular model and they

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Speaker 1: were like both nude and just hugging and it looked

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Speaker 1: like she was hugging a a small child and I

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Speaker 1: think they had and she was doing this to raise

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Speaker 1: awareness that like this image that they put out with

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Speaker 1: models is just a unattainable and be unsafe. And I

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Speaker 1: think that I can't remember the year, but it was

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Speaker 1: something like twenty years ago the average model was like

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Speaker 1: eight percent smaller and thinner than your average person. And

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Speaker 1: nowadays it's like well, not only that they alter them

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Speaker 1: digitally through like photoshop or some other photo editing. Sweet, yeah,

482
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: just do crazy things for me. They don't even look

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Speaker 1: right if you see what they do to them in

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Speaker 1: photoshop afterwards, it's crazy. It's a great article. I wish

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Speaker 1: I could remember where it was. It was going around Facebook, though,

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Speaker 1: but I think it is a very good message to

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Speaker 1: send out that chuck from stuff you should know thinks

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Speaker 1: that that plus size model was uber hot and sexy.

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Speaker 1: Look good for you? Look good, man, That's how a

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Speaker 1: woman should look. It's very nice of you, not like

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Speaker 1: that little frail waife waif of a of a lady.

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Speaker 1: And if you're like that, naturally I'm not you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make you feel bad about yourself,

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Speaker 1: but if you're starving thisself with to make you look

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Speaker 1: like that, then some guys like a little junk in

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Speaker 1: the trunk, as they say. I think that's an excellent

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Speaker 1: one to end the fun way too good, Chuck. So

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Speaker 1: you have nothing more now about fasting? No, nothing more

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Speaker 1: any other discourse. Jerry's just the last. He's like, boy,

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Speaker 1: these guys are spiraling. Um. Well, if you want to

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00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: know more about fasting, you can type that word into

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Speaker 1: the search bar at how stuff works dot com and

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00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 1: chucks a junk in the trunk. So that brings up

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Speaker 1: listener mail. So listener mail. As I just said, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm shaking my head down. I knew that you're going

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Speaker 1: to say that. South By Southwest announcement continues. Is this

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Speaker 1: the generic one or the specific one? This is the

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Speaker 1: generic version. This is the the um where does this

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Speaker 1: is filled with the seat and trickery? Yes, we are

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Speaker 1: having a party on Monday, March twelve in Austin, Texas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no badge required, let's not forget. Also, dude, we're doing

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Speaker 1: an official live podcast on the day before March eleven pm. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you remember that. What's going on March twelve,

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Speaker 1: March twelfth is a party we're having and uh at

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Speaker 1: a place to be announced later downtown Austin, and there

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Speaker 1: will be performers comedians, bands and some other special treats

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Speaker 1: and it will be in the evening hours. Yeah, it'll

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Speaker 1: be a cool party, early evening hours. Can we call

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Speaker 1: it a party, it's a it's a party. Okay, it

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Speaker 1: will be a party. And if you don't have to

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Speaker 1: have a badge for this, you do have to have

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Speaker 1: a badge for the live podcast on Sunday, and you

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Speaker 1: probably have to be twenty one when don't you think

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Speaker 1: do you know, I think it's a restaurant. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you can come in there and awesome. Or

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Speaker 1: if you're twenty one, you can come in there and

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Speaker 1: drink your face off. Yeah, bring your pocketbook. We're not

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Speaker 1: buying drinks. You can buy us drinks. Yeah, here you go.

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Speaker 1: Can we get to it now? Yes? Okay. Appropriately This

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Speaker 1: is from an Aussie fan that um has uh to

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Speaker 1: wants to raise awareness for weight loss. Weird funny how

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Speaker 1: that works. Greetings from down Under. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: plug a little something for the Ausi corner of the

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Speaker 1: s y s K nation and we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of Australian fans. One of our major AUSI broadcasters has

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Speaker 1: started a new initiative called the one million kilow challenge

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Speaker 1: and the goal is to get Australians to collectively pledged

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Speaker 1: to lose one million kilos. It's about two point to

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Speaker 1: million pounds. Where you backwards folk as she calls us, uh.

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Speaker 1: Their site is www dot one and it's the number

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Speaker 1: one million kilow challenge dot com dot a you that

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Speaker 1: means Australia and it gives you all the diet and

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Speaker 1: exercise plans you need to shed that lab in ten

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Speaker 1: weeks starting on January. Maybe I should do this. You

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Speaker 1: can complete the challenge as an individual or as a team.

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Speaker 1: So I thought, why not rally the s y s

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Speaker 1: K army. I think it would be a great way

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Speaker 1: for AUSI listeners. I'm sorry keep saying Ausy. It's really Ausy.

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Speaker 1: As they say AUSI lis sners to interact, get healthier

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Speaker 1: and dominate all the other teams. So I created a team,

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Speaker 1: conveniently named them Team s Y s K. International folk

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00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: always complain when we can't enter your contests, so how

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Speaker 1: about we make this the official Ausy thing. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you guys can still sign up if you're willing to

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Speaker 1: fake an Aussie address and get your key loose two

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Speaker 1: pounds convert at the ready I have pledged to lose

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Speaker 1: five point three ms. That's eleven point seven pounds that

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Speaker 1: I put on last year, and I'm really pumped up

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Speaker 1: about it. Um. I don't know how to get this

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Speaker 1: out to the s y s K nation, but I

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Speaker 1: would love it if we could encourage any other AUSI

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Speaker 1: or otherwise listeners to sign up and fight the flat together.

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Speaker 1: And this is how you do it live the email

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Speaker 1: us and we read it the next day. So here

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Speaker 1: we are jesus ps I noticed the Colbar nation doesn't

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Speaker 1: even have a team, so we've already won up them again.

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Speaker 1: Nice um, and that's in thirty days. January is when

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Speaker 1: it it's off, and that is number one million kilow

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Speaker 1: challenge dot com dot Au and throw a www in

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Speaker 1: front of that and you'll be taking straight there. And

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Speaker 1: is there a team page? Uh? She said she started

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Speaker 1: team s y s K, so I guess it might

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Speaker 1: be like Kiva word. You might can enter that in

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Speaker 1: a in a team section or something to find out. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look after this. Actually all right, well we'll

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Speaker 1: publicize it if you can. That is Live. Thanks a lot, Live.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you go into that trouble and thanks to

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Speaker 1: everybody listening. If you have a cool story, uh that

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Speaker 1: you want to tell us about, it doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: it has to do with fasting or anything else we

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Speaker 1: want to hear it. Just whatever, general assignment, how about that? Yeah? Yeah.

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