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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff from the Science Lab from how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is Alison I don't know if the science editor how

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. And this is Robert Lamb, science

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Speaker 1: writer at how stuff works dot com. And in this episode,

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Speaker 1: we've got monsters um. More specifically, we have bouts, battles,

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Speaker 1: um fights, um coral skirmishes between monsters and science. And

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Speaker 1: I mean actual science um as opposed to kind. Right,

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Speaker 1: this is what we're not talking about science fiction here,

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Speaker 1: as awesome science fiction is. We're talking about actual um

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Speaker 1: published scientific studies that deal with various fictional monsters. UM.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna end include such bouts as the sad

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Speaker 1: Squatch versus the werewolf, UM, physicist versus ghost and vampires. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm That one's kind of a tag

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Speaker 1: teammate because I think it's technically like physicists and mathematicians

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Speaker 1: against ghost and vampires. And then the final bout is

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Speaker 1: going to be Robert Smith versus zombies. We're not talking

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Speaker 1: about the curius Robert Smith, you know, the different Robert Smith.

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Speaker 1: Although now I'm gonna I'm gonna have a cure song.

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Speaker 1: Playing in my head the whole podcast. Well, that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a good problem to have, alright, So let's kick

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Speaker 1: it off. First, battle Sasquatch versus Werewolves. Tell me a

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Speaker 1: little about the Sasquatch. You're familiar with the big Foot? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the reportings of sasquatch sighting in North Georgia Mountains a

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Speaker 1: while back, Right, Yeah, there was those guys that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the fixtures were pretty hilarious. Yeah, most pictures of Bigfoot

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Speaker 1: just abysmal quality. Um. And he goes by many names

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Speaker 1: old Bigfoot again's Sasquatch, bigfoot, Yettie, one of my it's

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Speaker 1: the Skunk Cape if you live in Florida. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I noticed you wrote a couple of other ones down

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Speaker 1: here that I've not heard of, and perhaps you listeners

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Speaker 1: haven't heard of. Yeah, Like, how about why don't you

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Speaker 1: pronounce them? Robberts? Heard of the wind to go right,

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Speaker 1: I've not heard the window. Oh man, the window goes off.

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Speaker 1: The window goes off and tied and like, um, sort

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Speaker 1: of like cannibalism myths, and I think it comes out

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Speaker 1: of various Native American traditions. Um, but it is also

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Speaker 1: like an X Men character and stuff. I think it

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Speaker 1: was in a Stephen King book. But anyway, then there's

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Speaker 1: also the yehoa, the oma, the rugaru and uh and

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Speaker 1: the box b o q s. So depending on who's

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Speaker 1: describing this guy, he runs any who are between seven

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Speaker 1: and fifteen ft tall. Um. He's extremely hairy, surprisingly hard

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Speaker 1: you know reported for centuries. Um, you know, we haven't

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Speaker 1: or anything. And he walks on two legs, right, he

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Speaker 1: can have a little bit of a strong odor to him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of reports of him smelling like

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Speaker 1: you don't really smelling before you see him. And uh yeah.

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Speaker 1: So in this corner, a pretty rough and tumble character. Umquat. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In the other corner we have the werewolf. Now, what

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Speaker 1: comes to mind when you think of a werewolf? I mean,

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Speaker 1: would work better if you didn't have blonde hair. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't see very many. You see white werewolves, I guess,

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Speaker 1: but that's not really quite what I'm when I'm after,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of? Well, I mean, it varies,

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Speaker 1: can sometimes just be like trained wolves, like people who

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Speaker 1: that's my favorite kind of werewolf. Yeah. And then sometimes

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Speaker 1: of the history of science at Keene University in Union,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, sasquatch wins. But get this, he wins through

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Speaker 1: interference from Charles Darwin. Really, how does Darwin figure into this? Well? Um,

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Speaker 1: Regal's argument here is that you know, you had in

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Speaker 1: right right, like generally within you know, thirty minutes of

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Speaker 1: screen time. I'm sorry, guys, I'm not as much of

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Speaker 1: fun to quiz you on these things, um, because you know,

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Speaker 1: So these guys approached it from an infectious disease modeling standpoint.

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Speaker 1: They said, all right, let's assume you know X, Y,

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Speaker 1: did they find? We're kind of doomed. Yeah, it win

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Speaker 1: in mirror days. Yeah, unless we hit them hard and

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Speaker 1: hit them often. And that is an actual quote I

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Speaker 1: into a few different possible outcomes, and let's talk about

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Speaker 1: they they came up with was one that entailed a cure,

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Speaker 1: like we would have able to develop a cure for

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Speaker 1: zombie hood. Then then humans would survive, but only barely.

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Speaker 1: And this is interesting because I was just talking to

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Speaker 1: the three sixty. It's African what it's called, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: it entails a cure for zombies. So it's like a

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Speaker 1: but you have to take it every day to keep

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Speaker 1: from turning into a zombie. Yeah, and we all know

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Speaker 1: how effective cures that people have to take every day

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Speaker 1: are not very well well, I mean no, that is

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Speaker 1: a problem. You prescribe a therapy that is, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's troublesome. Yeah. Well, if you if you get if

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Speaker 1: you have a limb transplant or any kind of a transplant,

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Speaker 1: you have to take medication for the rest of your life. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that it can be tricky for people

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Speaker 1: to actually follow the prescribe therapy. And if it's in

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Speaker 1: a horror movie or a horror game, you know it's

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Speaker 1: not going to go right. You're gonna reach a situation

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Speaker 1: where it's like, oh my goodness, if I got my pills,

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Speaker 1: I'm turning into a zombie. Um, some people have that

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Speaker 1: problem in real life. Um, so what's the what's the

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Speaker 1: final The final scenario is eradication. So we like this

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Speaker 1: one the most, at least as non zombies do, and

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Speaker 1: that entails a four pinpointed attacks. But over ten days

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Speaker 1: and all the zombies are destroyed. Humans prevail. Robert Smith prevails,

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Speaker 1: but that's hit him hard and hit him often, hit

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Speaker 1: him early. Kind of a situation, right, So you guys

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Speaker 1: get wind of a zombie attack in your neighborhood. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: act fast, don't think so. Sadly, science takes a dive

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Speaker 1: on that particular fight, and uh and zombies prevail well

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Speaker 1: except with the eradication, but in three out of the

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Speaker 1: four scenarios zombies do prevail that. I'm sorry, whoa oh

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Speaker 1: Robert Smith, Yes, Robert Smith and Company. Hey, what do

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Speaker 1: you got any listener mail going on? Uh? This little

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Speaker 1: bit of listener mail comes from Christopher, and Christopher writes,

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Speaker 1: in the interest of aiding you in your systematic research,

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Speaker 1: I am writing to tell you that my cat mono,

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Speaker 1: and there's a note here not named after a disease

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Speaker 1: as most people initially assume. Think mono versus stereo. Um,

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Speaker 1: not mono nucleosis as in the kissing disease. That would

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Speaker 1: be that that could be a good kid. Um anyway, Um,

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Speaker 1: Christopher says, says that mono also meets that's you know

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Speaker 1: we're talking about when a cat makes them kind of noise.

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Speaker 1: The kind of which podcast was that anygain? Uh? Scientific method?

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Speaker 1: I think um anyway, Christopher says, However, we're we've always

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Speaker 1: referred to this croaking sound as the quote dusty skeleton

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Speaker 1: cat noise unquote. He does it when hungry, when he

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Speaker 1: wants to be picked up and at the mocking birds

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Speaker 1: that dive bomb on the very yard. But he gets

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Speaker 1: his grizzly revenge on him every now and then, which

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Speaker 1: means he eats him. Um. I hope this helps your

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Speaker 1: reach that your translation. I hope this helps your research study.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the podcast, and hello to Allison ry Christopher.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for writing. Yeah, so I think that wraps it up.

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Speaker 1: But if you guys want to read more about Bigfoot

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Speaker 1: and all of his crazy friends, he used to check

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Speaker 1: out Hustbrooks dot com because we have a lot of

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Speaker 1: articles on all of these creatures. Yeah. We have how

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Speaker 1: big Foot Works by Tom Harris. We have how wearableves

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Speaker 1: worked by Tracy B. Wilson. That's a good one. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to read Tracy's on where well. She also wrote

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Speaker 1: how ghost work and how zombies work as well. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I would call Tracy as skeptic too. Yeah, a skeptic

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Speaker 1: with an appreciation for, um, you know the fantastic too.

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Speaker 1: Skeptic skepticism comes from a good place. Yeah, I agreed.

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Speaker 1: It's not the same. It's very different from cynicism. So

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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to anybody's cynical about zombies.

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