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Speaker 1: for this week's s Y s K Selects, I've selected

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Speaker 1: what happens in the brain during an orgasm. It's a tawdry,

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. That's pretty good. Actually comes from Christmas

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Speaker 1: time two thousand eleven, so there's a festive spirit around

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Speaker 1: it and I hope you enjoy it tremendously. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me

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Speaker 1: as always as Charles W Chuck Bryant. He's got a

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Speaker 1: new haircut. Everybody looks really good. You can take my

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Speaker 1: word for short, hind tight, Yeah, high and tight makes

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Speaker 1: it stuff you should know. Chuck out his ears lowered.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard that? And I don't think anyone

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Speaker 1: just have. I took the cake. Yes, speaking of have

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Speaker 1: you ever heard of the origin of the word cakewalk?

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Speaker 1: The term cakewalk? I wrote a blog on it. You

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Speaker 1: should check it out. Very surprising, I'll check it out,

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Speaker 1: very eye opening. Again, tell us just go to the

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Speaker 1: blog blog. Um, it's so Chuck. Are you ready, Chuck? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I want to commend you. Okay, Um, just a day

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Speaker 1: we've done a lot of stuff on like really violent

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Speaker 1: Jack the Cannibalism, Jack the Ripper, um, and we have

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Speaker 1: We're a very puritanical country still, and that's absolutely true.

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Speaker 1: and for um suggesting we do this. Thanks having said that,

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Speaker 1: Like what happens in the brain during an orgasm. Defining

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Speaker 1: try to have an orgasm, I can't take a curse.

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Speaker 1: But the science supported it. Yeah, alright, right right, yeah,

422
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: So I mean these people were physically sexually aroused and

423
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 1: they couldn't do anything about it. He figured out that, um,

424
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: they can use um like meditation techniques apparently works. Um

425
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: basically calming techniques apparently hasn't has an impact on decreasing

426
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Speaker 1: the sexual arousal. I think he's still trying to figure

427
00:25:34,160 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: out the an orgasm apart. Josh, did you know that

428
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: some people can orgasm from being touched in other parts

429
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: of their body other than the genitalia. I did know

430
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: that for instance, the nipples that happened. Sometimes they think

431
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: that the sensations are transmitted to the same areas of

432
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: the brain as the ones that come from your genitals,

433
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: and so it's just the brain saying all right, I'll

434
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: give you a little bonus there. You know, it's it's

435
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: lighting up the right part of the brain. So here's

436
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: an orgasm. Um. Apparently also knees knows people. Um, there

437
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: are apparently women out there who can have orgasms just

438
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: from imagery alone, no touching, no touching. Um. And again

439
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: these people are in m r s. The brain is

440
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: lighting up and they're saying, yep, science supports this woman

441
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: is actually having an orgasm from a no touch encounter,

442
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: which is the phantom limb thing. Is what really gets me? Yeah,

443
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 1: do you want to talk about that? Yeah? I mean

444
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: apparently some people can, do they exp Do they feel

445
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: the orgasm in their phantom limb? Yes? Is that what

446
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: it's not? It doesn't generate there. So you know how

447
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: you have when you experience an orgasm, chuck, do you

448
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: know how it's concentrated in your genitalia? Imagine if that

449
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: sensation we're in your foot, like that's what felt good?

450
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: Just as easily could right now. Imagine that your foot

451
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: had been amputated years before, but you're still feeling your

452
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: orgasm in your phantom foot. That's what they're talking about.

453
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: That's nunety. Well they think what happened is um, there's

454
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: a basically a map of your brain. The way we

455
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: interpret it is as a maps called the cortical homunculous,

456
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: and the cortical homunculous is like, Okay, this part of

457
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: the body corresponds to this part of the brain, like

458
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: the nerves here correspond here, and apparently if you suffer

459
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: an amputation, your brain is like, well, I need to

460
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: rewire myself and need to read map a little bit. So, um,

461
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to assign the sensation in the foot that's

462
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: not there any longer to the genitalia, so the brain

463
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: can become confused by the genitalia being stimulated that experience

464
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: can be felt in the amputated foot, for example. That's

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00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: what scientists think right now. You can also say that

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00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 1: they have no idea what's going on. Most people are

467
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: reporting having orgasms and phantom limbs. I think it's my

468
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: new band name too, cortical homunculous. Oh, that's a good one.

469
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: I've got some breaking news, Josh. This is a surprise

470
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: for you. My friend Dr oh is at it again.

471
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: And this was just released on the old ap wire

472
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: last week. No, they kicked it up a notch and

473
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,959
Speaker 1: had ladies sit in the f m R I machine,

474
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: which is even kicked up a notch from the regular

475
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: m R I And they now have the first movie

476
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: of the female brain as it approaches, experiences, and recovers

477
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: from an orgasm. So they put this couple of ladies actually,

478
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: and one of them talked about it. She did a

479
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: little uh, I think she blocked about it. She said

480
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: that one of the problems in doing this, obviously is

481
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: you have to not move very much at all because

482
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: it will disrupt the data. So they fitted her with

483
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: a breathable plastic mesh helmet that was screwed into the

484
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: bed to keep her still. And umdlo, how he's got

485
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: an eyeswight chut for some reason. And um they told

486
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: her to practice being still while you know, bringing yourself

487
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: to climax. So she uh duct taped a kittie bell

488
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: from her cats uh what do you call it? The

489
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: collar onto her forehead and for two weeks practice bringing

490
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: yourself to climax without ringing that bell. And she said,

491
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, I got good, good enough at it too.

492
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: Successfully do this in the experiment, and uh, it was successful.

493
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: So you can go on the internet now and look

494
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: this up, um, and watch this video the animation plays. Um,

495
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: you see the activity building up in the genitalia area

496
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: of the century cortex like it should. Then, um, activity

497
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: is spreading to the limbic system. Then it spreads to

498
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: the limbic system, which is involved in emotion and long

499
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: term memory. Then as the orgasm arrives, activity shoots up

500
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: in two parts of the brain, the cerebellum in the

501
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: frontal cortex that controlled the muscular tension. To all of

502
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, the muscles like contract really heavily, so that

503
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: shoots up during the orgasm. Um, it reaches a peak

504
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: in the hypothalamus and that's when it releases the oxytocin

505
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: and all that good stuff and causes the uterus to contract.

506
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, the nucleus acumbens is uh, that's also

507
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: firing off during the peak, controlling the Yeah. And then

508
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: afterwards everything like see, it just goes, you goes from

509
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: all colorful back to the cold, dead blackness, the Derito's

510
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: center starts becoming active. So check, there's a there's a

511
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: very big question that we haven't really answered. We understand

512
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: why men have orgasms, why do women have orgasms? Uh? Evolutionarily,

513
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: but why? I mean, it doesn't make any sense. If

514
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: it's an evolutionary adaptation like it is for men, then

515
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: why is it so hard for some women to have orgasm? You?

516
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: You know, ten of women will go through their entire

517
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: lifetimes without ever experiencing an orgasm. That's a lot. So

518
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: if it's evolutionary, that just that completely pulls the rug

519
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: out of that whole idea, because then it should be

520
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: really easy for women and men, right, Okay, So one

521
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: of the ideas that's long been bandied about is a

522
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: byproduct theory, like you know, why men have nipples because

523
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: women have nipples all humans, so at some point during

524
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: gestation or whatever, we still keep ours even though we

525
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: don't need them and don't need nipples. But we're humans

526
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: and women need nipples, So it's yourself makes sense. I

527
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: don't use mine anymore. Um, they think that possibly the

528
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: female orgasm is the same thing. Men and women are

529
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: both humans. Men need to have orgasms, so women do

530
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: as byproduct. In this really weird study that came out

531
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: last year of twins UM, they studied same sex twins

532
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: and opposite sex twins, and same sex twins had similar

533
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: orgasm patterns, right opposite sex twins, who if it is

534
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: just a byproduct UM, should have the same or similar

535
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: orgasm patterns. It didn't hold up. So where does that

536
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: leave us? We have no ideas confused. They think that

537
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: it could possibly be an evolutionary remnant, like it was

538
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: strategic to our survival at some point in the distant pass,

539
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: and it's just a relic that kind of hangs around,

540
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: which is kind of a depressing thought because then that

541
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: means we're watching it as it's endangered and it's growing extinct,

542
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: and that's sad, and I think that it needs to

543
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: be snatched back from the grips of natural selection. Well,

544
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: some things maybe just shouldn't be studied. Maybe you should

545
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,479
Speaker 1: just I don't know. I'm sure there's women out there

546
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: saying just put those studies away. Yeah, let's just look

547
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: at it as a big as a big bonus, right,

548
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: And that's thanks, big guy. That's when dr Oe flicks

549
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: the switch and the disco ball comes down from the ceiling.

550
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: So if you want to know more about orgasms and

551
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: see some pretty cool stock images of lit brains and

552
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: things like that, you can type in what happens in

553
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: the brain during an orgasm. You probably just type in

554
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: orgasm in the search bar how stuffworks dot Com will

555
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: bring up some interesting cool stuff. Sure, um and uh,

556
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: I said search bar. I believe. So that means it's

557
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 1: time for a listener mail. This is about gene patenting,

558
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 1: I believe. And it's from Jim in New Jersey, Garden State.

559
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: I love your patent podcast. Guys at Dovetail love that

560
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: word very nicely with the Tech Stuff patent podcast. Yeah,

561
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: that's what he says. I'm of the opinion that if

562
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: you construct a new gene, then you can patent it. However,

563
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: if you discover a gene already existing in nature, then

564
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that you should be able to patent it.

565
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: This is just Jim's opinion. I like his opinion. Maybe

566
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: you can patent the process of identifying the gene seems reasonable.

567
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: Maybe you can patent a specific use of the gene,

568
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: such as for testing, which you clearly covered as being controversial. However,

569
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be able to quote own the gene what

570
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: if it has another use. It's a good point. Uh.

571
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 1: And the epilogue on the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,

572
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: Rebecca Scalute describes a disturbing sin area. If you provide

573
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: a sample of our DNA to a medical professional of

574
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: your own DNA, uh, and it is found to have

575
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 1: a mutation that's the foundation of the next wonder drug,

576
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: you are entitled to nothing. Yeah, So legally your sample

577
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: is considered trash unless you've like pre arranged some legal arrangement.

578
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: That means you've abandoned it. That's like Henry Alas. Are

579
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: you familiar with her? No, I've heard that though if

580
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: we talked about this, Yes, she's she's kind of famous

581
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: in this really weird way. She's like an African American

582
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: lady from the forties or fifties, and um, somehow she

583
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: donated like her blood or some tissue or something to

584
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: science and it became the basis of like all scientific

585
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: research after that. So, like all these breakthroughs and drugs

586
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: and cancer blockers and all of this pharmaceutical research was

587
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: based on this culture that's still around her line is

588
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: still around why she's immortal and her face? Yes, and

589
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: her family has gotten nothing from it. Interesting, and you know,

590
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: companies have made hundreds of billions of dollars off of

591
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: this lady's life, like her biology, and they've got nothing.

592
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: I haven't read the book, but I've heard nothing but

593
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: good things about it. I'll have to check that out.

594
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,479
Speaker 1: So that's from Jim in New Jersey. Thanks Jim. Thanks

595
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: Henrietta las Okay said, I think forties or fifties to

596
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: look that up. Um, and I'm it's probably even worse

597
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: than that, I'm sure than the way I described it,

598
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: but I will probably end up reading it. Okay, Okay,

599
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm ready. Let's finish this thing. That was

600
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: a good one. Well done. Well done to YouTube buddy

601
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: who kept it very mature. Tip of the camp to

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00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,479
Speaker 1: YouTube sir offing it as well. Uh. If you want

603
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Speaker 1: to contact me and Chuck Um, you can tweet to

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