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Speaker 1: Guess what, mango, what's that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure if you've ever been to the

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Speaker 2: Secret Museum in New York City. There's a secret museum. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's hidden in this elevator shaft, and it's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 2: Each shelf is considered its own wing of the museum,

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Speaker 2: and they have all sorts of weird things in there,

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Speaker 2: at George Bush at that Iraqi Press cow rest. It's

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Speaker 2: so strange, and it's all hiding in this tiny hidden

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Speaker 3: It's strange how many like little museums and galleries there

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Speaker 3: are hiding all around us. Like I feel like I

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Speaker 3: only learned about this micro toy museum in my neighborhood

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Speaker 3: when it showed up on my son's Pokemon Go So

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Speaker 3: that thing did prove useful very.

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Speaker 2: The crazy thing is they are actually more museums in

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Speaker 2: the country than Starbucks and McDonald's combined. Like, according to

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Speaker 2: the Washington Post, there are over thirty five thousand museums

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Speaker 2: in this country and they cover every conceivable topic, from

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Speaker 2: a forest fire museum in Idaho to a museum of

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Speaker 3: I really want that museum to just be a giant

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Speaker 3: gallery of parrots owned by famous buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's what it is. We have to

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Speaker 2: I mean, if there are that many museums hiding all

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Speaker 2: that's what we're going to do in this episode. We're

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Speaker 2: creating a weird summer travel guide filled with obscure places

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Speaker 2: that deserve way more attention. What do you say we

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Speaker 2: dive in? Hey, their podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius.

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Speaker 2: I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my

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Speaker 2: good friend Mangesh hot Ticketter, and today we're talking about

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Speaker 2: finding ways to fit.

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Speaker 1: In a little weirdness into your summer.

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Speaker 2: So, as you know, Mango, a few weeks ago, while

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Speaker 2: we were recording a few episodes, my wife and kids

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Speaker 2: were doing their annual trip with three or four other

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Speaker 2: moms and a herd of kids the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Speaker 2: They go in they camp there for three nights in Elkmont, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just for the camping. It's because there's

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Speaker 2: a species of firefly that light up in synchrony. That's right,

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Speaker 2: synchronize fireflies. And it only happens for about two weeks

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Speaker 3: Just two weeks, like that's such a short window.

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Speaker 2: It is, but it sounds magnificent and it's one of

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Speaker 2: There have been some others found in the swamps of

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Speaker 2: South Carolina and some other areas of the Appalachians, but

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Speaker 2: that the camp sites at Elkmont book up a year

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Speaker 2: in advance. But during the second week in June you

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Speaker 3: That's something I definitely want to see. Well, that's what

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Speaker 2: Thinking, somemer may have already started, but it's not too

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Speaker 2: late to find lots of other unique and weird things

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Speaker 3: Definitely not and to help us find some of the

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Speaker 3: most interesting off the beaten path places and events around

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Speaker 3: the country, we turn to our friends at one of

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Speaker 3: our favorite websites at liss Obscura. Now, if you don't

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Speaker 3: in a bit will be joined by Dylan Thuris, one

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you've got a ridiculous quiz ready for

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Speaker 3: Of course, who are.

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Speaker 1: We going to have on the line today.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've got a travel theme, so we've got two

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Speaker 2: All right, Okay, well let's get started. So we know

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got this list of one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: Well, that's great, but I'm not sure we have time

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Speaker 2: why don't we pick eight and we'll talk about those.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna cut my list off right here. Okay, let's

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Speaker 3: the museum dedicated to one of my favorite instruments, the kazoo. Whoa,

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about the Kazoo Museum at the Kazoobi Kazoo

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Speaker 3: That's right. And do you think we're going to be

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Speaker 3: But did you know that the kazoo is also known

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Speaker 2: Now I feel bad for running away from that man

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Speaker 2: Where do we go from Beaufort, South Carolina. Let's head

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my family actually speaks a tiny dialect of a

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Speaker 1: It's so interesting. I definitely want to check this place out.

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Speaker 3: Well. While you're there, you can also see how your

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Speaker 3: It's the US National Tic Collection and it's the largest

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Speaker 3: I know, it's like the meat lobby's nightmare.

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Speaker 2: But how big could this tick collection be? Are there

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Speaker 3: I was so surprised. They have over a million specimen

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Speaker 2: Yes, another Alabama fact. And I know this one, so

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Speaker 2: me after all the Delaware facts and the tax savans issue.

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Speaker 2: So this is the Unclaimed Baggage Center in North Alabama,

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Speaker 2: and it's not technically a museum, but it might as

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Speaker 2: well be. It's where every piece of lost luggage from

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Speaker 2: We're going to be watching it from from Nashville, which

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Speaker 3: This is a game called Trucking in Puns and it's

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Speaker 3: based on Atlas Obscure. Is incredible catalog of crowdsourced puney

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Speaker 3: titled food Trucks.

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Speaker 2: Trucking in Puns I like it. So basically, we're going

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Speaker 2: to take an incredible food truck name and give you

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Speaker 2: a clue and you have to tell us its punny name.

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Speaker 1: So don't worry. This will be fun and we hope

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Speaker 1: you're ready to play.

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Speaker 4: You ready, Dylan, I think, so prepare for disaster.

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Speaker 1: All right, We've just got a few questions here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go.

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Speaker 2: This food truck combines a Vietnamese soup with the number

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Speaker 2: of tires it has.

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Speaker 3: It's in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. Question number two. This food truck

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Speaker 2: combines a cure song about days in the week with

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Speaker 2: a breakfast dish that comes sunnyside up or over easy.

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Speaker 1: God, that's hard.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, Wow, nicely done.

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Speaker 1: So this is a real food truck. Yeah, Frida egg

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Speaker 1: I'm in love. Good job. Wow. Okay, next question.

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Speaker 2: This food truck name combines a French loaf of bread

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Speaker 2: and something Tony Soprano might tell you after he does

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Speaker 2: you a small favor.

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Speaker 4: Oh I actually I remember this one is one of

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Speaker 4: my favorites. Forget about it?

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Speaker 1: Yes, all right? Two more, here we go.

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Speaker 2: This food truck celebrates pork while naming itself for Tupac's

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Speaker 2: rival from Clinton Hill.

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Speaker 4: Oh, notorious pig.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be it is okay?

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Speaker 2: Last one here a famous Rolling Stone song which shows

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Speaker 2: compassion for Satan combined with a place you might get

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Speaker 2: a cold cut sandwich like Cats Is in New York City.

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Speaker 4: I really want this to be about Satan. But if not,

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Speaker 4: is it sympathy for the deli?

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Speaker 1: You got it?

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Speaker 3: Five for five?

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Speaker 1: Wow? Five for five? So what is Dylan one today?

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Speaker 3: Well that earns him an official certificate of admiration from

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Speaker 3: us here at Part Time Genius. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 3: joining us, Dylan, congratulations.

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Speaker 4: That's my actual only skill is.

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Speaker 2: But we hope all of our listeners will check out

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Speaker 2: Alice Obscure if you have not already. Dylan, thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for joining us today.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Part Time Genius.

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Speaker 2: So Mango has been taking us on a tour of

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Speaker 2: the weird museums to get out of the summer heat.

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Speaker 2: Now we hit up the Kazoo Museum in South Carolina,

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Speaker 2: the Museum of the Alphabet in North Carolina, the US

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Speaker 2: National Tic Collection in Georgia, Unclaimed Baggage Center in Alabama,

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Speaker 2: the American Classic Arcade Museum in New Hampshire, and then

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Speaker 2: the Pinball Hall of Fame in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: All right, where to next, Mago.

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Speaker 3: Well, all this touring has probably made you a little hungry,

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Speaker 3: so let's head over to the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, I had this.

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Speaker 3: Funny experience in college where I was at a party

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Speaker 3: in chatting with this guy and he said he was

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Speaker 3: from Austin, and I said, Oh, that's such a cool town.

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Speaker 3: And he just went off talking about how great the

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Speaker 3: Spam Museum is, like at length, and I kept thinking,

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's south By, Southwest city Limits, barbecue, so

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Speaker 3: many cool things. Why is he hung up on spam?

506
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Speaker 3: And then I eventually I figured it out. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: all his evangelism did make me want to go.

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Speaker 1: Now, have you ever had spam Mango?

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Speaker 3: No, I have no interest in trying it, but I

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Speaker 3: like it as a punchline.

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Speaker 2: I actually haven't tried it either, but I feel like

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Speaker 2: we need to change that in a future episode. Maybe

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Speaker 2: we'll find a way to incorporate it into a food quote.

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Speaker 2: I do think the history of spam is super interesting,

515
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Speaker 2: and because I can't stop pulling up the websites of

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Speaker 2: places you're mentioning, I see they're celebrating a big birthday

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Speaker 2: this year.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Spam was first created in nineteen thirty seven

519
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Speaker 3: at the Hormeelle Foods Corporation plant, so they're turning eighty.

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Speaker 3: And at the museum you can follow its history and

521
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Speaker 3: see tons of memorabilia from World War Two and the

522
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Speaker 3: role it played in the war. I mean, it's such

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Speaker 3: a massively popular food in several of the island cultures

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Speaker 3: of the Pacific. Because of the spread during the war,

525
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Speaker 3: can was an easy way to give sustenance to soldiers

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Speaker 3: in far flung visions, and the military really doubled down

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Speaker 3: on it. I think we shipped over a hundred million

528
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Speaker 3: or possibly even one hundred and fifty million pounds of

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Speaker 3: spam to soldiers around the world during the war.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I know it was so present in the soldiers

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Speaker 2: daily lives. They actually started referring to Uncle Sam as

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Speaker 2: Uncle Spam.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so many interesting facts about spam, Like did

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Speaker 3: you know that Hallie Selassi, the Rastafarian messiah and Ethiopian leader,

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Speaker 3: took a tour of the Spam Museum when he visited

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Speaker 3: the States. Actually, I know it's not time for the

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Speaker 3: fact Off yet, but maybe we should have a special

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Speaker 3: mini fact Off Spam edition.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a great idea. Okay, Can I go first?

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Speaker 3: Definitely?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: So, there used to be a mascot named Slam and Spamy.

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Speaker 2: According to the Daily Meal, he was a machine gun toading,

544
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Speaker 2: bomb hurling, angry face pig introduced by Hormel to help

545
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Speaker 2: support the war effort, and he showed up on everything

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Speaker 2: from clothing to bombers.

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Speaker 3: I want that T shirt too. The McDonald's breakfast platter

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Speaker 3: in Hawaii actually includes a slice of spam.

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Speaker 2: Well, in Guam they eat an average of six cans

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Speaker 2: per year.

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Speaker 3: In South Korea, it's considered a luxury food and it's

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Speaker 3: appropriate to give to a host when you attend their party.

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Speaker 2: So there used to be a kosher spam distributed by

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Speaker 2: the Israeli Army. It was made of chicken or beef,

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Speaker 2: but they phased it out in two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, if I say you win, will you agree

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Speaker 3: to go check out this museum with you?

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Speaker 1: Totally? All right? Next?

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Speaker 3: All right? The next one is one of the craziest

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Speaker 3: and most interesting places people have never heard of. And

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Speaker 3: it's in Hutchinson, Kansas.

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Speaker 1: All right, Kansas. So what is it.

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Speaker 3: It's a place called Stratka and it's a huge salt

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Speaker 3: mine where the Kansas Underground Salt Museum lives. So this

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Speaker 3: mine is insanely big. It has veins that extend all

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Speaker 3: the way to New Mexico. Oh wow, But there's a

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Speaker 3: museum down there that's sixty five stories underground, Like that's

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Speaker 3: basically an underground skyscraper.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can.

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Speaker 3: Take a tram tour there. And there's apparently a two

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty million year old salt crystal that researchers

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Speaker 3: have actually found a living bacterium in.

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Speaker 1: Wow. That place sounds pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not even done. The mine is also a

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Speaker 3: storage location for government records. Do you want to find

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Speaker 3: master prints of like Gone with the Wind or The

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Speaker 3: Wizard of Oz, Well, this is the place.

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Speaker 1: To look, oh way.

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Speaker 3: And also sometimes they host something called Murder in the

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Speaker 3: Mine at the dinner theater there.

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Speaker 1: All right, you're just making this up at this point.

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Speaker 3: It's so serious you should look it up. I mean,

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Speaker 3: even on every other website related to this tour of

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Speaker 3: Weird Museum.

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Speaker 2: I am and holy crap, you're not making this up.

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Speaker 2: I've got to see this place. So it looks like

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Speaker 2: you've got one more place to take us to before

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Speaker 2: we break for a quiz, and then I'm going to

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Speaker 2: share a few fun festivals everyone should check out this summer.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so I know we said eight, but let me

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Speaker 3: just say, if you're already in Kansas, it would be

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Speaker 3: a shame if you didn't just make a quick trip

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Speaker 3: up one state to Paul's Valley, Oklahoma. This is the

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Speaker 3: home of the Toy and Action Figure Museum, with over

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Speaker 3: thirteen thousand action figures, and the coolest part of the

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Speaker 3: museum is the diorama that showcases thousands of different action

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Speaker 3: figures from over the years, including a Peewee's playhouse.

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Speaker 2: So I was going to call you out on going

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Speaker 2: over your quota, but you won me over at Peewee.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're right, it does sound cool.

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Speaker 3: And just one more we're headed out to cal but

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Speaker 3: you might as well stop off quickly at the Idaho

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Speaker 3: Potato Museum in Blackfoot, Idaho, if only to see the

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Speaker 3: world's largest potato chip, a pringle measuring twenty five inches long.

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Speaker 3: It's been there since nineteen ninety one. Good lord, can

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Speaker 3: you imagine how stale that thing is now?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: I know you can't help yourself, and that is another

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Speaker 2: good addition. They're just too many good places. I think

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Speaker 2: we should do another episode on museum. All right, So

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Speaker 2: what's your final stop on the museum front.

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Speaker 3: Well, this one's going to come as no surprise to

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Speaker 3: you since you've known me so long. It's the Berlin

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Speaker 3: Game Museum of Pez Memorabilia in Berlin Game, California.

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Speaker 1: I should have known you'd end your list with this,

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Speaker 1: all right, So tell me about it.

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Speaker 3: They have all five hundred and fifty plus characters ever

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Speaker 3: produced and the largest Pez dispenser in the world, which

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Speaker 3: looks like a snowman.

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, I know a lot of people

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Speaker 3: know that Pez was started as an adult candy as

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Speaker 3: a way to help smokers avoid smoking, which is why

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Speaker 3: the original dispensers look like lighters. But my favorite thing

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Speaker 3: about Pez is that it used to come in so

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Speaker 3: many weird flavors, like this is so much earlier than

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Speaker 3: this kitcat trend where they kick cats come in like

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Speaker 3: soy sauce and baked potato flavor or whatever. Right, but

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Speaker 3: early on PEZ came in coffee, eucalyptus, and even chlorophyll.

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Speaker 3: What I want to try those? I really hope they

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Speaker 3: sell them in the museum lobby.

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Speaker 2: For some reason, that PEZ fact about its origins, I

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Speaker 2: forget it, and then every time I hear it, I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's so interesting. It used to help people quit smoking.

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Speaker 2: So all right, well that's a terrific list of museums.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations for managing to actually fit in eleven museums on

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Speaker 2: your list of eight. So while I take a minute

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Speaker 2: to process that math, let's take a break.

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Speaker 1: Bro quiz, So mango, who do we have on the

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Speaker 1: line today?

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Speaker 3: So we've got two wonderful travel agents on the line.

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Speaker 3: We've got Susan Whitson from King and Whitson Travel in Washington,

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Speaker 3: Virginia and Martha Rhoads from Travel with Martha and Richmond, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, let's welcome them both. Now.

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Speaker 2: Susan, I understand that you actually before your career as

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Speaker 2: a travel agent worked at the White House.

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Speaker 1: Is this true?

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Speaker 5: That was Laura Bush's press secretary for a couple of

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Speaker 5: years in the second administration, before I went home and

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Speaker 5: had some children and decided to embark on a career

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Speaker 5: and travel.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's been an interesting gig.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: No, it was a wonderful experience, wonderful career, and I

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Speaker 5: think part of the recent why I went into the

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Speaker 5: travel business was simply because I went through I had

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Speaker 5: these amazing experiences travel around the world with the President.

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Speaker 5: I've tried to recreate a lot of those from my clients.

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Speaker 5: The only thing I cannot do is I cannot get

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Speaker 5: air Force one. I like to think I could do

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Speaker 5: everything else other than get Air Force one.

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Speaker 1: Well, this call is over, you know. That's what we

663
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: were going on for you and Martha.

664
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: Speaking of interesting experiences, I heard you had an interesting

665
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 2: experience recently trying to go through security at the airport

666
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 2: and you were pulled aside.

667
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: Huh.

668
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I think I would offer your listeners what

669
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 5: I call a newly acquired travel tip in the category

670
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 5: of learned this the hard way. Yeah. I tested Paul

671
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 5: for explosives at TSA this week, and I was quite

672
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 5: concern about what that could possibly be. And after my

673
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 5: first pat down, the agent's gloves tested positive for explosives,

674
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 5: and I got very comforted maybe I wasn't going to

675
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 5: be allowed on my flight. And a second pat down

676
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 5: and the gloves were clear, And it took me a

677
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 5: little while, but I realized that it was probably the

678
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 5: body powder that I put on before I went to

679
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 5: the airport, and consulting with my engineering son, I learned

680
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 5: that body powder has magnesium carbonate, which is also used

681
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 5: to make gunpowder and flash powder and rocket fuel. So

682
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 5: that's something for people to know, is to skip the

683
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 5: body powder until you get to the other side of security.

684
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: Wow, well, I'm glad. I'm glad you made it through.

685
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: So, speaking of advice that you have to give your clients,

686
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: that's actually related to today's quiz. What quiz are we

687
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 2: playing with these guys today, Mango.

688
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 3: We're going to play a game called Weird World Laws.

689
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: Okay, weird World Laws.

690
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 2: So what's going to happen is we're going to give

691
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 2: you a law from a certain place around the world,

692
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 2: and all you guys have to do is tell us

693
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: whether that is true or false. We're gonna let you

694
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 2: guys work together on this one. There are five questions

695
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: you guys.

696
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: Ready to go?

697
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 5: Sure?

698
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: All right, here we go.

699
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: Question number one or statement number one, feeding the pigeons

700
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 2: in Venice is against the law.

701
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: True or false?

702
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 5: So, Susan, I think that's probably true. I think it's

703
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 5: probably true too, but I know people do it anyway.

704
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: It is true and mango, God give us the explanation

705
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: for that one.

706
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, Venice has a pigeon problem and all those birds

707
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 3: cause extra work for the cleanup crew who have to

708
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 3: polish the town statues. And in fact, you can get

709
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 3: a hefty fine if you feed the pigeons.

710
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: Wow, it's good advice there. Don't feed the pigeons.

711
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 5: Great to know.

712
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: Number two.

713
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 2: In Luxembourg, it's illegal to put holy water in a

714
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: water balloon.

715
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: True or false?

716
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 5: I would say true. Who has access to holy water?

717
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 5: And we I mean, you know, you could just go

718
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 5: in and you could get like a little cup and

719
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 5: get it out of the little font if you wanted

720
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 5: to in there, if you really wanted to. So I

721
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 5: would say that would be pretty bad. But some mischievous

722
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 5: child could do that. I'm gonna say that's false because

723
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 5: that just seems like not even a law you would need.

724
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, it's false.

725
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: All right, that's one of those you want.

726
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 5: To I want to put that in our travel tip work,

727
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 5: all right.

728
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 2: Question number three. In Barbados, wearing camouflage shorts is a

729
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 2: crime unless you're in the Barbados military.

730
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: True or false?

731
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 5: You know they have that they Martha, they have that

732
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 5: rule in Africa. They have that law in Africa, I know.

733
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 5: Is loud enough? Yeah, when you go in Safari, Yeah,

734
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't know about Barbados. Why would you

735
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 5: be wearing camo and Barbadoes? Anyway? With true, I'm gonna

736
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 5: go with true one. I'll go too.

737
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 3: You guys are right, it's true. And uh. The reason

738
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 3: is because the rule came out in the eighties when

739
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 3: gang members impersonated the military and robson banks and since

740
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 3: then the last on the books.

741
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: Wow, well done, these guys are what three for three? Three?

742
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 5: Well, Martha is I miss one? I'll give Martha's.

743
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: You guys are a team. You stick together. Okay, here

744
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: we go. Question number Question number.

745
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 3: Four, travel agent code.

746
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: That's right, That's that's right.

747
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 2: Travelers stick to the other buddy system here. Okay, it's

748
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: illegal to reincarnate in China without government permission. It's illegal

749
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: to reincarnate in China without government permission?

750
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: True or false?

751
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 5: Could reincarnate not reproduce? Right?

752
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: That is good?

753
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 5: I think that's false.

754
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: I don't know Martha's.

755
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 5: I think that's false.

756
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: What do you think, Martha? Okay, they went with false?

757
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: What's the answer?

758
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 3: This one's actually true?

759
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: Wow, let's hear the explanation.

760
00:33:58,520 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 5: Really.

761
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, the law was in acted partially to prevent the

762
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 3: Dalai Lama from reincarnating in Tibet. But if you want

763
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 3: to be born there in your next life, you actually

764
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 3: have to seek the blessing of the Chinese Government's interesting stuff.

765
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: So remind your clients. Remind your clients to reincarnate, and in.

766
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 5: Travel tips, clients, a little known facts about your upcoming

767
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 5: trip to China.

768
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: That's right, all right? Last question. These guys are three

769
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 2: for four. Let's see if they can get the last one.

770
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: Number five is it's illegal for foreigners to handle or

771
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 2: pet a pure bred French poodle in the Maldives. Poodle mixes, however,

772
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: are fair game? True or false?

773
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 5: I have no idea on this one. I think we

774
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 5: got to goru okay, true.

775
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Theno's kind of a trickster when he comes

776
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 2: up with these.

777
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 3: What's the answer is, It's actually false. Anyone can touch

778
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: a French.

779
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 5: Right there.

780
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 2: But I think I think in our official rule book

781
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 2: of travel agent quizzes, what did they have to score

782
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 2: to win the big prize?

783
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: I think three out of five? And what did they get?

784
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 3: So Martha and Susan combined for an astounding three or five,

785
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 3: which wins them a certificate to their moms or boss

786
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 3: singing their praises from us and where I'm going to

787
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 3: send you a pickle luggage tag as well the classiest

788
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 3: pickle luggage tags on Etsy.

789
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: Wow. Congratulations guys.

790
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for joining us today and

791
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 2: I hope you have a great next trip.

792
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 5: Thank you with you.

793
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 2: Welcome back to part time Genius Mango. I think you've

794
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 2: given our listeners some great museums to visit when they

795
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 2: want to escape the heat this summer. But I don't

796
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 2: think summer can really be complete without visiting at least

797
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 2: one or two weird festivals. So with that in mind,

798
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: I wanted to quickly share a few must attend events

799
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 2: for the remaining months and I'm must attend. Okay, let's

800
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 2: hear them all right, listeners, you're gonna have to move

801
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 2: quickly to make this first when it's down in New Orleans.

802
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 2: It's the Sand Firm and Bull Run, and the festival

803
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 2: takes place from July seventh to ninth. Now, I know

804
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: you've all heard of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona,

805
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 2: and that's pretty much exactly what this is. But instead

806
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: of bulls, participants are being run down and beaten with

807
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 2: foam bats by the.

808
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: Big Easy roller girls.

809
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 2: Last year, the run attracted fourteen thousand participants.

810
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 3: I can't believe people I should come for that. It's amazing,

811
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 3: it's a big deal. Well what else do you have?

812
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: All right?

813
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 2: Then you'll have a couple weeks to recover for two

814
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: very different festivals on back to back nights, but it's

815
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 2: really worth it to make it to both. First, you

816
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 2: have the Great Texas Mosquito Festival Inclute, Texas, and this

817
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 2: is where you'll see the Mosquito calling contest and Willie

818
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: man Chew, which is the twenty six foot tall mosquito

819
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 2: mascot wearing a cowboy hat and boots.

820
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 3: I'm a little skeptical of taking a trip just to

821
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 3: hang out with a giant mosquito.

822
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 2: I think you're forgetting. It wears a hat and you

823
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 2: can't miss that.

824
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: Okay, and there's a second festival right there on that

825
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 3: second night.

826
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: No, not right there.

827
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: You'll need to catch a flight from nearby Houston up

828
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: to Detroit and then make the easy one and a

829
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: half hour drive up to Yale, Michigan for the annual

830
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: Balooney Fest. I mean, you don't want to find out

831
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 2: who's crown this year is King and Queen of Boloney

832
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 2: on Twitter?

833
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: Right? You want to be there.

834
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 2: Plus you can enjoy the Baloney Derby and the outhouse

835
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: races Outhouse Races.

836
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 3: I guess this is because of where you need to

837
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 3: run after eating a bunch of ballooney.

838
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 2: I get the impression that is the case, But I'm

839
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 2: pretty sure I've told you before. Why can't stand the

840
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 2: smell of baloone even to this day?

841
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 1: Why is that? Again?

842
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 2: Well, because I grew up across the street from Triplet Boys,

843
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: who were younger brothers and my friend Mike, Well, their

844
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 2: mom would return home from the grocery store and she

845
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 2: would always buy them packs of baloney. The baloney would

846
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 2: never make it to the refrigerator. It would just hit

847
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 2: the kitchen table and the boys would tear into it

848
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: like a pack of wild dogs.

849
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: I can still hear it now. It's so gross.

850
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 3: Well, it seems like the right thing to do to

851
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 3: attend the Baloney Festival is a tribute to them. So

852
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 3: where to you next?

853
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I've got two other stops, the first

854
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 2: of which is perhaps the only thing more gross to

855
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 2: me than baloney. It's the Wisconsin State Cowchip Throw in

856
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 2: Prairie do Sac, Wisconsin. This happens to be in very

857
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: early September, And in case you didn't know, a cowchip

858
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 2: is a piece of hardened cow dung. So the whole

859
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 2: idea behind the throwing contest is to see how far

860
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: you can throw, or rather fleeing like a discus, these cowchips.

861
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 2: And apparently the record is two hundred and forty eight feet.

862
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: But the best part about the whole thing might be

863
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 2: the rules, as the homepage of the event's website says

864
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: no gloves, but licking your hands is allowed.

865
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: To get a better grip.

866
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: So discussing, well, it's clearly not that disgusting, because forty

867
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 2: thousand people show up every year to check it out.

868
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 2: There's even a corporate division, Mango. So I'm thinking maybe

869
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 2: we should get the House Stuff Works Gang to sign

870
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: up for this.

871
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 3: How state cowshit throws work. I like that, all right.

872
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 2: And here's another thing I know that they're all excited about,

873
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 2: and that we talked about earlier with Dylan, and this

874
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 2: is the solar eclipse happening on August twenty first. It's

875
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 2: the first one in the United States in our lifetime

876
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: and won't happen again for decades.

877
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: As I mentioned.

878
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 2: Earlier, We've ordered our solar eclipse glasses and I can't

879
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 2: wait to see it. Anyone in the band that runs

880
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: diagonally across the country from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South

881
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 2: Carolina will be able to see it in totality, but

882
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 2: even those who aren't will at least be able to

883
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 2: see a partial eclipse.

884
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: There's a terrific episode of Every Little Thing, one of

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Speaker 3: our favorite new podcasts, that covers this event and the

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Speaker 3: super weird and fun world of eclipse chasers.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty great. Well, speaking of pretty great, you know

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Speaker 2: what time it is.

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Speaker 3: Time for the part time genius fact off. This is

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Speaker 3: the part of the show where we share some of

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Speaker 3: the incredible facts we found in our research but didn't

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Speaker 3: get a chance to share yet.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mango, you want to kick it off? Sure?

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Speaker 3: Do you know that every year about half a penny

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Speaker 3: from each American taxpayer it goes to something called the

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Speaker 3: International Boundary Commission, whose job it is to keep a

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Speaker 3: clean border between the US and Canada. This area is

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Speaker 3: known as the Slash Slash and it's a twenty foot

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Speaker 3: wide zone that goes the distance of the border. Definitely

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Speaker 3: a destination for geography nerds and slash.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. I've actually never heard of that. I

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00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 2: can't imagine how many hours are spent keeping that area cut.

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Speaker 1: It's so weird.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of weird, if there's one thing that was reinforced

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Speaker 2: as we were looking into places to visit, it's that

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Speaker 2: Florida is weird but also pretty awesome. So did you

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Speaker 2: know that Florida is home to the world's first underwater hotel.

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Speaker 2: Now it's the Jewels Undersea Lodge and Key Largo Undersea Park. Now,

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Speaker 2: you do have to be scuba certified, but if you are,

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Speaker 2: you can watch the fish swim around outside your bedroom.

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Speaker 2: You'll have access to a full kitchen. There's even a

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Speaker 2: lounge with books and movies to enjoy, all while being

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Speaker 2: twenty one feet under the surface.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: So if you're looking for a place to take a

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Speaker 3: nice long stroll, why not head to Weldon Spring, Missouri,

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Speaker 3: where you can walk on the nuclear waste Adventure. This

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Speaker 3: fifty four acre park sits on the land of what

920
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Speaker 3: used to be the largest explosive factory in the country

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Speaker 3: and a uranium factory during.

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Speaker 1: The Cold War.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, the US Department of Energy decided to

924
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Speaker 3: throw a whole bunch of rocks on it in the eighties,

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Speaker 3: and now you can take that walk knowing you're strolling

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Speaker 3: on top of asbestos and mercury, uranium TNT all sorts

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Speaker 3: of fun things go.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy, all right, But like I was saying, Florida

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Speaker 2: is weird. It's not only home to the first underwater hotel,

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Speaker 2: but there's also an underwater cemetery just a few miles

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Speaker 2: off the coast of Miami. It used to be called

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Speaker 2: the Atlantis Memorial Reef, which I think sounds cool, but

933
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Speaker 2: it's now called the Neptune Memorial Reef. But if you visit,

934
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Speaker 2: you'd see these huge columns with lions guarding the entrance.

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Speaker 2: Now inside you'd find stone roads and other evidence of

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Speaker 2: this lost city. And when someone passes away and is cremated,

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Speaker 2: their remains are then put into concrete memorials inside the

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Speaker 2: city where divers can visit all of this forty feet

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Speaker 2: below the surface.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy and also a lot of Florida. Yes it is,

941
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Speaker 3: Okayins you just talked about death, I'll talk about a

942
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Speaker 3: pretty huge existence of life known as the humongous fungus

943
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Speaker 3: in Grant, Oregon. It's this huge network fungus that scientists

944
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Speaker 3: think maybe both the largest and oldest life forms still

945
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Speaker 3: found on Earth. It spreads twenty two hundred acres and

946
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Speaker 3: it has been growing for twenty four hundred years. No way,

947
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Speaker 3: And while it has a sweet name, the honey mushroom,

948
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Speaker 3: the main way scientists know how widespread it is is

949
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Speaker 3: to see how many of the trees above ground are dying,

950
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Speaker 3: because it's a parasite that takes over the root systems

951
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Speaker 3: of these trees above and eventually kills No. No, I'm

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Speaker 3: so sorry. I was trying to make this about life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that one took a surprising turn, all right, So

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Speaker 2: back to Florida. You know one thing I wish I

955
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Speaker 2: could still experience there is the sound of the singing

956
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Speaker 2: runway at the abandoned Disney World Airport in Orlando. It

957
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Speaker 2: was only used for a year or two before they

958
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Speaker 2: decided not to allow flights to come directly into the

959
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Speaker 2: Magic Kingdom. But even better than the convenience to Disney

960
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Speaker 2: was the fact that the grooves and the runway, you know,

961
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Speaker 2: the ones that are kind of like the ones that

962
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Speaker 2: run along the interstate there, decided to make them play

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Speaker 2: when you wish upon a star when driven over it

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Speaker 2: forty five miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: It's such a fun surprise for passing.

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Speaker 3: Oh I love that, And after the emotional roller coaster

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Speaker 3: we experienced in this fact off, I think I have

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Speaker 3: to give it to you for ending on a happy note,

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Speaker 3: so you win this week's edition.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Mango. That's it for today's Part Time Genius.

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Speaker 2: Happy travels out there, and thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 2: Part Time Genius is a production of how stuff works

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Speaker 2: and wouldn't be possible without.

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Speaker 1: Several brilliant people who do the important things. We couldn't

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Speaker 1: even begin to understand.

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Speaker 3: Christa McNeil does the editing thing.

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Speaker 2: Noel Brown made the theme song and does the mixy

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Speaker 2: mixy sound thing.

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Speaker 3: Jerry Roland does the exact producer thing.

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Speaker 1: Gabe Lozier is our lead researcher, with support from the research.

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Speaker 2: Army including Austin Thompson, Nolan Brown and Lucas Adams and Eve.

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Speaker 3: Jeffco gets the show to your ears, Good job, Eaves.

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Speaker 3: Do we do? We forget Jason?

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Speaker 1: Jason who