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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of

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Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your

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Speaker 1: Mind Listener mail. My name is Robert Lamb and my

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Speaker 1: name is Joe McCormick. And it's Monday. That's the day

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Speaker 1: of the week where we read back a few of

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Speaker 1: the messages that you've sent in over the past cycle

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Speaker 1: or two and we've got a good mail bag for

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Speaker 1: you today. That's right. Um. You know, before we get going, though,

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Speaker 1: quick call out to our producer, Seth Nicholas Johnson. A

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Speaker 1: couple of things. First of all, he wanted us to uh,

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Speaker 1: to to remind everything, to to tell everybody, not remind

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Speaker 1: to to tell everyone that he has been enjoying the

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Speaker 1: hot dog plus kim Chi combo, which was recommended in

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Speaker 1: the previous listener mail by Jim from New Jersey. How

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Speaker 1: could you go wrong? I mean it's like, I know,

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Speaker 1: it's perfect without even tasting it. Yeah, it's a matchmate

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Speaker 1: in heaven. Uh. And then second, secondly, as I think

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Speaker 1: we've we've mentioned this before, but Seth Nicholas Johnson has

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Speaker 1: his own podcast, Usty Needles Record Club, which you can

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Speaker 1: find wherever you get your podcast, and he had an

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Speaker 1: episode come out on Friday with a very special guest.

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Speaker 1: Who's that special guest? Joe? Oh, it's me. I was

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Speaker 1: on sets podcast last Friday. We talked about So if

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Speaker 1: called Rusty Needles Record Club and it's sort of like

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Speaker 1: a book club, but four albums, you know, but for

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Speaker 1: music and so it's very low key. It's a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. And the album I picked for Seth show

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Speaker 1: was the Batman Forever soundtrack from the ninety nineties. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what else with Seals kiss from Arose on it? Oh?

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Speaker 1: You know it is. It's got Seal, it's got a

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Speaker 1: method man, it's got Nick Cave, it's got the Flaming Lips.

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Speaker 1: It's all over the place. You two had a song

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Speaker 1: You two has a song so big it contains universes

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Speaker 1: within it. Wow. All right. So if hearing Seth and

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Speaker 1: me gab about the Batman Forever soundtrack sounds like you're

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Speaker 1: kind of thing, look up Rusty Needles Record Club. It

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Speaker 1: should be the most recent episode on the day this

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Speaker 1: comes out. Yeah, And the podcast has a cartoon dog

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Speaker 1: All right. Well, Rob, if you don't have anything else,

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Speaker 1: message from Virginia. Let's do it, okay. This is in

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Speaker 1: response to our episodes on The Seven Day Week. Virginia

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Speaker 1: rights Greetings. I'm Virginia and I'm Brazilian. This is my

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Speaker 1: first time writing to you, and I apologize in advance

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Speaker 1: for any grammatical errors in this email. First, I need

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Speaker 1: to say I love this podcast and I always recommend

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Speaker 1: it to everyone. It's perfect to practice my English listening.

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Speaker 1: It's so very well produced and always very fun to listen. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Virginia. Virginia says, by the end of part

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Speaker 1: one of The Seven Day Week, you talked about the

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Speaker 1: theory about markets and fresh food. I always have this

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Speaker 1: on my mind because of my language. In Portuguese, the

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Speaker 1: days of the week are separated by work days and

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Speaker 1: rest days. Monday to Friday is and I think this

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Speaker 1: is in order. Segunda fara ter safarra quarta farra keen

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Speaker 1: often used to describe a fair or an open market,

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Speaker 1: so we have second fair to sixth fair, and then

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Speaker 1: thinking about writing you for a long time. Hope this

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Speaker 1: information will be useful. Lastly, I really love episodes that

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Speaker 1: really don't know why we don't have a first fair here. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Virginia. Yeah, that's very interesting. So to restate

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Speaker 1: one comes to us from Will. Will says, Hi, Robert

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Speaker 1: and Joe, thanks for the fascinating content. I enjoyed listening

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Speaker 1: to the first episode of Seven Days of the Week.

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Speaker 1: You have underlined that different people are likely to have

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Speaker 1: different mental representations for days of the week. This made

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Speaker 1: my father often called Sunday afternoon the quote start of

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Speaker 1: his weekend. Thanks again for the stimulating material each week,

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Speaker 1: look forward to part two from Zurich. Will oh, glad

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Speaker 1: have they have a big day. Aad though, it is

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Speaker 1: interesting to consider a different different models for the week

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Speaker 1: Jim says Robert and Joe, I keep having a recurring

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Speaker 1: Magical number seven plus or minus two Some limits on

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Speaker 1: and uh and let us know more about green stamps. No,

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