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Speaker 1: Chiggers colon the Phantom Menace because boy, Chiggers are terrible

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Speaker 1: and they make you itch. And I would say that

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Speaker 1: listening to this episode will make you itch. So that's

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Speaker 1: Phantom Menace. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there,

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Speaker 1: so you should know Jerry's head Chiggers. Yeah, me too,

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Speaker 1: I have not. I'm really glad I was like Chigger.

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Speaker 1: It seems like Tracy is making a pretty big deal

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Speaker 1: out of the in this article. Yeah. Tracy Wilson of

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Speaker 1: Stuff You Miss in History Class wrote this, who recently

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Speaker 1: got married? Congratulations Tracy? Yeah. And she wrote if you've

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Speaker 1: ever heard her say the word mouth parts in the show,

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Speaker 1: Tracy wrote it, chances heart she wrote it. She wrote

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Speaker 1: ticks and mosquitoes. H did you write bees? She did

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Speaker 1: a whole insect? Sweet? She spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: knee deep in insects. Yeah, and this, well, this isn't

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Speaker 1: even an insect spoiler. Oh, you just removed the fact

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Speaker 1: think you did. I'm just teasing. Okay, I'll bet I

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Speaker 1: is glove. So Tracy did make a big deal out

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Speaker 1: sure like if you ever had them, they're no fun.

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Speaker 1: my first little bow to poison ivy. Congratulations. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: And this will make you itch because it made me

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Speaker 1: They are the larvae of the harvest mite. They do

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Speaker 1: so you said that, Um, these things are the larva

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Speaker 1: we've covered Do we cover fleas? Yeah? I want to

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Speaker 1: say yes, they definitely need a blood meal. We've covered fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, spiders, scabies.

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Speaker 1: think that was worth it. Um. She also says, don't

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Speaker 1: use turpentine you, I've never heard that. Yeah, people do

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Speaker 1: all sorts of dumb stuff. Yeah, I mean, I guess

419
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Speaker 1: if you could soak in a tub of gasoline and

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Speaker 1: that would probably kill it. Lighted on fire problems. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: most of these home remedies odd you should just shy

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Speaker 1: away from. I think, yes, only use remedies approved by

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Speaker 1: modern Western medicine. Modern Western medicine. It's the only treatment

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Speaker 1: you need. Um, the name chigger, they believe you ever

425
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Speaker 1: heard of sand fleas huh, like in Florida or anywhere? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: these those are chico fleas c h I G O

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Speaker 1: e um. And another name for that is the jigger flee.

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Speaker 1: And they think that chigger came from just sort of

429
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: mashing those two names together, even though it's not the

430
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Speaker 1: same thing. No, it's not. Those actually do burrow into

431
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Speaker 1: your skin and they lay eggs there, and then the

432
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 1: eggs like to feast on you. So not good. But

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Speaker 1: I guess there's just nothing but confusion surrounding chiggers. Yeah, nothing,

434
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: so chuck. If you want to protect yourself against sugar

435
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Speaker 1: invasions in your armpits and your underpants bands, what do

436
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Speaker 1: you do well? If you're working? If you work in

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Speaker 1: your yard and your garden a lot. Um you wear

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00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 1: long sleeves, wear pants to you know, cover up as

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00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: much body as you can physically. Um, you can wear

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Speaker 1: deet if you want, or any other kind of insect repellent.

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00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: This says you can also use sulfur. I've never heard

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00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: of that. I haven't either. I wonder if you, like,

443
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: you just burned incense near you or something. I don't know.

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00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: It would smell like bathing egg water. Yeah, oh god,

445
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: your bathe in like you know what? Just I will

446
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Speaker 1: never ever try because I hate pickled things anyway. But

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Speaker 1: pickled eggs they're they're not bad. They're usually a little

448
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: too sweet. Uh. There's see those things floating in a

449
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: jar and it's like I feel like I'm in a hospital,

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00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: the like where you found the head. Yeah, the the

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Speaker 1: I think it's the Chinese, probably Japanese and Korean too.

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Speaker 1: There's a type of pickled legs where they soak them

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Speaker 1: in a brine like and it's the saltiest thing you

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Speaker 1: will ever eat, and they're mucky and brown. Those are

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Speaker 1: those are not good. The other ones are fine. They're

456
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Speaker 1: just not they don't taste that great. I think I

457
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Speaker 1: don't want food soaked in liquid. I think pickled stuff

458
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: is really good for you. I mean, I hate pickled things,

459
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: but just love pickled every period. Like soaking something in

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00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: a solution, I just don't want. I don't even like marinades.

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00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: I'm a dry rub guy. Are you really? Yeah? You

462
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: know I didn't know that about you. Yeah? Yeah, you know,

463
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: like sauces of any kind or is it the pre soaking,

464
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: like pre cooking, soaking that well, pre marinating, I don't like.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're if you have a quality French

466
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: saucier at your disposal, I'll take a little, alright, but

467
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: put it on the side in a plastic cup. But

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00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like. There was this place near

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Speaker 1: Emily Shop that was it's now closed. I kind of

470
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: feel bad for saying this, but I think I know why.

471
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: Because they used too much sauce. Dude. They had this

472
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 1: delicious crispy, crispy fried chicken that they dumped this gravy

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00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: sauce on top. They never just put it on the side, No,

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Speaker 1: and by the time it got to the table, it

475
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: wasn't crispy fried chicken anymore. I just don't get it, huh.

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00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll I'll eat a sauce if it's yeah,

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00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: what you're describing as smothered chicken, that's totally different. But

478
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: it was fried. Huh, fried and smother can't do that.

479
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: Those two things are never supposed to come together. Um,

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Speaker 1: if you want to see if you have chiggers on

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00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: your property, um, Tracy says, you can take a piece

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00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: of black paper, black construction paper, maybe from your child, right,

483
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: give me that, stupid kid, and go out and lay

484
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: it on the ground, uh, near where you think there

485
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: might be chiggers, and you might see little tiny, tiny

486
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: red things. She doesn't just say that. She says to

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00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: take a piece of paper and defy physics by standing

488
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: it up on its edge. Is that what she says?

489
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: And then the chiggers will follow their natural urges and

490
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: climb to the top of the paper. Like what world

491
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: does Tracy living? Well? And I mean you're you know,

492
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: you're in the grass. You can stand a piece of

493
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: paper up in the grass. Maybe, yeah, not if you

494
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,479
Speaker 1: take care of your grass. This isn't like that Twilight

495
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: Zone episode where Darren from the Which like flips the

496
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: coin and it lands on its side. Oh man, you

497
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: know what happened in Pe in college. One time my

498
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: pe teacher basketball teacher threw a pen, remember the paper

499
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: mate pens that had the the cap with the just

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00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: sort of flat top. Yes, he just flipped it up

501
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: in the air, meant to catch it, didn't. It hit

502
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: the ground, bounce and landed completely straight up and down

503
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: on its cap. That's exactly like that Twilight Zone episode.

504
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: He could hear everyone's thoughts after that point. Now, well

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00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: I dropped that class immediately. That's smart. Come out of here,

506
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: very smart. Where you like which ran out the door

507
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: and you're doing Satan's work? Oh man, all right, well

508
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: that's chiggers. Oh we didn't say if you really want

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00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: to control chiggers in your yard, just take care of

510
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: your yard. They will go away. They won't want to

511
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: hang out there. Yeah, there won't be long stalks of

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Speaker 1: grass for them to climb up to. In quest from

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Speaker 1: that's right. Uh. If you want to know more about chiggers, horrible,

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Speaker 1: horrible little things, you can type that word into the

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Speaker 1: search bar how stuff works dot com. And since I

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Speaker 1: said search bar, it's time for a listener. Hey guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm a new fan. I must admit I'm getting addicted.

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Speaker 1: Recently listened to the Anesthesia podcast, and I heard the

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Speaker 1: listener mail the Harvard student and needed five numbing injections

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Speaker 1: to the nasal cavity to breaking her nose. She thinks

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Speaker 1: she can win up it here. It's not bad. I know.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Uh. In one in college, one of my

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Speaker 1: molars became infected. I need a root canal. The day

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Speaker 1: of the procedure that Dennis gave me shots in the gum,

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Speaker 1: which Chuck said was the worst thing ever in life.

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Speaker 1: After a few numbing shots, he got to work drilling

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Speaker 1: uh into the infected tooth. Unfortunately he didn't give me enough.

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00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: Once he got down to the root, I felt it

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Speaker 1: and it felt awful, so I said to the dentist, Hey,

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00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: I learned the dentist. He then pulled out what must

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00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: have been the largest needle in existence and gave me

532
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Speaker 1: a shot directly into the infected root of my school.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I think that has the nose beat O. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This made me. She said that she takes pain well,

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00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: she said, but this made me sob uncontrollably. It was

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00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: ten years ago, and I can still vividly recall the

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Speaker 1: flash of blinding pain when the needle made contact. To

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Speaker 1: make matters worse. That evening, my gum swelled dislodged the

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00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: temporary crown. I had to go back the next day

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Speaker 1: to have it refitted. So that's my injection story. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm not sure if it's worse than the

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Speaker 1: five in the nose. I'd say both were pretty terrible.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the read Julie yeaste from Honno

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Speaker 1: Lulu Oaii. It's a lot for that, Julie. Man, I'm

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Speaker 1: making air quotes when I say thanks. That's like scarring,

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Speaker 1: you know, but she'll remember that for the rest of

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Speaker 1: her life. Well, way to go. Uh. If you want

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Speaker 1: to try to gross this out, it's gonna be tough

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Speaker 1: to top that one. But let's keep it going, shall we.

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