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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chuck here for my weekly Stuff you Should

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Speaker 1: Know selects pick and this week I'm going with January

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Speaker 1: six through thousand nine, two thousand nine Exorcism How Exorcism Works.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sort of just tagging this on because in

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Speaker 1: real time, it's right around Halloween, and I remember the

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Speaker 1: Exorcism episode was pretty cool and we talked about the

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Speaker 1: real kind of exorcism. We obviously talked about the movie

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Speaker 1: The Exorcist a little bit, but we try to break

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Speaker 1: it down into what's really going on there with real

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Speaker 1: life exorcism. So enjoy how Exorcism Works. Welcome to Stuff

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

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh. That's Chuck, and

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Speaker 1: this is stuff you should know. We're about to tell

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Speaker 1: you some stuff you should know, aren't we, Chuck? We

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Speaker 1: are you ever intro? Our title like that? I like

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Speaker 1: that it's new. I tried it before. I know that

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Speaker 1: the late and arouse you. Yeah, moving on, Chuck. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever heard of a guy named Philip Kate Dick. Yes? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: he's an author. Correct, he wrote Blade Runner. Correct? Well,

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Speaker 1: I do Android's dream of electric cheap right, which was

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Speaker 1: made into Blade Runner exactly. And he wrote a minority

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Speaker 1: report and um a scanner darkly. Some other ones have

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Speaker 1: heard him good stuff. Um. And if you can't tell yet,

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Speaker 1: he was a science fiction writer. Um. But one of

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Speaker 1: the more notable things of Dick's life, one of the

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Speaker 1: more one of the more notable aspects of Dick's life

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Speaker 1: was that, Um, at one point he became possessed by

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Speaker 1: a being, another intelligence. He called it like a super

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Speaker 1: alien or something like that. And uh, it basically took

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Speaker 1: him over and got his life in order. He was

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Speaker 1: a total pill head, loved drink wine, really just kind

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Speaker 1: of chased friends off. He just wasn't a really pleasant

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Speaker 1: he's like getting you know, back pay from publishers. He's

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Speaker 1: like writing more. He his office is cleaner. I think

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Speaker 1: he started wearing ties and just all around. Basically, this

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Speaker 1: or anything no interesting. As a matter of fact, I

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Speaker 1: think he may have been a critic of scientology. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. Um, but he uh, he was possessed. He

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Speaker 1: had taken him over and at the very least was

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Speaker 1: helping him. I've never heard that. Yes, so, um, that

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Speaker 1: kind of I think is a really good segue into exorcism. Right,

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Speaker 1: this is an exorcism that actually benefited somebody. Well, he

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Speaker 1: wasn't exercise, and I don't think he needed to. Sure, sure, now,

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Speaker 1: of makes you wonder, there's this dividing line that crops up.

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