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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuckers Bryant, son of Mrs Bryant. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just kept the name good for her. I like your mom. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have you met my mom? Yeah? I met your mom

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Speaker 1: at They Love your Mama opening appropriately enough. That's right.

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Speaker 1: I thought you said your name was Josh Quark for

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Speaker 1: a second there. If that was off the cuff, I'll

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Speaker 1: accept that I did. I just made that up. It

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Speaker 1: is not written down anywhere. That is great. Um, Chuck

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Speaker 1: said that because we're going to be talking about quantum

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Speaker 1: physics today and quarks are Um it's my understanding, Chuck

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Speaker 1: that they're the the fundamental basis of matter. Yeah. They

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Speaker 1: because we talked about the Large Hadron collider. Yeah, up

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Speaker 1: it was called the large hadron. Yeah. Well, there's six quarks, Josh.

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Speaker 1: They are known as flavors, which is kind of cool

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Speaker 1: up down, charm strange top and bottom, and apparently charms

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Speaker 1: with like a big collision, like the hadron collider, a

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Speaker 1: large hadron collider. Huh. And there's also antiquark too, which

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Speaker 1: is like the opposite. Yeah, those are the quarks that

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Speaker 1: smoke cigarettes and wear leather jackets exactly. Um chuck. Quarks

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Speaker 1: exist on their particles, their matter, right, they're the building

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Speaker 1: And they exist in this weird world, the quantum world.

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Speaker 1: And they they bump elbows against photons, which are my

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Speaker 1: other weird strange It's like this odd parade of physical things, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't like it. There, I can understand why you don't,

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Speaker 1: because it's a very disconcerting and uncomfortable world. The the

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Speaker 1: very comforting ideals and principles of Newtonian physics, which are

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Speaker 1: Isaac Newton, you know, you know his breakthroughs. I learned

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Speaker 1: a lot about myself reading this. Actually, did you learn

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Speaker 1: that you get angry easily? No, It's just like the

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Speaker 1: whole notion of like stepping outside reality disturbed me. Yes.

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Speaker 1: And what's even more disturbing is that this this universe

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Speaker 1: I just want to clear that up nice. So, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: we've done when on the large Hadron collider, right, this

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Speaker 1: is just like this, this this huge, fancy, multibillion dollar

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Speaker 1: machine that's new that's still going right. Um. Back in

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Speaker 1: It where Yeah, this guy's name is Max tag Mark.

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Speaker 1: He is awesome, He's he was at Princeton at the time. Now,

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Speaker 1: up with a thought experiment called quantum suicide. And will

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Speaker 1: you allow me to explain it as follows, please do? Okay,

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Speaker 1: Or even more unsettlingly, they found that photons, these smallest

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Speaker 1: a student film or something like that. Yeah, yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a bet, just because it's so mind boggling. Um. And

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Speaker 1: the great thing is is that quantum physicists seem to

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Speaker 1: have like a little bit of a sense of humor,

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Speaker 1: or at the very least, they're well aware that what

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Speaker 1: they're saying is just completely nuts. They're like, hey, don't

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Speaker 1: kill them usinger, We're just trying to figure out what

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Speaker 1: the hell is going on here, right, Um. Schrodinger called

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Speaker 1: his cat experiment quite ridiculous, and Neil's board had a

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Speaker 1: great great quote, dedn'ty chuck, Yes, Josh. He said that

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Speaker 1: anyone who was not shocked by quantum theory has not

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Speaker 1: understood it. Right. That says it all, all right, it

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Speaker 1: does say it all. And I think also what it did.

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Speaker 1: Was it bought quantum physicists some time. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 1: you go figure this out, but we really go figure

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Speaker 1: this out. Well, I would come and explain it to you.

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Speaker 1: You got a little clever there on the last page,

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Speaker 1: which I appreciated when you said that, you know, there

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Speaker 1: are all these different theories and when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: quantum physics, and a lot of them contradict each other,

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Speaker 1: and maybe if you believe in this kind of quantum stuff,

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Speaker 1: maybe they're all right. Right Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the ones that contradict each other they're both right,

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Speaker 1: depending on what universe you're in, So it depends. If

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Speaker 1: you're a many worlds interpretation devote, then yeah, that would be.

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Speaker 1: That would be so quantum, Yes, super quantum that we

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Speaker 1: should be wearing trawn outfit. It's right now. I saw

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Speaker 1: that trailer the other day Man before Inception. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: looks really good. Yeah, although I gotta say I liked Inception,

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Speaker 1: but I I it could have been better. I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: I did too. Christopher Nolan can direct and write the

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Speaker 1: crud out of a movie. Yeah, but how much of

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Speaker 1: it though? Is that no one else is making anything

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Speaker 1: even remotely watchable. You're right, Wow, he came along in

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Speaker 1: a good time, didn't he know he did? Um? So

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Speaker 1: that's quantum suicide in a bat. I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see the listener mail on this man when the physics

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Speaker 1: guys right in. Yes, it's and I don't I'm not

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Speaker 1: making fun of I mean it's really enlightening. They take

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Speaker 1: it really seriously. It's awesome. Yeah. Um, and don't forget Chuck.

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Speaker 1: We met somebody in New York at the knitting factory

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Speaker 1: I believe who was a quantum physicist who explained to us,

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Speaker 1: like how we screwed up the large had round collider.

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Speaker 1: So if you're out there, I can't remember your name,

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Speaker 1: remind us that is that the hadron the collider? Dude?

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Speaker 1: You know those are those are their comedy troupe much

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Speaker 1: to page on the clider. They have a podcast. Check

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Speaker 1: it out. Um, I guess now what it's time for

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Speaker 1: listener mail. Do you have something? All right, it's time

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Speaker 1: for listener mail, Josh. I'm gonna call this uh cool

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Speaker 1: Kiva wedding. Okay, can I throw something in first? Please?

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Speaker 1: There's something we've we've overlooked. Too many episodes have gone

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Speaker 1: by in my opinion, but we need it, We need

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Speaker 1: to put this out there. Remember Sean from Virginia Beach,

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Speaker 1: the cubicle guy who just was like, I've listened to

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Speaker 1: everything and there's no there was no origin of Hippie Rob. Well,

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Speaker 1: we put the call out for everybody to let us

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Speaker 1: know where Hippi Rob first appeared in what capacity, and

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Speaker 1: we got a great response. First one to write in

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Speaker 1: was Emmy. Thanks for writing in, Emmy, but thanks for

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Speaker 1: everybody for writing in. If you go back and listen

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Speaker 1: to How Squatting Works and listen to approximately the two

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Speaker 1: fifty mark, two minute fifty second mark, you will find

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Speaker 1: the origin of Hippie Rob. And if you want to

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Speaker 1: show up, he also shows up about the same place

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Speaker 1: in the Earthquake podcast too and elsewhere. But those are

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Speaker 1: the two largest chunks of the Hippie Rob saga. He's

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Speaker 1: peppered throughout. Isn't it funny that this dude is just

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Speaker 1: out there, existing somewhere and has no idea. It's like

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Speaker 1: in another parallel university exactly. Wow, you're welcome, josh Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is from Janna in Minnesota and she says, Josh

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Speaker 1: and Chuck, I'm a huge fan of the show. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to share a story with you. My husband and

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Speaker 1: I recently got married June nineteenth, two thousand ten. So

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Speaker 1: Mozel talked to that, you know, with the reception when

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Speaker 1: people ding the glass to make newlyweds kiss. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if it's a tradition in Georgia or not. Sort

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Speaker 1: of is I think it is. We didn't do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had paper cups, and one heard it. Did you

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Speaker 1: really know? We did have a budget wedding, but we

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Speaker 1: didn't have paper cups plastic. We pbr in a bottle.

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Speaker 1: That's very classy. Thank you. Everyone else starts to also

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Speaker 1: ding their glass and then you have to stop eating

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Speaker 1: and kiss. My husband and I didn't like that idea,

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Speaker 1: and it either uh something about the annoying clanging sound

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Speaker 1: didn't sound like fun. Plus it's really demanding. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can't make me kiss. That's what I would have said.

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Speaker 1: I would get all obstinate in my own weddingh So

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Speaker 1: we decided that people had to put money in a

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Speaker 1: jar to make his kiss. Great idea. All the money

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Speaker 1: placed in our jar would be donated to Kiva Fantastic

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Speaker 1: through the stuff you should know Micro Lending Team the

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Speaker 1: micro lending site, responsible micro lending site. Yeah, we should

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Speaker 1: also spell that because we get called out because it's

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Speaker 1: such a weird word. It is k I v A

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Speaker 1: dot org and then slash team slash stuff. You should know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you want to donate for our team. So she

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Speaker 1: said it wasn't the biggest fundraiser of all time or anything.

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Speaker 1: They made about fifty bucks and kisses and they were

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Speaker 1: happy to donate. So that's two loans right there. And

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Speaker 1: I just thought it was cool that we've been included

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Speaker 1: now in someone's wedding day and wedding night. Remember that

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Speaker 1: other one. I guess I'm waiting on us to cause

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Speaker 1: a divorce that would bring this full circle. I know

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Speaker 1: we helped somebody through divorce, didn't we Can we get

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Speaker 1: an an email from somebody who was getting divorced? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I think we have And thank you?

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Speaker 1: Who was that? That was Jenna from Minnesota. Thanks Janna

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Speaker 1: and husband. Congratulations on your wedding. Uh. And if Chuck

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Speaker 1: and I have hastened the end of your wedding or

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Speaker 1: have been president at the birth of your kid or whatever,

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Speaker 1: any major life event, we want to hear about it. Uh,

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