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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie,

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Speaker 1: have you destroyed any watches recently with your electromagnetic field?

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Speaker 1: Not recently, but yeah, I have laid waste to several. See.

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Speaker 1: Now this was a fairly new thing to me. My

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Speaker 1: sister Lucy brought this up to to me. She said,

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Speaker 1: have you guys ever looked into this? This, uh, this

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Speaker 1: idea that some people cannot wear watches because the watches

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Speaker 1: always stop and uh, you know, they'll they'll they'll try

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Speaker 1: out of risk watch. Within a few weeks, it stops,

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Speaker 1: get another one, it stops. And they are essentially a

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Speaker 1: person who cannot wear them for some natural or supernatural reason.

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Speaker 1: But you've been you've been experiencing this your entire lot. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, I'm not really someone who

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Speaker 1: and it's been years now, um, I would go to

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Speaker 1: put them on and then they wouldn't work. Fairly recently

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Speaker 1: after I put them on. Now memory is fuzzy, and

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Speaker 1: I will say that if you don't wear your watches regularly,

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Speaker 1: then you're probably apt to put one on that's going

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Speaker 1: to die of the batteries about to conk out. So

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Speaker 1: that could definitely be an explanation, but it could be

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Speaker 1: that I have a crazy electro magnetic field rating radiating

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Speaker 1: outward and just shutting everything down. It's what do you think?

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Speaker 1: Well as well discuss I tend to air on the

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Speaker 1: side of skepticism, but but it's a fascinating copy because

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Speaker 1: it is because it's I mean, there's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of science mixed in here, a little bit of pseudoscience,

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Speaker 1: a little just a bit of just basic psychology going on.

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Speaker 1: Like one thing that instantly comes to mind when someone says, oh,

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Speaker 1: I can't wear watches because when I wear them, they break,

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Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of someone saying, oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't eat spinach because I don't like it. And then

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Speaker 1: you want to ask, well, when it is the last

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Speaker 1: time you had spinach? Did you have spinach like once

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Speaker 1: when you were five and then you boughtened into this

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Speaker 1: idea that you don't like it? Or is it like

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Speaker 1: a re recurring thing where every time you try spinach

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Speaker 1: every day you don't like it. I mean, it's there's

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Speaker 1: so many factors that come into play with our experience

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Speaker 1: versus our expectation of the world. It's true. And even

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Speaker 1: though I know better about the watches, I can't help

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Speaker 1: but that to sit there and think. But I even

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Speaker 1: got an oscillating watch, and that one also died. Um so,

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Speaker 1: But it's true. That's why I think this is so interesting.

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Speaker 1: And there's there's a really good observation by Slate writer

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Speaker 1: Juliette Lapotitos in her article Really a man can't become

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Speaker 1: a magnet on why watch stopping? This myth of watch

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Speaker 1: stopping is so pervasive. She says, quote it's both scientific

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Speaker 1: seeming since magnetic fields can, after all, interfere with electrical devices,

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Speaker 1: and vaguely magical, since magnetic forces operate invisibly. The best

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Speaker 1: of both worlds for people who aren't entirely satisfied by

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Speaker 1: a materialistic worldview but aren't willing to reject materialism out right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of it's science e superstition, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it gives you a you can sort of fool

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Speaker 1: yourself into believing it because it sounds possible, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're on the surface of things until you start looking

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Speaker 1: a little deeper. Well, yeah, I mean, especially when you

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Speaker 1: consider that a magnetic field is produced whenever an electrical

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Speaker 1: charge is in motion, right, and then we are electrical creatures.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the experience of the world that we're having

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Speaker 1: right now are our thoughts. Everything. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: this is electronic in nature. I mean, essentially, we're a

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Speaker 1: spark inside of a bunch of meat. It's true because

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Speaker 1: all of those meat tissues and organs produce specific magnetic fulsations,

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Speaker 1: and so this is creating this biomagnetic field. So of course,

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Speaker 1: you know, all of this is really interesting material to

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Speaker 1: get into. But in order for us to get into it,

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Speaker 1: the right way to probably just do a little one

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Speaker 1: on one overview of magnetic field because that in and

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Speaker 1: of itself is amazing and it's not totally clearly understood

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Speaker 1: by scientists yet. Right, So what is what is the

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Speaker 1: magnetic field? What is it admitted by Well, the Earth's

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Speaker 1: it's emanating a magnetic field with two poles. Right, You've

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Speaker 1: there is is creating these magnetic fields. And as we

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Speaker 1: I mean this actually ends up protecting the planet. I

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Speaker 1: means it's highly important just in MS in terms of

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Speaker 1: like an umbrellas shielding us from everything that you know,

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Speaker 1: Without this, we would be fried meat bags exactly. Wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have even become off the ground. Yeah. Um, so that's

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Speaker 1: magnetic field and how humans and animals use them, because

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Speaker 1: figured out by scientists. It's still an amazing thing, the

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Speaker 1: magnetic field being able to orient something like the monarch

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Speaker 1: Various birds, foxes, animals that use the magnetic field for

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Speaker 1: say a bird or a butterfly can use the magnetic field.

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Speaker 1: But there is something called cryptochron homes, and these are

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Speaker 1: class of light sensitive proteins found in plants and animals,

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Speaker 1: this is here exclusively for electromagnetic field sensibility. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: and his colleagues Lauren Folly and Robert Gieger have been

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Speaker 1: brains and our meat bodies. We're talking about people who

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Speaker 1: back to this idea that your brain, your body um

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Speaker 1: I mean, like we said that your thoughts in your head,

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are electronic signals. I really liked this

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Speaker 1: on the conscious level, you really want your marriage to work,

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Speaker 1: but on your subconscious you're working against it. Or on

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Speaker 1: your conscious level, you really want to be successful at work,

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Speaker 1: but subconsciously you want to destroy it. Most of the

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Speaker 1: studies you look at with this, it tends not to

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Speaker 1: revolve around something as petty as your risk watch, but

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Speaker 1: you know it could. It could possibly explain what's happening

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Speaker 1: subconsciously you hate your watch, or subconsciously you want to

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Speaker 1: break stuff, and hey, your watches right there just begging

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Speaker 1: for it. Maybe so, maybe so. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If people really do have electronic electromagnetic fields that are

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Speaker 1: breaking watches all the time, what they need to do

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Speaker 1: is they need to get themselves an anti magnetic magnetic watch.

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Speaker 1: And we fancy, yeah, well, we've we've had these things

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Speaker 1: around for oh about sixty years. I believe generally the

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Speaker 1: way they've worked in the past is that you have

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Speaker 1: shielding involved. One of the more popular watches out there

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Speaker 1: that that does this is the Rolex milligoths, which actually

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Speaker 1: was developed for scientists working at CERN. Because they're powerful

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Speaker 1: magnetic fields all around them. They want to know what

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Speaker 1: time it is, so it makes sense let's develop a

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Speaker 1: watch that can withstand those pressures. So the Milagos is

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Speaker 1: resistant to a thousand gaus, which is a unit of

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Speaker 1: magnetic um induction uh. And to put that in the

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Speaker 1: frame of reference, a small iron magnet has about a

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Speaker 1: hundred gals and a refrigeration magnet has about fifty. So again,

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Speaker 1: the existing Rolex millergus takes care of a thousand. And

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Speaker 1: there's a new model from Omega called the Omega Sea

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Speaker 1: Master Aquacara, and this one um is that is really

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Speaker 1: cool as well, cancels out to the field and is

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Speaker 1: resistant to a fifteen thousand goals. So in other words,

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Speaker 1: you're probably good because you'd have to to to break

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Speaker 1: one of these things. You'd have to be wearing it

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Speaker 1: through an m r I machine or traveling to a

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Speaker 1: neutron star. So I'm guessing that the cost of this

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Speaker 1: is going to require Richard Branson dollars. Well, you know

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Speaker 1: it's a pricier option, but if you think that you're

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Speaker 1: breaking watches all over the place, then maybe it's what

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Speaker 1: you need to try out there you go, yeah, or

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Speaker 1: go for the Rolex model. I mean shop around. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, We've had this technology for years, so uh,

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Speaker 1: an answer is out there if you really think that

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Speaker 1: you're some sort of electromagnetic freak. Al right, So on

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Speaker 1: that note, let's call the robot over and see. Here's

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Speaker 1: another example. If you really were um putting out some

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Speaker 1: sort of electromagnetic energy that breaks technology, you would have

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Speaker 1: broken the robot ages ago. Uh well, he's in a

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Speaker 1: fair day cage. Oh well, okay, safe alright. Lena writes

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Speaker 1: in and says, Hi, Robert and Julie, I just listened

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Speaker 1: to your podcast and wanted to write in with a

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Speaker 1: somewhat embarrassing confession. Um oh in the podcast you listened

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Speaker 1: to was our Objects of Love podcast about objects attachment,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. She says, I'm seventeen years old and I

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Speaker 1: still sleep with a Teddy bear. His name is Teddy.

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Speaker 1: I've had him since my first Christmas and I don't

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Speaker 1: think I've ever spent more than two nights without him

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Speaker 1: in my entire life. Sometimes I worry if I will

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Speaker 1: have to take him to college with me and my

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Speaker 1: roommate will think I'm weird or immature, but I have

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Speaker 1: a really strong attachment to him, and he gives me

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Speaker 1: a lot of comfort. I even gave him a personality

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Speaker 1: and everything. My sister and I used to play with

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Speaker 1: stuffed animals a lot. I doubt that you would find

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Speaker 1: many eleventh graders like me around still sleeping with a

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Speaker 1: teddy bear. But I also have attachments to other objects,

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Speaker 1: and I tend to keep things for the memories, even

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Speaker 1: if I never look at them again. I'm probably not

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Speaker 1: unique in that sense. Though I love the podcast, keep

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Speaker 1: up the great work, and thanks Lena cool Well. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's I don't think it's weird at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't either. Actually, I was thinking that, you know,

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Speaker 1: back to our Imaginary Friends episode and about how we

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Speaker 1: postulated that you know, you haven't managing your friends when

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Speaker 1: you're little, and then that just gets converted into something

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Speaker 1: else when you get older. Maybe you get an attachment

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Speaker 1: to a certain character on a television show or a

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Speaker 1: movie or a book. Um, but that we tend to

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Speaker 1: have these relationships, these fictionalized relationships, so it's in the

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Speaker 1: form of a teddy bear. Then I say, you know,

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Speaker 1: great I think that that's not not a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: I think that's actually a healthy thing. Yeah. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: setting here podcasting without Rubert triceratops in my hand, and

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Speaker 1: UH and my sister's and I we had still to

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Speaker 1: a certain extent, have a stuffed animal world that we

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Speaker 1: refer to the various characters, and we would refer to

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Speaker 1: these characters and have them to some extent interact with

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Speaker 1: each other, like all through high school and college. Um.

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Speaker 1: In fact, up until recently, one of the stuffed ones

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Speaker 1: UH named drunk Monkey UH still lived in the trunk

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Speaker 1: of my car. See that makes me pine for Cronja,

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Speaker 1: which was a stuffed ape that my brother and I have.

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Speaker 1: We're a little that lived on Marijuana Island? How did

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Speaker 1: how did? Where? Where did? How did Marijuana Island? Inners

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Speaker 1: a full babysitter babysitters? Where is Cronja? Now? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's always been the mystery, like what happened to cronja?

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Speaker 1: Every once exactly never to come back. But yeah, that

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Speaker 1: comes up every couple of years. My brother and I'll

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Speaker 1: be like where did it go? All right, Well, if

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Speaker 1: you have something you would like to share with us,

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Speaker 1: A be a prize. Teddy bears or apes that live

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Speaker 1: in your trunk or on marijuana island, let us know

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Speaker 1: we'd love to hear from you, and particularly if you

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Speaker 1: have thoughts about Watch Stop. Do you think you're a

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Speaker 1: watch stopper? If so, explain yourself, what's your rationale and

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Speaker 1: what do you think about it? Now that we've explained

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Speaker 1: some of the properties going on here, both electromagnetic and psychological, uh,

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