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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. My name is Chris Polett. I'm an

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Speaker 1: editor here at how Stuff Works. Welcome to the podcast today.

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Speaker 1: I have sitting next to me as he is usually

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Speaker 1: smooth polette. Thank you very much. Thanks for pointing that out. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm anyway. We uh, this is a little surprising to

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Speaker 1: to um to cut short the last podcast now of course,

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