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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray.

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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. Chuck Bryant. This is stuff you should know. Um,

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Speaker 1: Extreme Home Makeover Edition. Tip of the hat to you

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Speaker 1: as well. Just gave you a literal tip of my cap. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't see people do that enough anymore. Tip of

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Speaker 1: the hat, Tip of the hat to you. Top of

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Speaker 1: the Day, Top of the Morning, Bluck of the Irish.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's let's do this, okay, Chuck, Um, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be one of the worst ones we've ever done. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be so great. I don't think you're right.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll see. Um well, I guess we'll leave

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Speaker 1: it to everyone to decide. Well, because then people say

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Speaker 1: that was great, and people say it sucked. Yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be no, no further along than we are now.

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Speaker 1: We have no idea. Yeah, it's just you and me

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Speaker 1: and Jerry in a little tiny room and it were

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Speaker 1: just completely isolated, totally out of touch with reality, complete

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Speaker 1: so chuck, um, I guess we'll get this stinker started. Huh,

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Speaker 1: that sounds good to me. Do you remember um? Back

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, there was a twenty six

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Speaker 1: year old guy from Montreal and named Kyle McDonald. I

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Speaker 1: don't remember him, you will in a second. He did

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Speaker 1: one of the coolest Internet undertakings of all time. Facebook, No,

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Speaker 1: my Space, No, it's not a business. He started he

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Speaker 1: had a red paper clip and he decided that he

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Speaker 1: wanted to trade it until he got a house. That

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Speaker 1: was great, it was awesome. Where did he end up?

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Speaker 1: He ended up getting a house in a place called Kipling, Winnipeg.

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Speaker 1: He really got a house. Yeah, in less than a year,

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Speaker 1: and in fourteen trades, he went from a red paper

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Speaker 1: clip to a pen that looked like a fish, so

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Speaker 1: on and so forth until he ended up with He

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Speaker 1: traded an afternoon with Alice Cooper or a kiss snow globe,

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Speaker 1: and that's when everything opened up. Uh. Corbin Burnston from

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Speaker 1: l A Law remember him. He turned out to be

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Speaker 1: a huge collector of snow globes and he wanted the

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Speaker 1: a paid part in a movie he was directing, and

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Speaker 1: the people of Kipling, Winnipeg said, that's it for us.

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Speaker 1: We've been waiting, this is what we want. We will

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Speaker 1: trade you a farmhouse in our city for that part

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Speaker 1: in that Corbyn Burnson movie. Well, who like the mayor

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Speaker 1: of that town, the town together. I'm sure led by

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Speaker 1: the mayor, but the town got a part in the movie.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who got a part

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Speaker 1: in the movie. The question didn't come up. Well, where

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Speaker 1: it falls apart was the guy went to Kipling, he

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Speaker 1: accepted the house because he wanted to make the trade,

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Speaker 1: and he turned around and sold it. He's like, I'm

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Speaker 1: not living here, you're kidding. I remember the people of

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Speaker 1: of Kipling, saskatch I wanted, I say Winnipeg, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: says catch a one. Um. They were not pleased. You

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Speaker 1: know where it fell apart from me, Corbin Burnson, terrible, Corbin.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening to this, I apologize for Chuck. I

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Speaker 1: loved you in Major League. He was he was a

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Speaker 1: spectacular jerk, but he wasn't over the top. He did

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Speaker 1: he nailed it. Yeah, Um, Chuck, that guy swapped a

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Speaker 1: no way, shape or form related to our topic today.

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Speaker 1: How swapping that has the word swap in it. That's

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Speaker 1: a nice lead in, Josh. House swapping is more like um, swinging,

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Speaker 1: but with houses rather than spouses. Yes, Josh, it has

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Speaker 1: actually been around since the mid nineteen fifties, and swinging

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Speaker 1: it's been growing like crazy about travelers do this now

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Speaker 1: a good house swapper. No, it's not so much the

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Speaker 1: The Holiday starred Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet. She did

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Speaker 1: Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslett swapped houses for holiday, and um,

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Speaker 1: and what they did was called a traditional exchange. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's when you play your vacation at the same

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Speaker 1: have to do is own a house. That's it. Well,

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Speaker 1: a lot of action. Maybe not, But what if the

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Speaker 1: not going to spend a dime while I'm down there,

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Speaker 1: But um, they said, you can still have a successful

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Speaker 1: so I have business in Rio, so you can stay

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Speaker 1: exactly because my company's for me to go to Rio

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Speaker 1: And then there's the one that I would find extremely uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: Do people really do this, Yes they do, and I'll

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Speaker 1: describe some of them momentarily. But the hospitality exchange, it

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Speaker 1: It's just uncomfortable for you. But I'll tell you who

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Speaker 1: even know if you said for sure, what a hospitality

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Speaker 1: of coke right exactly If you can't possibly get to

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Speaker 1: the world of coke often enough, hospitality swaps are the

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Speaker 1: I would certainly do that too, but not I would

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Speaker 1: So we've clearly established now that hospitality exchanges are the

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Speaker 1: two big jerks, one of the two. So let's stick

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Speaker 1: to the traditional exchanges where you don't meet them, they

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Speaker 1: don't meet you. You just use one another's houses. That's

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Speaker 1: what how It wasn't that movie. So according to Um

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Speaker 1: specifically Francine Russo, Um, most of the people about is

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Speaker 1: usually professionals, business people, doctors. It's not a couchsurf situation. No. Again,

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Speaker 1: there is CouchSurfing dot com, and I would advise people

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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Um. But with the traditional house swap,

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Speaker 1: not a good housewapper. Uh. And then, um, if somebody

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Speaker 1: they're probably not going to be real comfortable. They're being

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Speaker 1: forced into this, possibly by a thrill kill cult that

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Speaker 1: they're a member of. I think I'd be okay with it, okay,

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Speaker 1: except for my animals. I would be a little suspicious

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Speaker 1: to let the stranger take care of my animals. I

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Speaker 1: would have to really know that they had dogs and

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Speaker 1: cats and they knew how to do it. And Emily

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Speaker 1: is a good idea. Oh. Another thing you should do

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Speaker 1: is take the things you're really really love and or

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Speaker 1: maybe valuable and either put them in a friend's house

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Speaker 1: or lock them in a room in your house, just

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Speaker 1: to be safe. It's not necessarily even thievery. Just if

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Speaker 1: you have a really expensive ose, don't leave it on

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Speaker 1: your kitchen counter. And that's just dumb, agreed. Mistakes can happen.

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Speaker 1: So that is the sound that officially ends house swapping

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Speaker 1: forever for the rest of our lives, will never talk

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Speaker 1: about it again. Thank you, Thank you for bearing with

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Speaker 1: us this far. UM. Hats off to you, tip of

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Speaker 1: the hat, Chuck, just did it. Um. If you want

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Speaker 1: to learn more about how swapping why, there's nothing else

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Speaker 1: to know UM, you can type in h O U, S, E, SPACE,

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Speaker 1: S W, A, P, P I n G in the

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Speaker 1: search bar at how stuff works dot com and UM

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Speaker 1: that brings up, of course Facebook questions. How about a

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Speaker 1: quick announcement, Josh, okay, it kept very quiet here A

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Speaker 1: silence fell yeah. Uh, the co ED Decoperative for Education. Yes,

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Speaker 1: our our beautiful friends, um, who took us to Guatemala. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: they are having a fall fiesta here in Atlanta, and

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Speaker 1: we want to give that a little pluggage. It is

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Speaker 1: October twenty one. It is at the Metropolitan Club in Alpharetta, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Right and uh to seven, seven to ten pm. That's right.

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Speaker 1: Twenty bucks to get in. But twenty bucks buys you food, wine,

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Speaker 1: beer and entertainment. And by entertainment we mean Jerry won't

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Speaker 1: be there. Jerry is going to be there in the

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Speaker 1: flesh in her birthday suit. She'll be playing uh, drum solos.

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Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. I don't know if a room shot

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Speaker 1: is a drum solo. Uh. And basically they're raising money

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Speaker 1: for you know, they're awesome operation with like awesome prizes.

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Speaker 1: You can win raffles, you can win a week long

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Speaker 1: African Safari. Yes, sign brave stuff, which I know you

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Speaker 1: would be into stuff, um and chuck. Just to give

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Speaker 1: everybody quick rundown if you don't know who COED is,

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Speaker 1: first of all, go listen to the two part Guatemala podcasts. Right, um.

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Speaker 1: And they are a nonprofit that basically pulls together money

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Speaker 1: to buy textbooks for schools in Guatemala, which in turn

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Speaker 1: rent them and create the self sustaining system where every

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Speaker 1: five years the schools have have saved enough money through

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Speaker 1: these rental fees to buy new textbooks and much more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they do computer lives tune. It's just a really

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Speaker 1: you and I thoroughly believe in this group, right, agreed,

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Speaker 1: So we would encourage you, if you're in Atlanta to

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Speaker 1: go to the fall Fest October twenty one and Alpharetta.

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Speaker 1: And where can they get more? More information on the

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Speaker 1: co ed site you think? If so, it's www dot

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Speaker 1: co ed u see dot org. Right, you should go

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Speaker 1: there anyway, c O E d U ce dot org concrete. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's get to it. Yes, we're gonna cover a

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Speaker 1: few of these real quick. Josh, I gave you a

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Speaker 1: sheet there, right, Will you play along? Sean Ross hyphen

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Speaker 1: favorite soda? Question Mark, what's your favorite soda? Oh Um,

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Speaker 1: that's what I've been big on club soda lately, just

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Speaker 1: playing club soda. They have it in the Brake croom now,

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Speaker 1: the little Schwepps. I've just been drinking it in there.

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Speaker 1: Remember we talked about in taste. We have taste buds

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Speaker 1: for carbon dioxide. Yeah, yeah, yeah, my My carbon dioxide

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Speaker 1: receptors are in heaven. I love that stuff too. I

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Speaker 1: am not a big soda drinker, but I do love

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Speaker 1: sun kissed and root beer, and I love Lacroix, which

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00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: is the fizzy water with the natural flavoring. Very good, chuck, yes, excellent.

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Speaker 1: Eric Sanchez says, would you fight a full three rounds

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Speaker 1: against George Sampierre for ten thousand dollars? He's a UFC guy, don't.

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Speaker 1: The question used to be would you get in a

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Speaker 1: ring with Mike Tyson for ton thousand? Yeah, there's no way.

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Speaker 1: This face is way too pretty for that. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I just don't like pain, so no, thank you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: answers that one. Uh, let's see Victoria Dugger. Their name

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Speaker 1: sounds familiar if we is that Facebook buddy all the time,

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Speaker 1: so it's like she might have been a New York person. Okay, Uh, well, hey,

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Speaker 1: they're Victoria Dugger? Whose voice is that? Who introduces you

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Speaker 1: on the podcast? Is that Jerry? It is not Jerry,

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Speaker 1: It is roxand it is our head of the video department,

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Speaker 1: Rock sand. She does a fine job and she's from

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. People always say, what is that accent? It's

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Speaker 1: a non regional dialect. Yes, it is studied in Roxanne.

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Speaker 1: I went to high school with Zack Galafanakas. Yes, they

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Speaker 1: know each other. It's small little tidbit there for you.

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Speaker 1: Shannon Rink says, what do you see as the future

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Speaker 1: of the podcast? You guys have been doing it for

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Speaker 1: a couple of years. Now, do you see herself doing

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Speaker 1: it for a few more years? God willing? Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: were talking about how the magic has gone, but we're

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Speaker 1: going to soldier on and make half good podcast. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I think we both agreed to though that we love

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Speaker 1: the podcast so much, even if bigger and better things

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Speaker 1: are in our future, we would like to keep doing

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Sure, but we'll see. Yeah, um, let's see

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Speaker 1: we did this Shaun Ross's favorite soda one already? Yes? Uh.

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Speaker 1: Jan Moffat asks do you use innuendo on purpose or

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Speaker 1: is it just a consequence of talking about things like

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Speaker 1: totem poles. I'd say both. Yeah, it depends. Like I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of our humor is really accidental, but

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Speaker 1: that just kind of makes it funnier. Don't you think

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Speaker 1: it's also fairly scatological, and we do a good job

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Speaker 1: at raining that in. Yeah. For example, you have in

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Speaker 1: your signature of Pallas Nicolas. Actually his name is Nicolas.

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Speaker 1: What has been the most difficult podcast to explain? I

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Speaker 1: had a real hard time with the Sun podcast, as

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Speaker 1: we all know. Wow, we did have a lot of

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Speaker 1: trouble with the Sun, didn't we. That was I don't

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Speaker 1: think that was a good one. It was UM large

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Speaker 1: Hadron Collider for me. I think the one that I

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Speaker 1: thought I was going to do well on but really

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Speaker 1: didn't was UM Butterfly Wings Color Iridescence. That was so maddening.

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Speaker 1: Do you have another one I do? Um is the

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Speaker 1: in the Inevitable movie bio on Hippie Rob. Who do

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Speaker 1: you think should play the lead? I never met the guy,

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Speaker 1: so you tell me. I can't really envision anybody playing

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Speaker 1: Hippie Rob, but Hippie Rob. So I think that if

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Speaker 1: someone approached us to do a movie on Hippy Rob,

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Speaker 1: we would have to launch like a national search for Rob,

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Speaker 1: find him and pay him in like Milwaukee's Best Ice.

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Speaker 1: It's funny that I don't know who he is, but

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Speaker 1: I still have. You know, you get a mental picture

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Speaker 1: when you hear about someone who you have who? I

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Speaker 1: picture the guy in office space, the next door neighbor

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Speaker 1: that had the big mullet and the big handlebar mustache.

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Speaker 1: It's you're not too far off. Um. Rob was a

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Speaker 1: little softer, a little more self aware than that guy.

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Speaker 1: And with red hair. Oh really yeah, I just blew

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Speaker 1: my mind. Yeah, reddish strawberry blonde hair and beard. Crazy. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I got one more? Um, I have one more.

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Speaker 1: It's from Scott Fogg and he says American coke or

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Speaker 1: Mexican coke. Definitely Mexican coke. I don't even drink coke,

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Speaker 1: but when I see Mexican coke, I buy it because

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Speaker 1: it's got a sugar. Yeah, the real deal. Yep. Um.

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Speaker 1: If you want to ask us a question, you have

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Speaker 1: to be our friend on Facebook. You have to go

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Speaker 1: to facebook dot com slash stuff you should know. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You can also follow us on Twitter. It's s y

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Speaker 1: s K podcast. As always, you can send us an

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Speaker 1: email at stuff podcast at how stuff works dot com.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. For more on this and thousands of other topics,

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