Speaker 1: Guess what, Mango?
Speaker 2: What's that will?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: I know I've told you about this before, but when
Speaker 1: I was six or seven, I used to sneak into
Speaker 1: my sister's room and listen to her latest albums on
Speaker 1: her fancy double cassette playing Boom bofe. I have told
Speaker 1: you about this, definitely, and she was in high school
Speaker 1: at the time, so I was introduced to all the
Speaker 1: important stuff this way. It was Michael Jackson's Thriller. I
Speaker 1: think that was my favorite, though it did come out
Speaker 1: a few years earlier. We were talking nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: and some of the biggest hits there was Madonna's Papa
Speaker 1: Don't Preach, Janet Jackson's what have You Done for Me Lately?
Speaker 1: Bon Jovies, You give love a bad name, Cindy Lauper's
Speaker 1: True Colors. I mean, the list goes on.
Speaker 2: And on, and you're playing to name them all. I'm
Speaker 2: guessing I could.
Speaker 1: I could. And we're not talking about any of that
Speaker 1: Lionel Richie stuff that I had to listen to in
Speaker 1: my mom's Toyota Cressida. This was the good stuff.
Speaker 2: That's so much revolutionary music at such a young age.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, well, one of them that I
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned yet is the Bengals manic Monday, And if
Speaker 1: you remember, Susannah Haas was clearly frustrated because she was
Speaker 1: having this dream about Kiss Valentino and then her stupid
Speaker 1: alarm goes off and of course is just another man Monday.
Speaker 1: I mean she she wished it was Sunday because as
Speaker 1: you know, that that's her fun day. But no, it
Speaker 1: was it was Monday. It was Monday. Tragic. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I learned so much from my sister's music collection. We
Speaker 1: might even have to do an episode on this at
Speaker 1: some point, but the lesson was clear. She did not
Speaker 1: like Monday. She wasn't alone. I mean, there are obviously
Speaker 1: days that we learned to like and dislike pretty much universally.
Speaker 1: And when one of our brilliant researchers, Autumn white Field Madrano,
Speaker 1: asked the question a few weeks ago, what are the
Speaker 1: best and worst days of the week, I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I know what the Bengals would say, but what does
Speaker 1: science say and how did the whole seven day week
Speaker 1: come to be in the first place. So these are
Speaker 1: just a couple of the things we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about today. Hey, their podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius.
Speaker 1: I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my
Speaker 1: good friend mangesh Hu Tiketing, and on the other side
Speaker 1: of that soundproof glass is our friend and producer Tristan McNeil.
Speaker 1: Now today we're asking the question what's the best day
Speaker 1: of the week, you know, according to science? And maybe
Speaker 1: we'll throw in a few opinions here and there as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one could turn into a heated debate.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see. But before we get started, I wanted
Speaker 1: to recognize a few winners from our Weirdest College Courses episode,
Speaker 1: you know, where we asked listeners to tell us the
Speaker 1: weirdest college classes they'd taken.
Speaker 2: You remember this, Yeah, definitely?
Speaker 1: All right. Here are the top three, all of whom
Speaker 1: will be getting Part Time Genius t shirts. The first
Speaker 1: one comes from Alicio Martinez. The class was called Math
Speaker 1: in Square Dancing. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I thought this is awesome.
Speaker 1: I was taught at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how anyone hadn't really thought about
Speaker 1: how to combine two universally love things, you know, math
Speaker 1: and square dancing. It's pretty great, all right, I like
Speaker 1: that so you'll be getting one Alicio Now, Yvonne Jones
Speaker 1: a class called Goldberg's Cannon Making Whoopee at Baits College.
Speaker 1: This is great. It's about all about the lifetime work
Speaker 1: of Whoopy Goldberg. That's such a good class, all right.
Speaker 1: And then the third one from Rachel Shine, a class
Speaker 1: called snow Skiing at Texas A and M. Now, it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem that weird of a class, right, but as
Speaker 1: she explained, there was no snow and there were no
Speaker 1: mountains or hills. It was taught on AstroTurf and it
Speaker 1: was usually hot, so they wore shirts and t shirts
Speaker 1: and shorts. That great, all right. So those are our
Speaker 1: top three. It's so much fun to hear from you guys.
Speaker 1: Congrats to our winners. Remember to keep the interesting facts
Speaker 1: coming to part time Genius at HowStuffWorks dot com or
Speaker 1: find us on Facebook or Twitter. You can also call
Speaker 1: our twenty four to seven fact hotline one eight four
Speaker 1: four pt genius. All right, let's dive in. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think we need to start by acknowledging what a
Speaker 1: strange thing a week is.
Speaker 2: So what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, it's one of those things that Honestly,
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought that much about before one of our
Speaker 1: terrific researchers, Autumn, pointed it out. And that's the fact
Speaker 1: that a week is this imperfect human created unit of
Speaker 1: time that falls in between two units of time that
Speaker 1: nature dictates. So you have the day dictated by Earth's
Speaker 1: rotation on the shorter side, and then you've got the
Speaker 1: month that's roughly dictated by the lunar cycle on the
Speaker 1: longer end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely weird and doesn't pretty much the whole
Speaker 2: world uses seven day week now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even in places that don't use the Gregorian calendar,
Speaker 1: you find that they're using this too, And it's something
Speaker 1: we'll talk about in a bit. And that's how contemporary
Speaker 1: weeks are built around pivotal days. And even though you
Speaker 1: might find the pivotal days being different from one society
Speaker 1: to another, there's still some peak that's constant and the
Speaker 1: rest of the week is built around that.
Speaker 2: Well, we should definitely talk about why the world settled
Speaker 2: on a seven day week, but first can we look
Speaker 2: at why creating a unit of time that functions between
Speaker 2: a day and a month is so problematic. I mean,
Speaker 2: the fact is there's no way to divide up that
Speaker 2: time evenly in a way that it occurs regularly. A
Speaker 2: lunar cycle is twenty nine points five days long, meaning
Speaker 2: that if we made all months thirty days leading to
Speaker 2: you know, ten day weeks, we'd still be off. It's
Speaker 2: just such a strange thing. No matter what you propose
Speaker 2: as a replacement for the seven day week, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be some irregularity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the ten day week thing has definitely been
Speaker 1: tried plenty of times. Yeah, it was interesting to get
Speaker 1: a refresh on this during our research and to see
Speaker 1: how earlier societies tried to address the irregularities. In some
Speaker 1: they just solve the issue kind of how we do
Speaker 1: with leap ears, Like the ancient Greeks had these ten
Speaker 1: day periods and occasionally they just be nine days long
Speaker 1: to make the adjustments. Yeah, and at first glance, you'd
Speaker 1: think that using a ten day or a five day
Speaker 1: week could more closely pull off an even division of
Speaker 1: the lunar month, you know, more so than our seven
Speaker 1: day weeks. And that's true, but then you have another problem.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is fascinating. You're talking about temporal regularity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, so eviantar Zera Babbel. He's the author of
Speaker 1: a book called The Seven Day Circle, and he talks
Speaker 1: about how temporal regularity is such an important part of
Speaker 1: the development of human race. And as he puts it, quote, imagine,
Speaker 1: for example, having to cancel regular Sunday family gatherings or
Speaker 1: Tuesday classes every month or so due to the lack
Speaker 1: of a Sunday or a Tuesday on that particular week.
Speaker 2: I guess it's kind of similar to what leaplings have
Speaker 2: to deal with, you know, those people who were born
Speaker 2: on February twenty ninth, except it would happen far more regularly,
Speaker 2: and it also be so much more inconvenient.
Speaker 1: Oh definitely. I mean, imagine how difficult it would be
Speaker 1: to coordinate activities that should happen more than monthly, but
Speaker 1: less than daily. I mean, right now, it's just so
Speaker 1: easy to remember something like, you know, I've got soccer
Speaker 1: practice on Tuesdays or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, there'd be some clear adjusting there. But as
Speaker 2: Zara Bavo points out, it's one thing to think about
Speaker 2: the weekday's tethered to sport or hobby, but it gets
Speaker 2: even more important when you're thinking about it. For basic survival. Like,
Speaker 2: let's say you had to ride to town a couple
Speaker 2: of times a month just to get provisions from the
Speaker 2: farmer's market. If it takes you two hours to get
Speaker 2: to town, you definitely want to be sure that when
Speaker 2: you get there the market's open. So knowing that the
Speaker 2: markets on Wednesdays takes care of that and allows you
Speaker 2: to make plans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it makes a lot of sense, and
Speaker 1: it's weird that we don't often stop to think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the week is the longest unit of time
Speaker 1: that's not it all dependent on nature. So it's pretty
Speaker 1: significant as far as a philosophical shift in our development.
Speaker 1: And in a way, it's like our way of saying
Speaker 1: that we're ready to stop solely depending on nature and
Speaker 1: instead begin to establish our temporal rhythms around a unit
Speaker 1: that we created. And it is worth noting that there's
Speaker 1: no compelling evidence of any major seven day biological processes
Speaker 1: in nature. I mean, there does appear to be a
Speaker 1: form of algae that's used to study circadian rhythm because
Speaker 1: it has exhibited signs of some seven day biological rhythms,
Speaker 1: but it's a bit of a stretch to think that
Speaker 1: it's played into how we think about time in any
Speaker 1: real way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that definitely sounds like a stretch.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's talk about the creation of the
Speaker 1: seven day week. I know you did some digging into
Speaker 1: this with a ton of great help from our researcher Autumn,
Speaker 1: So tell us what you know.
Speaker 2: Sure, well, this can actually be its own episode because
Speaker 2: it's an interesting history. But to boil it down, it
Speaker 2: was really the result of early Jewish cultures and Babylonian
Speaker 2: astronomy thinking up. So, as you know, Judaism was focused
Speaker 2: on a seven day cycle as depicted in the Torah,
Speaker 2: you know, seventh day of rest and all that, and
Speaker 2: the other six days were really just days leading up
Speaker 2: to the Sabbath. Then you have the Babylonians who'd come
Speaker 2: up with the idea that the seven celestial bodies that
Speaker 2: moved across the sky, that they had certain effects on
Speaker 2: everything humans did. Five of these were planets as we
Speaker 2: know them now, and the other two were the Sun
Speaker 2: and the moon, but still seven.
Speaker 1: So the Babylonians they also had a seven day cycle.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, at least there's no evidence of that.
Speaker 2: But here's how they came together. In the second century BCE,
Speaker 2: the Alexandrians brought together three beliefs that were pretty firm
Speaker 2: at that point. The first was, you've got these seven
Speaker 2: planets which came into particular order, and then you had
Speaker 2: the twenty four hour day. And third there's this idea
Speaker 2: that the planet that ruled the first hour of each
Speaker 2: day ruled the entire day. It didn't take too long
Speaker 2: for the set of beliefs to run smack dab into Judaism,
Speaker 2: and the two sets of beliefs sanked up. By the
Speaker 2: end of the first century CE, the Sabbath again the
Speaker 2: only day that really mattered to the Jewish cycle, and
Speaker 2: the day of Saturn, just one of those seven planets
Speaker 2: in Babylonian astrology were one and the same. And by
Speaker 2: the third century see the week was pretty widespread.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the seven day cycles stuck and was gradually
Speaker 1: adopted by pretty much everyone. Though this isn't to say
Speaker 1: that there weren't a couple of pretty big attempts to
Speaker 1: implement different systems. I was actually curious to see who
Speaker 1: had tried to come up with better systems over time,
Speaker 1: and found a couple of good stories that, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I'd actually forgotten about from history class. Oh yeah, like what,
Speaker 1: all right, well, let's start. Let's start with the French
Speaker 1: Republicans after the French Revolution. During the revolution, assembly members
Speaker 1: decided to come up with a new calendar, still with
Speaker 1: twelve months, but they wanted to make the other time
Speaker 1: units as close to metric as they could. So each
Speaker 1: month had three ten day weeks. Each day would have
Speaker 1: ten hours divided into one hundred minutes each, and each
Speaker 1: minute would have one hundred seconds. I mean, it's actually
Speaker 1: so confusing to think about this. Then there would be
Speaker 1: five or six days left at the end of the
Speaker 1: year that would be reserved for a celebration. It is
Speaker 1: interesting to note that this system is very similar to
Speaker 1: what the Egyptians had created when they became the first
Speaker 1: civilization to create weeks.
Speaker 2: Which is all super interesting and I so want to
Speaker 2: get into a time machine and witness those celebrations. It
Speaker 2: sounds really fun. But you can see how that structure
Speaker 2: could make sense if it's what people had been used to.
Speaker 2: But given that they were used to a seven day
Speaker 2: calendar with twenty four hours per day, it was probably
Speaker 2: pretty confusing. Why they even attempt this.
Speaker 1: Well, there were a couple of reasons I mean that
Speaker 1: the Biggie beyond just being a more rational system as
Speaker 1: they saw it, it was that they wanted this very
Speaker 1: real new beginning, you know, kind of a break from
Speaker 1: the past.
Speaker 2: And obviously that didn't last forever. So how long did
Speaker 2: it last around?
Speaker 1: I honestly find it surprising that it lasted as long
Speaker 1: as it did. It was around twelve years, and it
Speaker 1: was just too confusing for everyone, especially because so many
Speaker 1: refused to stop keeping track of the old calendar. Even
Speaker 1: find reports that when newspapers were required by a law
Speaker 1: equip publishing the old date alongside the new one, people
Speaker 1: were still using the old calendar to keep track of
Speaker 1: certain important dates, and of course, to observe their holy days.
Speaker 1: Many of them would take that day of rest along
Speaker 1: with the scheduled day of rest, and ultimately there were
Speaker 1: just too many days with little significance in between these
Speaker 1: anchor days, and so finally it was scrapped.
Speaker 2: I still confuse that it lasted over a decade, and
Speaker 2: it makes me think about the attempts over the years
Speaker 2: to get Americans to convert to the metric system, like
Speaker 2: a system that actually makes a lot of sense, but
Speaker 2: it's just way too hard to get people to move
Speaker 2: from something they're used to, especially if they don't see
Speaker 2: it as broken. And obviously that change was like politically loaded.
Speaker 2: But you were talking about the French, but you said
Speaker 2: there was another attempt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. So there were also the Soviets, and
Speaker 1: they tried to change things up in nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 1: This was really more of an effort to increase production
Speaker 1: from the workforce. I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 1: but the Soviets were kind of big on this idea
Speaker 1: of getting more out of the workfloor.
Speaker 2: I heard that.
Speaker 1: And as they saw it, the regular seven day week
Speaker 1: left machines and workers idle for two out of every
Speaker 1: seven days. And that's just not efficient as they saw it.
Speaker 1: I'll warn you it is pretty crazy what they tried
Speaker 1: to do. I'm ready for all right. So they created
Speaker 1: these five day weeks and sets of six to get
Speaker 1: these thirty day months, and months that had thirty one days. Well,
Speaker 1: they just made that another work day, which is so
Speaker 1: Soviet of them, and that part so far you can follow.
Speaker 1: But the workers would have one out of every five
Speaker 1: days off. And here's where it gets a little crazy,
Speaker 1: all right. So instead of having some big anchor day
Speaker 1: like the sabbath or a weekend. They just assigned one
Speaker 1: of the five days to each person as their personal
Speaker 1: day off. Each day was then assigned a color, and
Speaker 1: then people were assigned a color and a number, and
Speaker 1: the corresponding color was your day off.
Speaker 2: That sounds so confusing. I told you it was.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: So did families or groups of friends, like, did they
Speaker 2: all get the same day off?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: And that was a big problem. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: looked at people's address books, you'd see people having to
Speaker 1: keep up with when their loved ones days off were,
Speaker 1: and they'd have to write their colors next to each
Speaker 1: of their names. It was just so, so so confusing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not that organized, and it's not surprising. Why
Speaker 2: why this wouldn't have lasted. I mean people couldn't have
Speaker 2: their worship days together, which I guess matters less to
Speaker 2: the Soviets, but also, you know what about just getting
Speaker 2: your family together and playing sports.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. It was a big problem. So even
Speaker 1: though a year after it launched, the state was claiming
Speaker 1: that nearly three fourths of the workers were on this
Speaker 1: continual production week, it still didn't sit well with people
Speaker 1: because their families and social circles. They were being broken up.
Speaker 2: But did it meet their goal, like, did it increase production?
Speaker 1: Well, that was one of the nails in the coffin too.
Speaker 1: It actually didn't really increase production, or at least not
Speaker 1: by much. Machines were wearing out and they couldn't be
Speaker 1: fixed because they didn't have off days, and it was
Speaker 1: tough on workers. So Stalin then decided to put the
Speaker 1: plan on hold until all the issues could be worked out.
Speaker 1: And you know, you think they would just go back
Speaker 1: to the seven day week, but nope, not the Soviets.
Speaker 1: They couldn't accept the idea of going back to that,
Speaker 1: so they decided on a six day week instead, and
Speaker 1: everyone had the same day off at least, But it
Speaker 1: was still nearly impossible to get everyone in rural areas
Speaker 1: to follow this new calendar. So by around nineteen forty
Speaker 1: or so, the Soviets were back to the seven day.
Speaker 2: Week, which sounds exhausting.
Speaker 1: I try explaining it. I actually think I need a
Speaker 1: break for a quiz. Well, we decided to do this
Speaker 1: episode on the best day of the week. We were
Speaker 1: both reminded of this terrific book by Melissa hecksher. It
Speaker 1: was called Be Safe, Simple Strategies for Death Free Living,
Speaker 1: and we were fortunate enough to get Melissa on the
Speaker 1: line to answer a few questions about our favorite parts
Speaker 1: of her book. Melissa, Welcome to Part Time Genius.
Speaker 3: Hi, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 2: So, Melissa, before we dive into specifics, I was curious,
Speaker 2: how did the book idea come to you? Were you
Speaker 2: always just worried about the possible ways you could die?
Speaker 3: Actually kind of, I'm sort of one of those people
Speaker 3: that worries about everything, so, you know, when it came
Speaker 3: to me. I was living in New York City at
Speaker 3: the time and doing a lot of driving and traveling
Speaker 3: by train and subway, and I just was always wondering
Speaker 3: every time I got on the subway what car I
Speaker 3: should get onto. Should I be in the back of
Speaker 3: the subway or middle of the subway, you know? Or
Speaker 3: when I was driving to and from Philadelphia, where my
Speaker 3: parents live, I always wondered whether I should be in
Speaker 3: the middle lane or the right lane, or these small
Speaker 3: choices that we make every day stay safe. And I
Speaker 3: was always thinking about it. So I wanted to do
Speaker 3: a little more research to find out the answers to
Speaker 3: those questions.
Speaker 1: And wasn't it Salvador Dali that used to like to
Speaker 1: ride in the front car that car so that he
Speaker 1: would get there earlier, get there first.
Speaker 2: That's funny, that's pretty great.
Speaker 3: Well, the front car actually is the safest because it's
Speaker 3: where usually the conductor is.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you know this episode is on the
Speaker 1: best day of the week, or asking the question what
Speaker 1: is the best day of the week. And of course
Speaker 1: we thought about you because several of your your entries
Speaker 1: in this great book have to do, you know, with
Speaker 1: the best day of doing certain things, so we thought
Speaker 1: we'd ask you about a few of those. So I
Speaker 1: know you mentioned in the book the safest time to
Speaker 1: go to the bank, So tell us when that is.
Speaker 4: The safest time to go to the bank.
Speaker 3: Is really between Tuesday and Thursday in the afternoon, because
Speaker 3: historically bank robberies seem to happen on Fridays, and people
Speaker 3: think that's because that's payday. So I guess the bank
Speaker 3: rubbers assume the bank is going to have so much
Speaker 3: more money on Friday. That's just when most bank robberies happen.
Speaker 3: So if you want to avoid them, to stay away
Speaker 3: from the bank on Friday morning because they also usually
Speaker 3: happen in the morning.
Speaker 2: Ah yeah, how about the best day to order sushi?
Speaker 3: I love sushi, so this one was important to meet today,
Speaker 3: especially because I around when I was writing the book
Speaker 3: is when I got pregnant, so I was extra careful
Speaker 3: with things like sushi. So the best time to get
Speaker 3: sushi is on Friday. And that's because most fish markets
Speaker 3: are closed on Sundays, So you definitely don't want to
Speaker 3: get sushi on a Monday because the chances are that
Speaker 3: it hasn't it's not a fresh delivery, so you're not
Speaker 3: getting the freshest fish that way, which means that you
Speaker 3: have a greater chance of possibly getting sick from that fish.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. That makes a lot of sense though
Speaker 1: when you say that, Well, here's one that wasn't on
Speaker 1: a specific day, but you addressed and book The safest
Speaker 1: month to get elective surgery, And I thought this one
Speaker 1: was super interesting.
Speaker 3: It is interesting the safest most residents graduate in June,
Speaker 3: and so they start at their new positions at a
Speaker 3: hospital in July. So the safest month is actually June
Speaker 3: because the older residents that have been there all year
Speaker 3: and they know the system, they know their routine, they
Speaker 3: know their peers, they've been there all year, whereas in
Speaker 3: July they're new and so not to say that they
Speaker 3: can't do their jobs, but they maybe don't know. They're
Speaker 3: not used to working together. There might be a few
Speaker 3: more mistakes or errors that happen in July than happen
Speaker 3: in June. So if you can help it, schedule your
Speaker 3: surgery closer to you, maybe May or June and not
Speaker 3: July or August.
Speaker 2: There are a few parts of the book that weren't
Speaker 2: related to specific days, but we're just so fun that
Speaker 2: we want to ask you about them. So can you
Speaker 2: tell us what's the safest room in a hotel?
Speaker 3: This one was a personal one for me too, because
Speaker 3: I did a lot of traveling by myself, so I
Speaker 3: always was a little bit worried. Is to the safest
Speaker 3: place to stay, especially as a woman alone, And the
Speaker 3: answer to that question is between the fourth and seventh
Speaker 3: floors if you have a choice, if it's a high
Speaker 3: rise hotel, and no matter what kind of a hotel
Speaker 3: near the elevator, and that's just because there's more foot
Speaker 3: traffic and so you're safer being around a lot of
Speaker 3: people because of someone who's going to break into your
Speaker 3: hotel room or approach you as you're entering your room.
Speaker 3: It's less likely to happen where there's a lot of traffic.
Speaker 3: And then as far as the floors, most fire ladders
Speaker 3: don't reach above seven floors, so if you had to
Speaker 3: be evacuated in the case of emergency, if you're on
Speaker 3: a really high floor. First, it's obviously it's going to
Speaker 3: take you longer to get down if you're doing stairs,
Speaker 3: But if you had to be evacuated by a fire ladder,
Speaker 3: would be harder because the ladders don't always go that high.
Speaker 3: So fourth and seven floors near the elevator, and that's
Speaker 3: pretty much the safest place you can be.
Speaker 1: I think I need to change my strategy. Actually, when
Speaker 1: I get to a hotel, I often request a room
Speaker 1: away from the elevator just because it's noisy there. But
Speaker 1: I didn't realize how unsafe it was.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a trade off. You want a
Speaker 3: quiet room and you might not be as safe, but yeah,
Speaker 3: you can sleep better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Well, there was one other that I
Speaker 1: that I saw here that I thought was just really interesting,
Speaker 1: And so what is the safest stall in a public restroom.
Speaker 3: What's interesting about this question is that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of studies that have looked at this question. There are
Speaker 3: scientists that have actually collected samples from bathrooms just to
Speaker 3: figure out which stall is the dirtiest and the safest
Speaker 3: stall has been determined to be the first one or
Speaker 3: the one closest to the door, and that's because most
Speaker 3: people like a little bit of privacy when they go
Speaker 3: to the bathroom, so they go a little further from
Speaker 3: the door. The dirtiest one turned out to be the
Speaker 3: middle stall, which you think it would be the furthest
Speaker 3: from the door, but it's actually the middle and the
Speaker 3: safest least jerney room stall is the one closest to
Speaker 3: the door, and it's usually also the one with the
Speaker 3: most toilet paper.
Speaker 1: So it's not surprising that there would have been several
Speaker 1: studies on this because I think it is something that
Speaker 1: everyone who's walked into a restroom has thought this before
Speaker 1: and wants to know, right, right, besides that jerk that
Speaker 1: walks out without washing his hands.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, this is terrific.
Speaker 1: You know, this has always been a book that we've
Speaker 1: we've enjoyed flipping through and reading, even though it's been
Speaker 1: out for some time now, so I hope all our
Speaker 1: listeners will check out Be Safe Simple Strategies for Death
Speaker 1: Free Living. Melissa, thanks so much for joining us on
Speaker 1: Part Time Genius.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Part Time Genius. Before the break, we
Speaker 1: were talking about the attempts by the French and Soviets
Speaker 1: and others in history to move away from the seven
Speaker 1: day week to other systems that we're seen as maybe
Speaker 1: more logical.
Speaker 2: It's really interesting to see how they all failed. I mean,
Speaker 2: what would you say is the baseline reason none of
Speaker 2: them panned out?
Speaker 1: Well, there was obviously a big problem with the reason
Speaker 1: and these new systems were put in place to begin with.
Speaker 1: I think they all underestimated just how disorienting the new
Speaker 1: structures would be. I mean, think about it. When you
Speaker 1: change up the length of a week, you throw off
Speaker 1: someone's social rhythm. I mean, what day of the week
Speaker 1: do I go to the market. You throw off their
Speaker 1: personal rhythm. So you know, they were working six days
Speaker 1: in a row and then got a day of rest,
Speaker 1: and now they have to work nine before they get
Speaker 1: a day of rest. And then maybe most importantly, you
Speaker 1: throw off their religious rhythm. You know, people were used
Speaker 1: to worshiping on Sundays and now suddenly Sundays don't even
Speaker 1: really exist anymore. So it's just way too confusing and
Speaker 1: frustrating and frankly upsetting for these people.
Speaker 2: Well, and when you consider the Soviets, it feels like
Speaker 2: there was something even bigger going on. By dividing time
Speaker 2: into five different calendars, they were really creating five different societies,
Speaker 2: all randomly assigned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and all of this really threw off that temporal
Speaker 1: harmony that Zaarababbel talks about. And we can't underestimate the
Speaker 1: role of religion here. Think about how important a designated
Speaker 1: weekly holy day is for each of the major religions.
Speaker 1: You know, the Jews set themselves apart by establishing the
Speaker 1: Sabbath early on. Christians were actually observing both as they
Speaker 1: were Jews and Christians, and they were observing the Sabbath
Speaker 1: on Saturdays and then their own day, which became Sunday,
Speaker 1: and eventually they just focused on Sunday in order to
Speaker 1: differentiate themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we see this with Muslims as well, with
Speaker 2: Mohammed choosing Fridays as the Muslim Holy Day exactly.
Speaker 1: And with all that set so firmly and stone, it's
Speaker 1: hard to see ever moving away from the seven day
Speaker 1: week at this point. All right, well that is some
Speaker 1: fascinating stuff, but I think it's time that we fast
Speaker 1: forward several centuries and get to the big question of
Speaker 1: the day, and that is, you know, what are the
Speaker 1: best and worst days of the week?
Speaker 2: Well, why don't we start with the worst? And it
Speaker 2: didn't take Garfield telling us to guess what day most
Speaker 2: people think was the worst day of the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mondays? But why Mondays? And what does science have
Speaker 1: to say about this? You were reminding me earlier about
Speaker 1: that great Kathy Benjamin piece over at mental Flaws, and
Speaker 1: I think it was called something like six scientific reasons
Speaker 1: why Mondays are the worst? So why don't we start
Speaker 1: with that? Why don't we talk about that one for
Speaker 1: a minute?
Speaker 2: Sure? Well, one big that shouldn't shock us is if
Speaker 2: we think back to our sleep episode, weekends really throw
Speaker 2: off our sleep patterns. I mean, it's funny because every
Speaker 2: time we go through a daylight savings time change, everyone
Speaker 2: complains about our body clocks being thrown off, but most
Speaker 2: of us are doing this to ourselves every single weekend.
Speaker 2: Like we think we're doing ourselves a favor when we
Speaker 2: catch up on sleep, but in fact, we're just making
Speaker 2: it that much harder to wake up on Monday morning.
Speaker 2: Our body clocks are much more sensitive than we realize,
Speaker 2: and staying up a couple hours later and sleeping a
Speaker 2: couple hours later like that all throws us off a little.
Speaker 1: Once again, sleep is so annoying? All right, Well, what
Speaker 1: else did Benjamin say? Well?
Speaker 2: She also talks about the fact that because we often
Speaker 2: eat and drink and generally indulge more over the weekends,
Speaker 2: people tend to feel worse about themselves on Monday. There
Speaker 2: have even been studies of women to confirm that they
Speaker 2: feel less attractive on Mondays because of the weekend indulging,
Speaker 2: and it's part of why people are more likely to
Speaker 2: start dieting on Mondays than any.
Speaker 1: Other day, which does make sense.
Speaker 2: And what's also interesting is that people actually are less
Speaker 2: healthy on Mondays. As Benjamin writes, scientists have found that
Speaker 2: even people who generally maintain their weight weigh the most
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the week. Mondays are also the
Speaker 2: most common day for people to suffer heart attacks and strokes.
Speaker 2: Even if you don't end up in the hospital, your
Speaker 2: blood pressure is higher on Monday, as is your chance
Speaker 2: of getting sick in general.
Speaker 1: Wow, and doesn't she talk about people just not liking
Speaker 1: their jobs as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there have been a lot of polls showing that
Speaker 2: the strong majority of people are not big fans of
Speaker 2: their jobs, or at least not that inspired by them.
Speaker 2: This is why you often see people experiencing feelings of
Speaker 2: depression or anxiety on Sunday evenings. They just don't want
Speaker 2: to go back to work.
Speaker 1: Oh, so the evidence really is stacking up against Mondays,
Speaker 1: and I guess we shouldn't be shocked by this.
Speaker 2: Well, that may be true, but there's another part to
Speaker 2: it that may be the most interesting, and that's the
Speaker 2: fact that if you actually study people's moods throughout the
Speaker 2: work week, you don't necessarily find that they were feeling
Speaker 2: that much worse on Mondays than you know, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 2: or Thursday. But then if you ask them to recall
Speaker 2: their moods and their stress levels, they'll almost always report
Speaker 2: Mondays as being consistently worse. So a big part of
Speaker 2: it is that we're telling ourselves Mondays are the worst.
Speaker 1: That is interesting, and I've actually been reading a little
Speaker 1: about this too. And that's where because we believe that
Speaker 1: Mondays are harder and more stressful and generally bluer than
Speaker 1: other days, we then retrofit our memories of Mondays to
Speaker 1: fit that expectation. So we mentally exaggerate some of the
Speaker 1: worst things we remember about Mondays to represent the entirety
Speaker 1: of Mondays. Our brains are pretty tricky, and as our
Speaker 1: research or Autumn said in one of our conversations, the
Speaker 1: Monday blues are a form of social organization.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And just to be clear, it's not as though
Speaker 2: there aren't bad things about Monday. We talked about some
Speaker 2: of those. It's just that there's definitely a bit of
Speaker 2: a placebo effect going on here, and we exaggerate and
Speaker 2: we generalize certain memories and expectations about Mondays.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, then if we tend to view Mondays
Speaker 1: as worse even though we don't necessarily actually always feel
Speaker 1: worse on Mondays, would you say there's a day that
Speaker 1: could rival Monday for the worst.
Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. There have been a couple studies to show
Speaker 2: that our moods may actually reach their lower points on Wednesdays.
Speaker 2: Part of This might be because we're feeling pretty overwhelmed
Speaker 2: at work, and it's when we're the first is the
Speaker 2: way from a weekend on both side, you know, before
Speaker 2: or after?
Speaker 1: All? Right, well, I feel like that's enough of the
Speaker 1: sad talk, so let's get to the best day of
Speaker 1: the weekend before we get to the science of it.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, what's your favorite day of the week?
Speaker 2: Mango Mon's Tuesday?
Speaker 1: Tuesday? And why Tuesday?
Speaker 2: It's because I was We're not a Tuesday, so I
Speaker 2: started paying attention to them. But then I don't know,
Speaker 2: like all the anxiety of Sunday and Monday is over
Speaker 2: and they're low expectations, and I don't know, there's a
Speaker 2: full week ahead.
Speaker 1: It feels like, oh, that's nice. How about you? I
Speaker 1: think I'd probably say Fridays, because you know, I have
Speaker 1: a busy week. We have all our recording do on
Speaker 1: Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I love doing that. But Fridays
Speaker 1: is kind of a day where we get to plan
Speaker 1: for the weeks ahead, think about future episodes, and then
Speaker 1: of course the weekend is ahead, you know, So it's nice.
Speaker 1: I think those are my favorites, But but what do
Speaker 1: the studies say.
Speaker 2: Well, several studies shows Saturday is the winner. It's a
Speaker 2: day where people feel they're free to do, you know,
Speaker 2: what they want with their time, at least more than
Speaker 2: other days, and they know they've got a whole other
Speaker 2: day of weekend ahead of them. Except for the most part,
Speaker 2: people tend to experience outdays is better, both in terms
Speaker 2: of their actual moods and how they remember their moods.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that said, don't you think there's still
Speaker 1: a little bit of the reverse Monday effect going on
Speaker 1: with Saturdays?
Speaker 2: Definitely. So while we do tend to actually feel better
Speaker 2: on Saturdays, we also tend to look back at our
Speaker 2: weekends with rosier glasses than we do our working time,
Speaker 2: and we tend to underestimate how rewarded we are by
Speaker 2: our work if we enjoy what we do. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a bit of cultural bias going on there.
Speaker 1: All right, Well what about Fridays?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is probably why Fridays bring the highest mood
Speaker 2: of the work week. We're excited about the weekend, which
Speaker 2: we believe will be better than the work week. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's an entire restaurant chain named after the concept. Tji
Speaker 2: Fridays oh my god, with some of those chicken fingers. Well,
Speaker 2: before you go running off for some honey mustard covered chicken,
Speaker 2: we should probably play a quick quiz, and then I
Speaker 2: want to hear about the facts you found about the
Speaker 2: days we haven't said much about.
Speaker 1: All right, I think I can wait for that. And
Speaker 1: so who do we have on the line today, Mango, Today.
Speaker 2: We've got a very special guest, the owner of a
Speaker 2: one comic book store in Baltimore, Gorilla King Comics, Ian Sayer.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Part time Genius.
Speaker 5: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, just before we get started, we wanted to say
Speaker 1: we love the intro to your store on your site,
Speaker 1: and I'm just going to read it here for our listeners.
Speaker 1: It says here at Gorilla King Comics, we believe that
Speaker 1: sequential art is the highest form of storytelling. We believe
Speaker 1: that gaily clad musclemen should pummel each other in the
Speaker 1: streets with lamp posts and other large objects. It's their
Speaker 1: right and it's their privilege. We believe that if comics
Speaker 1: are religion, then your friendly local comic book shop should
Speaker 1: be like a church. We want to be your weird
Speaker 1: comics church. It's just such a warm and welcoming intro.
Speaker 5: Well' that's how I feel about comics. It's as simple
Speaker 5: as that, you know. I mean, comics are they're kind
Speaker 5: of a religious experience for me, and like Wednesdays might
Speaker 5: have it, you know.
Speaker 2: So today's show is about days of the weekend. Comic
Speaker 2: book stores have Wednesdays of super special day. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us what happens on that day?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean Wednesday is New Comic book Day. If
Speaker 5: you love comics and look forward to reading the next
Speaker 5: one after you just read the last one, Wednesday is
Speaker 5: your day. Imagine if you can only watch TV like
Speaker 5: one day week, you know what I mean, Like it
Speaker 5: would be like you're awesome TV day. Like it's that
Speaker 5: way for comics.
Speaker 2: So is there anything unusual or super fun about the
Speaker 2: rhythm of the day.
Speaker 5: There's a lot, I mean, you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 5: the busiest day. There's a lot of prip forward on Tuesday.
Speaker 5: Most people that are regulars, they keep they keep a
Speaker 5: pull list with us, meaning we take all their books
Speaker 5: every week and set them aside and baging board them
Speaker 5: for them and they can just come in and they
Speaker 5: won't sell out. I see the same people every week
Speaker 5: and that I love these people, Like we have this
Speaker 5: one guy. Have you ever seen that whole Chris Parley
Speaker 5: routine where he's interviewing people and he asked them like
Speaker 5: a simple yes or no question, Like he's interviewing Paul
Speaker 5: McCartney's like, Rember that part of the song where you
Speaker 5: said the love sake is people to the love you made.
Speaker 5: Mcty's like yeah, I mean's like, oh that was great.
Speaker 5: All of his like answers are like yeah, it was great.
Speaker 5: Like we have this one guy who'll come in and
Speaker 5: just be like, do you remember that time that I
Speaker 5: mean they thought he was sending the stewards and he
Speaker 5: came out of the stewards and they killed everybody outside
Speaker 5: of the stewards and disclosed were all ripped up. It's
Speaker 5: like nobody's best schoolvery And they're like yeah, I remember that,
Speaker 5: and he's like yeah, that was awesome, and like and like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, it is awesome, Like I missed these
Speaker 5: guys over the course of the week, and when they
Speaker 5: come in and it's like, oh, I'm saying so fantastic.
Speaker 1: And I have to know do you sneak a peek
Speaker 1: at comics that come in on Tuesdays, or do you
Speaker 1: wait it out to enjoy it with your customers.
Speaker 5: No way, I read them as soon as I go
Speaker 5: home and have an uninterrupted hour. It doesn't really even
Speaker 5: feel like sneaking a peek. The way that our orders
Speaker 5: are set up, you kind of have to. If you're
Speaker 5: going to reorder comics that's really good, you can only
Speaker 5: do it before a certain time on Wednesdays, So you
Speaker 5: have to like immediately read them, like you know, if
Speaker 5: like they you know, Storm is having a baby and
Speaker 5: you didn't know about it, and everybody's gonna want to
Speaker 5: reorder that book, you got to reorder it immediately. So yeah,
Speaker 5: so you kind of have to like read the books
Speaker 5: as soon as they're out.
Speaker 1: All right. So what's the game called today, Mango?
Speaker 2: It's called Name that Day, that's right.
Speaker 1: So we'll be providing you with a word bank of
Speaker 1: several days of the week. Now. These include Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: and Sunday. We have intentionally left off Tuesday, so please
Speaker 1: don't guess Tuesday. Now, we're going to ask you a
Speaker 1: few questions and see how many you can answer, and
Speaker 1: just so you know, some of the answers repeat all right,
Speaker 1: are you ready to get started? Sure? Okay? Question number one.
Speaker 1: The nickname hump Day was allegedly given to this day
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty five, when Roy Man coined the phrase
Speaker 1: at a DuPont water cooler. What day are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Think Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Yay?
Speaker 2: One for one?
Speaker 1: Question number two. Nachos went mainstream after Howard Cosell commented
Speaker 1: on a tasty news snack he was eating during this
Speaker 1: night football. What night are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Would Monday?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm?
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Number three. This day was the day of the Last Supper.
Speaker 1: It's also Thursday. And just in case you're trying to
Speaker 1: picture him, Thor is the one who's chariot is driven
Speaker 1: by goats?
Speaker 5: Thursday?
Speaker 2: That albem was kind of beginning, But that's right. Three
Speaker 2: for three.
Speaker 1: Number four. This Adam's family daughter is called Little Wanda
Speaker 1: in Brazil. What day of the week are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Whoa so ian's already four for four. Let's see if
Speaker 2: you can get a perfect score here.
Speaker 1: Number five. This day gets the dubious honor of both
Speaker 1: having an ice Cube movie and a Rebecca Black song
Speaker 1: named for it. What day of the week are we
Speaker 1: talking about?
Speaker 5: Definitely Friday five for five and.
Speaker 1: The last question number six and because you like comic art.
Speaker 1: The Bengals weren't the only chart topping band to sing
Speaker 1: about this manic day of the week. The chip Pets
Speaker 1: Alvin and the Chipmunks Lady Friends also covered the song
Speaker 1: what Day did They sing About?
Speaker 5: Monday? Classic?
Speaker 1: All right, So, fun want to tell him how.
Speaker 2: He did Mango? So ians Gordon astounding six for six,
Speaker 2: He ran the tables and he'll be going home with
Speaker 2: our very top prize, a hand written note singing our
Speaker 2: praises to his mom or boss. Congratulations ian O pick
Speaker 2: what welcome back to part time genius? All right, So
Speaker 2: we've talked a lot about Mondays and Saturdays, and a
Speaker 2: little about Wednesdays and Fridays, but I think we need
Speaker 2: to show some love to the other days as well.
Speaker 2: Why don't you tell us a few facts that you
Speaker 2: found about each one?
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. And I know we need
Speaker 1: to talk about the others, but I've got a couple
Speaker 1: more Monday facts here that I wanted to share. All right,
Speaker 1: So Monday is the safest day of the week to
Speaker 1: have surgery. Hopefully you'll remember to show up because it's
Speaker 1: also the day with the most missed medical appointments. It's
Speaker 1: also the best day to apply for a job, meaning
Speaker 1: that a higher percentage of people who submit applications on
Speaker 1: Mondays tend to advance to the next stage than any
Speaker 1: other day.
Speaker 2: So Mondays are redeemed a bit. What about Tuesdays, Well,
Speaker 2: Tuesday is.
Speaker 1: The day for getting stuff done in more ways than one.
Speaker 1: It's the most productive day at work, according to multiple studies.
Speaker 1: And this is in spite of, or maybe because of,
Speaker 1: the fact that it's also the day with the highest
Speaker 1: email volume. It's the most popular day for exercise, and
Speaker 1: it's apparently the best day to day trade. I know
Speaker 1: you've been talking about getting into day trading, Mango, right,
Speaker 1: so maybe you can stop making Tuesday one of our
Speaker 1: recording days. You can just focus on your day trade.
Speaker 2: Okay, good call, All right, Oh.
Speaker 1: But wait, actually, here's another study that showed Wednesdays have
Speaker 1: the highest returns and lowest volatility on the stock market.
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll let you focus on your stocks that day. Tube.
Speaker 1: And you know, all this despite the fact that, as
Speaker 1: we discussed, it tends to be the worst day mood wise,
Speaker 1: according to some studies.
Speaker 2: And what about Thursdays.
Speaker 1: Well, contrary to what most people think, it's Thursdays, not Tuesdays,
Speaker 1: that are best for buying airline tickets. And that's a
Speaker 1: big eat. So let's just focus on that for Thursdays.
Speaker 1: Friday is the worst day to have surgery and the
Speaker 1: likeliest day to get fired. But you know, hey, we're
Speaker 1: excited about the weekend, so who cares. Saturday is the
Speaker 1: day you're likeliest to die in a car crash. But
Speaker 1: the good news is that you should just fly because
Speaker 1: Saturday sees the fewest flight delays. It's also the likeliest
Speaker 1: to inspire songwriting. That is, if you take the Christian
Speaker 1: hymns out of the equation, it has the greatest number
Speaker 1: of day of the week songs in the Amazon database.
Speaker 1: And finally, Sundays are the best day to get out
Speaker 1: on one of those long day trip car rides because
Speaker 1: it's the day with the fewest road passengers.
Speaker 2: All Right, So there's some really good facts in there,
Speaker 2: and it's a shame use so many of them up
Speaker 2: because you know what's next.
Speaker 1: Oh don't worry, I've got some good ones. Part time
Speaker 1: genius fact off.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, why don't you kick us off them all right.
Speaker 1: Well, when I started the show about a story on
Speaker 1: manic Monday, I decided to hold off on sharing one bit.
Speaker 1: Do I need to read the lyrics again? Well? Did
Speaker 1: you know that Prince actually wrote that song? It hit
Speaker 1: number two on the charts and the only reason that
Speaker 1: didn't hit number one another Prince written song, one he
Speaker 1: wrote for himself. Kiss.
Speaker 2: So for the first twenty six years of her existence,
Speaker 2: Wednesday Adams and the rest of her family didn't have names.
Speaker 2: The Adams Family creator finally gave the family members names
Speaker 2: for the nineteen sixties TV show, and her name reportedly
Speaker 2: came from the nursery rhyme Wednesday's child is full of woe?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, back to the topic of Monday's being
Speaker 1: a bummer. We can't have a fact off without a
Speaker 1: Garfield fact. So did you not that the syndicated strip
Speaker 1: is the Guinness World Record holder for being the world's
Speaker 1: most widely syndicated strip. Oh, it's in more than twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred newspapers and other places around the world.
Speaker 2: I've got a great Garfield fact too. Did you ever
Speaker 2: notice as a kid that the voice of Garfield and
Speaker 2: all the TV specials in the eighties, was the same
Speaker 2: voice as Peter Venkman from the animated show The Real Ghostbusters.
Speaker 1: I did no. I actually I knew it was the
Speaker 1: same person because I could hear it. I didn't know
Speaker 1: who it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a guy named Lorenzo Music. But that's
Speaker 2: not really my fact. Turns out he's I'm not the
Speaker 2: only one to have voiced both characters. The other one
Speaker 2: is a little more famous. Bill Murray, of course, was
Speaker 2: the original Peter Venkman, but he was also the voice
Speaker 2: of Garfield in Garfield the Movie back in two thousand
Speaker 2: and four.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, all right. One of my favorite Rolling Stone songs,
Speaker 1: Ruby Tuesday, was written by Keith Richards about his girlfriend
Speaker 1: Linda Keith. Apparently Linda had ditched Richards for Jimmy Hendrix
Speaker 1: and got into some drugs, and he tried to win
Speaker 1: her back and even got her parents involved, telling them
Speaker 1: that she was not doing well. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: when Keith Richards is trying to intervene, it may be
Speaker 1: time to cut out back. But it didn't go well
Speaker 1: and they didn't speak again for many years. And I'd
Speaker 1: love to do an interview with her, not about Keith Richards,
Speaker 1: because I just want to know how she feels about
Speaker 1: the fact that, by the transitive property, there's also a
Speaker 1: giant restaurant chain with a big old salad bar named
Speaker 1: after her.
Speaker 2: So, speaking of family restaurant chains, did you know that
Speaker 2: TGI Fridays may seem like a family establishment made for
Speaker 2: Middle America? But it actually started out as a singles
Speaker 2: bar in Manhattan's Upper East Side in the mid sixties.
Speaker 2: Fume salesman named Alan Stillman felt like there wasn't a
Speaker 2: good bar in the area that both men and women
Speaker 2: felt comfortable at, so he bought a bar on sixty
Speaker 2: third and First and renamed it TJA Fridays, and the
Speaker 2: rest is history. We've got to hear this quote. Stillman
Speaker 2: told Edible Geography. My timing was exquisite because I opened
Speaker 2: TJA Fridays the exact year the pill was invented. I
Speaker 2: happened to hit the sexual revolution on the head, and
Speaker 2: the result was that, without really intending it, I became
Speaker 2: the founder of the first singles bar.
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