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

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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: one Mr Charles W. Luscious Bryant, we call him Chuckers.

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Speaker 1: He calls me to come to his head and this

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Speaker 1: is stuff you should know. Welcome. How's it going, Chuck, dude?

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Speaker 1: That may be the best intro ever. Thank you. It's

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Speaker 1: the fact that I'm not wearing pants right now. I

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Speaker 1: think I feel very free and easy, compass head and

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Speaker 1: a little sweaty. Actually okay, then, so, Chuck, have you

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Speaker 1: ever had warts? Did you have warts when your kid um?

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Speaker 1: I have had two incidences of warts. Currently, I have

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Speaker 1: a wart on my uh, sort of near my knee

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Speaker 1: one of those real gnarly ones. It sticks up, you know,

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Speaker 1: out into the universe. It's like pretty small and not

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Speaker 1: a big deal. And then I had planners wards when

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Speaker 1: I was like fifteen. Have you ever had those? No?

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Speaker 1: I have? These are the war dude, It's awful. Did

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Speaker 1: they hurt really, really painful. Yeah, they grow up into

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Speaker 1: your foot instead of out. And I think I caught

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Speaker 1: it from my brother because he had it and when

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Speaker 1: he was at Georgia Tech. Brother was dirty, dirty, dirty Scott.

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Speaker 1: And uh it was the handsome one that Christina Ricci likes.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like a male model, that guy. Um, it

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Speaker 1: was great growing up in a shadow too, because he's

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Speaker 1: like way smarter than me and slam and trim. It's

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Speaker 1: great anyway. Uh and happy birthday by the way to

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Speaker 1: my brother. Oh, happy birthday, Scott, and uh Molly Edmonds,

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Molly Fellow writer that aside, I had planners

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Speaker 1: words and it's really really painful, and I had them

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Speaker 1: burned off and that was painful. Yeah, with the frozen

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Speaker 1: liquid nitrogen. Yes, I have been through that experience too. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I had warts on like my fingers on my elbows

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Speaker 1: I guess the dermatologists and quit picking up frogs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we told that, not quite. I had a pretty good story.

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Speaker 1: But yes, I have heard that toads specifically, cause wards

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Speaker 1: I've heard that as well, that's not true, but it's

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Speaker 1: not let's start. Let's well, so wow, wow, every bit

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Speaker 1: is segue just fell away like you just you just

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Speaker 1: got rid of an entire page of this article with that.

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Speaker 1: Well that's because we don't plan this stuff out. What

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Speaker 1: do you want to talk about? Australia? Okay, alright, So

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Speaker 1: Australia has a pretty big problem right now, right, probably

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Speaker 1: more than one. But this this one we're talking about

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Speaker 1: horrible drought still aren't aren't they? And it's hitting their

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Speaker 1: bread basket to basket. Um, yeah, what they have? This

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Speaker 1: one problem is with the giant Kane toad Buffo marinus.

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Speaker 1: And I love that buffo. It sounds like a giant

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Speaker 1: Kane toad name right, So these things get to be

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Speaker 1: That would scare me. Well back in n um the

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Speaker 1: kid um. So yeah, they imported him to Queensland from Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: And actually these things are indigenous to Central and South America,

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Speaker 1: just to play an old cane beetle. Uh. And apparently

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Speaker 1: kane toads, and the giant kane toads did absolutely nothing

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Speaker 1: of times when you introduce a species and non native

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Speaker 1: one of these classic documentaries. Yes, we're like Grey Gardens

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Speaker 1: our producer Jerry's favorite movie of all time, Greg Gardens. Yeah, really,

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Speaker 1: So toads absolutely do not cause warts. We can say

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Speaker 1: cervical cancer can also give you wards. Right. Most people

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