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Speaker 1: From how stuff works dot Com. Everybody loves altoy. It's

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Speaker 1: find out more. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. With me is always as Charles Bryant. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know why I say that. Chuck. I should

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Speaker 1: just go Josh and Chuck here, you get your thing.

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Speaker 1: This is a stupid intro. Chuck, let's start over. You

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Speaker 1: say that every week. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant. This is stuff you

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Speaker 1: should know. Thanks for listening to us. Thank you, and

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Speaker 1: even hardier things would go out if people actually paid

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Speaker 1: If you're not. Everyone, I'm just saying right, and you

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Speaker 1: tell us. We're idiots. Yeah, we'll give you your money back.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever see that Simpsons where Bart goes off

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Speaker 1: actually talking about the Simpsons the guys like, I feel

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Speaker 1: you no charge. That's what happens. Though. You know, people

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Speaker 1: how could you do that doesn't suck? I've never paid

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Speaker 1: any attention to it. Actually, I think this past season

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Speaker 1: was a little lame. It happens. Moving on, moving on

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Speaker 1: to Sarcopenia. Well, speaking of aging aging television shows, yes,

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Speaker 1: we could also discuss aging human beings. Very nice, Josh,

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Speaker 1: that was that was clumsy? That got delivered by a

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Speaker 1: so Chuck. You know, there's some obvious signs of aging

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Speaker 1: of these signs of aging are sarcopenia, which is age

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Speaker 1: related muscle loss. Right, And we just want to say

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