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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, and this is stuff you should

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Speaker 1: know the podcast. Don't get it confused? What is that?

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Speaker 1: What was that? That was my burgess? Meredith? Okay, thank you,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Thanks. It's a good burgess, Meredith, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: you're in the mood for alien talk. Sure, this is

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Speaker 1: the second time we've done something like this almost a

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Speaker 1: year later. Yeah, right at it? We did? Uh how

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Speaker 1: UFOs work live in Austin? Yeah, last March? So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess once a year we do aliens aliens? Yeah? Um,

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Speaker 1: but hey, before we get started, may I take a second. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say special high to my wife Umi, right,

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Speaker 1: to aliens. Okay, okay, So we are doing this in

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Speaker 1: honor of are We Alone? Month on Science Channel? Right,

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Speaker 1: So the month of March is are We Alone? Month?

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Speaker 1: And Science Channel every Tuesday, I believe at ten it's

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Speaker 1: having a premiere of um some new show that has

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Speaker 1: the context of an are We Alone Month, it's big news. Also,

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Speaker 1: um uh the Alien Encounters with Nick Sagan got to

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Speaker 1: be related to Carl Carl Pilkington. Yes uh. And then

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Speaker 1: a month be without one? There is a steady live

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Speaker 1: contest where the prize is to go visit Sad no Way,

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Speaker 1: So this is all going on on Science Channel all

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Speaker 1: month long, and if you want more details, watch Science Channel. Pal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: info there and in honor of this month is very

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Speaker 1: special month. We are doing how steady Works, which is

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Speaker 1: an acronym study if you don't know, for to search

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Speaker 1: for extraterrestrial intelligence. Yes, and a joke before we did this.

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Speaker 1: Are we Alone? Month will be followed by yes We're

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Speaker 1: Alone Day? Sort of a joke. But they haven't really

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Speaker 1: they say awesome. And the astronomer goes along and says Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're moving on to the next people. Eventually you get

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Speaker 1: to the public and the person who discovered it um

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Speaker 1: is meant to have the honor of announcing it to

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Speaker 1: the world, according to the protocols. Jodie Foster uh and

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Speaker 1: is saying that they don't think that there are aliens

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Speaker 1: that we've been hiding in Roswell, New Mexico. They said that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the presence that would be like the biggest

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Speaker 1: discovery in the history of science and a you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: want to keep it a secret and be there would

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Speaker 1: be thousands and thousands of people working on it, and

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Speaker 1: they said it would just be impossible. So they're not,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're not these crackpots that think, oh, we've

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Speaker 1: got aliens hidden away working on a farm in the

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Speaker 1: desert of New Mexico, harvesting on water farms, and that's

442
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Speaker 1: where we got our microwaves from, exactly. Uh and I

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Speaker 1: also looked at their f a Q under the are

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Speaker 1: we sending signals because I thought that was kind of

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Speaker 1: interesting because obviously close encounters. They sent messages out and

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Speaker 1: they said they are completely passive experiment. They're only looking,

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Speaker 1: they are not sending. However, we have been sending signals ah,

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Speaker 1: unintentionally for fifty years or more. Yes, since the thirties,

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Speaker 1: since we started broadcasting on the radio. Yeah, in television. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is the early TV broadcast reached out about to

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Speaker 1: about one thousand nearby stars. And but they said, it's

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Speaker 1: very unlikely that any any alien civilization could have picked

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Speaker 1: up on that. But we are inadvertently broadcasting, probably in

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Speaker 1: the water hole too, I would think. And the other

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Speaker 1: reason we don't send out signals is because if the

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Speaker 1: nearest civilization they said, is a hundred light years away,

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Speaker 1: it would be two hundred years to get a reply,

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Speaker 1: and it's just not a very good way to spend

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Speaker 1: your time. Well. Plus also it's in the protocols that

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Speaker 1: UM we decide through like the u N and other

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Speaker 1: international bodies, whether or not to respond to a signal.

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Speaker 1: That's like one of the last steps. Well, they said

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Speaker 1: that we've sent UM symbolic messages before, like, hey, here's

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Speaker 1: what our solar system is like. Here the compounds important

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Speaker 1: for life. Here's the structure of our DNA in the

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Speaker 1: form of a human. They say, it's symbolic. But I

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Speaker 1: think they're like, oh, you never know, you know, so

468
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Speaker 1: they're liars. Then when they say they're passive, well they

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Speaker 1: are passive. They have done that in the past. They

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Speaker 1: said it was like the seventies. They're passive as far

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Speaker 1: as astronomy goes, active as far as lying on their

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Speaker 1: f a Q go. Now, I think it was Sniking

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Speaker 1: seventy four was the last time they sent out a message.

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Speaker 1: There was what the Viking or some I can't remember,

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Speaker 1: the spaceship we send into orbit or into outer space

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Speaker 1: that had like um gold records containing all sorts of

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Speaker 1: information like the world's great information and knowledge on them.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that sort of Viking? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably get that wrong though. So what's

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Speaker 1: in the future for CET right now? Uh, well, the

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Speaker 1: future with the programs like SETI at Home could get

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Speaker 1: more people active than that they're interested in their home

483
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Speaker 1: future could be good there. They said, they might be

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Speaker 1: UM sending or looking for light at some point because

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Speaker 1: it may not come via radio, it may come via light.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, you never know. Yeah. Frank Drake is

487
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Speaker 1: all about that one. Now. He says that this is

488
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Speaker 1: like the hot new field for study is optical UM astronomy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and of course finishing up things like the Allen telescope

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Speaker 1: array is important. And then they're study at home. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you want to go do that, it's pretty easy

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Speaker 1: to go download UM folding at home. I've never had

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Speaker 1: steady at home. You did folding? Uh huh cool? Uh?

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Speaker 1: And then my computer crash and I was just like,

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Speaker 1: maybe that crashed it. I don't know. Maybe I could

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Speaker 1: tell the difference when it was processing UM and that's steady.

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Speaker 1: So if this kind of piqued your interest, there's plenty

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Speaker 1: more information out there. UM. You can also check out

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Speaker 1: sets stuff on Science Channel. UM. During Are We Alone

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Speaker 1: Month in March, premiers come on I think Tuesdays at

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Speaker 1: ten starting March six, every Tuesday, like Moonlighting? Um? Was

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Speaker 1: it was that on Tuesday? I think? So I seem

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Speaker 1: to remember being drawn to the television on Tuesdays. I

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Speaker 1: think it was Moonlighting and eighteen nice? Where was it Moonlighting?

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Speaker 1: In love Boat? That was Loveboat Fantasy Island? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's too definitely together, let's see recamping. What else is

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Speaker 1: at the begame? I'm married? Do you mean? And I

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Speaker 1: are married? Um? And I guess that's it. If you

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Speaker 1: want to read set, you can type that word into

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Speaker 1: the search bar. Howstuffwork dot com s E T I

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Speaker 1: and that will bring up this very nice article including

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Speaker 1: cool graphs and screenshots from CETI at home for some reason. Um,

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Speaker 1: and since I said search bar, I think I said

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Speaker 1: handy search bar. Even Um, it's time for listener mail.

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Speaker 1: Uh wait, chuck, before we do listener mail, let me

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Speaker 1: stop you. I know you're usually stopping me, but I

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Speaker 1: got the drop on you. You did. Let's announce some

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Speaker 1: very important things. V I T S as it were.

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Speaker 1: Yes are Austin, Texas south by Southwest Activities. We will

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Speaker 1: be live podcasting. This is for official badge holders. We

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Speaker 1: will be live podcasting uh Sunday, March e leventh, at

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Speaker 1: three thirty at the Driftll Hotel when our favorite places

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Speaker 1: Drisco Hotel. And that's did you have brunch there? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I actually manage you mean I did before we live

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Speaker 1: podcasted last time. I just said it. I think I

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Speaker 1: that all I did. You had a sweaty bloody Mary.

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Speaker 1: We were nervous. Yeah, but this is in the afternoon,

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Speaker 1: had five bloody Mary exactly. So that is a live podcast.

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Speaker 1: And then the following day, Monday, March twelve, from five

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Speaker 1: and just drive there and show up. Don't pay any cover,

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Speaker 1: And in fact, if you're one of the first one

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Speaker 1: hundred people, we will even give you a drink ticket. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Josh and Uncle Truck and Uncle Science Channel, uh and

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Speaker 1: Uncle House Stuff works. That's right. And the reason we

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Speaker 1: say Science Channel is because they have been kind enough

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Speaker 1: to give us a chance to do a TV pilot

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Speaker 1: for their network and they are super cool and awesome,

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Speaker 1: supportive creative people, and uh, we did that TV pilot

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Speaker 1: about a month ago or actually I don't know when

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Speaker 1: this comes out, but it was a month ago today,

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Speaker 1: Oh was it? Yeah? Well or close, and we are

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Speaker 1: putting that thing together in the edit room, and we

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Speaker 1: are going to be previewing uh clips from said show

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Speaker 1: like before anyone else gets to see this, saying literally

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Speaker 1: except for people at Science Channel, you can do so

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Speaker 1: if you come to put out the I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you really got that point across, Chuck. We made

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Speaker 1: a half hour TV pilot that's going to Aaron Science

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Speaker 1: Channel at some point correct in the spring. Yes, um,

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Speaker 1: and this is the public debut any even a second

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Speaker 1: of it. Everybody's seen it or just some sweaty weirdo

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Speaker 1: editors in a man cave that stinks to high heaven.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you this is it. This is it,

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Speaker 1: and that's not enough, although it should be. Special appearances

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Speaker 1: by Mr John Hodgman, comedy set by stand up extraordinary

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Speaker 1: Eugene Merman, music by Lucy Wayne White Roach who plays

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Speaker 1: Jerry in the pilot. Henry Clay. People are buddies for

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Speaker 1: a while now. They worked on the score, not worked

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Speaker 1: on the score. They did the score, they did the

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Speaker 1: and uh, we're kind enough to let everyone else use

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Speaker 1: your gear, which is a big deal. They will all

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Speaker 1: be rocking and rolling. That's about the squarest thing I've

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Speaker 1: ever said. And uh yeah, so that's it. Comedy hogg

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Speaker 1: Us TV show pilot and uh music X one, well done.

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Speaker 1: It's a big deal. It's a big two days March twelve,

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Speaker 1: five to nine bade Irish pub to fourteen fourth. And

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Speaker 1: get dressed and get down to the driscoll and watch

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Speaker 1: Uncle Josh and Uncle Chuck dose a my podcast. Agreed,

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Speaker 1: good night, back the listener, Man at long last Um,

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Speaker 1: all right on the listener mail, Yes, all right, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this uh Luca libra slash American wrestling

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Speaker 1: from Zach uh Chuck. You suggested that wrestlers carry fake

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Speaker 1: blood packs. Not quite true, or at least usually not true. Instead,

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Speaker 1: most wrestlers carry a razor blade in order to blade

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Speaker 1: their foreheads. I've heard this. Actually, any of that, we'll cut,

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Speaker 1: make a little cut and bleed, uh, right around the

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Speaker 1: hairline after being hit in the head of a chair

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Speaker 1: or a cage or another hard weapon. You were also

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Speaker 1: talking about the big companies in America. The w w

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Speaker 1: E is the biggest right now, with ten as the

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Speaker 1: second biggest, and Ring of Honor is the third. W

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Speaker 1: w E and t n A are on big TV networks,

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Speaker 1: while the Ring of Honor is only on the air

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Speaker 1: in certain markets, and there are many many independent leagues,

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Speaker 1: including Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan's Resistance Pro. Did you know that?

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Speaker 1: I guess so, dude, he's got his own wrestling league.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if he's still on the dope. I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. I saw him one day. He's really tall,

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Speaker 1: which surprised me for some reason. I think I noticed

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Speaker 1: that when the Cubs were in the World Series and

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Speaker 1: he's saying the uh, the national anthem. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: saying that taking out to the ball games stretch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all those guys, uh, so Zack says, when talking about

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Speaker 1: I think I might have said that it's different with

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Speaker 1: American wrestling, but not true. He said the chair was

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Speaker 1: just really popular in the late nineties because they book

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Speaker 1: the ref down and people would use the chair when

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Speaker 1: the ref wasn't watching. But you would still get Q

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Speaker 1: if the ref was to see that. And he also

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Speaker 1: said Raymond would get day queened. Oh man, that'd be great. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then he said ray Mysterio is out with injury,

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Speaker 1: Did he's still kicking it. That was a heck of

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Speaker 1: a dispatch from the wrestling world. And dude, I redacted

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Speaker 1: about half of it. Thanks Zack. That is Zack from

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Speaker 1: I don't know where he's from. He's from Billy Corgan's basement. Well, wow,

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Speaker 1: if you have some supplementary information, not even necessarily correction.

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Speaker 1: I think Zach handled that very well. Sure. Um, we

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Speaker 1: like to hear that stuff all the time, and we

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