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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 Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. Who's making fun of the weight gain I've

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Speaker 1: managed to accumulate over the holiday? I'm not I just

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Speaker 1: you seem like you were pointing that out, and so

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Speaker 1: I guessed you honestly don't look like you've gained any weight. Thanks. Sure,

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Speaker 1: well I gave someone for Christmas, but I've dropped a

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Speaker 1: few cents. Yeah, I was looking at you. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: Chuck's face looks a lot of slimmer. When was this

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Speaker 1: like two days ago? I really? God leestion, Chuck, let's

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Speaker 1: get started show. Yes, what is your bet for how

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Speaker 1: the world is going to end? Uh? The large had

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Speaker 1: run collider? Maybe a third World War starting in the

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Speaker 1: Middle East. I'm gonna go with now, atural disasters setting

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Speaker 1: off a chain reaction of events. What would those chain

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Speaker 1: reaction of events be? Oh, you know, paranoia, chaos, dogs

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Speaker 1: and cats living together, man fighting man woman fighting man

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Speaker 1: woman fighting woman my favorite and uh, Yeah, then everyone

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Speaker 1: kills each other. That's what I'm going with. What do

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Speaker 1: you think I think it's going to be a single

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Speaker 1: cataclysmic event. I think that humans are really good at

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Speaker 1: adapting to stuff e g. Climate change, that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it has the gumption to wipe out

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Speaker 1: humanity a natural event or a human generated event. It

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Speaker 1: could be either one like a major asteroid impact or

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Speaker 1: like that, something big and sudden. I think Facebook and

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Speaker 1: Twitter will play a part in my scenario. Well no, no,

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Speaker 1: that's the degradation of society. This is the destruction of

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Speaker 1: humanity we're talking about. Well no, I mean once the

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Speaker 1: chain reaction starts, I think things can get out of control.

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Speaker 1: With information being a so easily uh doled out. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is why I love us, Chuck, Like, we have

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Speaker 1: not spoken about this at all. I sent you a

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Speaker 1: know and we haven't spoken about it, right, right, And

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Speaker 1: and you've just touched on that too. Yeah, thank you

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Speaker 1: for being you, Chuck Bryan. I was talking to Emily

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Speaker 1: definitely see paranoia spreading false true, spreading so fast that

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Speaker 1: Can you really say anything important twelve fifteen times a

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Speaker 1: asking the wrong guy, I don't think so. You've got

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Speaker 1: a Twitter page, yeah, but I won't ever use it. Know,

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Speaker 1: I did for a little while and just kind of

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Speaker 1: hell of a week. Fan. I've been saying hell a

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Speaker 1: lot in podcasts lately, have you noticed. Yeah, listen to

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Speaker 1: the Sun one. Okay, hell, hell all over the place? Fire? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: speaking of hell and fire. So we're talking about the

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Speaker 1: And one of those I guess beneficial byproducts of that

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Speaker 1: paranoia is UM planning, good, good, sensible planning. Right. You

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Speaker 1: ever heard of a little country called Norway? I have Norwegians. There.

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Speaker 1: You're going with a seed vault. Let's start with that.

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Speaker 1: What they've done is they have taken um pretty much

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Speaker 1: So we're talking today about the lunar doomsday are, right, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: How in the planet? Well, Josh, The idea, like most

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Speaker 1: a three step process. Let's hear it, chuck. Okay, First,

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