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Speaker 3: want to kick things off with this message from Nathan
Speaker 3: about future Shock?
Speaker 2: Sure? Yeah, Nathan rides Dear Robert and Joe, your episode's
Speaker 2: about future Shock. Particularly the third episode, brought to mind
Speaker 2: the original nineteen seventy eight series Connections from science communicator
Speaker 2: James Burke. Over the course of the series, he gives
Speaker 2: an alternate view of social changes and scientific progress instead
Speaker 2: of the Great Man theory of history, where a lone
Speaker 2: genius invents a new device out of nothing. Burke posits
Speaker 2: that each innovation throughout history came about because somebody merely
Speaker 2: put existing pieces of knowledge and technology together in the
Speaker 2: right order. In the final episode, he sums up four
Speaker 2: potential responses to technological change in a manner similar to
Speaker 2: the Tofflers, and then raises questions about each response. One
Speaker 2: scrap everything, go rural, two selective research only, three stop
Speaker 2: making new things, share what we have now, and four
Speaker 2: keep going business as usual. The full series can be
Speaker 2: found on the Internet archive in the links below Centism links,
Speaker 2: and the final monologue appears in the game The Witness.
Speaker 2: I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it before.
Speaker 2: Even though the technology he discusses, like the computer has
Speaker 2: changed dramatically since the original air date, the lessons he
Speaker 2: draws from them are still as relevant as ever. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your surprising and refreshing range of topics as always, Nate.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks Nathan. I've never seen the full series, but
Speaker 3: I've seen segments clipped out into individual videos, and I've
Speaker 3: read parts of the book version of Connections. I actually
Speaker 3: have a nice, well worn used copy here at the
Speaker 3: house that we got somewhere I don't quite recall, but
Speaker 3: it was a good used bookstore find at some point.
Speaker 3: But Rob, I know you're a big fan of Connections, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I watch Connections as a kid, as well as episodes
Speaker 2: of the other series he did The Day the Universe Changed,
Speaker 2: and I have both book versions, and we've actually turned
Speaker 2: to these books for his analysis on past episodes, specifically
Speaker 2: certain episodes of Invention. I forget which ones in particular,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I've long found his view of technological change
Speaker 2: and evolution somewhat captivating.
Speaker 3: I agree, and I will say in general, I think
Speaker 3: it's really good to be skeptical of the so called
Speaker 3: great Man theory of history, or maybe, to be less prejudicial,
Speaker 3: call it the great person or great genius theory. And
Speaker 3: of course my skepticism of this model applies not only
Speaker 3: to what is normally called history, you know, like political
Speaker 3: history and stuff, but to the history of science and
Speaker 3: technology as well. One reason I think it's good to
Speaker 3: be skeptical of the great genius theory where a you know,
Speaker 3: the the idiosyncratic special quality is of a particular person
Speaker 3: come around, you know, come around at just the right
Speaker 3: time and change the world. One reason I think we
Speaker 3: should be skeptical of that view of history is because
Speaker 3: I'm worry of the danger of fundamental attribution error, which
Speaker 3: is a concept in psychology. We've done some episodes on
Speaker 3: in the past, if you want to go look those
Speaker 3: up to get the full story. There are some mixed
Speaker 3: results about this finding, but basically it seems that especially
Speaker 3: in more individualistic culture is in the United States would
Speaker 3: be one of those. We have a tendency to overemphasize
Speaker 3: the explanatory importance of internal factors like personality and intellectual
Speaker 3: ability and things like that, and underemphasize the role of
Speaker 3: external factors like situation and context when explaining the behavior
Speaker 3: of people and the you know, the reasons that events
Speaker 3: unfold in the way they do. So, I think, at
Speaker 3: least in the individualistic culture of the United States, I
Speaker 3: think we're probably way too biased in the direction of
Speaker 3: rating the importance of factors like the personality and genius
Speaker 3: of famous people, and we probably underestimate the importance of
Speaker 3: circumstances and context and trends and so. To come back
Speaker 3: to Burke, yeah, I think a lot of major turning
Speaker 3: points in the history of science and technology arose not
Speaker 3: just because of the personal genius of specific inventors and scientists.
Speaker 3: So of course that is a factor too. You don't
Speaker 3: want to say like, oh, Isaac Newton wasn't smart, But
Speaker 3: I think we should consciously force ourselves to pay attention
Speaker 3: to the importance of situations. I think it's really important
Speaker 3: that there were situations in history where a lot of
Speaker 3: knowledge and material wealth and talent was being brought together
Speaker 3: in a context that maybe allowed for experimentation. And when
Speaker 3: we look back at history, we probably do have a
Speaker 3: cognitive bias, this fundamental attribution era that makes the genius
Speaker 3: seem more decisive and makes us ignore the relative importance
Speaker 3: of situations in context. And yeah, so I have perceived
Speaker 3: in the past. One of the goals of Burke's work
Speaker 3: in the History of science and Technology was to show
Speaker 3: the ways that it's a story of intersections and connections
Speaker 3: certain pieces of pre existing knowledge or know how technology,
Speaker 3: particular needs or questions, all happening to come into contact
Speaker 3: at certain times and places in history leading to progress,
Speaker 3: and not just like oh wow, this and genius changed everything.
Speaker 3: That's my take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, this is this is I agree with
Speaker 2: all of this. Yeah, you know, you have to fu
Speaker 2: factor in things like market forces, communication between different cultures,
Speaker 2: urban as they I mean, there's just so many different
Speaker 2: elements that go into the the alchemy of any given innovation, invention,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Even in our Weird House Cinema episodes sometimes
Speaker 2: we refer to it as such, but certainly in our
Speaker 2: notes we always call the section that gets into cast members, directors, writers,
Speaker 2: et cetera. As connections. And I often think about about
Speaker 2: about about Bert's work as one might apply it to cinema.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's not just you know, oftentimes you
Speaker 2: do have like one really important individual that's you know,
Speaker 2: this is their vision and this is their talent manifested
Speaker 2: on the screen, but to varying degrees. And I think
Speaker 2: oftentimes it's it's more of this case. I mean, you
Speaker 2: have all these different talents coming together, and circumstances is
Speaker 2: aligning them that make the movie exactly what it is.
Speaker 3: I think that's well said, And you know, people don't
Speaker 3: often apply this lens as much to like art and
Speaker 3: entertainment as they do to I don't know what we
Speaker 3: were just talking about, history of science or technology or
Speaker 3: politics or whatever, but I do think it applies there
Speaker 3: as well. I mean even in the realm of b movies.
Speaker 3: On the show before you Know, we've talked about how
Speaker 3: different a Roger Korman movie. One Roger Korman movie is
Speaker 3: from another, depending on circumstances like what was Coorman's budget,
Speaker 3: how long did he have to make it, what kind
Speaker 3: of actors did he have access to? And this leads
Speaker 3: to incredibly different results. It's not always just you know,
Speaker 3: the loan genius at the top of the organizational chart,
Speaker 3: the of the film deciding whether something is good or
Speaker 3: bad by their individual personal qualities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, real quick. I'll mention. When it comes to
Speaker 2: James Burke's work, I had to look up his film
Speaker 2: again because I know there had been rumblings about him
Speaker 2: doing another Connections book and or series to sort of
Speaker 2: bring things into our modern time. He is still alive,
Speaker 2: still active. There was also a Connections three that came
Speaker 2: out in the late nineteen nineties, so I'm not sure
Speaker 2: where what he's working on at the moment of that
Speaker 2: project is in the works, but I hope it is
Speaker 2: because I would be very interested to see the Connections
Speaker 2: approach to the modern state of technology.
Speaker 3: I think I recall one thing being about connections actually
Speaker 3: having some overlap with the predictions of the Tofflers in
Speaker 3: Future Shock, which is I think he predicted an ever
Speaker 3: accelerating rate of change and development in science and technology,
Speaker 3: and then downstream from that in culture, primarily in his
Speaker 3: view because of the increase in connections, because the improvements
Speaker 3: in communication technology make connections happen more frequently than they
Speaker 3: ever did before, and this is what he thought was
Speaker 3: going to was going to keep accelerating the technological change.
Speaker 2: Anyway, solid listener mail Nathan, thanks for writing in Okay.
Speaker 3: This next message is in response to our episodes on
Speaker 3: the Ignobel Prize Ignobel Prizes from twenty twenty three. This
Speaker 3: is from Sam and it is about the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three Geology Prize, which was awarded to an essay about
Speaker 3: eating and tasting fossils. Sam says, Hello, Robert and Joe.
Speaker 3: I am a recent geology graduate from the University of
Speaker 3: West Georgia. I just finished your first episode of the
Speaker 3: Ignobel Prizes and I have an answer to your question
Speaker 3: of what does the Eocene Epic taste like? I asked
Speaker 3: this at the end of the episode. Yeah, Apparently Sam
Speaker 3: has the answer, Sam says, I work as a clay
Speaker 3: tester for a kalanite mine in middle southern Georgia, and
Speaker 3: some of our clay comes from the eosine, and as
Speaker 3: a geologist, I of course had to give it a
Speaker 3: thorough examination by tasting a small amount. The eosine age
Speaker 3: clay has an acidic and bitter taste, with undertones of
Speaker 3: vanilla and a texture like powdered peanut butter or protein powder.
Speaker 3: This may seem strange, but it is common for practicing
Speaker 3: geologists to taste minerals, fossils, and even plain dirt to
Speaker 3: clarify properties both chemical and physical. For example, I have
Speaker 3: been taught to taste the difference between the mineral halite,
Speaker 3: which is in ACL, and sylvite KCl, which appear identical.
Speaker 3: Halte tastes salty as it is salt in a in
Speaker 3: the formula that's sodium sodium chloride, Sam goes on, and
Speaker 3: sylvite tastes bitter due to the potassium content. Another example
Speaker 3: is the quote toungue test on fossils, where putting the
Speaker 3: tip of your tonge on a potential fossil will help
Speaker 3: identify fossil from rock. Fossils being poor us will stick
Speaker 3: to your tongue more than rock and sometimes require conscious
Speaker 3: effort to unstick your tongue. Oh, that sounds kind of scary.
Speaker 3: We even taste a small amount of soil samples to
Speaker 3: tell between clay and silt. Silt has the consistency of
Speaker 3: toothpaste and clay like creamy peanut butter. Love the podcast, Hope,
Speaker 3: I provided an interesting and entertaining answer to your question. Sam. Oh,
Speaker 3: thank you, Sam, you absolutely did. This is one of
Speaker 3: my favorite kinds of listener mail.
Speaker 2: All right, does The next one comes to us from Jeff.
Speaker 2: Jeff says, this is Jeff with one F greeting science
Speaker 2: humans in the altanin Antenna episode. I think it was
Speaker 2: Joe who mentioned manganese nodules and passing. I believe this
Speaker 2: would be an excellent topic for a proper.
Speaker 3: And just for clarity, I was gonna insert a note
Speaker 3: here to describe these manganese nodules, which are I've also
Speaker 3: seen sometimes called ferromanganese nodules or polymetallic nodules. Are these
Speaker 3: mineral concretions that form slowly over time at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the ocean. So if you ever see like deep
Speaker 3: sea Rover camera footage of a you know, a submersible
Speaker 3: going over the seafloor. Sometimes you will see them scattered
Speaker 3: all about, looking like weird gray metal turnips through these
Speaker 3: strange little spheres or balls on the ocean floor. And
Speaker 3: they're formed out of a variety of metals. Manganese and
Speaker 3: iron are common ingradients, hence ferromanganese nodules the name there,
Speaker 3: but they also sometimes contain other metals like nickel and
Speaker 3: cobalt too. And a cool thing about these nodules is
Speaker 3: that they form by accretion of concentric layers around a
Speaker 3: nucleation point, which might be I think like a It
Speaker 3: could be like a grain of clay, or like a
Speaker 3: dead organism or something. There's a little nucleation point and
Speaker 3: then it starts a creating these metal layers around it.
Speaker 3: So they have rings like a tree trunk. I think.
Speaker 3: One estimate I came across was that they tend to
Speaker 3: grow about a millimeter every million years. But because of
Speaker 3: the way these rings form in layers, you can cut
Speaker 3: a manganese nodule in half and analyze its structure to
Speaker 3: get information about seawater chemistry going back millions of years.
Speaker 3: Another interesting thing is that they somehow tend to remain
Speaker 3: at the top of the ocean floor sediment layer over
Speaker 3: these millions of years, instead of getting subducted, you know,
Speaker 3: instead of getting buried and incorporated into the rock beneath.
Speaker 3: So somehow they stay on top there while they're accumulating
Speaker 3: all these metal layers. So anyway, that's manganese nodules. Back
Speaker 3: to Jeff's message.
Speaker 2: In the original Star Trek episode featuring a monster in
Speaker 2: a mining colony, I think I've seen this one. By
Speaker 2: the way, the miners discovered a bunch of odds spheres
Speaker 2: made of mostly silicone and had been destroying them because
Speaker 2: they figured they were just guardage. They didn't can connect
Speaker 2: them at all to the mysterious attacks on their workers.
Speaker 2: The reveal was that a silicone based alien creature was
Speaker 2: lashing out trying to protect its eggs from the humans.
Speaker 2: When I saw the episode, I thought there was no
Speaker 2: way humans encountering something so peculiar and suspicious would just
Speaker 2: dispose of them without curiosity, particularly while miners were being
Speaker 2: killed on a regular basis. But given that similar nodules
Speaker 2: exist on Earth, the Federation had probably run into many
Speaker 2: naturally occurring phenomena like these on other planets with no
Speaker 2: association to living creatures. So I suppose it's not so
Speaker 2: strange that a corporation would think nothing of clearing the
Speaker 2: way of unprofitable rubble. A second example was the Epcot
Speaker 2: attraction Horizons, in which there was a scene depicting a
Speaker 2: robot on the ocean floor picking up manganese nodules, as
Speaker 2: well as a huge system of vacuum tubes sucking them
Speaker 2: up into floating collection units on the surface. Apologies for
Speaker 2: the zibruder like quality of the attached photos, the attraction
Speaker 2: was demolished before the age of the smartphone camera. The
Speaker 2: scene is not directly referenced or explained in the narration.
Speaker 2: It was just an awesome extra throwaway detailed to experience.
Speaker 2: At the time, I thought it was silly fantasy that
Speaker 2: anything so ridiculously useful would be sitting in convenient chunks
Speaker 2: easily accessible on the ocean floor. I chalked it up
Speaker 2: to excessive optimism on the part of Disney ride designers.
Speaker 2: But these nodules were discovered in the nineteenth century, so
Speaker 2: they clearly knew what they were doing.
Speaker 3: To borrow a joke from Mystery Science Theater three thousand.
Speaker 3: These photos of the EPCOT Horizon Center do look like
Speaker 3: someone's last known photograph.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty cool. I've seen a recent documentary featuring
Speaker 2: prototypes that are remarkably similar to what the Disney people
Speaker 2: imagined in the nineteen eighties. Given that these metals are
Speaker 2: now in high demand for electric vehicle and mobile device batteries,
Speaker 2: there is now talk of and controversy about mining the
Speaker 2: nodules on a massive scale. In both these instances, my
Speaker 2: dismissive smug response was purely a result of my ignorance.
Speaker 2: The world is simply cooler than I thought pop. Now
Speaker 2: that I think about it, perhaps you guys could also
Speaker 2: do an episode on the unreasonably beautiful and artificial looking
Speaker 2: crystal caves on Earth. They also seem like impossible creations
Speaker 2: of Hollywood set designers, but are in fact just nature
Speaker 2: doing its thing. I wonder if the guys who built
Speaker 2: Superman's Fortress of Solitude vacationed underground in Mexico. Thanks again
Speaker 2: for your continued pursuit of the strange and wonderful Jeff.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for the great email. Jeff. You know
Speaker 3: we we did an interview years ago. I think this
Speaker 3: was the interview we did with Diva Aimon about where
Speaker 3: we talked about some of the controversies about ocean floor mining.
Speaker 3: But I don't recall if that was specifically with reference
Speaker 3: to manganese nodules or to something or about something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember if that in particular was pointed out,
Speaker 2: but you know, I'm sure if we'd known to ask
Speaker 2: her about it at the time, we could we could have.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was a great interview that was back
Speaker 2: there in the archive somewhere. All right. This next one
Speaker 2: comes to us from Adam. Adam says, hey, guys, on
Speaker 2: the newest episode regarding the Ignobel Prizes, the horror manga
Speaker 2: author Junji Ito has one called and I may be
Speaker 2: pronouncing this wrong, Geo. It's Gyo. That involves necro mechanical implications.
Speaker 2: Really great story. Check it out.
Speaker 3: So the necro mechanical connection would be that one of
Speaker 3: the Ignobel prizes we talked about from this year was
Speaker 3: awarded to a team that had done research on how
Speaker 3: to turn a dead spider into a gripper claw with
Speaker 3: just fluid pressure.
Speaker 2: That's right, and so perhaps not so surprising. It sounds
Speaker 2: like young g Ito has explored this territory as well.
Speaker 2: This is kind of a fun coincidence because the day
Speaker 2: this email came in, Joe and I were over at
Speaker 2: the Museum of Illusions in Atlanta getting some updated photographs,
Speaker 2: photographs taken of us and look out, you'll get to
Speaker 2: see these, uh in the near future wherever photos of
Speaker 2: us are appropriate. And the we were talking with the
Speaker 2: marketing manager there and she recommended Junji Eto. I forget
Speaker 2: exactly how it came up, but she she she brought
Speaker 2: up this particular artist.
Speaker 3: I think she said she had listened to our episode
Speaker 3: about melting and uh, was that what it was?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Because he's so I haven't read any of his
Speaker 2: full works, but I'm familiar with him by reputation. I've
Speaker 2: seen various stills. You know, a lot of his stuff
Speaker 2: is very I wouldn't say maybe meme worthy, but it
Speaker 2: shared a lot because his work has this real visceral,
Speaker 2: nightmarish quality to it, where a single image is just
Speaker 2: instantly more horrifying than most illustrations you've seen from a
Speaker 2: comic book or a manga. It's at His work has
Speaker 2: also been adapted multiple times, including the Long Run in
Speaker 2: long running Tony film franchise in Japan, as well as
Speaker 2: the two thousand film spiral. I was looking around. It
Speaker 2: looks like he's also done some guest art for Magic
Speaker 2: the Gathering. Joe included some screenshots of these Magic the
Speaker 2: Gathering cards that unity Eto did. They're pretty horrifying. It's
Speaker 2: like black and white manga style, and again, all sorts
Speaker 2: of strange body horror type things occur.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, it's sort of hard to tell what I'm
Speaker 3: looking at the pictures. A little shrunken? Am I seeing
Speaker 3: a skull with peacock feathers? Is that?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure? Yeah, not a detailed shot of this
Speaker 2: particular magic card. But yeah, something something horrible or wonderful
Speaker 2: happening to flesh. It's hard to say.
Speaker 3: It's always one or the other, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah? So yeah, yeah, I should at some point, if
Speaker 2: I have the if I'm brave enough, I should probably
Speaker 2: pick up up some of his original work and dive
Speaker 2: in and see how how my brain takes it.
Speaker 3: Okay, you want to do one last message about Weird
Speaker 3: House Cinema here?
Speaker 2: Sure, what do you got?
Speaker 3: I'll do this one from Chelsea. Chelsea says, Hi, guys,
Speaker 3: just listen to Your Stickiness Part three episode where I
Speaker 3: think we asked for examples of sticky monsters because we
Speaker 3: came up with fewer than we expected to find, and
Speaker 3: Chelsea says, I have a sticky monster for you. When
Speaker 3: I was in elementary school in the nineties, I was
Speaker 3: plagued by Gooey Gus, the purple chewing gum slime monster
Speaker 3: from the TV show Ghost Writer Rob. I had to
Speaker 3: look up a picture of Guey Gas. I put it
Speaker 3: in the outline for you if you want to scroll
Speaker 3: down and see him here. So he's like purple and
Speaker 3: very melted. He looks like a melted crayon man. But
Speaker 3: he's wearing a pink turtleneck and what looks like a
Speaker 3: black leather jacket like the Fawns.
Speaker 2: Weird. Yeah, and the purple coloration reminds me of another
Speaker 2: nice uzy creature from media of Yesterdyear, the Power Rangers
Speaker 2: villain Ivan Ooze, played by the great Paul Freeman.
Speaker 3: I don't remember what Ivan Oohs looked like, though I
Speaker 3: remember the name he is.
Speaker 2: You know, he's purple and uzi and you know it
Speaker 2: looks like a Power Rangers villain.
Speaker 3: I remember Rita Rapulsa. What was the relationship of Rita
Speaker 3: Rapulsa to ivan Ooz was one the other's boss.
Speaker 2: I guess he must be a boss. I'm not really
Speaker 2: sure about how everyone's connected in that universe. But of course,
Speaker 2: Paul Freeman for those of you that don't recognize the
Speaker 2: name of hand, but of course played Bellock in Raiders
Speaker 2: of the Lost gar so tremendously fun actor. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if I've ever watched the Power Rangers movie
Speaker 2: that he's in in its entirety, but I'm assuming he
Speaker 2: has some fun with this role.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I don't know which one came first, so
Speaker 3: either Guey Gus or ivan Uze might have to to
Speaker 3: the other one for stealing a stick. But anyway, to
Speaker 3: pick up with Chelsea's message here, Chelsea says, some of
Speaker 3: the other girls and I believed he lived in the
Speaker 3: storm grate in the corner of the playground.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, that is that's so good.
Speaker 3: We spent at least a few recesses putting grass clippings
Speaker 3: and dandelions down the grate as an offering so he
Speaker 3: wouldn't ooze out of the grate. And in case us
Speaker 3: all in bubblegum. I love this because this is a
Speaker 3: this is a bull's eye of like a childhood behavior.
Speaker 3: It's like, yes, I did stuff like that, this is
Speaker 3: what kids do. But it also describes the invention of religion.
Speaker 3: Chelsea goes on to say, side note, I'm shocked that
Speaker 3: you all made it through the discussion of glutenous rice
Speaker 3: that was in the Stickiness part one episode without mentioning
Speaker 3: its uses against jung she as featured in Mister Vampire,
Speaker 3: which was an excellent Weird House episode. Thanks for all
Speaker 3: the great discuss Chelsea. Chelsea, you're exactly right. You know,
Speaker 3: I thought it would come up. I'm pretty sure when
Speaker 3: we were planning the episode, it just never did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I guess we have plenty to
Speaker 2: talk about without touching on that. Also, I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if the stickiness has anything to do with
Speaker 2: its vampire fighting powers. I could be wrong, but I
Speaker 2: always thought it was more of the dry rice. But
Speaker 2: I would not be shocked at all of some cultures
Speaker 2: ascribe productive qualities specifically to cook sticky rice as well.
Speaker 2: It does seem like that would have the you would
Speaker 2: have the advantage of it sticking to the vampires when
Speaker 2: you pelded them with it.
Speaker 3: I do remember it being a plot point in the
Speaker 3: movie that it had to be the glutinous rice, right,
Speaker 3: Like the regular rice was no good because he went
Speaker 3: to the rice dealer and the rice dealer tried to
Speaker 3: scam him by charging out for sticky rice but giving
Speaker 3: him regular rice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he either gave him regular rice or he cut
Speaker 2: it with another rice. So yeah, that was a fun
Speaker 2: part of a Yeah, a really fun movie.
Speaker 3: I feel like we I only barely remember now we
Speaker 3: may have gone into this in the episode, but like why, yeah,
Speaker 3: why was it? Why did it need to be glutenous
Speaker 3: rice to have the magical effect? Like why wouldn't regular
Speaker 3: rice work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure if we specified Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you think that's enough emails to appease Guey Gus?
Speaker 2: And I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely from taking our souls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look up a photograph of Guey Gus. If you
Speaker 2: get a chance, it's worth It's worth the trip. It's
Speaker 2: everything you're hoping it'll be. So Yeah, if you want
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