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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. There's Chuck. Chuck do your cheek

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Speaker 1: thing all right? I'd like to explain to everyone we

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Speaker 1: have a little superstition here at Stuff you Should Know,

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Speaker 1: And basically, every time Chuck doesn't do that with his

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Speaker 1: cheeks ahead of time, we have a terrible take. And

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Speaker 1: it gets so bad and do it again. And we've

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Speaker 1: noticed that when Chuck does this, we have a good take.

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Speaker 1: So prepare for an excellent podcast because he just did

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Speaker 1: it twice. So we're good, right, Chuck. I think we're set. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: and and I feel a little bit better after um,

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Speaker 1: you told me that this article we're about to talk

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Speaker 1: to you talk about Tim Bazzarre Ways to Die, was

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Speaker 1: blowing up on the home page because it means that

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Speaker 1: there's a lot more people, uh than me who are

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Speaker 1: are Buddy this one and the are their dead bodies

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Speaker 1: on Mount Divers apparently did phenomenally well on the homepage.

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Speaker 1: They exploded on the home and uh, you know, people

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Speaker 1: want to to know about these wacky, bizarre death so

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Speaker 1: we're going to share some of them. Yeah, we agree.

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Speaker 1: We we're gonna do all ten right now, of course

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Speaker 1: not okay. I don't know if you picked h the

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Speaker 1: have a question for you. So, this guy from Canada

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Speaker 1: but then he died. So my question is, did was

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Speaker 1: the tow truck kill him? Like? What killed this guy? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's a great question and I don't have the answer. Actually,

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Speaker 1: my editor, Amanda asked me the same question. She said,

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Speaker 1: how do you actually die? And I couldn't find it.

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Speaker 1: I looked other than the fact that he was stuck

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Speaker 1: for you. But he was still alive when they pulled

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Speaker 1: And this isn't the first person to die from being

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Speaker 1: any of these very sad tragedies that have happened, but

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Speaker 1: the title bizarre. Bizarre. Yeah, yeah, he'd he'd uh went

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Speaker 1: Pagan twistle. Yeah. Yeah, So she was a failed actress,

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