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Speaker 3: Let's see, Rob, I'm going to start things off by

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Speaker 3: reading this message from Lurch in response to our series

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Speaker 3: on mud. Specifically, I think the second episode in that

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Speaker 3: series where we looked at wallowing behaviors and animals, especially pigs.

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Speaker 3: All right, Lurch says, good morning, gentlemen. I just finished

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Speaker 3: listening to your episodes on mud. Took me by surprise

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Speaker 3: you did. I'd never have thought such a mud day

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Speaker 3: in the subject could be so interesting. Lerch, I don't

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Speaker 3: know about that one. Did that work?

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Speaker 2: I don't know? It generated a chuckle or a smile

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Speaker 2: on my hand, so yeah, oh yeah, I'm smiling as well. Okay, well,

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Speaker 2: good job, then, Lurch. Bringing pigs into it reminded me

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Speaker 2: of the summers I used to spend on my uncle's farm.

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Speaker 2: Along with the cattle, chickens, crops, and rabbits, he raised, pigs.

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Speaker 2: Tending them was an experience I wish I could forget.

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Speaker 2: It's not that some event or practice. This was the

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixties. Husbandry has changed traumatized me. No, it was

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Speaker 2: the smell. It's been nearly sixty years since then, and

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Speaker 2: my nostril hairs still haven't uncurled. Regarding wallowing, I'd always

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Speaker 2: been told the reasons for it were twofold cooling and

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Speaker 2: protection from pests, both of which you mentioned. Since I

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Speaker 2: wasn't there in the winter, it never occurred to me

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Speaker 2: that they might wallow in the freezing cold too. I

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Speaker 2: think it's possible this might also be related to temperature regulation.

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Speaker 2: While in the summer months, as you point out, mud

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Speaker 2: can be used as a cooling jacket, in the winter,

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Speaker 2: it can actually be used to maintain heat. Interesting Blert

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Speaker 2: says this wouldn't work near the freezing point of water,

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Speaker 2: but drop a few more degrees in the surface of

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Speaker 2: the mud would freeze, forming a thermal barrier, trapping the

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Speaker 2: pig's body heat. I have personal experience with the effect

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Speaker 2: though a tadbit cleaner. In high school, I was on

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Speaker 2: the swim team and would walk home after practice. Being

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Speaker 2: the dead of winter and in Illinois, it was usually

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Speaker 2: a bit nippy outside. After the first block or so

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Speaker 2: of my journey, my wet hair would freeze into a

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Speaker 2: pretty solid head cap of ice. But since the ice

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Speaker 2: trapped warm air next to my scalp. I was comfortable

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Speaker 2: and never had to worry about where the heck had

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Speaker 2: put my hat. As always, thanks for keeping me thinking.

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Speaker 2: Keep the gravy warm, Lurch. That's interesting. I'd never heard

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Speaker 2: of that kind of effect. Interesting that that might be

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Speaker 2: worth some follow up. All right, Our next one comes

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Speaker 2: to us from Raj Raj Rights and in response to

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Speaker 2: mud Volcanoes and Puddles plus more Pokemon dream Lore, Roj says, Hello, gentlemen,

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Speaker 2: I may be too late in writing in terms of

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Speaker 2: suggesting topics ideas foods for thought for your mud episodes,

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Speaker 2: but once Robert mentioned discussing mud volcanoes at the end

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Speaker 2: of part three, it stirred a memory in me. I

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Speaker 2: remember coming across a couple of videos from a YouTuber

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Speaker 2: named physics Girl aka Diana Cowarn. One discusses a mud

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Speaker 3: So Raj, I actually watched both of these and they're

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Speaker 3: great videos. Again, so for you who can look it

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Speaker 3: up right now, the channel is called physics Girl and

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Speaker 3: especially because that's the one to really see. But to

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Speaker 3: I'm going to refer here to a local news article

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Speaker 3: a writer named Shannon Handy from March twe about the story.

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Speaker 3: So the news story goes Imperial County, California. It's not

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Speaker 3: something you normally see along a freeway, but local Cowtrans

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Speaker 3: crews have been keeping a close watch on a geyser

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Speaker 3: that's impacting both the Union Pacific Railroad and State Route

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Speaker 3: one to eleven near Nyland in Imperial County. Some describe

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Speaker 3: it as a bubbling pool of mud, often referring to

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Speaker 3: it as a mud pot. Sean Rizzuto with Caltrans said

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Speaker 3: the geyser is releasing CO two. It's been around since

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Speaker 3: nineteen fifty three, but it didn't start moving until twenty

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Speaker 3: been moving about ten feet per month on average, said Rizzuto.

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Speaker 3: He said the challenge is determining where it will go next.

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Speaker 3: Quote right now, it's been static for the past two

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Speaker 3: very much, but that could change in an instant. Caltrans

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Speaker 3: officials considered several options, including a detour, which was an

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Speaker 3: may be the only known moving geyser in the world,

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Speaker 3: and there were some efforts by the California Transportation authorities

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Speaker 3: like the giant bubbling mud puddle caused by seismic activity

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Speaker 3: from below CO two is being released from it, and

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Speaker 3: it's like chasing the roads. It's approaching the road and

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Speaker 3: it's going to knock that out, and it's approaching rail

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Speaker 3: lines it's going to knock those out. So they're like

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Speaker 3: or building around it, and all these plans just keep failing.

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Speaker 3: In fact, this is where it's definitely worth looking up

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Speaker 3: the Physics Girl videos, which are very excellent and get

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Speaker 3: into a lot more detail, and it's a very scary

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Speaker 3: and dramatic story, Like there's one part where they try

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Speaker 3: to the authorities try to bury like deep bury a

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Speaker 3: metal retaining wall to stop the puddle from spreading. But

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Speaker 3: there's one point where it just suddenly spreads beyond the

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Speaker 3: metal retaining wall, just like cracks the giant metal wall

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Speaker 3: in half, and it's going under it and emerging on

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Speaker 3: the other side. And there are these sudden moments of

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Speaker 3: dramatic collapses of the walls of the puddle as it spreads,

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Speaker 3: even somewhere like twenty to sixty feet suddenly. So it's scary.

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Speaker 3: And it's not just scary because you'd think about like

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Speaker 3: I don't want to fall into that puddle and sink

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Speaker 3: down into the mud and whatever's going on beneath it.

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Speaker 3: But the bubbling, even though I think the puddle is

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Speaker 3: not thought to be hot, the bubbling is from the

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Speaker 3: release of CO two, And of course we know like

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Speaker 3: CO two is heavier than air, it tends to kind

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Speaker 3: of pool in low lying areas, so if you were

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Speaker 3: to fall into this pit, it is of course a

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Speaker 3: suffocation risk as well. So it's this moving, lethal puddle

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Speaker 3: of bubbling mud that almost seems to be like chasing

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Speaker 3: our transportation infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: I don't like that at all. I think our bubbling

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Speaker 2: death puddles need to stay in one spot where we

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Speaker 3: So if you want to look up the video, the

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Speaker 3: main one by the Physics Girl channel is called the

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Speaker 3: World's Only Moving Mud Puddle, and yeah, it's definitely worth

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Speaker 3: a look.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was glad to send it this as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah the footage is pretty incredible.

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Speaker 3: Oh but Raj has more to say, I think, especially

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Speaker 3: about Pokemon.

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Speaker 2: Right. Yes, Raj continues switching gears. In the most recent

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Speaker 2: listener mail episode, Gotta Dream Them All, a couple of

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Speaker 2: astute listeners mentioned a few Pokemon related to dreaming. I'd

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Speaker 2: like to add a tiny bit more by mentioning a

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Speaker 2: couple of moves or attacks that relate to dreams. One

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Speaker 2: move is called dream eater, for the description from sarahb

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Speaker 2: dot Net quote, the user your Pokemon eats the dreams

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Speaker 2: of a sleeping target your opponent's Pokemon. The user's HP

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Speaker 2: is restored by up to half the damage taken by

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Speaker 2: the target. Another move is nightmare quote a sleeping target

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Speaker 2: sees a nightmare that inflicts some one fourth damage every turn.

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Speaker 2: Again from SARAHB. Dot Net. Related to Pokemon moves are

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Speaker 2: something called abilities, which are special powers that Pokemon can have.

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Speaker 2: Dark Ray's ability is called bad dreams, which reduces the

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Speaker 2: HP of sleeping opposing Pokemon. Finally, I'd like to add

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Speaker 2: another Pokemon to the dreaming pool. While not related to

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Speaker 2: dreaming directly, there is another Pokemon in addition to Snorlax

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Speaker 2: that is known for sleeping. It's called Comala from the

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Speaker 2: Aloa region. Here is one descriptor of this Pokemon quote.

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Speaker 2: It is born asleep and it dies asleep. All its

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Speaker 2: movements are apparently no more than the results of it

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Speaker 2: tossing and turning in its dreams. Thanks for the phenomenal

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Speaker 2: work you produce, and don't forget to be awesome. Cheers

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Speaker 2: raj Ah.

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Speaker 3: Well, that is a haunting Pokemon description. It's born asleep

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Speaker 3: and dies asleep. All it does is dream, That's its

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Speaker 2: I had to look this one up. I don't remember

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Speaker 2: seeing this one on a card or anything, but it

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Speaker 2: looks like a koala clutching like a It looks like

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Speaker 2: it's clutching a log pillow, and as far as I

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Speaker 2: can tell, it doesn't have any evolutions, which makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Because this is all it does.

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Speaker 3: Is it normal for Pokemon to get that strange and

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Speaker 3: dark or is this kind of a fluke?

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Speaker 2: No, there are a lot of strange and dark Pokemon.

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Speaker 2: I've come to learn quite a few that have just

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Speaker 2: weird qualities to them, Like some of the episodes of

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Speaker 2: Pokemon that I've been exposed to are just weird. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of a lot of interesting stuff out there.

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Speaker 3: Well, thanks raj Okay. This next message is from Tyler.

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Speaker 3: It starts off being about Mud but then ends with

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Speaker 3: weird house cinema. Tyler says, Hey, pals, I was listening

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Speaker 3: to The Mud Part four episode today and Rob made

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Speaker 3: a reference to Solo and mud Troopers. It took me

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Speaker 3: way too long to realize you were referencing Solo, a

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Speaker 3: Star Wars story, and nineteen ninety six is Solo, starring

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Speaker 3: Mario van Peebles as a military android that grows a

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Speaker 3: conscience and protects the village he was meant to destroy

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Speaker 3: from his creators. Oh man, I remember when this one

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Speaker 3: came out. Tyler says. This is a movie that I

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Speaker 3: saw when I was probably about eight, and it just

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Speaker 3: I don't think I know anyone else that has seen it.

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Speaker 3: It would be a great movie for weird house cinema.

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Speaker 3: It checks a lot of boxes, a gumbo of Terminator, Commando, Rambo,

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Speaker 3: seven Samurai, pretty much any eighties action movie with glistening,

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Speaker 3: hard to find. Thanks for all you do. Really appreciate you, Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Ah fascinating. Now. I have not seen the nineteen ninety

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Speaker 3: of a sentence, so picking up from Paul Paul's to

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Speaker 3: start over, Paul says, in line with your Shake Hands

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Speaker 3: with Danger comment in a recent listener Mail and your

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Speaker 3: Affinity for Gore, I thought you would appreciate forklift Driver Klaus.

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Speaker 3: It may be a bit more campy, but seems like

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Speaker 3: the type of thing you would enjoy. I remember seeing

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Speaker 3: a sequel at some point, but wasn't able to find

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Speaker 3: that with a quick search. Hope you enjoy, Paul, So,

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Speaker 3: Forklift Driver Klaus appears to be a It is like

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Speaker 3: a short comedy horror satirical film that is a parody

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Speaker 3: of workplace safety training videos like Shake Hands with Danger,

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Speaker 3: in which a German forklift driver it's his first day

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Speaker 3: he ends up maiming and mutilating everybody he works with,

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Speaker 3: and it ends with like driving a forklift covered in

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Speaker 3: mangled co workers off into the sunset being chased by

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Speaker 3: a chainsaw.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a so, this is a film that's

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Speaker 2: it's a parody of actual workplace industrial safety videos. But

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Speaker 2: it yeah, it feels very much in line with Shake

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Speaker 2: sort of energy. But yeah, then things begin to spiral

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Speaker 2: out of control, and by the end it is just

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Speaker 2: this ridiculous gore fest that is that. Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: I found rather delightful and hilarious to watch, just very

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Speaker 2: unbelievable in the later stages, though earlier on like you

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Speaker 2: do kind of get that cringiness that the actual workplace

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Speaker 2: safety videos tend to have because they want to show you,

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Speaker 2: they want to make you feel bad about what is happening.

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Speaker 2: But then this movie keeps going. I mean, this short

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Speaker 2: film keeps going and pushes that over the line and

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Speaker 2: just goes whole hog into this kind of like early

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Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true, but at least

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Speaker 3: the wiki says that some workplaces do use this film

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Speaker 3: as a training video despite the fact it's a parody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I could see somebody like you know, busting it

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Speaker 2: out to sort of to end on a on a

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Speaker 2: fun note for everyone. I don't know.

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