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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: Charles W. Light as meringue Bryant. I've never heard that

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Speaker 1: term light is meringue ntil you just said it before

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Speaker 1: it is light. Oh yeah, that's but each light is

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Speaker 1: a feather. That's old. Yeah, kid me um So chunk

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Speaker 1: do you remember when you started a podcast with punkin Chunking,

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Speaker 1: punkin chunk and punkin Chunking. I do remember that. We've

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Speaker 1: been talking about that a lot. And uh, I don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly when this podcast is coming out, but I

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Speaker 1: the show punkin Chunking and the Road to punkin Chunkin

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Speaker 1: premiers on UM the Science Channel, which is the a

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Speaker 1: that was formerly known as Thanksgiving until the Science Channel

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Speaker 1: took it over with punkin Chunky Right now, it's punkin

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Speaker 1: Chunking Day, right. Indeed, do you have a clue what

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Speaker 1: punkin Chunknness and I do. Well, let's talk about it. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about a lot of unusual town festivals, Josh.

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Speaker 1: That's fine with me because I got a whole list

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Speaker 1: of them. Right, let's to a podcast where you don't

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Speaker 1: hear words like hippothalamus and hypocalamus and hippopotamus. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: do a fun one, okay, or Clovis police or Clovis police.

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Speaker 1: I got in a Clovis argument with the guy the

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Speaker 1: other day. By the way, did you really did you

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Speaker 1: decimate him? Yes? Sort of, and he was kind of like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, but I thought people came over from the

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Speaker 1: bearing Land Bridge, and I was like, oh, they did,

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Speaker 1: but not before homeboy came up from South America exactly, idiot,

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Speaker 1: did you pump his ear with your forefinger? So punkin

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Speaker 1: chunkin Josh takes place in Sussex County, Delaware, right, am,

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Speaker 1: I right? Yeah, Okay? Why why were you looking at me? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You looked at me like I had

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Speaker 1: it wrong. No, I just don't out for a second.

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Speaker 1: And I believe it's a benefit for St. Jude's Children's

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Speaker 1: I was glad to find that out, Sure, me too.

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Speaker 1: And they've been doing this since yeah, and they've gotten

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Speaker 1: I was staggered at how far these things go. Well, actually,

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Speaker 1: the world record for a chunked punkin, right, yeah, is

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Speaker 1: like eight hundred feet shy of a mile. Yeah, four thousand,

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Speaker 1: four dred and eighty three ft. Dude, can you imagine

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Speaker 1: seeing a pumpkin going that far? You wouldn't go out

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Speaker 1: how big your punkin is, right, or what you're using.

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Speaker 1: And there's actually I think seven different UM categories or

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Speaker 1: You want to shoot a punkin a mile, you use

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Speaker 1: then we'll all break for twenty minutes and go get

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Speaker 1: it's held in early November every year right in Delaware.

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Speaker 1: Frozen Dead Guy Days festival is so weird? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just I don't get that now, Okay, so chuck, we're

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Speaker 1: of my best friends, Rad Smith, lives in Montana. Well,

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Speaker 1: hey Brad Smith, Rad what rad is short for Radford? Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't do that. So Chuck, we're in Montana, UM, and

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Speaker 1: like of the human population, Uh, there there is a

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Speaker 1: taste like chicken cook off competition, um, where you can

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy your podcasts on science, history, and music,

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Speaker 1: Natalie from Massachusetts. Nice Natalie. Natalie clearly has a firm

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