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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind listener mail.

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Speaker 2: My name is Robert Lamb.

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Speaker 1: And I am Joe McCormick, and it's Monday, the day

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Speaker 1: of each week that we read back messages from the

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Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow Your Mind mail bag. A little note

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Speaker 1: at the top of today's episode Tomorrow. This week we

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Speaker 1: are going to be running a vault episode because it

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Speaker 1: is a holiday here in the United States. But we

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Speaker 1: will be back with all new episodes later this week.

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Speaker 1: But for today, we are going to feature some new messages. Rober,

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Speaker 1: you okay if I kick this thing off with the

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Speaker 1: message from Nathan about the Lesser of Two Crab Claws.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, crab content, Let's do it right.

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Speaker 1: At the top, Nathan says, Hey, Robert and Joe, I'm

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Speaker 1: a bit behind on Stuff to Blow Your Mind at

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Speaker 1: the moment, but just finished the Lesser of Two Crab

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Speaker 1: Claws from about a year ago, which dealt with body asymmetry.

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Speaker 1: It was great as usual. At the end of the

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Speaker 1: last episode in the series, you talked a bit about

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Speaker 1: differences between left and right handedness, which sparked an old memory.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big hockey fan and remembered a couple of

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Speaker 1: older articles mentioning that Canadian hockey players are more likely

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Speaker 1: to shoot left compared to the rest of the world.

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Speaker 1: About sixty to seventy percent of Canadian hockey players shoot

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Speaker 1: left compared to the rest of the world, which is

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Speaker 1: about sixty percent righty. The difference also carries over to golf,

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Speaker 1: and there are smaller oddities as well, like Quebec born

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Speaker 1: players being even more likely to shoot left, but British

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Speaker 1: Columbia skewing more to the right. There are a lot

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Speaker 1: of theories as to why, but no one's ever really

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Speaker 1: figured it out. Here as a couple of articles if

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Speaker 1: you're interested. Thanks for all your great work. My wife

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Speaker 1: Olivia and I have been big fans for years. All

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Speaker 1: the best, Nathan, Oh, thank you, Nathan. Yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: kind of interesting. I'd never heard of this before, so

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Speaker 1: there are Yeah, I was reading a bit about this.

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Speaker 1: It seems like there are various hypotheses, but none of

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Speaker 1: them really seems to make sense. One of them is

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Speaker 1: I was reading about this in the NPR article that

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Speaker 1: Nathan linked. I'll just read from it. They say, quote

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Speaker 1: one theory says it's because Canadians play hockey like a

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Speaker 1: bunch of three year olds when they're three years old

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Speaker 1: in a country devoted to the sport. That's about the

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Speaker 1: age Canadians first take up the stick, a much younger

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Speaker 1: start than Americans. Tats that young are more likely to

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Speaker 1: use their stronger hand to control the shot, which puts

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Speaker 1: makes right handed kids into lefty shooters. Does that make sense, Like,

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Speaker 1: when you're small, you might use the opposite handedness for

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Speaker 1: shooting than you would if you're learning to shoot when

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Speaker 1: you're a bit larger compared to the stick itself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think there are reasons people question that explanation,

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Speaker 1: So ultimately, I think I think it is not known.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking there was going to be some cheeky

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Speaker 1: explanation like, I don't know, you know, Canadian players while

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Speaker 1: they're learning that they've got a hold of beer in

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Speaker 2: No, But that's interesting. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: great stuff about left hand right handedness in humans out there.

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Speaker 2: That right, It gets a little more complicated than that, though.

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Speaker 1: That raises a question that I recall coming up for

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Speaker 1: I think this came up in the Crabclaw episode because

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Speaker 2: from Jeremy. Jeremy says, Hello, Robert and Joe. I know

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Speaker 2: I can't remember which of you is the bigger N. M.

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Speaker 2: Banks' work is. It's harder to figure out a starting point,

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Speaker 2: necessarily because you have the culture books, which are you know,

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Speaker 2: at different times. Some books are better entries than others

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Speaker 1: pull quote that says something like trash absolutely depraved. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know if I would reread that. There

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Speaker 2: need to get to anyway, Jeremy continues. He says, with

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Speaker 2: I am undecided as to whether to purchase this book,

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Speaker 1: All right, This next message is from Spencer. Spencer says, Hi,

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Speaker 1: Robert and Joe, I was listening to your five point

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Speaker 1: twenty two edition of Listener Mail, and you put the

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Speaker 1: call out for anyone with not of a time traveling Dracula.

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Speaker 1: Tomb of Dracula number five from nineteen seventy two, in

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Speaker 1: which Dracula has been revived in the then present day.

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Speaker 1: In issue number five, Dracula passes through the Demon Mirror

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Speaker 1: to the present day. Anyway, thank you for this delightful

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Speaker 1: thank you for churning fascinating content week after week. Best Spencer, Well,

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Speaker 2: I knew that Marvel's Dracula would probably not fail us

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Speaker 2: keep doing things, and the time machine is just there

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Speaker 2: too far, say in like marvel comics, like everything crazy

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Speaker 2: here comes to us from Heather. Heather says Robert Joe.

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Speaker 2: I have listened to the podcasts core episodes for a

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Speaker 1: Oh Thanks Heather oh Man. So this got me thinking

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