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Speaker 1: s K Selects. This week, I've chosen what was the

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Speaker 1: Most Peaceful Time in History? Which originally came out in

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Speaker 1: March two thousand. Um, there's a big discussion about Stephen

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Speaker 1: Pinker and uh, if this kind of thing floats your boat,

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Speaker 1: check out Reality Denial. Stephen Pinker's Apologetics for Western imperial Violence,

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Speaker 1: which was a Public Intellectuals Project article, makes kind of

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Speaker 1: a good companion piece to this episode at any rate.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy it's a good one. Welcome to Stuff you should

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Speaker 1: Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hi, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: We're being very professional and this is stuff should are.

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Speaker 1: This is decided, you know all we're saying, Josh, let's

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Speaker 1: get a piece of chance, who says me? And John

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Speaker 1: Lennon and you know the follow up I think that

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Speaker 1: that line was if it doesn't work out, kill someone.

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Speaker 1: But then he Yoko said you should take that part out.

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Speaker 1: Thank God for Yoko. Yeah, that's what I always say. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: I think that was a nice little intro. Chuck just

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Speaker 1: made it up close off the cuff clearly on the fly.

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Speaker 1: Um have you ever heard of the group vision of Humanity?

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Speaker 1: I have. I wonder where groups like this get their

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Speaker 1: cash because this is kind of um. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: make a social statement, but how are they? Are they

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Speaker 1: selling ads on their annual report? What's going on here?

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Speaker 1: I don't know? They may be an NGO, I guess.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they are. I think it's valuable research.

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Speaker 1: I agree because it brings into focus, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: what we're going towards. What I should say. What they

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Speaker 1: do is they they use in twenty three different indicators

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Speaker 1: and uh crunch some numbers from all over the world

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Speaker 1: to determine what is the most peaceful countries on Earth?

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Speaker 1: And it's fairly predictable. The top and the bottom. What

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Speaker 1: were you surprised by? Did you like at two thousand twelves? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and go over the top and bottom

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Speaker 1: it sounds delicious. The number one most peaceful country was Iceland. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then you got Denmark, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Austria, Oireland, Slovenia,

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Speaker 1: I could have guessed all those. Maybe not Austria. Oh yeah, yeah, dude,

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Speaker 1: mean Western Europe typically is very peaceful. By it's the

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Speaker 1: one's nose all the way to having sex. Not only

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Speaker 1: my youth, I engaged in public sex three times. All

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Speaker 1: of these acts witnessed and engaged and occurred in public parks,

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Speaker 1: any part of that. You know. Uh So that is

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Speaker 1: It is certainly the wrong way to dispose of condoms,

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Speaker 1: to be sure, and that's because we're a bunch of

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Speaker 1: of life. Please don't judge us for public sex, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: I like Darren. Thanks Aaron, what a level headed approach

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Speaker 1: to explain anything. Yeah, I like that sort of armchair

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Speaker 1: you know that's all I got about that. One's good

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