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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. This is Josh Clark with me. It's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. Huh huh. You're not a singer, are you? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not, but I can tell you I'm

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Speaker 1: not toned death right. Chuck's a little upset with me

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Speaker 1: right now. We're going to mend fences during this podcast,

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Speaker 1: aren't we. We'll see Come sit on this chair now.

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Speaker 1: That's Frank comes sit here, Frank, sit on Frank now

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Speaker 1: ran chair got his first official email. I saw that.

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Speaker 1: What was the question? I think it was like, Frank,

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Speaker 1: who's been sitting on you lately? And who would you

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Speaker 1: like to sit on you in the future, or something

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Speaker 1: like that. Who do you think? I think probably the

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Speaker 1: first person to sit on Frank, as far as we're concerned,

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Speaker 1: will be Joe Randazzo maybe right, Uh, some of the

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Speaker 1: other casters might sit there. No, there are other podcasters.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this thing, Okay, Chuck, I have something of

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Speaker 1: a lead in you ready, Yes, have you ever heard

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Speaker 1: of My Way killings. Uh no, no, So there's a

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Speaker 1: subcategory of crime of violent crime in the Philippines called

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Speaker 1: My Way killings. That's what the media calls it. Frank Sinatra,

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, It's a huge karaoke society. Asia in general,

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Speaker 1: but they also have something of a violent society. Is

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Speaker 1: it people who botched that song get killed or people

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Speaker 1: who are jeered at for singing that song kill in

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Speaker 1: return a lot? Um. It's not just Philippines the Philippines,

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Speaker 1: the last ten years. Right, just in the Philippines. It's

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Speaker 1: other other songs have been known to um kind of

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Speaker 1: a rage after they sang John Denver's Country Roads Take

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Speaker 1: Me Home, apparently not to his liking. So it's not

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Speaker 1: just my Way, but with my Way in the Philippines,

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Speaker 1: It's attendant to it, right, I would sing it's a

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Speaker 1: As a result, a lot of people do avoid my Way.

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Speaker 1: But isn't that weird? Okay? So most of the reported

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Speaker 1: my Way killings have been due to tone deafness, right,

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Speaker 1: actual tone deafness, or they just say people who can't sing. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it could go either way, and this is weird in

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Speaker 1: and of itself. No, I don't know that anybody's done

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, the people in the Philippines don't

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Speaker 1: find tone deafness amusing. Thank you, Chris Palette. Uh, if

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with deafness. That has nothing to

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Speaker 1: which makes me really sad because that means music sounds

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Speaker 1: what's twenty seven thirty percentage wise? Um, Jerry, like she's

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Speaker 1: One word that's really good. Actually mine was average. And

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Speaker 1: So that makes sense. Ten percent of the time, I

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Speaker 1: the right record producer. Yeah, but if you're like, if

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Speaker 1: genetic basis. Study show that it is hereditary, and twins

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