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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. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant

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Speaker 1: doing a little dance. You always give me away, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to do secret things for you, and then you immediately

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Speaker 1: say what I'm doing? Yeah, Hey, Chuck just rubbed his butt.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that they were secret just from me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's all It's my little gift. I had no idea.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to that Friday dude. It's so good to be

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Speaker 1: recording on a Friday. Beautiful. Ow, it's like eighty degrees.

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Speaker 1: We have a window so we can see the beauty,

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Speaker 1: or we can actually see the ugly building. The construction

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Speaker 1: and the office is well underway. We've been inhaling volatile

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Speaker 1: organic compounds all week. It's out of hand. Actually, it's

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Speaker 1: everywhere I turned, their desk that shouldn't be there, and

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Speaker 1: quite an idea, Bryant, is that a complaint? I don't

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Speaker 1: want to come across his complaining. You're fine. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: to have a job. We don't have a sponsor. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, Chuck. Yes, have you ever seen a Tourette's

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Speaker 1: guy on YouTube? Uh? No, you haven't. He's this guy.

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Speaker 1: He's a hefty guy with a glasses and a mustache

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Speaker 1: and um, often a neck brace, and he has a

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Speaker 1: It's funny because Bob Saget is a very foul mouth.

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Speaker 1: He is surprisingly that in itself is almost a curse word.

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Speaker 1: can't imagine that. You haven't. He says just the craziest stuff.

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Speaker 1: And also, uh, the stuff he's saying is is in

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Speaker 1: So really comes off as just a jerk. So I

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Speaker 1: went on Snopes to find out if the guy actually

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Speaker 1: issues that exacerbate things. Okay, so he may just be

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Speaker 1: raised awareness. One could say of Turette's syndrome tourette syndrome.

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Speaker 1: Tourette's going to be a problem throughout this whole podcast.

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Speaker 1: There is no s. It is Turette syndrome. Yeah, unless

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Speaker 1: you're just calling it Turette's without the syndrome, then it

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Speaker 1: has an apostrophe s. The reason why is because it

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Speaker 1: belongs to a French physician, correct, Chuck kom Yes, his

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Speaker 1: not Actually he was not the first person to UM

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Speaker 1: to report about Turette's. That was Jean Marc Gaspars. It yes,

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Speaker 1: very nice, and he described the symptoms of a lady,

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Speaker 1: sounds like she had Turette's and uh, he described them

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Speaker 1: But no, I think if you're a man, you fan,

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Speaker 1: that's that that you would go to Europe and be like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, you fan. See. I thought Arsenal was like

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Speaker 1: the biggest no they're both pretty big. But it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter either way. If you don't really play soccer and

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Speaker 1: you're an American and you call it soccer and you're

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Speaker 1: an Arsenal fan or making air quotes, you're a jackass.

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Speaker 1: If you walk in here with an arsenal sweater or

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Speaker 1: something like that, would not maybe a scarf. Those things

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Speaker 1: copra copri la, yes, copper lay um. There's also copper praxia,

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Speaker 1: the the involuntary use of obscene gestures like this. I

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Speaker 1: had that in traffic at times. Yeah, yeah, you do,

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Speaker 1: but yours is voluntary. That's a big difference. There's also

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Speaker 1: echolalia m right right, oh boy exactly. That's when you

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Speaker 1: stroking my goatee as Chuck does too, except you don't

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Speaker 1: have a good phantom gotee. Okay, so you mimic someone's motion,

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Speaker 1: bodily motions? Interesting, Yeah, well do you have it? That's turette?

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Speaker 1: Is that it? And anything else? Oh? Medical marijuana is

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Speaker 1: a study a field of research right now for treatment

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Speaker 1: of it, and all the potheads are like, yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: it works really well treatment turette, and all the scientists

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Speaker 1: are like, we don't know. Do you see me yelling

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Speaker 1: out words, bro exactly. The jury is definitely still out

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Speaker 1: on medical marijuana and any of its uses, but we're

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Speaker 1: looking into it. So that's definitely it. That's that's it

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Speaker 1: for now. If you want to learn more about Tourette syndrome,

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Speaker 1: E t t E syndrome. And there's a really cool

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Speaker 1: picture of a turette suffer. It's a multiple exposure picture

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Speaker 1: of a turette suffer undergoing a series of ticks. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty neat. You can type that into the handy search

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Speaker 1: bart how stuff first dot com, which of course means

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Speaker 1: it's time for listener mail, the return of listener mail.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a little while.

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Speaker 1: We've been so long winded lately. There hadn't been a room.

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Speaker 1: Carry has been like enough, she's listening. Uh, So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna call this one, uh Patriot offsets. This is from

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Speaker 1: Robin Cincinnati, Rob K and he I'll just summarize the beginning.

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Speaker 1: He was a little he's a little put off by

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Speaker 1: the whole carbon offset thing because he's like, how can

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Speaker 1: you be an environmentalist and support this, Like it basically

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Speaker 1: means you're free to do whatever you want as once

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Speaker 1: you buy these offsets. He was put off in the

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Speaker 1: same way by the Catholic Church who sold indulgences to

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Speaker 1: offset the sins the wealthy. We got a lot of

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Speaker 1: email about this, apparently that you know, I said something

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Speaker 1: about a karma off setter, and they said indulgences are

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Speaker 1: kind of like that. So he's he was put off

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Speaker 1: by that, and they were very popular. So he says,

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Speaker 1: in the spirit of the carbon offset, Josh and Chuck,

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Speaker 1: I am now creating the patriot offset because I have

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Speaker 1: noticed once or twice in the blogs that you two

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Speaker 1: get a few people were a bit close minded and

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Speaker 1: question your patriotism. Yeah, that happens from time to time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they think we're it's not gonna ask me if I

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Speaker 1: served in the military. Very mockingly, Oh really you should, said, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Howard stern Away says it is in Vietnam when he

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Speaker 1: was here. He tells these big, long stories about it.

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Speaker 1: I have I have fifteen years in the army with

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Speaker 1: three deployments so far. For the simple price of a

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Speaker 1: shout out on the podcast, I'm willing to give each

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Speaker 1: of you a year of my army time and let's

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Speaker 1: say three months of peacekeeping deployment in Kosovo. Aw, you

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Speaker 1: guys had a blast, trust me, he says in Kosovo.

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Speaker 1: So next time anyone calls you a hippie or anything

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Speaker 1: like that, just tell them that you bought your service

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Speaker 1: to your country and you were true Americans. And that

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Speaker 1: is from Rob. So we now have served a year

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Speaker 1: in the army. So do we get a year each

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Speaker 1: or a year combined? Were we in the same platoon,

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Speaker 1: same unit? What did we do any like search and

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Speaker 1: destroying missions? We need to come up with this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I think we were definitely probably bunk mates because I

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Speaker 1: remember that one night went out. Well, not in the

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Speaker 1: just remember being on that top bunk of that night

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Speaker 1: when you beat me with the bar of soap in

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Speaker 1: the towel along with you're asking for it, squealer. You

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Speaker 1: shouldn't screw things up for the rest of the platoon.

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Speaker 1: I had to wipe down the latrines because of you. Yeah, sorry, pile,

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Speaker 1: Well I got it in the end with the soap.

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Speaker 1: You certainly did. Wow, Chuck, that one was fraught with

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Speaker 1: all of it was super clean though. And also did

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Speaker 1: you know that in the Civil War, wealthy people could

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Speaker 1: pay people to stand in uh for their conscription? Oh

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Speaker 1: really doesn't surprise me, which we just kind of did

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Speaker 1: with no money changing hands. It's basically legal. So shout

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Speaker 1: out to Rob. Yeah, big shout out to Rob. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for the military service for us. UM. If you

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Speaker 1: want to give Chuck or I anything we love free stuff,

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Speaker 1: you can send an email to us describing it and

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Speaker 1: possibly offering something. Uh. To stuff podcast at how stuff

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