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Speaker 2: we are very very excited about our next guest. So

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Speaker 2: we heard some audio during the week or last week.

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Speaker 2: This was Nicholas Cage claiming that he could remember being

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Speaker 2: in the womb.

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Speaker 1: Yes, in utero, and.

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Speaker 2: Look, we thought that's absolute bas there's no way that's possible.

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Speaker 1: But then we found out that there is a person.

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Speaker 2: Who exists who actually does have a memory which can

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Speaker 2: pretty much recall anything from her life. And she joins

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Speaker 2: us right now in Rebecca Sharrick or Becky Sharreck.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Becky, Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's a delight to speak with you this afternoon.

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Speaker 4: The delight is all ours, Rebecca.

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Speaker 5: So you have highly superior autobiographical memory. And there's only

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Speaker 5: eighty people in the world. You're one of eighty people

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who are currently known to have this condition. So far,

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Speaker 3: around eighty of us have been identified to date in

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Speaker 4: Okay, and is what will said before? Correct? You can

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Speaker 3: Yes, about I'd say ninety five to ninety seven percent

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Speaker 3: of everything which has happened to me from birth to

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Speaker 5: So when you say birth there, I mean the reason

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Speaker 5: we were talking about this initially is because Nicholas Cage

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: When I go back to my earliest memories, of course,

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Speaker 3: But I showed Mum this picture and I said, here,

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Speaker 6: Whow epic wowie, it's I mean, this is maybe a

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Speaker 5: Can you recall if you can remember things like, you know,

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Speaker 4: Were you thinking when you were that age?

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Speaker 3: Well, when I was that age, I was thinking a lot,

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Speaker 3: I've tried to retrain myself to think that way again,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's lots of people that are listening that

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Speaker 1: It's a wonderful concept.

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Speaker 2: But let's hear it. Let's hear it in practice, right, police, Yeah, right, police, chemnical.

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Speaker 2: a song on the other side. We'll do exactly that. Becky,

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Speaker 2: that was absolutely fascinating. We've got more with Rebecca Shark

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Speaker 2: more with Becky right up next, the woman that Remembers

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Speaker 2: Everything on Willim Woody kiss Heyes, Willemoddy on your First Afternoon,

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Speaker 2: and we are joined by very special guest right now

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Speaker 2: in Rebecca Sharick or Becky Sharick, who is the woman

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Speaker 2: who remembers everything. She's one of only eighty people known

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Speaker 2: in the world to have highly superior autobiographical memory function,

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Speaker 2: which means she actually does remember everything that she has

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Speaker 1: If you missed the first part of the chat.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about her memory things when she was

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Speaker 2: twelve days old and actually having memories of cognitive process

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Speaker 2: that she was going through as an infant, which was

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Speaker 2: truly fascinating, particularly everyone's got kids.

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Speaker 1: I would highly recommend going and listening to that on

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Speaker 1: the podcast will and Woody.

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Speaker 2: But right now, Becky, as you said, there are lots

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Speaker 2: you to show off that there is some truth to this.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to kick it off with something which

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just going to turn on a second camera here.

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Speaker 4: And have you met that person? So this person here, Hi, Becky, Hi?

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Speaker 3: Did I? Oh are you the guy I spoke to

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: You are in October?

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Speaker 4: And what was what was what was the radio show called?

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Speaker 1: That is correct, all right, Tommy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so you interviewed Becky on your show five years ago,

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Speaker 2: Tom Ollie's five years ago?

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Speaker 5: Tom has told me to bring up a very specific

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Speaker 5: Oh yes, what was the mistake?

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Speaker 3: Well, the question was, do you recall the day where

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Speaker 3: the second, twenty eleven, But the producer got off by

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Speaker 4: We have audio from that chat five years ago.

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Speaker 1: Here. It is one more date that we ran past

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Speaker 2: Because it was before the time where you said that

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Speaker 2: We said, what happened on May second, two thousand and one,

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Speaker 2: we said to you, well, it says here Osama bin

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Speaker 3: Ten years later on made the second.

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Speaker 1: So our producers got the date wrong. And Becky, you're amazing,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure who that producer is, but they've just

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Speaker 2: been brought out and publicly stoned twice. All right, amazing, Wow, Becky, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I've got to I mean, just on the date thing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay. Twenty fourth of June twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: Does that sound fair?

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Speaker 1: Okay, it doesn't sound fair to me at all.

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Speaker 2: But I'll give you the first sentence from a random

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Speaker 1: That is not fair, but you have a gift, so

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Speaker 2: Harry Ron and Hermione went up to the Hourly after

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Speaker 3: To Percy, asking how serious, as had suggested, if he

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Speaker 3: had heard anything from mister Crouch lately.

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Speaker 1: She's done it.

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Speaker 3: They were decided to use Headwig because it had been

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Speaker 2: Oh, Headwig, that's from chapter twenty eight, The Madness of

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Speaker 2: Mister Crowd.

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Speaker 3: From the Goblin Fire.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so impressed, brah becky. Wow, I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: how many skeptics are out there? But they can go

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Speaker 2: Rebecca Sheric Becky, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: That was extreme, That was.

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Speaker 2: Truly one of the most interesting, most enjoyable interviews we've

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Speaker 2: ever done.

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Speaker 3: Oh you're very kind and in French class, i'd say, mademoiselle.

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Speaker 2: If you want to go on more, learn more, or

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Speaker 2: see more about Rebecca's life, head too because we have

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Speaker 2: each other dot com for tickets to go and see

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Speaker 2: her documentary.

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Speaker 1: Becky, it's been a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Good luck with all the future endeavors, and thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for joining us, and you too. It's will kiss