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The Laziest Podcast We've Ever Done! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: This is my nomination for the laziest podcast we've ever done.
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  Speaker 1: It's one more thing, I'm strong and getty.
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  Speaker 2: One more thing. Oh that's quite a claim.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, that's saying something because we regularly put very
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  Speaker 1: very little effort into this, I mean astonishingly little.
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  Speaker 2: Effort, and yet it is often delightful.
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  Speaker 1: All I did was go to uh shower thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: the Reddit and pick up a whole bunch of them,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll go through either laugh or be interested or not.
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  Speaker 2: Well. It used to be a regular feature on the show.
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  Speaker 2: We enjoyed it so much.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Do you ever Do you spend much
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  Speaker 1: time on Reddit.
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  Speaker 3: Every I mean every now and then, But I don't
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  Speaker 3: really understand the whole thread way that that works, honest with.
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  Speaker 1: You interesting, whatever you're interested in, there are Reddit threads
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  Speaker 1: about it, I mean, and it's uh and you know
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  Speaker 1: you can and then you can have them listed as
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  Speaker 1: the most recent, the most interesting and recent, the top
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  Speaker 1: this week, this month, this year, of all time. And
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  Speaker 1: I do that regularly, Like like, I don't just pick
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  Speaker 1: one random. I'm a Hemingway guy. So if I go
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  Speaker 1: to the Hemingway Reddit thread, I could pick you know,
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  Speaker 1: top all time and see a list of almost guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: to be fascinating threads about Ernest Hemingway. Huh, just whatever
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  Speaker 1: you pick anything, sports, music, cooking, the shoes you like
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  Speaker 1: to wear, anything.
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  Speaker 3: I need to play with it more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably do too, although there's only so much
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  Speaker 2: time in the day. There are a and g threads
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  Speaker 2: of various sorts too.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to research something like if you're
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  Speaker 1: interested in buying a lawnmower, I mean you can. You
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  Speaker 1: can go on there and get all tons of information
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  Speaker 1: about it. I mean, there's practically anything anyway. This is
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  Speaker 1: something called shower thoughts, and it's just clever little sayings
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  Speaker 1: or jokes. I just picked them from the last month observation.
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  Speaker 1: Institutions can't save money using thin toilet paper, you know.
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  Speaker 1: This is a big one with me. Drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The toilet paper they have work or in a bank
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Institutions can't actually save when he
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  Speaker 1: using thin toilet paper. Everyone just doubles or triples up
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  Speaker 1: the amount used each time. That is true, So just
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  Speaker 1: buy the thicker good kind in the first place.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Jack not a fan of the single ply Oh.
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  Speaker 1: It's so it's so nothing. It's amazing it even still exists.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's like the imagination of toilet paper. It's
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  Speaker 1: so thin.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes well, as you know, I have a bidet seat
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  Speaker 2: at home, and when I'm in an office building, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: I just clamber up onto the sink. I've had to
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  Speaker 2: work on my flights a buildy.
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  Speaker 1: I know I've walked in when he's doing that.
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  Speaker 3: It's horrific, okay, And yet refreshing your mind is creating pictures.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want.
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  Speaker 1: The new house I live and has a bi day,
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't taken the time to even look into
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  Speaker 1: how you use it or anything.
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  Speaker 2: An actual bidet or like the bidet toilet seat, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know the difference. An actual bidet is a separate thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's a bedet toilet seat then, But it's
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of nozzles and equipment and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's all about the nozzles, Michael, and the
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  Speaker 2: water pressure.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, exactly, and temperature of course, another shower thought.
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  Speaker 1: It's super easy to permanently change your life for the worst,
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  Speaker 1: but almost impossible for the best. And you can't make
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  Speaker 1: a mistake, you can't do something today that will make
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  Speaker 1: your life so much better. Really win the lottery, meet
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  Speaker 1: mister or missus. Right, but you wouldn't know it for
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  Speaker 1: a while. But you can ruin your life very easily
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  Speaker 1: in one day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and often know it almost immediately. Maybe not?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how weird would it be if, like the night
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  Speaker 2: Judy and I really hit it off, some cosmic voice
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  Speaker 2: had said, you will spend your lives together. This is
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  Speaker 2: the most important person in your life, and I'd be
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of cute. What are you talking about? Ye?
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  Speaker 2: Takes the fun out of it. Well yeah, not only that,
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  Speaker 2: but it's I wasn't exactly looking for that at the time,
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  Speaker 2: and neither was she, so you ease into it.
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  Speaker 1: This one's more just I don't know, I thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine what it would look like if all the Wi Fi,
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  Speaker 1: blue tooth and cellular signals were visible to the naked eye.
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  Speaker 1: That would freak you out. If you could see them
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  Speaker 1: all flying around all the time. You walk into a
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  Speaker 1: room and they're just everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, the mirror and they're going through your head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The only thing that makes speed bumps work is
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  Speaker 1: your desire not to damage your car. Clearly true, but
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  Speaker 1: it's like it's like a threat, slow down or we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna cost you hundreds of dollars in getting your car repaired.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of speed bumps, but there's this one
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  Speaker 2: like Strip Molly Multi Strip Molly Place for one of
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  Speaker 2: our favorite restaurants is And those are speed bumps from hell.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're square or what, but they
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  Speaker 2: will like hurt your body. Yeah, if you don't slow down.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a new speed bump that they invent
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  Speaker 1: into certain shape because I've hit those two. But you
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  Speaker 1: could have a guy there with a hammer and say,
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  Speaker 1: if you drive too fast when you park, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: come put a dead in your car.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the same thing really functionally. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorite memories growing up, they put a
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  Speaker 3: speed bump on the hill to the to the housing
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  Speaker 3: community I lived in, and nobody knew it was there
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  Speaker 3: for a while, and we used to just go sit
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  Speaker 3: down at the park and wait, oh here he comes
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  Speaker 3: cram days on end.
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  Speaker 1: In the modern world, there'd be a YouTube video thing
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  Speaker 1: for that YouTube speed bump fails. Yeah, we've gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the point in civilization where a household pet dog has
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  Speaker 1: eaten more exotic meats, has more belongings, and has been
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  Speaker 1: treated better than almost any human was one hundred years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Very true.
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  Speaker 2: Wow wow.
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  Speaker 1: It cost almost nothing to label the up or downside
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  Speaker 1: of a USB, so you don't put it in wrong
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  Speaker 1: all the time. But nobody doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: For real, Why don't they have a u uh a
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  Speaker 2: top or a bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Little letter on there?
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent correct. I kind of like the challenge
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  Speaker 2: buddy does. I'm the guy who, if I have a
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  Speaker 2: piece of paper, I will crumple it an attempt to
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  Speaker 2: throw it in a trash can, just because that's how
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  Speaker 2: I amuse myself. Every time I go to plug in
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  Speaker 2: SUV at SUV the thing USB USB, I think, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's get this one right. But it's the sport of
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  Speaker 2: it that appeals to me.
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  Speaker 1: But it's kind of funny that it hasn't become Oh
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  Speaker 1: there's a dot on the top. That's the top right
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  Speaker 1: for all of them. It's such a simple fix.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of things I've almost broken by just trying
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  Speaker 3: to jam that thing in there because I thought I
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  Speaker 3: had it right the first time.
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  Speaker 2: And if it's some sort of device that can be used,
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  Speaker 2: like I've got this little speaker thing I use that
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  Speaker 2: it can be either way or whatever. Just have a
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  Speaker 2: little dot at the top of that, and you match
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  Speaker 2: the dot on the top of your little plug. And
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  Speaker 2: I like for those who can't handle the day, I
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  Speaker 2: can't living on the edge.
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  Speaker 1: I liked that. I learned from an actual neuroscientist that
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  Speaker 1: the reason it seems like you get it wrong more
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  Speaker 1: than you get it right is the way our minds
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  Speaker 1: are built to emphasize failure more than success to keep
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  Speaker 1: us protected. Evolutionary speaking, So it seems like it seems
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like fifty percent of the time you
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  Speaker 1: get it right. It seems like ten percent of the
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  Speaker 1: time you get it right, and ninety nine until you
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  Speaker 1: get it wrong. But that's all the way our minds work,
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  Speaker 1: just to make us remember bad things to protect us.
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  Speaker 2: Remembering where the berries are is good. Remembering where the
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  Speaker 2: sabertooth tiger is is very very good.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Almost everybody is walking around with a fact they
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  Speaker 1: learned on Wikipedia that is wrong, but they'll repeat the
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  Speaker 1: rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: That was certainly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that reminds me. Somebody bugged me to do this.
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  Speaker 2: I read something really really interesting about how Wikipedia got
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  Speaker 2: so far off the rails, because it was fairly recent
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  Speaker 2: and least several years ago, a well meaning, if flawed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the source of knowledge. It's it's like like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of journalism. The ten the type of people
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  Speaker 2: who would tend to be really enthusiastic about becoming Wikipedia
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  Speaker 2: contributors and editors, just by the nature of it tends
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  Speaker 2: to lean a little left, but now it is deliberately
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  Speaker 2: inescapably way left because of the financing of it. I
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  Speaker 2: got to get to that at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to talk about that because I
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  Speaker 1: use it Wikipedia practically every day. Probably kids often react
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  Speaker 1: to something like it's the worst thing that's ever happened
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  Speaker 1: to them in their whole life, because it is the
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  Speaker 1: first person to find out that you could nail horseshoes
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  Speaker 1: to a horse's feet was very brave.
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  Speaker 2: Or very cruel.
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  Speaker 1: If bugs had a society like ours, their daily routine
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  Speaker 1: would be NonStop funerals.
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  Speaker 2: Oh now that's a shower. Thought, that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I only have a couple more here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, asking tall people.
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  Speaker 1: To reach high shelves a sort of a compliment, but
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  Speaker 1: asking short people to reach the low shelves seems like
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  Speaker 1: an insult, doesn't it. Give somebod your shirt and saying
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  Speaker 1: can you get that down there for me? Because I
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  Speaker 1: want to bend over you get.
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  Speaker 2: That pan out from the bottom drawer. Would you about
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  Speaker 2: having to me this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: About half of the time at the grocery store, somebody
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  Speaker 1: asks me to get something off the top shelf, but
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  Speaker 1: get some of the people ask you to get something
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  Speaker 1: off the low shelf for what.
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  Speaker 3: My buddy dropped his wallet and said, you're closer to it, would.
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  Speaker 2: You grab it? And I was like, sure, that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: How tall are you? I never ask a woman of
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  Speaker 2: age because I am a gentleman, but what is your height?
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  Speaker 3: I am a smedge over five to four.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, it's pretty simple. That's right in your wheelhouse, right,
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  Speaker 2: your American woman, average ish wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 1: And this I came across somewhere else and somebody says
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  Speaker 1: it's true. They said it's your favorite story. Ever, this
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  Speaker 1: is what all ends with. A coworker once told me
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  Speaker 1: that he got banned from a bar when he lived
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  Speaker 1: in North Dakota back in nineteen seventy three. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: try going back to it for thirty years, but he
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  Speaker 1: finally did. The moment he stepped in, someone yelled, get
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of here, Dennis.
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  Speaker 2: I could actually believe that's true.
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  Speaker 1: No one small town bars that people been there forever
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  Speaker 1: and they're always there and they sit in the same spot.
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  Speaker 1: I actually could believe that that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, get out. Well, that is that reminds me of
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  Speaker 2: was it fucked? There are some challenged Hemingway to write
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  Speaker 2: a short story in five words or six words whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It was the legendary baby Shoes for Sale, never worn shortest,
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  Speaker 2: and it is. It's amazingly effective. It just it grabs you,
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  Speaker 2: that is in its own weird way, like an essay
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  Speaker 2: about small town America.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that could be true. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: being from tiny towns. It actually.
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  Speaker 2: Which for a lot of us in our lifestyles. It's stunning.
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  Speaker 2: It can't possibly be true, but no, yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 2: The hell are you doing here? Deaths? Well, I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's it.