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Happiest States in America | Radio Signals from Exoplanet · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Neil Saavedra.
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM 640. Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning to you. The 28th of September, man. Woo!
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  Speaker 1: Going quick. Did I? Let me see. Oh, yeah. Coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Next segment, we're going to talk about. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: time is flying.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll talk a little bit about why time feels
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  Speaker 2: faster as you get older, what researchers think is behind
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  Speaker 2: that coming up. I know that's something a handle talks
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  Speaker 2: about on the air sometimes, and it does. It seems
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  Speaker 2: to haul. When you have a kid, it does too.
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  Speaker 2: Like I remember holding my little boy in my arm
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  Speaker 2: like a football, walking around the house doing things. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and at nine, that's less easy to do
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, America, living in America. I love America. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: And I say I'm sorry because people want to hate.
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  Speaker 2: Americans want to hate America.
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  Speaker 1: Don't.
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  Speaker 2: Because we are America, not the person in office, not politics,
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  Speaker 2: not we are America. We the people. In order to
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  Speaker 2: form a more perfect union. I can do it better
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  Speaker 2: if I hear the music. It was schoolhouse rock kid.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, that's it. But an article came out
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  Speaker 2: in USA Today about the happiest states in America. Where
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  Speaker 2: do you think we land? Let's see. I'm going to see.
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  Speaker 2: Is this go up to 20? Thinking they were going
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  Speaker 2: to do like a list of 20. Then I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do all 50 states. Yeah. I guess
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  Speaker 2: that makes most sense, doesn't it? I'm like a genius
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  Speaker 2: with a capital J. So let's see. Where do you
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  Speaker 2: think we land, Annie?
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  Speaker 1: California. Everything's so thrilling here. I'm going to say 32.
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  Speaker 2: 32.
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  Speaker 1: 30. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Amy King, where do you think California lands when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to happiness? In the happiness scale?
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. I think it's probably higher because of the weather.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say, like, top 20. Well, give us a number.
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  Speaker 2: 18.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Kano.
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  Speaker 1: Kano. Where does California? American rank in the world, number one. California,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, I'm going to go 11. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Will, your round?
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  Speaker 2: 20.
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  Speaker 1: 20. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Hawaii
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  Speaker 1: is number one. No crap. Except they just got hit
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  Speaker 1: by two hurricanes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're still like, yeah, but we're not with
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  Speaker 2: the Howleys. So they're still going. It's better to be
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  Speaker 2: here than there. Number two. Never in my wildest dreams
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  Speaker 2: would I have guessed this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go backwards.
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  Speaker 2: Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: No, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I believe that from people I know that live there.
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  Speaker 2: That always say, no, it's a great place.
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  Speaker 1: Is that where the Hamptons are? Is that in New Jersey?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's on Long Island. That's Long Island? The Hamptons?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never been there. That tracks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm ever going to be invited there. So, not now. Hawaii.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the east end of Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Utah.
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  Speaker 2: I can believe Utah. They're good, happy people. Idaho is
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  Speaker 2: number four. Strangely enough, Ida Pimp is number five. I kid,
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  Speaker 2: I kid. Maryland is number five. Nebraska, number six. Connecticut
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  Speaker 2: is seven. Eight is Minnesota, nine California, 10 New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 2: 11 New York. So I guess we're the highest when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the big city there. Who's 50? Or
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  Speaker 2: the big, that has a big city.
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  Speaker 1: Who's 50? Stand by.
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia. Yeah, we should start going backwards. 49, Louisiana. 48, Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: 47, Alaska. John Denver would have something to say about that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but what about Alaska? Alaska.
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  Speaker 2: How are you not happy there? I know the weather
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  Speaker 2: is pretty hardcore, but you're also away from garbage. You're
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  Speaker 2: also away from all the pain in the ass of
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  Speaker 2: other cities. 46 is Kentucky. 42 is Amy's hometown of Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: Oregon is number 42?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And no, you don't say it Oregon. You say Oregon
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  Speaker 1: like your organs?
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  Speaker 2: No, Oregon. Oregon?
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  Speaker 1: Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Sounds lame.
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  Speaker 2: Forty.
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  Speaker 1: Forty one. Tennessee. What did Tennessee. Same thing. Arkansas. No.
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  Speaker 2: OK.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty nine. Ohio. Let's see. I'm trying to see. Can't
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  Speaker 1: believe Ohio is higher than Oregon. And the happiness index.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty six. Colorado. Rhode Island. Seems very low. Colorado is
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  Speaker 1: a great place. I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. 29 is Rhode Island on the list of
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  Speaker 2: most happy places in America.
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  Speaker 1: Vermont, 22.
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  Speaker 2: Vermont is one of those romantic places I want to
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  Speaker 2: check out. Like during fall when the leaves change. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: talks about that. Also during.
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  Speaker 1: Because of Newhart?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not only that, but and when it's snowing like
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  Speaker 2: all the old movies like White Christmas and stuff like
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  Speaker 2: that and Holiday Inn, which are basically the same movie
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  Speaker 2: with minor changes. Washington is number 19. Arizona. Oh, my
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  Speaker 2: buddy Matt just hit me up. I'm going on vacation
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  Speaker 2: to the Jersey Hamptons.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to them Jersey Hamptons. Shush. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't sound right now when you hear it. No.
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  Speaker 1: Go to them Jersey Hamptons. 17 is Arizona. 1514 is
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  Speaker 1: South and North Carolina. I don't know. I guess.
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  Speaker 2: We should be thrilled to be number nine, although Hawaii tracks.
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii is gorgeous. But, you know, us non-locals ruin it
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  Speaker 2: when we go there. But what do you say is happiness?
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  Speaker 2: I've always thought happiness is a momentary feeling of joy
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  Speaker 2: due to a happening. You get something, it's a moment.
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  Speaker 2: It's not real. To me, joy is real. Joy is
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  Speaker 2: something you have on bad days, too. Joy is an
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  Speaker 2: appreciation for existence. Joy is an appreciation for the basic necessities.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas happiness is because, oh, I went and.
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  Speaker 1: Saw a movie. I'm happy.
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  Speaker 2: Or I just got a gift. All right. Time slips by,
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  Speaker 2: does it not? And this is one of those questions.
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  Speaker 2: As you get older, like it just– I remember those
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  Speaker 2: long summers, eight years old, seven years old. Those long–
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  Speaker 2: they just went on forever, right? And you could wake
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  Speaker 2: up at any time and the day was still the
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  Speaker 2: longest day you've ever had. Well, it does feel like
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  Speaker 2: as we get older, the time is slipping by and
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  Speaker 2: researchers are constantly looking at this and coming up with theories.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point in.
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  Speaker 2: Time, 2026 knocking on the door of 2027, there's no
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  Speaker 2: single explanation that has completely taken it. Researchers continue to
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  Speaker 2: study why that time just seems to speed up.
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  Speaker 1: Now, technically, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not speeding up. It can't speed up. There is a
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  Speaker 2: continuum and there are things that take place that we're
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  Speaker 2: not changing. Physics doesn't change because we get older. But
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  Speaker 2: there's three competing theories on this. None has been confirmed
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  Speaker 2: as the absolute mechanism as to why this happens. But
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  Speaker 2: one of the popular ideas kind of took off. There
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  Speaker 2: was a study of 120 adults found no link between
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  Speaker 2: how many vivid memories people had and how fast time
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  Speaker 2: felt to them. That contradicting the novelty explanation that many
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  Speaker 2: people assume true. So think of it this way. Have
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  Speaker 2: you ever gone on a road trip? And when you
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  Speaker 2: go to where you're going, it seems like it's taken forever.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you drive home, it seems like it
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  Speaker 2: didn't take very long.
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  Speaker 1: At all because the novelty is worn off.
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  Speaker 2: You have the novel experience going there of seeing new things.
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  Speaker 1: But then when you go home, you've seen them all.
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  Speaker 1: So all those little mile markers or whatever in your
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  Speaker 1: head are passing through more quickly. There's no, it's not
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  Speaker 1: new to you.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where the novelty theory comes from, where the
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  Speaker 2: assumption is that you are As you see more of
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  Speaker 2: the same things every day, go to work every day,
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  Speaker 2: you come in here every day, it's all the same.
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  Speaker 2: It goes by more quickly. Also, I think theoretically, we
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  Speaker 2: push through our lives different when we're older. You're pushing
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  Speaker 2: towards your paycheck. Next two weeks, I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: that money so we can do whatever. So every two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: you're plowing through those two weeks to get to a
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  Speaker 2: certain marker. And I tell myself and other people all
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  Speaker 2: the time, don't do that. Don't rush your life. Don't
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  Speaker 2: rush your life. Be right here in the moment. The
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  Speaker 2: old sappy saying that God made time a gift. That's
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  Speaker 2: why we call today the present. You've got to be
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  Speaker 2: in the moment. The gift is today, not tomorrow. So
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  Speaker 2: get on there. Go ahead, put that on a bumper sticker,
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  Speaker 2: but get in there and enjoy today. If you're not
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  Speaker 2: enjoying today, tomorrow's not going to make it any better.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be in the now, right? So that
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  Speaker 2: thought took off, and then the memory formation, not memory volume,
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  Speaker 2: tracked with the effect. They look at the same study,
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  Speaker 2: found that a reduced ability to kind of encode new
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  Speaker 2: memories was likened to a faster sense of time passing.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's the math-only theory from 1877, still holds
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  Speaker 2: up as a description but not a cause. So you
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  Speaker 2: can describe something But they don't know the mechanics of it.
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  Speaker 2: So the idea that each year is shrinking a fraction
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  Speaker 2: of a life explains the pattern, but not why it happens.
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  Speaker 2: So Handel's talked about this. When you're a year old,
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  Speaker 2: every bit of time you know is based on that year.
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  Speaker 2: So then the next year, your life is twice as
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  Speaker 2: long and you see it as that. But then there's
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  Speaker 2: a point where the clicking of going up the hill
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  Speaker 2: stops and then the free falling on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the coaster starts. You know, talking, you know, at 57,
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  Speaker 2: you go to less weddings and more funerals and things change.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a sour look at life where you can say,
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  Speaker 2: There's a point where the universe stops giving you things
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  Speaker 2: and starts taking things away. But at all point, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's sour. But the reality is that's from moment one.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at it as an exchange of receiving
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  Speaker 2: new things, each day being new, I get to experience
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  Speaker 2: this age and this moment today.
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  Speaker 1: What is it going to bring? And everyone I know
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  Speaker 1: in their 90s, and I know just.
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  Speaker 2: Some really lovely people in their 90s, live life every day,
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  Speaker 2: looking with curiosity and investment in it. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Amy King told me today, man, you live a busy life.
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  Speaker 2: And I go, sometimes it feels that way, but I
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  Speaker 2: want to be engaged in it.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm learning something new, I feel like I'm living.
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  Speaker 1: Every day, if I.
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  Speaker 2: Learn something and I'm going to, you know, my wife
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  Speaker 2: and I say, hey, did you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm sure she loves being married to Cliff Clavin.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when it comes down to the paradox, but anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so live life. They still don't know why it seems
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  Speaker 2: to swing by, but be curious, stay curious, learn new things,
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  Speaker 2: and it will slow down for you.
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  Speaker 1: Monday, September 28th. That's today.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Dodger Playoff Baseball. The first game of
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  Speaker 2: the National League Division playoffs is this Saturday at Dodger Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by Niki... Nikaido. Every time. Don't read
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  Speaker 2: the pronouncer. When I read the pronouncer, I get screwed.
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  Speaker 2: When I look at the word, I'm fine.
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  Speaker 1: Nikaido. Shochu. Which is a distilled beverage. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: made out of sweet potatoes, maybe barley. Tasty.
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  Speaker 2: The official shochu of the Los Angeles Dodgers discover. Nikaido
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  Speaker 2: discover shochu.
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  Speaker 1: You're so funny because I did the exact same thing
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what it is? It's they give a
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  Speaker 2: descriptor down here and that's fine. But if I read it,
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  Speaker 2: I get thrown off. If I look at the word, Nikaido, Nikaido, Nikaido, Shochu, Shochu, Shochu.
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  Speaker 1: But they sent us a pronouncer earlier that was Nikaido.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Or something.
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  Speaker 1: And so we were all saying it that way. And
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  Speaker 1: then people were correcting us. I'm like, but so it
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  Speaker 1: was back and forth. So Nikaido, it is. Nikaido. Good job.
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  Speaker 1: Good job, Neil. Nikaido, Shochu, Shochu. Like a pronunciation? Nikaido, Shochu.
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  Speaker 1: That guy cracks me up. It is pronounced.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where his actual accent is from.
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  Speaker 1: The word is pronounced. Nikaido. Nikaido. Shochu. Shochu. That's the guy, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. That's the guy that comes up when you look
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  Speaker 2: for a pronunciation. The pronunciation is.
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  Speaker 1: We got it. We got it. Paris. Go on to
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  Speaker 1: the story now.
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  Speaker 2: Paris.
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  Speaker 1: No, this is the show, Kono. You listen to what
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  Speaker 1: I do. I don't listen to what you do. Nikaido.
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  Speaker 2: All right, scientists, they've picked up a radio signal, man.
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  Speaker 2: And this is from a planet outside our solar system.
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  Speaker 1: Nikaido.
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  Speaker 2: The very first time this has ever happened, the planet's
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  Speaker 2: called Beta.
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  Speaker 1: Pictoris? Literally where you're from. The Pictoris? Beta and Pictoris.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even know where the Pictoris is, dude. Beta
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  Speaker 2: Pictoris B is what it's called. And it's this huge
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  Speaker 2: gas giant, just like Kono, about 63 light years away
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  Speaker 2: from Earth.
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  Speaker 1: And before you get all jumping up and down and going,
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  Speaker 1: we found aliens!
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  Speaker 2: We found it!
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's aliens, but it's aliens.
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  Speaker 2: The signals are just a natural thing caused by the
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  Speaker 2: planet's magnetic activity. So it's not like it's... It's a
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  Speaker 2: really young planet, only a few tens of millions of
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  Speaker 2: years old, which is basically a tiny little baby, baby
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  Speaker 2: planet in space terms.
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  Speaker 1: Space is old.
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  Speaker 2: It's also super hot and super bright, just like me.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it easier for the telescopes to spot. Researchers
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  Speaker 2: from Harvard and the University of Oregon caught the signal
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  Speaker 2: using this big radio telescope in South Africa, which they
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  Speaker 2: are one to do. Radio waves match what scientists expected
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  Speaker 2: from the young, massive planet. Strong magnetic field. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what we get. So what's actually happening there? They've got
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  Speaker 2: these charged particles. They get trapped in the planet's magnetic field.
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  Speaker 2: Planet spins around, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Those particles
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  Speaker 2: speed up and they release energy and this energy becomes
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  Speaker 2: radio waves.
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  Speaker 1: Those radio waves, we get back here.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like the planet's magnetic field is shouting out
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  Speaker 2: into space, which is creepy as hell. People have tried
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  Speaker 2: to find these signals like this from planets before.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the first time anyone could say for sure,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, which planet they came from. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the key is to pinpoint them. So the Beta Pictoris
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  Speaker 2: system has been important to astronomers for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Back in 1984, as a matter of fact, it was
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  Speaker 2: the first star where scientists took a direct picture of
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  Speaker 2: a disk of dust and debris around it. So that
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  Speaker 2: hinted that planets might be forming there at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but it took years for us to actually confirm any.
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  Speaker 2: And this new discovery is kind of a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big step forward, and it shows just how
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  Speaker 2: much better Our technology is getting, studying distant worlds. So
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind, it's not only that, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: keep getting better technology. We're going to reach farther into
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  Speaker 2: the universe. We reach farther into the universe. We're still
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  Speaker 2: going to not find life, in my opinion. But we
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  Speaker 2: are going to find new things like planets coming into being.
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  Speaker 1: So pretty cool. Pretty, pretty cool. All right. This is
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