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Cleaning Out the Sound Fridge! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: We haven't done this in a while. Let's clean out
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  Speaker 1: the sound fridge.
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  Speaker 2: One more thing, one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: Who originally came up with the ridiculous metaphor that is
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  Speaker 1: cleaning out the sound fridge? Is your idea?
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  Speaker 2: I believe I get credit for that, the sound of fridge.
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  Speaker 1: And we even have we even have a jingle. It's
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  Speaker 1: the idea that we have all these sound clips and
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  Speaker 1: we don't always get to all of them on the show.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess, just like you got leftovers in your
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  Speaker 1: refrigerator that you should clean out, we're cleaning out.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's it. I'd exactly right, thank you, Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: let's metaphor.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with this Nobel Prize winner who has an
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  Speaker 1: unusual accomplishment.
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  Speaker 3: The Ignobel Physiology Prize is awarded to Rio Okabe, You
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  Speaker 3: Hey Yokayama, and Taka Nori to KB for discovering that
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  Speaker 3: many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus.
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost, thank you so much for believing the
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  Speaker 1: potential of anus for breathing potential. So who, who's where
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  Speaker 1: was this happening?
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  Speaker 4: This was actually yes, for real at mit it was
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  Speaker 4: Nobel Peace Prize awards for scientific discoveries, and that was
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  Speaker 4: one of them.
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  Speaker 2: It's a hell of a party, gag. Anyway, I want
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  Speaker 2: to know how he figured this out. How many animals
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  Speaker 2: did he kill with their head underwater and their ass
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  Speaker 2: sticking out before he came up with a winner?
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  Speaker 1: Well, number one, ouch, number two. They were really tickled
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  Speaker 1: with getting to say that and talk about, weren't they
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  Speaker 1: these these geeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny, that's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's usually something you know, nobody understands what
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  Speaker 1: even the MIT people probably understand. They really enjoyed it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: moving on sound for the most mocked. Jackson died over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. So of the Jackson five, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Gus his name is Funny Tito because his.
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  Speaker 2: Nickname was funny. I think he was the guitar player,
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  Speaker 2: like the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Tito Jackson. He was an actual musician, Michael's older brother,
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  Speaker 1: and they were still touring him and a couple other
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  Speaker 1: Jackson's some Jackson's at the age of seventy something. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he died over the weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Here's this, Yeah, I am playing this guitar about seven
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  Speaker 5: eight years old. He looked at me and said, dang,
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  Speaker 5: you planned just as good as me. He gave me
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  Speaker 5: the guitar. He said, I want you to learn every
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  Speaker 5: song on the radio. So that's what I started doing.
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  Speaker 5: Then Jackie and Jermaine and there we were harmonizing, and
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  Speaker 5: Michael and Marlon were just little bitty things, you know.
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  Speaker 5: They were somewhere around two, three, four years old. One day,
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  Speaker 5: a year or two later, we hear Michael singing in kindergarten, singing,
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  Speaker 5: climb every mountain. He tore it up. Man, we couldn't believe.
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  Speaker 5: Our mouths flew open. We rushed him home, telling him
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  Speaker 5: he's in the group. Mom said me too, say yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you too.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: So that's how the Jackson Brothers were formed.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. I mean, you can say to all but
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  Speaker 1: one out of two million people, learn all the songs
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, you seven year old, and it's like, what,
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  Speaker 1: how could I do that? But he did it. He
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  Speaker 1: could just do it. And everybody in that family. What
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  Speaker 1: goes on there? When did mom and dad have a
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  Speaker 1: musical talent particularly or did all their kids just for
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  Speaker 1: some remember quirk of the genetics of mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: coming together just all we're all musical geniuses. Really interesting.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It was his dad's guitars we played obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, weird. Here's a different thing. Both my kids really
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  Speaker 1: like the Claw game. Like if you're in some sort
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  Speaker 1: of art Claw club, if you're at some sort of arcade.
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  Speaker 1: I try to discourage them. Look, you're not gonna get
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  Speaker 1: the new Tendo switch. Okay, it's just not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna let you grab that the clothing and
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  Speaker 1: they always try anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But just so Katie, I used to have that credit
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  Speaker 2: for that. That was awesome. I had the whole sequence
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  Speaker 2: of that part of toy story memorized. That would do
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing for my kids. I don't remember it now,
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  Speaker 2: but the club they worshiped it as a god because
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  Speaker 2: it took the toys up to heaven as far as
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  Speaker 2: they could tell.
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  Speaker 1: Right, which I saw as an attack on Christianity. But
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  Speaker 1: you thought it was amusing enough, fair enough, completely unfair.
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  Speaker 1: Uh anyway, here's somebody AI telling you how you win
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  Speaker 1: at the Claw game.
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  Speaker 6: Why is it that every time you try to grab
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  Speaker 6: a toy from the claw machine you always miss it
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  Speaker 6: by just a little bit. It's because claw machines are
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  Speaker 6: set with sensitivity levels from one to five, with five
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  Speaker 6: being the tightest grip and one being the loosest. Each
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  Speaker 6: time you start the machine, it randomly selects a level,
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  Speaker 6: but the chances of getting level five are the lowest.
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  Speaker 6: If you press right, left, right, down, down, and then
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  Speaker 6: press the grab button twice before starting, you'll hear a
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  Speaker 6: prompt sound. This means the machine has switched to level
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  Speaker 6: five sensitivity. If you try to grab it again at
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  Speaker 6: this time, you will come back to thank me.
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  Speaker 1: So grab it a little tighter sometimes and a little
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  Speaker 1: looser other times. Yes, I employed that myself.
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  Speaker 7: Oh jeez, wow, wow, it was Oh okay, that was
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  Speaker 7: like one of those gamer code things that they left
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  Speaker 7: right down, down and then hit the button twice or
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  Speaker 7: whatever it was. Yeah, oh that's been reprogrammed now that
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  Speaker 7: this jerk told everybody how to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking right way to go AI. I actually
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  Speaker 2: had some padlocks that were up, down, right and left.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the numbers and you can't program it. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was pretty cool. They got stuck too easily, though,
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  Speaker 2: if you use them outside.
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  Speaker 1: What's our stance on basically rigged arcade games that are
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  Speaker 1: stealing from children is it just a great right, a
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  Speaker 1: great life lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Or yes, tell your kids know it's a ripoff.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just always wondering why did these things exist? Why
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  Speaker 1: do we allow these things to exist? A giant arcade
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  Speaker 1: full of things that are just stealing money from people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you tell he go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you tell the kids it's a ripoff. And then
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  Speaker 7: if they keep complaining, you go go, fine, go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Then they lose and you're right.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not set up as Darwin's electronic Jungle to
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  Speaker 1: try to teach children.
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  Speaker 2: It's a learning opportunity, a teaching opportunity. No, that's there
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  Speaker 2: to take your money. A very low percentage of people
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  Speaker 2: ever get anything. It's a ripoff. That's good. They're doing
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  Speaker 2: you and your children a service.
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  Speaker 1: There's something interesting that happened in a Panera bread o
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  Speaker 1: come off, stop stop wow, Wow, dude. Panera bread employee
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  Speaker 1: stops crazy man by hitting him on the head with
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  Speaker 1: a loaf of bread.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Something at a wwe The way he came over the
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  Speaker 7: top of the head with it.
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  Speaker 2: Just it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure the Panera Management Corporation doesn't want him getting
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  Speaker 1: involved in these sorts of things at all. But as
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  Speaker 1: a normal human being. You don't like to deal with
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  Speaker 1: crazy people or thieves or whatever. I was at a
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  Speaker 1: story the other petco as a petcoat, and I'm waiting
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  Speaker 1: in line to buy crickets. God dang it. Once a
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  Speaker 1: week I have to go buy crickets. I have to
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  Speaker 1: buy bugs to feed to a lizard that your kids
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  Speaker 1: lost interest in. Oh yeah, roughly the day they got it.
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  Speaker 1: I need to sell it, but I just haven't come
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  Speaker 1: up with the time to list my lizard and then
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  Speaker 1: start meeting people and them over the lizard in the
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  Speaker 1: cage anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Hawk study too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just take it back, I would think. Can't you
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  Speaker 1: just take back a used lizard? Yeah, Hi, don't want
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  Speaker 1: this thing anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Sell it.
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  Speaker 1: They get to double the money.
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  Speaker 2: Turn it loose, you know. Hey, it's called freedom, good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. I can't believe it's still alive. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want it to die because I'd be a little cruel.
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  Speaker 1: But man, lizards are resilient. They don't need much. A
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  Speaker 1: little bit of.
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  Speaker 2: Wine when the hawks takes off its tail, it'll be fine, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: But Show's way makes me think of those bird releases
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  Speaker 7: where they're like, it's like a funeral or nothing, and
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  Speaker 7: they release the doves and the strain comes by it
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  Speaker 7: just takes them out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh jeez.
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  Speaker 1: So I met the pet coo and I'm waiting in
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  Speaker 1: line for my pay for my crickets, and the clerk
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  Speaker 1: on the other side said, hey, did you pay for that?
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  Speaker 1: A guy walked out the door at the dog bit Dude,
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  Speaker 1: did you pay for that dog bed? And the guy
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  Speaker 1: kept walking and and I actually wondered, didn't I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear any more about how this story ended? Was well,
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  Speaker 1: did the guy steal it or not? And he didn't
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  Speaker 1: look like a thief. But anyway, too, were you gonna
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  Speaker 1: like go out in the parking lot and fight him
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  Speaker 1: or what are you gonna do in that situation? And
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  Speaker 1: even if you call the police the police, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think the police are gonna come. And if they did come,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like they're gonna prosecute you, not like they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna fill out the paperwork for a guy who stole
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  Speaker 1: a thirty dollars item, right.
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  Speaker 2: He knows that, Yeah, he knows that it's Ceie stole it.
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  Speaker 1: And then similarly, I was at the convenience store the
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  Speaker 1: other day, the circle case.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody should have beat him over the head with a
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  Speaker 2: loaf of bread.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if they serve that bread after you hit
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  Speaker 1: something in the head with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm more interested in the concept of bread as a
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  Speaker 2: fighting instrument. I mean, I suppose some breads. I mean
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  Speaker 2: a really crusty bag guette. Maybe you could use it
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  Speaker 2: to jab somebody in the face or something. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're using it as a bludgeon, I am not effective. No.
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  Speaker 1: No, If I'm in a fight, I don't want a chibata.
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  Speaker 1: That's for certain way too soft.
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  Speaker 2: If you can get into close range, you might be
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  Speaker 2: able to blind somebody with a croissant. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a low percentage play.
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  Speaker 1: I think with a rustic batard I could keep off
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  Speaker 1: a small person a pardon me?
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  Speaker 2: Or what now is my?
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  Speaker 1: Are my bread?
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  Speaker 2: Terms?
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  Speaker 1: Wow? But not with the pugiles. I'm at the comm
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the circle k. The other day something stranger
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  Speaker 1: foot at the circle k, which is a quote from
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  Speaker 1: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. But I was at the
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  Speaker 1: circle k and uh, I was like a space has
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  Speaker 1: had a lot on my mind, A lot lot on
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  Speaker 1: my mind. I stopp at the circle k I got gas,
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  Speaker 1: and I went in to get water because I'm so
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  Speaker 1: dang thirsty, but I'm really deep in thought. I get
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  Speaker 1: my water and then I walk out because I got
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  Speaker 1: so much in my mind. I just walked out of
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  Speaker 1: the store and I got halfway in my truck. Is jeez,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't pay for this. And I went back in
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  Speaker 1: and the guy was there. It wasn't busy. He was
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  Speaker 1: just there leaning against the counter with his arms crossed,
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  Speaker 1: just looking at me. I said, hey, I didn't pay
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  Speaker 1: for that, and he just kind of looked me like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever, it's it's voluntary, dude.
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  Speaker 1: And then I paid for it. But I thought he
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  Speaker 1: watched me walk out of there, didn't even you know,
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  Speaker 1: raise an eye at it.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, all I thought was another one well dollar fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna come out and fight me, and then
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  Speaker 1: the corporation doesn't want him to. But what a weird
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  Speaker 1: society we live in now where it's just like, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even doesn't even get anybody's attention. No, that can't last, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: No, Well it'll degenerate into Well this signed Californians again.
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  Speaker 1: One more cleaning out the sound fridge. We're clear in
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  Speaker 1: the back and here's some gross, crusty thing. We don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what it is. I hate to even touch
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  Speaker 1: it with my bare hands. This is a valley girl thing, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You asked, Yeah, this is I brought this to the party.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is a linguist explaining vocal fry, which we
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  Speaker 2: were talking about the other day the show Awesome.
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  Speaker 8: You know how young women sometimes add this small nasal
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  Speaker 8: sound to the end of their sentences, and it's like
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  Speaker 8: a little unnecessary exhalation with the rising tone. So that's
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  Speaker 8: actually a completely new example of a non lexical conversational sound,
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  Speaker 8: something that's not quite a word, but it's still important
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  Speaker 8: for maintaining conversational flow. It's kind of like how the
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  Speaker 8: word M is used to show the listener that you're
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  Speaker 8: still talking, but the exact opposite, because the M is
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  Speaker 8: only used when you're done talking. You would never say
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  Speaker 8: it in the middle of a sentence. And that's because
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  Speaker 8: it instead exclusively serves to mark the end of what
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  Speaker 8: you have to say. Now, we usually do this through
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  Speaker 8: boundary marking tones, where we raise or lower a pitch
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  Speaker 8: to indicate the end of a sentence, but some dialects
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  Speaker 8: of English, like valley Girls speak only and in rising tones,
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  Speaker 8: so it's more necessary to find some other way to
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  Speaker 8: make that distinction. Certain languages already do this by instead
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  Speaker 8: having a boundary marking syllable. For example, ancient Greek used
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  Speaker 8: the particle dead to mark the beginning of a new
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  Speaker 8: sentence or clause. That's exactly what American Valley girls have
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  Speaker 8: started doing with the sound. They created the first ever
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  Speaker 8: boundary marking syllable in the English language, which helps them
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  Speaker 8: communicate better while still maintaining up talk. Usually, when you
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  Speaker 8: talk like this, that sounds always rising, so it's hard
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  Speaker 8: to use tone boundaries to tell when a sentence is ending.
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  Speaker 8: But not anymore, because we have a new syllable.
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  Speaker 1: That's fascinating. As a guy who studied language in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of classes in college, that's really interesting.
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  Speaker 7: It was a linguist on meth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what's else is interesting. It's funny. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was obviously edited and sped up so that it
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  Speaker 2: would be at the breakneck pace of the twenty first century.
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  Speaker 2: But we played some tapes the earlier. Oh, it was
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  Speaker 2: Megan Kelly's screed against the woke transgender crap that Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swift in effect had endorsed by endorsing Kamala Harris. But
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  Speaker 2: it was the typical example of you got to have
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  Speaker 2: the quick cut edit to eliminate every pause, and then
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  Speaker 2: there's got to be background music constantly, because I can't
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to merely really interesting speech without backup background music,
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  Speaker 2: and because that's omnipresent now in the web. And they
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  Speaker 2: had to change the how do you processing of Meghan
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  Speaker 2: Kelly's voice, like every six seconds or so to make
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  Speaker 2: it more treublier than off in the left channel or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: just because I'm such a neat cerebrally that I can't
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  Speaker 2: pay attention for more than six seconds unless somebody throws
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  Speaker 2: a new flavor at me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm trying to keep my kids from being
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  Speaker 1: programmed that way. But it's hard because that's just all
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  Speaker 1: of modern entertainment. Their movies, their TV shows are music,
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  Speaker 1: they're everything.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a it's a competition for attention that
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  Speaker 2: happens to be ruining people's brains more and more.
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  Speaker 4: I sound like an old man when I complain about
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  Speaker 4: these things. I hate background music in my videos.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.