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List - 50th Worst Inventions Ever Made From October 3rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a list. If you'd like one, please a list.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a list of the fifty worst inventions of
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  Speaker 2: all time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everyone loves a list.
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  Speaker 3: It's Radio from Hell with another list because people love
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  Speaker 3: a good list.
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  Speaker 1: X ninety six. We might have done part of this
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  Speaker 1: list at one time.
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  Speaker 2: Is fifty things on it, but I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember we did.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't remember, but I don't remember some of
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  Speaker 2: these because so I think we didn't do.
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  Speaker 1: All of them, right, Like Oleestra. Okay, what's the Olestra?
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  Speaker 1: You don't remember? Olestra?
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  Speaker 2: I guess now, a fat substitute which was developed by
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  Speaker 2: Procter and Gamble that was approved by the FDA in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six. And it was a fat substitute that
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  Speaker 2: you you could fry your potato chips and Fredo's and
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  Speaker 2: all of that kind of stuff in olestra and they
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  Speaker 2: would have like almost no calories.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, what was.
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  Speaker 1: Bad about it? It gave you diary. Yeah, it gave everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody about half the people who tried.
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  Speaker 1: Some people tolerated it fine.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it worked well, Sure it worked well, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it cleans you out.
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  Speaker 4: Also gave you Yeah, it was unable.
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  Speaker 2: The reason it worked so that it didn't add extra
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  Speaker 2: fat to your body is that it was not absorbable
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  Speaker 2: by your body.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would argue that's a feature, not a bug.
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  Speaker 4: Subsequently, it just kind of shot through you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so they can. Let's see this one now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what this is. Smile checks the inventor
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  Speaker 2: the Klin Electric Express Railway. In two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 2: a Japanese company called the Kaheen Electric Express Railway thought
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  Speaker 2: it would be a good idea to make sure all
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  Speaker 2: of their employees were happy in the morning, and they
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  Speaker 2: started monitoring their smiles in the morning using software. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the software analyzed their smiles eye movements on lip curves
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  Speaker 2: to rate expression on the scale of one to one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: So so you so you had to be smiling, m hm.
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  Speaker 2: And they actually had a little device that would measure
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  Speaker 2: your smile and if it wasn't good enough, that's.
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  Speaker 1: That's a way to not get people sting.
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  Speaker 3: I like this, I think we need this here. I
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  Speaker 3: think everybody's a little too gloomy.
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Smile checks at the front office hoverboards, which were never
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  Speaker 5: a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but the real but you know, the what they're
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  Speaker 2: talking about are the uh the yeah, the things with
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  Speaker 2: the wheels on them that don't you know, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have any handles or anything. You just have to balance
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  Speaker 2: on them, yes, uh okay. And then there are some
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  Speaker 2: I've seen. There's one guy that whips around town on
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  Speaker 2: one that just has one big wheel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he stands on either.
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  Speaker 2: It looks cool, but I you know, it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be about as dangerous as can possibly be.
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  Speaker 3: Those hover wheels, uh, hoverboards excuse me, first came out
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  Speaker 3: like about the time I graduated high school and iron
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  Speaker 3: remember like a kid in church always had one and
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  Speaker 3: would ride it around in church and.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody stopped him. He would hit people's ankles.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason those that first iteration of hoverboards was
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  Speaker 2: and that's what they called them, lubverboards was particularly bad
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  Speaker 2: because they caught fire.
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  Speaker 1: And exploded a little. I remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they now they I guess they've worked those bugs out.
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  Speaker 2: Toma Gotchi's, Remember Toma Gotchi's. I've still got one now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure why this would be considered one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst adventures.
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  Speaker 3: The sound that they make to people who don't participate
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  Speaker 3: in them is why, that's my guess, because they they scream,
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  Speaker 3: and if you are not the person who is actively
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  Speaker 3: using them, that is very annoying.
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  Speaker 1: I know this because.
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  Speaker 3: My dear wife recently got like a throwback one and
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  Speaker 3: we remembered immediately why they were so annoying for.
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  Speaker 2: But it seems to me that the really bad thing
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  Speaker 2: about it, and that's what they're intimating here, is that
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  Speaker 2: you give them to kids. Yeah, and and and usually
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  Speaker 2: they don't take good enough care of them, and then
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  Speaker 2: they die.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you reset them so they don't die die.
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  Speaker 2: But oh so, yeah, it's everlasting life. It's you resurrect,
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  Speaker 2: you start over.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically a game that you try to keep going
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  Speaker 1: as long as possible. The resurrection I've got.
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  Speaker 5: I've got one that's R two D two and I've
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  Speaker 5: been meaning to start it up. Every time I think
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  Speaker 5: about starting it up, I'm going like, oh no, that's
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  Speaker 5: a commitment.
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  Speaker 1: Pain in.
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  Speaker 3: There are kids in junior Highwood during lunch, sit in
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  Speaker 3: the bathroom playing on their tamagotchi's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they were doing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, let's see were leaded Gasoline, now introduced in the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen twenties, was initially seen as a breakthrough reducing engine
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  Speaker 2: knocking in cars. However, was later discovered that it was
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  Speaker 2: extremely hazardous to human help. The lead release from vehicle
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  Speaker 2: emissions caused widespread air and soil pollution, and it caused
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  Speaker 2: a neurological and brain development damage. And I've maintained, you've
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  Speaker 2: heard me say this that I'm pretty smart. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: pretty smart person. But I would be a genius if
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  Speaker 2: I had not grown up in the era.
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  Speaker 1: Of leaded gasos. Huh uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: I think it probably knocked my IQ down about fifty points.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little irresponsible to put Tamagotchi's in leaded gasoline.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how about this one though, crimalin crinoline, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what crinoline is.
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  Speaker 2: Crinoline is a stiff, structured petticoat that women in the
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  Speaker 2: Victorian era war with their corsets. Is designed to make
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  Speaker 2: their skirts look more voluminous, so that they put on
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  Speaker 2: the crinoline and they put the skirt over it, so
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, tucked out. It was a fashion at its
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  Speaker 2: most uncomfortable, and it made daily tasks like just moving
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  Speaker 2: or walking more difficult. Sure, and it was a safety
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  Speaker 2: hazard because women often tripped on their own crinolines. Let's see,
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  Speaker 2: that's a real throwback, kind of like a skirt is yeah, yeah, hoopskirts.
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  Speaker 2: Agent Orange, Well, I don't think we have any disagreement there.
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  Speaker 1: That's Tamagatchi's an agent Orange. In the same list. How
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  Speaker 1: about this on the same list. Mother's Day? Okay?
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  Speaker 4: A bad invention? A bad invention? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Mother's Day is a widely celebrated holiday. However, its commercialization
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  Speaker 2: has overshadowed its original intent. Anna Jarvis created this day
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  Speaker 2: to honor mothers, but the holiday quickly became associated with
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  Speaker 2: buying cards and gifts.
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  Speaker 1: Name a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Anna Jarvis spent much of her later life protesting the commercialization, saying,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had never ever seen Mother's Day. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right, selfie sticks? Yeah, cryptocurrency.
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  Speaker 4: Cryptocurrency is the worst invention ever.
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  Speaker 2: Child beauty pageants, Yeah, that's bad. Honigargar I. It's a
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  Speaker 2: blend of honey and apple cider vinegar, a drink popularized
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty nine by doctor DeForest C.
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  Speaker 1: Jarvis.
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  Speaker 2: He said it was a cure all for everything. No,
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  Speaker 2: and and yeah, no it's not.
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  Speaker 5: No, It's like it's like people who drink apple, cider, vinegar.
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  Speaker 5: Now it's yeah, it's not doing what everyone says that
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  Speaker 5: it's supposed to be doing, and it just upsets your stomach,
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  Speaker 5: all it does.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, that's I mean. Is child beauty pageant
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  Speaker 1: an invention?
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  Speaker 3: Was there a scientist out there at a desk drawing
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  Speaker 3: up blueprints apparently for children's beauty pageants?
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  Speaker 2: They must be, because it says here it's a terrible invention.
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  Speaker 1: I rebuke this list. This feels all over the place. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll delete it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, just so I don't just so we don't do
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  Speaker 2: it yet again sometime and a year a year.
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  Speaker 5: From it's uh, it's funny because the child beauty pageants.
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  Speaker 4: My niece was in one once.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was a boy.
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  Speaker 5: That's a strange culture. Yeah, oh yeah, the people who
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  Speaker 5: are involved in that.
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  Speaker 1: But huh.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's funny is that after that she has
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  Speaker 5: absolutely no interest in it, which is good, Which is good, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 3: There's a ten year difference between me and my baby sister.
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  Speaker 3: And she did cheer growing up, and it was kind
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  Speaker 3: of the same thing. So when she was like six
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  Speaker 3: doing this, I was sixteen and I felt uncomfortable showing
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  Speaker 3: up to those things. I would know my baby sister's here,
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  Speaker 3: my baby. I'm here for my baby sister.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here. It's a very strange culture, very Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The people that are that are in that, Oh man,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's like some kind of weird cult.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They it's just frightened it. I just it was at
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  Speaker 5: a hotel in Los Angeles. I just sat at the
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  Speaker 5: bar and drank. I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to participate her.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here for my niece. I'm here for my na. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there you are. I'm leading it all right.
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  Speaker 4: Delete that list.
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  Speaker 3: We've hope you'd enjoyed another list with radio from Hell
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  Speaker 3: on X ninety six.
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  Speaker 5: Fit Bit and other smart watches have made us our
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  Speaker 5: own Tamagotchi's.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good point us to walk and drink water.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you could say that we just replaced
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  Speaker 5: the tamagotchi with something else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had, I was.
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  Speaker 2: I did fit Bit for a while, and it's you
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  Speaker 2: become sort of a slave to it in a way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Oh, I've got to do watch my steps
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  Speaker 2: and I've gotta and it's just you're you're constantly messing
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 1: Just it's hate being the tinfoil hat guy.
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  Speaker 3: But I just hate giving a data, all my health
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  Speaker 3: data directly to a company, all your information.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just they literally know your heart beat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know they do anyway, I know, but
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  Speaker 3: I try mitigating it where I can.
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  Speaker 4: They're listening. They're listening right now.
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  Speaker 1: Look, it's not I'm fighting at bat by battle.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm losing this war, one battle after another.
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  Speaker 1: A good plug. That is a movie going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome